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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-04-20
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

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The more 1t Is washed the harder 1t gets
Mound City Floor Paint. w. H. Ross.
Money to loan on good security
200 4th street.
William H. Kellen was a Laporte
visitor in the city last night.
w. T. Kuntze, who operates a
store at Gemmell, was here on bust.
ness last night.
T. J. Welsh of Walker came up
last evening to look after some lum.
Der business in Bemidji.
An elaborate showing of new
undermuslins, at greatly reduced
prices, at the Berman Emporium.
J. R. Campbell of Bemidji went
to Kelliher last night to visit Peter
Larkin, whom he styled Big Pete
E. N. French, the Blackjack
druggist, came in this morning for
a short visit in Bemidji.
have 20 first.class residence lots
in Bemidjl which will trade for
good farm land. Carl L. Hebron,
Bemidji, MINI.
K. Movold, a Fosston business
man, was among the north-country
arrivals in Bemidji last evening. He
eturned home this morning.
r. ]. Poupore, who logs near
Kelliher, returned from his camps
this morning and will visit at his
old home, on farm near Bemidji.
T. S. Miller, the insurance man,
visited Blackjack business acquaint-
ances for a few hours last evening,
returning home on the 1880 train.
Best of farm land for sale on easy
terms; some improvements; $1,000
per acre. Timber enough on the
land to pay for it. Address Carl l..
Hebron.
Lee LaBaw, court reporter to
Judge c. w. Stanton, will spend the
remainder of this week visiting
friends in the Twin Cities and look
ing after some business matters in
St. Paul. Mr.. LaBaw left for St.
Paul last night.
Profit by the costly experience of
those unfortunate people who have
lost their money by specula-
ton, fire or thieves and deposit
your hard-earned savings with the
Northern National Bank, where you
are insured against loss from any
cause.
w. A. Gould, superintendent of
Bemidji Lumber company's m ill, left
for Kelliher last evening to look
after his logs there. He was accom-
panied by Mayor Parker, who will
prepare the Bemidji Lumber CON-
Der company's summer camp near
Kelliher.
A district meeting of the Rebekah
lodge of this district will be held in
Bemidji Wednesday afternoon and
evening in I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs.
Cummings, president of the state
assembly will be here. Mrs. Hayner
is district secretary. Invitations
are extended to all visiting Rebekahs
to attend this meeting.
Hospitals of the St. Benedictine
Sisters in northern Minnesota are
in an excellent financial condition,
according to Henry Logan of Grand
Rapids, the business agent for the
sisters hospitals at Crookston,
Bemidji, Brainerd, Grand Rapids
and Duluth. Mr.. Logan came over
from the RAPIDS" last NIGHT and
went up to Northome this morning
on the freight train to attend to
some business for the local institu-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-04-20

R. I. Given
III. Dalton
/, Harriet N. Cochran
| Joe F. Hermanson
S. A. Erickson
IL. E. Frost
~. II. French
Jack Peters. I.
Jack Waringer.
Mrs. Chas. Knopke.
| Casper Sandstroln,
| j. O. Harris,
Miss Minnie Bailey,
HI. F. Funston.
| Conrad L.aJambe.
! Mrs. F. Brink1nan,
! w. A. Med onald,
M. E. Smith,
Warren Sterling.
| Dan Rose.
liver Void,
John Armstrong.
IL. F. Jones.
James Knox.
| Alfred Neu1nann.
! J. Fleckenstein.
| James Knox
|G. J. Gallagher
IL. j. johnson
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-05-06

By affirming the decision of the su-
preme court ofMississippi, the supreme
court of the United States made per-
manent the injunction against the fu-
ture operation of the Retail Lumber
Dealers association of Mississippi and
Louisiana as being in restraint OF
trade. This action to enjoin the fu-
ure operation of the Retail Lumber
Deal lers Association of Mississippi and
Louisiana" was begun by the state
in Mississippi courts, on the ground
that it was trust, 1t was shown
that the constitution of the organiza-
tion contained deliberations pledging
its members to buy lumber only from
manufacturers and wholesalers, who
did not sell direct to consumers. The
supreme court of Mississippi held that
the PLAIN purpose of the association
was to stifle competition and that such
combination was directly in viola
tion of both the letter and spirit of the
statute The injunction granted by
the lower court was approved. In
announcing the opinion. Justice Lur.
ton said the court announced the de-
cision of the Mississippi court as final.
He added that the only question tc
decide was whether the law violated
the fourteenth amendment to the con
stitution or other provisions of thai
instrument. 1t was held that the law
| did not do that.
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-05-06

candidate. There was a caucus and
secret ballot when Money was nomin.
ated in 1896, and q long and warm
contest II proved. He was reelected
without opposition, and in his last
contest the question was settled by a
primary election, and he won at the
polls.
The secret ballot system is no new
thing. It is in vogue nearly every
where. The attempt of theVardaman-
ties to upset all precedent to return to
old and discredited methods, to force
the nomination of Vardaman against
the will of the majority, was happily
frustrated. But that is the only rea-
son they heap oppfobIium on the hap
less Legislature. Had he won, the le'
gislators would have been painted rs
noble patriots, everything would have
been lovely. the goose honking high
in the blue empyrean.
The secret ballot is the greatest safe.
guard of honesty in politics. The
briher, the CRATER and the bulldozer
hate it with the intensity that his
Satanic majesty hates the sound of
ringing church bells. 1t blocks their
game They do not dare to risk their
money in buying votes when they
have no assurance that the buyee will
stay bought or deliver the goods
When a man casts secret ballot he
Will be much more likely to vote as
his conscience, that still small voice
and silent monitor, directss &@han if
some one to whom he may be in any
way obligated, stands over him or has
any way of ascertaining how he votes.
The secret ballot is right. Democrat
ic and proper
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-05-06

The Grenada Sentinel credits the
infience of the bankers with the Miss
issippi Senate for the defeat of the per
cent interest hill. We believe with the
Sentinel that eight per cent money
would be helpful to the masses. but
we would like to know what influence
was operating when Major Vardaman,
during his administration as governor,
vetoed bill providing for the exempt
ion from taxation of money loaned at
six per cent --Fayette Chronicle.
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-05-06

Hon. e. j. Bowers, congressman
from the coast district has announced
that be will not be candidate for
re. election. From appearance there
will be a lively scramble for his sue
censorship, among those actually in
the field or mentioned as probable can
didates being Judge Stone Deavors, of
laurel; r. P. Harrison, Gulfport; r.
N. Talley, of Hattiesburg Mayor j.
D. Donald.
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-05-06
A Regular Tom Boy

was Susie-climbing trees and fences,
jumping bitches, whiting, always
getting scratches, cuts, sprains, bruis-
es, bumps, burns or scalds. But laws
Her mother just applied Bucklen's
Arnica Salve and cured her quick
Heals everything healable-Boils, Ul.
GERS, Eczema, NOld Soles, Corns or
Piles, Try it. 25c at B. s. BealI's.
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-05-06

In reply to charges that while gov
ernor he rode on a free pass, Mai.
Vardaman states that he does not ever
remember doing SO but that if such a
pass with his signature on it were
produced, he would publish a fac
simile of it in the Issue But he does
not say a word about the contingent
fund.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Had 1.-THE Wizard" Been to a Political
Convention?

Mr.. Editor: A writer in last Sun
days New York Times had an ex-
tended and very interesting account
of an interview with Thomas A. Edi-
son in reference to theological sub
jects. Edison evidently has got things
d little mixed with theogony and, may
be. with politics.
He is free to say that he does not
believe either IN mans immortality
or in the existence of a God. He seems
to be so wrapped up in his scientific
achievements, the mysteries that are
lying Secreted in nature vet to be re-
vealed to him, that he can see no flu
ture for many beyond the grave. and
claims that he himself has no de-
sire for such a future.
Perhaps he has had, or expects to
have, glory enough this side of the
narrow house appointed for all the liV-
ing to remain at home with nature
when he gets there. When his poor
brain and body get rest there his
spirit may turn into an airship or a
submarine torpedo and he may have
better viewpoint
But Still the indomitable investiga-
tor and inventor is searching after
truth. and says that great things Will.
undoubtedly happen in a material way
which will astonish the world.
He seems fully to realize the value
and power of money, for he thinks
that quite probable the time Will come
when a rich fellow Qike HIMSELF. if
he should have a poor kidney can
purchase a healthy one OF poor man
who might need money more than he
would need two kidneys and who had
pluck" enough to let some fellow like
Edison take the healthy kidney out
and appropriate it to himself.
Perhaps the unhealthy kidney of the
rich man might be sterilized by Edison
and sold to some poor fellow at sec
ond hand(?) store. You know that
poor fellow can't afford TO buy A.
good kidney at present high prices.
And kidney beans are at the top notch
of the pole.
Tom also says that man has no soul.
and we are inclined to think so. too,
if a political delegate will sell his
vote.
But. perhaps, the Wizard" can make
by the aid of some now hidden and
intricate principle of nature. a soul
for delegates for less than present del
egate prices
1t We're better to believe. as Tom
does. that man has no soul, if the soul
must be wormy and perish in the lake
Of fire ana birthstone" at last. where
the worm dieth not and the fire is not
punched" G. ii. TALcOTT.
Norwich. oct 7, 1910.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08

When we judge our feIIowmen, or
events and movements in the world
about US, when we pronounce an opin-
Ton on work of art or a bit of land
Scape, or poem, or an Grafton, we
are virtually holding the glass up to
ourselves. We are revealing how much
we possess of information, insight,
charity. Sometimes the lack of first
hand knowledge which a pert and
quick remark betrays is positively
painful. We would better keep still
and thereby. if necessary confess we
have no opinion at all than to reveal
our own crassness and the paucity of
our first hand knowledge by uttering
an opinion which better informed per
sons know to be faulty in logic and
based on ignorance of the real facts.
Most of US feel no compunctions in
the use of criticism, but if We could
rem enaber that it is We who are on
judgment as well as the person or
object commented upon, we might be
more sparing of both our blame and
of our praise. There is a celebrated
picture by a great Russian artist en-
titled "Christ Before PLATE II might
as truly be called "Pilate Before
Christ, for though the Roman gov
ernor had power to condemn or ac-
quit the NaZarene, it was the latter,
with his clear insight into human life
with his high sense of right and
yet dignified attitude. condemning the
man not quite brave enough to do the
square thing. And through the ages
it has been PLATE who has suffered
the odiun and not the prisoner at his
bar.
If we are going to crit:cise at all. let
us do it when we have Sufficiently edu-
Gated ourselves to be able to pass
fair and useful judgment. AS the by
stander remarked to the man who said
he couldn't see anything in Turner's
pictures, Don't you wish YOU could ?"
And it may be that the things right
about us that really matter, that move
nlenas that make for the uplift of our
fellowmen, the individuals who are
really growing and broadening in
their personal lives would not be OBJ
jects of calm Indifference on our part
or of occasional derision if we were
living up to the standard which others
hold before them, if we were alive to
the things of moment and We're not
deafened by noises on the surface and
blinded by dancing lights that shine
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08
AUTHORS OF Their OWN GRIEF.

The city of St. Joseph, Mo-, with its
loss of $4,000 Inhabitants in ten years,
stands in strong contrast to Pasadena,
Cal, which has in the same time
trebled its population. St. Joseph is
now being r2ferred to as "a city with
a punctured tire" Ten years ago St.
Joseph Mas particularly anxious to
make a big showing. The Missouri
legislature had passed a law conferr-
ing special powers upon cities having
a. population of 100, goo or more inhab-
,ftants and st. Joseph Immediately be-
gan to lay plans to secure the advan-
tages thus conditionally conferred. BY
system Of artificial padding, which
has probably seldom if ever been du-
plicated, St Joseph managed to cross
the legislative Rubicon and with a
margin of nearly 5000 for good meas
ure.
The inability to maintain an arti-
fetal standing decade after decade did
not occur to these dishonest schemers
and the city is now Inundated as the
result of census padding.
Some other cities whose ambitions
were far ahead of the actual count
and were dissatisfied with the first re-
port, are now patting themselves upon
the back because they have a sub
stantial basis to reckon from
st. Josephs miscount won special
privileges, but it ended in it's final
exposure and discomfort.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08
WON OVER.

President Mellen is rapidly break
ing down the prejudice against the
new management Of the Boston &.
Maine b. his liberal policy and enter
prise. His immediate changing of the
ira importation rates for milk attracted
general attention and favorable COM
r1ent and now the decision to expend
ten millions in the betterment of the
whole system is most satisfying to
Pcston. The Boston Post, in noticing
the enterprise. says:
Promise becomes fulfilment, and
the new rulers of the Boston & Maine
railroad have voted to proceed at
ONCE upon the expenditure of $10,-
000.Ges for physical improvements
of the system. This news deserves
mass meetings of joy from Northamp-
ton TO Portland and from Boston to
St. JohusbuFy. The action will fill a
long felt want.
II can hardly be called favor
that the New Haven management of
the road is doing the people; it is
simple justice in return for liberal pat
ronage and extreme patience The peo-
pie. Of course. pay fer all the improve
ments. But, even 81. they are glad
20 get them 1t is cheering to realize
that at last the Boston & Maine, big
I'm mileage. Is to take its place beside
other great railroads ia eauipm emit
Its shabby and Anticipated dar4iness
hashbesn a rather sore spot with New
EnSsandees for good many years"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08
They Should.

Authors of textbooks or rhetoric
should acknowledge Congressman" as
in good usage as the title of mem
Der of the National House of Repre-
sentatives. They have always held
that since senators were also members
of Congress the proper term for a man
in the lower house was representa-
tive; hut the public will never ac-
cept this because the word is nee
essarily employed in most of the States
to describe members of one house of
the Legislature, and constant confusion
results from it's application to the men
who go to washington. 1t is a mis-
take that we have two kinds of sena-
tors, State and United States, requir-
ing in each case the use of a prefix.
BV contrast, the public likes the word
congressman because it means 4
definite officer No one ever thinks of
a senator as sharing in the title. At
this political season of the year, the
linguistic issue is. If ever open for
discussion.-Boston Transcript
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08
DRINK CURES.

One OF the most successful drink
rures n 20 stop drinking.
The various secret powders com
pended as a sure cure are sure enough
hrrrbugs
An Iowa Doctor has cured, he SAYS,
hundreds Of cases OF craving for drink
" getting the victim to atfsfy it by
Eating apple, and the W. c. T. u.
f Chicago are SO impressed by the
emDlfeity Of the remedy that it pro-
boses to boom the apple
The agitation OF the matter has
brought 60 light other methods which
have been stated as follows:
An excellent cure is to measure out
whiskey carefully to the amount of one
gill Then pour it down a rathole.
This cure is of double efficiency, for
you may rid he-prenises of rats be-
sides conauerins the thirst for whis-
key.
Take FIVE sticks of chewing gum.
rnastfeate It thoroughly and keep in
the mouth. 1t wiH be found impossi-
bic then to swallow rum-unless the
mouth is of quart instead of the ordi-
nary pint size.
remedy strongly recommended by
many who have tiled il is to move in
20 a dry county, keep strictly within
Its precincts and avoid any friend who
Journeys into the next county and in
FariaDly takes along suit case.
II you long for beer, mention the fact
10 your wife. You will be sorry YOU
thought Of beer and lose all taste for
Il.
Since reform is largely due to the
VIII of the reformer instead of the
sifferent methods devised to aid in the
work, IL doesn't make so much differ
snce how a man chooses to reform if
he does so with resolution and persist
ence.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
CRITICISM AS A MIRROR.

Why do we get such varied judg-
ments on the same thing? Two per-
sons return, for example, from the
Passion Play at Oberamnergau. One
tells you that it was the most impress
sive experience of his life, that he was
profoundly moved to the depths of his
nature and that he would advise all
his friends to go the next time the
play is produced, in 1920. The other
person says, carelessly. ooh. yes. it
was a big affair, a kind Of g. cattle
show; some parts of it [ liked fairly
well, but I don't think [ should care
to go again. Besides, the town is said
to be getting commercialized"
I have taken pains to ask a score of
persons who beheld the wonderful
drama during the last summer what
their opinion of it was, and / have
almost invariably found that the per
sonal' attitude largely determined the
criticism passed. That burIy German.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08
written for The Bulletin.)

Y
The return of our friends from their
summer homes on the coast recalls the
many happy seasons l have spent by
the deep sounding sea.
Particularly there comes into my
mind one summer which found me at
one of the many resorts on the Rhode
Island coast. There the Sound breaks
into the shore line forming a sort of
lagoon called the Breach; following
this is a rocky stretch which we called
the Bluff and still farther on toward
the east the rocks continue making a
delightful surf at high tide and in all
the sandy stretches affording fine
sea-bathing.
All this two-nlile length was lined
with cottages and hotels, both cottages
and hotels constantly filed with q
frequently changing crowd of health
and pleasure seekers glad to escape
from city cares and turmoil. All the
permanent homes are a ha,lf-milo
back from the waters edge. With no
railway connection nearer than the
station five miles distant we were left
free from society demands and revealed
in a simple life and the lifegiving
a-breezes. There is always a varie-
ty in a water view; no two days, one
might almost say, no two hours are
alike. The passing sail, the steamers
going to and fro through the Sound,
the distant view, so extended on clear
days, so narrowed by fogs, a school of
porpoises in view, the departure and
arrival of the local fishermen. all con-
tributed to our pleasures.
At the head of the Breach was the
Life Saving station always open to
visitors, who found it a very interest
ing place. The daily practice of the
men stationed there afforded much en-
tertainment to the cottagers.
To the men it is work, though we
found it agreeable amusement We
L n loved their rnJviuor pr9rtiPa their
drills on shore, and particularly their
boat-work without hats. Then the
word went quickly around, '"They are
going to overturn!" and a rush to the
Out they go, far out into the path of
the ocean steamers; there, at a given
order oars are shipped. and the boat
overturned. After many avolutions in
the waves the men right their life
boat recover their places and return
to their quarters. We know it to be
only practice, but thrilling enough it
is even then, as we watch it What
would it be. we try to imagine, II it
We're real danger in stormy night in
stead of sunsfliny day.
Through the summer months the
duties of these men are comparatively
light. Patrolling the beach at that
season affords them plenty of com
pany; between the children by day
and the cottagers by night they sell
dom go alone. but in the dreary
months of winter they are often COM
PEELED to face great hardship and dan
ger. They are a modest set, witha1.
and say but little of their arduous
tasks, though they have great pride in
the spick and span condition of their
quarters, where no woman's hand is
allowed to help.
A somewhat dangerous undertow
exists on the surf-beaten shores, but
many preferred the surf-bathing to the
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-08
THE CALL OF THE SEA

more quiet waters of the Breach, and
on calm days the surf shore was the
scene of much sport and frolic among
the breakers. To reach this spot the
Breach must must be crossed in boats
or waded at low tide
One bright day in August, the num-
Der of Surf-batherS was greater than
usual, and most of the cOttagers and
boarders not among the breakers were
out in the sunshine, strolling about
searching for shells and other treas
ures of the deep, or standing in
groups for friendly chat, when sud-
denly the boat from the station swept
past us. Every man was evidently
rowing at utmost speed, and an an
swering thrill of excitement spread
among those who watched the crew
Too late for morning practice only an
accident could have brought them out
at that time and in such haste. They
were headed for the bathing beach, and
the cry went from group to group,
Some one must be drowningi"
Many rushed to the Bluff from which
the breakers could be seen by aid of
prerequisites, while some of the men
ran to the boats and roWed across the
Breach to get certain news of the
danger Almost every house had it's
representative among the bathers, and
many heart beat fast with fear for
some loved one while the return of
the boats was awaited. TITS a man.
exclaimed one. finally, they are get
ting him on Shore!"
"Oh, 1 can see him now" cried an
other ''f1e can walk, too, 50 the dan
ger is over. but who is it?" In a few
minutes the boat from the station re-
turned slowly to its quarters, and the
men from the beach came back with
their report. "All safe, now" they
shouted. "Old Mr.. McClintock was
swept out and became too exhausted
to work his way back. He is all right
now. Wouldn't come back with US.
Preferred to walk back with the 9TH
ers. Here they come now
Mr.. MccIintock was "A vigorous
Scotchnnan of more than seventy years.
His erect sinewy form was a notable
figure on the beach, while his rudy
color made him look young in spite of
the silvery locks with which his head
was covered. He was a. fine swimmer
and quite prided himself on this ac-
complishment. 'Pittcky old chap,
commented one. after the old gentle
man had retired to his cottage; "he
| would not let US help him at all, once
! he had regained his footing
yes" cried another 'qbut he was
being swept out beyond our help. Had
it not been for the station-inen. he
would have lost his life On all sides
were heard expressions of joy at his
safety, as the various groups scatter
ed to their respective homes.
The sunshiny days were delightful
but on stormy days the time seemed
long to US who were forced to remain
n-doors, and listen to the boom of
the surf over the rocks. AS one little
fellow wrote to a chum at home, 1.-The
waves are mountain high today They
would drown you sure 1 wish you
We're here
All sea- dreams must come to an end
| however. and the return home is an
equal delight.
AN IDLER