The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-11
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VIRTUE q HATH ITS OWN REWARD. .

VIRTUE q HATH ITS OWN REWARD"
Ye gods, but this is an age O.
"get the money and respect
ability and social distinction vii
follow like an avalanche.
Here comes the Duluth News
Tribune and discovers that A G.
Bernard has played the martyr
act, and has accidentally been re
cognize ! as great public bene
factor ard rewarded with lucra
tive position in Washington as a
fitting tribute to his great worth
People up in this s'neck O. the
woods" who know Bernard, and
his ways, will scarcely refrain
from smiling at the effort of the
| News Tri bune, as follows:
"A. G.. Bernard, known in
Washington as Captain Der
nard, is an example Of the wise
man who has to get out in the
wide, wide world to get his prop
er measure Of appreciation
Minnesota has known him as q
dignifed, elderly gentleman with
a young heart, who was always
too busy spending the dollars
that came to him voluntarily, tc
collect the ten that were also d ue,
and, whatever his inward
thought, the outward expression
was that of the princely host.
eft was only in the solitudes
of the forest primeval, in the
tepees of the Indian braves,
whose friend he was and whose
pipe he could always share, that
be ever stopped to ruminate on
the ingratitude of nations and
the short memories of politi.
clans.
"Several times he has been
sent to Washing on on missions
no one else had the nerve to
tackle, and he never failed tc
effect results But some way or
other results never seemed tc
balance in the minds of the home
people the delights of that Wash.
ington life of which they could
see visions.
"They could only picture a
stately form, surmounted by
Bernard's classic features, as
arm in arm he promenaded with
the president, with diplomats,
cabinet members and senators,
or as slipping gold-labeled nectar
between bites of terrapin be
lolled in the luxury of oficialdom
GAIL this time they, his friends
and neighbors ,ehis fellow crafts.
men and fellow citizens, to whom
his door was never locked and
his larder was always open, were
at home plugging along at every
day, dreary tasks. It was but
the inevita BILE that he returned
to meet the hammer and the re
mains of what had been a bust.
ness.
"But why should Bernard care
now? / The wide wide world has
come into it's own, and so has he
He is now chairman of the
executive committee of the Ma.
tional Drainage association, with
headquarters at Washington, a
salary of $1,000 year cinched
for three years and a 50, 900 clerk
to do the odd jobs. He is still
working for Minnesota, and his
serenity of temper is proof even
against prosperity.
''And so long as his salary
lasts every Minnesotan who gets
as far as Washington will be his
most ardent friend and admirer,
while the whole state may ulti
mately discover what a few at
least have always known, that he
deserves all the good fortune
that has come to him."
! And next we may expect a
donation from the charitable Fl.
|G. Hayes, erstwhile owner Of the
Bemidji Sentinel, for the erection
of a public library or orphans
home, as a token of his apprecia.
ton of the efforts of the northern
Minnesota settlers to support
the lobby that was maintained at
Washington last winter in the
cause of drainage and "other
i things"