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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-28
Legal blanks at this office.

Legal blanks at this office.
WANTED-Two girls for kitchen
work. Hotel Markham.
Miss Florence Grimoldby returned
last evening from a visit with friends
at Brainerd.
The ladies of the Episcopal Guild
will meet at the home of Mrs. Croker
Thursday afternoon at 2:3O.
Just" baking powder and Hunts
Perfect! Let your next Baking
show the differencel Also try their
extracts. ..
Remember that the Hawkins meat
market will be reopened to the
public Saturday, with James F.
Hawkins in personal charge.
Horace Durham, lineman for the
M. & I. railway, returned last even
ing from a visit to Kelliher, where
he had been to make some repairs to
the telegraph wires.
Crookston Journals: Ray Kelly
returned to Bemidji yesterday &C.
companied by his father, M. Kelly.
Ray is getting along nicely in the
offices of the Crookston, Lumber
Co.
A. C. Mclean left last night for
Duluth, where he took his wife to
place her in a hospital at that place.
Mrs. Mclean has been ill for some
time. The sick woman is the mother
of Mrs. Julius Dahl.
M. E. Smith has sold his residence
(11O1 Bemidji avenue) to ]. j.
Opshal, for valuable consideration.
Mr.. Opshal will take possession next
Monday, when he will move his
family to the city and become a
resident. Mr.. Smith will build
house on his property on Lake
Boulevard. Mr.. Opshal has secured
a fine property, in the Smith resi-
dence. =
S. L. Lalone, who is scaling logs
at the Kelso sawmill at Turtle River
for the surveyor general, returned
last evening to Turtle, after hav-
ing visited in this city over Sunday
with his family. Mr.. Lalone is
erecting a new house on Thirteenth
street, a block back from Irving
avenue, and his stay here was for
the purpose of directing work on
the new home.
Uncle George"Wetsel, the presi-
~
dent of the Beltrami County Old
Settlers association, returned last
evening to his home at Turtle River.
He is well pleased with the arrange
ments which have been made with
the management of the forthcoming
fair for caring for the old settlers at
their annual reunion, to be held on
the first day of the fair, and asserts
that he will do all in his power to
have a large crowd of the folks here
that day. IT,.
L. G. Pendergast. who holds the
belt as the veteran cruiser of the
north country, left last evening for a
trip to International Falls, from
which place he will 60 down the
Rainy river to the Black river to
look over some claims. Harry
Tanner accompanied the Judge, and
dt Turtle River they were joined by
Messrs. Porter and Foote, of Turtle,
all of whom are in search of timber
claims, with Judge Pendergast as the
guardian angel.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20
1t May Be True.

A Pittsburger who was stopping at
hotel in this city was having much
more hilarious time than the manager
of the house thought best for the COM
fort of the other guests, and he was
invited to leave. The man was feel
ing about as happy when the invita-
ton was extended as at any other
time since his arrival in town. He had
his suitcase partly packed in the
checkroom of the hotel, and sent q
bell boy up to his room after the rest
of his belongings. The boy came back
with a good-sized armful of shirts,
neckties and linen.
Standing in the lobby OF the hotel
the Pittsburger dumped the whole
mess into the case and closed 1t. Then
he babe the manager adieu and start
ed out, with shirtsleeves, neckties,
and legs of unmentionables dangling
from the case. The manager directed
the Pittsburger's gaze upon the array.
Boy" ordered the happy one, "a
pair of s-s-schissors." A few minutes
later he proceeded before an amused
crowd to trim the suitcase from stem
to stern. Then, leaving the trimmings
on the lobby floor, he tackled toward
the door.-New York Sun.
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same time comfortable fashion 10
quite sure of following at all times
by the masses of women, including
many of the modish world. These
fashions need not always be becoming
to insure their life. The short skirt
is not nearly so graceful as the long
one, but even for the street the skirt
escaping the pavement by an inch is
seldom seen save on women who no
longer pretend to be below middle
age. The skirt varying from three
inches to five and even six is seen
everywhere, and its wearer may be IS
or 4S, fat or thin, tall or short She
means to be comfortable, and the men
applaud her for it, for, after all, men
like sense. The blouse is also with
us to stay. 1t is inseparable from the
coat and skirt costume, whether long
or short, elaborate or simple.
AS for the short sleeves, it must be
confessed they are very trying to the
majority, whose bones are all too
prominent, and whose hands seem dis
proportionately large. But they are
cool and comfortable and under try.
ing conditions lingerie blouse that
would be soiled In an hours wear,
energies fresh and spotless as to it,
sleeves after a days shopping. In any
event, the woman with the dainty
hand and rounded arm should never
relinquish the elbow sleeves wherever
and whenever they may properly be
worn.
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The Peaceful Joy of the River.

An ingenious Spaniard says that
rivers and the inhabitants of the wa
terry element were made for wise men
to contemplate and fools to pass by
without consideration" And though
I will not rank myself in the number
Of the first, yet give me leave to free
myself from the last, by offering to
you short contemplation. first of riv-
ers, and then of fish; concerning
which l doubt not but to give you
many observations that will appear
very considerable; am sure they have
appeared so to me, and made many an
hour pass away more pleasantly. as
have sat quietly on flowery bank by
a calm river.-Isaac Walton.
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After the heat of midsummer ma
ture offers special inducements to the
athletic girl, and for such we offer the
above suggestions in dress. The first
gown is of brown and white check
with buff. revers, and black velvet col
lar, and is crowned with a hat of
MANILA turned up with black, and
trimmed with black, and the coat has
pipings of buff and buttons Of gold,
and beneath it should be worn any
sort of simple shirt, either of lawn, of
tucked white crepe de chine, or of
Shantung. The great essential to the
success of this costume is it's absolute
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nSSpSCIluily yOuTS,
CHAS. M. GERTS AND FAMILY.
Mechanics for War Vessels.

We had a ship called the Muriel,
says the New York Press. and the
sailors promptly dubbed her the Mer-
ry He'll The Georgia, as everyone
knows, is the Jaw-Jaw. The Pennsyl.
vania is the Billy Penn. The Kearsarge
is the Cuss-Age. The Washington is
Papa George, and, singularly enough.
Is commanded by John Adams. The
Indiana is Red Annie. The Terror Is
the Tear Her. The Cleveland is Gro
yer. The Des Moines Is The Mine.
The Galveston is Shirtwaist-a clever
hit The Amphitrite is the Ample
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Shanghai. China. = A famine at
close range is not a pretty sight.
1t gets on ones nerves. Homeslck-
ness, starvation, freezing, disease
these are not pleasant to contemplate
day and night, for months on end.
That some of the missionaries are be-
ginning to show signs of the strain is
not surprising, for they, and they
alone of all foreigners, are living eye
to eye with the famine at it's worst.
Since they are cultivated, refined
men and women, with sensitive SYM
pathies, they are in many instances
doubtless suffering more than the
furnishing Chinese themselves.
1t rather interfered with my slum-
plaintive and prolonged wall of beg
gar at the gate, crying until far into
the night that he was starving, starv-
iEg, starving, and would perish unless
the noble-hearted foreigners would
give him help. The numbers of
corpses to be seen on the streets of
mornings proves that his prediction is
no idle beggars' plea; the mortality
among mendicants, since the people
who ordinarily feed them have them
selves become beggars, is really ap-
palling. Thrice l passed through the
streets of Suchien at night, and at
every turn. there was huddled some
shivering, homeless, hungry creature,
wailing his starvation cry.
There is scarcely a missionary In
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honest, they are none the less fellow
mortals in need. The very village
that | have just mentioned was facing
imminent starvation; not a grain of
rice or wheat could be found in any
of the homes, and the family cooking
pots contained only sweet potato
leaves. Throughout the famine re-
gion the people are subsisting solely
on leaves, weeds, fungus, bark and
roots. The supply of these is now
giving out. Nobody but the Chinese
could have STAYED off death so long.
The peasants in the famine area
have sold their live stock, as well as
their other possessions, and now they
themselves are glad to eat the fod-
der. A priced food at present is the
refuse of bean oil and peanut oil,
which ordinarily is used for fertilizer.
The few remaining pigs that are now
being butchered are so thin that they
render no lard, and lard has conse-
quently more than doubled in price.
(the Chinese Mohammadens are the
butchers of this country, the famine
sufferers are waiting for their dogs
and cats to die that they may eat
them. 1 saw dogs so nearly starved
that they could not bark. 1t will be a
poor meal that any family will make
from it's household pets, for the lat
ter are only skin and bones.
Starving-Yet Not Hungry.
Many curious sidelights on the fam
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tune from one Of the best artists.
Yet again I quote from personal
encounter, and tell of dress of white
linen with the skirt trimmed with
three broad crossway bands, the bod
ice cut with very large armholes over
an under-bodice of tucked lawn, and
round the shoulders loosely hanging
scarf of light Wedgwood blue, and on
the head a Tuscan hat, lined with
black, the front one mass of roses
shading from red to pink, and round
the neck a string of pale pink coral
beads.
l like colored beads with muslin or
linen frocks; and, talking OF linen
frocks, 1 am reminded of several other
cheap effects. Green and white striped
cambria made in the very simplest OF
styles, with shirt-bodice, long
sleeves, and a turned-down white lin
en- collar tied with little green bow,
belted at the waist with green pat
emit leather band, and crowned with
green straw hat trimmed merely
with a huge green glace bow.
The latest news of hatpins have
received relates Of closely-jeweled
knobs of monster size, while the pear
shaped tortoiseshell pins are still pop
ular, plain and engraved with gold.
Feathers are growing wilder and
wilder, and their prices higher and
higher. Had I to invest large sums
in this direction I would advise the
ostrich as being the safest bird. The
plumes of the ostrich are perennially
in fashion, and a really good ostrich
feather will in time play many parts;
and, by the way, I continue to admire
those ostrich feathsrs which are ar
ranged to fall in fountain fashion,
while persist in my dislike of the
skeleton kind which seems but to be
endeavoring to emulate the ostrich
feather after good shower of rain,
and to lack the least hankering after
the beautiful.
The elbow-length sleeve is undoubt-
eddy booked to go, and the new
sleeves will come to the hands if not
to the knuckles. But whether the
short sleeve will go is another matter.
The creators of fashions have enacted
many DEGREES that have been wilfully
disobeyed. One of them was the death
Of the short skirt; another the disap-
pesrance of the shirtwaist. or blouse,
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inc are seen by the missionaries. A
great number of patients at the dis
pensaries complain that they are not
hungry, and cannot bear to eat food,
even when they can get it. They do
not realize that this is the last stage
of starvation. Even more pathetic is
the case of the little children, whose
mothers have discovered a certain
weed, which, without affording any
nutrition, nauseates them just enough
to keep them from crying for food.
OF course many persons are being
poisoned by eating the wrong kinds of
weeds; in their desperation they fill
their stomachs with any green thing
they can find.
Disease is yet to reap its worst har-
vest over the smitten area. Smallpox
is now ravaging the center of the
famine region, one house in three be-
ing affected. Medical attention Is not
sought and vaccination is declined. In
one house l found the family gathered
in the same room with a man whose
face was swollen, black and outbroken
in the worst imaginable case of small
pox. The wife was calmly combing
her hair!
Famine fever is scarcely beginning
it's ravages, although thousands will
perish from this cause before Spring.
When the worse plaques come the
missionaries will be in real danger.
One of the doctors at Tsin-Kiang has
not yet wholly recovered from an at
tack of famine fever some years ago.
The nervous exhaustion incident to
the extraordinary strain and work of
famine relief is telling on some mis-
sionaries. One Of the most efficient
men is able to sleep only few hours
every night.
While on the subject of sickness it
is worthy of note that the only living
skeletons produced thus far by the
famine have been found in the hospit-
ais, and they were suffering from dis
ease as well as starvation. AS mat
ter of record starvation here does not
produce the emaciation which is so
in the last stages of hunger become
bloated and swollen, as with dropsy.
The one certain characteristic of the
furnishing, and I have noticed it In
the case of two out of three persons
met in the rural parts of Kiangpeh, is
the peculiar famine pallor-a lividness,
business, and tenseness which
overspreads the features. This is the
signature of starvation.
The Grim Reaper's Harvest.
At the end of January, the famine
deaths are only beginning, although
from the corpses have seen, and the
poor, hasty grave mounds, and the lit
tie rag of white on women's heads, in
lieu of full mourning, should imagine
that the grim reaper had been having
a rare harvest.
With calm certainty that is hor-
ribIe. the missionaries assure you that
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the famine region who does not re-
tire at night with the nerve-racking
cry of beggar at his gate resounding
in his ears. Yet it is impossible, as l
have seen, to give help at the gate;
such an action would bring down a
perpetual mob upon one; a mob, too,
in which the less worthy cannot be
distinguished from the absolutely per-
ishing. In these times, only the lat
ter can command attention.
tricks That Are Vain.
It is not for gratitude and loyalty
that these suffering Chinese are being
helped. Three times out of four the
beggar to whom handsome largesse
has been given, instead of knocking
his head on the ground in gratitude,
after the Chinese custom, will only
importune for more. These poor are
like the horse leach's daughters, cry
ing, Give, Givei" and, like Sheol and
Abaddon, they are never satisfied. The
impression that these famine victims
are going about singing the praises
of those who have put bread into
Chinaman is an ungrateful customer
and unless he is closely watched he
will, by ways that are dark, secure a
double portion of relief for himself.
The women missionaries at one sta
ton are giving their time to making
over clothes for the innumerable i'll
clad refugees; as result some per-
sons have presented themselves abso-
lutely naked at the dispensary. 1t
was found that some Chinese were
coming twice for clothes; now every
recipient of aid is marked between
the shoulder blades with nitrate of
silver pencil. In former famine the
expedient was adopted by the mission
aries of shaving off a portion of one
eyebrow as a means of Identification.
The authorities at some points require
each person who receives government
relief to dip his hand into bowl of
dye, but the shrewd natives know how
to remove this, and the missionary
doctor has been applied to for some
chemical which cannot be washed off!
This is the sort of thing which
makes all missionary work in China
SO discouraging. One day l went with
a missionary to take census of a
destitute village. Further investiga-
ton showed that every family had
for this occasion increased the num-
Der of it's children two-fold, while no
less than ten families outside of the
village had registered themselves as
residents. If there are any more con-
slant and unbTusning liars in the
world than the Chinese, l hope it
may never be my lot to have dealings
with them.
Cattle Fodder for Human Beings.
An admirable trait of these mis-
sicnaries is that they are impelled to
their labors by deeper motives than
the deserving of those whom they
seek to help. They realize that even
if the Chinese arc uriovely and dis
American Missionary leS-~ art. %.
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iris find it an
easy task to look
nice in the sum-
mer time. The
simplest W h | t e
dress made Of
cambria, with a
tucked skirt and
a bloused bodice,
will bear, if the
waist be trim and
the belt neatly
adjusted, under
the influence of a
good hat and a
colored chiffon
scarf round the
shoulders, an as
pect not I'M
worthy of a cos
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simplicity. But, by the way, the very
simple shirt is not having things all
it's own way, for few are guiltless Of
the center double frill. This frill il
shown decorating with great success
the other dress illustrated. The waist
coat is of patterned cretonne, the coat
and skirt of purple cloth, and the hat
is also of purple, with waving plume
which extends its influence from front
to back. A smart little costume this
altogether, with lines of fanciful braid
decorating the skirt and coat, and
putting in their appearance again on
the cuffs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20
The First Steamboat.

About a dozen years before the Is
English colonies declared their indie
pendence from the mother country,
William Henry, a native of Chester
county, Pennsylvania, attached
steam engine to an old bateau and
managed to steam for some distance
down the Conestoga river. but by some
mishap the boat was sunk
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20

as it was more euphoniously named,
and third was the attempt to intro
duce crinoline or hoops. All of these,
and many other enactments, were null
and void.
In these days women show more
sense than in the past in the matter
of gowning, and a sensible and at the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20
His,0.

Patient-If you'll allow me to speak
that tooth you insist upon pulling Is
not the one that aches.
Dentist-Confound it, sir-whos do
ing this job-you or me?-HarDer's
weekly.
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Product of the LowIy Hen.

Washington's monument is 555 feet
high. The eggs shipped from so coun-
ties in this state, leaving 81 yet to
hear from, If placed end on end would
build monument 221. 1872 times higher
than the Washington shaft.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20
Acquisition TO Literature

James Ford Rhodes, whose history
of the civil war has added so much
to the authentic annals of the United
States, was until recently an extern
sive iron and steel manufacturer Of
Cleveland, o.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20
Admirers Slow 20 subscrIbe.

Although the Carlyle memorial at
Edinburgh was projected as long ago
as 1895, only s1O0 has been received
from go subscribers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20
Large Profits from Liquor.

Eight years ago Norway began to
put away a certain percentage of the
profits coming to the state from liquor
selling for an old-age pension fund.
Tkis now amounts to $4,000, 900,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20

There is no debtor in the world 50
nonorable-so superbly honorabie-as
love-Henry Drummond.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20

The average man would rather
blow his own horn than listen to
band concert.
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FITS, st. Vitus Dance and all Nervous
Diseases permanently cured by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer Send for Free $500
trial bottle and treatise DR.. r. III. Kline.
Id. 93l Arch ST.. Philadelphia. Pa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20

Vine feathers may not make fine
birds, but they attract attention to
some birds that would otherwise go
unnoticed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20

And it's easy to advertise tie fact
that you are a fool All you have to
do is boast publicly OF your wisdom.
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McMurray's Vanilla

Worth a dollar drop, sold by all Gro
GERS at low price.
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He who reigns within himself Is
more than king.-Milton,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20

Women see without looking: their
husbands often look without seetNg.
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Hiqh Cream Prices.

Write us to-day for particulars and tags.
MILTON DAIRY CO.. st. Paul. MINI.
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Guns, Traps, Decoys, Etc.

Lowest prices. Write for free catalog Mol
N. w. Hide & Fur Co.. Minneapolis. Mimi.
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Ship Your Cream to Us.

We always pay the highest market price.
Samels Bros, Minneapolis, MINI.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-03-21

CHAMBER COMMERCE MEETING.
There was to have been a meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce trustees
yesterday but as there was no
quorum the meeting was not held. 1t
was a regular meeting
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-03-21
THREE DROWNED
At WAIMEA, KAUAI
HEAVY SEAS BREAK OVER A
WALL, FILL A DEEP HOLE AND
CAVE THE BANKS.

A triple drowning occurred at Wal
mea, Kauai, on the 16th Saturday last,
two of the victims losing their lives
in attempting rescues. The dead are
Mrs. Alxiona, wife of Waimea's well
known poi manufacturer, young
Chinese woman, who had been married
only few weeks, and a little Chinese
boy, son of Akiona. The accident
occurred in a deep hole within the
breakwater of the Waimea river caus-
ed by the waves breaking over the
protecting wall and washing out the
bank.
The little boy was the first to fall in
and his call for help brought the young
woman to his rescue. In attempting
to draw the boy out the woman her
self fell in, the bank caving beneath
her feet. Mrs. Akiona, who had also
hurried to the rescue, then jumped in
to save the two. but the water-hole
was beyond her depth and she too was
drowned.
At the point where the drowning
happened the breakwater is low, al
lowing the waves to overwash it and
destroy the neighboring lands. To
remedy this by heightening the wall a
bill is before the Legislature at the
present time, backed up by Repre-
| sentative Sheldon, of Waimea.