Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 15, 1919, Page 2

BELTRAMI (0. SCHOOLBOARD - DUE JANUARY Will Show Cost of Education in Unorganized Districts of the County BETTER SALARIES FOR THE COMING YEAR Increased Cost of Living Is - the Reason; Will Add to Service A statement showing all receipts and expenditures for the current year will be published by the Beltrami County board of education for unor- ganized territory, in January. A sum- mary of the statement shows that during. the fiscal year, the board has spent for carrying on schoolwork in the unorganized territory $22,151.66. Contrary to the belief of most people living in those districts, this money is raised by the regular tax levy. There has been a general belief that the state of Minnesota paid the bills. This belief is unfortunate, for several . have seemed to possess the idea that the funds were unlimited. Salaries Largest Item. The largest item of expense, amounting to $15,055.06, has been the pay of the teachers. The next largest single item is for the board of those children who live too far away to get to any school. This amounts to $1,996.70. The board of education pays 60 cents per day for each day the child is in school, as an allowance on the board bill, and the children can go where they please in this case. The unorganized territory takes in the newer sections throughout the entire county where population is eparse and the valuation is low. ‘When a community has secured suf- ficient valuation and twelve children, it usually organizes a district and as- sumes the management of its own af- fairs. Angle Most Northern, There are at present 50 schools in this territory, the most northern be- ing in Angle township and the one farthest south being the Lesser school near Pennington. . ‘Salaries have been lower than the living expenses demand, but the school financés did not warrant high- er wages. Consequently the district has usually been behind and the au- ditor has advanced money to main- tain the schools. 2 A new law allows the levying of a higher tax rate and the board is planning a very liberal salary sched- ule next year for qualified rural teachers. Patrons of these schools are requested to study the statement of expenses when it ‘appears. PELTRY ON SHORT GARMENTS Combinations of Furs Reserved This Season for the Jackets and Coatees. Nearly all the combinations of furs seem to be reserved this season for Jackets and coatees. One seldom sees two furs combined on the long coats or the separate pleces, but in the short garments pretty effects are arrived at by trimming mole or seal with gray chinchilla squirrel. Seal is also com- bined with fitch or beaver and mole with taupe fox. Natural caracyl is combined with beaver which matches it exactly in tone, and richness could go no further than the collaring of a baby lamb or broadtail wrap with) sable. A little French wrap with a muft to correspond is shown in both gray and .brown squirrel which is orna. mented by lines of monkey fur fringe and makes itself surprisingly attrac. tive in the process. Mink of a browner cast than for- merly is fashioned into beautiful coatees and capes in which the plac- ing of the stripes and tails in order to produce the design is a wonder of !n. genuity. Capes both straight and circular and with huge down-dropping collars are very modish. The circular cape, which is really cut in a circle, is at its best when it is very much longer in the back than in the front, and is particu. larly becoming to tall or stately ‘women. It is to be had in squirrel, seal, mole, broadtail and mink. A lovely mole cape of another type is plaited softly at the back and hangs in deep points at either side. All these fur garments have gay, pretty linings of pussy willow silk. Marvelous scarfs straight and very long are produced in a variety of furs whieh include both the, Heavy and close pelts. A new way of contriving both seal and mole is by separating long bands of the fur in which the grain runs in one direction by the tiniest of bands with. the grain run. ning crosswise. Matching chiffon lin. ings often embroidered in bright col- ors finish the scarfs. THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS DISASTROUS FIRE IN SING SING PRISON heavy. Scene in Sing Slng prison, New York, du_ring therecent fire which des The fire was said to have been started by ap Inmute. (4 troyed a number of buildings. ‘The loss‘was THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PEARLS FAMOUS IN HISTORY Romance S8urrounding Them Tran- scends That of Any Other of the World’s Prized Gam} What unbellevable romance there is in the lives of certain pearls, passion- ately admired, desired, awaited, stolen, sold as beaiitiful slaves, then returned again to their glory In the oriental luxury of a diadem or on the neck of an empress! Reflect upon those which were enshrouded thousands of years ago in the jade casket of some Chi- nese emperor, and which, suddenly ex- humed, find new life in reflecting the sky! Others, in Greece, have adorned the statues of Venus in the temples or, at Rome, after the conquest of the East, have recelved imperial honors. The patrician women, M. Rosentlial re- minds us, decked themselves with pearls during their slumbers to possess them in their drehms, and -they sus- pended them by threes from their ears that the tinkling of the pendants might remind them of their beauty which they could not see. There was that pearl of a million which Julius Caesar offered to Ser villa, mother of Brutus. There were, in our history, the pearls of Isabel de Baviere, of Mary Stuart, the gift of Catherine de Medici, and those of Henry IIL Pearls were present at dramatic moments, concerning which they tell us with more impressive ex- actness than the historians of the time; and you can imagine all that the gems which adorn the portraits of the Florentine Renalssante must know. of the tragic intimacies of that sensuous sixteenth ‘century, so gorgeous "and murderous. One pearl once had a fa- mous. name, the name of a courtesan. It was called La Perigrina (The In- comparable). It belonged to King Philip IT of Spain, and Saint-Simon (the historian) felt himself glorified from having once held it, for an in- stant, in his hands.—“Flaneur,” in In- dianapolis Star. JELLYFISH’'S STING NO JOKE Pest Known as “Portuguese Man-of. War” Is Dreaded by Bathers, for Excellent Reasons. The jellyfish has long been the sub- Ject of mirth and Jest, but at times it 1s aggressive and formidable, and its |, sting 18 a source of fear for bathers. The sting of the southern Portuguese Jellyfish, known technically as the No- meus, is very severe. Jellyfish are found {n the trade- wind belts of all oceans. Each Por tuguese “man-of-war,” as the jellyfish Is sometimes known, is made up of a number of small animals of the jelly- fish order, which have In common an Iridescent colored. bhubble-like float, about the size of.a man’'s hand, which rests on the surface of the water. A fin or sail enables the float to make headway across the wind, rather than with it. The jellyfish has long paper- like tentacles, and these are equipped with the stings. When they brush against bathers they burn and leave red ‘welts that itch and burn for hours, and should two or three pass over & man’s arm at once, they would almost paralyze it. Some years ago sclentists discovered a little man-of-war fish that accompanies the man-of-war Jjellyfish. It swims around the float until danger threatens. when it sneaks underneath and is safe from harm under the pro- tection of the Jellyfish's tentacles. Possible Cause of Fever. The Medical Journal asks if “all fe- ver, or at least a large proportion of it, may not be due to some change in | the flulds of the body which prevents water from being available as perspir- l ation which by its evaporation serves! to keep the body cool.” It may be that the practice of mak- ing a fever patient perspire freely has another purpose than the washing out of impurities from the blood, this be- ing an actual cooling. by evaporation. “An abundance of water has been found beneficial in fevers, and there are many clinicians who are decidedly of the opinion that cold-water baths have much more than merely a direct and mechanical refrigerating purpose, for they are followed by rather free diuresis and often also by perspira- tion. Indeed, one of the great indlca- tions for bath ‘in fever is that the skin is dry and hot, for It i1s under these circumstances that the bath will do much zood.” HOME TOWN HELDS Growing Municipalities, Like Indus- » tries, Are in Constant Need of More Capital. So generally has the failure of Amer- ican municipal government been - pro- claimed that the 1918 financial statis- tics of the 227 cities in the country with over 30,000 population, published by the federal census bureau, come with a degree of surprise. According to the official report, all but four of these cities actually lived within their means last year—that is, their revenue receipts exceeded their current gov- ernmental expenditures and interest payments, and in eighty, or more than one-third, including some of the largest .communities, the revenues exceeded all governmental, expenditures, includ- ing capital outlays. ‘The group.as a whole collected in revenue about $230,- 000,000 above current expenses and in- terest, or a sufficlent surplus to pro- vide four-fifths of the total outlay ‘in permanent improvements. Growing industries or enterprises of trade always require an increase ‘of capital, the Philadelphia Bulletin re- marks. Growing cities are confronted with a similar necessity, and munici- pal debt, if created for permanent im- provements and wisely expended, i8 ‘merely ‘municipal capital, an invest- ment in municipal development, effi- clency and convenience which 18 a. necessity for the production of tax- paying property. So that total figures of municipal outlay, or the evidences of increasing municipal debt, are not réliable criterions of the actual finan- clal status of the cities, except as they are measured in comparison with the expansion of the communal plant. The comparison of current revenues and expenditures is a more competent basis of judgment. USEFUL ITEMS Ivory knife handles may be reno- vated when they have become yellow by rubbing with turpentine. To polish steel fenders, mix very finely powdered bathbrick with a Iittle paraffin, dip a plece of flannel in it, and well rub the fender till all rust and marks are removed. Rub again with a rag dipped in dry powdered brick, then polish with a ¢lean duster] To stiffen the bristles of a hair- brush, try the following plan: First of all wash the brush well in hot wa- ter to which a dessertspoonful of am- monia has been added. Then dissolve a large piece of salt in some cold wa- ter, and dip the brush in it several times. Leave it in the open air to dry, and you will find the bristles get .quite stiff again. To starch a black cotton dress or petticoat, use starch made with coffee as follows: Take a large cup of strong coffce, add to it two tablespoon- fuls of best starch previously mixed to a smooth, soft paste with a little cold water. While the coffee is boiling fast, add the starch, and let it boil for a quarter of an hour. Turn it into a bowl, and do.not use it until it is nearly cold. i Modern Building Metnods Gongemneud. The urgent need of enforcing regu- lations directing the proper use of materials in building is shown in the second annual report of the state fire marshal of Oregon, who gives the fol- lowing as & record of defects found by the Oregon state inspector during the yeur ended March, 1919: Defective wiring, 229; floor and walls unprotected ‘from stoves, 1913 defective pipes, stoves and flues, 125; found chimneys on brackets, 482; ex- posed and unprotected openings, 181 The fact that 482 chimneys were found supported on brackets, it is stated, is an indication that a most primitive method of construction still exists, and emphasires the fact that proper building regulations are most essential in all cities, large and small, for fire prevention. [ S ~ Birds’ Speed Deceptive. An interesting check on some of those gunnerd who know their bird was flying 100 miles an hour because they had to lead him steen feet would be to paint a duck on a long board at the end of an express train running at. say 60 miles an hour, and let the gunner blaze away at the painted duck at normal duck-shootipg ranges to check up the speed of the painted bird, with, the “lead” necessary to give the charge to hit the wild duck alleged to have gone 100 miles per. Neither train nor long-winged honker gives a falr Idea of the actual speed, because they are botly large ; the little bird often de- ceives, Japanese Shade. A smart idea in shades is.that of using black Japanese parchment. One of them has a glossy black back- ground against which trail graceful sprays of mulberry tlowers. OUT WITH ALL FACTS Hansen Gains Eighteen Pounds and Troubles and After Taking Tanlac “I have gained eighteen pounds and am still gaining at the rate of one-half pound a day as the result of taking Tanlac,” said William M. Hansen, well known superintendent of the Superior Electrical Mfg. Co., of Minneapolis, Minn., in talking of his remarkable recovery from stom- ach trouble.and rheumatism. - “T had stomach troublé and rheu- matism for seven years and got so bad off that I could scarcely eat enough to keep alive and my wife often had to help me when I dressed because I could not lift my hands as high as my shoulders,” he continued. “One or two mouthfuls at megl times would nauseate me so I would have to leave the table and I suffered with spells of indigestion. that almost dou- bled me up with pain. My stomach would almost fill with gas and I would bloat so that I would nearly suffocate. The gasses pressing up SUPERINTENDENT IS | MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1919 against my heart made me so awful faint and weak that I could hardly breathe. My back and head would hurt and ache terribly and rheumatic pains would shoot from one portion of my body to another until some times I was almost wild. I spent hun- dreds of dollars on doctors and medi- cines and for months at a time lived on cereals‘and dry toast, but nothing gave me even. temporary relief. I sent clear to . New York for one special medicine but it, like the oth- ers, failed to do me any good. I kept losing in weight and steadily grew worse and worse. I got so nervous I could sleep only a' few hours at night and in the morning I would ‘|get up so tired and fagged out I could hardly put one foot before the other. My condition got so bad I thought I would have to quit work altogether. ness stationery see them. They will lend N making a selection for your busi- 'paper measures up to the standard of your success. The superior quality of BERKSHIRE TYPEWRITER is immediately evident to all who “I commenced to pick up in weight and improve with the very first bottle of Tanlac. My rheumatism, and in- digestion began to leave me almost immediately and now, since taking six bottles, both are .entirely gone. I can eat anything I want as often as I want it and never have the least trouble in' digesting what I eat. As the old saying is, ‘I can eat like a horse and sleep like a log,” and I get up in the mornings feeling fresh and fine. As I have said before I have gained eighteen pounds in weight and am still gaining. Tanlac has done all this for me, so no wonder I give it my unqualified endorse- ment.” Tanlac is sold in Bemidji by the City Drug Store, in Kelliher by Mrs. R. Sterling, in Blackduck by French & Moon, and in Baudette by J. Wil- liams. be sure that the. to your business correspondence that quiet dignity which goes with assured success. ASK YOUR DEALER If He Does Not Have It in Stock . 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And our Ford garage and Ford mechanics are at your service at any time. We are Authorized Ford Dealers and not only repair Fords but also sell them. “’phone. Be fair to your car and your pocketbook. Drive in or C. W. Jewett Compény, Inc. AUTHORIZED FORD SALES AND SERVICE 418-22 Beltrami Avenue | Insist on Genuine Ford Parts Telephone 474 Bemidji, Mi ¢ i | ‘ Defective