Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 14, 1912, Page 18

. ALL FOR THE SAKE OF BETSY When Col. J. J. Astor Jeopardized His Yacht and Passengers for a Dog. 8ome years ago Col. J. J. Astor and yacht l\]onrmlhll and his son, cent, were reported lost at sea, hhe New York correspondent of the {Cincinnati Times-Star recalls. Every one got excited about it—especially New York newspaper offices. It 8 & New York newspaper, you may member, which ran this headline er the story of the wreck of the tanic: “Col. John Jacob Astor Lost Sea; Two Thousand Others Alsg wned.” The Astor part of the headline was very large pink letters and the t was comparatively modest type. en the Nourmahal was reported t the papers began to talk about ding out searching expeditions, government dispatched a cruiser search for Astor. Now Richard tells the story of that episode the first time. ‘“Astor was very d of his pet dog,” says Barry. “The dog hated the sea. The second out on the cruise the dog began mope. Astor told the captain of e yacht to point her nose for shore. take Betasy off and give her a jrun,’ said the master of millions. “They landed that day on the Parolino shore and Betsy got her run. t one run wasn't enough for her. day, as they voyaged south, tsy was taken on land to stretch er legs. Finally they were off the londuras coast, and Betsy began to 1 for a frolic. The captain pro ted that the coast line was insuff. lently charted, and that the Nourma- was in danger of being wrecked if was obliged to run in too near. “‘No matter,’ said Astor. ‘Betsy jan’t happy.’ “So they put in, and shelved the Nourmahal on a rock, and every one north of Panama became violently ex- oited because it wasn't possible to ear from the Astors, and it cost the t owner a good many dollars to et her off. But he didn’t care. He twas fond of Betsy—and Betsy had ther run” MARRIED AND DIDN'T KNOW IT Wew Indian Agent Got Into Predicas ment Through Ignorance of a Native Custom. On the old Rosebud Indian reserva ton, in South Dakota, they still Jaugh over the peculiar predicament fnto which a new Indian agent once got himself. The agent, an unqualified “tender foot,” was inspecting an Indian school. Noticing that as soon as he entered fhe room every girl present brought her hair forward over her face, he asked the teacher to tell them to throw it back so that he might see! their faces. But this they refused to Mo, until, after much urging, one glrl‘ did finally uncover her face. & After school was over, the agent ‘wondered at the strange actions of the girl who had uncovered her face. She followed him to his house, entered after him, and set about getting his dinner. As he spoke no Sioux, and ehe no English, he could get no ex- planation from her. Finally, to his relief, the teacher rode up. Shaking with laughter, he esked the agent how he liked his new wife! Then the latter understood what he had done. In certain tribes of the Sioux Indians all a man needs do in order to get a wife is to induce 8 girl to uncover her face. The agent had proposed in the usual way—and been accepted. In vain did the agent plead that he slready had a wife in the east; there was only one way to get out of it. It cost him the equivalent of fourteen ponies to persuade the Indian girl's father to take her back again. Cloves Main Source of Income. Nine-tenths of the world’s supply of cloves comes from the island of Panzibar, a British protectorate, on | kn the east coast of Africa. The gov- prnment receives as a tax ome bale put of each five. As many as 200,000 bales have bean produced in a season. The industry, which has long been the salvation of the little island, with Its scant population, really had its be- ginning in 1860, when an Arab plant- pd 200 shrubs. Said Burgash, sultan of the island, saw the commercial possibilities of the plant and caused cloves to be set out by his people. A cyclone in 1872 devastated the island and uprooted the trees, but within a short time the sultan had them re- placed. Bince then the industry has grown steadily. Time-Telling Made Eaey. Though comparatively few of the natives of Turkey own watches, yet they have an ingenious way of approx- jmating the time, and some of them hit it with considerable accuracy. They locate two cardinal points of the sompass, and then, holding their ands together in such a manner that the forefingers point upward and in opposite directions, they observe the shadow cast. In the morning or eve- at certain known hours one finger r the other will point directly at the pun. A comparison of the two shad- pws will determine the hours be- fween, Fortunate Llschtenstein. Liechtenstein, the smallest of Eu- Jope’s sovereign states, has a mon- Mrch, a parliament, but no taxes and po army. It is preparing to celebrate the second century of its indepen- ' Bence. Prince John II. provides its fnances, and in return nominates jhree of its 15 members of parlis ment. ——— Truth, A mood is that which turns yes- hr!:l!:ya truth into today’s hlldno‘. —Life. . .| rifies like those that the free soflers ‘Weapons Taken From West Virginls Coal Mine 8trikers Include Flintlocks of '76. . A motley and interesting collection of firearms has resulted from the dis arming of strikers in the coal min¢ district of West Virginia, where mas tial law has been declared by Governot QGlasscock, The arms taken from the guards hired by the mine operaton are commonplace enough—hundreds of Winchester repeaters with boxes of the ammunition for them. But the other pile takes one back to the days of the minute men. ‘There were old Englluh fowling pleces of beautiful workmanship; Kentucky rifles with barrels six fee long; flintlock muskets that probably did good service in 1776; Sharp’ carried into “Bleeding Kansas” in *68; a dozen varieties of carbines— Burnsides, Maynards, Spencers and others such as the troopers: of '61-'6% ew how to wield so well, and mod- ‘ern military rifles, effective weapong that are now sold for a few dollart aplece by many department stores af a result of the war department’s pok icy of selling discarded firearms af auction. Among the old pleces ar¢ guns by such famous makers as Ty yon and Deringer of Philadelphia ‘Butherland of Richmond and Balth more and others of seventy-five o1 one hundred years ago, to whom gun making was a fine art—Springfleld Republican. How to Carve a Turkey. { Hold the knife and fork in an easy | manner with the hand over the handle of the fork, palm down, forefinger ex- | tended. { The ends of the drumstick should be trimmed to enable the carver to handle them conveniently. Place the turkey before the mrver1 with the head to the left. Insert the fork across the middle of the breasthone. Cut the skin be- tween the breast and thigh. Bend the leg over and cut off close to the body . through the joint. Next cut down through the wing joint from top of shoulder. To cut the breast, slant from the front of the breast bone down toward the wing joint. Draw the fork from the breast and divide the leg and wing. To get the stuffing, cut the turkey between the body and the breast— ‘Woman’'s World, On Tour. tion?” The Poet—"The kind that's al ynys going from editor to editor.”— (Woman’s Home Companion. 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