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The Bemidji Pioneer.
EDWARD KAISER., Publisher
Entered In the postofhce at Bomidji
second-olasH matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
Official County and City Paper.
THE IOWA IDEA.
in There are a few idiots left
the states of Iowa and Minnesota,
after the death of old Dean and
Halvor B. Boen. Most of them
are now following after the "Iowa
idea" of tariff revision, which is
nothing more nor less than free
trade. In Minnesota the Dis
patch and Journal are the lead
ers of the idea brigade, and they
are nervously and daringly lead
ing the republican party into a
swamp from which there will be
no William McKinley to rescue
it. They led it in an assault upon
the forward and upward move
ment of American trade abroad
and American financiering to that
end, and when too late to remedy
or correct the harm done have
ignominiously laid down in the
traces and ceased to "holler"
against a merger which is prac
tically accomplished, and the
Minneapolis end is now begin
ning to howl for a union railroad
depot for that citya species of
consolidation which would de
stroy all hustling and all rivalry
for passenger traffic.
The Iowa idea is all bosh and
rubbishgotten up by men who
are coming up in politics for the
purpose of hoisting out the fel
lows who are already up. There
is nothing statesmanlike about it.
E/ery merchant and every mer
chant and every manufacturer
who goes into some rival's home
town to trade has to sell cheaper
in that rival's town than in his
own. He sells cheaper abroad
than he does at home, and so
works off his surplus and per
haps establishes a permanent
market. That is common prac
tice in trade. And any Ameri
can who is not shrewd enough
to see that that is what Ameri
cans are doing abroad, is not tit
to advise his fellow countrymen
how to vote.
Mr. Steenorson who has be
come the nominee of the republi
can party by the voice of its
members, is an able man and
will make his mark in congress.
Ho goes there ambitious to make
a record, and as he is a tireless
worker we shall be disappointed
if he does not succeed. We are
confident of his election in No
vember. While the district is
perhaps still close, nothing but
mismanagement can prevent the
new Ninth starting out with a
republican representative in con
gress, Mr. Valentine, though
beaten, received a magnificent
home endorsement. Brecken
ridge at the election in 1900 cast
a total vote of 357. At the pri
maries Tuesday the village cast
885 republican votes, and Mr.
Valentine received nearly 350.
Such evidence of loyal support
at home is certainly very gratify
ing in the hour of defeat.
Fergus Palls Journal.
In the Oth Congressional dis
trict A. P. Foster ran Buckman's
majority for the republican nomi
nation to Congress down to thirty
and filed notice of contest with
the Secretary of State, but the
State Central Committee and the
Ramsey County District Court
convinced him that he might as
well save his money and bob up
serenely two years from now,
which was a wise conviction.
Hon. Andrew Grindeland was
wise without any interference,
and upon the score that he did
not care to create any ill feeling
in the party refused to consider
the question of contest. Grinde
land always was a high class re
publican, and always stands by
the nominees of the party. Some
day he will have his reward, as
all good party men do.
Tenstrike merchants are lay
ing plans to take the utmost ad
itage of the "Y" connection
which is being put in at Bemidji
between the Great Northern and
the Minnesota & International
tracks. They propose to buy all
the cordwood and cedar posts
and poles that the settlers in the
country adjacent will bring to
them, and the settlers propose
to bring all that the merchants
will take and that theu- strong
right arms can get ready for
market. And so the "Merger"
which is said to have accom
plished the defeat of W. P.
Street for state senator will this
winter put some thousands of
dollars into the pockets of the
settlers in eastern Beltrami
county, and make something
more of the transfer yard at
Bemidji.
The Northern Pacific Railway
is now hauling thousands of cars
of wheat from Glenwood in Pope
county, on the line of the Minne
apolis & Pacific railroad, to
Duluth by way of Little Palls and
Brainerd. It must make the
eyes of the Brainerd people stick
out of their heads to see these
strange freight cars going
through thoir transfer yards
and they must wonder if the
Merger has gone so far that even
the Soo lino has been absorbed
by Jim Hill and his enormous
aggregation of capital. And by
the way, why doesn't the Minne
apolis Times raise an everlasting
howl about this new consolidation
of railway interests?
President Roosevelt is not a
strong advocate of the Iowa idea.
He is for tariff revision by the
tariff commission, which means
that he is not for tariff revision
at all, except upon lines laid down
by the conservative men |of both
parties which means that he has
not yet become a free trader
which means that the Minneapo
lis Journal and the St. Paul Dis
patch will have to take back
tracks upon this question as they
have upon the consolidation of
the two great railroads in north
ern Minnesota.
Halvor Steenerson will have a
walk-away for election as con
gressman of the 9th district.
For the first time in fifteen)years
the 'republican leaders in Polk
county have gotten together,
which insures the election of
both Steenerson to congress and
Stevens to the state senate, a
consummation yghich very few of
the politicians innorthernMinne
sota have ever contemplated.
Mr. Strand of Red Lake Falls,
objects to the primary election
taking place on Sept. 16, because,
he says, it is an inconvenient
time for farmers to get away
from home in order to vote. He
suggests the first Tuesday after
the Fourth as being the best day.
But wouldn't it be dangerous to
have the two fireworks so close
together?
There are several schemes that
can be worked at the primary
election that are not for the well
being of the republican party.
The democrats this year did the
nominating for the] republicans,
and it may stand us in jhand to
look out for the enemy.
A. D. Stevens will be next
senator from Polk county, and
he will in all probability J|be the
most efficient senator that county
lias ever had in state senate.
That great coal famine that we
hear of does not affect us. We
living living in the woods and
having a little shelter of our
are
are own.
There is just this much about
it, democrats in general voted
the republican ticket at the pri
maries, or there are no democrats
left.
The primary election is the
kind of an incubator that
hatches trouUle, and it doesn't
take a brooder to keep it alive.
The Duluth News-Tribune and
the Red Lake Falls Courier are
poking fun at W. F. Street be
cause he was what they call too
frank on the merger question,
and got licked for the senator
ship. But nobody has ever heard
Street regret his frankness or
his attitude on that question. In
deed, he frankly says he would
sooner be beaten as a merger
candidate than elected as an anti
merger^ for the latter is bound
to be a helpless, stupid, blunder
ing, dishonest demagogue of a
politician, and that Street will
never be, not for a dozen senator
ships.
George Spear has been nomi
nated for county attorney by the
republicans* of Itasca county.
George is a fine young man,
worthy of the confidence of the
people of his county, and would
make an honest and industrious
official. It is to be hoped he will
be elected by a large majority.
HIS PECULIAR STATUS.
A Frenchman Who Was Legally Dead
Though Otherwise Much Alive.
"1 am dead. I ought not to have
offered myself as a witness but I
had forgotten for the moment that
I was dead." Such, aecording to a
Paris correspondence of the London
Telegraph, was the extraordinary
speech uttered by an individual of
substantial proportions, and evi
dently in the enjoyment of the beat
of health. There was a row between
a couple of cabmen, and several by
standers, including the alleged dead
person, who volunteered their serv
ices as witnesses. When, however,
the policeman put to him the usual
questions about his trade, etc., he
was treated to this marvelous reply.
There was a laugh all round, but the
hero of the adventure repeated, with
the utmost gravity, that this was
really his legal status indeed, he
promptly produced a document set
ting forth that he had breathed his
last in a hospital in South America
in the month of January. "It is
quite en regie, so I am dead: But I
a.m on my way to have rectified, as you
perceive, that, although legally dead,
I am alive all the same," he added,
and then he explained that some
time ago he had been attacked at
Bordeaux and robbed of his papers,
which had been appropriated by one
of his assailants, who had taken his
name. This was the man who had
expired at the hospital at Buenos
Ayres, and, having ascertained the
facts, and obtained a copy of the cer
tificate of death, the speaker was pro
ceeding to one of the suburbs where
he had been born, to have the matter
set to rights. His story so interested
the cabmen that they became recon
ciled on the spot, and now he is alive,
legally, as well as in the flesh, his lit
tle excursion in Boulogne-sur-Seine
Uaving had tiie desired result.
BREVITIES OF FUN.
Not a Faculty.She-"Have you
noticed that I have a faculty for fall
ing in love?" He"Faculty? No,
ficklety."Yale Record.
"I suppose your engagement to the
baroness is still a secret. "Yes
only my most intimate creditors
know of it."Fliegende Blaetter.
He"She's beginning to take an
interest in me." She"Do you real
ly think so?" He"Oh, yes she's
started in to lecture me on economy."
Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Rubba"I wonder why that
woman keeps watching me so?" Mr.
Rubba"Perhaps she is trying to
find out why you are staring at her."
Philadelphia Press.
Merely an Oversight.Newspaper
Editor"Somehow or other, I am
unable to see any sense in this thing."
Poet"Oh, I beg your pardon. I
made a mistake and handed you a
poem intended for a magazine."
Chicago Daily News.
Book Agent"This book, sir,
will tell you how to keep bugs from
your potatoes, how to rid your barn
of rats" Uncle Eben"You ain't
got no book that tells how to rid a
farm uv book agints, hev yer?"De-
troit Free Press.
Cause and Effect.Mr. Quips
"The last time I saw Mrs. Newbryde
she said her husband was sick." Mrs.
Quips"Yes, the last time I saw
her she was making some sort of
dainty dish for him." "Ah! then I
must have seen her shortly after you
did."Philadelphia Press.
Masculine Consistency.
Man's consistency permits him to
take beer in winter to keep him
warm and in summer to keep him
cool.N. Y. Herald,
ADRIFT ON AN ICE CAKE.
An Eskimo Seal Hunter's Days and Nights
of Extreme Peril
Cast away on a cake of floating ice,
drifting toward the frozen sea, be
yond the sight of land, enduring in
tense cold, finally coming in contact
with an icy pack that permitted him
to travel by leaping from one piece
of ice to another, and after three
days and two nights of vigil and dan
gerous traveling over fields of float
ing ice, reaching the Diomede
islands, where he slept under the
shelter of a rock, is the experience of
a Cape Prince of Wales native, says
the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
When Judge Wickersham and
Louis Lane were at Cape Prince of
Wales, in January, an Esquimaux
seal hunter of the name of Netaxite
was lost in a floe. Nothing was heard
of him for weeks. One day, March 1,
he surprised the village of Kingegan,
and brought joy to tne hearts of his
relatives, by returning. He was ac
companied by natives from the Dio
medes and looking fine. They had
walked over from the Diomedes.
Netaxite's sister was glad to see him,
but she did not fall on his neck and
weep. She just smiled, but there
was a wonderful light of happiness in
her eyes.
When Netaxite, in quest of seals,
discovered that he had floated away
from the ice pack, and was being car
ried northwest by one of those cur
rents that are rivers between shores
of ice, he could do nothing but wait
for his precarious ice raft to carry
him to the pack. The cake upon
which he was afloat was then eight
or nine feet in diameter, and it was
a long time before he could leave it.
He drifted from view, and finally the
high ridge back of the village faded,
and in the dreary perspective there
was nothing but water and ice.
The next day he reached the ice
pack, and began his journey to the
Diomedes. He found smooth floes
and traveled rapidly. When night
came he was forced to stop, as the go
ing was too dangerous to be attempt
ed after dark. He had had no sleep
since he began his perilous trip, and
did not dare to sleep. Weary and
drowsy he began another night of
waiting. When day dawned he
started again, but in-his exhausted
condition he was compelled to travel
slowly. As evening approached he
saw an island, the Little Diomede,
and succeeded in reaching it before
darkness came on.
He found a sheltered spot beneath
a rock and slept. Next morning he
preceded to walk around the south
ern end of the island to the settle
ment, which was probably 15 miles
distant. The shore ice clinging to
the steep base of the island is very
narrow and rugged, and as this was
his fourth flay out since he left his
home to go hunting his suffering in
his weakened condition must have
been intense. When he left home he
had some dried apples in his pocket,
and these he had eaten the first day.
His toes and one of his feet were
slightly frozen. When he reached
the settlement he found friends and
relatives, and received the best care.
He said:
"I was all right then, but I could
not sleep for thinking about my peo
ple grieving for me. I saw one'white
bear, but did not try to kill it. The
ice is smooth and two Diomede na
tives have gone in East Cape."
A big dance was given in the vil
lage at Cape Prince of Wales in honor
of Netaxite's safe return, and he and
his relatives distributed presents to
the people.Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer.
A SUCCESSFUL ANGLER.
May Not Only Land Fish But Also Fish
ing Invitations.
"He was a beauty, plump, three
pounds, and as handsome a fish as
ever came out of Long Island."
"Where did you find him?"
"In my own brook."
"I thought as much. In these
days one does not catch three-pound
trout in Long Island waters unless he
owns a stream or knows somebody
else who does, and will let him in for
an hour or two. It is a condition of
things which has made an entirely
new definition of the successful an-
gler."
"Yes What do you call a success
ful angler?"
"A successful angler is one who
successfully fishes for an invitation
to go fishing in a preserved stream."
"Do you call yourself successful?"
"That is for you to say."
"Well, come down next Wednes
day. I guess there is another three
pounder where I got that one."
Forest and Stream.
There's always room at tne topi
people will not live in attics if they
can help it.Chicago Daily News.
A PANTHER'S DEN.'
Clean and Bright, in Decided Contrast
to the Popular Idea.
It was my good fortune to disco rer
the newly abandoned lair of a cougar
family, and further, and to me new,
evidence of that fastidious cleanli
ness which is a marked characteristic
of the animal, says a writer in Out
ing. This retreat was not at all the
typical "panther's den" of tradition,
but a bush-grown harborage under
the edge of a rock with just enough
of shelf to keep off the rain. I should
not have found this breeding place
but for a certain well-gnawed array
of bones scattered over a little
smooth bench above a creek channel.
From this boneyard there was a
very traceable path leading through
grass and brush to the retreat where
the dam had housed her young. The
evidence here told plainly of the
cougar's long immunity from annoy
ance and attack and of a thoroughly
cleanly habit of life. There was no
bone or other sign of feasting about
the lair. The dam had carried her
kill to the creek bench in every in
stance and the children had been
called to the Aining-room. As bones
which would have been crunched or
eaten by grown animals had been
perfectly cleaned by the kits, I was
able to judge of their suinmer/s diet.
This had consisted mostly of minor
game, rabbits, marmots, grouse and
the like, with an occasional small
deer. At least one whole family of
badgers, old and young, had been
served, pussy having" probably Jain
for them at their hole until they
were all. in.
The Largest Vat.
The largest oak wine vat in the
world is being erected in a San Fran
cisco cellar. When finished it will
have the proportions of a two-story
cottage, and could accommodate four
quadrille sets on its end. The famous
Heidelberg tun has a capacity of 50,-
000 gallons, while the western one
will hold 80,000.
HUNTERS BAG A FORTUNE.
Sow a Babbit in a Bnrrow Led to Find*
ing of a Mine.
There is still living at Ilkley-anold
Yorkshire sportsman, Mr. Charles
Whittaker, who was present at the
shooting of a certain historic rabbit.
Here is the story, says London Tit
Bits. In the forties a party of gentle
men were out shooting in the Cleve
land Hills. At that time the old
sporting families were resident in
what were then the desolate York
shire dales, and Mr. Whittaker was
one of the party. What sport they
had! What bags they brought home1
He remembers two peculiarities of
the shooting men in that day. They
shot in tall hats, and no time was
spent over the lunch-basket for it
had not yet come into vogue. In the
course of that day a rabbit was
wounded, and, naturally enough,
made for its burrow. Not wishing to
lose it, the keeper tried to get it out
of the hole by means of his ramrod.
He failed to extract the rabbit but
in the course of probing he broke off
a piece of stone, which he drew from
the burrow to enable him to get deep
er down.
The stone caught the eye of one of
the party, who was interested in some
works in South Wales. He put it into
his pocket, and experts told him it
was apiece of genuine iron ore. Ne
gotiations followed with Sir J. H.
Lowther, on whose land the ore was
found. The immediate result was
the placing of a mining plant and
subsequent results have been that in
the town of Middlesbrough, number
ing 80,000 inhabitants, vast for
tunes accumulated, and a prospect of
further development which none can
foretell.
Buna xneir winter nome.
At the time when the government
is encouraging Connecticut valley
farmers to grow tobacco under cloth
and get $2 a pound for it, anew en
emy to the crop has appeared, but ap
parently it has no use for the old
fashioned tobacco. Clark Brothers,
of Poquonock, are the first to solve
the mystery of his identity. Part of
their valuable crop is near the Farm
ington river, and they found each
morning that rows next to the stream
had been cut off clean and taken
away.
In all over 300 fine plants had dis
appeared when Michael Leamy was
appealed to for aid. He set a large
trap and the next morning found a
muskrat in it. These animals gnawed)
off the plant and swam with them to
an island in the river, where they are
building a winter mansion.
Flags, grass and sticks are the us
ual material, but high-class tobacco
apparently suits muskrats better.
Other farmers now surround their
$elds with traps.N.Y. Herald.
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Minnesota International
RAILWAY COMPANY.
In Connection with the
..Northern Pacific.
RAILWAY COMPANY
Provides the best train service be
tween Blackduck, Bemidji, Walker
and intermediate stations and Minne
apolis, St.'Paul, Fargo and Duluth
and all points east and west. Through
coaches between Blackduck and the
Twin Cities. No change of cars.
Ample time at Brainerd for dinner.
TIME CARD
Effective Sept. 1st, 1902.
Dally ex. STATIONS Daily ex.
Sunday 8unday
7:00 a.m.Lv Blackduck Ar 7:05
7 17 Tenstrike Lv. 6:46
7 #8 Farley 6:35
732 Turtle 6:31
8:10...% Bemidji 8:05
8:32 Nary 5:26
8:43 Guthrie 5:15
8:57 Lakeport 5:02
9:28 Walker 4:35
H:57 Hackensack 4:00
|Hifi Backus 3:42
0 Pine Elver 8:21
lu:48 Jenkins 8:09
10 55 Pequot 3:02
11:13 Hubert 2:45
11:25 Merrifleld 2:35
11:55 a. m. Ar Brainerd Lvp. m.2:00
N. P. RY.
i:05 p. m. Lv......Brainerd Ar. p. m.l:05
2:05.. Little Falls Lv. 12:05
3:04 St. Cloud a. m. 11:07
4:17 Elk River 10:10
4:40 Anoka :52
5:27 Ar Minneapolis Lv. 9:15
6:05 Ar St. Paul Lv. a.m. 8:45
1:10 p. m. Lv Brainerd Ar. p. m. 12:35
1:53 Aitkin Lv. a. m. 11:49
3:43 Carlton 9:50
4:38 West Superior 8:55
4:55 Ar Duluth Lv. a. m. 8:40
1:25 p. rn. Lv BrainerdAr.p.m. 12-45
6:00 Ar Fargo Lv. a. ra. 8:00
W. H. GE51MELL. G. A. WALKER.
General Manager. Agent
THE GREAT BED OF WARE.
It Is Large Enough to Hold a Dozen Per
sons Comfortably.
When Elihu Burritt, the learned
American blacksmith, went on his
walking tour from London to the
Lands Ends, lie turned aside to see
the Great Bed of Ware, and might
have slept in it, but didn't.
This enormous bed is ten feet1
nine
inches square and seven feet six
inches high. It is madg of Spanish
oak, elegantly carved, and is a won
derful specimen of antique furni
ture that for three centuries has
been the pride and glory of the Sara
cen's Head at Ware.
The top is a solid canopy of beau
tifully carved wood, made in one
piece. At the base of each footpost
are boxes. It was the custom in old
times for a newly-arrived guest who
had never seen it before to drink a
toast to the bed in a can of beer.
Twelve persons have slept in it at one
time, and it is asserted in the old
chronicles that 20 did so at a pinch.
Shakespeare alludes to it in
"Twelfth Night." When Sir Toby,
Belch urges Aguecheck to send a
challenge to his supposed' rival he
says: "Put as many lies in a sheet
as will lie in it, although the sheet
were big enough for the bed of Ware
in England."
Some modern authorities declare
that it is not older than the reign of
Elizabeth, but this can hardly be, as
when it was put up for auction part
of the coat of arms of the earl of War
wick was found on the bottom or
back of it, with the date 14, and
there is a tradition in the counties of
Berks and Warwickshire that it was
originally in Warwick castle, and
made for the accommodation of King
Edward IV. of England, who could
not sleep in an ordinary bed, being
an immensely tall man, only one
inch short of seven feet.
This tradition says it-was removed
from Warwick castlewhere it is
called in the household book "the
king's bed"to the inn at Ware to
accommodate Edward in one of his
campaigns during the wars of the
roses.
There is common sense in the
story, for Edward was a voluptuous*
man, reveling in all the luxuries
which could be procured in so rude an
age, carrying with him when he went
to war or hunt silken pavilions, cup
boards of plate, feather beds, many
changes of apparel, and choice wine
for himself and his favorites.
The bed was put up at auction
once, and Charles Dickens bid 100
guineas for it. It was bought in by
the landlord, who did not think the
price sufficient.
It has been seen by multitudes of
travelers, who described it and drank
its health, and it is alluded to in Far
qua/s play of "The Kecruiting Offi-
cer," who, in speaking of the last bed'
of the slain after a great battle, cries:
"O, a mighty large bed, bigger byj
half than the great bed of Ware! Ten
thousand people may lie in together
and! never feel one another."Att
lanta Constitution.
In the New York office of Pierpont
Morgan there is a junior clerk, the
son of a millionaire, who when not
otherwise employed is engaged in
slicing the flaps of envelopes which
have been u&ed. The backs are pre
served in pads for scribbling'paper.
The mail of such a house is enormous
and the saving effected in this waj is
not inconsiderable.
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