Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 22, 1918, Page 6

1 732- I 799 To mark this 186th anmvereary——FeB 22 1919— of the 1 birth of Washington in more than ordinary fashion is | -a patriotic duty. o Jom thh other natlons for a QOMQIJ cguee,imchu | We are fightmg for now, is policy g@o;sed by the Father or Our Country, as laid down ini his Farewell Address: «Paking care to always keep = otirselves, by - - suitable establishments, on a respectable de- fensive posture, we may safely trust fo tempor- ary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.’”’ Barkor’s Druy and Jewelry Store 217 Third St. Drugs—Phonographs—Kodaks wall Paper ‘At Carlson’s e A IS Yy AR 1 Large spnng line now in. entirely different in make up and designs, at 13¢, 15¢, 19¢, 25¢ to 75e ‘per double roll. | Paper for rooms complete. mcludmg border and ceiling, for $1.00,-$1.50, $2.00 per. room up. Make your, rooms bnght and cheer- ful with nicewall paper. The expenseis very small. House Dresses and Aprons At Carison’s Large stock, entirely new, now in. Ginghams, percales and chambray, at 08c, $119, $1.23, §I. A48, S|69 10 $2. 98 mighty good values, - Aprons in coveral a 59¢, T3s, 850, 98¢, to SI 48 Made up neat and with style. Gurtain Rods, Now SIOckNOW IR caftions We have the exclusive sale of new patented rod that has 5 different features that w1ll appeal to | everyone. Will not rust or tarnish, in different styles, overdrop at 30¢, 40¢, 60c ‘New Spring Dress Goods and Full Assonment - of Spring Dry GoodS carleors This department increased 50 per . cent last year. Many new items of good values. - FirstShowing, NswSnnngmllmmoa...on-. ‘A complete stock that will meet with your ap- proval, in. style as well as prices. The fastest growing stock in Bemidji. ok ” Carlson On Beltraml .- You Know Hlm Remember, Tuesday, “Meatless Day”; Wednesday, “Wheatless Day.” IlllllllillllmllllllllIllIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII“IIIlIIlIlIlllIIlllllllllll“lllllIHII“IIIIIIIIIII b "a‘i:’Amifis ft | 'he fixes the arm on: thie scale by means {'of a screw, and proceeds to read the [ ecale, which gives him the eun’e altl- ‘tude .In degrees. When' Hadley hrought hls sextant i 1 lout in 1731, 1t was given a trial by | _the: British nuthoritles, ‘on the ‘yacht Chatham, - oft Spithead, un - a ‘gusty ‘day- i August. Weé. read that the weather ‘4vas too rough: for a sutlsfac- tory: test:! Rough weather. 1s-a fre- quent cause|for trouble in handling the sextant, as it is’ difficult to “catch” the sun’ and' bring it down when on| | the ‘uncertain plattorm t a movlng 8 deck. . The value of Hadley's, fnstrument | was not at once recogniz Y. ‘mari- ners, but its worth has beeri amply dem- onstrated: by-the fact' that:no esser- /| Hal ehange has been made in it since ere 18 still ': -sufficien ld the price far nbov‘ rly was. | 3 :fie ‘Americin market nonl the light, In some eues. since .of the clipper-ship ers, when the \'Jnlt- ‘New exclusive patterns" Of Course ‘ ed States was gupreme on the sea. - Many of these instruments had been on long voyages to the mysterloua Bast; others had been in the whale flslxery to the' far North; a ‘few had beencarried ‘among the ' Cannibal islands. of the ‘South Pacific, others among the pirates of the China seas. It had not been thought, when these instruments were ~ stowed away. by careful “hands, years ago, that ‘they would ever again serye the merchant marine. Today many of them are be- ing used by, young men who will qual- ity as officers on the new and grenter ‘merchant marine, while others, which have been presented to the shipping board, are nctunl]y making voyages t s time among the plrates of nt wlth constantly parts, is very slow to wear out. There 18 not much difference in the sextant of todny and the original sextante pro: duced in England when the instru- ment, was first’ perfected by John Hadley, back'in 1731. ' - - oy First Was an Octant. Hadley ealled’ ms instrument ‘at first an ‘octant; because it represented -in its seale of degrees Lut an elghth part of the circle, that is, 45 degrees. Later instruments were termed quadrants,. as they represented a quarter of a elr- cle, 90 degrees.. The sextant, or sixth of a_circle, 60 degrees, was found to, be most practical, and in time came into general use. The practical dis- tinction' between these three instru- ments i3 slight, however. The firs¢ sextant was not an inven- tion, as might be supposed, but an adaptation of ancient- Instruments used by astronomers from time immie- morial to'determine the sun’s eleva- tion, or latitude. The oldest” of-these ancient instruments was the astrolabe, a' disk of copper or brass, cut to the full circle of 360 degrees. This was fitted with a plumb line, and on its face a bar pivoted on the center, and having at one end & pin. One man held up the disk by the line, another | sighted the sun over the pin in the end of the bar, and another noted where the shadow cast by the pin fell on the: scale of de;rees marked ‘on the disk. It thus took three men to make an observation, which was usually faulty, while the use of such an instrument on a moving ship was almost an im- possibility.. Another ancient observing lnsh'u ment was the cross-staff. This consist- ed of a bar of wood—some of them were seven feet long—fitted with a sliding upright bar, or cross.. The long bar was held toward the sun, and the observer was posted at one end. The shorter bar was then moved back or forth until the observer saw the sun over its upper tip and the hori: zon at the same time under its lower tip. . The angle thus determined-was marked on a scale on the long bar. A grave objection to this instru- ment was that the observer. was obliged to look at the sun and the horizon at the same time. . Columbus used both instruments on his voyage to the new world, but ap- ‘parently - neither helped him much in determining the position of his ships, which he could only guess at until he made a landfall in the West Indies. Hadley Invents Instrument. John Hadley concelved the idea of employing the principle of the cross- staff in an instrument that would en- able the observer to see both the sun and the horizon when looking at the latter. This he accomplished by arranging a serfes of mirrors in such a way that the observer by the move- ment of an arm, or lever, attached to . her -they . were. - killed. - and, it nm appenred. neafly two eentnrles With the sextant perlecte , ‘the ap- ,.onls:sjun or curlos. ‘Now the American: oflcer,' ship for service: overseu. ‘takes his ‘pass, ln i case only affie jnches squiire by five inches deep, emi n furth noweki ’wu having his drntt‘ questionnaire filled out and was “listed as an alien. i " /“Do you claim exempflon be- /cause you are'an allen?” asked #n interpreter, who wu aesist-' ing. ““Sure not!” came back Alex. * “I want to fight for the United States, or Russia, or- anyboedy, Just 50T get to kill two Ger- mans.” B Alex came to this country from _}Vnrsaw, Poland, 12 years-ago. ORI R SR ol | NEAT PROFIT: ON PORKYERS Wife.of Wisconsin Pastor |s Well Re- |E paid for Eight Months of Care- ful Attention Juneau, W!s.—fl‘nble scraps, a lim. ited supply of ground feed and Some waste from a local condensory formed the sole diet on which Mrs. Anna P. Corr, wife of a local ‘mintster; raised three small Chester-white pigs. After eight months of careful attention by when: dressed,” weighed 291, 294 and 305 pounds respectively. The heaviest of the: trio: was sold. for $64.06. “In addl- - tion'the Corr family had left about 600 pounds of vork for. !nmny usage. ARE MARRIED. SECOND TlME Indian’ Chief and Wife Decide It's | Time to. Go Through White .~ Man's Ceremony. El Reno, Okla.—Bird Chief, an In- dian, mpplied for a marriage license and when ‘asked - the bride’s nnme, sald: “She has swernl names; I'll have to go and ask her which name she wants to use.” Bird Chief explained that he- and his wife had been married many years with a ceremony performed the an- clent tribal way. They decided it was time now to be married the ‘“whit” man’s” way. . MISS EMMA FROHMAN . Miss Emma Frokman, s!ster of Dan- fel Frohman, the famous theatrical manager who went down with the Lu- gitania, is sponsoring the work of making woolen undergarments for sol- diers. Through her effbrts, a special undergarment has been designed here after a French model, and is being turned out in quantity at the work- rooms of the Vacatign War Relief in New York city. flflfifl tembecomealo mndowntbatyouare “monia or Consumption, the kind that almost tear yo dntmakeyourlwaduhe.yourthroat reandn;flam Natlonal lmplement lnspec- tlon and Repair Week March4 to 9, 1918 Save Expenswe Delays and Trans— _portation Charges and Help inthe Big Drive for Greater’ Food : Production IF MAXIMUM CROPS ARE-TO BE RAISED ALL~ g - FARM MACHINERY LIKELY TO BE USED THIS - _YEAR, MUST BE PUT IN-GOOD REPAIR SO ASTO. AVOID DELAYS IN THE FIELD. “The'week of March 4 to 9, 1nclusxve, has been desxg- o nated as Nationgl. Implement Inspection- and, Repair _ Week, and the farmers of the United States are urged - - to mspect’theu' unplements and place orders for needed : repan's that week. & - The great difficulty of securing malleable and steel = parts, whichgrender it . mposslble for dealers to. carry the-usual repair stocks, together-with the delays in transportatwn, “render: it necessary to place orders for _your repalr reqmrements early. The warning has been glven, do not fail to heed'it by putting off ordering your Tepairs until the day you want to use the rmp]ement The Food Administration of ‘the Department of Ag- ~ riculture and the Councils of Defense give sanction to this movement. 5 You will be performing an act of loyalty by heeding this appeal and actmg promptly. Preparedness Is a Necessnty | DeLaval Cream Separator Repair Days March 22 and 23,1918 On these days we will have a factory expurt at our store to put your DeLaval Cream Separator in good run- ning order. All expert work is free. The only charge is for new parts. This is part of the service you pay for in bnying a DeLaval. Do not fail to take advantage of these DeLaval Re- ; palr Days vaen Hardware Co. Phone 57 : - Bemidji, Mitin: Defective