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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-29
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/: Almost every one of England's pop
ular games has at one time or another
been made illegal. Scotland Is the
home Of golf, yet in 1857 the Scottish
parliament passed an act entailing Sc
we're penalties on any one caught play
ing the game.
Edward Ill, Henry ". and Henry
VIII. all strongly objected to football,
and Queen Elizabeth made it an Of
Tense punishable by Imprisonment to
play football. There is a record Of six
teen people being imprisoned at once
for breaking this law.
Football Is still under a ban in some
parts Of the world. Two of the Swiss
cantons refuse to allow it, and in Tur-
key 1t is absolutely illegal, and those
who dare to play it are punished.
T Among oddities of laws about games
must be mentioned French decree of
the thirteenth century. By the kings
command the gallants Of the court
were forbidden to play tennis Tin
their shirts" Whether his majesty of
France insisted upon coats only or
whether the unfortunate players were
doomed to practice in complete suits
of armor does not appear London
Graphic
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Agriculture In Africa.

Excepting perhaps some Malayan
tribes the African negroes are said to
be the finest agriculturists of all the
natural races The Bongos are said. to
have greater variety Of garden plants
around their huts than are found IN the
fields and gardens Of German vii
.lage. Irrigation is practiced. The An
:golas, in the Kongo district, have prac-
teal irrigation The Wachangu show
wonderful skill in irrigating their ter
raced hillsides by tunnels Of water d.
verted from the main stream. They
have clear mode Of irrigating equally
a given surface AS the little canals
Of water are always elevated above the
cultivated plants, they will tap them
at convenient spot above the beds to
be watered and then turn the stream
Into rough conduit made Of the hol-
low stems of bananas cut in half, the
end Of each stem overlapping the next.
Then as the water enters the last joint
1t Is freely turned right and left, dis
tributing the vivifying stream in all
directions. Southern Workman.
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The Faithful Little Guide.

Outlines 1 have seen tall ship glide
by against the tide as if drawn by
some invisible towline with hundred
strong arms pulling it. Her sails hung
untitled; her fstreamers were dropping;
she had neither side wheel nor stern
wheel. Still she moved on stately in
serene triumph, as if with her own
life. But Il knew that on the other side
Of the ship, hidden beneath the great
hulk that swan so majestically,i there
was a little toiling steam tug with a
heart Of fire and arms of iron that was
shugging it close and dragging it brave
. " on, and I knew that if the little
steam tug untwined her arms and left
the tall ship it would wallow and roll
about and drift hither and thither and
60 off with. refuent tide, no man knows
whittier. And so have known more
than one genius, high decked, full
freighted, wide sailed, gay pennoned,
that but for the bare toiling arms and
brave, warm-beating heart of the faith
full little wife that nestled close to him
SO that no wind or wave could part
them would soon have gone down
stream and been heard OF no more
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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What We Stand On

The density of the earth as a whole
has been estimated, with close agree
ment among the scientists who have
made the determination by different
methods, to be about 90, or five and a
half times as heavy as an equivalent
sphere of water. On the other hand, the
average density Of the materials form
ing the accessible parts Of the earth's
crust is between 2.5 and 8, so that the
mean density Of the whole globe Is
about twice that Of its outer part.
This indicates that the central part Of
the earth is composed Of heavier mate
rails and may even be metallic, which
condition, says the Engineering and
Mining Journal, would accord perfect
~ with the nebular, hypothesis.
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Slaves In Scotland.

Were there once slaves in Scotland?
A volume on Scottish Industrial and
social history in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries has some passages
on the subject:
ut shocks us very much to learn
that the men, and even the women,
who worked in the coal mines at that
time-i. e., the eighteenth century-in
Scotland still continued to be, as Of
old, little better than slaves. By a
law passed by the Scottish parliament
in 1906 every man who once went to
work in coal mine was bound to la
Dor in it all his life as necessary
servant" If he tried to run away be
was tried and punished as thief. If
the land was sold on which the coal
pit stood in which he worked he was
sold with it like any Of the machinery
of the pit In Hts an act of parlia-
ment was passed which set free most
Of the pit workers, but it was not till
the end of the century that this form
of slavery was quite abolished
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MysteriOus Glass Balls.

According to foreign correspondent
Of the geological survey at Washing
ton, among the most interesting fea-
lures of the small island Of Billion,
between Sumatra and Borneo, an is
land long famous for it's rich tin mines,
controlled by the Dutch government,
are the t'glass balls Of Billion found
among the tin ore deposits. These nat
ural glass balls are round, with grooved
surfaces. Similar phenomena are oc-
casionally found in Borneo and Java
as we'll as in Australia. The CORE
spondent quoted thinks they cannot be
artificial, and there are no volcanoes
near enough to support the theory that
they are volcanic bombs. Besides, it
Is claimed, the CLASSY rocks produced
by the nearest volcanoes are quite Diff
ferent in their nature from the mate
rial Of the balls. 1t is suspected that
the mysterious objects were elected
ages ago from the volcanoes of the
moon and afterward fell upon the
earth.
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Odd Occurrence In the Hunting Field
On the afternoon of Feb. 8, 1894, the
hounds of his grace the Duke of Beau
fort We're in full cry. The run had been
a long one, and they knew that the fox
was almost spent. Suddenly the scent
turned abruptly from the open, leading
straight into the garden of a cottage ill
the little village of Castle Coombe.
Those who were following wondered
what had happened and We're more as,
tonished; still to see the entire pack,
without. checking for an instant dash
through the open door into the; little
room. "a shriIl scream was heard, and
when the whipper in threw himself
from his horse and gained the thresh-
old he saw a sight which probably no
fox hunter has ever met before or
since "A white faced woman. stood
c1asping child in her arms, and right
there in the cradle, from which the in.
FAINT had just been snatched, eighteen
couple Of fierce hounds were struggling
to devour their fox.
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Too Cold For Overcoat..

"You do not find any one wearing
overcoats In Alaska, even in the win
ter" said a man from that territory.
"The principal thing to be careful
about is keeping the head, hands and
feet warm. In that part Of Alaska
where have been the only land trans
portation Is by dog sleds, and to fol-
low them one has to drop into dog
trot beside the sled. An ordinary suit
is plenty thick enough to keep you
warm, and an overcoat is dangerous in
that temperature Trotting alongside
a sled wearing an overcoat would
make you perspire, and the bitter cold
would freeze the perspiration. The
men there wear fur cap that covers
every part Of the head and face except
the eyes, and there is only little peep
hole for them. Wool lined mitts are
worn on the hands and moccasins with
wooden stockings on the ."-Balti-
more Sun. ..
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Nursing Mothers and .
Over-burdened Women

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The following, taken from ar

The following, taken from an
exchange, is applicable to all
"knockers," in any community:
occasionally one will hear the
remark i wish I was out of this
town., and then one feels like
saying, 4 wish you were,' for a
man who, stands on the street
corner chewing and splitting,
telling obscene stories, cursing
the town and finding fault with
his grandmother because she
was a woman, claiming that the
merchants are a lot of thieves,
that the lawyers and newspaper
men would skin a man to a finish
and whole lot more, is a nuis-
ance and an abomination, says
an exchange. Any town pestered
with one or more such worthless
would be justified in exercising
cowhide authority on the bosom
of their pants. No one is obliged
to live where he is not suited.
If one hasn't an encouraging
word for the business enterprise
and institutions of his town,
he should shut up and go way
back and sit down. If things
don't suit you, move to where
they will. A growler and sore.
head in town is an. enterprise
killer every time. It would pay
a town to donate him S. and tell
him to move" =
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A Fatal sleep.

Hugh Miller, the Scottish geologist
and writer, was one Of the most Illus
trious Of sleepwalkers. Miller, who
had been addicted to somnambulism in
his youth, found his restlessness return
while he was engaged upon his '"Tes-
timony of the Rocks" He used to
wake in the morning feeling, as he
said, as if he had been abroad in the
night wind, dragged by some invisible
power and ridden by witches. On the
night Of his death he slept alone. In
the morning they found him stretched
dead on the floor with bullet through
his breast. He had written a note to
his wife: "My brain burns. 1 must
have walked, and a fearful dream rises
upon me. I cannot bear the horrible
thought. My brain burns as the rec
objection grows" So intense had been
the poor fellows anguish that to make
certain his end he had torn back shirt
and vest and placed the muzzle Of the
pistol to his naked fesh.-St. James,
Gazette.
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Some of the ."boys" should
start a subscription and send a
"bunch' of the "long green" to
Granny Pease of the Anoka
Union, lest that benevolent
gentleman remains away from
the n Getting of the editorial assc-
citation at St. Paul next February.
This is the way Granny puts it:
"I'm worried. Really and truly
worried. Here it is January, the
twenty-third. Next month is
February, that's the month the
Minnesota Editorial association
meets in St. Paul, and what is
worrying me is how the editors
and publishers are going to at
tend, with no transportation in
their pockets to make the trip.
DreadfuIly afraid the attendance
will not equal that of former
years and that's pity. Person
ally I attend these meetings
mostly for the pleasure of meet.
ing the old fellows who have
been in the harness longer or as
long as I have, it being the only
occasion in the whole year I have
the opportunity to swap lies with
the old push. However I'm hop
ing that by that time sufficient
cash advertising may re secured
from the railroads to permit
them to make the trip. If it
isn't, it's a dirty shame. So say
we all of u.s."
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Origin of .sBIuestockinRs."

: Burke, apropos of "Evelina,'' paid
Fanny Burney this high compliment:
eve, have had an age for statesmen,
an age for heroes, an age for poets, an
age for artists, but this''-with gal.
liant bow to Fanny-''is the age for
women" The name "bluestockings, y
given to these distinguished women,
arose, according to Fanny Burney in
her memoirs Of Her Father" from an
apology made by Mr.. stillingdeet in
declining an invitation of Mrs. Vesey's
to a literary meeting at her house. II
am not properly dressed for such a
party" he pleaded. "Pho, pho" she
cried, taking him and his dress all in
at a glance, "don't mind dress! Come
in your blue stockings" This he did.
and "those words ever after were
fixed in playful stigma upon Mrs We
sey's associations" - T. P.'s London
Weekly.
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The Fractured Ler.

A visitor was going through the chill
dren's surgical ward Of one of the city
hospitals when he spied a little fellow
with his legs in the air and his weight
resting on his head and shoulders. Go
Ing closer, he saw that the boys feet
were fastened with ropes which passed
through pulley above. At the other
ends Of the ropes were weights, just
heavy enough to hold the boys legs in
the air without lifting him entirely of
the bee.
whats all that about?' asked the
visitor. Doesn't it hurt him ?"
t'Not at ALL answered the physician
who was accompanying. "He doesn't
look unhappy, does he? That's the
way we always handle fractures OF
the leg with child. Otherwise the
youngsters squirm around SO that they
work the splints loose. Only one OF
this boys legs is injured, but they are
both swung in the air for his greater
comfort. New York Post.
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Bird. and Kites.

No bird, so far as known records
show, has ever alighted on kite or
attacked one. While a scientist was
flying train of five kites some years
ago a large silver tipped eagle came
suddenly out Of the higher air and
swooped round and round the first kite,
looking against the sunset sky like a
huge silver ball. AS the train Of kites
was pulled in the eagle followed, visit
ing one kite and then another, SEEM
Ing uncertain just what to do. In a
few minutes, when he seemed to have
decided that they were not good to
eat and he knew nothing about them
anyway, he Indignantly flew off and
was lost to view. While the scientists
kites were high in the air one March
docks Of geese flying in the wedge flew
over. They invariably stopped, broke
up, lowered above the queer object
and at last slowly reformed and flew
away. While the larger birds all come
from heights above the kite, the small
birds of the air will alight on the
string holding the kite and sway to
and fro.
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London Notes and Queries
Living In the Electric LIGHT.

Writing to friend in the country, a
New York merchant says: II live in
the electric light leave my home at
Z o'clock, after dressing and taking my
breakfast by electric light. Then I 60
to the subway, one block distant, and
ride to within a block of my Office
There work all day by electric light
and go home again by the subway
and spend the evening in the glare Of
the incandescent lamp. The weather
conditions make no difference, because
my fat and my Office belong to the
semidark kind. Sometimes I wonder
what I would do without electric light,
and sometimes ask myself when I
yearn for little sunlight, Is the new
light really blessing New York
Tribune. " "a
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Warmed by Their Perfume.

According to the results of expert.
ments by DR.. Jean Chalon, aromatic
plants charged with essential oils
which exhale a perfume that spreads
like an atmosphere about them when
touched by the rays Of the sun are to
slight degree warmed by the pres
ence Of this agreeable atmosphere. 1t
acts In retaining the solar heat like
the glass covers Of dollhouse, al
though Of course far less effectively.
Professor Spring has shown that the
relatively high temperatures Of large
cities Is probably due, at least in part,
to the carbonic anhydride in the air
above them acting as retaining
screen for heat RAYS,
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Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, the
last of the children of Rev. Lyman
Lcecher, sister of Henry Ward
Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
is dead at Hartford, Conn.
Sir Francis Henry Evans, M. p.
director of several companies and a
partner in the firm of Donald Currie
L. Co., managers of the Union Castle
line of steamships, is dead in London
Dispatches to Dun's Review indicate
that weather conditions are more nor
NAL than for some time past, which
helps retail trade, and in other de-
partments the preparation for spring
trade Is active.
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The Auto r-p.~.

Some deliver has found in the Bible
what he believes to be hint of auto
mobiles. It is contained in the story
Of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite,
concerning the burden Of Nineveh. In
the account given by this seer Of the
military array of the Modes and Baby
lonians against Nineveh occurs this
verse: "The chariots shall rage in the
streets, they shall jostle one against
the other in the broad way, they shall
seem like torches, they shall run like
the lightning" If that doesn't de-
scribe street full of motor cars what
does? Then, again, variant Of the
word "jostle," which the original He
brew will, it is said, bear even better,
is pass swiftly, without particular
purpose to and fro.' Isn't that the
automobile habit?
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"Caracul"-Its EtymolOTy.

I have often been asked for the ety.
mology Of "caracul," which Is a term
now largely used by furriers to denote
a variety Of the fur called astrakhan.
The new English dictionary does not
contain .caracul, but it has caracal,
which Is liable to be confused with it,
though really quite different word.
The caracal is an animal, but caracul,
like the nearly synonymous term, as
trakhan, Is the name Of place-Kara
Kul-i. e., the Black lake, near Box
hara, which has long been celebrated
for its output Of furs. The earliest
reference I can find to it in English is
In Matthew Arnold's "Sohrab and
Rustum:" .s ..-s. >%.
And on his head he set his sheepskin cap,
Black, glossy. curled, the fleece of Kara
Kul { --'-.s
London Notes and Queries.
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Tragedy of a Wooden Leg.

A man who travels on wooden leg
says: "About the worst accident we
ever heard of Detailing wooden leg
ged man is the time one such unfor-
tunate was going home after being to
a late supper, along about o'clock
In the morning, when his peg leg went
through an anger hole in the grub
plank sidewalk, and he kept circling
about that hole all night thinking he
was going home. The editor of this
paper wants it distinctly understood
that we cannot vouch for the truth.
fulness Of this story kansas City
Journal.
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Spots on Leather.

Oxalic acid in weak solutions is the
best thing to use when removing spots
from leather. Two or three crystals
of oxalic dissolved in warm water,
then applied with bit Of cloth to the
spots, will do the work. Watch close
", and when the spots begin to disap-
pear apply clear water to overcome the
acid, which is a powerful bleach. Dry
the leather with a clean cloth. For
bright leather make the solution weak
er.-Philadelphia North American.
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All the Same.

At one of the large north country
churches recently a fashionably dress,
ed lady happened to go into one Of the
private pews. The verger, who is
known to be very stern old chap, i'm
mediately hustled up to her and said:
'I'm afraid, miss, you'll haze to cum
out O. that. This is paid pew"
"Sir," said the young lady, turning
sharply round, do you know who ]
am? I'm one Of the Fifes." 4
II dipna care" said the old man, III
you are the big drum. You'll haze to
cum out" AEdinburgh Scotsman.
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John Stuart Min

The genius of this great EngIishman
was such that: before he was twenty
he was. recognized as the champion
and future leader Of a powerful school
Of philosophy and politics. John Stu
art Mill is said to have studied Greek
at the age Of three and at fourteen
had begun logic and political economy
The writings and doctrines Of this
master mind were and are still read
and preached not only in this country,
but through out the world. John. Stuart
Mill stands out prominently among
nineteenth century thinkers.-London
Mail
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Dainty If Not Substantial.

The wife Of farmer had a sister
come from Chicago to make a visit.
One day the thrashers came, and the
guest insisted oh doing the work alone
and sentsher sister away to rest. When
twenty-seyen thrashers fled in to sup
per that. night they found a sandwich
tied with ribbon, one chicken croquette,
one cheese ball the size ola marble
and a buttonhole bouquet at each
plate.-Emporia( Kan.) Gazette "
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,UBSCRlPTlON---S5.OO PER ANNUM

Now that Russell Sage is dead
and gone the assessor has dug
up about s55, 100000 in personal
property that will have to pay
taxes, whereas old Russell, good
business man that he was, was
was only able to locate a paltry
two million.
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Long Sight.

The longest distance ever comprised
By human vision is 1873 miles, being
the distance between the Uncompahgre
park, in Colorado, and Mount Ellen, in
Utah. This feat was accomplished BY
the surveyors of the United States
coast and geodetic survey, who were
engaged, in conjunction with repre-
sentatives of other nations, in making
q new measurement of the earth.
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Hardened.

Listen to this, Maria" said Mr.,
stubb as he unfolded his scientific pa
per. "This article states that in some
Of the old Roman prisons that have
been unearthed they found the petri-
fed remains Of the prisoners" ezra
eious, John!' replied Mrs. Stubb, with
a smile. II suppose you would call
them hardened criminals" = Chicago
News. u -. 80