Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 7, 1912, Page 4

FIGHT OF DUCK AND OYSTER Bivalve Conquered by Clinging to the Fowl's Bill Until the Bird Was Drowned. Not long ago there occurred a lively contest in Maryland waters between a duck and an oyster. The oyster ‘wag victorious, but it was a fatal vie- tory, for when the bivalve had killed the duck there appeared a man who killed the oyster and ate them both. The combat between the duck and the oyster was of the rough and tume ble kind. The duck was large and full grown. It was of the diving spe- cles frequently seen in those waters. Now when the oyster feeds it opens its shell so wide that the full oyster itself is plainly visible. The sight of such a morsel was too great a tempta- tion for the duck. He made a head- long plunge, inserting his bill between the oyster’s open shell, Like a flash the shell closed on the duck’s beak. Then came a struggle for life. The oyster, which was quite a large one, was dragged from its bed, Willlam C. McDonald has the distinction of being the first governor of the new state of New Mexico. He was elected to that office by the Demo- crate. BOOK TREASURES OF PAST immense Sums Invested in the Copy- Ing, Illuminating and Binding of Them by Hand. The cost of materials and copying, lluminating and binding books by hand made them the treasures of rich collectors and the pride of museums, palaces and convent libraries. Im- mense sums were invested in them, and a rare or unusually original copy became a gem in value, as well as sentiment. Cicero, whose magnificent library was almost as famous as its owner’s eloquence, declared that he had seen a parchment roll contatning the entire (Iliad” of Homer which was compressed between thé shells of a nut, a work of extreme skill and patience, which a French savant, M. Huet, has since demonstrated was within the range of possibility. Many | such tours de force are said to have demonstrated the skill of ancient copyists and their economy parchment and vellum. 5 In the eighth century it was with| great difficulty that a monk of the rich Abbey of Saint Gall, France, gathered pilece by plece sufficient parchment to begin the transcription of a rare work. Later, in 1120, a monk employed to prepare a copy of the Bible could not find in all England sufficlent parchment for the purpose. —Natlonal Magazine. Pole’s Passion for Gambling. The trial at Crakow of a Polish ad- vocate named Steinfeld who has come to grief through gambling has been the occasion of some curious revela- tions about the hold which this vice has on business men in Austrian Po- land. Dr. Steinfeld’s wife in her endeavor to keep her husband out of temptation | tried the plan of never leaving him | out of her sight even when he went to his office. The lawyer then made a practice of going to bed early and rising at 4 in the morning before his wife was awake in order to hurry off to the so-called “Monte Carlo” at Crakow, which he would find still in full swing at that hour. When stay- Ing at hotels during the summer he would arrange meetings with other card players in the bathroom and play there for hours, while he told his wife that he was taking a cold water cure. FIRST APPLICATION DARKENS THE HAIR A Simple Remedy Gives Color, Strength’ and Beauty to the Hai You don’t have to have gray hair or faded hair if you don’t want to. Why look old or unattractive? If your hair is gray or faded, you can change it easily, quickly and effec- tively by using Wyeoth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy. Apply a lit- tle tonight, and in the morning you will be agreeably surprised at the re- sults from a single application. The gray hairs will be less conspicuous, and after a few more applications will restored to natural color. Wyeths' Sage and Sulphur also quickly removes dandruft, leaves the scalp clean and healthy, and pro- motes the growth of the hair. It is a clean wholesome dressing which may be used at any time with perfect safety. Get a fifty cent bottle from your druggist today, and see how quickly it will restore the youthful color and beauty of your hair and forever end the nasty dandruff, hot, itchy scalp and falling hair. All druggists sell it under guarantee that the money will be refunded if you are not satis- fied. BUOY FLOATED SIX YEARS Belonged to Ship Wrecked Off Japan | and Ocean Currents Carried It i to Scotland. their mysterious currents was told in & letter received by Stanley Dollar, of this city, from John Gear, at Ler- wick, Scotland, inclosing a clipping from the Shetland Times, published at Lerwick. The item is to the effect that there was picked up on the beach at Cul- livoe, Papastour, north of Scotland, a life buoy, tattered and stained, bear- Ing the inscription: “Passed by J. Guthrie, San Franciscg, Cal., June 1, 1905.” Capt. Guthrie is an assistant local Inspector of steamboats for his dis- | trict. | The Stanley Dollar was wrecked off 1905, and the buoy must have been floating in the ocean curents until it | landed over in Scotland. Whether it | went around the Horn or through the Northwest Passage or down by Aus- tralasia and around the Cape of Good | Hope into the Atlantic, 1s a mystery of seafaring men. The budy holde | the world’s record for drifting the longest distance ever known. Equally marvelous is the fact that It was not found before, but this may 1 be explained by the theory that it floated in parts of the two oc®ans un- frequented by many vessels.—San Francisco Chronicle. They Are Known to Grow Grain, Sowing and Harvesting Like Real Farmers. Man is not the only animal who has discovered the division of the vege- table world into weeds on the one hand and garden plants on the other. Our ingenious little six-legged work- ers, the ants, have anticipated us in this, as in so many other useful in- ventions and discoveries. There are ants in Texas which grow grain, and each nest owns a small claim in the vicinity of its mound on which it cul- tivates a kind of grass, commonly known as ant rice. . The claim is circular, about ten or twelve feet in diameter, and the ants allow no plant but the ant rice to en- croach upon the cleared space any- where. The produce of the crop they care- fully harvest, though authorities are still disagreed upon the final question whether they plant the grain or mere- 1y allow it to sow its own seed on the protected area. One thing, however, is certain— that no other plant is permitted to sprout on the tabooed patch. The ants wage war on weeds far more vigorously and effectively than our own agriculturists. ! Linguistic Donnybrook. “I observe that the natives of | Terre Haute are indulging in a con- troversy over the proper pronunciation of the name of their fair city,” said the commercial traveler. “Some insist upon the good old home flavored ‘Terry Hut,’ while the more cultured, affecting horror at such provincialism, declare it should be ‘Tear-ah-Hate, &nd still others prefer ‘Tear-Hauthy ’ “I see oportunities for 'extensive trouble in this discussion. What if other places which have suffered by rank Anglicizing in_their names shoald follow the example of the Indinna town? The result would be a lingu- istic Donnybrook. Consider the pos- sibilities of these common methods of. pronunciation. “Baton Rouge, Batten Ruge; Bell& fountaine, Belfountain; Boise, Boys; Charleroi, Charley Roy; "Des Moires, Dee-moyne; bois, Duboys; Fond du Lac, Fondelnk; Gallipolis, Gal-police; Montpeller, Montpeelier, and Prairle du = Chien, Prairle doo-Sheen.” e A strange story of the seas and; the west coast of Japan in August, ! ANTS ARE SMART GARDENERS Detroit, Dee-troite; Du- | Simons, Local Agent. - with three smaller bivalves clinging to it, the cluster being heavy enough . to keep the duck’s head under water. In this way the bird drowned. Its buoyancy was sufficient to float it with the oysters, and thus it-drifted near the dock, where it was captured. | When taken from the water the oys- ‘ter was clinging to the bird’s beak | with such force that considerable dif- ficulty was had in breaking its hold. WAS HER EYESIGHT FAILING? Woman Who Could Not See the Tail of the Comma Went to Oculist. Sometimes a comma makes a good deal of difference to the meaning of the sentence you happen to be read- ing. A woman who has reached the age of being called “Madam” by most shopkeepers, but whose friends al ways tell her how young and girlish she looks, was reading a newspaper paragraph. It didn’t make any sense, 80 she read it again. Then she yank- ed the paper up close to her face, leaned toward the window and studied it out in a better light. Then she saw the tail on the comma. What had look- like a perfectly good period was after all but a division of a sentence. She sat for a moment with the pa- per in her lap. Then she rose, walk- ed to her looking glass, studied herself for a few seconds, put on her hat and ‘hastened to an oculist. “I will not wait,” said she to herself, “until I try to thread the point of a needle or | humiliate myself by stooping to pick up a coin on a car platform and find |1t is a nail head aorn smooth. I will turn my old age milepost as gracefully as possible. I wonder,” said she with a sigh, “if the tail of that comma was perfectly plain, or was it blurred in the newspaper I was reading?” Feeding a Convalescent Child. ‘When my small son was convales- cing from a recent illness the doctor ordered hot gruels, broths, etc., and I realized that it would require some finesse to get him to take them. So after I had prepared the little dishes for the tray I rolled paper into cones and stood one up over each lit- tle cup. Then I pinned a penny flag onto one cone and, lo! I had Com- pany “D” in camp and sonng and I went visiting. We stopped first at the oemptain’s tent (where the flag was) and he partook of the treat offered. Then he went gayly from tent to tent, eagerly lifting up the paper cones to see what was beneath. The next day I made a log cabin out of toasted bread strips piled log cabin fashion. It inclosed a cup of beef tea, which he drank because it ‘was presented in a way that appealed to his imagination. ‘Wé played soda fountain and he paid for his hot drinks with toy money, and thus I accomplished my purpose without friction.—Harper's Bazar, Natives Eat Earth in West Africa. Natives of West Africa, in French Sudan, practice “geophagy.” Although the practice is common in many parts of the world, this particular case is re- markable for the systematic way in ‘which the dirt is collected, and for the fact that it occurs in a well cultivated region, where food is abundant. The earth consumed is a clay, which is found intercalated among the grits of the region in beds of various thick- ness. The deeper layers are preferred, and for this reason the natives dig galleries, which are so crudely con- structed that falls of earth frequently occur, sometimes with fatal results. When an unlucky miner is thus burled no attempt is made to rescue him, as it is believed that the divinities of the mines require an annual vietim. It is stated that individuals not infre- quently consume seven and a half pounds of clay daily. He Was on Oath. “Now, Frank, remember you are on oath. Don't testify to what you can't swear to. Did you really see the pris- oper bite the other man's ear off?” “Well, your honor, I see de pris- oner go up to de odder man an’ open his mouf, and place it kinder ’round his ear, an’ when he come away de od- der gemmun didn’t hab no ear. But I wouldn't want ter swar de pris'ner act- uatly done bite dat ear off!” A NANIMAL VEGETABLE The vegetable caterpillar is a na- tive of New Zealand. It is several inches in length, hairless and green. ‘When it gets ready to-die, it digs a hole for itself, does its own burying, and in a few days 2 slender shoot springs up with two or more leaves near the top. The shoot springs from the head, and the body is filled with roots. If dug up, the head and eyes are distinctly seen, and mot a root has = extended into the ground through the body. A unique growth, but no more unique than the purity of golden grain belt beers— T. R. i CHILD IS A GREAT THINKER Juvenile Logic Displayed by the Lit- tle Girl Who Wanted a Baby Brother. i Those who call children thought- less merely prove that they do not know the child nature. Children, as A matter of fact, are great thinkers. They only 'seem lacking in thought to, such of their elders as fail to com- nrehend that the childish mind works differently from that of the adult. Ju. venile loglg, for instance, frequently is faulty jydged by grown-up standards, but just as frequently it is sound and incontrovertible from its own point of view. A thoughtful little girl, for example, recently put to rout her mother, a young widow, by a searching fire of questions founded on the request: “Oh, mamma, won't you buy me a baby brother?” “You won't understand why I “can’t do that for you,” the mother finally re- marked, driven into a corner, “but lit- tle girls who have no fathers cannot have little’ brothers and sisters.” “Well, it seems very unreasonable,” | said the child, after a few moments of | reflection. . “Little girls without fath-| Light Biscuit Delicious Cake Dainty Pastries Fine Puddings Flaky Crusts The only Baking Powder made grom Royal Grape-Cream of Tartar BAKING - EASY SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO EAT School Girls and Boys Need Lessons In Mastication for Thelr Stom- achs’ Sake. Nor {s“it enough' that school girl and boys should be taught to cook; they should also learn how to eat. Few learn this at home. They are usually taught to eat silently, and not to take soup off the end of a spoon or to put the kmife into the mouth; but the more important art of masti- cation is fgnored. It is a branch of physiology and should be taught by experts in the schools. It it were, the next generation of mothers and fathers would know that it is & crime to let their children swal- low food, particularly milk and cereals and vegetables, before it has been kept for 2 while in the mouth to be mixed with saliva and made digest- ible. It it were indelibly impressed on school children that gluttony is a vice which defeats its own end, that by eating slowly much more pleasure can be got from one mouthful than by bolting a whole plateful, that this pleasure can be vastly increased by| consciously exhaling through the nose Wwhile eating, and that those who eat in this way will escape the pangs of indi- HERE IS COMFORT FOR SPECTACLE WEARERS We will Guarantee THAT THE WILL NOT CUT OR CHAFE THE EARS They can be applied 10 your lenses while you wait LET US SHOW YOU A Full Line of Opical Goods, INCLUDING COLORED GLASS- ES, BROKEN LENSE DUPLICAT- ED AND SPECTACLE REPAIRS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. tion—if these truths were im- Dressed on every child mind, two-thirds of the minor {lls of mankind would dis- appear in two generations, and most of the major maladies also; for the stom- ach is the source of ‘most diseases. As Thomas Walker wrote nearly a century ago, “Content the stomach and the stomach will content you.” Geo, T. Baker & Co. MANUFACTURING JEWELERS 116.3rd St, NEAR THE LAKE erg are pretty sure to be lonely, and that seems all the more reason why they should have other children in the family, doesn’t it?” —— The “Fruits” of Ambition. “If you are ambitious and want te get on in life, don’t wait for your op- portunity—make it.” So counselled Mr. Kalestick to young Kabkbage, whom he had just appointed to the management of a green-grocery stall. All that day the youth pondered the advice, and he still remembered it when his eye suddenly caught an-item in the sporting columns of his favor- ite paper: “Clodville Football club requires dates for December.” Two minutes later Kabbage was busy with pen, ink and paper, and in ten more minutes he was proudly con- ning the following note to .the Clod- ville secretary: “Dear Sir—I beg to inform you that we have a choice lot of dates in stock. Inclose one as a sample, and will be pleased to supply any quantity at two- | pence a pound, or four pounds for sevenpence ba-penny!”—Ideas. ST. PAUL MOTOR CAR Abbott-Detroit Buick Cadiilac Case Chalmers Columbus-Electrlo Detroit-Electric E-M-F Firestone-Columbas Flanders Franklin . Haynes Lion Luverne Marmon Mitchell Oldsmobile Overland Packard Peerless ST. PAUL AUTOMOBILE SHOW UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE DEALERS' ASSOGIATION WALTER WILMOT, Manager AUDITORIUM, FEB. I2th TO (7th THE FOLLOWING COMPLETE LINES WILL BE SHOWN Plerce Rambler Rauch & Lang Regal Reo. Stearns-Knight Stevens-Duryea Thomas Waverly Electric White Pleasure Cars White Trucks Come to the Show and see the cars side by side. It will enable you to make a better comparison and will save you much valuable time. | GIRL WANTED at Remore Hotel. The Pioneer Want Ads ] OASH WITH OOPY | ‘ 14 oent per word per issuo | No ad taken for less than Regular charge rate 1 cent per word per insertion. 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 who;do not take the paper generally read their neighbor's so your want ad gets to them all. 14 Cent a Word Is All It Costs Can’t Lose Much by Taking a Chance HELP WANTED {FOR SALE—2 frame building, Be- | midji Steam Laundry. WANTED—Competent girl for gen- | eral housework; good wages. W. FOR RENT.—Five room house. In- W. Brown, 700 Minnesota Ave. quire of A. Klein. WANTED AT ONCE.—Man to take | care or rent small farm. Inquire of J. P. Lahr. i MISCELLANEOUS Address: | ADVERTISERS--The great state of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to classi- fied advertisers. The recognized advertising medium is the Fargo Daily and Sunday Courler-News, the only seven day paper in the state and the paper which carries WANTED—Piano player. Box 191, Baudette, Minn. ' FOR SALE FOR SALE.—Thoroughbred St. Ber- | the largest-amount of classifled 54 . Best ' 5 ";“d I"“D' a”ge‘li:g:nfi:l;z‘;pp eg | advertising. Tne courfer-News "Box"“gg‘;‘s- S * 7" 7! covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of the state the day of publication; it is the paper to use In order to get re- sults; rates one cent per word first insertion, one-half cent per word sutcedding insertion; fifty cents B per line per month. Address the FOR SALE—Forty acres of 1and in| coyrfer-News, Fargo, N. D. Bemidji for sale. Inguire R. G. Paiterson, Nymore. _ FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The, Ploneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you on' short notice. | WANTED—Dining and sleeping car { conductors $75-$125. Experience | unnecessary, we teach you, write ! Dining Car World, 125 W. Van i Buren, Chicago. | FOR SALE—Hay 50 cents per bale, E. W. Hannah, 513 12th street. Fhone 551. \\ WANTED TO TRADE-—What have you to trade for new atandard pia- no? Call at second hand rtore, 0dd Fellows Bldg. FOR RENT i roomed cottage, . 1219 Bel. Ave. Inquire 1221 Beltrami. FOR RENT.—Newly decorated 3-1‘ | WANTED.—Orders for knit and | crocheted bed spreads. Address Box 17, Nymore, Minn., Phone 625, FOR RENT—3 room house, 504 3rd | St. Apply Frank Lane's Famil Liquor Store. { BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms nt“ furniture. Odd Fellows building, 917 Minnesota Ave. Phone 164. i across from postoffice, phone 129. alling IF THE LADIES KNEW What was in cards for or At At the Bemidji crowded even more than it now is. Twenty some odd styles from which to select. about out plate free” 200 proposition. store for them in the way of engraved Pioneer Office,” this place would be Ask