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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-22
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Heavy snowfalls are reported from
many parts of the German empire.
Bronson Howard, the dean of Amer
lean playwrights, has been seriously
Ill for four weeks, although the fact
has just become known.
The Lake Mohonk conference on in
ternational arbitration will hold it's
fourteenth annual meeting May 20 to
70, with John w Foster, former sec
rotary of state, as presiding officer.
One hundred and ffty-four men
have been deprived of the rights of
citizenship by the circuit and supe-
rior courts at Chicago as a result of
the war of the state and federal gov
ernments upon anarchists.
w. Brentwood Smith, a member of
the banking firm of Winthrop Smith
& Co., is dead at Philadelphia, aged
thirty-five years. He was we'll known
IN financial and club circles in the
East and was a director Of the Distil-
lers' Security corporation of New
York.
Hampered by the lessening of the
volume of voluntary contributions
upon which it largely relies for sup
port the American Tract society has
been obliged to reduce it's working
force. The falling off in income is
attributed by the society to the tight
ening of the money market.
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Tennvscn's. .Cvnicisrn.


Sir We're de We're was the eldest son
Of Sir Aubrey de We're, the sonneteer
and friend Of Wordsworth. His broth
er, Aubrey de We're, was more than
well known, famous poet, and to
him in his youth Walter Savage Ian
dor addressed the eXhortation:
Make thy proud name still prouder for
thy sons.
He had no sons, however, never hay
ing married. Neither had his brothers,
We're and Stephen. Thus the name, as
a family name, disappears.
The De Veres were early friends Of
Tennyson's, and 1t was from them
that the poet took the name which he
made proverbial and symbolical Of a
class-"the caste of We're de Vere."
Lady de We're, the only Lady de We're
Of fact then living, was inclined to
complain that her name should be be-
slowed upon the black hearted Lady
Clara Of fiction.
Tennyson wrote dainty verses, but
was not master Of dainty manners. He
growled: "Why should you care? But
Of course you don't. I didn't make
your namesake ugly, and 1 didn't make
her stupid. I only made her wicked"
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W0MEN'S WOES.
Bemidji Women Are Finding Relief
at Last.

It does seem that women have
more than fair share of the aches
and pains that afaict humanity; they
must keep up'', must attend to
duties in spite of constantly aching
back, or headache, dizzy spells, bear
ing-down pains; they must stoop
over when to stoop means torture.
They must walk and bend and work
with racking pains and many aches
from kidney ills. Kidneys cause
more suffering than any organ of the
body. Keep the kidneys we'll and
health is easily maintained. Read
of remedy for kidneys only that
helps and cures the kidneys and is
endorsed by people you know.
Mrs. ]. c. Liters, living at 1902
American Ave. ,Bemidji, Mimi, says:
i am recommending Doan's Kidney
Pills in the hopes that some suffer
ing from kidney trouble may derive
benift from my testimonial. For
sometime I was feeling quite miser-
able suffering from kidney complaint.
| noticed that my kidneys were dis
ordered and at last decided to try
Doan's Kidney Pills. I have not
used them regularly as directed, but
nevertheless I have derived a great
deal of benefit from their use. feel
much better and stronger, that tired,
lanquid feeling having become a.
thing of the past.
For sale by all dealers. Price So
cents. Forester. Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's
and take no other.
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DRUGGIST SAYS IT
HURTS OTHER MEDICINES
People Here are not Taking Less
Patent Medicine and More
Home Remedies.

There are more cases of kidney
trouble here now than ever before,
while recent reports show that
more people succomb each year to
some form of kidney disease than
any other cause.
When there is sickness, examine
the urine. Rheumatism is only a
symptom of kidney trouble. It is
nothing more or less than excessive
uric acid in the blood, which the
sluggish, inactive kidneys have
failed to sift out, leaving it to de-
compose and settle about the joints
and muscles, causing intent suffer
ing; frequently resulting in deform-
ity; often reaching the heart when
death ensues.
Pains across the back, frequent
painful and suppressed urination
and other symptoms of weak blad-
der are not the only signs of kid
ney trouble; many pain in the
heart, inactive liver etc., are but
symptoms; the cause of which can
be traced to feeble, clogged kid
neys. ...... ...
A simple test of the urine is to
void small quantity in a bottle
or glass and let it stand over night;
next morning, if there is a reddish
brick-dust sediment, or white, feecy
substance present, either consult
some reputable physician or take a
good vegetable treatment. The
following prescription is recon.
mended highly in these cases, and
the sufferer should mix it at home
Compound Kargon, one ounce:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-halt
ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsapar-
lila, three ounces. Shake we'll and
use in teaspoonful doses after each
meal and at bedtime.
Where any of the symptoms
enumerated above are present, good
results are sure to follow immedi-
ately the use of this simple pres
cription.
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The Other Reason.

A teamster retires at the age of
ninety with an accumulation of $780,
600. He says he wants and is entitled
to a rest. Some inquirers want to
know how he could have saved SO
much on SIP a week, the highest wages
he ever received. The answer is easy.
He got So day. He lived on % cents
day. He saved the difference. lived
in New York on 5 cents a day for
nearly six months and was in magnif-
cent health. Some people eat to live;
others live to eat AS the old chap on
the ferry boat said to the small boy:
Sonny, why does pig eat?"
"'Cause he's hungry
mo. There's another reason
'Whut's dat?"
He wants to make hog of him.
f."-New York Press
Niagara.
Niagara is corruption of the Seneca
word "neagara, meaning across the
neck" an allusion to a strip of land be-
tween the lakes The name has been
subjected to many changes since the
discovery of the cataract, more thar
thirty different readings being found In
the writings of the various early ex-
plorers and geographers.
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Story of a Foot Race.


A voluble negro who was discovered
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 most offensive
manner. He related the story with
dignity and JUNCTION.
'Thish yere yellow niger, he KEEP
a-bumpin' inter me till l ses to him,
SEES, III see you after this dance out
side,' ses to him.
He ses, Very well, sub; I'll see you
after this dance
II 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
runs fast. I runs like jack rabbit
ontell gifts to the vi'duc', and big
police he hollers to me:
"'Hey, there he hollers. Whar
you-all gwine so fas'?'
"'Is jis' a-runnin' to ketch a cyar,'
l hollers back. But he grabs me. and
he ses:
"Ketch a car. niger! Why, youse
passed four cars straightforward
World Herald.
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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: IT,
''Citizen-I have just learnt that the
rumour is current that I 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 l 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 be himself died in 1906 he
bequeathed money to pay for masses
for his victims soul.
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Rarest of Trades.

"Mine is the rarest of all trades
said an Englishman 81 am a maker
of Instruments of torture. l 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. pheasant
thought, eh? But we must make our
living somehow In Birmingham mines
made. There for seventeen years
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 water dropper
which works by clockwork that costs
$500. There's "a But that's too terri
BILE to talk about. The Chinese instru-
ments, by the way, are a million times
crueler than the Siamese."-New York
Press.
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BRYAN TALKS OF HIS INCOME
Oevotes More Time to Public Work
Than to Private Gain,

Oevotes More Time to Public Work
Than to Private Gain.
New York, April 22-William ].
Bryan, in reply to an interviewer who
had suggested that the Nebraskan,
having been credited with an earning
capacity Of from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year, might be exposed to the charge
by opponents that he was no longer
representative of the laboring classes,
but full fiedged p1utocrat, replied:
MY income is derived mainly from
my featuring, with some addition from
articles written for other publications
and something from my own paper.
but the amount has been very much
exaggerated. make more speeches
Tor nothing than for pay and devote
more time to public work than to pri-
vate gain. The income that I have
received has come from the people
who attend my lectures and who read
What I write and therefore my obliga-
ton is to the whole people rather
than to any special class.
My political prominence has been
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Up Two Stumps.

Little Johnny was in the habit Of
wanting more victuals put upon his
plate than he could eat. His papa de-
cided to break him of the habit. One
day as Johnny insisted upon being
served until his plate was well filed
his papa said, Johnny, If l give you
this you will have to eat every bit OF
it or I will punish you" Johnny prom
ised that he would, and bravely did
the little fellow try to do so, but in
vain. It was too much for him. He
would try again and again and then
look sorrowfully at his papa. Finally.
laying down his fork, he said:
"Papa, if you was me which would
you rather do, get a licking or bust?'
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characterization
Secretary Loeb Replies to Speech
Of Mr.. Sims in the House.
DENIES BEING A LOBBYIST
Declares congressman's Speech Was
False in Its Effect, Misleading in
Its lmputation and Unfair to His
Sense of Rectitude and Honor

Washington, April 90 - William
Loeb, Jr., secretary to the president,
has made public letter written to
Representative Sims of Tennessee in
reply to Mr.. Sims speech in the
house regarding Mr.. Loeb's connec-
ton with the Washington Railway and
Electric company. Mr.. Loeb calls upon
Mr.. Sims for an immediate retraction,
says that the statement of Mr. Sims
was false in it's effect, misleading in
it's inputation, unfair to him and to
the representatives sense of rectitude
and honor. He says that of the 4,7OO
shares of the common stock of the
road standing in his name only 100
shares, enough to enable him to quail
ify as director, are his and he denies
approaching any one regarding street
railway legislation.
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an advantage in that It has given me
a Larger reading circle and a larger
audience, but I could have used the
prominence in other ways to greater
pecuniary advantage.
The question is not whether have
made more than I did before was
nominated, but whether 1 have made
1t in legitimate way, and I think no
one will deny that my income has
been derived from legitimate source
The next question is whether the in
crease in my earning power has
changed my views on public ques-
lions. No one, I think, will contend
that it has,
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Grand Jury Will Investigate. I

New York, April 22.-It has become
known that federal grand jury is
about to begin an investigation of
several of the largest concerns manu-
featuring manila wrapping paper in
this state. The purpose of the inquiry
is to ascertain whether or not the
manufacturers are conducting their
business under an agreement in re
straint of trade and in violations, of
the Sherman antitrust law. .s. .
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Port of La Guayra Closed,

Caracas, Venezuela, April 22.-Pres.
ident Castro has issued a decree to
the following effect: 'The port of La
Guayra will be closed for fifteen days
pending a report of the sanitary board
because there have been three deaths
and twelve cases of an unknown tu-
bercular fever. Importation and ex-
portation will be allowed only through
Puerto Cabello.
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Chicago Grain and Provisions,

Chicago, April .-Wheat-May,
DIX @95Ac; July, SIN @S7asc; Sept,
S4ssc. Corn-May, 66Tc; July, 6S1s
@e3Ac; Sept, -615s @61Mc. Oats
May, old, $3.50; May, 51Mc; July, old,
45as @457&c; July, 431sc; Sept, $40
37sc. Pork-May, s12.77k; July,
$1S.10@13.121a; Sept, $13.421s. Butter
-Creameries, 21@2Sc; dairies, 200
26c. Eggs-14Ac. Poultry-Turkeys,
lac; chickens, 11A@12c; spring broi1-
ers, per dozen, $45O05.50.
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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 a
number Of Cambridge university men,
among them Arthur Clement Hilton,
who was born a wit and died 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"
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Hunters Waterproof Matchbox.

There is not a match safe made, so
far as I know, that meets all of the
requirements of the sportsman as we'll
as a ten or twelve gauge brass shell
closed with a cork stopper. This makes
safe that is absolutely waterproof,
easily opened, is cheap and that will
float. If one wishes to provide against
the loss Of the stopper, a cord may be
fastened about the cork and the other
end fastened about the base of the
shell.-Cor. Forest and Stream.
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Evil Spirits Infest Jail,

Asheville, N. c., April 21.-A petit
ton signed by all prisoners, white
and black, in the county Jail has been
sent to the jailer and the sheriff. It
appeals for protection from "evil spir-
it's which, the prisoners say, haunt
the jail.
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BY PERSONAL APPEALS,
President Will Continue Fight for
Four Battleships.

Washington, April 2 President
Roosevelt is receiving many communi-
cations commencing his efforts to in
duce congress to provide for the con-
struction of four battleships, which is
interpreted at the White House to
mean that the country is with him on
this question. While the president
has not relinquished efforts with con-
gress in this connection it is stated
that he will confne his endeavors to
personal interviews with senators and
members of the house and will not
tect. .........
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Kills Negroes and Suicides.

Houston, Tex, April 22.-Amelia
COX, negress, was shot and killed by
Eugene S. Payne, well known real
estate dealer, who then turned the
weapon on himself and sent two bull
lets through his own body, causing
death few minutes later. No reason
Is given for the shooting.
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Girl Stowaway on Supply Ship,

Washington, April Pas the re-
suit of story circulated in Pittsburg
by Elmer E. Dey, who was civilian
passenger on the supply ship Brutus,
attached to the Pacific fleet, that a
girl stowaway made the trip through
the straits of Magellan with the fleet,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy New
berry has taken steps to ascertain if
a man named Dey was aboard the
Brutus.
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Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, April 1.-Cattle-Beeves,
$4.6O@7.25; COWS and heifers, s2.25@
$40; Texans, s450@5.5O; calves, $3.50
@6.25; Western cattle, $4.5O@5.5O;
stockers and feeders, s3.25@5.3O. Hogs
Light, s5.35@5.s5; mixed, $1,000
5.S7k; heavy, s5.35@5.S5; rough,
$5.35@5.55; pigs, s4.2O@51O. Sheep,
$5.00@6.75; yearlings, $64O@715;
lambs, $6.O0@77O.
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BORAH OPPOSES LENIENCY
Mentions Orchards Case in Discuss.
ing Brownsvi ARRAY.

Washington, April 2 Senator Bo-
rah of Idaho, who as special counsel
for that state conducted the prosecu-
ton Of w. d. Haywood, secretary Of
the Western Federation of Miners,
whose trial on the charge of murder
ing former Governor Steunenberg at
tracted wide attention last year, found
opportunity in his maiden speech in
the senate to express his disapproval
of any effort to secure leniency for
Harry Orchard, the self-confessed
thrOWer of the bomb which caused
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Train Strikes Automobile

Dearborn, Mich, April 22.-F. J.
draper and William Walcott, both of
MILAN, Mich, were instantly killed
mere when the automobile which thew
were driving was struck by a. Mich
1gan Central passenger train while
they were attempting to cross the
railroad tracks
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UNDER STATE PRIMARY LAW
Bryan Placed on Democratic Ticket
in Alabama.

in Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala, April 2 In COM
pliance with the primary plan that
200 or more qualified Democratic
voters may place the name of any
delegate on the ticket for nominee for
president of the United States to be
voted for direct John w. Tomlinson,
president of the Bryan State Demo-
cratic club, has filed with the chair
man of the state Democratic commit
tee a petition signed by the governor
and every state official and over 1000
Democrats of the state for the name
of William J. Bryan to be placed on
the ticket, the delegates to the Demo-
cratic national convention being in
structed, under the plan, to vote as a
unit for the man receiving the largest
vote, which gives Alabama's twenty
two votes to William Jennings Bryan.
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Defenders of Texas Pensioned.

Washington, April 21-The senate
has passed bill pensioning the sur
vivors and the widows of Texas volun-
teers who defended the frontier of
Texas against Mexican marauders and
indian depredations from 1855 to $780,
inc1usivo
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Ignorance is less distant from truth
than rejudice-Diderot.
Rifled Firearms.

.... Rifled Firearms.
In the South Kensington museum
are several wheel lock muskets with
r1fed barrels made during the reign Of
Charles l., if not earlier. Such barrels
were then usually called screwed"
Zachary Grey in note on ''Hudibras,"
part l, canto 8, line 533, says that
Prince Rupert showed his skill as a
marksman by hitting twice in success
sion the vane on st. Mary's Stafford at
sixty yards with screwed" pistol
London Notes and Queries.
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Settlers Family Drowned,

Winnipeg, Man., April 2L-On the
way into the Peache river country
Emile Cardinal, wife and child were
drowned at Athabasca river. While
travelling on the ice with dog train
they broke through and persisted.
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Verv Quiet.

Lady Visitor-That new girl Of yours
seems very nice and quiet. Mistress
Of the House-Yes, she's very quiet
She doesn't even disturb the dust
when she's cleaning the room,
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A Pair of Trade VIM,

A Pair Of Trade Winners.
give never had any great luck" de-
clared the pessimist.
Neither have l." admitted the Opti-
mist.
'Made my money by hard work and
advertising. "-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
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Subtraction.

IF an empty barrel weighs ten
pounds, what can you fill it with to
make it weigh seven pounds?'
"Have to give it up.'
"Fill it full of holes.'
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Part of the Trade,

Plumber-Have you got all we want
for Browns job? Boy-Yes. Plumber
-Wot? You 'aven't forgotten nothin'?
Bless my soul. 'ow d'you expect to
make a r?-Bystander
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Publication of Summons.
State of Minnesota =,
County Of Beltrami 81

lJUdUO OI !Hi1I6SOUd
County Of Beltrami %
The State of Minnesota to Frank A. Jackso
and A. L. Jackson, Defendants.
You are hereby summoned to be and appear
before the undersigned, one Of the justices of
the 18th day of May 1908. at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon. at my Office in the city Of Bemidji.
county and state aforesaid. to answer to the
civil action. wherein the plaintiff claims the
sum Of $4,000. Should you fail to appear at the
time and place aforesaid. judgment will be
plaintiffs evidence shall show himself en-
titled to. M. G. SLOCUM,
Justice of the Peace.
FRANK A. JACKSON, - -
PLAINTIFFS Attorney,
Bemidji, Mimi. .--
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, April 21.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. hard, s1O6zs; No.
1 Northern, S1.04T; No. 2 Northern,
s1,O11s; May, s1.027a; July, $1O21s;
Sept, Gle. Flax-To arrive, on track
and May, $1177s; July, $1.2o; Sept,
$1.203s; Oct, $1.203s.
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&C., 49, ls.>zs- 9 Oh 1Ia
St. Paul Union Stock Yards,

St. Paul, April 21.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $6.00@6.75; fair to good,
$5.O0@5,9O; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.OO@5.00; veals, s3.75@5.OO.
Hogs-$5.45@5.55. Sheep-Wethers,
$6.0OW6.35; good to choice lambs,
$6.75@7.25.
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WRIT OF kaANDAMU US REFUSED
Nebraska Loses Fight for Jurisdiction
in Railroad Case.

in Railroad Case.
Washington, April 21.-The supreme
court of the United States has refused
a writ of mandamus requested by the
state of Nebraska in the case of that
state against the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad, compelling Unit
ed States Judges William D. and T.
Munger to remand back to the SUI
preme court Of Nebraska the suit be-
gun by the state to enjoin the rail-
road company from charging for it's
interstate traffic more than the rate
fixed by the state statute.