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Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
THE HAND ORGAN TO THE
HURDY-GURDY.

Do you recall that never-again
feeling, with which as a boy, you
used to welcome the spring advent
of the hand organ man? If also he
had a monkey, even the dinner bell
fell on deaf ears.
The hand organ man Of former
days brought the cheerful pipe OF
warm weather to the village roads.
He was an athletic, dark skinned
Southron, he turned the crank with a
will, and when his box ground out
Silver threads among the gold" it
was nearly equal to the village
band
The hand organ man of today is
but pathetic survival. Usually he
as cripple or beggar, whose feeble
and irregular turning of his wheel
is the last whine of defeated hopes.
In his place has come the twink
ling chatter of the hurdy-gurdy. It's
pealing rhythm sets the youngsters
dancing along the concrete city
streets. When you hear it out in
the country, the farmers boy can
almost think he is on the Gay White
Way.
To the driven business man, try
ing to dictate letter that will per-
suade Smith to pay for that invoice
of nails, the hurdy-gurdy is one of
the pests of civilization, an enemy
of society, like the death dealing
chauffeur or the tussock moth.
Not thus to the visitor from the
rural districts. The animation and
jingle of its ripping notes conveys
sensuous enjoyment and the fascina-
ton of something doing. 1t fits in
with the glare of electric signs, the
merry crowds pouring into the the
aires, and the clatter of knives and
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
SPRING FLOWERS.

To some people spring means the
yelling of the bleachers, to others
battling with the elusive wits of the
trout. Philosophic persons wander
cut and dream surging dreams of
spiritual resurrections typified by
the abundant life about them.
To other people there is gentle
charm in the pursuit after the flow
ers of spring. The location of such
plants is secret, carefully guarded
like hidden treasure, revealed only to
the chosen ones. Going "a-maying"
is a traditional diversion handed
down from English life. 20 that
we two were maying" has enshrined
it in imperishable verse.
Years ago country schools used to
celebrate May day, as holiday de-
voted to flower searching. Teach
er used to wander afield followed by
her tender little lambs, and all re-
turned at night with achy legs, but
full baskets filling their chubby
hands. Today it is to be feared that
fifth grade boy who went may
ing" would be suspended from his
ball team for go days.
However, many more people are
studying botany today than ever be-
fore. Mostly women, though Ma
ture Clubs and Audubon societies
are proving along the streams and
through the forests, harried by fear
of peaceful cattle, more or less dis
hevelled by spreading barbed wire
fences, but altogether happy.
Few men study botany now. 1t is
not competitive enough. Probably
if prizes were offered to see who
would recognize and tabulate the
greatest number of specimens in 80
days, the men would get out too.
If they are caught carrying flow
ere +hrouoh the streets thew feel as
apologize as does a man who car
ries a Bible and quarterly to Sunday
school They care nothing for the
flowers themselves, of course, and
merely do it to please their wives.
A man, however, has no objection to
carrying a florists box through the
street. Queer thing, human nature,
isn't it?
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
THE TRUEST CHRISTIANITY.

In the olden time it was the habit
Of the Christian to retire, if he want
ed to be very good, to the desert or
to isolate himself in a cell to prepare
himself for heaven by means of
prayer and holy contemplation and
introspection His great desire was
to escape hell by individual effort
supplemented by aid from Deity.
Things have changed in modern
times. The real Christian has little
time to think whether he has soul
TO save OF whether there is a hell
He has work to do far more impor-
tant than centering his thoughts on
himself and his existence beyond the
grave.
What the American Jew, Nathan
Straus, is doing with his great wealth
is more in harmony with the spirit
of all that is worthy in Christianity
than all that is done in the way oil
singing and praying and building
churches-all of them worthy in
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
BROOKLYN MINE
FINANCED BY TRUST CO.
From Fridays Daily.)

The affairs of the Brooklyn-Ari-
iona Mining Company are undergo
ing a reorganization and with the
filing for record yesterday of a trust
deed to the Capital Trust Company
of Delaware, the conveying of the
large holdings was concluded, and
the reviving of the company seems
evident. The consideration named
in the deed is $4,000. with a pro-
viso that bonds of S2S0,00O are to be
issued bearing six per cent per an
mum.
In the transfer all mineral ground,
and a vast amount OF surface i'm
provements are included. Under the
financial plan outlined, and to be
carried out, the property has bet
ter future than formerly. and it is
stated there will follow in due time
a general resumption. The holdings
of the company are situated east OF
Mayer in the Copper Creek and
Squaw Peak districts.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
SAFETY DAY" FOR chill.
DREN.

The New York schools have just
held what they called safety day"
in which the perils of civilization to
both small and big folks were set
forth The danger of matches, troll
ley cars, electricity, and other agen-
cies was emphasized.
The heedlessness of child inno-
cence involves the world in constant
tragedy. You may spend your
hundreds of millions on tuberculosis
cures, sanitation, and removal of
grade crossings, and then your little
one may be carried off by the mat
ches on your parlor mantel.
The blessing of diphtheria anti
toxin is nominal one if the fedgel-
ing of your nest is merely saved to
be run down by a joy-riding chauf-
feur.
Children and matches have had a
fascinating affinity ever since the
days of finder and flint A boy feels
two sizes nearer a man if he car
ries a bunch of matches loose in his
pocket. The Indian in him responds
to the call of the bonfire. If he lives
in a city house, a bonfire indoors
looks prefectly good to him.
The ridge-pole of a house, the
edge of cliff or high building, are
places that particularly appeal to the
young fry. 1t gives them sense
of power To really enjoy morn
ing luncheon, you need to climb
with it to the highest haymow in the
barn. To the young swimmer there
is an exhilaration in swimming over
the deep water that would be all
gone if he suddenly found he was
not over his depth.
All which shows it is dangerous
being a father or mother Still, peo-
pie will do it. But if you want tc
keep the nest full, you must look
after the nestlings. You don't want
them to be always lodging shad
ows. But they need to get their
eyes wide open to modern peril:
about as early as they can.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
FINDS ROAD TO
CITIZENSHIP A HARD ONE
From Sundays Daily.)

A very interesting and some
what 1udicrous situation developed
in Clark Farley's office of the ST.
perior Court yesterday when an
alien woman attempted to secure ma
turalization papers under the dips,
spurs and angles of the prevailing
laws, which are as intricate and ex-
acting toward the female as the male
sex.
The woman was of Italian birth,
and on the strength of her first
husband having been issued his first
papers, she endeavored to secure the
second papers and get under the
stars and stripes. 1t developed that
that the first husband had died, and
that she had since been married to
another Italian in this country. Six
children were born to the first and
one to the second husband.
To add to the merry situation the
second husband deserted his wife
sometime ago, and returning to Italy
took unto himself another fair lady
of that famed land, and seems to
have overlooked the vital matter of
securing a divorce from his Ameri-
can spouse To make matters more
complex, he has again returned to
| America and is now residing in the
| Salt River Valley, with legal wife
No. 2 still living in this city. The
Prescott woman is between two
warm fires, in consequence. She will
not live with the man, and neither
will the man live with her. She
cannot be admitted to citizenship un-
less she secured a legal divorce in
this country, notwithstanding the
| fact that her husband is still an
alien.
She hesitates on taking a whirI
at the divorce mill, and yet she does
not seek citizenship for any personal
benefit to herself She has in view
the lettering of the condition of her
eldest son from the first marriage,
by filing upon a 16O-acre strip OF
land to get the boy going on the
road for future career as he is
handicapped with defective eyesight
and other physical ills. Her hus-
band No. 2, still remains an Italian,
and refuses to even take out his first
papers Clerk Farley was compelled
to advise her that the marital bonds
were the big stumbling block in her
path toward the goal of being adj
mitted, and when this impediment is
removed, she can sail in like any
other alien women. A getta de law
yer then, to getta rid of thata man,
was her emphatic tone as she>went
down the long stairs, frienzied over
the Developments that had arisen.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
THE JAPS ANGRY.

The leading topic in the newspa-
pers of the United States and Japan
is the proposed anti-Japanese legis-
iation proposed in California. Also,
the department of State at Washing
ton is plainly worried The bill de-
signed to prevent Japs from buying
or leasing lands in California has
been carefully drawn to avoid viola
ton of the treaty between the two
countries. Whether that has been
done will depend upon the ruling of
the supreme court 1t is conceded
that the question is delicate one,
involving many serious possibilities.
1t is doubtful if the Japs can sue
cessfully attack the law, as one SIM
liar to it has been on the statute
books for the District of Columbia
for many years, unchallenged BY
any foreign country. But that fact
does not lessen the anger of the
Japs.
California has found that her
white population cannot compete
with the Japanese farmer, who is
gradually absorbing the fruit and
garden lands of the state. The Jap
population is alien in every sense.
Our laws are not their laws, our
customs not their customs, our NOR
ais not their morals They remain
subjects of the mikado, ready to re-
spond to his call to arms or to pay
taxes for the support of his gov
eminent. They are here solely tc
make money and then return to the
empire of the Rising Sun. They are
not desirable residents IN our midst
and California has not taken such
action without excellent reason fol-
SO doing.
On the other hand, the United
States is not in favorable position
should the Japs seize upon the alier
land bill as an excuse for beginning
hostilities. Not long ago the wal
with Russia was fought and there
are more than two million trained
and seasoned soldiers ready TO re-
spond to a call to arms. They are
well differed and thoroughly disci-
plined. The Philippines are remote
from our shoes and temptingly close
to Japan. We never could defend
them, nor could we regain the lost
prestige if they should be taken away
from us by force.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23

forks in the lobster joint. Who can
tell what solitary hearts have been
drawn to the pavements by its al
lurement?
The hurdy- gurdy man looks pros
porous, even more than his progeni-
tor of the organ. He may affect a
furry hat and greasy bandanna, for
atmosphere" But a round face sug-
gests that he lives high where the
spaghetti grows.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
BRYAN HUMILIATRD.

President Wilson is his own secre-
tary of state. Also he is not consid-
crate of the feelings of William Jen-
Hings Bryan, who is titular head OF
that executive department. II facts
were otherwise, the name OF Walter
H. Page would not have been sent to
the senate for confirmation as am
bassador to the court of St. James.
Ambassador Page will take his or
ders through Secretary of State Bry-
an and will make his reports to Mr..
Bryan, but Mr.. Page and MIR. Bryan
never will be on good terms, for Mr..
Bryan cannot forgive anyone who
disparages his ability.
Mr.. Page is editor of the Worlds
Work and in an editorial in the last
issue, discussing the cabinet, he says;
President Wilson's cabinet is, as a
whole. wisely chosen. 1t is not a
spectacular cabinet, but it promises
to be a good working body of men.
1t has men in it who were chosen
for fitness for their tasks. 1t has
men in it who were chosen for po-
litical reasons. 1t has men in it who
presumably were chosen primarily as
counselors TO their chief. These diff
ferent uses call for several different
Kinds OF men"
He then conspicuously praises the
fitness of McAdoo, Lane, Houston,
AcReynolds, Garrison and Redheld
ior the positions they hold, but evec
more conspicuous is his remark rela-
tive to Mr.. Bryan.
THE state portfolio the president
must himself hold whenever impor-
tant foreign questions come up"
Mr.. Page adds that majority of
the presidents official family seem
we'll chosen and wise counselors." 1t
is quite evident he does not regard
Mr.. Bryan as one OF the "well chos-
en- and wise counselors."
Following the publication of the
editorial the president nominated
Mr.. Page for the highest position in
Mr.. Bryan's department. 1t couldn't
have been done with the consent OF
the colonel and it was a harsh way
of announcing to the country that
the eloquent Nebraskan is a mine
spot" in the Wilson administration.
II Champ Clark has cherished any
revengful feelings because of Bry-
ans betrayal of him at the Baltimore
convention he should be satisfied.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
SKULL VALLEY is
INVADED BY GOPHERS
(Ftom Wednesdays Daily.)

John Morris while in the city
Monday stated that farmers of
Skull Valley were facing the worst
pest that had ever invaded that
country in the hordes of gophers
that were eating up the crops. The
evil is considered as one of the grav-
est ever known, and although thou
sands are being killed they seem
to multiply until all ranchers are
becoming alarmed over the situation
He states there will be a very light
crop in all lines, accordingly.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23

may do according to our environ
ment and our more limited abili-
ties. And at the end of it all, we
may say with the Scotch epitaph:
Here lie I, Martin Eiginrod-
Haze mercy on my soul, Lord God,
As l would do were l Lord God
And We were Martin Efginrod."
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
WANT MORE TIME
FOR DISSOLUTION
Attorney General Willing to Grant Ex-
tension and Matter Will Be Placed
Before the Supreme Court

marked the conference here today
between Robert S. Lovett of the
Union Pacific and United States Cir
cult Judges Sanborn, Hook and
Smith. Attorney McReynolds ex-
pressed a willingness to grant the
extension. The matter will be plac-
ed before the Supreme Court
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23


the Christian religion.
Some months ago it was announc-
ed that Mr.. Straus had sailed from
New York to Jerusalem, where he
would devote the remainder of his
life to lettering the conditions o. the
people of Palestine. Just row re-
turning travellers are telling OK the
work he is doing there
For centuries Jerusalem had been
city of disease, poverty, misery.
The people were ignorant, supersti-
tious and under the dominion of the
Turk, who is VIGOROUSLY bad rul-
err. 1t was a plague spot.
This year things are different.
There has been food for the hungry,
work for the idle and hope of health
for the victims of malaria, and de-
liverance from hydrophobia, which
had prevailed there for scores of
years because OF the vast number OF
dogs that roam about the streets,
acting as scavengers and protected
by the Ottoman authorities.
Mr.. Straus, after travelling over
the country, took pity on the miser-
able inhabitants. His work has not
been confined to the Jewish popu-
lation. With the widest philan-
thropy. he has showed no distinction
between Jew, Christian and Moham-
medan in the distribution of his
benehces. First of all he establish
ed soup kitchens from which the
hungry were fed. Next he establish
ed workshops in which thousands are
employed making souvenirs that are
sold to the pilgrims and that form
erly were imported from Connect
cut
Best of all, probably, is the health
bureau established with the aid of
the Mohammedan government, so far
as a building for the purpose went
and police authority for the enforce
ment of sanitation. His greatest bat
tie was with the mosquitoes, which
swarmed from the cisterns, carrying
malarial poison with their bites. The
pools Astounding about the city were
filed and the cisterns were cleaned
out, for the first time in centuries,
and filled with pure water. The peo-
pie have been shown how to disin-
feet their premises and keep them in
sanitary condition.
The work Of sanitation has been
expanded and is now being conduct
ed in all the centers of Palestine.
The halt, the lame and the blind
are going about the streets, instead
of curing them with miracles, Mr..
Strous has on hand skilled physicians
who are treating them according to
the canous of modern science. Mod
ern science has worked wonders in
many places, but nowhere has it
done more in so short a time, not
even in the Canal Zone, than its
results show in Jerusalem. Within
few years it will become a new
Jerusalem.
Nathan Straus, in his work in
New York City, where he maintained
pasteurizing milk stations at his
own expense, and stations for dis
tribution of coal in winter and ice
in summer for the poor, and lodg-
ing houses where the homeless and
the penniless could find clean places
to sleep, winter or summer, has been
emphatically Christian.
His religion is the same as the
religion of Christ, who went about
doing good What Mr.. Straus is
doing on a great scale, others of us
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-23
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, April 2l.-The presen-
tation of a motion for an extension
of time until July in which to take
under advisement the informal pre-
sentation of the revised plan for the
dissolution of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railway merger
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-13
WORDS FROM HOME
Statements That May Be lnvestigat.
ed. Testimony of Bemidji
Citizens.

When a Bemidji citizen comes to
the front, telling his friends and
neighbors of his experience, you can
rely on his sincerity. The statement
of peopel residing in far away places
do not command your confidence.
Home endorsement is the kind that
backs Doan's Kidney Pills. Such tes-
timony is convincing. Investigation
proves it true. Below is statement
of a Bemidji resident. No stronger
proof of merit can be had.
w. A. White 1923 Dewey Ave. Be-
midi, Mimi, says: 81 certainly can
recommend Doan's Kidney Pills, for
know from experience that they are
remedy of merit. I have used them
for lame back and kidney complaint
and have always received good re-
suits. I have obtained Doan's Kid
ney Pills from Barker's Drug Store.
They always take away the soreness
and lameness in my back and regu-
late the action of my Kidneys
| For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the. ~name-Doan's-
and take no other.-Adv.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-13

All gifts are good; some are better
than others; the best OF all for your
Riddles is bank book from the Saw
ings Department Of the Northern Ma
| tional Bank.-Adv.
! Louis Larson of Minneapolis, is
| spending few days in Bemidji as
the guest of relatives. Louis was for
merly a student in the Bemidji High
and graduated here two years ago
He will probably return home to-
morrow.
A great four reeled feature, THE
Phantoms" at the Grand tonight. A
worthy sequel to Zigomar-
| The Itasca News (Deer River):
John w. Howard, who has not wholly
recovered from his attack of pneu-
mOnia which nearly ended his life
three months ago, was taken to Be-
midi today for treatment. He stated
he had abcess of the lungs and an
operation is necessary. The ahment
has run so lung that recovery may be
impossible. The patients daughter,
Mrs. Horton accompanied him.
Everybody should take cleansing,
purifying, regulating remedy-Hol-
listers r.. M. Tea will put you right,
keep you right Barker's Drug Store.
| ADV.
| Robert Windt, of Nymore, one of
the employees of the planning mill,
died Saturday morning at the St. An
thongs hospital from pneumonia,
after an illness of only nine days. He
leaves a wife and two children. The
funeral will be held Tuesday, jan
uary IA, from the Catholic church,
Rev. Father Philippe officiating. In
terment will be made in Greenwood
cemetery.
THE Phantoms or Zigomar Re-
vived" at the Grand tonight.-Adv.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-13
1ro1raAaE roxEc1osuRE SALE.

~~~~S>~ @~~~~~~0O3OAS 0AASASs
Default having been made in the pay
enty; Seven and 41sioe ts577:41S Dollars.
at the date Of this notice upon a certain
BY Andrew J. Ellingbo and Emily J.
iiton.' Mortgages, Bearing dats the 18th
Of sale therein ontained, duly recorded
and hf for S the OF c saa R df It Rsds
December 1906, at 10 o o'clock clio XIX x. w. n, in
BeSK IL Of sad on pass
signed BY Ses said Henry y n. Ha a on
Dated f. p ts SS ab by w ten
cember 1912. and recorded in the office
Of said Register Of Deeds on the 9th
gay j.; OF p December q af l912 at o'clock A.
Instituted, at law or otherwise, to re-
cover the dep II s secured by said Mortgage"
N wv par! TH fafssGFi NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN. That BY. virtue Of the
gage, and pursuant to the statute in
| such case made and provided, the said
Mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale Of
by said Mortgage, viz: ~
The Southwest quarter of the South
east quarter Of Section Ten, and the
the Southeast quarter of the Northeast
ship One hundred fifty three North,
hundred sixty acres. more or or less, ac-s
cording to the Government survey. in
Beltrami County and State of Mime
tenances; which sale will be made by
the Sheriff Of said Beltrami County at
the front door of the Court House in tho
State on the goth day of February 1919
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-13
BEM1Du, MINI.

List of advertised letters ''unclaim.
ed'' for week ending Jan. 10, 1913.
Men: Bode, G W., Foster, Geo.
Grenchtre, Geo., Green, Anton, Gard
ner, John T., Heggs, Jack, Hills, Tom
Holmes, Harry j., Homdrom, o. G.
Jess, Stanley, Lund, Peter, Palmi
Jahan, Rosingnal, Felix (2), STRAIT
ton, Claud, Stapelton, Girls Taylor
Robert, Yeo, Dixie.
Women: Anderson, Mrs. Evia
Campbell, Miss Bessie, Markery, Mrs
G.. A., Mallory, Mrs Mary, McLaugh
lin, Miss Julia, McKeel, Mrs. Allie
Patterson, Mrs. Alexander, Valen
tine, Miss Amelia.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-13
JUMPS ON RUSTY
SIDEWALK NAIL.

While working on a well digging
machine q Minnesota man jumped
upon a rusty sidewalk spike. The
nail drove part Of his black wooden
sock far up into his foot. He remov-
ed as much of the sock as he could,
put on Aliens Ulcerine Salve, and
kept right on with his work. The
salve drew out parts Of the sock and
all other poisons and in a week his
foot was healed up.
This salve is one of the Oldest rem
edies in America and since 1859 1t
has been known as the only salve
powerful enough to cure chronic
ulcers and old sores Of long standing.
= Aliens Ulcerine Salve acts by
drawing out the poisons and healing
the sore from the bottom up. 1t ts
so powerful that it heals new cuts
and sores in one-third the time that
common salves and iniments take.
And it heals scalds and burns with
out a scar. Sold at Barker's Drug
Store.-Adv.