Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 4, 1912, Page 4

USSRV Y. 1 i S Q@@@@@@@@@@@O@@@%m{& ©® CALENDAR OF SPORTS FOR ¢ @ @ THE WEEK POPPOPPOOOOOO®O®O THURSDAY Annual meeting and tournament of the Canadian Whist League opens in Toronto. Opening of a three-day bench show in Hamilton, Ont. Quincy, I, will spend $15,000 in building its new ball park. It has been rumored that Manager McGraw has sold “Bugs” Raymond, the eccentric twirler. Ed Konetchy, the Cardinals’ classy first baseman, is the only one in the majors who has no competition for his job. Buffalo has sold Outfielder Jack White and Third Baseman Wratten to the Syracuse club of the New York State league. Outfielder Ned Crumpton has been godl by the York Tri-State club to the Binghamton club of the New York State league. Jack Tauscher, with Spokane and Tacoma last year and signed by Spo- kane for this season, has been re- leased to Butte. Pitcher Bunny Hearne, released by the St. Louis Cardinals to Louisville last year, has been bought from the latter club by Omaha. Pitcher Swormstedt, last year with Lynn, Haverhill and Worcester in the New England league, has signed a contract with New Bedford. - Another Wagner has come into the TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quirine Tab- lets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. the busy farmer’s friend Big Ben is for the farmer who believes in the advice of old Ben Franklin ‘‘Plow deep while slug- gards sleep.”’ He’s for the farms whose owners want big yields. He’s for the hard-to-get-up farm hands. It’s up to him to get them in the fields on time. He keeps watch time. He’s reliable and handsome. He’s sturdy, well set and long lived. Be first in the fields every morn- ing. Get the farm hands out bright and early. Big Ben, He’ll more than earn his wages - the first month you employ him, GEO. T. BAKER & CO. Manufacturing Jewelers. Depend on BEMIDJI, (116 Third St.) 3 Big Acts BRINKMAN THEATRE TO-NIGHT VAUDEVILLE AND MOVING PICTURES Vaudeville Program Mr. and Mrs. Wells In Rural Military Playlet “The Boy Who Wore the Blue.” A classy blend of laughter, pathos and song. Frand Neville Novelty Act Ethyle Dot Scotch Lassie Classy Ragger McDonald & Hazen Character Singing, Dancing and Pianologue Picture -Program 3000 Feet of Latest Motion Pictures Show Starts 7:10; Second Show 9 ; o’clock TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY 3. Professional Vaudeville Acts. Joe of the famous name has signed his contract to play second base with. York in the Tri-State. The Washington Senators have pur- chased another shortstop. Eddie Gagnier is the youngster, He came from the Lincoln club of the Western | league. | Manager Bresnahan believes that {Loule Laudermilk is going to be an- pther “Slim” Sallee. The young south- paw possesses many foolers and he is | developing very fast. | The Springfield (Ill.) Journal is au- thority for the statement that Dick Kinsella is the highest paid scout in |the business, the St. Louis club pay- ‘ng him $5,000 per annum. “Josh” Swindell, pitcher of the Cleveland team, has a pecullar “hop ball.” Josh has shown enough in the few practice sessions to date to war- rant the prediction that the name Swindell will be famous in the future. | EVERY MOVE CREATES SOUND Bcientific Fact Not Known to All= Acuteness of Hearing Among the Lower Animals. | It is very difficult to make some per- sons believe that ndthing can move without making a sound, although it may seem to be absolute silence to them. Everything that moves dis. turbs the air around it and sets up a kind of wave motion that spreads through the atmosphere in all direc- tions. When these wave motions are strong enough a sound is heard. That nothing is heard is no evidence that there is no sound, for . other living things may hear*what men cannot. The motion that is started in the air when anything vibrates or moves suddenly has often been compared to the motion of the surface of still wa- ter when we drop a pebble into a pond. But there is this great differ- ence. The eye can see the wave made ! by the smallest glass bead you can | find, but the ear is not nearly so sen- sitive, and unless the waves are pret- | ty high in the atmosphere the human i ear cannot detect them as sound. | The lower animals and birds have much better ears than human beings. ! A dog will prick up its ears at the | sound of its master’s voice, or a faint | whistle, when it is an astonishing dis- tance off. A man in Baltimore put his head out of the window and called his dog Jack, which he thought was chas- ing cats in the grounds of the blind | asylum opposite. The dog was sitting on the steps of & friend’s house with the man’s daugh- ter, nearly half a mile away, and in- stantly jumped up and-tore off home. It had heard that call. A deer has been known to look up at the sound of a footstep that was still half a mile away in the woods. | IMPATIENCE CALLED A SIN Worse Than Folly, Inasmuch as It { Does Harm to Others Besides the Unfortunate Possessor. The word patience is not mentioned in the Old Testament. It seems to have come with the Christian deligion and to have taken its place among the virtues after Christ came. This is strange, for impatience is one of the implacable enemies of man’s peace and joy. It is the easiest sin there is. It is always ready to break out in re- volt against the peace and dignity of the individual. It is mighty unfortunate for a pers #on to be easily afficted with impa- tience. It is a real suffering. It is a bad spirit that grabs a man and Bqueezes the reason out of him. A man 18 sort of crazy who is impatient. He lets go of faith in God and the log- f® of events and gets mad at both. It does no good to anybody, and nine cases out of ten a man is ashamed of himself when he lets this sin get the better of him. As proof that impatience is downs right wickedness, notice how a victim of it will swear, 1insult his friend, snub his wife, kick the cat, slam down whatever is in his hand, and make everybody around him as miserable as himself. Such are the evil assocla- tions of impatience.—Ohio State Jour- nal, BOOBY BIRD IS WELL NAMED Most. Stupid of All Feathered Creas tures, Though Its Eggs Are Pronounced Good. Doubtless the term “booby,” signifys ing a stupid creature, has been mis. applied in'some cases, but it correct- ly describes several varieties of birds of the gannet species common to cer« tain islands of the Caribbean sea. The booby is a small water fowl, and in spring and summer millions of its kind flock to seven little islands some thirty-five miles southeast of Jamaica. The booby bird is so called because of its stupidity, since it has absolutely no fear of man. The is- lands frequented by these birds are leased to private individuals who de- rive & large income from -the collece tion and sale of booby eggs. 60,000 dozen booby eggs were taken from the seven little islands to Ja- maica last year, where they were sold at the rate of about $3.25 for a case containing 500. An American consular officer famil- far with the subject states that while booby eggs are only about two-thirds as large as hen’s eggs they are but little inferfor in quality. There might Nearly | be a market in this country for the booby product. i el SELECTION OF LAYING HENS TO INSURE ULTIMATE SUCCESS | Poultryman Must Have Fixed in His Mind Line He Wishes ¢o Follow and Then Bend Every Effort to Carry it Out—Several Little Things That Need Consideration. Rhode Island Reds--Good Layers and Weigh Heavily. (By A. @. PHILLIPS, Kansas.) To insure the best success in this work, the poultryman must first have fixed in his mind the line he wishes to follow and then bend every effort to carry it out. If he wishes to breed hens for eggs, the first thing he must do is to select his stock with that ob- ject in view. A farmer who feeds steers for beef production picks out individuals which conform closest to the type of animal which he considers would make the best feeder. This type is entirely dif- ferent from the one a dairyman would ‘elect for his dairy herd. The man who selects a horse to use on a heavy drag wagon hunts for one which he thinks can best do that work, while the man selecting a race horse would pick one of an entirely different con- formation. Thus, in intelligent selection of our live stock the purpose for which it is to be used is first determined. In ap- plying this principle in the poultry business, -there are several things which should be considered in select- Ing hens for layers. The first thing to notice concerning the shape is, as to whether or not the hen is rangy or bocky. A bocky hen Indicates a meat producer, while the more rangy one indicates the produc- tion of eggs. Since the development pf the egg, to a large extent, takes place in the region of the body below the broad part of the back, that part pf .the body should be broader than the fore part. This gives to the body & V-shaped appearance as viewed from the top, the small part of the V lying toward the front. When a hen is in heavy laying condition, her abdomen is lower than the breast line. This gives the body the appearance of being V-shaped as viewed from the side along the top aud bottom lines, with the small part of the V toward the front. This enlargement of the body in the abdominal region PREPARING SOIL FOR ONION CROP Plant Flourishes in Rich, Wells Drained Loam—Avoid Hill- sides, Heavy Clay and g Stones, The best soil for onions is a rich, well-drained loam. Heavy clays, hill- sides and stony land should be avoid- ed. Onion soil cannot be too rich. Excellent crops are grown on deep, rich, muck lands that have been ums der cultivation for three or four years. Such lands should contain a fair mix- ture of sand. New, raw muck lands give poor returns. The ground for onions should have been planted to some heavily manured hoed crop the preceding year and be practically free from weed seed. It Is a great mistake to grow onions on weedy or run-down land. The following which relates to onion growing on a large scale also applies fo garden growing. . A rather firm seedbed which results from fall plowing is desirable and gives the best results. A second crop of clover, heavily fertilized with barn, yard manure and turned under in the fall followed by potatoes the next year makes an excellent preparation for onions the second year. A heavy top ‘dressing of well-rotted barnyard manure or compost should makes the back appear somewhat mnarrower, giving the body a V-shaped appearance from the back downward on the sides as viewed from the rear. Thus, a body V-shaped in three di- rections indicates large productive powers. B A good layer is longer in body, neck and legs than a meat-producing hen. She stands up well and has a well spread tail. Observation has shown that a pinch-tailed Leghorn is not generally as good a layer as is a fan- tailed one. The character of the head furnish- ings is an indication of the hen’s lay- ing condition. When a hen is in full ldying jor comb is full and bright red. Some Plymouth Rocks when laying heavily will have lopped combs, and therefore become disqualified as show birds. When hens are molting they lose all their color in face and comb and the size of their combs be- come very small; but as soon as laying commences, the ' combs enlarge and the color returns. Many instances have been noted with Leghorns and Minorcas which indicate that the birds with the largest and reddest combs are in heavy-laying condition. A laying hen works and hunts for food all day, is the first off of the roost and the last to go to roost. Some claim the pelvic bone test to be final and conclusive. Immediately below the tail at the end of side pleces of the back are two somewhat bony protuberances. These are called the pelvic or “lay” bones, and are just above the vent through which the eggs must pass. When an egg is laid, these bones must be forced apart to allow its free passage. When these bones are ‘Soft and pliable, and spread sufficient to allow three fingers to be placed between them, it 'is an indication that the hen is laying. If they are hard and bony, and close together, the hen would not be con- sidered as laylng at that time. | b® applied in the apring, and -well worked into the sofl. After this a com- plete commercial fertilizer analyzing ¢ per cent, nitrogen, 8 per cent, avail- able phosphoric and 10 per cent. pot- ash should be applied. This fertilizer formula is very popu- lar with large onion growers, and it should be ‘put on broadcast and thick, If the ground is in a high state of cultivation the commercial fertilizer may replace in part, the barnyard manure. A top dressing of ashes and hen manure might also replace in part the commercial fertilizers. Very successful growers use them all and in addition nitrate of soda ap- plied broadcast in three or four ap- plications during the growing season. ‘Wood ashes constitute one of the best forms of potash fertilizers and should be carefully kept under shelter away from rains. It is well to bear in mind that it costs just a8 much to seed and cultl- vate a crop of onions that yields 300 bushels to the acre as it does to grow & crop yielding 800 to 1,000 bushels. Bed for Strawberry. A strawberry bed had ought to be prepared right now if you have not done it before. . Spade the ground deeply, rake it thoroughly and spade pgain, applying plenty of manure sfter the first spading: Road Dust. Road dust will serve to hold the m- trogen in manure using it in the stable gutter. Keep in Touch With the Latest John Rawn, By Emerson Hough Voice of the Timberlands,By Harold Budloss Bought and Paid For, By Hornblow Riders of the Purple Sage, By Zane Grey The Pretender Person, By Margaret Cameron He Gomes Up Smiling, By Charles Sherman You can rent these for 10 cents a week at - Abercrombie’s a l-'.i'ction. ' COLUMBINE IS PRETTY PLANT —_— Few Herbaceous Perennials Surpass This Flower In Gracefulness, Showiness and Beauty. JFew herbaceous perennials surpass the specles and varletles of Colum- bine in gracefulness, showiness and beauty, and the ease with Which they may be started from seeds and cared for, together with their prolonged pe- riod of bloom, has brought them into increased popularity. The plants like partial shade and molsture, and once established they Long-Spurred Columbines. ‘will live and bloom for years, says the Park’s Floral Magazine. The frost has hardly left the earth until the ex- quisite clusters of foliage begin to push above the ground, and very soon the nodding buds begin to ‘swell, quickly developing into pleasing, sway- ing, delicate-textured bloom. They al- ways make a fine display, and elicit enthusiastic praise. The engraving shows a group of the flowers of Long-spurred Columbine, but their beauty in color, texture and form can only be realized by seeing a bed of the plants in bloom. Now is the time to start the plants, and those who buy and sow seeds of the choic- est species and varieties of Columbine will feel thankful that their attention was here called to the beauty of these fine, hardy, herbaceous perennials. DEVICE FOR PLANTING TREES Board of About Seven Feet With Notch in Middle WIill Greatly Assist in Setting Plants. After the ground has been laid out for the planting of trees, by means of stakes straight in all directions, the device as shown in the cut will be a great help in getting the trees exact- ly-where the stake has stood. Take a board about seven feet long, notch it on one side in the middle, having an inch hole bored through the center near each end. Lay down the board with notch to the stake. In- Device ier"PIantlnn Trees. pert pegs through the end holes into the soil. Lift one end of the board and swing around. Now the hole should be dug. When ready to re- ceive the tree, swing back the board In place. In planting, place the tree In the notch so that it wiil bring it exactly where the stake stood. Orchards In New England. The conversion of New England farms into apple orchards is becom- Ing an established fact. There are Instances where already 10,000 bar- rels are grown upon one farm in a single year and this in the Granite Btate. The state colleges are live fac- tors in calling the attention of the people to this profit paying industry within the reach of every one. Before Arlsing. Never jump out of bed with a hop, skip and jump if you have any regard for your heart. Oh, yes, it is all right fo have the spirit and the feeling E:_t you can do it; but don’t. Take a lesson from the cat. Begin by stretch. the entire body while lylng fiat on , chest muscles. First tense, then relax; fense again and again, follow- S o e n;,-;‘c.hiu WER & mplete relaxing. This Reart action gradually (it b 704 have rel with. of undigested been |FOR RENT. Depar Vi tment The Pioneer Want Ads OASH WITH 00PY % cent per word por issye 15 cents. 80 your want ad gets to them all. | r | l | CLASSIFIED CHICKEN AND EGG| TEPARTMENT. ‘ FOR SALE—Rhode Island Reds. First prize winners at county fair. | Mated with stock from first prize stock at three large poultry ex-! hibits. I can spare a few more| settings. Will book others ahead. | $1 for 13 eggs; $6 per hundred. Geo. T. Baker, 907 Minnesota Ave. | FOR SALE — Thoroughbred PIy-| mouth Rock, Rhode Island Red and | Buff Leghorn eggs. Telephone | 686-2, J. H. French, | £ b | FOR SALE—Full blooded Golden Wyandotte eggs for breeding. E.| S. Woodward, 507 Irvine Ave. FOR SALE—Team of 4-year old| colts. Earl McMahon, Wilton. I FOR SALE—Breeding stock and eggs | for hatching from the best flock of full blood Barred Plymouth | “Rocks to be had, come and see them at 706 14th. 0. C. Simonson, Regular charge rate 1 cent per word per insertion. 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 14 Cent a Word Is All It Costs FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, 502 4th St. J. W. Peck. LOST AND FOUND LOST—Gold bowed spectacles in black case between Nangle’s store and Steve Adams’ residence over the Great Northern tracks. Re- Return to this office. ward. MISCELLANEQUS _ 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 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- 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. IF YOU WANT a homestead of 160 acres of good prairie land, call ca or address O. J. Weekly quick, at Gully, Minn. WANTED TO RENT—Launch for summer. State size and_ power, 2nd price. M. Quad, care of Pio- neer. BOUGHT AND SOLD_Second hand furniture. Odd Fellows building, across from postoffice, phone 129. FOR CHEAP rates in western- Cana- da apply to James Kelly, Canadian government agent, Wadena, Minn. WANTED—Good girl for housework. Good wages. or write. Mrs. ‘Walker, Minn. general Phone G. H. Nelson, tel. | | FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for| every make of typewriter on the market at 50 cents and 75 cents each, Every ribbon sold for 75| cents guaranteed. Phone orders| promptly filled. Mail orders given the same careful attention as when you appear in person. Phone 31. The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply Store. WANTED—Cook at Lake Shore Ho-|e WANTED—Plain sewing, Mrs. J. H. Condon, 518 Fourth St. Pioneer Want Ads 1-2 Gent a Word Bring Results Ask the Nan Who Has Tried Them FOR SALE—The Bemidji lead pen- - pencil (the best nickle pencil in the world) at Netzer’s, Barker’s, 0. C. Rood’s, McCuaig’s, Omich’s, Roe and Markusen’s and the Pio- neer Office Supply Store at 5 cents each and 50 cents a dogen. = FOR SALE—Small fonts of type, several different points and in first class condition. Call or write this office for proofs. Address Be- midji Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn. fOR SALE—Rubber gtamps. The Ploneer will procure ‘any kind of < rubber stamp for you on short «otice, FCR SALE—House at 916 Minneso- {# Ave. Terms to suit purchager. Enquire of C. W, Vandersluis. FOR SALE—An 18 foot gasoline launch with or ~without engine. Inguire 713 Minnesota Ave. % FOR SALE—Bemidji residence pro erty for sale or exchange for land. E: J. Swedback. - FOR SALE—At a bargain, a plano in good condition. Nicollet Hotel. ~Vaguum cleaner, $1.00 per day. Phone 486. ' of the arti :?;.m simple i Sharacsee aad Teoiermin F. HUBERT '?firzannag’nl;'. unf'mm |