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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-04-19
MAKES A CLEAN RECORD.

Senate Winds Up Business in Good
Shape.
The senate made a record in clean
ing up the calendar, as it left scarce
" more than twenty-five bills on the.
calendar and general orders undis-.
posed of.
Representative Mannix's bill design
ed to put the so-called salary loan
sharks out of business was passed by
a unanimous vote.
The house bill providing for the ap-I
pointment of state fire marshal at
an annual salary Of $500 was passed.
The attempt to pass Representative
Vollmer's bill to establish an agricul-
stural implement plant in the state
prison, failed through the senate's re-
fusal to suspend the rules. The pur-
nose of the bill was to enable the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-04-19
WORK IS At An END
THIRTY-FouRTH SESSION OF THE
LEGISLATURE FINISHES ITS .
LAWMAkING. !.
OMNIBUS APPROPRIATION BILL
is FINALLY PASSED BY
BOTH HOUSES.

st. Paul, April 1S.-The thirty
fourth legislature came to tumultous
close as a lawmaking body shortly
after II o'clock Monday night, with
the air full of everything the mem
bers could lay their hands on. The
staid and dignifed senate frisked and
gamboled little, tossing a few bill
files here and there with feminine
awkwardness. The house went the
limit and two members thereof will
take home scars to show to their con-
stituents.
The house agreed to the terms Of
its conference committee on the omni-
bus appropriation bill and saved the
state the expense of an extra session
of the legislature, which it is estimat-
ed would have cost 100000
The conference committee reached
a compromise by which the state uni
versity's appropriation for new main
building was restored to it's original
figures. less $4,000. Z
This was the item over which the
two houses began the quarrel that
threatened at one time to end in a
failure to agree on an appropriation
bill. The conference also restored the
$4,000 appropriation to the state ag-
ricultural college and $4,000 for the
st. Cloud normal school, but also OBJ
tanned certain concessions from these
institutions.
AS finally passed by both houses the,
bill carries $4,000 more than when it
was reported by the committee to the
two houses on Friday.
The senate passed the bill.
After hot debate, the house last
night passed the Thompson bill, per-
hitting the publication of annual
statements of Minnesota insurance
companies in newspapers in the coun-
ties in which they are organized.
A black eve was given the house
committee on public accounts and ex-
penditures Monday, when the house
tabled motion to adopt the commit
tee report censuring former Public
Examiner Johnson
There will be no Illuminating oil
legislation at this session of the legis-
lature. The committee which has had
the Investigation of Minnesota's oil
supply under consideration says it is
not needed. It also holds that the
gravity test for all Illuminating oils
Is not needed.
BY a decisive vote, "a ayes to So
nays, the house refused to reverse it
self on its memorial to congress pc
titioning for the opening of the Chip
peWa forest reserve.
A bill authorizing tax levy of
1 $40 mills for 1906. and 2-10 for
1907 was passed The tax laid two
years ago was one mill straight.
The house will meet at 10 O'Clock
Tuesday morning and the senate at II.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-04-19

FOR SALE Homestead relin-
quishment to a forty acre tract
within eight miles Of town. Ad.
dress Box 673.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-04-19

FOR SALE 5000 down, the bal
ance in small monthly pay
ments will purchase a four
room house and two lots we'll
worth $1100. Nicely located
near school house and in pleas.
ant neighborhood. Inquire at
this Office.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-04-19

FOR SALE Rubber stamps.
The Pioneer will procure any
kind of a rubber stamp for
you on short notice.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-04-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

PUBLIC LIBRARY -Oren
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat-
urdays, 2 to 6 p. ~. Thurs
day Z to $50 p. m. also. Ii
hrary in basement Of court
House. Mrs. b. R. Ryan, IL
brarian.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Three rooms, Call
at Pioneer office.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-04-19

WANTED-F'or q. S. army able
bodied, unmarried men be-
tween ages of Is and IS, citi-
zens of United States, of
good character and temperate
habits, who can speak, read
and write English. For in
formation apply to Recruiting
Officer, Miles block, Bemidji.
Minnesota.
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FOR SALErIron bed, spring
and mattress, dresser with
mirror, stair carpet, rods win
dow shades. 100 Fifth street.
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WANTED To fill your wants
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FOR SALE.

FORSALE- Seed wheat, choicest
varieties. Bemidji Elevator
Co.
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WANTED Capable nurse Ap-
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WANT-To let contract to cut
5000 cords or more Is inch
birch wood, near Farley good
camp buildings and garden on
place. Good chance for man
with saw rig. J. j. Opsahl,
518 Beltrami ave-, Bemidii,
Mimi.
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WANTED To supply your type
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Daily except Sunday
500 a. m. Lv. ). Kelliher 100. Ar. pm. 7:45
6.45 a. m, Ar. Hovey Junction. .Lv D. m. 7:lO
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11

toll from the finny tribes. Cold has
no terrors for these tough creatures
and they swim as nimbly in the icy
rivers of the north as in the waters
Of the caribbean. They "dive at q
FASH" and are as difficult to kill as
the water witch" itself.
Only the most guileless housekeeper
will look at any saw-billed duck in
market-the serrated mandibles indi-
eating that the organ is used as a fish
chopper, and fish food never makes
good game meat.
The drake is a gorgeous but vain and
selfish bird and Immediately deserts
the neighborhood when the six to
twelve creamy buff eggs are being
Matched. All the domestic duties then
fall upon the devoted mother. 81 once
padded after a BROOD" SAYS Chamber
lain In the Nature Library, land
though several times they were almost
within reach of my landing net, they
eluded every effort to capture them.
Throughout the chase the mother kept
close to the young birds, and several
times swan across the bow of the ca
noe in her efforts to draw my atten-
IIon from the brood and to offer her.
self as sacrifice for their escape"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11
Ancient AduIferafions.

Adulteration laws appear to have
peen quite as necessary in the good
old days as in the Sophisticated
twentieth Century. Even the adul-
iteration of feather beds and holsters
had to be provided against. October
IA, 1405, is the date of statute pro-
hibiting the sale in English fairs or
markets of these articles, or Of pill
lows, except they be stuffed with one
manner Of feathers" 1t expressly
denounced the use Of such "unlawful
and corrupt stuffs' as "scalded
feathers, or fen-down." The last sub
stance is the same as cotton grass, and
was evidently In great demand as a
fraudulent substitute In bed-stufiing.
In the Eighteenth Century, again, we
find complaints of people who bought
fen-d0wn at halfpenny pound, and
sold it among feathers at sixpence.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11
A Dress Made OF Postage Stamps

An American lady wore a ball dress
at ball in Bermuda recently in which
10000 stamps were used. Years were
spent in the collection, and the dress
was covered with stamps of all ma
lions. An eagle made entirely with
brown Columbian stamps was the CEN
tire of the breast. Suspended from the
talons was a globe made of very old
blue revenue stamps. On either side
of the globe was an American flag,
the stripes of blue and red stamps. A
collection of foreign stamps was past
ed on the back of the bodice in the
form of Shield. A large picture hat,
covered with red and blue stamps,
cred entirely with pink, completed the
costume.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11
CHARGES ADMISSION FOR
CHARITY.
European and Diplomatic Gossip.

James j. Van Alan, the expatriated
American millionaire, has taken a hint
from the Duke of Westminster, who
has for some time past charged all
tourists or excursionists who desire to
explore Eaton Hall and spend a day
among the beautiful scenery on his
Cheshire estate, II cents a head. So
great has been the influx of tourists
to Rushton Hall, Mr.. Van Alan's his
toric place in NoSthamptonshire, dur
ing this season, that, commencing with
January 1, he proposes to follow the
Dukes example with a condition
slightly changed. The income derived
from the Dukes visitors is divided
among local charities. Mr.. Van Alan
will charge maximum of % cents
to all visitors from abroad and II
cents to excursionist parties other than
those who may come from the county
Of Northampton, to whom the grounds
will be free on Mondays and Satur-
days. The income derived from all
sources will be divided between the
local infirmary and au institution for
social intercourse and educational i'm
provement which he means to estab-
lish in the neighborhood for the bene-
fit of workingmen. 1t is estimated that
next year, when the house and grounds
may be seen at the best, the income
derived from this project will not fall
far short of $4,000
King Leopold Of Belgium, who is Of
ten mentioned as business pal tner of
Thomas S. Walsh of Washington and
Colorado, possesses considerable real
estate in the French Riviera. His de-
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11
THE MERGANSER WILD DUCK.

One of the most beautiful OIL wild
ducks, with its dark, glossy green head,
rich, salmon colored breast and strong
ly marked wings, its voracious fish,
eating habits make the Merganser use
less for food and thus an object but
little troubled by sportsmen. A large
number of local names such as the goo
sander, the shelldrake, saw-bill, diving
goose, the weaser, have attached them
selves to this large, handsome swim
mer that studiously avoids man, even
though no sportsman would trouble
him, and that eludes pursuit by the
most remarkable feats of diving and
swimming. Eating is the chief object
in life for the Merganser. who fire.
quently swallows a fish so large that
1t can not descend into the stomach,
but must remain partially in the dis
tended throat until digested, piece
meal. But this process is so rapid as
to always leave the bird with a vora-
cious appetite and drive IL to desper-
ate rashness to secure its prey.
Swift currents with deep pools where
the fish hide and foaming cataracts
where they leap are the delight of the
Merganser, whose marvellous diving and
swimming enable them to take heavy
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11

mesnes are at Villefranche sur Mere,
near Nice. They are called the Col du
Cairo, and the Passable. Both have
been enlarged some few years ago,
notably the Passable, to which has
been added the whole of the western
side of Cape Ferrat. In this portion
of the newly acquired property a small
port has been constructed for the
Kings yacht.
Lady Henry Somerset, who is well
known in this country from her great
work in the interest of the temperance
movement, has a woman footman, a
female butler, and women in charge of
her stables.
Members of reigning families,
princes as we'll as princesses of the
blood, have to obtain permission from
the sovereign before they can leave
the country. They are always expect
ed to notify the monarch when they
intend to absent themselves from the
town or city where the court happens
to be in residence at the time.
The late King Humbert of Italy on
one occasion called his niece, Duchess
Helen of Aosta, to severe account for
having left Italy to visit her mother
in France without previously obtaining
his sanction.
This rule, which Viceroy Lord Curzon
also introduced in India, caused almost
open rebellion among a number of the
more powerful maharajahs and gaeli-
wars Of the empire, who on a number
of occasions disregarded the Viceroy's
rule and left the empire not only with
out his sanction but against his strict
est instructions.
The wealth of some of the Russian
churches in costly gems, jewelry and
precious stones is proverbial. Some
churches In the United States, notwith-
standing they are not supported by the
government, as they are in Russia and
other countries. are gradually acquir-
ing rare paintings, statuary, stained
glass windows and costly yestments.
For instance, the most costly mitre in
the United States, a mitre which rep
rescnts $4,000 worth of jewels and
precious stones, is worn by Bishop
Horstmann of the Cleveland diocese of
the Roman Catholic Church. Most of
these jewels were presented to the
church by Mr.. Gordon, who also donat-
cd to the city of Cleveland his magnif-
cent Gordon Park. Mr.. Gordon was
a father of Mrs. Daisy Hanna, wife
of Dan. Hanna, son of the late Senator
Hanna. VAN CALAVA.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11

by the Chinese and presumably intro
duced into this country by them. 1t
consists in taking bag of gold dol
lars and shaking them violently about
for hours at a time. the result being
that they are taken out badly worn and
with small deposit OF gold at the bot
tom of the sack.
The government also has in it's pos
session numerous counterfeits of for
eign currency, principally Italian, Ger
man and Austrian, though there is
soma English and French. The gov
eminent holds that it is as great a
crime to falsify or counterfeit foreign
obligations AS it is to counterfeit our
own.
One OF the features of this curious
collection is the number of advertise
ments so closely resembling money or
stamps hat the government officers de-
termined to take charge of them.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11
DESTROYING THE QUEER
LARGE SUMS OF CAPTURED
COUNTERFEITS BURNED UP
AND MELTED BY THE
GOVERNMENT.
Coin, Stamps. and Other limitations
Accumulate i'm Uncle Sans Strong
Box i'm Large Quantities.-valuabl
Counterfeiting Machinery.

The periodical destruction of coun-
terfeit currency, spurious coin, post
age stamps, revenue stamps and other
contraband material captured from
coInterfeiters by the secret service,
has been ordered by the Secretary of
the Treasury. The accumulation of this
stuff in the treasury is larger than
usual. Three clerks in the cash room
of the treasury have been delegated
a committee to see that this queer"
money is done away with.
Every two or three years so much
counterfeit money and counterfeiting
tools and implements accumulate in the
Office of Chief Wilkie, of the secret serv-
ice, that it is necessary to destroy it.
The chief notifies the Secretary Of the
Treasury, who issues an order which
sends the coin to the assay office, where
all the silver and gold Is melted or re-
duced from the mass, run into ingots,
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11
SOUND ADVICE FOR MEN.
The Woman's Side of It-Converse Of
the Proposition That the Wife
Sho- Id Not Burden Husband
With Household Duties.

Beginning away back with st. Paul
who admonished the women to keep ST.
lent in the churches, the so-called
weaker sex have been exhorted, adj
vised and ridiculed; and a long list
OF conduct of the negative sort mapped
out beginning with DON'T, and an
equally lengthy array of the positive
sort, starting with DO.
And all this sage advice applies in
turn to maid and wife, debutante and
dowager.
Now what's sauce for the goose Is
sauce for the gander. Why not some
advice to men?
Are you one of those men who con-
tinually leave their personal belong
ings, their hats, canes, coats or slippers,
wherever they've happened last to use
them?
Do you smoke your cigar in the par
Tor and let the ashes fall wheresoe'er
they will, and that, too, after the regu-
lar Friday cleaning? And you en-
deavor to placate your wife with that
superior sophistry about cigar ashes
keeping out moths.
Do you bury yourself in the morn.
ing paper, even reading while eating,
while your wife sits silent at the head
of tn table? Do you exclaim. or
chuckle, or swear softly at the latest
news, without sharing your informa-
ton with her?
Do you compliment the little wo-
man when you are enjoying one OF
your good dinners, or do you find fault
If the morning coffee is just the least
bit below standard, though the pre-
vious twenty-five mornings you have
drunk the amber liquid of SURPRISING
excellence?
Do you notice the new gown that
has cost her days of thought and eff
fort? Or do you say you women
spend whole lot of unnecessary
thought and time upon Clothes" and
then take your new top-coat back to
the tailor the sixth time because cit
doesn't set just right?"
Do you surprise your wife occa-
sionally by getting seats at the theatre
and giving her surprise party of
two? Or do you say Jaw, go to the
matinee If you want to see the show.
I'll go to the ball game?
Do you tell her of your plans, your
work, your perplexities? Do you
share with her your hopes and fears?
Do you let her know of the real life
you lead so many hours each day.
Or do you turn her questions with a
brief Women know nothing ABOUT
business. 1t will only worry you?
Do you sometimes take her in your
arms and say Little woman, you are
a good wife-a real help-meet"? Do
you ever tell her the things you did in
the sweetheart days? Or 60 you let
1t go, thinking "She knows that any
way"
The woman's field of labor, big man,
Is narrow and circumscribed. 1t is
bounded, ordinarily, by the walls of
he house and the needs of the chill |
lren. This is her province and she |
,lories in it. But know that she |
llso longs for contact with the big
world, for the mental stimulus that |
ONES from daily association with men
md affairs, for the joy of recognized
for services rendered.
Because she is your wife, because
he has entered into the domestic life,
hese things are denied her.
Can't you be generous to the little
Toman? Can't you welcome her into
our larger life? Can't you make her
our real comrade-your true help
leet?
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11

and sold, while the rest of the stuff, in
Guiding the base metal, such as dies,
stamps, ETC., is taken either to the navy
yard or to foundry and there de-
stroyed in the presence of secret serv-
Ice officers, who make affidavits of the
destruction to the Secretary.
There has not been a house-cleaning
Of this kind since November, 1902.
Valuable Counterfeiting Machinery.
AT present the contraband includes
in addition to counterfeit notes, coins,
postage and revenue stamps, valuable
and costly type, by means of which
counterfeiters print the Latin numerals
on queer" notes; inks, paints, acids,
Photographic apparatus, dies, molds,
stamps and other accessories of the
art of making fictitious money.
This year large batch of the John
son-Hancock notes will be burned.
They are known as the Hancock 2s."
They were made by the celebrated coun-
terfeiter Johnson of Detroit and were
so nearly perfect that the government
suspended the issue of this note No
doubt many of these counterfeits are
still in circulation and performing the
functions of real money!
A number of notes made by the NO
torious but now reformed" counter
feiter Brockway will be destroyed.
Even Pennies Counterfeited
In the store room of the Secret Serv-
Ice Bureau are many boxes of bad coins.
Every coin of the United States from
cents to $40 gold pieces has been i'm
itated, counterfeit nickles being found
more frequently than silver or copper
coins.
In the collection is some gold coin |
that has been sweated. Sweating is an !
ancient and simple trick, long practiced |
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11
H. RIDER HAGGARD.

II. RIDER HAGGARD.
for themselves, repayment for the
cost of which is provided at low rates
of interest.
Mr.. Haggard expresses himself as
extremely we'll satisfied with the re-
suits seen at the Fort Romie settle
ment in California, and the Fort
Amity settlement in Colorado. The
Ohio settlement he leaves out Of con-
sideration, as it is principally devoted
to the redemption of inebriates, and
b the carrying out Of agricultural expert
ments. At both Forts Romie and
Amity, he found the settlers healthy,
happy, hopeful and almost without
exception doing well. Beginning in
nearly every case with nothing, in the
course of about four years at Fort Ro-
ME, he found these settlers worth
about $4,000 per head, above all their
debts and liabilities to the Salvation
Army and others, and at Fort Amity,
an average of over $1,000 a head,
which he thinks is more than they
could have possibly accumulated dur
ing the same period as day laborers on
the land or in the cities.
Reason For Wide ENCOURAGEMENT.
1t is true that, although the set
tiers themselves are doing well the
Salvation Army, for the reason that
unexpected difficulties in the OPEN
ing up Of the land were encountered,
was called upon to pay some $4,000
for its experience. Mr.. Haggard de-
clares, however, that under all the cir
cumstances, and in the face of the
principles demonstrated, and the sue
cess won in every other direction, this
experience has been very cheaply
bought.
Further" he says, at cannot see
any cause to fear a repetition Of that
loss in the future application Of these
principles. 1t is therefore totally in
accurate to say, as has been done
widely in press summaries of my re-
port, that these settlements are fnan-
cially failure"
Would systematic Philanthropy.
Mr.. Haggard proposes a scheme.
!. e." TO combine a judicious use of
the public credit, with that of what
have called the waste forces Of be-
nevolence,' and by means of these
two levers, to lift some of the mass of
human misery, which demonstrates
itself in the great cities of civilization,
to new level of plenty and content
ment."
He believes that if settlements are
carried out on these lines, and espec-
Tally If they are located upon good
land, which has cost the controlling
authorities little or nothing. There
should be, as is indicated by the IA
pies furnished in this report, no loss.
out even a considerable gain.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-11-11
A SEQUOLA GIGANTEA.
Restoration In Government Grounds
Of Tree Twenty Feet Thick.

This picture represents the biggest
tree i'm Washington and one or the
sights" OF the National Capital. III
has a strong attraction for strangers
from afar and especially from the
east and the south. This piece or Il
tree stands in the grounds of the De
partment of Agriculture, east OF the
Administration building.
The giant came from the Sequoia
National Park in California and was
exhibited at the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago. At the close of the fair it was
brought to Washington. 1t is twenty