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The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

you raise for a native with his heals
drawn up to his knees. but it's the senti-
ment that induces you to give.
"Our first picture this evening Is given
to settle a disputed point 1t is con-
tended by agnostics that Cain never kill
ed Abel. Those of US who believed that
he did have holy writ TO back US, and
this picture backs holy writ You see
Cain and Abel before you. The man
with the club is Cain He has just
struck Abel to the earth. and Abel is
Just breathing his last. They were broth
ers, but Cain had threatened for years
10 do him up. There was envy and
jealousy to urge him on, and one day
the fell deed was accomplished. do
not claim that my special artist was
on the spot but II there is any wild-eyed
knock-knee carpist in this audience who
disputes the authenticity of this picture
It was not only a cold-blooded. unpro-
voked murder, but Cain was inclined to
brag about 1t afterwards. And the fate
Of Cain is a moral lesson which none of
us must lose sight of. It profited him
nothing. On the contrary, he was driven
out Of the land without a coat to his
back or a cent to his name. and after
wandering too and fro for nobody knows
how long he crept into a thicket and died.
II ANY oI you are pIdhhlns 70 hlll your
brother. pause and reflect. There Is no
profit in it. I have a brother whom I
would like to practice on with a crow
bar for about fifteen minutes, but I shall
restrain my hand and wait for consump-
tion to get in its work. No matter what
theories may be advanced or what soph-
istries brought to bear, never doubt that
Cain killed Abel The scene is before
you. You cannot doubt.
Our next picture represents the whale
swallowing Jonah. The agnostics have
endeavored to make the present genera
tion doubt that such an affair ever took
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

MY frens," said Brother Gardner as
he rose IN his place in the Lime-Kiln
Club the other night, ''1 has been told
by de doctors dat onless sunthin' am
soon done de Guild people Of dis kentry
will he a bow-legged race. Oar am a
garm dat am attackin' men and women
alike OF our race, and ebery day see
men on de street who seems to be
walkin' on each side of a bar1.
Il has found myself coverin' most of
de sidewalk when I walk abroad. and
de same am de case wild odders OF you.
Doze germs has got to be got rid of or
we'll have to take to de middle OF dc
road TO git anywhar. 1 am advised
that de only cure am ridin de bike. but
befo' committin' myself I wish to hear
de experiences of few of brudders. VIII
Brother Roebuck White make a few re-
marks?"
In response, the brother arose and said: :
My frens. arter two months of deadly
peril, doorin' which my life was in dan
ger ebery hour In de day. l have at
last arroved at dat pint whar' I kin
mount my bike widout hevin' it tied to
a post. Bewar' of de mistake l made at
de outset. l could not 'zactly separate
de bike from de mewl. ! was all de time
dodgin' dem hind feet, wharas de great
est danger from a bike Gums from de
front. 1 has been axed what effeck de
bicycle will hev upon de progress of de
Guild race, an take advantage of dis
public opportunity to declar' my belief
dat il will do mo- to place us longside
de twentieth century dan any other In
venshun of man. De 'lectric doahbell
jumped de Guild race ahead nifty vars
in a single month. De N'aterbury watch
an de rhinestone breastpin gin us an
other boost, but 1t was reserved fur de
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countenancs expressed grief and sorreA
and knew that all was not well with
him.
Hath found the world cold and heart.
less" I asks as looks him over anc
smiles at him in brotherly way.
You might call il that way" he an.
swers after a long time.
How hath man wronged YOU and
brung heavinets TO your heart?''
1T was done at poker, and Juba Hill
was the place. Two days ago I entered
the town with a song on my lips and
sen0 in cash in my pockets. and an
now deAdbroke, and my speerits arc
low. I sat in a game with the mayor
himself. and he vas my undoin'."
Was it bluff" asked.
Never a once. II was that he held
the better hands. Ny straights and
fiushes and full houses went fur nought
Even when held four aces he raked IN
the pot with a royal flush
Then I knew that he was 4 tenderfoot
from beyond the river and that the
ways Of the woolly West were too willy
fur him. It was my duty as consoler
OF the unfortunate and friend OF sorrer
to do what I could fur him. and I sat
down beside him and entered into .
game which was without a pot In an
hour he was prepared to unhorse the
enemy who had hrung him low, and
mountin' TO my side We drove into the
town OF JUba Hill together. With the
so l lent him as a stake the refreshed
pilgrim hunted up the mayor and SCOOP
ed him in as fish are landed from the
sea He held nuthin' lower than three
kings. and fours were his whenever he
desired. With tears of gratitude in his
ewes, he restored my own to me, and
the size Of his doodle was that Of a
horses leg When he had silently de-
parted from the sleeping town. that he
might not be toyed with by the satellI-
ties Of the mayor on the morrow I re-
tired to my couch 10 indulge in that re-
freshinG SIumher which clean con-
science allus brings. and as I pulled OF
my boots I found myself hummin' a song
Of peace and good will. had licked
one man and brought another into his
own ag'in. and had a right to feel
halmy.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

Mrs. Bowser promptly disappeared. and
he got the step ladder and gave the bas
a hang from the wire. When he squared
of before II again he was alone and un-
tramelled, and he meant to knock seven
bells out Of something. The bag had q
long play. and as he hauled on on II
there was q crash against the ceilinS
and Q rebound that made him see stars,
In coming back the bag struck him fair
In the face. and for q minute he looked
around to see the horse which had kick
ed him.
Pm on to that little curveT' he NUT
tered. as he got ready for the next
round. II remember now. the profes-
sional told me the object was TO punch
and dodge. the same as II scrapping with
q man. Well. here goes"
Mr.. Bowser had never studied the elu-
sive tactics OF the punching bag. Mrs.
Powser, who was waiting at the head Of
the stairs for a calamity, heard him
thump and grunt four or FIVE times and
then begin to dance about About a min
ute later there was a crash and she
called down:
Have you knocked a side of the
house out. Mr.. BowserT'
Mr. Bowser hadn't. In his lodging
about he had encountered chair and
fallen over II. and had come down so
heavily that a referee would have count
ed him out II was a long minute before
he got up. and then his good nature had
departed. No punching bag ever made by
mortal man could knock him about with
impurity. He rose up with q determine
tion to collapse that bag with one aw-
full blow. He had been warned TO go
easy, but his outraged dignity demanded
revenge Mrs. Bowser heard him tapping
A. NmN a. l.
tion. and then she heard him draw a
long breath like a horse going up hill
as ne hauled of to deliver the knock
out blow with his right. As he jumped
In 10 deliver the blow he had 20 dodge
the bag. and there was a thump against
the wall which ratified things clear to
the garret, followed by a howl. q stagger
and a fall. She got down stairs In a
breath. and found Mr.. Bowser lying
across the foot OF the lounge. with the
bag playing pendulum about him. His
awful blow had missed II and landed
on the wall. and his good right hand
was already pufing up TO beat . cab
bage head.
''what-what has happened" she ask
ed as she thought Of arnica and bandage
and slings.
Mr.. Bowser struggled up like a stricken
OK, and he looked from his broken
knuckles TO the dent in the wall from
the swinging bag TO Mrs. Bowser and
up to the dsspoiled chandelier. She was
prepared for a furious outburst. but none
came. After a long minute he quietly
but sternly said:
Woman. return to your room! In the
morning all will be settled. You were
against me and you crept downstairs and
struck me with = chair. but our lawyers
will settle all that and you can start
for your mothers by the noon train. No
more. woman-not another word, You
have failed again. but that is the last
time-the last time, and good night to
you-good night"'
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and took a look at me and said he had
heard OF my accident and was very sorry
for II. When Black Jim had recovered
sufficiently to stand on his feet, the
leader OF the outlaws put a pistol in his
hand and. pointing to Stebbins. said:
Shoot him dead in his chair. He de-
serves mercy from no man"
Jim returned the pistol and shook his
head. Next instant Stebhins toppled out
Of his chair with q bullet in his head, and
the leader said:
Sorry We have interrupted the fes-
tivities. but IL was our calling night We
were after stebbins alone. and the rest
of you need not fear. Come. Jim, We
want you
Two of them helped the forGer-convict
out OF the house and upon a horse. and
that was the making Of the most no.
torious bushranger in ali Australia. He
had a career of FIVE years and then died
from a bullet. and II was two years after
his death before IT became publicly
known that he had let the law make a
convict of him in order to shield a
brother. I had always believed him in
nocent Of the crime. and. knowing how
he had been prosecuted and abused by
Stehbins. I almost rejoiced when the
hushranEers carried him of to make a
leader Of him.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28
0. HOPE JONES
His Receipts Are Small, But His Faith Is Great

Ladies and Gentlemen-while was
obliged to walk thirteen miles on foot
today not to disappolnt you with my
great moral exhibition this evening. and
while the receipts at the door are only
$40 and the hotel-keeper appears TO
be a stony-hearted- avaricious critter, l
appear before you in no wise cast down
or discouraged. I have a mission to
fulhu. and in fulfilling 1t 1 expect to
meet with more or less adversely. Be
fore opening the exhibition I will pass
around the hat and take up a collec-
ton for the benefit Of the club-footed
people IN the Island of Guam No one
need feel obliged to give. but an should
remember that q cheerful giveF Is greater
than Chicago beef-packer. Do not con-
found this stereopticon exhibition with
any Of the circuSes travelling over the
country, and, remember that Q. Hope
Jones Is not. the tool OF any trust or
the agent of tany syndicate. The eoIlec-
ton foetsf up II cents and several but
tons. aud i'm due time some club-footed
man or woman IN our new possessions
will have reason to bless your nberality
tonight. Tti isn't the amount Of money
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28
PILGRIM JOE

Has the dog died or the old man run
away that this Is q house Of sorrer?''
IT'S on account Of the old man, but
he didn't run away. He went over q
Rose Hill the other day and got drowns1
in the mill-dAm.'
And in your bereavement and lonelI,
ness your heart yearns fur consolationi
Wilder, in this your hour Of darkness
and despair the undersigned-"
oh, you shet"' she says as she began
to smoke harder and weep less. The
old man was no great snakes. and kir
do heap better. but what I'm sorrerin'
over was that they hain't found his
body. and he has 81 In his pocket"'
! stood there fur a mint and looked
down upon her grief-stricken form and
tried to ind some sayin' appropriate te
the occasion. Not bein' able TO hit one
I went back and climbed upon my wagon
and drove on The town of Juba Hill
was almost in sight. and was gradually
recoyerin' my usual speerit when como
upon a feller seated under a tree by the
roadside He was not weepin but his
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

The man known as BLACK Jim" had
beer sent out to the penal colony of
Australia for forgery. How they came
to call him thus I could never learn. He
was not a dark-faced man. On the con-
trary. hn was light and fair-haired, and
you didn't have to talk with him FIVE
minutes TO realize that he had been
born of gentle people and had no Vicious
ness in his nature. They sent him up
TO Woona Wally after his first two
years of Imprisonment. and he fell into
the hands of George Stebbins. In those
days an Australian convict was bid of
that is, a settler in want Of help would
bid a price for so many men, and they
were turned over to him for a certain
length of time. He was responsible for
their feed and care, and his word was
law. He could work them as hard and
as long as he wished. He could starve
and beat them, and there WAS no one
to come between. In case OF insubordina-
ton he could shoot them down, and the
government simply accepted his state
ment OF the affair. All convicts were
glad enough to get away from prison and
out upon the ranches, and in most cases
they found good masters and were de-
Gently treated. AS a member of the
mounted police / knew that Stebbins
was hard man to get along with. He
had been a tavern keeper and bully
in England, and his wife had committed
suicide and his two sons been taken
away from him by the law on account
OF his tyrannical and brutal nature. As
the owner of a big sheep ranch at Woona
Wslly the man had a sort of standing
and a few friends, but there were plenty
of people who kept clear OF him. A part
of the duty OF the police was to keep
an eye on the hired convicts in a certain
district, and we thus came to know
that Stebbins had less care for the men
he hired than for mis- dogs. On two or
three occasions We had been compelled
to report him for excessive Punishment.
and the feeling between him and the
police was not altogether friendly.
Black Jim came up to Woona Wally
with six other men. and the gang were
up at police headquarters for the night.
1t fell to US to take their pedigrees and
post them as to their new master and
what would be expected Of them. In cur
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

Mrs. Bowser relEpsed into silence, while
he went ahead with the initiating. When
the bag was ready he hung Il up on the
chandelier and removed his coat and
vest. He had carried his point without
much opposition and was bland over II.
Now, them he said, as he spat on
his palms and made ready, you watch
how / do 1t. 1t 10 the greatest exercise
in the world. 1t is warranted to cure
dyspepsia. Indigestion. neuralgia and so
forth. and to straighten up the spine and
give a man a military carriage. 1t Is
practiced in every college and seminary
in the land, and there are few homes
without their punching bags. You see I
stand this way-and I reach out this way
and I bin! bang! with my left"
The biff! bang. was a swat" which
would have busted the panel OF door.
The ball shot away and upwards as II
fired from a cannon. and about half the
glass ornaments of the chandelier came
rafting down on the floor. Mrs. Bow
The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

ser cried out in alarm and made . rush
for the parlor, but Mr.. Bowser laughed
and reassured her and added:
II guess I overdid II a little for the
first blow. I'll make a rat-tat-tat of II. -
He played with a ball for q minute and
the rest Of the trimmings and two Of
the globes came raining down. The
other globes would have followed had
not Mrs. Bowser uttered words Of Wig
orous protest. With the perSpiration
running down his face he paused to re-
ply:
Never mind a few cents damages.
This Is great work. I'm feeling a move
ment Of muscles which have been dor
mant for months. Perhaps you'd better
go upstairs and avoid the racket. and
I'll hitch the bag TO that telephone wire
on the ceiling"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
BAT IN FRANCE
AN ARTILLERY DDEL


Berlin, via The Hague, Sept. 80. :.
The Ear Office declares the operations
in France have settled down to an
artillery due, mixed with assaults al
various parts of the line. The state
5ment says
It is not pIarent at a-ny point on
the line that the conflict has entered
into decisive stage. The German
right has been subjected to much
pressure. but any attempt to pene-
trate it has bsen repealed with great
loss to the enemy.
ION the center there has been no
decided change for a week, while on
the left there is no change. The Ger
mans continue to make steady gains
on the Meuse. The Germans have as
sumed the offensive in East Prussia.
In Gakoia the fortress of Przemysl
holds out against al attempts of the
enemy to. taEe it and the garrison has
inflicted much damage upon the en-
envy in sort;es: In one Of these sor.
ties tha Austriaas NJ eged 20 dis
lodge siege guns that did much dam.
age to the fortress. =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
Here Is Good News
for Stomach Victims

Some very remarkable results are
being obtained by treating stomach,
liver and intestinal troubles with pure
vegetable oils, which exert cleansing,
soothing and purifying action upon the
lower bowels, removing the distractions
of poisonous fecal matter and gases and
preventing their absorption by the blood.
This done, the food is allowed free pas
sage from the stomach, fermentation
ceases and stomach troubles quickly dis
appear.
George H. Mayr, for twenty years
leading Chicago druggist, cured himself
and many Of his friends of stomach,
liver and intestinal troubles Of years
standing by this treatment. and so sue
cessful was the remedy he devised that
1t has since been placed in the hands of
druggists all over the country, who have
sold thousands of bottles.
Though absolutely harmless, the eff
feet of the medicine is sufficient to con-
vince any one of its remarkable effect
iveness, and within "a hours the sufferer
feels like a new person. Mayr's Won
derful Stomach Remedy is now sold here
BY
Bankers Drug Store and Druggists
everywhere.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
RUSSIANS GOVERN
EASTERN CALIC|A

Petrograd, Oct. dispatches re-
ceived here from Lemberg, 'Galicia,
declare that all the prominent Aus
trian provincial and city officials, to-
gether with the judges, the archbish-
ops of all the churches and the rabbis,
attended the establishment of Rus
sian civil government over Eastern
Galicia and the assumption of the Of
flee of governor general by Count
Bobrinsky
M. Rutovsky, mayor of Lemberg,
informally surrendering the govern
ment spoke in Polish. He said:
mot without our cooperation have
the Austro-Hungarian troops left
Lemberg without firing shot. There
was no struggle here, thanks, to our
efforts. In profering the government
of this capital allow me to express my
gratitude to the former military gov
ernor, who lessened our hardships."
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
DEMANDS
MINES BE
REMOVED
Italy Sends Protest
to Austria.
MAY Be FIRST STEP
TOWARD Open BREAK
Not Believed Dual Empire Will
Agree to Clear the Adriatic
Of Explosives.

Rome, Oct. Italy has taken what
II generally accepted as the first step
leading to an open break with Aus
tria.
The Italian ambassador at Vienna
WAS instructed formally and most en-
ergetically to file protest against
tho strewing of mines by Austria in
the Adriatic. ~
He was directed to demand that the
Austrian government Immediately dis
continue this practice.
1nasmuch as the mines are the only
thing which has permitted the Aus
TRAN fleet to remain within the pro-
lection of the Pola Notifications it is
not believed here that Austria will
agree to stop planting them.
Then 1t will be up to Italy to en-
force her decree by her army and
navy.
In the official statement sent to
Vienna it is pointed out that many
Italian fishing vessels have fallen vic
Tins to the mines. 1t is stated that
hundreds have already been picked
up, that many others have floated
ashore on Italian territory and that
the fishing craft are in grave danger
every time they put out to stretch
their nets.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01

To the Voters Of Beltrami County:
am candidate for reelection to
the office of County Attorney for Bel
trami County. I#appreciate the CON
fdence the people of this county
placed in me in electing me to this
office, and if reelected will CON
tinue to regard the Office as a public
employment and as public trust
not as political office.
My policy will be in the future as
in the past strict attention to the
county's business, common-sense bust
ness management. economy, and an
honest endeavor to perform my du-
ties impartially az the attorney for
the county.
solicit not only your vote, but
your open and active support.
IN return / promise you the best
efforts of which am capable.
GRAHAM II TORRANCE,
Bemidji, MINI.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
SIMPLE REMEDY IS
: FAVORlTE HERE

The simple mixture of buckthorn
bark, glycerine, etc., known as Ad-
ler-i-ka, the remedy which became
famous by curing appendicitis, is a
great favorite with Bemidji people.
Adler-i-ka acts on BOTH the lower
and upper bowls and drains off much
surprising amounts of four matter
from the body that A SINGLE DOSE
relieves constipation and gas on the
stomach almost IMMEDIATELY.
French & Co.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
ITALY WILL SUMMON
ADDITIONAL TROOPS

London, Oct. 1.-The report that
the 1885, 1886 and 1883 classes Of
italian reserves will be called to the
colors early this month has been con
firmed by. several italian newspa
pers, according to the correspondent
Of the London Daily Mail at Venice
Eleven first category classes will be
under the flag and will total 10000
men.
Without counting the $4,000 men in
Tripoli. Italy will have an army of
100000 men in her own territory.
divided into thirty army corps.
The correspondent says that Aus
trian troops still are throwing up de-
Tense works along the frontier, the
Ponta Del Jarvis line being defended
by the landwehr, the first and second
reserves and the landsturm.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
JAPANESE CLOSING
IN ON IsIHGTAU

>
Picking, Sept. 3O-The Germans in
Kiaochou have evacuated the WaIder-
see line Of defense, before an over
whelming force Of the enemy. Tsing4
tau now completely is invested. The
German lcssss were small
This is2fernls.ticn is contained in "a
dispatch 1eceited- here from Ger
man source at Tsinan, Shantung,
which evidently is a wireless com
munieation from Tsingtau. It adds
that the Japanese armored cruiser
squadron bombarded Tsingtau Oh
Monday without doing any damage.
Japanese official reports corroborate
the foregoing and explain that the en-.
gagement occurred Monday morning.
They declare further that the Ger
mans are now back on their main
line Of defense, five miles from Using
tau, and that Japanese troops occupy
heights commanding the lines which
the Germans now hold Three Ger
man warships inside Tsingtau harbor
and two japanese aeruplanss took
part in the fighting.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
JAMS Dron Bombs on Vessel.

Toxic, Oct. Japanese aeroplan-
lists assert they hit a German vessel
during the latest fighting at Kiaochou
with bombs thrown from the ma
chimes at height of 700 yards. Two
biplanes and one monoplane we're en-
gagged. The wings Of the machines
were riddled with bullets, yet they
returned in safety to their base.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
Chronic Dyspepsia.

The following unsolicited testi-
monial should certainly be sufficient
to give hope and courage to persons
afflicted with chronic dyspepsia: 81
have been a chronic dyspeptic for
years, and of all the medicine have
taken, Chamberlain's Tablets have
done me more good than anything
else says w. G.. Mattison, No. Z
Sherman ST.. Hornellsville, N. Y. For
sale by All Dealers
W,naa ere being put to work in
colleries in Germany, assuring that
country plenty of coal.