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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-11

The disaster to the Memphis caused
very little excitement, Americans be-
ing used nowadays to seeing the navy
| ON the rocks.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-11

Three years ago Woodrow Wilson
was explaining that hard times were
psychological, but he isn't trying to
squirm out Of responsibility for the
present prosperity. 49,.
Newark post., 1916-02-09
S150,0G0,00O Charter Filed

The Pan-American Petroleum
and Steamboat Company of New
York City, late on Thursday night
filed application for a charter at
Dover with capital of Sl5O,0OO,
900, through the Corporation
Trust Company of America of
Wilmington, with Herbert E. Lat
ter, Norman P. Coffin, and Gle
ment M. Egner of Wilmington as
incorporators. The State tax paid
with the filing was $1,000. E. L.
Doheny and other fnanciers of
New York are back of the con-
Germ which, it is said, aims at a
controlling interest in the Mexi-
can Petroleum Company, Limited,
of Delaware, Petroleum Trans
port Company owning ships used
by the Mexican Petroleum Com
pany, the Caloric for the sale Of
oil in South America, the Buena
Fe Company owning selected oil
lands in California, and 10000
acres in Texas upon which it is
rilling. 1t is purposed to acquire
many other properties on the Pa
cific coast with the view to COOP
ell ative management.
Newark post., 1916-02-09
Safe Theft Bafffes SleuthS

Wilmington and Philadelphia
detectives are trying to trace the
parties who on last Monday night
between 7.30 and 11.30 o'clock
carried off a safe said to weigh
200 pounds, containing money and
jewelry valued at $4,000, from a
second story room in the home of
Mrs. Lammot du Pont at Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Rising Sun
Lane, Wilmington. Mrs. DUPONT
took valuable necklace from the
safe which she wore at dinner in
the evening and entering the room
where the safe was kept to re-
place the necklace was astonished
to find the strong box missing.
Later it was found that it had
been taken through a French
window opening on the roof of
the front porch and thrown upon
the lawn where it made a depres-
sion on the lawn. 1t is thought
that it was carried to an automo-
bile left waiting at no great dis
tance from the house. Personal
papers of Mrs. duPont's were also
in the safe.
Thieves, one night last week,
also visited the home of Mrs.
Charles Copeland, at Rising Sun
and stole two pieces of jewelry
valued at several hundred dollars.
Newark post., 1916-02-09

bedtime. Before buying a word of
this kind, see that it includes "Ad-
vice to the Lovelorn," the "Use and
Abuse of Bunions" and a Ready
Letter Writer" The latter edi-
tions also contain entertaining
and instructive chapters on "How
to Wiggle Into Society,"" Proper
Treatment of the Family Tooth
brush" "When and Where to
Drink Out of the Finger Bowl"
Hip Boots as an Aid to Full
Dress" etc. A man who can di-
gest a section of the Encyclopedia
Britannia without shredding his
brain cells need never fear senile
dementia. In our opinion, an up
to-date encyclopedia is as neces-
sary in the home as a standard
Group remedy.
Never allow the hired man to
smoke cob pipe while engaged
in milking. There are two reasons
why this should be forbidden.
One is that the pipe is liable to
drop into the milk pail and make
everybody who uses the milk think
that the owner fattens his cows
on leaf tobacco. Another is that
the hired man is liable to go to
sleep and set fire to available
heifer, causing her to burn down
with all the contents. The average
milch COW doesn't like tabacco in
any form, and when smoke is puff
ed in her face she will hold up on
her milk tighter than penurious
elder at a missionary tea.
Adam Bede says is has gotten so
that people don't care whether a
hen sits or sets or whether she e'lies
Newark post., 1916-02-09
CUPIDS BUSY DAY AT HAND
ORIGIN OF THE ST. VALENTINE FESTIVAL

Another valentine day is about
to dawn, bringing with it a years
collection of evidence that hearts
are as tenderly responsive as at
any time in the history of the
earth. The story of the origin of
the day dedicated to the express
sion of love, is an interesting one.
Valentine, a handsome youth of
Rome, belonged to one of the lead
ing Christian families of the
land. The ambitious young pres
byter ocended the pagan govern
or, Calpurnius, who ordered the
youth imprisoned. But it chanced
that when Valentine was hurled
into prison he was placed under
the care of a keeper who had a
beautiful blind daughter. Valen-
tine restored the girls sight, and
the young people became sweet
hearts. After a long imprison-
ment, however, Valentine was or
dered to be executed on the four
teenth of February, 207. During
the tedious days of his imprison-
ment Valentine used to vile the
time away, by cutting fancy
shapes and curious devices on
paper. On one of these he wrote
his message of admonition and
love to the keepers daughter, on
the morning Of his execution. 1t
is said the lover signed himself
"YOur Valentine" the lovers that
Newark post., 1916-02-09

followed him transfguring him
into Saint Valentine.
For centuries on the European
continent, in England, and Scot
land, many odd customs were OBJ
served in celebration Oi the day.
Among these was the ceremonial
of valentine Choosing" which
was actually an adaptation of the
blind lottery of the Roman Luper-
Gala. One traveller in the seven
teenth century gives the follow
ing account of this custom:
"An equal number of maids and
bachelors indite their names upon
separate billets, which they roll
up, and draw by way of lots, the
maids taking the mems billets and
the men the maids; so that each
of the young men lights upon a
girl that he calls his valentine,
and each of the girls upon a
young man whom she calls hers.
BY this means each has two val
entines; but the man sticks faster
to the valentine to whom he had
fallen. Fortune having thus di-
Vided the company into so many
couples, the valentines give balls
and treats to their mistresses
wear their billets several days
upon their bosoms or sleeves and
this little sport often ends in
love -
Newark post., 1916-02-09

which never takes a bath is con-
Sidered an asset on a farm. On
the other hand, too frequent bath
ing is just as much of a disease
as the delinquent subscriber and
fully as hard to cure. The pig
which keeps his face and hands
clean and his nails manicured
adds a touch of romance to the
sordid precincts Of the hog house,
and there are few sights on the
| farm more winsome than that of a
well-groomed, bright-faced Poland
China coming blthely up to insert
shining beak in the trough as jo
cund day tiptoes over the hennery.
! Never begrudge a fastidiouS pig
the time it takes to make his toilet.
The modern stump puller is
greater boon to humanity than the
kidney pill. If you have ever curl
ed your form around the roots of a
scrub oak and pulled until your
vertebrae ratified like a kiln-dried
| blackboard on ? ,g1 bridge, you
will agre" 1t we are right. The
stumr a1er is about as deft and
- aceful in it's operations as
chiropodist with the shaking pal
sy, but when it sinks it's teeth into
the pallid remains of a pin oak
tree, it is harder to shake off than
an attack of the Green Mountain
epizootic. The man who goes up
against a hard maple stump with
his bare hands, clad in three ply
hickory shirt and the prickly heat,
in these days of stump pullers on
the installment plan, is about as
impressive a sight as tongue-tied
preacher tearing off the marriage
ceremony. No home should be
without a stump puller.
A few years ago there was a
book called 'Lop-sided Folks"
which had a wide sale. This book
is about as full Of sparkling humor
as a copy of the Scientific Ameri-
can, but it conveys great moral
lesson. 1t tells the life story of a
farmers wife who pushed a corn
broom over 42.720 cubic yards of
rag carpet from 600 a. m. until
dark in the laudible effort to save
the price of a carpet sweeper, be-
coming as crooked as a post auger
in the attempt. The man or wo-
man who can read this book with
outshedding a pint of scalding
tears is as hardened of soul as the
the ianitor Of a free clinic.
In filling the ice house, be care
full to pick out a pair Of ice tongs
with firm teeth. A neighbor of
ours was experimenting job of
this kind last winter, and was
standing directly underneath
chunk of ice that weighed 200 lbs.
when the ice tonge emitted yawn
and let go, with the result that he
was driven into the ground to a
depth of sometheing over nine ft.
and had to be dug out by plumb
er's crew. IF you have ever had
new stiff hat rammed down over
your ears by block of channel
ice, you will know how it feels to
be fed an anesthetic by pile driv-
er.
If your girl insists upon hook
ing up with some pecan-faced dude
who wears pair of red gloves in
his upper left coat pocket and new
er earned dime in the world out
side of a poker joint, don't argue
the matter with her. Read the
oath verse Of the 18th chapter of
Proverbs and get busy.
Every farmers home should
contain an encyclopedia. You
con buy a set of 81 volumes for$1
and % cents day for 8 years.
Terms,-al sums of $40 and under,
cash; on all over $40, one years
time on bankable notes at 8 per
cent. There's no more bracing
tonic than a dose Of
Gc+icp iuct bafOrn
Newark post., 1916-02-09
Helpful Hints For Farmers

1lClplu III lIllilS L VI dIIIlcTS
1t is all right to rhapsodize about
the man who whistles while he
works, but nothing will make a
milch COW hold up her morning
offering quicker than a loose-lipp-
Cd hired man who lays his profile
against her ribs and whistles in
forty different keys at the same
time, while filling y quart pail
with sea foam. When a cow be-
comes nervous and unstrung over
poetry and song, her lacteal mech
anism is about as useful as red
pop at an Elk's convention. If we
had a hired man who insisted upon
whistling Just Before the Battle,
Mother" in the ear of a sensitive
heifer which is trying to get rid of
her surplus products, we would
can him before he infected the en-
tire herd with Mysteries.
We have often wondered why
the hOOt owl is so unpopular a
member of society," The voice of
the male owl is fully as melodiuos
as that of the average tenor, and
reDertOire is Just about as exten-
-sIve. We have seen men try to in
sert a 44-calibre bullet in the lung
of a tuneful owl simply because
that bird toes in and inhales angle
worms, but these same men will
turn around and take drag from
and Egyptian cigarette with a
flavor that would turn the stomach
of an Angora goat. Life is full
of Inconsistencies.
Blood will tell. There is less
ivory in the head of a pure-bred
collie pup than in that of any
other animal on the farm. The
collie which has graduated with
the degree of A. p. can round up
a herd Of refractory milch cows
from the back 40 without nicking
a fetlock, whereas your bonehead-
ed mongrel is never satisfied until
he has sunk his front teeth into
every heifer in the herd and has
run the cattle through three or
four barbed wire fences enroute.
Whenever you see a moody cow
with her hind legs notched like
the gearing of a traction engine,
make up your mind that she has
been chaperoned by some addle-
pated pup whose pedigree is as
great mystery as the cause of
gumboils.
Man is a queer bird. Ask him
to squeeze a 1872 collar on a 1872
shirt and he will roar until the
cash register rattles, but he will
crowd a collar four sizes too small
on the neck of horse and ask him
to jerk a disc harrow over the
dimpling lea until his wind is as
short as the pastors salary. We
knew a farmer who rigger up a
nervous gelding with a collar
which had a clutch like can open
err, and a few minutes later his ago.
nized family had to sort him out
of the oat bin. In buying a collar
for a horse, never take a models
word for it. Always ask for a fit
ting.
A farm paper tells it's readers to
saw off the handle of and old
broom and give the horses a dry
shampoo once week. This is
poor advice. A neighbor of ours
tried this once on a proudspirited |
brood mare, and when he rammed |
the broom into the animals right |
ear she retaliated by kicking Sc
veral leaks in a new rlaid vest in
which he had invested $2.79.
The farms Of this fair land of ours
are loaded up with work horses
which have had both eveballs
as a result Of this in
human practice. &c over your
with camphor cream and a
powder rag.
The day has gone when the pig
Newark post., 1916-02-09

or lays, so long as she performs.
Adam is about right. The nom
performing hen is excess baggage
on the farm and had better be
dropped off at the nearest meat
market.
(From Kimball's Dairy Farmer)
Newark post., 1916-02-09
Annual Session
Of Grand ol-

Extensive arrangements aro
ing made for the annual sessi0s oe'
of the State Council If DeIoYS,toN
Junior Order United Amer%io"aF'ee
Mechanics, which cQvenos ''" al
Laurel, Tuesday, Feb,uarv Cd al
teenth. "I'
Newark post., 1916-02-09
Real Estate Sab

S. K. Chambers, West G ,va
sold for Samuel Aiken, III 8,
farm of twenty-one acres /
Garden Township, to Chab,
Davis, on private terms.
Newark post., 1916-02-09
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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-02-17
MRS. c. D. HINRICHS
PASSES in PORTLAND

A telegram received here last Thurs
day from her husband, C. ID. Hinrichs,
brought the sad news of the death of
Mrs. Hazel Clara Hinrichs, who passed
away that monring at the home of her
parents, MIR. and Mrs. j. w. Wiedrick.
While her death had been expected for
several weeks because of a serious
affection of her nervous system, the
actual announcement was the cause of
much sincere grief among her many
friends. Funeral services were con.
Quoted at the Wiedriek home at 8
o'clock Saturday afternoon by Rev. A.
f. Mcnamara. pastor of 81. Marks
church. of this city, of which Mrs. Hin
richs was a member. Rev. Mcnamara
was assisted by Rev. c. e. Rorick.
Rev. A. S. Bollinger and Rev. W. W,
Youngson. lnterment followed at Riy-
ers lew cemetery.
The pail bearers were: Geo. Henry.
Fred Stevens, j. M. Elkamp, G. b.
Culbertson, Harry Henry and A. p,
Morris. Hymns. "Just for Today" and
Nov the Day is Over" were rendered.
Miss Laura Fox was organist and Mrs.
Nettie Green soloist.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-02-17
0. & c. LAND GRANT
SITUATION EXPLAINED
Grants Pass, Or, Feb. S, 1916.

Grants Pass, Or, Feb. 5, 1916.
Editor Glacier: This office is daily
in receipt of a number of inquiries rel.
ative to the Oregon and California rail-
road grant lands, asking information as
to the status of these lands. their loca-
tion, character, when they may be en-
tered or purchased, etc.. etc.
This circular is intended to reply to
these letters of inquiry and to give out
such information relative to these lands
as may now be stated.
A list of these lands by township and
range has been prepared for each of
the several counties within the Rose
burg land district, containing these
lands. These lists are intended to give
merely an approximate area of such
lands in each township, based on the
list of lands given in the decree of the
federal court.
This list for any county or counties
will be furnished on request.
This office has no map for distribu-
tion, nor does it prepare blue prints,
but will furnish township plats show
ing location of all vacant land and un-
sold railroad land, at 81 per township.
In ordering township plats. both the
range and township number must be
given. and remittance should be made
by certified check or US. postal money
order payable to R. r. Turner, receiv-
er. Personal checks may not be re-
ceived in payment.
This Office is not in position to give
advice as TO the character of the land
in any locality, and will not attempt to
avdise any one in this regard. As to
the disposition of these lands, nothing
can be determined until congress shall
act in the matter. 1t is probable that
such action will be taken some time
within the next six months. and until
such action is had no information can
be given by this Office.
We would suggest TO parties inter.
ested to watch the daily papers. as
whatever action congress may take will
be given therein before this Office has
official information thereon to give out.
Based on the list of lands given in
the decree of the court, the approxi'
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-02-17
STATION TELLS HOW
TO MAKE STRAINER

Because of many inquiries as to how
to make a lime.sulphur strainer the ex-
pertinent station has placed designs of
such an apparatus on exhibition in the
show window of W. F. Laraway. The
recommendation of the station in the
construction of strainer follows:
Proper straining of the material is a
very.imp0rtant feature in the prepara.
tion of the concentrate and il properly
done will aid materially in keeping the
nozzles from clogging while the appli.
cation is being made. A drawing of
the most satisfactory strainer box in
use will be found in Laraway's window
and should prove of value to all those
interested. Its preparation and opera
ton is as follows:
Two inch redwood is used in making
the box and all of the joints are NOR
tised and set in white lead. This makes
very substantial box. Lighter ma
terial may be used, but it is liable not
TO stand up under hard usage.
The liquid is poured in at (O). strains
through the strainer screen (Fl, and
runs through the elbow (Ll. The sedi-
ment is thus thrown to the bottom of
the strainer box and the screen is kept
clean. A partition (D) is put through
the box extending down to six or eight
inches from the bottom. The screen
ordinary window screen-is nailed on a
frame (F) which rests on strips (C)
nailed around the inside of the box and
partition and is held down by four
pieces (Al. The four pieces (A) are
put on with one screw in each so that
they may be turned 1and the strsiner
easily removed.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-02-17
new LIBRARY CON-
TRACT Is ADOPTED

By the joint execution of new con-
tract providing for the maintenance
and upkeep of the county library, the
city council and county court Monday
night healed a breach that has been
existing between the two bodies for
the past two years. The city council
adopted the new contract in cOnsidera-
tion Of the withdrawal on the part of
the court of an appeal to the supreme
court of law suit, in which Circuit
Judge Bradshaw had rendered deci-
sion unfavorable to the court. The
suit at law arose over the failure of
the court to observe contract with
Miss Della F. Northey, former IL
brarian, who under the terms of the
contract, which the court declared in
operative, was to have received 500 per
month. For a term of five months the
court refused to honor vouchers from
the library board, serving under the
old contract, cutting Miss Nortbey's
salary to $75 per month. lhe board
refused the offer of the SIS and bor-
rowing money paid Miss Northey in
full and in turn suing the county court
for the amount.
The rev contract provides that the
library shall be administered by a
board of seven members. three ap-
pointed by the city council and three
by the county court, the six having the
right to elect their presiding officer.
No appointee to the board can be a
member of the county court or an elec-
tive officer of the city. Except the
chairman of the board. who shall be
elected annually, members of the board
shall hold office for term of three
years. The first appointees. however,
hold, one each for the city and county,
office respectively for one. two and
three years.
A Joint meeting of the city council
and county court on the second Monday
in each October is provided. in order
that the budget of the institution for
thu. following year may be established.
In case of disagreement between the
members of the two bodies, it is pro-
vided that each shall appoint citizen,
and these two select third. the three
to draw up the budget. The city and
county are each to levy by taxation so
per cent of the annual funds needed for
the library maintenance, but in no year
shall the sum to be raised by each to be
less than 1915.
! All moneys collected shall be turned
over to the treasurer of the library
board,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-02-17
CHLOROFORMING NEWS

Men in all communities, with the
best of intentions, no doubt, for per-
forming a beneficial service to their
home sections, sometimes express the
opinion that bad news should be kept
at home and not allowed to reach the
eyes of the outside public. 1t is a rare
correspondent to metropolitan news
paper who has not been approached by
some influential citizen with the polite
request that some unpleasant fact be
censored from story. Yet that same
man Uf influence. when a big boom ar
ticle breaks, is the first to complain if
his correspondent fails to cover the
story in detail.
And at the same time he is tickled at
the misfortune of some neighboring
community or its citizens. He would
not stop to criticise the city newspaper
if it failed to publish facts about un-
pleasant situations away from home.
If he would not criticise he would at
least make some comment.
These self established news censors
OF territories tributary to great dailies,
if they are able to put over" their
censorships, really act as brakes to
publicity for their communities. The
best of large dailes, publishing authen-
tic, conservative news, want all the
news. They are not looking for yellow
sensations, and would probably rewrite
story. if their local correspondent at.
tempted to handle it with too much Of
the thrill of scandal. But they do want
facts. and they want them every day
The correspondent who Is faithful in
sending in every happening as it breaks
and who is not careful to omit the un.
pleasant features of news events,
stands far better show of getting in
all of the good, when it does come, than
is the fellow who considers good news
as the only news.
This is just course to pursue, for
daily newspapers should not be consid.
cred as great philsnthropical boosting
agencies. The public demands the
facts of news. all of them. and it is the
papers duty to publish them.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-02-17
BIBLE STUDY

Weibelieve that many a man and
for that matter woman, TOBIAS fibbed
about his reading of the Bible. Some.
how or other practically all our knowl-
edge Of this great Book is gathered
when we are little children. All of US
have Bible or two at home, and very
likely we say, "One of these days | am
going TO begin to read and study sys.
tematicaly this Bible" But we know
Bible is always lying around handy,
and we read the magazine. the book
from the library or the newspaper,
postpoping our commendable resolve.
And this leads up to the proposed
credits by the local high school for
Bible study taken outside of the school.
We see no reason why the plans shou Id
not D adopted. They are very good.
if they will increase the knowledge of
the greatest Of literature. A knowl-
edge of the Bible is an asset. II makes
no difference of what creed, faith or
religion man may be, he can read
practically no great literary work with
out coming in contact with expressions
quoted directly from or based indirect.
ly on the Bible.
We hope that the proposed plans of