Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 6, 1922, Page 4

{ S & PAGE FOUR BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING COMPANY Pt G, E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Secy-Mgr. J. D. WINTER, News Editor +— TELEPHONE 922.923 Postoftice at Bem! Minnesots, as B e e dor Att ot Conutess’ of March 3, 1879, [ ———————tee et e MEMBER, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ——————eeeeeeree e 1™ Forelgn Advertising Representatives 8. G. Theis Co. Chicago, IlL, and New York, N. Y, No attention’ pald to sumonymous ooftributions. Writer's name. must be knqwn to the editor, dut_not M‘ for pubdlication.'s Communications for the L oneer must reach this office not later than i Of each week to insure publication in tha eur- -\ tent issue, SUBSCRIPTION RATES g ve00 Ry s Boatgiia tiiii st Ome Tt ooyt MORthS eeroee Y 150 mix Months ... 16 Three Months w.ee.. 138 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve piges, published ® Thursday and sent postage pald to any address for, tn advi $2.00, credit ia given this paper, only the United Prees is entitled to the use for re-publication of ell news dispatohes credited to it, or otherwise credited. and also the local news published herein. OPFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS THE CITY CHARTER In recent issues of The Pionger appeared three types of city charters; the commission form, the mayor-council form and the city manager form. Not a few have passed comment upon these plans as submitted, and many have expressed preference for one or another. The Pioneer desires to publish arguments for and against any and all forms of charters, as in this way only can the public become enlightened. The charter commission is making every efiort to present to the people the best kind of charter for their adoption, and urges every citizens who is intorested in the welfare of Bemidji to take part in its proceedings. The commission is working hard and diligently to secure the opinions of our citizens from day to day, as the various sections of the charter are dis- . cussed. The Pioneer is printing these sections as they are passed upon (but not adopted) by the com- mission. Please bear in mind that the charter as printed from day to day is not fixed, by any means, but may and will be changed as suggestions are made, provided these suggestions are what the peo- ple want. Now, day by day, is'the time to make your sug- gestions. Give your ideas to the commission. Do not wait until the charter comes up for a vote and then kick. .Do it now and your suggestions. will doubtless be embodied in the charter. With this free, open discussion plan carried on by the commission, there should not be a single dis- senting vote when the charter comes up for adop- tion by the people. Kick now if you don’t like it. Be manly-about it. Don’t wait until e‘le—ct‘i.on. e = e o C - THE VRIVERSAL THE STATE TICKET Minnesota Republicans = appear to be “sitting pretty” this year, with their greatest danger being over-confidence. Frank B. Kellogg has.been re-nominated to suc- ceed himself as a candidate for the United States senate and Governor Ji A. O. Preus is again the endorsed standard bearer' in the state. The harmony and good feeling manifest at the close of the Republican state endorsement conven- tion shews a party spirit not previously found since the war periolll 3 i I \ ats is Mrs. Peter Oleson and the Nonparti sal : named as-candidate -Henrik-Shipstead....dt is niok-all Tikely: that-under- any_conditions would ‘ thevoters feel constrained at this time to elect a | woman to this office. As for Dr. Shipstead, thé } s"h’r‘ of nonpartisanism is setting and his candidacy . as opposed to a man of Senator Kellogg's . ability need- not be taken too seriously. " As for Governor Preus and the other state of- ficers, it can be said that progressive administration of the 'past two years has won the confidence and approval of the people and if all the voters who be- lieve in continuing good government as admin- jstered by capable officials will take enough inter- est. in the ‘i)mceedings to go over the poles, the state will have nothing to fear for the coming two years. §——5 WHY HE TURNED DOWN A BIG JOB A very large business concern wanted a certain man for a big jobs It offered him a salary which it was quite sure would dazzle him. He refused to take it! Why? Solely because he hadn’t absolute f£aith in the character of the men in eontrol, even though the company was financially very strong. We may be rather tired of hearing about the im- portance of building up the right kind of a reputa- tion in order to be able to sell a product. But does not’ this incident suggest a new thought, namely, that &s business morals improve, concerns ‘whose character and reputation are not of the very high- est may in future encounter difficulty in attract- ing the finest type of executives no matter how enormous the salary or other emoluments offered? As men grow wiser, they. learn to attach less im- portance to the getting of money and mere im- portance to how they earn it—Forbes Mazagine. §—% NOT QUITE PERFECT A certain dowager who was compelled to econo- mize in her menage discharged the butler, who had-been with her for a long time, giving him an excellent ‘reference. A few days later 'a lady to whom' he had applied by letter for a position wrote the . dowager, asking rather bluntly, “Was he courteous, gentlemanly, thoughtful, honest and of distinguished appearance?” To which she replied: “The Dowager Lady Blank .wishes to say that - if- her butler possessed half the virtues enumerated I 5 can she would have married him heérself Fears ago.”— *Boston Transcript. Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR HERE YOU ARE! Read the following advertisement—then pick up the telephone, call 970—tell us what model you want! We will sell Ford cars on the following terms, as long as we are able to make deliveries. Get in on these prices—they are cheap- er than shoe leather! The present Ford car is the best Henry Ford has ever built. Look for the'new Fan and lighter Reciprocating Parts; more powerful Magneto and many other improvements. :—— HERE YOU ARE! CHASSIS TO $133.20 Cash Down URING $157.17 Cash Down ROADSTER $146.43 Cash Down i Balance Balance . 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AR tox; Kellogg's only oppokition I ¥lom thj 3 i ~, A0 INDIAN DRUM W Willtam M acHarg and Edwin Balmer Gopyriaht by Eapaind (Continued from last issue) culiaF and exciting’ alteration in Sher- rill's manner toward him, he had fel it wus something inore than merely 1ik- ing for him that Sherrill had;showed, and Sherriil had spoken of her to him as Constance, not, as he had called her glways before, “Miss Sherrill,” or “my daughter.” ‘Alan had had dreams which had seemed impossible-of ful- fillment, of dedicating his life and all i Henry's pace quickened; hers quick- ened desperately, too. She left the shelter of the trees and scrambled down the steep pitch of the bluff, shouting, crying aloud. Henry turned about and saw her; he halted, and she passed him with a rush and got be- tween him and the form upon the ice, before she turned and faced him. Defeat—defeat of whatever purpose he had had—was his.now that she was there to witness what he might do; and in his realization of that, he burst out in onthy against her— He advanced; she stood, confronting—he swayed slightly in his walk and swuug past her and away; he went past those things on the beach and kept on along the ice hummocks toward the north, She run to the huddled figure of the man in- mackinaw, and cap; his face, ‘was hidden partly by the position in which he lay and partly by the drift- ing snow;. but, before she swept the snow away and turned bim to her, she knew that he was Alan. Y She cried to him and, when he did not answer, she shook him to get him awake; but she could not rouse him. Praying in wild whispers to herself, she opened his-jacket and felt within his clothes; -hie was warm—at least he She Tried to Lift Him, to Carry Him; Then to Drag Him. But She Could Not. was not frozen within! No; and there seemed some ‘stir of his heart! She tried to lift him, to carry him; then to drag him. But she could not; he fell from her arms into the snow again, and she sat down, pulling him upon her lap and clasping him to her. She must have aid, she must get him to some house, she must take him, out of the- terrible:cold; but dared she leave him? Might Henry return, if she went away? She arose and looked about. Far up the shore she saw his figure rising and falling with his flight over the rough ice. A sound came to her, too, the low, deep reverberation of the Drum beating once more along the shore and in the woods and out upon the lake; and it seemed to her that Henry’s figure, In the stumbling steps of his flight, was keeping time to the wild rhythm of that sound. And she stooped to Alan and covered him with her coat, before leaving him; for she feared na longer Henry’s return. CHAPTER XX The Fate of the Miwaka. “So this'isn’t your house, Judah?” “No, Alan; this is an Indian’s house, but it is not mine. It is Adam Enos’ house. He and his wife went some- where else when you needed this.” “He heiped to bring me here, then?" “No, Alan. They were alone, here— she and Adam’s wife. When she found you, they brought you here—=more than & mile ulong the beach. 'l";o women!” Alan choked as he put down the 1it- tle “porcupive quill box :which had started this llne of inquiry. Whatever quesdonshe had asked-dudah or Sher- rill these last few days had brought him very, quickly back to her. Moved by some Intuitive certainty regarding Spearman, she had come north; she had not thought of peril to herself; she had struggled alone across danger- ous Ice in storm—a girl brought up as she had been! She had found him— Alan—iith life almost extinct—upon the beech; she and the Indian woman, Wassaquam had just said—had brought him 'along the shore. How had they managed that, he wondered. His throat closed up, and his eyes filled as he thought of this. N In the week during which he had been cared: for heve,'Alan had not seen Counstance; but”there had been a_pe- « “Has_anything. that he could make of it to her; now Sherrill’s manner had brought to him something like awe, as. of something quite incredible. " He tured to the Indfan. * more’:beéen Hedtd -of Spearman, Judah? * “Only this, Alan; he crossed .the straitg.the next day upon the ferry there.. ;In Mackinaw - City, he -hought liquor at.a bar and took it ’v’vit%im; he asked there about: trains into. the northwest. He has gone, leaving all he had. ‘What eisé could+he do?” . Alan crossed the little cabin and looked out the window over the snow- covered slope, where the bright sun was shining. Snow had covered any tracks that there had been upon the beach where those who had been.in the boat with him had been found- dead. He had known that this must be; he had believed them beyond aid when he had tried for the shore.to summon help for them and for him- self. The other boat, which had car- ried survivors of -the wreck, blown farther to the south,"had been able to gain the shore of North Fox island; and as these men had not been so long exposed before they were brought to shelter, four men lived. Sherrill. had told him their names; they. were the mate, the assistant engineer, a deck- hand and Father Perron, the priest who had been a passenger, but who had stayed with the crew till the last. Ben- |, jamin ‘Corvet- had ' perished in’ the | wreckage of the cars, As Alan went buck to hig ¢hair, ‘the Indian watched Lim and seemed not displeased. " T T G “You feel good, now, Alan?” Wassy~ quam asked." ' “Almost like myself, Judah.” “That ig right, then. - It was thought Yyou would be'like that today. A 'sled | N is coming soon, now.” “We're going to, leave here, Judah?’ “Yes, Alan.” ‘Was he going to see her, then? Ex- citement stirred him, and he turned te ‘Wassaquam' to -ask that; but suddenly he hesitated:and did:not:inquire. Wassaquam, brought the mackinaw and cap which Alan-had‘worn on Num- ber 25; he took from the bed the new blankets which had been furnished by Sherr]ll. They waitedruntil;® farmer appeared driving a team -hitched to a low, wide-runnered sled." The Indian They traveled south along the shore, rounded into Little Traverse bay, and |: the houses of Harbor Point appeared among thelr pines. The sled proceed- ed across the edge of the bay to the little city; even before léaving the bay ice, Alan saw Constance and her fa- ther; they were walking at the water front near the railway station, and they came out on the ice as they recog- nized the occupants of the sled. Alan - felt himself alternately weak and roused to strength as he saw her. Their eyes encountered, and hers looked away; a sudden shyness, which sent his heart leaping, had come over her. He wanted to speak to her, to make some recognition to her of what she had done, but he did not dare to trust his voice; and she seemed to un- derstand that. He turned to Sherrill instead. An engine and tender coupled to a single car stood . at the railway station. “We're, going to Chicago?’ he in- quired of Sherrill. . “Not yet, Alan—to St. Ignace. Fa- ther Perron—the priest, you know— went to St. Ignace as soon as he recov- ered from his exposure. He sent word to me that he wished to see'me at my convenlence; T told him that we would go tohlm as soon as you were able.” “He sent no other word than that?” “Only that he had a very grave com- munication to make to us.” " Alan ‘did not ask more;-at mention of Father Perron he had seemed to feel himself once more among the crashing, charging freight cars on the ferry and to see Benjamin Corvet, pinned amid the wreckage and speaking into-the ear of the priest, ¢ . . - . . = . It ‘was not merely “# - confessional- which Father Perron had taken frém the lips of the dying mé#fion Number 25; it was an accusation of crime against another man as well; and the confession and accusation both. had been made, not only to gain forgive- ness from God, but to right terrible wrongs. If the confession. left some things unexplained, it did not lack con- firmation; the priest had learned enough to be certain that it was ne hallucination of nmdness, He had been charged definitely to repeat what had been told him to the persons he was now going to meet; S0 he watched ex- settled Alan on the sled, and they |: . drove off. pectantly —upon—the “Fallway statlon platform' at St. Ignace. A tall, hand- some man whom Father Perron thought must be the Mr. Sherrill with whom be had communicated appeared upon the car platform; the young man from Number 25 followed him, and the two helped down a young and beauti- ful girl. They recognized . the priest by his dress and came toward him at once. “Mr. Sherrill?” Father Perron In- quired. foo Sherrill assented, taking the priest's hand and introducing his daughter. f--4f am glad to see you safe, Mr. Staf-{ k f6rd* The priest had turned to Alan. “We have thanks to offer up for that, you and I!" _.“I am his son, then! I thought that must be so.” confirmation. - There was no shock of Alan trembled at the priest's sign of.{| surprise in this; he had suspected ever since-August, when Captain Stafford’s watch and the wedding_ring had so strangely come to Constance, that he might be Stafford’s son. ‘He looked at Constance, as they followed the priest to the motor wWhich was .waiting to take them to the house of old Father Benitot, whose guest Father Perron was; she was very quiet., that grave statement’ which Father Perron was to make to them mean to himi—to Alan? ‘Would further knowl- edge about -that father ‘Whom he had .not known, but whose':blood was his and whose name he now must bear, bring pride or shame to him? A bell was tolling somewhere, as they followed the priest into Father: Benitot’s small, bare which had been prepared for their'interview. Fa- ther Perron went to & desk: #nd" took. therefrom Some notes which he had made. i el “What I ‘have,” he said; ‘speaking more particularly- to“Sherrill, “is. the terrible, not fully cohereht statement of a dying man.’It has given'me names —also it has given me fdcts. 'But is- olated. It does not give what came: before or what came aff therefore, it does not make plain, I hope that, as Benjamin Corvet’s partner, you can | furnish what I Jack.” .y “What is it you want to know?” Sherrill . asked. ) “What were the relations between Benjamin Corvet and Captain Staf- ford?” s Sherrill thought a moment. “Corvet,” he replied, “was a very able man; he had insight and mental grasp—and he had the fault which [ sometimes goes with those, a hesitancy. of action. Stafford was an able mgn, Father Perron Went to a' Desk and Took Therefrom Some Nptes Which He Had Made. too, considerably younger than Corvet. Twenty years ago, when the conflict of competing _interests ' was at. it$ height, Corvet was.the head of one line, Stafford was head of another, and the two lines had very nxuch the same cargoes.” i “I begin. ta see!” Fatber Perron ex- claimed. “Please go on.” _ = (Continuéd in Next Issué) connections and competed for the sume |- p—— When You Ask For Your Daily Bread -« SPECIFY AUNT Delivered;fr and crisp to your grocer evéry morn- ing. —TRY A LOAF— What would | ——eee Made To Your Measure OT aleng in’ ‘quality of texture, -expert fitting ‘and” pleasing :patterns - are our . Suits- ‘made to. -your measure, but ‘the prices you find will also measure up to your greatest . expectation. Your satisfaction - in - dress can. only be realized when the Suit you wear was made for you: by -compétent tailors to satisfy your. style, your pattg_-n-and purse. Bartey SToggery Meeting. 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