Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 18, 1917, Page 6

Y. JANUARY 18, 1917. INTERNATIONAL PEACE Plans to Secure It Have Been Tried For Three Centuries: dmirable and farsighted plans for iring a peaceful internationaf order ve been before the world for 300 years. M. Emeric Cruce submitted his plan, which included liberty of com- merce throughout all ‘the world, as . early as 1623. Following the peace of ! v . Utrecht, the Abbe de St. Pierre devel- A oped his plan, which included media- tion, arbitration and an interesting ad- dition to the effect that any sovereign who took up arms before the union of nations had declared war or. who re- * fused to execute a regulation of the union or a judgment.of the senate was to be declared an enemy of European society. The union was then to make 'war upon him until he should be dis- armed or until the regulation or judg- ment should be executed. Some twenty years earlier Willlam Penn had produced his quaint and real- extraordinary plan for the peace of pe, in which he, too, proposed to proceed by military power against any soverelgn who refused to submit his claims to a proposed diet, or parlia- ment, of Europe or who refused to ablde by and to perform any judgment of such a body. All these plans, like those of Rous- seau, Bentham and Kant, which came Iater, as well as William Ladd’s elab- orate and carefully considered essay on & congress of nations, published in 1840, were brought into the world too soon. They were the fine and noble of seers which it is taking civ- men three centuries and more to Degin effectively to realize—New York ‘Times. SAVED BY A CAMERA MAN. How He Won a Lease of Life For Some of Villa’s Victims. During one of his earlier campaigns Prancisco Villa had an American movie photographer, Burrud by name, attached to bis staff, who spent a good deal of his time taking pictures of the excessively vain “general” him- self. Sometimes, however, Burrud was called upon to undertake more stren- gous operations. The following story, . for instance, 1s told in Francis A. Col- Hns’ “The Camera Man:” “Burrud was called outdoors unex- pectedly at sunrise one morning and directed to report, with his camera, at once to headquarters. When he arriv- ed, coatless and breakfastless, before Villa’s tent he was told that the gen- eral had decided to have some twenty prisoners shot and wanted a moving picture taken of the execution. The prisoners, most of them political mere- 1y, were to be butchered to make a moving picture scene. “Burrud feigned to examine his cam- era closely and then explained to the general that his films were bad and that it would be impossible to take the plcture until a new supply had arrived. Villa was disgusted to miss the enter- tainment, but the camera man insisted that there was no use in making the exposure, and the picture and the ex- ecution were put off several days. “By the time the next supply of films arrived the general had fortunately changed his mind and the men were saved.” Raising Geese. . The raising of geese was a profitable occupation of farming in England years ago, and some farmers had flocks of 8000 or 10,000. Each goose pro- duced a shilling’s worth of feathers every year and quills to the value of threepence. The quills were used for pens. 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A $2.50 Song Treasury Almost Free Ger Your Gopy Today! 1%%” M Q> Coupon Elsewhere in Today’s Paper Explains Terms Just good old-fashiond Common Sense To use tells many folks INSTANT POSTUM instead of coffee THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER WRITING FOR THE STAGE. 8ir W. 8. Gilbert Was Not Overproud 8 2 of His Own Work. -“No man,” writes Mrs. Alec-Tweedie in her reminiscences, “My Tablecloths,” “had stranger admirers or keener haters than W. S. Gilbert. Successful people always have, but then, added to his success, he had a pompous manner and a sarcastic tongue. “He was in excellent form one May night in 1898 when he dined with me. We were talking about ‘Lysianne, :Sarah Bernhardt's new play, which 1 bhad just seen' in Paris, and I said it was a poor plgy splendidly acted. “‘I2 it’s a poor play it's sure to suc- ceed,’ he retorted. ‘No good play is ever a success. Fine writing and high morals are hopeless on the stage.’ * “That is severe.’ “‘Not any too severe. 1 have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste and ought to know. And, after all, look at the the- ater. It contains some 1,600 persons. Now, if you serve up tripe and onions for the gallery it offends the stalls; if you dish up sweetbreads and truffles for the stalls it disgusts the pit. There- fore plain leg of mutton and boiled po- tato is the most suitable fare for all Light flippery and amusing nonsense are what I have endeavored to write. But I can tell you that after thirty-five years of that sort of thing, which I am glad to say has brought grist to the mill, I am about sick of it, and 1 shouldn’t mind if I never wrote anoth- er word.”” FADS OF LITERARY MEN. A Letter From His Wife Always Made Hawthorne Wash His Hands. Keats liked red pepper on his toast. Dickens was fond of wearing jewelry. Joaquin Miller nailed all his chairs to the wall. Edgar Allan Poe slept with his cat and was inordinately proud of his feet. Daudet wore his eyeglasses when asleep. \ Thackeray used to lift his hat when- ever he passed the house in which he wrote “Vanity Fair.” Alexandre Dumas the younger bought a new painting every time he had a new book published. Robert Louis Stevenson's favorite recreation was playing the flute, in or- der, as he said, to tune his ideas. Robert Browning could not sit still. ‘With the constant shuffiing of his feet holes were worn in the carpet. Longfellow enjoyed walking only at sunrise or sunset, as he said his sub- limest moods came upon him at these times. Hawthorne always washed his hands before reading a letter from his wife. He delighted in poring over old adver- tisements in the newspaper files. Oliver Wendell Holmes used to carry a horse chestnut in one pocket and a ppotato in another to ward off rheuma- 'tism.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Horrors of Thirst. There i8 no horror like the horror of thirst—no physical suffering compara- ble to it. A traveler over the desert in Egypt describes a man who had lost his way, wandering about for days without water, and finally came stag- gering into his camp. The man’s eyes were bloodshot, his lips swollen to twice their natural size. His tongue, blue, parched and swollen, hung out of his mouth. To allow such a man to drink water at will would be like pumping cold water into a redhot steam boiler. It would kill him. This man required to be held forcibly by four men in his eagerness to get at drinking water, while a fifth man al- lowed a few drops to trickle down the throat of the sufferer at long intervals. He had to be cooled off little by little. like an overheated boiler. An Unanswerable Argument. The poor relation had not been invit- ed to the formal function at the great house, but he went to the door in spite of that oversight. “Where’s your card?’ inquired the first gentleman in waiting. “Haven't got any,” responded the poor relation meekly. “Nobody can get in without a card.” “Well, I'm nobody,” murmured the poor relation, but the first gentleman in waiting could not grasp the delicate humor of it, and the poor relation was turned away from the inhospitable door.—Exchange. Where Men Wear Combs. The traveler in India is surprised to see that men wear combs in their bhair much more than women do. A Cinga- lese gentleman wears what we know as the circular comb and a very orna- mental back comb of tortoise shell to gather his curly locks together. He wears a full beard also, but his servant must trim his own beard and is al- lowed to wear the circular comb only. —Exchange. Bad Color Scheme. “The man I am engaged to has been terribly wild, but is going to turn over a new leaf.” “Don’t put your trust in such a bad color scheme. Rosy futures seldom grow on a purple past” — Baltimore American. Sure Thing! Mrs. Exe—Dear, what does it mean when you get a notice from the bank that your account is overdrawn? Exe —In the case of a man it means that he is married.—Boston Transcript. His Tender Spot. Hokus—That fellow Closefist doesn’t know what it means to he sensitive. You can’t hurt his feelings. Pokus— Did yon ever try pinching him in the pocketbook ?—Town Topics. - [l They’re made with LUMET “If you've ever tasted goodies wmade with Calumet Baking Powder you won’t blame a kid for being tempt- ed! G-r-c-a-t, b-i-g, tender, tasty biscuits, cakes, doughnuts, muffins and everything I can think of—all s0 good I can’t keep away from them ! “Mother wouldn’t think of using any Baking Powder except Calumet! 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