Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 25, 1912, Page 8

8 COST THE LEOPARD HIS LIFE Baboons Had Revenge for the Seizure of One of Their Number, Though Many Were Sacrificed. -The leopard likes the meat of cen tain monkeys, but the indulgence of his taste sometimes costs him @ear. A remarkable battle between a leop- ard and a company of baboons, seen| by a traveler in Africa, is described in Das Buch fur Alle. 1 was sitting in the shade of a ra: vine, resting from the midday sun, when a company of baboons came clambering down the opposite wall to- ,ward the water that trickled through. the gully. I sat still and watched | them. A big male led. and after satis.| fying himself that all was safe, ut tered a few deep notes. Reassured by°the call, the others quickly followed; a mother, with an ever-watchful eye on her two young ones, brought up the rear. Suddenly, like a streak of lightning, & leopard sprang from behind a rock, and with one blow of his paw, felled the little baboon nearest him. But be- fore he could make off with his prey, the furious mother attacked him. The attack had come so quickly that the rest of the company hardly realized what had happened. But at the moth. er’s cry of rage they all at once turned and fell upon the robber. In a moment the leopard was sur- rounded and almost covered with fun fous baboons. The battle waxed hot, Although numbers of baboons went down before the powerful paws of the cat, their places were immediately filled by others. It was not long be- fore the leopard began to tire; hel could make no noticeable impression upon his assailants, and his strength ‘was sapped by their sharp teeth. Ha struggled bravely, but in vain; slowly the sank out of sight beneath the flercely chattering foe that -he had idespised. The baby baboon was lavenged.—Youth’s Companion. 'WORLD OF HIS OWN CREATION o Great French Writer In His Absent. Mindedness Lived Far Apart From His Fellow Men. { A writer in the St. James Gazette telis us that Theophile Gautier’s ab- sent-mindedness amounted to actual|/ somnambulism. He so identified him- self with his mental pictures as to lose all conscicusness of time and place, and for the time he would actu- ally live in the scene that he had cre- ated. We are told that rarely, if ever, has a man had such a gift for getting out of himself. He would enlarge on his magnificent golden tea and break- fast service, when the most humdrum china lined his shelves. And though his servants were all treated in the most_fatherly way, Gautier would ‘ell you that he never permitted them to utter a word in his presence, that he only employed negroes. “I give my orders by signs. If they understand my signs, well and good. If they don’t, T kick them into the Bosphorus.” And there is no doubt that he actually heard the wave closing over the head of a black slave. He actually meant what he said. The street outside was actually for him the Bosphorus. Doctor of Agriculture. The time is coming when every ural community of sufficient size will have one or more agricultural experts ~—men professionally trained to serve fn an advisory way all the farmers of the community for a fee. These men wili understand the chemistry of the soil and plant growth; their laboratories will be busy with seil analysis and the study of local plant diseases; they will be entomologists and bacteriologists, and their value will be obvious to the en- ightened farmers of a new age. These farmers, no longer conteat to depend on the free clinic of the state pxperiment station, will seek the ad- vice and prescription of the local doc- tor of agriculture. The dignity and fhe rewards of this profession are ound to increase, for it is founded up- n the basis of our greatest industry. —World’s Work. Women Run French Town. Foisay, a small town halfway be- tween Paris and Amiens, in France, Is said to be the only civilized com- munity in which the municipal affairs pre entirely in the hands of women. The mayor is a woman, and so is the puperintendent of the railway station, the switchman, the mail carrier and the town barber. Mme. Leseboro is the telegraph messenger and Mme. Druhou-Marchardin is the drummer whose duty it is to announce each proclamation of the mayor. Mme. Druhou-Marchardin is described as an octogenarian who has held her post through wind and rain for upward of twenty years. The letter carrier, Mme. Doubour, has held her office for mora than ten years and goes about with her letters regardless of the weather. Married in Mourning. Six couples dressed in mourning came to the garrison church at Pots+ dam recently to be married. They are known as the “Louise bridal pairs,” for every year these funeral weddings are celebrated at 9 o’clock on the anniversary of the day and the hour the good Queen Louise died. In the year of her death a Lutheran bish- op left a sum of money, the interest of which was to be divided between couples married on its anniversary, and the directions he left for the ceremony are still observed. This year each couple received the accept- able sum of $110 in return for their sacrifice of the bridal finery. fHE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEEK WHAT GOTHAM GETS IN TIPS Petty Graft of New Yorkers, It Is Cal- culated, Amounts to Over $100,000,000 Yearly. There are on an average 300,000 visitors the day in New York. Often there are many more, seldom any less. Most of the visitors are there on pleasure bent, or are passing | through on pleasure bent in othey places. Even those who go to Many hattan on business decide in favor of the “combination cocktail,” meaning a mixture of business and fun. Every visitor gives tips, whether he stays At a hotel or not. If he visits friends {he tips their servants. The tips given by the average person of means amounts to much more than $2 the day. Few tip less than 50 cents the day, It is a low estimate to put a dollar as the average amount given pway every day in tips by every vis. ftor to the great city. That means $300,000 the. day in tips alone, not in- cluding tips given by New Yorkers themselves. That is about $9,000,000 year of 365 days. Through this petty tipping graft alone more than $100, 000,000 the year are pald by the rest of the country for the upkeep of the metropolis. We are not complaining, comments a Charleston newspaper. We are not suggesting a remedy. We merely eall attention to the matter that some may grieve over it and oth. ers may laugh, though those who laugh are not by any means the ones tributions. Abnormal Weather Is Believed the Cause of Hurried Departure for Southern Climes. A wonderful concourse of swifts was seen a few days ago over a Hemtford: shire cemmon. Some of the birds wera at a great height and were playing the almost ecstatic game of flight in company, which is the prelude to mi gration. The birds are leaving England be fore their time. Many of the doves ere already gone. The question arises why these birds and the restless swallows and martins are thus put ting forward their date of departure. The flight from England is doubt less being hurried by the abnormal weather. The dove, which 18 one of the first to leave, would have nowherq to set its feet iw East Anglia, and the corncrakes are flooded out. In such conditions the dove’s premature at: tention to the call of the Caucasus and the desire of the swallow tribe for | the further shore of the Medlterranean are due to the inhospitality of Eng land—its cold and the disappearance of insect food.—London Mail, ment. He is authority. Come and hear him. you should hear him. Socialism you must know what Socialism is. not oppose anything scientifically unless you understand m style. it. It is a worthless task to argue against Socialism un- less you know at least the primary principles. Come and Hear Morgan If he is elected will be our next Governor | REV. DAVID P. MORGAN of St. Paul CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR SPEAKS IN THE CITY HALL TONIGHT AT 8 P. M. One of the greatest speakers in the Socialist move- If you are against Socialism If you intend The Lecture Will Be Free Ladies Are Specially Invited to work against You can- the month, or $109,500,000 for the full | who have recently made their ron- ! BIRDS QUIT ENGLAND EARLY FIDAY, OCTOBER 25 1912 Copysight Hart Schaffner & Marx Fel-llow Citizensl! TODAY we are called upon to decide a most momentous and vital question, one which effects our pocketbooks; one which has a direct relation to the high cost of living; one which has a direct bearing on our good appearance, and on our success in life. My fellow citizens, if is no other than the question of what clothes shall we buy this fall; and I call upon you all to declare, with me, that you will support with your sacred suffrages art Schaffner 899 Marx fine suits and overcoats the best clothes ever made; all wool, sound tailoring, correct Loud cheers from the crowd, and many voices shouting, “We will;” “Hurrah for Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes;” “$18 to $35 is all right;” “Three cheers for / Money Cheerfully Refunded Honey Cheerfully Refunded BEN SCHNEIDER, Pres. BEMIDJI, MINN. CHAS. COMINSKY, Secy. and Treas.