Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 12, 1912, Page 4

e Make a Sure Thing of it If you wait un- til the last week in the month to pay for the Pio- neer, yours may be the one that will stop coming. The rush dur- ing the last week will be heavy. Take no chances or missing an issue for it may be the one you’'ll want most. Send in your advance pay- ment today. By HOMER CROY. If you will look it up in the die- tlonary you will find it this way: Fredclarke: (noun) see Old Gib- raltar. And then if you will turn to the o’'s you'll read: Old Gibraltar: (noun) see clarke. That’s what he i{s—Old Faithful, You can depend on him 364 days out of the year and if he turns up miss. ing on the three hundred and sixty- fifth you may know some doctor has & thermometer under his tongue and his thumb on his pulse. He was born on a farm in Madison " tred- | County, Iowa, thirty-nine years ago, and did not talk until he was old enough to harness a horse alone, and never since has he said more than three sentences and four goldarnits in succession. Before he utters a complete sentence outside the ball park he gets out the screw-driver, the dle cutter and the alligator wrench, goes all over his vocal apparatus, chokes once, strains for a start and then puts a period at the end of the fitth word. The only time he can use two sentences in succession with- out getting rosy behind his ears is when he describes his thoroughbred helfers. One Saturday when he was seven- teen years old, after he had got the jimson weeds all cut, lime sprinkled on the cucumber vines and the rock salt laid out for the cattle in the back forty, he went to Omaha where he saw his first professional game of baseball. It excited him so that de didn’t sleep for three nights, and when he’ went back home and told the rest of the fellows that the play- ers all had a full suit aplece they nearly hurt themselves laughing and sald Fred was trying to put on airs Just because he had been to the city. His first game was playéd with the ‘Parcels Post Criticized, Washington. D. €., March 12.— The House postoffice committee has ordered printed a bill attached as a rider to the postoffice appropriation bill” which provides for a'system of parcels post. NMuch has been said about the benefit such -a system would be to farmers in sending prod- ucts to towns. It would appear that the farmers have been handed a beau- tifully designed “gold-brick.” The rural route rates do not apply to products sent from farmers to the towns. they are only available for the shipment from a person on one rural route to a person on the same route or from the starting point of such route. Representatives of retail mail-or- der houses are sald to hayve been anxious to obtain a delivery system to people living along rural routes. Thus they would be able to ship their goods by freight or express in quan- tity to an agent in a town and all such agent or solicitor.will haye to do will be to deposit these in a post- office and the packages up to eleven pounds will go to all farmers along the rural routes at low rates, an elev- en-pound package costing them only 26 cents. But if a farmer wishes to send an eleven-pound package to town or to a farmer on another route such package would cost him $1.32. Representatives of large retail mail- order houses ‘have been active in Washington and it seems they have gotten very much of what they wanted from the House committee. The committee also attempts to com- pel the senators to abandon any con- victions -they may have upon’ the subject by attaching the bill as a rider to an appropriation bill. ‘It also proposes to_avoid criticism by shutting off. debate with a .cloture rule. < Members of the committee have said tHey did not aim to alarm or injure any legitimate business ine terest; but they haye decided to con- demn the merchants of the smaller|] Artist Cesare Depicts Fred Clarke. and he has been in the big league business Hastings, Nebraska, team eighteen years. His first games wel on the prairie, so naturally his games now are on the level. (It's rottenm, but we'll let it pass). He is one of the wealthiest men In the business, having such & big stock farm at his home mnear Winfleld, Kansas, that he has to get down a plat map of Cowley County to re- member how much land he has. It's 80 large that it takes two automobiles and_five hired men to rum it. He has two daughters and a phono- graph. His was the first phonograph ever seen in that part of Kansas, the natives coming for miles and miles on Sunday afternoons to look. at it, and then going away believing .that Fred was playing a joke on them. They wouldn’t believe. it” could talk until they locked Fred up in the Kitchen and put the thing out in the front yard on a culvert tile of trail- ing arbutus. o He is a farmercist from the word g0 and -would rather talk about Durocs in the back lot than about the best Bougereaus ever hung in the Metropolitan museum. The only habit, hobby or whoopla of the man who for ten years batted over .300, who won four N. L. pennants and one world champlonship, is chew- ing a toothpick. He is rough on toothpicks, beginning on them in the morning as soon as he gets one foot through and keeping it up all day un- til the Pullman porter begins hunt- ing for the boys’ shoes. - When Fred Clarke wants to have a ripsnorting time he drives a friend out to the hog yard in his auto, hangs ore knee over the steering wheel, ruts in a fresh toothpick and throws out a handful of shelled corn for hir Durocs. (Copyright, 1911, by W. G. Chapman.) cities and towns by instituting also a flat-rate system with a haul any distance in American territory at 12 cents per pound for a package up to eleven pounds. Modern Motherin-Law. ‘Wife, at' the Breakfast Table— 'Henry dear, mother writes that she 18 coming down to visit us for & week. Henry (enthusiastically)—Bully! It seems an age since she’s been down to see us and I've just been thinking we ought to have her come. But can’t she stay more than a week? There are a lot of good shows and things she’d enjoy and_ besides I want to play a good long “serles of chess with her and a week will hardly start us. Write her we want her for a month. Wite—T'll try to get her for that long, Henry, but_you know she can only get away from home once in a great while for a few days, and she's got to divide up her time between three daughters. Arthur and his wife and Mary and Charlie would be reaMy angry if she didn't spend as much time with them as with us. Henry—Well, do your best. Honest- ly, Mary, your mother i8 a jolly good fellow,- as I've told you before, and we can’t have too much of her. Expedition Across Greenland, - The Swiss Society of Naturalists is raising funds to enable Dr. A. de across the inland ice of Greenland, 0 bay, on the west coast, to Anslmlganflk the ‘only inhabited place on the east coast. The expedi- tlon expects to leave Europe on the steamer Hans Egede April 1, 1912, and Hime will be carried. . Two' mambetu f the_expedition ‘are to remain on ti west coast of Greenland until -the spring of 1913 to carry on glaciological and aerological studies—the I tonnection with similar oba that are to be made at the ADYOCATES HIGHER “|per year from that source. Quervain to undertake a -journey | ' SALOON LICENSES (Continued from first phge). for the ladies and information bu- ‘Teau,. alsg employment agency. and weights and measures department. These conveniences will not be ex- pensive to the city but will go a long way in showing the attitude of the people of this community toward each other and likewise to\v&rd the general public. 1 belteve that this council will con- sider the suggestions that have been set forth in the above with the same spirit that they have been presented, and that we are united for having a good profitable year for Bemidjl. Very Sincerely, (Signed) F. M. Malzahn, Mayor. In the discussion which followed the reading of the message, the councilmen expressed themselves as in favor of the public rest room, but did not believe the employment bu- reau was advisable as the city was already deriving a revenue of $400 L. F. Johtnson suggested that' more police be added to the city force as at pres- ent all ‘were needed in the down town district leaving the resident section unguarded. Vacancies Filled. "A. A Carter was _re-appointed commissioner over Joe Harrington by a vote of five to two, Messrs. Bisiar and Moberg being absent. Several members expressed themselves as be- ing pleased with his work, for which he passed a box of cigars. Fred Bursley was re-appointed day engi- neer of the fire department and jani- tor of the city hall, by a four.to three vote. A petition from the Third ward asking for additional protection was put over until the next meeting. The petition asked for a fire bell, and 100 feet of hose to be put where the lad- ders are kept af present. It. was stated that the equipment would also help a part of the Second ward. Water is Muddy. Y. J. Trask, owner of the laundry, stated to the council that whenever the mains were flushed the dirt-set- tled down in his.part of the system and made it impossible to wash. He submitted samples taken from-his tub at various times. Mr. Trask stated that the dirty water necessitated his shutting down his plant for half a Gay and then rewashing all of the clothes. The matter was left for the water clerk to look up and report on at the next meeting. Some discussion was made over the transfer of the saloon license of Ole Anderson to Peter Berg and the mat- ter was laid over until the mnext meeung Bonds from George Rhea, Gedrge Kirk, George Stein, were ac- cepted. Standing Committees Appointed. L. F. Johnson, president of the council, appointed the following standing committees for the fiscal year: = Finance—Johnson, Crippen, Klein, Auditing—Smart, Klein, Moberg. Water and Light—Klein, Bailey, Bisiar. Sewer—Bailey, Miller, Hannah. Street and Sidewalk—Moberg, Smart, Bisiar. Building—Crippen, Miller, Smart. = Fire—Klein, Smart, Bailey. Parks—Moberg, Hannah, Smart. Printing—Bisiar, Hannah, Miller. Salaries—Smith, Bailey, Hannah. Health—Bailey, Hannah, Crippen. Purchasing—XKlein, Moberg, Bis- iar. Poor—Bailey, Moberg, Hannah. Fire Fighting Checks Here. Checks for forest fighting have been sent to several men who former- ly lived iin this vicinity for services in fighting fire during the summer of 1910. It appears that these men have left the country as the letters addressed - to them have not been claimed. L. J. Johnson, state forest ranger for this - district, asks that anyone knowing the whereabouts of these parties consult with him. A full list will be found elsewhere in this issue. Pennsylvania Labor Federation. Pittsburgh, Ja., March 12.—Dele- gates from all parts of the state re- sponded-to the roll call today at the opening of the eleventh annual con- vention of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor. The gathering ‘was called to order at 10 o’clock this morning by the president, E. E. Greenawalt of Lancaster. The ses- sions will probably continue through the remainder of the week. ~The large attendance and the importance of some of the matters to be consid- ered combine to give promise of one of the most notable meetings ever held by the federation. American Manner-. - Frederick Townsend Martin, at a dinner in New York, criticized Amer- fcan manners wittily. * “Kipling,” he said, “declares truly 'that a gentleman has manner, w"ile a would-be ~~ gentleman has, nners. ‘We_ should remember that. ‘We lay 'too much stress on such. detalls as taking oft. our hm ‘when we go up in | the elevator with a scrubwoman. | everything, we seem to gearch. too uneasily for the correct, urse. - A society editor told-‘me: the -otlter. day .that he .had ust got aletter trom a young ‘wom- A Frenchman, writing recently upon ““The Méndicants of Paris,” Tecalls & pretty anecdote of Vietor Hugo and a blind beggar. The beggar was an old soldler, very feeble and qui sight- less, who was led every day by his little granddaughter to a certaln street cornér, where he waited pa- tlently for such scanty alms as the hurrying public might drop into & small box that hung from hig neck, One day a group of gentlemen halt- ed near him, chatting, and he heard the name by which they called the one who lingered longest. Reaching forward as he, too, was about to go, he caught him by the coat. “'What do you want, my good man?” asked the gentleman. “I hnsnruny given you two sou “Yes, monsieur, and I have mnkofl you,” replied the veteran, “It is some thing else that I want.” “What 18 1t?” - “Verses.” “You shall have them,” said the gen- tleman; and he kept his word. The next day the blind soldier bore on his breast a placard with a stanza to ‘which was appended the name of Vic. tor Hugo; and the arms in the box were quintupled. . The lines may be thus translated: Like Belisarius and like Homer blind. Led by & young child on his pathway " dim, The hand that aids his need, pitying and kind, He will not see, but God will ses for him, ~—Youth’s Companion. DOUBLE REPORTS IN FIRING Curious Effect Produced by Use of Maxim Silencer During Target Practice. Taking as his text the double report noted during the firing on the battle- ship North Carolina during ‘the recent aerial target practice, Hiram Percy Maxim writes: “Our experiments with the Maxim silencer have devel- oped -many other interesting cases. For example: If a rifle equipped with a silencer is fired down a rall- road track having telegraph poles along the side there is a distinct ‘crack’ heard for each telegraph pole. If the rifle is fired from an open fleld with a tree or a clump of bushes at, say, 200 yards, there is heard a ‘crack’ irom this clump of trees. If there are several detached clumps of trees or bushes over the ‘open field; there will be heard a ‘crack’ for each of them. If, instead of firing parallel with the ground, the gun is elevated and fired straight up in the air, we hear no | noise at all, except the fail of the ham- mer and the ‘puff’ of the gases -escap- ing from the silencer. “The reason for this is probably as follows: In the ordinary.gun the re- port noise is so loud that it engulfs all other sounds, and we are conscious of nothing but report noise itself. It is not until this report noise is annulled that we can hear the ‘bullet flight" noise. This latter noise, being made out in the ailr beyond the gum, can come back to the shooter only by re- flection. “If there i8 one object, we get one reflection and one noise. If there are many separate objects, we get many separate reflections .and separate noises. If there are no reflecting ob- Jects, such-as when shooting- straight up into the air, then we get mo re- flected noise.” Trolley Rall Tugboat. Tests of a new touring system, in- ‘'vented by & German engineer, Herr Koss, have recently been made on the Dortmund Ems_ Canal, which give promise that the invention will be a success. An elastic rall is laid at the bottom of the canal, and the tugboat carries at its bottom four rollers which clasp this rail. These rollers are oper- ated from the boat which is thus pro- pelled. A large economy of power is claimed for. this method. The experi- mental tug is worked by electricity, the energy being obtained through a cable from an auxiliary.boat equipped with a dynamo. This, however, is.on- Iy an experiment, and' in ordinary working a trolley wire would be in- stalled alongside the canal. Electri- cal operation can obviously be re- placed by crude ofl motors, etc., each barge belng fitted with a set of rollers | ncting on the rail. Pligrim Trade Has a Boom. The Mahomatan ig not so behind the times as some would make him: out. | He has proved himself quick to take advantage of the conveniences of mod- ern civilization. Before the Hedjaz Railway was be- gun the number of pilgrims to Mecca ‘wasg about 90,000 a year. In 1904, when one section of the road was opened, this number jumped at once to: 200, 000. - In the last year for which there Is any record it exceeds 280,000. . These faithtul _followers of the prophet included 113,000 Turks, 40,000 from India, 17,000 from North Africa and even 4,000 Malays. Sympathetle. “Dinkle. was robbed by a footpad last night.” “I'll bet the hair Ull his held stood up straight.” . “Dinkle hasn’t any hnr on his head to speak of, but he gays the fiss em his fuzzy hat stood uw straight.” b S T-mul Request. Dobbleigh.was a. confirmed borrows er, and, what was worse, he seldom | retutned the borrowed articl He had held on to Whibley's umbrella, for ‘Instance, for nearly & year. . “And I'm blest it ] know.how 1 am “Hasy,” sald muknlnonn. “Call messenger md end Dobhlel.h this || @@O@@O("@@@@@@@@ While benleglng Fort .Gaines at ‘Mobile Bay a young engineer officer| “|fresh from West Point came to.thé rifie pits, and accidentally stepped on the foot of a big Kentuckian, who gave him a push that 'aid him flat. ‘When he got up he sajd: “I am a West Pointer, sir; no more of that.”” ~ “I don’t care whether you're a pointer or a setter,” 'answered the Kentuckian; “you- gotter keep off'n my feet.” I want (Montreal Star). An old woman with a peaked black | bonnet got aboard a train in Ken- tucky and after calmly .surveying ev- erything in the coach she turned to a red-haired boy and, pointing to the! bell cord, she asked: “What’s that, and why does it run into that car?” “That’s the bell cord; the dining car.” The old woman hooked the end of her parasol ove rthe bell cord and gave it a vigorous jerk. the brakes were set and the train came to a stop. it runs into The conductor rushed in and asked | loudly: “Who pulled that bell cord?” - “I did,” lady. “Well, what do you want?” shout-| ed the conductor. “A cup of coftee and a ham sand- | wich.” Instantly | calmly. replied the old| The-Golden Rule, been interpreted by various branches of the human family;: Po:as you would be done by.—Per- sian. - you would-take ill from him.—Grec- fan, What you wnuld not wish done to Chinese. One should seek for others the hap- piness one desires for one’s self.— ]Buddhist. 7 | He sought for others the good he | desired for. himself.- Let- him pass on.—Egyptian. All things whatsoever ye would ! that men should do to you, do ye ev- jen 8o to them.—Christian. Let none of you treat his brother in a way he himself would dislike to be treated.—Mohammedan. | The true rule of life is to guard iand do by the things of others as they do by their own.—Hindu. The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves.—Roman. | To the foregoing we might add: Kick no other man’s dawg around |if you are unwilling that your own dawg should be kicked.—Missourian. Cast not your hat into a ring into | which you are unwilling to permit another to-cast his hat.—Roosevelt. Love your neighbor’s wife if you 1are willing that your neighbor should love your wife.—New York Smart Set. ' Let only him who is willing to be recalled advocate the recall.—Taft. 1a551rled Department The Pioneer Want Ads | OASH witH ooPy | \ ‘A oent per word per lssue :{egu]ar charge rate 1 cent per word per insertion. 5 cents. No ad taken for less than Phone 31 HOW THOSE WANT ADS “ DO THE BUSINESS' 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 50 your want ad gets to them all. 15 Cent a Word Is All It Costs HELP WANTED WANTED—Agents wanted to sell Fibresilk ties. 100 per cent profit. Sample 15c. Write for proposition. Fisher Knitting Co., Utica, N. Y.} WANTED—Experienced girl for housework at 209 4tli St. WANTED—Girl wanted at McDer-| mid’s Hotel, 304 3rd St. R FOR SALE 2 FOR SALE—An eight-room house, in good location; -will take a five- room house in exchange as part payment. J. Bisiar, 318 Minneso- ta Ave. Bemidji Music House, phone 573. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of & rubber stamp for you om: llmrt notice. FOR SALE—Bemidji residence prop- E: J. Swedback. FOR RENT erty for sale or exchange for Innd“ ! MISCELLANEOUS North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to classi- fied advertisers. The recognized advertising medium is the Fargo i Daily and Sunday Courier-News, the only seven day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified advertising. ‘The Courier-News 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 ingertion, one-half cent per word succeeding insertion; fifty cents per line per month. Address the Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. WANTED—100 merchants in North- ern Minnesota to sell “The Bemid- 3i” lead pencil. Will carry name of every merchant in advertising | columns of Pioneer in order that | all receive advantage of advertis- ing. 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