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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Caste In Music.

"Sometimes it is a disadvantage to
have a musician with a reputation at
the head Of hotel orchestra" said
hotel manager. 1--WE found this out
not long ago, when people from the
middle west, who are among our best
patrons, wanted our orchestra to play
at wedding in which they were in
terested and which took place in a
private house. AS the company got a
little warmed up they decided they
would have some dancing, so the host
ess asked the orchestra leader to play.
Would he? Not on your life. He was
an artist, he was, and it was not his
business to descend to playing for
dances. The result was that one Of
the guests had to play the piano, and
we almost lost the trade Of the family
we were trying to be especially nice
to."-New York Sun.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Changed His Mind.

"A southern senator was alone In his
Office one morning when middle aged
woman entered, bringing with her a
wild CLEAN in her eve.
sCan you lend me $2O?' she asked,
calling the senator by name.
7s11'm sorry 2 replied the lawmaker,
''but I'm afraid I can't this morning.
I'm pretty hard up
The visitor fidgeted in the chair
which she had taken without invita-
.tion. Il need 500 very badly she
continued. "1n fact, I've just escaped
from lunatic asylum" The CLEAN in
her eye got wilder, and she began to
wave her hand bag in long swinging
motion before her. ~ just got out
yesterday" she said. -
"That being the. case," concluded the
senator somewhat hastily, "here's the
twenty. y."-Washington Star.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
THE BEMlDJlz = ALL PIONEER.
A Notorious English spendthrift.

a Notorious English spendthrift.
Among the customers at Longs, the
famous hotel in Bond street, was the
last Marquis Of Hastings, the most
notorious Of mid Victorian spendthrifts.
Hastings, according to one who knew
him well, ''gambled so that not even
the Bank Of England backed by the
Rothschilds. with the mines of the
Transvaal as additional supports, could
have withstood the strain.
Yet even he protested at Longs when
charged IS. Cd. for whisky and soda.
The proprietor declared that this had
always been the charge. about time
It was altered, then,' retorted the mar
quis. Just before his death Hastings
remarked to a friend: I've made a
pretty hash Of my life. About all the
good I've ever done was to bring down
the price Of a whisky and soda at
Longs London Express.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
GoriIlas,

GorliaS.
At present there Is not live gorilla
in America There have never been
more than three, and only one Of these
lived more than a few weeks.
II would give $4,000 for gorilla
In good condition." said the superin-
tendent of a noted geological garden.
land we could get the money back in
a few months owing to the crowds Of
people who would come to see it. A
gorilla would be a great drawing card,
but gorillas cannot be got for money.
They grow sometimes to 400 pounds
in weight. Their home is small
strip of marshy land on the west
coast of Africa. The strip is perhaps
25O miles long and 100 miles deep, and
the gorillas stay back from the coast
and are hard to get. Once out Of their
native element they die from climatic
changes and lack Of proper food."-
Detroit Free Press.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Heine Made Goethe Smile.

= When visited Goethe, in Weimar,
and stood before him, 1 involuntarily
glanced at his side to see whether the
eagle was not there with the lightning
in his beak. I was nearly speaking
Greek to him; but, as observed that
he understood German, I stated to him
in German that the plums on the road
between Jena and Weimar were very
good. had for so many long winter
nights thought over what lofty and pro-
found things I would say to Goethe it
ever saw him. And when saw him
at last I said to him that the Saxon
plums were very good! And Goethe
smiled. Heinrich Heine, "Reisebild :
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Tho Perfect Putterer.

no TOrJOSI UIS0T0Ts
The art Of puttering consists Of do
ing for yourself slowly and inefficient
" what you can pay some one else to
do for you quickly and well. It Is
hard work that you do not have to do,
strenuous loafing that invites the soul.
The putterer works in pure love, and
II the product prove a poor thing it IS
at least his own. To be perfect put.
terer Is to achieve a liberal education.
Puttering is tonic relaxation from
the mechanical efficiency of our pro.
fessional selves, a corrective of the ex.
treme specialization that otherwise
would result in our becoming all foot
or hand or head. The putterer makes
laws and breaks laws and breaks the
laws he makes. He produces startling
variations from type. An inspired fool,
he is a true creator. or.-Atlantic. =.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Henley and Stevenson.

w. e. Henley once met Robert Louis
Stevenson and found his friend dis
tressed because he was not a Voltaire
or Dumas, though he had an equip
ment which ought to have made him
their peer. Stevenson put his failure"
down to the weakness Of his lungs.
sPerhaps you are right, Louis said
Henley. "1've always felt that if had
not been blessed cripple could have
taken the earth in my hand and hurled
It into the sum-
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
o o o q o . o o 90 o o o g
Q Calendar of Sports for the Week. .
o o o o O. o q 900 &@$%a@# % o q
Monday.

3 sr = .s EsssE szSf s &
National Class B amateur billiard
championship touranement opens in
New York.
Old Glory sale of trotters and pac-
ers opens in Madison Square Gar
den, New York.
Maryland and District of Columbia
field trials begin at Laurel, Md
Annual trials of Continental Field
Trial Club begin at Waynesboro, Ga.
Vanderbilt Cup races under aus
pices of Savannah Automobile Club,
Savannah.
Jack O'Brien VS.. Harry Ramsey, 6
rounds, at Philadelphia.
Eddie McCoorty VS.. Jimmy How
ard, 10 rounds, at Fond du Lac, Wis.
Knockout Brown vs. Bert Keyes
Is rounds, at New Haven, Conn.
Tuesday. . s
Willie Hoppe VS.. George Sutton,
for 1872 balkline billiard title, at
New York. ~
Willie Lewis vs. Mike Gibbons, 10
rounds, at New York.
Mike (Twin) Sullivan VS.. Paddy
LAWN, 10 rounds, at Cleveland, o.
Wednesday.
Tom Kennedy VS.. Al. Palzer, 10
rounds, at Brooklyn
Jack Dillon VS.. Frank Klaus, IL
rounds, at Pittsburgh.
Johnny Kilbane VS.. Patsy Branni-
gan, II rounds, at Youngstown O..
Thursday.
Grand Prize road race under aus
pices of Savannah Automobile Club
Savannah.
Annual field trials of the Delaware
Setter and Pointer Club.
Annual Marathon run of the Mer-
curry A. c., of Yonkers, N. Y.
Opening of a 80 days race meet
ing in Columbus, S. C.
Opening of the annual winter race
meeting at Juares, Mexico.
Open championship tournament of
the Southern Golf association begins
at Memphis.
Ad Wolgast VS.. Freddie Welsh, 20
rounds, at Los Angeles
Packey Mcfarland VS.. Tommy Muir
ply, 20 rounds, at San Francisco.
Football:
Pennsylvania vs. Cornell, at Phila-
delphia.
Carlisle VS.: Brown, at Providence.
Lafayette VS.. Dickinson, at Easton,
Pa.
Syracuse VS.. St. Louis University,
at St. Louis.
Friday.
Opening of annual show of the Toy
Spaniel Club of America, New York
Saturday.
Annual bowling tournament of
the Middle West Association opens
in Des Moines.
Knockout rBown VS.. Buck Grouse,
6 rounds, at Pittsburgh.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Push Your Business Through a Pioneer Want Al
Cent per Word
HELP WANTED

WANTED-For u. S. Army-Able-
bodied unmarried men between
ages of 1S and 35; citizens of the
> United States, of good character
and temperate habits, who can
speak, read and write the English
language. For information ap-
ply to Recruiting Office at Scroe-
der Building, Bemidji, or 217 Tor
rey Building, Duluth, MINI.
WANTED AT ONCE-Competen
girl for general work. Wages SIS
per week. Mrs. V. M. Owen,
Hines, MINI.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
London and New York.

New York will never give in the
same degree as London the impression
of being a real city. It is on too big or
too small a scale for that; its rivers
are too wide-they break the sense Of
continuity. At, Charing Cross, with
eleven miles Of London in every d.
rection, one gets a feeling of mass Of
immensity that is lacking in little old
New York, as Manhattan is properly
described Springfield Republican.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Hard Hearted.

t'Poor Bickers has very hard heart
ed wife," said Trivvet. ..
whats the trouble now?"' asked
Dicer. =.s
"She not only broke the broomstick
over his head. but made him 60 to the
store and buy another" ..5~
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
ife's Criycihla

az It was said of Diderot that in his in,
variable optimism he was like one Of
the old alchemists, who always found
gold in his crucible because he had
instructed soul learns to do, for life
consists always Of what we put into
~
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Tho Absentminded Record.

Tho Absentminded Record.
Duluth is the home of a woman who
in the line of observation-disclosures has
the whole world beaten to finish.
She is absentminded from, the time
she wakes up until the moment she
goes to sleep. .
- Emily" friend asked her on one
occasion, chow old was your mother
when she died?" IT, s
4ys Il don't know" replied Emily sweet
". "You know she died long before !
was born" Popular Magazine. ss%
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Notice to ENGINEERS.

There will be a special meeting of
N. A. S. E. in the dining room of the
I. O. o. F. hall on Tuesday night,
Nov. 28 at o'clock p. M All men,
bers are requested to be present as
business of Importance will be trans
acted. J. M. Newman, president.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
a blind Painter.

The wonderful sixth sense supposed
to be possessed by the blind is not a
fable. I know blind musician. He
Is genius" : es. I
"That's not so remarkable. I know a
blind painter" r.. ~ K. IT,
Impossible. @# ~.
"Not at all. HIS work is perfect"
"A blind painter? His work is per-
feet? Why, what does he, paintT' (.
''He paints blinds, you chump."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer @. ~.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

The names of parties ordering tel
ephones now, to be installed later,
will appear in the next directory
which goes to press Dec. 18th.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Nature.

Nature paints the best part of the
picture. carves the best part of the
statue, builds the best part of the house
and speaks the best part of the grafton.
Emerson. f t.>
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
Marine Yarn.

# Flipper-And how did your boat
come to be wrecked? Skipper-Well.
you see, she was making so many
knots the crew wasn't able to unravel
them.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27
LOST-Pair eye glasses; one glass
broken; finder please return to
Mrs. O. Lord
MISCELLANEOUS


ADVERTISERS--The great state of
North Dakota offers unlimited op-
portunities for business to classi-
fed advertisers. The recognized
advertising medium Is the Fargo
Daily and Sunday Courier-News,
the only seven day paper in the
state and the paper which carrier
the largest amount of classified
advertising. The Courier-News
covers North Dakota like a blank
et; reaching all parts of the state
the day of publication; it is the
paper to use in order to get re-
suits; rates one cent per word first
insertion, one-half cent per word
succeeding insertion; fifty cents
per line per month. Address the
Courier-News, Fargo, N. D.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

over this aud above all thick quilted
Jacket and voluminous sash. In all
this they will perform the national
dance throughout blazing afternoon.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

The next telephone directory goes
to press Dec. 18th. Changes in your
listing should be sent in before that
time.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

WANTED-For engine or boiler re-
.pairing call or phone G. F. Robin
son, 800 Minnesota Ave. Phone
285.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

WANTED TO TRADE-What have
you to trade for new standard pia-
no? Call at second hand store,
Odd Fellows Bldg.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

BOUGHT AND SOLD-Second hand
furniture. Odd Fellows building,
across from postoffice, phone 129.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

FOR SALE-Rubber stamps. The
Pioneer will procure any kind Of
rubber stamp for you on short
notice.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

FOR SALE-5 room house, 6S foot
lot, good investment, easy terms.
Only $500. Huffman, Harris &
Reynolds.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

WANTED-To loan $4,000 on i'm
proved city property. Huffman,
Harris & Reynolds.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

FOR SALE-No. 5 Oliver typewriter,
in first class condition. Inquire of
S. T. Stewart, 402 Minnesota Ave.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

FOR SALE-For sale cheap, 40 foot
ice boat complete. c. D. Lucas,
Bemidji.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

FOR SALE-Baled hay and straw by
Yves Wright, City Hall black.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-27

FOR SALE CHEAP-A few good sec
ond hand coal stoves. Zeigler Sec
ond Hand Store, Odd Fellows Bldg.
Across from Post Office.
The Harrison times., 1911-12-16
United Zinc Company.

A call meeting Of the directors OF
the United Zinc Company of Arkan-
sas, held Monday afternoon, result
ed in the election of J., X, Newman as
secretary Of the company to succeed
Burton Bunch, who is soon to leave
for Little Rock
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of this community was held
in st, Louis early in October and
steps were taken toward the leasing
Of the company's properties with a
view to actual development of one
or more Of the twelve tracts owned,
The local directors of the company
are Mrs. John A, Bunch, ] X. New.
man, Burton Bunch, c. +, Wilson,
and ! b. Frew Other directors are
George L, Faulhaber, M r. Moore,
and George I, Meyer, Of st, Louis,
and ! c, Mexican, of Muskogee
The new board will make an effort
co lease the company's property to
practical mining men who will de-
velop them.
The Harrison times., 1911-12-16
Belgian Draft Horses

F. A, Bingham, representing the
Blue Valley Stock Farm, of Blue
Mound, Kansas, arrived here this
week and will spend some time in
demonstrating to our stock men and
farmers the superiority Of the full
blooded Royal Belgian and Percher-
on Draft Horses which are made a
speciality at this farm,
No argument is needed to bring
our people TO the belief that there is
big money in good stock, and Mr..
Bingham not only represents a thor.
oughly reliable institution, but
comes with a guaranteed PROPOSE.
ton, which is in reach Of our people,
He is a former citizen of Batavia,
in this county, and is known as a
thoroughly honorable, as well ms a
capable stock man.
The Harrison times., 1911-12-16
s. W. Woods for Prosecuting Attorney.
LFrom lhe YellYllle Neho.l

From the GellYlllc Echo,
In this issue Of TnE EcHo will be
found the announcement of s. w.
Woods as n candidate for Prosecut-
ing Attorney, subject TO the action
Of the Democratic party. Mr..
Woods is well known to perhaps
every voter in this county lie lived
here for more than 20 years, and
stood at the very front as n LAWYER
and os a public spirited citizen. he
has never had any sympathy with
yiolators of the law, In fact has
ever stood for the strict enforcement
of the law, He is an earnest, cner.
getic man and throws his whole
soul into whatever he undertakes.
lfnominnted he will be elected and
the district will have an able, honest
and fearless official
The Harrison times., 1911-12-16
LITTLE ROCK LETTER.
LITTLE Rock. DEC. 10. 101

LII Vie NUN, DEO, ", lJl l.
One of the most notable develop.
ments of state affairs confronting
the people at this time is the growth
Of the sentiment for population leg
islation under the Initiative and
Referendum amendment. The peo-
pie appear to be ready to take the
subject of law-making into their
own hands very largely, and the in
dications are that the tickets next
September will be loaded down with
propositions upon which the voters
may express their opinion,
1t appears to be largely a protest
against the General ssembly, u re-
buke to what is generally considered
the shortcomings Of those who
have heretofore been entrusted with
the making of the laws, The lntia-
tive, the Referendum, the Recall and
the Imperative Mandate, although
but the first two have been adopted
! by Arkansas, are spreading rapidly
over the country and are bringing
about a condition of the purcst and
most untramcled Democracy,
Those who opposed the Initiative
and Referendum in Arkansas, said,
among other things, that it would
be useless, as it would seldom be in
voked, They were mistaken, The
people are just awakening to the
fact that they have this law-making
instrument in their hands, independ-
ent Of or correlatiye with the Legis-
lature, and they are preparing to
use it effectively in state, county and
ncighborhood affairs, In some in
stances the referendum is being en-.
! ployed to set aside acts passed by
the Legislature, notably the Turner
Jacobson bill, in more numerous
eases the Initiative is being invoked
to enact laws dc noyo,
TWELVE PETITIONS Oh FILE,
There are now twelve petitions on
file with the Secretary Of State, but
only one is for 4 statewide PROPOSE
! ton, This is the petition with
twcnty.thousand signatures filed by
State Senator Friedel to refer the
| Turner.Jacobson bill to the people,
! that they may say whether or not
! it shall become q law This Is the
bill that is serving as an effective
property in the political show, now
in the hands of one faction, now the
other with which to whack the
other fellow over the head,
Coy, Donaghey, who is making
his race for a third term practically
on this issue, that the Turner. Jacob.
son bill will cure the financial ills Of
the state, has been covering the state
pretty thoroughly, and he declares
that the bill will be overwhelmingly
approved by the people, He says
the people are slowly but surely
learning that they have been i'm.
properly persuaded by the opposi-
tion to believe the bill is against
their interests AS they are conviu'
ced that it is in their interest essen.
tally, they are as strongly support.
! ing it,
The Harrison times., 1911-12-16
Mrs JENNIE WELLMAN J

The Presbyterian Sunday school,
under the direction Of Mesdames
John Crumpler and OTTO Lopp, is
preparing a beautiful cantato, san
"a Claus partner" to accompany
their Christmas Tree next Saturday
night, All members Of the Sunday
school will participate except the
married folks, and the little people
will be dressed as fairies, elves, and
brownies
Burton Bunch left Yesterday for
Little Rock where he will have
charge of the state agency of the
Jackson Automobile Co, Combin-
ing first class business ability with
the control of one of the hest ma.
chimes made we feel confident that
Mr.. Bunch will be able TO make
good in every particular
The Baptist Ladies Aid Society
will hold their annual bazaar and
candy sale at the store Of A !, Wal,
tcrs g. Co.. on Tuesday afternoon,
December 10th They have many
pretty things for sale and some OF
their home made candies will be just
the thing for Christmas gifts,
SIS 05 for the round trip to Lit.
tie Rock December 25th.27th, good
for returning until January lst ON
account of the Arkansas State
Teachers Association, North Ark.
ansus Line.
The Harrison times., 1911-12-16
NUMEER %.

own hands, as they cannot depend
upon the General Assembly-an-
other slap at the Legislature,
For A STATE GAME Law.
A state game law is also to be in
'itiated. Petitions for it have been
in circulation for some time, and f..
V. Visart, former state game war
den of the Arkansas Sportsmen's
Association, says that if all the pc
titlons were in, there would prob
ably be enough now 20 initiate.
! The bill was several times before the
last Legislature in various forms,
and several times passed one house
or the other but never got through
the legislative mill just right II
provides for the Office Of State Game
and Fish warden and various dep
uty wardens, whose mission il shall
be 10 enforce the game and fish laws,
and protect the game and fish from
the pot-hunter and the nonresident.
The expense Of the department shall
be provided by system Of licenses.
1t is probable also ,ha q state.
wide election proposition will be
submitted by the minority parties,
designed to give them a greater rep
rcsentation in the election machin-
cry.
MANY Local MATTERS.
There are many local matters that
are to be voted on in various coun-
ties of the state.
Little Rock and Argenta will vote
on the question Of Sunday baseball
Camden and Fulton will vote ON
the question Of saloon licenses,
Sewer, Faulkner, Johnson and
Boone counties will vote on fence
laws,
Van Buren county, the city of
Nashville, the city OF ParagouId,
will take a vote on the subject Of
stock law or no stock law,
The people Of Baxter county will
vote on the question Of setting aside
tick.cradication laws as being in
furious and detrimental to their in
tcrests,
1t will be an expensive proposition
to submit all these proposed laws,
almost as expensive as Il protrocted
session Of the Legislature But il is
Democracy,
The Harrison times., 1911-12-16
A Stave Mill for Harrison.
Fifteen Hundred Dollars Raised in Two
Days for Booster Movement,

buIo lVi DuOotVl WO'NlhVH''
Responding to a proposition from
the Ravenden and Pettigrew Stave
Co, in which they proposed to To-
cate manufacturing plant in Har-
rison if FIVE acres of suitable grounds
be furnished them, a special commit
tee from the Commercial Club, head
ed by w. F. Gordon, took the mat
ter in hand this week and circulated
a Booster subscription paper with
SPLENDID success, Over a hundred
and nifty citizens agreed by this pa
per to give ten dollars each within
the ensuing two years for the pur-
pose Of offering inducements to man
ulacturing enterprises which may be
located. Messrs Gordon, Holt,
Fellows and Davis were named as a
committee to have charge of the
movement
7 Manning, who represents the
Stave Company, is out now eXamin-
ing the timber Of the territory, and
the committee is ready to close with
him as soon as he returns