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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
The Sun From a Balloon.


At the height of two miles the sun
shines with fierce intensity unknown
below, where the dust and the denser
air scatter the rays, which, thus diff
fused, lose their intensity while illu-
mining every nook and corner of our
houses. At heights exceeding five miles
this diffused light is mostly gone, and
the sun shines a glowing ball, sharply
outlined in sky of which the blue is
so dark as to approach blackness. At
the outer limits Of the atmosphere the
sun would appear a brilliant star of
massive size among other stars, and II
one stepped from It's burning rays into
shadow he would enter Egyptian dark
ness. At the height of mile aud a
half we found it necessary to shelter
our faces to prevent sunburn, although
the air around US was but little warm
er than that Of the previous night, be-
Ing about 45 degrees. AS the afternoon
wore on and the balloon began to cool
and sink we were obliged to throw out
much sand, casting 1t away scoopful
at time, and just after sunset it was
even necessary to empty two or three
bags at once.-H. 81. Clayton in Allan
tic
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
Rarest of Trades.

"Mine is the rarest of all trades"
said an Englishman 81 am maker
Of instruments Of torture suppose
that at this moment in Siam and China
yellow men are bleeding and bowling
in the clutch of machines of my make"
He lighted his pipe. pleasant
thought, eh? But we must make our
living somehow. In Birmingham mines
made. There for seventeen years l
have been turning out racks, hair and
nail drawers, thumbscrews. SINNERS.
needle beds, soaring irons. bone break
ers and what not.
ISLAM and China have bought their
instruments Of torture from Birming-
ham for generations. Some Of these
contrivances are very costly and in
genious. There's a water dropper
which works by clockWork that costs
$500. There's a. But that's too terri
BILE to talk about. The Chinese instrll-
ments, by the way, are million times
crueler than the Siamese"-New York
Press. .-z.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
Too Significant

'These Spanish names in California
puzzle me, but some Of them have very
interesting meanings" commented a
guest Of one Of the hotels.
"Yesw said the manager.
'"They do, for a fact; they really do.
am keeping track of list in my
notebook. But the funny thing was in
Santa Barbara. Listen to this: 'Indio
Muerto street, meaning dead Indian
All, here it Is, the one l was after, a
street named 'Salsipuedes.' Well, this
streets the one that runs to the hospital
up on the slop1ng hillside above the
town. When they built the hospital.
they were at loss for name. Some
one suggested calling it after this
street. And they did. Then they hap
pened to look up the meaning of the
word"
"And what does it meanY' asked the
manager.
'salsipuedes' was originally street
that wandered up and down through a
series Of ravines, and it means Get
out If you cam Good name for jail,
but not for hospital."-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
Samson and Louis XVI.


Three letters written by Samson, the
executioner Of the terror" are printed
In the Paris Gaulois One of the most
interesting Of them is short enough to
be quoted in full:
"CitiZen-I have just learnt that the
rumour is current that am selling or
causing to be sold locks of the hair of
Louis Capet. If any have in fact been
sold, this abominable trade can only
have been carried on by impostors. The
truth is that I have not allowed any
one in my house to carry away even
the smallest relic"
Samson, it appears, had in his private
capacity much sympathy with the
king whose head it was his duty in his
professional capacity to cut off. In
another letter he attributes the courage
with which he met his death to the
frmness of his religious principles,
and when he himself died In 1906 he
bequeathed money to pay for masses
for his victims soul.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
The Queens Lesson.

One Of the ladies in waiting to the
late Queen Victoria had very bright
little daughter about four years old
and Of whom the queen was very fond.
The queen invited the child to have
lunch with her. OF course the mother
was highly pleased and charged the lit
tie girl to be very careful about her
table manners and to be very polite to
the queen. -
The little girl came home in high
glee, and the mother asked her all
about the luncheon. "Were you a very
polite little girl? And did you remem-
Der to do all I told you at the table?"
asked the proud mamma.
"Oh, yes; was polite" said the little
girl, "but the queen wasn't
The queen wasn'tv' said the mother
why, what did she doY'
"She took her chicken bone up in her
fingers, and Just shook my finger at
her. like you did at me, and said, Pig
BY, piggy, piggyv "-Philadelphia North
American.
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Pennyroysl and Eleas.

When 1t comes to talking about feas
the writer knows just where he is at.
When he was a boy the country
swarmed with them, and perhaps one
of the things he will remember longest
will be the sleepless nights and the tor
ments that the feas gave him when
sitting in Quaker meetings, where he
did not dare to scratch. For many
years the people seemed to put up with
them as an evil from which there was
no escape, yet there was an efficient
remedy growing on every farm in the
shape of a modest little plant called
pennyroyal, which-is familiar to every
country bred boy. The odor of this
plant seems very offensive to many
kinds of insects. A freshly bruised
bunch of the plant put in small bag
and rubbed on the bed linen and ther
left in the bed will evict the last flea
In very few minutes. A few drops
of the essential oil Of the plant, which
can be got at any drug store, rubbed
on ones underclothing will drive them
from the person Immediately and If
sprinkled about room infested with
fleas will clear them out.-Forest and
Stream
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
Before the Mirror

He is one of those persons with a
mad passion for figuring out "How
much" "How long," etc., and was wait
ing for his wife, who was adjusting
her hat before the mirror. They were
going to the theater and had ten min
utes. to catch their train. Presently a
sparkle came into his eye, and he fish
ed a pencil and paper from his pocket.
That kind of man always hasa pencil
and paper even in his evening clothes.
do you know" he said presently,
looking up at his wife, who had finish
ed adjusting her hat, "that I figure,
basing my figures on observation, that
a girl from six to ten spends an aver
age of seven minutes day before her
mirror, from ten to fifteen a quarter of
an hour, from fifteen to twenty twenty
two minutes. A woman of seventy
will have spent $500 hours, or eight
solid months, counting day and night.
Now, a woman Of your age has spent
"Never mind what I've SPENT" she
said coldly, removing her hat. "You
have spent fifteen minutes figuring it
out, and we have missed that train."-
St. Louis Republic.
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Whistler's Odd Ways.

Lord Redesdale once gave descrip
ton Of Whistler's methods to<a meet
ing in London in support Of a memo
rial to the great artist. He was paint
ing. he said, a portrait of lady
Whistler took up his position at one
end of the room with his sitter and the
canvas at the other end For long
time he stood looking at his model
holding in his hand huge brush full
of color. such a brush as man would
use to whitewash house. Then be
rushed forward and smashed the brush
full of color into the canvas Then he
ran back. and forty or fifty times he
repeated this. At the end of that
time there stood out on the canvas a
space which exactly indicated the fig.
ure. the form and the expression OF
the sitter. There was a pathetic step.
attaching to the picture. The bailiffe
were in the house when the picture
was finished. That was quite a com.
mon occurrence and Whistler only
laughed, but he went round his studio
with knife and deliberately destroyed
all his canyases, including this picture.
which was to have been his Nord
Observation-Disclosures Advertiser.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28

A voluble negro who was discovered
pacing fast heat across the Tenth
street viaduct the other night explain
ed his haste to the policeman who ar
rested him.
He explained that he had been to a
swell dance and had paid the sum of
$3.50 for the rent of the startlingly
correct attire in which he was clad.
During the progress Of the dance a
short yellow man had repeatedly bump
ed against him in a most offensive
manner. He related the story with
dignity and JUNCTION.
"Thish yere yellow niger, he KEEP
a-bumpin' inter me till ses to him,
ses, I'll see you after this dance out
side,' I ses to him.
"He SEES, very we'll, sub; I'll see yon
after this dance
81 didn't like the looks of him no
how, and when we gifts outside he
pulls big razzer, and he ses, I'll cave
you,' he ses, jes' that er-way.
81 thinks of that suit pays $3.50
fer, and gethers up all the rabbit they
is in me, and l starts to runnin', and l
runs fast runs like a jack rabbit
ontell gifts to the vi'duc', and big
police he hollers to me:
"'Hey, there be hollers. 'Whar
you-all gwine so fas'?'
CPS jis' a-runnin' to ketch cyar,'
l hollers back. But he grabs me- and
he SEES:
'Ketch' car, niger! Why, youse
passed four cars a'readyv-O
World Herald.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
unbelievable Taxes.

''In the past" said the tax assessor,
governments were wiser. They levied
taxes that could not be sworn off.
There was, for instance, the English
birth tax of the seventeenth century.
A laborer paid 2 shillings as birth tax;
a duke paid ESQ., You couldn't get
round it.
"Burials were taxed, according to
the station of the dead, from shilling
to f25. That, too, could not be lodged.
Marriages were taxed. A duke to
marry paid ESQ; common person,
like yourself, paid half a crown.
I'm those days you paid tax on
every servant, on every dog, on every
horse, on your carriage, your hearth,
your windows, watches, clocks, wigs,
hair powder, plate, ribbons, bricks,
coal, gauze and candles.'- Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
SIMPLE WASHsCURES ECZEMA.
Itching, Burning Skin Disease
Routed Without Use of In
furious Drugs.

Great inventors often have been
praised for surrendering the secrets
of their discoveries. Practically the
same thing happened in the medical
world in the case of DR.. Decatur. ID.
Dennis, the eminent skin specialist
of Chicago.
DR.. Dennis, in his own office prac-
rice, discovered that pure vegetable
oil of wintergreen, properly mixed
with other simple remedies was
practically a sure specific for Eczema,
psoriasis, BARRIERS itch, salt rheum,
and other itching skin diseases. But
the oil of wintergreen alone was
COMMUNICATIVE. It required other
mild ingredients such as glycerine
and thymel compounded with the
wintergreen, to produce the real
eczema cure.
y
This compounded D. D. D.. Pre-
scription positively takes away the
itch at once the instant it is ap-
piled to the skin. This vegetable
liquid does away with deleterious
drugs solong used in an attempt to
doctor the blood. Whereas modern
science has determined that eczema
is first and all the time skin dis
ease.
# you want to know more about
the famous D. D. D. Prescription,
call at our store. We vouch for
this remedy. Barker's Drug Store.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
A Madman's Strange Belief.

An unfortunate maniac was confined
in one of the Scottish lunatic asylums,
his particular infirmity being an un-
shakable belief that every day was
Christmas day and that he was din
ing sumptuously on turkey or roast
beef and a good slice Of plum pud-
ding. His real diet, however, was Of
the plainest, he being served twice
daily with a dish Of oatmeal porridge.
After daily describing to his attendants
the pleasures he had tasted in his cut
of turkey or what not he as regularly
added, "Yet, somehow or other, every
thing that eat tastes Of porridge."
This story it was which gave rise to
the saying. "As palatable as the mad.
mans porridge."
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
And Everybody Laughed"

The following story was told by FL
len Thorneycroft Fowler in the London
P. T.. o.: Eat a dinner party one even
ing after my marriage the converse
ton, which was general. took a literary
turn, and gentleman sitting next to
me, who did not know the identity Of
Mrs. Felkin with Ellen Thorneycroft
Fowler, began to descant on the way
young authors spoil themselves with
tricks. To emphasize his point he said,
What can be more horrible than Miss
Fowler's trick of saying EVERY
laughed?'' There was a dead pause.
He evidently expected me to make re-
mark, for when 1 did not speak he
turned and said: oh, don't you know
Miss Fowler's books? Haven't you
read any Of them? I wrote them,' l
replied, and then, indeed, everybody
laughed"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28

The sanctity of the speaker is an in
violable law Of parliamentary England,
yet once the necessities Of the nation
were 50 great that an assault and bat
terry had to be made upon his sacred
person. It was in the third parliament
of Charles l. that the angry commons
framed their petition Of rights. This
cut at the very root of the kings pre-
rogatiye, and among those in the house
who opposed it was Mr. Speaker. Upon
Sir John Elliott moving its acceptance
the speaker essayed to leave the chair,
which would, of course, have proved
fatal to the BILL But they were ready
for him, and Hollis and Valentine seiz-
ed him, one on each side, and literally
held him in the chair until the for
mality of the reading was over. So
vital was the petition considered that
Cromwell said in the lobby afterward
"Had we been defeated should have
left England tonight" London Chroni-
o1o
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
A Little Retouchino

The wonders Of photography are ever
on the increase. Nevertheless there
are still some limitations to the power
and skill of even the most expert pho
tographer. Mr.. Hall is an amateur Of
no mean attachments, and when his old
Aunt Hannah from Bushby came down
to the city he secured picture of her
in her most characteristic pose-arms
akimbo and mouth slightly open. When
Aunt Hannah saw the first print she
looked at it, held it off, drew it close
again and then sat down to write her
nephew:
Dear James-Yours with photograph
taken during my late visit just received
In reply I would say I'm we'll enough
pleased with it for myself and your folks
But In the one you send out to California
to Emma I'd rather you'd straighten out
my elbows and let my arms hang. At
fectionately, " AUNT HANNAH.
P. S.-Perhaps you'd better close my
mouth mite more, as Emma's husband
Is stranger to me.
-t@-s Youths Companion.
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Evolution.

In the days when the higher educa-
ton Of women provoked more discus
sion than it does at the present time q
number of Cambridge university men,
among them Arthur Clement Hilton
who was born wit and died a clergy
man, were discussing the establish.
ment Of women's colleges. Hilton, says
his biographer, Sir Robert Edgecumbe,
expressed himself in favor Of the move
ment.
"Of course" he said, when women
get their degrees they will not be bach
elors, but spinsters of art, and then
after awhile they will proceed to the
degree of M. Ana"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
A Mothers Sacrifice.

Legends in India run that if a wom-
an stricken with leprosy suffers her
self to be buried alive the disease will
not descend to her children. There
was in the northwest provinces Of In
Ola the wife Of a gardener on whom
the loathsome malady had fallen. Chill
dren were born to her. The disease
grew worse. She importuned her hus-
band to bury her alive. He at last,
yielding to her prayers, summoned his
son. The two dug the grave, and four
neighbors assisted at the sepulture. So
the woman died. These facts were in
vestigated in a magistrates court and
we're proved.
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READING q Pics Tail.

Don't buy that pig" said the older
butcher hastily.
Why not?'' asked the younger man.
Look ct his TAIL" was the reply.
See how loose it hangs, like the tail
OF rat. That is a sign that the ami
NAL is in bad health.
You can read pigs condition by
Its tail. The tighter it is curled the
filter Is the pig. And when the tail
hangs straight, as this one does, the
pig ought to take to his bed and send
Tor the veterinary" New Orleans
Times Democrat.
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His Distinction.

A solemn funeral procession, slowly
vending its way up the slope from the
church to the grave, was intercepted
by the old verger, who, pulling his
forelock in the usual rustic style, ad-
dressed the clergyman, whispering In
confidential manner:
please, sir, corpse's brother wishes
to speak to yer!'-London Bits.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28
Some Famous Salt Lakes,

The Dead sea is forty miles long and
nine miles wide. The Great Salt lake
is seventy miles long and eighty miles
wide, the largest body of brine in the
world. There Is evidence to show that
once the Great Salt lake was at least
$50 miles In length and $50 in width,
nine times its present area. The Dead
sea contains about "a per cent Of sol.
ids, one-third of which is pure salt,
while of the % per cent of solid mat
ter in the waters of Great Salt lake
nearly all Is salt.
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In Lenuthv Terms.

In the suburbs Of one Of our great
cities recently new resident stopped
In front of his neighbours gate and in
quired of the boy swinging thereon:
us your pa home, sonny?"
mo, SIR" replied the lad. "He went
up the road apiece"
"Gone afoot?
"No; about mile."-Judge's Library.
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In the Dime Museum.

what did you do with my Their
mometer?" demanded the doctor who
had been called in to attend one of the
freaks.
II swallowed it, doc" answered the
glass eater. Thought it was my med
icine. "-Pittsburg Press.
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He Wanted to Know.

The Employer (coldly) Why are you
so late2 The Suburbanite (guiltily)-
There were two wrecks on the track
this morning, and The Employer
testify was the other one7
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Not New.

New Boarder-One thing TIL say for
these eggs-there's nothing bold or i'm
pudent about them. Landlady-B O.
tmpudent! don't understand New
Boarder-Why, not bit too fresh, you
know.
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Not a Question of cr.,,,,, !,

Inc green reporter turned to Editor
MckeiWay. Which should say he
asked hesitatngly, My boy Henry
I0d an egg on the tableY"
well" said Editor McKelway i'm
patlentiy, If you want something to
crow over, and he's that kind of hen.
nery, let him lay it on the table If he
can. otherwise have him put it there"
Judge.
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A Nautical Secret.

Passenger-What makes this boat
pitch so? Sailor-That's a nautical Sc
cret, ma'am. that we don't like to give
away; but, SEEM it's you, don't mind
tellin' you that it's the waves.-San
Francisco Call.
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CONFUSING ENGLISH

II see one of our battleships reported
fast in the mud"
"Well?'
II was just thinking that ship fast
In the mud ought to be a record break
er on the open Pick Me- Up.
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Money! Makes Cyclists.

Money is a sort of creation and gives
the acquirer even more than the pos
SCISSOR an imagination of his own pow
er and tends to make him idolize self
Cardinal Newman.
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Conuuerinu Termination.

To conquer temptation you must live
it down alone. as you must die alone
and no ,vicarious gift of strength can
take the place Of mans own will
From "My Journal
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The first day a man is out of a job
he aims to get the position of cashier
in bank; the second day he dreams
of clerkship, and the third day he
is wretched because he can't get the
authorship.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28

Anybody can launch a national
party, but to keep it afoat requires
fneSse.
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J, both acting physically on the bowels, lmpartng
the necessary constant stimulus. These, with
vigorous daily exercise, are the valuable natural
factors in overcoming constipation. You will
never grow tired Of Dr.. Prices Food, as it is
made from the whole wheat berry heabhful
and satisfying. 1856
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When man has turned out to be
failure he tries to convince his friends
that his conscience prevented him from
making his pile.-Washington Post
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To Keep From BREAKING.

To Keep From Breaking.
my hero has strong face" remark
ed the author.
HE needs it," replied the critic. 81
notice his face falls every time he
meets the heroihe!''
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You can patch up a quarrel, but it
will always show where it is patched
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When the Lord makes a fool. the
devil gives him tongue.

A man never got off joke so stale
that he couldn't laugh at it himself.
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The true test of greatness is the
ability to wear the same size of hat
continuously.
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1t is your friends who pick you to
pieces; other people are Indifferent
and let you alone.
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We are willing to be knaves in
order to acquire whealth, and fools
in order that it may not bore us.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-28

Your friends may sometimes act
mad because you do not come to see
them, but they are not as mad as
they seem.
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There are times in every mans
life when the way to earn his friend
ship and gratitude is to ask him no
questions.
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OBSERVATIONS.
t"By Doc. u

When a man does his best, he will
do very we'll.
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Held Down the Speaker.

sGlliz las. si..Es,. 5j-:-:=zzE- -1z.=-z-l
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is chiefly due to the large residue and the natural wheat
tanned salts both acting physically on the bowels mpane