Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 14, 1912, Page 3

“ g SMAIL'S TRIP ON RAZOR EDGE Scientist Makes Interesting Discovery While Studying Mollusk’s Method of Locomotion. “When photographing the snall,” writes Professor Ward in the Strand, “1 was surprised at the fact that even the rough cut edge of a sheet of glass presented no difficulties to its loco- motion; its even pace was continued 1a spite of the fact that the sharp core ner appeared to be penetrating its Dbody. There, too, we have exhibited the animal’s delicate sense of touch, and this led me to make a further ex-! periment. i “Atter I had placed the snail on the | butt of a razor’s blade it slowly moved along the back of the blade and then | climbed completely over the sharpi| edge, the razor being in excellent con-| dition. As the successive waves| brought the fore part of its foot near| the edge of the blade its head was| held low down, and the lower and shorter pair of feelers nearly touched the blade, as if feeling the way. “At ¢ moment when the sharp edge was reached the small feelers were fully extended toward it, and just at the very instant when I ex-| pected to see them cut off they were | both instantly retracted. They were little more than a hair breadth away, | and though the lower feelers possess; no eyes, yet by thelr sudden move-| ment I was quite convinced that the snall at that instant recognized dan.' ger. “Still the foot traveled on, and slowly the snail dragged its whole | weight of exactly one and a half, ounces over the edge, later moving to- | ward the butt and remaining perfectly unbarmed. The species experimented with was the Roman or edible kind, which accounts for its comparatively large weight, it being the largest of British snails,” NEW RACE NEAR THE POLE! Explorers Steffansson and Anderson | Find Men With Red Beards in ! Victoria Land. Tidings of a hitherto unknown race hae been received in dispatches from, Stefansson and Anderson, who are! conducting an expedition in the ht! north. i The strange race was located im| Victoria Land, north of Cape Bexley. One theory of their origin is that they may be descendants of an an- cient Icelandic colony from Green- land. Of unusual interest is the fact that the natives bear names that can be translated into English, suggesting that survivors of the Franklin expedi- tion may have lived among them. They have some Scandinavian char- acteristics and are different from any other American aborigines. Two of them wore beards of a reddish color; and all had light eyebrows. Nothing learned from them indicated that the race as it exists today had ever seen & white man. The courier who first went forward | to parley with them almost lost his life, when a native attacked him with @ knife. Friendly advances were final- 1y successful, and by means of the sign language and the assistance of native guides communication was held. The race was an aboriginal one called A-kuli-a-kat-tag-mi-ut. It had been believed that the territory was uninhabited. The Tramp’s Excuse. *You seem to be an ablebodied man. Why don't you get work instead of begging for a living?” “I can’t find anything to do in my line.” “You can’t?” “No. I'm a lightning calculator by profession, and the adding machine put me out of business.” You judge a man not by what he promises to do, but by what he has done. That is the only true test. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy judged by this standard has no superior. ! People everywhere speak of it in the Rkighest terms of praise. For sale by Barker’s Drug Store. | cannot, is because she had a sweet; i cupying seats and then stationed her- THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1912. GRAND SPRING MILLINERY OPENING A T Conger’s Hat Shop 209 Fourth Street. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MARCH |[5th and 16th. IS ALWAYS SOME CELEBRITY Nobody Ever Recalls That in Previous Incarnation He Was a Hum- ble Person. Dr. Julia Sears, head of the “New Thought School,” says: ‘“There are enough people on the planet today who remember one or more of their incar- nations to make it a certainty that re- incarnation is a positive fact.” All right, doctor; we’ll add this to our list of positive facts, which is al- ready become somewhat unwieldly. Still, there is a question which has been puzzling us a good wnile, and we now | make bold to ask: Why is it that,| among all those people who remem- ber one or more of their incarnations, not one can remember being an hod carrier, an undertaker’s assistant, or an office boy in a soap factory? There | is a strong tendency to run toward: royal families, court musicians, and philosophers. Two or three persons can distinctly remember having been Joan of Arc, and the number of rein- carnated Napoleons and Louis Four- teenths is growing all the time. But the man we are ansious to meet is| the chap who can remember with pleasure his incarnation as the brawny “white wings” who pushed th scoop around the arena of the Roman Coliseum after the show was over and the animals retired, or the employe of the Imperial Health Department whose duty it was to descend into the Cloaca Maxima when it got clogged. Another New Thought which comes | at this moment is in connection with the statement of Dr. Sears that she was the Italian singer Marsina 400 years ago, was bitterly discontented, and now she longs to sing and cannot. There’s matter for rumination in this. We shall hurry away now to tell the young woman in the apartment ad- Joining ours that the reason she longs to sing, or thinks she can sing, and pipe several hundred years ago and didn’t make the most of it—Puck. SHE PICKED THE WRONG MAN| Woman With Prominent Jaw Did Not| Get the Seat She So Evi- : dently Desired. She had a jaw that somehow re-! minded one of the cowcatcher on a lo- comotive—perhaps because it was al-; ways somewhat in advance of her| countenance. Also there was a look of determination in her eyes, and it was evident, from the manner in which she elbowed other passengers: aside, that she had no desire to be re- garded as a shrinking violet. Yet she was rather good looking, and she was dressed in such a manner as to indi- cate that she was free from the ne- cessity of practicing economy. After she had fought her way into the car she looked at the men who were oc- self in front of a smallish, gray-haired gentleman whose expression was kind and even lamblike. { The woman engaged his attention by kicking his toes. He curled his feet back under the seat and continued to read his paper. Then she “hemmed” loudly and bumped against his knees. He looked up at her, indulged in a sigh of weariness and tried to make| room for her by crowding closely to| the woman who sat at the left of him. She declined to budge, however, and the old gentleman again turned his attention to his paper. . Exasperated by such ungallant be- havior on his part, the woman with the decisive jaw said in tones that in no wise suggested the haunting mel- ody of a tinkling brook: “I suppose I'll have to stand all the way home. I've heard of men who had the decency to get up when the cars were crowded, but I guess they're all dead.” ~ “Madam,” the little old gentleman mildly remarked, “I would give you my seat, but I'm saving it for a lady.” —Chicago Record-Herald. Centenary of Moscow Campaign. One hundred years ago Napoleon set out on his campaign to Moscow, and it is perhaps only natural that Moscow and Russia generally should be eager | NOT ON SECURE FOUNDATION | the center of an earthquake. | motions to the soil, which | bombardment, but because the wavei . of motion proceeds in i one point the effect would be like | ship.” to celebrate the centenary of a cam- paign which was so disastrous to the invaders. Already preparations are being made in Moscow to open the 1812 museum, and an immense number of objects relating to the campaign have been collected. The centenary has already been celebrated by a con- cert, which revived the marches and military airs of both armies, and some of these, according to the Debats, are most interesting and curious. More interesting still, as likely to recall the events of that year, will be the visits that are to be paid to the battlefields and the ceremonies that are to take place there. Engineer Explains Why Some Build- ings Shake When Particularly Heavy Wagon Goes By. | “What makes a building shake as it it had the ague every time a truck! with a twenty-ton girder rumbles by?” an engineer was asked. “Only the buildings whose founda-| tions do not go down to bed rock shake,” he replied. “The occupants of the building that rests mnever know when a heavy load passes it. The man in the building whose foundations go down just a few feet below the cellar floor, and stop in the subsoil, often imagines he is in “When the wagon bearing the beam goes traveling along it bumps over the inequalities of the street with tre- mendous force, and this imparts wave in turn transfer the vibrations to the old- style foundations, which sway and shake and tremble. The foundations whose piers rest on bed rock are not affected. A twenty-ton beam, as it slips from one paving stone to an: other, imparts a force to the ground that may be llkened to a constant constantly | widening circles, and hence in con: stantly diminishing force distributed all over the foundation, no harm re- sultg. If the force were all driven at that of a projectile from a battle Clever Birds. J Record has recently-been made of a canary bird that displays almost hu- man intelligence. The bird in ques: tion acts as guard over a sleeping child, singing shrilly at any sign of danger. The bird is allowed the free dom of the house and never shows any desire to escape into the free air. At night it will perch itself on the baby’s cradle and such seems to be its liking for the child that if anyone approaches to disturb its slumber, it shows spirited signs of its displeasure, A man in London prizes a parrot for its intelligence. The bird is as Valuable about the man’s house as any patent burglar alarm he could buy. The parrot is always on guard. If anyone approches the house, the bird sets up such a commotion that if the person is bent on evil, he is {mmediately frightened away. on rock Indian Affa Farms for White Sox. Jimmy Callahan, if his promises aré to be taken seriously, is establish- Ing. farms for his White Sox discards in, pretty nearly every league in the coqntry. There is no doubt but that Sir James knows what he is doing. MACHINE SHOP We do general repair work of all kinds. Gasoline and steam engines a specialty. |OLLAF ONGSTAD Shop—Rear of Pioneer Building D —— STEATMSHIP TICKETS | East or West Bound, All lines. In pur- chasing here | passengers secure ad- vantage of thru rates to seaport. R E. FISHER Union Depot. Phone 50. Bemidji, Minn PROPOSALS - FOR FRAME SC. HOUSE AND BRICK LAUNDRY. Department of the Interior, Offi Washington, D. C., Feb- 1912. Sealed proposals, plain- d on the outside of the sealed ‘*Proposals for Frame Schqol- house and Brick Laundry for the Leech Lake Indian School, Minnesota,” and addressed to the Commissioner of In- dian Affairs, Washington, D. C., will be received ‘at the Indian Office until 2 o'clock p. m. April 8, 1912, nishing materials and labor for the erec- tion of a frame schoolhouse and_ brick laundry at the Leech Lake Indian School, Minnesota, in strict accordance with the plans, specifications and in- structions to bidders, which may be ex- amined at this office, the offices of the Supervisor of Construction, Denver, Col- orado, the Improvement Bulletin, Min- neapolis, Minn., the Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn., the News Tribune, Duluth, Minn., the U. S. Indian Warehouses-at Chicago, 1., St. Louis, Mo, and Omaha, Nebr., The Builders and Traders Exchange at $t. Paul, Minn,, and a$ the school. For further information apply to the Super- intendent of the = Leech Lake Indian Schooi, Onigum, Minnesota. C. F. Hau- ke. Acting Commissioner. l | NEW BATH ROOMS - -OPENED In connection with my barber shop I have opened new bath rooms on Minnesota avenue, four doors north of Rex Hotel. H. K. FINCH THE SPALDING EUROPEAN PLAN Duluth’s Largest and Best Hotel {{ DULUTH MINNESOTA More than $100,000.00 recently expended on improvements. 250 rooms, 12 private baths, 60 sample rooms. Every modern convenience: Luxurious and delightful restaurants and buffet, Flemish Room, Palm Room, Men’s Grill, Oolonial Buffet: Magnificent lobby anrd public rooms; Ballroom, banquet rooms and private dining rooms: Sun parlor and observa- tory. Located in heart of business sec- tion bus overlooking the harbor and Lake Superior. Convenient to everything. One of the Great Hotels of the Northwest William G. Kiein INSURANCE Rentals, Bonds, Real Estate First Mortgage Loans on City' and Farm Property 5 and 6, O’Leary-Bowser Bidg. Phone (9. Bemidji, Minn. S R. F. MURPHY “UNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Dffice 313 Beltrami Ave. Phone 318-2. Thisisthe § Stove Polish T’S different from others because more care is taken in the mak- ing and the materials used are of higher grade, Black Silk Stove Polish Makes abrilliant, silky polish thatdoesnot rub off or dust off, and the shine lasts four times as long as ordinary stove polish. Used on sample stoves and sold by hardware dealers, Allweask isa trial. Use It on your cook stove, your parlor stove Or your gas range. It you don'tfindit the best stove polish you ever used, your dealer is authorized torefund your money: Insist o Biack Silk Stove Polish. Made in liquid or paste—one quality. use on automobiles. Get a Can TODAY where. grocery store. very ordinary. Had a Practical Mind. An English Sabbath school teacher was laboring away on the subject of eternal punishment. One small girl gat so entranced by her lurid desecrip- tions of fire and brimstone that the teacher was much encouraged until transfixed by the explanatory question of: “Please, teacher, what becomes of all the smoke?” Children are much more. likely to contract the contagious diseases when they have colds. Whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and con=- sumption are diseases that are often contracted when the child has a cold. That is why all medical authorities say beware of colds. For the quick cure of colds you will find nothing better than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It can always be depended upon and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by Barker’s Drug Store. the next. ~at these low prices. Phone 206 of additional cost for Daily purchases. )y It s Better The purchasing power of $1 at Roe & Markusen’s grocery store is at least 20 per cent. greater than else- Quality is not sacrificed for low prices at this On the contrary, this is the store ““where quality counts.’”’ Buying in quantities is the reason why we can offer quality groceries at one-fourth less than other grocers ask for even the These low prices bring tremendous sales, and these tremendous sales in turn compel the supplying of a continuously fresh stock. Mill employees and others find that they can save even more than ' this one-fourth on grocery bills by laying in enough supplies to last them from ome ‘Pay Day’’ until This method shows buyers just what will be left for expenses other than the necessities of life without going into debi. Lay in your monthly supplies What you will save will about offset the increased amount Remember the quality in every case is guaranteed. Telephone and mail orders receive prompt and careful attention. ROE & MARKUSEN Qualit_y Grocers Phone 207 % GAGE HATS A SPECIALTY l