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The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-01-03
State of Minnesota,
County of Beltrami.
ViItuua 0f Rami6i;

State of Minnesota, .@n. a@ +.s
County of Beltram. SIS. III
Village of BemidjiJ
Notice is hereby given, that application
has been made in writing te the Village
Counvii of said Village of Bemdji and fled
in my Office, praying for license to sell In
toxicat ng Liquors for the term commence
ing on Janua.y /. 1901, and Terminating on
January 1. 1902 by the following person,
and at the following place, as stated in said
application, respectively. to-wit: |
c. G. BLAKE So.
front room, ground floor, of the One-story
frame building situated on lot thirteen (13,.
block t2D, Original Townsite of Bemidji,
Minnesota. ".,. -...A1 .a&@
Said application will be heard and deter
mined by said Village Council of the Village
of Bemidii at the Recorders office in said
Village of Bemidii in Beltrami County and
State of Minnesota, on Friday. the 18th day
of December A. ID. 1900, at 8 o'clock p. IN. of
that day. a'.' H.. .s.a. Z
Witness my hand and seal of Village of Be-
midi this 10Th day of December. A. d, 1900.
NEWTON HOLROYD. -. :.
Village Recorder.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-01-03
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

US. Land Office at Crookston, MINI. Dec.
IS. 1900. - .1.r -, -t-
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF his intention
to make final proof in support Of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
CLERK of District Court for Beltrami County.
Minn. at Bemidji, Mimi, on February End,
1901 viz: a-s&. X - s-..l
~. RICHARD FELT.
II. e. 1696S, for the So sw4. mex swI4, nw14 SO
n. sec. IS. twp. lbs n, range Sc W.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
Of said land, viz:
Erick p Felt. Richard P. Felt. Anton o..
Dahl and Nils Vain, all of Aida. Mimi.
43-49 SYLVESTER PETERSON, Register.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-01-03
State Of Minnesota, ]
Go. of Beltram,. SIS.
Village of Bemidji.

Notice is hereby given that application has
been made in writing to the Village Council
Of said village of Bemdji and filed in my
Office. praying for license to sell Intoxicating
liquors for the term commencing on jan
uary15, 1901. and terminating on January IA,
1902. by the following person, and at the place
as stated in said application, respectively, to-
wit: ". ": .3..-.-T {, ..,-~ ST."
~ CHAS. CAMPBELL. -~
Front room, ground floor, in the two story
frame building situated on lot eight (S), block
seventeen %, ORIGINAL TOWNSHIP of Bemidi,
Mimi.
Said application will be heard and deter
mined by the Village Council of the Village
of Bemidji, at the recorders off1ce, in the city
hall, in the village of Bemidii. in Beitrami
county and state of Mimi. on Monday, the
IA day of january. "A. ID 1901, at 5 O'Clock p.
IN. of that day. r-s =
= Witness my hand and seal of the village of
Bemidji this End day of Jan. A. d. 1901. .--
NEWTON HOLROYD,
Hts = IT. Village Recorder.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-01-03
School Building for Sale.

Sealed bids will be received by the
clerk OF Bemidii Independent school
district for the sale of the old village
school house, located at the corner OF
American avenue and Fifth street.
Bids must be in by Thursday, Dec.
9th, 1900. r.. McLENNAN,
Clerk of Board.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-01-03
State Of Minnesota.
County Of Beltraini, ss

State of Minnesota
County of BeltI'ami, ssS
Village Of Bemidjt.t J
Notice Is hereby given, hat y, application n has
been made in writing 70 lthe siiiage Council
Office. praying for License 10 sell Intoxicating
LIQUORS for the term commencing on Dec
% 1900 and terminating on Dee. y, 1901. by
the following persons and at the following
Mace. as stated in said application, respect
iycly, to-wit: tt#
BOUDELL & ScHANe'Y .S
Front room. ground floor, OF the two story
frame building situated on lot eighteen. (1S,)
IN block seventeen, CID original townsite Of
Bemdii, Minnesota.
said appIeation will be heard r a., and Id deter
IF Remidii mt the recorders office in the city
hall in said Village Of Bemidji in Beltrami
County and State of Minnesota, on Friday.
the II day Of December A. u. 1900 NJ 5 o'clock,
Witness MY hand and seal of Village of Be-
midi this 7th., day of Dec, A. d. 1900.
- =. +. NEWTON HOLROYD.
F. Village Recorder.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-01-03
NERHUS NEWS.
nann1 New Y ear to all.

Happy New Year to all. j..
Postmaster Johnson has built a
new addition to his store.
Lars Larson has been getting
sighers on petition fora county
road from here to, ,Shevlin.
o. A. Nerhus is working for ex-
Commissioner Rergland. 4
A. Bardwell and Miss Annie
Hougen were married BY Justice
The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-01-03

Such little pills as DeWitt's Little
Early Risers are very easily taken,
and they are wonderfully effective in
cleansing the liver and bowels. At
Mayo's Drug store. .-,-.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
Town without Government.

To Bonnie Terre, Missouri settle
ment of 5000 persons, there belongs
the distinction of which those 5000
persons are proud. 1t probably is the
largest place in the United States with
no form of municipal government and
this lack of officials seems not to be in
any way unsatisfactory or detrimental
to the place Constables and justices
of the peace are the only class of Of
ficials with whom the residents Of
Bonnie Terre are acquainted, says the
New York Herald. There are scores Of
pretty dwellings, and in stores, schools
and other buildings the place resembles
a dozen western cities, which for years
have had mayors, common councils
and city tax rates. The idea of incor-
porating the place has been discussed
many times by the people living there,
but it always ends in the same way.
A lead company owns nearly all of the
place and the company is opposed tc
incorporation. No one else cares
enough about it one way or the other
to start movement for incorporation,
even as a village. AS matters stand
Bonnie Terre is merely part of the
township of Perry. The officials Of
that town look after the welfare OF
the residents of the other and see that
order is maintained there.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08

The necessity of triumphing over
drought, grasshoppers and other hind
RANGES has made the Kansas farmer
energetic and enterprising; but, says
a western exchange, it remained for
Isaiah Finch of Salina county to show
how to exterminate grasshoppers and
make money at the same time. The
grasshoppers were numerous in Mr.
Finch's neighborhood, and did good
deal of damage to the crops. But Mr.
Finch had a drove of thousand young
turkeys, and soon discovered that they
were much more than match for the
choppers" The turkeys destroyed the
hoppers almost as fast as they could
light on his premises, and before they
had time to work any destruction.
Presently Mr.. Finch's neighbors no.
ticed that his fields continued green
and luxuriant while others were bar
rem in spots, and they investigated.
When they found out the secret, few
of the enterprising farmers began to
negotiate for the use of the flock. Mr..
Finch proceeded on the theory that a
hundred turkeys were as valuable as
a Farmland, and accordingly fixed a
rental of two dollars and fifty cents a
day for each one hundred turkeys This
entire flock was soon in demand, and
Mr.. Finch derived a revenue of twenty
five dollars a day from his investment
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08

Having been defeated in his canvass,
Lincoln embarked in a disastrous mer-
camille enterprise at New Salem with
one Thomas Berry. His partner fled
and Lincoln assumed the debts of the
firm, the last of which he paid off in
1S49. In 1888 he was appointed post
master at Salem, and served three
years. The salary was almost moth
ing. The mails came but once week
and as Lincoln could not afford to hire
a room he carried the letters around in
his hat and delivered them. In 1884
Lincoln was an acknowledged Wing
leader and was elected to the legisla-
ture, where he first met Stephen A.
Douglass, the Little Giant" who was
to become his competitor for the SEN
ate and for the presidency.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
a WreSfIfn4 Match,

A story is related of Lincoln when he
was a clerk in the store of Denton Or
futt, at New Salem. Orfutt had a great
opinion Of Lincoln's mental ability,
but a positive admiration for his feats
of strength, and never tired of dilating
upon the latter. 1t seems that a some
what notorious gang of terrors lived
in a neighboring settlement. They
prided themselves on their ability to
wrestle and fight and put every new
conner to the test. They soon heard Of
Lincoln and were anxious to try his
mettle. Lincoln was not brawler
and did not court contests of that
character except as means to an end;
but Orfutt entered readily into the
spirit of the thing and Dragged SO
much about what Lincoln could do
with the terrors that affairs reached a
crisis and he had to yield to public
clamor A match was arranged with
a chosen champion of the gang by the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08

THE COURT HOUSE AT PETERS
BURG.
(Where Lincoln and Douglas Met in
Debate.)
name Of Armstrong. The latter Is des-
cribed as perfect specimen of physi-
cal manhood, powerful and agile and
versed in all the tricks of the wrestler
When the match came off, all business
was suspended, and the partisans wag-
cred their small possessions freely
The contest was a draw, as the men
were so evenly matched that neither
could throw the other. But when Arm
strong found that he could not throw
Abe he resorted to foul tactics. This
angered Abe, who abhorred dishonesty
in sports as in everything else, and he
seized Armstrong by the neck and
shook him until the breath almost left
his body. Abe was not so expert a
wrestler as Armstrong, but in strength
the latter was an infant in the formers
hands.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
A Fill Fire-Walk.

Fire walking Is an ancient Oriental
custom. the origin of which is appar-
emily unknown. 1t still survives in In
dia, Japan and some of the South Sea
Islands. The performance, sometimes
prefaced with lamentations conducted
by priests and followed by a feast,
consists in walking barefoot over a
bed of stones which have been made
red or white-hot by fire. DR.. H. M.
;Hocken thus describes the ceremony
as he witnessed it on one of the Fiji
Islands: Through the cooperation Of
civil officers and steamship company.
the small clan on the island was per-
suaded to give an exhibition, and sew
eral whites. including Doctor Hocken,
went to witness it. One OF them, a
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08

Abraham Lincoln was born in Har-
din county, KY, on Feb. IL, 1909. He
was the son of Thomas and Nancy
Hanks Lincoln and descended from
Samuel Lincoln OF Norwich, England,
who emigrated to bingham. Mass. in
1888. Some of the descendants moved
to what is now Berks county, Pa. and
subsequently to Virginia. Abroh
L. Lincoln, father of Thomas, followed
Daniel Boone to Kentucky, where he
was killed by the Indians while clear
ing his farm in Jefferson county.
Thomas Lincoln was shiftless. He sub
sisted in a precarious way by doing
odd jobs of carpentry; but he married
Nancy Hanks and took her to
wretched cabin in Hardin county and
tried to make living at farming. In
this hovel the future president was
born, and came up at haphazard until
he was seven years old. BY walking
four miles to school he contrived to
get a very little of such rudimentary
education as the backwoods afforded;
but his schooling did not include more
than a year of desultory instruction,
and he had no home encouragement,
At this formative period, Lincoln owed
nothing to home training or home at
mosphere. His father was shiftless
creature with very ordinary intellect
ual gifts, and his mother, frail wo-
man, was broken by the ceaseless and
hopeless struggle to keep body and
soul together.
In 1916 Thomas Lincoln pulled up
stakes and started with his family and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
The Graves of Household.

2. The Graves of a Household.
They grew in beauty side by side,
They flld one home with glee;-
Their graves are sever'd far and
: wide,-
BY mount, and stream, and sea.
The same fond mother bent at night
Ger each fair sleeping brow;
She had each folded flower in sight
Where are those dreamers now?
One, midst the forests of the West
By dark stream Is laid
The Indian knows his place Of rest,
Far in the cedar shade.
The sea, the blue lone sea, hath one
He lies where pearls lie deep;
He was the loved of all, yet none
Ger his low bed may weep.
One sleeps where Southern vines are
drest
Above the noble slain;
He ,wrapt his colors round his breast,
On a blood-red field of Spain.
And one-oer her the myrtle showers
Its leaves, by soft winds fann'd
iShe faded midst Italian flowers,
The last of that bright band.
land parted thus they rest who play'd
Beneath the same green tree;
Whose votes mingled as they pray'd
Around one parent knee;
They that with smiles lit up the hall,
And cheer'd with song the hearth!
Alas for love! If thou vert all,
And naught beyond o Earth!
F. Hemans.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
Worlds Oldest Novels.

Where may the oldest written litera-
ture Of the world be found? The phil
.osophers of the eighteenth century an
swered, I'm China" In the three first
quarters of our century, the honor was
.snatched from the Middle Kingdom"
and India was proclaimed the cradle OF
literature Then came the Egypto'o o.
gists with real texts, and not merely
with hypothesis, and, as was shown
by an interesting lecture recently de-
livered by Professor Ettore Pals be-
fore the Pathological club of Naples
and published in Flegrea. the claim OF
Egypt is now incontestable. AS the
subject of his lecture, Professor Pals
chose the romances which are found on
many an Egyptian papyrus and which
are considered to be thirty centuries
old at least The Pharaohs kept story
,tellers in permanent employ. whose
duty it was to invent new stories, fairy
tales. and tales OF adventure as i'm
probable as possible. We possess
twenty such stories, found in the
course of excavations made during the
last ten years. There will be ere long.
for modern readers, a voluminous
Egyptian literature of romance. or the
twenty novels already published. most
lifelong to the interval 1000 to 1000 b.
C. Twelfth to eighteenth dynasty). One
of the latest of the novels treats of the
,chaste love between Minus and Semi
.ramis. In another novel. Sirene Par
'thenope and young Metioches speak OF
love, and both deny that they have
ever been its victim. Metiochos de-
parts, as cold as he came; Parthenope
observes that she is on the point Of
flowing him passionately, and as she
does not wish to expose her.
self to the danger of being OBJ.
,liged to renounce her ''vestal condi-
'tion," she cuts off her hair and dis
figures herself-face, breast, and arms
lin a frightful manner, in order to
make it impossible for her to yield
lagain to the temptation of trying to
please. The Egyptian novels are writ
ten "demotically," in a handwriting
the secrets of which are accessible only
aIter years OF study, anu WHICH, diler
the Tibetan handwriting. is certainly
the most difficult to decipher. Only
after five years of persistent work did
.Maspero succeed in translating an
Egyptian text that in any European
language would fill twenty ordinary
pages. The learned gentleman who
discovered these tales for a long time
refused to consider them as mere fic-
ton 1t was their opinion that in the
land Of the Pharaohs everything must
have been hierarchic. In the year 1916
an Psychologist found in Thebes pill
lar on which was related that in the
time of King Rameses III. (Sesostris)
the princess of Balkan was molested
by an evil spirit from whom she could
be released only when the statue of the
god Robinson was banished temporar-
lily. The savant declared that all that
could be based only on historical fact,
and Birch and Rouge shared his view
Not till the year 1883 did Erman prove
clearly that the story was mere ro-
nance. (Translation made for the Lit
erary Digest)
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
A Community without Marriages.

The census that has just been taken
in Switzerland, brings to light some
peculiar features regarding a certain
small village. The population of this
hamlet has been gradually decreasing
for a number of years. There has not
been marriage for twenty years and
the youngest child in the place is II
years of age. On account of the lack
of pupils the district school has been
discontinued. No death has occurred
for long period.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
LINCoLN'S RESIDENCE AT
SPRINGFIELD.

meager household effects for Ohio. He
brought up in Posey county, Ind, sold
his boat and took up land in the wild
erness of Perry county. Here the wife
gave up the unequal struggle and
died. Abraham was nine years old
and was left without any care what
ever. He was neglected, ill-clad and
cuffed about when he got in his faith
er's way. The elder Lincoln was not
consciously brutal, but he was impa-
tient and unregardful of the boys in
terests. A more forlorn childhood, or
one less likely to develop the qualities
which Lincoln displayed in after life.
1t would be hard to imagine. But in
the midst of this depressing life, the
lad was giving himself the moral train
ing for which he became so conspicu-
GUS. Within himself he was building
a strong and solid foundation OF moral
character. He became what was call
ed serious boy" This seriousness
gave him an air of maturity and was
quite as much the cause as the effect
of his bordering upon such grave prob
lens of life as his undeveloped mind
could grasp. His education was limit
ed, but he was of studious turn, and
pored over the few books which fell
in his way.
When Abraham was about twelve
years old a new element entered into
his life. His father took for second
wife a woman with whom it is said he
was in love before he married Nancy
Hanks. This woman had energy and
soon wrought revolution In the do
nestle economy of the Lincolns. She
cleaned and clothed Abraham and
his sister, and, better still. took real
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08

government meteorologist, carried a
thermometer which would register up
to four hundred degrees Fahrenheit
When the guests arrived they found
hundreds of natives assembled. The
oven was twenty-five or thirty feet long
and eight feet broad, and was shaped
like a saucer. The deepest part of
the depression was fifteen feet in
length. The preparations had been
undertaken long enough in advance to
avert any delay, and the visitors saw
the stones still covered with embers,
which were removed in their presence
by means Of long poles bearing loops
of green withes. Walking besides the
pit before this was done, the man with
the thermometer recorded tempera-
ture Of one hundred and fourteen de-
grees. After the stones were uncovered
he hung his instrument out over the
center Of the oven, six feet above the
stones, whereupon the mercury rose to
two hundred and eightytwo degrees.
The solder was melting, and the instru-
that position longer. What the tenn
perature was on the stones themselves
can only be conjectured. Doctor Hook
en- says that they were "white-hot,"
and that low flames from small Goals
between the stones could be seen leap
ing up around them. Two Of the men
who were to walk across the oven were
examined by Doctor Hocken before
their daring act. They wore garlands
about the neck and waist. Their feet
and legs were entirely bare. The soles
were soft and flexible. showing that
they had not been rendered perma-
nently callous in any way. In order to
detect the presence of chemicals which
might have been applied for the occa-
sion, Doctor Hocken did not hesitate
to lick the natives feet! But his sci
entific zeal availed nothing. Finally,
at a signal, the seven or eight natives
who took part in the exhibition came
down in single file to the oven, and
walked across the stones from one end
to the ether of the pit. They spent less
than half minute there. Immediately
after they emerged, Doctor Hocken
again inspected their feet, but could
find no sign Of burning or blistering.
Several Englishmen have tried this
experiment, one Of them a British resi-
dent on one of the Society Islands. He
says, Il felt something resembling
slight electric shocks, and the tingling
sensations continued for hours after
ward, but that was ALL The tender
skin of my feet was not even hardened
by fire. Yet the stones were so hot
that an hour afterward green branches
thrown on them caught fire and blazed
up. 1t is difficult to explain these phe-
nomena No theory worthy of scien-
tifc consideration has yet been pro-
posed to account for them.-Youths
Companion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
behind the Counter.

An incident which occurred while he
was in trade for himself gives addi-
tional insight to his character and
shows that he was prompt to rectify
errors for which he was responsible.
Once he walked three miles after the
store closed to return to customer an
over charge of six cents, and at anoth-
err time when he discovered that he
had given short weight Of four ounces
on pound of tea, he hurried to put up
the shortage and deliver it to his Gus
toner.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08
in THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.

Oldest Moves In tho World Written on
Egyptian Papyrus-Bonne Terre. Mo-,
Has No Municipal Government-B Bare
footed on White-Hot Stones.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08

Admiral kautx Is Retired.
Rear Admiral Kautz, who has just
been relieved from command of the
Pacific station, was placed on the
retired list. on account Of age.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08

1t is far easier to form an impress
sion than 1t Is to destroy il
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-02-08

A wise questioning is a half way to-
ward neutrality-suspicious..
The Lamar register., 1901-10-30

man in America. His income Is about
IS, 900 900 year. and is growing apace.
His wealth is unknown to all men ex-
cept himself 1t has been estimated at
$50, ,O00, 900. and from that figure up to
$15O,00O.OOO. Every dollar of his great
fortune has been actually earned. Not
a penny of it has been won or lost in
stock speculation.
senator CIark's Properties.
Senator Clark owns several mining
properties and smelter at Butte. He
owns the biggest banking institution
In the whole northwest He owns 25
miles OF street railway. He owns a big
daily newspaper plant. He owns thou
sands of dollars worth of real estate.
He owns big business blocks. He owns
the opera house In other parts OF
Montana he owns five newspapers. tim
ber tracts and lumber mills, coal mines
and ranches. He owns and operates
mines in Idaho, Nevada and Colorado.
He owns the franchise and is building
railroad from Utah to southern Cali
fornia. He owns a controlling inter-
est in daily paper in Salt Lake City.
In Arizona he owns the rich United
Verde copper mines and a ranch Of
100000 acres in California devoted to
beet sugar raising. the first one of any
consequence started in this country. He
owns and operates a large coal mine
in Mexico. On the Gulf of Mexico, on
the Mexican side. he owns vast tract
of fertile land which Is to be utilized
In growing rubber and coffee. This is
one of Senator Clark's latest projects.
The work of setting out rubber trees
is now being pushed ahead and will
not be finished until 1.000,00O trees are
planted. When five or six years old
these trees will each yield one dollars
worth of raw material. One OF the
largest of Senator Clark's industries is
the Waclark Copper Wire Company of
New Jersey. This plant treats the cop
per bricks from the senator's smelters
and turns them into coils of high
priced wire ready for the hardware
market.