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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
JUDGE STANTON IS IN
DEMAND AS SPELLBINDER
Will Respond to Invitation to Address
School Officers at Altkin on
May 18th.

The fame of C. w. Stanton, new
ly-appointed judge of the Fifteenth
Judicial district, as platform speak
er is spreading over the district. and
he is being regarded as a decided
attraction at any public gathering,
and is receiving many invitations to
speak at different points.
He was recently engaged to speak
at Brainerd on May 3Oth, at which
time he will address the old vets, at
the memorial services in that city.
The most recent invitation
extended to Judge Stanton is one
from Aitkin, wherein Mr.. Glider
sleeve, Superintendent of schools of
Aitkin county, desires the judge to
be in Aitkin on May 18th and
address the annual meeting of the
school district officers and teachers
of Aitkin county. Judge Stanton
has decided to accept the invitation
and the Aitkin folks will hear some.
thing good from him.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
Ball Game Postponed.

On account of extremely wet
weather Sunday, the baseball game
scheduled to be played here between
the Fosston and Bemidji teams has
been postponed for one week, and
the game. will be pulled off on the
local diamond next Sunday.
The local management will try to
arrange games for the near future
with the Grand Rapids and Akeley
teams. The players of those two
villages have organized during the
past week.
Big Chief" Louie Roy, who will
catch for Bemidji, has arrived in the
city, and looks better than ever.
Roy is one of the best semi-pro.
fessional back-stops in the north
half of the state, having played two
seasons in the Northern league.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
Famous Fire Fighter in Town.

Thomas R. Johnstone of Crooks
ton, the general agent for the Ameri-
can-LaFrance Fire Engine company
of Elmira, N. Y, came to the city
yesterday, for the purpose of talk
ing fire apparatus to the members
of the fire department and also
members Of the council who are on
the fire committee.
At an informal meeting held yes
terday afternoon, Alderman Brink
man and Washburn, Messrs. ]. ].
Doran, M. F. Cunningham and
others consulted with Mr.. Johnstone
relative to some apparatus which
the fire department has requested
the city to purchase for local use.
Mr.. tombstone has been an active
fireman for the past twenty years,
and as such has purchased much
fire apparatus, and he is particular
ly we'll posted as to best makes and
most durable paraphernalia.
At the request of those who at
tended the informal meeting yester-
day, Mr.. tombstone remained in the
city over today and will be present
at the meeting Of the council to be
held this evening.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
.PARDELL WILL Be GUEST
OF SHERIFF SIXTY DAYS
Man Who Failed to Liquidate His Board
Bill 'Languishes in Dur
ance Vile"

D. E. Pardell, who was arrested at
Baudette, while trying to escape into
Canada, and who was brought to Be-
midi to answer to the charge of
fraudulently obtaining board and ac-
comodations at the Markham hotel
in this city, has been given a hear
ing before Justice Sclocum, where
he plead guilty to the charge and
was sentenced to pay fine of $50
and Costs, or to serve thirty days in
the county Jail. As Pardell had no
money with which to liquidate the
fine, he will languish in the Beltrami
county jail for the next two months.
In explaining his conduct, Pardell
claimed that he had been on a pro-
tracted spree and had been drinking
heavily Of late, with the result that
he worked the hotel at Grand
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
PREPARE FINE PROGRAM
FOR FIRE TOURNAMENT
Thief RlYer Falls People Are Offering Liberal Purses for
Races and Indications Point to Most Successful
Gathering Of Firemen

AS it is among the possibilities
that the members of the Bemidii
fire department will attend the fire
tournament to be held at Thief
River Falls, the following, taken
from the Crookston Times will be
OF interest to the boys:
Prizes aggregating $1,000 have
been hung up by the fremen's Tour
nament Association for the meeting
to be held at Thief River Falls in
June. The program as outlined is a
good one and fills out the four DAYS
in an interesting way.
The first event scheduled for the
opening day is the meeting of the
executive committee, to be followed
by an address of welcome by Mayor
Hamre at the fair grounds. At 3
O'Clock occurs the greatest feature of
the tournament, the association hose
race, carrying with it the champion
ship banner and $50 in cash as first
prize, with $35 and $40 as second
and third money respectively.
Wednesdays program is opened
by grand parade at 9 o'clock. To
the company having the most uni
formed men in line SIS is given, to
the next $40: the best appearing
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
RARE BILL AT BRINKMAN
FAMILY THEATER TONIGHT
Double Vaudeville Acts that are Clever
and Exceptionally Good Nov
ing Picture Films.

Manager Brinkman is this week
putting on one of the very best bills
that has ever been offered by the
popular Brinkman Family Theater.
In addition to the regular illus
trated song, the moving picture films
and overtures, Manager Brinkman
is offering a double act in vaudeville,
being two entirely different acts by
two different sets of people.
Kippy, the German comedy car
toonist, is feature that is new here.
He draws some lightning cartoons,
and is not only instructive, but his
act is immensely funny.
Shaw & Clifton, are new sing
ing and dancing team who are said
to be better than the average teams
appearing in vaudeville throughout
the northern Minnesota circuits.
A feature of the program that
should not be missed is The Hoos-
ier fighter" film that has made
hit with Bemidji people. The plot
of the picture is very realistic, show
ing how the parents of the fighter
are about to be driven from their
home by a grasping money-lender,
because they cannot pay off the
mortgage. The fighter determines
to pay of the mortgage and after
making a personal, unsuccessful ap.
peal to the money-lender, his at
tention is attracted by a placard
announcing that Spider Kelley"
will give $4,000 to anyone standing
before him four rounds.
The Hoosier decides to make the
attempt to stay the allotted time,
and goes into the ring with the
Spider" Then follows a realistic
four-round glove contest, in which
the Hoosier family knocks out the
Spider" and wins the coveted
$4,000, finally paying off the mort
gage, and all is again happiness.
The contest as reproduced by the
film, is very strenuous affair,
there not being a loafpg moment.
However, there is nothing objection
able to the affair, and its realism
made hit last evening. It must
be seen to be appreciated.
Three performances are given at
the Brinkman Family Theater each
evening: At 7:2O, 500 and o:2O.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27

company is awarded $25, the next
best $40. Thief River Falls fire.
men are barred from participating
in this parade.
Other event of the forenoon are
the coupling contest, for which three
purses of $40 and SO are offered,
and the one hundred yard dash,
which carries with it $50 in money.
divided into three prizes. The after
noon is taken up with the hook and
ladder race for purses of 500, $40
and $50 to the three best teams, the
ladder climbing for $50, and base
ball game for purse of 500.
The third day will see the COM
bination hook and ladder and hose
race for a purse of $145, the flag
race, and the hub and hub race.
For the latter event, prizes of 500,
$35 and $40 are given. Another
baseball game and free dance COM
plete the events of this day.
The final day is taken up with
the service wet test carrying with it
S155 in prizes, and a ball game for
a SIS purse.
Also during all the days of the
meeting there will be music, con-
certs, dances, boat excursions, ETC."
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
Cass Lake Jail a Joke.

John Russell, who was bound over
for the action Of the grand jury last
Saturday charged with stealing a
check and forging an endorsement
thereon, broke out of the village
lookup last Saturday evening and
has not been seen since. He was
given an iron bar by a confederate,
with which he broke the lock of his
cell.-Cass Lake Voice. 4
One of these fine days, some able
bodied sinner will walk off with that
condemned jail and dump the affair
off the railroad bridge into the
waters Of Cass lake.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27

former law. Under this law the
Commissioner of Pension holds that
it is not necessary for a widow
now receiving $500 month to
apply for the increase allowed, but
the same will be paid by the United
States Pension Agent, at the next
quarterly payment upon receipt
Of the voucher properly executed
which is now in possession of the
pensioner.
Widows need not apply that
have not heretofore received a
pension because they were in re.
ceipt of an income in excess OF
$4,000 per annum.
# you will print the above ex.
planation of the bill, copies of which
are enclosed, I believe many of your
readers who are interested therein
will appreciate it.
I am, yours very sincerely,
III. Steenerson."
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
With Rebekahs They Attended the Methodist Church il
Body and Listened to Splendid Anniversary Sermon
Delivered by Rev. Deniston.

The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
turned out, about seventy-fve strong,
Sunday morning, in spite of
the rain, to hear the anniversary
sermon by Rev. Deniston, at the
M. E. church.
Being member of the Odd Fellow
order, as we'll as a Christian minister,
the pastor was in a position to speak
from personal knowledge of the
former as from the latter.
In the discourse he took occasion
to point out the difference between
church and lodge and to distinguish
their respective fields of activity.
He said that he believed that the
Christian who objected to the lodge
did so through a misunderstanding
of the motives and work of the
lodge; while, upon the other hand,
the lodge man who believed the
lodge church enough for him had
fallen into ever. graver error in mis-
understanding the mission and the
work of the church. The church, he
said, occupies a field which the
lodge did not attempt to occupy,
which was in fact denied it by it's
own position upon religious and
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
The new WIDOWS Law
AS PASSED BY CONGRESS
Congressman Steenerson Writes the
Pioneer Concerning Some of the
Provisions Of the Law.

Congressman Halvor Steenerson
writes the editor of the Pioneer the
subjoined letter concerning the
recently-adopted widows pension
law" mention of which was made
in the Pioneer a few days ago, in a
special telegram from Milwaukee,:
Washington, April %.
MY Dear Sir:-Congress has just
passed law granting pension of
$1,000 month to all widows OF
soldiers of the Civil and other wars,
without the necessity of their fur,
nishing any proof of dependency,
which was required under the
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27

political beliefs. The activities of
the church and lodge, he said, were
not antagonists to each other, but
should be mutually helpful, each in
its reflex influence upon the other.
Reviewing the growth of this
order, as that of similar ones, the
cause for it was found in human
dependence and in the desire for
human brotherhood. Speaking of
the church of Christ as a great
brotherhood existing to satisfy
mans spiritual needs, to enlarge
his spiritual powers and to insure
his spiritual destiny; here, again, the
feeling of dependence and the desire
for brotherhood should lead men
into the great spiritual brotherhood
of the church of Christ. The Odd
Fellow,the pastor said, who honestly
believes the truths taught in the
secret rites of the order, had already
taken one step toward the door of
entrance into this greater brother
hood if he had not already found
entrance thereto. .. .......-.
The two anthems by the choir and
the solo by Mrs. Youngreen added
to the pleasure and helpfulness of
the service.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27

Rapids and also the local hotel for
board and accommodations, skipping
out without paying his bill; also that
he obtained advertisements for a
railroad time table that was never
printed.
AS warrant has been issued at
Grand Rapids charging Pardell
with similar escapde, it is more than
likely that he will remain behind
prison bars for some time to come.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
is AN AID
TO NORTHERN SETTLERS
Factory Would Pay Cost Of Clearing
Land, Says R. {. Giftin Of
Hibbing.

Agitation for the erection Of a
turpintine manufacturing plant has
been started again, and this time
the agitation is over in St. Louis
county.
AS the conditions relative to pine
stumps are the same in this vicinity
as around Hibbing, the following
statement made by R. /. Gifin of
Hibbing will be of interest to readers
of the Pineer, showing that a turpen-
tine plant might be located in
Bemidj il:
Such a plant would not only
double the value of all our lands,' .
said Mr.. Gifin; but it would be the
stronger argument that we could
offer to farmers to induce them to
settle here. A turpentine plant will
be available to all farmers living
within six miles of it and would
therefore use the stumps from a
territory over 144 square miles. It
has been repeatedly demonstrated
that there is big money in manufac-
turing turpintine and its by-products
from pine stumps, and turpintine
factory can afford to pay the farmers
liberal price for stumps and still
make a good profit.
At a fair selling price, the farmer
would be able to clear his land and
the work of clearing would not cost
him a cent. The sale Of stumps
would put money in his pocket.
The great difficulty that we have to
contend with in the sale of lands in
st. Louis county is the cost of clear
ing the land. If we can show that
there is no cost for clearing, but
that the very process Of clearing
will bring in profit, we shall have
farmers and settlers by the thous-
ands hocking to. the county"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
The Juveniles Tuesday Night

The Wise Juvenile and Concer,
company will give a performance
in the City Opera House Tuesday
evening, April 28th, when it is ex-
pected that fine entertainment
will be presented.
. In their advance hangers they
claim to be entertainers for years, :
and are said to be highly recmmen.
ded. They play ten musical in
stuments and do other things that
will be Of interest to the public.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
OF MILITIA
SHOULD Be WELL HOUSED
Paraphernalia Is Valued at $4,000,
and Company Should be TAX
en- Care Of.

other members Of Company K,
Third Regiment Minnesota National
Guard are congratulating them.
selves right heartily on the very
acceptable equipment which the new
Bemidji military company has
received from Adjutant General
Fred B. Wood.
The entire equipment of uniforms,
arms, etc. has been unpacked from
the cases and are Of such substan.
tial character that the soldier BOYS
and all who have seen the equipment
have been greatly surprised at the
thoroughness with which the local
company has been fitted out.
The uniforms furnished to the
officers and men are handsome af-
fairs and the Bemidji soldiers will
certainly present a very natty ap-
pearance.
The equipment furnished the COM
pany is valued at $4,000 and con-
sists of the following:
so U. S. magazine rifles, calibre
80, model 1908; so bayonet scab-
bards; so bayonets; so front sight
covers; so oilers and thong cases;
|6O thongs and brushes; IL screw
drivers; 3 Colts revolvers, calibre
SO; 8 revolver holsters; 3 cartridge
boxes; 8 cartridge belts, calibre 38;
65 cartridge belts, calibre 80; IS
pair suspenders for canteens and
haversacks; 6 barrack cleaning rods;
IS haversacks; IS canteens; 65 meat
cans; 65 tin cups; IS knives; IS
forks; IS spoons; l repair kit; 1
stencil outfit; box cleaning mater
ial; 6 arm chests; 90 blankets, wool
en-; so oyercoats, kersey; IS pair
leggins, canvas;s6O dress coats; so
dress caps; so pairs trousers,
dress; so cap ornaments;
.12O coat collar ornaments;
IA collars, linen; l pair field
glasses, No. 56;1 field desk; 1 field
range; l cavalry sketching case; so
shelter tent halves; so shelter tent
poles; 800 shelter tent pins;2 trump
cts and crooks; 2 trumpet cords; 8
sabers, officers; 8 saber knots, ser
vice; 3 belt sings, service; 3 belt
sings, dress; 1 pair chevrons, first
sergeant; l pair chevrons, quarter
master sergeant; 4 pair chevrons,
sergeant; 6 pair chevrons, corporal;
2 pair, ,chevrons, cook; l pair chew
rons, artifcer; 6 pair stripes, sergeant;
g pair stripes, corporal; pair
stripes, musician.
And it is now up to the city coun-
Gil to provide suitable quarters in
which to store this valuable equip.
ment. AS it is, the city hall is not
adequate for the use of the militia
company, and the Pioneer believes
that arrangements can be entered
into whereby suitable place may
be had.
A proposition will undoubtedly be
submitted to the council to be held
this evening, and it should receive
the serious consideration of that
body.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
Fire at Big Falls.

Word comes from Big Falls that
the saloon building belonging to
Louis Cry at Big Falls was burned
to the ground early Sunday morning.
The building was an entire loss as
well as much of the contents, but the
amount of damage in money valua-
ton could not be ascertained.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27

Miss Anna Mills returned Satur-
day night to her school at Turtle,
after spending the day with her
parents in. this. city.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27
Dance at GranfaIls.

A very successful dance wac given
at the new hotel at Granfalls last
Saturday night. It is said by those
who attended to have been very
enjoyable affair. Almost the entire
population of Granfalls was present
at the dance and the proprietor Of
the hotel received handsome returns
of the dance.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27

The ladies Of the Episcopal Guild
will hold sale of fancy articles and
homemade cooking at the Odd
Fellows hall Saturday, May 2, from
p o'clock p. m. until s.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-04-27

Additional local matter will be found
on fourth page.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-05-10

other person. 1t is the slumOer
that the brain of person induces
in the body OF another person
through brain domination And,
while in hypnosis-or under hypno-
tism-a persons brain can be so
manipulated. as ii were, by the
hypnotist's brain that only good
results Will follow.
1t is incompreheEsible to me
that nearly all my professional
brethren either take the view that
hyPnotism is quackery or else IN
effective. As Il matter of fact. II is
as profound a science as mathe-
mates.
Most distinctively, it is effective.
There are recorded cases where a
man has hypnotized persons and
conveyed to them the mental sug-
gestiOn that they were wolves. and
they have actually bitten him in
their swapping and snarling; where
man who had lost his memory
and had suffered from that terrible
affilction for twelve months re-
gained his power of recollection as
a result of hypnotic treatment;
where surgical operations of Sc
we're character have been per
formed on persons without anv
pain on their part because, al
though they were unable 10 take
the regular anesthetics. they were
rendered insensible to pain by hyp-
nosis; and where persons suffering
with delusional insanity have been
completely restored to reason.
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Washington, and enjoys a national
reputation.
Just SO surely as the human
race becomes subject TO an all
ment, the remedy for that ailment
is discovered. This is a law of ma
ture. without the operation of
which the population of the world
might have been destroyed cen
turtles ago.
Today, not only in this country,
but among all civilized peoples.
there ascends from men and wom-
EN- a cry of nervous troubles and
brain exhaustion" in startling
chorus. Our life has reached a
point in striving, intensity. and APP
plicatiOn that puts upon the nerv-
Gus energies and the brain re-
sources of persons a demand I'M
precedented in the history of the
world Naturally. the result Is a
strain upon the nervous system
and the brain that ends in weak
ened and diseased nerves and
brains.
Against these troubles. drugs
are pOwerless. Prescriptions NAV
be written by the thousand, all
the formula known to materi med
lea may be invoked, but the medi-
cal fraternity and a great proper
ton Of the laity have awakened
to the fact that such resources
are of practically no avail. The
trouble Is with the brain. not the
stomach; with that delicate or
ganism. the nervous system. which
is dependent on the operations Of
the brain and the mind.
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GUS from too much excitement,
have their health restored by
thought waves?
Is there danger Of ehIoroform
and ether being discarded as use
less because complete anesthesia
can be produced by the power of
enc brain over another?
Can hypnotism, that has for
years been the dominant factor
among the people of British India,
become n fetish and a charm
among practical Americans, and
viii the physician of the future
d-lve into its mysteries as deeply
as he does into the intricacies and
possibilities of materia medica?
All these things and more are
boldly predicted by one of Wash
ington's leading practicing physi-
clans in the following article. In
unqualified language, he foretells
how the brain will suPplant the
medicine chest as the restorer of
failing strength and the cure Of
wasting disease. He argues that
the mystic powers of hypnotism
must be used because the ills pecu-
liar to this country can be relieved
in no other way. The physicians
name is withheld, because of the
widespread opinion in the medical
profession that it is unprofessional
fcv physicians TO go into print"
O, their signatures.
ite author, however, is one of
thu most able practitioners in
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1t does not seem absurd. q
could not be called quackery. Tia
power Of one person TO dominate
another person has been too often
demonstrated. We all knw of thu
boy IN school who, through some
indescribable gifts of personality.
is the fsvorite, the ring4eader. the
moving spirit Napoleon had q per
sonality, an animal magnetism,
that carried every one before him.
Persons, especially women. are
often heard to say:
Such and such a person is posi-
lively irresistible. I can't explain
it. You just think he, or she. IS
right, and there's an end Of IL.
There you have your hypnotism
in its crudest, undeveIoped form.
the domination Of one brain and
personality over other brains am
personalities. 1t is only 4 question
of knowledge and science that en-
ables the skilled person TO carry Ii
far enough to induce sleep. and 70
convey TO the hypnotized person
the suggestions that viii do the
body and the brain good.
That the domination of the hy.-
Continued On sixth PaaAA
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cry is mere p-etense, a hollow
mockery, which, by its very deIu-
sions, catches the credulous and
the thoughtless. Hypnotism is
one of the highest agents for good
known TO the history of the race.
Such an agent il is. and so wonder
full are its powers, that the world
today has had barely a hastv peep
at il through the curtain of dogma
and undeserved ridicule that II has
received at the hands of an ipno-
rant press, a careless public. and a
medical profession which. -eared
among bottles and taught 10 be-
lieve only in things which can be
compounded and swallowed. turns
deaf ear to the call of wisdom-a
wisdom. by the way. which has
wrought marvels every time it has
been employed for the lettering
of human beings.
What is the operation OF bvDno-
tism? How can the brain. xithbut
visible manifestation and without
visible means, heal tlesick and cure
the halt? What occ'ns when bvp-
nosis is used as a weapon against
disease?
TO use popular language and
words free from technical Ian
guage, i can be explained as fol-
lows:
\ person is hypnotized-tha is.
th- '1ati@nt - nut into a hypnotic