Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1911, Page 4

horror VasEOes aad -THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Published every afternoon exce)}t Sun- @ay by the Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Company. @& E. CARSON. E. . DENT. F. A. WILSON, Editor. In the City of Bemidji the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate compiaint 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. Pngers are continued until an ex- plicit order to discontinue is received, and until arrearages are paid. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier. .45 One year, by carrier.. 5.00 Three months, postage 1.26 Six Mouths, postage paid 2.60 One year, postage paid.... . 5.00 ‘The Weekly Pioneer. ht 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- THR AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- R THE ACT OF MIDJi, MINN., MARCH 3, 1879, A R R R R R CRC R R ORCROROR RS © THIS DATE IN HISTORY Decmber 19. 1686—Sir Edmund Andros, the first royal governor of New England, arrived in Boston. 1714—John Winthrop,- cele- brated scientist, born in Boston. Died in Cam- bridge, Mass.,, May 3, 1779. 1813—Fort Niagara taken by a force of British and Indiana. 1851—J. W. Turner, famous painter, died in London. Born ther in 1775. 1854—Lord Elgin resigned the Governor-Generalship of Canada. 1860-—Marquis of Balhousie, former Governor-General of India, died. Born Ap- ril 22, 1812. 1862—Confederates recaptured Molly Springs, Miss. 1864—President Lincoln called for 500,000 volunteers. 1878—Bayard Taylor, noted au- thor, died in Berlin, Ger- many. Born in Kennet Square, Pennsylvania, Jan. 11, 1825. 1881—Benjamin H. Brewster of Pennsylvania appointed attorney-general of the United States. R A AR R R R A R R R AR R AR R R A A A AR R IR IR RS RO R O R I R R R I IR R IR R OB OB IR OB IR IR CRROSR O ORROY @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ® @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Business is “Russian” in the sen- ate. If there are children in Bemidji who do not believe in Santa Claus they are not saying anything about it. Don’t look upon the holiday sea- son with too much hilarity. You may be one of those fated to receive a Christmas necktie. That call for 600,000 pounds of jack pine cones may cause some folks to suspect that a new breakfast food is about to be launched. A Pennsylvania man has succeeded in teaching two chimpanzes how to talk and think. This no doubt will disqualify them from voting in Phila- delphia, Chemists found that in half a tea- spoonful of tomato paste intended for use in making catsup and seized by pure food men in Chicago, there were 600,000,000 bacteria. What we would ‘like to know is, how would you like to be the man who counted the bac- teria? It is interesting to note that in nearly every pers that are shouting in tones of instance the newspa- that Lieutenant Governor Gordon’s extra session episode has “eliminated” him as a candidate. for governor are the ones that have daily prayed diligently that Lieutenant Governor. Gordon might be eliminat- ed as a candidate for governor. WHAT THE CHRISTMAS SEAL DOES. First, and most obvious but not most important, the Christmas Seal is a means of raising money for the campaign against tuberculosis. The Christmas Seal is a means of awakening interest so that large numbers of all kinds of people are led to read and talk about tuber- culosis. . Third, The Christmas Seal pro- vides an opportunity for any one and every one, almost without limitation of circumstance or condition, to ren- der some real help in the fight against tuberculosis. Fourth. The Christmas Seal cre- ates the possibility of spreading an enormous amount of ‘actual-informa- tion in such form and manner as to Second. largely increase the general knowl- edge about tuberculosis. Fifth. The Christmas Seal through 'the annual intensive campaign for a few weeks enlists large numbers of individuals and groups who give something of time thought and ef- fort for the common good in the war- fare against tuberculosis. Sixth. The Christmas Seal there- fore gives to increasing numbers of people a sense of a great common in- terest, an opportunity for aiding fin- ancially, and the chance of actively helping a welfare movement which apparently is of interest to the en- tire community, the whole of the state, and the nation as well. Seventh. The Christmas Seal thus becomes under the guise of a bit of colored and gummed paper a real and active factor in helping people to help make the world a better place berculosis. THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPER. BY W. S. NESBIT. Before outspread Christmas things . The 'Christmas shopper stands; In sooth, a busy soul is she, Her list is in her hands And wrinkles on her worried brow Stand out like iron bands. Her uncles, aunts and cousins, too, Acquaintances and friends, Are on the long and rumpled list, And wearily she spends— Many and varied are the things She purchases and sends. The merchants walking through their stores ‘View her with hopes built high, They love to see the heap of things That she’ll select and buy, And they know that riches will take wings— ‘Which makes her money fly. Choosing, selecting, wondering, Onward through shops she goes; The morning sees her task begun But night brings not its close. For she’ll shop till midnight Christ- mas eve It’s proper to suppose. Thanks thanks to thee, my shopping friend, For the lesson thou hast taught; I thought my job of buying things With worriment was fraught, But I learn for every gift I buy Another one is bought. AMBITIONS OF STENOGRAPHERS. Affairs of the heart, aspirations to scintillate in the theatrical firma- ment and foibles of girls are among the subjects for a series of epigram- Imatic comments by Helen Lee Brooks Mattoon, Ill., that are being distrib- uted among employes of the Illinois Central Road. The author of the observations is a stenographer in the superintendent’s office at Mattoon, and she sums up {her views and advice in the following aphorisms: “The girl who prides herself on being a ‘good fellow’ should not com- plain if the men in the office take her at her word. “It’s just as easy to boost as to knock, and it helps a lot more. “It is the ambition of some stenog- raphers to go on the stage; of others to get married. None of them want to keep on just being stenographers. “As employers some men are diffi- cult, all women are impossible. “The girl who gets married so she can ‘quit work’ sometimes exchanges a comfortable salary to work for board and clothes. .“A woman who wears a No. 7 shoe can't afford to have an amiable dis- position. “If a girl has tried everything else and made a failure of it her folks thinks she’ll make a good stenog- rapher. “Some people are so intent on be- ing respectable they forget to be kind. “A widow begins by ‘understand- ing’ a man; she ends by marrying him. “Pretty women never are advocates |of dress reform. “If it were not for men cooking would become a lost art. “Some girls think they are attrac- tive when they are merely attracting attention. “Women would rather have privi- leges than rights. “Some women marry because they haven’t the moral courage to remain single.” THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER FORM OF OATH MAY BE CHANGED. :- The Dbill recently introduced by Senator Burton of Ohio, which pro- poses to change the form of oath in Federal courts and elsewhere under the jurisdiction of the United States is in the hands of the judiciary com- mittee of the Senate and is now be- ing considered with a view of early action upon the subject. The bill of which Charles J. Bonaparte, 'the former attorney general of the Unit- ed States, and Dr. Ira Remsen, presi- dent of Johns Hopkins University are the sponsors, does not contemf)late to change the religious character of the oath. The principal change which it proposes is the omission of the expression “So Help Me God” at the end of an oath and the substitu- tion of “promise” or “declare” for the word “swear” in the formula. Since the introduction of Senator the fact that several of the most pro- gressive countries of Europe have materially changed and modernized the ancient and antiquated forms of the oaths used in judicial proceed- ings. quite so far as Switzerland, the small but highly advanced Federation which more than any other country recognizes and vouchsafes absolute freedom of belief and conscience. As early as 1877, several Cantons of Switzerland, among them the Can- ton of Vaud, appreciating the incon- gruity of a religious form of oath un- der so thoroughly liberal a consti- No country, has as yet gone tution as that of the Swiss Federa- tion, eliminated the religious fea- tures of the oath altogether changed it to a mere solemn pledge. It was found, after a number of years, that the change of the form of oath had a tendency to weaken its binding force and this logically led to the suggestion to abolish the oath in judicial proceedings alto- gether. The Cantons of Zuerich and Aar- gau took the radical step of entirely abolishing the oath several years ago and the result has been so satisfac- tory that there is no desire to return to the old system. When thg Great ICouncil of the Canton of Vaud at its last session considered the draft |of a new Civil Code, the abolition of the oath in any form from judicial proceedings was strongly urged, and, after an interesting debate, a provis- and ion abolishing the oath was incorpo- rated in the new Code, which will go into effect on January 1, 1912, O RO RO R R R R R R R R R Od & Politics and Politicians. ® RO R OROR R R RN R The National Prohibition conven- tion for 1912 will be held in Atlan- tic City. A State convention of progressive Republicans of Michigan is to be held in Lansing early in January. Charles S. Ashley has just been elected mayor of New Bedford, Mass., for the fifteenth time. Statewide prohibition and taxa- tion are to be the leading issues of the coming State campaign in Ar-| kansas. John R. Neal, a former member of the Tennessee senate, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for govermor of that State. Mrs. Blankenburg, wife of the new mayor of Philadelphia, has been pres- ident of the Pennsylvania Equal Suf- frage Association for seventeen years. Senator Charles E. Curtis of Kan- sas, who recently presided over the senate during the temporary absence of Vice-president Sherman, is said to be the first American with Indian blood to attain such distinction. Dr. P. L. Hall, Democratic national committeeman for Nebragka, and vice-chairman of that body, has an- nounced himself as a candidate for re-election. For the first time na- tional committeemen will be chosen at the primaries. The fight for a California delega- tion to the Republican national con- vention instructed for Robert M. La- Follette of Wisconsin for president has been formally started with the organization of the LaFollette League of California. Augustus E. Willson, who has just retired from the governorship of Kentucky, is mentioned for the Re- publican nomination for Congress next year against Representative Swager Sherley of the Fifth Ken- tucky district. The progressive Republicans of New Jersey figure that the party vote will be so split next year that they will be able to elect & progressive to succeed Frank O. Briggs in the Unit- ed States senate. Former State Sen- ator Everett Colby is said to be their choice for the. seat. Judge Stephen A. Lowell of Port- land is the only candidate announced so far for the seat of United States Senator Bourne, who will be a can- didate for re-election. Judge Lowell indorses the Oregon primary system, stands forth generally as a progres- sive, and seeks to make the issue the personality of Senator Bourne. Minor Wallace, who served four terms in Congress as a representative of the Seventh Arkansas district, has announced his intention of making ther ace for United States senator against James P. Clarke, the present incumbent, whose term of office will expire two years hence. Colorado is looking forward to a lively contest for the United States senatorship. Senator Guggenheim has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-election. The legis- lature which is to be elected next year will choose his successor, and while the State is at this time Demo- in which to live in more ways than |Burton’s bill the attention of the ju- cratic, the Republicans propose to merely to help rid mankind of tu-|diciary committee has been called to{make a fight for the legislature. Among the names most prominently mentioned as probable candidates are former Representative Bonynge and J. E. Vaile, Republicans, and Repre- sentative Rucker and Governor Shaf- roth, Democrats. Dust Whirls. Seaward flowing waters are not alone responsible for the denudation of soils. Those who have watched dark dust storms approaching will be interested to know that estimates of solid material ~uspended in the air run from 160 to 126.000 tons per cubic miles of air where such storms are prevalent. The aeolian geologist. Ud den, taking conservative values and using fairly accurate ber, velotity and duration of the dust ot 218 miles. Encouragement Enough. “But why should you be so dreadful- ly surprised and disappointed when I decline your offer?" she asked recent- ly. “I am certain that I never gave you the least encouragement to pro- pose to me.” *“You did!" he cried bitterly. *“You gave me the greatest encouragement.” “When?" “When you told me your income was $25.000 a year.”—Cleveland Plain Deal- er. data for the num- ! storms in the western states. con- cluded that “on the average about 850,000,000 tons of dust are carried | 1,440 miles each year, thus doing in this region alone about 1.225.000.000. 000 mile tons of transpor The dust whirls run each an average distance i TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1811, The Pioneer Want Ads CASH WITH oOoPY % coent per word per Issue ;legulsr charge rate 1 cent per word per insertion. No ad taken for less than 5 cents. Phone 31 HOW THOSE WANT ADS DO THE BUSINESS They tell what you have to sell to everybody in Bemidji. The Ploneer goes everywhere so that everyone has a neighbor who takes it and people whoido not take the paper generally read their neighbor’s so your want ad gets to them all. 15 Cent a Word Is All It Costs Can’t Lose Much by Taking a Chance HELP WANTED WANTED—Wood cutters to cut 300 cords tamarack and 300 cords jack pine; near town. Inquire of Wes Wright. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Apply Mrs. John Wil- son, 1101 Dewey Ave. WANTED—Competent girl for gen- eral housework. Mrs. E. H. Smith, 717 Beltrami Ave. WANTED—Girl for general house- work. Mrs. J. O. Harris, 703 Be- midji Ave. WANTED—4 bright boys to work af- ter school hours. Armour & Co. Girl wanted at once at McDermid Hotel. FOR SALE FOR SALE on easy terms, 136 acres of rich hardwood land on lake shore and County road, one mile from Puposky. Improvements consist of good log house, fine hay meadow and five acres under culti- vation. There are about 1000 cords of birch besides other tim-| ber. I will take cord wood as part payment. Call on or write to E. J. Swedback, Bemidji, Minn. horses. Apply Tom Smart. FOR SALE—Wood sawing outfit. Inquire of O. J. Weekly. FOR RENT FOR RENT—6 roomed house, 212 Tenth St. Inquire 1014 Minneso- ta Ave. HOUSE FOR RENT—Corner Seveath and Beltrami Ave. Inquire 700 Bemidji Ave., or phone 351. FOR RENT—Two furnished roon;s for light housekeeping or roomers. 415 Minnesota Ave. FOR RENT—Rooms for light house- keeping, furnished or unfurnished. Over Gill Bros. Two furnished rooms for light house- keeping. 511 Third St FOR RENT—6 room house for rent. A. Klein. MISCELLANEOUS WANTED—Dining and sleeping car conductors, $75-$125. Experience unnecessary, we teach you, write Dining Car World, 125 W. Van Buren, Chicago. FOR SALE—Nearly new 5 room cot- tage on Bemidji Ave., with 50 or 100 ft. frontage; easy payments. Huffman, Harris & Reynolds. WANTED TO TRADE—What have you to trade for new standard pia- no? Call at second hand estore, 0dd Fellows Bidg. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you on short notice. EOR SALE—4 room cottage, 70 ft. lot on 12th St. $500. Huffman, Harris & Reynolds. FOR SALE—Baled hay and straw at Wes Wright's barn. Near City Hall. FOR SALE—Carload of good young $1.00 each--- a 6 months’ subscription with two handsome pictures. Makes 3 Xmas gifts for 3 persons or at less than $1.00 each a three months’ subscription with one beauti- ful picture, makes 2 Xmas gifts at less than or 75 cts each. they have not stopped coming for these pic- tures, nor will they until we shut off the sup- ply. Picture framers report that they’re kept busy framing them, so there will be more than a few given out for Christmas presents. 31 and learn all about the above offer. (give him or her) a year’s subscription to the Pioneer with four beautiful carbon gravures which will make suitable Christmas 'gifts for four others--- $5.00 makes 5 Xmas gifts for 5 persons at Pioneer Office The | BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand furniture. 0dd Fellows buildieg, across from postoffice, phone 129. Dxlessmaking waflt;d. DYiss M. C. Derby, 210 Sixth St. C. 6. JOHNSON Loans Stocks Lands Box 736, Bemidiji, Minn. Office—Room No. 15, Bacon Block Phone