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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-04-23

lows ard haggard lines Of his face
most pitilessly. He showed in voice
and manner the. nervous burden under
which he labo,ed-
"Alec has told me about your en-
gagement. and n lifts terrible load
from me. I'm mighty glad you're going
to marry him.: He's wonderful man.
and he's the. aury one who can save
u.s."
What do yoa mean ~ that? What
are we in danger or" she inquired.
avoiding discussion u McNamara's
announcement.
why. thnt mob. Of course. They'll
come back. They said so. But Alec
can handle TIE commanding officer at
the post. and thanks to him. Wen have
soldiers guarding the house hereafter
"Wby-tl:s1 wont hurt u.s.
"Tut. tut. know what I'm talk
ing about. We're IN worse danger
now thsn ever. and tf we don't break
rp t. ,ss =. .Slan.ea: there'l be blood
shed--:hats what. They're menace,
AMI .hnY're trying TO force me Oh the
bench 50 ths5 can take the law into
their oTn Enads again. That's what
want to SEE you about. They're plan
ming to kin Alec and me-so he says
and we've got to act quick to prevent
murder. Now. this young Glenister Ia
one Of them. and he knows who the
rest are. DO you think you could get
him to tark:"
81 donr think quite understand
you." said the girl. through whitening
lips.
"Oh. Yes. you do. want the names
Of the ringieade.'s. so that can jail
them. You can worm it out OF that fel,
low II you try"
Helen looked at the old man In hr'
ror that ut first was dumb. You ask
this Of nfe?'' she demanded hoa.eiy
at last.
Nonsense" he said irritably. "This
isn't any time for silly scruples. lts
life or death for me. maybe. and 70
Alec tco." He said the last crafty.
but she stormed at him:
Its infamous! You're asking me to
betray the very man who saved "a
not twelve hdlrs ago. He risked hia
life for u.s.
at isn't treachery at all. It's pro
lection. II We don't get them. they'll
get rs. I wouldn't punish that young
fellow. but I want the others. Come
now. you've got to do It."
But she said mo" firmly. and quietly
went to her own room, where. behind
the locked door. she sat for long tme
staring with unseelng eyes. her hands
tight clInched In her lap. At last she
whispered:
I'm afraid It's true. I'm afraid IT..
true"
She remained hidden during the
dinner hour. and pleaded a headache
when Mcnamara called In the early
evening. Although she had not seen
him since he left her the night before,
DtdEiuB uSl tdIlt PtohAoS " "So AAAAA,
yet how could she meet him now with
the conviction growing on her hourly
that he was master rogue? She
wrestled with the thought that he and
her uncle. her own uncle who stood in
the place Of a father. were conspira-
tors. And yet, at memory OF the
judges cold blooded request that she
should turn traitress. her whole being
revolted. II he could ask thing
ike that, what other heartless, selfish
act might he not be capable Of? All
the long. solitary evening she kept her
room, but at last. feeling faint. slipped
down stairs in search Of Fred, for she
had eaten nothing since her late break
fast.
Voices reached her from the parlor.
and as she came to the last step she
froze there In an attitude Of listening.
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Read the Farmers 4 MeF Oh ants
Banks ad. this issue.
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FOR SALE.

Brick in any quantity TO suit purchas
er. The Best Dry Press NschiRe-made
tBRICE. y
Special shapes made TO order. Core
pondence solicited before placing your
orders. W. E. FUNK,
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Registration Notice.

Theoff1ce OF the Supervisor Of Reg
istration will be opened on the frss
Monday in every month for the pur-
pose of the registering Of any person
who is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been . resident OF
the State for two years, and Of the
county one year, and of the polling pro-
cinct in which the elector offers to
vote four months before the day OF
election, and shall have paid, six
months before, any poll tax then due
and payable, and WhO can both read
and write any section Of the constitu-
tion of 1896 submitted to him BY the
Supervisors of Registration, or who
can show that he owns, and has paid
all taxes coAsotable on during ths
present year, property in this Stats
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. J. McGILL,
Clerk Of Board.
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{ Continued next week. !
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
The Left Twin.

The survivor Of twins is sometimes
credited with curious powers. In folk
lore he takes his place with the sew
enth son and with the child born with
caul. All these are supposed to have
either special powers Of healing or in
some cases to be gifted with the mys-
terious power of second sight. ssIn
Essex, England" says w. G. Black in
his book on "Folk Medicine" "a child
known familiarly as left twin'-i. e.,
child who has survived its fellow
twin is thought to have the power Of
curing the thrush by blowing three
times into the patients mouth If the
patient is of the opposite sex" This is
folklore, pure and simple. Another
country notion generally held is that
II twins are boy and girl the latter
WILL never become a mother. The
physiology of the subject is obscure,
but there is probably ground for the
belief. Another idea not infrequently
met with is that the intelligence Of
twins is below the average. It is al
ways difficult to prove negative. but
It Is very doubtful whether facts sun
port this notion of limited intelligence
10 any extent whatever. It is much
more more probable that their physical
strength is likely to be something less
than normal
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
A Blind Mans Ruse.

my great-uncle, who was blind"
said a Frenchman, "once buried $4,000
in gold louis under a pear tree in his
garden. His neighbor saw him do it
and in the dead of night came and stole
the money, replacing the earth care
fully.
"Some days later my uncle brought
fifty more louis down to the pear tree
for burial. He soon discovered his
loss. and, silently weeping, he, too, re-
placed the earth.
He knew whom to suspect, and that
night he called on his ueighbor He
seemed thoughtful and distrait, and the
neighbor asked him what oppressed his
mind.
"'Well, I'll tell you said my great
uncle frankly. i have 1000 louis hid
away in Il safe place, and today ten
ant paid off a mortgage. and l have
another 1000 louis In cash on my
hands. I don't know whether to seek
out another hiding place for this mon.
ey or put 1t where the other u.s. What
do you adviser
why said the neighbor eagerly,
If your first hiding place is safe-and
you declare it to be sol should GER
tainly put this money there too
My great-uncle said firmly that that
was what he would do. 1t was the
wisest course. Then be took his leave.
"And when next day he went to the
pear tree again there, sure enough, was
his lost 1,OO0 louis, all put back again."
Exchange.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
lngersoll on Glover.

In declining an invitation to q Glover
club dinner once Colonel Robert Inger-
soil wrote:
"A wonderful thing is clover 1t
means honey and cream-that is to say,
industry and contentment-that is to
say, the happy bees in perfumed fields
and at the cottage gate old Boss,' the
bountiful, serenely chewing satisfac-
tion's cud in that blessed twilight
pause that, like benediction, falls be-
tween all toll and sleep. This clover
makes me dream Of happy hours, of
childhOod's rosy cheeks, of dimpled
babes, of wholesome, loving wives, of
honest men. of springs and brooks and
violets and all there is of stainless JOY
in peaceful human life.
"A wonderful word Is clover! Drop
the C. and you have the happiest Of
mankind, Take away the C. and r.
and you have left the only thing that
makes heaven of this dull and bar
rem earth. Cut off the r. alone, and
there remains a very deceitful bud that
sweetens the breath and keeps peace in
countless homes whose masters fire.
quent clubs. After all, Bottom was
right, Good hay, sweet hay, hath no
fellow"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05

and grossness. Mr.. Clements Ho-
henstauffen suggests intimate asso-
citation with cultured Germans, an
intimacy Mr.. Clement enjoyed when
a student at Heidelberg for the
Baron in the play is of noble birth
and is gentle as an old gardener.
After Colonel R. G. Ingersoll
saw Mr.. Clement for the first time
in this part, he wrote the actor a
letter in which he said: The
Hohenstauffen of your creation has
the culture of the university, the
high breeding of the court, the cour-
age of the army and the courtesy
and tenderness of the perfect gentle
man." Those words describe
beyond the ability of writer's of
lesser attainments an estimate of
Clay Clements creation and of his
exemplifcation of that character as
strong as it is deserved.
Goodwin has his Maxine;
Clement his Kathleen. Miss Kerri-
gan, as the Southern girl, who so
completely captivates the German
philosopher, that the poor man
almost loses his mind in the franctic
efforts to make her understand his
broken sentences and comprehend
his love, is one of the striking beau
ties of the American stage, and also
possesses true dramatic talent. In
her love scenes she is irresistibly
winning and when she tells her
father her heart belongs to the
absent Baron she fairly scintillates
with dramatic fire.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
His Desire to Reform,

Discussing poverty on one occasion,
the Dutch poet and economist Van
Eeden said, 1--WE want reform. and we
want 1t about as badly as a Dutch STU
dent knew in my youth
This students chum said to him:
Look here, I'm tired Of the life
I've been leading for the past two
years. I'm going to reform. This morn
Ing shall attend a lecture
my student, a confirmed idler,
yawned. put down his pipe and an
swered:
=" Yes; it would be splendid to re-
form. and yet the beer is very good
here this morning, isn't it7 tell you
what Well do. Well let my dog viii
helm decide whether we reform or not,
Wilhelm decide! How will he do
nr
"Oh. 1t is very simple. Wen tell the
waiter to bring piece Of sausage.
Wen set the sausage before Wilhelm,
and If he eats it we stay where we
are. If he doesn't, we reform and 20 to
lectures. Washington Star.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
NO ACTION DURING RECESS
Mr.. Payne Does Not Desire to Encour-
age Tariff Revisionists. ... d.

Mr.. Payne Does Not Desire to Encour-
age Tariff Revisionists.
Washington, June 5.-The fact that
Chairman Payne Of the house COM
mittee on ways and means, which is
to inquire into the subject of tariff re-
vision, does not intend to call his
committee together during the recess
of congress is attributed to a desire
not to encourage tariff revisionists.
"All that will be done," said Mr..
Payne, ''is that the executive depart
ments, notably the treasury depart
ment, will be asked to collect certain
data in regard to the tariff schedules
and have the information ready in
time for the next regular session of
congress-"
The admins tration programme now,
1t is asserted, is that Secretary Taft,
in the event of his nomination and
election, shall convene a special ses-
sion of the Sixty-first congress imme-
diately after his Inauguration to take
up the subject of tariff revision. In
the event that Democrat is elected
next fall President Roosevelt will call
congress together for tariff revision
next November.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
Ike Lederer in Town.

Ike Lederer of St. Paul, who is a
commercial traveller for the David
Adler & Sons Clothing company of
Milwaukee, is again calling on his
customers in this vicinity, for the
first time in many weeks.
Mr.. Lederer, who is one of the most
popular Elks in the state, attended
the meeting of Bemidji lodge, which
he assisted in instituting.
Mr.. Lederer was i'll for several
months, in fact, his life was at one
time dispaired of, but he has re-
gained much of his old enthusiasm,
and all of the north.country boys
are glad to see him out again.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
What's In a Man,e7


Come here, Batesw roared DR.. Big
wig, head and only master of the
Cramton village school. II have today
received-ahem!-a letter from Mr..
johnson informing me that his son Is
unable to attend school in consequence
of a thrashing you yesterday inflicted
upon him. Is this fact, Bates?'
"N-n-no, sir! quailed Bates. II nev-
er touch 'im."
But DR.. Bigwig did not believe, and
two minutes later Bates was asking
for permission to stand up in class, the
benches being Of wood. I'D,
On the following day Johnson re-
turned, and DR.. Bigwig sought justifi-
cation of his act before the whole
class -
did you tell your father that Bates
thrashed you? he asked.
mo, SIR" piped the youth.
The masters countenance clouded.
"But your father wrote to me. saw
Ing that Bates did itv' he thundered.
Il know e did!' sniveled Johnson.
1T were Billy Beauchamp did it, SIR
but father couldn't speel Beauchamp,
30 he wrote Bates."-London Answers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
Additional Short Locals.

w. B. Stewart, county superin-
tendent of schools, went to Black
duck last evening on business con-
nected with his Office.
Peterson's Elk carnival and
Fourth of July goods have been on
hand for seveal weeks and will be
displayed in due time.
z The ladies of the Episcopal
Guild will hold a fruit sale tomor-
row afternoon at 2:3O o'clock at
Abercrombie's store.
w. H. Merrill, the candy" man,
went to Northome last night in the
interest of the Zeigler-Reinertsen
Candy company of St. Paul.
w. c. Traverse, the pump man
for the M. & I. Railway company,
passed through the city this morn
ing from Northome to Jenkins
Summer tools and toys for the
children. Another shipment just in
at Peterson's.
Charles w. Knox and wife arrived
in the city last night from Revere
and went to Nebish this afternoon
for visit at Mr.. Knox's old home.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
CLAY CLEMENT. WILL PLAY
NEW DOMINION HERE

The next attraction at the CITY
Opera House will be Clay Clement,
in the New Dominion which
comes to this city next Monday
evening.
Bemidji is indeed fortunate in
securing so eminent an actor in so
sterling a play; and the Pioneer can
strongly recommend this actor and
his great play as being the very best
attraction that has come to this
city.
Relative to the New Dominion, !"
the Morning Oregonian, of Portland,
Ore, says:
Not to have seen Clay Clement
in one of his most finished creations,
Baron Hohenstauffen,'' is not to
have seen one of the great actors of
the day in one of the most charming
plays of this or any other day. In
The New Dominion" of which
the eminent actor is author, and in
which he opened a weeks engage
ment at the Marquam yeste rday,
there is presented a study in char
acters that are lovabIe and altogether
human. The charm of the play lies
in its ever-present simplicity, in that
not one strained effort for mere effect
mars the beautiful unfolding of the
story. The comedy is of that high
order one finds in the classics.
There is an absence of coarseness
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
A Curious Plant.

"A curious plant" said an eminent
botanist, "is the wild tamarind or juba
plant Of the riverside and waste places
Of tropical America, and very strange
are it's effects upon the nonruminant
animals that feed upon its young
shoots, leaves, pods and seeds. 1t
causes horses to lose the hair from
their names and tails, has similar ef-
feet upon mules and donkeys and re-
duces pigs to complete nakedness.
Horses are said to recover when fed
exclusively on corn and grass, but the
new hair is of different color and tex
ture from the old, so that the animal is
never quite the same as it was. One
animal of which I personally knew
after feeding on the plant lost its hoofs
and had to be kept In slings until
they grew and hardened again. Rumi-
nant animals are not thus affected, and
the growth of the plant is actually en-
couraged in the Bahamas as fodder
plant for cattle, sheep and goats. The
difference il probably due to changes
effected upon it In the chewing of the
cud."
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05

]. H. Space, district deputy Of
the M. B. A., went to Blackduck
last evening and from there to Ouir-
ing, where he will institute new
lodge of his order.
S. E. Hines arrived in the city
yesterday noon from Brandon,
Oregon, and left on the evening
train for three weeks visit with
his brother, who owns farm near
Blackduck.
Fresh roasted peanuts and pop
corn all day and evening at Peter
sons.
Miss Addie Dugas, who attends
the convent at Little Falls, arrived
in the city last night from Little
Falls and will spend her vacation
at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. T. Dugas, in this city.
Cold drinks at Peterson's.
John G. Morrison, Jr., of Red
Lake, remained in the city last night
to attend the meeting of Remidii
Lodge, Mo. 1852, B. P. O. E., and
see to it that his friend, A. c. God
dard, of Red Lake, got all that was
coming to him when he went through
the degrees last evening.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
Summer drinks at Peterson's.

Summer drinks at Peterson's.
Fancy fruit for the table or sick
room, all the time at Peterson's.
w. A. Currie returned yesterday
afternoon from a short visit busi.
ness trip to Cass Lake. .. .... 49,.
M. L. Olson and Oscar Peterson
were International Falls visitors in
the city yesterday morning. " %s
You'd think it was autumn in
stead of June to see the elegant
outlay of apples and other fancy
fruit at Peterson's.
For your Sunday dinner dessert
order a brick of that rich Monarch
ice cream. Sold only by Scott Stew
art.
F. Neski of Chicago has accepted
a position in the Burkhardt Cigar
factory and will make his home in
this city.
Chicago Sunday Examiner, the
best Sunday paper published, every
Saturday evening, only at Peterson's.
Miss Ethel Knox came in this
morning from Nebish and returned
this afternoon.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
Prominent Railroad Man Here.

H. E. Lidman of Minneapolis,
northwest passenger agent for the
Canadian Pacific railway and
Atlantic Steamship companies,
intends to bring some settlers into
Beltrami county and will locate
most of them in the vicinity of
Turtle River.
The above statement was made
by Mr.. Lidman, today, who spent
several hours here.
Mr.. Lidman owns some land in
the northeast arm of Turtle River
lake, across the lake from the Village
of Turtle River, and he is enthusias-
tic in his praise of the quality of the
soil and the excellance of this
climate and the fishing and boating
as a summer resort.
Mr.. Lidman will leave here this
evening for International Falls from
which place he will go to Baudette,
Spooner and Warroad, and thence
on to Winnipeg, and from the latter
place he will return to his home at
Minneapolis via the Great Northern
railway.
Mr.. Lidman predicts a great fut-
ure for Beltrami county and states
that he will do all he can, personally,
to assist in the development of the
county and inducing settlers to
locate here.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
AFTER DRINKING CLUBS.
Ann Arbor Faculty Puts Ban on Or.
ganizations of Students,

Ann Arbor, Mich, June 5.-The fac
ulty senate of Michigan university has
adopted the following resolution,
aimed at the different drinking clubs
in the college: ...... ........
THE growing practice on the part
OF students of meeting in halls at
tached to or connected with saloons
or drinking places is for obvious rea-
sons to be condemned; students who
organize or participate in such meet
1ngs shall become subject to discip-
hnary action; and, further, any stu
dents who organize or take part in
what are called keg, parties, no mat
ter where they may be held, should
be liable to discipline by the faculty
in whose department they are en-
rolled" ......
The Friars, an upper classmen club,
is being investigated, as is also the
Owls, seniors society," The Pipe
and Bowl has been dissolved and it's
members forbidden to join the Friars
or any other club.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
A Trvinu Position.

An East Indian paper prints the fol-
lowing, written by a native subord-
nate in his diary while in a very try
Ing position:
up tree where adhere with much
pain and discomposure while big tiger
roaring in very awful manner on the
fire line. This is very inconsiderate
tiger and causes me great griefs, as l
have before reported to your honor.
This is two times he spoiled my work,
coming and shouting like thunder and
putting me up tree and making me
behave like an insect. 1t is very awk-
ward fate to me, and the tiger Is most
hconsiderate."
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
A Telephone Opiate.

The elders wife was seriously i'll,
and the doctor advised rest and quiet.
But the lady was very devoted to
church work and worried herself into
hysteria because she could not attend
services and hear her favorite pastor
preach.
"She must not leave the house,"
warned the doctor, ''but you can easily
arrange to have her hear the sermon
by telephone"
The elder grasped the suggestion and
made the necessary arrangements for
transmitting the sermon into his wife,s
room.
At noon on the Sabbath the doctor
called and asked. "How did it work?''
Fine" declared the elder, rubbing
his hands g]eefully. Ten minutes aft
er the sermon began she fell sound
ep."-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
His Criticism,

Robert Louis Stevenson once took an
eccentric acquaintance of his to hear
Sir Charles Halle play the piano at ST.
James hall. London. Sir Charles was
musician of the most correct and
severe British type. though a German
by birth. After the concert was over
they walked as far as the Marble arch
neither having spoken. Arrived there
the friend stopped and delivered him
self thus: 'The manner of the elderly
statesman at the piano was somewhat
austere and chilling." And then they
walked on. ..-
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
Starving Children in School,.

New York, June 5.-Because of the
widespread poverty on the East Side
little children attending the public
schools have gone to their lessons
weak from hunger after fasting for
periods of forty-eight hours or longer;
pupils suffering so greatly from lack
OF nourishment that they fell fainting
to the floor have p1uckily hidden the
cause OF their weakness and pitiable
instances of starvation have multi
piled alarmingly in the last few days.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
General Strike Threatened.

Atlanta, Ca, June 5.-Val Fitzpat-
rick, vice president of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, sent the
following telegram to J. w. Thomas,
president of the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis railroad. at Nash
Vile: "Unless you reinstate all men
who left the service Tuesday and
those who were discharged for being
members of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen strike will be extended
to your entire system"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
The Widows Dover.

It Is certain that "dower," the estate
for life which the widow acquires at
her husbands death, was not known
among the early Saxons. In the laws
Of King Edmund the widow is directed
to be supported wholly out Of the per-
sonal estate. Dover is generally as
cribed to the Normans, but it was first
introduced into the feudal system by
Emperor Frederick H., who was con.
temporary with the English Henry I'LL,
about 1850
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
Takinu No Chances.

A farmer who took much pride in
the looks of his fattening pigs cnce
purchased pair from a neighbor.
Upon delivery at the uS,:al age Of
eight weeks they seemed to him rather
small. .
Eying them obviously. he remarked
dryly, Guess had better keep the
cat shut up for few DAYS"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, June Cattle -Beeves.
S4.9O@7.50; Texans, s4.7O@5.s5; West
ern cattle, $4.65@6O0; stockers and
feeders, s2.60@5.55; cows and heifers
s240@6.40; calves, $4.75@625. Hogs
s5.10@5.50; mixed, $3.50
5.55; heavy, $5.05@5.521a; rough.
$5.O5@5.20; pigs, $4.25@5.10; good to
choice heavy, s5.2o@5.521h. Sheep.
SS.15@49o; yearlings, $4.60@5.6O;
lambs, $4.o0@6.15. S,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-06-05
A Aar,! Stunt.

Mamma-Good gracious. Georgie!
What is the matter with Freddie
Jones? Is the child having a fit?
Georgie-No. mamma. You know Fred.
die shutters. and we bet he couldn't say
"altitldinosty" before Bobbie ran
twice around the h'nrk Puck