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THE DAILY PIONEER.
EDWARD KAISER, Publisher.
Entered in the postofflce at Bemldji, Minn..
aslsecond class matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
Official County and City Paper.
FARMERS TO O CONSERVATIVE.
Statistics show that the world's
sugar crop for the manufactur
ing year 1901-2 was nearly eleven
million of long tons. Of this
great quantity more than two
thirds was made from sugar
beets. If we exclude our island
'pssisBcms'TfoW'^eVeckoning^
our domestic production is con
siderably less than one-twentieth
of the world's crop, and less than
one-fifth of what we consume.
Our annual consumption" is "68
pounds per capita, a total of two
and a half million tons, or one
fourth of the world's supply.
The United States annually
imports over two million dollars
worth of sugar, although this
country is as well adapted to the
raising of the sugar beet as any
other. The last issue of the Cos
mopolitan attributes the back
wardness of the United States in
the manufacture of sugar to the
reluctance of capital and the
aversion of the American farmer
to adopt new ideas. The indus
try has a good start now, how
ever, and is rapidly growing.
The objections of the farmers
and capitalists have been over
come, and more land is yearly
being devoted to the raising of
the beet and its manufacture into
sugar.
The old fashioned American
farmer is proverbially a conserv
ative fellow, clinging tenaciously
to time honored traditions and
methods, openly scoffing at anew
field product or a novel idea. He
has wasted more opportunities
than he has used in the raising
of particular kinds of profitable
crops, and will adopt nothing
new as a rule until it has been
proved to be a paying success a
dozen different times.
Until very recent years, when
the ranks of the American farm
ers were recruited from the
trained men of the agricultural
college class rooms but a very
small fraction of the experimental
work with sugar beets was done
by our "practical" farmers it
was carried on in part by the
projectors of factories, in part by
state experiment stations, and in
large part by the federal depart
ment of agriculture.
It was the same with introduc
ing alfalfa into this country.
Alfalfa is now called the salva
tion of certain of the western
states but is was only after hard
and continued effort and years of
experimental growing that the
government prevailed upon the
westerners to devote a portion of
their land to the growing of this
profitable plant. The American
farmer is a little bit too con
servative.
PROVING HILL.
In the ten months ending April
30,1903, theUnited States shipped
to all European countries (ex-
cepting Great Britain) Hour to
the value of $8,871,534.
In the same time we shipped
to the oriental countries, includ
ing Australasia, to the value of
$8,581,515.
The European market has been
in use for a hundred years, while
the oriental market is now.
FENCING GOOD FOR WOMEN.
Exercise That Will Impart Grace and
Physical Strength.
Those who have seen women /ho
are expert fencers recognize thyt it
Is an extremely graceful amusement.
Many ladies are taking fencing les
sons.
Strength of leg is necessary, as
well as of wrist, and much activity.
But it is a most admirable exercise,
improving the figure and developing
the muscles, and is worthy to be
made an art.
It is not only physical strength that
Is required for this amusement, but
keenness of the eye and dexterity of
the wrist, and these are quite woman
ry. QuIcfcnesB or perception and ac
tion are necessary.
SCRAP OVER TITLE.
Little Falls Business Block Seems to
Have Uncertain Owners.
Little Falls, Minn., .Tune 19.A suit
commenced by J. C. Plynn against
Foley Bros, of St. Paul involves the
title to the largest business block in
Little Falls, owned by Congressman
Buckman and worth $50,000. Some
years ago Flynn gave the Foleys a
mortgage on the block to secure the
payment of a loan of $15,000. Not be
ing able to pay It, he gave them a deed
with the understanding that if he
could pay up within fourteen months
the property would revert to him. He
now claims that within a month after
this agreement the Foleys sold the
block to C. B. Buckman. Flynn sues
to recover $50,000, less the amount of
the mortgage and interest.
SAVED BY COLLIE.
Vicious Bull Nearly Makes an End of
Farmer Williams.
Waukesha, Wis., June 19. The as
sfstance of his Scotch collie dog saved
Frederick Williams, a farmer, from
being killed by an enraged bull while
he was crossing a field. Williams was
attacked' 1)"" ll*e arnuial, :hieh,
-fortu-
nately had been dehorned, but which
was making short work of him until
his collie interfered and made such a
fight that, injured as he was, Williams
was able lo climb a tree. The dog
kept the bull busy for several hours,
but could not drive it away from the
tree, where the farmer remained until^
his hired man, returning from town,
found him. Three of Williams' ribs
and one arm were broken.
BOARD OF ENGINEERS.
United States Officiais to Visit Duluth
on the 29th Inst.
Duluth, Minn., June 19.A board of
United States engineers will be in Du
luth June 29 to examine improvements
to navigation that have been asked for.
These include the deepening of the
channel as far as Fond du Lac, the
increase in deep-dredged area in the
present harbor limit, the establishment
of a harbor at Split ilock, on the north
shore of Lake Superior, and additional
improvements at Grand Marais. Proh
ably several of them, the more neces
sary, will be reoommended to the sec
retary of war
PLEADS SELF-DEFENSE.
Bert Ronk Admits the ShootingDe
fense Opens.
Blue Earth, Minn., June 19. The
Ronk trial was resumed at 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Some unimpor
tant witnesses were on the stand.
Verne Eberlein, son of the deceased,
testified to finding the eighth empty
rifle shell some days after also to
having skinned the muskrats that were
in the boat Two had been shot and
the rest trapped. Attorney Andrews
opened the case for the defense. The
shooting he admitted. The plea of
self-defense will be made.
Try for Corn Crop.
Pierre, S. D., June 19.A number of
those who have settled west of the
Missouri river will give corn raising in
that section a practical test this sea
son. Smull patches have been put out,
and will indicate what can be done in
that direction. Horace Dean, one of
the settlers who started last year is
givinc a twenty-acre field a trial this
year, anu says it is in first-class shape
to the present time.
Duluth Man Chosen.
Washington, June 19. Henry F.
Greene of Minnesota has been appoint
ed civil service commissioner to suc
ceed Mayfield. Greene was indorsed
for this appointment by the entire con
gressional delegation from Minnesota,
the chief justice and associate justices
of the supreme court of Minnesota and
by President Woodrow Wilson of
Princeton university. Greene is a law
yer of Dmuth.
Less Flax Acreage.
Devils Lake, N. D., June 18. Inac
curate reports as to the flax acreage
of North Dakota have appeared in a
number of papers. A careful compila
tion of the assessors' returns for Ram
sey county, just completed, shows the
flax acreage to be about half of what
it was last year. Authentic reports
from adjoining counties show a like
curtailment of flax planting.
Fell Under Moving Train.
Marshalltown, Iowa, June 19Orra
Ball, about fifteen years of age, while
attempting to board a moving freight
train at Tama fell under the wheels.
Both legs were cut off and he will
probably die.
Fatally Burned.
Mapleton, Minn., June 19.Miss Ida
Hawker, a girl seventeen years of age,
was severely burned by an explosion
from an incubator lamp yesterday. She
canuot live.
Drowned in the Zumbro.
Red Wing, Minn., June 19. Roy
Reynolds, aged fourteen years, was
drowned in the Zumbro river while
bathiug. His body was recovered.
Almost a Homicide.
Deadwood, S. D., June 19.Thomas
Grace is in jail on a charge of attempt
ed murder of Walter Barker over dis
puted ground. Grace is said to have
hit Barker with an axe on the back of
the head. Both are well known.
Troops for Dubuque.
Dubukue, Iowa, June 19Street car*
did not run yesterday and Dubuque la
comparatively quiet. Gov. Cummins
wired last night that three companies
of militia would be sent. The troops
are expected to-day.
6HE DID NOT DRINK.
And Consequently Did Not Need First
Floor Rooms.
American pushfulnesa is an unlim
ited quantity. The women are as ir
repressible in society as the men in
commerce. A ortain visitor to the
Riviera found tnis out recently. He
was occupying first floor rooms at a
well-known hotel. An of a sudden,
without any introduction or prelim
inary, a note was brought to him
signed by the wife of a well-known
American millionaire. It asked him
whetaer he would object to giving up
his rooms to her niece. He was much
amazed, but wrote back inquiring
whether the niece drank. Mrs.
wrote in reply, in surprise and indig
nation, winding up with an emphatic
statement that her niece did not
drink. Lord concluded with
the following note: "Lord re
grets that ho cannot give up his first
floor rooms to Mrs, niece,
for he is convinced that, as the young
lady does not drink, it is very much
easier for her to get up stairs than it
is for Lord ."London Tat
ler.
A NEW BOILED DINNER.
Little One's Astonishment Natural Un
der the Circumstances.
"I have a little niece," said the ra
conteur of the Sewing Circle, "who
is never so happy as when she is al
lowed to visit the kitchen and watch
the servants at work. Fortunately,
her mother has good-natured servants
who rather enjoy having the child
around, so many are the charmed
hours which Jessie spends downstairs
making little pies under the cook's
superintendence, and pretending she
is 'grown up.'
"The other day she descended to the
laundry to oversee the family wash in
her busy little way. She gave one
look of utter astonishment as Mary
put on the clothes to boil, and then
fairly flew upstairs to her mother, ex
claiming:
'"Oh, mamma! What do you think?
Mary's conking the clothes for din-
ner!'"New York Times.
Cheerfulness Counts.
The Cosmopolitan says the longevity
of the medical man is materially less
than that of workers of other profes
sions. Only those witn a sound
physique, other things being equal,
can win in a struggle for success. The
sick look with confidence to the well.
Tney demand the hearty dogmatism
that comes from the overflowing of
animal spirits. They enjoy the cheer
ful optimism that comes from a good
digestion. They lean upon the doc
tor in their weakness and yield willing
obediencp to his kindly influence.
Much of tne power possessed for good
may be out3ide of pills or potions, cor
rect theories or sound deductions.
American Medicine.
Bait!
A class in a Sunday school was list
ening to a lesson on patience. The
topic had been carefully explained, and
as an aid to understanding the teach
er had given each pupil a card bearing
the picture of a boy fishing. "Even
pleasure," said she, "requires the exer
cise of patience. Look at the boy fish
ing! He must sit and wait and wait.
He must be patient." Having treated
the subject very fully, she began with
the simplest, most practical question:
"And now can any little boy tell me
what we need most when we go fish-
ing?" With one voice was the answer
shouted"bait!"
Evicted Kaffirs.
The correspondent of a London pa
per, writing from British South Afri
ca, says the Kaffirs are bound to in
crease in population more rapidly
than the whites, whom they already
greatly outnumber, and, being barred
from work in many cases by the im
portation of cheap labor from India
and forced to leave their land: hold
ings, which they retain only under
lease from the Boers, to whom it has
been allotted, and under liability of
eviction, a serious uprising of the na
tives is not beyond the possibilities of
the near future.
Cecil Rhodes' Dream Realized.
The dream of Cecil Rhodes is real
ized in America before the funds left
by him have made it possible in O
lord. The workshop university in th
great electric manufacturing works at
Schenectady, N. Y., has among its
studentsall college graduates
young men from England, Scotland,
France, Germany, Switzerland, Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark, Holland,
Spain, Italy, Russia, Brazil, Mexico,
Canada, Slam and Japan. Nearly alt
the leading engineering schools of th
world are represented there.
His Strong Recommendation.
The old gentleman showed his dis
pleasure plainly. "It seems to me
rather presumptuous for a youth iu
your position to ask for my daughter's
hand," he said. "Can you advance
any good reason why I 6hould give my
consent?" "Yes, sir," replied the
young man promptly. "What?" "I
am comparatively modest and eco
nomical in the matter of my personal
expenditures, and I think you win find
me less costly to maintain than any
other son-in-law you could pick out!"
Poodle Saved the Doll.
French poodles, for all their fop
pishness, are cast in the heroic mold,
at witness the latest story from
Paris. A fire was raging in the Rue
Monsigny, and while the family shiv
ered on the cobbles their poodle
eprang through the flaming door,
raced up the smoldering staircase,
and In a trice returned, with the
baby's doll in his jaws.
THE GUS TMOMA* ANCCDOTE.
Some World-Famous Retorts That Are
Ever New.
Adolph Klauber told an anecdate of
Augustus Thomas quite as suggestive
as humorous. He is said to have re
plied to a fellow-dramatist, who had
remarked that he had seen and heard
Thomas' last comedy and "had not
got a laugh out of it," that he, Thom
as, had been asked for an opinion on
a rejected tragedy by the other fellow
and "had got a laugh cut of every
line." This retort discourteous Is
familiar in some form or another to
almost every period of our literature.
Instances recalled are of the author
who asked the literary critic, "Have
you read my last poem?" and was an
swered, "I hope so and of another
who asked, "Have you seen my 'Des
cent Into Hell'?" and was told, "No,
but I should like to." The old story
gains nothing by repetition in new
form.
DEATH WAS NOT SURPRISING.
Britisher Realized Fall Was Suffi
cient to Kill Any One.
Charles Francis Adams, who was
escorting a British friend to view
the different objects of""attraeiicnr in
the vicinity of Boston, brought him
to Bunker Hill. They stood looking
at the splendid monument, when Mr.
Adams remarked: "This is the place,
sir, where Warren fell." "Ah!" re
plied the Englishman, evidently not
posted upon local historical matters,
"did it hurt him -much?"
Mr. Adams looked at his friend.
"Hurt him," said he, "he was killed,
sir."
"Ah! he was, eh?" said the Eng
lishman, still eying the monument
and commencing to compute its
height in his own mind. "Well, I
should think he would have been to
fall so far."Philadelphia Ledger.
Josh Billings' Wit.
R. R. Beatty of Washingtonville,
N. Y., told this story the other day:
"I was well acquainted with Josh
Billings and his family when he was
an auctioneer. He once sold a lot of
cows for a Mr. Haight, who lived near
Hackensack, generally known as Dea
con Haight, because of his strong
religious principlein which not a
great deal of confidence was reposed.
One of the cows made a bolt and ran
square over Joshua, knocking him
down. He arose in his wrath and be
gan swearing, whereupon Deacon
Haight stepped up and said: 'Tut
tut, Mr. Shaw you should rat swear.'
Josh scratched his head and remark
ed: 'Well, Deacon, you pray a little
sometimes, but I think neither of us
means much by iL'
But He Won't Do It.
Johnny's mother had been anxious
to instill into the mind of her youth
ful son the necessity of reading at
least a few verses from the Bible
each day. She is anxious that her
son should have a knowledge of the
Bible as well as other books in fact,
she thinks a reading of the great
book the best means of gaining a
good understanding of English and
history. The little fellow has been
adding a verse through the Psalms,
Proverbs and those books as he ad
vances in reading. The other even
ing he was reading in a particularly
deliberate style when he came upon
the passage, "Keep thy tongue from
evil and thy lips from guile." "Keep
thytonguetfromevilandthy
Upstfromgirls," he drawled out.
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 gro&fld 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 quantitiea
that hawks, owls, wildcats, weasels
and foxes can live in comparative
luxury. A pair of hares under favor
able conditions produce 70,000 indi
riduals in four years.
Cats to KiU Prairie Dogs.
The owners of an enormous sheep
ranch in Montana suffer so much loss
fyom the consumption by prairie dogs
of the tender shoots of grass, that
they have determined to import cats
enough to exterminate the dogs. The
Grst 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 a?
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,
trat unfortunately I am not in a finan
cial position to carry them out So,
If you want a real bargain, I'll let yon
Dave this llltte gem, tor J1.50."
HACKS DRAW FIRE APPARATUS
Town Authorities of Sallna, Kan.,
Evolve Good Scheme.
A Kentuckian, who recently visited
Salina, Kan., writes to a Kentucky pa
per as follows: "I wish to tell you of
something I saw in Kaunas. As I sat
\a the hottO in Salina the Are bells
lang. In a second three rubber-tired
hacks standing in front of the hotel
started. Before could ask I saw
three hose carts hitched to the axles
of the hacks, about one dozen firemen
comfortably seated in the hacks, and
under whip the procession disappeared
at full speed." Not being able to
maintain a team of horses at the 'fire
station the town resorted to the ex
pedient of offering a good price for
the first team that shall arrive and
bitch to the hose cart. The hacks,
being on constant duty, often vie with
one another for the prize, and the
general result in point of quick service
is not so much behind the city system
as seme -might eui?se.Kansa City
(Mo.) Journal
ARE OLD OFFENDERS.
Bank Thieves Have an impressive
Criminal Record.
Sioux Falls, S. D.. June John
Abbott and James Burns, who were
yesterday sentenced at Gann Valley to
terms of four years each in the Sioux
Falls penitentiarv for the attempted
robbery of the Bank of Buffalo County
at Gann Valley on Oct. 28 last, ar
rived here yesterday afternoon. It
develops that both men are old offend
ers and have served time in the peni
tentiary here. Abbott has sei-ved two
terms of five and tvo years each under
the nar of Allen and Appleton, both
for postoffice robberies in Nebraska.
Burns, under the name of John Wil
son, b?.s served two years for burglary
committed in Hanson county.
INDIANS ARE WORKING.
Indian Agents Are Urging Them to
Build Roads and Dams.
Pierre, S. D., June Charles E.
McChesney, agent at Rosebud Indian
agency, has been in the city the past
week in attendance at the Tomahawk
Waldron contest, and reports favora
ble progress in putting the Indians on
the reservations at work building
roads and dams. Practically all the
able-bodied Indians on this reservation
are now at work and drawing cash for
their work in lieu of government ra
tions, and the distribution of govern
ment help is reduced to a minimum.
The work will be pushed for several
years, and before it is completed the
reservation roads will be among the
best in the state.
INDIAN BURIAL GROUND.
Bluffs of Mississippi at Red Wing Are
Lined With Them.
Red Wing, Minn., June .While ex
cavating for the new building for the
Red Wing seminary on the college
bluff overlooking the Mississippi val
ley, what was no doubt a prehistoric
cemetery was found. Many skeletons
were unearthed and a quantity of
oeads and trinkets were found
"Sized Up* HisTiWan. j[
"Brother" Sheldon, author otL_"I'
His Steps," has a sense of humor. Ha
tells this story on himself of a young
couple who applied to him to be mar
ried. He performed the ceremony
with.due solemnity and congratulated
the bride. Then he observed the
bridegroom searching through his
pockets and looking a bit humiliated
and ashamed. "I am afraid, parson,"
he said, "that I ain't got any money
to pay you with." Then, after a mo
ment of deep thought, looking up
cheerfully, he added: 3ut I can
tell you how to fix your gas meter so
it won't register."
Cure for Smallpox.
A subscriber requests the publica*
felon of the following: "I am willing
to risk my reputation as a publio
man," wrote Edward Hiaes to tba
Liverpool Mercury, "if the worst cast
of smallpox cannot be cured in three
cays, simply by the use of cream of
tartar. One ounce of cream of tar
tar dissolved at intervals when cold
is a certain, never-failing remedy. It
has cured thousands, never leaves a
mark, never causes blindness and
avoids tedious lingering."Canton
Saturday Roller.
A Pointer for Women.
Queen Alexandra's laces, linens and
silks are perfumed by a method which
almost any woman can copy. The
drawers in which they are kept are
lined with white paper, strewn with
rose petals. On this is placed a layer
of the fabrics to be scented, over that
a layer of rose leaves, md so on in
alternation until the drawer is filled.
At the end of twenty-four hours every
thing in the drawer will havo a delh
cate perfume that will cling to it fo*
a long time.
Pleasure in Doing Good.
Rev. A. P. Doyle of New York re
marked the other day: "A woman who
has an abundance of the good things
of this world appreciates them all the
more when she tries to uplift the
fallen or bring comfort to the heart
broken, and it sweetens her enjoyment
of God's gifts. On the other hand,
there is no more useless creature on
God's earth than the woman of wealta
h# lives for herself alon*"
Platinum a Valuable Mineral.
Platinum, which is indispensable tn
some instruments of precision, and is
useful in the arts particularly, be
cause when imbedded in glass it does
not crack it by unequal expansion, is
still much more valuable than gold.
Nine-tenths of the world's platinum
(about 8,300 pounds) comes from the
Ural mountains, which enables Russia
to control the price.
OLtant Golamn
SITUATION WANTEDYoung
woman of ability desires posi
tion as stenographer, book
keeper or cashier can furnish
highest metropolitan refer
ences. Address I, Daily
Pioneer. 51-2t
ANYONE desiring to buy a rotary
sawmill nf 20,000 feet capacity write
"No. 300." care this office.
EXCELLENT chance for man with
small capital to get into paying
hotel business at Crookston, Minn.
For particulars address letters to
proprietor of Commercial hotel,
Crookston, Minn.
FOR SALETwo thousand cords of
16-inch wood. Wes Wright. 34tf
FOR SALEYoung pigs. See J. P.
Duncalf. 21tf
LANG & CARTER exclusive agents
for Bailey's addition.
STRAYED-Came to my prem
ises one white dog and pup.
J. Gilbertson, Diamond Point.
WANTEDExperienced girl for
general housework. Salary $20
per month. Inquire at this of
fice. 48-tf
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Decorating Floor Finishing.
Granite Floor Finish
WALL PAPER and PAINTS
W. G. JOJiES
Opp. City "Boat House.
THIRD STREET
BOWUNG ALLEY.
For Week ending Tuesday, June 23rd, the
following prizes will be offered:
HIGH SCORE IN TEN PINS
Fancy Whist Set, furnished by
E. A. Barker.
HIGH SCORE IN SEVEN BACK
Dressing Case 'Mrnished by I.
neyer & Co.
G. WEETMAN, PROPRIETOR.
FOR SALE!
TWO 35-FOOT LAUNCHES
Strong, Durable Boats
Gasoline Engines
Address 223 Manhattan
Building, Duluth, Minn.
Livery Stable
A. M. BAGLEY
SUCCESSOR TO J. J. JINKINSON
Jay L. Reynolds
Attorney-at-Law.
Office: Over Lumbermens Bank