Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 27, 1912, Page 3

'WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1912 BLIND SPOT IN EVERY EYE| ¥ is Located Just at the Point Where the Optic Nerve Cen- ters. # In every eye there is a little spet that is totafly blind. Young eyes, old eyes, sharp eyes, dull eyes, blue, brown or black eyes—all of them, even the most perfect, have, in each petina, a little round spot which is wholly blind both to brightness and oolor. This spot is located just at the point where the optic nerve centers, and is approximately one-twelfth of en inch wide. Several interesting ex- periments can be made to prove the presence of this blind spot. For ex- smple, cover the right eye with the bhand or a bandage and gaze with the left steadily at a point on the wall or screen about seven feet distant. Let| another person be seated against thefi wall on your left-hand side, in such & position that his forehead is on a| level with the point at which you are gazing, and his nearer cheek about | twenty inches distant from it. Do not turn your eyeball, but gaze steadily as at first, and his face will entirely disappear, and the wall will seem to be perfectly blank. If you spread a sheet of paper on the wall and note the points at which a pencil moved back and forth by another person ap- pears and disappears, you will be able to make an accyrate map of the blind spot as projected on the wall. An- other experiment is performed by painting nine large letters in three; vertjcal columns of three letters each, upon a sheet of paper at such a dis- tance and in such a position before the eye that the central letter of the eguare falls within the blind spot, while the surrounding eight letters are still visible—Christian Herald. BUSKIN A GREAT TEACHER Knew How to Lead the Child, Youth and Mature Man and Woman. ‘What a teacher Ruskin was! He gave himself to th‘ose who came, en- tering keenly into the young delight In the perception of new truths and besuty, knowing how to take the learner step by step as he saw the way ahead. He charmed all with his Inimitable style even when he spoke 18 the humblest in the guild of St. George. To the sensitive, impressionable mature of childhood he came with a flood of artistic criticism that made us yearn to draw and paint, to depict the delicate tracery of tree stems or catch the varied tints of mountain, lake, or cloud; while his scorn for careless unconscientious artwork dreve us to strive for the best. ! To the growing youth he brought such a keen perception of moral beau- ty as made us desire to realize some noble ideal in life, to enter seriously some pursuit with a pure love of do- ing beautiful work; while his con- tempt for machine-made articles of poor finish taught us to value those noble craftsmen of all ages who took Infinite pains with all that was worth doing. To our ripening manhood and wom- anhood he opened the ideals of unsel- fish life, where all might let their hearts delight in the labor of their %ands and none should toil with suf- fering for a miserable pittance; whila his pmophetic denunciations of the bideous conditions prevailing in our large manufacturing districts made us earnestly seek to probe these sores and find their cure.—Theosoph- fcal Path. THE - CUB REPORTER SCOO ‘AS DOMESTIC SCIENKE EDITOR - T™ PUBLISHING SOME RECWPES TO HELP REDUCE THE COST OF LIViNG - ToDAY T GIWE a FEw B SENSIBLE HINTS ON CHEAP Soup | 3 Nou SEE LPTo THE PRESENT TWE , DisH WATER} HAS BEENVERY )P MAKE sove? (. et a ) aemEl ) | A Thanksgiving Though Barker's Drug and Jewelry Store Third Street vOL . Wallace Silver plate that resists wear are most welcome, because of their beautiful and dainty designs and unequaled guarantee. Every piece not giving satisfactory service in any household will be replaced. Bemidji, Minn. You will get plenty of them at Christmas time; but what about Thanksgiving. It may be barely possible too that you'll need knives and forks to complete the fresh- ness of your tasty dining table. Let us help you make selec- - tions tomorrow. There’s a charm in choosing choicesilver- ware at Who’s Going to Carve that Turkey? Well, father wants to be equipped with a carving set that will do the work without labor. know that we can recomend 1835 R. WALLACE Silver plate to you. This ware is not expensive, We'll you’ll find when you come to price it. touch your pocket book lightly. -BEING A MAN OF RARE INTELLECT-T WIT UPON THE \DEA OF MAviNG— We T EEEEEE—————— Weaith Derived From Tourists. Were it not for the travel and resi- dent foreign population attracted by religious interest, and the extensive charitable and other contributions which flow to it from all over the world, Jerusalem, with a population of 80,000, would be of very small impor- tance commercially. Fully two-thirds of its population consists of non-pro- ducers, who are supported from sbroad. NOSE STOPPED UP WITH GATARRH A Common Sense Treatment for Coldsl‘ and Catarrh, Gives Instant Relief. No matter how miserable you are| with catarrh or a cold in the head, nese stopped up, throat sore, eyes run- | ning, dull pain in the head, dry congh, fever, foul breath, Ely’s Cream Balm will give you instant relief. It gets right at the root of the trou-| ble, cleanses, heals and strengthens the raw, sore membranes, stops the nasty discharge so that you are not constantly blowing the nose and spit- ting. In a few minutes after applied yeu can just feel it doing its work} of clearing the head, the pain and soreness are relieved, the breathing becomes natural and the stuffed up | feeling is gone. This cleansing, heal- ing, antissptic Balm contains no mer- v, cocaine or other harmful drugs. easy to apply, pleasant to use, | TSt cases. { er neglect a cold, and don’t suf- er the miseries of catarrh nor dis- t your friends with your hawking, | i & good friend; and he might have rea- | of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. g and foul breath. Get a 50- t bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm from | vour druggist, and start the treat- | nent at once. You will find that it will be the best investment you ever | made.—Adv. ! LUOKING TOWARD OLD AGE\flealer in rare books, discovered thé ! i Bome Reflections as to a Record That i Comes to the Majority of ! Mankind. —_— i Whether long life be a blessing or | not God alone can determine, who alone knows what length it is like to | run, and how it is like to be attended. | Bocrates used to say that it was pleas- | ant to grow old with good health and soned, a man may be content to live | while he is no trouble to himself or | friends; but after that, it is hard if | he be not content to die. | In life, a8 in wine, he that willi drink it good, must not draw it to| the dregs. Where this happens, one | gomfort of age may be, that whereas" Younger men are usually in pain | whenever they are not in pleasure,1 pld men find a sort of pleasure when- | ever they are out of pain: and as| young men often lose or impair their i present enjoyments by craving after | what is to come, by vain hopes or | fruitless fears, so old men relieve the wants of their age by pleasing re- flections upon what is past. Therefore, men in the health and wigor of their lives should endeavor to fill their lives with reading, with travel, with the best conversation, and the worthiest actions, either in public or private station; that they may have something agreeable left to feed on when they are old, by pleasing remembrances. RATS SETTLE AN OLD SCORE In Numbers They Mutilate a Vellum | Copy of Browning’s “Pied Piper | of Hamelin.” i | Rats invaded Wall street a fewi nights ago and made a vicious as-| sault upon Robert Browning’s poemE In that poem, it will be remembered, the rats| do not have a very good reputation.i So far as known, this is the first case | of retaliation by the rats against| Browning for the hard things he ac- cused them of. George D. Smith, a evidences of the fray early one morn- dng. The particular volume of the Pied Piper upon which the rats vent- ed their spite was an unusually hand- 'some copy printed on vellum and il lustrated with quaint views of the P per and the army of rats in his wake wending their way to the river. The illustrations and decorated borders were by Harry Quilter, and the book was printed in London in 1898. It is | not a rare book, but is a choice edi- | tion of the “Pied Piper,” and very few have ever been printed on vellum. The volume was on a shelf with some other vellum books in Mr. Smith’'s shop. All edges of the book from top to bottom were nibbled down close to the printed text and it is a curious fact that one or two falls of the rats in the decorated borders have been eaten off. Polite for the Pastor’s Benefit. Little Mary was not especially noted for her table manners so that on sev- eral occasions she had dined on the kitchen cabinet when there was com- pany in the house. But the dinner prepared for the new minister was entirely too tempting to be passed over lightly, so she resorted to all kinds of promises for the privilege of coming to the table. True to her word, Mary was on her very best behavior, but she did so want a second piece of cake and the plate was over by the minister, entire- Iy out of her reach. After giving the matter considerable thought she fold- | ed her hands meekly and exclaimed: “Mr. Blair, please pass the cake for Jesus’ sake!”—Kansas City Star. Don’t Sleep in Cutaways. A fat man got aboard the cars and squeezed into an empty seat next to a sleepy man wearing a long-tailed cut away. Then in a few minutes the drowsy man opened his eyes, looked out of the window and saw the cars ‘were stopping at his station, so he un | with a jump and just about tore of | the half of the skirt of his cutaway op ! which the fat man was sitting. Cannibals. Some one has recently written g book about cannibals. It seems tha{ cannibals still are! Enough of them ta write a book about! It must be un | pleasant to be a cannibal, and still i more unpleasant to be eaten by one! | And yet they tell us that in large seo | tions of Africa and still larger sec i tions of South America the custom of | eating one's friends and relations, not to mention one’s enemies, is general, 1 There are certain points of etiquette ! to be observed, such as not eating ne's mother before a certain time i after her death, or one's children, ex cept as a religious celebration. Bul | in general the lid is off. Go as far as you like! Eat anybody who will be eaten! Or who won't be! | Instinct. | Where the river winds through | grassy meadows, as sure as the south | wind brings the rain, sounding his note in the reedy alders, the starling comes back to his nest again. Are these not miracles? Promptly you answer: “Merely the prose of natural fact; nothing but instinct plain and patent, born in the creatures, that bids them act.”” Well, I have an instinct as fine and valid, surely, as that of the beasts and birds, concerning death { and the life immortal, too deep for logle, too vague for words. No trace of beauty can pass or perish, but other beauty is somewhere born; na seed of truth or good be planted, but | the yleld must grow as the growing corn.—Bliss Carmen. | “There could be no better medicine {than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. [My children were all sick with whooping cough. One of them was| in bed, had a high fever and was coughing up blood. Our doctor gave them Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy iand the first dose eased them, and tnree bottles cured them, says Mrs. R. A. Donaldson, of Lexington, ] Adv. iFor sale by Barker’s Drug Store.—< | THE SPALDING EUROPEAN PLAN Duluth’s Largest and Best Hotel DULUTH MINNESOTA More than $100,000.00 recently expended on {mprovements. 250 rooms, 12 private baths, 60 sample rooms. Every modern convepience: Luxurious and delighttul restaurants and buffet, Flemish Palm Room, Men's Grill, Colonial Buffet; Magnificent lobby and public rooms; Ballroom, banquet rooms and private dining rooms; Sun parlor and observa- tory. Located in heart of business sec- tion but overlooking tte harbor and Lake Buperior. Convenient to everything. Ba0 of the Great Hetels of the Nerth A The RICH, APPETIZING and HEALTH BUILDING Breakfast Food Made from the heart of the Rye, which tests prove contains mare energy and wvitality producing proper- ‘ties than any other food. Have you asked your grocer for your package? - Minneapolis Cereal Company, Mi;:néainlis Try a2 Want Ad 12 Cent a Word---Cash Who Sells It ? Here they are all in a row. They sell it because it's the best nickel pencil on the market today and will be for many days to come. The Bemidji Pencil stands alone in the Jfive| fcent world. It issold on your money back basis. A store on every street and in surrounding cities. Here They Are: CGarlson’s Variety Store Barkor’s Drug and Jew- elry Store W. G. Schroeder 0. C. Rood & Co. E. F. Netzer’s Pharmacy Wm. McCuaig J. P. Omich’s Cligar Store Roe & Markusen F. @. Troopman & Co. L. Abercrombie The Fair Store Mrs. E. L. Woads Chippewa Trading Store Red Lake Bemidji Pionser Suoply Store Retailers will receive immediate shipments in gross (more or less) by calling Phone 31, or addressing the Bemidji Pioneer Supply Store, Bemidj, Minn. Ry e | |