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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-17
Made q Gorilla Kin9.

F.. The craze among society women for
queer pets is an old story. It usually
ends through being carried too far.
There is the case Of Andromeda, for in
stance, and there is that other affair Of
the decadent Roman emperor's daugh-
ter, who had a pet gorilla, procured for
her at great cost by an Arabian trader
who supplied strange beasts for the
amphitheater. One day the Praetorian
guard arose and murdered the caesar.
The gorilla, who happened to be pres
ent, strangled the ringleader, who was
to have assumed the imperial purple
himself, with it's bare hands. This so
delighted the Praetorians that they
unanimously elected. the gorilla, whom
they took for barbarian from North
Britain, to the vacant throne On the
mistake being explained by geologic
ally minded patrician, the divus caesar
had to be killed and another one cho-
sen.-London News. s
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Size of Heads,

The average adult head has a cir
cumference of fully twenty-five inches
The average adult hat is fully six and
three quarters size. The sizes of mems
hats are six and three-fourths and six
and seven-eighths generally. "Sevens'
hats are common in Aberdeen, and the
professors of our colleges generally
wear seven and one-eighth to eight
sizes. Heads wearing hats of the sizes
six and three-eighths and smaller OF
being less than twenty-one inches in
circumference can never be powerful
Between nineteen and twenty inches
in circumference heads are invariably
very weak and, according to this au.
thority, mo lady should think of mar.
rying man with a head less than
twenty inches in circumference" Peo
pie with heads under nineteen inches
are mentally deficient and with heads
under eighteen inches Invariably idi-
otic.-London Young Woman.
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A poverty social will be held in
the chapel of the M. E. church
next Friday evening.
When q Man Lies.

IF you want to tell whether or not
the man you are talking to is telling
the truth, don't look him in the eyes,"
said a Denver bank teller to some
friends last night. II thought twas just
the other way" said one Of those pres
ent- 1--WE always understood that it
made it harder for the liar if you looked
sQuarely in his eyes," '"That's wrong
impression" continued the bank teller
1.-THE man who knows how to lie knows
how to look you in the eyes when he's
doing 1t. And the man who isn't a
regular liar, but who has made up his
mind to lie to you, decides first that
he must look you straight in the eyes,
1t is the voice, when you don't look at
the eyes, that tells you whether the
other fellow is lying. We use the sys-
TEN frequently In the bank. A man
will come in to tell us some business
tale. We look at his feet or his hands
or his knees, but never in his eyes,
If he's telling the truth his voice will
be firm and straightforward, and the
absence Of your gaze in his eyes will
not affect it, but If he's lying he'll be
confused by your action, and his voice
will tremble. He'll hem and haw and
clear his throat. You may rest as
sured then that he's stringing you."--
Denver Post.
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Two Lada.

At one time, when De Quincy was
living at Lasswade in simple and
friendly relations with the people, who
respected him not as writer, but as
good neighbor, he formed a very de-
lightful friendship with a little child,
a boy of ;. four years. This lad, a
nephew of one Of the housemaids, was
the constant companion of the great
man and would forsake any amuse-
ment for the pleasure of walking
round a dull little garden with him.
One day somebody heard this conver-
sation between the two comrades:
"What dye call thon treeY' asked
the child. .......... 77--ss-..e.
De Quincy considered and then
said, with careful deliberation, Il am
not sure, my dear, but think it may
be laurustinus." ~ ~.
The child interrupted him with some
scorn: "a laurustinus! Lad; dye no
ken a rhododendron? j..
At that time the ''lad'' must have
been about seventy years old.
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Harris Goes to Canada.

Bruce Harris, who was in the
city the forepart of the week,
has removed his family from this
city to Prince Albert, Canada,
where he will make his future
bone. Mr.. Harris, who has a re-
munerative and responsible posi-
tion with the Prince Albert Lum-
ber company, expresses himself
as being we'll satisfied with his
new location. .-Crookston Journal
Mr.. Harris is a brother of A E..
Harris of this city, and is well
known in Bemidji, having lived
here while in the employ of the
Crookston Lum Der company.
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Fine Entertainment,

An audience that was tak.n on
a most delightful tour Of ireland
by the widely-known Rev.
Roderick J. M ,oney, rector OF
St Luke's and Holy Apostles
churches in Duluth, pronounced
the entertainment at the opera
house last evening an entire sue
cess.
The selection of scenes OF
l eland we're many and beautiful.
The musical numbers given by
Prof. Symington, Miss Mabel
M:Taggart and Mr.. Ashelman,
with Miss Boyer as accom- panist,
were especially good and were
received with much enthusiasm
by the audience.
Last evenings entertainment
was of great educational value
and much credit is due The ladies
Of the E oiscopal Guild.
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She Made Good"

Miss Grace Allen, daughter OF
Colonel Allen of the Sentinel, is
to be congratulated on the work
which she did in getting out the
Sentinel this week. The "old
man" was called to Minneapolis;
Mrs. Charles, the publisher,
Ven to Rochester to undergo a
serious operation, aud Miss
G'ace was left alone-pu blisher,
editor and business manager,
the triune, as it We're. She
looked after the "ghost'' for Sat
urday; wrote several columns OF
local matter and last, but moi
least, filled the colonel's
Gro Hler'' column with selec
tions from 'Word aud Works. .
Miss Grace is all right.
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Operation Successful.

"A. Is. Allen received word this
morning from Rochester, Mimi,
to the effect that the operation
which was performed at the
Mayo hospital at Rochester yes
terday on Mrs. Charles, pub
Usher of the Sentinel, was sue.
cessful.
Mrs. Charles went to Roches.
ter the first of the week and con.
suited the Mayo's relative to a
cancer with which she has lately
been afflicted. She was told that
an operation might be beneficial
and decided to submit to the
surgeon yesterday. This morn
ing the following telegram was
received by Mr.. Allen: "Mayo
says operation all right. y
Mrs. Charles Bemidji friends
will be pleased to learn that the
first effects of the operation are
favora le, and hope that the out
come will be her entire recovery
of robust health.
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i A Queer, Play In Base ball.

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Here is a play in baseball that hap
pened long ago. Perhaps II never will
happen again. Did any one ever hear
of a base runner scoring from first
base on line drive that was caught
by a third baseman and when the ball
never left the third baseman's hand?
The play happened in this way: Andy
Moynihan was playing third base for
the Pastimes Of Chicago in 1868 when
tournament was held. The Occiden-
tails of Peoria were the opposing team
In the first inning, with runner on
first, the batter drove a liner straight
over third. Moynihan showed up his
hand, the ball struck it and stuck
fast in the hand. The crowd cheered
An instant later they saw something
was wrong. Moynihan, writhing with
pain, was running around third base
The base runner at first saw something
was the matter and ran down to Sec
ond. Then he ran to third and finally
trotted home unmolested.
The trouble was that the ball, strik-
ing Moynihan's hand, paralyzed the
nerves. The ball was stuck tight in
his hand. 1t was five minutes before
his fellow players could pry his I'm
gers open and get the ball out.-Chica-
60 Tribune. ::z,f /,
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Don't forget the poverty social
at the M. E. chapel next Friday
avnnino
A Patented Plant,

zone plant at least has been patent
3D." said an inventor. 1T is the Abrus
precatorius, alias paternoster pea, alias
weather plant. John Nowack took out
the patent. The weather plant is still
believed by many persons to foretell
the weather. John Nowack was sure it
did SO, and he put it on the market
along with an indicating apparatus,
guaranteeing it to foretell for forty
eight hours in advance and for fifty
miles around fog, rain, snow, hail,
earthquake and depressions likely to
cause explosions Of fire damp. Alas
for poor Nowack! The experts Of the
bureau Of agriculture took up his pat
ented plant. They proved that the
movements of the leaves-to the right
foretelling rain, to the left foretelling
drought-were not caused by the
weather, but by the light. And they
proved that the plants famous down.
ward movement, which was supposed
to foretell earthquake, was caused by
an insect that punctured the stem,
causing the leaf, naturally, to droop.
That is the only patented plant
know of, and Nowack lost money on
II - - 49, -tGs.E f.lr ~ II ii. s..-Fr
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Got Three Deer.

Judge Marshall A. Spooner
has returned from his annual
hunt for big game, in which be
was fairly successful, being a
member of a party of hunters
WHO secured three deer! z@
The judge joined I. D. Ras-
mussen Of Grand Rapids, clerk
of court of It4sca county, and
Fred Fish IF Grand Rapids,
deputy sheriff, and went north
of Deer River on the Itasca Log
ging company's railroad. They
put in several days in the woods
and shot three fine bucks, which
we're brought into civilization.
This was judicial hunt" as
it were.
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Rare Ben JOnsOn,

The epitaph, 20 Rare Ben Jonson,"
engraved on the tablet marking the
burial place Of the celebrated play
wright in the poets corner" West
minister abbey, is said to have orig
mated with Jack Young (afterward
knighteD, who, walking there when
the grave was covering, gave the fel-
low IS pence to cut It." DR.. Brew
er in his phrase and Fable says
Shakespeare called Jonson "Rare
Ben," but does not say where. Ac-
cording to Chambers "Book Of Days."
the phrase formed the concluding
words Of the verses written and dis
played in the clubroom Of Ben's clique
at the famous Mermaid tavern. The
epithet Rare Ben Jonson" is said to
have been first uttered after the ap-
pearance Of his highly successful farce
bartholomew Fair" The epitaph has
been copied once at least When Sir
William Davenant was inferred in
Westminster abbey the inscription on
his covering stone was 20 Rare Sir
William &Davenant." .at
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Safest Place In Trains.

II have one rule for my family when
they travel" said the conductor of the
suburban train, "and that is for them
never to ride in the rear coach or the
first one and, preferably, not in the
coach next to the last or first. The rea-
son for it is so obvious that I should
think the foremost and last cars Of a
train would have scant patronage from
anybody who reads of railroad acct
dents. If there is smashup, those are
the coaches that suffer. It seems
strange that some kind Of a buffer is
not put behind the locomotive tender
and at the rear of the train: How
many lives would be saved by device
OF the kind one has only to study the
statistics Of railroad accidents to fig
ure out for himself" York Press.
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Chinese Gamblers Penance.

A Chinese cook named Chin Kan had
been engaged by wealthy Chinese in
Ho In street in Canton. All the money
he earned had been lost in gambling.
On one occasion his master paid him
some money for the provisions he sup
piled. The cook lost all the money at
one stake. Finding that his debts
were accommodating day by day, on the
twenty fourth day he went into the
kitchen and chopped off the forefnger
of. his left hand as a self punishment
and warning in order to relinquish this
evil habit of gambling in the future.
He became unconscious through the
pain, but was brought round again in
a few minutes Singapore Times.
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BASKETBALL GAME IS TO
Be PLAYED next MONDAY
Firemen's Team and Town Team
Will Put Up Interesting
a. g. Exhibition. s...ss.

The first basketball game of
the season wllkbe played at the
opera house Monday evening,
when the regular team Of the fire
department. will be pitted against
a five selected from all other
players iD the city who are not
members of the FIRE departm mt
The tiremen's team will be
selected from the following;
Harry Cell and Lee Heffron, who
have played at the University of
Minnesota, and Harry Arnold,
formerly with Sauk Center and
Park Rapids, as permanent fix
lures on the team; Earl Cell,
Scott Stewart, Arthur and Ed
ward Gould. The special team
will be composed of John Schu-
maker, mem Der Of the St.
Cloud Normal school team when
that organization won the st t,
championship; Collins, a mem Der
of the old St. Johns team, and
Roy Lindsay, an ex-mem Der of
the Minneapolis Y. NJ. C.. A. five,
the other two positions to be
filed by players yet to be Sc
lected. j.. = .e.s.',
The game will be called at $50
sharp, and an ex-mem Der of tbs,
Carlisle and F!andreau basket
ball teams, who now lives at Red
Lake, will act as referee.
The candidates for position on
the fremen's team and other
players have been practicing
very regularly, of late, and it is
expected that the game Monday
will result in some very good
playing. r. a~
It is the intention to arrange
several games to be played here
with teams from outside points.
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Buyins Birds to free Them.

Birds are often purchased in the bird
market at Lucknow, India, in order to
be set free again. This is done by Hin
docs as a work Of merit and by Mo-
hammedans after certain rites have
been performed as an atonement, in
imitation Of the Jewish scapegoat. It
is essential that bird used for this
purpose should be strong enough to fly
away; but that does not induce the
cruel dealers to feed the birds, or to
refrain from dislocating their wings or
breaking their legs. They put down
everything to good or bad luck, and
leave the customer to choose a strong
bird, IL he can find one and to go away
If he cannot. The merit obtained by
setting a bird free is not attributed to
Deity, but it is supposed to come in a
large measure from the bird itself or
from its attendant spirit, and hence
birds OF good or bad omen, and es-
pecially kites and crows, are in much
demand and are regularly caught to be
sold for this purpose. I'll
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Lifting a Kettle of Hot Water.

Some time when the teakettle is bub.
bling and boiling on the kitchen range
lift 1t quickly by its handle and set it
on the open palm of your other hand.
This sounds like very foolhardy thing
to do-as if your hand might be blis-
tered in a twinkling- you will find
that you can hold the teakettle which
has just come from a roaring fire for
some time without hurting you. Try
1t and then see If you can tell the rea-
son why you are not burned. Be sure,
however, that the water is boiling
strongly before you make the expert
ment. -H,~-... ~...,.,, ~... --. ..--- -,
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Many Who Have Been Waiting, Have
Now Left for the
Woods.
WHITE BLANKET AIDS SPORTSMAN
IN THE TRACKING OF HIS PREY
Also Enables Him to Tell Number OF
Deer in the Terri
tory.

Many local and outside hunters
have gone out into the woods,
yesterday and today, who have
waited for good fall of snow be.
fore venturing in the country in
search Of deer and moose. They
have had everything in readiness
for a start in an hours notice,
and when the snow of yesterday
fell, it took only short time to
get in readiness for the shooting.
While snow is not really neces-
sary for deer hunting, man
stands a much better show of
getting what he is after if two or
three inches of snow covers the
ground. Not only is he able to
follow the animals wherever they
may lead him, but he can, read.
Ing the tracks correctly, tell
within an hour or two how long
since the deer or moose have
been in certain places, and even
a novice is enabled to tell by the
nun Der of tracks whether he is
in a country where there is good
hunting. This end is not so
easily accomplished before the
first fall of snow, and it takes
one we'll versed in the arts OF, the
f)rest to tell, without the aid of
snow, whether the game is in
sufficient mum oers to pay one to
remain in the vicinity.
Another advantage is that with
snow the hunter does not make
so much noise going through the
brush as he does when there is
no such carpet to keep his feet
from closer contact with the
sticks and twigs and dry leaves
scattered over the ground.
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Birthday Party.

Last Wednesday was the 9Th
anniversary Of the bu of little
Beatrice Kirk, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George Kirk, and the
occasion was com memorated by
the giyi>. 6 Of q birthday party at
the Kirk home, in the afternoon.
Games we're played and refresh
ments we're served. The little
hostess entel tained The following
guests Eva and Calvert Foster,
Katherine and Clara Hawkins,
Lucine McCuaig, Gladys ard
Lois Under wood, A ma a, d
Francis McManus.
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"Nanling'' q Member.

1t Is an ancient belief that a mans
name has some mysterious sympathy
with his nature, whence arise such
stories as that Of Rumpelstiltskin,
whose power over human being van
ishes the moment that his name is pro-
nounced aloud 1t has been suggested
with some show of reason that the
modern practice of naming" refrac-
tory member of the British house of
commons is merely survival Of this
belief, which the Norsemen brought
into England.
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METHODIST Morning subject,
s'Each Man Broke HIS Pitcher,
Raised His Lamp, and the Foe
Ran, Cried and Fled" "a
mighty battle without blood
shed. Special music, s'Out of
the Deep Have I Cried, !"
"Greatly to Be. Praised"
Time II. Sacred concert in
the evening. Time 8. &>T
PROGRAM. -, :. l.
"Ablde With Me-" with origin
of by mn.
Scripture lesson.
l Invocation. =ss +.
- Oh, for a Thousand Tongues
to S ng, . with origin Of hymn.
Praise Ye the Lord, cheir.
s'Holy City," Nellie Shannon.
Duet, Mrs. Peart and Miss
Miller. = G&a
Solo, Mrs. Maud v. Smythe.
"a Song in the Air. choir.
Violin solo, G. E Meyer.
Bass solo, L. H. Adds,
Cornet solo. Mr.. Symington.
s'Lift Up Your Heads, choir.
..'In That City, - solo end
chorus. .. -
Note-A silver Offering will be
taken, but not at the door. .
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A KiDpered Pastor.

A French Protestant pastor was the
guest Of a Scottish preacher at a
manse. One morning kippered herrings
were served at breakfast. The French
pastor asked the meaning of ''kipper."
His host replied that it meant Ito pre-
serve" On taking his leave next day
the French pastor, wringing his hosts
hand, said, MAY the Lord kipper you,
my good friend"
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A Train For. TYLER.

During Mr.. Tyler's incumbency Of
the presidential Office he arranged to
make an excursion in some direction
and sent his son Bob to arrange for a
special train. It happened that the
railroad superintendent was strong
Wing. AS such he had no favors to
bestow on the president and informed
Bob that his road did not run any
special trains for the president
"What!" said Bob. did you not fur
nish special train for the funeral
Of President Harrison?'' EYES," said
the superintendent, "and If you'll
bring your father in that condition you
shall have the best train on the road" !"
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A Kiss That Brought Death.

Courtship in Spain is regulated by
the strictest etiquette. AS is well
known, a young man is never left
alone with his f1ancee. Near Malaga
a beautiful young girl Of twenty COM
mitted suicide by drinking cup Of
coffee in which phosphorus had been
dissolved. It appears that the girl had
been driven to the deed by the adverse
comments of neighbors who became
aware that she had given her sweet
heart kiss.-London Mail.
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PRESBYTERIAN - A special
service in the morning for the
mem bers and friends of the
church. All such are kindly
requested to be present, II
o'clt OK. Bible class and Sun.
day school 1915, Junior G. E.
3 p M, Senior G.. E. z p. m.
At 8 o'clock the pastor will de-
liver the third "Illustrated
sermon in the series. The
public is welcomed to all these
services. r ... -'-a "
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Sunday Dinner at Markham.

Don't have your wife fret over
a hot stove tomorrow, getting
your Sunday dinner. Take her
and the rest of your family to the
Markham hotel and enjoy the 6
o'clock dinnerserved there every
Sunday evening.
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BAPTIST-The subject Sunday
q morning in the Baptist church
will be "A Bruised Reed and
Smoking Flax" In the even.
ing, "How to Be Saved and
Know It." Morning service
at II, evening service at 8,
Sunday school at 1910, Young
Peoples at Z p. NJ. All vel
come. ..--
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The Family Game.

Mother Coming into the children's
room) Rosie, what are You making
such terrible noise over? Look at
Hugo. See how quiet he sits there.
Rosie-Yes, it's easy for him to sit
quiet in the game we are playing. He
Is papa, who has come home late, and
] am-you. Wiener Salonwitzblatt.
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Telephone Lines Crossed

Ole K,ttelson of this city. divi.
sionlineman for the Northwestern
Telephone Exchange company,
left this morning for Walker to
remedy a defectin the wires be.
tween Walker and the next sta.
5tion south. The, wires are be.
slieved to have become crossed in
some manner last night and the
long distance business over that
line was. suspended. Kittelson
believed he would locate the
crossing Of the wires within ten
miles Of Walker.
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Mill Closed Down,

The CrOOkstOn Lumber com
pany's sawmi|l shut down yes.
terday for the season, and the
army Of men who have been EN-
ployed at the plant will seek
other occupations until the
spring opening, many of them
going into the woods.
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Postage Stamps. .

Postage stamps are peculiarly liable
to become septic and to convey deadly
germs, says the British Medical Press
and Circular, a fact that cannot be too
widely known to the public who find in
1t popular substitute for sticking plas-
ter. "&- @a 53s,
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Notice.

Out Of respect 70 iheSmemory
Of Fred g. Carlson late city edi.
tor of the Daily Pioneer, the Pho
neer offiee:WiA be closed between
the hours Of 2 and 4o'clock Nj n:
day afterno Don, while the funeral
is Eeing held - i.
2s.z4 S5s9TC j. PRYOR,
4 Manager.
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:. Explicit.

The Kedah postoft1ce authorities have
somewhat blunt way Of putting
things. Copies Of Penang paper post
ed to a subscriber were the other day
returned marked, .Addressee hanged
for murder" Bangkok Times.