Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 7, 1922, Page 8

| ~“I seemed to be run down all over. TRULY+SEAT OF THE MIGHTY Woolsack in British House of Lords Dates Back to the Reign of 'Klng Edward IH. — In a plnca of -honor ‘in the Brltlsh house of lords is-a large red cushion right infront of :the throne.:-iItiils about five feet long and:two.feet square at. the- ends, and:is :known as the ‘Wwoolsackcor historic: zeat “of :the;lord chancellor:-of :the realm: /Thisis:one of, the,sacred. British; dnstitutions. . Its Instaliation; as. a’':seat of! honor:for the head. of. the: Judiclary: department of - the igovernment 'dates back to.the time:of Hdward: Il .when:wool:'was the'chief:staple of England:= ¥ It ‘was ot, hoWever; untfl the time of Henry: VHI thatithe woolsack was dignified and theroughly, established.as an institution by tha:following emact- ment:: “The lord.chancellor, lord trens- urer and;all ‘other- officers.:whorshall be under:the:degree of a baron:of a parliament. shall slt:nnd be placed nt the uppermost part of;the sacks in the midst of .the parliament . chamber, either there to sit upon one form or upon the uppermost sack.” Another curious circumstance is the fact that the woolsack is regarded as extra-territorial so far as the house is concerned. Technically, it Is outside the precincts of the house, so, if the lord chancellor wishes to speak In de- bate he must leave the woolsack and advance to his place as .a pecr. Typographical Error Cost Life. A typographical error once cost a woman her.life. Shortly after the in- ventlon of printing, a German printer werking on an edition of the Bible entrusted to his wife the setting up of the type for a portion of the Book of Genesis. There Is a sentence In Gene- #is, describing Eve's duty to Adam, which runs “He shail be thy Lord.” T'he German word for Lord is “Herr” an< that for fool is “Narr.” The printer's wife changed the “e” to “a” and, in the crude type of that period, | the capital *H” looked exactly like an The sentence cnnsequently rend e shall be. thy. fooL - Many copies-of the hook got into circulation before the error was dis- covered. - The eccleslastical authori- tles were so enrnged at what they con- sidered the woman’s implety that they condemned her to-the stake. Pending. ' “Well, want to marry my daughter, 1 suppos snapped the grouchy mil- lionaire as he glowered at the. timid youth. Adjusting his glasses he added: “By the way, aren’t you one of my Aaughter's form uitors?” “N-o-no sir,” faltered the cheerless one, “but I expect L soon will be — Anlellum Le rhm ADDITIONAL WANT ADS al i, one mile fr n toW'n ‘a bar- _ Call 26-F-11. 3d6-9 [ gain, ENRY SPENCER, well_known and respected citizen of Water- town, N. Y. who reports he has gained 15 pounds since he be taking Tanlac and al s tells friends how this medicine restore his health, ¥ ‘Never saw . iy “My friends often say: you looking better; what are you do- ing for yourself?” and I always tell them: ‘Well, I am taking Tanlac, now,’” recmtly declared Henry Spencer, 415 East St., Watertown, a well known and highly respected citi- zen. “For more than a year,” he said, From 160 pounds I fell off to 135, lost my avpetite and my stomach gave me no end of trouble. The lit- tle I ate caused me to bloat with gas and I was subject to dull, heavy headaches. T kal no caergy and it was all T could do to get around the house. I had dizzy spells when ev- erything would blur before my eyes and I had to catch myself to keep from falline, “Well, now, I have gained 15 pounds, fee! better in every way and can work as well as ever, since tak- ing Tanlac, I relish what I eat, with a fine appetite, and gas, indigestion, headache and dizziness are complete- ly gone. Yes, sir, 1 Jmt can’t say too much for Tanlac.” WHEW! HOY DANY ABE .MORSE QUGHY O 0O WELL ON WS - (° SOLAR - MOTOR. | WHY, ABE WAS AN INVENTION O MaKE W' SUN WORK (Caw ‘tor This Department Supplied by ie_American Leglon News Service.) REGARD FOR HEROES’ WISHES Judge Neterer of Seattle Holds Re- quest of Soldier Killed in War Demands First Consideration. Is the last wish of a soldier dying on the field of battle more to be re- spected than legal forms decked out with sealing wax? The American Legion thinks it is.' Recent cases be- fore the courts have brought the ques- tion to the front. According to Federal Judge Neterer of Seattle, the wish of a soldier killed in battle is higher law than any departmental regulation. Ac- cording to this decision Agnes Claffy, sixteen-year old - niece of Clarence Swank, is awarded the residue of Swank’s estate, amounting to §9,000. Swank was killed in France. Depart- mental red tape cluttered up the case on account of the death of Swank's mother, the original beneficiary. In handing down his decision Judge Neterer cited precedents extending back to the days of Cuesar and the legionnaires of ancient Rome. The latest case is that of Miss Elenore I. Knapp of New York, whose claim to the estate of Ernest Charl- ton Mason of the One Hundred and Sixth United States infantry had been contested by Mason's uncle. In a muddy dugout before a general ad- vance against- the Germans, Mason told his buddle, Oscar Westgate, the story of his engagement, and added that he now felt that in this advance he was slated to ‘“go West.” “If T don't come through this,” he sald, as they started over the top, “I want El- enore to have all my estate.” Mason, among others, was cut off and captured by the Germans. They were taken to the same prison camp. For ten days, a bunkie testified, Mason lay il on the ground with influenza. Then he was taken away in an ambu- lance and his death reported. Event- ually a death certificate was issued by the United States government. But the attorneys for Mason's uncle con- tested the case to the extent of argu- Ing that the “proof of death” was un- satisfuctory. The Jjustice of the soldier's latest will has been upheld in startling fash- fon by the highest courts of England recently. An English major of in- fantry *died alone in his lodgings in London directly after the armistice. He left no legal will. Across the front of a photograph of his flance he had hastily scrawled: “All to her.” The case was brought before the high- est tribunal of England and the “will” stood. TABLET GRACES LEGION SHIP Bronze Piece in Main Dining Saloon Engraved With Dedication by National Commander. The steamship “Amerlcan Legion” of the Munson lines, sailing between New York and Buenos Aires with an American Legion crew, now bears in its main dining saloon a bronze tablet “American Legion” Steamship Tablet. engraved -with a dedication signed by the national commander of the Legion. The formal presentation of the tablet. was made in the presence of the New York and New Jersey officlals Tanlac is sold by all good drug- gists,—Adv. of the Leglon and two hundred guests. HAVE NO WORRY ABOUT DATES In Fortunate Albania They Knew Noth- ing of Such Things as Calen. dars or Clocks. Calendars and clocks:are luxuries in Albania. The untutored peasantry know -only three periods of time— morning, noon and night, and two sea- sons of the year, winter and summer. Days and dates ave:Sanskrit to them. Nor have they any'conception of dis- tances. When a- traveler asks an Al- banian the distance of one point from another, he never answers in miles or kilometers, but “it is half a day, it i8 two days, it is a week.” When an Al- banian makes an appointment, he is considered to have kept it if he comes within two or three hours of the time set, With the absence of calendars, the people naturally do mnot. know their correct ages, especlally those In. the | country districts. In this respect- the women of Albania enjoy an advantage | over their sisters in foreign. countries who guard so jealously the secret: of their years. Often the age of'an Al- banian woman is unknown even to herself. —_— Revised Ages of Man. At Five—Nobody loves me. I'm go- ing out In the garden and eat worms. At Fifteen—She does not love me. I shall hang myself in her father's garage. At Twenty—The world does not un- derstand me. Life Is a fallure. At Thirty-five—Why didn’t I marry Mabel instead of Heleu‘ Mabel always anderstood ‘me. At Forty-Five—Now, l( I were Presl- dent of the-United States I would— At Sixty—This Isn't such a bad old world after all At Seventy—I expect to see a great improvement in conditions in the next 20 or 30 years. At Eighty—Johnny, tell your mother that her grandma and I have gone to the cabaret.—New York Sun. Arabs Use Opium Bait. A novel way of catching fish by Arabs was described by Lieutenant Commander A. 8. Elwell-Sutton in de- seribing the work of the British gun- boats on the river Tigris ubove Bagdad, The natlves, there, he said, laid a ground balt of lumps of dough con- taining a small quantity of oplum. The fish swallowed that and, becomiug:stu- petied, floated about with thelr white bellies uppermost. Arabs went in pur- suit of them on blown-out sheepskins which they maneuvered with their feet while the hands were free to hold the landing net. i —_—— To Make Scientiflc investigations. Mountain miners in the Andes do heavy labor in a rarefled atmosphere thai makes the slightest efort fa- tigaing to newcomers, says the Scl- entific American, and Canadian - scl- entists - are. in . Peru to discover whether this immunity of the miners is due to changes in the blood or to other functions. The scientists wil. yield their own blood, both at sed level and at three-miles altitude, and the snmples will go to our universities for analysis. WILL CLOSE HISTORIC ALLEY London Pa\liwz} Which - Figures in: Pepys’ Diary Gives Way to March of Improvements.:- . ¥ Pope's Head alley, a turning off Corn+ hill, a picture of which appeared in’ the Times on .April 11, will shortly disappear. Lloyd's Bank is going to rebulld ite premises at the end of Lom- bard -street, -between .that .street and Cornbill, and. to -make this possible Pope's Head alley will have. to. be. closed and another thoroughfare .con-. structed: in lw.nhce, suys the London. whlch dates bnck to tha V8 VI, and is named aftexi ted ¢ , is mentioned several! “Diary -of - Samuel} time the footway’ dts cutters. ~ Pepys tlh e ‘went to Pope's. Head' and “hoaght an aggate hafted’ knlfe, which cost me 5c” Another day: some one took him into the .tavern, and gave him wine, when they fllp-v cussed affairs of state. “So home” writes Pepys again, “on my way call- ing at Pope's Head alley and theref brass square.” In 1645 it 1§ recorded, wine was be- Ing sold at the tavern at a penny & pint. It was ‘at the Pope's Head ta ern that Quinn killed. Bowen, a fel-7 low actor, in a duel. ‘The first print; sellers In London are ‘said to havn opened their shops in the alley. bought me a: palr of scissors and a PARIS ETCHER FOUND ARTIST Marketed .Prints Whu:h Brought Flrlo to. Soldier of the American Ex- 7. peditionary Force. Alonzo Q. Webb. the American sol- dier who has won sudden fame in Paris art clrcles by his ‘distinctive :etchings, was &ntent to pass his prints out among his friends. One day, how- ever, while he was having his etchings printed: by the . old-fashioned . process called: “taille douce,” the printer said: “Why don’t you. sell these etchings?” “They’re not good enough,” replied Webb. “You're crazy,” said the printer; “you - wouldn't . mind selling thern, would you? Don’t you ueed the money?” “Yes, God knows I need it, but I never thought of selling these things,” rejoined. Webb. .The old man gave Webb a note to a dealer in the Rue de Rivoli who took “on depot” one each of five prints. The very next day Webb received a letter-at his home at Dellevue, ask- ing for three more. to replace those the dealer had sold the urst day. “That must have been a happy morn- inz at Bellevue,” L remarked, some- JUST FOLLOW THE CROWD o o JOHNSON'S . BATHING SUITS ‘axf ‘0 Per Cént DI’SCOUNT UMBRELLAS values up to $l 98 :Your Cholce i Ladies’ and Missea’ CANTEEN PURSES only Ladies’ and Misses’ F IBER SILK HOSE special at, BUNGALOW ‘ APRONS: PORVERSRETE" HOSIERY » i “ALWAYS BUSY” The Store That 'Has Brought the Low Prices ‘to Bemidji THDRSDA Y MORNING BE HERE AT JQHNSON’S'*And Get These ; Bargams That We Are Offermg at 4 Tlns One-Day Sale! 100 TRIMMED HATS, Values up to $155 " WUTMLESS LUIMOX O MME N W' tirred at tms mrnlnv point in the life story. ,. “Not especially,” Webb replied. “I'm partly Scotch and don’t often get ex- cited. -I take good luck just as I take bad. 1 rm&ly even tell; ubout good "Bnt don't you deprive yourself of a delightful thrin?” “The pleasure is no less in the ag- gregate. I take it in a quleter form; it lasts longer and there is .no. re- action."—Charles H. Grasty In. the New York Times. His Recovery Complete. The Figaro tells of an English sailor 1 named Mitchell who was & past master at_the art of tasting whisky. In the war he was asphyxiated and lost. his sense of smell and the use of speech. Deprived of his calling, he became a boxer. Now, in a certain bout in London Mitchell received a. formida- ble blow under his nose and. another. on his jaw. Ten seconds later he was knocked out. Ope of his attendants rushed some spirits to him, . Then Mitchell . miraculously recovered_and declared, even before wetting his 1ips, “This stuff is-at least fifteen years old.” . JOHNSON'S for All Ladies’ Silk PETTICOATS and BLOOMERS [0 Per l:snl Dlscoum Lo 0 89c Voile-Batiste TISSUE -DRESSES | SIZES 16 fo 44 -' Sale $4.95 “Pearls should never be put in hot water and soap. They must always be handled carefully, as they are soft and easily scratched. Their beauty is permanently 'af- fected by ink, grease or perspira- tion, and they will actually dis- solve in acids. them. wiped with a soft cloth ‘after be- ing worn or exposed and should be kept wrapped closed box or casket. “The same rules apply to opals, moonstones and turquoises, quoises lose their beautiful color if immerséd in water. < “Pearls and opals must pe care- fully set, so that the claws will not cut ‘into them. “Pearls need restringing often, ruin the string. than soft stones. Extreme heat will Pearls should be in a tightly - Tur- Wyp EARLE A. BARKER STREET Phone 34 for Correct Time or to Placean Order THIRD:. as they wear upon each other and “Extreme heat, affects the ¢olor and texture of nearly all gems, the harder ones being less injured “Light oxidizes the softer stones and causes them to fade. grease scratch them. 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