Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 12, 1912, Page 6

TOUCHED HUGO’S KIND HEART @Great Frenchman Alded Beggar With Verse of Much More Worth Than Money. A Frenchman, writing recently upon | “The Mendicants of Paris,” recalls a pretty anecdote of Victor Hugo and a bHnd beggar. The beggar was an old soldier, very feeble and quite sight. less, who was led every day by his little granddaughter to a certain street corner, where he waited pa- tiently for such scanty alms as the hurrying public might drop into a small box that hung from his 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 have already given you two sous.” “Yes, monsieur, and I have thanked Yyou,” replied the veteran, “It is some thing else that I want.” “What s it?” “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 tc 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 ke Homer blind. Led by a young child on his pathway dim, The hand that aids his need, pitying and kind, He will not see, but God will see for him, —Youth’s Companion. DOUBLE REPORTS IN FIRING Curlous 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 serial 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 & rail- 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 field with a tree or a clump of bushes at, say, 200 yards, there is heard a ‘crack’ from 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 fall of the ham- mer and the ‘puff’ of the gases escap- Img 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 air beyond the gum, can come back to the shooter only by re- flection. “If there is 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 reflecticg ob- jects, such as when shooting straight up into the air, then we get no re- flected noise.” Maid’s One Good Quality. Servant girls know their own good points and they take care that every- body else shall know them. One maid who was obliged to look for a new sit- uation because her employers were leaving town listened critically to the enumeration of her virtues as down in the recommendation that had just been written by ber former mis- tress. “There’s one thing you've left out, ma’am,’ she said. “I pever cut my fin- gers. I wish you’d put that right up et the head of the list. Ladies will like that. gers terrible and it looks bad.” “Why, that is true; you never do,” paid her mistress, and the unusual point of efficlency, “She never cuts her fingers,” was insected as request: od. Beware of Cousins. Cousins are not as simple as they seem. The very fact of being a cousin, Is complicated. The laissezfaire of cousinship is both eluding and deluding—cousins will be cousins, even if you did not choose them. They can horrow mopey from you, visit you without being asked, tell people they belong to your fam- ily, contest your will, even fall in love with you—and & gousin once removed I8 twice as apt to. Never completely trust a cousin—never depend on his not doing any of theme things. Nev- er take him for granted. The “cous- Inly kiss” may or may not mean what It means. And cousins always do kiss —it's part of being cousins.—Atlantio, Competition. 8he (to young poet)—How much do you get for your poems, Charley? Charley (with pride)—From $3 to She—Well, isn't that very little, Charley? I see that Sir Walter Soots got $10,000 for one of his. Chgrley—Yes, but you see, writing 1sn’t the buainess it used to be. ere’s too much competition. Some giris cut their fin- |} set |} DISTINCT VALUE OF PICTURES Care in Selection and Hanging Will Be Well Repaid in Increased Pleasure Afforded. “A room hung with pictures is § room hung with beautiful thoughts.” How many of us give the right amount of careful thought in hanging pictures on our walls? Do we ever think of the pleasure and effect on ourselves of the paintings or prints that are constantly before our eyes? “That chromo makes me wild,” says one protesting esthetic woman, as she gazes on a relic of the barbarous age in art. It is a vividly colored print of a very old and very ugly Juliet lean. ing over the balcony in the arms of a Romeo who would not take a prize for anything except climbing up a vine. The walnut frame is old and matches the execrable “whatnot” of our mothers’ time. The whole thing is unpleasant, badly drawn, badly col- ored and absolutely out of place, and yet it hangs on, simply because some dead aunt saw fit to give it at an an- niversary! Pictures should please. They should educate and elevate. They should be of the good paiuters. How rich is the treasure from which we can choose! How wonderful are the modern re productions at ridiculously little cost! Begin now to_tear down the mean: Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marx the varisty is’another. boy’s suit purchased. Money Cheertull Refunde Benj. Schneider, Pres. ingless prints that speak nothing to you. Hang upon your walls restful, beautiful pictures that will have just as much effect, psychologically, on your nerves, your mind, your soul, as the companions of your hours. Brutal. Vice-President Sherman, in an in- terview in Washington, said of the smgshing of a boom: “It was a brutal smash. It was so brutal, 'so cruel, it reminds me of Manr rit’s retort. “Marrit's wife, at the end of the usual breakfast table quarrel, burst into tears behind the coffee urn, and, a8 ghe searched for her handkerchiet, wailed: “‘You said, the second time 1 re- fused you, that you'd rather live in eternal torment with me than in bliss by vourself.’ “‘Well, I had my wish,’ growlea Marrit.” Knowledge Must Be Put to Use. The mere possession of knowledge I8 nothing—it is totally useless unless It is used.—Herbert Kaufman. Seldom. 1t is seldom that a man succeeds tn overestimating his own u.importance. THE BEMIDJT DAILY PIONEER Amusing Artistic Conceptions. Many a child, 'as well as some older persons, has puzzled over that “beam” In the eye of which the New Testa: ment speaks. It is not always under- stood that this means a beam of light. But it was left to ‘Solomon Bernard, In his woodcuts illustrating the Bible, published at Lyons, in 1563, to pic ture this beam as one of wood, rectan- gular in section, and several feet in length. Then there is the case of an English painter who depicted an elab- srate rainbow. Unfortunately, he painted it wrong side out. But we for- get amazement at such stupidity in admiration for the artist’s magnificent audacity when we learn that he charged twenty pounds for repainting the rainbow colored in accordance with nature’s arrangement, Goldsmith’s Sketch of Himself. Goldsmith has accurately sketched himself in the following fashion: “Fond of enjoying the present, care- less of the future, his sentiments those of a man of sense, his activities those of a fool; of fortitude able to stand unmoved at the bursting of an earth- quake, yet of sensibility to be affected by the breaking of a tea cup.” For colds that settle all over you, Tubbs Bilious Man’s Friend. €ity .other very popular one. 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