Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 26, 1920, Page 3

MONDAY EVEN!Nd, JANUARY 26, 1920 . ' “AVE “SHOW” UNDER GUARD|a sweeping siap, which is followed by ;‘Powlllr Experience of American Mu- L sical Comedy Company in the City of Viadivostok. ¥ e 1 A belated story of how an’' Ameri- . . musical comedy company which ’. d volunteered to give an entertain- pr yment for the troops at Vladivostok iwas caught in that city while the r ' ‘“reds” held sway, has been received by | the Knights of Columbus from Garry "' |McGarry, who is in charge of the wel- fare activities of the order in Siberia. | .. MThe troupe was in charge of W. R. %o the Russian seaport, where they iwere held up for several weeks awalit- - ing a steamer. i During their stay, every one, went - {around with a revolver, and the city [took on the appearance of & western *boom” town in ploneer days. During : /the period the bolshevists killed about 22 persons, and many of the actors ‘women actresses had to be taken to p— and from the theater guarded by a squad of allied soldiers, and at the hotel where they stayed a guard was <onstantly - posted. However, the !American troupe “carried on” for the «doughboys amid all the panoply of war - mnd revolution. There were armed sol- udiers inside the theater. outside, be- " lAl the audience brought their rifies ‘with them or carrfed side arms and ®and grenades.—Chicago Post. SCORPION ON BABOON'S MENU Animal Seems to Consider Insect a Del- lcacy and Consumes It With Much Relish. fs very partial to.certain kinds of ani- “mal food—scorpions, spiders, centi- begies. insects, lizards and the eggs of 'wild birds all belng eaten with relish. , The scorpion is evidently regarded a5 a tidbit. If onme is released near a captive baboon, the latter will hold its thand extended over the prey until a ‘suitable opportunity for attack of- i {Bandvard and had come from China had narrow escapes. Several of the hind the scenes, and in the box office. The chacma baboon of South Africa fers. Then the hand will descend. with Phones—65 and 66 Every dollars worth of new merc This shipment includes Percales, n aew stuff on the bargain counters, but it must be done. SHOES SHOES a swift, circular, rubbing motion. This disables the scorpion, which is then picked up and carefully examined un- til the sting is located. The latter is then picked out between finger and thumb and thrown away as far as pos- sible, after which the scorpion 1s munched with every appearance of satisfaction.—Willlam C. Scully, in At- lantic Monthly. Harmless Superstitions. Everybody is superstitious and gen- erally our superstitions are trivial and do no harm. To carry a coin in the pocket for luck; to comment about seeing the moon over the left shoul- der, to refuse to walk under a ladder; to believe that it.is bad luck to turn back; to make a wish at the appear- ance of the first star of the evening; to suppose it is mot well to break a mirror, which it isn’t well to do. But the point is, everybody is superstitious, regardless of what he says about it. He may not really know that he is su- perstitious; he may be honest in be- lieving that he is not. But the fact remains that superstition was bred into the race away back in the jungle, where little wasd understood, where importance was attached to the shape of the clouds, where trees and stones and mountains and rivers had a per- sonslity—and we can't get it out of the system. An All-Nations Case. John Pappas, a Greek, has been are rested on a charge of grand larceny. Habid Heide, a Turk, makes the ac- cusation. Heide had some Russian money, how much he doesn’t know. He exchanged it for 100 English sover- eigns. . An Ttalian friend introduced him to Pappas, the Greek. A trip through the Botanical gardens was un- dertaken. During the walk a wan who looked like a Swede and who talked like a Swede appeared and assumed the role of hold-up man. Pappas didn‘t help, said the Turk. Detective Hagerty, an Irishman, arrested the Greek. The preliminary hearing was held next morning before a magis- trate who was born in Wales.—New York Times. ——g S O e Cuba Starts War on Rats. The Cuban sanitation authoritfes have undertaken a vigorous campalign against the rat pest to prevent the | buhonic plague from entering Cuba. Thousauds of traps have been set and every precaution is being taken. Ships coming from ports under sus- picion will not be permitted to unload at the wharves, but must discharge their cargoes by means of llghterg or launches while anchored in the har- bor, thereby lessening the possibility of plague-carrying rats reaching shore. Ashes Make Good Fertilizers. The technical authorities for the res- toration of France and Belgium an- nounce that they have discovered that furnace ashes from glass, iron and steel works stimulate vegetable growth enormously through carbonic acid fer- tilization. All plant life is said to be spurred to unusual growth. These ash- es may be applied to restoration-of the devastated districts. Royal Railroad Engineer. There is no cleverer locomotive en- gineer in Spain than the duke of Sara- gossa, a wealthy member of the nobility, who is closely related to the royal family. Since the unrest in Spain has become so accentuated, each time that King Alfonso journeys by train the locomotive is conducted by the duke. No More Birthdays. “Pop!” “Yes, my son.” “What are the ‘middle ages’?” “Why, the middle ages, my boy, are the ones which when the women reach they stop counting.”—Yonkers States- man. <he trouvre. “I told you so! 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Shoes for Men, Boys, Women and Children 15 per cent Off Brand new arrivals, worth at reg- ular selling 40 cents a yard, going this week for 9c per yard GINGHAMS Just in, the new shipment, and bought to sell for 40c a yard, going at this sale for 9¢c per yard Late arrivals of fine, new hand- some ribbons, will be thrown on the counter at 15 per cent Off UNDERWEAR For Ladies’ and Children’s Sum- mer and Spring Wear. Bought to sell at regular spring prices, to be closed out at 15 per cent Off W. G. SCHROEDER Bemidji, Minn. Y