Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 5, 1922, Page 4

S S— PAGE FOUR . N suahi L ~'BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THR BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING COMPANY @, K. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Secy-Mgz, J. D. WINTER, News Editor t—: TELEPHONE 022-923 —: Entered at the Postoftice at Bemidji, Minnesota, a3 ~'Seccud-class Matter, of Congress of’ under Act h 3, 1 MEMBER, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ... Mo ‘attantion paidT.to anonymous 8t t g blioa “Plonesr must reach' this office not. later thaa gmmuqupwnwnu fl.’up Writer's name must be . for pul Suyouvies 3y M0 # s +- 9000 One Year oiiiimeel P00 . ‘«gg B1x Months ceasecsces 560 16 Three Monthe w..oess 138 THE WEBKLY PIONEER—Twelve Wvery Thursday and seot postage Dal tor, In advance, $2.00 Unless credit Is given this paper, only the United Press is entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches creditea to it, or otherwise credited and also the local news published h OFPICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS — AIRPLANE ACTIVITY Air passenger and express service between Chis eago and New York will be undertaken this year or next by a recently incorporated company having a capital of $50,000,000. It is the intention of this company that the Chicago-New York line ul- timately will be but a link in a service transcoms tinental in scope. Service between New York and Seattle and San Francisco is anticipated in less than three years time. Routes to South America and Europe also are included in the proposed activities of the new- ly formed company. " This means that aircraft is the solution of rapid transportation has_reached a stage of perfection which warrants hard-headed business men in pu% ting their money behind it. Airplanes now are being constructed that -can’ easily carry 12 passengers in comfort and at the same time handle half a ton of express. ' What the average speed of these great man- made birds will be is hard to say, but that they will maintain an average speed of better than 80 miles an hour seems assured. When the Wright brothers made their memorable flight in the first really suc- cessful airplane, they traveled at the rate of .30° miles ‘an hour. Recently, airplanes have attained a speed -of ' 212 miles an - hour, considerably faster. than . three miles an minute, Nor:will manufac- ‘turers say that this burst of speed is by any means - the limit. ¢ Anyhow, the airplane gets you from one place to apgther quicker than any other mode of trans- portation; Not only does it glide with incredable speed through the air, but it makes a “be line” for its destinttion; there are no detours, - .. :3 ¢ 5 The only reason that the air isn’t filled with com- mercial airplanes is that their ndnpubfligy and de: pendability as an agent in the ‘commercial world hes not been fully established. Glenn Curtis, so l6ng as three years ago, wrote a series of articles explaining in great detail why the airplane, even then, was a safer conveyance than the automobile; the street car or the railroad train. Continual progress is being made toward elimination of air navigation hazards and, while there are frequent instances of accidents, air navigation experts insist the accidents are not due to the planes themselves, P& i ‘sdarens 05 Qommunicaticas fac da~1 but to the reckless or negligent manner in which they are handled. :““It.is true that there is only one peril in an’ air- plane; there is no trouble in going up—it is the coming down that counts. The airplane men insist that the planes now. being made will not fall, and if ‘they do not fall there is no danger. An automo- bile driver has plenty of obstacles to be:avoided; a railroad train may crash from a bridge or be piled up by a broken rail; a steamship may sink or hit an iceberg. : Allan airplane has to do’is keep on flying. Ifithey can do that, the aerial age is upon 2hd o RPN TR e | =1 WIDE- TASTE .FOR..GOOD. MUSIC ‘Peopls: listen to _good music with appreciati .and-enjoyment as_never before. The charge {! modern taste fufis to “jazz” and barbaric melodies™ if'akiioito the statement that:gead books ave Bat ! :zend ad'thby lonce were. Since books and music are to be found everywhere powadays,; there is, naturally, an-increased market for stories and musical numbers “of the baser sort,” as well as those of high class. ‘The. phonograph = has introduced the greatest singers of the age and the finest compositions of all time to communities and homes where these would never otherwise have been heard. Tastes for such music have been created and cultivated. And now the radiophone promises to make the best concert music available to “listeners in” all over the coun- try. : P The. public of . today has not only appetite for good music, but a capacity to appreciate the many different kinds of good music, the cosmopolitan taste, which enables an audience to sit down to a musical banquet and enjoy every course—Toronto Star. . : § §. DR. CYRUS NORTHRUP By the death of Dry Cyrus: Northrup, the state loses its leading educator and the nation a most valuable citizen. . There- was ho man in the state ‘who was more widely loved and respected- = His life exemplified the best qualities of human char- acter. He leaves many.a monument in actnal worth- while lives among the great and near great, who are graduates of the state university under his macthless leadership. The state-is to be congratulated, because of hav- ing been honored b} the life and work of this noble character within its boundaries.. He will always be held in the most affectionate memories. §F—F SPRING ATHLETICS Under the guidance of J. W.. Smith, principal of the local high school, Bemidji is' to become ac- quainted with' spring athletics. Baseball and track sports are to be a part of the work now. under con- sideration. -All _studénts - glory: in these- athletic sports and will welcome the new program. “'‘Athletics make for' better students and better citizens. With the move on” to hold .a Northern Minnesota field meet here ‘in: May, enthusiasm of the keenest type should be engénflcred and every encouragement given'to those who desire to partici- pyte. { <2 e [ Sl 3 T : . DITTY OF THE OVERDUE DOLLAR ' How dear to our heart is the old'silver dollar, when.some kind. subscriber presents it to view; the Liberty head without ‘necktie or collar, and all the strange things'which'to us seems so néw; the wide- spreading eagle, the arrows below it, the stars and the . words with the strange things they tell; the coin of our fathers, we're glad that we know it, for some time or other 'twill come in right well; the sproad-eagle dollar, the star-spangled dollar, the old silver dollar we all love so well.—Exchange. —_———— e e BUCK LAKE Geo. Luck called on E. C. Rogholt | last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Luck came back from the University the first of last week and are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Joe sohnson and other friends before gomyz on thew farm on the shore o1 Buck Lake. The Biue Ribbon Girls, who were to have held their meeting April 4th have postponed the same until the first Tuesday in May in respect to the memory of Miss Aesa Sawyer, who was ono of the organizers and charter members of the society. Messrs. Albin Carlson, Martin and Arthur Rogholt and Rector went to Cass Lake Monday to work in the J. Niels Mill. Ed Larson returned home his. work last Thursday. Mrs. A. B. Frost visited Mrs. O. E. Hoglum last Friday evening. It was reported that Mrs. O. E. Wing, teacher at the Indian school, would be at the Woodland = Union Sunday school last Sunday morning to give an address, but for some reas- on’she did not come. Mrs, ‘Leo_Anderson returned from her trip to Minnecapolis last Saturday evéning, March 25. Mrs. Anderson ‘was met by her brother, Oscar Rog- holt, Mr.' Anderson came though with his car as far as Little Falls, where he found the snow so deep, he left his car and proceeded home by train. He reached home Wednesday. Those from here transacting busi- ness in Cass Lake last Friday were: Messrs. M. O. Rogholt, Albert Hanson, T. H. Phillips, Alfred Rogholt, and Rector. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sawyer visited a few days with Henry’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Sawyer, return- ing to camp the firsti of the week. There were two more new memr bers joined our Sunday school last Sunday. Mrs.-Alex Sawyer left last Sunday afternoon for St. Cloud in response to 'a telephonc message saying her daughter, Miss Aesa, was not doing weéll at the St. Raphael hospital, where she had undergone a serious operation the Wednesday previous. Miss Aesa passed away Wednes- day evening, March 29. Mrs. Sawyer reached Cass Lake with the remains Friday evening, accompanied by an old friend of the family, Rev. J. T. L. Coates. The. funeral was held from ghe Methodist Church Saturday at from 2 P. M. Rev. L. W. Bates officiat- ing assisted by Missionary W. 8. Cummings of Bemidji and Rev. J. T. L. Coates of St. Cloud. Interment was made in the family lot in Cass Lake cemetery. Nearly every family in this community was represented at the funeral, also Mrs. H. N. Wilson and Mrs. Daniel Newton of Bemidji. TURTLE LAKE Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Olsen tran- sacted business in Bemidji Thursday. Mrs. C. E. Gryce visited with Miss Jennie Lawrence Thursday. Mrs. Perry Gary of Bemidji arriv- ed Saturday for a few days visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Peterson. John Wentworth was a Bemidji visitor Saturday. Miss Opal Grundmire, who is as- sisting Mrs. B. N. Wentworth with her household duties, was an over Sunday visitor with relatives at Blackduck. Frank 'Tournier transacted busi- ness in Bemidji Saturda; John Peterson was a itor Wednesday. The Basket:Social given in the Silver Lake school house Saturday evening by Mrs. William Gray and pupils was well attended, all present reported a very pleasent time. LAVINIA ¥ : R. O, Bird of Fargo N. D. spent a few days of last week with home folks, returning Saturday. Several from this locality attended the auctign sale at the E. C. Hess farm near Bemidji, Tuesday of last welgk. Some .mighty fine cows werse sold. 3 C.'B. Cross is’ the proud.owner of a pure, bred Barred-rock “cockerel; shipped him from the N. D. Fair grounds. A finer bird has not been seen in this part of the country. Mrs. E. M. Sathre returned home on Montlay night from Minneapolis, where she had gone with her son Paul to consult a physician. Don Leister and C. B. Cross were Bemidji visitors Saturday. The entertainment -at the school house Friday- night was .well attend- ed and everyone reports a fine time. A bountious -supper was, served. We are glad to. know-that- Wailter Y fiuposky vis- ing. Vivian Neff way a Sunday caller at the Goodmanson home. Mrs. E. M. Sathre entertained cal- lers Sunday evening. ¥ R. 0. Baird had the misfortune, last week, to loose one of his fine Holstein calves. . B Mr. and Mrs. James S. Wheeler were dinner guests at the R. A. Whe- eler home Sunday night. Word from E. H. Root, formerly of this vicinity but now of Minne- apolis, is to the effect that he intends returning for his vacation to his for- mer home, Alden Heights. It is his intention to remodel his old home. Services were enjoyed at Lavinia school house Friday night, after which the Christian Endeavor held their Bi-monthly socisl. ) D. E. Leister purchased some fine clover hay of Theodore Snyder Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W, J. Phillips moved Tuesday of last week to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kuntz, where Mr. Phil- lips° will be employed for a time. We want you to know we are mighty:proud of our school this year. The ‘busiest place in Lavinia. The State Board examinations are just over and much to the credit of a strong eight grade class. Those tak- Stout of Big Lake vicinity is improv-| - ing the tests for March were: Walt- -er Port, Richard Gibson, Vivia Cross, Joseph Darr and Lillian Hoar. So far as is known a good impression was made but we are anxiously await- . |ing final grades. A much more congenial feeling presides in Lavinia due, it is thought, to the appearance of several little linsignificant tags of a yellow hue. Good roads near Lavinia are being enjoyed already but woe unto the wanderer . who. ventures . tbo’ far therefrom.;* - it $i81 | Text Book of Wall Street 1 [ An_interesting booklet that ex- plains in simple language the prin- ciples of investing and trading. tAn ‘indispensable guide to inves- || i tors. | Write for Free Copy " McCall, Riley & Co. 1 [mn,gu»u | | | | | Stock - Brokers | 20 Broad St,, New York | ‘Harrishurg | = (//1,’ INDIA (Continued . from last issue) — “'MAre there houses near here? You must run to one of them at once. Bring whoever you can get; or if you won't do that, tell me where to go.” The ‘woman stared at her s‘olidly and moved away. ‘“None near,” she sald, “Besides, you could not get somebody before some one will come.” “Who 1s that?” “He is on the beach—Henry. Spear- man, He comes here t6 warm him- self. It Is nearly time he comes egain.” ) Constance gazed at her; the woman was plainly glad of her coming. Her rellef—rellet from that fear she had been feeling when she opened the door —was very evident. I: was Henry, then, who had frightened her. The Indian woman set a chair for her beside the'stove, and put water in a pan.to heat; she shook tea leaves from a box into a bowl and brought a cup.. “How many on that ship?” “Altogether there were - ‘hirty- nine,” Constance replied. “Seven are living then.” “Seven? What hive -you heard? ‘What makes. you think-so?” “That is what the Drum say The Drum! . There was a Drum then! At least there was some sound which people heard and which they called the Drum. For ‘he woman had heard it. Constance grew suddenly cold. For twenty lives, the woman said, the Drum had beat; that meant to her, and to Constance too now, that seven were left. Indefinite, degperate denial hat all from the ferry must be dead— that denial which bad been strength- ened by .the news that at least one boat. had been adrift near Beaver— altered. In.Constance 'to conviction of a boat with séven nien from the ferry, seven dying,' perhaps, but’ not yet dead. Seven ' out of 'twenty-seven; The score were' gone; the Drum had beat for them fn little groups as they died. When ‘the Drum; beat again, wonld it'beat beyond the score? Having . finished the tem, Constance returned to the' door and' reopened it; the sounds outside were the same. A solitary. tigure appeared moving along the edge of the ice—the figure of a tall -man, walking; on snowshoes; moonlight distorted the figure, and it was muffled, tdp; in a great coat which made it unrefognizable. He haited and stood looklng out at the lake and then, with a sudden movement, strode on; he halted again, and now Con- stance got the knowledge that he was not looking; he was listening as she ‘was. #Js-the: Drum sounding now?" she asked the woman. “No® B e e Constance gazed again at the man and found his motion quite unmistak- able; he was counting—If not counting something that he heard, or thought he heard, he was reécounting and review- ing within himself something that he had heard before—some irregular rhythm which had become so much a part of him that it sounded new con- tinually within his own brain; so that, Instinctively, he moved in cadence to it. He stepped forward again now, and turned toward the house. Her breath caught as she spoke to the woman. “Mr. Spearman is coming here now!" ‘Her impulse was to remain where she was, lest he should think she was afraid of him; but realization came to her that there might be advantage in seeing him béforé he knew that she was there, 8o she reclosed the door and drew back Into the cabin. CHAPTER XiIX Tha Sounding of the Drum. Wolses of the wind and the roaring ot the lake made inaudible any sound of his approach to the cabin; she heard his snowshoes, however, scrape the cabin wall as, after taking them off, he leaned them beside the door. He thrust the door open then and came 1n; he Ald not see her at first and, as he turned to force the door shut again agniost the wind she watched him quietly. He saw her now and started and, as though sight of her confused: him, he looked from the woman and then back to Constance before he seemed certain of her. “Hello!” ha sald tentatively, lo™ - “Pm here, Henry.” “Oh; you are! You are!™ He stood drawn- up, swaylog a little ‘as he stared at her; whisky was upon his breath, and it became evident In the heat of the room; but whisky could not account for this condition she wit- nessed in him. Neither could it con- ceal that condition; some turmoll and strain ‘within him made him immune to its effects. She had realized on her way up here what, vaguely, that strain_within him must be. Guilt—gullt of some awful gort connected him, and had connected “Hel- o i Uncle Benny, with ghe Miwak . térval between the measures of beaten:its Toll iaddy” for th&-inomeng _néarly as she coul .- THE;:BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER « DRUM b Willtam MacHuar «f id Edwin Balmer Gullt Was in His Thought Now—Rack- ing, Tearing at Mim. lost ship for which the Drum had heaten the roll-of the:dead. Guilt was in his thought now—racking, tearing at him. But there . was something more than that; what she had seen in him when he first caught sight of her was fear—fear of her, of Constance Sherrill., “You came up here about Ben Cor- vet?” he challenged. “Yes—no!” - “Which do you mean?”’ “No. “I know, then. For him, then—eh! For him?” 2 “For Alan Conrad? Yes,” she sald. “I knew it!" he repeated. “He’s been the trouble.between .you and. me all the time!” ¥ She made no denial of that; she had begun to know during ‘the last two days that it was so. “So you came to find him?” Henry went on. “He’ll be found!” she defied him. “Be found?” 3 3 “Some are dead,” she admitted, “but not all. Twenty are dead; but seven are not!” K “Seven?' he echoed. “You .say seven are not! How do you know?” “The Drum has been beating for twenty, but not for more!” Constance sald. “The Drum you've been listen- ing to all day upon the beach—the In- dian Drum that sounded for the dead of the Miwaka; sounded, one by one, for all who dled! But it dldn’t sound for him! It's been sounding again, you him, Henry, not' for him!" “The Miwaka! What do you mean by that? What's that got to do with this?” His swollen face was thrust forward at her; there was- threat against her in his tense muscles and his bloodshot eyes. She did not: shrink back from him, or wove; and now he was not waiting for her answer. Something—a sound —had caught him about. Once it echoed, low In its reverberatjon but penetrating and quite distinet. It came, So far as direction could be as- signed to it, from the’ trees toward the shore ; but it was like no forest sound. Distinct, too, was it from any nofse of the lake. It was.like a Drum! Yet, when the echo had gone, it was a sen- sation easy to deny—a hallucination, that was all. But now, low and distinct it came again; and, as before, Con- stance saw it catch Henry and hold him. His lips moved, but he _did: not speak; he was counting. “Two,” she saw his lips form. 5 The sound of the Drum was continu- ing; -the beats a few seconds apart. “Twelve,” Constance counted {o her- self. The beats had seemed to be ‘quite measured and regular at first; but now Constance knew that this was only roughly true; they beat rather in rhythm than °at. regular -fntervals, “Twenty—twenty-one — twenty-two ! Constance- caught ‘breath &hd “wafted for the wext beat; the timb Gf the rhythm passed, and .still. only t Whistle of the wind and /the underting of water sountled. * The" Drum Ha Was dowe, - ' <" iTwenty-two bhad.been her count, a8 tnt at all; the feckoning agrédd withiwhat 8 Tndtin woman had heard. “Two had died, then, since the Drum last had beat, when its roll was twenty. Two more than before; that meant tive were left! Constance caught up her woolen hood from the table and put it on.. Her action seemed to call Henry to him- self. m “What are you going to do?” he de- manded. = . ) “I'm going out.” _ He.moved betwéen her-and the door. | ‘| again to put hands upon her as they ‘| her with his snowshoes, ‘| forward slowly; he could travel, if he jdrum. was still going on. ;| four—twenty-five—twenty-six!” Would know ; but, again, it doesn’t sound for |- = * WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1922 ;Su'e"hd a deep tone of menace in i thos{: people.” will not go there!” He swore. “I'll cafry you, then!” S| gullt)and terror had given her mental asce pdency - over.- him, - his . physical ‘stre|jgthi . could sl force -her to -his Wik and,: realtzhig ‘the | impossibllity wtdNading hind' ‘or overcoming him, opped. his sshowshoes on ‘the snow - and i} stepped into them; stooping and tight- ening the straps; he-stood‘ by while she put en hers. He did not ‘attempt moved away from :the little cabin to- ward the woods back of the clearing; but went ahead, breaking the trail for He moved had wished, three feet to every two that she could cover, but he seemed not wishing for speed but rather for delay. A deep, dull. resonance was booming above the wood; it boomed again and ran into a rhythm. No longer was it above ; at least it was not only -above; It- was all about them— here, there, to right and to left, before, behind—the booming of the Drum. Doom was the substance of that sound of the Drum beating the roll of the dead. e ¥ , Henry had stopped in.front of her, half turned her way; his body swayed -and bent to the booming of the Drum, | as_his swollen lips counted its sound- ings. She could see him plainly in the moonlight, yet she drew nearer to him as _she followed his count. “Twenty- one,” he counted—*Twenty-two!” The “Twenty- he_count another? He did not; and her pilses, which had ‘halted, leaped with relief. He moved on again, descending the steep side of a little ravine, and she fol- lowed. One of his snowshoes caught in a protruding root and, instead of slowing to free it with care, he pulled it violently out, and she heard the dry, seasoned wood crack. He looked down, swore; saw that the wood was not broken . through and went on; but as he reached-the bottom of the slope, she leaped downward from a little height behind him and crashed down.upon his trailing snowshoe just.behind the heel. The rending.snap of the wood came beneath - her feet: Had -she broken through his shoe or snapped her own? She sprang back, as'he cried out and swung-in an attempt to grasp’her; he lunged to. follow’ her, and.she ran a few steps away and:stopped.- At his next step his-foot.entangled in :the mesh of. the broken snowshoe, and ke stooped, -cursing, to-strip it off and hurl it from him; then he tore off the one from-the other foot, and threw it away, and lurched after her again; but now he sank above his knees and floun- ‘dered in the snow. ~She 'stood for a moment while . the half-mad, half- drunken figure struggled toward her along the side of the ravine; then she ran to where the tree trunks hid her from him. He gained the top of the slope and turned in the direction she had gone; assured. then, apparently, that she had flown in fear of him, he started back more swiftly toward the beach. She followed, keeping out of his sight among the trees. To twenty-six, he had counted—to twenty-six, each time! That told that he knew one was living ameng those who had been upon the ferry! What one? It could only be one.of two to dismay him so; there had been only two on the ferry whose rescue he had feared ; only two who, living, he would have let lie upon this beach which he had chosen and set aside for his pa- trol, while he waited for him to die! She forced herself on, unsparingly, as she saw. Henry gain the shore and as, belteving himself alone, he hurried northward. She could not rest; she could not let herself be exhausted. Merciless .minute after minute she raced him thus— A dark shape—a fig- ure lay stretched upon the ice aliead! Beyond and still farther out, some- thing which seemed the fragments of a lifeboat tossed up and .down where the waves thundered apd gleamed at the edge of the floe, ——- - (Continued in Next Issue) THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS t1” “His heavy semed to covslder and declde somel hing about her. “There's a farm- bout a mile.back; I'm going to take; you over there and(leave you with e shrank back from him as he lurcled toward her with hands out- stretfched to seize her; he followed her, and shie avoided him again; it his t thiat ishe: cried. “Don't toueh |f s/ “Come ‘with me,then!” he c¢ommand- |- €d;.and hé. went to* thie- door and laid || ; SHOE REPAIRING PRICES ARE DOWN! ’ half soles ! half solés” . 75¢ 1.00 40c whole rubber heels ... 40c All Works Done Guaranteed. BEMIDJI SHOE STORE 315 Minn. 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