Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 23, 1911, Page 4

i ey i r——a— THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER. Entered at the Bemidji, Minn., Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter. F. A. WILSON, Editor. G. E. CARSON. H. DENU. Published Every Day, Bxcept Sunday. Subscription Price, $5 a Year. Banking business continues good in Bemidji. By the way, it is safer to put it-on all sides of the house. * % = You don’t have to look at the calendar to know that Christmas is on its way. Just take a peek at the attendance of any Sunday school. * % . ’ The big question just mow with many persons is: “Shall we build next year or shall we spend the money for a Thanksgiving turkey.” * * = When the captain of that ship’ bound for Jamaica learned that William .J. Bryan was on board, he looked no further for the cause of his craft hav- ing gone on the rocks. . % » Henry Clay Beattie has ordered a five course meal to be served at 4 a. m. tomorrow. The young man probably figures that it would be unhealthy te die on an empty stomach. £ - - No one complained much when the Weather Man turned loose six inches of snow, and they took it good naturedly when he pounded the thermo- meters down to 10 below, but when he goes to work and sprinkles the snow with rain and sleet, the person who walks joins with the poet in saying, “for the love of Mike, Mutt, cut it out.” « s POLITICS AND ST. CLOUD. « O one fainted when reapportionment was freely, somewhat fully and e in one or two instances, vigorously, discussed at the Brainerd meet- | ing a year ago. We don’t understand that the same issue is any nearer the fievelopment association’s dead line now than it was twelve months ago. Some raise their hands in horror at the thought of taking action on this proposition at St. Cloud and some have good grounds for a feeling of alarm for obviously certain reputations are in the balance. If no action, how- .ever, is taken the North will be the loser. It is one of those times when it must be a case of “hew to the line, let the chips fall where they ‘will.” The dignity of the Northern Minnesota Development association .demands an unflinching stand when the convention assembles in a few duys at St. Cloud. * ® % - VIRGINIA'S WAY, OR MINNESOTA’S WAY—WHICH? WI{EN’dfi]igflt‘{tr_eaiks the east tomorrow"‘H—fl]Ty-évlay E‘e-a"tf'ie, Jr., in the full vigor of his youth, will die. Deliberately, premeditatively and with no more compunction than her ~1ctim -had shown his own wife, Virginia will claim a life. * A jury has found this youth a pitiable specimen of the idle rich, -guilty of an .enormously wicked murder and the mandate of the law is that he .must die. With a brain, warped by lustful passion and insensible to mor- -ality, Beattie, with the hand that should have protected his wife and the mother of his child, pulled the trigger of death. « Now, let us look at this thing from another angle; from an angle of special significance to Minnesota. Let l:lS penetrate the death cell and execution room of the Virginia state penitentiary. Cheered by the promise from ministers of the gospel of life everlasting, the man who is to die at the break of the morrow, pours over his bible hour after hour and in his heart is an unending prayer beseeching for- givenness. He is filled with a spiritual stimulation and under this religi- ous influence, some may call it a sort of hypnotism, the passing of tonight, .the last on earth for Beattie, holds little terror for him. This ecstatic conclusion that peace and freedom awaits him in the grave i; not shared by his white bearded sire who tonight is to press a fervid kiss upon the warm, live lips of a son he loves, whom next he will see a whitened mass of disgraced clay. * 1t will take about 1,800 velts, 8§ amperes to kill Beattie. in a dark little room in a corner of the penitentiary the m;rdcrpr will be ledto a large chair. Iie will be seated. elgetrode belts will pin his arms and legs. A switech will be thrown, the engines will jump and a flood of electricity will burn the sole from Virginia's miserable murderer. True, there will be one moment of supreme agony and this may be fol- lowed by the odor of burning human flesh, but the device purchased, in- stalled and authorized by the state of Virginia will do its work well. Beattie's death will be almost instantaneous although the current will be sent throbbing through the human body for ten, fifteen, perhaps twen- Then the surgeons will officially pronounce Henry Clay Beat- tie dead, and the commonwealth of Virginia will have been revenged for ‘the slaughter of the young wife and mother on Midlothian turnpike last July. " The creature which walked with such steady steps to the chair, now limp and ghastly, will be carried away and will be given over to the father whose frantic efforts to get him before had met rebuff by a jux‘yy the high- The father will bury his boy ty minutes. est court and the governor of the state. and the Beattie case will be at an end. ® In Minnesota Beattie would neither have been led to the chair of death mor to a gallows. Instead, a bleak, lonely cell at Stillwater with all the horrors of ever present thoughts that his life was to be one long day after vanother of twine making, together with the conscience stricken memory of the wife he had killed, would be his fate. Less than a week ago the Pioneer received from an inmate at Stillwater a letter which said: “For God’s sake send me the home paper—it is all I have to look forward to,” and then he signed himself, “your shut in for life friend.” * Do you think that Virginia will ha‘ve less crime for killing the brazen Beattie? Do you think his own punishment as great as life long confine- ment—and he certainly never could have hoped for pardon for prison rec- ords show that not one per centl of all murderers sent up for life ever are freed? Is Beattie better rotting in his grave than he would have been working for society whom he has so grossly offended? In reciting the virtues of the Minnesota’s legislature of 1911 close to ‘the top of the list must be placed the wiping out of capital punishment. POVODOOOOOOOO PO ® THIS DATE IN HISTORY. November 23. 1499—The execution of Perkin ‘Warbeck, . who styled himself Richard IV, King of England. 1610—The Virginia Company granted the “great chaf- ter” for the colony of Virginia. 1658—Burial of Oliver Crom- , well. 17563—George Washington in his expedition to ascer- tain the intentions of the French, reached the forks of the Ohio river. 1804—Franklin Pierce, four- THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER © @ @ & @ & @ @ @ @ @ ® @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “teenth president of the & U. S., born in Hillsbor- @ ough, N. H. Died in Con- & cord, N. H,, Oct. 8, 1869. @ 1863—Beginning of the great © battles before Chatta- & nooga, between the Fed- & erals under Grant and & the Confederates under @ @ @ . @ ® @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bragg. N 1867—Execution of Allen Lar- kin and O’Brien, the “Manchester martyrs.” 1871—Governor Barker of In- diana issued a proclama- tion against mob vio- lence and the lynching of criminals. 1898—Baldwin Hotel in San Francisco destroyed by fire. 1899—The British under Lord Methuen defeated Boers near Gras Pan. 0000000000000 0| the POOOOOOOOOOO®O®O®O® PLAYS AND PLAYERS. ¢ PPOPOOPOCDPOEC O« COO VPPV PPPPPPVVPPPIVPPIVPVPPPVPOPVOVPPOOPO®OPG®O®O Mrs. Langtry is playing in London in “The Degenerates.” Cecelia Loftus is to make another tour of the United States. Jefferson De Angelis is tprning his attention toward vaudeville. Annette Kellerman is to be seen in a new piece, called “Undine.” Bertha Kalich expects shortly to go into vaudeville with a new play- let. . Paul Armstrong has changed the name of “The Signal” to “Held for Ransom.” Otis Skinner is soon to appear in “Kismet,” which he has been study- ing in London. A Christian Science play, entitled “The Right Princess,” is to be pro-| duced in Chicago this season. Mabel Fenton Ross and McKee Rankin will present a tabloid ver-| sion of “Oliver Twist” in vaudeville | this winter. b It has been decided to change the| title of May Irvin's new play from “Mrs. Tompkins” to “She Knows Better Now.” : The latest play by Rachel Croth- ers, “He and She,” had a successful trial performance in Albany, N. Y. about a week ago. George Bernard Shaw's..drama, “Fanny’'s First Play,” is to be brought to this side of the Atlantic. It has reached its 200th performance in London. A piece by Gustay Luders, Avery Hopwood and | called “Somewhere J3lse,” has been accepted by Henry | W. Savage and will be produced! about the holid, = i Percy MacKaye's fantastic 1.vivce,' “The Scarecrow.” is to go on tour! in December with Frank Reicher in | the title role and Miss Fola LaFol-| lette as the sentimental miss. In Berlin the police are attacking | the Apache dance, the crusade being| emphasized by the fact that a yo\mgf girl dancer had her back broken by | the strenuosity of her male partner in the dance. Isracl Zangwill's new play to be produced in London, is called “The 1od of War.” It is in blank verse. The leading roles will be taken by Herbert Tree Arthur Boucher and Lillian McCarthy. “The Little Millionaire,” George | M. Cohan’s latest musical play, has more than fulfilled expectations as to its success. Josephine Whittell, the prima donna of the cast, is a young California girl. A new play called “Milestones” | has been written in collaboration by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knob- lauch, the authors, respectively_ of “The Honeymoon” and “Kismet,” both of which are now running in London, and the latter of which will be produced soon in New York. E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe have received a request from the Drama League of Evanston, Ill., to appear at the annual commemoration of Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23 next. The two will be playing in Chicago during that week and have consented to bestow the medals giv- en to the children who have written the most original and interesting pa- pers on the poet’s plays. “I do not believe there is any oth- er medicine so good for whooping cough as Chamberlain’s Cough Rem- edy,” writes Mrs. Francis Turpin, Junction City, Ore. This remedy is also unsurpassed for colds and croup. For sale by Barker’s Drug Store. 'land Leader. | her visiter to accompany her to Sun- i against time, is two pr three pounds. { or Roman fortitude.” ~ g The Moors. Morocco is not so hot as it is often supposed to be. The greater part of the country is near either the sea or the mountains, oftea both, and it is only about as far south as Georgia or Louisiana. The sun is hot, of course, at midday. in a dry region ihere the sky is usually eloudless and the lati- tude is about like that of the guif coast of the United States. But the tem- perature in the shade is seldom ex- treme—that is, in the parts of the coun- try where the bulk of the people live. South and east of the mountains, on the border of the Sahara desert, the conditions in respect to heat are alto- gether different, but there the popula- tion is small. The people of Moroc- co are fanatical Moslems, and they re- sent bitterly any kind of pressure to change old customs or give up old ways, but they are much less formid- able than they used to be in the prime of Moorish power, especially in com- parison with the conditions in the ad- vanced. countries of the earth.—Cleve- Poor Hand In a Bible Class. A woman of Louisvilie, Ky., who en- joys a game of cards, recently visited a friend in Indianapolis. Sunday morning came, and the hostess invited day school. It is the practice of the teacher of the Bible class of which the hostess is a member to ask each mem- ber of the class to read a verse from the Bible and comment on it. The visitor from Loulsville had not been informed of the teacher’s custom. However, the teacher seemed to think that visitors as well as regular mem- bers should participate, and when the member next to .the visitor had read her verse and made her comment the teacher smilingly looked toward the visitor. The visitor appeared to be disconcerted for a moment, and then she hastily said, “I pass.”--Indianap- olis News, Roman Bricks. ‘When the preparations for rebujld- ing the Campanile, in Venice, were undertaken the archaeologists were afforded an opportunity to make some Interesting studlies of the bricks. It was found that they had been used in arches, fortifications, the tops of walls and in other ways before they were built into the campanile and that they were not Venetiun but Ro- man , bricks. These ancient bricks were made in slices, for in many the layers could be seen undisturbed. It is said that bricks made this way can bear a greater weight than modern bricks., The bricks examined were of the first century. Oue of them bore | the imprint of a horseshoe, which | may prove that Romans used a horse- shoe like ours, although it is generally believed that their horseshoes were strapped on, not nailed. Loss of Weight In Rowing. | A well known physician in New | York city who has long been identified with aquatics, ‘says that the average individual loss of weight in a four mile pull, whether in a race or a row Under peculiarly trying conditions org heat the individual loss may reach five or six pounds. On the other hand. says this physician, many oarsmen go through a four mile pull with the loss of only about a pound in weight. This lost weight is fully recovered by the next day. Proper training is so ar- ranged in these days that a four mile race comes only when the oarsmen are thoroughly rested and at the top of their training weight, so that the loss of weight rarely indicates that the in- | ]himself for all his pains.—La Bruyere. THURSRAY NOVEMBER 23, 1911. — ] NAPOLEON AND SUICIDE. His Draft of Poison and His Com- ments on Self Destruction. Tt is suid that when all seemed lost to Napoleon in 1814—the year before Warterloo—he thought of suicide as an end to his career. He actually took a draft of poison. but the essential element in the concoction had lost its efficacy. He, however, conquered his inclination to self destruction. which he ever afterward held in abhorrence, even during his hopeless exile at St. | Helena. When during his first con- sulship one of his grenadiers killed himself ‘Napoleon issued an order to the guards: “The Grenadier Gobain bhas killed himself owing to a love affair. He was otherwise an excellent soldier. The first consul commands that the guards should be informed that a sol- dier ought to conquer the grief and bitterness of his passions; that there is the same courage in enduring with patience the pangs of the soul as in facing bravely the fire of a battery. To give oneself up to grief without resist- ance or to kill oneself to escape is to abandon the field of battle before being beaten.” In a conversation with Goethe, Na- poleon blamed the poet for allowing Werther to commit suicide, and in 1816 be said to O'Meara: ““Suicide is the act of a gambler who has lost everything or of a ruined profligate. 1 have always thought that a man shows more courage in support- ing the evils that afflict him than in getting rid of his life.” New Ways of Serving Old Dishes. The clever hostess can always show her ingenuity by a touch of novelty in the serving of some of the time hon- ored courses at her dinner. Raw oys- ters, for instance, produce a very orig- inal effect when served with maple syrup or whipped cream. A very palatable fish pudding may be prepared by mixing the finely chopped fish with sugar, raisins and a bit of vanilla extract, serving cold with a custard sauce. A delicious dessert is onion jelly with caviar sandwiches and maraschino cherries. Try it.—Judge’s Library. Classified. “You say you are your wife’s third husband?” said one man to another during a talk. “No, I am her fourth husband,” was the reply. “Heavens, man!” said the first speak- er. “You are not a husband—you’re a habit.” Duty Done. The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having per- formed his duty is a reward he pays Seek the Light. If there is anywhere on your horizon a spot of light, fix your eyes upon it and turn your thoughts away from the clouds which may cover the rest of the sky. He Knew. “It's bard to collect money nowa- days.” “Been trying to collect some?” “No. oh, no! But a lot of people have been trying to collect from me.” TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tab- Druggists refund money if it fails W. GROVE'S signature is 25c. lets. to cure. E. on each box. dividual is “stale,” or below good train- ing condition. | —_— i Goldsmith’s Obituary Notice. | It would be difficult to find a mol‘e} quaint announcement of death than | that published in an old newspaper in 1774, at the time of Oliver Goldsmith's demise. “1774, April 4. Died, Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. Deserted is the village. The traveler hath Iaid him down to rest; the good natured man is no more; he stoopse but to conquer; the vicar hath performed his sad office: it is a mournful task from which the hermit may essay to meet the dread tyrant with more than Grecian Dead Leaves as Fertilizers. According to tests made in France, dead leaves possess a high value as fertilizers. They are extensively used by the market gardeners about the city of Nantes. Pear leaves have the highest quantity of nitrogenous, oak leaves come next, and the leaves of vines stand lowest in value. Consolation. Binks—Confound it! I've gone and sat down on that chair 1 varnished this morning. Mrs. Binks—Well, for once you've stuck to your work.—Bos ton Transeript. y for DIARRHAIA, 1t is ab- . Be sure and ask for “Mrs. hing Syrup,” and take no othes aty-five centsa bottie. P00V 09000000 QCSES ® LODGEDOM IN BEMIDJI @ R R R R R R X 4. 0. U. W. Bemidji Lodge 3 277, Ij%eeular gmsetlii? nights—first and mifg Monday, at 8§ o'clock, —at_0Odd Fellows hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. B. P. O. E. Bemidji Lodge No. 1052, Regular meeting ni~hts— first and third Thursdays, 8 o’clock—at Masonic hall, ISBIeltratm Ave, and Fifth c.o.F everg; second and fourth y evening, at 3 o'clock in basement of Catholic church. DEGREE OF HONOR. Meeting nights ) second and fourth Monday evenings, at F2ATS gs, at Odd Felloews F. 0 E Regular meeting nights every Wednesda; 5 at 8 o'clock. En:};ue}'mx_n‘ G. A. R, Regular me S—First’ and third Sntleltl‘l:f I!h:s noons, at 2:30—at Odd Wel- kl:zs Hall, 402 Beltrami 5L 0. 0. . Bemidji Lodge No. 119 Regular _meeting nights A TR 402 Beltrami, "~ % . . I O. O. F. Camp No. 24, V) Regular meeting every s d and fourth Wi nesdaysegll o'clock, at Odd Fellows 1. S o % Rebecca Lodge. Regular meeth‘l’s nights — first and third Wednesdays at 8 o’clock —I. 0. O. F. Hall. ENIGHTS OF PHYTHIAS. Bemidji Lodge No. 168. Regular meeting nights—ev- ery Tuesday evening at 8§ o'clock—at the Eagles' Hall, T'hird street. CABEES. Regular mesting night last Wednesdfiv evenmg in each month, MASONIC. A. F. & A. M., B 1, 233 U Rorlar” morakak nights — first and third Wednesdays, 8 o’clock—at Masonic 'Hall, Beltrami Ave., and Fifth St. Bemidji Chapter No. 70, R. A. M. Stated convocations first and third Mond.yé 3 ¥ o'clock p. m.—at Masonic Hall Beltrami Ave., and Fifth St. wlkanah Commandery Ne. 30 T. Stated conclave—second and fourth Fridays, 8 o’clock trami Ave., and Fifth St. O. E. S. Chapter No. 171. Regular meeting nights— first and third Fridays, 8 o'clock — at Masonic Hall, E(eltrami Ave., and Fifth M. B. A. Roosevelt, No. Regular meeting nights every second and fourth Thursday evenings at 8 ;){'cll&l)ck in Odd Fellows all. 1523. Ty 2 Want Ad 1-2 Cent a Word===Cash C. 6. JOHNSON Loans Stocks Lands Box 736, Bemidji, Minn. Office—Room No. 11, Bacon Block WANTED Ladies we are employing agents to sell our fall line of shirt waists. We pay salary and commission. Write at once for full particulars to L. B. Bridges Co., Boston Block, Minne- apolis, Minn. J. P. LAHR, Pres. Offices, Rooms 5 and 6, O’Leary.BOwser Block DO YOU OWN YOUR OWN HOME? Belirami Go. Saving and Building Association It not let us build you one on monthlyTpayments or we will pay off your old W. C. KLEIN, Secy. M. W. A. Bemidji Camp No. 5012. Regular meeting nights — urst and third Tuesdays at o'clock at Odd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. MODERN SAMARITANS. Regular- meeting nights on the first and third Thursdays ;)n the I. O. O. F. Hall at’ 8 . m. SONS OF HERMAN. Meetings held secend and fourth Sunday after- noon of each month at 205 Beltrami Ave. YEOMANS. Meetings the first Friday evening of the month at the home of Mrs. H. F. Schmidt, 306 Third street. First Mortgage LOANS ON CITY AND:FARM PROPERTY Real Estate, Rentals Insurance William C. Kiein O’Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phone 19. Bemidji, S p. m.—at Masonic Temple, Bel- « t] f | @ R0 L1