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New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Old Point and the Vacationers

"Old Point" was not exactly an
exciting resort by the newer stand
ards, but it had a fine old flavor Of
Virginian steadiness and respecta-
bility hard to equal elsewhere.
Everybody who was anybody at
Washington went there genera
tion ago. John Chamberlin took
with him to his huge hotel the
patronage of Presidents, of eminent
Senators and Representatives, of
ambassadors-of the whole political
world, in fact.
During the war the old spot took
on a new life. The harbor was one
of the busiest centers of overseas
transport. Warships, from battle
ships down to chasers, crowded it's
waters and fought the enemy off the
Capes, a task that is no joke in win
ter seas, even though no enemy ever
appeared to give battle. Upon the
verandas of the Chamberlin ap-
peared at one time or another
very large part Of the personnel of
the army and navy. Next to Wash
ington, Old Point and the surround-
ing country felt the urge Of war
probably more than any other one
spot in the country.
1t will be a pity if the hotel is not
to be rebuilt, as reports declare.
But Americans on vacation are not
likely to miss any one hotel very
seriously in these pleasure-loving
days. The growth of resorts and
OF the vacation habit is one of the
most striking social facts of the last
two generations. Not resource of
our woods and lakes and mountains
but has been ransacked to supply
amusement and fresh air for every
one with the time and the price.
Discarded spots like Saratoga
Springs have come back to life.
Whole new areas, like the Florida
coast, have been brought to terms.
The automobile was expected to
check the summer resox as fixed
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Spirits so Years AGO

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Sixty years ago, during a peri.
odical wave of spiritist deception.
John G. SAKE wrote:
Time was when men bereaved Of vital
breath
Were calm and silent in the realms Of
death,
When mortals dead and decently in
urned
Were heard no more; no traveller re.
turned.
Now all Is changed: the musty maxim
fails,
And dead men do repeat the queerest
talesl
Alas! that here as in the books we see
The travellers clash, the doctors dis
agree!
Alas! that all the further they explore,
For their search ere but confused the
Ye great separated-men Of mighty
Bacon and Newton, Adams, Adam
Clark,
Edwards and Whitfield, Franklin,
Robert Hall,
Calhoun, Clay, Claiming, Daniel Web
ster-all
Ye great quit tenants of this earthly
ball
If in your new abode We cannot rest
But must return, o, grant US this re-
quest:
Come with some noble and celestial
air,
To prove the title to the names 70
bear;
Give some clear token Of your heaven
ly birth;
Write as good English as We wrote on
earth!
Show not to all in ranting prose and
verse.
The spirits progress is from bad to
worse;
And what was once superhuous to
advise,
Don't tell, l beg you, such egregious
lies.
Perhaps the above will be considered
sufficiently timely to warran. its re-
publication in the columns of your
paper, LESLIE NJ. SHAW.
New York. March 8, 1920.
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Hence Colbv,
% the Editor of Tho Tr;h,,, ,

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Ten thousand differing "guesses"
as to who would be appointed to 800
along with the President, toting the
title of Secretary of State, would not
have included the name of the man Sc
lected. And why Colby? In a speech
made before the National Retail Drv
Goods Association at the Hotel Penn
sylvania last month Mr.. Colby said
my heart and my thought go out
70 that great man who sees the product
OF MS vision, of his brains, of his hand
(referring to the peace treaty., under
estimated, misprized, despitefully used.
aye, brought even to the verge of re-
lection by his people," Hence Colby.
M. H. r.
st. Augustine, Fla, March 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

double what they were before the war
We are going through the same expert
ence to-day; rents have risen and will
continue to rise for several years
After they have risen to fully double
old rates they will stand still for
while and then decline. Wages and
other things will decline first and then
we will come slowly down nearly (not
quite) to old prices. H. G.
New York, March 6, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Laura Bridgeman

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Those who, like myself, have
been thrilled with Helen Keller at the
Palace will reread with a new interest
Charles Dickens's account OF Laura
Bridgeman, who was even more afiiict-
ed than Helen Keller, in his American
Notes" Dickens saw her in an insti-
tuition for the blind at Boston, and tns
account given by DR.. Howe is most fn'
teresting.
ANNIE KILBIIRN KILMER-
New York. March 5, hs2o. -,
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If France Taxes Tourists
, the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On the first page of your widely
read journal we find an article hv
ralph Courtney, stating that tho
French are seriously considering a tax
on American tourists, which might
possibly equal one-half of the amount
spent by the tourist in France.
II this proves true many Of US will
stay at home, as, with the prices enor.
mously Increased since the war, such
tax would make stay in France an
impossibility, and we would be deeply
grateful to The New York Tribune for
any further information on this sub
ject.
One OF many
INTIMIDATED TOURISTS
New York, March Z, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

abode. But it seems rather to have
stimulated the appetite for change
and added recruits to the ever in
creasing ranks Of wanderers the
four seasons round.
Resorts may come and go; the
great American vacationer seems
only to come in ever increasing
force, with ever increasing zest.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
The Coming ower

TO HELEN
That you could ever, ever vie
With her whom Poe made verses to
(The sort of thing I'd like to do),
I must deny.
Extravaganza in praise I shun:
That Spartan queen Of long ago,
Was far more beautiful; there's no
Comparison.
But yet, my dear, be comforted.
OF your good looks there's no dispute;
You're very much alive to boot
And they are dead. G. W. w.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
The Dry urk
Our Readers Ponder II.
Peculiar Institutions
q Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent, E. p,
tells us about the noble Turks. .p.,-
moro than a thousand years they b.,.
prohibited the use of intoxicat;n~
liquors. It has blessed the Turk III
these hundreds Of years. it has aid.a
the growth Of the deeply religion.
mind which distinguishes the Tu,ts
Now, isn't that nicer A happy ,,,r.
out Of our muddle. Let all the proht.
bitionists 60 to Turkey and besom.
Turkeyized and then everybody will, ).
satisfied. Now that we have prob,h;
tion we shall become more and NOR.
like the Turks.
But the law Of compensation mu..
prevail. In the absence of intox;cat;r.
liquors we must have the harem. IN
the usually accepted meaning Of -.
word, just as the Turk does. The Trr.
is no longer unspeakable. GAG
Waterbury, March 5, 1920.
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In letter signed E. p. IN
your issue of to-day he states tha. ~
one way at least the Turks represent
che highest type Of civilized peon,s
apparently attributing this in a prs.t
measure to the fact that for more thon
thousand years they have prohibited
the use of Intoxicating liquors. He poo,
on to say that this has aided their
deeply religious minds; that they stand
for the Koran and Mahomee. All th;s
may be true, but it would seem a great
pity that it has not had the effect Of
preventing the commission o. the MANY
atrocities that have for years shocked
the entire world. Prohibition in anv
event has not had the result Of abol.
ishing all the crimes that so many OF
It's advocates seem to think it will.
New York, March 5, 1920. D.M.A
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

If mans stock is his intellect,
which he feels isn't, perhaps, what it
used to be. can he claim depreciation
on his tax return?
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

"The only person who could do jus.
tice to this place." postcard Flaccus et
ux., is Oliver Onions"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

And II his stock is his ability to
act, paint, play, sing, sculp, or write,
Is his output, being q stock dividend,
non-taxable7 r p. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

Mr.. Hyde Hearst Of the esteemed
Evening Journal is the encourager and
helper Of the poor and the democratic,
but DR.. Jekyll Hearst, announcing an
increase in the price Of Harper's
Bazaar from 35c to SOC, announces that
the policy of that magazine "has al
ways been to attract its readers from
families Of wealth and social position,
and to discourage all Others"
High is the critical sense in Frances
Theresa Russell, as evidenced in "Sa-
tire in the Victorian Novel," Not only
does she show this sense by apprais-
ing Meredith as the greatest Of satir-
ists,-as the writer who has Every
thing,-but she also displays it by COM
menting intelligently and unpatroniz-
ingly on that difficult and dangerous
subject, the Sense of Humor. AS, for
example:
The humorous sense is likewise an
essence and an index Of disposition.
lie iuduequdCy OI mOSC ueHnlClOnS OF
the ludicrous, from Aristotle's "innocu-
Gus, unexpected incongruity" to Berg
sons "mechanical inelasticity," lies in
their concentration on the objective
side Of 1.-THE stimulus to mirth,-
whereas the subjective,-the mirthful
person, observes the emphasis. Laugh
ter throws a far more illuminating
ray on the laugher than the laughed
at, for 1t indicates not only taste and
mood, but the trend of ones philoso-
ply. In betraying mans idea of the
incongruous, it implies his conception
of the congruous, and reveals his whole
Of life coordination. We may, it is
true, define humor by saying that in
tellectually it is contemplation OF
life from the angle Of amusement, and,
emotionally, joyous effervescence over
the absurdities in life ever present to
the discerning eye; but we never can
quite capture it, any more than pleas
ure or tragedy. We can, however, use
these distractions as refracted de-
fners of character, by noting what
sort Of man it is who regards such
and such things as amusing, or delight
full, or unendurable. For not only as
a man thinks, but also as he laughs
and exults and censures and suffers,
so Is he.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

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No au'bbiins. W. make good promptly II the
advertiser does not.
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use for republication OF all dispatches credited
10 1t or not otherwise credited In this paper and
also the local news Of spontaneous origin published
herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter
herein also reserved.
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The Diary OF Our Own Samuel Pepvs

March 5-Early up, and to my desk,
where all day hard at my scrivening;
and with R. Werrenrath to dinner, and
thence to R. Goldberg's to play at
cards, without great disaster; but it
had, come on to snow and hail, and
Reinald's petrol-waggon could not be
moved till we had begged some men
from garage to tow it in, and then
worked till near in the morning be-
fore it would run; and home and to
bed.
6-Home all day, working at this and
that, and to dinner at Mrs. Margaret
Pemberton's, where were R. Welsh and
Murdock and Helen and a merry girl
Miss White, the fairest spoken ever I
heard; and with them to see "The
Tragedy of King Richard Ill.," of Will
Shaxpur's, poor play save for some
speeches of high beauty, but Mr.. j.
Barrymore doing the best acting ever
saw him do; and the scenery Of rich
and harmonick simplicity. But it
seemed to me as never before, when
Mr.. Barrymore made all to laugh by
the slightest satirick oral or facial sug-
gestion, that he could become the ma
tion's finest comedian If he would: but
evidently thinks, like most, that It is
better to aim at tragedy's heights than
to be on comedy's summit. Met with
Mistress Marjorie, who took me home
in her petrol-waggon.
AT my writing all morning, and
to hear R. Werrenrath sing some songs
of Mr.. Deems Taylor's, the one to
Brian Hooker's words being the best.
To j. T'oohey's, for short and silly
game of cards, which I ought not
waste my time at, and nobody gaining
aught but H. Ross, by stupid good
luck, too, albeit he prates ever of his
skill and acumen.
8-Lay late, and to the office, where
all the day, writing letters and nv
journal, and talking to many visitors.
My wife writes me it is fair weather
in Carolina, which envy her for.
Though. not one to violate the holi-
ness of Shakespeare's text, it is our
belief that the last act of "King
Richard III" might be made to anpeal
more strongly to war veterans. There
fore, as a member Of the American
Legion, we ask that the line "a horse!
a horse! my kingdom for horse!" be
expunged and the following, to be read
by Mr. Barrymore, be substituted:
YORK ExPED1TIoNARY FORCES
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
From: Commander in Chief, Y. EFF,
To: Officer in Charge, Remount Sta
tion, Bosworth Field.
Subject: Equipment.
/. The immediate use Of 1-12 doz
horses is requested.
2. The Kingdom of England is Of
fered in payment.
RICHARD III.
1t is Ummie's notion that the Ameri-
can Institute of Packers is a euphuistic
name for the association of Inter
borough platform guards.
"The only person who could do JUS
tice to this place." postcard Flaccus ct
ux., "is Oliver Onions"
IT mans stock is his intellect.
which he feels isn't, perhaps, what it
used to be. can he claim depreciation
on his tax return?
And II his stock is his ability to
act, paint, play. sing, sculp, or write,
Is his output, being q stock dividend,
non-taxable2 = p. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

1t Is Ummie's notion that the Amerf-
can Institute Of Packers is a euphuistic
name for the association Of Inter
borough platform guards.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

Mournfully ]. H. W. offers this ad-
dition to Mencken and Nathan's "The
American Credo": That a mans poker
winnings and losses even up in the
course of year.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
SUBSCRIPTION RArEs-ny man. incl
GUARANTY

Entered At the Pcstofhcc a. New York as Second
Class Mail Matte.
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Owned and pubhshcd daily by New York Tribune
!nc., Z now Yoak Corporation. Ogden Rsid, presi-
dent: Vernon Rogers. Vice President; Helen
ncSefs hsad Secretary: r. +. Maxneld. Treasurer
Address. Tribune Building. l54 Nassau Street New
York. Telephone. Beckman 5000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
At THE TOMBSTONE CLUB.

TO the strains Of the "Dead March"
from ''Saul,": and while John Billie.
deau recited >Gray's "Elegy in a
Country Churchyard," the Tomb
stone club dined in solemn state at
the palace yesterday. At the con-
clusion of the more substantial fare
the members were served with ice
cream nodded in the form of the
widely known statue, F"The End of
the Trail"
The Tombstone club is unique in
organization and conduct. It is COM
posed only Of dealers in tombstones.
The menu cards were decorated
each bytthe left hind foot of a rab-;
bit killed 1t midnight in graveyard
in the dark of the moon by a left
handed, red-headed, cross-eyel man
riding white horse. Only such are
genuine charms.-San Francisco
Bulletin. .r,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
SHELL FOR MILK BOTTLE.

The milk bottle on the dining
table is considered very bad form,
but it is exceedingly convenient and
for that reason the temptation to
make use Of it in this manner is very
strong. A method of camouaaging
the milk bottle consists of q metal
shell with a spout and q handle,
which takes the form Of q pitcher
and when the bottle is dropped into
this container the milk may be
poured directly from it. 1t is said
to have a sanitary recommendation
in that, for nursery use, it does not
necesaitate the pouring Of milk into
a bottle which may not have been
sterilized.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE
DAILY PIONEER
WAS UNABLE TO
COMB HER HAIR
st. Paul Woman Is Relieved
Of Rheumatism by TAX
ing Tanlac

ut is certainly remarkable how
Tanlac helped me-" said Mrs. Otillie
Kenstenoff, who resides at 234 East
Winifred st., st. Paul, Minn., re-
Gently.
81 suffered dreadfully from rheu-
matism and stomach trouble for some
time," she continued. II had scarce
ly any appetite and what little I did
manage to: eat would sour, bloat me
up terribly and cause such intense
pains I could hardly stand them, My
heart would palpitate at times and I
would feel like I was smothering. My
kidneys also bothered me great deal
and my back and limbs panied me so
I could barely get around the house.
But my right arm caused me more
suffering than all the rest of my
troubles. l just couldh 'ttmoye it at
all, couldn't raise it to comb my hair
and the pain was 10 intense it. nearly
drove me crazy. a couldn't sleep for
the pain and .wodld: get up in the
morning so tired and worn out that
I could hardly stand on my feet. My
head ached all the time and was al
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
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most physical wreck. All this trou-
BILE started after I had an attack of
the flu last winter.
81 tried all sorts of treatments and
medicines, but none of them did me
any good, and l gradually got worse
all the time. At last. friend advised
me to try Tanlac, and she was so
enthusiastic about it and what it
would do I decided to take her ad-
vice. At first it didn't seem to do
me very much good, except my ap-
petite began to improve, Dut by the
time I had finished my fifth bottle
! was in fine condition. ! could eat
anything / wanted and everything
agreed with me perfectly. I had no
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12

gas or. bloating and the headaches
left me entirely. The rheumatism
still bothered me-. but I kept on TAX
ing it, and in a short time was
completely relieved of pain of any
kind, and now I am enjoying the
best of health and can get around as
we'll as I ever could in my life, and
do all my own nousework with ease,
I would praise Tanlac as long as I
live, and intend to tell others about
it every time 1 get the opportunity"
Tanlac is sold in Bemidji by the
City Drug Store, in Kelliher by Mrs.
r. Sterling, in Blackduck by French
& Moon, in Baudette by j. Williams
and in Thorhult by P. M. Swanson.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
LONDON FIGHTS Foo.

London is planning new measures
against the dense fogs which, sew
eral times each winter, seriously jn-
terfere with street traffic and cause
many traffic accidents. Men
equipped with fog-penetrating lamps
are to be stantioned at points about
the city where traffic Is most CON-
gssted =, :,s.,: :, -.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
TREES 1000 YEAxs OLD.

A district logging engineer, with
headquarters at Missoula, Mont, re-
potts that he has seen cedar trees
more than 1000 years old, still alive
and growing in the extreme north
eastern corner of the Kanisku for
est, which is in Washington.
= 'Those trees" said the engineer,
"varicd in size from a foot to ten
feet in diameter. | used boring
instrument on them and found that
the trees were in all cases 1900 years
old, ane> some of them nearly 5000.
The wood is firm and is a potential
source of high-grade timber. I know
of no place in the United States, ex-
cept. the :edwood forests, where
trees Of that age may be found"
SUDDEN HOPE.
Timid Wife-Dear, l thought l
heard something like scuttle in the
cellar just now.
Startled Husband-Great Scott |!
Do you think it could be a scuttle of
coal2
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12

s1soo.$15oo..' Age 1885. Exper-
fence Unnecessary. For free par
ticulars write r. Terry (former
Civil Service Examiner) 14L6 Con-
Continental Building, Washin gton,
D. C. 5d116
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
Bemidji Market Quotations

Chicago, JAM 12-Potato receipts today go Market
Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Round and Long
Whe sacked and bulk $425 to $435 Idaho Russe sacked
$5.25 to $3.50
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
A CLEVER oNE,PIECE FRoCK

One finds many of the cleverest
models of the new season developed
in velvet-brown and blue being
particularly smart. This one-piece
frock of reindeer brown velvet has
a long narrow vest of striped rib
bon and belt and revers of self mat
eIial. Silk tassels finish the ends Of
the belt, while fancy buttons orna-
ment the long close-fitting sleeves.
Medium size requires 5H yards 40
inch velvet, with N yard ribbon 8
inches wide.
Pictorial. Review Dress No. S546.
Sizes, 81 to 50 inches bust. Price,
e" rcents,' ,1~ -
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12

Bemidji Potato Market-Al varieties, bulk, small lot
1925 $70 per cw Carload lots sacked and loaded $27
to 1926 per cwt
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
We'll Paid and Have Quarters
That Are Ideal in Every
Possible Way
SHOWER BATHS ARE
SPECIAL FEATURE
Meal. of High Quality and
Sleeping Equipment Is
Out of Ordinary

"Lumberjacks of the Past and
Present." is the title Of an article
which appeared in recent issue OF
the MINNEAPOLIS Journal. The article
sets out, as an example OF the modern
conditions in the lumber camps OF to-
day, camp No. 6 on White Fish lake,
east of Nebish, operated by the
Crookston company. It is interesting
to note that the conditions are great
" changed since the time when go
ing up into the woods' was a matter
of almost complete isolation from
early fall until late spring.
Men Are Satisfied.
The men in the camp at White
Fish lake are satisfied with their
present wages of $65 to $85 a month
and board, and will work contentedly
all winter if not led astray by I. w.
W. organizers. The men are hauled
from camp to the scene Of their days
labors and back again at night. Close
by the place where the trees are
being felled is warm portable din
ing room where hot dinners are ready
for the men at noon. Mail arrives
each day and telephones connect to
the world outside of the big woods.
Splendid Accommodations.
At the camp are well built and
heated bunkhouses, containing beds
of steel with wire springs, clean mat
tresses, quilts, blankets and pillows.
The floor of the bunkhouse is
scrubbed every other day. Ventilators
in the roof give plenty of air. The
lumberjack of today is exception
ally clean. On the edge of the lake
there is large bathhouse where
there are shower baths with hot and
cold water on tap all of the time. In
this same building there are several
tubs provided in which the men wash
their clothing.
The kitchen and dining hall are
very clean. The long tables are COW
cred with white oilcloth which is
washed after each meal. Upon each
table at the average meal is the fol-
lowing food, and each man helps him.
self to all that he wants:
Cucumber Pickles Beet Pickles
Roast Beef with Gravy
Goldfish with Gravy
Cabbage Salad Boiled Potgtoes
Baked Beans
Freshly Baked White Bread
Hot Rolls Rye Crsps
Soda Crackers
Honey Raspberry Jam
Catsup Vinegar Salad Dressing
Pepper Sugar Salt
Butter Substitute =.
Doughnuts Ginger Cookies
White Cookies Frosted Cake
Apple Pie
Tea Coffee Milk
Well Paid and Treated -.
The men in the north woods if left
alone would be satisfied. They know
they are being we'll treated and well