Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 25, 1912, Page 4

VETERAN PLAYERS PROVE VALUABLE ASSETS FarRELL DuKe Trio of Old Timers. Big league clubs make no mistake in carrying such men as Robinson, Farrell, Jim McGuire and other veterans. These old heads have a good Influence on the young players and can steer the boys over the hurdles safely. The time will come when every well-organized club will have a veteran player on the pay-roll. They give the youngsters contidence and strengthen the hands of the man. ager. R A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A N N N A AN NN POOOOOOOOODPOOICOGES © CALENDAR OF SPORTS FOR ©| ® THE WEEK ol CPPPPOPPPOPOOOPSPOS®ES Monday. National pocket billiard champion- | ship tournament opens in Philadel-! phia, j United north and south amateur gold tournament for women opens at Pinehurst, N, C. Canadian amateur fencing cham- pionships at University of Toronto. Opening of second annual automo- bile show at Manchester, N. H. Opening of first annual automobile show at Indianapolis. ADDED PLEASURE TO VISIT New Yorker’s Trip to Atlantlo City Remunerative Both as to His 1 Health and Pocket. i A retired merchant who was well known in the jobbing branch in New York fifteen years ago recently spent some time at Atlantic City, where he took his wife for rest and change of scene, and where he had an unusually pleasant experience. “We met there,” 80 he tells the story, “a man whom I had known in a business way many years ago. We and our wives walked and ‘roller chaired’ together, and they seemed to enjoy our company as much a8 we did theirs. On the day before we came away Mr. Blank called me Into the billiard room, handed me an envelope addressed to me at my New York home and said: I intended to bring you this when .our visit here was over and before we went back to our home Out west’ The envelope con- tained a check for a balance which the man owed when his business col- lapsed in 1894, with interest to date. ‘So glad I met you,” he added, ‘for 1 saved the carfare to your house.’” The New York man added that the debt had passed out of his mind, together with many others)which had gone to “profit and loss” in his old books. KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT IT Modest Appearing Man Proved He Had Right to Criticise Youth- ful Art Student. An art student was copying one of Abhott S. Thayer’s paintings at the New York Metropolitan Museum of BRINKMAN THEATRE TO-NICGHT VAUDEVILLE AND_WOVING PICTURES Vaudeville Program Brydon's Dogs Troupe of White Eskimo Dogs éflt;fl"m Garew The New Recruit Comedy Singing and Talking Great Seifried Comedy Novelty B — Picture Program 3000 FEET OF ALL FEATURE FILM. Admission Sc and 25¢ “Show starts at 7:10 sharp, Art one day, when a plainly dressed man who looked as if he might be i mechanic approached and, posting nimself at the young man's elbow, watched him, as he labored over his subject. “You've got the angle of the mouth wrong, and the left eye is too oblique,” remarked the man decidedly. The student blinked angrily and the hand that wilded the brush trembled slightly, but he took no notice of the ansolicited criticism, “There is too much yellow in your Resh tint,” continued the man. “Still no reply from the student, who ostentatiously slapped on more fellow in the high light on the nose. “Did you hear what I said?” ques- tioned the man, “Yes, I heard,” responded the stu- ident wrathfully, turning and glaring 1t his modest looking critic. “What do. you know about it, anyway?” “I ought to know something about It,” was ‘the smiling response. “It was [ who painted the picture.” 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 far north. The strange race was located in Victorla Land, north of Cape Bexley. One theory of their origin is that they may be descendants of an an- clent Icelandic colopy 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 courler who first went forward to parley with them almost lost his life, when a native attacked him with & knife. Friendly advances were final- ly successful, and by means of the sign language and the assistance of native guldes communication was held. The race was an aboriginal omne called A-kuli-a-kat-tag-miut. It had been believed that the territory was uninhabited. Epistolary Cautlon. Before the customer paid his bill the hotel stenographer tore several pages' out of her notebook and hand- od them to him. i “Only the notes of his letters,” she said to the next customer. “About once in six months somebody comes along who keeps such a watchful eye on his correspondence.that he won’t even let a stenographer keep his notes. Of course it is nothing to us, and we always give them up when neked to. I don’t kflow what the cau- tous folk do with them. Destroy them maybe. Anyhow, there is no Fecord of foolish utterances left in the stenographer's » CHANGE IN GAMBLE'S LUCK Finds a $5 Bill, Then Two Tens, but the Next Find Is Something El ‘ George Gamble struck a streak of luck the other day. Mr. Gamble, in- cidentally, is manager of the Pere Marquette fast freight line. He walk- ed into a hotel in Kansas, and there, upon the lobby floor, he saw a small green wad. “A $6 bill,” marveled Mr. Gamble when he unrolled it. A week or so later he ambled into the lobby of another hotel in another state. The first thing his eyes lit upon was a pellet of green near the clerk’s desk. hurried dive for it and then discover- Ing two $10 bills, packed together. Mr. Gamble observed that he was sure enough in the middle of the lucky curve. He wondered what he would find next. He came to town, walked into the Cadillac, and there, in the middle of the lobby floor, appeared that familiar little emerald bulb. Mr. Gamble sidled toward it, trying to look as it he was looking another ‘way. Just at that moment a small dog butted in. He seized the little green wad and trolicked toward the street. Mr. Gam- ble abandoned his pretense at indif- ference and dived for the mutt. “Grab um,” begged Mr. Gamble; “catch um.” A gentleman standing by the door obliged. He took the little bundle out of the dog’s mouth; then he looked up at Mr. Gamble. “This yours?' he asked, Mr. Garable thought he would take a chance. ‘“Yep,” he said; “it’s mine. I just missed it.” . The gentleman handed over the bun- dle with an odd look at Mr. Gamble, and went away hastily. Mr. Gamble examined it. The wrapper was of Boft green paper., It had broken in several places from the dog’s teeth. Inside was a pair of lady's garters.— Cincinnati Times-Star. ALL ALONE IN THE STORM Inside, the Merry Country Party Wotted Not of the Forlorn Figure Out In the Cold. It was bitter cold. The snow fell thickly, and, driven by the wind, it beat relentlessly against the faces of those who were not sheltered. A “wild night, indeed. Midwinter, and in the open country, and one of the coldest nights in the memory of the oldest in- habitant. ' He stood not far from the winding, snowbound road, his’face turned to- ward the highway. A forlorn object in that great storm. His old felt hat, jammed roughly on his head, but ill-protected his face and ears from the chilly blasts. He wore no overcoat, only a light and much- frayed jacket, more fitted, indeed, for summer weather than the zero tem- perature of that night. His hands were unprotected by gloves, while his trousers, thin and worn, fluttered about his legs. He wore no shoes. Inside the great farm, close by, the lights blazed merrily, and through the windows, from which the shades were drawn, could be seen many young peo- ple passing hither and thither.. A merry country party—youth and laughter. And now through the storm others make their way to the farmhouse. They are bundled up warm and com- fortable, and defy the snow and the cold. They are happy in the anticipa- tion of the joytul evening before them. Care and worry have no part in their Iinds. They do not know that close by stands that, ill-clothed figure, with arms stretched appealingly forth, and it they knew there would be no pity in their hearts. For it was only the old farmer’s Scarecrow.—William Sanford in Puck, Tour of an English Cholr. ‘We have at least one “big thing” to our credit that America has not so far accomplished. The Sheffield Choir, now singing in Australia, represents the biggest touring musical enterprise on record. It numbers 230 all told, and when they return to Yorkshire in a few weeks hence they will have covered 83,000 miles in seven months. The cost of the tour will be £60,000, the transport and hotel expenses absorb- ing £45,000. The choir has sung to crowded audiences in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and if the re- ceipts are equal to the expenses the promoters will be satisfied. The youngest member of the choir is a boy of 19, the oldest a man of 72, Three of the choristers are circum- pavigating the globe hatless.—London Chronicle. Albino Puzz! The albino is still one of the pus zles of science. Beyond th® knowl edge that albinism is due to a lack of the normal pigment in skin and hair the physiologist and pathologist ard about as much at sea regarding the real explanation of this freak of na ture as they were a hundred or a thousand years ago. As to the ulth mate why of the problem—why the pigment is missing In the albino— there is nothing but a collection of unconvincing guesges. Regarding the statistics of albinism nothing. satis factory is obtainable except in twa countries. In Italy the albinos num. ber about one in every twenty thou sand of the population, whereas In Norway the rate is twice as high, with one in every ten thousand. Carborundum In Furnaces. Carborundum, the artificial substi tute for emery, which 18 said to rival the diamond in hardness, is employ- ed, because of its extraordinary re- sistance to heat, as a coating for the interior of furnaces. Finely powdered and made into a paste, it is applied with a brush, like paint, to the brick lining. It is said that 4-layer of only two mllimeters in thickness will pro- tect the bricks from the effects of the highest temperature that is produced In ordinary furnace combustion. Carborundum is itself a product of u\hs electria furnace, being composed of silica and carbon fused in the pres- sace of salt and sawdust.—Har) per’s Business of making a |- CRCLES THE GLOBE Wlfi and Wireless Leave No S;M Untoud_nd. NO CHANCE FOR CONFUSION Every Day Qigantle World-Clroling System of ercommunication Increases Both In Efficlency % and ‘Certainty. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington —One man {n Washing ton 18 in touch, by avire and wireles with every eorner of the Uni Btates, even un to farthest Nome, Alasks. And this same man, by wire and wireless, is in touch with the whole world—with the six.or seven hundred wireless telegraph shore sta- tions scattered all over the globe, not to speak of the operators on the ships salling the seas of the globe. It he 5o desired, and if the govern- | ment which pays him his salary in the department of war so ordered, this man could talk with the operator in Eastport, Maine; the Harvard Univer- sity laboratory, the lightship “Skunk” off the English cot with the Rus- sian station at Vladivostok, Siberia; with Perim or Zanzibar, some miles to the southwmrd. If it was neces- sary to do 8o, words could be flashed from Fort Willlam McKinley across to Fukui, Japan, and no one safling underneath the flying messages need be the wiser. And every day the num- ber of these points in the gigantic torld-circling system of intercommuni- cation increases—both in efficiency and certainty. The one man In the war -department at Washington wiil bave his hands full, and he can talk all he wants to. WIIl Be No Babel. “The ether,” says Commissioner Chamberlain of the bureau of naviga- tion, “Is common property, and with the cheapest apparatus unrestrained trivial messages can create babel.” .| What a magnificent babel it would be if the tribes and tongues were at war with each other! But, despite the in- genuities of the ever-present prac- tical joker, there 1sn’t going to be any babel. Locally, here and there, con- fusion may reign, but the movement now on foot to bring order before chaos gets a chance to dominate, is too strong to be checked. . As long ago as 1905 the Imperial German government, observing the need for the regulation of wireless telegraphy, and in order to secure the greatest benefit from it and prevent the establishment of a world-wide ‘wireless monopoly, invited other na- tions to join it in adequate interna- tlonal regulation—the only effective kind, as wireless defles boundary lines. From this call \there resulted the Berlin International Radiotele- graphic convention of 1906, which has since been ratified by 33 countries, in- cluding the greatest maritime powers, except the United States. Wherefrom hangs a tale. It seems that the delegates from the United Statek were influential in shaping ‘the international agreement, but, owing to a-pecullar circumstance, they are powerless to further the rati- fication by this nation. The reason is eimple: the land-telegraphs of Europe, Japan and nations generally are own- ed by the government and are usually operated by the national postoffice sys- tem—also always a government insti- tutfon. Where the Mitch Comes. - In the United States, of course, pri- vate capital controls the land tele- graph lines. Now, the Berlin conven- tion fixes the rates of wireless dis- patches and provides for their trans- mission over land lines to their ter minus and from their point of origin. Some people say that without either lederal ownership or else federal control of land lines it will be impos- sible for this country to join the rest of the clvilized world in & contract essential to the well-being of wireless telegraphy. The way out is in a bill which is today somewhere in pickle in ocon- gress. It provides, in brief, for fed- eral licenses for the operation of wire- less apparatus at ship or shore sta- tions, and for federal license for wire- less operators. - The commissioner of pavigation has called this bill “a nec- essary supplement to the wireless-ship act,” and hopes further that the sen- Ate “may yet find a way to ratify the Berlin convention.” The International Radiotelegraphic oonference will as- semble again at London in June of the present year. The United States will be represented, though not a mem- ber. It s clearly “up to the congress” to make arrangements for our admis- sion. Qnly Brulsed by Long Fall. It does not happen very often that & man falls head first down an eleva- ‘or shaft from the elghth floor of a Suflding and lives to tell the tale. An frish steel worker, employed in the erection of a twenty-five-story office building in Maiden Lane, in New York, that rare and rather exciting ex- perience the other day. While fixing the doors to the elevator shaft on the pighth floor the man stepped on a Joose plank and shot head first down the shaft, followed by several boards and a big pane of glass. Fortunately for him he became entangled in the cables suspended in the shaft, which broke his fall and saved him from be- ing dashed to pleces when he reached the top of one of the elevator cages on the ground flcor. A few cuts and bruises were the extent of his i duries. CAME BACK TO HIS MEMORY Long Years of Captivity Had Not Efe faced Early Teachings From Mind of Elephant. The following is an Instance of an elephant’s good manners and of the tenacity with which an idea once re- celved by him adheres. in his mem- ory. s When visiting the London Zoo, an Englishman who had seen service in India got permiksion for his children (0 Tide on ome of the elephants, After the ride he wished to give the beast » bun and to make him say “Please,” using in this connection the phrase “Salaam kuro” (make a galasm). The man animal regarded the man gravely for some time, eagerly eyeing the bun in his hand. At last memory came to the pachyderm's ald, and up went his trunk, and he made a most correct salaam, The beast’s keeper was much as- tonished, asking what the performance meant. The Britisher explained that It was a.point of good manners for an elephant to raise his trunk up to his forehead if anyone was going to feed him, and that frequently elephants would ask in this polite manner for something when they encountered anyone who seemed likely to offer them food. The keeper assured the visitor that he had never seen the elephant do this before, and that he had been in charge of the beast since its arrival from India a long time since. For 17 years this animal had never heard these words, and had always taken his food without this mark of good manners.—The Sunday Magazine. POINT THAT ATTRACTED HIM Vegetarian Dinners Had at Least One Good Idea That He Could Appreciate, After steadfastly declining many Invitations to public dinners a man astonished his friends by attending three vegetariaa dinners, “Are you a convert?” they asked. “I am not,” said the man. “I go be- cause the vegetarians have one cus- tom that deserves to be encouraged. Their speechmaking precedes the-din. ner. Anyhow, it did at the three din- ners I attended. That is a most com- mendable custom. It ought to be adopted at all dinners. Everybody is fn a hurry to begin eating, and they don’t take time to meander through a flot of dull speeches. “I don’t know why the vegetarians reversed the usual order. Nome of them that I asked could tell. Person- ally, Isthink it i8 because they are so anxious to get away and order a square meal somewhere after their ap. petites have been whetted by their own little snack that they can’t wait for the speaking. I may be wrong. But the speeches are put out of the way first. That is the main thing.” Why They Can Spell It. “Before 1 went to Europe,” said the school teacher, “it was one of the mysteries of my profession how every British child enrolled in our schools came to be authority on the spelling of chilblaine. Teachers might hesi- tate over one “1” or two, the children never. They might make orthographia mess of the simplest one syllable word, but the tinlest tot from the British isles went to the head of the clags on chilblaing every time. One wintry month in those same islands told me why. It is the word they saw oftenest. In drug stores, in clothing stores, in shops of all kinds cures and preventives of chilblains are uni- versally advertised. Owing to the exigencies of the climate there is a regular chilblains literature present- ed for those children’s absorption, sa no wonder they know how to spell their universal afiction.” “Trust God and Sally.” The worthy people of the historla town of Newark, Nottingham, Eng- land, have lately been much exercised in their minds regarding the selection of a motto to go with the borough arms. - Ultimately it was decided that the motto of the town should be the historic remark made by Major Smith in 1646, “Trust God and Sally.” It was in that year when Newark was surrendered to the Scottish army after sustaining three sieges during the civil war, and the remark was made to Lord Bellayse when the for- tunes of King Charles I were at the lowest ebb. The word “sally,” of course, as used in Newark’s motto, .means to rush forth, leap out, or issue #uddenly. FIRE DOG UNWELCOME GUEST Even Boarding Him One Day in the Week Almost Gives Woman Nervous Prostration. Ask any fireman’s wife what day in the week she dreads most, and the chances are she will tell you the day the fire station dog takes his meals at her house, says the Philadelphia Times. “Not that we don't like the dog* one woman said, “but because we have to be so careful about our cook- Ing. The men at the station whers my husband works are afraid to bring Barney up on restaurant food. They think he will thrive better on good home cooking, so they take turns at entertaining him, - 2 “Wednesday is his day here. He comes for all three meals. It is a day of anxiety. If I make things too rich Bob swears I'll give Barney indiges- tion. If they aren’t rich enough he will not be.sufficiently nourished. I don’t mind cooking for Bob nor for any amount of company, my mother in-law included, but fixing things for Barney gets on my nerves.” Threw Wooden Shoes at Bride. In the shower of missiles hurled after the wedded pair something struck the settlement worker with stinging force. “What on earth!” ghe exclaimed; then quickly added: “A ‘wooden shoe! =~ Who ever ‘heard of throwing a wooden shoe at a bride?” “Most. everybody ‘who has attended weddings in this part of town has heard of it,” sald the officiating curate, “It 18 the custom here to throw wood- en shoes because at some time in her life nearly every bride has worn a pair. For the present genération 'they Were not her Sunday shoes, nor her evening dress shoes, nor even her ev- eryday street shoes, but around the houge and maybe to the nearby shops in rainy weather she has clattered around often enough in wooden'shoes to justify having a pair thrown at her for old time's sake.”—Boston Herald, = ALARM BEMIDJI is the way WE not sell a clock that we cannot 1-Day-Wake Up . upon receipt of the price. We can sell much cheaper BEMIDJI, By the HUNDRED. DIREOT from the FAOTORY to styles, makes and sizes, and sold with a guarantee. We do 8-Day-“Automatic’> . . . 1-Day-Big Ben, (Intermittent) . 1-Day-Junior Tattoo (Intermittent) 1-Day-Day Light (Intermittent) Any of these clocks sent to our out of towm customers antee them we would not sell them. GEORGE T. BAKER AND CO., Manufacturing Jewelers, (116, 3rd St.) CLOCKS receive them. In all the best guarantee. If you wish to be called on ' the dot everyday in the year, Buy one of our Alarm Clocks. To sleep late is pleasant now and then, but make it Sunday. —— You can depend on our Clocks not mere- ly to wake you on ’ time but to keep time and run a long clocks but as we cannot guar- MINN. ) 'Depar tment The Pioneer Want Ads CASH WITH COPY }fi cent per word per Issue Regular 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 80 your want ad gets to them all. 15 Cent a Word Is All It Costs HELP WANTED WANTED—Dining room girl wanted at Lakeshore Hotel. FOR SALE FOR SALE—Will sell or trade SE. 1-4 of the SW. 1-4 of section 27-| 147-34 also NE. 1-4 of the NW.| 1-4 of section 34-147-34, and the SW._1-4 of the SW. 1-4 of section 5-146-34. Will sell reasonable or| trade for income property. S. Gillespie, Sioux City, Iowa. FOR SALE—Pure blood Rhode Island | Red and Barred Plymouth Rock «ges for breeding purposes. Jack | Williams, 1015 America Ave. 7OR SALE—Rubber stamps. The| Ploneer will procure any kind of ~ rubber stamp for you on short «otice. FOR SALE—Full blooded Golden Wyandotte eggs for breeding. E.| S. Woodward, 507 Irvine Ave. | FOR SALE—Bemldji residence prop-| erty for sale or exchange for land. . 1. Swedback. 3 FOR SALE—At a bargain, a piano in good condition, -Nicollet Hotel. FOR SALE—20 foot gasoline launch “Silver Heels.” - Apply Barker’s. FOR SALE—Portable steel gara 14x20. Apply Schneider Bros. FOR SALE—Furniture at a bargain, Call at 916 Mississippi Ave. FARM FOR SALE—Improved, in city limits. Address H. Brakke, city. FOR RENT FOR ' RENT—Furnished rent. 917 Minnesota Ave. 168. 3 FOR RENT—A farm six miles north of town, to respectable party. Tel- ephone 618-12; G. G. Buell. FOR RENT—Six and seven .room house. ' A. Klein. ol Qi FOR RE! room for Phone '—Nine room house for | rent. 411 Minnesota Ave. . Geo. | MISCELLANEOUS 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 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 insertion, one-half cent per word succeeding inserti fifty cents per line per month. Address the Courler-News, Fargo, N. D. WANTED—100 merchants in North- ern Minnesota to sell “The Bemid- ji” lead pencil. Will carry name of every merchant in advertising columns of Pioneer in order -that all receive advantage of advertis- ing. For wholesale prices write or phone the Bemidji Pioneer Of- fice Supply Co. Phone 31. Be- midji, Minn. WANTED—I desire to place my new piano with a private family who will take good care of it. To a responsible party, I will be willing to give a full term of music les- sons free as I am anxious to or- ganize a class in music. Address 1106 Pioneer, Bemidji. WANTED TO TRADE—What have you to trade for new standard pia- no? Call at second hand store, 0dd Fellows Blds. =2 BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand furniture. Odd Fellows building, across from postoffice, phone 129. WANTED—Sewing to do at home call at 208 Mississippi Ave. Miss Sophia Carsten. 5 Pioneer Want Ads »| BOARD and room, 900 9th St, -2 Gont a Word 1 e