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THE DAILY PIONEER.
EDWARD KAISER. Publisher
Entered in ttie postofhVe at Bemidji, Minn.,
as second class matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
Official County and City Paper.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
Copy for changes of aJvsrtisements in
The Dally Pioneer must reicli thi&offlce by
10 o'clo:k a. m. in ordsr to Insure their
appearance in the issue of same day.
THE GREATEST TASK OF. ALL.
James ,f. Hill intimates that his
big Pacific steamers, the largest
freight carriers in the world, are
going to give the outer world a
taste of that cheapness of trans
portation which his made the
great lakes waterway the marvel
of the internal commerce of the
United States. He believes that
this new era of transportation on
the Pacific will result in a tre
mendously increased consump
tion of American wheat and flour
in China. He asserts now, as
many timas bef ore, that the only
way in which the American
farmer can get more for his
wheat is to enlarge his in irk it.
To quote his own words:
"We can never 't aw iv fr.un
the practical proposition that w.1
are competition with every
wheat r.-iis.H- in every cuntr
the suits on the stapp.as 6f
Russia, th ryots IM ln,.iinl
the Argantine farmers, most of
whom went fr It ily. We are
in omp'tition with t!i on a i
even whifflftro \V.\ willahv tys
be so long as we/taaVe topsail
outside of our own country: and
tint oar own cpantry will ever
consume our entire produce no
intelligent man will believe, at
least for half a century."
But if-the 400,000,000 Chinamen
can be induced to eat woeat
there /will be a competition of
markets and very likely a demand
in excess of the supp'y. It will
be intensely interesting to watch
the working out of this pet trade
theory of Mr. Hill." He is really
trying to do for the wheat market
what the protective tariff has
done for our manufacturers, that
is, give thorn a better market.
No tariff can do the wheat raiser
any good, because ho raises more
than the nation consumes by
about 200,000,000 bushels, and
his surplus is proportionately
larger now than it was fifty
years ago. What the government
has not been able to do Mr. Hill
now proposes to do. This is the
culminating undertaking of Mr.
Hill's life. It is a vaster project
than his railways, and, if success
ful, will entitle him to be consid
ered the foremost industrial cap
tain of the age.Minneapolis
Journal.
W E ARE the recipient of a copy
of the Bemidji Daily Pioneer, and
to say we were surprised, would
be putting it mildly. We sup
posed Bemidji to be place of sav
ages and cannibals somewhere in
the woods up north, when along
comes a daily paper printed in
the English language. Battle
Lake Review/
HE M. & I. have just issued a
Une booklet telling of the beauties
and elegant fisfimgHo be had
along the line of their road. The
book is a work of art, and W. H.
Gemmel deserves much credit
for his enterprise.
D. K. MCPHERSON, in his Little
Fork Guardian, says: "It's hard
to plant potatoes and print a
newspaper at the same time."
The potatoes may bring better
financial results than the news
paper through Mac.
BEMIDJI's Daily Pioneer is set
ting a pace for some of the older
fellows.Crookston Times.
Maxim Gorky Is Wealthy.
It is possible that Maxim Gorky
would reply in the affirmative should
anyone ask him. "Does literary work
pay?" He was poor as a church
mouse before he began writing, but
one ^of his recent transactions was
the purchase for $150,000 of a fine old
estate on the banks of *he River
Volga.
THE NEW ARMY RIFLE.
It Is Practically Certain to Be the
Best in the World.
The new United States army rifle
Is a remarkable evolution in small
arms since the old Springfield single
loader had its day. Practically twelve
years cover the period of the develop
ment, although the experience of the
Spanish and Philippine wars has nat
urally made the progress more rapid
since 1898 than before that time.
\,hen the Krag was made the basis of I after the man's decease but
the army magazir.e rifle there was
more or less criticism, but it was
poorly conceived. Tho Ordinance de
partment has never regarded any
model as necessarily a finality, but has
ever been bent on improvements.
Consequently modifications have been
numerous and steady, and there is no
reason why, with this constant appli
cation of experience and ir.ventive ge
.nius. .the United. .States -service n-iaga*
zine rifle should net be equal to any
in the world.Springfielu (Mass.) Re
publican.
BOY WAS TOO PREVIOUS.
Came Near Causing Physician to
Lose a Patient.
A doctor tells a good story in con
nection with a lad who until recently
was in his employ. It was part of
this youngster's daily duty to answer
the surgery bell, and usher the pros
pective patients into the consulting
room. One morning there presented
himself at. the surgery entrance a
mechanic, wit.i whom Buttons was on
speaking terms. "Hullo, Jackson!" he
remarked, "what's the matter with
you?" "Oh, I just want to see the
doctor," replied the visitor. "Have
yer brought- yer symptoms with yer?"
inquired Buttons, '"cos that's the fust
thing he'll a'k yer about- If yer ain't
got 'em ye\I better pop back an' get
'em." "And would you believe it?"
adds the doctor, "that fellow was actu
ally about to act on the boy's advice
when I entered tho surgery,!"Pear-
son's Weekly.
Take a Look at Venus.
Young man, when you have finish
ed your dinner to-night, go up to the
rcof or out in the street or yard by
your home and take a good, long look
at the siar of the e\ening. She will
do you much good. In the first place,
the mere fact of your having thought
enough to spend the time to do this
will aid your mental development. In
the second place you will have to lift
your eyes and chin from the mire of
the street about you to clean glory of
Omnipotence. In the third place, you
cannot look for five minutes at Venus
Charity in England.
Some idea of the charitable disposi
tion of the British people is found in
the report of the charity commission
ers, just issued. The total value of in
vestments held by"the official trustees
a capital of 6,500,000 and upward.
Differing Views on Providence.
A recent traveler in Macedonia
writes: "The views on Providence
entertained by Turks and Jews re
spectively and the extent to which be
lief influences the conduct of each
are well illustrated by the following
anecdote: A Turk and a Jew were
one day in a boat. Suddenly the
weather charged and a fierce squall
arose. The Jew proposed uiat they
should turn back at once. The Turk
was for going on. 'Fear not, my
friend Allah is great,' he said, 'Allah
is great,' retorted the Jew, 'but our
boat Is small.'"
Wrong Foot Out of Bed.
About half the world puts the wrong
foot out of bed in the morning. But
which is the wrong foot? It is a
What We're Coming To.
As we have already transmitted fair
ly recognizable pictures of individuals
by wire we may be able, before long,
to do the same thing without wires.
Why not? And then for the wireless
lychromotelepantophonophotoscope
by which we can see everybody, hear
everybody, talk to everybody, when
ever and wherever we please without
cost, anywhere on the surface of the
globe. And then, hurrah for a short
trip to Mars just to inflate our chests
and show off!Magazine of Humor.
The Development of Mexico.
Facts in regard to the commercial
annexation of Mexico are given in the
National Magazine. Twenty-eight mil
lions of United States capital is now
invested In that country, and forty
Mexican investment companies in Chi
cago are sending in a million dollars
a month. In the city of Monterey
alone $10,000,000 was recently invest
ed in one plant. The Standard Oil
company has invested $18,000,000 in
Mexican mines within two years, and
will put in $40,000,000 more.
of charitable funds at the close of i in-waiting picked up a diamond neck-
last year was' 22,314,735, divided lace from the floor. A lady came for-
into 22,798 separate grants. The ag
gregate income from stocks, securities
and annuities aggregated 646,517 in
1902. During the three-quarters end
ing Dec. 31, 1901, 1,670 new charities
founded by will or deed came to the i lady protested in vain, but the oddest
notice of the commissioners, involving thingclaimed,
wa
superstition as old as the hills that 1 from the consumption by prairie dogs
if the left foot touches the floor first of the tender shoots of grass, that
you will have bad luck that day. I they have determined to import cats
Probably many men avoid this by
sleeping on the right side of the bed,
so that in rising the right foot natur
ally comes first in contact with the
floor. It is said to be a fact that most
people lie on their right side because
of the prevalent notion that the heart
has freer action.-^New York Press.
HE-SOLD HIS HE-ADi
Peculiar Condition In Which Wealthy
Russian Finds Himself.
A curious story comes from Russia
about a man who sold his head. About
the year 1865 th^re lived a man at
Keff with an enc-mous head. A Rus
sian scientist, Prof. Walker, in order
to secure tho he?.d for scientific pur
poses, bought it from its possessor for
600 roubles. The condition of sale
Necklace Awaits an Owner.
A strange story is told about a dia
mond necklace wh: was found at one
of the English con balls some years
ago. One of the late queen's ladies-
ward and claimed it. The finder, how
ever, declared it was her duty to give
it in to the lord chamberlain's office,
as this .was the rule with regard to I
anything found in the palace. The
was that it should only be delivered Lsalaries. The bill met with great op
when
the transaction got abroad a great
scandal was created. The professor,
however, stuck to his bargain, and the
big head applied itself to business.
Fortune smiled on the latter he fell
heir to a big fortune, and then he
began to feel uncomfortable at the
thought that the head belonged to an
other. He went to the professor, offer
ed him' 1,000, 1,500, even 2,000 roubles
it. only "he would -give him back the
absolute ownership of his 'eadpiece.
But the professor heid or find for
aught that is known to the contrary he
is still holding out.Pearson's Weak
ly.
TO CURE A COLD.
Uncle Allen Sparks Knew of Many
Infallible Remedies.
"Uncle Allen," asked the young
man, "do you know anything that's
good for a cold?"
Mr. Allen Sparks opened his desk,
took from one of the pigeonholes a
large number of newspaper clippings
tied with a string, and threw it over
to him.
"Do I know of anything that is good
for a. cold?" he echoed. "My boy, I their property from confiscation, re-
know of six hundred and tv.-cnty-seven fused to plead at the bar. This dread-
infallible ways of curing a cold. I've ful punishment of being pressed to
been collecting them for fo'ty-nine| death was, however, abolished in
years. You try these, one after the i 1772. A Major Strangways, who was
other, and/ if they don't do you any 1 indicted for murder, having refused
good, come back and I will give you to.plead, was condemned to this sav
age peine forte et dure. He died in
eight minutes, &r you
one hundred and sirueen more Bless
me!" added Mr. Sparks with enthu
siasm, you can always cure a cold if
you go about it the right way."
He dug up a bundle of vollow, time
stained clippings out ol another pig
eonhole and the visiter hastily left.
Good V/ord for Mocruito.
The announcement ccraes from
Washington that the New Jersey mos
quito js really a blessing in disguise.
Not only is its bite not cancerous,
but, it is asserted, this veracious in
sect destroys poisonous immigrants
of its genus that come from the south
to threaten people with malaria, yel
low fever and the like. All this may
be true enough, but it is not likely I act was concluded
,-rr 1 that the long-billed New Jersey,,variety1 nedly an,d the orchestra. was instruct-
or at any other planet or star without ,J
will be cultivated as household pets ed to play fortissimo in order to
absorbing into yourself some of the
calm, silent power which wheels this
universe along its unbroken track,
with never a slip of the tire or jostling
of the axle.New York News.
until some way is devised to muzzle drown the remarks Mrs. Campbell
them during their working hours. Few
of us can stand the loss of blood nec
essary for their salubrity.Indianap
olis News.
was that this necklace never
and is probably still at
the lord chamberiain's office.
Hare as a Universal Provider.
In the economy of nature the hare
Is the one creature that stands be
tween most of the carnivorous animals
and starvation. In the northern woods
where snow lies on the ground for
more than half the year, and where
vegetation is of slow growth, the hare
serves as a machine for converting
birch twigs into muscular, lean meat,
and providing it in such quantities
that hawks, owls, wildcats, weasels
and foxes can live in comparative
luxury. A pair of hares under favor
able conditions produce 70,000 indi
viduals in four years.
Cats to Kill Prairie Dogs.
The owners of an enormous sheep
ranch in Montana suffer so much loss
enough to exterminate the dogs. The
first company of 100 cats is being re
cruited at St. Paul. A facetious writer
in the New York Post shows anxiety
for the future of the cats, their work
being accomplished. He says if they
do kill the prairie dogs they will have
the choice, subsequently, of starva
tion, cannibalism or brigandage.
A Healthy Spot.
The healthfulness of a certain sum
mer resort is advertised by this story.
Recently a visitor began to talk to
an old resident of the town in question
and asked him his age, whereupon he
said: "I am just, over seventy."
"Well," said the visitor, "you look as
if you had a good many years to live
yet At what age did your father die?"
"Father dead?" said the man, look
ing surprised. "Father isn't dead
why, he's upstairs just now putting
grandfather to bed!"
A Real Bargain.
"In time," said the struggling artist,
"that painting will be of great value.
All you have to do is to tuck it away
in an attic somewhere and keep it
for about 200 years, by which time
I will have become one of the old
masters. Then you can sell it easily
for $10,000. You see, I know the rules,
but unfortunately I am not in a finan
cial position to carry them out. So,
If you want a real bargain, I'll let you
have this little gem for $1.50."
Judge Promptly Saw the Point in Pol
itician's Advice.
One of the most hospitable citizens
of Sioux Falls was Judge Fuller of
the Supreme Court. He was intro
duced to the president's attention
with the following incident of his
career:
The judges made a strong campaign
to get the legislature to raise their
position. Judge Fuller, who had no
small political influence, went up to
Pierre to see about it. He was met
by one of the leaders of the party.
"How about this thing?" said the
judge.
"Judge," said the other politician,
gravely, "you better drop this salary
business. I tell you- as a friend. You
don't want it to go through. It is not
in your Interest!"
"Why ain't it?"
"Don't you see, judge," explained
the politician, "that if we put the sal
aries of the judges up to the figure
you want, the people will turn around
and elect real lawyers to the bench."
The point of the story is that the
judge dropped the amendment at
once.New York Sun.
A REMNANT OF OLD NEWGATE.
Where Savage Torture Was Inflicted
in Ancient Times.
The most notorious part of the
whole structureand which yet re
mainwas the press yard. Here it
was that peine forte et dure was in
flicted upon prisoners charged with
felony who, wkh the view of saving
The Philosopher Wondered.
An Englishman used to meet the
great philosopher Arthur Schoppen
hauer every morning walking with his
ugly poodle along the promenade
in Frankfort-on-the-Main. Schoppen
hauer's eccentric appearance, deeply
immersed in thought, excited the Eng
lishman's curiosity to such an extent
that one day he could contain himself
no longer, and, walking up to the
philosopher, adddressed him abruptly
thus: "Tell me, sir, who, in the name
of fate, are you?" "Ah!" Schoppen
hauer replied, "I only wish I knew
that myself."
KNEW WHEN TO QUIT. HIS THOUGHTS FAR AWAY.
many of those who
witnessed the dreadful sight threw
stones at him to hasten his end.
Her Equanimity Disturbed.
,On one occasion Airs. Patrick Camp
bell was playing in "The Trumpet
Call" at a London theater. In the
middle of a strenuous scene the audi
ence was horrified to see that the
skirt of her dress had "come undone."
It slipped until it had almost reached
her knees before Mrs. Campbell
noticed it. Then she grabbed and
pulled back the garment, at the same
time fairly hypnotizing the spectators
with her blazing black eyes. The
somewhat hur.-
was addressing to her maid.
Bear Worshipers in Japan.
The queerest ind perhaps the old
est people of the earth are the Ainos,
the bear idolators, who are found in
the Japanese islands of Kovriles, Sah
kalino and chiefly in Yezo or Hon
naido. They number not more than
18,000 souls in all and they are fast
disappearing. Thev have the broad
nose and the obiiq jyes which char
acterize the Chinese and Asiatic races
generally, but there the resemblance
ends. The Ainos are a large and
powerful people, straight as an arrow.
All the Ainos declare they sprang
from the Great White Dogthe bear
and a princess of the south. The
bear is their chief god.
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Had Missed Him.
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opera-house during the third
act of "Carmen" on Zelie de Lussan's
opening night in San Francisco a dis
appointed spectator, who considered
Tennery's Don Jose about "the limit,"
remarked with a sigh of relief,
"Thank God." Those about him, who
snaied his feelings, snickered sympa
thetically. But their smiles were
turned to peals of laughter when Don
Jose presently bobbed up serenely,
and the talkative wag exclaimed trag
ically: "Ye gods, her aim was bad.
She missed him!"
New Universal Language.
"Esperanto," an artificial language
made by Dr. L. Zamenhof for a uni
versal language, has gained 80,000 ad
herents, among them members of the
French Institute, professors in conti
nental universities, Count Tolstoi and
W. T. Stead. Its object, as stated by
a writer in Le Monde Moderne, Paris,
is: "To furnish people who need to
communicate with foreignerstravel
ers, scientists and business menthe
way to a mutual understanding with
out necesity of resorting to the study
of many foreign languages."
The Young Critics' Idea.
Friends of E. J. Couse, the artist,
are laughing over a remark made
by some seminary girls who attend
ed an exhibition where his picture,
"The Peace Pipe," took the Hallgar
ten prize. "I like that Couse canvas
better than anything I've looked at,"
said one, "and I want mamma to
come and see it." "Which one was
that?" her friend inquired. "Oh!
That Peace-Pipe Dream," was the re
ply.
Unfortunate "Ereak" Made by Pillar
of the Church.
Mr. Goodman, who is an elder in
one of the South Side churcnes, says
a Chicago paper, attended a card par
ty one Tuesday evening not long ago.
It was late when the company broke
up, and as a consequence the elder
was very sleepy at prayer meeting
the next night. His efforts to keep
awake, though earnest, were futile,
and at last his chin went down to
rest upon the bosom of his shirt.
When the meeting was about over
the minister called upon Mr. Good
man to "lezd in prayer." A kind
lady sitting next to the sleeping
elder nudged him and whispered, "It
is your turn to lead." Suddenly
straightening up and blinking, he
said in tones that could be heard all
through the church, "Madam, I beg
your pardon, I just dealt."
THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL.
Dignified Person Knew What He Was
Talking About.
When two of Casey's customers got
to arguing religious subjects trouble
began to brew. And when a foolish
person in the dignified stage of intox
ication expressed his disapproval of
the Roman hierarchy it was time to
turn in a riot call. Juct as the dig
nified person struck th.3 sidewalk and
gathered himself together, a pale
faced man came around the corner
and asked:
"Can you tell me the quickest way
to get to St. Vincent's hospitai?"
Straightening himself up, and re
garding his interrogator fixedly, the
man with the dignified jag replied:
"If you are in a big hurry, just
step inside that saloon and holler
'Down with the Pope.""2e York
Press.
Battleships Are Expensive Toys.
The bursting of the big gun on the
Iowa involved a deplorable sacrifice
of life for which there is r.o repair. It
is now declared that, the cost of put
ting the steei monster again in fight
ing trim will be $500,000, involving six
months' stay in some ship hospital.
This does net cover the whole loss.
The great gun which exploded with
such frightful consequences cannot be
replaced without heavy additional ex
penditure. The report that the .fa-
mous Oregon has been so wrenched
and disabled in her late tussle with a
Pacific tyohoon as to make her unsea
worthv affords still further proof of
the costliness of the game in which
battleships and cruisers are the pawns
when Neptune takes a hand in the
performance.Philadelphia Record.
Teetotalism in Texas.
When Gen. Horace Porter was In
Texas he came ,/oss a man who
went about telling everybody, in great
surprise, that he "had struck a big
thing here." "What's the, matter?"
people asked. "Why," he answered,
"I was sent down here by a temper
ance society in Kansas to distribute
these" tracts. Well, whenever I hand
ed a man a tract he glanced over it,
hauled out a revolver from one pocket
and a quart bottle of whisky from
the other and then said: 'Look here,
you just have a drink of that, or my
gun'll go off.' Would you believe it!
1 haven't had to pay for a drop of
liquor since I came here to distribute
teetotal tracts."
Not Looking for Notoriety.
No author of the day has been less
photographed than Joseph Conrad,
who has just published a book of sea
stories. His publishers, when his
book was about to come out, having
failed to persuade him to face the
camera for a new picture, hunted high
and low throughout England and
America for sorr sort of likeness.
Finally, in the files of an old English
illustrated magazine, someone stum
bled upon a small oval head of him,
and it is from that half-tone, enlarged
and retouched, that all pictures of
Conrad recently published have been
made.
Pierpont Morgan's Success.
Pierpont Morgan, who celebrated
his sixty-sixth birthday recently,
achieved his greatest business suc
cesses since he reached the three
score mark. He first became promi
nent in the financial wtJftd about
twenty years ago, when he went to
Europe and successfully sold $25,000,-
000 worth of New York Central stock.
This made the old financiers gasp.
By this piece of work Mr. Morgan
won the lasting friendship of the late
William H. Vanderbilt and incidentally
cleared $1,000,000 for himself.
Missed His Calling.
An Italian has been discovered on
a fruit ranch at Riverside, working
for $1.50 per day, who proves to be
an artist in sculpture of the highest
rank, and he has been set to work
completing the stucco finishing of the
interior of the Carnegie library build
ing. IiTa name is Luigi Ianni, and
the only words in English he can
use are "You bet." He is now at
work on some Corinthian columns of
original design that are marvels as
works of art.Los Angeles Herald.
Classification of Radium.
Rurge and Precht, Revue Scien
tifique, have classified radium by the
spectroscope. The most intense lenses
of the spark-spectrum or radium are
rigorously analogous to the strongest
lines of barium and its congeners
magnesium, calcium and strontium.
They place the atomic weight of ra
dium at 257.8. This high atomic
weight furnishes in part the explana
tion of tho ease with which its ele
ments split into electrons to produce
radioactivity.
FILARIA IS A NEW DISEASE.
Responsible for the Death of M.T-.y
American Soldiers.
Capt. Charles Kieeffer, a United
States army surgeon, says the Phil
ippines are infested with mosquitoes
more troublesome and dangerous from
a medical point of view than those
that swarm in the Jersey swamps. A
strange malady known as filaria is
traced directly to them, and is com
mon among the American soldiers
quartered on the islands. Soldiers
contract the disease by drinking
water from stagnant pools in which
the mosquitoes have laid their eggs.
The first indication of filaria ap
pears in the form of a worm in the
victim's thorax. This develops into
elephantiasis, which causes the pa
tient terrible pains, accompanied by
a constant cough. The sufferer is
worst at night, end the patient be
comes a prey to insomnia.
The only remedy lies in an opera
tion, which in itself is dangerous and
rarely successful. If the worm, which
is a female, is injured and dies
through the operation, its poison gets
into the blood, the disease is increased
a thousandfold and the chances of re
covery are small.
"JACK HARKAWAY" COMING BACK
Story That Thrilled the Boys of a Gen
eration Ago.
For a regular thriller commend me
to "Jack Harkaway." Thirty-five
years ago this sensational bit of fic
tion exercised a greater influence on
the character of the average boy of
10 to 15 than father, mother and the
Ten Commandments. It was devoured
by millions on both sides of the water.
"Jack" was the ideal of the youth of
all English-speaking countries. I see
that it has been started again for a
long run in a periodical that claims
1,250,000 circulation. Bracebridge
Hemyng died in 1901. He wrote not
only "Jack Harkaway," but forty-odd
volumes of readable fiction, yet you
will look in vain for his name in "John-
son's," "Appleton's," "Chambers'," the
"International" and the "Standard"
cyclopedias, and in the "Ridpath Li
brary of University Literature." The
editors of all such works seem to make
it a habit to leave out just what one
wants to know.New York Press.
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