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s e e e “So This Is Skill” Under the English law it is perfect- ly legal to play cards for money in @ private: house, providing the games are games of skill, such as whist or poker. But it is against the law to play such games of pure chance as faro. ¥ Almost any losing player will tell you that a game of poker isi not a game of skill, but a game of luck. —With Luck Against Him— Just Imagine Telephones which speak a message loud enough to be heard 30 feet away and into which messages may be spok- en from the same distance are a new invention designed as a time saver. Persons who use a telephone which is now a darned nuisance and over which they can hardly hear a sound will undoubtedly welcome such a con- trivance. It will give them a chance to make up for lost time. —Patience Is Wonderful— TWENTY-TWO MISSING IN WRECK OFF FRENCH COAST (By United Press) LeHarve, France, April 27—Twen- ty-two persons are missing in the wreck of a steamer, which flounder- ed in a storm 30 miles off Brittony coast. Ten members of the crew of 32 were picked up in icy waters near the wreck. LEGION AND; G./A, R, POST OBSERVE GRANT CENTENARY (By United Press) Sty Paul, April 27—American Le- gion and G. A. R, Posts are collabor- ating in celebration of the General U. S. Grant centennial today. The G. A. R. has prepared a program for all posts in observance of the day. Gen- eral Grant was born April 27 1822. SISTER OF LATE LORD MAYOR OF CORK OPPOSES TREATY (By United Press) Dublin, April 27—Mary MacSwe- ene{(, sister of the late Lord Mayor of Cork, who died following a hunger strike, announced today she would move a note in the Dail to rescind the peace treaty with Great Britain. ODD FELLGWS TO PUT ON SECOND DEGREE WORK There will be work in the second degree at the meeting of the 1. 0.0. F. . Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the Moose hall and it is requested that all members, be present. CHIVALRY AND GOOD SENSE New York Legislator Would Do Away With Embarrassing Question as to Voters' Age. “What Is your age?" In days of old the question was per- functorily asked and answered In every voting booth. In the new days of equal suffrage It Is still asked, but apologetically rnglmr than perfunctor- ily, and it Is sometimes answered re- sentfully. Occaslonally a lady voter, especially one who hds attained the dignity of middle age, considers the question Impertinent. Yet one hates to commit perjury or anything that smacks of perjury. In New York stite, says the Cleve- land Plain Dealer, a gallant gentle- man, who should have flourished in the days of knighthood, has introduced in- to the legisiature of which he is a member a bill to do away with the age question. If this measure becomes a law it will be necessary for no one to tell her—or his—exact age. It will be quite sufficient for the elector to affirm that her—or his—twenty-first birthday has been passed. This s chivalry, and it Is also com- mon sense. If one fs of legnl voting age thé republic should require no move detailed information. We all _Wwish the girls, young and old, to vote, and to vote without annoyance or re- sentment. Going to the polls should be made a pleasure. An important .-Step. Wil be' taken If the New xork ;?&3 s enncted” and copled. ~A4liAre you twenty-one?” . s There . is/ something positively de-| Tightful T, such a question. And who ‘would eall-it ‘impertinent? LFif HERE COMES A STBANGER! makeiour post office look neat, Jm-fim . Struighres up the rurat7iétter. pax, Mr, Farmer. Tidy up some, Mr. Rural Curtler. Kirst impressions are lasting, Maybe Mr. Stranger. taking natice of these Im- provements, wil come back, bringing you benetits. Start these with “POS- TAL IMPBROVEMENT WEEK" May .16, ~ ADDITIONAL WANT. ADS | B FOR SALE—44-8 Oldsmobile Road- ster. - Inquire Progressive Auto Co:s 408 America Ave. Phone lxi’lé’m § .|—the group of ‘indefinites’ I Potato Mai-l;:t_ Chicago, April 27—Potato market stronger receipts 48 cars; on track, 97 total U. S. shipments, 765; Wisconsin round white, sacked, $1.90 to $2.00; bulk, $3.00 to $3.05; Minnesota; sacked, $1.75 to $1.90; Idaho rurals, $2.20 to $2.25; Michigan round white bulk, 1 car, $2.05; New market steady Florida Spaulding Rose, double-head barrels, No. 1 $6.75 to $7.00; No. 2, gggg to $5.50; mostly $5.00 and SENATOR GROWS OLD AT EXPENSE OF GOVERNMENT (Continued From Page 1) | a bulwark of liberty. But practically, it works with less effectiveness than the ordinary borough council. Again I ask ‘* Why?’ “And again I'am compelled to an- swer that I do not know. I can tell you my own experience, and perhaps that gives yow as good an index to the trouble with Congress as anything. “For some ycars past, I have had no purpose in life definite enough to be worthy the name. I have been plug- ging along in a rut. I never realized it until recently. I haven’t even had in mind definitely at least, the purpose of being re-elected, of course, but rithout not much knowing why. I have made speeches to my people, in which I have promised this and that in what a friend of mine used to call ‘general glowingalities.! But for the life of me, 1 cannot tell you why I am in the sen- ate today. “ I have found that senators—all legislators for that matter—naturally fall into two groups when they get to Washington. In one group are the men who keep their local sense, and their close connection wth their home people; who devote themselves to looking after individual wants In the other group are those who regard themselves as servants of the nation as a whole, and who, as soon'as they conveniently can, forget all about the petty demands of the separate voters back home and aspire to great- ness as national figures. “Now after a time you discover— at least T have discovered—a third group. § belong to it. It is the group ithat sticks neither to one nor to the other of the main ideas outlined above cal them. And my life in the senate con- vinces me that it is the largest group of all. “The ‘indefinites’ have only one idea, if any, That is to get re-elected. Oh, they are honorable men. But they get lazy. The enervating climate of ‘Washington, perhaps—and its social climate, is quite enervating In my own case it has been mostly a gentle growing old, I think ' A “Which brings me to the point It is not so much my fault that I am not a great man as it is the fault of the folks back home They ought to have kicked me out a long time ago That would have made me fight, or if I had been too poor stuff to fight, I would have settled back where I be- longed, and would have grown old at my own expense somewhere back home instead of at the nation’s ex- pense here in Washington. “There is a tip for the voter. He ought to clean out a lot of the con- tented ‘indefinites’. Then he would have a better senate.” END CHAPTER II SURVEY SHOWS FARM MOTHERS ARE CONFIDENT (Continuea From Page 1) things I desire for this daughter-o’ mine, are peace, a love of nature, and time for quiet, happy thoughts, of working people as easily as by the W on the farm? She doesn’t r her "york that she:may spend a bargsin-hunting, a day of hurry, wo ry: and ‘me-first’ thoughts; of spen; ing imoney she sHofldn’t spend and azig at things she wants and can’t avé, No; she may: sit on the front poréh a bit while she sews or mends or yeads. She will see and feel the beag% of the world—her world—and W n unruffled” spirit she will go in and get supper for her hungry brood. “And so, folks, I want my daughter to mary a farmer, a good man, up- right, steadfast and. true, with visions of the farm-life to be in hig heart. Then, hand in hand, they can work to make their dreams come true, and she will have the happiness I have \known. I could not ask for more.” Advertige a Community. A community Is known by the roads it keeps. The roads in a vicinity al- ways advertise a town or community. As the roads are, so the tourists judge the town. Can they be gotten by any other clasa} I W. R. MacKENSIE Known as -one of the original founders of the Northern Minnesota Development association, W. R. Mac- kensie passed away at Los Angeles April 18, according to word received by friends in Bemidji. Mr. Mackensie and his family made Bemidji their home for a number of years when Be- midji was in its early days. PR WED ONLY‘ CLOSE RELATIONS Custom of Burmese Tribe Leads to Marriages Between Extreme Old Age and Youth. The only occasions on which lads and lassles of the Red Karen tribe in Burma meet are at marriage feasts and at wakes, according to the Na- tional Geographic Magazine, These festivals last over three nights, and are veritable orgies, with great ex- cess of eating and drinking. Both sexes are well-seasoned vessels, since they begin drinking strong drink be- fore they are weaned. Marriages are limited to near relations and result quite often in unions where husband and wife are of very unequhl age, the husband fifteen, the wife seventy, or the other way about. Punishment for marrlage out of the clans was formerly very severe. A large hole was dug in the ground and a log placed across it, to which two ropes were attached. The ends of these were noosed round the necks of the offending pair. They were made to jump into the pit, and so hang themselves. Now they are excommunicated in- stead, ‘and never allowed to enter a Karen village again. The two vil- lages of Kara in the Nan-kwo circle are said to be inhabited entirely by such eloping couples. - Wise Animals, A polar bear in a zoological park used to sit on a rocky peninsula that ran out. into a water-filled ' quarry. Visitors. were in the habit of throw- ng buns into the ivater and some of them' floated “on: the. surface. It was often e:xsy for the bear to colleet half a dozen by. plunging. into the pool, but he soon dlscovered a more interesting way to get them. At the edge of the peninsula it scooped the water gently with its hugé paw and made a current that brought the buns ashore. An elephant 1a another garden used to collect pennies from visitors. When it got a penny in its trunk it put It in the slot of an automatic mgchine which delivered up a biscuit, The an- imal rejected every other coin. To Take Census of Bees. A census of the bees in a hive has been made possible by a clever de- vice invented by an employee of the burenu of entomology. e invention consists of a gate to h@ placed at the entrance to a bee- jhlvé with a series of telephone mes- Bhge registers attached in such a_way at every tinme a bee goes through he gate its passage s recorded. The devivé is operated electrically by al ternating current. l As about 300,000 bees go out during the day, on honey-gathering expedi- tions, giderable electrical energy is needed to operate the recording gate, though the amount of energy ex- pended by the device each time a bee passes Is infinitestmal. How do you expect the Postal Clerk to know whether you mean ‘Trinldad, California, or Trinidad, Colorado? ALA¥AYS SPELL OUT THE NAME OF THE STATE IN FULL IN THE ADDRESS. | SELECTION OF JURORS DELAYING SMALL TRIAL . TBy United Press) ‘Waukegan, Ill., April 27—Eight imen were sought today to complete the jury which will try Governor Len Small of Illinois. r Four jurors were accepted for duty. in the case in which Small is charged with conspirdcy to embezzle state funds. The four men, who were a¢- cepted by both sides are: Alex Smith, George Martin, Williany Bernard and J.R. Field. N SPLENDID GIFT TO LIBRARY Famous Rothschild Collection of Let- ters and Autographs Now Prop- erty of the French Nation. —_ The French national library has just been enriched by a great gift on the part of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who has handed over to it the incom- parable collection of historic auto- graphs collected by his mother, Mme. James de Rothschild. It is known all over the world as the most complete and valuable col- lection of letters and autographs of il- lustrious persons. The collection includes letters from most of the former kings and queens of France, including Philippe le Bel, Francois I, Henry IV, Marguerite de Valois, Catherine and Mprie de Me- dici, and Marie "Antoinette. There are also letters from eminent public men like Sully and Colbert, leading soldiers ‘such as- Gaston .de Folx, Conde, Turenne, and Marshal Saxe, to say nothing of artists, poets and writers like Villon, Qernellle, Ra- cine, and Mme. de Sevigne.. —T g % Not Dumb. The Woman. was calling on an ac- quaintance the other day.’ “Ill tell mamma you're here,” announced small daughter who opened the.door at her ring. This errand over, she came into the living room, climbed wp on a.huge | plush ¢hair, straightened' her little dress over her knees, and looked at the Woman inquiringly. The Woman, not being an adept at conversing on dolls and teddy bears, reninined silent, | ALLIED NOTE TO RUSSIA APPROACHES ULTIMATUM (By United Press) to Russia, virtually an ultimatum, was ‘completed today, and will be deter- mined not later than tomorrow. The allies demand a straight-forward ans-. wer to seven questions regarding pay- ment of Russian debts and other mat-- ters on which the Boisheviki have: been issuing statements. . X A plenary session of the conference has been called: off for Monday to! approve the final report onjithe eco- “Shimmy” Machine on Ships. Contrasted with. “starving’ Europe,™ millions of Americans are struggling with too much fat, Glenn M. Farley writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The shipping board was- forced to put in “shimmy” machines on its trang atlantic liners for the accommodation of the over-fat patrons. A substan- tial belt connécted with a vibrator gives the patient all the effect of a violent “shimmy.” The belt shakes its victim like a plate of jelly, and bay windows disappear like magic. One man lost 68 pounds on the round trip from New York to Bremen. ‘ Americans kick about the high cost of living, and yet buy and consume more food than they require, to the ex- tent that machines must be: invented to work off the surplus fat. It may. occur to some of them yet that the miost economical and efficient way would be to buy and consume less food, and dispense with the shimmy machine, i and busied herself 'with ‘ reading a book of verse which lay on the table. Still no signs of life from the mysterl- ous reglons upstairs. The little tot cleared “her throat inquiringly, but still neither spoke. Finally the child mustered up her courage; and said, “Well, why don’t you-say sometling? T can talk !"— R{ o g Clifcazo Journal £ INCLUDED 8he: Isn't pature wonderful? Just think of the beautiful treéds, and flow. ers, the peacocks, and the birds. On the other hand we have animals. Beasts of préy and cattle. The hog and swine— He (interrupting) :==and rent profi- ers. = = Don’t If you pay more FORD for, “Y yourself”’ — go al Falls Internatio LT i e T IIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIflIIIIIIIm S Yourself hand car than you can buy a new guide you. [ N Factory Here Down . Chassis ........... $285 $353.85 $129.00 Bal. in 12 mo. Roadster, - % G regular - 9319 $393.96 $143.03Ba!. in'12 mo. Roadster, 3 equipped complete: $414 $492.88 $178.67Bal. in12 mo. _Touring Car, B s R vegular. ..$348° - $424.16 $153.77Bal in 12 . Touring Car, ; equipped complete.$443 $523.07 $189.39Bal. in 12 mo. New Coupe, equipped comiplete. $580 $665.73 $240.94 Bal. in 12 mo. Sedan, ; equipped complete.$645 $733.41 $265.49 Bal. in 12 mo. Truck .. $430 $502.44 $184.16 Bal. in 12 mo. Tractor . $395 $442.45 $202.45 Bal. Now® 1st. C. W. Jewett Co. "™ Bemidji, Minn. “A FORDSON ON EVERY FARM” ] E2EdSor | Beat for any second- ou are beating let' these prices Bagley " Cass Lake s 1 Genoa, April 27—The allied note Ythat nomic and transportation comfnittee:; HOMES IN LOUISIANA (By_United Press) Vicksburg, Miss., April 27—Hund- reds are abandoning their homes near erriday, Louisiana, according to re- ports here today: The flood waters already have reached several small towns it was reported. . A new break of 150 feet, or more in - length appeared about 10 miles below here today. It was feared here the break may mean a loss of To Loor Bolivia. nature of the country. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE dives:. A Pera (Brazil) newspaper has an- nounced the arrival in that city of Swedish and German ‘geologists who have been exploring petroleum lands in the department of La Paz, Bolivia. 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