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THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER rPBIJMUD MTBHT AVHRNOON. OFFICIAL PAPER-CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYOB J. PRYOR Bwrin Mamnrer A. O. RUTLBDOB Managing Editor latevcd la the poatoffloe at Bemidji. Mum. second claaa matter. SUBSCRIPTI0N-S5.00 PER ANNUM OBSERVATIONS. Qccassionally you meet a man so unpopular he might as well become dog catcher. Every little while you hear a man telling about "a good cussing" he gave another man. A man has to be pretty sick to admit that a doctor knows more about it than himself. A man who is liberal in his use of perfumery is as shocking to the aver age man as a woman who smokes. Women gossip about each other's love affair, but men gossip about each other's business affairs. What has become of the old-fash ioned man who insist on kissing all the women who called at his house? Half the people don't get much done because they are looking around for some one to whom they can tell their troubles. Prince Wilhelm Pleased With Recep tion In America. New York, Sept. I.Prince Wil helm of Sweden expressed his delight at his reception in America and his admiration of the American people and their institutions in an interview with the newspapermen In the Hotel Astor. In particular the prince voiced his admiration of American women, who, he said, were better looking than those of any other country he had ever visited and he declared he had seen very many pretty girls before. The prince was up early to meet the newspaper men. Asked his opin ion of the country, he replied: "It Is very fascinating, very, very fine. Never had I thought that I would find so much life, smartness and go as I have found here." The industry of the people, he said, "made the greatest impression upon him. "Everybody is busy. Everybody takes pride in doing his very best and everybody seems bright and happy. I have not been in your shops, but If you call your working people your poor I find them more happy in your country than I have seen them in oth ers. From the time I set foot on Amer can soil my kind opinion of the Amer ican people has been constantly in creasing. SEQUEL TO A LYNCHING. Three Alabama Negroes 8hot and Killed. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. ).A special to the Commercial-Appeal reports that as a sequel to the lynching of John Gibson near Pickensville, Ala., several days ago, three negroes have been been shot and killed. Numerous threats, it Is stated, had been in dulged In by relatives and friends of Ofbson and the victims were among those who had Indulged In such talk. No further trouble is looked for. Gibson was charged with having as saulted a white woman. He was taken away from officers who were es corting him to a place of safety and hanged. Goal Washing Plant Burned. Springfield, 111., Sept. ..The large coal washing plant of the Superior Coal company near Gillespie, 111., was destroyed by Are Friday. Loss, $100,- 0Q0. FELL ASLEEP IN CHAIR. Farmer Seeks Damages for Loss of His Whiskers. New York, Sept. ).George Pal mer, a wealthy farmer of Parksvllle, N. Y., has brought suit for $2,000 damages in the supreme court against John J. Reisler, proprietor of a bar ber shop at Thirty-eighth street and Broadway. Palmer's grievance is that his beard, of which he was quite proud, WAS cut off by one of Reisler's employes. Palmer fell asleep in the barber's chair, he says, after having told the man to simply trim his whis kers, but the barber stupidly sheared off all the whiskers and shaved his face. The application of a wet towel on Palmer's face awoke him, and when he realized that his beard was gone he sought a lawyer Instanter and had suit brought at once. BIG SWINDLE UNEARTHED. La Crosse (Wis.) Police Arrest Man Solloltlng Charity. La Otosse, Wis., Sept. VWhat ap pears to, be a big swindle operated in at least three states was unearthed by the,, police when they arrested George H. Davles, who, attired in a brilliant uniform, was collecting con siderable sums of money from char itably Inclined persons for alleged waifs' homes in Milwaukee, Des Moines and Chicago. After his ar rest Davles, who had credentials showing him to be a staff captain, ad mitted that his scheme was a graft and that he had associates, captains and majors, in several other large eltles. When any inquiry was made ^ojmcerning him these confederates "vouched* for him- and received a part of his collection. French Customs Frauds. Paris, Sept. 2.The police have un earthed a scheme that has been in operation for a long time past to de fraud the French customs. Several officers and a clerk of a large freight firm doing.business with the United States and England and a clerk of the customs department were taken into custody. The frauds are estimated at $200,000. Five Terrorists Executed. Warsaw, Russian Poland, Sept. 2. Five terrorists were executed in the citadel here during the week. 1907 SEPTEMBER 1907 Su. Mo. Tu, We. 1 8 15 22 29 & i EXPRESSES HIS DELIGHT. Th. 2 9 Fr. 3 Sfl. 4 II 1 8 25 5 16 23 30 6 10 17 7. 12 19 26 13 14 21 28 20 27 24 1 TO DISCUSS PROPOSED LOAN Extra Session of Dominican Congress Called. Washington, Sept. 3.According to a cablegram received at the state de partment from American Minister Mc Creery, at Santo Domingo, President Caceres has issued a call for an extra ordinary session of the Dominican con gress Sept. 10 to deal with the latest proposition for the contract for a $20,000,000 loan from Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New York. Immediately after the promulgation of the treaty friction began to develop. It arose from opposition in Santo Do nimgo to the terms of the contract by whioh the firm was to provide $20,- 000,000 with which the Dominican gov ernment was to immediately pay off all of her foreign creditors, with ample provision for the amortization of the loan in the course of thirty years. The New York firm submitted a modified proposition, which was taken to Santo Domingo by Senor Velasquez, the minister for the treasury. That was rejected by congress and a counter proposition was made on behalf of the Dominican government. That in turn was rejected by the New York bank ers and they have now submitted an other and, it is believed, a final propo sition. This provides, in brief, for the supply of the needed $20,000,000 on condition that the loan is to be taken* at the rate of 96 cents on the dollar and the bonds are to run for thirty years, with permission for the Domin ican government to redeem them at the end of ten years at the rate of $102 for each $100 bond. It is this proposition that the Dominican con gress is to consider and it is feared at the insular bureau that in view of the stringency in the general money market it will scarcely be possible to secure the funds elsewhere. THOUGHT IT AN IDOL. Chinese Crew Offer Prayers and In cense to Statue of Liberty. New York, Sept. 3.When the Brit ish steamer Braemar of the Warrack line, plying between England, China, Japan and the United States, anchored just below Bedloes island the entire crew of thirty-seven pigtailed China men scuttled below only to reappear each one bearing a bunch of burning Joss sticks. As the vessel swung with the ebbing tide and her bow pointed straight to ward the statue of Liberty the thirty seven Celestials waved the joss sticks, chanted a prayer and kotowed to the deck. None of them had ever been to New York before and they believed the statue a great idol. Killed by a Policeman. Cincinnati, Sept. 3.Joseph Joachi mi, who refused to halt when com manded by Policeman John Q. Euth lein near Spring Grove cemetery, was shot and killed. Because of an earlier attempt to assault a woman in that neighborhood the police had been given strict orders to watch for sus picious persons. Joachimi refused to heed a call from the policeman, who first fired i the air and then shot the fleeing man. Goes Through Open Switch. Marshalltown, la., Sept. 3.A pas senger train on the Iowa Central, northbound, ran into an open switch at New Sharon. William Gannon of Marshalltown, fireman, was killed and James Clark of Marshalltown, engi neer, seriously injured. Several pas sengers were badly bruised. Mrs. David Kennedy of Marshalltown had several ribs broken and is internally injured. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Former United States Judge John J. Jackson of West Virginia, aged eighty three years, dropped dead at Atlantic City, N. J. The Haviland porcelain works at Limoges, France, are partially affect ed by a strike of 3,000 workmen which threatens to involve 15,000 men. Mrs. Tirzah Hamlin Chapman, a well known singer, is dead in Brook lyn. Mrs. Chapman was well known in oratorio work both in America and abroad. News of serious unrest in the prov ince o Corrlentes has reached Buenos Ayres. Armed bands have appeared on the frontier and a revolution Is said to be imminent. Direct mail service from New York to certain South American points, which was discontinued in April last in favor of shipments by way of Eu rope, is to be resumed immediately. Monroe Graham, who was a dis patoh bearer and courier In the Civil war and who rode with General Sher idan during the famous ride from Win chester, is dead at Village Green, Pa. E. R. Coffinj vice president of the Electric Securities corporation of New York and a prominent financier, is dead at Omaha. He became ill a week ago while traveling from San Francisco to New York. CONVICT SEEKS DAMAGES Lost His Hand While Working In Re formatory. New York, Sept. .Whether a con vict can recover damages from a state for injuries suffered while at work In a penal institution is the question in volved in an action about to be brought by Joseph Shay, a lawyer here, for James Manning, an ex-pris oner. Manning will seek $25,000 dam ages in the court of claims. He was sentenced to Elmira reformatory In 1886 and he alleges that two days after his imprisonment began he was set to work at a circular saw. He was an absolute novice at the work, he further alleges, with the result that within the first five minutes his left hand was cut off. Shay says the issue has never been ruled upon by the courts. Ten Years for Murder. Salisbury, N. C, Sept. 2.Ed Ash by, twenty-one years old, who killed his brother-in-law, Daniel Overcash, in June, was convicted of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Judge Justice, in passing sentence on Ash by, said he had never before listened to so much perjury in any one case. Glass Found Guilty. San Francisco, Sept. 2.The jury in the case of Louis Glass, vice pres ident of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company, returned a verdict of guilty. But one ballot was taken. The convicted official was in dicted for bribing supervisors in con nection with franchises. Detective and Soldier Killed. Lodz, Russia, Sept. 2.A terrorist shot and killed a detective and a sol dier who were riding in a street car. A passing patrol fired on the terrorist, apparently missed him and wounded four pedestrians. Recommends Several Dismissals. Annapolis, Md., Sept. 2.Superin- tendent Badger has recommended the dismissal of four midshipmen for mis conduct. No names or anything what ever will be given out until the papers in the cases are returned from the president. It is understood several were guilty of several breaches of dis cipline while on the summer cruise just ended. The Story of a Rifle Shot. Perhaps no one knows, or ever will know, how much in the Spanish-Amer ican war a single rifle ball accom plished toward bringing the conflict to an early close. It was a sergeant of the Ninth infantry who fired the shot, at a distance of more than 1,500 yards, that nearly severed the left arm of General Linares from his body and gave the supreme command at Santi ago to General Toral. Sergeant Mc Inarney was the most advanced sol dier of the American forces, and took position in a tree. Beyond, within the breastworks, he noticed an officer upon a gray horse, apparently making an inspection of the entire line. Though the order had gone out that day that no firing should be Indulged In, Mclnarney drew a bead upon the horseman and brought him down. Later it was learned that the ser geant's target was General Linares, regarded as the best of Spain's fight ers in Cuba. Toral, a commander who was anxious for a speedy termination of hostilities, assumed command, and a few hours later Santiago capitulated to the Americans.New York Tribune. "All Hands Abandon Ship!" A naval officer thus describes the realistic "All hands abandon ship" drill: "Two minutes after the word has been passed every ship's boat has swung from its davits Into the water, and a minute later every boat is thor oughly provisioned and watered. With in four minutes,and often in much quicker time every man of the ship's company, from the commanding officer down, is occupying the station In the boat called for by his ship's number, and then the command 'Sheer off!' is given. The boats are hauled away a couple of hundred feet from the de serted vessel, and she rides without a human soul aboard her, often when the drill is gone through in midocean in a sea that the landsman would account terrific. Then the word 'Board!' is passed, and within eight minutes at the most all hands are not only on board again, but every boat has been relashed to the davits, all of the pro visions, water, instruments and other gear have been removed, and the ship's company is In a fair way to get to sleep again." Origin of "Hello, Bill!" Why do the Elks yell "Hello, Bill?" It's this way: Back in 1894, when there was a schism in the organization, the two factions met In Atlantic City for a peace parley. At the time Wil liam G. Myers of this city, Philadel phia's only past grand exalted ruler, was the grand esteemed leading knight and one of the most popular men in the order. To get his advice and greet him hundreds of Elks congregated at the Atlantic City station to meet Mr. Myers. All the members were at high tension. When Bill Myers stepped off the car Delegate Stack of St. Paul, a big six footer, shouted, "Hello, Bill!" and the crowd took up the salutation with a hearty laugh, and from that day to this "Hello, Bill!" is so universally used among Elks that it has virtually become official. To the good natured feeling which had Its outward expres sion in Stack's greeting to Bill Myers is ascribed the reconciliation.Philadel phia Press. The Art of Talking Back. "I hardly know how to answer you," said she when the widower proposed. "I would not let that worry' me," said he soothingly. "That Is some thing a woman learns perfectly soon after marriage."Cincinnati Enquirer. The 8upport. TeacherWho was It supported the world upon his shoulders? Tommy Atlas, sir. TeacherWho supported Atlas? TommyThe book don't say, but I 'spect his wife did. That is the best government which desires to make people happy and knows .bow to make them happy. Macaulay. A Hideous Dream. I had a horrible dream a few nights ago. I dreamed that I was the sub editor of a religious weekly. There Is nothing dreadful In that, of course. The horrible part comes later. ^M editor, just off for a holidayeditors generally are, you knowInstructed me to write to several people of eminence and ask them to tell me their favorite prayer. (I record this little story in all reverence, you understand.) Well, many of the eminent people replied, including a lady novelist of great fame. The lady wrote: Dear SirIn reply to your esteemed fa vor, I have much pleasure In informing you that my favorite prayer Is, "Give us this day our daily bread." I placed it at the head of the col umn, put the paper to bed and went there myself, feeling pleased. Next morning when I opened my copy of the religious weekly I found that three letters had been dropped from the lady novelist's favorite prayer, which, to my consternation, now read as follows: "Give us this day our daily ad." I woke up screaming.Keble Howard In Sketch. Classed as an Antique Also. A charming hostess of one of the "big houses," as they are called by those who are welcomed into them, has the added beauty of prematurely white hair, says the Washington Star. That which seems to her contempo raries an added charm may appear to the crudely young a mark of decline, at least so it appears in one instance of which the hostess herself tells with enjoyment. The lady is a connoisseur of antiques. At one of her teas a debutante rich with the glow of youth, but sadly con strained with her sense of her own novelty, was handed a cup of tea. The cup was beautifully blue and wonder fully old. The hostess, desiring to lighten the strain on her youthful guest by a pleasingly diverting re mark, said, "That little cup Is 150 years old." "Oh," came the debutante's high strained tones, "how careful you must be to have kept it so long!" Trades That Kill. One of the most dangerous of trades, according to the Pilgrim, "is the cover ing of toy animals with skin, chamois leather being used, for instance, for the elephants, calfskin for the horse and goatskin for the camels. This covering must of course fit without a wrinkle to look natural, so the wood en model is first dipped into glue, then sprinkled with chalk dust then the skin is put on. The chalk is so fine that it fills the air and is drawn Into the throat and lungs. A year of this sort of work often results in death. Another very injurious toy is the rub ber balloon. The fumes and solvents used In reducing sheet rubber' to the necessary thinness while retaining its strength and the dyeing of the bril liant yellows, greens and purple are most of them poisonous. A Swelled Head. A typical Englishwoman, when some one spoke the other day of a certain man having a "swelled head," looked dazed. "Really! You don't mean it!" cried the Englishwoman. "I'm very sorry." A day or so later the English woman, happening to meet the wife of the man in question, observed that she was so sorry to hear that Mrv Blank was ill. "But he isn't!" cried the wife. "He was never better in his life." "Is that so?" said the Englishwo man. "Why, what could Mrs. Dash have meant the other day when she said he was suffering from a swelled head?" His Narrow Escape. A jolly old steamboat captain with more girth than height was asked if he had ever had any very narrow esr capes. "Yes," he replied, his eyes twinkling, "once I fell off my boat at the mouth of Bear creek, and, although I'm an expert swimmer, I guess I'd be there now if it hadn't been for my crew. You see, the water was just deep enough so's to be over my head when. I tried to wade out, and just shallow enough"he gave his body an ex planatory pat"so that whenever I tried to swim out I dragged bottom.". Everybody's. Horrible Example. "My dear," said Mrs. Strongmind, "I want you to accompany me to the town hall tomorrow evening." "What for?" queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine. "I am to lecture on the 'Dark Side of Married Life,'" explained Mrs. S., "and I want you to sit on the platform and pose as one of the illustrations." Chicago News. A Finanelal Pessimist. GayeYes, he is what you might term a financial pessimist. Myers What's a financial pessimist? Gaye-^. A man who is afraid to look pleasant for fear his friends will want to bor row something. Accidental. AliceHow did you come to meet your second husband, Grace? Grace' It was purely accidental. He ran over my first one with a motor car1 and afterward attended the funeral. A Crash. "John, what was that awful noise in the bathroom Just now?" "Don't worry, my dear," replied John sleepily. "It was merely a crash towel falling."Milwaukee Sentinel. Opinion Opinion is a light, vain, crude and Imperfect thing settled in the imagina tion, but never arriving at the under? standing, there to obtain the tincture, of reason.Ben Jonson.' Getting Square. HeI'm going to bring Jolt homo with me to dinner tonight SheOh," mercy, dear, don't! It's the cook's day out, and I'll have to cook dinner* He Never mind I owe Jolt one, anyway!, Yonkers Statesman. A Stinger. Mrs. NaggerPerhaps you recall, it was on a railway train that we first tnet, and Mr. NaggerYes, but if a too late now for me to sue the com pany for damages.Philadelphia In- The Last Cigar In the Box. "The last cigar in the box is the hardest to sell," was the remark of a Front street dealer. "Not because it Is not as good as any other cigar, but because of the superstition of the average man .against taking the last of anything. As a result we often take one cigar, or even two cigars, of the last cigars In a box and put them on top of the cigars In a full or almost full box. On the other hand, I ought to mention that there are men who prefer the last cigars and who ask us to save the last cigars in the boxes for them every day, sometimes to the -number of six or-seven -daily, for which they call every evening. We have thus no trouble In disposing of these las cigars, but the contrast in the conduct of the two styles of cus tomers is curious."Philadelphia Rec ord. rlj YK 3 o* 3"v 9 V. I: ."J IS O^ ""if! ut: To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly to listen io stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry nev er. In a word, to let the spiritual, un bidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.William Henry Channlng. Two Mo to Feed. "You are a fraud. You said yester day that you had seven starving chil dren, and today you say you have nine. "Both stories true, sir." "How do you make that out?" "Twins born last night."Exchange. The beer with a snap to it. Made to taste good, Tastes as though it was made good. Makes good everywhere. 4Tet Ji' *&&&"$* lh S XJ%t1V it Made in LaCrosse. Sold Everywhere. HELEM^N BREWIN O Order from Agency at Crookston 955S$S5S5~^~^ That the Pioneer Gets and Prints the News Is Appre- reciated Outside of Bemidji. Read what the Akeley Tribune, pubHshed at Akeley, tays: The Bemidji Daily Pioneer Started the week in a brand new dress of type. The Pioneer is giving excellent news services. The increased advertising pat ronage and circulation is evi dencethat the paper is appre ciated by the public. Pays for the Daily per Month Lace Curtains or Draperies Hade like new by our special pro cess. Why throw away a pretty pair of lace curtains or portiers, just because they have become oiled, when we can jlea them at a small cost, and return to you almost as good as newt loforsMtlon beesJet free. Bt essree* paltf ea erier* $* r i ft