Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1911, Page 6

From Now Until Ghristmas Will be added one or more ] suggestions suitable for Christmas gifts. - They may be purchased » at the Bemidji Pioneer' Office and School Supply Store. d 1. Subscriptionto Pinneerfi; 2. Stylo Ink Pencils 3. Fancy Inkstand 4. Clipless Paper Fastanar . 500 Lsttor Heads . 500 Envelopes . 100 Calling Cards . Leather Bound Blank - Books: an en ‘@0 = 9. Letter File 10. Card File 1. 1 doz. Pencils 12. Office Knife 13. Dictionaries 14. Gross Pens 15. Paper Clips Postal;Scales - Envelope Seals Gard Punches Galendar Pads Office Pins | Box Eyelets 1 Box Typewriter Paper { Box Garhon R { E) 2. [ 22, | 23, 4.2, § 25, Leather Memo Books Loose Leaf Vest Pocket Note Books Goat Pocket Note Books Wallet Pocket Books Ledgers, all sizes Journals, ¢ DayBooks, Gash Books, " Records, | 26, | 21, 28, 29, 30, 3, Women and Banking. The cashier of a bank which has many women depositors, .in speaking of these customers. said that the stock stories abont overdrawn accounts and ignorance as to bank methods had be- come pointless. ‘Whaterer may have been . the case before, women give banks no more trouble now than men. “The woman who insists on drawing mouey when ber balance has been ex- hausted because there are still' blank checks in her book has disappeared. and in her place we have a woman who wants interest on her money and who knows what ‘call money' means,” said the cashier. Referring to the ‘old kind,' he added: have a real case. A woman rushed in, said she had just figured up her ac- count and found she was $500 short. Husband away—no other money—what could she do? She had brought jewels to leave as collateral security till he returned, and then we looked up the matter and found she had over $800 to her credit.”—New York Tribune.” A Dance Without a Smile. They bave a singular kind of dance conducted on the greens of country villages in: Russia.. The dancers stand apart, a knot of young men here, a knot of maidens there, each sex by it- self and silent as a crowd of mutes. A piper breaks into a tume. .A youth pulls off his cap and challenges his girl with a wave and a bow. - If the girl is willing she waves her handker- chief in token of assent. The youth advances, takes a corner of the hand- kerchlef in his hand and leads his lassie round and round. No word is spoken, and no laugh is heard. Stiff with cords and rich with braids, the girl moves: heavily by herself, going round and round and never allowing her partner to touch her. hand. The pipe goes droning on for hours in .the same sad key and measure, and the prize of merit in this “circling,’ as the dance is called, s given by spec-’ tators to the lassie who fn.all that summer revelry has never spoken and never smiled. Wanted More Converts. Southey in his life of Wesley relates the following whimsical incidént. He states that some of the opponents of these religlonists in the excess of zeal against enthusiasm took up a whole wagon load of Methodists and carried them before a justice. When they were asked what these persons had done there was an awkward silence At last one of the accusers said. *“Why, they pretend to be better than other people, and, besides, they pray from morning till night.” The magistrate asked if they had done nothing else. “Yes, sir,” an old man said.” “An't please your worship, they have con verted my wife. Till she went among them she had such a tougue, and now she 1s as quiet as a lamb.” “Carry them back; carry them back,” the magistrate said, “and let them convert all the scolds in the town!” lcebergs .nd Echoes. Icebergs are always a source of worry to the transatlantic steamship skippers. 1t isn’t pleasant to run along through a fog or a murky night and smash into one of these floating moun tains of ice. The liner captains have a way of finding ice that at first strikes the landsman as curious.” When it is suspected there are bergs in the neigh borhood the whistle is kept going. If there is an echo the navigator slows down and keeps a sharp eye out. for ! echioes don’t grow in the open ocean. Disraeli’s Gorgeous Costume. When Disraeli was a young man he | once went on a vacation trip to Corfu in this extraordinary costume: *“A blood red shirt with silver buttons as big as shillings. an immense scarf for girdle, full of pistols and daggers: red cap. red slippers, broad blue striped jacket and trousers. His servant. en gaged for the occasion. wore a Mame- luke dress of crimson and gold. with a i white turban thirty yards long and a saber glittering like a rainbow.”’—Lon don Spectator, The D iculty. The First Worker—Manner born be | i blowed! D’joo mean ter say if me an’ yon ceme into a bit o' splosh we couldu’t keep our ends up with these ’ere dooks and people? His Doubting Iriend—Oh, we shonld be orl right, but our missuses ‘d give the game away, yer know.—Londoun Sketch. The Landlubber. ‘They were enlightening the land- lubber as to maritime matters. He was becoming more and more crest- fallen as their explanations progress- ed. “Why, 1 always thought.” he sadly sighed, “that the port side of a ship was the one nearest port!”—Boston Herald. Maddening. “They really fear she will become insane. You see, she found a diary he kept before he married her.” “Oh, I see! And the awful revela- tions”— * ‘Revelations? No. It Wwas all in cipher, and she couldn't read a word of it.’—London Tit-Bits. An Afironl. D’Auber—Your daughter paints in the Dutch school, does she not? Mrs. Newrich—Not much she don’t! We pay $50 a quarter to give her private lessons at home. Dutch school in deed!—Philadelphia Record. Posting Mother. “Did that young man kiss you lasi | night?" “Mother, do you suppose he came all the way up here just to hear me sing?’ “One day we did | " The Way of a Woman. “She passed me on the street yuter day without speaking.” “She did?" “Yes, the stuck up thing.” “I wouldn’t say that. Perhaps she didn’t mean to snub you.’ "Of course shie meaunf to snnb me. You see, 1 had on my old bat.” “That wouldn't make any difference to her.” “Oh, wouldn't it? Once before when 1 happened to have on an old dress | she didn't speak to me. either. Now Um through with her. If she doesn’t care enough for me to speak when I'm in my old clothes she needn’t speak at all. ‘1 won’t speak to her when I'm dressed up. That’s all there is to it.” “Did you speak to her?" “I should say-not. It's her place to speak first. Do you suppose I'm going to attract attention by yelling my lungs out for the like of her? I guess not.” ) “Perhaps she didn't see you.” “See me? Of course she did. I saw, her, didn’'t 1? Then why didn’t she see me?”—Detroit Free Press. When the Shoe Pinches. “My own common sense and the shoe clerk permitting, I shall never wear another pair of tight shoes,” said a wo- man, “but if 1 should be inveigled into making myself uncomfortable 1 know. what I shall do to allay the pain. The ministrations to the aching feet of a man who called on my Italian cobbler for relief showed me a remedy. The man’s shoes pinched in three different places. Having located the. painful spots Rafael dipped a long strip of can- ton flannel into boiling water and held the clotb stretched tightly across the man'’s shoes. When the water hegan to evaporate he dampened the cloth again and repeated the process several times. *‘Now, said be at last. ‘your shoes are set to your feet. No more hurt.’ “The man gave him a quarter, which I thought a small price to pay for re- lief from a pinching shoe.”—New York Sun. A Witty Reply. On one occasion an important dress rehearsal at His Majesty’s theater was prolonged until the small bhours of the morning. The company grew very weary, particularly a gentleman whe had been with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in a good many.productions, but who bad never attained to more than a very tiny part. When the time came to rehearse his few lines he was so tired that his voice was anything but distinet, “What's the matter, Mr. Z.?" asked Sir Herbert in his most sareastie tones “Are you saving your voice for the re- hearsal ?"" “No, Sir Herbert,” was the retort, under your management.” Sir Herbert, an exceedingly witty man himself. was so pleased with the retort that the salary of the small part man was raised.—London M. A. P, An English King’s Death. _ William Rufus was killed by' an ar- row, either accidental or with murder- ous intent. He died in the New for- to Winchester and the king's Covered with reward. On the wi the cart was upset. body fell in the mire. filth and black with charcoal, it ar .rived in Winchester, where it was buried in the cathedral. A few years later the tower fell and crushed the tomb, and G0 years after ‘the Puri tans rifled the grave and played foot ball with the king’s skull. The Best She Could Do. “There is only one reason,” he said. “why | have uever asked youn to be my wif “What is that?" she asked. “1 have alw been half afraid you might refuse. “Well,” she whispered after a loag silencg, "1 should think you'd have whether your suspicion was well founded or not.”—Chicago Record-Her- ald. Damascus Swords. It is seldom that a really good speci- men of a Damascus sword can be.ob tained, for the art ot working and en graving the kind of steel of whieh they are made is lost. These famdus swords were made of alternate layers of iron and steel so finely tempered that the blade would bend to the .hilt | without breaking. 3 Che Needed Them All. There are over 200,000 words in the English language. and most of them | were used last Sunday by a lady who discovered after coming out of church that her stunning new hat was adorn- ed with a price tag on which was written. “Reduced to $2.75.”—Norborne (Mo.) Leader. His Idea of the Show. “What do you think of the plot?" asked the theater manager. “That isn't a plot.” replied the man { who had paid $2 to see the show :“That's a conspiracy.”—Washington Star. Another Quibble. f “Don't you hate to sleep in an upper berth?" “No: I like to sleep when 1 have to take an upper berth.”~Chicago Record Herald. Appropriate. “Here’s a hairpin In the soup. wall er,” said the mad diner. “Yes, sir. It's all right. 1t's hnrt- ronp. sir."—Yonkers Statesman. 'THE BEMIDII DAILY PIONEER “I’ve never been able to save anything |* est. His body was stripped by tramps |- and the next day was found by a char ( coal burner. who placed the naked corpse on his cart, hoping to receive a (* curiosity enough to want to find out| A Herculean Katydid. - Experiments conducted by a natural- ist.attached to one of the government’s scientific bureaus at Washington ad- duced an interesting example of the strength of the katydid. He harness- ed a katydid to a kind of sled made by folding a piece of ordinary note- paper, and then loaded the sled with various articles. The insect proved able to draw, in addition to the orig- inal paper. twelve paper sheets each 3 by 4% inches, a large screw, two steel pens, a stone weighing two ounces and three and a half lead pen- cils. When the weight became too heavy to draw otherwise, the katydid got its fore feet over the edge of the table. for a better hold. and on the addition of another weight it increas- ed the adhering power of its feet by moistening them in its mouth.—New York Tribune. Not a Parallel Case. A writer in the Philadelphia Satur- day Evening Post tells of a big over- grown, bashful booby of a farmer's boy who was afraid even to speak to a girl, and whose father one day final- ly lost patience and scolded him round- ly for not looking about and finding some girl to marry. *“Why,” be said, “at your age 1 had been married three years and had a house and farm of my own!" “Well, but dad.” complained the boy, “that ain’t the same thing at all. You only had te marry mother, while I've got to go and hunt up some strange girl and ask her to marry me! At Last. A well known clergyman. called to other duties, says a writer in the West- ern Christian Advocate, preached his last sermon before the installation of his successor. The local paper. in announcing the order of services, gave it as follows: “Sermon by the Rev. Blank; solo and quartet. ‘Hushed at Length."” His Wanderings. Stranger—What wonderful tales old Blinks relates! He must have been a great traveler in his day. was never outside the county in bis life; but., you see, his mind has wan dered for years. Just Like Eggs. Miss A.—Sb your wife keeps yon con- tinually in bot water, you poor man Mr. B.—Obh, that’s all right. We hus- bands are like eggs. Keep us in hot water and we become hardened.—Bos: |- ton Transcript. X A Long Run. Property Man—Did your company have a long rupn in S8qeedunk? Come- dian—They chased us only two miles out.—Chicago News. “I had been troubled with consti- pation for two years and tried all of the best physicians in Bristol, Tenn., and they could do nothing for me,” writes Thos. E. Williams, Middleboro, Ky. “Two packages of Chamber- lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets curéed me.” For sale by Barker’s Drug Store. Native—He | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1911 GG JOANSON Lands Loans Box 736, Bemidiji, Minn. 2 Room No. 15, Bacon Block BRICK FACTORY We make brick and ~ can fill all orders promptly. 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