Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 17, 1912, Page 2

—— . E— ¥ -~ 1 | § H THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Published every afternoon except Sun- day by the Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Company. @ B. CARSON. B. H. DENU. HAROLD J. DANE, Bditor. In the City of Bemidjl the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate complaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they do not get their papers promptly. Every subscriber to the Daily Pioneer will receive notice ahout ten days be- fore his time expires, giving him an opportunity to make an advance pay- ment before the paper is finally stopped Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier. One year, by carrier.... ‘Three months, postage pal Six months, postage paid One year, postage paid. ‘The Weekly Pione Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. Publishel every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.50 in advance. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER_ AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN., UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 8, 1879, “THIS DATE IN HISTORY” APRIL 17 1689J—Governor Andros fled to the Castle, Boston, for safety. 1754—The French captured the Virginians, erected a stronger fort and called it Fort Du Quesne (Pitts- burgh.) 1763—First newspaper in Georgia, the “Georgia Gazette,” issued at Savannah. 1786—Walter Forward, secretary of the treasury in President Tyler’s cabinet, born in Connecticut. Died in Pittsburgh, Nov. 24, 1852. 1790—Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia. Born in Boston, Jan. 17, 1706. 1837—Joseph Anderson, Revolu- tionary soldier and U. S. senator from Tennessee, died in Washington, D. C. Born in New Jersey, Nov. 5, 1757. 1856—Quebec became the capital of Upper and Lower Canada. 1892—Alexander Mackenzie, form- er Canadian premier, ' died. Born Jan. 28, 1822. 1907—William J. Bryan declared in favor of the initiative and re- ferendum. 1911—France rushed troops to Morocco to quell a rebellion among the tribesmen. Congratulations to: J. Pierpont Morgan, America’s greatest financier, seventy-five vears old- today. Charles H. Parkhurst, noted Pres- byterian clergyman and reformer, seventy years old today. Charlemagne Tower, former Un- ited States ambassador to Germany, sixty-four years old today. William R. Day, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, sixty-three years old today. Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, fifty-thrée years old today. Was Well Named. The Titanic was well named. She was a monster. Her loss is one of the most “titantic’” disasters, both as to property and human life, in the history of man. The Mountain-Piling Titans. 'Tis an old tale; Jove strikes the Titans down, Not when they set about their moun- tain piling, 8 But when another rock would crown the work. So said Browning in “Paracelsus.” In the old Greek myth the Titans sought by piling mountains on moun- tains to scale the heights of heaven and assail Jove on his throne. But the crashing thunderbolt of the su- preme god of the Greek cosmogony al- ways demolished their gigantic la- bors just when success seemed in sight. The Greek myth prefigured man’s experiences in battling with the terrific forces of Nature. ! Here was the Titanic, greatest of man-made ships, the last word in marine architecture, held to be ab- solutely safe from ocean disaster of whatever kind ,the triumph of hu- man mastery over the sea. Named for one of those huge, primordial giant-gods whom the Greeks conceiv- ed, the Titanic is stricken down as by a thunderbolt of Zeus on her maiden voyage. By a thunderbolt? Nay, by a wretched, inert, well nigh invisible mass of ice floating down unseason- ably out of the frozen North. So perished miserably with the major fraction of her human freight the greatest ship that had ever been built. How puny doth man seem in such an hour! how helpless against the great, remorseless forces of Na- ture! how dependent, after all the achievements of invention and on the upholding hand of Providence! 5 But such an impressive disaster, carrying to the ocean depths many who wear the great names of earth along with their humbler brethren and sisters—all joined in the pitiless democracy of death—will give man- kind pause, nothing more. Spurred on by the restless energy of his na- ture, the inborn aspiration ~which ever piles mountains on mountains, despite the occasional and disheart, ening crash of & Jovian thunderbolt science, on, He will reflect that ocean travel today is proved by statistics of cas- ualties to be actually safer than land travel. And his brain will go on con- ceiving and his hand constructing great-ships with increased safeguards against disaster. The Titanic may have proved that the balance between speed and safe- ty has not been justly kept, and that something of speed must be sacrificed to the safety factor. We do not yet know at what speed the Titanic crashed into the wall of ice, but we do know that the momentum of her forty-six thousand tons moving thru the water even at slow speed was tremenduous-—so tremendous that the cunning of her architects could not devise a construction with water- tight compartments that would stand the impact. It is little les§'than won- derful that she stayed afloat even four hours. Another way in which safety could be better assured would be the aban- donment of the northern lanes of steamship travel in favor of the longer and more southerly lanes, which are less subject to the incur- sions of ice masses. But in the presence of such a ca- tastrophe the dominant feeling is one of helplessness, of human futility.— Minneapolis Journal WELL DEFIES SKILL OF MAN Engineers Unable to Confine Marvel- ous Flow of Gas in Transyl- vania, Hungary. There are wells of many Kkinds: those which gallons of petroleum, those which furnish water to sur- rounding populations, wells that are pearcely damp, and wells that periodi- cally inundate the neighborhood in which they are found. But of all the wells in existence probably none com- pare in interest with a gas well in Hungary. This well is situated in Transylva- nia, and the peculiarity of it is that It 18 not seen but heard. The gas es- capes by means of an iron tube with such dreadful force as to produce a noise which makes it impossible to’ hear the human voice within a con- siderable radius. . Many and diverse attempts have been made to regulate and utilize the output of gas, but so far the only de- vice which has succeeded has been to put an iron tube of 25 centimeters In diameter into the earth. Through this the gas has been escaping now for nearly three years. Engineers from various countries have been con- ducted to the spot and have thought out ingenious ways to make the gas available and to stop the dreadful noise caused by its escape. Every plan has failed. On one occasion the problem ' Wwas believed to have been solved, but it was soon faund that the gas had merely been turned aside in its course and ‘was escaping in the same manner in adjacent territory after having followed a track for some distance below the surface. The gas comes through the ‘ron tube with the velocity of a cannon ball and it is estimated that there is 8 daily loss of a million of cubic me- ters, the value of which amounts to $6.000.—Harper's Weekly. LONG USEFULNESS AT AN END 8ome Would Have Thought Vase Had Done Good Service, but Not So Mrs. Spicer. When Miss Ann Pickett dropped in on her neighbor, Mrs.. Splcer, and found her moping over the fragments of a gilt vase, Miss Ann sympathized generously. “It must have been quite L costly vase,” she sald, looking ad- miringly at the pieces. “No, it onmly cost six bits” Mrs. Bpicer acknowledged. *“’Tain’t that I feel so bad about.” “Maybe it was a gift that you prized because of assoclations—" Mrs. Spicer shook her head. *“Jim and I bought it over in Tompkinsville » long time ago; I prized it because It was such a saving to the family. The first year we had it I kept it on the front shelf _ for a general orna- ment; then when Jim’s birthday came and I hadr’t anything eise handy to tive, I gave him the vase for his own. Next Christmas, instead of paying out good money to buy something new, he gave it back to me for a Christmas present; then I gave it to Jim junior on his birthday, and he gave it to Sue Belle on hers. « “The next spring all the kinfolks got up a birthday party for old Aunt Ballie Spicer, and we took her the vase; after she’d kep’ it a good bit, she gave it to Jim’s sister Jane for a weddin’ present, and afterwards Jane gave it to me and Jim when we had pur china weddin’. I was counting on giving it to Jim again on his next birthday, and now here it i smashed to fiinders. “I téll you, Miss Anm, it most makes me cry to think of losing such » useful family article—so near Jim's birthday, too!”—Youth’s Companion. Perils of Sea Service. The submarine branch of the navy has undoubtedly risks and dangers of Its own, as the sad tale of previous disasters plainly. shows; and when a catastrophe-such as took place recent- ly unhappily occurs it is of a nature to make a profound impression upon the public. But in relation to the num- ber of submarines in commission, and to the constant exercise they under- EO, the picked officers and men who gerve in them do not incur a risk out of all proportion greater than their comrades in other branches. Danger and risk are no peculiar prervgative of the submarine, they form the very foundation of naval character, and are & pledge, in no small degree, of the such a8 this, man will and ‘must go Becurity upon which as a nation we repose.—London Ti| Varieties of Honey. A sore throat and a rasping cough led the writer to call in at the stores with a view to the purchase of honey. Lemon and honey are extremelysooth- Ing, and the overplus of the latter can be used on the breakfast table. The -ssistant sald they had .plenty of honey, got it fresh every day. “What honey 1is it?” asked the man with a sore throat huskily. “Twenty-one cents pound,” replied the salesman, and it came out that he had no notlon that there were varieties of honey. His ldea was that all honey was English, and he had never heard of Irish honey, let alone of that superb quality that the Connemara bees produce, orsof the heather honey or that from the West Indies. Grocers and purchasers should be educated in the varfous ex- cellences of honey.—London Chroni- cle. Tracing the “Barber Shop Chord.” Barbers in the old days might well charge heavily, for theirs must have been a nerve-racking existence. Zithers were provided instead of newspapers, and customers used to strum on these while waiting for a vacant chair. Dek- ker, writing, refers to ‘‘a barber's cit- tern for every man to play on.” The term “barber’s music,” was a common one in the days of Pepys, who on Jume b, 1660, retords: ‘“After supper my lord called for the lieutenant’s ecit- tern, and with two candlesticks with money in them for symballs, we made barber's musi¢, with which my lord was very well pleased.” Protest. “The boys seem discouraged about makin’ garden,” said Mrs. Corntossel. _“Yep,” replied her husband. “They turned vp a few square feet of dirt an’ then held a meetin' an’ passed resolutions to the effect that it was a shame to spoil such a fine fishin’-worm pasture by plantin’ it full o’ potatoes en’ sweet corn.” Achlevements in Art. Brian G. Hughes, whose practical jokes so often delight, said at a re- cent dinner: “I don’t mind practical jokes on hu. man beings, but when it comes to ani. mals I draw the line. “Two artists were once bragging ta each other. “‘I painted up a lump of pig iron to look like cork,” said the first artist, ‘and, by jove! when I threw it into the East river it floated. “Now,” said Mr. Hughes, “there Wwas no harm in that. But listen to the second artist. He said, with a cruel, unfeeling laugh: “I painted a lump of pig iron once to look like a roast of beef, and my dog ate three-quarters of it before he discovered his mistake."—Los An geles Times. Speech Strangely Restored. ‘While attending a picture show in Melbourne, Victoria, recently, his speech and hearing began to return to a young man who, during the previous harvest season, had lost both these faculties through fear. While engaged in harvesting operations in' the- Hor- sham district, he trod on a big black snake, which immediately coiled . it- self around his leg. He was not bitten by the reptile, but was nevertheless greatly alarmed, so much so that he went into a fit, under the influence of which he remained for some time, and then lost the powers of speech and hearing. - The scenes depicted at the picture show were of a thrilling char- acter, and on the following day he could utter a few words. Subsequent~ Iy bis speech was restored completely. Professional Pride. A local pugilist was brought before & police magistrate charged with ase sault. Said the magistrate: “Prisoner, complainant says that you willfully and maliciously knocked his bat oft.” ) Up spoke the accused, pride in his volce: “No, your honor, I didn’t knock his bat off; I knocked him from under bis hat” 8ign of a Weak Mind. In matter of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irreso- lution.—Tilleston. RESTORE GRAY HAIR T0 NATURAL COLOR By Common Garden Sage a Simple Remedy for Dandruff, Falling, Faded Gray Hair. The old- idea of using Sage for darkening the hair is again coming in vogue. Our grandfathers had dark, glossy hair at seventy-five, while our mothers are gray before they are fifty. Our grandmothers kept their hair soft and glossy with a “Sage Tea,” which also restored the natur- al color., One objection to using such a prep- aration was the trouble of making it. This objection has been overcome by the Wyeth Chemical Company of New York, who has placed on the market a superior prepartion of Sage, combined with Sulphur and other valuable remedies for dandruff, itch- ing scalp, and thin, weak, falling hair. The beauty of the hair depends more on its rich, even shiading than anything else. Dont’ have dry, harsh faded hair, when a simple, harmless remedy will bring back the color in a few days; and don’t be tormented with dandruff, itching scalp and loose falling hairs. Wyeth’s Sage and Sul- phur Hair Remedy will quickly cor- rect thesetroubles, and give color, strength and beauty to your hair. Get a fifty cent bottle from your druggist today, and prove this to your own satisfaction. All druggists sell it, under guarantee that thel money will be refunded if the remedy,|{ is not exactly as represented. 3 Wall of the Pessimist, On the whole, and with recognition of alse as a determining factor, the oholce appears;to lie between a short and & merry one, or linked dull ness long drawn out. If you whirl about singing and dancing and im- proving.each shining: minute of the shining hour, like skylarks and night- ingales, you die of senility at the age of elght. But a creature like a tor tolse, that can glt and do nothing for days on end.save wink its eye once, may watch the rise and fall of dynas- ties; and feel no older at the end of it—Exchange. 5 oy Obesity. Obesity 1s nearly always the body’s vote of censure for eating too much food, or taking too little exercise, and it is only necossary properly to bal- ance the Income and expenditure in order to keep a well-nourished body. It is important. to note that it is usual- ly around those muscles which are rarely exercised in any adequate man- ner that fat accumulates, e. g., the ab- dominal muscles.—Alexander Bryce, “Life and Health.” Censorship In Russla. It s pleasant to learn—the story s current in many a Russian household ~that the cookery books which had been condemned because a recipe eon- tained the words “perfect freedom,” words which were used in reference to some cullnary process, have escaped further mutilation and have been sell- Ing without hindrance. On the other hand the list of. books which continue to be suppressed is long and varied. LIFE INSURANGE GUMPANIES They Are Closely Observing Public Health Conditions. An examining physician for one of the prominent life insurance com- panies, in an interview on the sub- ject, made the astonishing statement that the reason why so many appli- cants for insurance are rejected is because kidney trouble is s0 common to the American people, and the large majority of applicants do not even suspect that they have the disease. He states that judging from his own experience and reports from druggists who are constantly in di- rect touch with the public, there is one preparation that has probably been more succeessful in relieving and curing these diseases than any remedy known. The mild and heal- ing influence of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp- Root is soon realized. .It stands the highest for its remarkable record of cures. We find that Swamp-Root-is strict- ly an herbal compound and we would advise our readers who feel in nged of such a remedy to give it a.trial. tles of two sizes—fifty cents and one dollar. However, if you wish first to test its wonderful merits, send to Dr. Kil- mer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle, absolutely free. When writing be sure and mention the Be- To have pure and wholesome food, be sure that your baking powder is made from cream of tartar and not from alum. _ WEDNESDAY, APRILAYZ, 1018, POOOOCP0000000 @ ® TODGEDOM IN BEMIDJI. & 2000000000060 60 . Bemid)i Lodge No. 277. Regular meeting nights—first - and thirg Monday; at 8 o’clock, —at 0dd Fellows hall, . 402 Beltrami Ave. B. P. 0. E. Bemidji Lodge No. 1052. Regular meeting nights— first and third Thursdays, 8 o'clock—at Masonic hall, Beltrami Ave, and Rifth t. C. 0. ¥ every second and fourth Sunday evening, at 8 o'clock in basement of Catholic church. Meeting = nights every second and fourth Monday evenings, at Odd Fellows Hall. 7. 0. E. Regular meeting nights | B I The Label will gulde you Royal is the only: baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar every.1st and 2nd Wednes- day evening at 8 o'clock. Eagles hall. G A. R Regular meetings—First It is on sale at all drug stores in bot- |. midji_Daily Pioneer. No-Alum No Lime Pheosphates Useful Article Missing. Dr. William Tindall says that the puhn‘hed accounts of the reputed an- | tagonism of a member of congress to the use of the toothbrush reminds him of an incident which occurred a num- ber of years ago on a steamboat which ran from Galveston to Houston. One morning, while the passengers were at breakfast, one of the travel- ers, who was somewhat belated in Derfecting his toilet, and who, obvi- ously, was one of those who are some- ‘what unfamiliar with the etiquette ot the toothbrush, appeared at the door of his stateroom, which opened into the hall that served as a dining room, and called out with a drawl such asg might have been expected from a primitive denizen of the back countr: “Say, capm, whar’l I find the tooth- brush that belongs to the boat?” . Buginess Victim. “Does you ’member dat dawg 1 used to have?” asked Mr. Erastus Pink- ley. “Yes,” replied Uncle Rasberry. “You means dat mixed dog?” “He was kind o’ mixed; he was what I calls a black-an'-tan-dale ter- rier. Well, suh, dat dawg ain’ brought me nuffin’ but bad luck. I sold ‘im to B man foh two dollahs, an’ de two dol- E. F. Netzer Wm. McCuaig J: P. Omich’s Gigar Store Roe & Markusen ' Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply Store Retailer will receive immediate shipment in gross- lots (more or less) by calling Phone 31. Arrangements have been made to advertise, as above, the namesof all dealers “who sell The Bemidji.” You Use a Lead Pencil ? WE ALL DO If you knew just where you could buy the Best 5 Cent Pencil In the World you would do it without much coaxing—wouldn’t you? Arrangements are being made with every first class dealer to sell e Howale (The best nickel pencil . 'Sold now at Barker's Drug and Jewelry Store 0. C. Rood & Co. ' [ahs he slipped me were counterfelt.” “Whut you gineter do?” “Whut kin I do? If T shows im any way to prove de transaction wus un- legal, he’s gineter make me- take de dawg back.” The Cure. Miss Fay Templeton, at a supper at the Ritz-Carlton-in New York given In horor of her return to the stage, praised the American business man. “I have only one fault to find with him,” ghe sald. “He works too hard. Hence, of an evening, he is some- times a little dull. “But intelligent wives can soon cure their husbands of overworking. I know a wife—she and her good man are in Egypt now—who came down to |dinner one night in a somber black robe. “Her husband—a frightfully over- worked millionaire—looked at her cos- tume and exclaimed: “‘Why on earth, my love, are you wearing a dress like that? It's posi- tively half-mourning.’ “‘Of course it’s half mourning,’ she replied. ‘When you come home from the office, don’t you always complain that you're half dead?” in the:world) and third Saturday after- noons, at 2:30—at 0dd Fel- L 0.0 7 Bemidjl Lodge No. 110 Regular meeting nights —every Friday, 8 o'clock at 0Odd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami. L O. 0. F. Camp No. 34 Regular meeting every. second and fourth Wednesdays at & o’clock at Odd Fellows Hall. Rebecca Lodge. Regular meetng nights — first and third Wednesday at 8o'clock. —L 0. 0. F. Hall XNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Bemidji Lodge No. 168. Regular meeting nights—ex- ery Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock—at the Eagles' Hall, Third street. Regular meeting night last Wednesday evening in each month. MASONIC. A. F. & A. M, Bemidji, 233. Regular meeting nights — first and third Wednesdays, 8 o’clock—at Masonic 'Hall, Beltrami Ave., and Fifth st Bemidjli Chapter No. 70, R. A. M. Stated convocations —first and third Mondays, 8 oclock p. m.—at Masonic Hall Zeltrami Ave,, and Fifth street. Elkanah Commandery No. 30 K. T. Stated conclave—second and fourth Fridays, 8 o'clock P. m.—at Masonic Temple, Bel- trami Ave, and Fifth St. O. E. S. Chapter No. 171, Regular meeting nights— first and third Fridays, 8 o'clock — at Masonic Hall, g:urami Ave., and Fifth M. B. A Roosevelt, No. 1523. Regular meeting nights Thursday evenings at § o'clock in 0Odd Fellows Hall. M. W. A Bemidji Camp No. 5012. Regular meeting nights — first and third Tuesdays at 8 o'clock at 0dd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. MODERN SAMARITANS. Regular meeting nights on the first and third Thursdays in the L O. O. F. Hall at 8 p. m. SONS OF HERMAW. Meetings held third Sunday afternoon of each month at Troppman’s Hall. TEOMAWS. Meetings the first Friday evening of the month at the home of Mrs. H. F. Schmidt, 306 Third street. Subscribe for The Piomeer Some of the moat artistic effects in. A. F. HUBERT