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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
kOWTOW TO CLARK.
Washington Correspondence New Y,

Washington Correspondence New York
 American.
 The step high In the House wing of the capitol these days when Champ Clark passes by
 MT. Clark entered the House barbar shop yesterday. He was greeted by n flying wedge made up of the proprie- tor. the star barber and the bootblack. The prospective speaker was acclaimed by all three. Never before had he re- ceived such a reception. He was shaved. shampooed, massa)Eed and his shoes polished, all with delicacy of touch that soothed and comforted.
 A speaker or prospective speaker looks bigger to the House employes than a minority leader, and MT. Clark Is now receiving the homage rendered ty the House attaches only to the great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
HARD TO PLEA SEE,

 He wouldn't smile in winter IL always made him cross To see the roses blown away And watch the dead leaves toss. And when the wind was hewling Across the fields of brown, He'd pull his coat about his ears And listen with frown. He never smiled in summer The heat distressed him so; And dust and flies pursued him fast, Most everywhere he'd go. When hot the sun was blazing And no cloud in the sky, He'd mop his brow and swear that he Was simply bout to die. A little while in springtime, little while in fall He'd deign to smile, but otherwhiles He wouldn't smile at all. And so it Is no wonder His neighbors do avouch, There never was another man Who had so great, grouch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A wife can't give her family notice the way the cook can.
 Being good gets you Into such fearfully boresome company.
 A man has to be conceited about some thing if it's only the big shoes he wears.
 If man could buy cigars for his wife. instead of flowers, 1t wouldn't seem an extravaganza at all.
 Nearly every man can take more pride in having seen a chorus girl show than in understanding the constitution of his country,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
Liquor Question in Virginia

"I spend some time in Virginia every year and am In close touch with politics in that state," said a former citizen of the Old Dominion, "and am rather sur prised, therefore, to see the advocates of statewide prohibition still hopeful that some day they will be able to get their pct measure through the legislature; sur prised in view of the decisive defeat of the efforts of Virginia fanatics when the submission bill was before the last legis- lature and in view. too, of the black eye that the statewide movement got in Mis- souri and in Florida. the other day, and that 1t has been getting pretty much everywhere.
 Virginia has local option and it will let well enough alone"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

tionally well in Texas. Had it not been for the encouragement which this meri- torious and altogether delightful organi- zation received in Birmingham and the practical effect of the favorable press criticisms here and the rest of the south, 1he Bessie Abott company would have cancelled two weeks dates and gone back to New York ahead of time. This troupe opens at the New theatre in Mascagnis 1sober some time in January"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS.

NiiINlO COdGESIlONS.
 Senator Hodges of Olathe is blos- soming out as humorist," says the Kansas City star His lumber firm Hodges Brothers, advertises in the two Olathe papers, the Register and the Mirror, this week as follows:
 Do not disappoint baby. Buy him load of lumber and put 1t in his stock lng< for Christmas. What is nicer Christmas gift than a load of clean, new lumber. tied with satin ribbon and decorated with Christmas holly? Get grandmother on up-to-date bill of shin sles. How glad it will make her to Know that she has been remembered With substantial Christmas gift Do not forget father. What can you do that will brighten his life more than 10 present him with a dozen gallons or beautiful Lincoln paint to paint the house? And mother, come here and buy some nice, clean lumber and make ner wood box and let daughter hand decorate 1t Tn water colors, or if you burn gas, build her a potato bin i'm the cellar. Do not forget faithful Jer- sey, the meal. ticket of the family. fet some warm. matched lumber dressed on two sides, and build her a. house, paint it green. and with the Christmas spirit In your heart go a step Iartner, paint the inside a bright, com forting red. You might paint the man. ger grass green so that 1t will har- monize with the hay it Is designed to hold. Do not put sensitive, high bred cows nerves on edge by inharmonious colors in her boudoir. Make 1t green and red. And lastly. contribute,s oh contribute literally. to a fund to buy mush ladies to present to each of the ater-brained ladies who organized Il fund to give the poor horses a Christ mas dinner of oats in Convention Hall, and the moist minds who want to fur nish Turkish baths for disabled drunk ards. also the spot-ligh ters who sand bag the public to buy Morris chairs for highwaymen. hurt in the discharge of their duties.'
 WINNING HIS FAVOR.
 What to give
 The janitor?
 Priceless gems
 And treasures dor.
 PAINFUL.
 How can such coldness be? Alack Alacki Alack!
 We hear that Booker T.
 Has snubbed immortal Jacki
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
Grand onern Ear south

"When the Bessie Abott Grand Opera company was leaving Birmingham a week ago, friend connected with the man. agement told me that the southern tour would be shortened because of the poor business already encountered at Savan- nah and Atlanta. and the poor outlook for box office receipts further south," said prominent musician, "but I am glaC to say the company has been per- forming to large audiences since leaving here and that the tour as originally pro- jected will be completed. It is a splendid company and it would have been a refec- ton on the musical taste of the south if the audiences were not large enough to be profitable.
 ''The manager was delighted with the reception which the company got in Bir- mingham. It was the first big audience, and various members of the troupe had warm words of praise for this city. Montgomery turned out well and under stand that the company has done excep-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
DOING GOOD WORK

From the Guntersville Democrat.
 Birminghams newspapers deserve suc- cess and prosperity if for no other req son because of their activity in working up an interest for the poor children in order to give them a merry Christmas. We may be charged superstitious, but we candidly believe such works have a material reward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
Causes That Make Prosperity

Within the past two weeks I have visited four cities in the south, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, and Birming- ham, and in each one of them the holi- day trade seemed remarkably brisk, B said Henry w. Burbidge of Chicago, last night.
 Here in Birmingham the Christmas rlish Is surely well in evidence. I have never seen such happy signs of holiday shopping as l have seen today. There is every reason why prosperity should prevail in Birmingham. It is not only a steel center and a great coal center. but It has rich agricultural section to draw from. Farming in Alabama has struck high water mark this year. and Birming- ham will reap much benefit from the states abundance in crops and the fancy price of cotton. No wonder the people of Birmingham look prosperous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
About Persons

J. Lee Long of Greenvilie. prominent candidate for speaker of the next house of representatives is in the city.
  T. M. Stevens, a prominent attorney of Mobile. and senator-elect of Mobile coun- ty, is registered at the Hillman. John Purifoy of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 II. P. Gibson of Corona is at the Hill-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
TN THE ErrTJDE

IN THE FUTURE. In fifty years from now twill be A subject fit for mirth, When people merely talk about A trip around the earth. Why. running up to Mars and back In speedy aeroplanes, Will seem the mild adventuring A pilot bold disdains. We'll gaily fit from star to star Like summer butterflies, And maybe have some thrilling fights With pirates of the skies. wen set our standards on the moon And "do' the Milky Way, AZ merrily as picnic bands Upon a holiday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
A SUNNY. CLIMB.

You never hear swains in Dixie swearing they'll send their best girls Christmas presents, if they have to eat snowballs all winter"
 "No. I wonder why that is?"
 Probably because they know they can't get the snowballs."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
THE RARE DEPARTED.

An honest man. as you'll infer,
 Thus fitly epitaphed. NO matter what the chances were,
 He simply wouldn't graft"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

The new senator from Louisiana wants high duties on Louisiana products. If every senator does likewise the consumer will wish himself in Timbuctoo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

May Yohe gets married whenever she has a day off She prefers marriage to a vacation any day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

Every married man knows he will get a necktie for Christmas, and he fears he will get box of cigars selected by the sex that does not smoke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

The Rev. Billy Sunday cannot scare the people of Iowa with sermons on hell fire while the state is covered foot deep with snow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

Margaret Ellington is playing this week in Chicago, letting some one else darn the stockings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

Washington thinks that Tawney is slated to succeed Ba1linger in the Cabi- net-when Ballinger resigns, which he may not do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

The appointment by a republican stand batter of a Confederate veteran to the chief justiceship Is another straw going to show that the war is over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

The star-eyed goddess of tariff reform is not allowed much of an inning in a short session of Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

John D.'s post-mortem trust is coming up again in Congress. and John D. No. may yet become the country's official almoner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

And now the question is, would the colonel be willing to dine with the vim dictaed and whitewashed Lorimer?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

This country has "a surplus of sena- torial courtesy and deficiency of leg islation for the rank and file.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

The dealers and trusts are trying to blame the return of high prices on the weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

Justice Lamar of Georgia is a second cousin of the notable Lucius Q. c. La mar of Mississippi, whom President Cleveland put on the supreme bench in 1SSs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

Billy Lorimer and Lee O'Neil Browne are both vindicated, and the men who were bribed do not know what to think.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

The spectators who invested in pie lures of the Jeffries-Johnson fight are losers to the tune of s50,00O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

Andrew Carnegie got ahead of Santa Claus when he was in Washington and he did not have to put on any whiskers when he did it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

Russia is importing thousands of type writers, but she is not importing any liberal ideas, and the bureaucracy is as as 1t ever has been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

We may be sure there will be no ben zoate of soda in Dr. wileys welded life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE DYsPEPTIC.

of noiseless soup spoons for Christ mas present"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

The British lords are also located in Lame Duck alley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

''Yes. I'll eat mince pie, by gummyi" He exclaimed; "Twon't make me
 sick" But that pie lay on his tummy Like a wagon load of brick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

To make things even. Illinois should send to the Usited States Senate Lee o'Neil Browne to set alongside Billy Lorimer. The one is democrat and the other republican, and both are en- gagged in shaking the plum tree
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
HE'LL SUFFER.

'"The willowbys have new touring car" T dare say that's good news for their friends" Perhaps; but bad news for their gro- cer."
 ACCORDING TO THD PAPERS. Listen to the tinkle
 Of my little verse;
 Nothing ever happens
 To a homely nurse.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Tho of many nuptials
 Evry paper tells,
 No one ever marries
 Without wedding bells"
 Youngstown Telegram
 EXPERT OPINION. "No doubt, the colonel was right" "Yes? "He said there was ten times as much uplift in a mint 1ulep as there was in bottle of soda pop"
 BOUND TO FALL OUT. "Biggs and Bolts won't speak after the holidays?' Why are you so sure?" "Biggs is going to send Bolts set
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

Christmas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
A WALLrNGFoRD IDIoM

What does 1t mean to glom nick of his poker
 I'm surprised at your ignorance. That means to frislS a rube of his wad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

He is n very man per SC, and stands alone. -Iroius n""
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
LOBBYING PUT UNDER BAN
Regents Forbid University Professors
Approaching Legislators.

C. D. Decker, secretary of the board
of regents of the state university,
has sent out notices to all members
of the university faculty forbidding
lobbying before the legislature by
professors or those connected in any
way with the state university, in
accordance with a resolution passed
by the regents. Hereafter faculty
members who have been anxious in
the past to get appropriations
through the legislature for their re-
|spective departments and have So
licited salons for their support will
be forced to desist.
The substance of the resolution
adopted by the regents as submitted
by Regent Pierce Butler of St. Paul
follows,
"Resolved, it is the sense of this
board that it's employees should not
directly or Indirectly attempt in any
manner to influence legislation with
respect to any matter pertaining to
the university.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
ELIAS STEVENSON
MUST STAND TRIAL A

> St. Paul, Dec. Daily Pioneer
Special Wire Service. )-El j a $
STEVENSON, postmaster of Crookston,
Mimi, brother of Congressman
Halvor Steenersop, must stand trial
in a libel suit for $4,000 brough t by
Sever Peterson, rural mail carrier.
The Supreme Court today handed
down decision, reversing the lower
court, which sustained the defend
ants demurrer to the complaint,
thus sending the case back for trial.
- Postmaster STEVENSON is said to
have tried to GUST Carrier Peterson
on the ground of persistent insubor-
dination and alleged misconduct,
and published the letters written to
the postmaster general containing
the charges.
Peterson then sued for damages.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
SCHOOL BASKETBALL IS On
Bemidji High Schedules Nine Games
Team Wants Trip in Spring Vacation.

Basketball occupies the atheletic
proclivities of the students of the
Bemidji high school, and I'M
mediately after the holidays strenu-
GUS practice will be the order IN
preparation for the local teams first
game, with Fosston on their rivals
floor Jan. IA. Professor Robinson
who tutored the high school football
squad last fall, has been selected to
coach the basketball players and ex-
poets to be able to put god qu1nt
into the field for winter athletic
honors. The high school boys look
for a hard season but intend to play
their best and will make special ef-
forts to get Grand Rapids 'goat'
late in the season.
Acting Business Manager Fay
Brenneman has completed the 1911
basketball schedule, after several
weeks correspondence with neigh
boring schools, and has booked many
games which promise excitement
and hard work for the locals. The
elections of captain and business
managers have been delayed this
winter but will be held Immediately
after the opening game of the seas
on's Schedule. Alfred Neuman was
captain last year, but on account of
breaking his arm in the Crookston
football game last fall, will be unable
to play this winter. His loss will
be seriously felt on the basketball
squad.
The 1911 schedule for the local
high school is as follows:
Jan. 14-Bemidji at Fosston.
Jan. 21-Deer River at Bemidji.
Jan. 2S-Bemidji at Bagley.
Feb. 4-Walker at Bemidji.
Feb. 11-Fosston at Bemidji
Feb. 18-Bemidji at Walker.
Feb. 25-Bagley at Bemidji.
Mar. 1O-Grand Rapids at Be-
naidji.
Mar. 31-Bemidji at Grand
Rapids.
Mr.. Brenneman is attempting to
arrange an Easter vacation trip for
the local team He proposes to send
the Bemidji quint over the $500
line to Thief River Falls, then play
ing at Warren, Crookston, McIn-
tosh, Fosston and Bagley on the re-
turn trip.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
Tenstrike.

Mrs. J. C.. Mapson and son Regi-
nald spent Wednesday in Bemidji.
E. E. Shulke, who recently had
his team drowned in Gull Lake re.
turned this week from Fargo where
he went to purchase new team.
Superintent w. B. Stewart of Be.
midi was in town Tuesday morning
on his way to visit the schools across
the lake. 49, -. .@e
Rowland Fellows and George
Booth are expected home from Three
Forks Montana to spend the holi.
days at their respective homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Duer left Thurs.
day evening for Missouri Valley,
Iowa, where they will spend the holi'
days with relatives.
Archdeacon Parshall conducted
services at the Guild hall Mo aday
evening.
The temperance address given By
c.. Walden in the jacobson hall Sun.
day evening was we'll attended.
Mrs. Chas. Carter of Hines called
on friends in town one day this week.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
ERICKSON IN WASHINGTON
Bemidji Postmaster Receiving lnstruc'
ton From Postal Bank Board.

Postmaster A. R. En- 'ckson, Of
Bemidji, arrived in Washington
yesterday in response to an order
from Postmaster General Hitchcock.
Bemidji has been selected as the
only Minnesota city where postal
postal savings bank is to, be estab.
lished January 3, and Mr.. Erickson
was summoned to- receive his in.
structions from the postal bank
board now in session. ~
Representative STEVENSON, who
Bemidji was to appear
with Postmaster Erickson before the
postal board this afternoon and later
they will call at the White House.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
JUDGE AM|D0N
ACQU|TS SULLIVAN

Fergus Falls. Dec. 23-(Daily
Pioneer Special Wire Service.) Judge
c. F. Amidon handed down a deci.
sion in the United States District
court in this city late Thursday,
discharging P. J. Sullivan, the
alleged Browns Valley blind-pig
proprietor from custody and de.
claring the Indian treaty of 1851
abrogated and annulled.
Sullivan was charged with in
Producing 900 pints of liquor into
Browns Valley contrary to the
provisions of this treaty. He was
sentenced to jail and later dis
covered the act of congress passed
in 1863, annulling tue land right
and calling off the annulties of the
Sioux in retaliation for the
massacre of 1862.
The territory affected by the
decision includes the city of Moor
head and almost the entire south
ern part of the state lying south OF
the Mississippi, including part of
Minneapolis.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
HOCKEY GAME on XMAS.
Big Benidg' and Given Hardware
Company Teams Play at Rink.

Bemidji's first hockey game of the
1901 season will be played Christ
mas afternoon at $3.50, when teams
the Given Hardware
company and "Big Bemidg'' will fight
for the possession Of the, puck. Nat
Given and R. Ripple have been prac-
ticing their teams for several days
and each declares that his team has
reached that degree Of perfection
where it can defeat any other seven
in the city. -
The game will be played on Nc
Laughlin's open ice rink near the
city dock Sunday afternoon. Con-
siderable interest in the game is be-
ing showing by the athletic young
men of the city, as it is several years
since a game of hockey has been
played on Lake Bemidji. The two
teams will line up as follows: J,
Given Hdw. Co.
G. Williams, Goal; A. Larson, Point;
H. Bunker, Coverpoint; D. Burgess,
Right Wing; R. Dennis, Left Wing;
G. Sever, Center; A. Holverson, Row
er; N. Gwen, Substitute. K
"Big Bemidg'' :.
F. Scarrot, Goal; R. Ripple, Point;
B.. Sprague, Coverpoint; T. Newton,
Right Wing; M. LeBounty, Left
Wing; E. DeRushia, Center; g., Rover,
P. LeBountey; ]. DeRushia, Substi-
t11ta :
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
Korngold Lectures at Bemidji.

Ralph Korngold, a Socia]istic
speaker we'll known among the mem.
bers of that party in Minnesota,
lectured last evening at the national
guard armory in this city. The
speaker went into the meaning Of
Socialism and described his aims
and ideals in regard to both state
and national government. His illus
trations were plain, and Mr.. Korn'
gold proved himself a forceful
speaker. s
Mr.. Korngold is spending his
entire time in the interest of the
Socialist party, delivering many
lectures and being a contributory
writer to several newspapers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
Mara's Voice.

Nine. Mara had a voice that extend
ed from middle G to E in alt and was
one of the most facile and flexible, ever
known. She delighted in the ford
music of Hasse, Graun, Benda, JONI
melli, Pergalese, Porpora, Sacchini and
others Of that school and with the ut
most ease executed passages that are
now consigned to solo instruments,
such as the violin and flute. She held
the stage from 1771 to 1902, with an
occasional appearance after the latter
date. d.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
Extra Sleeper Going South.

For convenience of Bemidj j
people who are going to spend the
holidays in the Twin Cities, Agent
Walker at the M. & I. depot has ar
ranged to have a sleeping car side.
tracked at Bemidii today, and the
car will be picked up by the 1880
train for St. Paul tonight. Passen.
gers have the privilege of securing
their berths and retiring early in the
evening. being assured that they will
awake tomorrow in Minneapolis OF
st. Paul.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
PROHIBIT SETTING POLES
Thief River Falls People Seem to Want
Municipality Owned System.

The Tri-State Telephone company
has been prohibited by the mayor of
the city of Thief River Falls from
setting any telephone poles in the
alleys.
The company has begun the plac-
ing of line of new poles, with the
intention of removing some of the
old system of wires for cable plant,
when the authorities interfered and
prevented any further building.
The franchise which this company
holds for carrying on a telephone
business in that city is declared to
be faulty by the city officials and
the matter will probably soon get
into the courts for settlement. The
Northwestern company also main
tains small exchange for the ac-
commodation of the banks and
wholesale houses but it has not a
franchise. M
The public of Thief River Falls is
SCiOuSly III 4dVOI VI C1Cy-OW ueu uCA11-
ties, and their experience with their
electric lighting plant, which nets
about $1,000 annually, convinces the
people that telephone system would
also pay generous returns. This is
one of the compelling reasons for
the opposition of the city authorities
to any further extension of the lines
}of the company within the city
limits.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-23
Rids the City of @'Bums.''

Four transcients who have been
loafing around the streets and beg.
glng for several days we're hustled
into Jail last evening by Chief OF
Police Harrington. They were ar.
raigned before Judge Pendergast in
the municipal court this morning
on charges of begging and given the
alternative Of 20 days in Jail or leav-
ing the city. They left.