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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Burglars Besettina Sin.

The burglars besetting sin is. heed
lessness. The chances are that it was
heedlessness that first drove him out
of honest employment and made a bur
glar of him. The burglar ransacks a
house and carries away spoon hold
er, a card tray or some other inexpen
sive souvenir Of the occasion. and he
overlooks the thousand dollar bill on
the dining room table and the rope of
pearls on the towel rack. This heed
lessness seems to be common to the
whole fraternity. We do not know
what the experience of other cities is.
but in Newark the burglar leaves an
astonishing amount of portable wealth
behind him invariably. When he reads
on the day after the robbery that he
took Mrs De Stiles chatting dish and
ignored her $500 ruby bracelet beside
it or t hat he upset the Pompleys
dresser ORA wer to get the revolver and
failed to see the government bonds
that lay in plain sight on the wash
stand. how be much gnash his teeth
and hate himself for neglecting to de-
velop bis powers OF attention and OBJ
servation in his youth!-Newark News.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
The Power OF p aderewskj.

# a hard headed business man went 10
hear PadereWski play. says a. u.
Thomas in Success Magazine. The
man is not musician. He spends his
days trying to buy cotton when It IS
low and sell 1t when it is high. This
is how be described his experience at
the piano recital. @..
you know. I'm not easily stirred up.
and don't know anything about mu-
sic wouldn't know whether a man
was playing the piano extremely well
or just fairly we'll. But do know
that Paderewski played one thing that
afternoon that stirred me up as new
er was stirred in my life l don't re-
member what it was. / couldn't have
told whether he was playing an hour
or five minutes. All know is that it
stirred up feelings within me had
never felt before. Great waves Of emo
ton swept over me- wanted to shout
and wanted to cry, and when the
last chord was struck found myself
on my feet waving my umbrella and
shouting like a wild Indian, went
out of that hall as weak as rag and
happier than I'd been in years. can't
account for it. I've tried, but can't
explain it. Can your j '3E
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Persian Jests.

An exceedingly ugly man. says the
Persian Joe Miller. was once in the
mosque. asking pardon Of Allah for
his sins and praying to be delivered
from the fires of hell. One who over.
heard his prayers said to him: "Where-
fore, O friend. wouldst thou cheat bell
of such a countenance? Art thou re.
luctant to burn up a face like that?"
Another story the Persian jester tells
is that a certain person with hideous
nose was once on a time wooing wo-
man. Describing himself to her and
trying to make an attractive picture
he said. II am man devoid Of light.
ness and frivolity, aud l am patient in
bearing aff1ictionsy'
Aye" said the woman. "Wert thou
not patient in bearing Affections thou
hadst never endured thy nose these
forty yearsv'
All Of which is more witty than kind
-Harper's.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Bohemians and Wedding Rings.

Here are two wedding rings that
have just made over" said the jew
eler. '"They are for Bohemian women.
They lost their own rings. so they had
their husbands rings cut down to fit.
That is custom in their country.
Both husband and wife wear we'd
ding rings there. If the man loses his
ring he has to buy a new one. but if
the woman loses hers she wears her
husba nd's. l do good deal Of that
kind Of work. Other women who lose
wedding rings just buy another one
and say nothing about it. but these wo-
men are too conscientious for that.
Usually l have to make the mans ring
smaller. but once in awhile it has to
be spliced to make. it tit. The women
are always considera bly, chagrined
over the splicing and offer all kinds OF
explanations to account for their big
fngers."-New York Sun. <s.=
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
The Making Of Lenses.

The essential part Of any device for
the study Of the starry milIions--the
suns. planets, comets and the nebulae
that are perhaps new worlds in the
making-is the lens or the optical train
that consists of q series of lenses It
Is this that makes the modern science
Of astronomy possible. There is abso-
lutely no other human occupation that
requires the accuracy of observation
and the delicacy Of touch that are
requisite for the making of the finest
lenses. These, are the most perfect
products Of human hands. 1t may
convey some idea of the labor requlr-
ed in the making of a large lens to
say that at least one years time is re-
quired for the. grinding and polishing
of thirty inch object glass A little
lens two inches in diameter requires
the unremitting care and attention OF
skilled workman for two or three
days. 1t is easy. then. to see why it is
that even lenses of high class photo
graphic work are costly. A forty inch
object glass for a large telescope can
not be made In much less than four
years. time. and if everything does not
go just right it may require much
longer than that.-Kansas City Star.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
What "Garbler" Once Meant.

"Garble." ''garbled." ''garbler;" are
words which nowadays convey quite a
different meaning from that which
was formerly accepted. ''GarbIe" orig
1nally signitied simply Ito select for q
purpose" At one time there was an
officer. termed the garbler of Spices
whose duty it was to visit the shops
and examine the spices. ordering the
destruction of all impure goods. His
duties were similar to those of the in.
spector of the modern health depart.
ment. who forbids the sale of decayed
vegetables or tainted meat. The word
comes from root meaning Ito sift."
The impurities sifted out have in the
course of generations corrupted the
term till q ''garbed report" is no long
er a report wherefrom all uncertainty
has been removed. but one that is II
of misrepresentation and made mis-
leading with deliberate intent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
In a Qualndary.

The young lady sighed deeply and
was almost affected to tears.
Harold she said. declares that II
don't marry him be will end his life.
And am afraid he will ~. rs
She sti6ed sob. then continues:
And Randolph declares that If |
don't marry him be will go into poll
tics and become great and famous, and
then be says | shall see what | have
missed. And am afraid he will keep
his word too ~ |* ..-.. 49, &%'.
Overcome by emotion she buried her
face in her hands. not knowing wheth.
er to save a life or to spare the coun-
try another Notwithstanding
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Mississippi Steamboatine.

The steamboat age on the Mississippi
began about 1921 and 6ourished fol-
fifty years. AS early as 1884 the mum
Der of stea mboats on the. Mississippi
and it's tributaries Is estimated at $50
and in 1912 there were $50 vessels
with a value of $25.O0O,O0O. But the
golden era was from 194S till the war
Never did the valley and steamboating
prosper more than then. Thousands OF
bales of cotton were annually shipped
to southern markets. and the wharfs
of St. Louis and Memphis and Vicks
burg and other large ports were stack
ed with piles of merchandise and lined
with scores of steamers.-Travel Mag
aZine. 49,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Tho Roulette Ball.

That capricious little ball that de.
cides our fortunes at the ever fasci-
mating game of roulette at Monte Car
10 occasionally 6ies from the skfllful
croupiers hand. though not often.
One afternoon it slipped from its
manipulator's fingers and found its
way into an Englishman's coat pocket
So impressed was the Englishman
that be promptly lost couple of hun.
dred pounds But the little ball once
found far stranger destiua ton than
that. Escaping from the croupier's
hand. it few straight into the mouth
of German onlooker. and he was sc
impressed that he promptly swallowed
it.-London Bystander.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Tea In PARAGUAY.

When the natives OF Paraguay drink
tea they do not pour it from teapot
into a cup. but fill goblet made out
of a pumpkin or gourd and then suck
up the hot liquid through long reed
Moreover, the tea which they use is
altogether different from that which
comes from China. being made out OF
dried and roasted leaves Of palm.
like plant which grows in Paraguay
and southern Brazil. The natives say
that this tea is an excellent remedy
for fever and rheuma hsm.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Corrected.

1t is the custom of we'll known
minister to point his sermons with
either dearly beloved brethren" or
now, my brothers." One day lady
member of his congregation took ex.
cept1on to this. ~
why do yon always preach to the
gentlemen and never to the ladies p
she asked. @.
my dear lady, said the bea ming
vicar. lone embraces the other.'
= But not in the church!" was the in
slant reply.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Sparrowqrass.

It is stated that we'll known riddle
was written by costermonger. The
riddle in question is a charade and
runs as follows: --
My first's a little bird as ops;
My seconds needful in 'ay crops;
My ole is good with mutton chops.
The answer. OF course. is sparrow
grass" which the learned Or. ,Parr al
ways insisted on using in preference tc
the potter ''asparagus."- Notes
and Queries. - Z. .~~.-.-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
POOR SLEEPER

Healthy children sleep soundly. Any
child that does not sleep is not healthy.
Sleeplessness is caused by undigested
substances which generate >poisons.
Kickapoo Worm Killer (the nice
tasting candy lozenges) produces
sound, restful sleep by cleaning out
poisons and impurities. 1t is a great
child's tonic and strength-builder.
Price, 25c., sod by druggists every
where and by
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
She Was Numerous.

81 want a license 70 marry the best
girl in the world said the young man
Funny lSn1 lt?'' commented the
clerk '''rha1 makes Bon, licenses for
that girl tins season. - Philadelphia
Telegraph 4a.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Sire Wanted to Know

Bridegroom Now that we are mar
ried, darling. we must have no more
secrets from each other Bride Then
tell me truly. Jack how much did you
really pay for that engagement ring
ILLUSTRATED Bits. z@
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
A Real Poet.

Poetry" said the literary girl. lis
the art of expressing intense feeling
In tigurative speech" .a5: Il
"1n that case" replied Miss Cayenne,
1.-THE man who writes baseball news Is
sure a poet Washington Star. d
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
The Cruel Reason.

Mrs. Gossip-How does it come that
Mrs. Newrich invited you to her party
l thought you were enemies. Mrs.
Sharp-We are. but she thought had
nothing ct to wear and wanted to
make me feel bad .~'' TIL NJ
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
An AnciAnf cnsfnnn

Il wonder il men have always com
planned about the food their wives pre-
pared for them" said one woman.
Il guess so, replied the other.
Adam started Washington Star
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
So Foolish.

"She is neglecting her game Of bridge
dreadfully."' ,o.. l.. ~. < /. 4 ST @
why is she doing that?' @
"Some silly excuse. Says the chill
dren need her, l believe Pittsburg
Post. @rf 81 E#t
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
The New Cook.

Wifey-This pudding Is a sample Of
the new cooks work What do Won
think OF it? Hub I'd call 1t mediocre
WHEY No, dear; it's tapioca. Boston
Transcript
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Dear Sir;

There are SO many things
IN g man $ store that are suitable
and wanted as Chr1 tmas gifts, We
thought we'd call your attention to
them early in the game
You may be spending little
Chr1 ST mas money yourself; we
couldn offer better suggestion
for spending It than Hart Schaffner
Marx suit or overcoat; you'll carry
your Chr1 tmas satisfaction a long
time with such g1ft you coul dn t
give a friend anything better.
But you know how acceptable
oCher smaller gifts are, which can be
found here; there are so many good
things that anything like a complete
list of them would make too long
letter. We We named few Of them in
this letter which will give
you an idea Of what you'll find here.
.~.. We shall give you our very
best help in selec ting the right
things; you wont find any poor quail
titles here.
Hart Schaffner & Marx suit or
overcoat $l4.75 to $35.
Mufflers SOC to So. SO,
Neckwear Csc to $780,.
Suspenders SOC to So So
Bathrobes 81 to $780,.
Smoking Jackets SIS to $l2.
Gloves 81 to $3.50.
Umbrellas 81 to SIS.
Handkerchiefs loo to SOC.
Pure silk hose SOC to $l.25.
interviewer hose Csc.
Fancy Vests 81. so to So.
Shirts 81 to 81. so.
Sweater Coats 81 to So. SO.
Shoes 49, SO to Sc.
Suit Cases $3.50 to SIS.
Yours truly,
... &c.. c@abzzzz1xaw
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07

There, is nothing against which hui.
man Ingenuity will not be able to find
something to say.-Jeffa-s.>.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-07
Disguised.

Z. Customer-l'm going to a masked
ball. and | want something that vii.
completely disguise me. 58.5
Costumer Certainly. sir. will give
you something nice. Pele MeIe. 5
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-17
The Commission Plan

Chicago Tribune.-This is Il good
time for a representative body like the
Commercial club to take account of
the progress which the commission
plan of municipal government has made
since Galveston adopted it. There are
now g. American cities which have
voted out mayors and aldermen to the
end that they may be more simply.
economically and effectively governed.
1t will not be long before the one hun
dred mark is reached.
The geographical distribution of the
81 cities is most unequal. Forty-nine
of them are in the three states Of Tex
as. Kansas and Oklahoma. That is
not surprising. \ Texas city led the
way and Kansas and Oklahoma are al
ways eager TO try experiments. Next
TO Oklahoma with its 10 commission
governed cities comes Iowa with its
eight Not a city in the great states
of Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, New York
and Pennsylvania has adopted the com
mission plan. New England is more
progressive. Five Massa chusetts cit
les have been won over TO It. and last
month Norwich, Conn, voted to give it
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-17

trial. IN the south bakers dozen
of cities are working under the new
plan
1t has made a greater number of con-
quests than might have been expected
in a short time. 1t has had to contend
against the reluctance TO change long
established and familiar forms Of gov.
eminent. There has been arrayed
against it the active hostility of local
politicians, who see in il a serious in
reference with their business. That
explains why the last Illinois legisla-
ture passed a law deliberately botched
so as TO make it unacceptable. Give
Illinois a decent law and the voters of
many cities would avail themselves of
it speedily. From Illinois ii would
spread into Indiana and Ohio, which
have been singularly apathetic.
The reform in municipal government
which made so promising a beginning
will not spread over the country like a
prairie fire and then die down. It will
make steady progress. After it shall
have been generally adopted by the
smaller cities, disagreement may
goad some large city into trying it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-17

II mas been some time since Illinois
TOOK the pennant away from Kentucky
Tor the manufacture Of spirits. ana
there seems to be disposition on the
part of some of the citizens of this
state to measure conclusions with the
Blue Grass state in the cultivation of
another Of its pet crops.
Cole Winkler, a farmer residing near
Arcola, recently shipped to the Louis
vile market a crop of tobacco grown
on six acres of rented land. which, it is
said, at reasonable price will bring
him 1888 per acre.
There always has been q certain
amount of tobacco raised in Illinois,
the agricultural reports making a show
Of a larger acreage and production
than is generally known TO the public.
There is no reason why good tobacco
can not be raised in Illinois. though
the soil is not adapted to the growth
of the finer grades. The chief diff
Guilty which would meet the Illinois
farmer in the cultivation Of tobacco
would be the difficulty in securing la
hcr.
There are dIsagreeable features con-
nected with the cultivation of tobacco
that make it extremely distasteful to
the higher class of farm workers. In
the south the tobacco tenants" are A
class to themselves and as a rule the
crop is raised con the shares"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-17
Red Cross Relief Operations.

Six big disasters are destined to oc-
cur in the United States in 1911. This
is not the prediction of an astrologer,
but OF the American Red Cross, the or
ganization which conducts a larger
work Of relief among people stricken
by great calamities than any other
agency in the world. Experience has
led the Red Cross to expect an aver
age Of five or six serious disasters in
this country every year. 1t does not
know where or when they will occur,
or whether they will be caused by
storm, or fire, or food. or earthquake,
or explosion. But it is sure that they
will happen, just as one may be sure
that Is persons of every thousand now
living will die in the next u months.
Worldwide service TO humanity was
shown in reports presented al the re-
cent national meeting of the Amevi-
can Red Cross in Washington. This
organization. OF which President Taft
is the president, is recognized by the
federal government as the official
channel for the conduct of relief work
wherever in the United States people
suffer from the results of great ca
lamities But the Red Cross does not
cOnfine itself to relief operations in
this country. Its field is the world.
Experience proves not only that an
average of FIVE or six disasters. Sc
we're enough to call for Red Cross
help, may be expected to occur every
year in the United States, but that the
demands from other countries may be
expected TO be equally numerous.
Some idea Of the character and va
riety of these demands may be gained
from the disasters with which the
Red Cross dealt in the last IL
months. These included. in the Unit
ed States. one hurricane, one mine
fire, two mine explosions and forest
fires in Idaho, Montana, Oregon.
Washington and Minnesota: in for
eign countries, relief of starving cap
tured soldiers In Nicaragua, foods in
Mexico. France, Servia and Japan, the
Armenian massaCres and the earth
quake in Costa RIGA.
In the disasters above mentioned
which occurred in the United States
sos lives were lost. while, approx
mately. 800 persons required imme-
diate assistance. About 5000 persons
lost their homes by fire or hurricane.
The money expended by the Red
Cross in these relief operations in the
United States was $4,000, and in for
eign countries $4,000, a total OF
O262. 800 Other relief funds expended
in this country in conjunction with
those of the Red Cross and according
10 its plans and methods amounted
to $21S,OGo. making the grand total
relief expenditures of the year under
Red Cross leadership $4S0,500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-17
ELECTION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that on
Tuesday, the third day of January,
A. D., 1911, in the city Of Rock Is
land. Ill. an election will be held
for voting for or against the adop-
ton of the commission form of gov
eminent for the city of Rock Is
land.
Which election will be opened at
Z o'clock in the morning and shall
be closed at o'clock in the evening
Of that day.
Places for registration and voting
will be as follows:
First ward, first precinct-41S
Fourth avenue.
First ward, second precInct-600
Seventh avenue.
Second ward, first precinct-1O14
Third avenue.
Second ward, second precinct
919 Sixth avenue.
Third ward, first precinct-Coun-
ty jail building, Third avenue and
Fourteenth street.
Third ward, second precinct
1434 Seventh avenue.
Third ward. third precinct-1101
Fifteenth street.
Fourth ward, first precinct-1914
Third avenue.
Fourth ward, second precinct
Trinity church vestry, rear 1918
Sixth avenue.
Fifth ward, first precinct-Hose
house on Twenty-second street.
Fifth ward, second precinct
Schmid's store, S23 Twentieth street.
Sixth ward, first precinct-Hose
house on Twenty-sixth street.
Sixth ward. second precinct-Rear
of 200 Seventh avenue.
Seventh ward, first precinct-3110
Fifth avenue.
Seventh ward, second precinct
Peterson carpenter shop, SO Forty
fifth street.
Seventh ward, third precinct
Gannon's paint shop, Fourteenth
avenue between Thirty-eighth and
streets.
NJ. T. RUDGREN,
City and town clerk
Rock Island, Ill, Dec. IL, 1910.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-17

showing real teeth.
One morning Lima King, the daugh-
ter of a wealthy American banker and
member OF that set which claims to be
the cream Of New York society, being
in Florence and in the Pitt gallery
stopped before this portrait. A young
artist was copying it. His clothes were
shabby, but there was an ideal look in
his face that at once drew ones atten-
ton. His eyes were large and lus-
trous. reminding one Of those of the
Christ child Of Raphael in the celebrat-
ed painting of the Sistine Madonna.
Miss King had stopped TO have a
look at the portrait. but remained to
feast her eyes on the cOpyist. She
spoke some Italian and asked him
few questions as to the original of the
portrait He replied in the same Ian
guage, but, not getting on very well,
supplied certain Italian words with
English ones. Miss King laughed and
replied in first rate New York English.
whereupon the artist confessed that he
was an American art student.
Miss King artfully drew from him
how long he would be engaged on the
copy and at what hours he would work
on it. He was as artful as she, telling
her that he might be several weeks in
completing the copy and he worked
every morning from II to l. o'clock.
He was making it for an English lord
who would pay him enough for it 10
enable him to pursue his studies in.
Florence for a whole year.
Edwin Winston possessed great ar
tistic talents. Miss King frequently
visited the Pitt galIery hetwaen u and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-17
White Ninth Justice of the Supreme Court

For the first time in the history
of the country a president has filled
the position of chief justice of the
supreme court by promoting 10 that
station an associate justice. Justice
White, named for chief justice, will
be the ninth person to fill that sta
ton He is the first chief justice
from southern state since fancy
of Maryland and Taney succeeded
John Marshall of Virginia. Chase
and Waite, who succeeded fancy,
we're from Ohio, and Fuller, who
came next was from Illinois, al
though New Englander by birth.
Presidents Jackson. Lincoln and
Grant appointed each five members
of the supreme court; President
Taft has thus far appointed four.
Chief Justice Marshall set the rec
ord for length of service, 81 years,
which was equaled by Justice Storey
of Massachusetts and Justice Field
of California. The shortest period
of service was that of Justice Har-
rison of Maryland, one year.
Although there have been 65 mem
bers of the supreme court in the
121 years of the courts existence,