Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 9, 1912, Page 7

i s ey 3 FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1912. THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER TOUCHED TENDER SPOT APPEAL IN HEN'S EYES TOO MUCH FOR “NIMROD.” |Consequently Destructive Bird, Held | In Honor as a Gift, Continues to Make Barren Waste of Doc- tor's Garden. One of the doctor’s patients s an Jtalian who speaks English imperfects | Iy, and is, besides, very poor. The dooqi tor became 1nterested in him at a hos- pital clinic, where he treated him for | pome time. When quite restored to| health, the Italian, full of gratitude end affection, desired to make some return for the kindness that had been | ghown him, and after much consider- | etion decided to present his benetactnr with one of his most valuable assets, B large white hen which he was fata tening with a view to a feast for him- iself and family later on. So one morning he arrived at she doctor's of- fice with this offering in his arms and pat humbly waiting his turn among the other patlents, “Well, Joseph, is your hen sick?” psked the doctor Jocosely, when Joseph finally was shown into the private Ct_llfli. “Seek-a!” exclaimed Joseph. “No, ser, heem-a no seek-a. I brought-a heem to you. I want gev-a heem to you. You ke-a me well. You treat-a me kind. geva you de cheek. I havea no more. I like-a you, please take-a,” end with tears of emotion in his eyes he thrust the struggling, squawking fowl into the hands of the physician, who, being a most tender-hearted mor tal, could not refuse a gift he knew was offered in a spirit of sincere de- votion. A few days later the doctor’s broth- #er, whose prowess as a hunter of big and lttle game had won for him among his friends the nickname of “Nimrod,” was visiting the doctor, gnd, happening to look out of the sanctum window into the yard, ob- gerved the hen cortentedly scratching up a bed of geraniums, the last bit of vegetation her actice claws had| fleft untouched in the inclosure. “Hello, Doc! Sincs when have you gone into the poultry business?” said he. Then the doctor explained. “The deuce of it is,” he concluded ruefully, “that the activities of that miserable bird have kept my yard luoking like & | i barren waste.” | “Kill her, why don't you?” said Nim- | vad. “Cut off her head.” | “Oh,” said the man of lancets and probes and surgical knives, “I couldn’t l do it; not in cold blood. Nimrod—not [ in cold blood.” “Pool,” returned Nimrod, “let me do ! it for you then. Just a clip on the | side of the head and it's over.” “All right, my boy, go and do it,” | said the brother. So the doctor closed the window and drew down the shade | and Nimrod departed on his murder- ous errand. Twenty minutes later he | returned. “Well?” queried the doctor, looking | up from his writing, “is it done?" | “No,” replied Nimrod. “Not done!” said the doctor. “And why not?” “Why, the darned bird looked at me with its round, silly eyes and I couldn’t do it,” confessed Nimrod, with a depre- catory smile. So Joseph's gift still clucks and scratches contentedly and the doce tor's yard continues to look like a barren waste—New York Press. Bird Store a Magnet. The bird store window is an unfail- ing attraction to manpy people. Per- hbaps it attracts men more than woms en, but it is a magnet that draws all children. Let the small boys discover a bird store and they halt and linger long, wondering over or admiring the strange or beautiful feathered crea- tures within, and children walking with their mothers, if they should spy this window, are sure to tug her toward it to give them a chance to Jook in. The bird store window interests all children, as it appears to interest also pany grown men who may be drawn to it by a natural fondness for birds and animals, or be attracted by the povel or striking character of the ex- hibit on view. Here, for instance, in this window fs & white peacock, a remarkable bird pean with its plumage in whatever form. As with characteristic deliber~ ation it walks about with its long tail feathers folded and trailing people gtop to look at it, and then let it raise pnd spread its great white fan and jmany more halt and gather in a crowd pround the window.—New York Sun. Well-Trained Cockatoo. “When seals were taught to do pricks balancing and to whirl flam- Ing torches, and ordinary barnyard pocks crowed a duet at the command of a trainer, we thought the highest point in that commercially valuable Hne of education had been reached,” pays a writer in a Berlin paper. “But s new ‘Airst place’ has been created for a grass-green cockatoo. This edu pated member of the parrot family (ldn a tiny bicycle at command and peems to enjoy the sport. He does pany tricks for which professional ders receive applause. The same col- tion of animal wonders’ contains a monster lion, which is shown in a page provided with a grand plano. A woman trainer enters, seats herself at the instrument and strikes a chord, pt which the lion leaps upon the nl:g' pnd glares at the planist. Then s, and the lion ro-r-inthnom SMALL BOY GOOD REASONER Present-Day Condlitions Applled to Biblical Incident Showed Power of Deduction. The Sunday schoeol class of an !n- dianapolis church, which was made up of small boys, was discussing Lot and how he came to be in Sodom. teacher told how Abram and Lot had | daclded to separate and take their ;flockg and servants in opposite direcs ‘tions and how Lot, probably in his elfishness, had taken what he regard- d as the best land, which lay in the direction of Sodom, which was after ward destroyed by fire. The teacher, : man, did not belleve in clothing the alk concerning bfblical characters in mystery or phrases that the small boys could not understand, but tried to make them realize that the men of The | i $18.5 ‘biblcal fimes were subject to the same conditions and influences as are yeople of today. “Now, boys,” he said, "Lot was not R real bad man. He didn’t plunge into || the wickedness of Sodom immediate- ly. After he left Abram he, no doul, lived with his family and servants in his tents far outside of the wicked eity of Sodom. Then he began to go to the city occasionally. Then he went oftener, until he came to believe that it was a good place to live in. When the city was destroyed the angels of the Lord led him out of the city. “Now, James,” said the teacher, “I want you tell me in your own way how you think Lot came to be i.n Sodom.” “He—he lived in the country at first,” replied James, “and didn’t come to town at all. Then he got to com- ing just once in a while—on—on Sat. Copyright Hart Schaffacr & Marx Now comes the big sale of the season Clearance of Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits Here’s the Layout urddy nights, when everybody got pald. And then he got to coming thrcugh the week, to the ball game, or things like that. And one day, maybe, he came home and said: ‘Well, I saw a nice vacant house in Sodom this aft- ernoon and I told the transfer man to come out tomorrow and get our stuff. “That’s the way I think Lot came to live in Sodom,” concluded James, as be gave a long sigh and sat down. No Perfection in Humanity, Practically no human being is per- fect. Even those that stand for splen- did health and development usually lack in some respect; and the rank and file of men all have some weak point. With one it is a heart not quite perfect, with another a lung, and so on. stock. All goods go to make room for new clothes. Composite Work. | Throughout the ten years of their existence the Leggitt twins had in- varlably shared Jjoys, clothes, and gifts of candy or toys. Apparently thelr mother, the brisk and capable guardlan of seven half-orphans, never thought of them separately. “What are you planning to do this afternoon, Martha?” asked a visiting aunt, who had witnessed a strenuous morning. “Rest, I hope.” ! “Rest!” said Mrs. Leggett, in a tone of scorn. “I guess not! “I've got to take the twins to the dentist to have that tooth out, and then to the oculist o get a pair of glasses fitted, and then to the shoemaker’s to see if he can stretch one of their boots so they can wear it without making such a fuss and saying it hurts every time they put it on.”—Youth’s Companion. Every season THE SPALDING EUROPEAN PLAN Duluth’s Largest and Best Hotel DULUTH MINNESOTA More than $100,000.00 recently expended on improvements. 250 ‘rooms, 1% private baths, 60 sample rooms. 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