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The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
County Orders PAYABLE.

Notice is hereby given that there is funds in
the treasury OF Beltrami county to pay the
following orders on the revenue and poor fund.-
and interest thereon will stop 80 days after
date. Sept. 18th, 1901:
Numbers 1922 3Os6, 1927, 1929, 1910, 3o4a, aO52,
1880 3041 $3.50. 304s, 1885, 3125. 3f23, 1924, 3l4O
BIAS, 305I, 3015, 311, 3f53, 3l54 3155, 1883, 3084
3ss, 1856 $3.50, 1851, 3O91 3oS6, 1905, 1923, 39e7
5000, $685. 1908, 3oS7 $685. 3O1s, 3161, 3052, 3i72
3l70 Bill, 5000, 3049. 1926, 1914 1929, 1904 3243
3244, 324s 3225 32l7, 3245, 324o, 1899, 1885, $3.50
1857 $3.50, 1851 1858, 1852. 1858, 3265, 1854 1885,
5000 1858, 800, 1868, 3271 1880, 1878, 3069 1881
1903 3272, 33Ol $500, 1920 33ls 1929, 3O6s, 3O7l
sa24e 330l 1915 1885, 1854 334s, 3349 33s42
3343 1906. 1914 1891, 1881, 32s1, 1922 3346, ss45
1886 1887 1898, 1851 1910. 1890 1854 1862, 3lO7,
$780, 1871 .34I2 32l0. 1912, BIT, 3065, 3251 1885,
1878 3514 351l, 3433, $685. 1902, 347e, 1888, 1881
3iS7, $685. 1891, $780, 1927, S5t7. 1855. S41s 3476
1894 35U3, 1865 35l9, 349s. $780, $780, 3iO9 34733
1857, 351s 3442 3431, $500 $685. 340s, 1902, 1857,
$685. 1923, 3443, S410 1906, 3436, 32l3 317S 34O1,
1925 1856, 1882 35l6, S5l5, $500, 1896 349S, 34l9
s437 1885, 1929, 345O, 3495 3417. 3411, $685. 1858,
1894, 1881, 1852 s435. S11s a406, 3iQ4 34O0 1913.
1923 1922, 1852, 1885, 3647, 34i5 1910. 1899, 1862,
3242
Poor FUND.- Numbers 3037, 3152, 1854, 1885,
sise 31s5, 3o72, 5000 3Oe4 33s07, 3sos a2Oe, 1854
1916 1855, 1893, 1907, 33os.
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The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
"A Pitiable Sight !.

rs What is more pitiable than to see a
puny, delicate, little child absolutely
dying from neglect. There are MANY
little ones whose cheeks would grow
rosy, whose eyes would grow bright,
whose flesh would be plump and
pretty if only the worms that are
knawing at their vitals were removed,
which is easily effected with Mothers
Worm Syrup, so nice to take that
children ask for it: also cure for
tape worm in grown people. Try a 25
cent bottle.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
Something TO Remember.

When a cough or cold is long
neglected consumption almost invari-
ably follows. Remember Mexican
Syrup only costs 25 cents bottle, and
yet has proven in many thousand
cases an absolute safe cure for coughs,
colds and consumption. Taken in
time it cures quickly. Children like it
because it tastes so good. Insist on
your druggist keeping it for sale.
Read the seemingly miraculous cures
it has Effected, printed on the wrapper
around the bottle.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
Observation-Disclosures
j BACKWOODS
SKETCHES
THE PROOF WAS SUFFICIENT.
BY A. NJ. GREELEY,


1t was in the soothing breath of
middle June, when the odors of honey
suckles and expanding golden rods
mingled with the blossoms of straw
berries and the pnngent garden herbs.
Po1len-veiled bees filtered about in
the sunshine and among the tendrils
OF the grapevines which covered the
back porch brazen swallow flew to
and from an unfinished nest. Through
the shrouded pine forest led a path
like thread Of silver to a sparkling
lake beyond. But unconscious Of the
charms Of nature, a young lady sat
upon the porch wrapped in deepest
thought.
She was the pride of Hagley IS Land
ing, the magnet for the eyes and hearts
of many hardy lumberman and soft
ipalmed citizen of the town.
II don't know why 1 like him, she
is saying to herself. = It is not for
his good looks, for he would never
win out on that. But his eyes are
dark and piercing, and there is such
an air OF mystery about him
But here the subject Of her thoughts
steps around the corner Of the porch
and interrupts her. Dark as his face
~, it lightens with pleasure as he sees
her..
s thought I would find you here. /
am q little early, butt could not wait.
You said you would give me my
answer today, and can't breath till
/ get it. What is it to be?s'
She searched his face thoughtfully.
~ Ohm, I hardly know you, but this
much I will say: I have known you
but few months, and it is a serious
thing TO marry stranger. think
you are better than other men, but I
may be mistaken. / have no parents
to help me to know the trnth-no
mother loving hand to point the
right road. To my own foolish heart
must I look for judgment. But how
am ! 70 know that you are all you
seem? In this new country where the
roughs and toughs Of the world seem
to be holding convention, there are
men who claim to be single and yet
have wives and children far away.
You have drifted in. a stranger. How
can / know that you are not one OF
them that you are not already mar
ried?"
He took her unresisting hands in
his.
My little girl, it is the easiest
thing in the world to settle that. +
have official papers in my pocket to
prove that I am not married. These
papers will show that I have just I'm
ished a 1O-years' sentence in the state
peEitentiary for killing my wife in
Michigan in 1891. ~
The wedding took place the follow
ing Thursday.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12

The country editor who will
boomany more ST. Paulpoliticians
for a federal Office ought to have
an axe sunk into him. Give the
rest of the state a show. When
it comes to a successor of Robert
Evans as United States district
attorney, what's the matter with
State Senator G. G. Mccarthy of
Grand Rapids?
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12

This is the time of year when
the stove agent. the clothing ped
der and the grocery tramp is
passing among the people telling
them of how their local merchant
is robbing them by high prices.
And this is the time when the
ungrateful wretch who has been
begging credit of his local dealer
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
GARD OF THANKS.

j. w. Feldmann, wife and child rem
wish to express their profound thanks
to the many friends whosekindl II SYM
pathy has been such q blessing during
the sickness of.Adaline, their daugh
ter and sister.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
The secret of Good Health.

The secret Of beauty and good health
is cleanliness. Uncleaniness breeds
disease. Internal cleanliness is even
Keep. your liver active and your
bowels thoroughly clean by taking a
Mexican Root Pill occasionally.
Their use does the nerves, kidneys,
ETC., good also. Only % cents a box.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
Cntsand Bruises Quickly Healed

Chamberlain's Pain Balm applied
to. cut, bruise, burn, scald or like
injury will Instantly allay the pain
and will heal the parts in less time
than any other treatment. Unless the
injury is very severe it will not leave
a scar. Pain Balm also cures rheuma-
tism, sprains, swellings and lameness.
For sale by Mayoss drug store.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12

all summer will now pay hard
cash to the travelling agent for
goods that can often be bought
cheaper on credit from the said
local dealer. Some people were
never made to Be loved.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
Official County and City Paper.
VORWARTS, ROOSEVELT!

MHE top of the land to you, Mr..
Roosevelt! You can hide, as
well as tell, what is within you.
For. with the warrior blood, you
counsel like a Mckinley or Nor
gan. Throughout the whole
speech Of the vice president at
st. Paul runs the warm current
of the gulf stream OF liberty,
tempered by the colder currents
Of experience and wisdom. The
empire blood is there ready TO
ooze out at any pore when
touched by the fever Of enlight-
ened commercial necessities.
Monroe doctrine is lauded; but
behind the laudation is the hid
den mystery of conquest work,
work.
Other statesmen presidents
premiers, dictators have lustl-
fed conquest by necessity. But
here comes a man who sets UP
work as the deity fit for men ct
liberty, knowing full well that
the results Of work are not Inn M
tied BY the boundaries OF ma
ton, but will burst all bounds
and inundate all territories. We
have gone forward to liberty,
says he, not only for ourselves,
but for others. Let us WORK to
maintain it. Not agitate, not
strike, not warbut WORK
plain, every day WORK, Of the
hands or the brain. That is his
process Of stacking up a re-
public to compass the girth OF
theJearth.
Roosevelt is not q student 70 OF
econpmics; he is nota statisticlan
He IS stepped in the solidities OF
English and German history
oratory, diplomacy and soldier
craft. He is Germanic- American,
solid and soul-stirring. AS
president of the senate he will
come to craftsmanship across
lots. He will discern the
difference between the Mon
roe doctrine and d share OF the
Latin American trade. He will
discover that we must annex
Cuba or lose the money value OF
the island to us and forfeit it to-
revolution and anarchy. He will
discover that there are more
ways than one to.secure the trade
of a country that reciprocity is
not free trade or tariff reform
and that consuls are mainly good
as ''sidelsicks" for our exporting
firms. And having found out
this, his velvet will cover the
mouths of cannon as a caution
that American and Roosevelt
n. Il. & 4 - . f. 4 ~
both mean forwards.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12

The county that can draw the
eleventh prize in the state fair
for having the best county ex-
hibit ought to be able to raise
something besides lumber and
stovewood. Beltrami has done
that
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
Gooch's Quick Relief.

When your joints and bones ache.
and your flesh feels tender and sore, a
% cent bottle of Gooch's Quick Relief
will give you quick relief. Best cure
for collie.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
"A Big Calendar.

The District Court calendar
for the term commencing Sept.
18th has nearly two hundred
cases listed, on the civil side, and
the criminal calendar promises
to be a large one. The civil cal
endar is large, owing to the nee
essary adjournment of the term
last year for lack Of funds or
credit to pay jurors.
The following are the jurors
drawn for this term:
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
Healthy Blood Makes Healthy
Flesh,

To have good flesh and good feeling,
to look we'll and feel well take some
of Gooch's Sarsapariila. Nothing
else so good for pale and sickly
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12
PIle-ine Cures piles.

Money refunded if it ever fails.
Anti-ague cures chills and fever.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-12

County Treasurerof Beltrami County
The age-herald., 1901-04-07

tracts explaining the dreadful results of the liquor trade.
 As soon as these rewards or others of like nature, have been made and the fun provoked by them has subsided, the hos tess introduces a second game, also of national character. In order to play it each guest receives white card having the following questions upon 1t. Blank spaces for the answers appear opposite the questions:
 l. What nation moved Mrs. Carrie against the saloons? Answer-Indigna- tion.
 ?. What nation assisted her? Determin- ation.
 What nation did not impede her? Pro crastination. ! 4. What nation did she determine on for 1 the saloons? Determination. o. With what nation did she descend on them? Illumination. 6. What nation turned her thoughts to the crusade? Inclination.
 2. What nation in saloon windows an- gered her? Illumination.
 8. What nation recorded her attack?
 g. What nation followed her career? h. crimination.
 10. What nation did many unhesltatingly bestow? Condemnation.
 Il. What nation do mental specialists advise for her? Examination.
 l2. What nation were the liquor dealers unable to bring her to? Subordination
 IS. What nation has her career not yet reached? Termination.
 The man and girl who, at the end of twenty minutes, have completed the long est lists of answers receive each a pocket dictionary smartly bound in leather.
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Nsw Clock 3acs for >wsutletN csutuv-- -acere st Ss

ia losing itself in another direction some where between XI and XII, the new timepiece will read simply and conclusive ly 66S Tn another minute the last figure magicaily disappears and takes It's place and in sixty more seconds all the figures vanish and in their place appear 100 To state the system clearly and tersely, time will be told as the railroad time table tells It. And with the general introduction of this system would be done away with such bungling expressions--entailed by the old circular dial plate with it's wreath of figures-as 20 minutes past g, IA min utes of 12 Instead we shall adopt the crisp, accurate terminology of the time table, and say nine twenty, eleven forty six. etc.
 Another advantage which my clock has over those now in use. and one which all acknowledge, is that time may be dis- cerned by 1t at a much greater distance and more difficult angle. The reason IS obvious There are twenty-eight figures on the ordinary dial and only one Is per fectly upright. The greatest number ap- bearing on the new dial is four, and they are all upright. The figures of a tower clock, for instance, may be made several feet long, and thus discernible at great distance.
 Tn combination with the dial have in- vented another Scneme WHICH BTedtiy helps the working of clocks in public places, especially of. tower clocks. It is an electrical device which insures greater regularity and accuracy of movement than has hitherto been attained, and as sures a simplicity of construction which makes the consumption of battery power comparatively small. Moreover, these improvements in electrical clocks render it practical to have system of accurate time indication on a scale, however great
 For example, the hundred rooms of tn office building may each have its indica- tor set in the wall, all controlled by one master clock, which in turn In synchron- ized from the observatory, thus insuring accurate time wherever the indicators are placed. Hotels public buildings, fac tories. office buildings and railroads will probably be among the first to introduce this system.
 There is a feature in regard to tower clocks which ought to be noted. Unless very expensive precautions are taken the vibration of the tower, chanes of tenn perature and other influences seriously impair their accuracy. But by this sys- tenn the, time mechanism may be located in any convenient place away from dis turbing influences, and the figures upon the towel dial controlled by the electrical connections"
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 -->--------------~--~-~ tice among the Christians of Mesopotamia on Easter Sunday. and forty days after ward. during which time their children buy themselves as many eggs as they can, and stain them with a red color in memory of the blood of Christ. Some tinge them, also with green and yellow these eggs being sold in the markets. The sport consists, as in this country in striking the eggs one against another, and the egg that first breaks Is won by the owner of the egg that struck it. Imme- diately another egg is pitted against the winning egg, and so they go on until the last remaining egg wins all the others.
 Father Carmeli. in his History of Gus toms" tells us that during Easter and the following days. hard eggs painted of different colors, but principally red are the ordinary food of the season. Tn Italy, Spain. and Province. says he. where al- most every ancient superstition is re- tained. there are in the public places cer- tain sports with eggs. These he Is in clined to attribute originally to the Jews or the Pagans, for he observes they were common to both. The Jewish wives, at the Feast of the Passover. upon a table prepared for that purpose, place hard eggs. the symbol of a bird called Zig, concerning which the Rabbis have many
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atively to such and such figures, what must the time be-for glance at my new clock shows the time unmistakably an- nounced in plain Arabic numerals. We are so accustomed to the natural calcula- tions referred to that we do not realize that they are nuisance and waste of valuable time.
 There are 720 minute-combination found by the passage of the hands on the dial of the clock in use today. These combinations must be thoroughly mem or.zed and learned before person can tell the exact time at a glance. Some persons never become so used in calculat- ing them that they make no appreciable pause before stating the time. Often mis- takes are made, as when one says: It is twenty-four minutes past eight when 1t Is really but nineteen minutes after the hour But Tn reading the new clock no one need pause, calculate or make mis- take. child will have no difficulty in telling the exact time.
 "When the hour of the old-fashioned time-p piece is dangling in one direction between VI and VII, and the minute hand
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-AA cavrie Nation PavtN k
Merry

The valiant exploits of Mrs. Carrie Ma ton, the refo-mer, are now being utilized in Gotham as the corner stone for even ing parties of the merriest sort. The Ma tion-al party, as it is called in the invita- tion, is the invention of a well known New York society woman. This first affair was given on an extensive and elaborate plan, but other women were quick to recognize the bright idea, and having less generous facilities at com mand. they pruned away extravagances and adapted the scheme to average needs. So that any woman, be her parlor ever so < small, her finances what they may, can >sive an affair in this clever order
 In National party a little nonsense is combined with little intellectual fun in a way which keeps one's guests in a round of merriment throughout the three hours.
 Invitations are sent on cards across which stretch gaunt arms and hands g-asping aatchets. The design can be carried out In water color, pen-and-ink or coiore5 chalk. The note can invite to a National party or to an evening with Mrs. Nation, as the hostess elects.
 Each invitee, entering the rooms on the appointed evening, receives one of those familiar bon-bcn boxes in hatchet shape, which sold every year for Wash ineton's birthday fayors and which con fectioners are now offering apropos of 1frs. Nations crusade.
 These hatchets are weighted with some light ballast say a potato, apiece. The ballast in each should be as nearly as possible of equal weight.
 The future use of these mysterious hatchets begins to suggest itself when the hostess arranges upon a table at the fur ther end of the room twelve bottles of graded sizes Tho bottles have labels pasted upon them. on which numbers are written. The smallest bottle is number 1, the next in size, ?. the following 8. and so on throughout the dozen.
 Behind the table stands a large laundry basket containing tissue paper and feath- er pillows. The guests are ranged at the end of the room furtherest from the ta- b1e, and each. throwing his hatchet. en- deavors to emulate Mrs. Carrie by an overthrow of bottles. the more the better. Three shots are apportioned to each man or girl. As the bottles fall into the basket among feathers and tissue they do not break, being used over and over, until each guest has made his attempt.
 Two prizes are bestowed: one for the player who downed most bottles: another for the lucky individual whose bottles counted by the numbers on the labels were of highest value. A pretty lemonade pitcher and lemonade cups in tinted glass would make useful and fetching prizes The two players who were least success ful of all could receive as booby prizes
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along without I. for one o'clock, II. for two o'clock. III. for three and HI. for four o'clock? How stereotyped the time indication system has been for centu- ries Is illustrated by that very cumber- some HI. Henry the Eighth took 1t into his kingly head that this should be em- ployad on the clock dial instead of the customary ", and many clocks read that way to this day. A dozen genera tions have weakly trodden in the path that crowned head happened to choose.
 Now I propose that the HI be done away with and all the rest of the round robin with 1t; that the hands be ban ished-people thought me cray when first made that statement-and that the entire dial plate be changed. Instead of the old way, which does not tell the time but represents group of signs by means of which one contrives to calculate it, the new dial will actually tell the exact time without any calculation whatever.
 Tt will no longer be necessary many times a day to solve the mental problem; the hour and minute hands, being, re- spectively, in such and such positions rel
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on until the invention of the clock of to- day, with all its complex machinery, was finally achieved. Since these modern clocks and watches were introduced no epochal change has been accomplished, nor do people realize that any improve ment is needed, or even that one could be made which would prove useful.
 ITO be sure the machinery has been improved many times and in a multitude of ways, but its essential principle has remained unaltered. Our ancestors for several centuries were familiar with prac- tically the same lock face that we have known from infancy with it's figures en- circling its circumference and its hands slowly travelling and pointing out respect fully the minute and the hour.
 Those Roman numerals, some upright, some reposing on their sides,N others standing on their heads, they somehow seem inevitably a part of the general scheme of things, without which the solar system would be out of joint. How get
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AMuEL P. THRAsHER of New

a AMuEL P. THRASHER of New lS Haven. Conn. is making an ef- o) fort to have the clock face that D all humanity has been consulting for centuries changed for one made suit able for the progressive people of the twentieth century.
 Tn stating his objections to the present svzfenn. of telling tlme MT. Thrasher points out that there Is a bewildering, hrasn-trying number of figures which arc never necessary at one time for one-hour indications on the face of the clock of to- day, and he further says that some of these figures are right side up while oth- CTS are upside down: some repose on their sides. while others are placed at various angles. This. as can be readily seen creates confusion, and often renders 1t difficult to tell the exact time at glance.
 In Mir. Thrasher's system there are new CT more than four figures shown on the dial of the clock at once, and they so in- d,oate the time that no mistake Is possi- ble. and indicate it so accurately that val uable minutes need never be lost. Under many ordinary circumSIances minute over or under time will cause no great i'm convenience or trouble, but there are many conditions when even the loss of a few seconds means the loss of millions of money, or even the wrecking of lives
 MT. Thrasher by his new system has evolved not only singular time indica- tion for clocks, but he has also developed clock method radically different from present practice, which will probably in a short while absorb much of the business in time indicators and become the stand ard system of the twentieth century.
 In discussing his valuable invention with representative of this paper re- gently Mir. Thrasher remarked during the course of the conversation: "It would be an interesting task to trace the develop ment of mechanical means of indicating time; wonderful improvements have been made since our forefathers depended upon the sun to tell them the hour. and our grandparents looked to the old dial in the garden to tell them the time of day.
 Beginning with some primitive form of the sun dial, improvements have gone