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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
FARM BOYS WIN PRIZES
Sixteen Best Essays Picked by Man.
ager Of State Fair-.Wrote on
What They Saw and Learned
BELTRAM1 NOT REPRESENTED

Fifty essays written by fifty boys
who were members of the Farm
Boys camp at the state fair have
been read and sixteen prizes were to-
day awarded by J. C. Simpson, Sec
rotary of the fair. The fifty boys
were winners in as many country ag-
ricultural contests and they repre-
sented their counties at the fair. On
,neir return they wrote on the sub
ject, "What I Saw and Learned at
the Minnesota State Fair as Men,
Der of the Farm Boys Camp"
Sixteen business men offered
prizes, the prizes were such that they
could not be rated by number, the
sixteen best essays were selected and
the prizes selected. Mr. Simpson said
the essays were we'll written and
showed thorough study of the ex-
hibits.
The winners were: Clarence Pet
erson, Dassel, Swift county; Harold
IS. Bowen, Vermont Center, Blue
Earth county; Paul J. Skaiem, Au-
dubon, Becker county; Reuben F.
Erickson, Marine Mills, Washington
county; Hugh Mcleod, Royalton,
Morgan county; Llody Kennedy, Wa
dena, Wadena county; Walter J.
Lundstrom, New Germany, Carver
county; Robert Scholer, Zumbra
Falls, Wabasha county; R. Burnett,
Mankato, Nicollet county; Thomas
Gildea, Glencoe, Mcleod county; Roy
Hubs, now of Gary, S. D., Lac qui
Parle county; J. Ambrose Loidolt,
SauA Rapids, Benton county; Eu-
gene Augur, White Bear, Ramsey
county; Arthur Hokenson, Howard
Lake, Wright county; Harold Hough-
ton, Marshall, Lyon county; Arnold
Peter, Mortified, Dakota county.
These received honorable mention:
Alvin Snyder, St. Cloud, Stearns
county; Emery Loken, Friesland,
Pine county; Harold Soderquist, Mil
AGA, Mile Laos county; Charles Howe
Hopkins, Hennepin county. .
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
The Early Shopper
Has the True
Christmas Spirit.
JURY DISCHARGED
BY United Press.


Goshen, N. Y, Nov. 26.-The jury
in the murder trial of Burton w.
Gibson, accused of killing Mrs. Rose
Szabo, reported to Justice Tompkins
at noon today that they had disa-
greed and that there was absolutely
no chance of reconciling their diff
ferences. Justice Tompkins discharg-
ed the jury.
Gibson is charged with deliberate
ly numbering Mrs. Szabo on Green
wood lake last July. The jury went
out yesterday and while it deliberat-
ed, his white faced wife paced up and
down in front of the court house in
the rain. In the court room a de-
tective sat armed with a warrant
awaiting the verdict so that if Glib
son had been acquitted he would have
been arrested at once on a charge of
larceny of $4,000 from Hugh Train
or, former client.
The court had directed verdict of
first or second degree murder or &C
quittal
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
RAISED BIG CORN CROP.

Pipestone, Mimi, Nov. 26-George
Vancura, the Lakefeld farmer who
grew 100 bushels Of excellent corn
on an acre, has given out statement
showing how he prepared the land
and cultivated the corn. In 1911 he
selected a plot of ground that had
been in clover eight years. It was
plowed about six inches deep and
nothing further was done with the
land until the spring of 1912. AS
soon as the ground had thawed sew
eral loads of manure were hauled on
and the land was disced several times
On May 10 Vancura planted his seed
corn, known as Minnesota No. 10.
The corn was checked three in hill,
Sc inches by AZ inches apart. The
acre was narrowed twice before the
corn appeared above the ground. By
close watching cut worms and ground
squirrels were kept from the corn.
ne first cultivation was on June 10,
and the field was then covered with
fertilizer. The corn was cross Guilt
waited on June 21, and again covered
with fertilizer. The next cultivation
was on July and the last on July
10. After the last cultivation moth
ing was done to the corn until Oct.
10, when it was surveyed and husk-
ed and weighed up by a committee of
citizens and found to yield 100 BUSH
els to the acre.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26

Baltimore, Nd, Nov. 26.-Al-
though Governor Goldsborough will
not consider the matter of appoint
ing a successor to the late United
States Senator Rayner until after the
senator's funeral, those who are close
to him believe he will name for the
place VIM. P Jackson, Maryland's
member of the Republican national
committee.
The appointee will serve until his
successor is chosen by the legislature,
which does not meet until January,
1914. With the election of this body
next fall senatorial primaries will be
held at which the voters will ex-
press their preference not only for
the candidate to fill out the unexpir-
ed portion of Mr.. Rayner's term, but
also for the successor to John H..
Walter Smith, whose term ends
March 3, 1915.
Funeral services will be held at
his former residence here Wednesday
afternoon. Senator Bacon, president
tempore of the senate, will appoint
committee of senators and Speaker
Clark will name a committee repre-
sentatives to be present. Interment
will be in Rock Creek cemetery here
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
MISS FARLEY IS ACQUITTED.

Columbus, Ohio, Nov. rs. - Miss
Cecilia Farley, the pretty statehouse
stenographer who has been on trial
for two weeks for the murder of AL
vim zollinger, an advertising solicit
tor, was acquitted Saturday after
noon by a jury which had been out
three and one half hours. Miss Far
ley Immediately announced that she
and Jermane Quigley, who had figur-
ed prominently in the case, would
be quietly married and go, to, Cali
fornia to live.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
VISITS OLD HOMESTEAD.

R. H. Johnson, who operates the
dray business in the city of Climax,
Minnesota returned to his home af-
ter a weeks visit with his old neigh
Dor, John Halsted, of Foy, MINI. Mr..
Johnson formerly owned a homestead
near Beuna Vista. While in this vi
cinity he hunted deer, but was I'M
successful. He left for home Mon
day afternoon, but on account of
Sunday nights snow fall intended
to stop OF at Shevlin.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
MEN
TO DIE
They Killed .Rosenthal
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
New York, Nov. 26.-Justice Golf,
in the criminal branch of the SUI
preme court, today sentenced Whitley
Lewis, Dago Frank, Lefty Louie, and
Gyp the Blood to be electrocuted in
Sing Sing prison during the week of
January 6. These are the four gun
men convicted of the actual killing
of Herman Rosenthal, the New York
gambler. To date, five men have
been sentenced to death for this MUIR
der as the former police lieutenant,
Charles Becker, was sentenced earl
Ter in the month.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
SENATOR RAYNER DEAD.
Name of Democrat From MARYLAND
Had Been Offered As a Presi-
Dental Candidate.
SUCCESSOR NOT YET NAMED
fCODyriRht.|

Washington, Nov. Ex-senator Is
idor Rayner of Maryland, one of the
leading Democratic members of the
United States senate and man whose
name was offered to the Baltimore
convention by w. J. Bryan as a suit
able candidate for the presidential
nomination, died here early Monday
at the end of a long illness result
ing from continued attacks of neu-
ritis.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
Charge Was Based on Death of 4
Woman Strike Breaker Killed
In the Lawrence Mill Fights.
JURY WAS OUT FIVE HOURS
Judge Refused to Hear Verdict I'm.
til Session Opened This Morn
ing-Victory for Unions.
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Court House, Salem, Nov. 26.-All
three labor leaders, Ettor, Giovanet-
ii and Caruso, who have been on trial
nearly two months charged with muir
der as the result of a woman strike
breaker being killed during the tex
tile troubles at Lawrence, were ac-
quilted this morning.
Salem, Mass, Nov. 25.-The fate
of Joseph Ettor, Arturo Giovannettf
and Joseph Caruso charged with re-
sponsibility for the murder of Anna
Lopizzo during the textile strike
riots, is reported tonight to have been
determined by the jury, but the YER
dict won't be known unM tomor-
row.
Less than an hour after Judge
quinn ieIL the court mouse tonight
with the announcement that he
wouldn't receive the verdict until to-
morrow, the jurors filed from their
room and went to the hotel for SUD-
per.
After supper they retired to their
rooms, and the report spread that a.
verdict had been reached.
The judge wouldn't alter his pre-
vious decision. The jury deliberated
five hours. 1t was rumored tonight
that the qudge would open court
early tomorrow morning to receive
the verdict, but this was unconfirm-
ed.
The accused, except Joseph Caru-
so, cannot be found guilty of first de-
gree murder in accordance with the
charge given by Judge. Quinn, if gull
ty it must be of second degree or Of
manslaughter
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
Wishes to See Near Eastern Combin
alton Into One Strong Power
to Checy Slavic Expansion.
TROOPS ARE BEING Modified
Terms to Turkey Have Been Modified
But General Preparations Con-
tinue to Go Forward.
by United Press.

by United Press.
Semlin, Hungary, Nov. 26.-That
Russia had suggested joining the
Balkan alliance as soon as peace had
been arranged permanently was
rumored here today.
1t was the general opinion that
England would favor some sort Ct
federation of all the Balkan states,
as likely to consolidate ultimately
into one strong power which would
check both German and Slavic ex-
pansion further into the Near East.
Premier Gueschoff called a meet
ing of the Bulgarian cabinet, it was
stated in a Sofia message, to consider
Turkeys permanent peace proposals.
Berlin, Nov. 26. - Relations be-
tween Austria-Hungary and Servia
are now so strained that political
circles in Vienna have abandoned
hopC VI tuC plCocl PdLlOu VI peace,
according to the Neue Gesellschaft-
liche Correspondence, which says it
has it's information from a diplo-
matte source
Despite Austrian denials of the re-
ported mobilization of the Austro-
Hungarian army, the Correspondent
declares that five army corps have
been already modified and the re-
serves continue to be called I'D in
large numbers.
The Austro-Hungarian government
1t continues, is resolved not to await
the return of the Servian troops op-
Grating against the Turks and an
ultimatum to Servia may be expect
ed within few days.
The situation has become more
acute through the changed attitude
of Russia. Sergius Sazonoff, the
Russian foreign minister, after hav-
ing declared suitable as a basis for
further negotiations, the Austrian
proposal guaranteeing Servia a free
port on the Adriatic sea and Serv-
ian railway through Albania but
without territorial rights, has now
abandoned this standpoint.
Austria is now disposed to push
the matter to a decision because if
was is inevitable she wants to take
advantage of her mobilization being
more advanced than that of Russia.
Vienna, Nov. 26. - The result of
the visit to Berlin Of Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand, the Austrian heir to
the throne, is that in eastern affairs,
notably in those questions relating
to Roumania and to Adriatic sea,
Germany, Italy and Austria will
march together, according to the
Reichspost. Preparations for every
eventuality have been fully made SO
that all surprises are guarded
against
London, Nov. 26.-Plenipotentiar
les representing the allied Balkan ma
lions and the Turkish government
met today land discussed terms for
an armistice. Nothing was announc-
ed concerning the nature OF the de-
liberations beyond the fact that the
allies were prepared to modify the
terms which Turkey last week refus-
ed to consider.
While the principals are thus en-
gagged in efforts to arrange a truce
between the opposing armies prepapr-
atory to a definite peace, prepara-
tions elsewhere for possible trouble
on larger scale show no signs of
abatement.
While the intentions of the great
1COntinued On last ua0eS
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
DROWNED
In Rat Root River
BY United Press.

Ericksburg, Minn., Nov. 26. -
George Siedenbrunner, fifty-two,
while hunting broke through the ice
on the Rat Root river, fifty feet from
shore, and was drowned. The place
where the tragedy occurred was
about nine miles from international
Falls Mr.. Siedenbrunner formerly
lived at New Ulm, Mimi.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
TAR POT SCARES CROWD
BY United Press.

New York, Nov. 26.-The pouring
of dense clouds of smoke from the
top-most room in the tower of the
new Woolworth building, sixty-one
stories above Broadway, caused 5000
people to crowd City Hall park, be-
lieving that the Leviathian of all
sky-scrapers was on fire. Investiga-
ton: by policemen revealed that the
smoke came from a tar pot used in
finishing the roof. -. - =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26

The Production, though short, Is
amusing from the start There will
be several other numbers on the pro-
gram, including songs and recita,
lions.
These meetings are being largely
attended by others than high school
students and the general public is
invited for this meeting.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-26
GOOD FARCE PROMISED.

Under the direction of Miss Alien
Sherwood, instructor of Latin and
German, and Professor Bailey, the
farce which is to be given at the
Freshmen-Junior Literary society
meeting tomorrow afternoon is near
ing perfection, rehearsals being held
twice daily.
The farce is entitled "Wooing I'm
der Difticulties' and the caste ia q,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Weird Human Things Done by Plants

srappie with it's tormentor. Ra-
sues the twisting motion II has
another' which has been described
as oowlng around or circum-mn-
tatloh' This is an endeavor to fas-
Ten on something. 1t was undoubt-
euIy its success in Blowing around"
OF Recommendation. that enabled
inc creeper to carry off the bottle,
Ihough We have yet to find plants
that can hear or smell, many of our
common growths are sensitive TO
touch, taste, sight and thirst. Chlor-
ophyIl, which is the green coloring
matter OF leaves, not only stores up
the energy Of the sun in plants, but
enables the plant to select the light
ray mat is most beneficial to it.
In millions Of little green granules
under the epidermis Of the leaf. 1t
is, IN fact, the eyes of the plant. II
can detect every color and rays the
human eye cannot see.
The projected giant sun-concen-
traitor which may make the Sudan
the powerhouse of the world was
long ago anticipated by Nature In
the schizostigma. This apparently
terrible creature is nothing more
formidable than a type of moss
Nature has endowed it with lenses
in the form of globular granules
which concentrate and condenss
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

Ight and so feed the plant in the
shade. Too much light, however,
turns leaves yellow, and plants can
De made to turn their coats by the
acton of light upon them,
FIants, III fact, are Just as sensi-
i've as we are. Insectivorous
plants can undoubtedly taste what
Is given them and refuse it as GER
talnly as the gourmet would an in
lerlor dish at the dinner of a CITY
company They only like nitrog-
enous substances; sugar, starch
OIL and such fattening carbohy-
drates they have no use for.
Inc craving of plants and trees
ior water has sometimes led them
TO terrible extremes. A poplar has
Deen known to burrow beneath a
wall under a road and down A
well-all in search of water. and
pertinacious turnip which got tina
tip of its root into the crack in a
Held drain went on and on until II
was six feet long in the drain. So
sensitive Is the tip of the root, ON
the water question that Darwin de-
clared 1t must have brain in il.
If ever book is written on veg.
etable mechanics" one will find that
plants have made levers, screws.
columns. wedges-everything. in
tact, that engineers have.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

aI+o earnest l went off the stage
aIIogether for two years and went
sneo y 70 study and to plan for that
a round part. After that l went
mora 20 the offices again. Once
mo my old managers laughed at
Ready to come back, are you?"
shoyy. SAID We'll, there's been no
nIa om siiI since who could take your
and 0Ign his contract and 90
Sir1 c nev nIteu for the best show
Il won't" l said.
At last Henry w. Savage agreed
TO give me q chance in his farce,
Excuse Me-" Pm playing the
second most important feminine
role in 1t now, and after Christ
mas, Mr., Savage is going to give
me a better and bigger part in a
new Broadway production. / have
won out in my fight against my
looks.
But see the waste. it's taken me
ten years to do It, If l had been
palmer / could have done it in one
I've spoken about the "exits to
the heart" being closed too. l can't
imagine anything more dangerous
for true love than being a stage
beauty. I've had proposals, lots of
them But | wouldn't marry the
kind Of men who did the proposing.
II I'd found one who wanted to
marry me for something besides my
beauty it would have been differ.
ent But it's q very shallow love
that is aroused by mere appear
anCe
Lock at the girls who have mar
ried OH the stage because men
have become infatuated with their
looks. How many have turned ont
happily? | can count you twenty
girls today who are either back on
the stage or leading miserable lives
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
BY WHEN BLACKBURN
The Famous Fencing Girl"

the lower circles is dreadful in
deed for the woman.
What is the reason for all this?
. When was only little girl.
just turning ten, l had a forerunner
of the bitter experiences that were
to befaIl me in later life l had
been one of close group of school
girls. One day one of them gave
a party-and l was the only one
not invited. l was heartbroken. 7
cried my eyes out. l didn't go to
scnool for a week. When | did I
asked one of the little girls why
l mao not peen invited to the party.
Why, it's because you're too
pretty, Vivien," she said. "Maudie
was jealous of you, and she told me
that she was tired of hearing every
one say: My, what a pretty sirI
VivieD Blackburn is"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Vivien Blackburn, the Famous Fencing Girl, .
Tells How Her Beauty Thwarted Ambition
and Closed the Right Doors of Love"

T READ recently with the keen
est interest and sympathy
1 Edna Goodrich's talk in this
newspaper about the disadvan-
tages Of being great beauty.
I have suffered so much more than
Miss Goodrich, can tell so much of
the unhappiness that beauty brings,
the toll it takes, that l felt 1t my
duty to add my experiences to her
record.
In her article, Miss Goodrich
went more iuto the general aspect
Of the question. l propose to tell
specifically how my beauty
t5warted me in my ambition at
every turn for ten years, not only
closing the only entrance to the
stage that | desired, but closing as
well every exit in life through
which my heart desired to go.
The first happened because it is
the tradition that beautiful
woman cannot be intelligent, and
the second, because the kind of man
who is impelled to propose mar
rage to a beauty Is not the kind
thoughtful girl would choose as
mate
A girl who is unfortunate enough
10 be known as "a Beauty" has
had thrust upon her the most
dreadful handicap imaginable. If
she happens to be a girl on the
stage, and particularly a girl in
musical comedy, she has no future.
unless she has courage, deter
mination, a bulldog tenacity that
laughs at appointments and after
each fresh Encouragement arises
with fresh determination not to
be a slave of her looks.
With the same amount of pluck,
Of work and of brains, a girl who
is not so handicapped, will progress
further in one year than the beauty
will in ten!
1t has been proven that in fash.
ionable society there are, out of
every ten unhappy married women.
seven beauties to three Of average
appearance. The records of the
divorce courts show that rarely is
plain woman called upon to sever
her marital bonds, and still more
rarely is she divorced because she
has been at fault.
In the average circle of life
beauty is constant disturber of
The peace while to be beautiful in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

mat the nee boys that hung around
me went off one by one and married
plain sort of girls who couldn't hold
a candle to my looks.
AL last l made up my mind to go
On the stage. l didn't want tn be
snow girl. | wanted to bea great
actress' and thought l had intelli.
gence enough to be one. was
very happy when | went to New
iork: After had tried to get into
real play for month and couldn,t
! wasn't so happy. At Last
tried the musical comedies. and I
dldnt have the least trouble getting
on. 1t va all new, and for a time
forgot my ambitions. | said tn
myself that this was only a IittIe
picnic before | began the real
serious business of being a great
Then one day the most unfortu.
nate thing that ever happened to
me came about. / awoke to find
myself christened "the most beauti.
ful chorus girl in New York;"
thought 1t fine then. I didn't
realize the serious sadness of if 7
sent clippings to all my friends and
to my family. Next a rival man.
ager met me and offered to raise
my salary from $40 to $40 a week
thought that fine too. Verv aonr
and then $50. '"en |oo
But wait! l went to the manager
and asked him to give me speak
ing part. He laughed at me.
why people don't want to hear
you" he said. They just want to
look at you. Anyway, a pretty
woman hasn't any brains!"
argued. He was infiexible.
had to live, so l kept on-letting
people just look at me. Then l
went into Anna Held's Little
Duchess" l was one of the fencing
girls. A photograph of me In black
silk stockings, short skirt and
fencer's pad on my waist attracted
the attention of the general man.
ager of the Chicago e Alton Rail.
road. He used it as a trade mark
and had thousands upon thousands
of my photographs distributed as a
souvenir of the railroad.
After that | was doomed! ] was
a Broadway Beauty, and ! couldn't
shake off that handicap, no matter
how ! tried.
You see. there I was, just a
beauty, and nothing else. Famous
because l had good figure, a
pleasing face, complexion, nice
eyes. All of them perishable, too!
Everything for which people
thought me worth while was just
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
By PROF. G. HENSLOW.
A DISTINGUISHED gardener
y was doing in a chair in his
drawing-room one sultry

N Dlo l4NG OloAAESLI SdluGuSI
~ was doing in a chair in his
drawing-room one sultry
Summer afternoon, and a bottle
stood on the table by his side.
Suddenly the bottle began to move
stealthily across the table. The
sleeper woke up; the bottle had
disappeared.
In establishment, which might
have been agitation, had the bottle
contained anything but bunch Of
blossoms, he set out to investigate.
In the midst Of his meditations the
thief fortunately gave audible warn
ing of his proximity. CHANGING out
of his window the horticulturist
saw an astonishing sight. The
tinkle-tinkle he had heard was a
Virginia creeper rafting the bottle
against the window-pane!
The adhesive pads on its tendrils
are irritated by anything they touch,
and stick to it like leech. Really
it may be quite feasible to train a
plant to pick pockets.
The fashionable sweet pea, II
touched on one of its tendrils with
a stick, or rubbed gently for half
an hour. will begin to twist round
the stick. If leased further it will