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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-02-22
HAS INTERESTING
SESSION
Important Matters Consid-
cred at Saturdays Meet
ing of School Board.
RESIGNATION OF MRS. TRASK
WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Financial Condition of School Dis
trict May Necessitate Early
Closing of City Schools.

The school board held a meet
ing Saturday afternoon at which
considerable business of import
.ance came up for consideration.
Contracts for the years supply
of wood were awarded, the board
decided to accept the resignation
of Mrs. Trask as teacher Of the.
sixth grade and the possibility OF
closing the schools early owing to
the financial condition of the dis
trict was discussed at some
length.
So long as the warrants of the
district can be negotiated at par
there will be no reason for clos
ing the school but in the event
that personal property tax pay
ments should be slow, the dis.
trict would be pressed for ready
money and the maintenance Of
school would be an expense which
the financial condition OF the dis
trict would not warrant. The
situation was discussed at some
length by the board but no def
mite conclusion in the matter was
reached.
The matter Of the resignation
of Mrs. J. j. Trask was then
taken up. In connection with
the matter there has been a very
great deal Of gossip. 1t has been
said that Mrs. Trask's resigna-
ton is the result Of her recent
prominent connection with the
reform movement in her capacity
as president Of the w. Q. e. U.
The board, however, denies that
this circumstance entered into
the matter in any degree. 1t
has been pending for some time.
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Arranging for Care of Patients

County Commissioners Brooks
and Moore, Of Itasca county, are
in the city today arranging for
the care Of the smallpox patients
from Itasca county who were re-
Gently brought down from a
northern Itasca county logging
camp and will be cared for at the
expense of Itasca county. The
Messrs. Brooks and Moore leave
tonight for the logging camps in
the northern part of Itasca
county and steps will be taken to
prevent any new eases being
brought to Bemidji.
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Corps ST Engineers With
Bureau of Forestry Have
Headquarters There.
PINE BODIES OF THAT SECTION
HISTORICAL.
Red Lake Indians Tell Of the
Great Forest Fire That
Devastated Timber.

Tine corps l-oiSlilceio eello oo
taches of the bureau Of forestry
who have been spending the
present winter IN Minnesota in
vestigating the pine belts Of this
section are at present gathering
data at Blackjack and are find
ing their sta. at that village.
profitable and interesting.
The investigation and work Of
research which the bureau OF
forestry has been conducting in
this section of the state during
the present winter is todetermine
something about the age of the
timber, the possibilities Of re-
plenishing the forests after the
lumberman has cut them off and
to gather other information that
will be valuable.
The pine belts in the vicinity Of
Blackjack are among the heaviest
and richestin the entire northern
section of the state, but the pres
emit growth for the most part IS
what is termed by woodsmen a
second growth. The time it
takes a white and Norway pine
to attain it's monarch majority is
variously estimated by good
authorities at from twenty-five to
one hundred years.
The timber in the vicinity OF
Blackjack is estimated for the
most part to be from seventy five
to one hundred years old and all
through the big woods Of that
vicinity are found traces OF the
devastation Of former forests of
pine by fire. The Red Lake In
dams have preserved in the
legends of, their tribe story
which is to the effect that many
years ago when the old men of
the tribe were but small children
the great forests in the section
Of the country near Blackduck
were completely devastated by
fire, said to have it's origin from
the camp fire ola hunting party.
So fierce was the confagration
that it lasted for months. All
the wild game was driven out OF
the country and the smoke of the
burning forests made the air
heavy for weeks. The most
powerful medicine men OF the
tribe held conclave and danced
for days and nights the rain
dance and invoked the great
spirit to send the rains to put out
the fires. Late in the fall, after
the gathering Of the wild rice,
came the rains. The fires were
put out, but miles and miles OF
the country was rendered a bar.
rem waste and it is even said that
the fire was found smouldering
in the swamps the following
spring.
The story Of the Indians is well
borne out by the natural condi.
tions. Traces OF a great forest
fire are found in abundance in
the vicinity of Blackjack and ex.
tending over wide stretch OF
country. The bureau of forestry
representatives will conclude
their labors this week.
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Harold Resigns.

T. H. Harold, who for some
time has represented the M. & I.
as it's station agent at Turtle
River, has resigned his position.
Mr.. Harold is undecided as to
his plans for the immediate fu-
ture. He will be succeeded by a
Mr.. Russell.
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A Short Letter from Kansas.

Tredick 4 Co., Of Kingman,
Kansas. write:-We have known
Warmers White Wine of Tar
Syrup for a number Of years.
tits standard remedy and a
good seller, and where once tried
steady customer is obtained.
For sale at City Drug store.
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The official connection Of the
board in the matter is simply that
it is on record with a resolution
to accept the resignation. 1t will
probably be presented this week.
Contracts for the year s supply
Of wood were awarded as follows:
Erick Hedeen, fifty cords of jack
pine at $3.50 per cord; S. Bard
well, seventytive cords Of jack
pine at $3.50 per cord; Kirk &
Smith, fifty cords at 1922; Z. H..
Bailey, two hundred cords at
$3.50. Bids for about two hun
dred cords at an average price Of
50. so per cord and presented by
several different parties were re
jected.
Blackjack Will Co..
Editor Ernst L. Oberg of the
Blacdduck Times was in the city
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A Word Of Advice to the Public.

A dollar saved is dollar earned. We all
know you can save from rs to so per cent
on all photographs at the Lakeside Studio.
Our stock is always new and up-to-date.
Our work is second to none in the north
west. Step in and be convinced. Our
studio is on the ground floor, two blocks
north of the City Boat house, on the lake
front.
Yours for business,
M. j. MORSE,
Photographer.
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Bargain Day.

One day only, Saturday, Feb
-ruary ~, subscriptions will be
accepted to the Pioneer for 81 for
six months.
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the government has to conduct the war
now going on on. the highest plane Of
civilization. he refers to the fact that,
under the authority of the minister Of
education. orders we're sent TO the
teachers in all of the institutions Of
education. from the primary schools
upward, and requests addressed to the
recognized representatives Of all Of the
religious bodies in the country, asking
first that every means should be taken
to discountenance wrong tendencies
concerning the war among the people,
and to positively emphasize the follow
ing points: ''That the war is one be-
tween the state of Japan and the state
of Russia; that it is not waged against
individuals; that individuals of all ma
tionalities peacefully attending to their
business are to suffer no molestation
or annoyance whatever, and that ques-
tions of religion do not enter into the
war at ALL
If such acts are not the acts Of a
Christian nation they are, all the same.
Christian acts, and nations that are
called Christian might consistently ini-
tate them.
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PRECAUTIONARY.

you can't do two things successfully
at the same time" Il did" What
did you do?" Spent my money and
my vacation. &C Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Business Instinct Ted-W What
became Of his summer hotel that failed
because the place was so unhealthy?
Ned-oh, he's running it now as a san
itarium. Judge.
My white folks is goin' to the sea-
sho', said one colered girl. Dat amt
much" was the answer. Mine has got
bathing suits and Is going all the way
in washington Star.
A Sure Thing. The Lamb-I want to
buy something which is pretty sure to
go up.
The Broker Better buy mercury.
them Yonkers Statesman.
Cousin Jack Yes, I'll put S. on for
you if you'll pay me back. You didn't
the last time, you know
Cousin Kate"0h, well, the horse
didn't win. Brooklyn Life. <
A Work of Art. What do you think
Of the platform ~ It's great, said
Senator Flubb There isn't plank in
it that can't betwisted around to mean
something else. - Chicago Record Her
aid
A Measure of Precaution-Flor Old
Lady taking train at station) Con-
ductor, which is the most dangerous
car on the train ?" The last car is sup
posed to be, madam r. o. L.-sThen
why don't they leave it off ~ Harper's
Weekly.
'sWh-wllat do you call this cigar?''
I'm Kansas City they call it the cy-
clone cigar "Wh-why?" Because
when a man comes down the street
smoking one everybody makes a rush
for the cyclone cellars. - Cleveland
Plaindealer.
Guest-Bring me a broiled chicken,
waiter!
Waiter-Very sorry, sir, but the
chickens out.
Guest castically) -Did it leave
word when 1t would return New Or
leans Times Democrat.
Rather Quiet Affair Mrs. Water
stosk just back from Europe)- So
Blanche Roxton got married at last? l
understand it was a very swell we'd
ding? Mrs. Ritchie You've been mis-
informed; why, even the precinct re-
serves weren't called out!--Puck.
Careful Willie, Teacher was explain
ing the meaning of the word recuper-
ate. Now, Willie she said. II your
father worked hard all day, he would
be tired and worn out wouldn't he?"
"Yes'rn." Then when night comes,
and his work is over for the day, what
does he do?" That's what ma wants
to know. cleveland Plain Dealer.
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IN certain respects the Italian is
markedly free from superstition as
compared with the Celt or the Scot; for
instance. the fear Of ghosts Or spirits is
50 rare that / have never met with it;
on the other hand, the belief in the val
ne Of dreams as guides TO action is deep
rooted and widespread. The dream
book in some families is held hardly
second in Importance to the book of
prayer. The Italians eminently prac-
teal nature makes him utilize his
dreams in playing the lotto" as the
buying Of lottery tickets is called.
To dream Of certain things indicates
that one will be lucky and should play.
The choice of the number is the chief
preoccupation Of the hardened lottery
player. It is decided by the oldest
ehanee-by the number on a bank note
that has been lost and found again, or
the number of cab which has brought
one home from delightful festivity.-'
Century.
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NOT STRICTLY NECEsSART.

We should always honor the old, I'M
less they are old drunkards, old crimf-
mails or something else that is not hon
orable, but perhaps We are not under
obligations to honor them by electing
them to office for which they may not
be fit. Army and navy officers have to
retire at sixty-two and sixty-four,
judges are called old at seventy, and
even college professors are finding PEN
stoned quiet after seventy more desir-
able than the daily grind. Henry Gas
saway Davis, the Democratic candidate
for vice president. win be eighty-one
years old next November. Why the
Democrats nominated him is one of the
puzzles that were constructed at ST.
Louis. He is still fairly vigorous, we
suppose. and probably likes to be told
that he doesn't look day over fifty.
He is worth forty millions or so, and
some shink that fact had little to DO
with his nomination. This idea would
be plausible if the Democratic party
didn't despise and hate wealth and
Capitalists" so. Another notion is
that because he is a cousin Of Senator
German of Maryland his nomination
will induce German to do his best to
get Maryland to vote for Parker and
Cousin Davis. But whatever the rea-
sons for his nomination, the fact re-
mains that he is pretty old man, and
if he should be elected and be called
upon to be president it is not believed
that it is in him to be as lively and
strenuous as President Roosevelt has
been. The waning strength of Henry
Gassaway Davis does not seem calcu-
lated to add strength to the Democratic
ticket and the Democratic cause.
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roo aUcH AND TOO STRENUOUS


The recent utterance OF Alfred E.
Stearns, headmaster of Philips Andov-
er, on Athletics and Ethics is at
tracing some attention. This is. a
part Of 1t: The first duty Of the school.
as well as the college. is to train its
students mentally, morally and physic-
ally. In themselves, athletics offer
splendid opportunities for this training,
but athletic contests are coming to be
regarded more and more as an end
rather than as means. Far too much
| Importance is attached to success, until
nothing short of victory will satisfy the
contestant or his friends. Questionable
methods have become lamentably COM
mon. Players early are taught that skill
in disregarding rules is a prime requi-
site OF successful athlete. And the
worst feature of this iamentable situa-
ton lies in the fact that it is largely
graduates of our leading colleges and
universities who are engaged in this de-
moralizing business.
AS Mr.. Stearns was and is an ath-
lete and in thorough sympathy with
athletics, he can hardly be suspected Of
talking through his hat in this matter.
He has told the truth and told 1t we'll.
BY and by athletics may be relegated
to their proper place in institutions of
learning. And they may not be. II
they are not perhaps the presidents of
those institutions may yet be and feel
11onored by being allowed to wear the
coveted letter while delivering the bae-
calaureate sermon.
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. DO AS THE ROMANS DO.

One of the Strange Effects of Life in
Rome on the Temporary Visitor.
The strangest thing about life in
Rome is that one not only does as the
Romans do, but ends by thinking as
the Romans think, feeling as the Ro-
mans feel. The best illustration / know
of this is, the mental attitude of the for
eign residents toward certain supersti-
tons, notably the belief in the evil eye
the malocchio or jettatura, as it is in
differently called.
I never knew an italian who did not
|hold more or less to this superstition.
Americans who have lived long in
Rome eithere ereIuctantIy admit that
there does seem to be something In 1t"
or, if they are Roman born, quietly ac-
cept it as one of those things in heaven
and earth of which philosophy fails to
take account.
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scruples. ana We are Of the opinion that
he would prove a potent factor in solv-
ing the so-called and mueh-discussed
race problem" Be that as it may. we
know he win work. and work is what
we want. The wonderful resources Of
the south can never be developed with
out labor. The negro cannot begin to
supply the requirements Of our growing
industries, and the white laborers at
the south are SO few they cannot at
present enter into the calculation Of the
labor supply. Now the treaty between
this country and China whereby the
United States is authorized to exclude
the Chinese laborer expires next De-
cember. At that time we sincerely
hope that China will insist that her
people wishing to come to this coun-
try be treated on an equal footing with
other nations. We also trust that con-
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Hnrkinr RncIS.

/ am tired of the news from Asia;
want no convention talks;
I'care not for gossip of flying machines
Nor reports of the price of stocks.
Give me last winters paper
And leave me while I peruse
With a fond regret the page that's Sc
With the good old weather news,
Leave me to read of the skating
Where the river is frozen tight,
And the train that couldn't get into
town &ssa
Because of the snow last night;
To think Of these present trifles
Indignantly l refuse,
Give me last winters paper
With the good old weather news.
Washington Star
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NOR so rFRY UNcHBlsrrA ",

Count Katsura, the Japanese prime
minister, shows that even If Japan can
not yet be called a Christian nation she
lis doing pretty well for a nation that
the Russians would like to have called
Pagan. The argument against Japan
lis sometimes expressed in this form:
Russia stands for Christianity, and
Japan stands for Buddhism" but, the
tprenlier says, the truth is Japan stands
for religious freedom. This is the prin-
ciple embodied in her constitution, and
her practice is in accordance with that
principle, for in Japan a man may be
a Buddhist, Christian or a Jew with
out suffering for it. Thus there are
Christian churches in every large city
lin the empire and in almost every town,
and complete freedom is given to every
Japanese citizen to worship in accord
ance with his own convictions. These
Christian churches send out men to ex-
tend the influences Of Christianity from
one end of the country to the other just
as freely as; such things might be done
in the United States. There are nu-
merous Christian newspapers and mag
azines which obtain their licenses pre-
cisely as other newspapers and maya
zines %, and as matter of course,
while Christian schools and Christian
associations for philanthropic work are
accorded a direct recognition by the
government. There are japanese Chris
tians among the members of the ma
tional Diet, the judges of the courts,
the officers of the universities, the edit
ors of leading secular papers and the
officers of the army and navy. The
government has made special arrange
tments to have American and British
missionaries and Japanese Christian
ministers accompany the armies in
Manchuria for the purpose of acting as
spiritual advisers to the Christian SOL
diers. Count Katsura implies that it
would be difficult to find similar in
stances of religious liberality on the
part of the Russians. ,-r .,- +. ....- a.
Again, as indicating the desire that
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gress in dealing with this matter VIII
use more craftsmanship and less poll
tics than it has in the past. Outside Of
the question Of immigration, the friend
ship Of China Is vital to the interest Of
every cotton grower in the south. as
she furnishes q ve-y large and con-
stantly growing market for our pro-
duct. cotton. ATLANTA Southern Rural
list.
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from coal lib 70 coal store Is tRo min
utes. At this end. and on a level with
the motors. sentry box is hewn out
OF the rock. where the man who con-
trolls the gearing for hosting the skip
is huosed and has practically full
view Of all three operations.
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CHINESE LABOR FOR THE SOUTH.
1t is very doubtful if any number of
white foreign Iaborers can ever be in
duced to come south and work in COM
petition with the negro. The China
man. however. would have no such
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/ am convinced, said Senator Daniel
at the st. Louis convention, that the
country is on the verge of great cat
astrophe and calamity" Another de-
feat Of the Democratic party could
hardly be called that. could it?''
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A shefield England firm has re-
ceived from an Eastern potentate an
order for bedroom suite in solid sill
yer. The designs are Of oriental char
acter and Of most elaborate descrip-
ton. 1t is to be of solid silver through
out and includes a bedstead, q cabinet,
dressing table. dozen chairs. three
foot baths. and three hot water cans.
The bedstead is of the most ornate
character. Each of the four pillars will
be surmounted by gracefully moulded
female figures nearly three feet in
height. The moulding Of the room and
other decorations win also be in ster-
ling silver.
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DELIVERED BIZ CARRIERS IN THE
CITY. u CENTS WEEK. 80 CENTS A
MONTH. s. FOR SIX MONTHS. So A
YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL
SINGLE COPIES. CENTS. .
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The King of Denmark has very VAL
liable collection of birds eggs, which
includes specimens Of nearly every
kind in existence. The collection is
considered to be worth about $4,000.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other
small advertisements, One Cent a Word
each insertion. Five Cents Word for
a full week. -.
Display advertisements, per inch, one
insertion, S1.20; each subsequent inser-
ton, 40 cents one week, $3.50; one
month. $40; one year, $40. ..---
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL,
Issued Thursdays. one Dollar Tear.
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Secretary Taft has introduced a re-
form at West Point which he claims
may be Of benefit to the service. but
which will stir up some feeling among
army officers. and especially among the
cadets. In future the latter are not to
be allowed to choose which branch Of
the service they will enter, but will be
assigned to their places by board.
The custom has been to allow the first
few standing cadets in the gradu-
ating class to go into the engineers, the
next group to the cavalry, and those
who remain to the infantry. This gave
the cadets an added incentive to take
high rank 50 that they could have some
choice as to their future. But the sec
rotary states that this system often
threw men into a branch for which
they were not fitted, and the result was
a detriment to the army.
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The English maritime reports are to
the effect that at no past time has the
shipping business Of the United King
dom been in more unsatisfactory
shape than it has been for the last six
or eight months. It has been impossi-
bic during this time to obtain freight
money sufficient to pay running ex-
penses and depreciation. to say nothing
of profits. Four or five years ago con-
ditions were quite the reverse. and it
was said that some Of the ship owners
were earning sufficiently large return
on their tonnage to pay the cost Of
construction If the profits were contin-
ued through term of three years.
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The storing of coal at Gibraltar is ac-
complished by means of a very curious
plant which has just been completed
for the pumping station at Lardport.
In the huge rock fortress the coal store,
boiler house and the engine room adj
Joining are worked under compressed
air, and are necessarily alright. The
store to which the coal has to be con-
veyed is hewn out of the solid rock
and is absolutely bombproof A special
feature is the arrangement of the coal
plant in such way that it does not in
terfere with the air pressure. The coal
is lifted from the coal plant in such a
way that it does not interfere with the
air pressure. The coal is lifted from
the coal tip fifty-seven feet below the
horizontal traveller. The skip by which
the coal is conveyed is raised by means
of steel wire rope working over pull
legs and around driving drum. The
time occupied by the skip in travelling