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The Washington times., 1912-09-18
HARDLY POSSIBLE TO
STOP WOMEN SMOKERS
New York Hotel Man Declares
European Custom Is Firmly
Planted Here.

NEW YORK, Sept. lit is hardly
possible to stop women smoking now,
even in New York" ..... b..
SO said r. II. HAN. proprietor of
the Hotel st. Regis today on his re-
turn from visit to Europe, where he
studied many of the fashionable hotels.
In Europe one sees men and women
having coffee in the lounge after din
ner with much the enjoyment of a
drawing room. The men have their
cigars and the women their cigarettes.
The custom has become very general
that Of women smoking.
II think It is hardly possible to stop
women smoking now, even in New
York. 1t seems to have become their
privilege and right. Women Of the very
best families, smoke in Europe"
The Washington times., 1912-09-18

Mr.. Curtis opposed the match on the
grounds that his daughter Is but seven
teen years old.
He held out no promise of relenting In
the near future, which greatly dis
couraged the young people, particularly
Luyties. Accordingly, Maurine was
packed of to Europe, accompanied by
Mrs. Curtis, to remain abroad for year
or more. Luyties and Miss Curtis corr
responded regularly. but the young man
did not seem to recover from his de-
preston, To several of his friends he
limited of a possible trip to Europe in
the near future.
Miss Purdy was. firm in the belief that
he had carried out this purpose.
The Washington times., 1912-09-18

fight just before Congress closed its
sessions to have an investigation made
OF the State Departments action in
Nicaragua, will continue his efforts just
as soon as Congress IL reconvened. IL
he Is able to get the Senate's consent to
full probe being made a sharp clash
between the department and Bacons
followers Is regarded asl inevitable. Tile
departments line of defense Is plainly
indicated in the Nicaraguan note.
ITO protect American life and prop
erty" at all hazards will be- as now,
the platform on which the department
will stand. Department officials believe
they will be able to put their critics on
the defensive IL a showdown is forced
The Washington times., 1912-09-18
TREASURY READY TO
AID CROP MOVEMENT
Assistant Secretary Confers With
MacVeagh as to Methods of
Distribution.

Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
r. o. Bailey left Washington today for
Dublin, N. H., to confer with Secretary
of the Treasury MacVeagh and consid-
er the advisability of distributing
SOS, ,00o, 900 to banks in the great farming
sections to prevent a money stringency
through the amounts Withdrawn for the
movement OF crops.
Reports of national bank examinations
that there Is a decided tendency toward
decrease in reserve in the interior
banks, and a calling OF loans on city
banks. =.
OF September will be available In q
few days
The Washington times., 1912-09-18

the construction of a boulevard con"
Meeting the chain of historical forts
surrounding the city to be known as
Fort drive,
The purchase of Fort Davis and Fort
Dupont in the southeast section of the
District was authorized by Congress IN
the last District appropriation bill, and
needed to complete the Improvement.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
Minnesota.

Minnesota is an American state
which has been borrowed by the Nor
wegians with great success. Owing
to it's steady and reliable. winter it
has become the favorite lifetime re-
sort of these hardy people who raise
wheat, white whiskers and American
citizens with great fuency. Mime
sofa now has over 100000 people,
half of whom have names ending in
"sOn.' .
Minnesota is one of the larger
states, having $4,000 square miles
and a full supply of square legisla-
ture. 1t has no mountains, but it is
so badly infested with lakes in the
northern part that the scattered far
mers north of Duluth have to fence
in their fields with fish nets. The
Mississippi river rises in one Of these
lakes and flows over ESQ miles
through the state before it becomes
large enough to act as state line
and a barrier against presidential
nominations. ~.
Minnesota is densely settled in the
southern part and enjoys all the con-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
veniences OF civilization, including

: :.
veniences OF civilization, including
interurbans and golf clubs.
Minnesota produces more wheat,
iron ore and light-haired, blue-eyed
statesmen than any other common
wealth. It has n state university
which leads the world in the produc-
ton of Clydesdale half backs and has
5000 students all trained to yell
''Ski-U Nah" in unison when the team
scores on Michigan. It was born Re-
publican, but was recently captured
by Colonel Roosevelt after a hard
tussle with neighbor LaFollette. Be-
sides, Minnesota has contributed Ig-
natius Donnelly, Adam Bede, Knute
Nelson, James j. Hill, Arch bishop
Ireland and other interesting citizens
to it's country, but her greatest feat in
citizen-producing was John A. John
son, who would have mixed up the
Democratic convention at Baltimore
more than ever had he lived. Min
nesota mourns his death sincerely,
but has 100000 more Johnsons in
training and will yet produce pres
ident of that name.-George Fitch I'M
Minneapolis Journal.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
High School Party.

The high school students who are
planning a summer party for next
Friday evening have taken steps to
inaugurate custom that should
prove one of the most popular enter.
tainments for summer visitors to Be-
midi. The young men who are
spending the summer at different lake
resorts are planning to attend the
party and many of the ladies have
sent home for their party dresses.
Two or three such parties every sum-
mer would give the young people of
Bemidji opportunity to meet the
young people who summer here and
the friendships thus formed should
make vacations more pleasant for
all.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
800 Reward, 800.

The readers Of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
foundation Of the disease, and giving
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the diease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in it's curative powers that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for list
Of testimonials.
Address F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio. 49,
Sold by all Druggists, 75c. s..-a
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
Wanted, a Maxim Silencer.
.Wanted-A Maxim silencer that
will keep politicians quiet for a week.
Stanton and Teddy Too Popular.

Stanton and Teddy Too Popular.
At their regular meeting this week,
the board of county commissioners
of Cass county were told by Auditor
Iverson that there are already too
many townships named "Roosevelt''
and "Stanton"- and that the board
would have to seek new names.
Consequently the Stanton township
was renamed "Trelipee'' and the
Roosevelt township is now "Bull
Moose
In about twenty years, the mail
clerks in Cass county will be tearing
their hair because of the large num-
Der of "Charles Stanton Johnsons"
and "Theodore Roosevelt O1sons."
But the town of Bull Moose will go
down in history.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
County Needs Exhibits.

A. P. Richie, secretary Of the ex-
ecutive board of the Beltrami coun-
ty fair, has issued a call for speci-
mems of crop grown in this county,
the same to be exhibited at the state
and county fairs. No better adver-
Using can be had for county than
a good crop exhibit. Pictures and
reading matter cannot tell the story
as we'll as the actual samples. Far
mers are urged to send in their best
and stand together in boosting for
Beltrami county.
The fair board has issued an at
tractive booklet listing the prizes
which will be awarded at the coun-.
ty fair next month. Exhibits can be
shown at the state fair and then be
brought to the county fair and en-
tered as prize winners. Copies of the
premium list may be had by sending
a two cent stamp to the Pioneer to
cover postage or can be had free by
calling in person at the Office.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
Helmer Funeral Sunday.

Norman Helmer was a servant of
the county when he died. He died
while doing his duty and he died
fearlessly and with no word of regret
passing his lips. The funeral will be
held Sunday at 2 p. m. in the city
hall. It is public funeral and every
man and woman who can do so owes
it to Norman Helmer to attend his
funeral. It is the last public rec
ognition that can come to him. He
laid down his life for the community.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
Skipplnu Prciimlnarlas.

"Circumsantial evidence points
strongly toward you as the perpetra-
tor Of the mysterious crime" said the
detective. do you desire us to send
for a lawyer or spiritual adviser?"
Great Scott, no!'' replied the ex-
cited suspect. Send for an alienist.''
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
of the supreme court of the United
States, sixty-nine years old today.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.

August 10.
1675-Greenwich Observatory es-
tablished.
1753-Edmund Randolph, first at
torney-general of the U. S., born in
Williamsburg, Va. Died Sept. IS,
1913.
Massacre of the Swiss Guard
in an attack on the Tuileries in Paris.
1S32-Gibbeting irons used for the
last time in England.
1S33-Chicago incorporated as a
town. .-- " 81
1S61-Gen. Lyon killed at the bat
tie of Wilson's Creek, Mo.
1911-British House of Lords &C.
copied the veto bill. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10
THIS IS MY 63rd BIRTHDAY.
Horace Fletcher.


Horace Fletcher, who is noted as
the "Fletcherism," or the science of
the emastication of food, was born in
Lawrence, Mass, August 10, 1849.
He graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1866 and has since travelled in
all parts of the world engaged in
numerous occupations. OF late years
he has devoted his attention to soci-
ology, and especially the scientific
research in human nutrition. Mr.
Fletcher has lectured before many
colleges and medical societies in.
America and Europe and has been.
a frequent contributor to magazines
and scientific papers.
Congratulations to:
Rear Admiral Charles p. Clark, u.
S. n, retired, sixty-one years old.
today.
Rear Admiral Geo. G. Remey, u. s.
~, retired, seventy-one years old to-
day:
Joseph McKenna, associate Justice
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-10

ri was cured of diarrhoea by one
dose of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy writes NJ. z.
Gebhardt, Oriole, Pa. There is moth
ing better. For sale by Barker's
Drug Store.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
Men Of Sanity.

New York Herald: President Taft
and Gov. Wilson are both men OF
strong political sanity, widely apart as
may be the platforms upon which
they stand. Both are ready to put
into effect their programs without al
teration in the fundamentals Of the
government, without violence to ma
tional traditions. At variance on the
tariff and on other cardinal points OF
political doctrine, they are, neverthe-
less, of conservative convictions and
tendencies, and neither will require
that the government structure be torn
down before undertaking to improve
conditions under it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
THE REVENUES or CHINA.

If 1t is true that the United States
is advising the Chinese republic
against embarking uDon an area of
reckless expenditure, and that while
the question of the s300,G00,0o0 loan
is pending the central government is
getting a living revenue from the
provincial governments, which are
providing it from the sources of the
former tributes of viceroys to the
Pekin government, China is getting
excellent advice. Her statesmen
should give the matter of the lean
grave consideration before placing the
Chinese people under obligations that
vii, be hard to meet.
A 5000, 900, 900 loan would mean an
Indebtedness of about eighty cents
per capita, estimating the population
of the new republic at t's highest
figures. and it seems probable that
estimates Of the population of China
have been anything but conservative.
Eighty cents gold" is considerable
sum IN China, where the days work
of an adult male laborer is paid for
in a few cents gold and where the
unskilIed, AID even skilled, labor OF
women and children is much cheap
er commodity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
Abolish PensIon Offices.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.Seven-
teen branch pension offices outside of
Washington will be abolished January
81, 1913, subject to action by the
house, as result of action taken by
the senate this afternoon.
Senator McCumber republican,
North Dakota) Of the senate
conferees, stood firm for the abolish
ment of the agencies on December
81. 1912, but he believed that the
house would agree to an extension of
time to January 81, 1913. The senate
was asked by McCumber to concede
to the adjustment Of the agencies
He offered amendments necessary to
make the change to January 81, effec.
five, and they were adopted by the
senate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
Fingers Clasped Again,

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. i
HOUSTON, Texas. Aug. 15.-Wil-
liam a Martin, held in jail on fed.
eral white slave charge. in connection
with the abduction of Mrs. Thomas
G. Finger, of New York, will be tried
in the federal court here in October,
it was stated today. Mrs. Finger is
out on bond on charge brought by
her husband. Her case will come up
in September.
Finger and his wife have settled
their differences and today said they
would start living together again
soon They now take their meals to.
gether and Mrs. Finger declares Mar
tin is a back number with her.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
Mark Twain's Tribute to Grant

some which this nation would pre-
serve for ages as sacred things If we.
could know which ones they are the
vast audience waited breathless for
his conclusion. Step by step he led
toward some unseen climax
surprise, of course, for that would be
his way. Then steadily, and almost
without emphasis, he delivered the
opening of his final sentence.
= 8 And now in his cradle, somewhere
under the flag, the future illustrious
commander-in-chief of the American
armies is so little burdened with his
approaching grandeurs and response
bilities as to be giving his whole
strategic mind at this moment to try
ing to find out some way to get his
own big toe into his mouth, an
achievement which (meaning no dis
respectl the illnstrious guest of this
evening also turned his attention to
some Sc years ago.
He paused. and the vast crowd
had a chill of fear After all. he
seemede likely to overdo ito spoil
everything with cheap joke at the
end.
No one ever knew better than
Mark Twain the value of a pause He
waited nov long enough 10 let the
silence become absolute, until the ten
sion was painful; then wheeling to
Grant himself. he said with all that
dramatic power of which he was
master.
:" And if the child is but the father
of the man. there are mighty few who
viii doubt that he succeeded
The house came down with a
crash. The inkling of their hero's
great military triumphs with that
earliest of ali conquests seemed to
them so grand figure that they
went mad with the joy of it, Even
Grants iron serenity broke; he rock
ed and laughed while the tears
streamed down his cheeks
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15

In Harper's for August, Albere Big
Glow Paine tells of Mark Twain's now
forgotten speech at the great Grant
dinner in Chicago i'll 1872, He had
been asked to respond to THE La
dies but changed his toast to The
Babies"
Mark Twain declared afterward
that he listened to four speech that
night which he would remember as
long as he lived. One of them was by
Emory Storrs. another by General
Villas, another by Logan, and the last
and greatest by Robert Ingersoll
whose eloquence swept the house like
a flame.
Clemens own speech came last
He had been placed at the end to hold
the house. He was preceded by dull
speaker, and his heart sank, for it
was two o'clock and the diners were
weary and sleepy and the dreary
speech had made them unresponsive.
They gave him round OF applause
when he stepped UP upon the table in
front of him-a tribute to his name.
Then he began the opening words Of
that memorable, delightful fancy.
I'VE haven't all had the good for
tune to be ladies; we haven't all been
generals, or poets, or statesmen. but
when the toast works down to the
babies we stand on common ground
-
The tired audience had listened in
respectful silence through the first
half OF the sentence He made one
of his effective pauses on the woro
babies, and when he added, in that
slow. rich measure of his. We stand
on common ground. they let go a
storm of applause. There was no
WEAKNESS and inattention after that.
At the end of each sentence he had
to stop TO let the tornado roar Itself
out and sweep by. When he reached
the beginning of the final paragraph,
Among the three or four million
cradles now rocking in the land are
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
Mrs. Rernsteln,s Trial.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Aug. 15. That Mrs.
Florence Bernstein, on trial before
Judge Honore, for the murder Of her
husband frequently auarrelled with
her spouse was the testimony given
by witnesses introduced by the state.
Louis Ronein, Bernstein's business
partner, testified that the defendant
frequently came to her husbands Of
nee. nearly always quarrelled with
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
ALL,s WELL.


The sun is busy bringing the harvest
time along;
The rattle OF the mower" IS blended
into song;
Where swallows dip and circle above
the new-mown hay;
The incense of the meadaws Is blown
along the way;
The clouds are high and fleecy. there's
promise everywhere,
And who would not be hopeful, with
all the world SO fair?
The fretful politicians are going to
and fro, 81
Accusing foolish passions, predicting
future woe;
With selfish hopes they hurry from
place to place to plead
Or utter foolish warnings the foolish
only heed
Their mouths are full Of hatred their
hearts are full Of spite,
But who would not be hopeful with all
the world so bright?
The willows bend serenely above the
placid gtream,
Within the peaceful shadows the
herds lie down to dream;
The mower blithely rattles. and
many fairy fleet
Is tossed upon the pillows that cross
the fields of wheat;
The bees, lured by the clover, seek
hidden sweetness there,
And who would not be hopeful, with
all the world SO bright
Urged by their own ambitions the pol
iticians roar
Concerning ills that threaten ant
woes that are in store;
For selfish ends they yainIy attemp
to terrorize;
With cheap conceit they tell us theJ
only are the wise;
But summers Joys await US. th'
clouds are high and white.
And who would not be hopeful witt
ali the world so bright2
IS. f. Kiser.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
KEOsAUQUA WOMAN
Badly BURNED
Mrs. Rigsby Was Victim of Explosion
and May Not Survive Her
Injuries.
Especial to The Gate City.l

Especial to The Gate City.]
KEOSAUQUA, Aug. 15-At about
six o'clock yesterday morning the res
idents in the west part of town were
aroused by an explosion of consider
able magnitude, and upon rushing
from their homes, saw the form of
grown person imam or woman they
could not tell which, entirely envel-
oped in flames, running from the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rigsby. Neigh
bors who saw the person entirely COW
cred with flames, rushed to give aid,
some of whom were only partly clad
in night clothes. Upon their arrival
they found the burning person to be
Mrs. Rigsby. Her husband succeeded
in catching her when she was only a
few reds from the house, and carried
her back, and with the help of other
arrivals, rolled her in the thin mud in
the alley nearby and succeeded in
smothering the fire, but not until her
hair and clothing was entirely burn
ed off, the skin being badly burned
on all parts of the body. Mr.. Rigsby
was badly burned about the arms.
DR.. Craig who lives next door came
Y it'll all haste possible, being clad in
only his night clothes, to give the best
relief possible to the. suffering woman.
She was in the greatest agony until
she became under the influence OF
narcotics administered to relieve pain.
At this time 1t is not known how
deeply she is burned; but it Is feared
that her injuries will prove fatal.
/ The cause OF the explosion was as
follows: Mrs. Rigsby was getting
breakfast and the fuel having become
much dampened by Yesterdays rain,
| the fire was not burning to her liking
so she procured a twc-gallon can OF
kerosene and began pouring oil on the
slow fire which ignited the oil, burst
ing the can into bits and saturatins
| her clothing with oil. Immediately
after the explosion the interior Of the
room as well as the body of Mrs. Rigs
| by was mass of flames. The fire
was extinguished in the room with
but little damage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
Eolled AGAIN.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service-l
WASHINGTON, Aug 15.-"Foiled
again.
This was the plight again today o
the house war department investlgat
ing committee in its long quest lo.
the missing papers, in the scanaa.
involving Major Beecher b Ray q
the pay corps.
Secretary Of War Stimson aud Judss8
Advocate General Crowder were erlif
ed by the committee without proou,
ing the papers Major General ben
Is supposed to have them in Mania
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15

Miss Lille Williams has applied for
a position on the police motorcycle
squad of Los Angeles To prove that
she is competent to fill the position
Miss Williams displayed seven champ
ionship medals which she won from
time to time all over the country as
q bicycle racer before motorcycles
became popular. Some of these med.
ais are for speed races and others
Tor endurance runs.