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The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
SENATE AND HOUSE DISCUSS RE.
CENT INVESTIGATION OF
DEPARTMENT.
LOWER BRANCH ASKS FOR PAPERS
RESOLUTION MEETS OBJECTION
IN SENATE AND ACTION
is DELAYED.

Washington, Dec 9.-When the
resolution for the investigation of the
postofice frauds came up in the SEN
ate Mr.. German took the floor and
strongly opposed its reference to a
committee. He declared that the ma
jority should not shrink from an in
vestigation He said there had been
positive assertions that men who had
unlawfully placed employees on the
rolls were to escape.
Mr.. German said fraud and corrup-
tion were admitted and communicated
to the senate by the president. He
said the country was not satisfied
with the investigation, nor was the
senate. Those who had been accused
had said others higher up were as
guilty as they while they have been
made scapegoats.
LET us have all the facts said Mr..
German, "and see if the president will
turn the rascals out"
Mr.. Lodge, who made motion to
refer the resolution, said that what
Mr.. German said only further con-
vinced him that the resolution should
be referred The investigation made
under order Of the president, he be-
lieved, had brought out all the facts.
There was mass of evidence in the
department awaiting an order of the
senate for printing.
Would Examine Evidence First.
Mr.. Lodge said that as to the in
sinuations against higher off iciaIS it
was we'll known that the postmaster
general and the fourth assistant post
master general had made every effort
to get all the facts and it would be
we'll for the senate first to examine
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER AND Au.
THOR PASSES AWAY AT HIS
HOME IN ENGLAND.
HAD BEEN AILING FOR SOME TIME
ILLNESS TOOK A CRITICAL TURN
A FEW DAYS AGO, TERMl-
MATING FATALLY.

London. Dec. 9-Herbert Spencer
the famous author, died during the
morning at his home in Brighton His
health had been failing for some
months The illness took a critical
turn few days ago and he became
unconscious during the night passing
away without pain.
BY his own desire the least possible
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
RESTS WITH JAPAN.
Peace Assured if That Country aWill'
Make Concessions.

st Petersburg, Dec. 9-Pcace be-
tween Russia and Japan is now be-
lieved to be assured as the result Of
the action of the czar at Tsarskoc
Selo, where he and Foreign Minister
Lamsdorf have considered the reply to
the Japanese proposals. If Japan is
willing to accept some notifications
there is nothing to stand in the way
of a complete agreement.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
Wos y Gil Not on Board.

New Orleans. Dec 9.-The steamer
Arkadia arrived during the day from
Porto Rico and contrary to expecta-
ton Wos y Gill former president of
the Dominican republic, was not on
board The agents of the line here
say they understand Wos y Gil just
missed the ship as she sailed and If he
takes the next boat out he will land
In New York instead of New Orleans
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
TO CARRY OUT REFORMS.
Russia and Austria Name Joint Com.
nissioners.

Constautinople. Dec an. Ziro-
yieff, the Russian ambassador. has in.
formed the porte that Russia and Aus
tria have definitely decided to appoint.
respectively, NJ Demerik, the consul
general of Russia at Beirut. and Herr
Won Mueller of the Austrian foreign
office as assessors to supervise the
carrying out of the reform scheme of
the powers for Macedonia.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
Mlser Killed hy lraln.

Mount Vernon, N. Y. Dec. 9.-An
unknown woman, undoubtedly a miser,
who had s1,500 in gold and bank notes
concealed in bags hung about her
neck and under her skirts, was struck
and killed by the Pittsfield express at
the Mount Vernon station of the New
YORK and Harlan railroad.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
PROTEST AGAINST cANTEEN.
Resolutions From Minnesota Present.
ed by Senator Nelson

Washington, Dec. 9.-Senator Mel
son presented in the senate during the
day a large number of resolutions
from various branches of the Woman S
Christian Temperance unions in Min
nesota protesting against the, re-estab-
lishment Of tile canteen in the army.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
WANTS RECEIVERS DISCHARGED
'Dowie Makes Motion in United States
District Court.

Chicago, Dec. 9.-John Alexander
Dowie appeared in the United States
district court during the afternoon
and through an attorney moved that
the receivers in bankruptcy for the
Zion City industries be discharged.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09

Ladies' Shoes.

Fifty pairs of Ladies Shoes,
some hand turned, some
Goodyear welt, good assort-
ment Of sizes and widths;
price stamped on bottom
S., $3.50 and 81; our special
price this week $3.50 a pair
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
OLDEST CHILD ESCAPES.
Father. Mother and Three Children
Perish in Fire.

Freehold, N. j., Dec. 9.-Nearly a
whole family perished in the flames
that destroyed dwelling at Clarks-
burg, ten miles from here Clayton
Fowler his wife and their four chill
dren aged from sixteen years to six
months, lived in the house. which was
a two-story frame building. The blaze
started on the lower floor and when
the family awoke the whole lower
part of the house was in flames. The
Oldest child, boy, jumped from the
second story window and escaped
with slight bruises.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
ADOPTED BY THE HOUSE.
Resolution Calling for Papers in Posta
Investigation.

heSOluI!On Ealing IOI TdpCFS III = OSs
Investigation.
Washington, Dec. 9.-When the
house convened Mr. Overstreet, chair
man of the committee on postoffices
and postroads, reported the resolution
authorizing the committee to request
the postmaster general to furnish the
committee with all papers in connec.
tion with the recent investigation OF
the postofice department and an
nounced that the committee was
unanimous in recommending its adop.
tion
The previous question was ordered
on the resolution by yea and nay
vote of 172 to .116.
Mr.. Williams (Miss.) moved to re
commit the resolution to the commit.
tee on postoffices and postroads with
instructions to the committee to re.
port with an amendment providing
chat the postmaster general be and
he is hereby requested to transmit to
the house all papers and evidence
touching the Investigations oil alleged
frauds and Irregularities in the post,
Office department and postal service.
The motion to recommit was lost
160 to 1913.
The original resolution was then
agreed to without division.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
information was given out during Mr..

luIOTIldtlOn WAS given out 4uuTiuS M i.
Spencer's illness
He was born in 1920
The newspapers all publish long ap-
precautions and anecdotes of Mr..
Spencer, whom they universally de-
scribe as the last of the great think
ers of the Victorian age.
Bold and Original Thinker.
The death of Herbert Spencer re-
moves from the active domain OF phil:
osophy one of the boldest and most
original thinkers the world has pro
duced. While generally regarded as
the apostle of evolution he was not
the originator of this theory Of crea.
ton. Ancient sages had elusive and
shadowy ideas on the subject
The influence of SpencerS philoso
ply has been felt in every department
OF thought. The material for his syn
thetic philosophy was drawn from
every scientific source; it's deductions
We're from data gathered by the mas
ter minds in mathematics, biology
psychology and anthropology; it was
in brief, a generaliZed theory Of the
universe based on recognized facts in
every branch Of human knowledge
a synthesis embracing in a symmetric
whole the stable elements of all pre-
ceding systems Such a revolution as
it inaugurated was bitterly fought by
the theologians. but its iberalizing
tendency speedily made itself ap
parent in that broader theology of the
times which seeks to reconcile science
to religion and finds profound consola
ton in the fact that the grand discov
cry that not only the globe and it's in
habitents, but their companions in
boundless space, are the result of q
universal law Of progress and change
deepens instead Of clearing the mys
terry Of an omnipotcnt first cause.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09

Aged RecIuse Dies Possessed Of $780,
900 In Cash.
Derby, Conn. Dec. 9.-Possessed of
$4,000, all in money, Eugene Crofutt,
sixty-two years old, recluse of Hun
tington, is dead from starvation. The
town selectmen tried to send him to a
hospital. but he refused all aid
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09

Colombian Army Reported on the Way
to the lsthmus.
Colon, Dec. 9.-It is rumored that
5000 Colombians are moving on Colon
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09

PANAMA TO BE INVADED.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09

PERlsHEs FROM STARVATION
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09
Ladies' Coats.

One lot of Ladies Coats,
good assortment Of sizes and
colors, at
1-3 off from marked price
Mems and Boys Suits and
Overcoats
IA off from regular price
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09

That's about the size Of it,"
Have YOU told the prosecutor all
about this?"
II have
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-12-09

Prosecutor Ward refused to either
admit or deny that this testimony was
to be the basis for issuing another
batch of warrants for jury bribing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15
QUICK AS LIGHTNING.
Rapid Recipe for Making Soda Bis
cult, Together with Other
Kitchen Hints.

If hot biscuit are fancied for tea
recipe saves bringing out pastry
board and rolling pin after the kitch
en- has been cleared up: Grease the
muffin rings slightly and put them
on the creased baking pan. Rub into
quart of -four, sifted, with a small
teaspoonful of salt and two heaping
ones of baking powder, a scant half,
cup of half-and-half lard and butter
stir to a dough with enough milk tc
make it just 100 thin to roll out;
if too thin the biscuits will not ne
f1aky. Drop from spoon each muf.
fin ring nearly full; it should be
double in rising. Stir the dough to
mound shape with tip of the spoon.
BY stirring a well-beaten egg into
this dough and rubbing a generous
tablespoonful of sugar into the -four.
nice tea cake, to be cut IT slices
with a hot knife and eaten hot with
sweet butter, is made. Bake in
round pans; a quart one should give
eight slices, fluffy within and brown
of crust.
Hot cake may be cut with impu-
nifty, and even fresh brown bread may
be sent to table in nice slices if the
knife is thrust into boiling water or
otherwise heated before using. When
beginning to make Drown bread this
season don't fail to insist that your
grocer sells you old-fashioned mid
dlings," which now comes to market
in bags from seven pounds upward.
If bread made from this is kneaded
as carefully as white and little
sugar or molasses added mot
enough to be detected), it will at
once become a family favorite. When
day old it makes delicious ''nutty''
sandwiches. and if sprinkled into the
"eye" of boiling water with the right
hand, while stirring with the left
until of proper consistency, then
! cooked for 20 minutes, it is deli
! cious "porridge. "-Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15
to play at banquets, receptions an6

to play at banquets, receptions anc
teas.
1t has not been two years since
Edna first handled a cornet. Until
IS months ago she showed no sigr
whatever of possessing eXtraordi
nary musical talent.
Edna worked faithfully for over ar
hour. Coming quietly into the rOou
Mr.. White was astonished to hear
his daughter play Yankee Doodle
Home, Sweet Home" and Nearer
My God, to Thee"
This was the commencement of heI
musical career. She took weekly
lessons and was allowed to take heI
own time in learning a selection. Al
the end of six months she made her
first appearance at their home church
in Brooklyn, using her fathers cor
net.
She is familiar with most of the
great cornet soloists of the day
quantity discussing the merits OF
their rendition and of their instru.
ments, of which she is herself capable
of good Judgment. OF comets she
has decided opinion. formed by
testing and using the various makes
on the market. Her present instru'
ment was purchased with the first
$50 earned
She is able to accompany the hu.
man voice in difficult selections an6
but needs to hear a piece once to be
able to play it. 1t is marvellous how
readily this little cornetist can trans.
pose. She can follow at sight class.
zeal selection for the voice or any
instrument.
She is wholly unaffected and child.
ish. Small, with much dark hair and
intellectual brown eyes. She is quite
pretty.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15
MFf1R{g5|=5s|15i1IEiERA
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MRS. ANNIE BESANT.
English Prophecies of TheOsOphy
Has Not Yet Lost Her Hold on
Her London Followers.

The end of Annie Besant is not yet.
This seems to be the feeling which has
been created in England, where the
most famous of living theosophists
has been making a three months visit.
Mrs. Besant left England few days
ago, on her way to India, where mat
tiers connected with the school for
natives which she founded at Benares
several years ago claim her attention.
She is going by way of the continent
and will hold theosophical meetings in
Germany, Switzerland and Italy
evidently sailing from southern
port. Mrs. Besant will return to Eng
land in June and pursue her calling as
latter day Blavatsky in the vicinity
of London.
A few years ago it was prophesied
fully that Annie Besant was about to
be ignored by the world at large and
England in particular. But this proph-
ecy has not been fulfilled. In fact,
the little part of the universe repre-
scented by this island, at least. thinks
more kindly of Mrs. Besant than it
ever did before. She seems to have
lived down much of the antagonism
her earlier life aroused and to have
inspired kindlier feeling among her
countrymen than they were wont to
show her. While in England Mrs.
Besant held many lectures and it was
only few days before her departure
that she spoke to = great audience in
London.
She retains her marvellous charm
and while she does so she will not
cease to affect multitudes visibly;
while she pursues her present discreet
and intelligent educational methods
in India she will not cease to win the
appreciation of large portion of the
English people.
1t is now Mrs. Besant's annual pro-
gramme to spend nine months of the
year in India and the other three in
England Strengthening the theosophi-
cal society with the learning she
brings fresh from the birthplace of
theosophy. Mrs. Besant is the power
of her cult in England, to-day, say
what else people may of her. She it
is who arranged for the various
courses of theosophical lectures which
leading English theosophists are this
winter delivering in America. In fact,
every missionary influence the society
is exerting emanated primarily from
her.
Mrs. Besant thinks theosophy ought
to be assimilated rapidly by the Amer
leans, because she considers Ameri-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15

In a letter dated January 1, 1900,
Mr.. Atkinson says, after five years
experience with Peruna:
"IWiHeVer continue to speak a good
word for Peruna. In my rounds as a
travelling man am walking adVer-
fisemenf for Peruna and have induced
many people during the past year to
use Peruna with the most satisfactory
results. lam still cured of cafarrh.
John o. Atkinson,
Box 272, Independence, Mo.
When old age comes on, catarrhal
diseases come also. Systemic catarrh
is almost universal in old people.
This explains why Peruna has be-
come so indispensable to old people.
Peruna is their safeguard. Peruna is
the only remedy yet devised that
meets these cases exactly.
Such cases cannot be treated locally;
nothing but an effective systemic rem
edy could cure them. This is exactly
what Peruna is.
If you do not receive prompt and
satisfactory results from the use OF
Peruna, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your case
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, U.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15
TT NDER date of January 10, 1897,
| DIR. Hartman received the fol-
" ln,..irnrr OF

TT NDER date of January 10, 1897,
DR.. Hartman received the fol-
~ lowing letter:
'My wife had been suffering from
complication of diseases for the past
25 years.
Her case had baffled the skill of
some of the most noted physicians.
One of her worst troubles was chronic
constipation of several years stand
ing.
"She also was passing through that
most critical period in the life of a
woman-change of life. In June, 1895,
l wrote to you about her case. You
advised a course of Peruna and Mana
lin, which we at once commenced, and
have to say it completely cured her.
She firmly believes that she would
have been dead only for these wonder
full remedies.
about the same time / wrote you
about my own case of catarrh, which
had been of 25 years standing. AT
times | was almost past going. | COM
menced to use Peruna according to
your instructions, and continued its use
for about year, and it has completely
cured me.
"Your remedies do all that you claim
for them, and even more. Cafarrk
cannot exist where Peruna Is faker
according to directions. Success IL
you and your remedies.
lob, n Afkjrcou
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15
ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.
Franchises for Rural Trolley Systems
should Not Be Granted for
Long Periods.

Electric railways are not allowed
to carry freight in certain states,
owing either to state laws or to the
charters of steam railroads that give
the latter a monopoly of freight
transportation. Wherever such laws
exist they should be repealed. The
trolley system should be open to
freight as well as to passengers. We
consider this matter of the most eX-
traordinary Importance, and cannot
too strongly urge that whatever leg
islatiOn is necessary to accomplish
this result be obtained without delay.
Articles published last season on the
use of the electric railway for trans
porting farm produce, in western
New York, in Ohio and in Canada,
have given a great impetus to the
trolley freight idea. Electric rail-
ways are being promoted all over the
country. 1t will not be long before
communication by trolley from the
country to the city will be well-nigh
universal in the more thickly settled
sections. All questions pertaining to
street railway franchises are there
fore becoming quite as important to
the country as to the city.
| Officials in counties and in rural
townships should grant franchises
for electric railways only under suit
able restrictions to protect the public
interest. The duration of the fran
chise should be limited to a certain
number of years, and the charges for
! freight and passenger service should
be specified in the franchises as
granted. Care in the granting OF
franchises for rural electric railways
will avoid many of the costly mis-
takes made by cities years ago il
giving away forever most valuable
franchises for the use of their streets
for railways, gas conduits, etc. 1t i;
inevitable that the great majority OF
the local trolley lines now in oper
alton and in prospect will in time bt
consolidated into a few large sys
tens, Just as is being done with the
steam railways. While the conven
fence of electric transportation is de
sired in rural districts, as well as II
the cities, it is OF grave consequence
that all contracts, franchises, etc.
for these new railways be granted
under conditions that will conserv,
the public welfare in the future
No franchise should be granted fo'
longer than 20 years, at the end o
which time the township or count.
should be entitled to acquire tn,
railway upon payment of fairly ap
praised value of tracks and equip
ment.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15

cans "a very psychic people" She
says, however, in the same breath:
"Your materialism is against you.
Too many of your religions seek the
support of the spirit to enrich the
body, rather than the body to enrich
the spirit
This last summer in England has
proved Annie Besant to be more than
ever the friend of the London poor.
These same poor always have and, |
believe, always will, love her. Her
charity has been too practical, her
sympathy too frequently put to the
test by the needy, to permit of their
doubling her. A matter of minor
Importance to a hungry man or rag
ged beggar girl is the changing relig-
ious beliefs of the woman who be-
friends him or her. No one denies
every religion from strict evangelical
doctrines to her present liberal faith
in theosophy. No one forgets her
brilliant defense in court against the
slanderer which sought to rob her of
her good name. Her avowed dislike
of her husband, her separation from
him and his priesthood in the Church
of England, are details in her life his
tory long since written. Her children
are grown and married, but both of
them now yield their mother the 10y
atty and affection which in youth they
were forbidden to show her.
Sir Walter Besant cordially disliked
his sister-in-law and changed the pro.
nunciation of his name that he might
not be called by hers. But she has
moved on in her chosen path, solitary
and scorned much of the way, but
keeping always as her guiding star an
abiding trust in the necessity of being
true to herself. Perhaps Mrs. Besant
will live to see her complete vindica.
ton and the cordial recognition of the
work she has sincerely attempted tc
do. Those of us who have seen hei
this summer, are agreed, as have said
above, that the end of Annie Besant
is not yet.-From London Letter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15

Don't think because you only milk
few cows that it won't pay to keep
them right. Better not keep a COW
f she isn't worth good treatment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-15
GOOD ROADS ESSENTIAL.
Rural Free Delivery Routes to BE
Maintained Only Where High
ways Are Improved.

The post Office department has a
plan under consideration which, if
adopted, will help to do away with
the bad roads to be found in 50
many parts of the country. 1t is to
have inspectors appointed in the
rural free-delivery part of the serv-
ice whose duty it shall be to deter
mine whether the roads over which
it is proposed rural carriers shall
travel are fit.
At present the department is
swamped with complaints of the ru-
raj carriers about the condition OF
the roads over which they are ex-
pected to carry the mail. The duty
of the inspectors shall be to exam
inc all the roads about which COM
plant is made. If they find the al
legation true they will notify the
supervisors of the townships through
which the roads pass that unless
they are put in condition within n
fixed time the carrier service will
be discontinued. There are about
14.oOo rural free-delivery routes.-N.
\. World.