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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-02-22
STATE OF OHIO. C1rY OF TOLEDO. I

LUCAS COUNTY. 90
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he Ii
Co. doing bu mess in the City of Toledo
County and State aforesaid. and that said
firm will pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for each and every case; o1
Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK !. CHENEY. 4
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
A. W. GLEASON,
lSEAL) NOTARY PUBLIC. i
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
FL. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, o.
eold by all Druggists 75c. 7'.ss
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation. /
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ST. Paul Live stock.

st. Paul, Feb. 21:-Cattle Good Ito
choice steers, $6.75@7.50; fair to good
s6.0O@6.75; good to choice cows and
heifers, $4.25@5.26; veals, $5.50@7.25.
Hogs-$8.80@9.1O. Sheep-Wethers
$6.60@6.85; yearlings, $700@7.90;
spring lambs, $8.00@8.65.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-02-22
HlTcHCocksTIREs OF POLITICS
Decides He Will Never Manage Ar
other Campaign.

Washington, Feb. 22.Frank II
Hitchcock, chairman .of ! the Repub-
lican national committee in the late
campaign and now in President Taft's
cabinet as postmaster general, is tired
OF. politics. He has inherited from the
campaign what he considers obliga.
tions that take up q considerable part
Of every day, but he has decided that
he will never run another, campaign
II he finds that is expected Of him.
He will get out Of government service
into some business that has no rela.
ton to politics.
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.AssAsslN's BULLET FATAL
Eeypts Premier succumbs TO Woune
lnfiicted.

Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 22.-Boutroa
Pasha Ghali, the Egyptian premier
and minister Of foreign affairs who
was shot by a student Sunday, Is dead,
The assassin, who is in custody, de
clared that he sought to ayenge GER
tain acts of the government whicl
were displeasing to the nationalists
of whom the prisoner ID one.
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SHIP DRIVEN ON The ROCKS

German Steamer Lost and Her Grew
Of Thirty Perish.
London, Feb. 21.-News has reached
here of the wreck In Dunnorley bay
Of the steamship Hohenzollern, which
sailed recently from Bremen. for this
city.
The ship was driven on the rocks
and her crew, consisting Of thirty sail
ors, perished.
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GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Feb. 21.-Wheat-May,
$1.131k; July, $1.13M@1.13A. On
track-No. l hard, $1.14% @1.15%; No
l Northern, $1.14A @1.15A; No. !
Northern. s1.12A @1.13A; No. 3 North
ern, $1.06A@1.12A.
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Feb. 21.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. l hard $1.14; No.
1 Northern, $1.14; No. 2 Northern,
f$1.12;;5 May, $1.141s; July, $1.13M. Flax
In store, on track, to arrive and
May, $2.191h; Sept, $1.70.>
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Gas Kills Two Workmen.

Chicago, Feb. 21.-John Schneman,
aged thirty-two, and Olaf Collar, TWEEN
ty-seven years old, Workmen, were
found dead in a gas filled room in the
formers house. They had been acci.
dentally asphyxiated.
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STREET CAR MEN ON STRIKE

Situation, at Philadelphia Reaches
Acute Stage.
Philadelphia, Feb. 21.-The street
car situation in this city reached an
acute stage when men affiliated with
the Amalgamated Association Of Street
and Electric Railway Employees began
turning in their cars at various barns
and refused to 60 out again.
After the union leaders learned that
the men were turning in cars formal
strike order was issued.
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MANY REMAIN IN THE MINE
Four More Bodies Recovered From
Cherry (lll.) colliery.

Cherry, ILL.,, Feb. 21.-Four more
bodies were taken out Of the st. Paul
mine. This makes total Of 126 bodies
recovered since the disaster Of Nov. 13.
It Is estimated that 173 bodies are
yet to be found. Whether they will
be brought to the surface in any great
numbers soon was declared to be un-
certain, because OF distractions in the
underground tunnels which must be
removed.
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I saw an editorial the other day
where newspaper advertising began
in 1652-but it is certain that some
business houses haven't yet begun.
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TWENTY : PEOPLE sPERISHED

italian Ship Wrecked OF the Coast OF
~ Ireland.
Queenstown, Feb. 21.-The Italian
ship F. S., Ciampa, with allnof her
crew, was :, lost, in gale off Dun.
woody bay. It is understood that the
crew numbered twenty. Some of the
bodies have been recovered.
The F.. s. Ciampa was, a three-masted
freighter owned by. F. s. Ciampa and
hailed from Costellammare, Sicily.
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|.L|T tie HOPE FOR
HIS RECOVERY
Senator Tillma1l Declared
Extremely Ill.
NAY LINGER SOME TINE

SPIeteIy Regain tne ROVER OF gSPeecn.
Republicans and 4 Democrats. Alike
Anxious slnquirers at the Sick Mans
Apartments.
Washington, Feb. 21.-The condition
Of Senator Benjamin 4 r. Tillman of
South Carolina, who lies i'll with paral-
ysis, continues extremely grave. He
passed fairly quiet night and the
only unfavorable symptom which de,
tvelopeda was "a loss Of consciousness.
No change in his condition in this re-
spect occurred with the break. of day.
He was unable to recognize any one
and this increased the sorrowful bur-
den Of the relatives around his bed
side. T.. -.....s
DR.. Pickford said that the, senator
had chance of recovery, but that
was about all. It is not believed that
there is any immediate danger of a
fatal turn. But even should he re-
cover his inability to articulate will
in all probability continue.
1t Is said that he cannot completely
regain the power of speech and will
never again 3be able to voice his con-
yictions by the vitriolic invective for
which he has become noted.
Henry C. and Sallie May Tillman,
son and daughter of the senator, have
reached their fathers home. They
were summoned by telegraph from
Greenwood, SC. The senator's wife
and eldest :sson, Benjamin r. Tillman,
Jr., have been with him since the in
ception of the illness.
The apartments of the popular
Southerner are besieged by inquiries
delivered in person, by telegraph and
by telephone from his friends through
out the country. Republicans and
Democrats alike are among the anx-
ious inquirers. ..-e.- 81. .~.. ~.
DR.. Pickford issued the following
bulletin at noon:
Senator Tillman rested comfortably
and passed most satisfactory night.
Paralysis and. aphasia unchanged.
Temperature, pulse and respiration
normal" ~. -----. g.,
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.MACvEAGH IN POOR HEALTH
Secretary Of the Treasury May Retire
From Cabinet.

Washington, Feb. 21.-Secretary of
the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh may
not serve out his full term as a men,
Der of President fTaft's cabinet. The
heavy strain under which he has been
working has gradually told on his Wig
orous constitution, with the result that
he has been confined to his house for
the last month with the exception of
an occasional visit to the department,
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Big Bemidji" is certainly the
Hub" of Northern Minnesota today.
-Hibbing Tribune.

Advertising-persistedi in-is akin
to the constant dropping of water
in its effect; the wearing away of
the rock of Doubt.
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Clothes makes whole lot Of
difference in a man until he opens
his mouth.
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KILLS THREE AND HIMSELF

Alabama Man Guilty Of aWholesale
Murder.
Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 21.-George
Stephens, son of prominent mine
owner, shot and killed three Of his
little children, shot and fatally wound
ed their colored nurse and then turned
the pistol on himself, ending his own
life,
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like the oft repeated fish story, is
increasingly attractive to the per-
petrator, but your thoughts, if
known, would Cause your arrest.

The kindof business that hurt.
you is rarely your own business.
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tions that must be gotten rid OF be
fore any real progress can be made.
Among these is the adjustment OF
the labor system, collecting the road
tax in cash and the employment OF
someone of good judgment and skill
to do roal work, following the advice
that they can secure from the state
engineer, and from him learn what
to do, when to do and how to do it.
A thorough drainage of the main
roads either by open bitches with I'M
INSTRUCTED outlet, or, better, by tile
drains on either side, is an absolute
necessity in order to have the best
results (unless perchance there may
be inadequate natural drainage, as in
the case of rolling, sandy soiD and
frequent and timely use of the split
log drag, used during or Immediately
after the rains, or when two or three
inches of the rough, frozen road has
thawed out, it would help matters
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from the state. OF the latter $1,000,
$500 would be contributed by cities,
towns, railroads, corporations and
other forms of property. The writer
has at many times asked farmers
whether it would be worth to them
two cents bushel on their crops to
have a irst-class road over which to
market it. Very seldom has he found
an intelligent farmer who did not
agree that road would be of this
much value to him and that by hav-
ing good roads and watching the mar
ket he could easily get that much
more for his crops and he could GER
tainly take them to market at less
expense than under ordinary condi
tions.
A calculation has been made very
carefully by the writer and has been
checked over by the best authorities
of the state. 1t shows, and the writer
is prepared to defend it, that under
the state aid plan the main highways
in Illinois can be improved as first
class gravel and macadam roadways
within 10 or IL years at cost Of
about 10 cents per acre per year on
the farm lands of the state, or a tax
equal in the aggregate to 81 to S1.20
an acre.
The writer believes that the princi-
pal objection to hard roads throughout
the state is by retired farmers, who
object to building roads for the ten
ant. If they would but realize that
two per cent. on their rent, which is
anywhere from 81 to 81 per acre, will
pay the tax, and that it will make
their farm more desirable and they
can get their selection of tenants and
sometimes so cents an acre more cash
rent, they would arrive at the conclu-
sion, if they are not prejudiced, that
the money invested in roads is the
best investment they can make.
The trouble has been that the farm
ers are paying enormous amounts OF
money for highways improvement and
they have not seen the improvements.
The money has been squandered.
Next to production the worlds
greatest industry is distribution. In
this worldwide system tho farm
wagon and the country road occupy
the first place and ought to have the
first consideration. If the state or the
nation has the money to spend on
internal improvements, let them assist
the townships to build good roads;
the highways over which the children
must go to school, the doctor to reach
the suffering, and over which must
pass every bushel of grain and every
bale of cotton raised. The road
reaches every field, every farm home
and every market town. The people
everywhere demand good roads. Good
roads mean better schools, more So
cial life, a higher standard of living
they mean progress and civilization.
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that this soil, If drained and graded,
makes an exceptionally good founda-
ton to build upon,
Another mistake and rank Unjust
ice has been to place practically all
the burden of road taxes upon farm
property. This plan has obtained
from the first and is still in vogue in
about one-half the states. The other
half have learned that roads are pub
lie property-they belong to everyone
and it is unfair and indefensible to
place the whole burden of public work
of this nature upon the farms. 1t is
sometimes said the farmers use the
roads more than others and that is
given as a reason why they should do
all the paying. Well, the lawyers use
the court house more than others;
shall we tax them for the county
building?
A Jersey man in the last decade of
the century just closed made discov-
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very greatly. Some farmers and a
few so-called experts, however, entire
ly overestimate the value of the drag.
There is only one type of road that
Is worthy the name of good, and that
Is one that is hard, smooth and disable
365 days in the year, and one that
is not affected by weather conditions.
The main roads (these comprise not
more than rs per cent. of the total
mileage) should be graveled or mac
adamized after first being thoroughly
graded and drained. The experience
of the world for twenty centuries is
back of this system. Among the illus
trations on this page are some stone
roads that for 1000 years have been
used daily with but moderate cost
for maintenance.
Another fallacy that must be put
on the shelf is the belief that a hard
road cannot be built in the corn belt;
that it would not stand up" etc.,
upon the heavy black soil. Every en-
gineer knows and experience shows
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"Then l bethought myself of some
personal illusions l had made that
might easily be construed rs libelous
l got a good deal excited and slept
very little. In the morning l hurried
down to see whether the papers had
roasted me. The meeting was re-
ported all over the front page. I
plunged into it, shivering in nervous
ness. But I needn't have worried.
What it said about my speech was in
the last two lines:
"a yo2ng man named Depew also
spoke"
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IL Il. - ~ II
- NV ~ i H.


Anyone knowing the first principles
of road building should know the sur
face Of the ground should not be dis
turbed after the first Of July and that
road grading done in March, April or
May gives the best results, as the
summer rains and traffic work the
earth down smooth and hard so that
it will be in the best condition to
stand the trying weather of the win
ter and spring following.
The first great step in reform is a
wise and sane expenditure of the
money now raised, which in Illinois Is
about $5,000.0O0 per year. The writer
has spoken upon the question of high
way improvement in more than one
half the counties of Illinois and has
discussed the Tabor system" methods
employed with hundreds of the most
intelligent farmers of this country,
and they generally agree that most
of the money raised is wasted. There
are some fundamental errors respon-
sible for this and some misconcep-
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- AN is born with restless
~ spirit and early exhibits
IL" a tendency to roam.
Children three years old
kONWOa or less will wander away,
h6Jg led by curiosity, to ex-
plore the unknown. The
savage picks his way long distances
as best he can, through forest or prai-
RE, as the case may be; he builds no
roads, but goes forward in the line of
least resistance. The buffaloes of the
prairie follow beaten paths-it is said
the streets Of Boston were made to
follow cow paths of colonial days.
When civilization came to mankind
we find among its early activities evil
dence of progress in road building AS
light dawned upon him he found an
economic advantage in making the
paths smooth. 1t also entered his
consciousness that to remove OBJ
stacles to travel was a common duty
of everyone and not the special duty
OF anyone or a few. No truer saying
can be found than that the condition
of the public roads in any community
is an indication of the standard of
civilization, not an infallible one, of
course, but very trustworthy never
theless.
1t will be interesting to note what
the world has done and is doing in
making the roadway better, so they
will more fully meet the economic
and social needs of the people and
the state. Measured by the age of
the Mediterranean and oriental coun-
tries, our own land is but an infant,
but it has grown and waxed strong
beyond any of it's ancestors. 1t not
only has learned much from the older
countries, but has been able to teach
them many things as well. In some
things, however, we must confess that
we stand at the foot of the class. One
of our two most conspicuous failures in
the administration of public affairs is
the inefficient, wasteful and corrupt
methods of administering our great
municipalities and the other failure.
even more complete, relates to the not
only inadequate but idiotic methods
that have pertained to the question of
public highways.
Space does not permit nor Is it part
of the STORY Of the Road" to set forth
the signal failure in the mismanage-
ment of our cities, but rather to point
out some of our shortcomings as to
the public highways as compared with
the rest of the world. A well-known
advertiser, in speaking of the excel
lence of his product and its popular
ity. says: There's a reason" and so
there is a reason why we have so COM
pletely failed in doing our duty to
the road. There has been money
enough expended upon them in the
last three generations to have made
boulevards of all the main highways,
yet they are not much better, as
rule. than they were a half-century
ago. and this is particularly true in
the middle west
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The New Woman Of Asia.

Under the title, 1.-THE Lady OF the
Harem Energies" Raja Rama con-
tributes to Harper's Weekly an &C.
count Of the woman of the Orient, as
she stands to-day upon the threshold
of emancipation. Compared with the
dark, quiet eyes Of these Orientals."
he writes, "the eyes of European or
American women are restless, per-
turbed, full of disquietude, as though,
while they have won enfranchisement,
they have lost a secret inspiration:
something that they miss and seek.
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without quite understanding what re-

without quite understanding what re-
mains unround. And with the still,
selfish serenity of the Asian woman
goes a degree of power we hardly
credit or understand. / read the 9TH
er day the declaration of Latin wom-
an, who said that women of the An
glo-Saxon and Teutonic races do not
know how to manage men; the wom-
en- of the Latin races on the contrary,
do know how to manage man. But 1t
seems to me that the women of the
Orient, whether in India, China or ia
pan, or among the Moslem peoples,
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make some such division as this as
township, leaving it to the people of
the township to say what roads shall
be improved and when and how much
money shall be expended, viz: that
the state, from a general tax levied
upon all property in the state, shall
pay one-half and the property owners
of the township shall pay the other
half
Suppose $4,000 were spent upon the
roads of any township. Under this
plan one-half would be paid by the
property owners of the township and
like amount, $1,000, would be drawn
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cry far more important than the find
ing of the north pole 1t was that
the roads belong to the public and
that everyone ought to be taxed to
help build the roads. In this thought
state aid was born, and it has spread
from state to state until now % Of
the A states are building by this
plan. 1t has been tried out and found
successful. 1t is no experimental is
an equitable, workable plan that gets
results and spreads the cost in such
way that it is no burden and gives
everyone square DEAL
The building of a good stone and
gravel road adds to the value of farm
property, so for that reason it has
been found just and practicable to
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night. They wanted something red hot,
and handed it out.
Il just turned myself to skin the op-
position, and on the whole the audi
ence seemed to like it. The more
they cheered the more l warmed up
to it. | was Intensely pleased with
my success. But after l got home
was worried. | lay wondering if it
wouldn't react and injure our side
more than the opposition.
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Take for the purpose of illustration
and as type the great state of ILL
nois, the third in the Union in wealth
and population. In the last 80 years
there has been expended on the high
ways Of Illinois, in grading. bridging,
making and spelling the roads, ap-
proximately s1O0.OOO,OOO. and what is
there to show for it? The larger part
Of this colossal sum has been frittered
away by honest but misguided effort
by doing the wrong thing; the annual
road picnics, where dozen or more
farmers with their boys would meet
in the fall Ito do work that ought to
have been done in the spring. to work
out their road tax, have a good time,
tell stories. play practical Jokes. do
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,WeII.conducted Visitors.


George w. Vanderbilt, at a dinner in
Asheville, said:
81 am named after George Washing
ton, and as George Washington's
birthday approaches / want to register
my faith in the people to whom he
gave freedom.
These people are worthy of free
dom. They don't abuse it. This fact
was brought home to me when, on one
OF the days when Biltmore was open to
the public. strolled unreeognized over
my lawn.
CAS- watched the orderly and polite
visitors, shabby young man Kissed
at me fiercely from a path:
"'Hey, git off that! 1t amt allowed
"And he pointed to keep-off-the-
grass sign, and kept his stern eye on
me till he saw that the order was
obeyed."
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may have a finer and deeper secret
sriII, welding far greater influence.
because they do not seek to WELD any
influence at ALL"
Cheap Railway Travel.

In the cities of Great Britain the
population of which is 100000 or
more, the average rate of fare fol-
street railway travel is IL cents a
passenger mile. In the cities of con.
tinental Europe the average rate Of
fare paid for urban transportat:c1 ,s
one cent a passenger mile.
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stunts" of physical prowess, such as
jumping, wrestling, etc., with small
amount of work in blowing up a
stretch of road, scraping loose earth
together with weeds and grass in
winrow, and leaving it there and call
ing this road building. BY the opera
ton, perchance, hundred dollar road
tax had been worked out and prob
ably two hundred dollars of damage
done to the road in doing so. This
is an extreme case, but there are tens
Of thousands of such instances in
more or less aggravated form.
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A Foe to PROGRESS.

There are many foes to human
progress among u.s." said the gloomy
philosopher.
Eyes," answered the busy man, "and
the worst is the person who insists on
running revolving door the wrong
way"
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A Solar Plexus.

On one occasion Sam Berger, the
brawny manager Of James J. Jeffries,
was in small California town, sound
ing some of the residents as to the
possibility of holding a prize fight.
The local police force, a clownish-look-
ing individual with a huge badge.
heard of Sans Investigations.
"You can't hold no prize fight in this
here town. said the police force,
threateningly, in his best 'T-be-the-
marshal" tones. ut is agin' the law,
and I won't stand for it,
Jaw, beat it," said Berger, in dis
gust. What do you know about law?
Why, your very appearance in public
Is misdemeanor"- Lippincott's
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Technically Discussed

$50 there is to be DIVORCE" said
the woman who discusses everybody.
"It seems but little while since he
asked for her hand"
"Yes," replied the rude man. "He
got the hand all right But it turned
out to be a misdeal"
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Speech Made by chauncey Depew
Long Ago Was Dismissed with
Scsnt Comment.

Senator Depew the other evening
told a story on himelf. and it has
since had a good deal of vogue in the
senate.
when I was a very young man."
he said, Il went out to make politi-
cal Speech with some older men one
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The Wise Doc,

"The doctor has ordered me to eat
only the plainest food"
For how long?"
"Till have paid his bill, guess"