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THE DAILY PIONEE R.
EDWARD KAISER, Publisher
Entered in the posto'fflce at Bemldji. Minn.,
as second class matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
Official County and City Paper.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
Copy for changes of advertisements in
The DailyI Pioneer must reach this ofi"ce by
io o'clock a. m. in-order to Insure their
appearance in the issue of same day.
THE MAFIA.
The American people today are
facing a very serious proposition
in the shape ot a secret order
known as the Mafia. This order
is one of the uncanniest and red
handed organizations in existence
today. It was originally a cit
izen's union to protect the people
of Sicily from brigands and high
waymen, but has become a mur
derous band of cut-throats, kill
ing all who come in its way. The
threat of the Mafia in some of the
eastern states today is enough to
make the strongest quail.
The essential idea of the Mafia
is opposition to governmental
authority. The Matia itself has
no recognized head no one to
give orders or pass judgment,
and the large majority for entire
secrecy they rely upon each
member's hatred for established
law and fear of vengeance.
The Italians now parvade nearly
every section of the country.
They are the most dangerous ele
ment that bequeaths to our po
terity. They contribute very
little to the nation's bone and
sinew. They prefer to remain in
ignorance and oppose the consti
tution.
America is such a vast country
that a foreign organization of this
kind does not seem of overflow
ing importance but when that
society is being constantly rein
forced by immigration, and in a
large number of cases shielded
by our own political leaders,
might not its existence be made
a subject of governmental atten
tion.
I MAY be unjust to lay it to
Editor Bernard, but whoever
wrote the fish story in the Cass
Lake Voice is either gifted with
an imagination that is a wonder,
or told it in a laudable effort to
maintain a supremacy of Cass
Lake above that of .Bemidji as a
resort to be patronized by the
sportsman, in ^which case it
would not be considered by the
average public citizen as a pre
varication that was in any degree
reprehensible. The story de
scribes the success of a fishing
party that had tired of catching
pike and proceeded to troll for a
muskallonge. It wasn't long be
fore the hook apparently caught
on the bottom of the lake, and the
surface of the earth at once
seemed to come to life. Three
men and their wives composed
the party, and they managed to
tow the fish to shore where an
Indian killed it with a paddle,
and it 0was
NOTHING
found to weigh 47
pounds. The fact that the
"muskie" is to be taxidermized
and placed on exhibition gives
the story some standing outside
of that it attains by publication
in so reliable a sheet as the Cass
Lake Voice.Crookston Journal.
adds more to the
beauty of the home than well
kept shade trees. All the money
in Christendom could be piled
into a gorgeous mansion, and it
would look like a barren, stranded
ark without trees and shrubbery
surrounding it.Fargo Call.
Australian Rabbits.
A few year* ago the rabbit was the
plague and v-read of the whole pastoral
class in Australia. Australians are
learning now to turn the rabbit itself
into a commercial asset. Twenty mil
lions of Au .tralian rabbit skins were
sold in London last year, while nearly
3,000,000 rabbits frozen in their furs
were sent to the London market from
Victoria alone. The Australian rabbit
is thus supplying the tables of the
United Kingdom with food and the
wardrobes of the civilized world with
ornaments.
FORTUNE IN THE MISTLETOE.
Georgian Has Madu Money In Provid
ing Wreaths ot Holly.
In Georgia there is a farm devoted
to mistletoe and holly growing. It is
owned by the Cartledge family, con
sisting of mother and two daughters,
but the daughters do the farming. It
all began through the failure of the el
der sister to make an immediate tri
umph in art, to study which she went
to New York. She realized in the
great city, as she never could have in
her rural Southern homo, that talent
for art is too general to leave much
hope for special distinction, and wisely
concluded to turn to something that
would bring more speedy results. Be
ing an observant young woman, Mlaa
Cartledge noticed that holly and mitt
tletoe brought extremely high prices
and bethought her that on the 500
acres at home in Georgia both grew
in wild abundance. She returned home
and she and her sister began to pre
pare for making the neglected luxuri
ance of marketable value. In the
months of January and February fol
lowing they set out 10 acres of young
holly trees with their own hands. The
colored farm nands would not plant a
holly tree for worlds, as they believe
that if they did they would die as soon
as the tree became tall enough to cast
a shadow the measure of their graves.
Last Christmas the sisters found the
trees so grown that they required thin
ning out and the trees that were re
moved were sent North for Christmas
trees and brought high prices, as they
were symmetrical and covered with
large, rich berries. They plant the
mistletoe berries under the bark of the
old oak trees in a crack or hole,
where they can get a hold as they
germinate.
LEADS FIVE MILLION WOMEN.
Mrs. Sewall Has Largest Following or
Any Member ot Her Sex.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president
of the International Council of Wo
men, can lay claim to having the
largest voluntary following of any
woman in the world. The organiza
tion numbers 5,000,000 members, in
sixteen countries. This council has
three great purposes or reasons for
existenceto prevent war, to spread
peace throughout the earth, to find
and publish to the world the laws af
fecting the domestic relations of wo
men in all the countries represented
and to collect and distribute accurate
information concerning the status, ac
tivities, Industries and labors of wo
men in the different nations.
Mrs. Sewall framed the petition for
peace, which was the only one offici
ally commended by the peace com
mission at The Hague. She is the
leading club woman in the world and
is the projector of one of the first
women's clubhouses in the country.
Her sympathy with the latest methods
of education is manifest in her writ
ings, her lectures and in the classical
school in Indianapolis, to which she
devotes her morning hours for three
quarters of the year. Here she holds
a weekly salon, famed alike for its
hostess and its guests. This strong
serene, white-haired woman is a great
power for good in the progress of the
world.
Where Horses Outnumber Men.
Attention has been called to the im
mense number of horses which are
being sent constantly from this and
other countries to South Africa. Yet
the great "expenditure" of horses
caused by the Boer war will not ma
terially affect the world's visible sup
ply. In the Argentine Republic there
are more horses than there are human
beings, the proportion being 112 horses
to every 100 of population. In Central
Siberia there are 85 horses to every
100 inhabitants, and in this country
the proportion is said to be 22 to every
100. In the Argentine Republic you
can buy an ordinary peasant's horse
for about $7. The horses used there
for carrying the mail, which are pos
sessed of great speed and endurance,
can be bought for $15, and the finest
sort of a horse, which would be worth
$300 in New York, can be had in the
Argentine Republic for $35.New York
Press.
Men's M| Now nnd Then.
After a man has worn a moustache
for ten, twenty, thirty or more years
and shaved it off, his upper lip looks
like a piece of dried pigskin. It is as
expressionless as an army saddle. It
gives to a weak mouth a rigid and de
termined look. Compare the shaven
lips of to-day with those of 100 years
ago, when it was a crime against so
ciety to wenr a mustache. The men's
lips of Washington's time were like
Cupid's bow. a term which could be
applied to-day only to the lips of lovely
women. Take any of the old prints.
Look at any of the oil portraits of the
period between 1770 and 1830. The
sternest men in public life had the Cu
pid's bow to perfection. Their lips
were as soft as velvet. They must
have had a "big drag with the girls."
New York Press.
Dipping the Dip
Dipping the dip, it is said, will be
the fad at Eastern shore resorts next
season. The dipper of the dip seats
himself in the cockpit of a long me
tallic boat Some one cuts a string
and the boat plunges down into a tank
and becomes entirely submerged. Pres
ently it leaps out of the water at the
other end of the tank and the pas
sengers get out quite dry as to their
outward persons and profoundly im
pressed. The theory of the inventor
?3 that the boat will travel so fa?*
chat the law of gravitation will be tak
en by surprise, and will be unable to
act in time to drench the, occupant*
of the cockpit*
PARIS BANTING IN NEW WAY.
To Eat Cold Food Only the Latest Plan
of Reducing One's Weight.
The new Parisian cure for too much
flesh is to take all food, or nearly all,
cold. The early breakfast of toast
and eggs is eaten cold, and the food
is washed down with cold coffee or
milk.
At luncheon there is nothing but
cold meatu and cold puddings, with
bread, cheese and salads. At night
the meal consists of only mayonnaise
of fish, cold entrees and entremets
no hot vegetables, but perhaps, as a
bonne bouche, a hot cutlet, lean, of
cours
Many people in Paris who are In
clined to be stout, especially among
"the women, are assiduously following
the new cure, and most of those who
tried it assert that they have ob
tained satisfactory resi.'ts.
LABOR TROUBLES ENDED.
St. Louis Will Now Enjoy a Season of
Peacv, Perhaps.
.St. Louis, May 27.The settlement
of the strike of porters, packers and
freight handlers of the wholesale
grocery firms in the Cupples station
dif-trict, that went into effect yester
day, carries with it the assurance of
the winding up of the strike of the
railroad freight handlers and the pre
vention of a general strike of the
teamsters of the International organ
ization who were on the point of going
out.
"Robbery," a New Magazine.
A magazine has been started In
Belgium to chronicle the doings of
the criminal world. It is called "Rob-
bery," and will appear quarterly. It
will contain accounts of famous
thefts in days gone by side by side
with descriptions of the most up to
date methods employed by thieves,
burglars, etc., though it is not to be,
so far as known aa organ of the
trade. Space will be also devoted to
illustrating the various tools and in
siriv '"i? used by the craft on noc
turnal excursions in town and coun
try.
Dogma.
In a public school in Sandusky one
of the teachers in the primary grade
gave the word "dogma" to her class
as a basis for a sentence-building
exercis*. As the class looked puz
zled, the teacher repeated the wcrd,
putting the accent. rather prominent
ly on the second syllable. But the
term seemed beyond the mental grasp
of the children. None of them could
produce anything. Time was called,
and a wide-awake little girl snapped
her fingers and read: "Our dog mo
has three little puppies.'Selected.
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80ME ONE-LINE AUTHORS.
Writers Whose Fame Rests Upon a
Single Book or Quotation.
It is one of the many odd experi
ences of life that, while some men in
pursuit of fame write a library of
books and die and are forgotten, other
men, under some happy inspiration,
write a single line, poem or volume,
and are forever ranked with the im
mortals.
In some cases immortality goes
a-begging from the modest shrinking
of an author to claim his offspring,
as in the case of the oracle who
penned the eloquent word "Don't" in
answer to Punch's request for advice
to those about to marry.
Very few read Congreve nowadays,
and fewer still could quote half i
dozen lines from any of his* poems
and dramas and yet. to many who
have never even heard his name there
are few lines more familiar.than the
oft-quoted and misquoted, "Music
\ath charms to soothe the savage
oreast."
Charles Wolfe, the Irish divine and
poet, wrote many poems of excellence,
but only one redeems him and all his
works from obscurity, and of this few
could get beyond the first line, "We
buried him darkly at dead of night."
Thomas Gray has left one legacy
only from all his writings, but that is
an imperishable onehis "Elegy Writ
ten in a Country Churchyard," the
most widely quoted poem in our lan
guage. Yet those who can recite every
word of it could probably not even
give the name of a single other poem
by the same writer.
Lady Anne Barnard would have no
place at all in the public memory if
she had not written "Auld Robin
Gray."
A SYMPATHY IN COLORS.
College President Rings Changes on
Good Old Lady's Name.
A certain college president employed
a housekeeper named Green. One day
when the president's wife had com
pany Mrs. Green entered the room and
was introduced to a caller.
When the guest was about to de
part she found herself unable to recall
the housekeeper's name, but knew it
signified a color, and concluded it
must be Drown so she politely said,
"Good-bye, Mrs. Brown I am very
glad to have met you."
At the supper table the incident was
related to the president as a good joke
on Mrs. Green.
"She called you Mrs. Brown, did
she?" said the president. "Well, that
was Bauch better than to have been
called Mrs Gray or Mrs. Red, Mrs.
Yellow or Mrs. Black, wasn't it?"
"I suppose that is the way to look
at it," replied the housekeeper, "but I
declare I never felt so green in my
life."
"Oh, well! It was of no consequence.
I wouldn't feel blue about it," sooth
ingly advised Mr. President.
He Misled Them.
"What has become of that Mr. Jol
liem who used to be so fond of your
little Percival?" we ask of the proud
mamma.
"Oh," she says, "don't mention that
detestable person to me again!"
"But why? He seemed thoroughly
enraptured with the child. He was
always dandling it on his knees and
getting it to tulle for him"
"That just it. He would take lit
tle Percital en his lap and stuff the
child with candy, and encourage him
in every way to try to talk, and then
and then"
"And then what? He didn't try to
kidnap the infant?"
"Worse than that!" she lamented.
"We learned that he was the manager
of a biscuit factory, and his only pur
pose in fawning over our darling was
to get him to say something that
could he converted into a name for
a new brand of goods."
Estate Easily Settled.
An attorney from Houston, Tex.,
tells this story of Judge Roy Bean,
justice of the peace in the Lone Star
state, who is known better as "The
Law West of the Pecos River":
He held a- coroner's inquest on a
Mexican who had been found dead
near the Pecos river. The jury brought
in a verdict of accidental death. The
crowd was dispersing when the judge
called them back.
"There is another matter to attend
to," he said. "On this man's body was
found $50 and a six-shooter. It is
contrary to the laws of Texas and to
the peace and dignity of the state to
carry concealed weapons. Therefore
I confiscate the revolver and fine the
deceased $1. The costs in the case
are $49, which just settles his estate."
One of Bismarck's Cousins.
At Niederlheme in Germany lives
a strange man. He is a first cousin
of the late Prince Bismark, but he
claims a higher lineage than this, for
he tells everyone that he is the Mes
siah. He spends all of his time in
the forest and will have nothing to
do with civilization. Recently a peas
ant asked hira what he thought of
death, and he replied:
"The time is approaching when I
will be the only person on earth, for
I am the Messiah, and the kingdom
that is promised to me will soon be
established. Then champagne will
flow freely and all will be happy?"
To Protect Czar and Emperor.
It is said that when the czar of Rus
sia and the German emperor visit
Rome they will be guarded by 1,200
detectives, who will masquerade as
pilgrims, peasants, priests, nuns and
other characters abounding in Rome
and will lodge in all sorts of hotels,
high-priced and low inns, in cloisters,
private rooms and even houses of ill
repute.
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