Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 5, 1919, Page 8

The Dream Weaver [ L) ] By RALPH HAMILTON (Oowfllht. lln. by th- ;'utnn News- She was young and a widow. There was a freshness to her beauty that was quite girlish and a token of mourning showed in hat and vell. Be- sides that the little three-year-old chlld by her side called her “mamma,” mnd there was motherly tenderness in the attention she received. Boyd Wis- ner sat facing them in_ the street car und studied the palr with somethlng of Interest. He was a natural weaver ot dreams, and his avocation encouraged the vis- fonary. Compiler, critic and reader for: a miscellaneous publishing house, all kinds of Iiterary -efforts were pre- sented for his approval or rejection. He had drifted directly to the threshold of young bachelorhood, knowing noth- ing -of love except from the romances he read, and a surfeit of them had made him somewhat finical as to ideals. ‘He was in the midst:of a pleasing development of plot and incident when there was a grating grind apd then a crash. From a passing truck a box had jolted out of place and its ebarp, sudden shadow In descent warned and enlightened Wisner. In a flash he dis- cerned the object aimed- straight for the window next to which the little girl sat. With a rapid movement he threw himself forward. A. shower of glass rained over him, slightly cutting one cheek and his hands. Where a eorner of the box struck his back there was a painful jar, but he had thrust the little child safe into the arms of her alarmed mother. Thence she put out her arms toward him, as if fully consclous of his heroic seryice. “Tell something,” came the habylike prattle, .and Wisner, supposing that she wished to whisper something, leaned forward to receive a kiss on one cheek. “Other face,” said the little one, and the other cheek was kissed as well. “She 1s, we are both truly grateful,” quavered the mother, all unstrung, and then a street was called by the conductor and the little one, prattling about “dear man,” “sweet man,” the mother bestowing grateful glances upon Wisner, both left the car and it whirled on its way again, with Wisner in a strangely aroused mood. As half a mile farther on ‘he arose to leave the car Wisner noticed an en- velope on the floor between the seats. He picked it up to find that it con- tained half & dozen proofs of & photo- graph of the 1udy and ‘the child who bad so curiously come into his life. To stay it seemed, for after that there were few hours in the day when the two faces did not float across his mental visjon. He made it a point to ride on the ‘cars of the line where he met them. He lopged to locate them and make ap excugse for seeing them again and the returning of the photo- graph proofs. Then after a month when he had given up hopes of again meetlng them a whimsical, yet half romantic impulse, led him to cut out one of the photos in circular shape and place it in the inside case of his watch. Once a friend- caught a glimpse of the picture and rallied AWisner as to a mysterious lady love, and the fan- tasy rather pleased the young lone bachelor. At all events a certain sen- timentality came into his experience that lifted him above the dull grind of his routine labors. It was upon an occasion when he was strolling along the street at which mother and child had alighted that, somewhat unwatch- ful and preoccupied, he drew back too late to evade contact with a' rushing automobile. It only grazed his body, but threw him forward so forcjbly that his head struck the curb and he was " stunned. A crowd gathered and the driver of the auto sought to ascertaln his identity. It chanced that Wisner car- ried just then no papers that would help out such an Investigation. As the chauffeur, however, scanned his watch for some name or monogram and opened it, a lively urch‘ln of the neighborhood, peering _inquisitively over his shoulder, exclaimed: “Say, mister; I know where he be- longs. Those are pictures of Mrs. Morse and her little girl. They live in the little cottage right aronnd the corner.” Boyd Wisner did not, of course, be- long to the Morse home, but those who carried him thither were not made aware of his being s compara- . tive stranger to its inmates. Mrs. Lora Morse and her little child recognized their hero of the street car episode the moment of his appearance, and a heightened color came to the chéek of the young widow when the Incident of the photograph came fo light. Wis- ner came back to conscioysness little the worse for his rude shake up to meet the solicitous ‘glance of the ob- Ject of his dreams for a long time past. Then explanatjon, renewed kisses from the affectionate little Corinne, and an invitation to call again. There came a happy moment to Boyd Wisner somewhat later. It was after he had told Lora Morse of his ° love. Her drooping. eyes lifted, bear- ing a half-shy, half-mirthful expres- sion. “Tell something,” she whispered, and he leaned toward her. “Other cheek!” and the romance ef / his life: was fulfilled. The start of the 300-mile cross-country endurance test from Fort Ethan Allen to Camp Devens, Mass., ‘to de- termine the best- type of horse :for cavalry. work. Full-blooded Arabs, Morgans and half-breeds were entered. A ten-year-old Arab mare ridden by A. W. Harris of Chicago was the winner. TRUST TOO MUCH TO LUCK | MOMENTOUS DAY IN HISTO‘R? WOLF SHOWS REAL CUNNING Few Have Proper Preparation for Work Which They Undertake to Do in Life. Many persons go through life for a long time with a vell, as it were. ob- scuring their clear vision. They do not understand life as it is; they .prefer to try to make of it what they think it should be in order to satisfy their am- bitions; they do not like the obstacles that bar their paths; they want the right of way and cannot understand why they may not always have it. It is a difficult thing to make headway in any undertaking when we are com- pelled to grope in the darkness and feel our steps. We do our best, per- haps, but even so we make mistakes and set ourselves far back in our en- deavors simply because we are not pre- pared for the work in hand. No one may even hope to accomplish really worth while results unless he under- stands the needs of the task in hand and is prepared to meet them. Good preparation is the foundation for our lifework, and unless our foundations are solld it 1s impossible ‘to. build strongly upon them for the future. That is why so many of us make such sorry fallures of life. We have had nothing on which to build. The flimsy little base upon which we seek to set our lifework is not large enough to bear the hard strain of earnest ef- fort. It gives way under the first heavy pressure and we find ourselves in the dark.. Again we begin to feel our way and again we trust to luck to get results that will be worth having. —Charlestown News and Courier. -Be-Bure You-Are Right It's a good thing to assure yourself before taking important steps. Some- times you are too busy to give much time to things. At other times you may be too sure of yourself. Both cases are full of calamity. To be sure you may be able to do the right thing by Intuition and do it with haste. As a rule the great things of life upon which important matters hang take time. You must know the facts if you are to advise others. You must know the facts to be able to make success of “things. Remember it's not the amount of energy you put into a thing that gets results. A locomotive out of control is a mad thing of unlimited en- ergy. The very power s the danger. It must be regulated to make it useful. —Exchange. Cultivate Decision. Decision is an nsset to cha=acter When rightly exercised ycu know and others know what you dare attempt. Each new problem Is met with the spirit of decision and the result is continued progress. This grows on people and they learn to expect suc- cess. And that's half the battle. If you are not sure what the future has in store, decide to make the most of each revelation as it comes. You are just like other people if you yleld to fear. You become a leader of them when you make every factor count for decision and progress. The conscious- ness of ybur own strength will help you and others to right relations in life. R TR Strange Barometer. The Araucanians of the southero, most province of Chilef use a.crat shell as a barotheter. in dry, falr wveather it 13 white, but when rain i \pproaching red spots appear on it md when excessive moisture is pres nt in the atmosphere it becomes red il over. e e e e e e v ) i B S RO Sk sl ol 2 R neesil sl S Ml SR R B el b Julius Caesar Said to Have Landed in Britain on Twenty-seventh Day of August.’ According to calculations carefully made and that, at the least, estab- lish a probable case, August 27 is the anniversary of the landing of Julius Caesar in the 'island of Britain. In his wars that resulted in the con- quest of Gaul, or modern France, Ju- lius,_ Caesar kept a journal, in which he recorded all”his operations. He called it, “Commentaries,” and it has been. pronounced. to be perhaps the best record of campaigns ever writ- ten by a general in the fleld. In the midst of these operations he found time to cross the channel and pay & military visit to the land knowa now as England, but not so known then, for the ancient Britons then in- habited the island. He states the year of that visit, which, according to our calendar, was 55 B. C. He also states other facts which enabled the .calcu- lation as. to month and day to be made. Caesar in his journal, or "Oomlaen- taries,” relates thdt he set out on the expedition when' little of summer re- mained, when the people of the south of Britain are engaged in their har- vest, and that after a stay of three weeks, he returned to Gaul before the equinox. It Is, therefore, concluded that the day of landing must hnvo been in August. uentiencss. Gentleness is a natural element To train, restrain or subdue the character 80 that it will manifest this virtue is not to give to that character the:gle- ment of gentleness. The result will be to tame but not to make gentle. When ope is able to control by watchfulness his actions, so that they result in gen- tleness, he possesses something :less than gentleness. Gentleness must be natural to be truly genuine. Where love, latent.and fervent, abounds, that is the sort of soul that possesses gen- tieness. It is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth should speak. It is from the abundance of the regener- ate spirit that the soul shall unveik the grace of gentleness in myriad rela- ‘tions. Disposition, temper and manner are in the province of this virtue. They must possess it.—Christian Intelligen- Remarkable Thinness. Prof. J. Perriu has made a study of soap bubbles—just the kind that little folks blow with clay pipes—and ‘he announces that they are five milll- microns thick. This means that it would take more than five million fllms of a .soap bubble to make one inch of thickness. While this is getting down pretty fine, still the elementary ‘leaflet ‘of mica is finer. Mica can be split down to a thickness of one mole- cule, which is thinner than the thick- ness of the skin of a soap bubble, | which suggests that the latter must be crystalline In structure. Just before a soap bubble bursts dark spots form on-it. He found that these housed still datker, smaller spots. These are drop- | lets of water surrounded by strata condensed upon the membrane. They are described as being like dust motes ina sunbeam. _* Bubseribe for' The Fioneer. IF a better pen- cil exists any- - where in the wide, world we heard of it. orsoftness exactly “to suit you meke :VENUS Pencils a -luxurious economy. 17 Block Degrees and 3 Copying PIONEER . STATIONERY HOUSE Bemi ef's Magazine. 8tefansson Compares Him With the Fox, to the Disadvantage of the Smaller Animal The wisdom of the fox is not so evi- dent as the saying®is widespread, but the more 1 see of wolves the more respect I have for their intelligence, which is unique among the -nonhuman inhabitants of the North. The second day on the new land I met 'a wolf that came running toward me at first, for he could not fail to mistake me at a’ distance for a cari- bou, but when . he got within':two hundred yards and could. see more plainly he realized my .Strangeness and, what {s truly remarkable, in- ferred that I might be dangerous. This wolf could certainly never have seen a human being before, and the only dark thing of size comparable to mine that he had ever seen must have been either a caribou or a muskox. The caribou are his prey, and while he seldom kills a muskox he at least has no reason to fear that exceptional- ly ‘clumsy and slow-moving animal. But at two hundred yards this wolf paused and, after a good iisqk that satisfied him that I was something new in his experience, commenced to circle me at that distance to get my wind. When he got it it took him off at top speed. The similarly unsophisticated foxes of this region will commonly run within ten or fifteen yards of you and follow you around:for miles, bark- ing like a toy dog following a pedes- trian.—Vilhjalmur Stefansson in Harp- Rutabagas, per bu. ... —-— wait next year’s crop. _VEGETA:BLES. .$1.00 0c-60c 0-$2.00 .$20-330 ...$3.00 Jarrots, per cwt. Beets, bushel Jabbage, cwt. . dubbard squash, ton . Jnions, dry, cwt. ..... dweet CO™D ... c..vne .10c-12%c¢c Beans, cwt .$6.50-$8.vv 3eans, Swedish, ewt . .u.oo -$5.00 Dairy hutter. b, ..........52¢-66¢c Butter fat ..... eeeesTle Eges, case, ...... BEggs, fresh, doz. ... Retail Eggs, storage, doz. GRAIN AND HAY Oats, bushel ..... veesi.T0c-72¢ Bardey, bushel . .$1.05-§1.10 Rye, bushel .. ... .$1.26 Eor Corn, bushel . .$1.10-81.26 Red clover, medlum. b | TR ¢ ° The potato market reports have ceased to exist and will BEMIDJI MARKET QUOTATIONS. [ The following prices were being paid in Bemidji of going to press today: White clover . Buckwheat, 1b. Popcorn, 1b. . Wheat ..... MEATS e Hogs, I «.coeveeeeeess.ee16c.18¢C! Dressed beef 1b. . .10c-12¢ - Turkeys, live, 1b. .28c-28¢ .+ 23c-24¢ ' .13¢-16€ i 0ld Toms, live, 1b Geese, live, 1b. Ducks, live, Ib. . .16¢-18¢ Hens, 4 lbs. and over R T Springers, all weights, 1b. . 180—20: HIDBS Cow hides, No. 1. 1b ... Bull hides, No. 1, 1b. Kip hides, No. 1, 1b. . Calf skins, No. 1, Ib. Deacons, each .........$ Horse hides, large, each .....$10.00 . -Tallow, 1b. o .10c-13¢" Wool ................,....43::-50::4 “ee .250-280 '.l‘her ‘fB‘ilowmg prices were being paid at Stillwater, Minn., at time of going to press of today’s Pioneer: ; GRAIN AND HAY Wheat, No. 1 .....4....$2.30-32.45 Wheat, No. 2 ...« .i5e.. - - $2.28-52.40 Wheat, No. 3 . ..$1,96-82.28 Oats ..... ...65¢c Barley ..$1.00-$1.20 Rye .... ...51.24-31728 Pop corn, 1b.,-on & .b6e-8¢ Buckwheat, per 1b. veee2€ Pop corn, 1b. on eal 5 & 8c No. 2 timothy hay: ..$20.00 No. 1 clover, mlxesa $21.60 Rye straw ...-. .$8.00 Oat straw .. .$8.00 Rice ....... vees. 3133 VEGET{?LES Beans, hand plckedanvy, cwt. $6.60 Potatoes ....... $2.10 Reund Whltes Beans, (Swedish) Beets, per bushel Carrots, -per bushel Domestlc cabbage, ton . Holland cabbage, per ton ...$20.00 Bubbard squasa, per ton, drug on the market here .. Onions, dry, per cwt. ‘Butterfat (packing stock) .. Butter (packing stoek) 1b. 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