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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Her Nationality.

in the lowest grade of a New York
public school the teacher was CLEAN.
ing from the children who had newly
entered the class statistics of nation.
ality for her annual report. They are
extremely interesting in New York
public schools, for they include young:
sters from every known corner of the
globe. Having enrolled Germans, Syri.
ans, Poles, Irish, Australians, Natal.
ians, Arabs, Montenegrins and others,
the teacher asked a faxed haired mite
hoping to hear the rare word "Amer-
ican"-"What are you, Florence?
Mindful of her home training, Florence
promptly aud cheerfully replied: I'm
a suffragette."
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Don't Forget to Exercise.

No man of affairs, however impor.
rant or overdriven, can ever be too
busy to take time for exercise. unless
he wishes to apply for his long vaca-
lion a decade or two earlier than is
necessary.
The place where the mummy of the
Egyptians should be carried round at
regular intervals, with reminder that
ne has been dead for 10000 years, is
not at feasts. but in our business Of
fees, workshops, counting houses and
studios. There is where men are
really killing themselves, instead of in
their sports, their luxuries, or even in
their vices. -. ..-
Commercially slave-driving your
body and brain may sometimes be
necessity, but the unbiased biologist
of the twentieth century is beginning
to suspect that the praises Of indus.
try, like those of sacrifice, are sung
most loudly and insistently by those
In church or state who hope to profit
by it--in others!-Woods Hutchinson.
In Exercise and Health.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
WHEN THEY HARVEST COFFEE
ouatemalan Pickers Are Paid Little,
but Make Attractive Scene on
tho Plantations.

The harvest season on large cot.
fee fnca in Guatemala is the busiest
time of the year. At the first hint Of
dawn a great bell calls the Indians to
work, and men, women and children,
laden with wide, fiat baskets, start
for the fields, where all day long they
pick the bright red berries. The re-
suit of a good days work for each
picker Is about three bushels of ber-
ries. At sunset the great baskets,
piled high with the crimson fruit, are
brought to the weighing house, where
the contents are weighed, each picker
receiving check for the amount due
him. The Southern Workman says
the wages are Z or 8 cents day, paid
In full every Saturday night. There
is no more beautiful or attractive
scene in the world than a vast coffee
field in this country when the harvest
ing is in full swing, for the costume
of the Guatemala Indian is the most
effective and picturesque in all Cen
trail America. The woman's dress
usually consists of three pieces; a
long cloth Generally of many hues,
red and yellow predominating) wound
several times around the lower limbs;
the juipil, or shirt, richly embroidered
with curious designs-birds, animals,
arrow patterns or geometrical figures
in many colors; and gaudy belt or
sash holding the two garments to-
gether. The hair is worn in two
heavy, braids, often intertwined with
gay ribbons. In the north the women
wear curiously woven head bands sew
eral yards in length, wound around
and around the head and tied in
double knot over the forehead. They
are made of silk, richly colored, ending
In heavy tassels of silver, and are
very effective. "-.....
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
ROOSEVELT LEADS THUS FAR
Minneapolis Paper Gives Teddy 40
Per Cent. La Toilette Second

Minneapolis, Feb. e.--The Journ-
al has received 5000 votes on it's
first choice presidential poll.
Roosevelt leads for ;herrepublicans
in nearly every district with La Fol-
lette second and Taft third Wilson
leads mainly in the democratic poll
All classes Of voters have respond.
ed. The results have been kept by
gressional districts, and in this
way interesting light is thrown Oh
the drift of public opinion.
The Roosevelt vote: 2,4SS is al
most exactly 40 per cent. of the to-
tai cast to date, which is 6,204. The
La Toilette vote is 2S per cent and
the Taft vote comes to p per cent.
The democratic vote is comparatively
small. Wilson has a clear majority
over all other democratic candidates
combined, and it is significant that
Bryan stands second, ahead of
Champ Clark, who runs q poor third,
while Harmon is in the ruck with
only 80 votes, half of them from the
Third Congressional district
Roosevelt is the leading candidate
in the First, Second, Third, Fifth,
Eighth and Ninth districts, and runs
even with all Toilette in the Fourth.
La Toilette has the edge in the Sixth
and Seventh districts. Taft leads La
Toilette in the Third and Fifth dis
tricts and is even with him in the
First. Wilson leads all democratic
candidates in every district but the
Eighth, which curiously shows up
for Clark on light vote.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06

Lee Foil. manager of the four-time
pennant winning Akron, O., team, tires
Of the glory Of championships and
may retire for next season.
South Bend in the Central League
has signed two Cubans for next year
They are Thomas Romanao and RAJ
mino Selgle. Both are infielders.
Ben Egan. Connie Mack's catching
recruit, secured from Baltimore, is
The father of girl. born at the fam
lily home in Sheriff., N. Y, recently.
1t was on Charley Carr's recommen-
dation that Detroit bought Pitcher
James Maroney from Utica. Carr is a
sort Of unofficial scout for Jennings.
Ad Wolgast, champion lightweight
pugilist, was fined SIS in Santa Mon
lea. Cal, after pleading guilty to au-
tomobile speeding. He paid the fine.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
FEW ABLE MANAGERS
Only Six Qualify as Being Sue
cessfuI Leaders.
30 Much Depends on Financial End Of
Baseball Venture That Any Chief
tain Keeping Team in Lead
Is Valuable Asset.

What salary is successful major
question is a common one, and the
answer most commonly given is: "All
le can get That is about as near as one
San express it in figures.
SO much of the financial success OF a
baseball venture depends upon the
showing of the team, which is the con-
crete representative of the venture,
that any manager who can keep a
team in the race for the championship
Of his league is worth a great deal
TO the baseball promoter.
In these days even a tail-end team
is not necessarily a financial loser. If
It plays II games at home before
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
HuMoR OF THEIR OWN MAKE
No Profession, Trade or Industry But
Has It's Own Technical
Jokes.

There Is hardly a profession, trade
or industry nowadays that does not
have a periodical or organ Of its own.
And few, indeed, are the publications
Of this kind that do not devote week.
~ or monthly page to the lighter
side" of the branches of human activ-
ity to which they are devoted This
technical humor has twofold interest
for the layman, that of the jokes and
anecdotes he can appreciate on the
one hand and that Of those which are
1ncomprehensible to him on the other.
He finds no difficulty, for instance.
IN the familiar anecdote Of the bank
presidents daughter who, on being
Informed that her account was over
drawn, severely told the paying teller
mot to let it happen again or she
would have to speak to papa about it ;"
but he would very likely be unable to
see the humor Of banking story
whose point lay in some detail of the
routine of the clearing house. And yet
the latter might be by far the better
Of the two. The fun Of the story Of
the new boy in the machine shop who
is told to fetch bucket of steam from
the engine room is obvious enough,
but that of an anecdote turning on
scme technical point of machine con,
struction will appeal only to the ini.
tiate. Medicine has it's strictly pro.
fessional anecdotes of sickroom, con-
sulting room and operating ROOM
many Of which would be grisly to
the 1ayman if he could grasp their
meaning; but it has also, for his
amusement, it's tales Of the amazing
misinterpretations of medical direc.
lions by the unsophisticated patients,
chiefly of Irish and German nativity.
The church and the law, the arts and
the sciences all have this double form
of humor. No doubt even the under.
takers shop has it's fund of anecdote.
One willingly takes it for granted.
The body Of humor keeps close step
with progress and development in all
the professions. trades and industries.
The humorous columns Of their or.
gans are there to prove it. No doubt
aviation has already developed fund
Of technical anecdotes of it's own.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
HIS STRATAGEM WAS COSTLY
It Was Designed to Break Him OF
Cigarette Habit, but Only Left
Him Poorer.

Mac Keene is described by Mrs.
Meyer, our landlady, as being ''stu-
dunn" and poor as church mouse"
The first appellation is true-he is a
student Of engineering; the sinile is
rather battling, but that he is poor I
fear Is true also. Mac Keene is
philosopher. Many men of little bust
ness, I observe, are philosophers. 1
became acquainted with Mac Keene
when I invited him in one evening to
share the warmth from my fire-he
having none-and he proved a treas
ure to me during many long winter
evenings. I offered him a smoke, and
was instantly attracted to the man by
his story of the cunning stratagem he
employed to break himself of the
habit of smoking to excess.
Mac Keene had devised sundry and
divers tricks to accomplish his end,
all without success; the latest
maneuver against the enemy consist
ed In his buying the most expensive
cigarettes he could find, with the idea
In mind that the wanton and profligate
extravaganza of smoking them up too
rapidly would materially reduce his
consumption of the weed; then, If the
campaign were successful, he would
not increase his expense in the long
run, but when the habit was more un-
der control he could reduce his ex-
pense even below the present by re-
turning to cheaper brands. Such in
genuity as this was deserving of re-
ward, but alas! it failed from the
start, and left Mac Keene a poorer
and no more temperate man.-New
York Evening Post.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Wear of Traffic on Roads.

A machine that measures the wear
caused by traffic upon, public high
ways is among the scientific instru-
ments on show at the exhibition of
the Physical Society of London at the
Imperial College of Science, South
Kensington.
In speaking about this machine an
official of the road board referred to
the wear on the various main roads of
London. "Wood pavement he said,
wears down one inch in about six
years, except in places where the traf-
fic is particularly intense. The as.
phalt pavement in the city wears
down about half an inch in ten years.
The ordinary country highway wears
down two inches in from three to ten
years, according to the amount Of
traffic.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Motherly Admonition.

A New York woman of great beauty
called one day upon d friend, bringing
with her her 11-year-old daughter, who
gives promise of becoming as great q
beauty as her mother. ..--
1t CHANGED that the callers were
shown into a room where the friends
mad been receiving a milliner, and
there were several beautiful hats ".
Ing about. During the conversation
the little girl amused herself. by ex-
aiming the milliner's creations. OF
the number that she tried on she
seemed particularly pleased with a
large black affair which set off her
light hair charmingly. Turning to her
mother, the little girl said:
Il look just like you now, moth
er, don't I?''
"Sh!" cautioned the mother, with
upl1fted finger. Don't be vain, DEAR
Lippincott's.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
WaInuts High in Food Value.

The food value of walnuts is very
high. They are very rich in fat, con-
tanning as much as GO per cent, while
the proteins amount to nearly Is per
cent. It has been calculated that 80
large walnut kernels contain as much
fat tas 2a4 pounds Of lean beef, and
yet the walnut is used as supple
ment to a. square meal. Added to
this the glass of port, say two fluid
ounces, contains besides 1SO grains of
alcohol, 70 grains of grape sugar. In
the combination, therefore, we have
all the elements which make for a
complete diet-viz.: Fat, protein, car
bohydrate, to which may be added
salts. Port and walnuts after
a meal are therefore, from a nutritive
point Of view, ridiculous excess"
and may lead to digestive disturbance.
Both walnuts and port wine contain
tannin, which is unsuited to some con-
etitutions.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
HORSE TAILS ARE IMPORTED
They Come From Many Lands and
Are Used in Making Brushes
and Cloth, ...-

An item that seemed. odd in the
manifest of a steamer lately arrived
from japanese and Chinese ports was
this in the list of her cargo from
Tientsin: Fifty-fve cases of horse
tails. -~.. " ~.
AS a matter of fact horse tails, or
the hair thereof, are common ar
ticle importation into this country
from China and from pretty much
every other country On earth. The
American market gets large quantities
of them from China, but more from
Russia; and horse tails are imported
here from every other European
country and from South America, from
Australia, from all round the world.
On the other hand there are more
or less American horse tails exported
From various causes the supply Of.
horse tails, like that of anything else,
may in one country and another vary
from year to year, and there may be
years when the worlds supply is short
and years when it is plentiful with
corresponding changes in the range of
prices. Horse tails have sold as low
as 20 cents pound and they have
sold for as much as$2. If stocks are
scarce and high in London, and ample
at lower prices here, New York i'm
porters ship horse tails to London; in
the contrary circumstances London
importers might ship horse tails here.
Horsetail hairs are sorted for length
and colors and they are used either
alone or mixed with other fibers In
the manufacture of various sorts OF
brushes and mixed with other ma
terials in the manufacture Of hair
cloth. @.a
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Large Enterprises Essential.

Large personal fortunes acquired
1egitimately are in themselves an hon
orable testimony to talent and to
toll; and, without large aggregations
of capital, whether personal or cor
porate, great enterprises, are not pos
sible. And without great enterprises
will the country show the marvellous
growth which we deem an essential
characteristic of American life, and
will the masses of the people have
the opportunities now so abundantly
set before them to find employment
and to develop their own fortunes,
however relatively small those may
e?'-Archbishop Ireland.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Hugh Jennings.

crowds made small by lack of inter-
est in it's efforts, 1t must be remem-
bered that the same tail-end team plays
II games away from home each season
and gets on the average shade bet
ter than 40 per cent. Of the receipts Of
the games.
But the big money in baseball Is
made by the "winners' - the cham
pions and the near champions who
are in the race all or most all of the
season. Consequently every club own
er wants winner, some of them for
sportsmanlike as we'll as financial rea-
sons; others of them merely for the
coin. To get winning ball team a
club owner must get a successful
manager. There is no other way. A
promoter can spend money with both
hands seven days a week for seven
years, buying and developing ball
players, and never get his team out
of eighth place at the end of the sea-
son. Unless the club owner has a
manager possessed of the peculiar
qualifications demanded by the club,
he cannot expect winning team.
If it were possible to corral II or Is
stars Of the present day into one
team, handled by an inexperienced, in
competent managers, that aggregate
of stars would stand small chance In
a major league pennant race. A
clever, brainy manager with a good
team of average players is a better
Investment financially than lot of
managerless stars would be.
The supply Of managers is so scarce
that those who have made good be-
You'd doubt can command almost any
figure they ask for. The practice is
becoming more and more common Of
cutting the manager in on the profits.
This can be done either as a stock
holder, as in the case of Frank Chance,
of the Cubs, and Connie Mack, of the
Athletics, or by making the managers
contract call for a certain percentage
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Deceives No One.

THE expectation that you. actually
can be one thing and appear to be
another is doomed to disappointment.
Hypocrisy is the saddest fallacy in
the world. The DISCUSSES of the pre-
tender are so thin that the simplest
see through them. What you are
speaks so loud as to drown altogether
any declarations you may make of
what you wish men to think you are.
The deceiver deceives no one but
himself. Henry F.. Cope.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
THIRTY INDICTMENTS READY
Names Will Not Be Divulged Until
Arrests Are Made

indianapolis, Feb. C,--The federal
grand jury's investigation into the
dynamite conspiracy carried on for
six weeks through the examination
of 800 witnesses is expected to result
today in the return If at least 80
indictments
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Many Fish Were Blind.

More than 1900 yellowtail were
caught by Japanese fishermen at the
long wharf recently. This is the larg
est catch for one days fishing ever re-
corded in the bay district. Among the
dnny specimens were several deep sea
fish, which, when brought to the sur.
face, were found to be totally blind
Los Angeles Tribune.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
IT WAS ON THE WATCHMAN
Thought BeIated Husband Needed q
Drink After Test Handed
Out BY Wife.

The new night Waterman tiptoed
cautiously over the grass, and diving
forward, caught the little man by the
coat tail and jerked him down to
seat on the lawn. "Come along, me
foine feller," he said. Its up the
river for yours. No housebreakin' goes
on my beat"
"Oh, let me alone!" exclaimed the
little man peev1shly. I'm not house
breaking. This is my own house, and
I'm trying to get in. Mind your own
business"
Likely story" grunted the watch
man; "enterin' yer own house be the
windy at one o'clock in tn mornin'.
Tel. that to the judge" ..-
II tell you it is my house. MY wife
locked me out, and I was trying to get
in this way when you interfered. The
front door is bolted. There's the key,
If you want to try. Or you 60 and
ring the front door bell and see what
happens"
The Waterman, still keeping tight
hold of his prey, walked slowly and
quietly up to the front door, then sud.
denly gave the bell vicious ring. A
second floor window opened with q
snap.
William" said voice so chilly that
the Waterman shivered down his back.
bone, "can you say six thousand six
hundred and sixty-six separate satel-
lites scintillating sparks slowly and
with respect to sibilance?'"
The Waterman. still grasp ping the
shuddering William, made his way
noiselessly to the gate, then whispered
to the little man:
Say, come down to the corner and
get a drink to warm you up after
that. I guess it's on mel"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06

What He's Going to Give Up.
'.For ten years I have been trying
to give up smoking
''That 500"
Eyes, but this year am going to
give up trying
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Young Offender.

A woman left her baby in It's car:
riage at the door Of department
store. A policeman found 1t there, ap-.
parently abandoned. AS he passed
down the street, a gamin yelled:
whats the kid done Golfers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
How He Knew.

How do you know that man 10 Z
parlor fisherman?"
No man could find time to do any
real fishing and at the same time
learn the names of SO large collec.
ton of trout 1ies."
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
ORDEMAN BEATS SAMPSON
Chicago Man Pinned to the Mat in
Two Straight Falls

Fargo, N. D., Feb. Before
record breaking attendance, Henry
Ordemann of Minneapolis, defeated
Paul Sampson, of Chicago, in two
straight falls. The first bout went
II IL minutes and was won with a
bar and half Nelson, while the Sec
Ond went 8 IL minutes and was won
with GOtch toe hold
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
A Good Pole Horse.

Prospective Purchaser want =
horse to use in my work.
Dealer Well, what kind Of work do
you do?
Prospective Purchase Wire repair.
Ing. s
Dealer-Her she is. Just the horse
you want, young man. All you have
to do is to show Maude picture of
an automobile and she'll climb telep
graph pole. Judge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Self.ConfidencA

"Self-cOnfldence is not egotism. Il
Is knowledge, and it comes from the
consciousness of possessing the abil-
ity requisite for what enc undertakes.
Civilization today rests upon self-con.
fidence. '-Oriscn SWEET Marden,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Bliss.

...ss Bliss. -
Willie Wayback-"My pa says in
New York they have buildings 40 sto.
ries> high" Tommy Rural-"Ainr
that fine! A kid could spend most all
his life sliding down the banisters,
couldn't he?" 1s ~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Called.

Called.
Il asked the audience to lend me
their ears" said the verbose speaker.
"But in three-quarters Of an hour they
were doing" Il see" replied the
financier They called the loan"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Special at Grand Theatre.

The late production of Fall of
Troy" and 'Cinderella' Wednesday
and Thursday nights. Price of ad-
mission the same as usual.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
SPORTS Of THE DAY

ayers who can be included without
qualification in the successful class.
They are Frank Chance, Fred Clarke
and John McGraw, in the National
league, and Connie Mack and Hugh
Jennings in the American league.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Up Against It.

Hokus-Why don't you try to get
Job? " H.. 49,. : =.
Pokus-Employers prefer to hire
married men. - ...,.<,s.
Hokus--Then why don't you get
married? -..E as
Pokus-A girl won't marry fel-
low unless he has job.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
An Endless Job.

"IIow do you pass the long winter
evenings at your house"
studying the magazine club offers,
trying to select a combination that
viii suit the entire family
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
Special at Grand Theatre.

The late production of Fall of
Troy" and "Cinderella" Wednesday
and Thursday nights Price of ad-
mission the same as usual.
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Frank Chance.

Of the profits in addition to a stated
salary, as in the case of Hugh Jen.
nings, Of the Detroit club.
Taking glance at the managerial
Held as it stands today, there appears
to be only five major league man
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-06
china's Lone Waterway.

China's Long Waterway. sE
China has the longest canal in the.
world-the Grand. It is the longest
certified waterway, and goes from
Tungtu to Hangchoo, . distance Of 600
miles.