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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12
In Great Luck.

~ have been looking over my fnai1-
cial operations" said Mr.. Easigo. II
must say they are more successful
than usual
slave you been making large prof
tsp
mo. don't expect anything like
that
''Brt you say you were successful?"
Comparatively successful. During
the month I have loaned money to
Ave friends, and only three Of them
have quit speaking to me. w ashing-
ton Star.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12
The Liuht of the Firefly.

When man will attain the perfect
vacuum, then the rude ether blush of
the electric light bulb will give forth
many times more light, purified and
heatless, soft and healing, as the light
Of the stars, penetrating as the sun.
An examination Of the FREELY when
emitting flames or light shows bodily
movements that cannot be understood
to mean anything else than vacuum
producing. The lights are always seen
In the vacuum sack on the back. I'm
mediately before emitting light the
insect will fatten the body, draw the
legs in, droop the head, seemingly con-
tracing in all directions; then with
the relaxation come the fame and
light. The bodies Of the glowworm
and FREELY always are transparent
when filed with flame. The blades Of
grass or other debris are seen plainly
through the bodies. Here are cases Of
nature dealing with < rays.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12
Carvina Scissors.


II thought | knew all about scis-
sors," said the man. II had seen tail
ors' scissors for cutting heavy cloth,
dressmakers' scissors for cutting fiimsy
fabrics and lace and still other scissors
for cutting paper, finger nails, grape
vines, all kinds of metals and even for
shearing sheep, but in spite Of that
wide knowledge Of scissors i was puz-
zled when I saw the large, peculiarly
shaped pair Of scissors lying in the
showcase.
"What are these scissors for?' I
asked the clerk.
"'Carving meat he said. with
scissors Of this kind carving becomes
mere child's play
:" I never saw anybody use Them
said /.
Nobody does use Them said the
clerk that is, only a very few In
Europe carving scissors are popular
because they cut right through meat,
gristle, bone and all, but it takes a
little practice to learn to manipulate
the things, and nobody in this country
has patience enough for that ''-Ex-
change.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12
Don't Trv Uncertain Recipes.

It is entirely unnecessary to experiment
with this that and the other recipe. Why
waste time. money and patience when you
can get from your grocer, for 10 cents, a
package of "OUR-PIE'' Preparation-Le
Chocolate or Custard-for making pies that
are SO good that when you eat one piece you,
will want another? The way to please the
men-folks is to give them good pie.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12
Tho Editors Sally.

City Editor What do you mean by
saying in this robbery story that
Brown was knocked down and re.
liev,d Of a hundred dollars2 y Were
you ever robbed yourself? New Re.
sporter-No, sir. City Editor That ac-
counts for It. If you'd been robbed
you wouldn't describe the loss Of a
hundred dollars as relief. Louis
Republic.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
The Continued
Story Of
Current Events.

A complete line Of 1909 diaries
may be seen at this office.
]. F. Egan went to Walker this
morning on business for Hurley
Brothers of St. Paul.
lust arrived an assortment Of new
laces for spring at the Bazaar store
only 5 cents per yard.
M. Drusher went to Big Falls last
evening in the interest of the
Cudahy Packing company.
Ed Tabor of this city went to
Kelliher last evening after orders for
Melges Brothers of this city.
The Gladstone Sisters made a
decided hit last night at the Bijou.
Come early if you wish a seat.
Mrs. K. Gibbs and baby came in
this morning from Farley and spent
the day shopping among the Bemidji
stores.
Fred Lablanc of Crookston
arrived in the city last night on the
midnight train for short business
visit in Bemidji.
Robert .Weng of East Grand Forks
was an arrival on the midnight train
from the west last night and spent
today on business in this city.
Reverend H. R. Mckee, of the
local Baptist church, returned this
morning to the meetings at Laporte
after conducting his services in this
city. ,f.-
Cleaning, pressing and repairing.
neatly and promptly done by F. E..
Segar, Cor. 9th St. and Park Ave.
Drop me line and I will call for
the work.
Matt Jones. who owns a liquid
palace" at Northome, arrived in Be-
midi on this mornings NJ. & I.
passenger train for short business
visit in the city.
Charles jacobson, who clerks in
P. K. Rustvold's store at Kelliher,
returned home last night after great
ly enjoying pleasure trip to Duluth
and the. twin cities.
P. ]. Skrief, the Northome repre-
sentative of the Bemidji Lumber
company, came in this morning and
spent the day at the company's
head offices in this city.
Bill" Mcdonald, son of J. A.
Mcdonald of this city, returned this
morning from Northome where he
has been cruising for week in the
interest of the Watab Paper company.
Grant Gill of Granfalls, who is.
studying in the Bemidji high school
returned the city this morning and
resumed his work here after enjoy
ing a two weeks vacation with his
parents,
S. c. Bailey of this city went to
Blackjack last evening on business
connected with his duties as warden.
for the state Game & Fish commits
sion and returned to the city this
morning.
The Bijou was compelled to give
four performances last evening to
accommodate the people, so come
early tonight and get your moneys
worth. Entirely new pictures this
evening.
Henry Lindgren of East Grand
Forks arrived in the city yesterday
noon and left last evening on the
north-bound passenger train for
Blackjack where he will visit week
with relatives.
P. H. Peterson was a Bagley
visitor for few hours in the city
yesterday while he attended to some
local business, returning home on
the west-bound Great Northern
passenger train in the afternoon.
Now is the time to buy your Iaces
for spring sewing. You will find them
at The Bazaar store.
]. H. Hayes, the genial and ener-
getic traveller who solicits orders fol-
the Gold Medal -four, arrived in the
city last evening and spent today
among the local business men in the
interests of the Washburn-Crosby
company.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12

1909 Diaries at the Pioneer Office
Lace sale at The Bazaar Store Tues
day and Wednesday, only 5 cents pei
yard.
The Gladstone Sisters made :
decided hit last night at the Bijou
Come early if you wish seat
Birch wood, jack pine and tamarac
four foot and sixteen inch. Haytf
wood yard, rear of P. o. block.
J. Bisiar, proprietor of the Bemidji
Music House, went to Blackjack
last evening to deliver three pianos
which he recently sold there.
A. E. Whiting of this city returned
last evening to his lumber business
at Blackjack after enjoying an over.
Sunday visit with his family. .
F. A. Jackson, local attorney
went to Tenstrike last evening tc
attend to some professional bust
ness and returned to the city on
this mornings train. ....
John Gibson, who is engaged in
the cedar business at Funkley, re.
turned home this morning on the
M. & I. freight train after short
business visit at Cass Lake. .-
A. H. Pitkin of Crookston arrived
in the city yesterday noon and left
last evening on the north-bound
ttain for Kelliher to look after the
general store which he owns at that
place.
The Bijou was compelled to give
four performances last evening to
accommodate the people so come
early tonight and get your moneys
worth. Entirely new pictures this
evening.
Archdeacon H. F. Parshall OF
Cass Lake, passed through the city
last evening on the north-bound M.
& I. passenger train enroute from
Onigum to Blackjack where he held
Episcopal services last evening.
J. M. Sturdevant of Tenstrike
came in yesterday morning and
spent the day here on business and
making several purchases from the
local stores, returning home last
evening on the north-bound passen.
ger train.
MI. and Mrs. H. Stechman, who
own a hotel at Tenstrike, came in
yesterday morning and spent the
day in the city attending to some
business and visiting with friends
here. They returned to Tenstrike
last evening. -.
w. H. wye of this city left last
evening on the M. & I. passenger
train for Kelliher to resume his per.
sonal superintendent of the work
of his logging operations near that
village, after enjoying a short visit
with his family in this city.
F. P. Sheldon of Minneapolis,
accompanied by Vice-President
Wedge, of the First National Bank
of this city, went. to Blackjack last
evening to scrutinize the books in
the bank at that place and returned
to the city on this mornings
tain.
You will find the largest 5 cent lace
assortment in the city at the Bazaar
Store, all new spring patterns. Call
and see them. T
R. H. Muncey, the Crookston
Lumber company's veteran cruiser,
left last evening on the M. & I.
passenger train for Blackjack and
Northome where he will spend a
week knocking around" the woods
for estimates for the company. Mr..
Muncey will be gone until Satur-
day.
A. P. Reeves was a rTenstrike
visitor in the city yesterday seeking
relief from a local physician, and
returned to his farm near Tenstrike
last evening on the M. & I. passen
ger train. Mr.. Reeves reports that
his son, Pomeroy, who attended the
Bemidji high school last year, is
now student at the state agricul.
tural school in St. Paul.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12
How MarshaiI Field Made Money.

HOW M0fSn0II FIELD Mado money.
In the early eighties, when the First
National bank Of Wal1awalla was not
as big as 1t is now, pretty nearly
had my breath taken away one day
by a good looking stranger hailing
from Chicago. He threw a letter Of
credit for $4,000 from a Chicago bank
on my desk and quietly said, "Can
you cash that?' I looked him over
once or twice, made quick estimate
Of all the loose cash I thought we
could scrape up and said: eyes. How
do you want it?" He gave a smile,
sat down and said, II think I'll take
It in 1and.'' In months time, as his
authorized agent, bought about 3d.
600 acres Of cheap railroad land for
my Chicago friend, taking the deeds
In my name at his request, paying an
average Of $265 an acre. He cleared
over $1,OOO,OO0 on this one deal. His
name was Marshall Field. Senator
Ankeny's "reminiscences in Leslie's
Weekly
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-12

TO CURB A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money If it fails to cure
2. w. GROVES signature is on each box. 2c5
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Hope is fine thing but too much re-
lance should not be placed on it.
y
1t is really difficult for any one af-
hicted with downright ignorance to
conceal 1t.
Il y
That proposition that two are made
one by marriage may be safely set
down as being mere theory
X X
A f1rst-class bore is the man who AL
ways insists on telling every one the
cute things his baby has said And he
makes up lot Of them, too.
4
When an individual develops to the
point where he will admit that he is
wrong, when such is the case, he has
something of successful future be-
fore him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
JAYHAWKER JOTS

The CoffeyvilIe Journal found an
Open Letter writer who referred to the
Mason and Dixon's line as the Smith &.
Wesson line.
The Kansas weather man gives a
change of program every year No
wonder the people are changea BILE
Marquette Tribune
Hiawatha offers ex-Sultan Abdul
Hamtd 5000 to lecture there. w. c.
Palmer says that man who has had
500 wives ought to be glad of a chance
to talk for nothing
Grant county will vote on June 10
on the question of moving the county
seat to New Ulysses. Once upon a
time a county seat election in West
ern Kansas was better than a war in
Central America.-Hutchins News
The English say that mans house
is his castle. but if a man has bunch
of daughters who are keeping com
pany" with young men the back porch
is the only place about the castle
where he can hold undisputed sway.
Hill City Era.
A grocer's boy. the Salina Journal
says, was numbering up the kitchen
stairway with his arms full of pack
ages. Roy" said the mistress of the
house. somewhat sharply, fare your
feet clean % "Yesm," he answered
still climbing the stairs, "it's only me
shoes that's dirty"
A curious story is told by the Cool
idge Enterprise. A woman down
there paid a man a considerable sum
of money to marry her. The woman
wasn't satisfied, and now she wants
her money back. The case has reach
ed the courts, and is very spicy
Atchison Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
A POSSIBLE TAX ON TEA.

Reports come from Washington
that those in charge of the tariff
measure in congress are again think
ing of levying tax of ten cents a
pound on tea. When this proposition
was first put forth such a tax was
urged as being desirable to increase
the revenues of the country. as it
most certainly would and by placing
additional burdens on the poor man.
For no one is so foolish as to believe
that the middleman in the tea bust
ness would help to pay for this tax
as he could we'll afford to do The
price of tea would be advanced to
the consumer just as certain as is
the fact that night follows day.
But now some of the protection
experts are advocating a tax on tea
for the benefit of protecting the
tea industry in this country. This is
assuredly a policy of protection with
a vengeance. In only one state in
the nation is there anything like a
tea industry. That is South Car
DINA, and the tea growers in that
state, after twenty-five years of ex-
perience and work. are able to pro-
duce on the average of little more
than 10000 pounds of tea yearly,
and that with government assistance.
The consumption of tea in the
United States is 100000 pounds
yearly.
Surely it is nobody but the most
arrogant protectionist who will
argue that 100000 people of this
country are to be taxed for their tea
for the benefit of such a paltry in
dustry as is the tea growing in the
United States. Such arguments are
almost an insult to the intelligence
of the American people but they are
on par with a good many of the
other tariff arguments which are be-
ing propounded these days by the
powers that be in congress, and no
where else
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31

six fingers. He brought these fingers
into the world with him and they will
pass on in his line or tend to do so.
But you might prune all the limbs of
both parents without affecting so much
as one digit of the child. There are
men, in this country even, whose an
cestors in direct line for eight genera
tions or more have been college men,
but these men have not heaped Ossa
on Pelion, intellectually speaking. If
the results of the training of their fore
fathers had come down to them they
would be at least intellectual giants,
forming an aristocracy of learning so
elevated that the son of the unlettered
man could not hope to enter it. AS a
matter of fact. they are usually ordi-
nary gentlemen of intelligence and
civic worth. but it is more than prob
able that the son Of the immigrant, or
the country boy, if he comes within
striking distance of college at all, will
make a more brilliant record. To him
the college represents an unusual OPP
portunity, and he is stimulated pro-
foundry by it, while the traditional col
lege goer takes the matter very calmly
and even indifferently.
THE only exception admitted at
present to the rule that individual
practice and experience are not trans
mitted is in such cases as chronic aIco-
holism and syphilis, where the poison
drenches the system so thoroughly as to
reach the reproductive germ itself. OF
course. if the parents are ill-nourished
or in feeble health the child will prob
ably be born iH-nourished or even
dead. In that case the reproductive
germ has been ill-nourished, but this
is quite a different thing from the
transmission of practice. So far as
reproduction is concerned our acquired
characters lie on US almost as lightly
as our clothing-more lightly, in fact,
than some of it. for the corset of the
mother leaves no furrow on the waist
of the child, though it may impair the
child's general vitality. All of the
novels and all the psychology and
pedagogy assuming the transmission of
the memory of definite acts to the
child are without foundation in fact,
and all stories of prenatal influence
or the marking of the child by an &C
cident to the mother, are old wife's
fables"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
AT the Novelty
adjoining her husband when she

adjoining her husband when she
heard him call.
"Oh, Katherine" and there was a
naturalness in the tones that in
dicated returned reason She
dropped the book she had to rush
to him, and in his eyes was re-
membrance and clear understanding.
Katherine, it was you, then L
l thought I dreamed it."
I'm sorry, Dwight, sorrier than I
can tell you. 1t was all wrong. my
gong away. II want forgiveness"
she whispered
Forgiveness? You? Rather L
should ask it. It has been hard: 1T
seemed cruel. but perhaps 1t was for
our good, sweetheart. The boy you
used to love is coming back-coming
back-coming back. sweetheart"
For a moment he lay silent, his
eyes closed. Then he started.
THE birds. dearest. the birds7"
he asked.
TITS the first day of yune." she
whispered
June. Katherine. June for US for
always" he murmured sleepily as he
lifted the hand that lay in his to his
lips and kissed it. And like q tired
child he slipped into sleep. sweet
sleep with an awakening to hap
piness and 1ove.-(Copyright 1909,
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record

TFrom the Philadelphia Record-1
If YOU are afraid to fight take quiet
sneak. Don't bluff.
Some girls are still old-fashioned
enough to marry the men they fall in
love with.
Even when we build castles in the
air we should be prepared to have our
ups and downs
We would all be rich if we could sat
isfy our financial obligations by paying
compliments.
1t frequently happens that the only
man who is willing to lend hand is
the man who is empty-handed.
The Good Book tells US that the truth
is mighty and will prevail. It probably
will if it isn't suppressed.
-Dolly-"Mr. Softleigh doesn't talk
much. does he?" Polly-''No. but he
generally manages to tell all he
knows"
The difference between a church and
a Divorce Court is that one is a mar
riage altar and the other marriage
alter.
The principal objection to the people
who are always looking for trouble is
that they are never satisfied with II
when they find it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY.

Another of the brief cycles by which
time is measured has rolled around and
Memorial Day is here again. Through
out the length and breadth of the land
it is being fittingly celebrated, as 1t
should be- for it is the day set apart
by a fine custom for the honoring of
the dead who gave UP their lives in
the furious struggles of the Civil war
for a most righteous cause. And in the
remembrance of, and homage to, these
heroes who fell on the fields of battle
or wasted away in prisons and fever
camps, there is most naturally Joined a
tribute to the living heroes of that
great strife. Their ranks are growing
thin, but they must be solaced by the
knowledge that they and their brethren
accomplished a mighty task. They pre-
served the Union of the United States
inviolate and thereby made possible it's
development to be one of the greatest
of nations that the history of the
world has ever told about.
OF all the tributes that have been
paid to the gallant men who fought
and died and lived for liberty's sake,
there is none to compare with the i'm
mortal words delivered by Abraham
Lincoln on the occasion of the dedica-
ton of the National cemetery at Get
tysburg on November 10. 1868. In many
respects they are as true today as
they were when they were uttered and
q reprinting Of them at this time should
be most appropriate. They follow:
Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this con-
tinent a new nation, conceived in lib
erty. and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or
any nation so conceived and so dedi-
Gated, can long endure. We are met
on a great battlefield of that war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of
that field as a final resting place for
those who here gave their lives that
the nation might live. II is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do
this.
But in large sense we can not dedi-
cate, we can not consecrate, we can not
hallow this ground. The brave men,
living and dead. who struggled here,
have consecrated it far above our pow
er to add or detract. The world will
little note nor long remember what we
say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us, the living,
rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced
II is rather for us to be here dedica-
ted to the great task remaining be-
fore us; that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion; that we here
highly resolve that. these dead shall not
have died in vain; that this nation, I'M
der God, shall have a new birth of
freedom; and that government of the
people. by the people, and for the peo-
pie, shall not perish from the earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News.1

lFrom the Chicago News1
Only fool attempts to make head
way by buttfng in.
Never judge a mans line of thought
by the talk he let's out.
AS rule smart baby soon ont
grows its alleged smartness
THANK you" is more appreciates
when accompanied by SIS bill
Too many virtues in a man arc ant
to make his friends long for a few
vices.
Even when a girl turns a young man
down he can't help admiring her iudr-
ment.
1t is difficult to convince the office
holder that one bad term doesn't de-
serve another.
For more than week after marriage
man will eat things he doesn't like
just because wife cooked them.
It's hard for any man to keep in the
straight and narrow path unless he
has good woman to guide his foot
steps.
Many a city man boasts of his boy
hood on the farm-but he doesn't make
strenuous effort to get back to it.
If a man wants word picture of
himself that isn't at all f1attering he
should arouse the ire Of a sfarp-
tongued woman.
The average girl may not be a sue
cess as stone tosser, but when II
comes to throwing a hint she is Susie
on-the-Spot every time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31

webfooted, but has four feet. 1t is a
furry animal with a bushy tail. but it
lays eggs. 1t carries it's young in a
pouch, la kangaroo. and on It's hind
feet are spurs which emit poison when
it scratches with them. But the Field
Museum should not be hasty in claim
ing the championship for possessing
specimens of freak animals. 1t will
please rememb Der that the Smithsonian
Institute has an animal coming from
Africa which was caught by Colonel
Roosevelt with his own bare hands,
and which is so rare and peculiar that
the natives of the country haven't so
much as a name for it.