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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-29

PIANO One slightly used Piano for
sale at a bargain. Telephone 317-2.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-29

once complete fur
nished rooms for light housekeep-
ing. Address x, care Pioneer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-29
HELP WANTED

U. S. Army-Able-
2 bodied unmarried men between
ages of 10 and 35; citizens Of the
United States, of good character
and temperate habits, who can
speak, read and write the English
language. For information ap-
ply to Recruiting Office at Schroe-
der Building, Bemidji, or PIT Tor
rey Building, Duluth, Mimi.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-29

WANTED--Girl for general house
work. Inquire at tit Beltrami
Ave- Mrs. DR.. e. H. Smith,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
UNIVERSITY A. A.
WANTS CHARTER
ERECTION OF CLUBHOUSE WILL
BE EEEUN AS SOON AS TT is
GRANTED.

Formal application for Il charter has
been made TO The State corporation
commission by the General Athletic
association of the University of Nr
ginia, and as soon as II Is granite !.
the $4,000 trust fund subscribed by
the alumni Of the university for the
erection Of clubhouse and stands on
Lambeth's field win be available
This trusr fund is now held by judge
Il. 7. ". Duke, of Charlottesville, ard
Or. William ~ Lambeth OF the uni
versty.
Within the next fortnight. DR. Lam
t1otfT wifi commence the work OF graft
ing and the excavations necessary TO
build the remaining sections OF tire
curved concrete stands In all a,0on
yards of earth viii be removed, and the
athletic field will bn hrnadened thirtE
feet at the point where the old wooden
hleachers recently stood. The gee
yard straight away will not be changed.
but instead of being Immediately at the
base OF the north terrace, a plot OF
level ground thirty feet wide will ex
tend between the track and the ter
race.
tse4Ht taet At-,s ft-- III
proceed without interruption during
the session next year, The So, 0o0
trust fund viii be appropriated as oe-
casion demands and such part Of the
$4,000 loan authorized viii be nego-
tiatcd as becomes necessary for the
completion of the work.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
No HOPE OF GAGGtNG TOM.

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

their downfall in the face of sudden and great
temptation finally lie2 Where, finally, is it
possible for the law that ia protective OF So
cety to justify itself. If it protects as con-
seryitors of the law men who deliberately sug-
gest and promote its violation?
All this would OF course, be laughed down
the wind by Burns. any other detective.
He would point to the results in confessions
Of other deals" and crooked work He would
call the idea that of a sentmeutalist or an
impracticable dreamer OF the ideal. At the
same time every such disclosure of detective
methods makes for increase In the grow
ing doubt to whether the detective or his
quarry is the more desirable citizen.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
HAD BEST STAY SOUTH.

G. II. Sims, the pastor Of the Negro Union
Baptist Church in the popuous San Juan ne
gro quarter in New York. issues a sensible
warning to Southern negroes who arc just now
being offered fancy inducements to go to New
York TO take the places of the walters who
have recently walked out of the fashionable
hotels and restaurants Urging that negro
men thus tempted remain in the South the
pastor called attention to the temporary
character of the employment they could obtain.
Such Of my race as will be imported he
said will be used as catspaws during the
strike and apt to become public charges
when it is all They had better stay
down home. II has been shown that negro
walters are not wanted in the irst-class hotels
here under ordinary circumstances and
think they would make a mistake in accepting
temporary occupation to break d strike 1t
witt only create bad feeling.
There was time when one could ind in
the large hotels and barber shops of The
North the most glorifed specimens Of the ne
gro race. That time has passed, not much
on account Of change OF sentiment in the
people served rs in the demand for increased
efficiency by the large employer. Taken as
an individual the rare negro who knows how
to serve takes a pride in his work and an ad
miration for his boss" that in combination
make him the last word In desirable domestic
But the great hotels aud the fashionable res-
tauraDts, like great factories are not so much
in search Of the exceptional individual in the
ranks rs they are OF dependable level If
effectiveness, This the Inherited instincts of
the SHcdes, he Swiss. the French. the German.
and English walters, o1efs. and kitchen help
supply They will not tolerate the negro. and
the negro is spoiled when he Games Into con
tact with them on terms OF equality 1t has
It'rus happened that the negro has gone out
of fashion in the big hotels And he viii
never he re-nstated
For the negroes who will probably swarm
TO New York in answer to the lure of high
wages, there undoubtedly av ats the tate that
is SO eoquently testified by the teenng ne.
gro slums OF every large city; the negro made
over into metropolitan mongrel; the negro
given over to deadly vices and exceseos: the
negro rotting from disease, and fatteping for
crime
We wish that every negro waiter with
dreams of high wages and priucoly tips could
read and understand the truth of this preach
er's timely warning.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
GIVE MOONLIGHT
ON JAMES RIVER

Every effort it being made by Mrs.
Samuel ". Williams and her commit
tee to make IL success OF the moon
light excursion Of Richmond Chapter,
United Daughters or the Cofiredsracy,
to Dutch Gap on the night OF the
sixth of June. The chapter is plan
ming to make this excursion the most
attractive of the season. Lunch will
he served on the boat TO the business
men and women coming direct from
their work to the wharf. There will
be music and dancing on the boat.
Tickets can be secured from Cor
ley's Music Store. Broad street; Polk
Miller Drug store: Main street; John
Bauer Drug store. Hanover avenue,
Kun'a Drug store. Hanover avenue. J.
l.. Davis. Davis hotel: Chefs Drug
store, Harrison and Broad streets,
Mrs. n. " Randolph. Mrs. S. w.
Williams, $500 Grove avenue: Mrs.
A. j. White. 1913 South Third street;
Mrs. w. n. F'ishburn, $40 East Mar
shall.
The proceeds will so towards
erecting monument for ten thous.
and Southern soldiers, who lie In un-
marked graves.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
HAIL THE POLITICAL MATHEMATICIAN!

Now that practically every primary and con-
vention has been held the political mathema-
ticians of both parties are out with pad and
lays over any that the Sphinx ever propounded
VIII the Southern delegate give up dreams of
pie to a novel hari-kari for his words sake?
VIII the National Republican Committee get
cold feet and recognize the Roosevelt contest
ants VIII Mr. Taft's steam roller role Will
Champ Clarks "dawg" run mad or prove to be
a retriever? VIII We be safe and sane or pro-
gressiye. II crazy? These and many other
questions german and otherwise the dgurers
have figured out between columns nicely ruled
in red ink. The man who guessses right will
be glorihed new prodigy of political cal
culus; the many who miss the mark will be
forgotten until~,se begin to listen Ia tho,n again
in 1915.
As an example of how much. or how little
these claims amount to. We may cite the care
fully tabulated predictions of tho Wilson man
agement, furnished by it The Nc,o Iork Eue.
ming Post, In it's supposedly exact statement
of the known strength of all Democratic can
didates and of the delegates doubtful or un-
instructed, this forecast. among Other things,
gives the Virginia delegation as numbering 81
of whom it allots II to Wilson and . 70 the op-
position, counting in this the uninstructed AS
q matter of fact the Virginia delegation num-
bers "a and the most careful politicians have
been able to figure only IL Wilson delegates
out of these. OF the delegates at large wilson
has three of the eight. which gives him vote
and half; while from the delegates from oss-
tricts the concession of Ave to the New Jersey
Governor is entirely liberal
We cite the case of misrepresentation and
inacurracy by the Wilson bureau merely as
a condition that pertains to all the
forecasts and predictions now extant, and that
will continue TO be issued with increasing fire.
quency until the conventions shall have met
and resolved each its separate puzzle After
that. the 'I-told-you-so's" will almos. arail to
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
Gettysburg Star and Sentinel,
Give His Ashes 10 Fish.

Fly the will Of John w untton, %no vas
known as a fisherman and an enthusiastic hunt
err and who died at Morsemere, \. j.. last Sat
uroay it was ordered that his ashes be strewn
upon the Hackensack river, along the banks
OF which he used to fish as a lad. Hutton,
who was senarated from his wife nine months
before his death went to live with his boyhood
friend, John l.. Hayes
Wis will was read over the casket In an uil'
da,tater's shon in Union Jill, n j., yesterday.
IT left all his personal property TO Hayes ex
cent "A So heauest to his widow. Hayes went to
the banks 81 the IacKenssek sss nfs@t~ asaa
there carried out his dead friends request-
New York Sun.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
OFFICE OF VICE
PR PRESIDENT STUNNED

II must seem odd 10 Visiting
foreigners who do not know the up.
liticai disregard in which the vice
presidency is held by ambitious statss~
men that in all the present talk Of
candidates not single word of spees-
iatton has been heard about the seq
ond place on the national tickets Yet
IN the carly days OF the republic the
vice presidency was regarded as d
training school for the presidency; fftn
Of our twenty-five elected presidents
have died soon after inauguration, and
their vice presidents been thus raised
TO the presidency. and The last three
presidents have taken their vice prcsi-
dents into thor more intimate couu-
sells Nevertheless. the second place
is held in such slight esteem today
that nobody launches an active cam
paign for the nomination. 1t Is n
commonly accepted theory In modern
politics that this is a shelf on which
live public men are laid away for
lheir last long sleep " hen Theodore
Roosevelt accepted Che vice presiden-
tal nomination at Philadelphia in
1900. he freely expressed to the
friends about him his opinion that
the end OF his career had come. aud
heUaAled his condemnation to spend
"A tedious four years presiding oyo.
legislative body III which he had
no other. right or privilege except in
the remote contingency OF n tie vote.
but. knowing the man. some of them
were ready to wager that, with the
first hot debate over question which
thoroughly Interested him, we should
witness the unique spectacle Of Mir.
Roosevelt descending to the floor and
pinngtng INTO the fight, regardless of
constitutional limitations or precc-
dent. Fate decreed that he should
never be put to this test.-Washing-
ton Correspondence, New York Even
ing Post.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

Organized Labor is commencing to rumble
because It has discovered that legislation 1t
desired at the Capitol was defeated by the
same men who combined to nut the question
Of the submission of Statewide prohibition
temporarily out of business. What did Or
ganiaed Labor think men whose interets is the
protection OF the liquor traffic cared about
Labor?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
ETHICS OF REFORM DETECTIVES.

The old question Of the right OF an ofFcer
of the law to commit or procure the commits
SION of a crime in order TO catch supposed
criminal ia exceeded in complication OF reason
ing when the detective who corrupts in order to
expose corruption has no legal status. but is
merely the hired agent of private interests
Speaking in the vein OF boastfulness
which he has adopted ever since his success
with the NcNamaras. Detective William J.
Burns talked in New York of the Atlantic City
exposures. in part, as follows:
! was particularly anxious To get at he crooks
who had been trusted in high places in the
city government SO arranged to frame up
an attractive scheme TO put through the council
an ordinance for a concrete plaza to replace
the present boardwalk We had real plans
and blue prints and specifications drafted and
W ven rented the necessary yard spaces
where the work of mixing the concrete
supposedly 10 be done. One or my detectives
posed successfully az New York contractor.
AS eTsf-yx knows now, some Of fhe stpart9.
est OF the smart" ones We're completely taken
IN, genuine dfd everything appear. They
sold their votes il the Council for few lunches
OF marked bills and nj the proper time the
right on the ground 10 record the crooked trans
actions. As in usually the case. many Of the
guilty now tumblfng over one another
to tell all they know, because they see We have
them in a very tight place. This sort OF thing
takes time and careful work. We do not under
take ~tc perform miracles But the same Thing
nau he dane in an. RraftSridden town II there
are men there who sufficiently In earnest
about cleaning house.
Observe that the whole case was built in
the beginning on suspicion. 1t was taken
as a premise that the city officials were graft
ing and protecting vice. If, acting this
suspicion, private interests had employed de-
tectives 10 hunt up some deal which had been
contaminated or in the process of being
pulled off, there could have been doubt OF
the commendability OF the entire proceeding,
Instead of that the astute detectives adopted
:. simpler method. Relying upon the statement
of their motives TO clear their own skirts, they
proceeded through fictitious company TO
corrupt the authorities They offered tangi-
bic brides. even if in marked bills, which were
accepted. They made definite offers of money
for corrupt action. even IL they duly
taken down by means of the dictagraph, In
other words, the private detectives made their
own crime and then proceeded to indict the
men who participated in 1t!
As theoretical proposition which. by the
way is entirely possible. what would be the
effect in law and in good morals If one or
more of the city authorities trapped and
disgraced had previously been of good char
acter? Where would the responsibility for
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
CURRENT COMMENT
rIrZER Pu BLIsHEs EN-.
hc@"nts Being Billed nv Cop for What oother
Hachmeu Are Allowed to Do

~ tbC peace and good name of this town IN
d" ne maintained something must be done, A
ear ago when I was hurled TO the ground bv
Eohrefnan Shealer and his assistant Swope |
PROMISED myself that If dirty work like that
occurred again | was going 10 publish them.
'n last Thursday morning. Man 18th Council
man George SheaJer did the very thing that
ne did last year 1890 drove In the railroad
ground 10 solicit passengers. When Polcems n
Sh@aier saw his father drive in he sarted TO
walk MP town, instead Of saying to his father
next Samuel Vaughn and others drove in. When
burgess Hotzworth, Next he ordered In his
teams, and then You should haze heard what
won't on while they we're the. platform So
lpfting all the passengers. II In plain Vio-
iaton OF the ordinances, and species of law
lessnssa by borough officials and others. The
protests of Mr. j. a, Cox were totally ignored.
IT officials engage in this iawlessness. what can
ho expected Of the rest OF the hackmen and
the peace, good order and fair name of tnts
community / went before the town council
two years ago and asked them to adjust the
hack licenses, and nothing has been done not
wthstanding under tho present reRula tions a
man who hacks with surrey pays So and
there are men with four-hOrse teams who pay
only So for Euch team. and there teams
With no license. | appeal to the town council
town needs all the taxes a uniform tax rate
the town demands that borough ordinances
regulating hackmen at the depots be carried
out without respect to any persons or officials,
or special privileges TO any.
JOHN f. PITZER.
~
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

or thoroughfare. To be OF value. however.
they must be strictly enforced. Tho public
which comes to rely upon their being obeyed
Is in greater danger, II they are violated, than
It would be &c absence OF any regulation made
/: eneumbent upon all foot passengers TO de
pend entirely upon their own wits for safety.
We seriously commend the Broad Street situa-
ton both to the Automobile Club and tho mo-
torcycle cops
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
THE ELOPEMENT

somia looked on, Mortified. Shs
thought she was gorng mad. but the
- stinct of self preservation mado her
cling to the tree.
Dawn was breaking. The wolves
trotted few times around the tree
a2lafias at the girl Then they sneak
ed away.
The north wind continued to how
and the snow was falling heavils,
covering up the blood and the few
remnants of horse and man.
Jassomia was crying softly, but the
road to Frassnet was long and lonely
as ever.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS ON BROAD STREET

While the Automobile Club is devoting it's
energies TO enforcing compliance with the
speed regulations. it might also take notice
that on Broad Street West OF Richmond Col
iege many drivers OF cars make it d practice
run Wes~ardy along the, South side OF the
street IN direct defiance of the traffic regula-
tions
Although the reason for such negligence is
that in the section referred To one side of the
street is smoothly paved and the other rs not,
traffic regulations are ali the more neces-
sxry because the cars that go wrong al
most without exception going fast. AS the
public has been generally educated to depend
upon the traffic regulations as a rule of con-
duet, II may well happen that someone wait
Ing q street car at corner, thus naturally
looking West, may fall an easy victim to this
species OF dangerous disregard OF Law
Tra1hc regulations are OF course, necessary
70 the proper use OF any much travelled street
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

Taking all the reports OF evacuation of Mex
ltan cities by Americans TO be true, it would
seem that constant emigration for year and
half would about stop the revolutions by de-
nnpulatip& the country
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

Considering the fact that he once said Mr..
Root was the possessor of the greatest intel
Iect in the world. President Rooseyelts fight
against him as temporary chairman was tenn
peramentally inconsistent
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

Prince Troubetskoy declares that the Beef
Trust revelations have made a vegetarian out
Of him. Wait until he hears the inside his
tory of the saa"r1JaH trust
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
Nobody seems to trust the Beef Trust.

The Department of Labor issues state
ment showing that the price of eggs has in
creased 500 per cent. in the last ten years
l. does not give the average increase in the
eggs longevity.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
Raincx Afrtcan Pictures.

Paul J. Rainey's African hunt NOV
ing pictures are still drawing good
crowds to the Lyccum theater. Foa-
lures that are greatly appreciated are
the lion hunt. the leopard hunt, ana
the view of the water hole" where
all animals meet.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

Washington had a Sunday temperature of
100 Probably exaggerated heat due to the
DiNon-New controversy.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

Joaquin MlIers log cabin has been turned
over to the District of Columbia. but the poet
himself had long since retired from the po-
litieal reservation to the tall timbers
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

Bessie Minor and Rachael Davis, hoth
colored, we're arrested yesterday on
charge Of stealing SO from Hawley
Woodbridge.
William Henry Smith, colored was
arrested Yesterday on charge Of
stealing $17.66 from ]. A. Brooks.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

make us wish that the President, instead of
being elected for single term of six years.
we're elected for life and made 1t habit of
living to be hundred and ten
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
Alaska. slberia Picn,rea.

The remarkable Carnegie-AlaskA-
Siberia moving pictures have made
Ehit at tho Maxine Ellit theater. The
scenes OF Eskimo. life. polar-hear
hunting with camera, and other views
in the Arctic region are much appre-
ctated.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03

Claude Allen seems to have escaped death
by a sweetheart
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-08-09
GAINESVILLE NOTES

At last the colored citizens of
GAINESVILLE are to have park Of their
own, instead of being dependent upon
The will, and whims of the other race.
The various lodges have combined
and selected a tract of eight acres in
the southeastern part of the city, on
the car line, and will proceed TO trans
form it into a beautiful pleasure
ground and unsurpassing ball park.
We wish them abundant success. An
other evidence of enterprise is the
new hall being erected by the Ma
sonic Fraternity at the corner of Main
and Ninth streets This will be a
brick structure, modern in all it's ap.
pointments, and an ornament to the
city. St Peter A. NJ. E. Church has
felt the spirit of enterprise also and
at a recent church meeting it was
decided to remodel the parsonage and
put it in iirst-class condition and also
to purchase a pipe organ Negotia-
tons for the latter are now under
way There was very large congre-
cation at st. Peter last Sunday morn.
ing. Prof. Greenlaw, the Canadian
soloist, who was to have sung, was un-
able to appear, but promised to sing
next Sunday morning. AS he will
sing before the sermon. you must be
there on time. Prof. Greenlaw is
probably the highest paid chorister
ON the continent, receiving $1,000 per
year for directing the choir in a white
church of Winnipeg, Manitoba. His
example is inspiring You should hear
him. ST. Peters Sunday-school had
their annual outing last Thursday, the
lst and a most enjoyable time. The
Woman's Home and Foreign Mission
airy Society of st. Peter met last Fri
day at the, residence of Mrs. Matte
Jackson, on Attic street. Much bust
ness was transacted, after which re-
freshments We're served by the host.
ess to the great delight of ali pres.
ent Rev. r.. NJ Seymour, of st. John
Baptist Church, has been out of the
city for the last three weeks. attend.
ing the Sunday-school institute and
visiting his people. He is expected
home this week. Mr.. A. Theodore
Stewart, of Chicago, is spending sew
eral weeks in the city, the guest of
Mr.. J. w. Page. The attempt to glut
the fish market and thus bring down
the high price of living for at least
a few days, which was so carefully