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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-18
BIG TIME AT
TE:NST[R||IKE.
Annual Meeting of Old Set
tiers Will Be Made a
Great Event.
CONGRESSMAN STEVENSON
WILL SPEAK AUG. 80.
Other Speakers Alse on the Pro.
gram Baseball Between Be-
midi and Blackjack.

Although the annual meeting
of the Beltrami Old Settlers as.
sociation, which will be held at
Tenstrike this year on Aug. %,
20 and 80, is still two weeks dis
tant, the committee which has in
charge the work of arranging
for the event is already in a posi-
tion to announce portion of the
program which will be pulled
off.
The first day will be devoted
largely to receiving the visitors
and transacting the business of
the association. The second day
will be given to program of
speaking which has been ar
ranged, and a mum Der Of sport
ing events will also be pulled off.
The third day will be the big
day of the meeting, as Congress
man Stevenson of Crookston has
been secured for a speech.
Another important event will be
a base ball game between Be-
midi and Blackjack, which will
take place on the afternoon of
the 30th. A $50 purse has been
put up for the game. The meet
ing will be concluded on the even.
ing of the Both with a grand dis
play Of fireworks. Boat races,
foot races, and, in fact all sorts
Of sporting events, will take
place during the entire meeting.
The Bemidji band has been en-
gagged to furnish music for the
event and an orchestra will play
at a bowery in which dances will
be given during the evenings.
Among the speakers who will
deliver addresses are Judge Pen
dergast, P. J. Russell, J. J.
Regan, Porter Nye and Henry
F'unkley of Bemidji, and Repre-
sentative Simons of Red Lake
Falls.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-18
BAND CONCERT
. WAS EXCELLENT
Music Rendered Last Night
by Bemidji Band Applaud
ed by Hearers.

Fnlly 1000 persons listened to
the concert given last night by
the Bemidji band at the corner
of Beltrami avenue and Third
street, and the crowd stayed
with the band until the full pro-
gram had been completed and
gavefrequentapplause. Theband
has improved wonderfully dur.
ing the past two or three weeks
ard will undou btedly be the best
amateur musical organization in
this section of the state in a short
time. Director Symington has
proven himself to be an excellent
teacher and under his supervision
every member Of the organiza-
ton is progressing rapidly. The
supporters of the band express
themselves unanimously as being
highly pleased with the earnest.
ness with which Mr.. Symington
and the members are taking hold
of the band proposition and the
band will from this time on nc
doubt be a permanent fixture in
Bemidji.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-18
INCENDIARY
FIRE STARTED
Waste Paper and Kerosene
Applied to House Of
William Ferris.

An attempt to burn the home
Eof Mr.. and Mrs. William Ferris,
235 Mississippi avenue S, was
made shortly after 10 o'clock last
night and had not the blaze been
discovered the would be in.
cendiary would undoubtedly have
been successful. Mrs. Ferris
was alone in the house and had
retired, but was not asleep. She
heard a noise outside and in a
short time heard a match being
scratched against the wall. She
arose to investigate and upon
opening the door found a large
pile OF waste paper burning. The
paper had been piled against the
wall, which had been saturated
with kerosene. Mrs. Ferris
notified neighbors who assisted
her in extinguishing the blaze be-
fore it had done any damage. No
clue as to the perpetrator of the
the crime has been found.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-18
HOIST LOGS
NEXT WEEK
CrO0kstOn Lumber Company
Will Start Work at Long
Lake on Monday.


The Crookston Lumber com
pany will start hosting logs out
of Long Lake, on the new Wilton
branch, next Monday. A tele-
phone line has been completed to
to the scene of the work and the
railway that has been in course
of construction is now in such
shape that loads may be hauled
over it. The company has 9,OO0,-
900 feet of logs in the lake and
these will be hoisted before
snow flies.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-18

The membersof the school board
the bonds the special election to be held the high
building evening commencing o'clock The
badly and the duty every
to see that they provided.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-18
To be Used August l9. 1905. for Voting Upon
the Following Propositions:

education Independent school district OF
Bemd Betram county, Minnesota purchase the following
tracts school and school house school
hous thereon, n said district
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-18

Two in the southwest of the southeast
qua ter of the southeast quarter of section five,
township one hundred forty-sx range thirty three
west. Fifth P. NJ, Beltrami county, Minnesota: for
second Site2
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-18

3 Shall said board of education issue the bonds of
said district in the of five thousand dollars
bearing interest at the rate of five per cent per an
num- payable in ten years from date of ISSUE for
that purpose?
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Law viii Trouble Frenchmen.

Startling is the news that comes
from Paris to the effect that the law
may seek to compel married French.
men to love their wives Hitherto the
French marriage code has limited it.
self 20 asserting that the contracting
parties owe each other mutual esteem,
fidelity and succor. Nothing is men.
toned about love. Paul Herveu,
dramatist. who enjoys stirring up
trouble. is causing much mental an
suish among his countrymen. for he
thinks married persons should be re.
quired by law to love one another.
Recently he gave his views to a par.
liamentary committee, formed to con.
slider certain reforms in the code
Imagine the despair of many to find a
majority of the committee members
We're inclined TO agree with Hervieu
on the ground that it was for the in.
terest of the community that there
should be marital affection Most
unions among fashionable folk in
France are marriages of convenie,. e.
and the new idea shocks all the con.
ventionalities.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Eoreianers' Status in Berlin.

In Berlin the authorities hold the
theory that all foreigners reside there
by simple sufferance. and may to be
asked to leave at any moment. No
reason is ever given for any expulsion
beyond the curt police formula. Fur
ther residence is denied" But eNpul-
sion is rarely or never rcsorted to.
except In the case of alien anarchists
ard International agitators and mis-.
chief makers, including newspaper cor
respondents who commit The offense
Of telling malicious lies-not about the
course of politics, but about the high
personalities of the court. The Prus.
sian government has always allowed
he fullest independence of Judgment
10 foreign correspondents about mat.
,ers of general policy.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
NEW THEORY OF THE CREATION.
According to This, Adam Was De.
stoned az 4 EjitSrer.

Many reasons have been assigned
for the creation of man. and many the
uses 10 which he has been put: but il
was reserved for a woman 10 discover
that our first parent was designed as
filteror
The Sunday school in the parish OF
ST. NJ, was called to order by the gen.
tie. genial pastor The lesson was
from Genesis, which the busy. bustling
wife OF the parson eXpounded to a
class Of sixteen-yearold girls in the
following manner:
"iou see. girls. by closely studying
the text, that by every natural and di.
vine law woman is mans superior. In
the beginning the Almighty made mar
out of black dirt, there being no better
material lying round. After the divine
essence was breathed into man, the
Creator found substance good enough
for The creation of woman Eve was
strained through Adam. the latter be.
ing used as a filtcrer. so 10 speak
When woman is wicked it is an indi.
cation that some of the gritty black
particles of the original old Adam
have escaped in the process of filtra.
tion. For woman in comparison with
man is as the purest, whitcst diamond
dust 10 the blacklist dirt
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
WIFE, HAD SOMETHING TO ADD.
Supplemented Hubby's Assertion MS
to Head Of the Family

A a prayer meeting in Maine a
goOd old brother stood UP and said he
was glad to give the following test!.
moIy; My wife and l." he said.
.'stawed in life without hardly Il cent
in the world We began at the lowest
round Of the ladder. but the Lord has
been good to us and We have worked
up-wc have prosEcred. We hough.
a lille farm and raised good crops.
We have good home and a nice fam.
lily Of children. and" he added with
much emphasis. Il am the head of
tha family
after he sat down his Wife promptly
arUsr TO corroborate all that ne had
said. She said that they had started
in life with hardly a cent. the Lord
had been good to them and they had
prospercd; they did have a farm and
good crops. they did have fine fam.
lily of children and her husband was
the head of the family. but she added
with satisfaction. Il am the neck that
moves that head"
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20

anything of its usage at this period of
its career. But it is known that in
the last century it served at various
times as Il smithy, church. studio and
tavern. What blacksmith blew lis
forge fire and clanked his hammer IS
not known, nor is the style of worship
practiced beneath its roof remember
ed. But it is known that when an
artist used it as studio home James
A. Herne lived there with him for a
time, and within its walls wrote his
first successful play, Hearts of Oak. "
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Peat Swamp Near Concord.

Commercial utilization of unnum.
bered billions of tons OF peat, lying
waste in swamps and marches in every
part Of the earth: creation of a formid-
able rival to coal and to water power
as the favorite means Of carrying ON
the worlds industries; invariable as
sistance to manufacturers in sections
that have heretofore been far from
their sources OF supply of combustible
fuel-this, the real beginning of a long
heralded era Of mud-burning. may
prove to have been accomplished at
historic Lexington. on the verge OF a
swamp which Lord Percy's troops
skirted on their eventful march TO and
from Concord.
The motive power department Of the
Boston and Maine has now for several
weeks been trying this fuel on shifting
engines and for short local runs. 1t
has been found that the peat briQuettes
make an exceptionally hot fire and that
the cost is less than that of coal, while
hardly any smoke comes from the
smokestacks. The only disadvantage
that has appeared is one that will nor
mally disappear If the use of the bril-
quette ever becomes universal-peat
fuel cannot be used in connection with
coal in the same locomotive; either the
one kind OF fuel must be employed or
| the other
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
An Honest Opinion.

Mineral. Idaho. Oct. lGth.-(Spe-
cial. )-That a sure cure has been dis
covered for those sciatic pains that
make so many lives miserable is the
firm opinion of Mr.. d. S. Colson. a
well-known resident of this place. and
he does not hesitate to say that cure
is Dodd's Kidney Pills. The reason
Mr. Colson is SO firm in his opinion
is that he had those terrible pains and
is cured. Speaking OF the matter he
says:
81 am only too happy TO say Dodd's
Kidney Pills have done me lots Of
good. ! had awful pains in my hip so
/ could hardly walk. Dodd's Kidney
Pills stopped it entirely. think they
are a grand medicine"
All Sciatic and Rheumatic pains are
caused by Uric Acid in the blood.
Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy kid
neys and healthy kidneys strain all
the Uric Acid out of the blood. With
the cause removed there can be no
Rheumatism or Sciatica.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Wonders at Home.

Within very recent years the Ameri-
can people in general have been learn
Ing as they never did before the won
ders Of their own country. They went
abroad for scenery and to view places
of historical interest, unmindful that
their own land contained spectacles I'M.
rivaled elsewhere and relics OF a civil
lization that is prehistoric. Places that
only few years ago had hardly visi-
tor now attract many thousands an.
nually. The Yellowstone Park has be.
come well known. SO also the stupen.
dous canon Of the Colorado. the ter.
rife domes of the Yosemite, the impos.
ing Sierras rising abruptly almost from
the sea level to heights Of nearly three
miles. America abounds with miracles
of nature, grandly impressive or mar.
velously beautiful.-Buffalo Courier.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Unprecedented Prosperity.

Unprecedented prosperity is the
present lot of the United States of
America, says the Chicago Record
Herald. A greater prosperity is the
promise of the immediate future. The
year 1905. just turned into its last
third, already has smashed records
right and left. Everything that goes to
make up business and industrial life
is on the boom, and the barometers OF
finance, of commerce. of agriculture,
Of building and of manufacturing. one
and all indicate the continuance of fair
skies. There isn't cloud visible any
where on the horizon.
Business has been forging ahead by
such leaps and bounds that The car
riers have been caught short OF equip
ment with which TO move products.
Railroads, striving TO do the best
within their power. have bewildered
for more rolling stock.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
N ohammedan Mosque for Paris.

Paris will soon have Mohamme',a an
mosque. For some years past a
French Mohammedan living in Cairo
NJ. Lambert, has been at work coll ec,.
ing subscriptions. and he has now sc,
ceived consent not only to buili a
mosque in Paris. but also one in Mar.
seilles. The state will very liFol,
grant two mosques free building sites
England and Germany have each ono
or more mosques. Thousands of Mus.
sulmans visit Paris every year. Mar
seillcs has very large floating al.
hammedan population.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
1rammeI Net.

A trammel net is triple net, that
works on very ingenious principle.
Imagine for moment three parallel
walls Of netting. The middle one is
double the length and depth of the
outer (Which are alike) and has quite
small meshes; whereas those of the
tTo outer nets are large enough to
Iet quite big fishes swim through
hem. When a fish swims through
one Of them its nose hits the middle
net. but it cannot go further. Seeing
he large hole of the third net just
neyond. 1t probably rushes on. in or.
der to escape. The result is simply
hat it carries with 1t the flne:mcshed
middle net. and is presently a prisoner
in a cul-de-sac.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
heated air swept out into Broadway,

heated air swept out into Broadway,
carrying appetizing odors of rarebits
and other good things to eat and
drink. The light from the open fires
within danced on the mahogany pan
cling Of the dining room and hall and
lighted up the winding staircase that
is such a characteristic of buildings of
the period when this one was new
If the petition in preparation by the
residents in the neighborhood carries
their hopes to fruition this old build
ing may be converted from its pres
ent state of shabby old age to new
and happy life as Colonial museum.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Babes eetrothed in India.

In India the customs are the most
cruel in the world. In childhood,
shen little girls elsewhere are carry.
Es doll babies, a little girl of rank
must be married After ceremony
Of prodisious pomp she is taken TO the
rcme of her husband or else TO her
nwil home to remain until She is
Teally marriaeeable A child of four
90 five years, whose marriage mas not
vet been contracted and solemnized,
IS held in such dishoror that =, car
only be effaced by immolstins her tc
@ goddess Kali.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Risk Versus Security.

than the uncertain. Nothing venture
l.othing win" is a true proverb, and
sometimes it is good guiding prin-
riple. If a single question and not
general principle were under dis
cussion we might say that the condi-
ions warrant venture. AS a rule
We are profoundly convinced that a
IRE dollar is better than a possible
ZEN dollars; that comfort is always
Preferable to wealth in lottery. The
one thing to be avoided above all
Dthers is instability of income. This
is not to suggest that under all condi-
ions man should prefer the settled
md sure.-The Independent.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
.INrs. GHes/er2uwy

A nervous, irritable mother, often on
the verge of Mysteries, is unit to care
for children it ruins childs DISPOSE
ton and reacts upon herself. The
trouble between children and their
mothers too often is due 10 the fact
that the mother has some female weak
ness, and she is entirely unfit to bear
the strain upon her nerves that govern
ing children involves: it is impossible
for her to do anything calmly.
The ills of women act like Il tirebrand
upon the nerves. consequently nine
tenthS of the nervous prostration. ncr-
vons dependency. ''the blues.' sleep
lesSness. and ner,ou irritability of
women arise from some arrangement
Of the female organism.
Do yon experience fits of depression
with restlrssncss, alternating with
extreme irrta bility? Are your spirits
easily affected. so that one minute you
laugh. and the next minute you feel
like crying?
Do you feel something like Il ball ris-
ing in your throat and threatening to
choke you: all the senses perverted,
morbidly sensitive to light and sound:
pain in the ovnries. and especially
between the shoulders: bearing down
pains: nervous dyspepsia. and almost
continually cross and snappy?
II so. your nerves are in u shattered
condition, and you are threatened with
nervous proStration
Proof is monumental that nothing in
the world is better for nervous prostra-
ton than Lydia +. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound: thousands and thou
sands of women testify to this fact.
AK Mrs. pink hams AdvIa-A Won
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Mrs Ghos EBrow7

Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader Of the
Ladies' symphony Orchestra, ~ Sara
toga Street. East Boston, Mass. writes:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:-
"For eight wears was troubled with ex-
trene NERVOUSNESS and hysteria. brought on by
irregularities. could neither enjoy life nor
sleep nights; l was very irritable, MrSons
and despOndent.
Lydia Z. Pinkhans Vegetable Compound
was recommended ana pro, ed to be he only
remedy that helped me. | have daily
improved in health until am now strong
and we'll, and all nervousness has dissp
peared."
Mrs. Charles F. Brown. Vice-Presi-
dent of the Mothers Club, q Cedar
Terrace. Hot Springs. Ark, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
IL dragged through nine years OF miseraA1o
existence, worn ont with pain and nervous
ness. until it seemed aS though ! should ~.
then noticed n statement OF woman tFco-
bled as was. and the wonderful resultA sAs
derived from Lydia T.. Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound, ! decided "try it. did 10, and
at the end Of three months was different
woman. My NERVOUSNESS was all gone ] was
no longer irritable. and my husband fell in
love with me all over again"
Women should remember that Lydia
f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 10
the medicine that holds the record for
the greatest number of actual cures Of
female ills, and take no substitute.
Free Advice to Women.
Mrs. Pinkham. Lynn, Mass, invite~
all sick women TO write to her for advice.
Mrs. Pinkhams vast experience with
female troubles enables her to tell
you just what is best for You, and
she will charge you nothing for ber
advice.
an Best Understands = w,man's ilks.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Seek to Keep Relic
Residents Of New York Would Preserve
Building Dating from Old Colonial Days
Especial Correspondence.)

with SO small a house. The upper
porch and the peaked overhanging
roof, with its one half-circular window.
are purely Colonial. The windows in
the second story and the wrought IL on
railings and posts are of the earlier
period, and fit in with the severer
style of architecture more happily
than such combinations usually do.
From the internal arrangements of
the structure one might imagine it
was originally designed for use as a
public building of some kind. either
court house or church. No one knows
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
s,rd to few surveyors, who have used
: .-, as au'ies and monuments in

I'D to a few surveyors, who have used
80, as au'ies and monuments in
parce.. l. d.
That u?> old building has been
moved several times Is certain. There
are old men in the neighborhood who
can recall it once stood on what is
now known as Claremont avenue. And
there are other folk who have made
a close study of the neighborhood's s
history who declare that by right of
The evidence they can bring to bear
ON the question the bronze tablet affix-
ed to the walls of Columbia univer-
sity by the Sons Of the Revolution to
commemorate the battle of Harlem
Heights should be put on the facade
of this deserted Colonial structure.
Its position on the only road connect
ing the battlefield of Harlem Heights
with Fort George and Fort Washing
ron would certainly seem to justify
the claims of the local students of
revolutionary history.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Ehgland's Bridge of Sighs.'

The enormous number of suicides as.
suciated with the suspension bridge
which crosses the Avon at Clifton has
ed to the famous structure being
called Englands Bridge of Sighs At
nigh tide the famous structure towers
80 feet above what Southey describes
rs the Avon's Liquid mud and gutter
ike he'd and ever since the bridge
vas opened, now about forty years ago,
Fl seems to have fascination for the
morbid.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
COFFEE NEURALGIA.
Leaves When You Quit and Use Pos.
tun,.

A lady who unconsciously drifted
into nervous prostration brought on by
coffee, says:
Il have been a coffee drinker all
my life, and used it regularly, three
times a day.
"A year or two ago l became sub
ject to nervous neuralgia, attacks of
nervous headache and general ner-
vous prostration which not only in
capacitated me for doing my house
work, but frequently made it neces-
sary for me to remain in a dark room
for two or three days at a time.
Il employed several good doctors
one after the other, but none of them
was able to give me permanent relief
Eight months ago friend sug
gested that perhaps coffee was the
cause of my troubles ard that try
Postum Food Coffee and give up the
old kind. am glad took her advice,
for my health has been entirely re
stored. l have no more neuralgia, nor
have I had one solitary headache in
all these eight months. No more of
my days are wasted in solitary CON
finement in a dark room do all my
own work with ease. The flesh that
lost during the years Of my nervous
prostration has come back to me
during these months, and | am once
more happy, healthy woman. en-.
close a list of names of friends who
can vouch for the truth Of the state.
ment." Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek. Mich.
There's reason.
Ten days trial leaving off coffee
and using Postum Is sufficient. Al!
grocers.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Popular as college Tavern.

1t is in it's last phase, however, that
of being a college tavern" that 1t Is
likely to be most widely remembered
if the scheme of restoring it fails to
come to pass. For years 1t was put
to that use, and hundreds of Columbia
undergraduates and professors used
it as place in which to foregather
between recitations and when the
work of the scholastic day was done.
The lamplight cleaned through its
windows then, and when the broad
paneled door was opened whiffs Of
The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-20
Little known Of Early History.

Little is known of the early history
Of the structure. There are no au-
thentic records as to what it was built
for nor when it was erected. Even
its first owner is not known to the
local antiquarian. 1t is known, how
ever, that it formerly stood at the
fork Of the old Albany Post road and
Braddish lane, where it had a com
manding position on the crown of the
hill in full view Of stage coach and
OK team that struggled in the winding
climb from the valleys at either side.
Some of the elm trees that surround
ed the little house then still remain.
but they are known only to old-timers