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The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
The Empress of Japan.

In the matter OF the emancipation or
Japanese women it Is not generally
known that the lady who has done
more than anybody else for her sex in
the land of the chrysanthemum, is the
present Japanese Empress. Her influ-
ance has been exerted in small things
as In large. She has entirely reVolu-
tionized the education of girls, and
he cornerstone viii be put on the sys-
sem early next year by the opening of
\ university for women in Toxic. 1t
was she who. in, the early seventies,
by her example, put an end to the old
custom of married women blackening
their teeth. From the western point
of view the most commendable inno-
vation for which her majesty has
been responsible is the introduction OF
European dress in place of the fault
.ess costume of Japan. Still, there Is
ven a reason for this, the contention
being that a Japanese lady is treated
more respectfully by her husband
when she is in European dress than
when retaining her national costume.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
CHAPTER II.

In few minutes more the train was
putting slowly from the station, and
Janetta. who had craned her neck from
the carriage to obtain farewell smile
from Neville, sank back into her cor
ner, with plenty Of time before her
In which to consider her prospects and
her fellow travellers. .., .. ..
. The latter were singularly uninter-
esting, with the exception of little
girl not more than two years old, who
sat just opposite Janetta, regarding
her with thoughtful eyes. .. f.. ..
Pretty" she said presently, stretch
Ing out her arms to come to her. And
Janetta. with reassuring nod TO the
mother, stood the child by the window
and talked to her for the first hour
only handing her back to her natural
guardian when the little thing was
tired out, and showed signs of drop
ping off to sleep.
A glance at her watch told her that
she could not be many miles from her
destination, and she looked out OF the
window to notice the sort of country
through which they were travelling,
fancying that in the fast-fading light
of the February afternoon she could
catch the simmer Of the sea in the
distance
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
TELEPHONE EAR"
Operators Say Answering Calls Does Not
! Affect tho Hearing.

(. -. AFFECT the Hearing.
Chicago girls who listen to the click
In the telephone receiver for eight
hours every day in the week laugh at
the idea that their New York sister
operators are getting telephone cal"
or a deafness, from the constant snap
ping of the call signals, says the Chi
cago News. "a telephone ear" re-
marked one girl who has operated a
board in the central Office for three
years. Is the most acute one In the
world, and the more noise there Is In
the phone the more trained our ears
become to detect what Is being said"
There are great number OF girls In
this Office" said the chief operator. Il
sat at a board myself for several years.
and never heard girl complain that
the sound of the phone affected her
hearing in the least. I know 1t never
did mine" In speaking Of the effect
Of the click on an operators hearing
A. S. Hibbard, the general manager OF
company said:
81 do not care to say that the New
York people are wrong in their con-
tentions that they have had cases of
deafness due to the sound made in
connecting and disconnecting the teie-
phones, but it sounds improbable to
me. We have had the signal system
in Chicago for about Ave years. AL
most every phone in Chicago now calls
the main board without twisting a
crank, and yet 1 have never heard OF
complaint" 4- asn .as-s
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
beautiful. CHILDREN
rlade Well and Strong by Pe-ru-na

Mrs Schafer, 1876 Pope Ave, st. Louis.
Mo-, writes:
g In the early part Of last year wrote
to You for advice for my daughter Alice,
four years of age. l
She has been a puny, sickly, ailing
child since her birth. She had convul-
sions and catarrhal fever. I was always
doctoring until we commenced to use
Peruna She grew strong and well
Peruna is wonderful tonic; the best
medicine I have ever used. Mrs
Schafer.
Mrs. C. E. Long, the mother of little
Nina Long. writes from Atwood, Colo,
as follows:
"We can never thank you enough for
the change you have made in our little
ones health. Before she began taking
your Peruna she suffered everything in
the way of cough, colds and Group, but
now she has taken not quite bottle OF
Peruna, and is we'll and strong as she
Il has ever been in her life. She has
II not had the Group once since she
H began taking Peruna, and when she
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
Grave OGcnse.

There is going to be more trouble
down here" remarked the South Ameri-
can. ..- #..a q ..rs. .-...-- tt-.
That 500" interrogated the North
American. ...>2 u
Yes, indeed. Beth armies are going
to be courtmartialed for fighting during
the hours set aside for the national ST.
csta. a..-Chicago News.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
PATENTS.
I,ist of Patents Issued Last Week TO
Northwestern Inventors.

NOFtNNCbNGFN
Charles Anderson, Minneapolis, Mimi.
combined billiard and dining table;
George Case, Minneapolis, Mimi, BACK
for stools; Henry B. Cramer' Mime
apolis, Mimi, staging bracket or sup
mort: James Gerber, Minneapolis, Mimi
distributing spout for grain elevators
Hannah Johnson Braddock. NJ u.
clothes line and detachable support
Arthur Munich. st. Paul, MIMI travel
Ing lawn sprinkler. -
iIothrop & johnson. patent attorneys. OIL
9i2 Pioneer Press Bldg, St. PAU. Minh'
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
work o, salvation Army.

The Salvation Army is floating an
issue of S150.000 of bonds to provide
homes for the poor. On file are appli-
cations from more than 1000 families
anxious to leave New York city and
settle on farming land. 81
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
naIarenresented.

Mr.. Perfume-I thought when you
sold me this automobile you guaranteed
it to be a first-class hili-climoer!
Dealer-U'm! Jill
MIR. Perfume-Well, the only thing II
has shown any tendency to climb mas
been telegraph poles.-Puck. ~
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
Ga, Tna. Never Tasted Meat.

A kitten has been brought up On an
exclusively vegetable diet by family
of yegetarians. The result is that it
will not touch animal food and 1t pays
no attention to rats or mice, VIZ
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06

Almost any evil can be remedied Il
you face 1t fearlessly and honestly try
to remove 1t. -..
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06

We read of the seven ages OF man,
but one age is ample for the average
woman. -+ ss...z ae.r
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-03-06
"A PRE- TTD - 70
" ~ COMPA MON
BY Louisc bedford.

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
"HIT OFF" THE OFFICIALS
Class Play Given by Agricultural
School Seniors.

The graduating class Of the University
school of agriculture produced the first
class play ever presented in that depart
ment, in the drill hall Of the agricultural
college last night. The piece was writ
ten by Miss Sophie Pendergast, instructor
in English. It was in three acts and it's
characters presented burlesque portraits
Of prominent school officials. There was
little or no plot. but the caricatures and
local hits amused last nights audience
vastly, and the work was voted a complete
success.
Edward Thorpe read the class history:
Miss Gertrude Collins, the class prophecy.
The formal presentation of the class key
was made by G. w. Grant, who has served
as class president during the three years
of his course.
The cast OF the class play was as fol-
lows: Frederick B. Tucker, principal Of
the school of agriculture, NJ J. Holm
berg; Colonel Liggett, dean Of the depart
ment of agriculture, Archie Brimmer;
Professor Robertson, physics, Jacob
Thoe; professor Shaw, of the department
Of animal husbandry, Ralph Miller; Pro-
fessor Hacker, dairy husbandry, T. T.
Bachelor; A. G. Koerner, music, Claude
Payne; J. A. wye, secretary of the school,
J. w. Schneider. E. w. Manhood. depart
ment of mathematics, w. H. Tornhave
William Boss. manual training and car
pentry, John Boss; J. w. Drew, black
smithing, Herman Johnshoy, and Profess
sOr Green: horticulture, John D. Rose.
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WILL DISCUSS THE TARIFF
T. b. Walker to Address Fourth
Ward Republican Club.

T. b. Walker to Address Fourth
Ward Republican Club.
T. B. Walker has accepted the invitation Of
the Fourth Ward Republican club to deliver
an address at the wigwam, Western avenue
and Ninth street, March a. He will discuss
protective tariff and it's relation to the ques-
ton of capital and labor. +
ID Mr.. Walker has been for many years a
careful student Of tariff laws as they have
affected the Industrial commercial and so
cial status OF the country. He will present
the subject in its relation to prosperity aud
to panics. In 1895 Mr.. Walker published a
noteworthy pamphlet called Low Tariffs and
Hard Times" It was published in full in
T b e journal and then in pamphlet
form distributed extensively over the north
west. Afterwards very large edition was
published by the National Republican club
and distributed all over the union. The tables
and diagrams were extensively used for ref
erence by many speakers and writer's 1t was
one of the most effective and satisfactory re-
views of the tariff that has been made.
Mr. Walker is very interesting speaker
and those who attend his address will un-
doubtedly be much more than repaid for the
time and attention given to the address
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
Minimum Temperatures.
RAILROAD RUMBLES
WILL HOLD CONFERENCE
Kansas City-ChicagO Roads and L
G. C. Attorney.

Kansas City-Chioago Roads and I.
c. c. Attorney.
Attorneys representing Kansas City
Chicago roads will hold conference with
w. A. Day, attorney for the interstate
commerce commission, in Chicago, either
to-day or tomorrow. AS result of THIS
conference the roads against which the
commission has begun Injunction proceed
ings may not resist the governments ac-
ton. It is held that injunctions against
the eight roads named in the governments
bill of complaint would work an injustice
against those roads.
The Santa Fe and Rock Island, for ex-
ample, extend west of Kansas City, the
former controlling its rails to the Pacific
coast. Should injunctions issue against
them and not against the Union Pacific
and other lines that extend west from
Kansas City, and southwest also, the re-
suit, so far as the lines enjoined are con-
cerned, would be disastrous, precluding
their meeting competition.
Lines which do not extend to the Mis-
souri, river have decided to indorse this
view Of the case and join in insisting
upon the governments filing bills against
the following additional roads:
Kansas City & Northern Connecting,
Southern, LeavenWorth, Kansas City &
Western; Missouri, Kansas & Texas; ST..
Joseph & Grand Island, st. Louis & San
Francisco and Union Pacific. .... --..
Attorneys Interested declare that they
can see no reason why the government
should refuse to include those roads, but
if such is not the case, the present bills
will be fought probably by the interposi-
ton of demurrer. If they can possibly
avoid so doing, executive officers of some
of the lines interested do not wish to be
placed in the position Of appearing in
court and Directing to being restrained
from doing what is admittedly illegal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
AFRO AMERICAN MEETINGS
Important Gatherings to Be Held
in st. Paul in July.

The Afro American Press association
will meet in tenth annual session in St.
Paul, July 8: and the fifth annual meet
ing of the Afro American council will be
held in the sanity city, July Gil. These
two meetings will attract at least 200
Of the leading colored citizens of the
country to St. Paul, and the local COM
mittee, (which has the matter of enter
tainment in charge, predicts that the con-
ventions will attract the largest attend
ance in the history of the organization
The meetings Of the council will be held
in the hall Of representatives. Among
the prominent speakers will be Professor
W. B. Dubois, of Atlanta university; Mrs.
Mary Church Terrill. of Washington, D..
c., former president of the National AS
ISOLATION OF Colored Women; George FL.
White. former congress sman from North
Carolina; Mrs. Josephine Salone Yates, of
Kansas City, president of the National
Association of COlored Women; and Pro-
fessor Booker r. Washington, of Tus-
kegee University. Many of the educa-
tors who will attend the meeting of the
council will also come as delegates to the
National Educational association, which
will be in session in Minneapolis at the
same time; and they will divide their
time between the two conventions. Among
those who will attend are:
John c. Dancey, register OF deeds OF Wash
ington D. c.; Judson B. Lyons, register OF
the treasury; Or. Johnson, editor of the
Christian Record Of Philadelphia: DR.. I. D
Scott of the Southern Christian Recorder OF
New Orleans; Mrs Ida B. Wells Barnett, the
agitator against lynching; DR.. R. F. Boyd
dean of Mabara medical college, Nashville
Tenn; j. c. Napier, an attorney Of Nash
Vile; DR.. Roberts of st. Louis. who is likely
| to be appointed one Of the commissioners Of
the Louisiana Purchase exposition; Mrs. B
X. Bruce Of Tuskegee, and Bishops Turner
Grant, Arnett, Clinton Harris and Walters
the latter being president of the council.
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lumber already promises to be far in adj

lumber already promises to be far in adj
vance Of the supply. This is not particu-
I larry pleasing to the travelling men, who
have been looking forward to this year as
one in which they could chalk up big sales
records to their credit, but it shows that
for this season, at least, the west coast
manufacturers will have little to complain
Of.
One of the Pacific coast lumbermen, in
speaking of the situation this spring, says
that as long as prices continue as good
as they are now and the demand is as
brisk, the west coast manufacturers will
not find it necessary to seek a lower rate
east. Some of the best contracts made
this year by the Pacific coast lumbermeA
are in territory which hitherto has been
regarded as belonging to the white pine
manufacturers absolutely. This is due to
the remarkable demand in sight in other
sections of the middle west, which will
keep the white pine mills busy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
A MYSTERY EXPLAINED
A Missing st. Paul Woman Is Living
in MINNEAPOLIS.

Miss Maria Gaughan, whose two sisters.
Rose Gaughan and Mrs. John e. Schultz, Of
s2 e Fourth street. st. Paul. are now search
ing both cities for her, is living at 26S Twelfth
avenue N, under the assumed name of Smith
Miss Gaughan informed b 9 J ur
this morning that she had no desire to have
anything more to do with Mrs. Schultz, from
whom, she declares, she has never received
anything but bad treatment She was inter
ested in knowing that her sister Rose had
arrived in st. Paul four months ago, and
announced her Intention OF seeing her sister
next Sunday.
II have no desire to acquaint them with
my whereabouts she said, because don t
want to have any hair-pulling up here They
will look me up and make trouble, and I've
done with Mrs. Schultz love Sister Rose
and would like very much to see her. The
report that she is from Ireland is false. She
has lived in this country for years
81 have lived in this house for the last
three years. never worked in downtown
restaurant never lived at AS Washington
avenue N, and never gave my name as Emma
williams. as reported in a morning paper.
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Church Supper Without Cake

A row Of small and empty boys, row
Of plates high heaped with cake, row
of windows opened wide, such is the be-
ginning of the tale; row OF small and
welI-stuffed boys, row of empty china
plates, row of windows locked too late;
such is the ending Of an East Side wall
The story, in detail, is something like,
this The ladies of st. Andrews church.
southeast, few evenings ago, were to
give dinner to the men of the congre-i
cation. 1t was to be an elaborate affair
and hard the ladies' worked. At last all
seemed ready. the tables shone with cut
glass and silver, the odor Of good things
filled the Kitchen and the assembled
guests made merry The dishes of bread
and crackers, and olives and pickles. were
at hand, and the cake was cut, plata after
plate full for all those hungry men, and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-20
PEACE IS IN SIGHT
Dr.. Nelson Proposes a Compromise
to c. and c. Board.
CHARGES AGAINST McCoNvILLE
They VIII show whether His Dis
charge Was Warranted-Arbf-
tration as to Authority.

City Physician Nelson and the board
of corrections and charities are finally on
the road to a peaceable settlement OF
their controversy. Affairs had reached
the stage where one party or the other
must yield, and Dr. Nelson is the one to
give way. He came to last nights meet
ing Of the board bearing. an olive branch
in one hand and statement containing a
list of definite charges against Engineer
McConville in the other. The olive
branch consisted Of an offer to the board
to waive his legal rights in the conten-
ton between him and the board in the
engineer matter and to leave to their own
sense of justice and fairness what course
should be taken regarding McConville's
reinstatement. The broad question OF
which party possessed the legal right to
discharge and employ persons connected
with the maintenance of the hospital,
outside of the hospital department proper,
he desired to have left to one of the dis
trict court judges, the board to make the
selection and the courts decision to be
final and binding on both parties.
The members of the board were i'm
mensely pleased with the city physician's
action. 1t opened the way to an easy set
Element Of difficulties, they agreed, so far
as the case Of the discharged engineer is
concerned. Definite charges against him
were just what were wanted The board
decided to hold a special meeting next
Tuesday evening at the hospital to inveS-
tigate the charges made against the en-
glneer .. . .5-..-
DR.. Nelson's Charges.
The city physicians statement in this
regard went into close detail. In gen
eral the allegations include incompetency
insolence to the city physician and to
other employees of the institution, mat
tention to his duties, unauthorized alb
sence from work, and an attempt at dis
honesty. That he had not filed charges
before, DR.. Nelson explained, was due to
his desire to shield the engineer from
public accusation. Engineer McConville
was present last evening and after hear
ing the statement containing the charges
read, stepped to the front and said he was
ready to answer them then and there.
The board refused to accept Dr. Mel
sons offer Of arbitration of the general
legal question involved in the difficulty
between him and the board They had
no right to accept ,anybody's opinion in
such matters other than the city attor-
ney's, they explained. Besides that it
was certain that no member of the dis
trict court would consent to fill the role
of arbiter in such contention Natural
ly the board had everything to lose and
nothing to gain by such step, and the
gentlemen were quick to see the point.
AS matters now stand between them and
the city physician, the latter is denied
the right to discharge any employe at the
city hospital in any department, only to
suspend pending an investigation by the
board. Engineer McCnville will remain
suspended until the completion of the
investigation Of the charges made last
night. -.
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LARD LAW CHANGED
Shortening Compounds Must Be La
beled g Lard Substitute. -
AN OLD EXEMPTION IS REMOVED
The State Dairy and Food Commits
sion Now Propose to En-
force the Measure.

When your grocer sells you adulterated
lard, or stearin and cottonseed oil sub
stitute for lard he must, after this, FUR
niSh with the package card with the
words "adulterated lard" or lard substi-
tute,' and the list Of ingredients printed
onsit.
This is the way the new lard law reads.
It was enacted at the extra session, be-
cause the old law was defective and in
valid. In drawing up the bill; however,
the state authorities added to the former
language the little provision above re-
ferred to. The old law requires the orig
inal package or pail containing the prod
uct to be plainly labeled, but there was
nothing to prevent the grocer from dip
ping pound of some other preparation
and selling it to thes customer as lard.
The section as it now stands reads as
follows:
Every dealer or trader, who, by himself or
his agent, or as the servant or agent of an
other person, offers exposes for sale or
sells any form Of lard substitute or adulter-
ated lard as hereinbefore defined, shall Sc
curely affix or cause to be affixed to the pack
age wherein the same is contained, offered for
sale or sold, a label, upon the outside and
face of which is distinctly and legibly printed,
| in letters not less than one-half (1a) inch in
| length, the words Lard Substitute or
| "Adulterated Lard" and Immediately fol-
| long primer, the name and approximate pro-
| portions of the several constituents which are
| contained in the mixture or compound, and
| shall furnish to the purchaser, at the time
! Of sale, card upon which Is distinctly and
| egibly printed the name Of the article as
! hereinbefore defined, and a list Of the several
components Of the mixture.
Another change was made in the law,
which hits one of the big four packing
| companies. The old law expressly ex
empted their product from the stigma of
being called lard substitute.'' 1t was
sufficient to merely label the package
| 'eottolene," without even printing the
| ingredients.
| Either by oversight or design this pro-
vision has been omitted from the law and
cottolene is now on the same footing as
any other substitute for the fat of the
hog.
The interests effecte did not know the
changes were made. The new law was
rushed through as a curative measure, at
the request of the governor, and no one
realized at the time that a material
change was being made. Dealers are just
beginning to arouse to the fact that the
| new law is twice as stringent as the old
| invalid act. Knowing it's weakness, no
| attempt was made to enforce the old law.
but the dairy and food department, armed
with an effective act, will probably take
steps at once to compel strict compliance.
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placed temptingly on bench before the
windows.
Then as things began to warm up some
trusting one flung wide the windows, and
the scent of the feast hoated far on the
air. It reached the nostrils Of little
band collected on the street and drew
them by its invisible cords to the window.
Hungry eyes peeped in and saw hurrying,
needless women, fitting in and out, with
no thought of the temptation they had
set forth. One by one the viands reached
their destined spots, and the Ice cream
was brought in triumph forth. Then the
maidens turned for those laden plates,
but alas the shelf was bare. Then was
there hurrying to and fro. and a search
for the missing sweets. Everyone denied
all knowledge oftttheir whereabouts. Sud-
denly from the darkness came a voice:
Here's yer plates, missus, !" and a grimy,
GRUMPY hand thrust the fragile china
through the window and disappeared.