Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 14, 1911, Page 4

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Published every afternoon except Sun- day hygch'e‘ Bemiydji Pioneer Publishing Company.’ B @& E. CARSON. =, H. DENU. P. A. WILSON, Editor. In the City of Bemidjl the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate 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 d. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier. One year, by carrier. . Three months, postage Six Months, postage paid One year, postage paid.. The Weekly Ploneer. Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week., Published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.50 in advance. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN., UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879. RO RO R R R R R © THIS DATE IN HISTORY. > . December 14. \ 1799—George Washington, the first president of the U. S., died at Mount Ver- non, Va. Born in West- moreland County, Vir- ginia, Feb, 22, 1732. 1811—Noah Porter, noted lex- igographer and president of Yale College, born in Farmington, Conn. Died in New Haven, March 4, 1892. 1819—Alabama admitted to the Union. [] 1836—Opening of the London and Greenwich railway, out of London. 1861—The Prince Consort, hus- band of Queen Victoria, i ®©©@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@é@@Oé)@@é)@@@@@@@@@@@ died. Born Aug. 26, 1819 1879—Rev. John B. Brondel consecrated first Roman Catholic bishop of Hele- na, Mont. 1883—The Standard Theater in New York city was de- stroyed by fire. 1891—Sir Oliver Mowat, pre- mier of Ontario, issued an address declaring vig- orously against Ameri- can assimilation. 1894—The Mexican government & adopted severé measures & against dueling. PPPOOVPOOORHGOOO POV OIDPODPOOVPOPVVVIVVROVIPVVIVOOOOOG GG @ The sponge skirt is said to be the latest. It sounds swell. At 50 cents a dozen there is no great scramble for eggs. In the meantime the lieutenant governor is softly singing, “I would if I could but I Can’t.” ' \ A Minneapolis doctor tells us that peanuts cause more indigestion than any other one article of food. Oh, shucks! \ Speaking of life’s disappointments, did you ever order a batch of tamed cheese and open the jar to find it was Limburger? ( It is quickly apparent that the Georgia judge who decided that it is a crime to kill an umpire never at- tended a baseball game. Wouldn’t it be delightful if Bemid- ji were to wake up Christmas morn- ing and find a commission form of government in her stocking? Jack Johnson, champion pugilist of the world, says he will never fight again. One by one the black hand artists are being done away with. “No time of the year is so great as the grand old winter time” merrily warbles Professor Brice of the Uni- versity of Minnesota. We see where someone has been donating Prof. his supply of coal. A North Dakota jury, after samp- ling a cask of cider offered as evi- dence, decided the prisoner at bar was not guilty of fracturing the pro- hibition law. Perhaps if the jury took enough samples it was in no condition to render a fair and im- partial verdict. CAN HAIR TURN WHITE IN A NIGHT? A cherished popular belief is that | of the sudden blanching of the hair from fright, worry or other severe mental strain. It plays its part in the drama and in fiction, while his-| tory records its famous instances. ‘Who has not heard that Marie An-| toinettes’ hair turned white during| the night before her execution, or that the deeds and terrors of St. Bartholomew’s night blanched the hair of Henry the Fourth? Most of us have wondered how the change could come about as rapidly as tra- dition relates; and yet so universal is the belief in this phenomenon that few have the hardihood to doubt it. And now Stieda, a hard-headed Ger- man scientist, boldly says that it isn’t so at all. This refractory Ger- man first proves that such a thing couidn’t possibly happen, and then, not satisfied, declares that it mever did happen. With equal disregard of folk-lore, history and medical litera- ture, he points the finger of doubt, and challenges many long-deceased‘ historians and physicians to arise and prove their stories. He claims that when the hair turns white under ordinary conditions it does so in one of two ways. Either the pigmented hairs fall out and are replaced by unpigmented hairs, or, less commonly, pigment-production stops in a growing hair and the col- orless portion -gradually replaces the darker outer segmient. As the grow- ing of a new crop of hair in a Single night_ i beyond the possibilities of even the Seven Sutherland Sisters, Stieda must needs discredit all tales of such miraculous transfurmatlén: says The Journal of the American Medical Association. This he:: does in extenso, taking wp the best-known instances of such supposed blanch- ing of hair and finding them all lack- met his sudden end at the hands of {the revolutionists. As for the rest of the reputed cases, many are nothing. better than old- wives’ tales, while others are exam- ples of credulity substituted for healthy skeptics and careful inves- tigation. Th(‘e explanation for many is unkind, being simply that the keep- er of the jail or dungeon in which ithe unhappy heroine or hero was confined neglected to furnish ' his guest’s dressing table with the hair- ing in support sufficient to meet crit-{dye to which the latter had been ac- ical consideration, control as to establish an acceptable scientific For ample, he doubts the story of Marie Antoinette’s sudden loss of hair pig- ment, stating that although the queen certainly was gray at the time of her execution, yet this was no novelty, for she was also gray nine months before, at the time the king much ‘less such demonstration. ex- , Of Furniture Gifts For The Home AT A 25 TO 50 PER CENT DI We have on hand to-day the largest stock of Chr MURPHY’S CHRISTMAS SALE —————————1— customed at home, and that Nature asserted herself before release or ex- ecution. Verily the iconclast respects nothing—not even the gray hairs of ! royalty. A new Irish play is to be produced, called “Rollicking Shannon.” Paul M. Potter is the author of a new farce called “Half-way to Par- is.” Lo ) =22 = 2 - | — w D + e i R= K- -] ] ] o] T Oi: lv—dg g8 o= n:: £°8 O Q®m 2830 =RoN= o= o o — 253 =) %:fl By P Cfloo OOZ) 558 e (a] g0 & IR ==] 3 oIR8 ST G-l—l 58°% == O BT | o 0 |7} [a+] g = 2 tmas, we are cutting the price 18 pose of this stock before Chr morning, December 15th. Our Competitors Weep When They See Our Pr ) RO CARCIRC B OTROIR IR I AR S O 2 . PLAYS AND PLAYERS. & OB R R R CR IR CR OB RORCROROR RO John E. Kellerd is to make an ex- tensive road tour in “The Merchant of Venice” and “Hamlot.” A new musical play to be produced this season is entitled “The Pearl Maiden.” Violet Dale has been en- gaged for the cast. Joseph Hart announces that he has just completed arrangements for the appearance of Carrie De Mar in England next spring. London papers‘have published the statement that William Butler Veats is completing a three-act drama in verse for Mrs. Patrick Campbell. “The Murderer” is the title of the new play by Edward H. Sheldon, which the Messrs. Shubert announce as one of their coming productions of the season. Miss Fay Templeton and De Wolf Hopper are getting ready for a revi- val of “Patience,” the opera bouffe which Gilbert and Sullivan aimed at the aesthetic faddism of the mid ’80s, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1911.- when Oscar Wilde was at the height.» of his glory. 5 The task of adapting to the stage Robert Chambers’ novel, “The Com- mon Law,” has been assigned to Bay- ard Veiller, author of “Standing Pat.” Miss Margaret Wycherley (Mrs. Veiller) will come forth soon in a new play by her husband, called “Mary Turner.” The great actor, Paul Orleneff, with whom.Mme. Nazimova first act{’ ed in this country, will make an- other American tour this season, pre- senting Ibsen’s “Brand,” “Ghosts’ and “The Master Builder,” De Mus- set’s “Lorenzacio” and Mereshkows- ki’s censored drama “Paul I.” € Gl Tyrone Power will launch 2 revi- val of Charles Rann Kennedy’s no- ble drama, “The Servant in the House,” next January, resuming the 5‘ role he created, that of “Bo,” “a gen-‘ tleman of necessary occupation,” oth- erwise the Drainman. The part of Manson will be enacted by Wilfred Rogers. Mr. Power will open his sea.; son in Halifax, N. S. 4@ iCeS T T RV S SR £ G ROOM FURNITURE DININ Din ® L O O &2 O u-('!:'cfioe:":":. 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