Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 21, 1912, Page 2

‘h country and the world at the right ~CURIOSITY THAT MET REBUKE Inquisitive Grocer More Than Met his Match ;\When He Questioned thgfl&q.}l Girl. The proposal to strengthen the se- precy of “!?v,fi‘“"?y voting by mail eminded Senator. Willlams of an elec- Mon day story. “Voting by mail,” he said, “is a yadical proposition that I'd hesitate |. advocate without further study; t I do most heartily favor invio- Jable secrecy as regards the ballot. “Even a harmless curiosity about The ballot is contemptible. A Salina er said to a little girl one elec- day: ‘ *“‘Who is your father going to vote Jor this morning, my dear? * *T don’t know,’ the little girl.an- pwered. “‘Will he vote the Republican Poket? “‘I don’t know.’ “T wonder if he’ll vote Democrat: r *‘I don’t know. : “‘He wouldn't vote Prohibition, ly ? “‘I don’t know.” “The grocer, as he tied up the 1t | e girl's package, sneered: { ““Well, you don’t know much, and' that’s a fact.’ *“‘You know less,’ the little girl maswered, ‘or you wouldn’t be askin’ B0 many questions!'” MARVEL IN GATHERING NEWS Ordinary Man Cannot Appreclate What the Production of a Great i Journal Involves. { The ordinary reader, as he opens his daily journal, is content with a vague feeling that it somehow edits and com. poses itself; he seldom reflects upon ‘the immense amount of organization, upon the care in the selection of pews, and even upon the mechanical skill in adjustment so that every column may .i;: exactly filled, which are required 23 ®ven the most normal {ssue. Hai. seldom reflects upon the speed with Vyhlch it all has to be done. That a 'great paper should appear morning after morning generally correot in its news, readable and sound in its liter Ary matter, accurate in its printing, jthat it should be distributed all over oment, is none the less a marvel ause it has happened so often that people have ceased to look upon it th surprise. - 1 Good Talkers and Good Writers. Good talkers are rarely good writ: ‘ers, and vice versa. Good talkers are those who fill up the conversational ,ttlpa. A conversational gap is the ab- wence of talk. Gaps come when “thought lags. Talkers must be ready %0 jump right in and fill up the gaps \without thinking. i Good writers must make gaps; t, huge thinking gaps, which must K used for concentrated meditation, | they say to consent to fill sudden talk. | ing gaps with mere chatter. | 80 slow to materialize.—Life. | at the rate of one mile (or one shilling |cost) in every 15 minutes. A taxicab ! grape-arbor, a bit of shrubbery or a | the sacrifice amply repaid. For to the { which it had been fired, imbedding it- | sler’'s Magazine, after which comes the written result of that meditation. Good talkers must{ stop talking when they commence to write. This is always hard for them., Good writers are too careful what This-may make it clear to many a woman why her literary ambitions are English Taxi Rates. There are one hundred taxicabs in the city of Sheffield, England. The tariff rate is one shilling (24.3 cents) for the first mile, and after that 3d. (six cents) for each quarter of a mile, This rate is for one to four persons, and includes such baggage as is‘car tied inside. For outside luggage a fixed charge of 3d. a plece is added to the cost of the journey. The meter mechanism is also affected by a clock, g0 that when a taxicab is allowed to stand with the flag down it registers may be contracted for by distance, as when one wishes to make a trip of 40 miles or more a speclal price is mada of 10d. (20 cents) a mile, and a stop of several hours allowed without charge. How to Attract the Birds. “The matter of attracting birds to! your yard is all very simple, particu- larly if you happen to have an old tree or two. Of course, they won’t come without encouragement. It may be, even, that you will have to give up your old cat, but you will soon find heart of a little bird, a cat is the very embodiment of prawling destruction. Then you must have a feeding-board, on which to spread such dainties as bits of boiled potato, sodden bread (in summer), cracked corn, rice, crushed nuts of various kinds, trimmings from meat, and suet. For birds soon grow to love the hands that feed them.”— Puburban Life Magazine. Infusion Process Successful. ; The manner in which soft iron may be converted into hard faced armor plate by the infusion process appears in the case of a test which has re- cently been made. 4 bullet was fired from a rifie at a distance of thirty- six feet against the surface of an Iron plate which had been ‘treated by the infusion process, striking with a velocity of 2,700 feet a second. The hardened surface caused the rifle ball to rebound with such directness that it struck the stock of the gun from gelf in the wood and narrowly escap- ing the person of the marksman by whom the shot had been flred.—Cas- Not at the Present Price. Uncle Jared—“Yes, out in the coun- iry we go to bed with the chickens.” Little Willie—"Gracious! I should think they’d lay eggs all over yow,” B AT R e NAPOLEON IIl. IN AMERICA Real Louis Was Not as Dilapidated aa He Has Been Pictured by Mark Twain. Probably no written portrait of the third Napoleon is. better known to Americans than that embodied in the rhetorical apostrophe of Mark Twain in “The Innocents Abroad,” where he contrasts the emperor of the French and the sultan of Turkey at their meeting in Paris in 1867. It was thought very fine and stirring at the time, but it is a picture to provoke curiosity and amusement today. Mark Twain described how the future em- peror carried his dreams with him into exile, how he associated with the common herd in America, and ran foot races for a wager, how he walked his weary beat, a common policeman of London. That he carried his dreams into exile, that his belief in his star pever wavered, is unquestionably true. But it is not quite so romantic a figure, not such a dilapidated a Louis Napoleon, that we see in the accounts of more careful historlans than Mark Twain. For example, there is “Inti- mate Memoirs of Napoleon IIL,” by the late Baron d’Ambes. D’Ambes was not | with Louis Napoleon in America, but| it was from the prince's own lips that he claimed he received the -impres- sions of that visit. Louis Napoleon came to Norfolk, Va., from Rio dei Janefro on the frigate Andromede. The commander, Henri de Villeneuve, was very kind to the exile, and the| prince thanked him with the words! “You are obliging & man who will one day be emperor of the French, un-| fortunate as he may appear at pres-! ent, I shall not forget you” The! ‘Andromede arrived at Norfolk March! 30, 1837. The prince proceeded | straight to New York and dined at en. Watson Webb's, where he found | eneral Scott, his two brothers-in-lay, | he Stewarts, and a number of sena. ors and statesmen. 1 MERELY A VARIETY OF GUM Nothing Wonderful About the Produo tion of Frankincense to Those Who Deal in It Frankincensé {8 & variety of gumJ that frequently forms a component of incense, but the term is not met with! in commerce, to which incense means a gum that exudes from a tree flour- ishing in considerable quantities- in: British Somaliland and elsewhere. There is an inferior gum of this kind that grows in India and other coun-| tries of the east. | The incense tree seldom attains a| height exceeding 15 feet. It presents i a thorny and unsightly growth and| thrives in desert reglons. Dealers grade incense according to color— bright yellow, medium and dark yel.! low. The chief market for it seems to be Aden, whence it is taken by So- malis during the winter months.— Harper's Weekly. 1 A $125 CHRISTMAS GIFT f Will be given to this' Church for 100 Yearly Subscriptions - to the Bemidji Daily Pioneer. Other Churches are making the same effort. If this is the Cburch you wish to help, turn in your subscription to any of the ladies whose names appear below. M: THODIST CHURCH Members of Methodist Women’s Band Mesdames Charles Flesher, presi-; A. Larson, E. C. McGreagor, O. Minor- i dent; T. J. Andrews, C. Alexander,il B. Minnick, A. W. Mitchell, J. W. | F. R. Bishpam, Emma Botting, W. J. {Naugle, J. Scarrot, C. W. Shannon, Coleman, J. C. Courtney, S. A. Cutter, Alma L. Smith, H. B. Southworth, Mrs. Dennis, Sr., E. H. Denu, W. P.‘E. F. Stevens, T. Symons, H. J. Un- Dyer B. Getchell, Grinols, J. L. Kemp ruh, D. Wilcox, P. A. Young. 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One yearly subscription to the weekly Pioneer counts same as. six months to the Daily, the only difference being the subscrip- tion price which is $1.50 a year. The Daily for six months is. $2 and the Daily for one year is $4. Free Premiums will be given to every subscriber. Detailed information may be had by telephoning Number 31, or calling; in person at the Pioncer Office, CH EXTRA SPECIAL. Solid Silver Tea Spoons in many of cw up-to-date patterns, Fancy French Gray and Bright Finish, which you have always seen priced at 75¢c to $1.50 each. Sale Price each.....oveneeeasne $3.50 dozen. Triple Plate Silver K. world over for $4.50 and $5. Best M $2.50 Pair. Solid Gold Cuff Buttous, hundreds of pairs to select from; plain for mensgram or / ................... »....4%¢ nives and Forks; sold e92 RN quality. Sale price dozen. PpJd1JU $2.00 Each. Solid Gold Make a small payment down and we will hold the goods until you call for them. JewelCases§ ¢ Many assorted, beau- i tiful patterns, all silk lined, gold plated. Res- ular price $1.00. OUR PRICE. . 39¢ $31.50. One-fourth Carat Solid Gold Mount- ing; same as sold in the large citles for $40.00. This diamond same price in Tiffany or .Belcher mounting. Sale price $31.50 $1.00 Each. Solid Gold Scarf Pins, 500 to se- lect from, set with all kinds of settings; can’t help but find one to e —eeeeseeeeeeee——————————————————— f AT- REDUCED PRICES. 500 to select from; too many on hand and must ‘be sold. Buy now and save money. _Elgin, Waltham, Hampglen}md 1 other makes st greatly reduced prices during the salc. Ladies’ and Gentlemen's sizes. N HA D ENGRAVED IREE. — initial and fancy em- .$].75_ Choice +Solid Gold Signet sossed; made to sell for Rings, large, [ $3.50 and $4.00. Sale Weight, sizes from 4 to] T ¢ N, ¥ gold Tif.]dred to select from,|monogram or initial; . $1.00 Each. Solid Gold|1:50, Gold Heavy Ring 100 Fine ‘f,fi{;h‘,’,‘;fi Oilfail';gs-i-ap:? Child’s Ring. 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Choice, Solid Gold, of all $11.50, $12.00, $12.50, $13.50 and 33'5302'0_0’017'%;&;2'52; Pas50620.00, $21.50, $22.50, $24.50, $15.00 Watches in fine Filled|and Gentlemen’s sizes; some very]$25.00 and $27.50 Watches; extra Cases, warranted 20 years. Elgin, | fine values in the lot;’ choice of ] values in this lot in Yflnerst &(1)1‘2(; Waltham, or Hampden movements, | Elgin, Waltham or Hampden|and Solid Gold. ou! veopers. sato price. . S 10080 Bl *0 . 918,00 S Frice™. ... $20.00 K .00. Enormous line of Finest Gold Filled %%aocgltéomsgt prices from $1,00 to $7.50 and Solid Gold from $5.00 to $25.00. GENYINE STERLING SILVER THIMBLE Each. First-class Watch for a boy, stem Howard watch. Only few left at the $1 -0 w“;nd and set. Warranted by the Factory. 335-00 price. None beter at any price. This is the same as others sell for '”f_ > z 25¢c. We have all sizes. Our pries, Do not let us fail to show you our line of Watches before you buy. o \ IT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY [ ! B ] $10.00. 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