Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 1, 1912, Page 2

| ! ! L T _THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER | ‘Published every afternoon except Sun- day by the Bemidjl Pioneer Publishing. Company. @. E. CARSON. E. H. DENU. HAROLD J. DANE, Editor. In the City of Bemldji the papers are gelivered 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 mot get their papers promptly. Every subscriber to the Daily Pioneer will receive notice about ten days be- tore 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 paid Six months, postage paid. One year, postage pald. The Woeekly Ploneer. Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. FPublished esvery Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.560 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. May 1. 1690 —First Colonial Congress met iz New York City. 1700-—John Dryden, famous Eng- lish poet, died. Born in 1631. 1707-—Legislative union of Scot- land with England. 1808—Charles IV of Spain abdi- cated in favor of Bonaparte. 1815—Georgetown College, found- ed in 1789, chartered as a university. 1845—Methodist Episcopal church, South, organized at Louisville. 1847—Cornerstone laid for the Smithsonian Institution in Washing- ton. 1862—Gen. Benjamin F. Butler took possession of New Orleans. 1888-—Lord Stanley of Preston ap- pointed govérnor-general of Canada. ' 1898-—American squadron under Commodore Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. THIS IS MY 52nd BIRTHDAY. Douglas ‘Tilden. Douglas Tilden, the well known sculptor, was born in Chico, Califor- nia, May 1, 1860. At an early age he lost his hearing as a result of scarlet fever. He was educated at the Cali- fornia State Institution for the Deaf and after his graduation in 1879 was an instructor in the institution for some years. He studied sculpture in New York and Paris and since 1888 has devoted himself to the art. From 1894 until 1900 he was professor of sculpture in the Mark Hopkins Art Institute of the University of Califor- nia. Among Mr. Tilden’s notable works are “The Baseball Player,” in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; “The Bear Hunt,” ich attracted much attention at the Chicago world’s fair; “The Football Players,” owned by the University of California, and memorials to Spanish-American war veterans in San Francisco and Port- land, Ore. Congratulations to: His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, governor-general of Can- ada, sixty-two years old today. James McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, sixty-four years old today. James Ford Rhodes, American his- torian, sixty-four years old today. Rt. Rev. Thomas 0’Gorman, Roman Catholic bishop of Sioux Falls, sixty- nine years old today. THE IDLER. If you are not first and foremost a man, and accuse the community or the world of a conspiracy to defeat your success, you are a mere pigmy and will not win your fight in the race of life, because you are not Dpreparing yourself for the job. During a period of five months four young men, who take a train each day to their work, have never exchanged a single important idea. Their time on the train each morning is spent in discussing the most trifling frivol- ties, incidents of no importance or concern, most of which should never have taken place. . Thest young men, each of them un- der the age of thirty, are preparing themselves for the “Ancient and Hon- orable Order of Failures.” These young men have no concern about the more serious purpose of life. The ideas of great men do not interest them. Subjects which improve the mind are to them of no concern. They are preparing themselves for nothing except “leisure.” The only thing of importance is six o’clock and the pay envelope. These young men, like thousands of others of their kind, are drawing a shadow over their eyes to shut out the light of their future opportuni- ties. They are blind to the things of great concern and do not understand or attempt to know the meaning of the higher type of individual. The wasted days, months and years of these young men have written the story in their own makeuap. It is evi- dent in every movement and gesture. Their limitations have become physi- “cal, and they are, day by day, dis- tinguishing themselves as “pigmies” “in the race of life. Around billiard parlors and hotel lobbies we find this class, referred to They have little or no concern about the science of the game, yet they as- sume a degree of intense interest. The seats they occupy cost them noth ing; heat and light are furnished free, and there is always someone who has time to listen to what they have to say. These men—or loafers, as they are called—are beggars! They begs a place to sit; they beg the heat that keeps them warm—and the man who has once become a beggar has robbed himself of all positiveness and force, and can never become an emphatic personality. These men always have “prospects.” They are looking for a position and will have a “definite an- swer tomorrow.” The years pass ou, as they always do, and these char- acters come listlessly around with the same old story—but each day appear, again with “prospects,” ever and al- ways. The act of going out and “nailing something down” before the week’s end is a thing undreamed. It' is not a part of their plan, or their scheme. In the evening of lite these men get in the way of others who are do-, ing useful work, ask silly and child- ish questions, assume an air of im- pertance, talk learnedly on subjects of which they know nothing, borrow a little money now and then, and consume the time of others in ex- plaining how they have been op- pressed and why they have never had an opportunity. & These men have no enemies, no particylar friends. They have nev- er done anything in particular and have no particular ideas. They coa- sume: the same amount of air that useful men require, talk considerablv 'more, eat equally as mucn, are always conspicuous about public places, and are the most prominent figures at fires, street fights and labor parades. These men are always busy; they haven’t time to read; they haven’t time to study or to think—they ave so “busily employed” that they haven’t the time to kecp themselves informed on any important thing: As the days pass on, these men are more and more convinced that ‘thair failure is the result of a world-wide conspiracy, when in reality the trom- ble has been that of every man who always intends to but mnever gefs around to it. 1f you are not first and foremost a man and accuse the community of a vast conspiracy of jealousy, you are a mere pigmy, a sponge, and you have not won your fight because you have failed to fit yourself to the job. —Efficiency. Jones—So your son is now going td college, eh? Smith—Yes; he finally located one where they would not allow the #tudies to interfere with athletics. Experience Gained While In the Drug Business I have been troubled more or less in.the last five years with kidney trouble and from the experience I and from different cases where I have sold Swamp-Root with perfect satis- faction to those who purchased it, and I never had a single complaiut regarding the medicine while I was in business, I was in a position to know that it was a great preparation and it did not fail me when I used it myself. It has certainly afforded me great relief at all times that my kid- neys have troubled me and I would not be without it. I always recom- mend Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp . Root to my friends as I believe it ‘to be a medicine of great curative value in the diseases for which you recom- mend it. Sincerely, D. A. KOONCE, C olumbia, Ala. Personally appeared before me, this 13th of September, 1909, D. A. statement and made oath that fthe same-is true in substance and in fac:. C. T. HARRIS, Notary Public. Prove .What Swamp-Root will Do For Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing- hamton, N. Y., for a sample bot'le. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable in formation, telling all about the kid- as ‘loafers.” Peculiar, as it may seem, these men_seldom, if eyer, ac- tually engage in a game of billiards. neys and bladder.” When writing, be sure and mention the Bemidji Daiiy Pioneer. Regular fifty-cent and one dollar hottles for sale at all drug stores, gained while in the drug business|’ Koonce, who subscribed the above|. Che Of THE DEVILS FOOT (Continued from Yesterday). * Sterndale mopped his forehead with his handkerchief. “Upon my word, you are getting on,” said he. -“Do all your successes depend upon this pro- digious power of bluff?” “The bluff,” sald Holmes, sternly, A Thick Black Cloud Swirled Before My Eyes, . “4s upon your side, Dr. Leon Stern- dale, and not upon mine. As a probf I will tell you some of the facts upon which my conclusions are based. Of your return to Plymouth, allowing much of your property to go on-to Africa, I will sax nothing save that it first informed me that you were one of the factors whi¢h had to be taken into account in reconstructing ' this drama.” “I came back—" “I ‘have heard your reasons and re- gard them as unconvincing and inade- quate. We will pass that. You came down here to ask me whom I suspect- ed. I refused to answer you. You then went to the vicarage, waited out-. gide it for some time, and finally re- turned to your cottage.” “How do you know that?” “I followed you.” “I saw no one.” “That is what you may expect to pee when I follow you. You spent a restless night at your cottage, and you. formed certain plans, which In the early morning you proceeded tq but into execution. Leaving your doon Just as day was breaking, you filled your pocket with some reddish gravel ‘Wwhich was lying beside your gate.” Sterndale gave a violent start and looked at Holmes in amazement. “You then walked swiftly for the mile which separated you from the Vicarage. You were wearing, I may remark, the same pair of ribbed ten- nis shoes which are at the present moment upon your feet. At the vicar- age you passed through the orchard and the side hedge, coming out under the window of the lodger, Tregennis, It was mow daylight, but the house- hold was not yet stirring. You drew some of the gravel from your pocket, and you threw it up at the window above you—" ' Sterndale sprang to his feet. “I believe that you are the devil himself!” he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment. “It took two, or possibly three, hand- fuls before the lodger came to the window. You beckoned him to come down. He dressed hurriedly and de- scended to his sitting-room. You en- tered by the window. There was an interview—a short one—during which you walked up and down the room. Then you passed out and closed the. window, standing on the lawn out- side smoking a cigar and watching what occurred. Finally, after the death of Tregennis, you withdrew’ as you had come. Now, Dr, Sterndale, how do you justify such conduct, and what were the motives of your ac- tions? If you prevaricate or trifle ‘with me, I give you my assurance that the matter will pass out of my hands forever.” Our visitor's face had turned ashen gray as he listened to the words of his. accuser. Now he sat for. some time in thought with his face sunk in his hands. Then, with a sudden im- pulsive gesture, he plucked a photo- threw it on the rustic table before us. “That is why I have done it,” said he. 3 It showed the bust and face of a very beautiful woman. Holmes stooped over it. “Brenda Tregennis,” said he. “Yes, Brenda Tregennis,” repeated our visitor. “For years I have loved her. For years she has loved me. That is the secret of that Cornish se- clusion which people have marveled at. It has brought me close to the one thing on earth that was dear to me. I could not marry her, for I have & wife who has left, me for years, and yet whom, by the deplorable laws of England, I could not divorce. For years I waited. And this is what we have waited for.” A terrible sob shook his great frame, and he clutched his throat under his brindle ‘beard. Thep with an effort he mastered him- self and spoke on. 8 “The vicar knew. He was in our confidence. . He would tell you that she was an angel upon earth. That was why he telegraphed to meé and I returned. What was my baggage or Africa to me when I learned that such e fate had come upon my darling? There you have.the missing clew to'| my action, Mr. Holmes.” “Proceed,” said my friend.: i Dr. Sterndale drew from his pocke & paper packet and laid it upon the table. On the outside was written, “Radix pedis diaboli,” with.4 red pol- son_label beneath it. He pushed. towards me: “I understand - that you are a doctor, sir.’ Have you ever , heard of (his preparationt” graph from his breast pocket and |. THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ° “Devil's-foot Toot! No, I have never heard of it.” B “It 18 no. reflection upon your pro- fesslonal knowledge,” said he, “for I believe that, save for one sample in a lgboratory at Buda, there is no other specimen in Europe. It has not yet found its way elther into the pharmacopela or into the literature of toxicology. The root is shaped like a foot, half human, half goatlike; hence the fanciful name given by a botanical' missionary. It is used -as an ordeal poison by the medicine-men In certain districts of West Africa, end is kept a secret among them This particular specimen I'obtained | under ' very extraordinary circum- stances in the Ubanghi country.” He opened ths paper as he spoke, and disclosed a heap of reddish-brown, snuff-like powder. “Well, sir?” said Holmes, sternly. “I am about to tell you, Mr. Holmes, sll that actually occurred, for you al- ready know so much that it 18 clearly to my interest ‘that you should know 8lL . I heve already explained the re- Jlationship in which T stood to the Tre- ‘gennis family. For the sake of the sister I was friendly with the broth- ers. Theré was a family quarret about money which estranged this man Mortimer, but it was supposed to be made up; and I afterwards met him as I did the others. He Was a sly, subtle, scheming man, and several things arose which gave me a suspl- cion of him, but I had no cause for any positive quarrel. “One day, only a couple of weeks g0, he came.down to my cottage and I showed him some of my African cu- riosities. Among other things, I ex- hibited this powder, and I told him of its strange properties, how it stim- ulates those brain centers which con- trol the emotion of fear, and how either madness or death is the fate of the unhappy native who is subjected to the ordeal by the priest of his tribe. I told him also how powerless European science would be to detect it. How he took it T cannot say, for I never left the room, but-there is no doubt that it was then, while I Was opening cabinets and stooping to boxes, that he managed to abstract some of the .devil's-foot root. I well remember how he plied me with ques- tions as to the amount and the time that was needed for its effect, but I little dreamed that he could have a Dersonal reason for asking. “I thought no more' of the matter until the vicar's telegram reached me at Plymouth. This villain had thought that I would be at sea before the news could reach me, and that I should be lost for years.in Africa. But I re- turned at once. Of course, I could not listen to the details without feel- ing assured that my poison had been used. I came round to see you on the chance that some other explanation had suggested itself to you. But there could be none. I was convinced that Mortimer Tregennis was the mur- derer; that for the sake of money, and with the idea, perhaps, that i the other members of his:family were all insane he would be the sole guardian jof their joint property, he had used the devil'sfoot powder upon them, driven two of them out of their senses, and killed his sister Brenda, the one human' being whom I have ever loved or who has ever loved me. There was his crime; what was to be his punish- ment? -~ “Should I appeal to the law? Where ‘Wwere my proofs? ' I knew that the facts were true, but could I help to make a juwy of countrymen believe 8o fantastic a story? I might or I might not. But I could not afford to fail. My soul cried out for revenge. 1 have said to you once before, Mr, “You Sent for Me, Mr. H_olmn." Holmes, that T have &pent much of .my life_outside the law, and that I ‘have come ‘at last to be a law to my- self. So it was mow. I.determined that the fate which he had. given to others should be shared by himeelf. Either that, or T would do justiée upon him with my own hand. In'all Eng- land. there can be no man who'sets less ‘value upon his own life than I do at the present moment. “Now I have told you all. You have yourself supplied the rest. I did, as you say, after a restless night, set off early from my cottage. I foresaw the difficulty of arousing him, so I gath- ered some gravel from the pile which you' have mentioned, and I used it to throw up to his window. He came down' and admitted me. through the window of the sitting-room. I laid his offense before him. I told him I had come both as judge and-executioner. The wretch sank into a chair para- lyzed at the sight of my revolver. I lit the lamp, put the powder above it, and stood outside the window, ready to carry out my threat to shoot him should e try to leave the room. In five minutes he died: My God! how he died! But my heart was flint, for he endured: nothing which my. nno- cent darling-had not felt before him. | There is'my story, Mr. Holmes. Per- ‘haps, it you loved a woman, you would have done a8 much yourself. At any rate, I am in your hands. You can take what steps yon like. -As 1 have MAKES HOME Light Biscuit Delicious Cake Dainty Pastries Fine Puddings Flaky Crusts The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape:Cream of Tartar BAKING EASY who can Tear Qeath less than I do* Holmes sat for some time in silence, “What were your plans?” he asked, at last. “I had intended to bury myself in Central Africa. My work there is but half finished.” “Go and do the other half,” said Holmes. “I, at least, am not prepared to prevent you.” Dr. Sterndale raised his giant fig- ure, bowed" gravely, and walked from the arbor. Holmes lit his pipe and handed me his pouch. “Some fumes which are not poison- ous would be a welcome change,” said he. “I think you must agree, Watson, | that it is not a case in which we are called upon to interfere. Our investi- gation has been independent, and our action shall be also. You would not denounce the man?” “Certainly not,” I answered. “I have never loved, Watson, but if I did, and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows? Well, Watson, I will not of- fend your intelligence by explaining what s obvious. The gravel under the' window-sill was, of course, the starting point of my research. It was unlike anything in the vicarage gar- gen. Only when my attention had been- drawn to Dr. Sterndale and his cottage did I find its counterpart. The Jamp shining in broad daylight and the remains of powder upon the shield were successive links in a fair-| 1y obvious chain. AnY now, my dear Watson, I think we may dismiss the matter from our minds, and go back with a clear conscience to the study of those €haldean roots which are surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech,” Conscience Fund Increased. The. conscience fund of the ®nited: Btates treasury has been increased by the sum of $200. A letter and draft: for the money were forwarded to Sec retary of the Treasury MacVeagh ny Rev. Charles W. Chantwood' of Fee- leysville, Ind. It seems that some. old soldler ef that vicinity ‘swiped: a big mule some time during the wan, and his conscience has been hurting hjm ever since. He concluded: to. get rid of his uneasy conscience and, valuing the mule at $200, confided fw bis pas- tor, who sent ‘the money im with-this same explanation. The Bame of the donor is not known and rever will be. Easy Enough. Mearks—So you think Miss Bloom {s both pretty and intellectual? Huh! You ean’t make anyone belfeve that. Parks—Can’t 1? 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Corntossel. “He has made one office last him nearly a lifetime.” | TRY A WANT AD I AM THE A purse is lost; I CHASER for the old. it to me. watchmen—all kinds to keep payday alive. How my work is never tire of praising He made $600.00 less 1 am content to dress I haven’t always Yet how could I help _customers, they feel I live that others may be happy and prosperous, Every day I carry hundreds of messages to many thousands of men and women. Never was there such a busy work er, such a tireless worker, as L. A home is without a maid, a maid is without a place; I bring them together. New furniture is bought; IFIND A PUR- 1 emptied to the housewife’s profit. - Is there laundering, scrubbing, whnte—v washing, painting, sodding, to be done? leave One man has a house for sale; another is‘looking for a home. and lo, the house changes hands. Bookkeepers, salemen, Merchant and manufacturers call me, saying: “I want such and such help.” In the morning they have only to choose. faithful; yet I make no promises. I simply do the best I can, for one and all. And how cheaply I work. second hand automobiles at the cost of a gallon of gasoline. A man bought a piece of property, one day; the next he sent me out to sell it; the next, the deed was recorded. ‘wonder I am popular? ' And isn’tit a wonder every day semebody telephopes, calling me off the jpb, saying I have done enough. -~ am now: Oh, dear, no! There was a time when I had very few opportunities to exercise -my talents. I remember how good I felt ‘when I first filled a half column. Everyone in the office talked about it. But now! Well, you can see for yourself how. I have grown. all the time doing such wenderful things? I am still growing. The doctor says it is because my circulation is so good. Iam glad of°it. I want to become more and more use- ful to the people of this beautiful city. If there are any whom I haven't served, I pre- sent my most respectful compliments and solicit a test of my powers. - As for my. old _jcan’t get along without me. » WANT AD restore it. How many attics have They consult me, stenographers. of workers—look to me appreciated. People me. I'am so swift, so I have sold my fee of 30c. Isit any in six-point type? Why been as imporant as I growing, when I was of courge that they: