Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 16, 1912, Page 4

HowW Emll Richter of the Chicago Cubs. “Go, get a curve ball to mix with your smoke.” That’s the admonition glven with the best approved man- pgerial intent with the view of dou- bling the slab effectiveness of Emil (Reggy) Richter, Cub right-hander. With more zip to his curve Reggy should develop into a whale of a pitch- er. He now has the speed; in fact, he tops all the other Cub hurlers in this particular department. Prior to catching on with the West Bide club “Rick” starred in several close games for the Louisville Colo- pels, where, under the tutelage of Helne Peitz, former Cincinnati back- ptop, he learned the rudiments of serv- Ing an outcurve and outdrop which blended successfully with his known LEFT-HANDERS NOT SO WILD Btatistics Show Right-Handed Pitche ers lssued Almost as Many Passes—Lelfield Steadiest. The weird performances of some left-handed pitchers have given bugs the impression that practically all southpaws are of the wild and woolly varlety. The averages tell a different story. A comparison of the records of the five leading right-handed pitchers of the major leagues with those of the five best left-handers shows that the control of the southpaws is al- most as good as that of the starboard Bingers. Natlonal League right-handers were eomewhat steadier than left-handers, end the port hurlers of the National Were a trifle wilder than those in the ‘American. Bender, Coombs, Ford, Johnson and Walsh are the leading American league right-handers. The five gave 4G9 passes in 1,526 innings, or 169 nine-inning games, making an aver Pltcher Lelfleld of Pittsburg. hge of little over two passes per game. Gregg, Plank, Collins, Vaughn mrnd White, the leading southpaws, ve 296 passes in 1,056 innings, or an verage of two and one-half per game 117 nine-inning games. Alexander, Mathewsonk: Brown, \Adams and Suggs, five of the crack .risht-handers of the National league, A /»,'w. N smokeball prowess. Reggy will tell you he possessed little more than speed and a prayer when he was identified with the Rogers Parkers, appearing on semi-pro fields around Chicago. “Sometimes more than “smoke” is needed to win ball games in major society. Hence the instructions given Reggy to keep busy. Much is expect- ed from the giant this year and just as soon as he masters a sharper curve his name will likely be seen at regular and stated intervals in box scores of champlonship combats. Jim- my Archer, who has been working, with Reggy, reports the latter as well advanced in his pursuit of greater curving knowledge. averaged two passes for every nine nnings. Marquard, Sallee, Wiltse, Rucker and Leifield, the crack lett- handers of the same organization, averaged two and two-thirds bases on balls a game. Christy Mathewson, the steadlest of National League pitchers, averaged one pass for every nine innings he pitched. Ed Walsh’s average was about one and one-half per battle. “Doc” White was the steadiest of all left-handers, with only one and one- balf passes per nine innings. Leifield of the Pirates was the steadlest Na- tional left-hander, with two and one- third passes per nine innings. SSIP Connie Mack has announced that he Intends to keep Hart, Maggert and Gipe. The most consistent hitter on Grif- fith’s team to date has been Jack Fiynn. Cornell’s baseball progpects are poor. The team lost every inflelder by graduation last year. Aslde from his pitchers, Griffith has but three regular left-handed hitters with his Washington team. - George Mullin says he has set his heart on this being his best year. To _| make it that he will have to go some, all will admit. George Kahler 1t 1s and not l(nlar. The Nap pitcher says he is German &nd that his name contains all the let- ters that go with- it. Waghington sent a scout to sign Pitcher Moran of Washington Lee university, but Hughey Jennings beat him to the prize and landed Moran for Detroit. Tom Stark, last year manager of Monmouth and this year slated .to manage Rock Island until that town lost its franchise, has signed with Wichita, An investigation of the baseball trust is all very well, but many a-ball player is in favor of the conviction of umpires for unreasonable restraint of bases on balls. Complaints are already coming from the Detroit inner circle that Outfleld- +er- Hank -Perry,-secured from Provi dence, lacks ambition and he may net fill the bill as Jennings expected. Burn All Catalogu Cedar Falls, Iowa, April 16.—“We. thought they sold us cheaper but we know better now.” With signs bearing this and simi- lar slogans borne by a singing and cheering congregation, composed of the town’s leading citizens, the bank- er and the merchant, the doctor and the lawyer, the press and the pulpit, and the women and children of Ced- ar Falls, Iowa, burned at the stake a pile of mail-order house catalogues in the public square there on the night of February 28. It is sald, however, to the credit of the community that the actual amount of material was limited. The catalogues did not fur- nish an all-night bonfire, CONVICT HAS FERTILE BRAIN Inventions of Real Worth the Work of Prisoner In Pennsylvania Penl- tentlary, There was exhibited in the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia a few days ago, six mechanical devices which one of the inmates of the in- stitution hasinvented. The nran, John Edwards, who is serving a long term for robbery, displayed so much ingen- uity and skill in his work that the warden furnished him with money and gave him permission to spend his time In the perfection of _his inven- tions, One of the devices is a burglar alarm and doorbell. Another which the in- ventor calls an “Internal combustion turbine,” has aroused the curiosity of prominent mechanical engineers. It Is operated by means of gravity and hydrostatic pressure. A “noiseless railroad crossing system” is another Invention, the model of which he ex- hibited. He has applied for patents in Washington. Edwards has invented an “ellipso- graph,” to be used by draftsmen and architects in drawing ellipses. He showed an improvement in padlocks, where the tensile strength of the lock s equal to the strength of six other ordinary locks. He has perfected an advertising device which consists of pieces of wood which can be applied 'to almost any use, and upon which plctures have been drawn. Among the uses to which the broad boards can be put is in the construction of the backs of chairs, TOWERED OVER SHIP’S MASTS Commanders of Vessels Supply New Information as to Height of At- lantic Waves. It 1s very doubtful if the log of any naval vessel of the world contains rec. ords equal to those of the Roe. Lieut. Commander C. H. Woodward has stated that he never expected to bring bis craft through the immense waves. The indicator on the bridge, which was at times the only part of the ves. sel out of water, showed that the iit- tle craft rolled 90 degrees, being at times clear over on her beam ends. Just at the time when the command. ers of the little squadron estimated that the gale was at its height and blowing practically 90 miles an hour the Roe’s steefing gear gave way and she dropped into the trough of the sea. This little vessel’'s masts are 52 feet high¥from the water line, says the Christian Herald, and although it has been stated that the highest wave yet recorded upon the Atlantic ocean was not more than.30 feet in height, Commander Woolward’s estimate that the waves of the recent storm over- topped his masts by several feet has been borne out by the officers not only of the smaller ships but even of the battleship Delaware. Sacredness of the Cow In Indla. The killing of animals is abheryent to the Hindoo. You may see the pious Jain, who carries the doctrine of the preservation of life to an absurd ex- treme, moving about on the Esplanade or near trees and fields with a packet of flour and sugar, in search of ants and other insects, that he may feed them from his store. In towns and villages you will occasionally come across the sacred bull, who roams about at will, and helps himself to grain and other foodstufft placed in shops as he pleases. He is a symbol of divinity. None will molest him; everybody will hold him in reverence. But in the case of the byl the rever- ence 18 limited to the one who, go to speak, i8 born in purple. As for the cow, the entire species is sacred, and to kill it is a cardinal lln. ‘Whenever the pious Hindoo ses by a cow, he touches it with hll hand and salutes 1t. Cheerful Philosopher. Fontenelle, the French writer, was always cheerful, and this is perhaps ‘why he lived to be one hundred year: old. He used to say: “Without cheerfulness, what 1is philosophy ‘worth?” When about to die, he said: “I do mot suffer, my friend; I only feel a certain difficulty in ljving.” One of the Largest Elephants. A recent writer in the Fleld newsy paper gives the dimensions of an old Indian elephant, which would scarcely bave been much inferfor in size to & mastodon. According to his account the anima] measured 11% feet in hejght at the shoulders, 35 feet B $nches from the tip of the trunk to the end of the tall. The distance from the tip of the trunk to one eye was 7 feet; from one eye to the tajl nearly 1814 feet, and the tall was 43§ Yeet in length. The tusks were b feet 2 inches long—] s llonthl! —_— e Deflant. “There 18 a place awalting you in the abode of future punishment,” said the man who, even though angry, strives to be discreet of speech. “It don’t scare me nome,” replied the fanitor. “I'll be kind o’ glad to et some place where the tenants nev- :;,:_":“""‘" because the ndlltnrl are UTICA HAS. RELICS Grant’s Original Field Orders Are in That City. UNCLE SAM MAY GET. THEM Government = Acquires Many Such Treasures by Gift or Purchass and Preserves and Dis- plays Them Well. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington—Uncle Sam s & hoarder of relics and a collector. of curios. He has one advantage over private collectors in that people know what zealous care he exercises to pre- serve things and how willing he 18 to give credit where credit is due. So it 18 that many holders of things his- toric present them to Uncle Sam, cer- tain that they will be spréad before the gaze of the admiring thousands with the name of the donor attached in large letters set up and printed after the best manner of the govern- ment composing room and printery. Sometimes, however, Uncle Sam has to buy something and preliminary to dolng it he tries to find out how much it is to cost and if there is any chance of getting it for nothing. Sometime ago, for instance, he nego- tiated with a Portland, Ore., man for the purchase at the price of $500 of-a manuscript order book, once the prop- erty of Gen, Arthur Saint Clair, who was governor of the Western Terrl- tory and commander of its military forces during the administrations of Presidents Washington and Adams. Uncle Sam gets his money to buy manuseripts from the secretary of the treasury after congress by joint resolution has given him permission to make the purchase. Had Grant's Fleld Orders. It is sald in Washington that in the city of Utica, N. Y., there 18 an his- toric treasure which surpasses in in- terest a mere order book of Arthur Saint Clair, sterling soldier though he was. There dled recently in Utica a man who owned scores of General Grant’s field orders, written entirel in the general's own hand, and every one bearing the signature of the gen- eral of the United States army. Grant, it 1s sald, wrote these various orders and dispatches and gave them to his telegraph operator to put in cipher and transmit over the wires. The op- ‘| erator did the translating and trans- mitting and then naturally, knowing the probable future value of the ma- terial, did not destroy the originals, but put them in a safe place where no unauthorized person could see them, and kept possession of them until long after the war. From time to time it is said that this operator disposed of some of the original Grant manuscripts to Willlam Blakie, who was a well-known drug- gist of Utlca and who is now dead, his heirs presumably having the Grant papers.. Among these docu- ments it is said s Grant's despatch congratulating Sherman on the cap- ture of Savannah and pn the end of his march to the sea. Nearly all the despatches to Sherldan in the Shenandoah ‘Valley are there and al- 80 the despatch to Abraham Lincoln telling him that General Weltzel had entered Richmond, and that the army was following. In the war department there are many manuscript orders of both Union and Confederate generals, some of them having been found after the war and others presented to the war department both by northern and southern men. It s the government's endeavor to get everything of this kind which it can. It is dome with a view to preserving memorials of the common country, for it must be un- derstood now that the word rebellion {8 seldom used anAd then only by men who find it hard to forget. Dinner of West Pointers, There was a dinner the other night, at a hotel n Washington, of grad: uates from West Point. The oldest graduate present was of the class of 1847, General Gibson, who was one of Grant’s chiefs of artillery. He paid a wonderful tribute to the leaders of the southern cause. On the screen at the end of the hall in which the dinner was held were shown side by slde the pictures of the two greatest graduates of the academy, Lee and Grant. The cheering when the faces appeared was of the kind called tu- multuous. While the dinner was a West Point affair, there were a good many non- graduates of the academy In attend- Generals Miles and Young. Maj. Leonard E. Wood, now chief of ntau of the army, was also present and he, although he' never saw the mlllury academy except as a visitor, ex- pressed the wish that the proportion of graduates in the army might in- crease year by year. Congress 'ts likely to pass a bjl which will enable the government send the Natjongl Guard regiments the states out of the country If thefr seryices there should be necessary as an auxiliary to the army. The re; lar army officers want the law to read 80 that the National Guard shall be. come a part of the regular force to be officered by regulars, but the tional Guardsmen are opposed tp this, and if the bill is passed it probably will provide that the state troops shall preserve their identity and go out with their own officers. - The Mex- ican. situation has been instrumentai in securing; immediate attention for several army measures, this militia bill being included. _ Mystery of the Pyramids. ’ One of the mysteries of the great pyramids in Egypt is how they were built in the sand. How. did the slaves 1ift these gigantic boulders into place, especially sinice that was in the days When machines were unknown. Sa- vants and historians believe sloping ways were bullt leading to the pyra- mids and the great stones: hmlod into, ance, among them being Lieutenant | clgateties are bought in Dublin patriotio pride and smoked with en- foyment, and it may be only a matter of time when Irish cigarettes will be known the smoking world over. The raising of tobacco in Ireland is ome of -the new industries which are being undertaken, and the quality is pro- nounced good. MORE OF ART THAN NATURE Matron’s. Beautiful Figure, Admired by All, Suffered 8ad Collapse at Inopportune Tim: At a dinner party given lately in Paris one lady was remarked above all others for the elegance of her fig- tire and the perfection of her tollet. During the mauvais quart d’heure be- fore dinner she was surrounded by a host of admirers, and one less bashful than the rest ventured to offer her the flower from his buttonhole. It w: accepted, but as the “princess robe worn by the graceful creature was laced behind, it was mnecessary to fasten the flower to the front of her dress with a pin. The operation was successfully performed, and the fair lady was led in to dinner, by the donor of the flower. They were hard- ly seated when he heard a curious sound like the gentle sighing of the wind, and on turning toward his part- ner he saw with horror that the lovely figure was getting “small by degrees and beautifully less.” The rounded form had disappeared before the soup ‘was over, and long before the first en- tree the once creaseless garment hung in great folds about a scraggy frame- work! It seems that the mnewest dresses for “slight” ladies are made with airtight linings and inflated when on till the required degree of embonpoiat is attained. The unfortu- nate lady mentioned above had forgot- ten this little detail when she fast- ened the fatal flower to her bosom with a pin; hence the collapse!—La- bouchere in Truth of March 8, 1877, HOW EXPERTS FORM OPINIONS Distinguishing Marks May Be Forged, but the Man Who Knows Can- not Be Decelved. A dealer in antiques was talking about art experts. “Take, for - in- stance,” he sald, “an expert in old pewter. You think, perhaps, he dis- tinguishes old pewter by the marks— the Tudor roses, the maker’s name, and so forth? Bless your heart, those marks are continually forged. No, he distinguishes old pewter by the !eel. “It 18 like the china expert. He, with his eyes closed, will distinguish hard and soft paste china. It's the feel again—his fingers trained by years and years of study till each one has a brain in it. “Oriental rug experts have a very subtle sense of rug differences, Some- times they distinguish a rug, by its smell—the smell of the wool and the dyes. This seems incredible till yon think of the Harris tweed, that im- ported cloth that you yourself can distinguish by its smell—the smell, which never leaves it, of the peat smoke of the cottage wherein it was woven on & hand loom. “Wool sorters, a less highly paid class of experts, can take up a hand- ful of wool, and by its color tell you whether it came from Texas, from the territories, from England or from Canada, The gofl, you see, gives itg own color to the wool.” About a Pair of “Pants." A Detrolt man, who had contributed & bundle of his cast-off clothing for the rellet of the victims of a fire, re- celved from one of the sufferers the following note: “The committy man glv me amungst other things wat he called a pare of pants, and ’twould make me pant some to ware ‘em. I found your name and where you live on one of the pokits. My wife laffed 80 when I shode ‘em to her that I thot she wood have a conipshun fit. She wants to no if there lives and brethes & man who has legs no bigger than that. She sed'if there was he orter be taken up for vagrancy for havin’ no visible means of support. I could- ent get 'em on my oldest boy, so I used ’em for gun cases. If you hav another pare to spare, my wife would like to get ’em to hang up by the sid of the fireplace to keep the tongs in.” —Spofford's Library of Wit and Hu- for. My Rest Cure. Commit it to memory or paste it up Wwhere your eye will often rest upon it. Apply it daily as often as practicable; make it a part of your daily thought, and, my word for it, that tired feeling will vanish and you will know it no more forever. Your heart, your home, your life will be full of sunshine. Relax mind and body. Ease up on every nerve and muscle. Bhut out all unpleasantness Throw care to the winds. If you become tired when reading, Writing or in ‘the pursuance of any- '.Mu requiring mental effort; if the mind seems to lose its activity for a time, its quickness’of perception, its power of concentration, it, too, needs A rest or change of activity. The brain not being 8 muscular organ, must rely upon bodily activity to draw away the blood that has been used and make hau hlo Supply ol Irop. One of the most wonderful otlmnlnm;mfldu.tl.un}. Tortue, Quebec, near to where iron has heen smelted since 1738. Orq&(p acids dissolve the fron rust in sandy bottom of the riyers into ‘the lake, where the exposure’ its surface to the air turns the com: position fnto a penll hmnlnx film upon the surface. This lnh the lake forming “cake ore,” wi is smelted at the Radnor forges intg The !:l the finest charcoal fron. s always being mknllhd lake furnishes one of the few * es” in the world which will Exceptions. : 1 wit | FIRST OF THE WHITE- RACES Population of Russla and Its Provinces + 8hown by Recent Census to Be Over 163,000,000, ‘We gather from the “Russian Year Book” that on January 1, 1910, the population of Russia amounted to 160,748,400, and together with the Fin- nish provinces the total population mmounted to 163,778,800 -people. In 1314 years, from the autumn of 1897 to January, 1911, in spite of war, cholera and famine the Russian pop- ulation has increased by 38,199,000 souls—an annual growth of 2,732,000. In point of numbers Russia is first of all the white races. The vast population is mot entirely of Russlan race; the empire counts 10 per cent. of Tartars, 6 per cent. of Poles and a considerable number of Lithuan! Letts, Finns and Jews. In terrltonll extent Russla {is the largest country in the world. It is 44 times as big as France. Three-quarters of the population are, it is said, engaged in agriculture, 10 per cent. in varlous industries, 4.6 per cent. in private service, 3.8 per cent. in trade.. All other occupations do not engage more than 7.5 per cent. Although in Russia agriculture is generally the predominating occupa- tion the largest proportion of people employed in this pursuit is found in Central Asia, about 83 per cent.; the second place is taken by Siberla, over B0 per cent.; followed by the Cau-! causus, about 79 per cent., and Po- land, with only 56.6 per cent. On the other hand, industrial pursuits, min- np industries, etc., are more devel- oped in Poland, which engage 15.4 per cent. of the population employed; then comes European Russia, about 10 per cent, the last places being London as a Frenchman Sees It. The little French boy bas every op- yortunity of getting an engaging ides of London. In a recent volume of French and general geography, whish has run into severil editions, the cs.xn- piler gives an English reading from the works of M, Ensult, whoever he may be. - And the little French boy is told concerning the London of this century that there are in the best parts of our unhappy city “whole streets formed of dens dug out of the soll, which itself was only a mass of rubbish.” And again: “A little further on, bands of half-starved men without fire or shelter take refuge in BYpSsy vans, which vans are buried up to the axletree in mud.” People also sleep in wheelless cabs, for which they pay & rent of 1234 cents a week. We Lon- doners should not have known any- thing about this if M. Enault had not told us!—London Chronicle. Pecullar In Veterinary Annals. A peculiar case came under the no- tice of a surgeon at Molong, NS.W., recently. A valuable horse had been staked near the shoulder with a hosk, and immediately began to swell all over in an amazing manner. The doc- tor found that,from its nose to its hoofs the horse had swollen to almost twice its mnormal size. Apparently wind had got in between the flesh and the skin and blown it out like a foot- ball. When the surgeons tapped the enimal in several places the wind es- caped with a hiss. . The ddctor says it 18 the first case of its kind that he bas met with in connection with ani- mals, though he had met with similar cases in human beings. Depar Unent The Pioneér Want Ads - OASH WITH OOPY :!egulnr charge rate 1 cent per word per insertion. No ad taken for less than 5 cents. Phone 31 HOW THOSE WANT ADS DO THE BUSINESS The ;Ploneer oes everywhere so that everyone has a neighbor who takes it and people who dn not take the paper generally read their neighbor’s 80 your want ad gets to them all. 14 Cent a Word Is All It Costs CLASSIFIED CHICKEN AND EGG DEPARTMENT. AN AP BB N BN 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 Ply- mouth Rock, Rhode Island Red and Buff Leghorn eggs. Telephone 686-2, J. H. .French. FOR . SALE—Full blooded Golden Wyandotte eggs for breeding. E. S. Woodward, 507 Irvine Ave. 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. O e Ve S FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the market at 60 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 Bemlrul Pioneer ‘Office Supply FOR SALE—The chlllll ‘lead pen- Roe and Markusen’s and the Pijo- ueer Office Supply Store at 5 cents each and 50 cents a dogen. FOR SALE—Small fonts of type, several different points and ip first class condition. Call or write this office for proofs. Address Be- midji Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn. 70R SALE_Rubber stamps. The Ploneer will procure any kind of < rubber stamp for vou on short wotice. F(-R SALE—House at 916 Minneso- tn Ave. Terms to suit purchaser. Enquire of C. W. Vandersluis. FOR SALE—One incubator and brooder; can be seen at Given Bros. Hardware Store. FOR RENT ————— FOR RENT—Furnisked rooms, good view and all conveniences. Call at 523 Minnesta Ave., over Twin “Port Meat M:;ket FOR RENT—House for rent. Inquire at 1317 Beltrami Ave. FOR RENT—Six rent. A. Klein. MISCELLANEQUS A oo e eee oo, 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 Courler-News, Fargo, N. D. room house for —_— WANTED—100 merchants in North- ern Minn to sell “The Bemid- 31” 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, Mion. . - WANTED—Nunqu wlnud by ex- perienced practical nurse. Resi- dence 1004 American Ave., of pencil (momnflaflnmmmmmmnw—mamc wérid) atiNetsers, . Eifiliy fHe Caucisus and Cenral