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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
BURGLARS Besettinq 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 bur-
glar of him. The burglar ransacks a
house and carries away spoon hold
er, 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 that be upset the Pompleys'
dresser dra 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 his powers of attention and OBJ
servation in his youth!-Newark News.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
The Power Of Paderewski.

A hard headed business man went to
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 it 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 well. But l 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 l found myself
on my feet waving my umbrella and
shouting like a wild Indian. ! went
out of that hall as weak as a rag and
happier than I'D been in years. can't
account for it. I've tried, but can't
explain it. Can you?'
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
a Born Diplomat.

"Splendidy' exclaimed the old colo
mel as G company passed the saluting
base. a .a IL
did you hear wot ole nasty face
ses?'' No. 3 Of the front rank asked
No. 4. s
"Stand fast after parade, No. 4, for
talking in the ranks!' snapped SER
geant from near by.
1T wasn't me talkin'r' muttered
! No. a.
you'd better not git two on us in
trouble advised No. in whisper.
Talking while marching past" ech-
oed the adjutant. What on earth did
you find to talk about then?
GAS we was passing the salutin'
base" explained No. 4, ''the colonel
ses, Splendid! Yes ses to meself.
AN you've got the smartest officer in
the British army to thank for maxim
us splendid. and that's our adjutant.' -
/ "Er-sergeant, send the man away
and don't bring such frivolous com.
plants before me again." snapped the
adjutant.-London Answers. ~ IA. .J.~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
What "Garbler" Once Meant.

"Garble." ''garbled.' 'garbler," are
words which nowadays convey quite
different meaning from that which
was formerly accepted. "Garble" orig
inally signifed simply Ito select for a
purpose" At one time there was an
officer. termed 1.-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 a root meaning Ito sift."
The impurities sifted out have in the
course Of generations corrupted the
term till ''garbled report" is no long
er a report wherefrom all uncertainty
has been removed. but one that is full
of misrepresentation and made mis-"
leading with deliberate intent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
The Change of a Word.

'You wouldn't think there'd be
enough difference between the definite
and the indefinite article to matter
much. would you" said woman who
writes for living. Il made lifelong
enemy Of woman once just by writ
ing the where l meant "a 1t was an
account of her wedding was doing. I
said something about the ceremony be.
ing performed at the home of the
brides aunt. and then l added that
there were present only the few
friends Of the family The bride new
er got over that the in front of few.
1t happened five years ago, and when
my name is mentioned she still froths
at the mouth" -Washington Post.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
Mississippi Steamboatins.

The steamboat age on the Mississippi
began about 1921 and flourished for
fifty years. As early as 1884 the num-
Der of steamboats, on the Mississippi
and it's tributaries is estimated at 23O,
and in 1912 there were $50 vessels,
with a value of $25,OOO,OO0. But the
golden era was from 1S4S 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.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
RAILROAD time CARDS
Great Northern

No. 80 West Bound Leaves at 3:3O p. m
No. "a East Bound Leaves at 1908 p. m
No. IS West Bound Leaves at 3:42 a. m
No. SO East Bound Leaves at 1:2O a. m
No, los North Bound Arrives at 7:40 p. m
No. 1O6 South Bound Leaves at I:OO a, m
Freight West Bound Leaves at 300 a. m
Freight East Bound Leaves at $3.50 p. m
Minnesota & International
No. 80 South Bound Leaves at 8:l5 a. m
No. 81 North Bound Leaves at $40 p. m
No. "a South Bound Leaves at 11:35 pm
No. SO North Bound Leaves at 4:2O,a. m
Freight South Bound Leaves at 1880 a. m
Freight North Bound Leaves at 600 a. m
MINI. Red Lake & Man. "
No. / North Bound Leaves at 1856 p. m
No 2 South Bound Arrives at 1890 a. m
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
Beaver Tales,

The Indians say that if a beaver sent
out from the parents lodge fails to
find mate he is set to repair the
dam. If he fails a second time he is
banished.
An Arab writer has the same story.
He tells us that those who buy beaver
skins can distinguish between the
skins of masters and slaves. The lat
ter have the hair of the head rubbed
off because they have to pound the
wood for their masters food and do it
with their heads.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
Corrected.

1t is the custom of a well known
minister to point bis sermons with
either dearly beloved brethren" or
NOW, my brothers." One day a lady
member of his congregation took ex-
ception to this. 4
"Why do you always preach to the
gentlemen and never to the ladies? ?"
she asked. .....
my dear lady," said the beaming
vicar. lone embraces the other"
But not in the church!" was the in
slant reply.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
So Foolish,

So Foolish. ill.,: 1,
"She is neglecting her game Of bridge
dreadfully." .~.. p. So.
"Why is she doing that?" %fn.
"Some silly excuse. Says the chill.
dren need her. believe."-Pittsburg
Post. > @...,>..s r.. sGS9a
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
The Cruel Reason.

The Cruel Reason.
Mrs. Gossip-How does it come that
Mrs. Newrich invited you to her party
I thought you were enemies. Mrs.
Sharp-We are. but she thought l had
nothing ct to wear and wanted to
make me feel bad. *
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
I Discussed.

Customer-I'm going to masked
ball. and want something that will
completely disguise me
Costumer Certainly. sir. ! will give
you something nice Pele Mele.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
The, New Cook.

Wifey-This pudding is sample OF
the new cooks work. What do yon
think of it? Hub Id call It mediocre
Wifey-N No. dear: it's tapioca. Boston
Transcript. "a
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-12-14
An Ancient Custom.

An Ancient Custom.
81 wonder If men have always com
planned about the food their wives pre-
pared for them" said one woman.
II guess so.'' replied the other.
"Adam started Washington Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-31
Iz5ZEE nQWIQ O
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CL0NlG72EGI -N1Y RE.ZZ72E
HTURE EEALZM7KGlAW
0DLHzT.

Supreme Court makes much of the
body servant which Uncle Sam is al
legged to furnish each justice. In the
olden times some justices utilized the
government messengers a $ Wallets but
this custom long ago went out of favor.
When the court. in its funereal process
sion of carria ges-always arranged in
strict order of the occupants senioritE-
pays it's annual visit to the President
Ton the first day of the fall session. a
messenger customarily sits upon the
official carriage box alongside the
coachman. These messengers like
every other employee of the court re
gard their appointments as for life. and
one of them has been in this service
for forty years. Outside of his private
secretary. the new Chief Justice will
have no patronage whatsoever. for all
employees Of the court regard their ap-
pointmentS as for life. Once taking
the black robe. therefore. man-no
matter how active in politics thereto
fore-finds himself forever barred from
the Office seeker and the temptations of
Office giving.
The salary OF the new Chief Justice
cannot be diminished during his term
of Office, nor can that OF any OF his as
sociates The law is explicit on this
point and it provides that each Justice
when seventy can retire upon fuil pay
provided he has been ten years upon
the bench Should any member OF the
court contract a chronic illnss, Con-
gresS would doubtless pass Speclal
bill permitting his retirement before
the age OF seventy. as in the recent
case of Justice Moody. But upon reach
ing the age of seventy no member OF
the court need retire unless he desires
to- Thus Chief Justice Fuller was past
seventy-seven when he died. on Inde-
pendence day. But Justice Brown late
ly chose to retire at seventy, and JUS
tice Shiras at seventy-one. Justice
Fuller was loath to retire, because he
hoped to live to see democratic Presl-
dent who would appoint his successor
The fourth circuit. including Maryland
the Carolinas, Virginia and West Nlr-
ginia. which was allotted to Chief Justice
case The thing happens just about In
this way thousands of times during the
summer season in Atlantic City. We
seen it happen, believe me, in just about
the way I've described it.
Wherefore you'll think it over couple
of times before you'll blame the perma-
nent residents here for abandoning thelr
homes during the summer For little OLD
Washington itself at other seasons than
summer knows the swoopers pretty Well
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN
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to the future Chief Justice. This part of
the ceremony will take place in the rob-
ing room, and according to strict pre-
cedent no one may witness it except the
person giving and the person receiving
the cath. The doors and windows OF the
robing room will be shut and guarded.
and when Justice Harlan has finished
with his future chief, the latter will be
ready for the procession into the court
room.
Whether he will be robed publicly in
that chamber, after marching in in or
binary day dress whether he will be
privately vested in the rObing room, by
The regular attendant before the process
sion is formed is a question for the new
Chief Justice to decide for himself.
there are precedents for either method.
Chief Justice Fuller came into the court
room already robed.
The robing room of the court is a
long and narrow chamber across the
public corridor from the courtroom
proper. 1t is finished in an imitation
of marble, with frescoed ceilings. and
windows opening upon a view of the
Washington Monument and the Mall.
Opposite there is door leading into a
small inner room with mahogany cases
lining the walls either side. In
these cases hang the robes. and the
justices step into the inner room one
at time, to be vested by a colored
man who acts master of the robes.
although he is down on the official pay
roll messenger. He holds the big
black gowns as the justices slip their
arms into the great sleeves. Then he
adjusts each yoke until it is straight
across the shoulders of the wearer. and
finally he pulls down. the tail Of the
undercoat. Then the justices form In
line in the long robing room. while an
attendant is making lane from that
apartment to the anteroom opposite by
hooking across the corridor two paral-
lei pieces of silk rope. which bar the
public from passing through the Capt.
toll. When the court is fully organized
the Chief Justice always leads this
procession. the associate justices fol-
lowing in the order OF their length OF
service.
But in the inaugural procession Of the
new Chief Justice, Associate Justice
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Cullen Gives Statistics Sea-Bathing Toys

the Victorian period. only great
deal more so, and with added intensity
and fury.
We simply can't imagine a girl trying
to make a hit with any body. least OF
all eligible parties in a bathing suit;
especially in a bathing suit that she has
permitted to become moist.
AS a simple matter of fact, have
come quite to understand the point Of
view of the girl who takes what is
known as the dry sea bath: the strolling
on the beach swim. that is to say. We
apprehend her angle of vision She knows.
She knows the deadliness of sea water
in its effect upon feminine pulchritudi-
Mostly. She appreciates the ravaging and
dismantling effect of the briny waves.
She has ascertained that feminine hair
and the saline solution in bulk never
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wouldn't stay away under any circum
stances as long the permanent resi-
dents stuck to their plants. and for the
secondary purpose of prOfiting by the
rentals during the summer.
The money consideration, of course.
is an important matter. People living
In moderate sized house here, for
example on renting basis can make
their entire years rent, and often more,
by renting their places to summer Wis
ltors for the period of three months.
A house, furnished, costing $50 month
rent can easily be rented TO summer
visitors for from $3.50 to $1,000 for the
three months of the summer season,
which gives the permanent residents
not only their years rent free. but
hands them a bit of a profit besides.
But il may safely be said that the
main purpose of the movers-o Is to
avoid the swoopers in the summer time.
1t takes resident of Atlantic City
quite long time-several seasons
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The Critics Motto.

EUGENE WALTER. the playwright,
IL said at theatrical supper that he
gave i'm New York:
THE critics have been unusually kild
to all my plays. and 1 have only pra Sc
for them. | can't share the view OF
my friend Blink. the vaudeville manager
"Blink's bill last week was handled
very severely by the critics. 1 dropl ed
in on him Tuesday morning as he was
reading his roasts. On my entrance he
looked up from a theatrical page and
said
Nineteen roasts out of a possible
nineteen. Walter, my boy. the avera ge
New York critics motto viGs2;i. IS:
Leave no Turn Unstoned.'
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Well, these folks living here all the
time. who go away during the hot
months. either close their homes up alb
solutely, or rent them to summer Atlantic
Cityites. 1t costs a considerable pot OF
money to rent a furnished house in At
lantic City for the summer, and the folks
who abandon the place during the sum-
mer reap a pretty tidy thing of it, in
addition to accomplishing their tagging
purpose, by doing the summer renting
thing.
Then there are literally thousands of
Atlantic Citys permanent residents who,
with the most purposeful deliberation inn
aginable. just move out of their homes
and apartments in the summer time Tor
the major purpose of not having to keep
open house for relatives and friends who
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often enough-to learn about the de-
termination and the indefatigability of
the swoopers, but he is bound to learn
all about it IN time: and then he joins
the large and deliberate bunch who
rent their places in the summer and
endure the discomforts of boarding In
hotels or boarding houses for the sum.
mer rather than keep open house Tor
whole DasSel of folks who really have
little or no claim upon their entertain
ment and who work every imaginable
plan to get invited to the resort for
the summer: and who, failing to make
the invitation stick. just come down
anyhow
1t is perfectly wonderful how, along
during the harsh days of early spring,
the holder of an Atlantic City home
and his wife get invited to make visits
to near or distant, but always calculat-
ing relatives and friends.
These invitations thus extended to
the Atlantic City people always. or
nearly always. are extended when the
inviters know for practically an abso-
lutte cinch that there. isn't chance on
earth for the invitations to be accepted.
lantic City in the spring, which is the
most delightful season of the year
here with, perhaps. the exception OF
the latter half of September and the
entire month of October.
The inviters know, too, that their in
yitations won't be accepted on other
grounds. They simply put the invita-
tons over for the purpose of snagging
rebate invitations. as 1t We're. from the
Atlantic Cityites later on in the season.
In March, for example, the Atlantic City
resident gets cordial not to say effu-
siye, invitation from his fourth cousin.
who lives in Muscatine. Iowa, to drop
OUT there with his wife for stay OF a
connie of weeks The Muscatine fourth
cousin knows that in greasing this invita-
ton through the mails he is playing a
dead-sure nix proposition. He is delight
fully aware of the fact that his kinsfolk
in Atlantic City are not going to beat 1t
out to Muscatine in the spring or at any
other time.
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cJW2EEzzE C0NpT Ld47z8ER ~

Fuller's shoes than into Mr.. Roosevelt
However these things may be, it is
fact that the new Chief Justice, besides
administering the oath to Presidents, will
pre- side at the trials of chief executives
impeached during his term of office and
rule over the court which VIII have the
last say as to laws recommended by the
President to Congress and finally APP
proved by him after that body has pass
ed them. At the same time, the new
Chief Justice must be beholden to the
President for his nomination and TO the
Senate. which must confirm it. And if he
misbehaves in Office the House of Rep
resentatives will have the power to i'm
peach and the Senate to try him.
y
Because our highest tribunal has
jealousy chung to many pictureque
traditions and ceremonials inherited
from the mother country and such as
our other branches of government have
years ago dispensed with the installa-
ton into office of the new Chief Justice
will be the most impressive occasion
of the kind witnessed in this country
since Mr.. Fuller was inaugurated TWEEN
ty-tWo years ago. Cnhappily the Occa
sion will not be public one. invita-
lions to witness 1t being restricted to
members of the bar of the Supreme
guished government officials and for
eign amba ssadors. The little old court
room will hold only a few hundred
people within and without the rail- for
the rear gallery which used to hold
several extra hundreds in the days
when this chamber was occupied by
the United States Senate. has long since
been taken down. Directly over the
bench there still remains the smaller
gallery which was packed full Of spec
tators in the days when the Hayes
Tilden electoral commission occupied
the same chamber, but this space has
long been denied to visitors. Within
the past few years it has been filled
with steel cases and cedar chests for
the storage OF valuable records and
justices gowns against fire and moths.
The installation will take place at noon
on the day to be chosen for the ceremony.
Shortly before that hour Associate Justice
Harlan. the senior member of the bench.
must administer the oath of allegiance
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tmat ton that there isn't going to be a
single solitary thing doing by way of an
Atlantic City invite during the coming
summer or more clinchily as it's some
times cheerily expressed. during any
other summer whatsoever.
l am acquainted, with dozens of prosper
Gus men down here. owning beautiful
homes, who either close up or rent their
homes during the summer, solely, they
tell you in the blandest and baldest tones,
for the purpose of not being made con-
veniences and good things of during the
summer by their relatives and friends.
They take themselves and their families
to h4tels rather than stand for this sort
of imposition. and stick at the hotels I'M
til the hot season is over Those who rent
their homes for the summer very often
do that same much less for the money
idea involved because the ma jority of
them are in receipt of ample incomes
than for the purpose of being able to
sort Of circularize the swoopers to the
effect that they no longer have any con-
troll of their homes during the summer,
the same being otherwise occupied.
The permanent residents who try to
brave it out during the summer months
and take their chances never get any
kind of run for their taw marble The
swoopers manage to get in on them
somehow or another.
The favorite method of the swooper is
to maliciously and inadvertently fail to
announce his or her coming in advance
He or she just hobs In that's all gem
orally at a time when the hotels and
boarding houses are stuffed and clut-
tered with guests. and then what's to
be done?
You, an Atlantic Cityite with home
Welt say. are sitting the porch with
your spouse. merrily chatting things
over, when one of the ramshackle depot
buses pulls up at the curb In front of
your plant and disgorges the second
cousin OF your great-aunt Cynthia and
his wife from Painted Post You've
heard in a vague sort of way about
these rubes all your life. but you don't
know 'em, and you're not conscious of
ever having entertained the least desire
to make their acquaintance. You have
however, received letter from them
early In the spring. fiddling around
Of the. exact degree of your relationship
to them. inform you of what a lufny
home they have for themselves out yon-
der in Painted Post. and wind up by
asking you to trot out to Painted Post
first chance you get painted Post not
being more than 3,467 miles from Atlantic
City, and visit 'em.
That's as far as you know them. And
there they are. standing out there blink
ing in the bright seashore sunshine after
having been dumped from the depot
bus.
Filled with IA premonition Of trouble,
you leave your comfortable porch chair
and go out and look the pair of swoop-
ing Zekes over and ask EN- what it is
and If they've got the right address and
who they are, anyhow.
Whereupon, wildly throwing their arms
around you SOS to extract filters from
your neighbors seated on the surround
ing porches, they wise you up as to just
precisely who they are. Is il possible
that you don't know EN-? Why, we're