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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Housewarming at White Home.

An old-fashioned housewarming
was given at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. P. White last evening, when
invited friends to the number of
fifty assembled at the residence and
passed several hours very pleasantly.
The rooms we're prettily decorated,
and candles stuck in apples added
novelty to the scene.
Progressive cinch was played, at
which game P. J. Russell was the
most efficient gentleman player and
Mrs. Ike Black was the best player
among the ladies.
Refreshments were served by the
hostess.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
CHOATE IS SATISFIED
Says Much Was Accomplished at
Second Peace Conference.
DELEGATES RETURN HOME
Although the TWO Principal PROPOSE.
lions Failed Of Adoption Many Other
Suggestions OF nr., ortance Were Ap.
proved by tie Convention.

New York, NoT. General Horace
Porter and JOSEPH Fl. Choate, two of
the American ambassadors to the re-
cent peace conference at The Hague,
returned home on the steamer Kron
Pr1nzessin Cecilie and will go on to
Washington in few days to submit a
report to the president Both General
Porter and Mr.. Choate expressed
themselves as being entirely satisfied
with the results of the second confer
ence. Because two of the principal
propositions before the conference
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
The Builders.

"The Egyptians were the builders,''
said a contractor enviously. "No won
der their monuments will endure for
ever. Labor was nothing to them. AS
you would spend cent on a newspa-
per so would an Egyptian king put
10000 men to work upon a temple.
Labor, you see, cost nothing. A strik-
Ing example of the Egyptian prodigal-
ity Of labor lies in this fact: No less
than 1000 men were employed for
three years in carrying single stone,
a stone Of unexampled size, from Ele-
phantine to Sais.''
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
NO FOOTBALL GAME WITH
GRAND RAPIDS ELEVEN
The Rapids" High School Team Has
Disbanded. Bemidji Team Will
Also Oisband.

There will be no football game
between the Grand Rapids high
school football team and the Bemidii
high school eleven, as had been
planned for Saturday, owing to the
fact that the Grand Rapids team
was disbanded yesterday at the re-
quest of Professor f. A. Freeman,
superintendent of the Grand Rapids
school.
The disarmament Of the Grand
Rapids eleven is sore disappoint-
ment to the members of the Bemidji
high school eleven and their friends.
Grand Rapids defeated Bemidji a
month ago, at a time when the local
team had not been fully organized
and the membership was weak.
The local team has improved 100
per cent since that time, and have
won several very creditable victories,
notable among which is the defeat
of Crookston by score of s to O..
1t was hoped that the game could
be played Saturday as everyone who
has seen the local team play of late
was confident that they would have
won over at the Rapids"
However, the Bemidji team will be
disbanded, as it is impossible to get
a game with the East Grand Forks
team for the championship of the
northwestern part of the state, and
there are no other hi gh school elevens
that are still playing.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
The lnteIIiuent Bird.

Two negroes in Washington were
overheard discussing the intelligence
Of birds in general
"Birds is shore sensible" observed
one darby to the other. "Yo' kin learn
them anything. I ulster work for a
lady that had one in a clock, an when
1t was time to tell de time it ulster
come out an say cuckoo jest as many
times as de time wasp
''Yo' doan' say SOP asked the other
negro incredulously.
"Shore thingw responded the first
darby. "But de mos wonderful part
was dat it was only a wooden bird
too!'-Harpers Weekly.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Hitchcock Returns to Cr00kston.

The many Bemidji friends OF
Charles A. Hitchcock will be pleased
to learn that he has decided to re.
turn to Crookston, as the following,
taken from the Crookston Journal,
will show:
Charles A. Hitchcock will re-
turn to the city in few days and
resume his business in this section
as an autioneer. He made such a
success in that line that he needs no
introduction"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
FEARED HE WOULD GO MAD
Letter Written by Actor Hitchcock
Before His Disappearance.

London, Nov. 6.-Calling the serious
charges against him ga humiliating
SANDER" Raymond Hitchcock has
written a pathetic letter appealing to
a friend in Paris not to do as many
of his other acquaintance have done
and turn the cold shoulder to him at
his time of adversely.
''This agony can't last, you know,
for it will either drive me mad or I
must end it by a journey somewhere
is a sentence in the letter which is
published here; a most significant SEN
tence in view of the disappearance
from New York of the comedian, rest
ing under such accusations.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Falling of in Imports.

H New York, Nov. s.-The tightness
of the money market is reflected In
the monthly report of Colonel Edward
Fowler, appraiser of the port. His
figures for the month of October show
an approximate decrease Of over 3d.
100000 in the values Of importations
compared with the same month Of
last year.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
ABAND0Ns EUROPEAN TRIP
Said Secretary Taft Will Return Di-
rect to Pacific Coast,

Manila, Nov. >.-Secretary of War
Taft, it is reported, will abandon his
European tour and return directly to
the Pacific coast. He will leave Ma
Mia on Nov. 9 on the American flag
ship Rainbow for Yokohama, where
he will take passage by steamer for
San Francisco. This report has been
verified, though owing to the absence
of Mr.. Taft, who. is out of town visit
ing the new waterworKs, he cannot be
interviewed upon the political situa-
ton and the conditions prevailing at
Vladivostok, which, it is reported, are
the cause Of his return to America.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Died at Cass Lake.

Cass Lake, Nov. 7.-(Special to
Pioneer. Miss Ameline Lemke,
aged so years, died early yesterday
morning, after suffering for nearly
year with a cancer. The remains
were taken to Albany, Mimi, for
interment.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Unluckv at BRIDGE.

do you believe in this thirteen SUI
perstition?" asked Tete de Veau.
II do" replied L'Oignon. II could
never understand why I was so I'M
lucky at bridge till I discovered that I
was always dealt hand of just thir-
teen."-Exchange.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Scout Cruisers at Rio Janeiro.

Rio Janeiro, Nov. The United
States armored cruisers Washington
and Tennessee, the latter flying the
flag of Rear Admiral Sebree, have ar
rived here from Port of Spain, island
Of Trinidad, Oct "a, bound for the
Pacific coast.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
, Austrian BUDGET for 1908.

Vienna, Nov. THE budget for
1908 has been introduced in the inter
hahs by the minister of finance. It
showed the estimated expenditure to
be $42S,772,000 and theA revenue at
$429, $4,000, the estimated, surplus be-
ing over 100000 higher than in 1907.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

New York, Nov. Before leav-
ing for Washington last night Secre-
tary Cortelyou said:
! am helping out the situation in
Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Paul,
in connection with the grain crop;
also in New Orleans and in other
sections
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
FOR RENT: Small cottage. In
quire of ]. J. Cameron.
MISCELLANEOUS

PUBLIC LIBRARY-Open Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays,
ESQ to 6 p. NJ, and Saturday
evening 7:30 to- 9 p. m. also.
Library in basement of Court
House. Mrs. E. R. Ryan, librar-
ian.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
EvoI,ffion

Father" said little Rollo, what is
evolution?' Evolution, my son, is
sort Of apology which man has invent
ed for displaying SO many Of the traits
OF the lower animals."-W Washington
Star.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

considered by the board and dis
posed Of
There are many matters that need
consideration, and it is expected
that the session of the board will
last at least two days.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Special Meeting County Board.

A special meeting of the board of
county commissioners will be held
on Tuesday, December 3, when
matters of general business will be
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
A Failure.

"When she gave you the piece Of
cake, did you say Thank your"
"Yes, ma, but it didn't do no good.'
Didn't do any good?"
mo; she didn't give me another
piece
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
A Little Mixed.

A Hindoo barrister thus excused an
absent client whom sickness had pre-
vented from coming to court: 'The
man has fallen unwell, your honor,
and he has sent man here to say
that he is lying and cannot come"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
The Big Falls Robbery.

The Big Falls Compass says of
the postofice robbery at Big Falls
last Saturday morning:
When Postmaster Swedback went
to the posofice last Saturday morn.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Michigan Double Trauedy.

Bancroft, Mich, Nov. ARTHUR
Rogers. a wealthy farmer living two
miles from here, cut his wife's throat
with a razor and then committed sui.
eide with the same weapon. A farm.
hand coming to the house for dinner
found both of them dead on the
kitchen floor with their Threats cut.
Rogers is supposed to have been de.
mented.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

Three things too much and three too
little are pernicious to man-to speak
much and know little, to spend much
and have little, to presume much and
be worth little.-Cervantes.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
A Theory.

Tommie-Pa, how do storms git out?
Tompkins- out? What are you
driving at-out of what? Tommie-
wy, the weather bureau, o. course. 1
didn't know but mebby the man left
drawer open.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
Good Plan.

How can prevent the flies getting
Into my sugar basin?" wrote .sCon-
slant Reader" to a journal.
Fill the sugar basin with salt" was
the laconic reply. -Pele Mele.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

WANTED: Two dining-room girls,
wages $40 per month; two cham
bermaids; one dishwasher. Hotel
Brinkman.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

Lovers purses are tied with cob
Webs.-Italian Proverb.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
HELP WANTED.

FOR u. S. ARMY: Able
bodied unmarried men, between
ages of FL and IS; citizens of
United States, of good character
and temperate habits, who can
speak, read, and write English.
For information apply to Recruit
ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji.
MINI.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
EQR SALE.

FOR SALE-Rubber stamps. The
Pioneer will procure any kind of
rubber stamp for you an short
notice.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

WANTED Good girl for general
housework. Inquire 422 Mime
sofa Ave.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

WANTED = Lady cook. Inquire
Hotel Armstrong.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

FOR SALE-Magnifcent moose
head mounted; will be sold cheap.
Inquire at this office.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07

FOR SALE, CHEAP-House and
two lots. T. Symington, 500
Second street.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-07
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Two rooms, suitable
for light housekeeping, or fur
nished. 1924 Beltrami Ave.
Phone FTP.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-27
Iowa Newspapers
Observation-Disclosures ''ss'''ss'
DYING IN THE HARNESS.
- a.f5a,N

Those who look over the portraits
of Lodge are always struck by the
heroic pose considered the proper
thing by the early portrait painters.
Wellington and Nelson must have one
hand across the bosom and the other
waving a sword or upholding the flag.
So much was this heroic pose the
thing that until recent times it was
not considered statesmanlike to make
a speech without one hand across the
waistcoat. One of the pleasantest
recollections of the old Iowa senate
is Senator Bolter buttoning his froek
coat and engaging the fingers OF the
right hand under the overlapping
front, expanding his chest and begin
ming in an orotund voice about the
sanctity of the constitution.
Dying in the harness is one Of these
heroic poses For long time 1t has
been believed that statesmen and
heroes must die in a spectacular way,
with some profound observation of
patriotism on their lips When Web
ster awoke after long lapse of I'M
consciousness he remarked that he
still lived IT still live" has. been
shouted ever since into the ceilings
of the college chapels as one of the
immortal sayings. That a great man
should die in the quiet of his home.
engaged in contemplations suitable to
old age. and In a natural manner, has
been as uncomfortable as that Nelson.
who was small man, should be
painted other than as a cross between
an Indian cigar sign and a pirate of
the Barbary coast.
Why should a man consider his
career finished If he does not die
in the harness? 1t is possible to con-
ceive Of an old man so identified with
a great cause that the sacrifice of his
ease and cmfort is minor consider
alton Gladstone and Irish home rule.
might be accepted as an Illustration.
But why should Bismarck insist that
the whims and notions of a crotchety
old age must be consulted by the new
emperor in order that HIS place in the
history of an era already passed might
he fixed?
Old General Scott. who had won
fame in the war with Mexico. believed
he must die in the harness. and vain,
conceited, bedecked like peacock in
"
DAYS of the civil war with his bonn
shastc incompetence. The danger dur
ing the opening days of the rebellion
was that Lincoln would not be able
to get rid of the old heroes who were
bound to die in the harness. 1t was
q slow process wedding them out, but
in the end youth and energy-Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan--came to the tasks
set for youth and energy.
In Iowa sacrifice was made to this
absurd heroic pose when old Senator
Gear filed with the honors the state
could confer and arrived at the age
when every consideration of health
and happiness and self-respect called
him to the deserved rest he had Won,
was forced to stand up to task
that tires even men like President
Roosevelt, and. with glazing eye and
failing memory to attempt to recall
the friends of other days. to fill the
role of a youth long gone, and to graf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-27
CIT Rllsy INSPECTING.

Secretary Wilson'S crusade against
impure milk should be backed up by
every health board in the land. Inc
secretary is right when he says pure
and Clearly milk is a sanitary neces-
city. and milk carelessly handled OF
produced under unsanhtary conditions
4 deadly danger. 1t is estimated thal
forty out of every hundred diseases OF
infants may be traced to impure ana
infected milks.
Here are suggestions offered by the
bureau Of animal industry to ind1Vio-
uals:
"Do not patronize milk dealer at
anN price whose milk, after stanuins
for over two hours, reveals a vlsiDie
sediment at the bottom of the bottie.
It is evidence of dirty habits extreme
Nv suggestive of danger and entlreIy
preventable by clean, decent methods
without greatly increasing the cost.
Subject all your milk to home passeur-
ization by simply bringing 1T to the
boiling point and after cooling keep
the milk on Ice. ThiY will destroy the
germ life and reduce the chance OF
milk borne diseases to a minimum.
But no individual should be forced to
abnormal watchfulness of the milk
supply in self protection. Public safe
ty demands that the defense of the
public against epidemics Of typhoid fe-
yer. tuberculosis and other infectious
and comm unicable diseases should not
be left to the individual; for indivldu-
ais are careless. It is the duty of the
health board and health physicians to
guard communities against danger
more deadly than smallpox, fire, floods
and tornadoes. When they fail to do
this to the utmost of their ability ana
legal privilege, they are unfaithfui ana
responsible.
Thru ignorance, carelessness and.
greed it is not uncommon that milk
purveyors put the lives and health OF
communities in serious danger. The
closest inspection is not only advisable,
hut to neglect 1t is to approach criml-
.nality. If inspection were made at
short intervals and the results of such
inspection published there would be no
dangerous dairies except by collision
OF unfaithful officials.
Get busy with the diaries, slaughter
houses and all other purveyors of food.
Perhaps inspection of hotel and res
taurant kitchens, the sorting out Of
those where help suffering from loath-
some or infectious diseases are en-
ployed belongs to the health physi-
clans. If not. 1t should be added to
their duties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-27
Topics Of the Times

One way to make enemies is to make
true friends, for the man who has no
enemies has no real friends.
If Secretary Taft rs at all susceptible
to compliment, he has already received
a considerable return for his trouble
as presidential candidate.
Nevertheless, in the game that is be-
ing played by the standpatters 1t may
yet become necessary to draw Smith
or Lacey from the discard.
1t is said the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana is not worth as much as
the fine assessed against it. Well, for
that matter a murderer isn't worth the
price of the rope required to hang
him.
AS showing how far behind Ameri-
can customs the effete east really is,
after long struggle French married
women have finally obtained the right
!, 10 COIllTOl dIu Q1SpOSe, VI lIiSii oNii
earnings independently of their hus-
bands The American woman has al
ways enjoyed this privilege and that
other inherent right to control and dis
pose of what her husband earns.
New York BARRIERS propose to force
patrons who use safety razors to buy
safety shears and cut their own hair.
mo shave, no hair cut" is the slo-
gan.
II Governor Hughes stays up nights
walking the floor, he may not be Wor-
.rying over the presidential chances.
There's a new baby at the governors
mansion.
Chicago is now agitating the ques-
ton of what it will do with the crowds
in the congested districts. While
waiting for the improved airship, it
might be we'll to spread the business
district over enough ground for stand
ing room.
Deputy Collector Hendryx. with
posse, from Raleigh. N c.. and Dep
uty Collector Henry, with posse. from
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-27
THE SPOILERS.

Rex. e. Beach, whose magazine ar
regions where men wash placers and
burrow In the earth for gold, have been
SO well received by the reading public,
has written a story into the center OF
the wild arctic mines of Alaska,
country none knows better than he,
with its bitterness, brutality. success
and failure. 1t Is graphic in descrip-
ton and offers picture of the fierce
wild life of the gold fields. In the CEN
ter Of this picture he has set a num-
Der of strong characters and surround
ed them with strong situations. The
story catches the reader from the
fierce fight and rescue of the beginning
chapter, and holds him thru the stir
ring scenes that belong of right to the
land where men strive for fortune
against the brute forces of cold and
hunger and men as immovable as the
mountains and cruel as the eternal
SHOWS.
The Times-Republican has managed
to secure this story for serial publica-
ton, and its first chapters will appear
in tomorrow's issue. 1t is, perhaps
outside of the Wings of the Morning"
the most thrilling and interest compel
ling tale this paper has ever printed
and will be met by it's readers no doubt
with full appreciation. 1t is one OF
the new books that sell on the shelves
for $1.50, and among the "big sellers"
In securing it for the Times Republic
can the newspaper has made sure Of
treat for those who find fiction a pleas
ant relief and source of amusement
and comfort. Don't miss the opening
chapters tomorrow 1.-The Spoilers" is
a great story laid in the newer scenes
OF a new gold field.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-27
somE ResuLTs Of RECIPROCITY.

Figures of trade with Cuba for the
fiscal year ended June 80 of this year
offer suggestion of what reciprocity
treaties might do with other countries
besida the Cuban republic. Trade Of
the United States with Cuba in the
present year aggregated almost 100
million dollars. The imports from the
island were nearly 100 million dollars
in value and the exports thereto near
ly so millions To be more accurate,
the value of the imports from Cuba in
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907,
was s97,441,690. and Of the exports
thereto S49,sO5.s74.
In both imports and exports the
trade with Cuba In 1907 exceeded that
Of any previous year. The largest inn
ports from the island in any previous
year were those Of 1905, when they ag-
gregated a little over Sc millions. The
largest exports to the island prior to
1907 were those of 1905, when they
aggregated 47A millions.
The imports from the island exceed
by about Is per cent those of the
highest record year under Spanish rule
1874, when the imports from Cuba
were valued at S51s million dollars.
The exports to the island are about
twice as much as those of the highest
export year under Spanish rule, 1898,
when the exports to the island were
"a million dollars in value.
A comparison Of the trade with Cuba
in 1907 with that Of the last year prior
to the present reciprocity treaty, 1908,
gives some interesting results. The
reciprocity treaty went into effect in
December, 1903, and the last full year
of trade prior to that date was the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1908. A
comparison of the figures of that year
with those of 1907 shows an increase
of about so per cent In the imports
from the island and of about 125 per
cent in the exports of the island.
During that same period the increase
10 imports from other parts of the
world was about 40 per cent and tho