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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-08-08
Almost Recoqnized.

Dinah was d product of New Orleans,
big. plump ''yaller gal" who could
cook the finest dinners for miles
around. One day new butler ap-
peared upon the scene. and Dinah's
mistress noticed that she took a great
interest in the man. At last her mis-
tress could stand her curiosity no
longer and asked:
"Dinah, do you know that new
man?"
Dinah took another long and scruti-
nizing look and then slowly and rem
iniscently replied:
well. | dunno. Miss Alice. but l
think he was ma fust !"-Ev-
erybOdy's Magazine.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-08-08
EnIiqhtened.

The Student-l always get these two
terms mixed What is the difference
between matrimony and patrimony?
The Profersor-Matrimo is engineer
ed by the mother and the necessary
patr1mony is supplied by the father
Kansas City Star.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-08-08
THE BEMIDu DAILY Pl0NEEA

that way" said the other. with mani
fest disgust.
To which the old gentleman respond
ed, There is as much sense in my way
Of swearing as there is in yours. young
man."-Youth's Companion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
A GREAT DRAMA
TOMORROW NIGHT
''Fine Feathers" Eugene Walters
Signal Success, at the Grand.
PLAY FULL OF LESSONS TO
THOSE WHO WOULD LEARN.
Crowded House Will Greet First
Great Dramatic Play of the
Season on Tomorrow.


opera house H. H. Frazee will pre-
sent for the first time here Eugene
Walters latest and most famous
play, "Fine Feathers than which
no drama in recent years has Great
ed more profound impression
among theatre-goers of the biggest
cities in this country.
Fine Feathers" is described as
drama of today. 1t is said to deal
with problems that confront the
average American household, and
is peopled with characters familiar
to every man and woman who goes
to the theatre. Dealing with the
increased cost and higher standard
of living, and their effect on the
American home, it also diagnoses
human life in a relentless, search
ing way with it's lights and shadows
it's humor and its serious aspects.
Touching upon the tentacles of
the "big interests Fine Feath-
ers' shows how they reach into the
American family and affect the
mans method of industrial attack.
There is an absence of hero, heroine
and villain. The play deals with
ordinary human beings, who are not
involved in a love story in the or
binary sense of the word, yet dis
play the truest affection of all-the
love of a husband and wife-that
has to fight selfishness and vanity
as well as the romantic ambitions
which come into all lives.
Mr.. Walter has based his play on
modern conditions in the home, and
in the world of business; he has en-
deavored to show the double stan
dards of morals existing in modern
commerce, which condone sharp
practice in the office but would not
be tolerated in the drawing room.
Briefly, the story of Fine Feath'
ers' is that of young wife living
humbly on her husbands meagre
salary, who falls under the influence
of better dress and better living
| Vexed at the petty economies theil
/ income demands, and blind to the
principals of business, she urges
her husband to accept a proposition
made by an old school friend (noN
grown into a man rich in the worlC
of commerce) to lead his service!
! to a dishonest deal, which will tn. i
modest fortune his way. The wife
is innocent of any wror g-doing il
this case, as she is firmly convinced
that the business proposed is above
reproach.
The husband, too weak to figh
against his wife's rebellion, finall.
decides to put his hand in the finan
cial grab-bag and sells his ideals fol
mess of potage.
The absence of the sex question
or the namby-pamby romance, ha'
given the author his opportunity t
lead deftly and unerringly to thu
great denoument-the gradual reap
ing of the whirlwind at the climax
The curtain rises promptly at S2(
10 clock.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15


A little electric spark, originated
when President Wilson pressed a
button at the White house at two
o'clock Friday, sped more than
1000 miles, ignited an immense
charge of dynamite and destroyed
the Gamboa dixie, thus practically
removing the last obstruction in the
Panama canal. The Atlantic and
Pacific oceans were actually united
when the dixie was destroyed and
the waters of Gatun lake were al
lowed to flow into Culebra cut as
the lake and cut are eighty-five feet
above sea level. The destruction OF
the dixie, however, removes the last
obstruction to navigation in the
greater part of the canal by light
draft vessels. This event demon
strated the nearness of the canal TO
the operating stage and brought to
close the work of the central divi-
sion at Culebra cut.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
new INCOME TAX
HITS MANY PEOPLE
Government Reports Shows Half
Million People Taxable.
HOW NEW LAW is EXPECTED
TO EFFECT THE PEOPLE.
Description of Provisions of New
Revenue Law of United States.

ACCORDING TO estimates by treas
ury experts, 425,000 American citi-
zens must keep such accurate ac-
count of their incomes this year
that they will be able to report to
the income tax collector next spring
exactly how much they owe the
government under the new income
tax lew.
So far as the taxable American
When the returns are made they
will cover the income of citizens
from March /, 1913 to Dec. 81, and
the first payment of tax will be for
money received during this period
received during this period.
Every single person (citizen or
foreign resident) whose annual in
come exceeds $4,000 and every
married person with an income
above $4,000 is expected to report
his or her receipts in detail to the
government agents March 1, of each
year. The estimate completed
now indicates that the income tax
will produce $S2,29S,O0O from the
425,000 persons taxed. To this
will be added the $35, 100000 or
more produced by the present cor
poration tax which is continued as
part of the law.
President Wilson, the federal
judges of the supreme court and in
ferior courts now holding Office and
employees ''of state or any politi-
cal subdivision thereof are the on
ly persons specifically exempted
from the tax by the new law. The
president and judges now in Office
were made exempt to escape any
questions of the constitutionality
of the law and their successors in
Office will be compelled to pay the
tax.
The general public is expected to
give close study to the new law in
the next few months as the first
burden of the tax payment rests
with the individual citizen and his
failure to report his income is pun
ishable by fine. 1t is admitted
that when the first returns are
made many taxable persons will es-
cape payment, but with each year
the government list of persons
with taxable incomes will be made
more nearly complete.
Two primary methods of collect
ing the tax are contained in the
law. One is the Individual return
made, by the citizen, the other the
return by corporations and other
employers who pay their employees
taxes at the source. Under the law
every large company employing la
| Dor will be compelled to report any
regular salaries it pays in excess o.
the $4,000 figures and will pay the
taxes for its employees and deduct
the tax from their pay envelopes.
This payment at the source viii
apply to salaries, rent, interest, roy
alties, partnership profits and some
other sources of income, and per
sons receiving such incomes must
Continued on last page.)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
The Explosion at Panama.

The explosion of 40 tons of dyna-
mite in the shoulder of rock and
earth that remained between the
Gatun lake and the Culebra cut
Friday completed the work of con-
Meeting the oceans, although some
of the debris remains to be taken
! 1T by degrees.
r. Ne day was made additionally
h. q by the fact that four hun
dreo "a. $ ago Balboa discovered
the Pa ocean. Four centuries
had to pa q ore the work of con-
Meeting the D could be complet-
ed. Dreamed -ough centuries
it has remained Il an American
army officer, with no higher title
than colonel, to complete the
dream, says the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican.
What wonderful things have hap
pened since Balboa stood on that
peak in Darien, as the poet miscall-
ed 1t, and viewed the Pacific ocean.
The American continent has been
transformed and cities that rival
the cities of the old world have been
created in the new.
The simple fact, by us unheeded
that the president of the United
States could touch a button in the
white house and communicate a
spark to the 40 tons of dynamite
down on the isthmus, exploding
them, is in itself so marvellous that
it exceeds comprehension. What
would Balboa have thought If some
one had whispered to him that in
the ages to come such feats would
be performed?
Marvellous age and marvellous
achievements. And yet, it may be,
we can feel no greater joy than the
JOY which welled up in the heart of
the ancient Spanish mariner and ex-
plorer. And mankind, in spite of
all it's inventions, is still struggling
along in very much the same old
way.
All of it is worth thinking about
and most Americans are thinking
about it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
WOULD CHANGE CLIMATE.
Great Engineering Plan Recon-.
mended to Congress by Colonel
GOthals of Panama Canal
Fame.

1t is a great age that has Joined
the Mediterranean and Red seas,
the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans,
that has discovered wireless tele-
graphy, and has built the Assouan
dam, says the Indianapolis News.
But a greater work is pronounced
by Colonel Goethals, to be practical
BILE, namely, the proposition by
Carroll Riker to change the climate
of the northern hemisphere by OBJ
structing the cold Labrador current
which meets the Gulf stream off
the Grand banks and prevents it
from warming the region as it
might
The plan is to reconstruct the
peninsula which once projected into
the ocean at the point where now
the cold Labrador current ends the
usefulness of the warm Gulf stream.
Competent engineers support Col
onel Goethals in his recommends
ton to Congress that this peninsula
can be brought into being by jetty
covering an area of 1000 square
miles.
The jetty, once created, would
separate the currents now meeting
and fusing on the Grand banks,
conducting them to deep water be-
yond the banks, where the cold
northern current would sink and
pass under the less saline waters of
the warm Gulf stream.
This work, so stupendous as to
sound incredible except to those
that live in this age of wonderful
things, is to be very simply done. 1t
consists of laying an obstructor
close to the floor of the ocean
around which the perpetual move
ment of water will form a mighty
bank.
1t would lie just south of the vir-
gin rocks and be virtually a recon-
struction of the virgin peninsula
which once was the coastal forma-
tion there. The obstructor would
be a cable saturated with asphalt
tum Quoting the report of Con-
gress) weighted with wire, so that
it would sink and rest lightly on
the ocean bed.
But it would be lighter than sand
or other deposit, so it would be an
chored at short intervals by kedge
anchors, the connecting ropes sup
ported by buoys SO as not to be-
come embedded in the accumulat-
ing sand. With this obstructor thus
nearly touching the surface of the
ocean floor the sands brought by
the current would be arrested and
accumulated, and thus gradually
a bank would be piled up until it
would reach a height sufficient to
divert the currents as described
If this is not Harvesting the
ocean to do work of mighty crea-
ton, what is it? 1t outdoes the
work of the coral animal which
piles up reefs and islands. 1t would
seem impossible and be scoffed at
perhaps in any other age than this,
which has witnessed so many nigh
ty works and feels confidence in the
almost unlimited accomplishment OF
man.
1t may be recalled that when the
great engineer Eads proposed the
Mississippi river jetties as a means
of clearing away the bar that form
ed outside the mouth of the great
river in the gulf and obstructed
navigation, he was hooted at, and il
was only with difficulty that he got
leave to proceed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15

The list of words to be used with
Hunts Progressive Spelling Book
in the Winneshiek County Spelling
Contest have been sent to the
teachers. Those who have not re-
ceived any, please notify me so that
they may be sent to you.
Rules to Govern Contest.
All contestants must be enrolled
in some rural school, in any of the
grades below the High School in the
City Schools, or a Parochial school.
Hunts Progressive Spelling Book
and list of words sent from this
office will be used.
The teacher in each rural school,
and the teachers in the other schools
are to ascertain the three best spell
lers in their respective schools by
holding a spelling contest or any
other plan satisfactory to the teach
er.
The three best spoilers in each
district are to compete with the
other districts in the township by
holding a joint spelling contest at
nounced later. In connection with
the spelling contest, / am planning
to hold program given by the
teachers and parents. In the town
ships where school opened in Sep
tember the preiiminaries will be
held the latter part of October
The graded schools and the par
ochial schols are to hold their con-
tests on date tof suit their GIn
convenience, but must be held on Or
before December 1st.
Tht Spelling Contest is to be held
in connection with the Winneshiek
County Short Course. Suitable pri-
zes will be offered.
The two best spoilers in each
township and the two from each of
the other schools are to meet in De-
corah the first part of December.
AS soon as preliminaries are held,
please send in the names of the sue
cessful contestants to the office.
Preliminary Report.
We again make mention of the
preliminary report which must be
made out the first Friday of each
term. Some teachers have neglect
ed to do this. If you do not have
/ blanks please notify us and they
will be sent to you at once. 1t Is
very important that the preliminary
report blank be sent in as this aids
us in knowing what schools are in
session and the addresses of the
teachers while teaching. Very Of
ten teachers fail to receive material
from the office because. they have
not sent in this blank.
Home Credit System.
The following list of credits sent
in by one of our pupils shows how
we'll the system is working out:
i
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
SPECIAL WORK IN >.
THE ECOUNTYSCHOOLS
County Superintendent Miller Pub
fishes Information of Value.
COUNTY SPELLING CONTEST
DURING THE SHORT COURSE.
Rules Governing the Contest, Pre-
liminary Reports, Home Credit
System and Teaching of
Agriculture.

County Spelling Contest for 1913.
The list of words to be used with
Hunts Progressive Spelling Book
in the Winneshiek County Spelling
Contest have been sent to the
teachers. Those who have not re-
ceived any, please notify me so that
they may he Sant tn vnn
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15

An occasional glance at the pho
tos of the worlds richest and most
fashionable society women, as they
appear in the columns of our daily
newspapers, should convince most
any one that Wealth and Beauty do
not, very often, travel together.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15

Never go on note for the fellow
who's always fretting about the tar
iff question, unless you actually
mean to pay it for him when due.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15

Next to a match that won't light
when urgently needed, is a friend
that won't stand up for you in an
emergency.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15

Total for the month .32f
| will be glad to send booklet
on the Home and School Work
Credit system to parents who are
interested or teachers who have not
already received one.
Teaching of Elementary Agriculture
Section Teaching of Elemen-
tary Agriculture, Domestic Science
and Manual Training-When-T Teach
er's Qualifications. The teaching OF
elementary agriculture, domestic
science, and manual training shall.
after the first day of July 1915, be-
required in the public schools Of the
state; and the State superintendent
Continued on last page.)
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1913-08-08
U. S. WEATHER REPORT

Weather Bureau Of the U. S. Depart.
ment of Agriculture during the week
ending Aug p, 1913, at Libby, Mont
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1913-08-08
INJURED BY EXPLOSION REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Harold Gompf, aged 6, and
Miss Kathleen DoIan, aged
7, were quite seriously injured by
the exploding of blank cartridge
last Friday evening. The young
ster had found a cartridge and ta-
ken it into the house to Mr.. Gompf
and asked him If it was any good =.
He told them the thing was worth
less and to throw it away. Short
ly afterwards the occupants of the
house heard an explosion and, on
rushing out, found the children
badly mangled. They had set a
lighted match to the wads, caus-
ing the thug to go off. Doctors
Baxter aud Phillips were summon
ed and patched them up. The
boys hands, arms and chest were
badly cut up, while the girl received
some bad cuts on the wrist and
forehead. They are progressing
finely and will bear no great scars
from the accident.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1913-08-08
NOTICE TO WATER USERS

Preparations for the turning in
OF the water from the old to the
new pipe line will be made Friday
August 8, and the water supply
will be shut off at 6 o'clock a. m.
on this date. The amount of wa
ter contained in the maius and
penstock will serve the town, with
careful usage. about 10 hours, aud
consumers should govern them
selves accordingly. The use of
hose for sprinkling and irrigating
will exhaust the supply in much
less time, and you are requested to
refrain from this practice on this
date. In case no accidents occur,
we expect to complete the connec-
lion in time to turn on the lights.
Libby Water Works, Electric
Light and Power Co.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1913-08-08
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

The past week has been a bat
one for accidents in and aroune
Libby. Although many of then
were not serious they were al
painful, and the doctors have beer
particularly busy.
On Saturday Tim Norton had hi:
hand badly lacerated with saw
while working at the cedar camr
on Parmenter creek.
Sunday, Blacksmith Mcpherson
had finger badly torn with a
horse shoe nail while shoeing hor-
ses. This wound fixed him SO that
be is unable to work and he has
been spending the time fishing.
Monday, Mr.. Hollister fell off a
scaffold and sustained severe
wrenching and bruising of the back
and shoulders. He is still confined
to his bed.
R. ]. Doyle, deliveryman for the
John P. Wall store, got mixed up in
runaway Monday evening and is
still in bed with a damaged right
thigh. He was delivering in the
east part of town when the team
became frightened in an alley and
turned around short; the pole then
dropped down and ran into the
ground, pulling the wagon up in
the air and dumping out the dri-
yer. The team proceeded to run
into stump on Fifth Street and
smashed things up in great shape,
distributing groceries freely along
the way.
AL Stewart had the misfortune
to have his hand torn open with
the ice tongs on Monday. Several
stitches were needed to close the
wound.
Rudolph Altenberg had the mis-
fortune to fall and break an arm
Wednesday afternoon.
G. Gergy, foreigner, working
for the Libby Lumber Co., threw
a fit on Monday and was brought
down and placed in the hospital. |
He died Wednesday morning.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1913-08-08
W0MAN'S CLUB PARTY

The Woman's Club party given
in the Cddfellow's hall last Friday
evening was success both 6natci.
ally and as an entertainment. A
good crowd turned out. Three
rows of tables running the full
length of the hall were filled with
people playing $500" and ana
grams. Prizes were given to the
best and poorest players. In 900
Mesdames Town and Anderson re-
ceived the prizes for ladies', and
Messrs. Holt and Birmingham cop
ped the gents prizes. Mrs. Bar,
rett ard Miss Grandjean were the
champion anagram players, while
Messrs. Barrett and Rice received
the gentlemen's prizes.
A delightful program had been
arranged for the evenings enter
tainment. Mrs. Lewis and
Mrs. Rowland gave Rotations,
Mrs. G. B. Nef sang a solo. en-
Enthusiastically encored, the Misses
Schank and Anderson played a pi-
ano duet, Misses Harris and Burns
danced the Highland fling and the
Misses Burns and Smithers accom-
modated with vocal selections.
The candy counter was in the
hands of Mrs. +. A. Southwick
and Mrs. John Duthie, who did a
business.
Mrs. B. F. Maiden acted as
chairman of entertainments and
Mrs, M. G. Rice was boss of the
floor and managed the crowd.
A delicious lunch was served
about II O'Clock after which the
people went home, wishing that
the Woman's Club would give a
few more such parties.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1913-08-08
STEWART,-COLLINSON

A very pretty wedding was SOL
emized at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith Colllnson Thursday
afternoon at 3 Of clock when they
gave their daughter Clara in mar
riase to Allen Douglas Stewart.
The house was artistically decorat-
ed with streamers, flowers and
plants. Promptly at 3 o'clock the
wedding party marched into the
parlor where Rev. w. A. Reed
was waiting with book in hand to
perform the ceremony. The bride
looked beautiful in crepe de chene
dress with bridal veil caught up
with sweet peas and carried a bo-
quet of sweet peas and ferns. She
was given away by her father. She
was supported by her sister Grace
and Miss Florence Williams. The
groom wore the conventional black
and was assisted through the trying
ordeal by his brother James Stewart
and Harry Collinson, brother of
the bride. A rescherche wedding
supper was served at six o clock
of which about fifteen invited
guests took part. The wedding
was very quiet one, only a few
intimate friends of the contracting
parties being present.
Neither of these young people
need any introduction to the people
of Libby. They are of our best
and we'll and favorably known by
all. Mr.. Stewart is the partner in
the Colllnson & Stewart firm and
will continue in the business. Mr..
and Mrs. Stewart will be at home
after the 18th of the month in their
residence on Fourth Stseet.
Their many friends will Join the
Herald in wishing them all kinds
of happiness and prosperity.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1913-08-08
NEWS NOTES FROM URAL

Hale Steenerson was home Sun
day from Big Greek where he and
L. f. Schrubbe are cutting trail
for the forest service.
+. N. Dickerhoof went to Eure-
ka last Tuesday to get his track
speeder which had been stolen the
Sunday morning previous.
Oscar Gibler and Pete Pretty
wood are cutting the forest service
hay in the meadows on Five Mile
creek.
Master Carpenter Reinking had
the out house at Ural depot moved
back farther from track and station
house.
w. Fritsch has the basement
dug for his new store building.
c. N. Lawrence, / forest ranger,
came down from Pinkham creek
Saturday evening and left on "a
tor his home at Tweed.
The continued dry weather
makes it good having but is hard
on garden truck.
The section foremen are busy
cleaning up around culverts and
bridges and burning trash on the
right of way to prevent fires.
With the mercury trying to get
out of the top of the thermometer
and everybody fighting mosquitoes
we have little other activity to
chronicle at present.