Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 25, 1911, Page 4

POOOOPOO0BV0000000800000000G0006000060066 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Published every afternoon except Sun- éh.y by the Be!;iydll Pioneer Publishing m| pany. % . @ E. CARSON. B, X. DENU. P. A. WILSBON, Editor. In the City of Bemidji the papers are ‘m:ii byy‘clrrl‘er‘ Whg{e ith:n ;i:‘l::; ery is irregular please make im complaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they do not get their papers promptly. All papers are continued until an ex- plicit order to discontinue is received, and until arrearages are paid. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier year, by carrier. .. months, postage Six Months, postage pal One year, postage paid.. The Weekly Pioneer. Eight pages, containing a' summary of tfze ngwgs of the week. Published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.50 in advance. 'ERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- T THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- R MIDJI, MINN., UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 8, 1879. QOOOOOOOOOOPP THIS DATE IN HISTORY. NOVEMBER 25 1500—Columbus returned from his third voyage to the New World. 1605—Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I of England, born. Died in 1669. 1758—The English flag was raised over the ruins of Fort Du Quesne, and the place called Pittsburgh after the great Common- er. 1783—The British evacuated New York city. 1837—Andrew Carnegie, fam- ous capitalist and phi- lanthropist, born in Dun- fermline, Scotland. 1865—A Negro Convention at Charleston, S. C., issued an appeal for justice and generosity. 1867—Committee of the House of Representatives re- ported in favor of the im- peachment of President Andrew Johnson. 1869—Giulia Grisi, famous so- prano, died. Born May 22, 1812, 1892—Sir John Thompson suc- ceeded Sir John C. Ab- bott as premier of Can- ada. POOVPPPVPOCOOOO COOPOPPPOPVVPOVIVPPIVVPVPVOROPOOPROOOOPOOS The turkeys are unanimous in con- demning capital punishment. “Where is the man who predicted an open winter?” asks the Sauk Cen- ter Herald, He froze to death two weeks ago. Putting tar and feathers on young women isn’'t nearly as popular a pas- time in Lincoln Center, Kansas now as it once was. Minnesota is peeling fine, thank you. Raised 1,000,000 bushels of ap- ples here last year and goodness on- 1y knows how many potatoes. Senator Nelson says that every man should take plenty of exercise. This would indicate that he intends to be a candidate for the United States senate next year under the provisions of the Keefe law. O-My-Ah-\Wah-Tung, a White Earth Indian, went on the stand in federal court at Fergus Falls and said he had never signed documents transferring his property which bore what purported to be his signature. Looks as if he should change his name to O-My-Ah-Am-Stung. OPENING THE SCHOOL HOUSES. It was Rochester, N. Y., that first conceived the idea of throwing open the school buildings in the evening to be used as a gathering place for social events. That was three years ago. You can’'t tell Rochester now that it wasn’t a happy hunch. Therefore, Mrs. Starkweather’s suggestion that Bemidji takes some action on this proposition is an im- portant one. It is especially important to Be- midji for the reason that here the young people, and older ones, too, have a limited number of places in which to seek diversion. If it has been found practical to open the school buildings for the young, and old, to meet for old fash- ioned spelling bees, for literary pro- grams and other social entertain- ments, Bemidji may well give the matter serious attention. The idea is a new one and it may at first seem unreasonable to attempt to turn a school house into a social center, but before it is condemned it will be well to ascertain just what has been doie ‘and what can be done. If there Is any practical means by which: the structures which have cost the people so m\‘zch money can be further utilized for the public’s ben- efit it should be done. Mrs, Starkweather told of having seen a night class of cooking at work in Rochester. Bemidji has the equip- ment and unquestionably there are any number of girls and young mar- ried women who would be delighted to take advantage of such an oppor- tunity. Opening the schoolhouses is a question which sounds foolish at first and then th ore you tihnk of it the more reasonable it becomes. Isn’t it at least a matter which should be thoroughly investigated? THE OBJECTIONABLE SONG. Recently Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton university, at present governor of New Jersey and a maybe democratic candidate for president, got to talking about religi- ous hymns and improved the oppor- tunity to say that “Beautiful Isle” was sill};, nonsensical and foolish. God lives, and all is well. The hymn in question follows: “Somewhere the sun is shining, Somewhere the song birds dwell; Hush then thy sad repining, “Somewhere the day is longer, Somewhere the task is done; Somewhere the heart is stronger, Somewhere the guerdon won. “Somewhere the load is lifted, Close by an open gate; Somewhere the clouds are rifted, Somewhere the angels wait. “Somewhere, somewhere Beautiful Isle of Somewhere! Land of the true, where we live anew —Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.” Storms of protest have resulted from Governor Wilson’s criticism of the song and the New Jersey execu- tive has decided to devote more at- tention to political ills and less to church hymns. YES, WE DO. The Minneapolis Journal inquires of the Bemidji Pioneer: “Do you know of a single senator who would change his vote on r’eap- portionment?” To the Minneapolis Journal the Bemidji Pioneerr eplies: Yes, we do. And then the Pioneer hastens to add: Yes, sir, more than four, and then some and under pledges signed in ink. And the Journal is reminded that the only reapportionment bill con- sidered by the upper branch of the last legislature, which killed the Congdon measure, was lost by four votes. Several days ago the Journal ran the following editorial: “The Bemidji Pioneer, discussing the opposition to an extra session of the legislature, inquired: ‘Does The Journal—and others who harmonize with its views—mean to say that Northern Minnesota never is to have added representation?’ “On the contrary, The Journal has been a persistent and consistent ad- vocate of fair reapportionment for Northern Minnesota, and the Pioneer is both narrow and forgetful in its question. If the present legislature could possibly be expected to reappor- tion the state fairly' that might jus- tify the calling of an extra session. But there is no chance of it. Does the Pioneer know of a single senator who would change his vote on the question? “The project of an extra session was conceived by Senator Julius Col- ler, one of the strong opponents of reapportionment, with the idea of ‘putting the Republicans in a hole’ on the question of increasing the gross earnings tax of the railroads. It was taken up enthusiastically by the Duluth Herald for similar parti- zan reasons. The original proposi- tion was to exclude reapportionment and all subjects that would tend to lengthen the session, and to bind a majority of the members to take up only an agreed on list of measures. “Of late the demand for reappor- tionment has been heard in conmec- tion with the extra session project. Governor Eberhart has said that if it could be shown that the senate would change front on the question, he might be willing to call an extra ses- sion. But thus far no one has come forward with proof that even one of the senators has changed his mind. ‘What, then, is the use:of an extra session? : “The Journal is as eager. for. fair rapportionment as the Bemidji Pio- neer but fails to see the utility’ of butting one’s head against a stone wall.” The Journal Is a great newspaper and has done many commefidable things and was a champion for reap- portionment so long, at least, as Min- neapolis was assured a fine, fat piece of the pie—if there was any pie, but when the Journal makes the positive assertion that a reapportionment bill can not be passed at an extra session it is both narrow and forgetful. Narrow because it refuses to see predominating honesty in the senate and forgetful because it appears to have slipped the memory of the Jour- nal that the Congdon bill was defeat- ed, not because it was a reapportion- ment measure, but because it in- creased the representation of the three big cities and did not material- ly increase the representation of the agricultural districts of the North. 1f the Journal is as eager for re- apportionment as the Bemidji Pio- neer it will now begin to realize that an extra session means a prompt re- Iapportionment and that what looks like a stone wall is only a bluff. NEWS FORECAST FOR THE COMING WEEK. From many lands the high officers of the Roman Catholic church will gather in Rome at the beginning of the week to participate in, or witness the great ceremonial of the consist- ory, when the largest number of pre- lates to be named as cardinals at one time for more than 400 years will receive their insignia of office and honor. The Sacred College will then be raised from forty-six to sixty-six members. Among the new cardinals are the three American prelates, Archbishop Farley of New York, Archbishop O’Connell of Boston and Megr. Falconio' the papal delegate at Washington. According to the lat- est advices from Rome the private consistory will be held Monday, and the public one two days later. * ok % In far-off Bangkok, the capital of Siam, representatives of the leading nations of the world will assemble for another interesting ceremony, the of King Maha Vajira- vudh, who succeeded to the Siamese throne upon the death of his father a year ago. The coronation cere- monies and festivities will entire week. coronation last an Another assembly of the nations will be the international conference for the suppression of the opium traffic, which is scheduled to begin The Hague. Great Britain, the United States and other nations will participate in the con- ference, which will try to complete the work begun at Shanghai in 1909. R its session at The governors of ten Western States—California, Washington, Ore- gon, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Wyo- ming, South Dakota and North Da- kota—will start from St. Paul Mon- day night on a 5,000-mile tour of the East and middle West, carrying ex- hibits of the products of the States tney represent. The governors will attend conferences and get acquaint- ed with the business men of the many cities they will visit in an effort to attract further public attention to the Western country as a desirable field for the homeseeker and the in- vestment of capital. % % Pursuant to the call of Governor will begin a special session Monday Johnson the California legislature for the investigation of matters of State concern, including woman suf- frage, the initiative and referendum, weights and measures, and the issu- ance of irrigation bonds. * % % Their Royal Highness the Gover- nor General and the Duchess of Con- naught will be the guests of Toronto the first four days of the week and will be elaborately entertained. From Toronto they will go to Hamilton for a visit of two days. * % In Boston and in other cities as well exercises will be held Wednes- day in celebration of the one hun- dreth aunniversary of the birth of Wendell Phillips, the noted reformer ‘and orator. %o The International Live Stock Ex- position will open in Chicago Satur- da.y_ and the number of entries from all parts of the United States and from Canada and Mexico indidates that a record- breaking display of highly-bred stock will be exhibited. % % Of interest to society will be the wedding of Miss Mildred Sherman, daughter of Mr., and Mrs. William Watts Sherman of New York and Newport, and Lord Camoys, which is to take place Saturday at the home bf the bride’s parents in New York city. %o The football season of 1911 will be brought to a close Thanksgiving Day with many games in all sections of the country. Of special import- ance will be the Brown-Carlisle games at Providence, the Pennsylva- nia-Cornell game at Philadelphia and the contest between Sewanee and Vanderbilt at Nashville. Other sport- ing and athletic events of the week will be the automobile races at Sa- vannal, the open championship tour- nament of the Southern Golf Associa- tion at Memphis, the amateur bil- liard championship tournament in New York, and the opening of the Middle West Bowling tourney in Des Moines. NOTICE OF APPLICATION —FOR— LIQUOR LICENSE STATE OF MINNESOTA, | County of Belirawi, 788, . City of Bemid Notice 15 nereby g n, That application has been maae in writing to the city council ot said City of Bemidji and filed in my_otrice, praying for license tosell intoxicating liquors forthe term commencing on Dec. 221 d, 1911, aod terminating on Dec, 22nd, 1912, by the 1uiluwing person and at the following place as stated in said apolicetion, Tespuetively o-wit: CHAS. F. COLLINS at and in the front room ground floor of that certain two story frame building located on log eight, block i¥, original townsite. Said application will be heard and deter- mined by said city council of the vity of Bemidji at the council rooms in the city hall in said city of Bemid,ji, in Beltrami County, and State of Minnesota, on Monday. the 11th day of Dec., 1911, at § o'clock p. m. of that day. Witness my hand and seal of City of Be- midji, this 23thday of Nov. 1911, (Seal) GEO. STEIN. City Clerk. Nov. 2%--Dec. 2. NOTICE OF APPLICATION —FOR— LIQUOR LICENSE STATE OF MINNESOTA County of Beltrami, 'ss _ City of Bemidji. Notice is hereby given, that application has been made in writing to the City council of said City of Bemidji and filed in my office. praying for license to sell into: liquors for the term commencing on De 1911, and terminating on Dec. I5th, il by the following person. and at the follo: ing place, asstated in said application re spectively, to-wit: EDWIN GEARLDS at and in the front roomground tigor of that certain two story brick building. located on lot ». block 14, original townsite. Said application will be heard and deter- mined by said City Council of the City of Bemidjl at, the Council rooms in the City Hall in saild Oity of Bemidil. in Beltrami County, and State of Minnesota. on Monday the 11th day of Dec. 1911, at 8 o’clock p. m. of thatday. . Witness my hand and seal of City of Be- midji this 25th day of Nov., 1911. (Seal) GEO. STEIN, City Clerk. Nov. Dec. 2. NOTICE OF APPLICATION —FOR— LIQUOR LICENSE STATE OF MINNESOTA, | County of Beltrami, ('SS. City of Bemidi, ) Notice is Hereby Given, That application bas been made in writing to the city council of said City of Bemidji and filed in my oftice. praying for license to sell intoxicatingliquors for the term commencing on Dec. 1ith, 1911, and terminating on Dec. 1ith, 1912, by the following person, and at the following place asstated in said application, respec- tively, to-wit: OLE ANDERSON at and in the fromt room ground floor of that certain onestory frame building located on the south 25 feet of the north %0 feet of lot 10-11-12, block 19, original townsite. Said application will be heard and deter- mined by said city council of the city of Bemidji, at the council room in the city hall ‘in said city of Bemidji, in Beltrami county, and State of Minnesota, on Monday, the 11th day of Dec., 1911, at 8 o'clock p. m., of that day. Witness my hand and seal of city of Bemidsi this 25th day of Nov., 1911. [Seal] GEO, STEIN, City Clerk. Nov. 25—Dec. 2. Dirty Windows. A German professor has ascertained that in industrial cities windows which have not been washed for ten days ex- clude from 35 to 48 per cent of the light. If not washed for four weeks they may exclude as much as 80 per eent of the light. Well Defined. “Pa, is a vessel a boat?’ “Er—yes, you may call it that.” “Well, what kind of a boat is a bloo:. vessel?” “A lifeboat.” Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of sun- shine in the soul and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. A Submerged Crater. Buring the explosion of the volcano of Krakatoa, in the strait of.Sunda, in 1883, a large part of the island of Kra- katoa was blown away, and the sea took its place. Not long afterward measurements were made of the shape and depth of the cavity left covered with water at the northern end of the disrupted island. The results were pub- lished by Dr. Verbeek in 1886. Lately Dr. Von Bemmelen has remeasured the submerged basin formed by the ex plosion, and he finds that within the partial ring formed by the three re- maining islands of the Krakatoa group there is a central basin, oval in shape and with a fairly level floor, having a depth over a considerable area of 820 feet. Comparison with the former measures indicates that there has been no change in the sea floor during the intervening years. There is no sign of volcanic activity. Preserving Spiders’ Webs. Naturalists employ an ingenious method of preserving all kinds of spi- ders' webs. The webs are first spray- ed with an atomizer with a thin solu- tion of artists’ shellac, and then, should they be of the ordinary geometric form, they are pressed -carefully against a glass plate, the supporting strands at the same time being sev- ered. After the shellac solution has dried the plates carrying the webs can be stored away in a cabinet. Even dome shaped webs may be preserved in their original form by spraying them with shellac and then allowing them to dry before removal from their supports. Many spiders’ webs are ver) beautiful, and all are characteristic of the species to which they belong, so that from a scientific standpoint their permanent preservation is very desir- able. How Flying Fish Fly. The popular notion that flying fish beat their “wings” is a mistake, if we are to rely upon the results of studies of these fish made by no less an au- thority than Captain Barett Hamilton. It appears that the wings are not true organs of flight, but r’ather play the part of a parachute or an aeroplane. The whole motive power is supplied Ly the tail. which acts as a propeller, and the vibration or quivering of the wings in the air currents and their occasional shift of inclination are not phenomena connected with the propul- sion of the fish in its aerial flight. Deer In Scotland. The deer are probably the safest crop in Scotland. Oats may perish and never ripen by reason of too early frosts and long continued wet. Grouse may have disease and cease to count | on any moor for several years. Sheep are generally voted of less value than grouse. But deer are very rarely af fected by the seasons in such a way as to touch the sport and the letting value of forests.—Ilustrated Sporting News. Where Now! The Family Friend—My dear, 1 dare say you find comfort in the thought that you made your husband happy while he lived. The Widow (not real- izing the double meaning of her words) --Yes. indeed. Poor Jack was in heav- en until he died.—London Sketch. Tact. “How shall T close this letter to Slow- pay—‘yours truly’ or ‘respectfully ” “Say ‘respectfully,’ but add, in pa- rentheses. ‘for the last time.”—Flie- gende Blatter, Great men should think of opportu- nity and not of time. Time is the ex- ~use of feeble minded and puzzled spirits.— Disraeli. Keeping It Dark. The black sheep of the Warywalk family had distinguished himself again. “This is the last straw!” groaned his respectable brother. “I'm goin’ to ’ave it put in the papers that I've changed my name from Warywalk to Wobble- way, cos of my brother’s disgracin’ the name. I'll ‘ave it printed on ’and- bills an’ distributed by the thousand. I’'m determined nobody shall suspect that I'm related to 'im.”"—London Ideas. silver handed the great LaFayette himself when tertained in America. The LaFayette Bmfly apinn;ng du'nty fabrics for their trousseaus, the Daughters of The Revolution, in fangy, i spun fairy fabrics of another kind— beautiful dreams of a table sct for ‘¥wo, snow'y linen, rare old china, and the quu’nt. olfl-fulxioned Colonial times. Dmly t'uy pr;zul the time~ honored picces, and more than one maiden could single out a spoon or a fork used by Old Fitz's Absentmindedness. Of FitzGerald's = absentmindedness .and preoccupation a -geod :story- is told. He was going to London from ‘Woodbridge to visit some friends, tak- ing with him his handy man. When Woodbridge was left the sky was clear and cloudless, but when London was reached it was raining in tor- rents. FitzGerald paced restlessly up and down the platform, expressing re- gret at having failed to bring his um- brella and occasionally sending his man out to see Jf the rain had ceased. Suddenly FitzGRrald stopped in front of a time table. A brilliant inspiration had come to him. His long, artistic fingers followed the dotted lines, and then, taking out his watch from his fob, he said to his man, “John, go and fetch my umbrella and catch the — train back again.” And away went faithful John to Woodbridge on a Jjourney costing twice as much as an umbrella could have been. purchased for just outside the station, while FitzGerald stayed in the waiting room. —T. P.’s London Magazine. Worse Than a Galley Slave's Life. Less than a century back life at Eton appears to have been even hard- er than at Christ’s hospital. An old Etonian who left the school in 1834 describes his experience there as “worse than that of many inmates of a workhouse or a jail. To get up at 5 o’clock on freezing winter mornings; to sweep their own floors and make their own beds; to go two by two to the pump for a scanty wash; to eat no mouthful of food until 9 o’clock in the morning; to live on an endless round of mutton, potatoes and beer, none of them too plentiful or too good: to sleep in a dismal cell without chair or tables—such was the lot of boys whose parents could not pay for a pri- vate room. Some of these underwent privations that might have broken down a cabin boy and would be thought inhuman if inflicted on a gal- ley slave.”—London Spectator. Boxing the Ears. “Don’t box a naughty child's ears. Don't allow any provocation to tempt you to strike a child on the head,” is the injunction contained in an article on skulls issued by the internatiomal hygiene exposition at Dresden. Corpo- ral punishment of any kind, says the writer, is wrong, but when the head fs the point of contact between the an- gry parent and the child the former may easily become a murderer. In a collection of skulls at the exposition lent by the Wurzburg university there !are many of children as well as aduits | which show that the abnormally thin skull is not unusually found. even in otherwise normal human beings, and the causes of death, which are stated on cards attached to the skulls, are | intended to serve as warnings to par- | ents, teachers and guardians. How Water Freezes. It used to puzzle all thinking people | why ponds and rivers do not freeze ! beyond a certain depth. This depends ton a most curious fact—namely, that | water is at its heaviest when it reach- les 40 degrees F.—that is, 8 degrees {above freezing point. On a frosty | night as each top layer of water falls {to 40 degrees it sinks to the bottom. i Therefore the whole pond has to drop Ito 40 degrees before any of it can | freeze. At last it is all cooled to this | point, and then ice begins to form. |But ice is a very bad conductor of heat. Therefore it shuts off the freez- |ing air from the big body of compara- | tively warm water underneath. The | thicker it gets the more perfectly does |it act as a great coat, and that is why |even the Arctic ocean never freezes beyond a few feet in thickness. The Value of a Secret. “I'm sure,” said an interviewer, “the public would be ‘interested to kmow the secret of your success.” “Well, young man,” replied the cap- tain of industry. *the secret of my success has been my ability to keep it a secret.” Regrets. | Regrets are a waste of time in every possible instance except one—when they become valuable lessons for the future. down from en= Even more would such pl':cu be prizd l!y Jauglnefl of today, and scarcely less do they appre= ciate The LaFayette, a pattern which faithfully revives the old his- toric silver—plain and quaint of out- A\ line—a pattern, which never fails N\ tivate the maiden whose brain is busily epinning the same old dream of love and home. to cap- In Sterling only. D:migm.lml by the epecial LaFayette trade~marl Geo. T, Baker & Gompany W “