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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-08-05

Several Of those Letters from
Spain" have been received by Bow
bells parties, but as most Of the peo-
pie are familiar with the great Span
ish swindle, no suckers we're caught
this time.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-08-05
Durum Bull

For sale, registered Durum bull,
roam color, weight 1450 lbs, three
years old. Good disposition. A tip
top animal in every respect. Price
right. c. w. Green, Burlington, N. D.
7-29 $40
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29

FOR SALE-:Three good mich
lYcows. Inquire of ]. M. Phillippi
at the county poor farm.
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Ornaments Of the Peeraqe.

Lord Lyveden is an ardent peerage
reformer and tells an anecdote in this
connection for whose authenticity he
pledges himself. This narrates how a
famous statesman Of the nineteenth
century was called upon to visit his
son in prison. He bitterly reproached
him, remarking, Here am |, having
worked my way up from a middle
class home to great position, and
when die you will be the greatest
BLACKBOARD in the peerage." The son
listened quietly and then replied, with
terrible irony, "Yes-when you die"
Another of Lord Lyveden's peerage
stories is equally piquant. The son Of
a peer applied to friend in the north
of England for a housekeeper and was
recommended certain Mrs. Brown.
The peer wrote to the woman accord
ingly to the effect that, having learned
particulars Of her character, he was
willing to engage her as his house
keeper and making an appointment for
her to call and see him on certain
date. The good woman replied:
My Lord-From what have learned of
your character I decline to enter your
house. I am your !ordships obediens
servant, = NNE BROWN.
Westminster Gazette
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
A Ghost Story,

Floors castle, home Of the Duke of
Roxburghe, was the scene of curious
psychical mystery over a century ago.
Sir Walter Scott relates the incident.
John, third duke Of Roxburghe, who
died in 1904, the celebrated book col
lector, when arranging his library en-
ployed neither secretary nor a libra
rian, but footman called Archie, who
knew every book as a shepherd does
each sheep Of his flock: There was a
bell hung in the dukes room at Floors
which was used On no occasion except
to call Archie to his study. The duke
died in st. James square at a time
when Archie was himself sinking un-
der mortal complaint. On the day
of the funeral the library bell sudden
ly rang violently. The dying Archie
sat up in bed and faltered, Eyes, my
lord duke, yes, will wait on your
grace instantly" And with these
words on his lips he fell back in bed
and died.-St. James Gazette.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
Our Wonderful Railroads.

Gail HamiiIon was right when she
said that if there were never to be
any railways on this continent it
would have been an impertinence for
Columbus to have discovered it, Only
by the railways could it's magnificent
distances be bridged. Equally correct
was Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the
last survivor of the signers Of the Dec
laration of independence, when, on
throwing up the first shovelful of
earth for the first railway Of the Unit
ed States which was intended to carry
passengers and freight, the Baltimore
and Ohio, he exclaimed, ''I consider
this event second only to that Of the
adoption Of the Declaration Of indie
pendence, If second even to that"
That was in 1928 But England was
far ahead of us in railway building in
the beginning. Even Russia got bet
ter start than. we did. At the outset
we imported not only our locomotives
and cars, but also the rails on which
they were run and the men to run
them. However, John Stevens, Peter
Cooper, Evan Thomas, Matthias Bald
win and others changed all this and
in their various fields laid the founda-
lions of railway system which is to-
day in dimensions and completeness
far ahead Of that Of any other half a
dozen countries in the world combined.
-Leslie's Weekly.
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The Plays Mixed.

During one Of his tours in this coun-
try, when the late Sir Henry Irving
was playing 'Twelfth Night in New
York, he revealed observation-disclosures
and greatly amused the members of
his company and the audience. AS
Malvolio he was expressing surprise
at a remark Of Sir Toby. e..
"Do you know what you say?" he
asked. Ia
To his surprise, roar Of laughter
echoed through the house, and his
stage associates were convulsed.
He repeated the line, putting undue
emphasis on the pronoun, and again
the audience shouted with laughter.
1t was not until after the perform
ance he learned that quite unconscious.
ly he had been parodying the well
known words of '"The Private Secre-
tary." His only explanation was that
it was done in a bit of forgetfulness
while thinking Of the other play
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
The Franz Halls Museum In Holland,

The Franz Halls Museum In Holland.
Old HARLEM calls up the shadow Of
Franz Halls. The museum is verify a
sanctuary to his memory. There the
famous corporation pictures hang. One
sees the members of the various guilds
in the fullness of careless life, eating,
drinking and merrymaking. Here Halls
Is seen at the height of his power. The
splendid color and directness of work
are revelation. Every figure seems
alive, and one is convinced they were
all in the flesh once. This great mas
ter with one bold stroke of his brush
made these men immortal. At eighty
years he still painted, and his last pic
ture hangs beside his masterpieces
Harlem and Halls will be associated
as long as the place lasts. One mar
vels at the eXecut lion Of the Dutch
painters, whether it be in the broad
work of Halls or in the miniature finish
of the genre masters. All of them had
a splendid sense Of values, atmosphere
and human life; a perfect harmony of
relation fills their canvases.- Spring
field (Mass) Republican.
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Food and Emotion.

The following really happened on
board a pleasure steamer in the Kyles
Of Butte. A young honeymoon couple
were sitting side by side. gazing on
the lovely scenery around them.
"Isn't it heavenly, George?" she muir
mured II feel thrills all over me-"
Then without a pause, as if still car
ried away by the inspiration of the
moment, Dearest, If there are any left
I think would like chocolate"
No good reason exists why spiritual
emotions should not make one hungry.
The bride who demanded sweets was
wiser than girl who once remained
starving and inconsolable in her room
after the departure Of her lover for
India. At last an amateur Hebe ven
tured upstairs with a cup Of coffee
and plate Of toast. Yielding to per-
suasion, the afflicted maiden was in
duced to eat and drink and began to
look somewhat less detected.
II believe was dying for something
all the time," she finally confessed,
."but 1 was afraid to ask lest people
would believe me to be less unhappy
than I really am" London Black and
White,
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Cold and a Candle.

DR.. Moss of the English polar expe-
dition of 1875 and 1876, among other
odd things, tells Of the effect of cold
on a wax candle which he, burned.
The temperature was 35 degrees below
zero, and the doctor must have been
considerably discouraged when, upon
looking at his candle, he discovered
that the fame had all it could do to
keep warm. 1t was so cold that the
fame could not melt all the wax Of the
candle, but was forced to eat it's way
down the candle, leaving a sort Of
skeleton Of the candle standing. There
was heat enough, however, to melt
oddly shaped holes in the thin walls Of
wax, and the result was a beautiful
tacelike cylinder Of white, with a
tongue Of yellow fame burning inside
Of it and sending out into the dark
ness many streaks Of light.
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irascible Ven Hulow.

During Hans Won Bulow's leadsf@
ship Of the orchestra at Hanover .
tenor of fame was engaged to play a
star role in "Lohengrin," and while
the singer was rehearsing his part Blu
low was forced to so over the same
bars a number of times without the
new actor beginning to sing. Tired OF
his wasted efforts, the leader stopped
the orchestra and angrily turned tc
the singer.
81 know that tenor is proverbially
stupid" he said, "but you seem to
make an extensive use of this unwrit-
ten law"
At another time, while one of his
grand intermezzos was being played
with great feeling by his musicians, a
peculiar noise, hardly perceptible by
unframed ears, annoyed the leader fol-
some little time. At first he thought
it resembled the flutter Of wings, but
soon he discovered an elegant lady
tanning herself in one of the boxes
close by. Bulow kept on with his ges
lures, fixing his eyes on the offender
in manner which meant reproof. The
lady, not needing this, was suddenly
surprised by the leader dropping his
stick and turning toward her.
Madam" he cried, 'if fan you must
please at least keep time with your in
fernal nuisancew
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
The Broken Bottle Svnbol.

The breaking Of a bottle over the
bow Of a vessel at launching seems to
be taken by many people as having a
convivial, a sort of here's-looking-at-
you significance, but nothing Of the
kind is meant; neither has it any asso-
citation with Christian baptism, for
the name Of a man-of-war is given
months before the launching. The real
thing typified is sacrifice. Building a
town or setting ship afloat was SOL
emn matter away back in the dim past,
and such an act was not to be under
taken without devoting a life to pro-
pitiate the gods. Our refined and hu-
name civilization no longer dares to
offer up a prisoner or slave on such
occasions, and therefore a bottle is
broken to symbolic the taking of a
mans Hfe.-United Service Gazette.
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Woman the TOUGHER Sex,

Although men, as they run, are per-
haps muscularly stronger than women,
their inability to withstand the ele-
ments and their reliance upon clothes
place them considerably below the so
called weaker sex in the matter of un-
clothed toughness. Women wear clothes
for ornament. Men use them as pro-
tective covering. A group Of men ma
rooned clotheless on an island in the
temperate zone might be expected to
die off in a month from drafts and
colds and rheumatism. The health of
women similarly placed would suffer
little from the enforced exposure. The
fact appears to be, therefore, that in
everything but muscle-in vitality, rug
gedness, character, disposition, brain
power, etc.-woman is the tougher, not
the weaker, sex.-Kansas City Journal
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The Elusive ChuckwaIIa.

The chuckwalla Is one of the most
interesting of the creatures to be
found in southern CALIFORNIA; great
desert, The chuckwalla seeks to es-
cape his adversary by crawling into a
crevice of a rock so narrow that it
seems impossible to get him out. But
the Indians have learned all his tricks
and how to eircumvent them To the
desert aborigine the chuckwalla is al
Turing. He feasts on the chuckwalla;
hence he grows wise as to it's habits.
He takes piece Of strong wire or
bent twig, and, poking it into the crew
Ice, he taps the chuckwalla on the end
Of the nose. In moment the angered
| reptile exhales a kind Of hiss, the
! noise being made by rapid expulsion
of the breath. AS he thus exhales he
[ loses his hold on the rocks, and in a
moment the Indian pulls on his TAIL
AS speedily as a flash Of lightning the
| chuckwalla inhales again and tightens
himself in his recess. Another tap on
his nose and then exhalation; another
pull, another exhalation- it goes IN
til at last the Indian has him in hand.
Then he cooks him. Suburban Life.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
Uncomfortable.

It was a veteran soldiery that re-
peopled the plantations and the home
steads of the south, writes Thomas
Nelson Page in the Old Dominion, and
withstood the forces thrown against
them during the period Of reconstruc-
ton. In addition to personal pride,
self reliance and physical courage,
they possessed also race pride, which
Is inestimable in great popular strug-
gle. >-
However beaten and broken they
were, the people came out of the war
with their spirit unquenched and be-
lief that they were unconquerable.
A story used to be told Of an old
Confederate soldier who was trud ging
home after the war, broken and rag
ged and worn. He was asked what he
would. do if the Yankees got after him
when he reached home.
"Oh, they amt goin' to trouble me-"
he said. eff they do I'll just whip 'em
again." 49,.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
Jerome's Mistake.

One of the early vicissitudes of Je-
rome K. Jerome as an actor was to be
offered his choice of laying the part
Of either soldier or a donkey in a
pantomime, real donkey with four
legs. After careful consideration he
thought the red coat the more becom-
ing disguise and chose the part of the
soldier. Apparently he made a mistake,
from the point Of view of success,
at all events, for few days afterward
the manager came to him and said:
"You made great mistake, Jerome.
in not taking the part Of the donkey.
1t would just suit you, and there's
shillings week more in it," -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
A Tribute to Sauerkraut.

Those Americans who have visited
Munich know well the noble statue at
the head Of the Kartofe
raised by grateful Bavaria to the mem
DRY of st. Hermann of Pilsen, In
ventor and protagonist Of sauerkraut.
The genial old saint, a smile upon his
face, Is seen stirring large kettle of
kraut with an oar Of gilt bronze, and
so lifelike is the carving that the trav-
eler, standing by, can well nigh scent
the perfumed steam and hear the hut-
ter Of angelic wings. In these unro-
mantle United States we have no pub
lie monuments to Hermann, and his
very name indeed is unknown to all
save few cognoscenti But neverthe-
less and Notwithstanding this neglect
the delicious victua1 he gave to the
world is firmly enshrined in the hearts
Of the American people. Stewed gen.
tly in Rhine wine, it ticlles the esoph-
agi Of the opulent; boiled in plain
hydrant water, it nourishes the son of
toll. It is at once Wand, a passion
and a public institution.-Baltim
Sun.
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A Poor Bath,

A Frenchman was talking in New
York about the excellent bathing
beaches Of America.
'"There are no such beaches in Eu-
rope" said he. "And the sea over
there is not so pleasant to battle in.
Frequently, you know, great pipes
empty sewage into it. They who stay
late for the bathing in Nice, for in
stance, swim about among lemon peel,
orange skins, melon rinds, soaked but
still buoyant newspapers-fearful rub
bish. once bathed in Nice. The Med
tterranean was warm and pleasant,
but it resembled soup or something
worse. l heard an American after
coming out say to the bathing master:
"'Look here, friend, where do stran.
gers go for a wash after bathing
hereY"
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Tom, Dick and Harry.

"Some folks have a hard time to find
odd enough names for their children"
said man in an uptown club the
other evening. 'They will search
through all kinds of books on the sub.
ject, consult all their friends and rela-
tives and finally burden the youngster
with something never heard Of before.
II know one man, however-he is a
banker and lives on West End avenue
who, while he did not spend much
time in search Of names, adopted a
scheme which is very novel. 1t took
five years to carry out the scheme,
now complete. The first boy he named
Tom, the second Dick and the third
Harry. This particular trio is about as
much talked about in the neighbor-
hood as the noted Tom, Dick and Har-
ry of whom nearly every one has
heard."-New York Times.
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Waterproofinn Matches,

Perhaps some of your readers would
be interested to know that l have
found a simple, inexpensive way to
waterproof matches. Into some melted
paraffin, care being taken that it was
as cool as possible, dipped few or
binary parlor matches. After with
drawing them and allowing them to
cool it was found that they scratched
almost as easily as before being coated
with the wax. Several were held I'm.
der water for six or seven hours, and
all Of them lighted as easily as be.
fore immersion. When the match is
scratched the parafin is first rubbed of
and the match lights in the usual way.
Matches treated as above would be
very useful on camping or canoeing
trips, as they do not absorb moisture.
Since more rubbing is required to light
them than the ordinary match, 1t
would be practically impossible to set
them on fire by accidental dropping
Scientific American.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
An Exception to the Rule.

"It is an invariable fact" said the
professor at the club, that the sense
of sight travels more rapidly than the
sense of sound. You will observe, sir,
that when a bit Of ordnance is fired
from a fortress or man-of-war you
see the puff Of smoke that comes coin.
cidently with the explosion several
moments before you hear the report
thereof. Thus it is always
"Not always" said little Todgers
from the corner. 81 know Of a case
where hearing antedates seeing by
really considerable lapses of time"
81 know of no such thing in the
whole broad range Of science" retort'
ed the professor pompously. perhaps
you can enlighten us. sir"
SWELL" said Todgers, sits the case
of an Englishman and joke In al
most every case the Englishman hears
a joke about a week before he sees it,
and
But the professor had gone, and they
say that nowadays when he sees Tod
gers he SHES off like frisky horse in
the presence of a motor car.-Harper's
Weekly.
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Milk Fed Edible Rats !. q

The Chinese diplomat regarded his
grilled frogs legs with faint disgust.
II suppose they are good" he fall
tered. 1t is hard, though, to conquer
my mpulsion. Yet they are clean
clean feeders, eh?',
The American laughed long and
loud.
"You," he cried, "are repealed by
frogs legs, you who eat dogs and
rats!'
"Ah, but" said the Chinaman, .our
edible dogs and rats are the cleanest
feeders imaginable. They are equal to
celery fed duck or California peach
fed hog. They are confined in runs,
you know, and to make their flesh
white and delicate they are fed on
mushes of bread and milk and vege-
tables-no meat whatever.
''You Americans think it disgusting
to eat rats and dogs because you imag-
inc them fattening on carrion and
offal. But these frogs here No, Pm
afraid can't They may have fed on
some tramp suicide for all I know"
He pushed back his plate and waited
for the next course.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
Scared Out of the Duel.

One day M. Edmond About called
upon Grisier, the most celebrated fenc-
ing master of his day. II am in a
quandary," said About. 81 allowed
myself yesterday the pleasure Of a
joke in bad taste, and a duel is to be
the result. l know nothing whatever
about fencing, and, as you can see,
am fat. Will you give me a lesson, so
that I may not make myself too ridicu-
lous?" The lesson was given, but
About proved very poor pupil. On
his way out he saw a photograph Of
Grisier. II suppose" he said, II must
not ask you for one of these?" with
the greatest pleasure" said the fencing
master. And, with a chuckle, Grisier
wrote across the photograph, '"To M.
Edmond About, the best pupil l have
ever had" A few hours afterward the
seconds Of About's adversary called
on the writer, saw the photograph on
the mantelpiece and, fearing for their
friend at the hands Of so redoubtable
a swordsman, arranged the affair with
out any duel.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-29
Not "Lost In London"

The confession of the provost OF the
Great st. Bernard hospice that he al
most got lost in London and found it
more bewildering than his own Alps
recalls to the London Chronicle re-
markable feat of the great guide Mel
chior Anderegg of Meiringen. He had
never seen larger town than Berne
when he visited London, and when
two famous climbers, Leslie Stephen
and T. w. Hinchliff, met him at Lon
don Bridge station and walked with
him thence to Lincoln's Inn Fields
there was thick London fog. Never
theless when a day or two later the
three were at the same station, return
ing from a trip to Woolwich, Mr..
Hinchliff confidently said, "Now, Mel
chior, you will lead us back home"
And straight to Lincoln's Inn Fields
Melchior guided them, pausing only
once ....>j
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Sieae of. Crete.

Crete can claim to have been the
scene Of one of the longest sieges on
record, longer than the siege Of Troy,
for in the seventeenth century it took
the Turks more than twenty years to
capture its capital city. The island, in
fact, is famous for protracted military
operations, for, though the revolution
Of 1921 was speedily successful in the
open country, the fortified towns were
still uncaptured when the powers in
tervened in 1880.
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Why Joyner Left Home.

"Are you ready to receive the obliga-
tionsT' asked the most upright SUI
preme hocus pocus Of the Order OF
Hoot Owls. ..:
II am" said the candidate firmly.
'Then take a sip Of this prussic acid,
place your right hand in this pot Of
boiling lead, rest your left hand upon
this revolving buzzsaw, close your eyes
and repeat after me-
Early next morning shreds of JOY
ner's clothing were found upon the
bushes and trees all along the road to
Pottsville, thirty miles distant, and at
Scrabbletown, sixty miles away, he
was reported still headed west.-Judge.
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How Henry ,rvino Wanted to Die,

'What have l got out of it?' said
Henry, stroking his chin and smiling
slightly. ''Let me see. Well, a good
cigar, a good glass Of wine, good
friends Here he kissed my hand
with courtesy. Always he was so
courte always his actions, like
this little one Of kissing my hand, were
SO beautifully timed. They came just
before the spoken words and gave
them peculiar value.
'"That's not a bad summing up of it
ALL" I said. "And the end-how would
you like that to Gomez"
"How would like that to Gomez"
He repeated my question lightly, yet
meditatively too. Then he was silent
for some thirty seconds before he snap
ped his fingers-the action again be-
fore the words.
"Like thatv' Ellen Terry In Nc
Cures Magazine.
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Depth at Which Miners Can Work,

Below fifty feet the temperature
rises in the proportion Of one degree
for every sixty-fve feet of depth ex-
cept where currents of water carry
the heat away. The result is that at
depth of about 1900 feet we reach
temperature of SO degrees, or blood
heat. This renders it exceedingly diff
ficult to work coal pits below that
depth. This is the reason that Great
Britain's coal commission decided that
mines are not workable below 1000
feet
The thickness of the solid rocks
building up the crust Of the earth is at
least thirty to forty miles. At that
depth the heat is such as would reduce
everything on the surface Of the earth
to liquid. But the pressure of the over
lying rocks Is so great that until the
relation of the heat to the pressure is
known it cannot be said whether the
earth at that depth Is fluid or solid.-
Chicago Tribune. /, -"