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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
1 GOOD AND BAD ATHLETICS
Authority Gives List Of Those Which
She Advises Girls to Give Up
or Avoid.

Miss Elizabeth Burchenal inspector
IF athletics for the board of education
of New York city, who recently made
study Of athletics for girls, with the
object of determining what kind of
athletics are really helpful to girls,
and what kind harmful, has inter-
viewed forty women, all graduates of
physical training schools and all of
whom have had either practical expe-
rience in athletics or else opportunities
OF observation. As a result of their
statements and of her own experience
she has listed as condemned athletics
for mature girls the broad jump, the
| high Jump in competition and pole
saulting, and as doubtful for the mat
ture girl the high jump, running more
than 100 yards in competition and
weight throwing. For the immature
girl the condemned athletics are run
ming more than 100 yards, pole vault
ing and weight throwing, and the
doubtful athletics are basket ball and
field hockey.
The safe athletics for mature girls
Include, according to Miss Borchenals
Investigation. archery, ball throwing,
basket ball (women's rules), climbing,
coasting, dancing, field hockey, golf,
horseback riding, cross and side sad
die, indoor baseball which is played
In the open air, low hurdles not in COM
petition; skating, skiing, snowshoeing,
swimming, tennis and walking.
AS especially beneficial for the ma
ture girl Miss Murchenal lists climb
Ing, dancing, jumping. in moderation;
running. In moderation, and not in
competition; skating, swimming and
walking ="
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
Primitive Wheat.

All cultivated plants have their an
cestors' which remain In a savage
state. The greater part of our vege-
tables and fruit trees come from Per
STA, where they yet have representa-
tives that grow spontaneously. All
potatoes come from one tubercle. The
grapevine grew originally only on tho
plateaus of Central Asia. Wheat orr
ginated probably in the valley Of tho
Euphrates, where the necessary hui
mildly first semed to work on plant
life most favorably. A traveller, who
recently visited the highland of Cali
lee, reports that he has found wild
wheat that must be the progenitor Of
the modern wheat. This wild wheat
covers extensive areas and is vigorA
Gus plant with marked nutritive prop
critics. It seems proof against drought
or frost and adapts itself easily to
arid soil.-Harper's Weekly.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
CLEARS CAPITAL OF CATS
Ed'ct Against "strays" Costs Lives Of
9,o7s, and Residents Sleep
In Peace.

Washington 1s no place for cats.
The death rate is in excess of 20 q
day and going up.
1t is due to the fact that the com.
nissioners of the District of Columbia
on July issued an ediot for tho mas.
sacre of all cats not belonging to the
''aristocracy"-that is, not having q
regular place to eat and sleep. =.
The poundmaster abandoned for the
time being his crusade against stray
dogs and started after the cats in a
way to strike terror to the feline
heart. Since July / the casualties have
been 3,O78.
Residents of the city have begun to
accumulate an unusual quantity of old
shoes. 1t is no fun getting out of bed
in the middle of the night and shying
a shoe at a back fence when there is
no serenading cat on the fence. If the
poundmaster keeps up his activity
much longer cat will be as hard to
find in Washington as a polar bear in
the tropics.
The commissioners say they will
not show any mercy. The edict stands.
Cats are to be arrested, brought be-
fore a drumhead court and summarily
put to death as fast as they can be
caught.
If the reports that come In from the
outlying districts can be credited,
some of the terror-stricken cats have
taken to the woods. They seem to-
prefer being wild cats to being dead:
cats.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
Searching for Hidden Will.

The romantic story of hidden will
Is arousing keen interest in the neigh
borhood Of Bradley Fold, little viii
lage three miles from Bolton, Lanca-
shire, England. Search for the mis-
sing document is being made by a
woman from Gunnersbury, London.
She believes that if she succeeds in
her quest, she will become entitled to
valuable estate The search was
prompted originally by statements
made by a medium at a spiritualistic
seance. The will is supposed to be
concealed in a wall sunk In shed
which has been bricked up for many
years. It formed a cellar to an old
house. The London searcher's ances-
tor. John Bradley, who married his
housekeeper, was known to possess
great wealth. No will could be found
after his death.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
Guest Towels.

A clever way of introducing color
into the dainty guest towel has been
evolved by a woman who is always
originating fascinating ideas. Want
ing more distinctive coloring than that
given by means of cross-st1tch de-
sign, she makes the hens of the buck
towel of plain linen, harmonizing in
shade with the cross stitching. The
towel has several threads drawn
across either end about a quarter of
an inch from the cut edge; this 10
hem stitched. Two pieces of linen a
trifle more than two inches in width
and just little longer than tho
width OF the towel are cut These are
to make false hens. To make these.
turn the ends in and hem very care
fully, so the pieces will be the exact
length that the towel is wide. Next,
turn the linen In along either of the
long edges just the width of hem.
Now slip the rough cut ends of tho
towel between the folded hens, basic
carefully and then hem into position.
When finished the ends will be so deft-
ly placed that it will require close in
spection to see just how the colored
hens have been accomplished.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
Value Of Travel.

Goethe says that no man has q
right to write until he has travelled
and lived. Certainly no one has q
right to think he knows what life
offers or what earth can give until he
travels
Travel does more toward letting US
90 free Of our human. limitations than
anything else in life It frees us by
giving us large views, wide sense
Of opportunity, fuller comprehension
of the lavish hand which has strewn
beauty over the earth.
Above all, travel numbs grief be-
cause it lifts us from the personal in
to the universal life, the life trium-
phant whatever be the fate of the
fragment called ones self.-Harper's
Bazaar
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
Made First LIuhtnlnu nod.

Nearly everybody believes that Ben.
jamfn Franklin was the inventor and
constructor of the first lightning rod.
In this particular they are mistaken,
as the first lightning catcher was in
vented by poor monk of Bohemia,
who put up the first lightning rod on
the palace of the curator of Preditz,
Moravia, June Is. 1854. The apparatus
was composed Of pole surmounted
by an iron rod, supporting 10 curved
branches and terminating In as many
metallic boxes filled with iron ore.
The entire system Of wires was uni
ted to the earth by large chain. The
enemies of the inventor, jealous of his
success, excited the peasants of the 10
cality against him and under the pre-
text that his lightning rod was the
cause Of the excessive dry weather
had the rod taken down and the in
ventor imprisoned
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21

We wish to call your attention to
the fact that most infectious diseases
such as whooping cough, diphtheria
and scarlet fever are contracted when
the child has a cold. Chamberlain
Cough Remedy will quickly cure a
cold and greatly lessen the danger Of
contracting these diseases. This rem
edy is famous for its cures OF colds.
It contains no opium or other narcot-
ic and may be given to a child with
implicit confidence. Sold by Bankers
drug StOre.-Ady.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
NEW FACES AMONG WOMEN.
Washington Minister Declares They
Lose Beauty and Acquire Cock
tail" Features.

Two new types Of face have been
discovered among American society
women by Rev. Zed Copp, Washing,
ton minister and sociologist. They are
those of the bridge whist fend and
the cocktail drinker
Mr.. Copp says these new types are
distinct degeneration from the ortho-
dox American beauty.
The bridge whist fiend's face is as
Stunning hard lines usually found in the
professional gamblers face" he said
the other night. Many pretty young
women are losing all their tender, soft
beauty by leaning over the gambling
table until the early hours of morn
Ing. .@.. Il" %..-@-r
"The cocktail drinkers type of face
ls more repulsive than that of the
gamblers. The former has dropping
lower lip. bloodshot eyes and SLOW
emily languid expression. Sweet cock
tails are the bane of fashionable wom-
en-" .,.....-...- ...s-a b
Women, especially young girls here.
are rapidly becoming more addicted to
Intoxicating liquor, while the men are
rapidly growing more abstemious, ac-
cording to Albert E. Shoemaker, at
torney for the Anti-Saloon league Of
the District of Columbia.
Insanity seizes upon the bachelor
with greater ease than upon the bene-
dict, according to the report of the
government hospital for the insane,
Just submitted to Secretary of the In.
terror Fisher.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
H0W,S THISa

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case Of Cattarh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in ali
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price % cents
per bottle Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consf1.
patton.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
Relic Ordered Sold,

Another relic of the old United
States navy. the Jamestown, has been
ordered sold by the navy department.
This vessel, which Is constructed Of
wood, was built In 1845. and took
part in the Civil war. It Is 1854 feet
long and has a displacement Of 1,15o
tons. The old ship has been doing
service for number of years a.
quarantine hulk In Hampton Roads
ander the United States public health
md marine hospital service.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-21
chlld1 PItIfuI Attempt to Die.

VnIIuU PtIruI Ntt0mpt 20 0Io'
A remarkable attempt at suicide
was made by boy of eleven in \ hop
garden, recently near Sandwich, Eng.
land. He had been chastised for his
elackness In picking hops, and there
upon he went to q secluded spot and
attempted to hang himself with .
piece Of yarn used for tying hops.
Fortunately the lad was discovered in
time, and was cut down, and revived.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-28

from table llneIl.-INUD 4dIQ INTO
spots and leave for several hours.
Then hold over bowl and pour
boiling water through each spot
until they disappear.
49,
How can you tell when you
are really in love? "-Two Love
Sick Girls.-This is the best an
swer know-a verse from E. B.
Browning's poems
UNLESS you can muse in crowd
all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love as the angels
may,
With the breadth of Heaven be-
twixt you,
Oh, never call it loving"
"I'm lam 1 too young to
have gentlemen call?"- School
Girl.-No, not if your parents
don't mind.
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A reader has sent in the fol-
lowing receipt for Southern
Spoon Bread" One pint sweet
milk, u cup white cornmeal, q
teaspoon salt, l tablespoon but
ter, egg beaten light, level
tablespoon baking powder. Scald
milk in double boiler, stir in meal
and let cook three hours, then
beat in other ingredients. Turn
into buttered bake dish and bake
40 minutes. Serve while hot.
-O-O
A baby passenger on an ocean
liner In mid-ocean suddenly start
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-28

other docks joined the ranks Of
the army of strikers.
The first riot of the. strike oc-
CURED late this afternoon. 1t was
not started by the strikers. A
crowd of citizens followed vans
loaded with meat coming from
the East India docks. The crowd
began jeering, and then throwing
stones. Police reserves were call
ed out, and the ringleaders of the
stoning arrested.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-28
ANSWERS
"a Housewife

"A housewife asks w nat
will remove marks left by hot
dishes on a polished table? Rub
spots well with soft cloth, dipped
in alcohol. Then quickly wash
with clean water and polish dry.
Lonesome Boy writes: 81 have
been corresponding with girl who
lives in country 10 miles from
me. Recently she wrote that her
father objects to the correspond
ence, saying: Always think of
me, and I shall of you Shall l
write and ask her if she ever
thinks of me? How can l regain
her friendship? Would you break
it off?"-The girl did right in
obeying her father, and she is to
be admired for it. Do not write
her, but bend your efforts toward
winning her father over to your
side if you care enough for the
girl to win her. Be worthy of her,
and then, if her father still OBJ
jeets, remember that faint heart
never won fair lady"
"Mrs. w. C. w. wants to know.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-28

A baby passenger on an ocean
liner in mid-ocean suddenly start
ed crying. A newly-engaged mate
ran up to the captain and said:
Captain, | think we have struck
a squall."
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-26
FOREIGN.

Gen. Pascual Orozco. the Mexican
rebel leader. performed complete
right-about-face in the matter of de-
Gliding to recognize United States Con-
sui Marion Letcher The consul spent
an hour and half with the rebel lead
er and presented the State Depart
ment's pronunciamento that Ameri.
can lives and property must be safe
guarded. and that Mr.. Letcher must
be allowed to exercise his consular
functions in dealing with the rebels
Transatlantic liner report the ice
fields off the Newfoundland banks as
the worst ever encountered.
Mexico replied to warning note OF
Acting Secretary Wilson, declining to
assume responsibility for orozco's
acts. denying the right of the Wash
ington government to deliver the ad-
monition contained therein, taking
exception to the communication direct.
ed to Orozco through Consul Letcher
and deploring the making public of
this same note TO which the govern.
ment was required to make an
answer.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-26
WESTERN.

An unusual stage production-a
drama presented by deaf mutes-soon
will be offered in Los Angeles.
Bishop McGovern of Omaha has
been formally installed as bishop OF
the Wyoming diocese at Cheyenne.
In ten Kansas counties which held
primaries or conventions Roosevelt
forces won in nine and one will send
split delegation
Anna Sapieha, three months old, is
for sale by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Louis Sapieha of Chicago, according
to an advertisement in newspaper.
Charles A. Pfeiffer has been inaugu-
rated mayor of St. Joseph. Mo. He is
the first Republican mayor that city
has had in eight years.
Robert Cameron Rogers, poet, lover
of nature, journalist, true friend. is
dead He died at his beautiful home
in Mission canon. Santa Barbara,
Cal.
Corrected tabulations of the Ne
braska presidential vote give: Roose-
welt. Sl,242: Taft. 1862; La Toilette,
l0.27s; Clark, 14.OS1; Harmon. 1l,241;
Wilson. $3.50.
An advance of 2 cents a barrel in
the price of crude oil. making The
price Ga cents. has been announced
by the Prairie Oil and Gas Company
of Independence Kan.
Two-thirds of the cities and towns
In South Dakota voted on the question
OF granting licenses to saloons. Pierre
remains wet by n majority of sixty
nine. The vets have big lead in all
towns reported.
OIL struck at depth OF 400 feet
near Lander. on the Shoshone Indian
reservation. Wyoming, was declared
by C. E. Jamison. state geclogist, to
be superior to that found in the Penn
sylvanIa fields. When the vein was
opened the oil spurted 200 feet in the
air
Three persons are known to have
been killed, at least a score injui ed
and many farm hous>s and village
dwellings were wrecked when tor
nado. which formed in the vicinity oI
/ Yukon. near Oklahoma City. swept in
a northeasterly direction through the
counties of Oklahoma and Logan.
Work will be begun May by the
Chicago. Milwaukee & Puget Sound
railway on the construction OF a three
mile tunnel through the Cascade
mountains near Seattle. The work
will cost nearly s5.0Oe.0oo. The t,in
mel will shorten the line seven miles
and will eliminate the heavy grade at
the summit
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-26
SPORT.

Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers have
signed an agreement to box twenty
rounds for the lightweight champion
ship of the world at Vernon arena, Los
Angeles, July 4.
Every team in the Western circuit
began its 1912 season Friday. April 10,
and in three bsmes out of four. the
home mines won. Omaha defeated Sioux
City; ST. Joseph beat Des Moines. Den
yer beat Lincoln and Wichita was the
exception to the general rule. defeat
ing Topeka on the latter's grounds.
The Northwestern league baseball
season of 1912 opened with Victoria
against Spokane at Spokane; Tacoma
against Vancouver at Vancouver. and
Portland against Seattle at Seattle IN
each city the season was introduced
by u parade of automobiles carrying
players. baseball officials and promi-
nent citizens.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-26
STORM KILLS
II PEOPLE.
ToRNADoEo IN ILLINOIS AND IN.
DIAM LEAVE HOST OF DEAD
AND INJURED.
PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY
TWO STORMS MEET AT VELOCITY
OF rs MILES AN HOUR; BUSH.
ILLINOIS, WRECKED.
western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Chicago - Latest figures regarding
the tornado which swept over Illinois
and Indiana show ~ dead. nearly 200
injured and nearly 100 families desti-
tute as result of the storm.
More than 100 homes were demol-
ished and the property loss totalled
several hundred thousand dollars.
Greatest damage was done at Bush.
Willisville, Murphysboro. Campus.
Freeman and Kankakee. ILL.,. and Mo-
rocco. Ind.
Governor Dlneen and Adjutant Cen
eraI Dickinson have arranged to ex-
tend state relief to the stricken dis
trict In Illinois.
The reports from the storm-swept
territory of southwestern Illinois tell
OF more than so dead. 200 injured and
property damage estimated at $500. 900
TO s2.000.O00.
Bush. village of 600. In william
son county, suffered heaviest The two
storms which wrought havoc in cen
trail and southern Illinois met at Bush,
one coming from the west and the
other from the southeast.
Fifteen persons were killed, three
died of injuries and a hundred or more
are suffering from injuries. as the re-
suit of the storm.
The two storms met at a velocity of
rs miles an hour. and in few min
utes Bush was in ruins.
The property of the Western Coal
and Mining Company was destroyed,
as was the postoffice. general depart
ment store, hotels, restaurants and 10
dwellings. Thirty-five other homes
were partially wrecked.
In addition to the dead and injured
accounted for. fifteen persons are miss
ing.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-26

/ The opening OF 10000 acres OF rich
farming land on the Fort Lewis mesa
near Durango, recently. caused nc
rush OF homeseekers as the govern
ment had not advertised the opening
Because she refused to permit a
tramp to rob the store of which she
was in sole charge. Mrs. John L. Puck
ett was probably fatally beaten with
stove poker by tramp at Nyburg.
fourteen miles east of Pueblo.
Former County Commissioner r. w.
De vinny of Greeley. who recently
pleaded guilty to the charge of NAL
feasance in office, was fined 5000 and
costs, the maximum, by District Judge
Graham.
Solicitors for "a packing company
who have been canvassing the Ber-
thoud district for acreage for the grow
ing of peas have contracted for $50
acres. enough to insure the erection OF
hulling plant for that town.
The City Council of Colorado Springs
will join with Ell Paso and Otero ccun-
ties and the school districts in the two
counties in their fight to compel the
Santa Fe railroad to pay the tax as
sessed against it by the State Board of
Equalization.
Loveland feeders have received the
highest price ever paid, 1t is said, for
cows in the Denver market. Al Cox
of Loveland got 1t. Cows fed in his
lots at the sugar factory sold at s6.35
per hundred. averaging 1.15s pounds
each.
The federal authorities have just
brought about the arrest of M. E. and
l.. A. Hill-known as G. l.. Lee & Co.
in Salida, Colo They are charged
with using the mails to sell marked
cards. loaded dice. "holdouts" and
"waxed palms"
Denver Is to be the gathering place
during the next few weeks of members
of the Industrial Workers of the
World who are bound for San Diego
to take a hand in the war being
waged between the organization ana
the city authorities.
The big Wilcox canal. one of the
largest irrigation projects on the West.
ern slope, ls 10 De lormdly opeheu
May 4, in time to water the 10000
acres under the big canal. A monster
celebration is to be held in connection
with the completion of the project.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Greeley Commercial Club and the
Weld County Farmers Club. Ward
barley. sugar factory promoter, was
nro cticaIIv rIrdoad q 00O acrec of CT,
gar beets. Farmers believe that they
should secure more money for their
beets and the Commercial club is
pledged to render every aid to them
to secure factory.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-26
Bandits Get $4,000.

Grand Junction.-Two masked men
attired as cowboys gained entrance to
the depot office of the Globe Express
company. and forced Express Messen.
ger Ben Gilbert to unlock the safe
and deliver to them $4,000 in cur
rency Then they slugged. gagged and
bound him and escaped Dozens of per-
sons passed the office during the hold
up. 1t was not until four hours later
that Gilbert freed himself of the gag.
His call for help brought half doz-
en- men to his assistance.
The $4,000 was in a package con-
signed from the Salt Lake City office
of the Utah Fuel Company to Summer
set. Colo. as the monthly pay roll of
the Summerset coal camp.
Gilbert is twenty-five years old. He
has been an employee of the company
for several years.