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The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
POSITION OF THE PIONEER.

The Beltralni County News, Of which
G.. r. Martin is assumed editor, while
Chris Christianson does all the writ
ing except when pole-cat editorials
are wanted, said last week:
"A special from Bemid j to the Min
neapolis Journal, OF which a. M.
Greeley, assumed editor OF the Pro-
NEER, is local correspondent, softly
impeaches the News for refusing to
support w. r.. Street for county at
torney. What q horrible political
crime.
Then the News rants some more
about County Chairman Kaiser re-
fusing to support the county ticket
because the News would rot swallow
Street. We feel sorry for the News
that it has been driven into such a
small corner that it has to resort to
petty lies and deception. Mr.. Kaiser
never expected the News to support
Mr.. Street, and we are confident that
gentleman does not desire such sup
port. The character Of the News is
SO we'll known throughout the county
that its abuse is rather to be sought
than It's support. The article to which
the News referred, appeared in the
Minneapolis Journal as follows:
.'The News represesents the anti
Morris element and claims to be a re-
publican newspaper. 1t not only OPP
poses Morris, but w. S. Clenahan,
republican nominee for judge of the
fifteenth judicial district, and w. +.
Street, republican nominee for county
attorney. 1t is also booming S. A.
Swanson, fusion candidate for the
legisl latme. The Pioneer, the old re-
liable republican organ, supports the
B G. O. p. ticket, down to county OFF,
GERS, refuses to publish the county
ticket unless the candidates who con-
troll the News show their republican
ism by supporting all the nominees.
When the News was made the official
paper OF the county last January, the
News should have come up to the
scratch and supported the republican
ticket. Up to this issue the PIONEER
has made no complaint; we have suf-
fered in silence that harmony might
heal the wound in the republican
breast But the News is not for har-
mony, but persists in the policy that
county printing is everything party
principles nothing. In seeking to
slam few men into Office, the News
cares not tinker's dam If the repub-
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
WHEN NOT TO DRINK.

The times when a man should not
drink Golden Grain Belt heer are
so very few and far between that they
needn't be mentioned. Drink it in the
morning, drink it at the table, drink
on it going to bed; drink it when you
are hot and when you are cold, when
you are wet and when you are dry. It
does you good by aiding the nutrition
and strengthening the digestion; made
7sof pure barley malt and hops, BY the the
Minneapolis Brewing Company and
sold in Bemidji by Fred S. Hazen.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25

Messrs. Angel, Sandon, Amel
Joneau and Rasmussen have all
taken business trips to Bemidji.
Frank Joneau reports the roads
as being bad, but we think he is
hard to please.
Severa. of our farmers up here
have soWn winter wheat as an ex-
pertinent.
One of our farmers reports as
having raised a potato which tip
ped the beam at seven pounds. 1t
was the same man who caught the
salmon in Black Duck lake.
We are to have a newspaper.
NORWAY KNOT.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
BLACKDUCK.
Stoner's New TOWnsite as De.
scribed in the First Number
OF Blackjack Times.

The toWnsite Of Blackduck, which
was recently plated, Is situated on
section Is, town 149, range 81, and sec
tion Is. town 149, range 80, on tine
Minnesota s. International Railway
{ an extension of the Brainerd & Nor
thern J, q distance of 245 miles north
east of Bemidji and Ia miles east oi
Blackduck lake, and directly in the
heart of the finest timber in the state.
1t will, for the next ten years, al
least, be the headquarters and dis.
tributing point for all the numbering
operations in the eastern part of Bel
trami county, which means cut o1
600, ,Q00,0 900 feet Of pine alone. The
work Of getting out all kinds OF cedar
poles, posts, ties and hardwood tim
Der, however, will be fully as great an
industry as the cutting Of the pine.
B The country is free from stone and
the soil is the best to be desired, being
characteristic OF maple, birch aud oak
timber which prevails.
The country affords good induce
ments to the people looking for free
homes, as there are still thousands Of
acres Of fine farming lands lying to
the north. east and south, but in the
organized towns oi Summit, Blackduck
and Langor, which surround this new
townsite, there are not three hundred
acres Of vacant land, which at once
shows how thoroughly the adjoining
country Is settled.
AS q summer resort il will rank with
any in the northwest, as Blackduck
lake is one Of the pretties lakes in the
county, which is noted for them.
This new town will be the terminus
of the road for at least six months and
probably a year, but when it extends
farther northeast it will leave this lit
tie Eldorado with so many resources
that its steady growth to the best town
in the county is assured and admitted
by all who are in any way familiar
with them. s,5 @
The right-of-way between Bemidji
and Blackduck has been secured and
the deed for extra right-of-way for
depot grounds at this new toWnsite
is now amatter Of record in the regis
ter Of deeds Office. About all the
clearing is now completed and the
grading is being pushed as rapidly as
possible. It is the intention Of the
company, if the weather permits, to
lay thessteel TO the town this fall.
Any one wishing further informa-
ton in regard to the townsite or coun-
try, will receive promps attention BY
writing to NJ, D. Stoner, at Bemedji,
the county surveyor, OF Beltrami
county, who is the proprietor Of the
townsite.
Mr.. Stoner has been a resident OF
Beltrami county for the past 8 years,
and Ii thoroughly familiar with every
part of it.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25

8 Meehan, the democrat, and Swan
son, the popnlist, may be good fel-
lows, but we care not Rapp for that.
Republican interests are at stake and
will be defeated unless Chas. g. Rapp
is elected representative from this dis
trict. a vote for him is a vote for
Knute Nelson for United States sena-
tor. Beltrami county canne. afford
to turn down Nelson, just to please
Meehan or Swanson.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
NOTICE.

7 wish to announce to the public
that hereby withdraw from the sal
walton army, for reasons I do not wish
to express, but which, if expressed,
would throw no reflection on the army
nor any of our past or present officers
in this place. / mean to still follow
Jesus, bat not in the Salvation Army
MARY E.. SULLIVAN.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25

before election day comes the repub-
lican candidate will be better known
throughout the district. The necessity
for change will be duty which the
taxpayers can no longer overlook and
JUDGE Holland will be retired to pri-
vate life on his large private income
where he should have been long ago..
Deer River News.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25

The people OF the county should not
neglect common sense for politics on
election day. They should pot fail to
vote on the proposition to bond the
county for $40, 900 to build a new court
house. The county finances are in
good shape, and it is entitled to 2
building better than the present barn.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25

The best method Of cleansing.
the liver is the use OF the
famous little pills known as Dew tits
Little Early Risers. Easy to take.
Never grippe. Mayo's Drug Store.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
Do YOU NEED MON EY

We make loans to salaried people
holding permanent positions with re-
liable concerns, upon their own names,
without endorsers, payable in partial
payments, monthly or weekly according
to the payday of borrower. Write US
for terms, giving name of employer,
length of service, salary and amount
desired. All our bushes is confidential.
Reference National German American Bank.
Minnesota Mortgage Loan Co.,
316-3ls Pioneer Press Bldg,
ST. PAUL. MINI.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
sTATE TIC.Kl.,ET.

Governor. Samuel r.. Van SAINT.
Lieut.. Governor, Lyndon A. Smith.
Secretary OF State. Peter 2. Hansen.
Treasurer. 4. Julius H. Block.
Attorney General w B. Douglas,
Chief Justice. s. .8. 10. M. start.
Associate Justice. a.. w. Collins.
Railway and Warehouse Commits
Chas. #. Staples, 2 years; 3. q.
Miller, A years; Ira B. Mills, 4 4years.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
For Representative, 6lst. district;
CHARLES @. RAPP.

COUNTY CoMMIs ss1oNERs:
VIM. MeGuaig, First District; John
McDougald, Second District;f 3. q.
Sibley, Third District: Ed Gala
Cher, Fourth District; w. ]. john
son, Fifth District.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-25
8 M.

This signature Is on every box Of the genuine
Laxative BrOrrnO-Q Quinine Tablets
the remedy that cures q cold I'm one day
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-27

The platform adopted by Mr.. Hanna s
Ohio convention contains the following
plank on trusts:
THE Republican party of Ohio stands commit
tcd to Legislative and executive opposition 10 the
threatening combinations OF capital that seek to
restric: competition and stife independent pro-
tuCcr=. We Invite within our borders the c-p-
i;ai stc investments that are material TO tie
tu,f;i3 c-ye:cprnenj OF the State and the
largest Cs-n,ryiE4nt Of labor but insist th't
irj ridu- JiHaticus shall be forbidden pad
SOFA led trusts shah be regulated from time Il
ins and be restricted to guarantee immunity
from hurtul monopoly and Assure fair treatment
and protection 70 all competing industries
Just what "combina ions" Mr.. Hanna
considers Injurious it might be difficult
to guess. Certainly not the Standard Oil
Company. whose home and home church
are in Cleveland. That pious and educa :
tional entity cannot be regarded as Of
fensive. since it is not long ago that, at
its behest the tariff on crude oil was
dropped in Porto Rico and the tariff on
refined oil preserved so that the Standard
Oil Company might have monopoly of
the Porto Rican market through the opera
tion of its refineries in the island. MI.
Hanna cannot class the Sugar Trust as
Injurious because he was in full &C
cord with the movement through which
the Dingley tariff sugar schedule was die
tated by that trust. He certainly cannot
consider the Tobacco Trust 'hurtful mo-
nopoly," since it is only the other day
that the Administration violated the Con-
stitution in order to give it protection from
domestic manufactured tobacco brought
from one to another American port! In
deed, Hanna canr Ut really believe that any
kind of trust is either injurious" or
'hurtful." 1t sas not so long ago that he
is represented 10 have dictated an inter-
view in which he said:
80 long as the trusts have not proved men
ace 10 business nor TO the laboring interests
of the country, 50 long all that is said about
them is merely talk and nothing but talk, so
long they have not proved curse to the coun-
try, l believe they should be let alone. This
combination of capital for purpose or another
Is not political question at all. IL Is business
question and ought not to have been brought
into politics.
Hanna has carried out his idea as far
as he could at Columbus. He tried to keep
the platform silent on the trust question,
because he is consistent if not sincere
person. He still believes that the talk
about trusts is merely talk and nothing
but talk" He is as well satisfied now as
ever he was that trusts constitute the
foundation of his party, and that without
them it would disappear like dish of ice
cream in blast furnace He is thoroughly
convinced that the highest purposes of
government are to use the national terri
tory for trust exploitation, to loan the
public money to trust banks without in
terest, and to raid the Treasury in order |
that dozen trust magnates may be hand !
ed over a gratuity of ninety million dol |
lars. AS he very justly remarks, these |
things form "a business question and |
ought not to have been brought into poll
tics"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-27

The dull thud which marked the exit Of
the Hon. Matthew S. Quay from the Sen
ate of the United States was Immediately
followed by soft plash in the vicinity OF
the seat formerly occupied by Mr.. Quay,
and which during the trial of his case
had been reserved for him. The noise
came from the Hon. Thomas C. Plat, who
moved in as his brother boss moved out.
Mr.. Platt's old seat was not desirable.
Mr.. Plat, when not engaged in herding
his Republican cattle at some political
roundup. is a good deal given to senti-
ment, and frequently lifts up his voice in
song. The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
used to be his favorite lyric, but he has
not sung with the same verve since his
overthrow at st. Louis in 1896. On that
occasion Mr.. Quay went down with him,
and now the all-powerful Hanna has
clinched the matter by excluding Quay
from public life. Will his own turn come
next?
The present. it is nothing" he is said
to have remarked TO a correspondent on
Wednesday; the future-I don't see much
fun in it. As for yesterday-well, that's
water which has gone over the dam" But
he sits In Quay's seat, where Hanna can
see him.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-27
CAPTAIN CHADWICK'S CASE.
Comment on His Alleged Reflection
ON ADMIRAL SchIey.

There were no new developments yes
terday in the case of Capt French E
Chadwick, of the Navy. whose structures
on Rear Admiral Schley in a newspaper
interview may lead 10 his trial on the
charge of criticising superior officer in
tine public prints. 1t appears to be pretty
well established in the minds of naval Off
GERS that Captain Chadwick did not intend
that his reported remarks should be pub
lished; that he did make privately the com
ments attributed to him is not doubted, and
it is expected that he will acknowledge
this in reply to the Navy Departments en-
quiry, asserting however. that he did not
suppose he would be quoted in a news
paper
There was a report current yesterday
that Captain Chadwick had acknowledged
officially to the Navy Department that
he had been quoted practically correctly.
but did not intend that his remarks should
appear in print. No confirmation of tn:
report was obtanable last night. and GER
tain circumstances lead to the belief that
no answer has been submitted by Captain
Chadwick. Secretary Long and Rear Ad-
miral Crowninshield, Chief of the Bureau
of Navigation are absent from Washing
ton. Admiral Crowninshield was in New
York yesterday and may have seen Cap
tain Chadwick there. In the case of Lieu
tenant Commanders HodgsOn and Heilner
the Navy Department directed Captain
Chadwick. then chief of staff of the North
Atlantic station to interview both officers
and it would be proper course for Admi-
raj Crowuirshield to call personally on
Captain Chadwick to secure lis eXplana-
ton. Admiral Crowninshield did not re-
turn to Washington last night
Just what course would be pursued by
the Navy Department If Captain Chad
wick should claim that the interview was
not intended for publication has dppar-
emily not been determined. In the case of
Rear Admiral Meade. who while not de-
nying the accuracy of a newspaper inter
view attributed to him, in which Mr. Cleve-
land then President. was criticised. as
serted that he had not made any criticisms
for publication no acton was taken other
than that OF Secretary Herbert in writing
On Admiral Seade's application for retire
meut. submitted almost coincdently with
the request of the Department for an ex-
PLANTATION OF the newspaper interview.
rebuke to the admiral for his printed re-
marks. Should Captain Chadwicks reply
be such that the Department would feel
obliged to take notice of 1t. the least that
can be done is to make the matter a part
of his official record for consideration by
the promotion board in determining Cap
tain ChadWicks fitness for advancement.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-27
THE Observation-Disclosures

To the Editor Of The Times:
In your morning edition of April 20 is a
very sensible and readable editorial on
Barbara Frietchie." the burden OF which
is to exonerate the poet. John c. Whittier.
from censure for not writing his famous
war poem in thorough harmony with his
toric accuracy.
Certain things are true: l. There is a
beautiful little city in Maryland whose To-
cation is graphically portrayed in the IA
miliar stanza:
Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear, on the cool September morn.
The clustered spires OF Frederick stand,
Green-walled by the hills OF Maryland
Round about them orchards sweep,
Apple and peach tree rooted deep,
Fair as the garden of the Lord.
2 From 1861 to 1865 there was in this
country civil war of great dimensions
and very destructive OF life and property.
3. In that civil war. IS a prominent Of
ficer on the side of the Confederacy, was
General ''Stonewall'' Jackson. His troops
passed through Frederick in September,
1862.
4. One of the residents OF Frederick at
that time was an aged loyal. courageous
woman named Barbara Fretchie, whose
tombstone in the. cemetery of the German
Reformed Church bears this inscription:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-27

In the atlantic Monthly for May Mr..
| Hugo Munsterberg discusses American
schools and colleges Mr.. Munsterberg is a
German. This subject has been treated by
numerous writer's. hopefully or pessmis-
tically as the case may be, and frequently
with an ignorance nothing less than sub
lime. The author OF this article takes the
view that the American system of eduea-
ton is throughout inferior TO the German
and that the reason is that the teachers
are not as we'll educated as they should be-
He reviews his own school life and states
that the average student in the German
gymnasium is further advanced at eighteen
than the American at twenty one, and
that without overcrowding.
But before taking this as serious in
dctment against the American teacher
two things should be considered; first, the
difference between the American and the
German temperament. and second, the life
for which the students OF each country are
TO he prepared. Before transplanting the
German system entire TO this country it
would be well 10 ascertain how nearly it
will fit our needs.
1t may be said on general principles that
the German is more difficult to convince
than a man OF any other nationality on
the face OF the earth. II is next to impos-
sible to make him think that there is, or
can be. anything wrong with the institu-
lions to which he has given his allegiance,
II he were taught, in Germany, to spend
hours learning TO curve the tail of the
letter g in precisely the same way every
time he wrote it he sees an absolute moral
wrong in the refusal of the American
teacher to subject a child TO the same
discipline. If he spent his time from ten
to eighteen IN mastering Greek he thinks
that the American boy ought to do the
same in order TO be well educated This
may be so, or il may not. There is kind
Of thoroughness which is a waste OF time.
II man expects to go into the German
army to become teacher, or scientist,
or a doctor, or engage in any of the cccu-
pations which, in long settled country,
require extraordinary alta -~lents, he
needs the German education. Ii he has to
knock about a half-eivilized territory and
make not only his own living. but the very
business which is 10 afford him living;
IL he must be carpenter, roadmaker,
taurant keeper. before he can make his
wilderness habitable II is hard TO see
what use Greek is going to be to him Per-
haps. after all. the harum- scarum train
ing which many of the enterprising men
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-27
THE MARITIME CANAL.
The Nicaracunn Government Cancels
the Concession to Build It,


The concession 10 the Maritime Canal
Company to construct a ship canal across
Nicaragua has been Cancelled by the Nicar-
aguan Government.
The contract of the company expired, ac-
cording to the terms of the agreement. on
October 5 last, but the company shortly
before that time made application for IN
extension of time. This was refused
whereupon the company, claiming that it
was revented from finishing the canal by
circumstances that it could not control
attempted to delay final proceedings and
secure renewal OF the concession by re-
sorting to a clause in its contract provid-
ing that differences between the company
and the Nicaraguan Government should lie
submitted to arbitration. Nicaragua ad-
mitted the legality of this clause aud an
pointed its arbitrator, but the company
Aas delinquent in this respect and after
reasonable time, upon motion of the solicit
tor of the Government. the Supreme Court
of Nicaragua declared that the lease had
expired on January l last.
Since that date the matter has been tclI
under consideration and the United States
Minister 10 Nicaragua, Mr. Merry, has
been to Maragua to effect just settle
ment of the issue. Information has jUst
reached here. however that the courts
having decided against the compan,.'s
claims, the Nicaraguan Government hes
finally refused to extend the period of tina
allowed for the construction of the Mai
aqua Canal by the Maritime Canal Com
pany has vacated its concession.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-27
BARBARA FRIETCdIE,
Died December IS, 1862.
Aged Ninety-six years.

In the year 1886 wrote history of tn,
| famous Cumberland Valley in Southern
Pennsylvania. While prosecuting the worl
| had occasion to give some attention IL
the subject of Whittier's poem. l wal
referred TO former resident of Frederick
a gentleman wao was in the town at the
! time the circumstance which gave rise tC
| the poem is said to have occurred. Lewis
| II. Steiner, in charge of the Enoch Pratt
| Library of Baltimore. His letter is &C
sensible that 1 present it in full:
Baltimore, March 10, 1886
Mr. J. Fraise Richard, Chambersburg, Pa.
Dear Sir: In reply to yours of 18th inst,
write to say: l. There yuch person as
Barbara Frietche living in Frederick during it;
occupancy by the enemy in 1862. 2, She pa
triotic and brave enough to have thrown a flag,
indicative OF her sentiments, out Of her window
in case such idea had occurred to her. s.
Whether Mrs. Frietchie, who died in the winter
of 1st2-GS, did throw ont flag, no one has ever
been able TO disproye, il, alleged, no one has
proved.
Do measure or weigh our poetry as do
our dry goods and provisions. TO whether
il squares with the dull provisions of real life
Yours, LEWIS ii. STEINER.
As matter of fact Stonewall Jackson
did not pass along the street on which
morning of September 10. 1862, jack
sens troops passed through the town. The
general had. however, turned aside to see
his old friend, DR.. Ross, Presbyterian
minister OF the place. He left the follow
ing note at the door:
Regret not being permitted to see DIR. and
Mrs. Ross; hut could not expect 10 have that
ct J. JACKSON"
September 10, 1862, 5:15 a. M
1t is hardly probable that Dame Bar
-,
basis for the story is found, however, in
the fact that a day or two later, WHEN
;he Union troops of General Reno were
passing through the town. little girl
standing by the side of Dame Barbara
held Union flag in her hand and waved
it
Whittier received his statement from
Mrs. Southworth. and thereupon wrote
the poem. 1t struck a popular chord, and
all the powers this side of the judgment to
come are insufficient to correct any mis-
statements of facts, if such there he.
1t matters little whether the poet de-
tailed facts or not. There was sufficient
basis for him, under the prerogatives of
poetic license to write what and as lie
did The csrpng criticism which seeks for
exact chronology, topography. and per-
sonGl identity in every line of the poem
would utterly destroy every precious poem
IN our literature or IN that OF any ether
language on earth. II would invade the
realms Of the most exalted Hebrew poetry
and subject 10 ridicu!e the declaration tt at
The hills melted like wax at the prs sence
Of the Lord il would subject to like fate
the statement that the trees clapped thei-
hands for joy or the hills skipped like
lambs
If this spirit of liberalism and punctiii-
Gus accuracy be insisted upon. we shOu
retain nothing but salt sea deposits of lit
erature. The life and true poetic spirit
of all precious composition would be IT.
terly and wantonly sacrificed.
j. FRAISE RICHARD.
Washington. April %.