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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20

Hennepin coucty's pleasant
little habit of debating the nom
ination of a republican candidate
for governor in the convention
only to roll up tremendous
plurality against him at the polls,
gives future .gubernatorial as
pirants food for thought. ~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20

Frank Eddy wisely concludes
that when the voters have their
minds made up, III the stump
speeches and newspaper shout
ing in the world is just so much
wasted energy. ...-...
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20

Aren't the papers that are
publishing thn political obituary
Of Alex Mckenzie, the ode
throned boss" of North Iakota a
little too or timistic?
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20
ANOTHER CAUSE.

With all due respect to the re.
markable personality of Governor
Johnson, we are of the opinion
that there is another cause which
was partly responsible for the
failure Of the frantic appeals to
party loyalty to stem the John
son tidal wave in the late cam.
paign. =: ~.
No republican, however loyal,
but is willing to see his party
beaten once in while, just for
the sake Of cleaning off the
barnacles which are bound to
accumulate during long period
of supremacy at the polls. He is
willing to see his party whipped,
and to even cheer for the other
side, just as fan who has the
true interests of his baseball
team at heart is willing to see
his team get drubbing once in
a while, when he thinks it will do
it more good than harm.
Whether there were or are
barnacles clinging to the repub-
lican party in Minnesota which
the two democratic victories will
tend to clean off, is a question
which need not be discussed
here; but the fact remains that
this opinion had become fixed in
the minds Of many good repub.
llcans several years ago, and was
responsible in a large measure
for the defeat of f. G. Dunn in
1904.
That these repu blicans be-
lieved that the Johnson admins
tration did do some cleaning up,
and might do some more if given
another two years to dot in, to
the everlasting good Of the re-
publican party, was undoubtedly
afactor in the second democratic
victory.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20
An Impression,

"Now I have an impression in my
head" said the teacher. Can any Of
you tell me what an impression is?'
Yes'm, can" replied a little fellow
at the foot of the class. can impress
sion is dent in soft spot"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20
An Ascending Scale

An Ascending Scale.
Curate's Little Girl-My hen has laid
an egg. Wears Little Girl-My hen
has laid two. Bishops Little Girl
That's nothing. My father has laid a
foundation stone-London Sketch.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20
Badly Put.

Fisherman (beginner)-Don't You
think, Peter, I've improved a good deal
since began? Peter anxious to pay
compliment)-You have, SORT. But,
sure, it was aisy for you TO improve.
sorr!-Punch.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20

The new c de ignores Thanks
giving in naming the legal holi-
days. Still, to most of US,
Turkey. Day" is the best day of
them all, with the exception Of
Christmas.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20

He that was never acquainted with
adversely has seen the world but one
side and is ignorant Of half the scenes
Of nature.---Seneca. -.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20

A governor by any other name
might make just as good an
Executive, but he couldn't get
the votes.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20
sUBsCRIPTI0N...s5.00 PER ANNUh

How foolish SON Q of the cam.
paign "hot stuff appears when
read Low.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-20
PROFESSION AI.
G. "A r y s
LAWYERS.
WIN. 3. MATTHEW'S

ATTORNEY AT Law
Practices before the United States Supreme
Court-Court OF Claims-rhe United States
General Land Ofiice-Indian Office and Con-
tests-Procurement OF Patents and Indian
Claims Refer to the members OF the Minne-
sofa Delegation in Urongress Offices: 40
New York Avenue Washington. d. G.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
TO RENEW OLD MISSION.
San Juan Capistrano Will Live Again
After Long Years of Silence.

All who have heard of the picturesque
old Franciscan Missions of California
will be interested to learn that San
Juan Capistrano, the most poetic of all
these ruined structures, which contrib
ute so much to the foreign look of "our
Italy," is soon again to be made the
centre of religious activity, and that
after nearly a century of neglect it's
buildings are to be restored to their
original estate.
This mission is on the railway line
between Los Angeles and San Diego,
and by reason of being visible from
the railroad is to Eastern travellers per-
haps the best known of all California
missions, except Santa Barbara and
San Gabriel, which are among the
regulation sights for visitors to South
ern California With the restoration
of San Juan Capistrano and the re-
sumption of residence there by the
Franciscan Brotherhood, it, too, will
no doubt soon become tourist resort.
The first year of the American In
dependence saw work begun upon this
ancient editce in what was then vast
wilderness, inhabited only by Indians.
The site is in a lovely, seQuestered val
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
TO RENOVATE WICKER
CHAIRS.

To renovate shabby wicker chair
first. cleanse the wicker thoroughly, u.s.
ing a scrubbing brush and plenty OF
soap and water. When dry, the chair
can be vanished, or it can be greatly
improved with a coating or two of
green stain.
For the seat make a cushion of green
linen or a pretty greenish cretonne.
Another cushion for the back may be
liked, and is easily made. Make it of
the same material as the seat cushion
and of bag shape, longer than wide.
1t may be fastened to the chair by
means of tapes sewed at the top and
bottom.
If a loose cushion be preferred, a
pretty yellow linen would look nice
and contrast well with the green.
Make the case slip fashion, so that it
can be easily washed. An unbleached
calico bag will be good enough for the
down with which the cushions are
filled.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
THE LOVE OF ALARIC.

Beneath the outflung branches of a
mighty oak tree, giant who had
stood sentinel in that lonely dip on
the wolds for twice three hundred
years, two men were standing, their
figures made more or less distinct by
the rays of big, conical lantern Of
antique pattern that the elder of the
two carried in his gnarled and blood
less fingers, a figure strangely akin
to the giant tree beneath which he
stood.
An aged man was Zachary boy, his
back bent by years OF hard labor such
as few of the modern generation of la
borers know; a man who had been an
experienced farmland, while the man
beside him, his master, was still a
pulling infant.
The old fellow set down his lantern
on the iron-bound earth. His quaver-
ing voice stabbed the silence. "Now,
do zee harken unto me, Master Alaric."
he said slowly. 1--WE served zee faith
full, you and your feyther afore ZEE,
for nigh on fifty year, and l tell zee
master, that what zee do purpose for
to do is again all right and reason.
This yere oak tree-the Kingscote
Oak, as all the countryside do know
her for to be-ha' bin here as land
mark and a pride for longer than us
poor souls can reckon. To cut her
down do mean, as | be right well as
sured, that Kingscote luck will fail
wi 'un. If so be"
Alaric Kingscote broke in upon his
garrulity with forced laugh.
eff Kingscote luck could fall lower
than it has. Zachary" he said bitterly.
"you need have little fear that l
would touch bark with axe. Now, hear
me, old friend. This tree represents
the last thing upon the farm that can
bring in the money I must have to
tide over the bad times in store. The
merchants have offered me two hum
bred pounds for the tree. There's only
one rotten limb upon it. They'll
come tomorrow with their carts and
take it away" He laid his hand upon
the old mans shoulder. Get you
home to bed, Zachary" he added gent
ly. "You can do nothing here. IT'S
9 o'clock now. By midnight, with
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

so many years. He never once looked
back. For a few seconds Alaric King
scote stood looking after him, then,
with strangely fierce gesture, the
young fellow flung off his rough tweed
coat, removed the Cardigan waistcoat
that covered the breadth of his chest,
and turned up the sleeves of his
coarse flannel shirt.
At the foot of the oak lay the wood
mans huge axe that was to be the in
strument of death, that was to cut
short the growth of centuries.
Alaric Kingscote swung the great
weapon aloft, and the cold starlight
ran along the shining steel. Like
some Viking warrior of old-like the
re-embodiment of one of his Saxon
forebears, Alaric brought down the
tool of destruction with a blow that
gashed deep into the corrugated skin
of the oak. The doom Of the Kingscote
Oak had been proclaimed.
AS he stood braced up for the second
stroke, the bullying sinews Of his fore
arm responding to the generous rise
Of chest and thigh muscles, a curious
sound from behind him caused him
to swing round with a faint cry. Then
he lowered the axe with amazing gen.
tleness.
Another figure had appeared upon
the scene-the figure of a woman, clad
in a cloak Of fur that hid the contour
Of her form.
"Damaris." The word fell from the
young mans lips like a caress.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

In prehistoric days Vesuvius was
probably twice as high, the top having
been blown off centuries before the
eruption that destroyed Pompeii. Since
the year 1851 Vesuvius has never been
wholly at rest. In that year 900 lives
were lost. The clouds of steam that
came from the rush of water into the
hot mass below the surface condensed
and fell in boiling rain that scorched
everything with which it came in con-
tact. The very sea drew back the skirts
of its dark blue robe and then swept
forward again far beyond its old limits
The last Of the great commissions be-
fore the recent one occurred in 1872.
Then, like this one, there was great
lava flow, together with throwing up of
burning rock and the fall of ashes upon
the surrounding country.
Vesuvius is one of group of similar
mountains in the Mediterranean Sea,
it's comrades being 4tna, Stromboli
and Vultano, which last gave the name
to all mountains of this kind. That, in
turn, was called after Vulcan, the god
who made the armor for the fighting
deities of the ancient world and forged
the very thunderbolts of Jove himself
His workshop was under Mount Etna
There the inhabitants of the hillsides
heard him shaping great masses Of
iron with his terrible hammer stroke
while the nameless slaves of the forge,
dimly imagined creatures of that old
day, blew the gigantic bellows and held
great bars in place, while the master
worked. The Greeks with even their
learning, did not inquire into the scien-
tific reasons for the mighty utterings
of the mountain they knew what the
awful roar of those volcanic mountains
meant. And our wise men, with their
figures and books, know little of what
is going On in the fiery caverns under
the earth's thin crust.
Nature soon heals her scars. AL
ready, we are told in dispatches, spots
of green have appeared on the black
ened sides Of Mount Pelee, and it will
not be very long before the olive and
the vine and the clustering villages
will find their way back again to the
slopes Of Vesuvius.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

ley, which, beginning back in the can
yons of the coast range. winds among
grassy knobs and great treeless hills
out to the Pacific, upon which it opens.
three miles west of the mission. With
the aid of the Indians, over whom the
padres exerted both temporal and splr-
itual dominion, the Franciscans estab-
lished here the most pretentious of all
the California mission churches. In
stead of being constructed of the GUS
tomary adobe brick of the country, it
was built of stone, laid out in the form
of Latin cross, with great, clustered
quadrangle adjoining. Here, besides
administering to the spiritual welfare
of the Indians and gathering them into
the fold of the church, the fathers set
them to the care and the cultivation
of the land, which yielded great wealth
Of cattle, sheep, grain, grapes and
olives,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

luck, the Kingscote Oak will be down."
The old fellow looked wistfully in
to the handsome face of his young
master.
Master Alaric," he said hoarsely.
"I've fifty-fve pun, three shillin' and
fi'pence 'apenny laid away in a hole
in the floor o'my cottage If so be as
that'Il save the Kingscote Oak,
why
60 home with you Zachary Broke
in the young man roughly, though his
roughness hid an emotion almost too
deep for any words-"Go home, and
God bless you, old friend"
Zachary thrust his roughened hand
across his eyes. Without another
word, strangely pathetic, bowed old
figure, he turned and shapnbled OF
across the field toward the stile into
the lane that led to the little matched
cottage that had been his home tor
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Feeble Attempts of Man Useless.

when the stream of fire threatened
Boscotrecase soldiers dug wide ditch
across it's patch in the hope of divert
ing its course, but the molten stream
advanced like colossal serpent of fire,
turning it's head to the right and LETT
as snake does, but keeping it's general
direction toward the fated town. 1t
was not till it reached the first house,
sending up great showers Of sparks,
that the people finally fled for their
lives.
81 saw men, women and children, and
infants whose mothers carried them at
the breast or in their aprons. Dogs,
too. and cats were on the carts, and
sometimes even chickens, tied togeth-
err by the legs, and piles OF mattresses
and pillows, all white with dust under
the lurid glare. We ourselves could
hardly breathe"
This dispatch corresponds exactly in
detail to Plinys letters. The same
flaming mountain and shaking earth
the same sitting smoke and ashes. the
same terrifying darkness and the same
helpless. distracted crowd stretching
vain hands to their gods for succor.
Originally Vesuvius was in the form
Of single cone. Later eruptions have
broken down the southern side of the
original crater, leaving the northern
semi-circle, which is called Monte
Somma. A smaller central cone had
grown up within the ancient ruin. 1t
is this inner cone that had its top
blown off. Before the recent eruption
the height of the mountain was about
1900 feet.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
THE OLD WELL IN THE COURTYARD.

for twenty-five years longer, no at
tempt seems to have been made by the
padres to restore the church edifice,
and it and it's adjoining buildings and
cloisters have remained to this day an
and beautiful ruin. Touched
gently by Times hand, dignified in out
line and rich in color, it is replete with
subjects for the artist and is the ad-
miration of every traveller. With the
restoration of the buildings the in
tention is to create here a college for
the priesthood as at Santa Barbara
and to make of San Juan Capistrano
an important factor in the work of the
Roman Catholic Church in Southern
California.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

given my infant son to my younger
brother James, who will bring up
my son as his own.
Thus it may come to pass that the
descendants of Nigel, my son, may be
passed over in the right of succession
by the descendants of Richard, the
eldest son of my younger brother
James, who stands well in the eye OF
Cromwell the regicide and renegade.
"And that this be true, and that
Nigel, supposed younger son Of James
Kingscote, of Kingscote Manor, be
really the eldest son of Nigel Kings
cote, eldest son of Alaric Kingscote,
father of Nigel and James and there
fore heir to the Manor of Kingscote,
its Entertainments, messages, and all
that do thereto appertain, and his
seed hereafter him, if so be there
should be any, do most solemnly
swear and protest in the presence Of
witnesses. To which l do set my
hand and seal this sixteenth day of
March, one thousand six hundred AMI
forty-seven.
Signed: Nigel Kingscote, in the
presence of Rupert Mainwaring,
knight Banneret of Mainwaring Hall,
in the County Of Berkshire, and
Anselm Wolf, Priest"
The parchment fluttered crisply
from the girls nerveless hands.
"Damaris,' cried Alaric hoarsely-
"Damaris!" Coherent speech he could
not find.
The girl raised her head.
ut is true-It is true!" she said
brokenly. I'VE, father and I. are the
usurpers! Kingscote Manor is yours,
and we are-paupers!"
mot paupers, dearest, but partners"
answered Alaric, and in his eyes there
was that which told her how Kingscote
love stood wind and weather as
steadily as Kingscote Oak.
II II
Squire Kingscote now sleeps with
his fathers in the little Berkshire
churchyard But ere he died his de-
clining years were frightened by the
generous forgiveness of "the undesir-
able poor relation"
A young and sturdy sapling oak now
fourishes on the spot where stood
the ancient tree true symbol OF the
lasting power of Kingscote luck and
Kingscote love.-Answers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Destroyed by an Earthquake

On the morning of December 8, 1872,
all without warning, came great catas-
trophe. While the church was crowded
with kneeling worshipers a shock of
earthquake visited the valley and top
pied the great stone tower over upon
the roof, crashing through which it
buried the congregation beneath the
wreckage of beams, tiles and stones,
and upward of forty human beings
lost their lives in the twinkling Of an
eye. This earthquake ranks in sever
ity with that of Charleston, in 1886.
So great was the disaster that, although
the mission continued to be conducted
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

A search light is being erected at
Montreux, France, which will have a
brilliancy of 100000 candle power
and will project it's rays fifty miles.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
VESUVIAN TERROR.
J Description of Great Erup-
|On Which Rivals POM
Deii's Destruction.
Famous Italian Novelist, Marion
wford, Tells of the Terrors of
Big Volcano-History of For.
4 EruptlOns.

e whole world looked on, awe
TX, at the recent fierce outbreak Of
bndous and devastating force in
Bay of Naples. The eruption of
bit Vesuvius is believed to be the
destructive since the days of Pom
A. D., 70.
le whole story of the eruption of
is a sorrowful tale of stricken vic
devastated vineyards, ruined
es and terror-stricken, flying peo-
and it is hard to realize that the
e scenes have been enacted there so
by times before.
liny, the noted ancient historian,
eribed the eruption of Vesuvius in
year 70, in series of letters to
Titus. This letter described dark
I'D rising in single pillar from the
ter of the mountain and from this
column spread, and upon it rested
|reat roof, built by invisible carpen-
b. Resting ever on its single pillar,
3 a great mushroom, this roof shut
the sky from all those wide acres
lending sixteen miles away. The
hit ashes of the fire from Vesuvius
scended like snow upon Pompeii,
rying it to great depths. Hercu-
leum was drowned in a sea Of vol
tic mud.
Those who have read the letters of
ny find similarity in the description
ltten by the noted novelist, Marion
lwford. There is probably no other
lerican living who is so we'll &C
ainted with conditions as they exist
Italy. He has taken up his per-
nnnt ahnde in tho Italian hilln Tho
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION.

life, customs ana mannerisms of the
Italian have been pictured by him in
stories which have made him famous.
In his cabled description to the New
York Times Crawford stated that the
recent eruption of Vesuvius had been
grumbling for many weeks before the
outbreak which did the incalculable
damage
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

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Smoke TwO-Miles High.

"An enormous volume of black smoke
Z. rises to height of two miles above
the crater" he wrote. "Incandescent
masses of stone are thrown up 5000
feet A continuous southeasterly wind
carries the ashes over Naples, which
Is so completely enveloped in darkness
that for three days our communications
by sea have been cut off.
IF assures have opened far below the
cone, emitting many streams of lava,
one of which has completely destroyed
the town of Boscotrecase, which had
10000 inhabitants Another has reached
the outskirts of Tore del Greco. Others
have destroyed thousands of acres OF
fertile cultivated land, with farmhouses
and stock.
"The great cone of Vesuvius col
lapsed with awful laundering and
flames, and the cable railway, the OBJ
servatory and the large hotel near it
were all totally destroyed. The lava
carried vast masses of burnt stone and
sulphur on it's surface like dross on
melted lead, and nothing was visible
toward Boscotrecase but endless acres
Of dark scoriae, broken here and there
by the greenish curling smoke of sui
phur.
"At one point we found a great pine
tree. torn up by it's roots and turned
to'black charcoal; the air was almost
unbreathable; the heat intense. The
faces of the people who crowded upon
the edge of the arrested stream ex-
pressed terror of exhaustion from re-
cent panic.