Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 6

— i < the other guys when. aplying for in- -life insurance at - thing would completely upset me. I WOOD SAWING—T75¢ *+ Fred Marquard, Phone 160, 1‘2-27th Twentleth CGentury ‘ . L mited {g Laugh With Us— | Not At Us— Practical Saving 2 Today is the day when the biggest share of the business done by the stores is eXchanging Chistmas. gifts received: by persons who have no use for them. It's a poox policy to ex- change. gifts for something you do want. Supposing you should meet the donor in the store exchanging the present- you gave. A better way is to keep them all until next year. —Would Be Handy Then— About This Time of Year About this time “of ‘year is when that old gag about Christmas presents is. usually sprung, The question is: “What is the first thing to turn green in the spring?” The answer is: ““Christmas_jewelry.” —Try It Out— Any Time of the Year “Some people practice reading while they are at home where only the family can hear them. Others go to the movies. i ~—True Enough— Al Opposed “Say Aye” What'’s all:this talk about the “open | door?” Sonie of those guys: in the East| who believe in the open- door ought lo come up here and get a taste of, this weather. It's “cold enough with| the door shut, = == —Keep the Home Fires Burning— | The Vital Question A local. wiseacre says that when the haby swa;zllow‘sn nickel a good way to recover it is to call the landlord. But what we want to know is how that helps It's as good as lost if the} landlord gots wiso that there iy a| nickel ‘in the family. 4 —He'll Get It— A Good Example The person who persists in bei crooked will some time or othertfil:g himself out of a job. It doesn’t pay to be crooked. Look ‘at the, ¢ork- serew, ‘that only gets a job once in a while, and then there ‘are lots of them that never get a job. But what good would a, corkserew be if it de- cided to go straight? —Good for Nothing— Z Some Benefits A man' with a wooden leg is com« monly considered handicaped. Inmn great measure he is, but did you ever stop to think that he''has it all over surance.. He ¢an npply' for fire and the same time, But "don’t: get a wooder L on' that account. ShlB et ‘—Insure Your Head—, . Solid Ivory Indications are that there will nev- er be a shottnge of material for piano keys, while the world is full of people’ who think they can get something for nothing. —It Can't Be Done— e ————————— TIDE HAS TURNED, DECLARES HOGAN Four Years of Bad Health Ends| - By Taking Tanlac—Says He Feels Just Fine Now \ | “I suffered for four long years, but the tide- finally turned for me when I got Tanlac and I’'m now en- joying the best of health,” said Pat- rick Hogan, 401 Belmont St., St. Paul, Minn. P “I suffered a world of trouble from indigestion and nervousness, and my appetitie was so poor I didn’t relish my food at all. I just had to force myself to eat enough to keep going and after every meal my heart would palpitate until I simply had to gasp for breath. My complexion became very bad and my nerves were so un- strung that at times the least little was so miserable and restless that many a time I'just had to get up dur- ing the middle of the night and pace the floor, and I got so weak and run down I could hardly do my work. “When I’ startéd taking Tanlac I l\egnq imnroving from the very first, and since taking two bottles I'm feel- ing just fine in every way. My appe- tite is so good that I can relish all my. food; and I eat just anaything: I want to. without. being troubled s bit | with palpitations or shortness of ! breath. My nerves are ag steady as a | clock; and I sleep like a log évery | night. 1 have a good healthy color, and 1 feel as if 1.were back in'my twen- txe’sr agln Lok Ny - Tanlac is sold in Bemidji by the | City Drug’Co., and by leading )&rug\- gists everywhere.—Ady. i f ADDITIONAL WANT ADS FOR SALE--Indiana soft coal at, $11.75 per ton, delivered. Also | good,. dry birch wood at $8.50 pei' cord. Jos. McTaggart, Phone 601. i 3t12-29 firm; receipts, 86 cars; total U. S. i shipments, 348 cars. Northefn whites, | to the end of the slip; the shark took to pulling and broke loose the skiff | E ‘MARKETS i POTATO MARKET Chicago, Dec. 27.—Potato mnfket, sacked, $2.00 to $2.10; buik, $2.00 ;o $2.20; Idaho round whites, sacked, 2.15. ¢ 3 [ UNCLE SAM HELPS BUILD b GOOD ROADS IN EVERY STATE " Rozds built, under construction ot under -agreement for construction throughout the United States in con- junction with federal aid funds distri- huted among the state by the bureau| of public xoads, United States De- partnient of Agriculture, since Juiy 1, 1916, total' 28,135 miles, accord- ing to a summary of the work just completed by the department. SHARKS TAKEN OFF NEW YORK Thelr Capture Said to Have Been a Regular Thing Prior to and During Year 1815, A shark nowadays even on the most exposed beaches of New York and the metropolitan area is a rarity and a curlosity, but there was a time when these fish used to be caught off Cath- | arine slip, says’ the New York Sun.! This was about 1815, when the fishing ‘ smacks and fish cars used to unload and load off tlis wharf in the East | river and the dead fish thrown out into the water used to attract the sharks, An old man, Sam Way, o porter in ! the."old CGatharine market, earned a | reputation as a master shark catcher. “Shark ‘around the slip,” was the | cry that wus raised when a shark was sighted off the pler and. then Sam would drop his broom and put out his- chain hook and soon :would haye the glant flsh struggling on the dock. He | 1s sald to have hauled in as many as | seven in one day, some of them four- teen fect long. Devoe, the .historian, tells an inci. dent which Is passed on herewith withs out confirmation: X “One day Sam hooked a big one and he climbed into a'skift which lay tied with' Sam In, and away he went down the river at rnce-horse speed, nearly as far as Red Hook before he tired | out, or Sam could hold him up. He, | however, mastered him and brought him Dback, and Sam after that con- cluded not to be run away with again, So he stuck to the raft or dock when he fished for ‘shark’ thereafter.” Meaning of the Carat Mark. When you buy a-watch or.a ring or any other article of jewelry you gen- erally find the mark, “14k,” on it if it is made of gold of that proportion. But as to just how much gold there is in'a 14k gold ring, few people know. Some. gold 8 18k-and some 22k, Just as the name “sterling” stamps | sllverware as being made of solid sil- | ver, 80 the carat marks on goldware indleate the amount of gold used in making it. Gold is divided into twenty-four - carats, - the “k” mark meaning “carat” Pure gold contalns twenty-four carats. The mark “141:"i on an object made of gold means that there are fourteen parts of gold and | ten parts of alloy, generally copper, | in its makeap. = Articles made of pure gold would not retain their shape, so the alloy. 18 added, 14-carat gold being most genprally used in the manufac- ture of jewelry. Old-Fashioned Neotion. | “The coffee 1s good here, the walt- | ers attentive and the music and vaude- ville superior. Besides, 1-dou't: think & you will find a miove tastefully-dec- | orated place in theielty.” X } “1 agree-with' all § the Visitor,’ "who, wi g shown ahout toin, “but ocenslomally I go into a ¥estaurant for!the. purpose of getting something ‘to] eat’—Birming- | ham Age-Herald. e ; " replled ; Translucent Apple Guén s Best Jade. | The best Jade, according to Chinese X connolsseurs, is the translucent apple : out arcs of murkiness., A short smn;:‘ of perfectly matched beads will retail for the unassuming little price of §10,- ! 000 up. : Though: jade comes in thei form of marble blocks sufticiently large ! to furnish raw material for several cemetery angels, &, whole hillside. may [ per’ cord. | uot supply - enough of the ' flawless | translucent varlety for a pair of eare rings, ey WHO ALWANS 'away. When only twelve years of age- green variety of even color and with- M EALS ME SHED LIGHT ON WORLD'S AGE | Discovery. by Humble Englishman Proved. a Most Valuable Contribu- tion to Scientific Knowledge. A village grocer in Kent, England, some years ago came upon some pe- culiar stones around, his house. He studied them intently and as a re- | sult succeeded In establishing the age of mankind ! X As most people know, our primitive ancestors used tools and, wespons which gre kpown under the names of eolithi¢; neolithic and palaeolithic fn- struments. 7 ‘The grover who made the discovery, Benjzme Harrison, came to the con- clusion that these stomes would per- |. haps throw some light on the subject. For-50.years he made collections of samples, and by devoting:himself. to.! their- tudy managed to: prove that man existed at'least 200,000 years ago. The stones he had. collectod were rel- fcs of anclent implements, Mr, Harrison was content to spend | his life in his natlve place, sclflom} traveling more than twenty - miles | he started his researches among the chalk hills. of the Downs.and on the site of the old Roman camp at Old- bary: 4 Iu 1019 his name was included ia the civil list for “devotion to scientific work,” It was stated that few men whose sciéntific discoveries are of real importance were so little known to the compunity outside thé select cjr- cle of - speciallsts. At the time of his death he had collected 5,000 specimens of ancient stones, - HIS LIFE NOT A “FAILURE” Mere, Worldly Success Not the -Only 1 Thing That Has, or Should Have, Value. ; . “He is a little mild-eyed, gray man who never hus amounted to anything. He is jast another of life's failures.” Thus wrote one business man to an- other. X = Let’s seé,. What is a failure? A good many yearts ago the heart of a hoy leaped with the surging impulses of ambition. ‘Al the golden dreams of youth, finer by far than any realities, were his. B But he never quite managed to make render in the past. Bring your car to us. . QUALITY %, Service Is FORD We have just recently made several im- portant changes in our Repair Department. We have now the best and most thoroughly - equipped Repair Shop in the Northwest. This equipmen\t, together with the changes which we have just made, will enable us to give our customers SERVICE which will “be far better than we have been able to our Repair Departmei{t will give you WORKMANSHIP COURTESY 5 —in other words, the service our customers have a right to expect. C. W. JEWETT INGORPORATED BUN A POWER - Wfii\-\\:lafi. MACHINE things - turn out the way Te Diad planneld.’ Riding the. high winds of | great accomplishment was not for him. ' His was the éolorléss monotony of || srocery bills, rent, half-soled shoes and a silver watch. He \wanted to be a diamond, bat he only. turned out to be a ploce of coal. e i One of life’s unfulfillments, that’s all, e % who is a good husband or .a good fathee or a goed citizen is ever a fdilure. If le is, ‘there's something. wrong with the whole scheme of human des- un)\'.—’l‘hrlft Magazine. S Delays That:Were Fatal. Former King Karl stopped for dins ner dat a: time whenhe should have gone on; ond ali' history Suggests that such delays are nearly always-fatal. Hannibal -lost Carthage, ‘a possible riumph, when he stayed to eat many dinners in Capua, ~just as Prince Charlle 108t his hope of fhe crown when he:delayed on his march to London. Six weeks at Holyrood ruined the Stuart cause. “Had he at. once marched south he might well have: reached London, and had he -reached TLondon. the face of history in this is- land might have been changed.” So, too, with James II when William IIT landed in England; had he thrown off hesitation and moved at once to meet the invader the chances are that there 'would have heen no “Glorious Revo- ytion.” Primitive’ .Conditions of; Life. The natives of some unexplored re- glons of :South America make little clearings, usually one .or. two, but sometimes as many as 20 or 80 acres. These gardens are disorderly affairs, with the half-burned stumps left stick- ing up. 'They plant them without ap- parent method. They generally have a great deal of -casava, our taploca, which is their form of cereal. It also furnishes the native drink, in fer- mented form. As to meat, they eat only.what they can catch. @nd kill, wild meat, exclu- sively, and they hunt largely with bow and arrow. It is no rare sight'tg see an Indian starting off with a great| bow six feet long to Ashnn!: birds, for | which he uses a blunt.arrow, says Pro- fessor Gleason., 'They use barbed are rows to shoot fish, > You will find that Our Motto - . * definition you ' w! 1 v o“q But not a:failure, hecause no man . e s will Zhrobatily: 50y ihedge. ditch, paling, turf or timber, ~ “The Boy Behind the Machine” : : M whst Al RN w2 furrow—whoso | riding Straightest, came in first and was:winner, FEW MAPS ARE TRUTi‘iEU‘L But there are few, indeéd, to whom In Fact, Only Those on Globes Are Able Accurately to Portray Ex- @ wild goose chase bears any implica- “tensive Areas. }lcu of sport, yet the phrase derlves & rom a sport hazardous, indeed. It Do you Know what,a map is? It |8 Said to have begun in Ireland, where sounds like a foolish question. You aLchosen leader, took. mounted men will - probably . contend thdt every | 0SS country, but chose always the schoolboy knows. If pressed for a |1pughest, wildest golng to be found. If mischance befell the leader some other took up the. office—occasionally here was a change of leaders if the fitst .proved timorous.. For danger rdal and thrilling was the spice of the The nian had reached the door,, { but he suddenly stopped with his hand { on the latch, #And how much will that apalysls; cost me?” he inquired. daceld “Five dollars,” was the answer, The man walked over, to the coun- ter and swept.ihe candy into-the bag;' which he replaced in his pocket. ~° “Niver moind,” he said. “‘Orll feed wan to the cat.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Machine Clears Land for Farm. Among the new agricultural machin- | ! / ery is o ponderous mechanical con- ;‘ y 'L'pd,,fi o;;':ni‘:.nf;s ot he whe came | Struétion which moves under its own | me first, but he who ‘had flunked ‘-DOWCL, Over Some rough country and i the ‘roufe, even possibly leaves it in condition for planting. | 5 sone further around to. negoti- | operation: ‘ot clearing Tand. for | aty an extra-hazard, ultural purposes s i wvery hurd | and tedlous operation, but with the aid of this new. machine the labor'; and time expenditure 1s reduced more | than half. - The front end of the ma- ! chine, which moves on a caterpillar ! tread; is equipped .with heavy bars; with sharpened points which enter the | ground alternately and tear roots nnd; throw them on a conveyer belt, drop- | ping them Inside to be disposed of . later. The rear of the machine is . supplled with -a somewhat: different device: which - pulverizes the ground and leaves it In condition for planting. Tnder ordinary _conditlons this-ma- chine has a capacity of three acres'a aay. map is a drawing which exactly rep- resents -a portion of the earth’s sur- face, the distances between the points upon the map being proportionate to distance between the points-upon the earth represented” or some simitar ex- f planation, + But-this is only partly true, writes €. H. Claudy in' the Scientific Ameri- ‘¢an. There is only one kind of map in_existence which ‘will ‘truthfully nt such a definition, and that is a map made upon a globe. No flat map, large or small, “exactly represents” any portion of the earth’s surface, and only on a globe, are the distances between all: points truly proportional to- dis- tances between points on the earth rep- resented. v In otlhier words all flat maps are dis- torted. All flat maps tell only a part of the truth. All flat maps to some extent misrepresept the facts. This is not due to any lack of moral sense on the part of the map makers. They can’t help it. The naturve of & globe Is stch that there Is no. process | by which its surface can be flatiened out without tdaring, stretching, cutting or- compressing. And ‘the-earth is « globe (slightly flattened at.thé poles). I Kuowing this I have wondered a lit- tle, it the Wild Geese—the Irish' le- ghhs who, fighting for alien ' kings, have shown themselves -prodigies of valor—did not take their name from | the{ sport nearest tlie heart of thelr honjeland.—New York Herald: Somgwhat Rough on the Cat, but Five 1 Dollars'Is'Something These } Hard Times. | Expert ‘testimony may 'be valuable K | a scientific” point of view, but re -often cheaper ways of es- ing a certainty, as the follow- }‘:0\\'5. : The Insecurity of Office. ! “A public career has Its compensa-’ tions.” ", 5 “What are they?” ‘asked Senator Snortsworthy. suspiciously. “Well, you-enjoy a certain honorable distinction, you are much in the pub- {die eye and your fellow citizens pay {'you the respect due a statesman.” “Maybe so, but I'm never the center {of an admiring crowd of my constith« Did “ye iver: ents that I don't wonder which one of Dinnis McGaire give . them cherishes a secret ambition fo , i’ Dinnig 1% no. frind stand in my shoes and is figuring out I A 3 a little ‘combination that’ may In a “Well, I can mdake an analysis.” Ifew years have me:back In tlie home “All yight. ' OI'l come in tomor- ; town practicing . law."—Birmingiain {EO° _on me way-from worrk." _ | Age-Herald, SR z ing An ! 'Irish laborer entered a'’drug store, |and drawing & paper bag from his pocket, poured. on the counter a numbdr. of very sticky and unattrac- tive looking pieces of candy. #Can you examine this candy?” he i asked. | . % ' “It ltioks queer. ‘What's the matter with il?” asked the druggist, “Pizen, OPm . thinkin’, see such stuff? thim tJ me of - moine.” MOST HAZARDOUS OF SPORTS | Participants in Ifish - Wild Goose Chase Always in for Danger _Real and Thrilling. The etymology. of steeplechase is too obvious to mneed set . explanation. Founders of the sport merely fixed upon a distant steeple and rode Straight to ' it, . crossing gallantly, Dastures, crops, moorland or ridge and | wBpfrglars tbdn’t Seek The - Limelight \ ’ ARKNESS is theit stock in trade. 'They work by : stealth-—unheard, and unseen—-their movements cloaked in secrecy. . It's honest folks that seek the light. They are the only ones who can risk it. ‘ : It's the same way injbusiness.” The manufacturer or the merchant who is not sure of his goods does not dare to advertise. =Advertising would hasten the end of his business career—put hirii to a test he could not meet. N The man who adveilfises, deliberately invites your inspection. - He tells yow about his product or his mer- . chandise and then lets itistand on its own merits. © You 3 ¢an depend en hin.' He Jinows his product is good. A 4 "} That’s one reason why it pays you to read the adver- ‘tisements you find. in the| columns of this paper, Itis . “through advei?f’lémg?that ‘you are able to keep in touch & with the good things that{progressive business men are | spending their money. to introduce and to keep before you. : ! ; ) ' Adyertisements are intiresting, instructive and prof- “itable. - They throw a powerful light on the very things that concern you most. 'R~'\~.ad them. P P ¥ r