Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 19, 1912, Page 8

——r—— ) pose it got in there ” “Oh, that’s , utes before she proved. | BEDBUG STOPS WATCH ‘Woman Enters Barker’s Jewelry Store With Watch in Which Bug is Found. CLERK CRACKS OLD TIME JOKE “What’s the matter with my watch,” asked a woman hastily as she entered the Barker Jewelry store the other day, and presented the time piece to one of the clerks. “It runs for a while and then stops. I shake it and it starts up again, but will not continue for more than an hour.” “When did you have it cleaned last?” asked the clerk. “Oh, good- ness me, I don’t know, it’s been a icng, long time, I know that much.” The clerk examined the watch and found it ditry, and located among the works he discovered a bed dug. The woman was much surprised to see the accumulation, and upon seeing the bug, exclaimed, “how do you sup- easy,” said the clerk, “it must have crawled in between the ‘ticks’”. He noticed the grin of the woman and smiled in return, whereupon he re- ceived instructions to give the watch a thorough cleaning. Watches are marvelous things, when you stop to consider the con- stant labor it performs. The Scien- tific American reports that the rol- ler jewel of a watch makes every day, day after day, without any rest at night, 432,000 impacts against the fork, or 157,680,000 blows during the year. A watch guaranteed for 20 years strikes 3,153,600,000 blows. TITANIC'S LIST OF DEAD IS SWELLED (Continued .from first page). until just before the final plunge in- dicating that the engines were run- ning until a few minutes before the end. The Carpathia was sixty miles from the Titanic when the call for help was received and she immediate- 1y started for the scene of the wreck ai full speed. She reached the scene about 4 a. m. and succeeded in res- cuing all that had been able to get into the boats. The boats could not be filled to but eighty per cent of their maximum capacity as all had to be on board before they were lowered the ninety feet from the upper deck to the ocean. A sub-committee from the Senate ic in New York and states it will subpoena all persons who can throw any light upon the disaster. A rumor that Mrs. John Jacob As- tor had died just before the Car- pathia docked cannot be confirmed. ! All hope of Mr. and Mrs. Straus, | Colonel Astor, Major Butt and other | prominent men has been abandouned. ! Story of a Passenger. “I was awakened by the stopping ot the vibratioa of the engines as| the shock of the collision had been slight. Hearing people going on deck, 1 did also but seeing nothing to cause worry returned to my room. The or- der then came ‘All passengers on | deck’ so I slipped into some heavy clothing and complied with the or~} der. ! “Up to this time we had had no! inkling that anything serious had happened, but we saw them remov- ing the cover from the life boats. ’l‘he‘; men were ordered to stand back and ! the women sent to the deck below. | The boats were then lowered to the! second deck and the women placed in them. When all the women were off, the men were ordered into the remaining boats. Some of the wom- en were torn from their husbands, but others refused to leave. “1 was one of those put in a boat after the women had been cared for. As rapidly as we could, for she was settling fast, we rowed away from the Titanic. 1t was a calm, cold night and we had little trouble in managing the over loaded boat. “Presently, about 2 a. m., as near * as [ can remember, we observed her settling very rapidly with bows com- pletely under water, and concluded it was now only a question of min- went. And so it| i Watched Giant Liner Sink. | “She slowly tilted straight on end : with the stern vertically upwards.i As she did, the lights in the cabins and salons, which had not flickered | for a moment since we left, died,| came on again for a single flash, and finally went out altogether. At the same time the machinery roared down through the vessel with a rat- tle ‘and a groaning that could be heard for miles, the worst sound surely that could be heard in the from land. But this was not yet quite the end. “To our amazement, she remained in that upright position for a time which I estimated at five minutes; others in the boat say less, but it was certainly some minutes while we watched at least 150 feet of the Ti- tanic towering above the sea and looming against the sky. “Then with a quiet, slanting tilt, she disappeared beneath the waters and our eyes had looked for the last time on the gigantic vessel we set out from Southhampton on last Wednes- day. Screams Ring in Ears, “And then with all these there fell on our ear the most appalling noise that human being ever listéned to, cries of hundreds of our fellow be- ings struggling in icy cold water, cry- ing for help with a cry we knew cculd not he answered. We longed to return and pick up some of those swimming, but this would mean the swamping of our boat and further the 1oss of our lives. “We tried to sing to keep the wom- en from hearing the cries and rowed hard to get away from the scene of the wreck, but I think the memory of those sounds will be one of the things rescued and they will find it difficult to efface from their memory. We were all trying hard not to think of it. Lookout for Lights. “Presently low down on the hori- zon, we saw a light, which slowly re- solved itself into a double light and we watched eagerly to see if the two lights would separate and if so to prove to be only two of our boats, or whether they would remain together, in which case we would expect them to be a mast head light and a deck light below of a rescuing steamer, which was soon made out to be the Carpathia.” Around the World 19 Times. The American people are now firm- 1y established as the greatest cigaret smoking nation in the world, accord- ing to statistics published by the TUnited States Tobacco Journal. More than ten billion cigarets were manufactured and sold in this coun- try during 1911, without counting several billion more that were tax- exempt ,bz2cause rolled by the smok- ers themselves. Taking the length of the average cigaret as three inches, the total con- sumed by the United States in a year, if land in a straight line, would girdle the globe nineteen times. Taking the population of the coun- try as 90,000,000, every man, woman and child has averaged during the last year 109 cigarets, 80 cigars, 13 small cigars and four pounds of smoking tobacco in pipes or hand- rolled cigarets. The total number of cigars smoked last year is given as 7,270,000,000, an increase of 200,000,000. The { number of little cigars was 1,200,- 000,000, an increase of 160,000,000. The cigaret census shows an an- nual incrzase of 1,200,000,000. 8quare Foot and Foot Square. There is no difference in area be- tween one square foot and one foot square, though there may be a differ: ence in the shape and dimensions of the surfaces. For Instance, one square foot may be enclosed by a cir cular line, a hexagon, a triangle, or a rectangle. One foot square is an area of fixed form, the four sides being equal and the four angles all right angles. Seven square feet and seven feet square are not equivalent, either fn the dimensions of the sides or the area contained. First Steel Bullding. The Tower building, at 50 Broadway. New York, when erected in 1888-1889, was then said to mark a new depart: ure in building construction. The skel eton structure was of steel, and engl ners hold that this was the first edi- fice in which the entire weight of the floors and walls was borne and trans mitted to the foundation by a frame work of metallic posts and beams 1!1\ 1899 the Society of Architectural Manufacturers of New York placed on the building a tablet commemorating this, Seek the Best. Nobleness springs to our eyes wher- ever we look, rich stores of poetic in- spiration, if one has receptivity large enough to take it in and reveal it | touched with emotion, the magic light of the imagination. Bravery, good- ness and truth lie on every side. We need not seek the exceptional for themes, the usual affords more than enough. Look closely with under- i standing into the common;. you will find everwhere the uncommon, the wonderful.—The Christian Register, Elephant Lived for Centuries. ‘When Alexander the Great con- quered Porus, king of India, he tvok & great elephant that had fought gal- lantly for the defeated king, named him Ajax, dedicated him to the sunm, placed upon him a metal band with the inscription, “Alexander, the son of Jupiter, dedicated Ajax to the sun.” middle of the ocean, a thousand m{les{ The elephant was found alive 350 years later. . i e et = ot | 4> Gramo 4 — Penalty of Human Folly. The efforts now to save the chest- nut trees emphasizes nature’s revenge for the needless slaughter of the birds. Bird conservation is one of the important factors in forestry, but it human carelessness or wantonness destroys the natural means of tree de- fenses, it follows that men are left to their own inadequate devices to re- pair the blunder, in this case worse than a crime.—Baltimore American. Heroes Found in Dally LiYe. The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum ! beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat—R. L. Stévenson. His Creed a Selfish One. The philosophy of the man in the Btreet is to get through life with a minimum of self-sacrifice and a maxi- mum of self-indulgence. THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Her Prayer Answered. The vicar of Brixton, Isle of Wight | said, in church the other day, that a woman, on his advice, knelit at the altar in his church recently and prayed that her two sons in Canada, from whom she had not heard for a long time, might write to her. Soon after- ward her sons sent her a cablegram, and a letter followed, stating that they had suddenly felt impelled to send a message home. Tax on Bachelors In Hungary. A curfous tax was recently intro- luced in Nagyper Rata, Hungary, to: be levied on bachejors over 24. The amount varies between 40 cents and $20, according to the pecuniary cir- sumstances of each unmarried man. The proceeds are to be entirely de- voted to the founding and maintenance of an asylum for poor homeless chil- ldren. Origin of “Blackguard.” The English Board of Green Cloth is _{them to her mother one day. responsible for inventing “blackguard,” A word that has ‘stringely altered In meaning. In early times it was by no means a term of reproach, but re- ferred to the calling of carrying coal . In the king’s household. Is there any other bad word in the English lan- guage that can boast of such a royal | origin? B Dally Work of the Bee. How much work is done dally by each bee in order to make up his quota for the building of the hive? An agriculturalist who has made a study of bees estimates that each bee sips more than 600 flowers per load, and as he makes 20 trips to and from the hive daily he visits 12,000 flowers.— Harper's Weekly. Such Beautiful Words. Dorothy was only five years old, but Bhe had already begun to make plans for the future. She unfolded one of “When Igrow up I'm going to have two chil- dren,” she said; “fm going to name FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1812, -Worked at Typewriter in Alr. An interesting experiment was made:. ™ at the Pau, Northern France, aerc-- drome not long ago, when a typist taken up together with his machine, wrote his impressions in the air at a_ height of 1,600 feet. k = Where Deeside Lost Out. Andrew Lang once complained that Deeside was not “literary,” founding his statement on the fact that he could not buy Dickens’ novels there. —London Athenaeum. Advertise on Banknotes. » The Germans have beaten us to it « lor sheer nerve in the advertising game. One motor firm printed an “ad”™ on a blank space on 100-mark notes, ind they can’t stop ’em. —_ Observation of the Cynlc. 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