Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 6, 1920, Page 2

"July 4 to Aug 1.—Union tent Meet= by Evangelist C. F. Weigle. uly' 5.—Patriotic celebration at Be- idji. tauqua. “July '26-28—County Teachers’ ex- ‘maination of Bemidji, A . September . 6-11—Minnesota State fair NEEDED A THOROUGH SOUSING Evil Spirit of Hackman Could Not Be 1~ Exorcised Except by Most Strin- gent Methods. Doctor Brown, a mnegro evangelist, was a firm believer in the ancient cus- tom of river baptism, and converts whom he baptized in this manner sel- dom forgot it. A few years ago he held a christening in a New Jersey town on the banks of the Delaware river, where a dozen or more converts _were assembled, awaiting their turns to be immersed. Among them was a hackman, who evinced a lively inter- est ‘in the ceremons *'“Why “does the good doctor,” he asked of a fellow convert, “duck some of them folks two times an’ others: more?” “He ducks 'em once,” explained his friend, “for every new name they're goin’ to have.” “Is that possible?” the hnckmnn re- plied.. “I was goin’ to call myself Thomas 'Jefferson Lincoln Anderson, but I guess ‘Tom’ will be ’bout long ‘nuft.” This conversation was overheard by ‘the sharp ears of Doctor Brown, who finally beckoned the:hackman to come forward. “Yo’ name, please?’ he inquired in a deep bass voice. i~ “Jess baptize me “Tom,’ that’s 'ni ‘the candidate replied, as the evangel- 1st, taking him none too gently by the neck, piloted him far out into the stream, where he ducked him not.once but halt-a dozen times with such ra- pidity and vigor that a few minutes later the hackman found himself on the shore, coughing, sputtering and fighting for breath, The ceremony was soon over, and when he had recovered Jpis strength he made his way to the slde of Doctor Brown. “What fo’ you duck me that way?” he demanded in aggrieved tonmes. “I come here to be baptized, not to be drowned.” . “My good man,” replied Doctor ‘Brown, “you was so filled with the devil I had to use a powerful lot of |; wgter to wash him out of yo’ system.” Soot as a Disinfectant. It has been found that soot acts as a disinfectant and is more active moist ‘than dry. Water seems to dissolve the | {@isinfecting agents in the soot, making them more active. Carbon floating in the air sel@om, if ever, carries bacteria anless it has lodged on the ground and is again blown into the air. Now soot acts as a very effective blanket, protecting the bacteria and giving them a chance to grow. Dis eases of the nose and throat are not appreciably more prevalent in smoky cities, but they are more severe and harder to cure. This is probably due as much to the cracking of the mucous 3 membrane by the change from the dry bl atmosphere in the houses to the moist x alr outside and subsequent irritation ", by dust and smoke. CENTER OF HUN WAR POWER Ruhrort, With Its Splendid River Har bor, Really the Most Important City of Germany. Ruhrort, which had the largest riv- | er harbor ‘in Europe, and which in- cduded the Ruhr basin, was the power plant of Germany's former industrial machine and mighty war engine. . Between the Rhine and Ruhr is Dujsburg, city of rolling mills, found- ries and factories. This beehive of in- dustry was once a university town, but the school was supplanted by fac- tories. Duisburg is connected with the Ruhr by a canal. Farther up the Ruhr is Witten, im- yortant not only for its steel,’ but also Zor beer, soap and chemicals.: The Rubr basin coal fields not only were important to Germany because of their heavy production, but .because they “‘alone were accessible for water im< portation of ores. A canal connected Dortmund, a city of the Ruhr basin, with the Ems river, thus affording an outlet to the North sea at Emden. The Rubr was made navigable from the Rhine to Witten, some 35 miles, by means of locks. < - America’s Debt to Eads. - In nearly four centuries the names .+ of many men have become linked his- : torically with the “Big Muddy.” De " “Soto discovered it, Marquette, LaSalle and Hennepin were among its explor- ers.. Mark Twain was its Homer. But James Buchanan Eads saddled it and curbed it to serve mankind. His rec- -ord.is unique in the engineering annals ““of America, with the mighty river sub- issive in his power. He was the first pryinto its depths, to sound its se- ets, wrest from it its sunken treas- es; the first to build for it the first fronclads in the western hemisphere, to ave swung a great bridge across it midway-its length and, as the greatest hievement of all, to have compressed ‘channel at the mouth so that it cut ship’s wny to the sea. July 21-25—Redpath-Vawter Chau-|* | explain the huge circulation.of one of letll Claims wm Bpot. Hnwnll now claims the'wettest spots on ‘earth. From records 'coyering *long period, Cherrapunji, an ‘elevation of about 4,500 Khasi hills ‘in India, has established a rainfall average of 428 inches a year, with a maximum of 905 Inches In the questionable “record for . 1861, Short -period observations show that Mount Walaleale, the _central peak of the island of Kauai, with a height of 5080 feet, has a yearly average of 476 tnches; while estimates for nearby lo- calities for the wet years:of 1914 and 1915, when no records were kept, make it appear that the rainfall then must, have exceeded 600 inches, ‘Other parts of Hawaii are scarcely less damp. Puu ‘Kukui, 5,000 feet high, on the island of Ma#, has had a seven-year gverage of 869 inches, with a maximum of 562 inches in 1914. At least a dozen other spots; above 1,000 feet of elevation, are reported. to have exceeded 350 inches in ench of the years 1914 and 1918 FEEL NEED OF GRUMBLING Complaints Absolutely: a - Source . of Enjoyment to Great Mass of Human Beings. ; One 18 as likely to grumble against the people one injures as against the people who injure one. -One has .to grumble at ‘something or other. A man who can find nothing to complain about simply does not know how to enjoy himself, the New Statesman (London) observes. ' Now. n:v'ouldn'l your life be . exceedingly With nothing whatever to gtumble at? That is. why people like to read let- ters in' the paper, and also helps to the notorious weekly papers. The edi- tor was clever enough to see that most people dearly love - thefr -grievances, and that if you give them a platform for thelr grievances you will sell more copies than if you give them only a platform for your own ideals, used as a substitute for fly-paper. ‘savages in northeastern: Asia utilize a MUSHROOMS GF ALL SORTS | Edible and Puisonouu, While One Spe- cles; Grown in Africa, s Worshiped as a God. In or about the edges of woods one |- occasionally comes across an unpleas- pleasant, gnt-looking umbrella:shaped mush- d!uppem, room with a red or orange-colored top [improves—you work bette Give it a thoro trial and you will recommend. it to all your woman strange to say, people |friends. = 35c a yackage. Tea or Tablets. : that t¢ covered with a slimy exudation. Now ‘and then, s eat it. They die. Its slime 1§ very attractive to' files. They gather upon it, and they die, In Europe- this “species of mushroom is The horrible-smelling ~ “clathrus” mushroom’ is /believed in France to | cause cancer. French people call it the “cancer mushroom.” * Another spe- cles, which grows. on olive trees, is 80 luminous at night that one can see to | read by it. ‘Other kinds of mushrooms are used for making ink, for stanching the flow of blood ‘and (in Lapland).for: killing bedbugs. A "European species i5' em- ployed to stupefy.bees, and certain “puffballs” are ~said’ to have anes- thetic properties,: . Tribes ‘of semi- mushroom for snuff. But most curious of all is the Polyporus sacér, which in Africa Is worfimbed as a god.—Pitts- burgh Dispatch. Perfumed Petrol. Will motorcars. in the .future per- fume our streets with the scent of at- tar of roses instead of the evil-smell- lng mixture which offends:our nostrlls‘ as they pass? J The question is suggested by the statement that a quarter of a million’ gallons of motor spirit can be produced In" the Hydeérabad - state of India by distilling the flowers of the mowra tree. A Mowra flowers gre. very rlch in su- gar, and a ton ot ‘®ie dried flowers produce$ as much as 90 gallons of 95 po. cent pure prr.t The\ ave long been in use, for the pxepmatnon of a native. alcohollc liquor; but only a smal! proportion. of the trees available |- is needed for this purpose. years a8go. Girls-Ladies Women HOLLISTER‘S ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA a great Laxative—-—mfld certain—so thoroly cleansing and purifying that CONSTIPATION and when your CONSTIPATION goes—your COMPLEXION i Compare the present price of butte/r with' the price of meat: Compare the prices of the same two items as' they were, four Meat has increased nearly 300 per cent, butter less than 100 'per cent. Use more butter and less meat md ndueo’ the H. C.'L.—you'll be healthier, top. b Nothing can equal the delicious, appetizing flavor of butter. '~ Nothing can equal the health-giving qualities of butter. tains the valuable substance known as “Vitamines,” obtainable only in genuine butter and other dairy pl’ndnct:. , your dealer for - CHIEF BRAND BUT TER BEMIDJI CREAMERY COMPANY Read The Pioneer Want Ad FIND r—eat. Better—feel better. kst BARKER’S DRUG STORE It con- Always ‘ask: MADEY BEMIDJI, MlNNESOTA : We do not mean to say that the mass of human: beings are devold of ideals, but we fear that on ordinary occasions they are a great deal more interested in their complaints, It s just. the same. with regard to their health. They are much less likely ‘to hoast how well they are feeling than how ill they are feeling.. A liver com- plaint means far more to a man than theé best digestion. If you allow him he will describe his symptoms—the taste in his mouth, the sudden loss of vision; and what happens if he eats ‘stewed plums. And he tells you ail "this not in humility but with the van- ity of a peacock. The vanity of an invalid far sur< passes any . vanity known in healthy men and women. This is, perhaps, one of the compensations of 111 health,. It gives one something to complnin about. FORESAW CONQUEST QF AIR But Brother-in-Law of Ollvor Grcmv well .Had Some -Ideas That Appear Crude Tod:y. .‘.rohn Wnklns, who married Bohlna. sister of Oliver Cromwell, in 1656, had original ideas on flying.. He set forth ‘his theories in a book in which he dis- cussed four possible varieties of avia- tion: By spirits or angels, by the help of fowls, by wings fastened immedi- ately to the hodv ‘and hv a flyingi chariot, Wilkins' wrote . that the fourth way| ! seemed to him: ‘much’ more nsetul than the rest; and that is by a flylug o charlot, which may be so. contrived as to carry a° man ‘within it; and though the strength of ‘a spring might perhaps be serviceable for the motion of this engine, yet it -were better to ST HRL have it assisted by ‘the labor of some 3 4 intelligent ‘mover. And, therefore, if it were made big enough to carry sun- dry persons together, then .each of them in their several turn inight suc- cessfully labor,in the causing of thls motion.” Wilkins was one'of the founders|® of the Royalgsociety. He believed lfi | should be “easy to frame an instrument' wherein*anyone may- sit-and give. stich | motion unto' it as shall convey him aloft ;through the afr.” R < o . X-Ray Boon to Humanity. %]t is through the lnflnltely little,” victor Hugo once wrote, “that the Tn-| . ¢ finitely great overwhelms us.” . That N thought comes. back with the celebra- tion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the X-ray, discovered . during: the 3 spring and. summer of 1895 by Willam Roentgen, a professor of physics. Hig achievement disclosed an emanation which could be used in physical inves- P tigations with. searching power; Iv furnished a means by which: “shadow” pictures ‘could be .taken of: the, inter- fors of opaque objects and px'oved of priceless value to surgeons by en- abling them to locate obstructions and nhnormnl!tms in the human body. Zodiacal Signs and Vegetation. Zodiacal signs have -no influence whatever upon vegetation. A fruitfal | season is one in which the climatic conditions, &uch as temperature and precipitation. have been of the nature to produce ' the ' best pcssible'results., There s a-great variation in these con: ditions, although coincident with ‘the return of the same.zodiacal sign. The same sign coincides with the abnormal | summer as well as with the normal, and the same remark applies t6 any other season. IT WAS my busy day. AND l tol:l t.ho.boy.. 1 couLD not lee. ANY VlsITORS.- AND HE popped buck IAND sAlo thm was, . AND''| afid "No." BUT I neu t.he boy- 18 LIKE my wlte. AND DOESN'T hlow. ) 2 :VIHO'S BOSS. A GENTLEMAN outside, “WHO WISHED to seo ma. ‘ oy FOR aAcK he comes, . AND SAYS the man. WANTS JUST a word. o o @ AND | told the boy. 1 COULD tell the man. ] e @ JUST WHERE to go. ‘IN JuST t.hree worda. . BUT THE boy clme back. AND SAID the man. A GOULD SPOT me one.” -HIS BUSIN ESS needed. JUST ‘rwo ward!. " AND I'M a sport. e s .-AND CURIOUS too. * o 0 80 IN he came, AND HANDED me. . v 4 SOME CIGARET‘I‘ES to try. AND SAID “They Satllf}"' AND 1 will state- .0 HE SAIDQ something. o s 0 office boy wasa good plckel' ) 1Iu“l<v CIGARE \HEY SATISFY”—that says it. Never . - were - firier ' tobaccos used in any clgarette and never were tobaccos: - - 'more ‘carefully and skillfully blended. Chesterfields -give you all. that any: cng;r:ytwthc:uld g'nie plus a * m'ffite : qnalif at is. exclusivel theits. e blend can’t be copied: ; TTES syt