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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Peanut Trade Secrets.

Some peanuts that are bought ready
roasted are Of light yellow color.
Others, however, are pronounced bru-
nettes. There is a reason for this.
The great American peanut will re-
main crisp only day or two after
roasting and in damp weather only a
few hours. It absorbs moisture rap
idly, so that two days after roasting
the finest nuts lose their crispness and
are to all intents and purposes as
though they had never been cooked.
The italian and Greek peanut men
freshen up their stocks by roasting
again and reroasting When the proc
ess has been repeated three or four
times, though, the peanut begins to
take on a tawny hue, which Is consid-
cred Objectionable by those who have
stands In the better parts of town.
These much roasted COOLERS are there
fore sold at a discount to Greeks and
Italians who have stands near railroad
stations and the cheaper resorts, who
can roast, reroast and re-reroast them
indefinitely until they are finVlly sold.
New York Press.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Paris, secondhand Market.


There is curious old market near
Paris in which everything is sold at
second hand. Working girls can ct
themselves out there from head to foot.
As a writer says, mimi can sell her
old felt hat and buy straw one, ex-
change her old dress for new one
and, II she likes, buy steak and q
salad for her dinner, paper bag Of
fried potatoes, sweets and some flow
Iers for her window. Democracy is king
here, and no more attention Is paid to
the millionaire who Is looking for some
thing marvellous which he may pick up
cheap than to the man with the wooden
leg who wants new left boot in ex-
change for dozen sardine tins, Ave
gloves and a stocking
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80 Q 3Esls7.lg l-7-
His Visits to tho Earl.

There ts q well known English bishop
who writes a very bad hand. This bad
hand caused sad error to happen
some years ago. A young clergyman
had written to the bishop to Inquire
about vacant curacy, and the reply
that the young man got Informed him
that the salary was small and the work
difficult But there was one mitigating
circumstance, The incumbent, among
his other duties, would Visit the earl
every morning and spend two hours
there. The curate would have rejected
the post but for the daily visit to the
earl. That attracted him. There would,
no doubt, he told himself, be many
fashionable dinners to which he would
naturally be invited. He would make
many friends among the rich and
powerful. These friends would be able
to help him in his career. The earl,
perhaps. had daughters. One of them
who knows ?-stranger things had
happened, And so the curate accepted
the difficult and poorly paid curacy to
discover on his first visit to the town
that he had misread the bishops letter
and that his daily two hours visit was
not to the earl, but to the jail.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Portuguese Bullhghts,

At Portuguese bullfights not only are
the points of the bulls horns sawed
off, but the stumps that remain are
carefully padded. The horses also are
ridden with consummate skill, and ev-
cry precaution Is taken to prevent the
bull touching them. Banderillas are
used by the men on foot and on horse
back and are planted in the neck Of
the bull, which irritates the bull, but
cannot be described as torture. Just
as much skill Is shown as in Spanish
bullhght, and there may be just as
beautiful a. display Of costumes, but
there is no killing either Of the bull or
Of the horses. ..-.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
The Field. of Peaco.

1t was the belief of the ancient
Egyptians, according to a, recent writ
er. that everything, material and i'm
material, had its immortal double. Out
Of this grew the idea Of a life in the
future state of perfect happiness In
the "fields of peace" For long time
the common people regarded these
fields of peace" not as a celestial
place, but as situated In the fertile
and well watered regions Of the Nile
delta In the northwest of Egypt, where
the blessed ever breathed the cool
north wind. Here they lived an ideal
form of their life upon earth. They
plowed their fields and grew the grain
which supplied them with the "bread
which grew not stale and beer that
never became sour" Here was situ-
ated the duplicate Of their earthly
towns or villages. .....-. ......
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
The Scented Court.

'"The scented court" was the name
BY which the court Of Louis XIV. was
known throughout Europe, on account
Of the rage for perfumes which then
prevailed in France. The expenditure
Of Nine. de Pompadour for this one
branch Of her toilet amounted to $780,
600 annually. It became the fashion
for the host or hostess Of a great en-
tertainment to signalize to their guests
what particular perfume was to be
employed for scenting their rooms on
the night for which the invitations
were issued, and they were expected to
use no other, SO that the delicate effect
Of q unity Of odors might be produced.
At court q different perfume was pre-
aented for each day OF the week.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
A Wonderful Escape,

Fieschi tried to. assassinate King
Louis Philippe of France in July, 1885.
The king was riding along the lines of
the national guard in the Boulevard du
Temple. There came crash and a
rush Of bullets. Louis Philippe's arm
was grazed, his horse was shot in the
neck, Marshal Mortier fell dead and
about thirteen other people were killed
and thirty wounded. Fieschi had taken
the upper floors Of house several
weeks before and there rugged up an
oaken frame four feet by three feet six
inches, supported on four posts Of oak
and itself supporting twenty-five gun
barrels fixed in grooves at various
angles so as to command an area of
twenty-five feet in length and ten feet
in height. When he fired the train of
powder that let off his battery the king
would have been killed If four barrels
had not burst and two missed fire.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
CO1Ors,

White Is the emblem Of light, reli=
gious purity, innocence, faith, joy and
life. In the Judge it indicates integ-
rity; in the sick, humility; In the wo-
man, chastity. Red, the ruby, signifies
fire, divine love and royalty. White
and red roses express love and wis
dom. Blue, or the sapphire, expresses
heaven, the armament, truth from a
celestial origin, constancy and fidelity.
Yellow or gold Is the symbol of the
sun, Of marriage and faithfulness.
Green, the emerald, Is the color of
spring, Of hope-particularly of the
hope Of Immortality and Of victory, as
the color of the laurel and palm. ,Vio-
let, the amethyst, signifies love and
truth or passion and suffering. Purple
and scarlet signify things good and
true from celestial origin. Black cor
responds to despair, darkness, earth.
hness, mourning negation, wickedness
and death. 2'
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
The Floor of the Pacific.

The red clay which covers the deep
floors of the Pacific and the Indian
oceans is made up Of refuse ard residue
that which can withstand the strong
chemical action of the gases. In 1t
may be found decomposed volcanic
rock, pumice, zeolltic crystals, man
ganese oxides, meteoric iron, teeth of
sharks and ear bones Of whales. Few
II any shore deposits are apparent in it.
The rock is vitreous refuse, belched
forth by subterranean or insular vol
canoes. The minerals are supposed to
be of cosmic origin planetary dust and
meteoric fragments that have fallen
into the sea and have become disinte-
grated. The great quantity Of sharks
teeth remains quite unaccounted for
at least their apparent gathering to.
gether in these ocean basins is consid.
cred very strange.-J. g. Van Dyke in
"The Opal Seal"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Ancient Locks.

Locks were used in the time Of the
pharaohs. At Karnak the visitor is
shown the sculptured representation Of
lock which is almost exactly like one
kind Of lock used in Egypt at the pres
ent day. Homer says that Penelope
used brass key to open her wardrobe
He adds that it was very crooked and
had an ivory handle. A Greek writer
who lived in the last half of the twelfth
century explains that such keys were
undoubtedly very ancient, although
still to be seen in Constantinople and
elsewhere. Roman locks, like the Egyp-
tlan, required partial sliding Of the
key. They were, however, more intri.
cate .s..
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08

The Russian revolution
seems to be turning out a fzzle.
There is this much about it, how
ever, that is encouraging. Every
outbreak even though sup
pressed: only prepares the way
for another and fercer one. One
of these days something is going
to break loose that all the czar's
cossacks cannot saber into sub.
mission.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Too Lively.


he was solemn Scotchman, with an
equally solemn and somewhat down
trodden wife. The fact that they were
receiving an excellent price for their
Second pair 'front.' from an American
lodger did not blind them to her fail
ings.
Dear me, Mr.. Macleod" said the
lodger, one Sunday afternoon, when
an errand took her to the parlor, where
the family sat, Il should think, you
and your wife would be stifed sitting
indoors this hot day with the windows
shut, If you'd just open one and get
some fresh air. I'm sure it, would do
Mrs. Macleod good; she looks pale"
Mr.. Macleod looked at her with his
usual stern and unbending gaze.
I'VE can hae fresh air ony day." he
said calmly. We've no need to hae
1t rushing aboot the house on the Saw
bath"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Darwin and Books.

OF Darwin it is affirmed that he
seemed unaware of the difference in
the value of books and would treat a
Zaehnsdorf binding with the same
scant courtesy that he exercised to-
ward penny pamphlet. Covers ap-
peared to him a useless weight and de-
cidedly in the way, and he often got
rid Of them by ripping them off. Some
times the book was borrowed. It is
said that in the end his friends used
to give him any book which he wished
to borrow, for they knew that, if it
were ever returned, it's usefulness as a
book would be at an end.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08

In 1896, when the republicans
wanted to make the tariff an
issue, the democrats insisted on
free silver as a campaign cry,
and carried their point, too. In
1908, when, if all signs do not
fail, the congressional leaders
will be most desirous of avoiding
the tariff issue, the democrats
are likely to force it to the front.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08

1t is said that Congressman
Tawney Of the First district has
come out as q revisionist. Tawney
has the happy faculty of getting
in line with his constituents
about this time every two years.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08

A correspondent rushes to the
wire to tell the Duluth News
Tribune all about a genuine"
sea serpent at Pine River. Put
out the pipe. .. s&
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Have q Definite Aim.

No life amounts to much until it
has programme something definite,
something particular. Nothing else can
take the place of it. Education can
not, talent cannot, genius cannot, hard
work cannot. Until there is definite
aim the energies will run to waste, the
ability be squandered. The faculties
deteriorate when working without a
definite aim.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08

Bovey, the hustling little Itasca
county village, is to have a $10,-
600 waterworks system. Bonds
were voted last week.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Germany the Modern Rome.

Let the German people keep lesson
from antiquity before their eyes. Once
before an England and Germany of
no less different character have con-
fronted each other. They were Car
thage and Rome. And old Rome with
its policy of. force and power finally
conquered the cash politics Of Carthage
and raised itself to the position Of the
drst power upon earth. We have his.
torical example when we say that the
German people must return from the
Imitation Of the un-German Carthagin-
tan-British finance policy and must 60
back to the Roman-German policy of
power and might. In no other way
can really great Weltpolitik be pro-
noted in the hope perhaps Of making
ourselves ultimately the leading peo-
ole In the world. Berlin Gren.bOten.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Inconveniently Tai. :.

The mayor of one of the communes
Of Augers had ordered gamekeeper
and butcher to take madman named
Legrand to the st. Gemines lunatic
asylum. On the way the gamekeeper
noticed that their charge was in one of
his lucid intervals and concluded that
he would never consent to be handed
over to the authorities. 1t was decided,
therefore, to make him drunk, and all
three adjourned to the nearest inn. Le-
grand took his liquor kindly. So did the
others. And when the trio arrived ut
the asylum the governor could not
make head or tail of their story. He
therefore wired to the mayor, asking
him which was the man who was tt,
be detained. The mayor replied Le-
grand, but the telegraphist spelled it in
two words, lie grand (the tall one),
The governor, on examining the three
men, saw that one was much taller
than the others, so he promptly clapped
him into a strait waistcoast and sent
the other two away. 1t was three days
later before the error was discovered.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
SUBSCRIPTION S. PER YEAR

Jim Martin is getting a tre-
mendous lot of advertising out Of
his resignation Of that postofice
job.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
Her Plea For DeI.x

Her Plea For Delay.
'Will you be my wife. Jane Z"
''Will you ask me again, John n
''Why n
Because I'd like to look round a lit
tle before I give you the direct answer =
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08
HELP WANTED.

WANTED--FOr the u. S. Marine
Corps; men between ages 81
and 35. An opportunity to see
the world. For full informa-
tion apply in person or by let
Ter to q. S. Marine Corps re-
cruiting office, cor. Beltrami
and Second Aves., Bemidii,
Minnesota.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-08-08

WANTED-For U. S. army able.
bodied, unmarried men be.
tween ages of 21 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, Bemidj.
Minnesota.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-10-12

Any farmer handy with the ordinary
tools on a farm can make corn drag
attachment for his cultivator that Will
pay Tor itself many tlpnes in one sea-
son, if properly used, says an expert
enced agriculturist. The common farm
harrow is too heavy and unwieldy FOR
narrowing corn after 1t Is up, except
under the most favorable conditions or
soil and weather. To make, get oak
one and half inches by three. Make
in two sections of thee bars each Let
each section be long enough to cover
all of space between two rows. Brace
same as other harrows. No. GO VIII"
spikes make very good teeth. Set teeth
little slanting and as close as VIII
work in your soil without clogging At
tach to beams of corn plow. Arrange
so that the drag will cover all the
ground when you wish by connecting
the two parts. You can, with this ar
rangement, adjust the drag to suit.
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sprayinr to Destroy Bugs.

The recognized formula for bordeaux
mixture for use on potatoes Is six
pounds of copper sulphate, blue vitriol,
four pounds unslacked quieklime ana
fifty gallons of water. The copper sui
phate is dissolved in one barrel and the
lime in another Add to each twenty
five gallons of water and then mix
thoroughly. When TO be used strain
through wire strainer, preferably
one Of brass.
Spraying should be started when the
potato plants are six inches high and
be repeated every ten days or two
weeks, according to the weather,
throughout the growing season. If bugs
are to be destroyed, add one pound or
paris green to each fifty gallons or
bordeaux mixture, but the bordeaux
mixture should be used alone until the
bugs are noticed.
When it is figured that the cost OF
spraying does not exceed 81 an acre,
and it Is often less, while experiments
have proved that the value Of the crop
was increased three or four times the
cost for spraying, it certainly pays and
pays well.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-10-12

The effect on milk production by the
use Of fly repellants has been tested at
the Missouri Station. Various mixtures
were found which would keep of the
flies all day If put on In the morning;
but a measurement of the milk and test
of the butter fat for period OF Two
weeks indicated that keeping Off the
flies did not affect the milk yield. As
somewhat similar results were obtained
by experiments at the Connecticut sta
ton. it seems fair to concede that the
Injurious effects Of the fly pest have
been exaggerated. During the fly time
the feed in most pastures Is growing
poorer every day and the cows natu-
rally shrink then, but 1t Is probably
mistake to blame the flies for much or
the shrinkage. For all that, 1t Is
worth while to use the mixtures TO
keen off the flies for the peace and
quiet obtained in the stable for both
the cows and for the milkmen.
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The Moth Pest.

Westward the gypsy moth takes lts
way. 1t has caused millions OF dollars
worth of damage in Massachusetts, mas
escaped to New Hampshire and Con-
necticut, and now the invasion Is turn
Ing toward New York State. This In
teresting information is conveyed IN a
letter of warning just issued by E. 7.
Felt, State Entomologist.
The brown tail moth is more recent
Introduction, and, unlike the gypsy
moth, flies readily. 1t is not only
very destructive leaf feeder, but the
barbed hairs Of the caterpillars cause
very severe irritation upon the un-
protected skin.
Two rows of warts down the back or
the gypsy moth caterpillar make 1t
easily distlnguishable. 1t Is about two
inches long and the ten anterior warts
are blue, the twelve posterior red. The
gypsy moth will eat anything in the
tree or shrub line, and on the slightest
disturbance leap on passersby and cling
! to clothing.
Brown tail moths have white spots
on each side and 2 single pair Of rec
spots near the tail They prefer wil(
cherry, pear, apple, maple, elm ant
white oak leaves, and have barbet
o horns, which, breaking off or blowing
e from the cocoon, produce an intolerabl
: irritation, the "brown tail Itch"
4 Caterpillars of both species says MI
= Felt, may be destroyed by sprayln
II with an arsenical poisoning. preferabl
!" " five pounds of arsenate Of lead to fift
gallons of water, though the gypsy mot
r caterpilIars, especially when nearl
If full grown, are quite resistant to poi
on Eggs of the gypsy moth may be d.
s. stroyed by treating the egg masses wit
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-10-12
Agricultural Atoms.

Try feeding the work horses light at
noon and heavier at night.
1t is most exasperating to attempt
to fix a pump when the stock is stand
ing around waiting and making things
unpleasant.
An early piece of ground sown to BAR
ley makes the pigs smile.
The brood SOW cannot successfully
suckle her litter on corn ration.
One farmer with small bunch Oh
sheep reports that from nineteen sheer
last wear he realized $l29.30 in lambs
and wool-$6.s4 head-which Is 1
good record.
The cut worm, like the tx" of al
zebra, is always the unknown quantity
and 1t is as hard to find him sometime
as It Is to find what tx In algebr
equals. Let the scientists tell us hoy
to get rid Of this pest,
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CHAPTER VII.

We entered the forest. On every hand
stood the pines, stretching away in long,
melancholy avenues hoored with drifted
snow. The laden branches bowed before
us. now and again, at the whirl of pass
ing gust, finging their burdens from
them. Once a willow grouse, white as
the snow beneath it, swept on steady
wing through the trees Once from the
far. far distance, borne upon the eastern
breeze. there came cry, weird, hope
less echo in the air, that set the horses
snoring, | knew what it must be-a
wolf who felt the first pangs of the WIN
ter's hunger gathering round him. But
there was no sign of man nor marks OF
sleigh tracks on the newly fallen snow.
We did not travel fast, though our
driver did his best. The snow had not
hardened and settled into that enchant-
ing surface on which the runners speed
so swiftly. Midday was past before we
saw. through a sudden gap in the forest
q rising mound crowned with low, grey
building. "Castle Oster! cried our drlv
er. turning in his seat to claim our at
tention. In ten minutes more we had
halted at gate set in high stone wall
BEFORE we were clear of the rugs TIN
driver had slipped from his perch ant
tugged at a rusty iron bell-pull. W.
waited without an answer. Again h
rang. hut Graden did not wait the result
Tho door was not bolted; 1t opened t
his vigorous arm, and we followed hin
info the broad courtyard Of the castle.
Before us sprawled the main building
Aanked by little towers, like the pepper
box turrets of an old Scotch mansion
The windows were shuttered; the chin
news were smokeless save for one abov
the central porch, from which a dar
plume rose and trailed away to the west
ward-the solitary sign Of habitation. L
our right and left were ranged outbuilt
lngs, stables, coach-houses, and the like
hut all in a condition of ruinous deca!
Patches fallen from the roofs laid bar
the rafters: from the broken gutter
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mules in that State. They are in strong
demand by farmers and ranchers, and
the supply is inadequate. AS a result,
the prices of good mules have gone up
to the highest figures ever known In
the State 1t will be but few years
until this mule shortage, which is said
to exist throughout the country, Will
be relieved, as much attention Is now
being given to breeding the animals
Country Gentleman.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-10-12
Stale at That.

"It is very seldom that they serve
actors with five different kinds of veg
etables," whispered the short comedian
in the quicklunch room.
"Oh, l don't know" sighed the lanky
tragedian. "One time | was served
with twenty-five different kinds of
vegetables"
"You don't say? In what hotel?"
"No hotel. The audience supplied
them"
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Good Crops for old Gras. Land.

The question of what to do with grass
land after haying, where the land Is
run out and poor, is rather puzzling
one, but If we should get rain enough
to soften the surface and permit easy
blowing, it may be broken up, enriched
with manure or fertilizer and immedi"
ately seeded with Hungarian. In case
the weather should prove too dry for
this, barley may be sown either alone
or with rye in August for fall feeding.
OF good, strong land, well enriched, a
crop of late cabbage plants may be set
as late as July Is; the turnip seed
may be sown even as late as Aug. /.
though July 20 is better time.