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small stretcher bedstead in the middle
OF an empty room. His face had evil
IDENTIFY once been comely, though now
disfgured by scars. His eyes were
closed, so IL there was anything re-
pulsive about their appearance didn't
see it.
You are able to wear shoes then,
Bob%'
"Ay, but you may notice they're
made of cloth and three sizes too big
FOR me. / had a neat foot once. Jack.
and l still wear a shoe when / can. /
don't lie here like a mummy all day
sit by the kitchen fire"
How do you get up and down
stairs?"
Would you believe. it. Jack. she
carries me / dare say you thought
her a rough one to look at. but she's
Just the woman to suit me She's as
strong in the back as a brewers horse.
II I'd had the pick of the county OF
MiddleseZ. / couldn't have married a
kinder hearted woman And she mar
ried me for love II was after the ac-
cident, you understand Some said she
married me for my pension. but I know
better. Jack. Tell us about Van Die
mans Land, Jack, TO pass away the
time"
I hesitated. for know about as
much about Van Dieman's Land as
90 Of the moon.
"Ah. see how II is. Jack" said the
cripple. You're ashamed. and no
wonder / like you the better for it,
But you needn't mind now You've
served out your seven years and o. 7
always said you was young and led
away by Bill Hawkins And. Jack"
he added. cOnhdentially. we've always
kept up the notion in the family that 81
was pOaChing. It sounds more re-
spectacle than. than-vou know what.
But I say, Jack" pursued the Grip
pie transportation can't be as bad as
it's represented. it has softened your
voice. made you talk better and given
you quite o touch OF quality You were
a roughish young blade when / bid you
goodbye at Milbank penitentiary. Do
you recollect how Bill Hawkins jeered
YOU because / gave you mothers lit
tie clasp Bible?"
Here was a pretty position for a re-
] spectacle young fellow to occupy. For
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handsomely. They allowed me te..
shillings a week and Kitty takes care
of empty houses. We contrive to
scratch along. somehow. But come,
Jack, you've never offered your brother
your hand yet. Let me shake your
hand, even if you didn't care to light .
candle"
stepped forward and gave him my
hand
'Lawk. Jack, why your hands al
most like 4 gentlemans hand! 1t
amt so soft as a dress makers or a
haberdasher's; it's about equal to q
master builder"
You seem to know all about hands, .
L observed.
'Ah," he answered with a sigh. that
comes of want of eyes When I had
my sight took no note of such things.
but now I've a delicate touch | wish
Kitty would come back with that sup
per. I'm getting throat hungry"
Are you afraid of thieves here?" l
asked.
Why"
Because you lock up your kitchen
and back door. Can you tell me where
the back door key hangs?"
" don't hang anywhere" replied
the cripple. It's in Kitty's pocket"
And the kitchen door key?"
I'm her pocket. They're all in her
pocket"
Here was another disappointment. |
must wait until Kitty's return and face
her boldly. | was interrupted in my
reflections by my companion. who said:
Come, Jack, strike light and take
look at your poor brother Bob. You'll
find the matches in one of my shoes
and the candlestick is under my bed"
| lighted the candle and saw a man,
about forty years OF age, lying on a
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Bismarck has come 70 be about tho
most bestatued figure in nineteenth
century hero worship. The monument
erected in Germany 20 the man o.
blood and iron" are not less alarming
in number than they are doubtlessly
low in any real art quality. Up TO Tho
present the number unhappily com
pleted is 2O4, and there are still 80 %
be inflicted on an already much Bis
marcked people. The Kingdom Of Sax
ony leads with 81 monuments. Ger
mans dwelling I'm the wild continents
are also in the race. One Bismarck
statue confrOnts. in an attitude OF be
coming defiance, the savages OF the
South Seas. In the Bismarck Archi-
pelagO. ca
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ROMANCE OF 4 COAT.
An Old Clothes Dealer Whose Kindly
Act Melted Him twenty-five
Dollars.

The world is full of romance. There
are persons who deny this, but there
are persons who deny God and gravi.
| tation. Romance is not confined to
novels and the hearts OF girls. II
crops out often in strange places and
sometimes in austere natures. But II
! is not often that a romance is found
in the pocket OF a cast.OIf coat. How
ever, this story proves it. The story
comes from New York. A dealer in
old clothes, asserting his collection of
"has-been" raifnent found in the pocket
of coat that had seen better days, a
letter. IL was sealed and addressed to
a lady in an aristocratic part OF the
city far removed from the section OF
the city in which the old clothes man
lived and worked. He laid the letter
aside thinking that some day when
the spirit moved him and times were
prosperous he would stamp and post
| IT,.
Perhaps u was several days later
when he had occasion 10 call for a
bundle Of disowned apparel in a part
or the town near the home of the ad-
dressee u the letter. He took the
missive with him. called at the house.
vas brushed aside by the man at the
door, but a lady emerging at that mo-
ment. he handed the letter TO her.
She tore II open I'm great haste and as
she read II bushes Redeemed her face
and q happy smile spread over her
lips. She folded the letter, put It in
/ her purse and handed the "old clio
man" n s. note He felt that he had
not only done a good deed but had
been rewarded.
4 week passed and a dapper, we'll
gToomed man entered his shop lie
said he was tho original owner ~ the
coat from which the letter had been
recovered. He said that in tho letter
he had proposed marriage TO the girl
he loved and thought he mailed it.
Receiving no reply he believed that be
| had been rejected and left the city.
| lie had recently received an adorable
reply from the young lady with an eZ-
PLANTATION as tO how the letter had
been delivered and-the wedding day
had been set All this be thought was
due 10 the "old clio man" To the man
who had rendered him such good ser
vice he handed a $50 note.
The moral OF this romance ia edo 8
/ kindly act when you can" Another
moral might BE- drawn from the incl
dent, and this Is: When you write an
offer Of marriage 10 the girl you love
be sure she gets the letter.
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1t was a darkish night with n stiff
breeze blowing as l picked my way
through those quiet streets that lie
between Islington and Dalston. Just
rs | came TO the corner of n street a
strong puff of wind whipped of my
now shiny hat rs neat as need be and
dropped it in an area. This was GER
tainly a nuisance, but not without
remedy. | rang at the area bell. once.
twice. thrice. but got no answer.
sounded the lions head knocker. once.
twice, thrice. and got no answer. Then
L looked up at the windows and saw a
bill announcing This House TO Let
and noticed that the shutters were all
tightly closed.
1t was too dark to read the name of
the agent and l was about 10 knock
at the next door to learn where
could procure the key, when, to my
establishment, the door. as l happened
10 lean against it, moved slightly in
wards. gave gentle push and
walked boldly in. l CROPPED my way
down the kitchen stairs. / tried the
Kitchen door; it was locked and the
Key was gone. l felt about and found
the back door leading TO the area: il
was locked and the key gone. My best
plan seemed to be to pick the lock of
the back door. il | could find an old
nail or bit OF wire. So 1 crept up
stairs to the back parlor and CROPPED
my hand along the mantel and window
frames. but with no success. had
noticed under the kitchen door the
giimmering of the light OF fire. and
decided that the house must be in
habited. The next moment | stumbled
against wooden stretcher or bedstead.
put out my hand cautiously and laid
on mans head Nv tumble
against the bedstead had disturbed the
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HOUSE OF ROMAN0FF. =
How the Family Of the Present Czar
Got Its Pow er.

The recent turmoil in Russian az
fairs brings to mind that Russian SUI
premacy. like that OF many other
countries in the past has been found
ed on the sand. The history of its
rise and fall is that OF other dynas-
ties, and once more we are brought
face to face with the fact that '.the
worm will turn" for History Is fast
repeating itself.
Chief Ruric was the crst Russian
ruler OF any Importance. He founded
In S62 what afterwards became the
Russian Empire Its chiefs were call
Ell Grand Dukes until 100, when the
title of Gar was adopted. A little
more than two hundred years later,
the Tartan invasion OF the dreaded
Sengis Kahn laid Russia almost I'm
waste, but Ivan the Great. conauering
these Mongols, again restored Russian
integrity.
The Russian rulers, up 10 the time
or Peter the Great, generally died yio-
lent deaths, and in our own days, and
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sleeper and he called out: kitty, Kit
ty. Kitty, / say, you amt come back
without him2" / stood perfectly still
and held my breath. After considering
a moment, | took a half-hearted step
towards the door, when the man in bed
cried out in an excited voice: That's
a mans stepl Ny Jack, is it you?
All! | see, you wanted to surprise me.
II is you, Jack, amt it?" He said
these last words in such a beseeching
tone, that 1 could not help answering:
cit is"
Then where's Kitty?"
Il hope to see her presently" /
said
Gone to the cook-shop TO get some
thing in honor of your arrival, Jack.
I wonder what it will be- Maybe an eel
pie with baked 'taters, or a plate OF
savory beef, or a dish OF billed tripe
and iniOns; ah-h."
you seem to like good eating" /
yentured TO say.
why, Jack. my boy. it's one of the
few pleasures I have left Thank God
nv appetite's always good. And when
a mans lost the use of his limbs and
can't sec out OF his eyes. he makes the
best use OF his stomach. I'd ask you
20 light a candle, Jack. but I'm half
hulk I've become. Twelve years ago,
when You emigrated. YOU understand
me. Jack Che said this in a shy way)
I was as handsome and well growed a
man as you'd wish to see, wasn't
Jack?"
You we're"
"And now I'm a useless cripple"
"How did 10 happeu?"
What you never got Kitty's letter
directed 10 Hobart Town, Van Die
mans Land? And hasn't Kitty told
you, coming along in the cab?"
Not "A word"
"Ah. poor girl. she didn't like e
grieve you Well. the powder mill il
which / was working blew up-the!
mostly do every Eve years-and blew
me along with g.: blew me mp a good
looking. active chap. Jack, and droppe,
me down a miserable blind cripple.
AS he said these last words his vOic
failed him and he shed tears.
%And how do you manage to live?
Wen Jack, the firm behaved yer,
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Aa INTO the bow the cord ~
So unto the mnn ~ woman.
Though she bends him, she Obeys him.
Though she draws him, vet she follows.
Useless each without the Other.--kFiaWaft,
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When you buy Wing Piano, you buy at whole
sale. You pay the actual cost of making n with
only our Wholesale profit added. When you buy
piano. as many still do--at retall-you pay the
Ietail dealers store rent and other eIpenses
Iou pay his profit and the comm aston or saary
o. tho agents or salosrnen he ompioys--al theso
on iop Of what the dealer himself has 10 pay 10
me manufaciWer. The retail profit on a plano
Is from SIS 70 5000. Isn't this worth saVing3
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-09-17
A Liberal Nimrod.

George French and wife re-
turned Saturday evening from
most successful hunting trip,
in Hubbard county, along the line
of the NJ. & /. railway. They
did most of their hunting in the
vicinity of Guthrie, where there
are q considerable number of
grouse. The business manager
and city editor Of the Pioneer
attest to the generosity of Mr..
French in the matter Of remem-
bering his friends and suggest
that other nimrods acquire the
habit of supplying that banker.
ing for Something wild on the
part Of the editorial and mana
gerial abread basket =
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DOG DESTROYER IS STILL
WORKING IN THIS CITY
Several CANNES Poisoned and Two
Shot by Unknown Parties Within
the Past Week.

The destroyer Of dogs con
tinues to operate in this city,
despite every effort to put stop
to his work, and not only poison
is being used, but several dogs
have been shot recently.
S. G. Bailey 81 dog partook Of
poison and was only saved after
a vigorous treatment. Mr.. and
Mrs. Abercrombie had the same
experience with their black
spaniel. Saturday night, some
individual shot q dog belonging
to julius Dahl, which was tied in
the yard at his home.
The door of the wash room at
the home of A.aC. Mclean was
opened Saturday night and his
dog was shot. The dog was not
running at large. A dog belong
ing to Mrs. Robinson, living near
the city hall, died yesterday
evening, as a result of poisoning.
Adam Otto also lost dog, a few
days ago, via the poison route.
A close watch is being kept,
and the guilty party or parties
will surely be detected, sooner or
later, and a vigorous prosecu-
ton will follow.
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Township Votes Bonds (35 to y to Be
Used in Bettering the Condition
-~.. Of Its Highways.
READY SALE OF BONDS LOOKED
FOR; WORK BEGINS OCTOBER
Shotley Swamp Will Be Traversed by
Good Road, According to Plans
.-.. .. of Town Board.

K'lliher, Sept. 17.-(Special to
he Pioneer The special elec-
ton held here last Saturday, for
The purpose Of voting on the
proposition to bond the Town of
kelihar in the sum of 81, 600 for
the building Of better roads
within the township, resulted IN
a vote of 35 to in favor Of issu-
ing the bonds, the one vote being
cast by a practical joker, and not
intended to figure seriously in
The result. 5.-
The Commercial Investment
company of Duluth has signitied
a willingness to purchase the
bonds and when the money is OBJ
tanned the greater portion of it
will be expended on the road
between this village and Shotley
postoffice, and if the present
plans of the town board of super
visors are carried out, before
another year the hitherto i'm
passable Shotley swamp will be
crossed by an excellent road,
which will be built along the
ditch, making a permanent, dry
thoroughfare.
The supervisors of Shotley
township have already voted
money to improve theroad across
their town and will co-operat,s
with the officials Of Kelliher in
extending the road for the
benefit of the many 81 ttlers who
are almost unable to get in and
out of the country.
The building of this road will
be a great boon to all the resi-
dents of this part Of the county.
1t is expected that the bonds
will be sold, the money obtained
and work commenced on the
road October /.
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farm is considered q valuable
Work Being Rushed.

]. M. Price went to Rosby
yesterday to look after the work
of erecting two schoolhouses in
the Town Of Frohn, for which he
has the contract. One Of tie.
houses is located two miles.
northeast Of Rosby, and the
other is two miles east Of Rosby,
on Wolf lake, both being in
Beltrami county. The first
house will be mpleted, plas
tered and all, BY the end Of this.
week, and the other will be
finished and ready for occupancy
on contract time, October 4.
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Mayors Proclamation.

Whereas; Tuesday. the 18th day OF Septem-
ber. 1906. is the day fixed by law for the
Primary election. for the state Of Minnesota;
and E
Whereas. Section 163 Revised laws of 1905.
reads as follows: .4.- 8
'The mayor and all peace officers shall see
that the law in reference TO the sale of and
use of Intoxicating liquors on election days is
strictly enforced. and the mayor OF each city.
ON the day proceeding any election therein
shall issue a proclamation that the same will
be enforced; but the failure to issue such pro
clamation shall not exempt any person
violating said law from tile penalties thereof =
Now therefore, i. A.$A. Carter mayor OF
the city OF Bemidji. county of Reltrami and
state Of Minnesota in obedience to the duties
imposed upon me- do hereby proclaim order
and direct that the pr5vis of said section
shall, be In aIf respects obeyed and strictly
enforced, and all saloons, stores. or bar
rooms where spurious malt or intoxicating
liquors are sold or given away in said place
or places shall be kept closed on said 18th
day OF September between the hours of 5
O'Clock in the morning and ten O'Clock in the
evening of said day.
Given under my hand this 18th day OF Sept
ember A. ID. 1906. -.
A, A. Carter,
Mayor of the City of Be midi
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Every condition points to the
election of J. j. Opsahl as the re-
publican nominee for representa-
tive from the Sixty first legisla-
tive district, tomorrow.
Mr.. Opsahl has been develop
ing a remarkably strong follow
ing and his friends are rallving
for him and expect to nominate
him.
Opsahl is the best man in the
district for the place, and being
a practical man makes him es-
pecially strong.
Being an independent man and
one Of the people, he is sure to
appeal to the Vi t.r as the right
man. Having been instrumental
in locating many people in this
part of the state, and having
lived Tor over a var on a home
stead in the Battle River cnu try,
his ideas Of drainage and devel-
opment are pra' cal and will De
used for the good Of his district.
M. Op>ahl is well informed,
having visited every sec tion of
the state he expects to represent.
He is a su. cessful business
man, which is Que of the v ry
best recommended Us a man can
have.
He is a man who at ends to
his own business, and if elected
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Frank SIipp Resigns.

Frank Slipp has resigned his
position as mail clerk at the
Bemidji postoffice and accepted a
position with the Be]trami
Timber company. The resig-
nation took effect this morning,
and Mr.. Slipp left for Kelliher
to resume his new duties.
Edward Gould has accepted a
position at the postoffice to assist
in the added duties of the corps
of clerks, caused by the resig-
nation of Mr.. Slipp. The latter
has been employed at the post
Office during the last four years,
during which he has done faith.
full work. His departure is
greatly regretted by Postmaster
Carson.
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will attend to the business affairs
of the district.
He is we'll known throughout
the state and when elected repre-
sentative he will simply be
thrown in with a lot Of former
northern Minnesota acquain-
tances who will work with him
for our good.
Every portion of the district
needs good roads, more drainage,
less vacant swamp lands. It
needs fairer treatment by the
state at large; it needs a more
equal representation in the state
legislature; it needs men of cour-
age and ability; it needs men of
good sound ideas; it needs men
who will work and vote for the
districts good; it needs men
whose broad ideas will lead them
t. vote as they think.
Can the voters Of this district
afford to cast their vote for any
one, other than Mr.. Opsahl? We
say no.
Tomorrow the voter should go
to the polls and cast a vote for
drainage and development, better
roads, better freight rates, a
more equal representation.
To do this you must vote for
j. j. Opsahl for representative.
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Additional Locals

4. IS a=.tE
The Ladies Asd of the M. E..
church will meet Wednesday
afternoon in the church, where
they will be entertained by Mrs.
A. w. Mitchell. An invitation is
extended to all.
j. j. Ragan, candidate for re-
election for county superinten,
dent of schools wishes to warn
all his friends and Well-wishers
to be on the lookout for stories
sprung at the last minute, or cir
e llated privately SO as not to
give him a achance tpexplain them
away. He is working bard and
expresses confidence in his
Election.
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land Lake railway. and he win
purchase the steel, while in Du.
lnth, for three miles OF road
which the lumber company will
operate from the village Of Kelli-
her to their camps, three miles
dis TINT. The road has already
b \ h graded and the rails will be
lid just as soon as they can be.
sb.ught by Mr.. Larson and
shipped to Keniher. The road
will be used next winter.
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Building in Ruins, and Loss Is Total,
as No Insurance Was Carried by
the Proprietor.
PRINTER MAKES A THRILLING
ESCAPE FROM THE STRUCTURE
Forced Onto Balcony by Flames and
Slides Down to the Ground
and Safety.

6 - $50. -.
to the Pioneer. The Exchange
hotel and contents we're totally
destroyed by fire last night, en-
failing aloss estimated at $1,000
on the building and ST., 900 on the
furni ure and fixtures.
The hotel was the property of
William Harsch, and he is at a
loss to account for the origin of
the fire. Mrs. Harsch had been
in the kitchen, at about 8 O'Clock
in the evening. She went into
the dining room for a few
moments and when she stepped
into the kitchen again, the whole
interior of the room was in
flames, and she believes that the
fire caught behind the cook
stove, in the wood box.
The fire spread with such
rapidity that it was impossible to
save anything in the rooms or
the Office before the entire build
ing was on fire and burning
tiercely.
The alarm Of fire was responded
to by the firemen and the gaso-
line fire engine was used, but
owing to the lack of a sufficient
supply Of water, it was impos
sible to check the flames and the
building was soon burned to the
ground. The firemen worked
steadily, but were inexperienced
aud did not do much effective
work, except in the matter of
saving other buildings.
The nearest building to the
burning structure was seventy
five feet distant. This caught
fire several times, but the fire
was extinguished. The hotel
building burned so fiercely that
the glass in windows of buildings
across the street was cracked.
It is not known at this writing
whether Mr.. Harsch will rebuild
the hotel. He carried no in
surance on either the building or
it's contents, and his loss is total.
An incident of the fire that
caused a sensation was the spec
tacular escape Of Joe Bing, com
positor on the Big Falls Compass,
who was forced from the sitting
room to the balcony and was
compelled to slide down an arm
of the balcony to the ground.
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Wes Buys Farm.

Wes Wright has purchased
from Mrs. Belle Markham,
administrators of the estate Of
j NJ. Markham, q 16O. acre farm,
about five miles south Of Bemidii
near the Hubbard county line.
Mr.. Wright will Immediately
begin the Improvement Of his
newly acquired property and has
engaged Chet. Wilcox to grub
and clear forty acres this fall and
5fit the same for agricultural
purposes, that Wes may repeat
his prize winning Of this fall, at
the county fair that will Be held
in Bemidii the fal of '07 The
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Rails for kelliher Road.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Larson left
yesterday fora visit at Duluth
and Ashland Mr.. Larson isa
postmaster Of the Croo okstons
Lumber company . Wilton Is.
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Alice SoIbero Dead.

Alice Solberg, the 8-months.
old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arne Solberg, died Saturday
afternoon, at l:3O, after an illness
of two weeks. The funeral was
held yesterday afternoon, at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Solberg.