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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-27
Special Train to County Fair.---M. & |. to Rur
Special TO Blackduck Thursday and Friday,

Special Train to County FaIr.---M. I. to RuF
Special to BIackduck Thursday and Friday.
One fare for the round trip is
to be given on all points along the
M. & {. to accommodate those
who wish to attend the county
fair and Old Settlers association
meeting to be held at Blackduck
Wednesday, Thursday and Fri.
day Of this week.
Thursday and Friday a special
train will leave Bemidji at 8:3C
and return the same evening,
Friday the train willleave Walker
at 7:sO.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-27
Not So Easy.

''Dibble, don't you think a man ought
10 save at least half the money he
makes?'
Yes, but how can he, with his cred
itors bowling for it all the time?''
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-27
Will Leave Bemidji at $50 a. m. and
Return After Supper in the
Evening.
EXCURSION RATE OF ONE FARE
80 CENTS---FOR ROUND TRIP
There Will Be Four Coaches on the
Train and Plenty Of Room fer
Everybody.

btacRduck, Aug. EI.-(Speclal
to the Pioneer. Exhibits for
the county fair are already be-
ginning to arrive and the local
committees are taking care of
them in an expeditions manner.
The residents of the village have
been working like beavers during
the past week, and everything
will be ''spick and span" We'd
nesday morning for the opening
day of the exposition.
The exhibition halls haye been
handsomely decorated, the streets
are in excellent condition despite
the recent rains, and the baseball
grounds are as smooth as the
proverblal kitchen floors of our
grand mothers, a heavy roller
having been used to level the
rough spots that formerly existed
on the diamond.
Some apprehension has been
felt ss to the ability to secure the
special train for Thursday, '.Be-
midi Day. but there is jy
among the members of the trans
portation committee, w. a. Gem
mill, general manager of the NJ.
& 1, having telegraphed that the
train would be run on that day,
leaving Bemidji at $50 in the
morning and returning in the
evening, giving everyone atthe
county seat ample opportunity to
stake in" the fair, the ball g1me
and other attractions here.
The railroad company has
made-a rate Of sone fare for the
round trip, which is eighty cents.
From assurances given the local
committee, q record breaking
crowd will be here from Bemidli.
Them & L: will run special
train from Bemidji on both
Thursday and Friday, and on
Wednesday, special coaches will
be attached to the local freight
train, which leaves Bemidji at.
$50, so that all who desire may
attend on all three days.
u. q. Townsend went to Walker
today to work upa crowd from
that place on Friday, which is
walker Day at the fair.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-27
Corrected.

"Miss Isabel, you are not at all like
other girls" .
! '"That is lot a compliment, Mr.
SpOoner. You should say that other
girls are not at all like me-" e
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-27

The Great McEwen will positively show at
the opera house tonight
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-27
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 It
may be found decomposed volcanic
rock, .pumice, zeolitic crystals, man
ganese oxides, meteoric iron, teeth Of
sharks and ear bones Of whales. Few
IL any shore deposits are apparent In It.
The rock is yitreous 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. 9. Van Dyke in
1.-THE Opal Seal.
Spanish Sheep. ss
There are said to be 10000 600 MI
gratory sheep in Spain, which travel
on occasions as much as 200 miles
from the plains to the mountains.
They are known as transhumantes,
and their march, resting places and
behavior are governed by special regu-
lations dating from the fourteenth cen.
tury. At certain times no one may
travel the same route as the sheep.
which have the right to Craze on all
sopen and common land On the way.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18

and no visitors are ever admitted to
it. t.i 4. Il
DIR. Phene, the owner Of the proper
ty, lives in house on the opposite
side Of the street. He is an antiquar-
ian with q purse long enough to permit
him to indulge In his most eccentric
fancies. Some Of his ancestors q one
time lived at the Chateau du Sayenay,
on the Loire. The folly represents
his efforts to ingraft the outlines of it
on the skeleton Of q comparatively
modern house, with additions Of his
own. After viewing the copy one cam
not blame the Vendeans much for shay-
ing pulled the French chateau about
the proprietor's ears. .,.. .3
The doctor claims descent from the
Phoentceans and is uncommonly proud
OF his ancient lineage. The house Is
supposed to embody the cryptic history
Of the family senealogy. Judging by
results. It is awfully tangled and 1t is
small wonder that DIR. Phene never
seems satisfied that he has got things
right. He is continually making all
terations. Year after year goes by and
still the house is never finished. Dec
orations, bas-reliefs. statues and twist
ed and gilded columns are put up only
to be taken down again regardless Of
expense The only thing constant
about the house Ia the AweAthercock,
which always points due north. The
most favorable view concerning the
house was one the writer overheard as
he passed two workmen who were dis,
cussing it. 'sWell, said one, Il sup
pose everybody has right to his own
fancies If he can afford EN-" Right"
agreed the other; fright you are, mate.
An 1t gives employment to the honest
workingman. !"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
Marriage of consumptixes.


The marriage of the tuberculous is
perhaps frowned upon by all physi-
clans, the majority Of whom would no
doubt advocate the prohibition of such
unions. 1t is considerable of sur
PRISE. then. observes American Medi-
cine, to learn that DR.. Charles Valen-
tino, of Paris, has declared that these
marriages are desirable. He bases his
opinion upon the well-known fact that
the disease itself is rarely If ever
transmitted, and that there is an i'm
munity possessed by many of the Of
spring of the tuberculous. He shows
that though this infection is more fire.
quent about the age of 20, its ap-
pearance in those of tuberculous lN,r-
entage, if they acquire it at all. is
somewhere between IS and so. He &C.
knowledges that where one partner
alone is infected the other is contain
mated in 16 per cent. of the cases,
and that this infant mortality is
quite high, particularly where both
parents are tuberculous, but he thinks
that these disadvantages are far out
weighed by the advantage of breeding
up race of immunes.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
Personal Power.

That straight body has much to
do with worldly success is the opin-
ion of a writer in the Outing Magazine,
who says: Il shall try, in the briefest
manner possible, to make clear two
things of which am firmly convinced.
First, that there are possibilities of
physical development far beyond the
present achievements; and secondly,
that there are certain very simple
methods by which these possibilities
may in every case be attained. The
first object Of physical methods should
be to straighten and expand the body.
The world may, in a broad, general
way, be divided into two great classes
the erect and the inerect, the strong
and the weak. The epoch makers, the
Cromwells, Luthers, NApoleons, Well
ingtons, Washingtons and Websters,
have been men marked by
straight spine and a broad, high, deep
chest. The mastered millions, the de-
feated ones; have been the inerect."
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
The EVENING TINES, GRAND FORKS, n. D.
Supremacy Of Kan.

55si 5DuprsmAcy Of Han.
Civilization that makes institutions
superior to men Il 8 Civilization to ~
destroyed" according to Prof. Smaller.
Mathews, OF the University OF Chicago.
n IN article in the current issue Of
the Biblical World, published at the
University Of Chicago, the divinity
dean thus concludes an article on .Men
or Institutions. = While on the whole
the professor believes that man must
be superior to institutions, yet he de-
clares "the individual must sometimes
be sacrificed to the interests Of So
ciety." "The glory of our race" says
DR.. Mathews, sis that 1t can produce
heroes and martyrs. There even come
times when men must deliberately
cause suffering to their fellows in be-
half Of some institution which prom
Uses vast ultimate good. The patriot
gives himself for his country. The
father voluntarily foregoes his own ad-
vantage for his children. The citizen
is forced to pay taxes even against his
will. The employer is certainly justi-
fed in discharging the employee whose
carelessness endangers the safety Of
others or whose wastefulness destroys
the dividends Of the company. He
must be a wise man who can lay down
rules that would apply to all cases or
even to single case. # calls for prin-
ciples and conscience. The welfare of
all is the supreme consideration, and
that not material welfare only, but the
highest good to the community from
every point of view. Yet no mere in
tellectual application of this principle
will suffice to- guide ones conduct
alright. To such apprehension there
must be added q genuine regard for
men, sense of the value of the in
dividual and real brotherly love. Thus
we return to the need of intelligence
and religion. Civilization that makes
institutions superior to men is CIV
ilization to be destroyed, for it runs
amuck of that true Christian principle
that man is the universal unit"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
!'H ;! 2 7 ilS ! JANUARY IS 1905
.cLossoN's QUEER cLocK..


= Don't hear much Of Bryan Or
Dowie or Ingersoll or anarchy nova
days. remarked Capt. BILL relates
the Newark News. Il suppose there.
! run down. IKE : clock once saw
which ! was = boy. Ever hear about
Blossoms clock?
well. Closson was, : Matchmaker
in Springfield avenue, and one year
when business was dull he made this
clock I'm telling you about. It was
. good clock in its way. with an ex.
ira strong handspring; its wheels
Z were sound and healthy, and you
couldn't tell It from regular clock.
But Cloascn put it together backward.
for he enjoyed his little joke once
In awhile. although lots Of people who
claimed to know him best. would never
admit that he had q sense Of humor.
so his clock started out in life
with . click and q buzz, to do great
things, ! suppose; and it's hands went
round the wrong way. People that
had time to waste would loaf in front
Of the window all day and watch the
hands going wrong; and q lot Of busy
folks set their watches by it till they
learned better, which they did pref
ty quick, because clock that has
only four lucid moments in "a hours
isn't going to be standard very long.
There we're good many folks, too.
who stood up for the clock and gov.
erned their movements by It, making
complicated arithmetical calculation
always to find what the real time
was; but that got to be nuisance,
and one by one they dropped away and
returned to the old clock over the
church that had served them pretty
steady before Clossen's clock appeared.
After that the new clock1waved Its
hands the wrong way and chimed rev.
olutions all the harder. and wondered
why it's trade was falling of. And by
and by 1t ran down, and nobody took
the trouble to wind it up again.
"As was remarking," ~ the skipper
concluded, this seems to be the safest
and sanest year in all history. Got
any tobacco?'
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
CRIME. RIFE IN LONDON.
Eight Million Dollars a Year Spent
to Keep Criminals in
Check.

London Is paying the penalty paid
by; all large cities. Crime is inside
her gates. In round numbers she has
to pay nearly ss.0oO0O0 year to
keep criminals In check; for that is
the sum paid out torher police courts,
prisons and prosecuting ohlcers. It
fails to include stolen property, losses
due to idleness Of criminals, losses
to injured parties, etc. Serious
crimes. such as burglary. housebreak.
ing, counterfeiting, etc, are increas
ing.
Arrests are more frequently than
formerly, and each arrest adds to the
expense and loss account Of the city.
Estimates put the bilF Of the city's
expenses as high as $4,000, 900. In
other words, each taxpayer or head
Of q household of i've persons pays
1851 q year for London's crime. Nor
do these millions make up tho total
loss. There are the hundreds OF
thousands taken, consumed by the
criminals, hidden away, lost or de.
stroyed. Add then to these the
amounts paid by private parties to
prevent burglary, ETC., Waterman,
caretakers, burglar alarms, door and
window fastenings, safes, revolvers,
life protectors, dogs. ETC.. and one be-
gins to get fairly good idea Of what
are the losses due to crime in a large
city.
A table prepared In London puts
the police. and courts down for So
$4,000. the prisons for s5s3.9sO, lost
property for Sl,216.625, loss by in.
juries, assaults, etc. ss73.300; loss
In labor Of criminals. etc. S1,167. $50.
or a total Of $4,000, 1856. These ap.'
palling figures cover often only the
well-known items. How many hun.
Sdreds. thousands or even millions
escape the vigilant eye Of the ex.
perts. No millions like 10 or IA are
able to measure the real losses.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18

The announcement that the Pennsyl-
vania Railway company is preparing
to do away with steam engines and to
use electric motors exclusively
throughout its extensive system, pre-
sages the end of the age of steam and
the coming triumph Of electricity.
The statement may seem startling at
first, but as matter Of fact the
railroads have been experimenting
with electric engines for some time,
and their eventual use was fore
gone conclusion. Not only jim the
matter of speed but in every other
respect electricity has the advantage
over steam as a motive power.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
soudan Antiouittss.

Egypt's governor general has pro-
muleated an ordinance by which the
government exercises its right Of pos
session Of any archaeological remains
and antiquities discovered in the Sou
dan. This decree will deal the DEATH
blow to the Egyptian "faker" and his
nefarious traffic in coins, papyri and
other spurious antiquities, in the sale
Of which he plies a thriving trade
during the winter season among the
credulous tourists.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18

A, party of a dozen expert oil drill
ers and tool drivers from Pittsburg
arrived recently at Bucharest, the
capital of Roumania. y 1t is said that
only such men were employed as are
familiar with every detail in the
drilling of oil and gas wells. Since
the political troubles in Russia be-
gan the activity in the Roumanian oil
fields has been very great, and large
quantities of Roumanian petroleum
and lubricating oil are now exported
to all countries Of western Europe.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18

A remedy for badness has recently
been found by q learned Psychologist,
inscribed in papyrus. 1t is said to
have been used by King Chata, the
second sovereign Of the first dynasty.
The recipe is>as follows: "A mixture
Of dogs paws, dates and asses hoofs,
ground up and cooked in oil. The head
to be rubbed vigorously with the prep
aration." Why 60 without hair?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
Satisfying Her Curiosity.

A typical, old .colored nanny went
into q butcher shop and said to the
butcher: 4.sr.
81 ..Mistah. wish you would cut me on
rs pounds Of meat. /"
All right" the butcher replied,
what kind of meat do you want. pork.
mutton or beef!'' 81 sS5, SIS u.
Hasa me. Use not caring what kind
OF meat sit To- Il, sss IA. e, @ .s
So the butcher cut Oh the rs pounds
sof meat and turned 70 the old colored
woman and said: s. 4
Well. auntie; shall i sendl 1t Or viii
yon take II with you I"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
s.Ths Central Harkst."

ssThs Central Market"
The project to establish an annual
corn festival In Chicago, II carried
through, will be another move toward
clanching the city's right to the title
Of "the central market" The estab-
fishing Of some such annual function.
asserts the Tribune. is the logical re-
suit of Chicago's position as the pur-
chasing point for the merchants Of the
middle west. At present, with no e.
pecial attempts made to bring mer-
chants here in crowds, the hotels are
often comfortably filled during the fall
purchasing season. An annual festi.
val in this season will bring many
more buyers Chicagoward. But it is
not merely the fact that business will
be greatly benefited by corn festiva
that makes the project commendable
Other fall festivals might bring crowds
and money to the city. But for Chi
cago it should never be anything but
corn festival" Chicago is great
enough and generous enough to
give credit where credit belongs,
and to the corn is the credit
due for the. prosperity that makes pos
sible the assembling of great crowds
Of buyers in the city, and for the gen.
eral welfare and happiness of the mid
die west as it now exists. The far west
has its gold, later the other minerals
and cattle, the north has it's timber,
the south cotton; but the states of
this region have their corn. Better
than the wealth of mines, or timber,
or any other gift that nature may be-
stow on a land, it has yielded to the
states where it grows, best riches al
most beyond belief, and except where
the avariciousness Of man has over
reached his good sense it has taken
but little from the land where it has
grown. Since the beginning it has
been the foundation upon which the
empire of the middle west mas been
built. 1t will continue to be the foun-
dalton indefinitely. It is this regions
source of prosperity. The natural CEN
ter of all the great corn states Is Chi
cago. Chicago owes much to corn.
From it's field it has drawn wealth and
prosperity. Corn and Chicago are in
dissolubly linked. The naming of the
city's annual commercial festival after
it is fitting tribute. 1t testifiesi we'll
to the Chicago merchants sense of the
fitness of things" as we'll as to their
business perspicuity.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18

A carpenter returned from Panama
states that 9 lunch there costs IS. Be-
lore forming final opinion on the sub
lect inquirers would like to see the
complete order. q lunch has been.
Known to reach. that figure in all parts
# the world. A
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18

Mark Twain told a little story with
moral at the Bernhardt benefit for
the Jewish sufferers in Russia. Years
ago." he. said, when Y was living at
Hartford, Nine. Bernhard played
there, and So was the price Of a ticket.
A widow and her daughter, nice, cul-
tivated people who lived next door to
us, wanted to go, but didn't feel they
had a right to spend Sc for an intel
lectual pleasure when there were some
people In the town starving. So they
took the Sc and sent it to the poor
Smiths to buy bread with. The Smiths
took the IS and bought tickets to see
Sarah Bernhardt."
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
A Tactful Drumni,,er.

A young Minneapolis commercial
traveller was taking a vacation with
his uncle In the country and was sud-
denly called upon to ask the blessing,
and not being accustomed to It, he
promptly tackled the dihhculty In the
following words
We acknowledge the receipt OF your
favor Of this date. Allow IN to extend,
our gratitude for this expression Of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
whore She Was injured.

"Will yez please tell me the name Of
that picture. misses?" I.
1T is called .Kismet, Bridget. /"
And phwat be the naming Of kis-
met, ma'am?' r
why. it means fate" replied her
mistress.
A few days afterward Bridget came
limping into the room.
Have you hurt yourself?" asked her
mistress.
"Indade an l have, mum. just
dropped the smoothing iron on me
kismet"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
ODD STR y 'TURE
tN1s FOLLY 1RxAxIrsTl
s. HOUSE, ~ LONDON.


london. There Is no doubt that the
Sakiest house In London ID that
aich stands at the corner Of Upper
sieynei row and Oakley street, In Chel-.
- It's owner calls it Chateau du
avenay. but locally It Is known by the,
3aore appropriate designation Of
'Phene's Folly 4 The street on which
1T fronts is familiar to American Wis
tors because 1t contains Carlyle's
house. 4 8
"Phene's Folly" presents one Of the.
most curious conglomerati0ns Of archi-
tectural and sculptural incongruities
that ever man wasted money on. 1t is
backed by wilderness garden, which
really belongs to the eighteenth CEN
fury house father down the row. The
entire front Of the mansion, which is
four stories high, is completely COW
cred with mystic devices, angels, gar
goyles, lions, grinins, armorial bear
ings. balustrades. columns, and capt.
tails. No system has been followed in
their arrangement. IT ls q veritable
nightmare medley. TO add to the In
eongruity Of the designs, the figures
are painted in the most vivid and
startling colors, brilliant reds, bright
yellows. and emerald greens being ex-
tensively employed. ss3. sg
Eight large female figures form the
basis of the scheme. and between their
heads are tablets and medallions on
which are depicted snakes. elephants,
sacred bulls, ecclesiastical emblems,
gods, and goddesses. On the parapet Of
the house are the figures Of Priam Of
Troy and Hecuba, each Of them con-
fronting huge dragon. In the center
Of the front is q coat Of arms with
quarterings Of mermen, stars and, dag
gers, and the motto, Eek SUPERB spe
pugnam." No body lives in the house
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18

q Corn husks," said the Sterling
agent of a Kansas City packing
house. have at last found good
place in the meat trade. They are used
as wrappers for sausage. There will be
a big demand for corn husks in the
future" This will be pleasing news
to Kansas farmers. II there is any.
thing they are long on, it is corn
husks.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
Struck II RIGHT

Cholly Newit-D'ye know, Miss Cut.
ter, though I've only just met you,
there seems to be a-er-sort of intel
lectual sympathy between us. You
know just how to appeal to my tastes
you know. Are you literary woman?
Dolly Cutter-No, I'm a kindergar-
ten teacher.-Cleveland Leader.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18
OKLAHOMA Giants.

Roger Mills county, Oklahoma, is
especially favored in the matter OF
giant citizens. In ELK City. there are
Is business men over six feet tall, one
being six feet four inches. Sayre has
. merchant who stands SIX feet seven
inches and four others over six fest
two. Berlin clinches the list with q
s15-year-old boy, Ell Guthrie, who
measures SIX feet six inches in his
stockings, weighs ls2 pounds and u
still srowing.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-18

There is plenty Of food for thought
in the statement that a fad for hunting
birds nests in the vicinity Of Law
renee, Kan, deprived that section Of
an apple crop for six years. Birds are
natures chief balance wheel in keep.
ing down insect pests. Yet many coun.
try folks are dissatisfied with game
law unless 1t is q practical nullity.