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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-04-26
Gossip From Washington

could register as John Smith and jag,
the davenports about the cloak rooms
both Democratic and Republican
worked overtime One could often see
a statesman having his nap. Nova
days, when nothing stronger than tea
is served in the Capitol restaurants
and drunkenness is looked upon as
bad form in a legislator. there is little
sleeping in the cloak room. But they
are popular places.
In these rooms the burdens roll away
from he minds Of the statesmen; the
legislative back unbends and a smile
chases away the wrinkles Of dignity
and deep thought. They tell stories,
,augh and joke in the mood, sometimes
broil everyone from the president TO
the page boy, from the Constitution
70 the eighteenth assistant secretary
Of state who does not know his place,
Sometimes they fry each other on
the pan and there is generally an in
terested audience when one senator
has a little something 10 say TO an
other
Correspondents who are keen for
good stories usually pay great atten-
ton to the cloak room gossip. There
is always something interesting being
talked about. And, again, CORE
spondents know that the cloak room
is the proper place to mention as the
scene of funny incident or a comic
story
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-04-26
LET'S GO TO
HONNET'S ALTERATION SALE

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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-04-26
rlusIin Underwear Specials

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This store is widely known for its
unusually attractive display OF dainti-
Iy trimmed muslin underwear. They
are literally cut and made right. Their
daintiness appeal to all women OF re.
fined taste.
CORSET COVERS-Made Of good
quality of nainsook, trimmed with lace
around the yoke; a good value at 35c
Sale price .-............... 22c
NIGHT GOWNS-With square and
round yokes trimmed with pretty en-
broideries, lace and thread tucks, $1.23
retiler Sale price ............. O8c
MUSLIN SkIRTS-EXtra fine quality
with Pinch nurses linon founce;
hounces trimmed in several rows Of
wide lace, very attractive values at
S1.25 and $50. Sale price CSC
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06
Eiqht Million Feet Taken West.

The sawmill of the Grand Forks
Lumber company at East Grand
Forks will, this summer, cut into
lumber more than eight million feet
of logs whichwere Gu in this vicinity,
and which will be taken from Be
midi by rail to Grand Forks.
The company has been hauling
logs since January l, having already
transported more than five million
feet.
The Grand Forks people cut about
three million feet of pine on La
Sale lake, over near Itasca State
Park. These logs were banked on
the La Sale lake, and they will
now be driven down the Mississippi
river to Lake Irving.
The logs will be hoisted from
Lake Irving at the company's hoist
and will also be taken to Grand
Forks to the sawmill.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06
District Court Actions.

Judge Stanton. yesterday con.
sidered several district court matters
at the court house.
:. In the case of r. H. Dickinson
VS.. Henry Stechman, an action
which involves land contract and
which was tried at the last term Of
court and verdict rendered for the
plaintiff: a motion was made for
judgment, Notwithstanding the YER
dict. A decision of the matter will
be rendered later.
In the case of Roy VS.. Roy, a
suit for divorce, decree was granted
to the plaintiff because of desertion
and on statutory grounds.
An appeal in the case of Gertrude
Lemloh us. the Town of Durand,
wherein an application was made for
setting aside the award of benefits
to the plaintiff, was submitted to the
court.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06
WILL BOOST NORTHERN
MINNESOTA At MEETINGS
Prominent Speakers Will Participate in Meetings to Be
Held at Blackjack. Bemidji and Bagley May 2l-
22-23..--Will Have Beneficial Results.

Under the supervision Of the
Minnesota Federal ion of CONNER
cial Clubs(of which C. ]. Pryor Of
Bemidii is the member of executive
committee from the Ninth Congress
lonal District meetings for the pur-
pose of furthering the interest Of
northern Minnesota will be held at
Blackjack, Bemidji and Bagley, dur
the month of May.
Curtis L. Mosher of St. Paul, sec
rotary of the federation, has been in
correspondence with Mr.. Pryor for
some time past relative to the pro-
posed meetings, with the result that
that an excellent progam is being
prepared for the meetings, which are
expected to result in much benift to
inducing settlers to come to this
part of the state as a much more
desirable place of residence than the
Canadian northwest, or any other
protective points.
Mr.. Mosher will speak at these
meetings, as will also William Mac
givney, superintendent Of the Union
Stock Yards of St. Paul, and A. J.
Mcclure, superintendent of the
Northeast Experimental Farm at
Grand Rapids.
1t is the intention of the federation
and those in charge of the meetings
to secure George WEIGH of st. Paul,
Commissioner of the immigration
Bureau, to deliver an address at
each of the three meetings. IF Mr..
WEIGH is secured in addition to the
other gentlemen mentioned, the
meeting will be the best, from the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06
WILL ASK PINCHoT TO
talk TO The COMMITTEE
Water Course Question Will Be
Threshed Out With the Depart
ments at Washington.


Washington, May Gin view Of
the action of President Roosevelt on
Saturday in requesting E. w. Backus
of Minneapolis and Representative
Bede to confer with Chief Forester
Pinchot and Director Newell of the
reclamation service regarding the
attitude of the government toward
the water courses of the country,
it was decided to-day by the inter
state commerce committee of the
house to have Messrs. Newell and
Pinchot before the committee to-
morrow, when the officers of the war
department also will be heard.
limitations have been received by
members of the house that Judge
Advocate General Davis of the war
department does not agree with
President Roosevelt on the legal
aspects of this question. Mr.. Davis
has been asked to bring to the COM
merce committee of the house all
papers and legal opinions held by the
war department regarding the
questions involved in water powers
on navig able streams.
There are evidences that the SEN
ate commerce committee is siren
uously objecting to the position TAX
en- by President Roosevelt concern
ing the control by the federal gov
eminent of water courses in the
different states. The attitude of the
committee on this subject is indi-
Gated by the rough treatment it is
giving to the bill which has been
Endorsed by the presidents admins
tration extending the life of the in
land waterways commission and pro-
posing to appropriate money for the
uses of the commission. The COM
merce committee has practically
emasculated the bill, and even if
the skeleton form is reported out of
the committee the chances are it will
be killed by the senate.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06
COMMERCIAL CLUB WILL
CARE FOR THE VISITORS
Minneapolis Delegation Will b Entertained Will
Tell Standard Oil Company Concerning Destruc-
ton of Fair Building, Filled With Oil.
The Bemidji Commercial club is

The Bemidji Commercial club is
planning to provide suitable enter
tainment for the members of the
Minneapolis Commercial club, who
intend to stop in this city for several
hours on June l and 2, while going
to International Falls, and from that
place on a trip of inspection of the
border town and the great waterfall
there. The club received word,
through A. G. Rutledge of this city,
from Minneapolis, giving the dates
and the hours the Commercial club
will be here. AT meeting of the
commercial club held last night
plans we're discussed for the proper
entertainment of the visitors. The
secretary of the Bemidji Commercial
club was instructed to write to the
secretary of the Minneapolis Com
mercial club for further particulars
concerning the proposed trip of the
Minneapolis men, and when an
answer is received a full program
will be arranged and carried out on
the dates mentioned.
The commercial club also took up
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06

from Bemidji to Lake Plantagnet,
and the work of purchasing the
necessary poles and paraphernalia
was speedily concluded. The mater
ial has been on the grounds for
several days, and the announcement
made by the company that the line
will be in operation next week is
good news for those living along the
line who intend to connect with the
system.
The completion of this line will
give the farmers on Lake Marquette,
together with those at the Jester
farm and on Lake Plantagnet con-
nection not only with Bemidji but
long distance with the Northwestern
Telephone Exchange company to
all points throughout the northwest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06

the matter of holding a fair in the
city the coming fall, and A. P.
White, G. J. Pryor and F. S. Lycan
were appointed a committee to for.
mulate a letter to the Standard
Oil company stating the true facts
concerning the loss of the fair ex-
hibit building at a recent fire, at
which time a carload of oil belong
ing to the Standard Oil company
was stored in the exhibit building.
1t is believed that the Oil company
will give substantial assistance in
replacing the exhibit building.
Whether or not Bemidji will hold
celebration on July 4 was also
discussed and the proposition was
left open, as it was thought by
some that in view of the fact that
the Elks' State convention will be
held in this city two weeks before
the 4th, it might not be advisable
for Bemidji to celebrate. .a
The secretary was instructed to
secure the hall for the use of those
who are interested in holding the
publicity meeting to be hold in Be-
midi May p. -
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minstrel Maids Coming,
What should prove to be one O

What should prove to be one of
the greatest novelties of the season
will be the Minstrel Maids at the
Rink Opera House two nights com.
mencing Wednesday, May g.. To
witness an old time minstrel per.
Torrance, given entirely by young
ladies, is indeed a novelty. This
company is composed of twenty
young ladies, who are endowed with
beauty, wit and vocal talent. They
will give an old time minstrel first
part, introducing all the latest hits,
with Miss Jacqua Casad, the famous
lady baton twirler, as feature.
The costumes worn in the frs
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06
Checking Up at Jenkins.

]. c. Schultz, travelling auditor
for the M.&I. railway, left this MORN
ing for Jenkins, where he will assist
the newly-appointed express agent
to make his initial report of the ex-
press business at that point. The
NH. company has discontinued the
station at jenkins, and the express
business there has been transferd to
w. P. Lock, the Jenkins postmaster.
Mr.. Schultz will 60 to Northome
this evening, from Jenkins.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06
NORMAL BOARD MEMBER
WAS VISITOR IN BEMIDJI.
Karl Mathie Of St. Cloud, Newly.
Appointed Member, in the City
on Business.

Karl Mathie Of st. Cloud, the
general manager and treasurer of
the Watab Pulp & Paper company,
was among the out-oftown-visitors
who were in Bemidji Monday night
and Tuesday for the purpose of at
tending the advertised meeting of
the State Railroad & Warehouse
Commission, which was to be held
here for the purpose Of considering
the application of the NJ. & I. rail
way company to be allowed to change
the freight rates on transporting
pulp wood.
The meeting had been indefinitely
postponed and Mr.. Mathie returned
to his home yesterday morning.
Mr.. Mathie has been appointed a
member of the Normal School Board
and resident director Of the St.
Cloud Normal to succeed Alva
Eastman, resigned.
In connecting on the appointment
Of Mr.. Mathie as member of the
state normal school board, the St
Cloud Times very aptly says:
Mr.. Karl Mathie is the manager
and treasure of the Watab Pulp and
Paper mill. He is peculiarly we'll fit
ted for the position by long expert
ence in educational work. He was
for some years superintendent of the
public schools at Wausau, Wis, and
was so highly thought of that he wa.
nominated for state superintendent
of public instruction by the demo
Gratis. He was also the originator o.
the Wisconsin system of county train
ing schools, which is meeting with sc
much favor. The appointment wa:
made by the governor entirely on
educational grounds, with a view to
securing the greatest ability along
this line"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06

The promoters Of the new tele-
phone system to be installed between
Bemidji and the Jester Farm, on
Lake Plantagnet, announces that
the system will be completed and
ready for operatin some time during
the coming week.
Recently the company was formed
for the purpose Of building the line
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06
''Griff" Is In Town.

M. L. Grifhths, who has for sever
al years been general agent for the
New York Life Insurance company,
but who recently resigned his posi-
ton with that company and is now
acting as district agent for the
Germania Life Insurance company
of New York, came over from Crook.
ston last night.
Griff" is one of the best life in.
surance solicitors in the state. He
is popular with the people, and al.
ways gets the business by gentle.
manly, popular methods.
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standpoint of boost proposition, of
anv ever held, in this community.
The federation is asking the CO.
operation of the resident of Black
duck, Bemidji and Bagley to the
end that rousing meetings may be
held, and there will undoubtedly be
a large attendance and much enthu-
siasm.
The dates of the meetings are as
follows:
Blackjack, Thursday, May Fl;
Bemidji, Friday, May %; Bag1ey,
Saturday, May %.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Local news on last page
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-06

part are said to be quite elaborate.
The second part consists of a laugh.
ing musical comedy, entitled "Harri
CAMS Holiday" in which the young
ladies will assume the male roles
and are said to bring forth rounds
of laughter with their clever work
This attraction is under The Fam
Gus Juvenile Bostonian management
and promises to be one of the treat:
Of the season. . =
Seats on sale at Bankers Drus
Store. Prices 75c-5Oc-25c. --
Additional local matter will be fount
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
This is a Real Wasp Waist.

The waist of Nadia Merovitz meas
ures sixteen inches with a corset and
seventeen without, while her perfect
ly curved hips measure thirty-six and
half inches and her height is five
feet three inches. Nadia is the envy
of all Parisiennes. Those who are
combating the small waist madness
refer their antagonists to Jane Dirys
and Xaviere de Leka, whom they call
real women" Jane, they say, has
never worn corset, and her proper
tions, which sculptors and painters
highly approve, are very close to Mar
kel's famous averages. These are:
Hips, forty-two inches, and waist.
twenty-eight inches DR.. Stratz's
celebrated measurements give
rather smarter figure: Waist, twenty
three inches; hips, thirty-eight inches.
OF course, the height has much to do
with perfect proportions-eve everything.
in fact. Markets average gives
woman's ideal height a trife over
five feet two inches, while Stratzs
range up to five feet seven inches.
According to the Strait rules, Nadias
waist should be twenty-five inches
Catherine King.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
American and English Bronzes.

An interesting contrast in modern
bronze sculpture Is presented at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York. In the same room, side by
side. are characteristic exhibits of the
English and American schools. The
English, severe, classic, conventional
over exquisite, unhuman. typical of
mental reticence and a fear Of audac.
ity and originality in expression that
amounts almost to eccentricity. re-
spectacle ornaments for dreary Brit
Ism drawing rooms. Nearby and less
conspicuous in size and numbers are
the American models, men. woman
children, animals, vivid, gay, reck-
less, alive with the everlasting rest
less energy of turbulent American
life. They reveal the frankness of n
land still edged with pioneer habita-
tion; the vast, clean, empty spaces of
the prairie have touched the spirit of
these bronze scupltors; tradition has
not pressed upon them and so their
expression of life is spontaneous, au-
| dacious, and the sense OF humor
which tinges all existence in America
finds delightful freedom of express
sion, bringing about certain whim-
steal handling of subject. a sugges-
ton of picturesque philosophy that,
among many. other by-results, incl
dentally saves this phase of art from
mawkish sentimentality or effemin-
acy.-From Bronze Sculpture in
America. In The Craftsman.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03

She glanced round fearfully, ready
to scream aloud. But behind her was
only the still forest, instinct with
alien life. How quiet it was. The
very stiffness awed her. It seemed
to reach out hands toward her. She
got up, skirts gathered for flight.
sweeping the hazel bushes aside. she
pumped into the arms of Jack Rob-
inson.
You here!' she gasped. 81 thought
you had gone" And she fell to
sobbing on his shoulder, bu-ying her
head in his coat.
He let her cry it out, petting her to
his hearts content.
You were horrid," she said at las,
between her lessening sobs. You
treated me-you know how, and then
you went away. IL hate you"
That's all right, Halle. You may
hate me if you want to, but you've
got to love me whether you want to
or not, he told her. There was a
new masterful ring to his voice not
there of old.
She caught the lapels of his coat
and shook him, not wholly in fun.
How dare you talk that way to me.
sir?"
Il don't know. l suppose because
it's true He took her face in one
of his hands and made her look at
him. She tried to turn her eyes from
him, but he compelled her gaze. 1T
is true, isn't it, dear?"
She found the ghost of a smile.
I'm like Baby Joe when his father
asked him il he loved him." she said
shyly.
What did little boy Joe say?"
He squirmed, and tried his best to
get out of it. Then at last he said:
L do, but l amt going to tell you
She buried her blushing face swiftly
in his coat again.
But he could not let his triumph
rest. you must say it. Haven't l
waited long enough to hear it? Say
it. dear heart: I love you, Jack Rob-
inson.'"
Il don't want to, Jack. Please, no."
But he made her repeat it after
him.
She tortured it out, word by word.
"I-love-you-"
He shut her lips with a kiss before
she could say Jack Robinson
Ainslee's Magazine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
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disadvantage, and she is so consti-
tuted that unless she feels herself at
her best she never enjoys herself.
1t is very good habit after wash
ing the hands to push back the cuticlL
from the nails with the towel. This
keeps the nails always in good condi-
ton and renders frequent visits to
the manicure unnecessary.
1t is a good habit, too, to rub the
ears with powdered channels after
washing. Who has not seen newly
bathed ears shine like a looking
glass? And. although there is some
consolation in such proofs of recent
bath, the shine can hardly be con-
sidered pretty.
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough,
is supposed to have a pair of the most
perfect eyebrows in the world, and
they are frankly admitted to be not
natural. but cultivated. 1t is not a
difficult thing to shape cne's own
brows, and it would seem as though
habit of this kind should be eager
ly acquired by most women. One of
the best methods of overcoming bushy
eyebrows is to shape them between
dampened thumb and forefinger after
bathing the face or at any time when
it is convenient. In this way wonder
full results may be obtained. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03

such an appetite has got my Billy
Boy.
The following maxims may be
found in Poor Richards Almanac,
II you look hard: Boys should never
try to lift themselves over a fence by
the straps of their boots or the seats
of their pantaloons. Never promise
to lick" another boy after school,
unless he is smaller than you are,
and does not have big brother. AL
ways put off until tomorrow what
you cannot do to-day. If the skating
is good. Never sauce a man unless
he sauces you first. II a girl smacks
you in the mouth, smack her back.
Remember that the still pig gets no
moss, and that the rolling stone gath
ers no swill Anybody can run for
President. but everybody Cannot be a
boy.
Next to girls. we do not know what
we should do without the boys. II we
were a woman we suppose that we
should emigrate or go West. We have
seen it stated, on the best authority.
that II there was only one man left
in the whole world. and he upon
desert island, all the old maids would
run the risk of being drowned trying
to swim over TO him.
Danish the boys and you might as
well shut up shop and ring down the
curtain. No longer would Betsy Ann
have the earache listening for the
music of his football, as he paced up
and down before her fathers man.
sion for an hour or more before dar-
ing to venture up to the door. Never
more would she almost twist off her
neck trying to see her back hair. No
doubt each feminine head would be-
herself at early candlelight.
and, taking warm brick, would re-
tire, with no danger of being awak-
ened by her young man bowling dis
mally under the wrong window:
oh, come, my Nancy, come to me,
And meet me near the old elm tree"
New York Weekly.