Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 20, 1911, Page 6

[ 4 S — e SRR A ESVREE EACH DAY | From Now Until Christmas Will be added one or more suggestions suitable for ‘Christmas gifts. They may be purchased at the Bemidji Pioneer ‘Office and School Supply Store. 1. Subscription o Pioneer 2. Stylo Ink Pencils 3. Fancy Inkstand 4. Clipless Paper Fastener 5. 500 Letter Heads Cities and Race Vitality. flower of French manhood that even today the physical stature of the aver- age Frenchman is nearly half an inch below what it was at the beginning of Napoleon’s reign. = | The country in America today is con- stantly paying a similar tribute to the city in the sacrifice of its best blood, its best brain, the finest physical and mental fiber in the world. This great stream of superb country manhood which is ever flowing cityward is rap- idly deteriorated by the softening, emasculating influences of the city un- til the superior virility, stamina and sturdy qualities entirely disappear in two or three generations of city life. Our city civilization is always in a process of decay and would in a few generations become emasculated and effeminate were it not for the pure crystal stream of country youth flow- ing steadily into and purifying the muddy, devitalized stream of city life. It would soon become so foul and:de- generate as to threaten the physical and moral health of the dwellers.— Success Magazine. Morse and the Telegraph Operator. Immediately after the successful completion of the first tramsatlantic cable and the consequent celebrations. in which, of course, Oyrus W. Field bore a prominent part, Professor Morse had occasion to send a telegram from a small town in Ohio to his home in New York. He wrote out his message and presented it to the operator, who 6. 500 Envelopes 1.”100 Galling Gards 8. Leather Bound Blank Books 9. Letter File 10. Gard File 11, 1 doz. Pencils 12. Office_Knife 1. Dictionaries - 4. Gross Pens 15. Paper- Glips 16. Postal Scales 11. Envelope Seals {8. Gard Punches ' 19. Galendar Pads 20. Office Pins 21, | Box Eyelets 22. 1 Box Typewriter Paper 2. 2, 25, | Box Garhon Leather Memo Books Loose Leaf Vest Pocket Note Books Goat Pocket Note Books Wallet Pocket Books Ledgers, all sizes 26. 2, 28. 28, 30. 3l 32, Journals, DayBooks,““ Gash Books, " ¢ Records, “ ° l“ armchair of state, while he (the lelector) would be accommodated with {an ordinary settle or stool ‘l:he royal throne of England. Finally .everything. One day at lunch, getting {ing it. Capable of all kinds of devo- | delight and the terror of man.—Amiel. ! chief overheard him.” rapidly checked it off with his pencil and curtly demanded a dollar. “But,” said the venerable inventor, “I never pay for messages,” and, see- ing an inquiring look-in the operator’s eyes, added. “I am, in fact, the father of the telegraph.” “Then,” said the operator, firmly con- vinced that he was being imposed up- on, “why don’t you sign your own name, Cyrus W. Field?” Professor Morse when telling the story used to say that he was too hu- miliated to answer. Armchair Etiquette. '~ The question of an armchair was once a matter of high state in the for- tunes of Prussia. This was in the year 1696, when the Elector Frederick on visiting at The Hague that Prince of Orange whom his father and he had been instrumental in raising to the dig- nity of king as William IIL of Eng- land was informed that during the in- terview the king would be seated on In great dudgeon (as Mr. Brayley Hodgetts re- calls in “The House of Hohenzollern™) the elector rejoined that if he was not worthy of an armchair his troops had at least been thought good emough to assist the Prince of Orange to mount a compromise was effected, and the two sovereigns conversed with one an- other standing. , The Napoleon wars so drained the | The Same Custom. A magazine editor at the Authors’ club, in New York, was talking about H. G. Wells. *“Wells is now the fore- most English novelist,” he sald. “Strange that a man so talented should misjudge us as he does. When bhe was over here he found fault with tired of his attacks on the tyranny of our trusts and our bosses, I said: “Well, at least, Mr. Wells, you must admit the grandeur of the magnificent statue of Liberty that rears its proud head over our harbor? “*Oh, yes,’ said Mr. Wells, ‘you have the same custom as we—you rear your finest statues to the dead.’” An Essay on Woman. A woman is sometimes fugitive, ir- rational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A good deal of for bearance ought to be shown her and z good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without know- tion and of all kinds of treason. “monster incomprehensible,” raised to the second power, she is at once the A Novel Revenge. Cook—Yes; my mistress is a prima donna and a bhorrible creature. She treats me like the dirt beneath her feet, but 1 revenge myself by opening the drawing room window when she is not at home and by howling with all my might so that the neighbors may think her voice is cracked.—Fliegende Blatter. A Trade Secret. “What did your firm dismiss Grigg for?” asked the first traveler. “He gave away a trade secret,” re- plied the other. *“You' don’t say so?” i *“Yes. He told a customer that our chief was an old scoundrel, and the All In. . F:iend—1 was just in the art gallery admiring your *“Napoleon After Water- loo.” The fidelity of expression on Bonaparte’s face is positively wonder- | ful. Where did "you get it? Mr. Dob. ber—From life. I got my wife to pose for me the morning after she gave her first reception.—Puck. Greatness. ' Greatness lies not in being strong. but in the right use of strength, and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his solitary glory. Power when employed to relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor becomes a great blessing,—Swift. . The Puzzle of the Press. There used to be an aged elevator man who operated one of the lifts in the house wing of the capitol. ‘Most of his passengers were either repre- sentatives or newspaper. -correspond- ents. -The old man got to know all of the correspondents very well and always had a cheerful greeting for them. It was often noticed, too,-that he seemed to be greatly interested in their conversation. One afternoon, as three of them step- ped out of the elevator, Sereno Payne of New York.stepped in. As the car went down the old elevator man turn- ed and said: “Mr. Payne, 1 can’t understand about those newspaper men. They puzzle me.” “What's the trouble with them?” asked Mr. Payne. “Well, Mr. Payne, every day they ride in this car one feller will turn to another and say, ‘What do you know today? And the other fellow will answer, ‘Not a —— thing. What do you know? Then the first feller “|'will answer, ‘Nothing.' And yet, Mr. Payne, the papers are just full of news every day. It beats me where they get it.” ‘“It beats me too,” said Mr. Payne.— Brooklyn Eagle. Old Time Strawberries. Strawberries have improved very much in flavor since the fifteenth cen- tury. Until then the only strawber- ries eaten were wild strawberries of a kind which would never find a mar- ket nowadays. By 1480, however, they were beginning to be cultivated, for Holinshed records under that date a particularly fine crop grown by the bishop of Ely in the grounds of his palace, now covered by Hatton garden. He quotes the Duke 6f Gloucester as saying to the bishop: “My lord, you have very good strawberries in your garden in Holborn. I require you to let us have a mess- of them.” This speech was copied almost verbatim by Shakespeare in “Richard IIL” Still. even the bishop’s fruit would not ap- peal much to modern connoisseurs, for the garden strawberries at that period were only transplanted wildlings, the plants being sold at about fourpence a bushel.—London Standard. The First Money. Money is mentioned as a medium of exchange in Genesis, chapter 23, and 18 supposed to refer to a time as far back as 1800 B. C. The coinage of money Is ascribed to the Lydians, a people of Asia Minor. It is, of course. quite impossible to fix any definite date for the first coinage. Long before any one thought to coin money it was made out of any durable substance that came to hand, such as leather, iron, tin, bronze and even the hard bark of the trees and stones of the flields. The Hollander, so late as the middle of the sixteenth century, made money of pasteboard. 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