Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 29, 1912, Page 3

o FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1912. 4 ... | CHINESE ARE POOR SOLDIERS Aversion to Being Ordered Is One of the Most Prominent Traits of an Oriental. The Chinese is a poor soldier. Not that he is lacking in courage, for on occasions he cheerfully sells himself a8 substitute and goes willingly to the executioner’s ax in order to pro- vide his parents with the small sum pecessary to suport them through life, writes H. H. Windsor in Popular Me- | chanics. The strength of an army is} In teamwork, and here-is where he | fails on account of his aversion to be- | Ing ordered. This is found in his do- | mestic and industrial work. A gener- el line of policy or desired results can | be laid down and he will faithfully | work in accordance therewith, but he ; dislikes to be followed up through the | details of the work with frequent or-, ders. He will produce excellent re- | sults—but they must be accomplished In his own way. Hence the essence of good militarlsm—prompt and un- questioned obedience—comes in di- | rect conflict with his nature, and makes him a poor soldier. However, this trait is not entirely wanting in other nationalities, as every business man knows to his sorrow, and the dif- ficulty of getting employes to do a thing in the prescribed way is one of the constant anxieties. WHO WANTS TO OCCUPY IT? English Hotels Seem to Have Queer Idea as to the Popularity of a Hearse. Some of the hotelkeepers “on the other side” have peculiar ways of ad- vertising their houses, and one of the most singular of these methods is the statement in tReir advertisements that the hotel is equipped with a | hearse! Inasmuch as the American hotelkeeper is only looking for “live ones,” it is not of record that hearses have been used as attractions in this country as yet. One of the English catering journals in speaking of this ! SCO0 | an unholy combination to be met with E THE CUB REPORTER TiL TAKE THIS wisH BONE 1N AND WiSH WITH THE B0SS— T CAN HOLD 1T S0 T WIN SURE. ! custom, recently said: ‘“We have on | several occasions commented upon | the uncanny mixing up of the funeral traffic business with hotel keeping— | in some northern parts of Ireland. Apropos, here is an enticing adver tisement from a Sligo paper calculat- | ed to bring quite a rush of guests anx- {ous to test the accommodation: ‘Mrs. ~——, proprietress of the —— hotel, begs to announce that she has added to her establishment a glass hearse.”” Steam for the Soil. For a year or two past certain grow- ers of tomatoes, cucumbers and simi- | lar vegetables for the London market have been injecting steam into the soil with a view to destroying insects and slugs. It is reported that the plan works very well for that purpose, but the operation brought to light an un- expected fact—namely, that the soil thus treated increased greatly in fer- tility; so greatly, indeed, that the ordi- nary amount of manure cannot be used afterward. This effect has been explained as be- ing due to the sterilization produced | by the steam, which kills the phago- HE S5 §aa e k0 e 2o e Scoop Gets His Wish--Where Baby Got The Hair Brush NOow TS VUNDER STO0D THAT THE. ONE THAT LOSES witL DO ALt N HIS Power To GRANT TUE wWiSH OF THE ONE THAT winNs ¢ circumstances keep down the number of bacteria in the soil whose opera- tions are beneficent in turning organic nitrogen into plant food.—Harper's Weekly. Force of Wabit. An attache at the statehouse has a nose which slightly turns to the left, and when asked why, replies it turns that way from force of habit. “Habit?” some one asked one day, “how can a nose have a habit?” “The nose didn’t,” was the reply, “but I did. 'When I was a boy my nose naturally turned to the right. It em- barrassed me and I was guyed about it | 80 much that I decided I would pull it straight. So I began to draw my left hand across it in the hope I could straighten it. The motion became a habit. I did it when in school, in church, and my mother said I did it when asleep. Before I could stop the habit I had the end of my nose pulled over to the other side, and I decided to let it stay that way.”—Indlanapolis News. Our Jall in China. | cytes or protozoa which in ordinary _ In the annual appropriation bill for T WIN-TwWmMN—AaNDd T WISHED ®oR Q TLL GWE You & RAISE - witu mx) @ v - semo the diplomatic and consular service of the United States there is included an {item for the actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai, China, for Amer- icans convicted in thé United States | court for China. In the statutes the i place of confinement in Shanghai 18 designated a “prison,” and as there is but one place provided it serves both as a penitentiary, and a jail. This prison consists of one small back room |in a private building, in the wall of which there is a hole through which the prisoner is supplied with food, the States consulate at Shanghal.—Har per's Weekly. Pretty Compliment. The Disraelis were visiting Strath- fieldsaye in the time of the old duke | of Wellington. Going up to the bed- room, Disraeli found his wife and her maid moving the bed from one side of the room to the other. When he in- quired the reason, his wife said: “Well, my dear, the duke sleeps on the other side of the wall, and if I lie against it I can boast that I have slept between the two greatest. men in England.”—San Francisco Argonaut. | Jailer being a clerk in the United | Too Much, | Albert Bigelow Paine, the biograph- | |er of Mark Twain, was talking to a |group of old newspaper cronies in New York. “Mark Twain loved the Germans,” ke said. derous German bull, which he con- pidered far superior to the bull of Ire- land. “¥le used to quote with approba- tion this bull from a Reichstag ora- tion: “‘To squeeze the juice out of a lem- on and then give it a kick—no, it is too much.’” | Thirteen-Inch Bore. A retired naval officer spent a week end at Magnolia, Mass, where he wearied a circle of newly made friends by his never ending prattle of colorless reminiscences. After he had retired for the night a judge advocate who had known him for some years remarked to the group: “We call him the 13-inch gun.” “Why?” asked a lady from Chi- Cago. “Well, madam, he is as big a bore | “He especially loved the pon- | 5 ss"iflas as we ever had in the navy.” ALLEN LINE Royal Mail Steamers 30 Steamers WEEKLY SAILINGS FROM MONTREAL AND QUEBEC Liverpool Service S.8. Victorian, Dec. 6th S.S. Grampian, Dec. 12th, from St. Jokn Garry Christmas Excursions to Eurape Book your passage now and be sure of a good berth. These steamers are among the larg- est and best sailing from the St. Law- rence ports. We can book you through from Be- midji. No delay or hotel expenses on the road. . For rates, reservations and all other information apply to R. E. FISHER Union Depot, Bemidji. Phone 50 H. H. 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