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The Daily Pioneer
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
EDWARD KllSER, Publisher.
Entered in the posfeofflee at Bemidji, Minn.,
as soconci class matter.
Official County and City Paper.
NOTICE O ADVERTISERS
Copy for changes of advertisements in
The Dally Pioneer must reach this office by
10 o'clock a. m. in order to insure their
appearance in the issue of sum _- day.
SUMMER HOTEk.
Bemidji needs a. first-class sum
mer hotel, located just out of the
business district and built front
ing the lake. Such an institu
tion would receive a liberal pat
ronage durhi? the summer
months, and ii it was not situ
ated too far from the center of
town might easily be made to be
a paying proposition in winter
time.
A hotel of this Sort, properly
advertised, would be a paying
proposition and would bring a
great many people of a desirable
class to Bemidji. They would
come not only from all parts of
this state, but from Wisconsin
and the Dakotas as well. Lake
Bemidji has felie reputation of
being the most beautiful lake
the state, and all it lacks to make
it the most popular summer re
sort in Minnesota, or any of the
surrounding states, is one or
more modern summer hotels,
with energetic men acquainted
with the ins and outs of the busi
ness behind tlietn to give the
proper attention to their running.
Bemidji is cool, with a whole
some climate and plenty of beau
tiful scenery. There is no rea
son why it should not rank with
the leading summer resorts of
the west. Only the other day a
prominent citizen of the town re
ceived a letter from an acquaint
ance in Minneapolis making in
quiries relative to the hotel ac
commodations hre for summer
boarders, and stating that the
writer had heard that Lake Be
midji has the reputation of being
the prettiest sbeet of water in
the state, located in the coolest
and most attractive region. The
inquiries were made with a view
to spending a summer vacation
here. One of the requirements
set forth in the? letter, however,
was that the hotel must be facing
the Jake and commanding a good
view of it. Other people about
town have received similar com
munications.
Bemidji has some excellent,
thoroughly up-to-date hotels,
which are a credit to the town,
but they are not rightly located
to ever become popular as sum
mer resorts.
AMERICA WON.
America produces the best
shots in the worLd. This has been
demonstrated time and time
again. Last Saturday America
captured the palma troi^hy. Its
team scored an aggregate of 1570
out of a possible 1800 and beat all
the best shots of Europe, South
Africa, Australia and Canada,
congregated for the first time on
English soil to eompete for the
world's premiership shooting
trophy. Great Britain was sec
ond with 1555. With the ex
ception of the 80O yard range, at
which the United Kingdom beat
them by three points, the team
from the United States demon
strated superiority over all com
ers.
"THERE is one redeeming feat
ure about Chicagoa great many
trains run out of it every day,"
says Ralph Wh^eelock, of the
Minneapolie Trib ime.
Pessimism in the Sunny South.
Glory is but a transient dream that
gives color to a sleep bespangled with
illusions of greatness a mirage, glit
tering, but unsubstantial, hovering
above the oasis in the desert of life
at -whose fountain raany a weary trav
eler would quench lis burning thirst
that he may press on to grander
heights.Roanoke, Ta, Times.
WOMAN PULLS A GUN.
Claims Squatter Right to Property on
Which Ker House Boat Is Stranded.
St. Louis, July 12. During the re
cent flood the house boat occupied by
T. Gamachce was left stranded on the
River Des Pres bank near the foot of
Utah street. Since then the husband
has been lying ill in the boat. A brew
ing company, claiming the land, has
endeavored hr.ve the house boat re
moved, but Mrs. Gamachee met the
movers with a revolver and declared
that the lane whereon the houseboat
rested had been made by accretion
and consequently belonged to the fed
eral government. She laid squatter's
claim to it and said that if any at
tempt was made to move the house
boat she would use a revolver or an
axe. The movers retired. Mrs. Gam
achee said she had looked up the rec
ords and found that the land was not
recorded as belonging to any one. She
declares she will fight unless removed,
by due process of law.
SHOT TWO MEN.
Edward Barton, R?ce Track Follower,
Commits a Double Murder.
Bloomington, 111., July 12.Edward
Barton of Springfield fatally shot
Julius Frank and Frank Irving Rosen
field, mercl.a.its of Mason City, thirty
miles from here. Barton formerly
Jived in Mason City, and, it is said,
was a race track follower. He entered
the clothing store owned by the men
to make a purchase. Rosenfield
waited upon him. Suddenly Barton
left him and walked to'the rear of the
store, where Frank was working.
Without warning Barton shot Frank
through the lungs. Rosenfield went
to the assistance of his partner and
Barton then shot twice. A clerk dis
armed Barton, who was arrested, put
upon a train and taken to the county
seat, at Havana, just in time to es
cape a mob that was being organized.
Hotel Savoy's Immense Mirror.
,The Hotel Savoy in New York
plumes itself upon the possession of
the largest mirror in thn world. Only
two steamships of the oceanone of
them the Friesland, in which it came
have room in their holds to stow
away such a large package. It is a
"dttle mora than thirteen feet square
and is nearly half an inch thick. To
get this perfect plate five different
glasses had to be cast. It was made
at the St. Gabian eiass-works in Paris.
correcrmg i/ata or Temperatures.
The British weather service is col
lecting reports- from the North Atlan
tic and Mediterranean of the tempera
tures observed by shipping masters.
The data thus collected are to be
worked up in charts. This will sb-w
among other things, the extent of ..he
gulf stream
International Rifle Shoot.
In the competition under the man
agement of the' English National Rifl
Association for the Palma trophy at
Bisley, each team must have eight
members, who shall use the national
military arm of the country it repre
sents, each member to have fifteen
shots, without artificial rest, at 800,
at 900 and at 1,000 yards, the bulls-ey
being thirty-six inches across.
Nearly Drowned in Cider.
Leo de Mdlle, a young farmer of
Geneva, N. Y., was just starting to
empty some cider from one barrel in
to another when the bung flew out,
striking him in the eye and render
ing him unconscious. The contents
of the barrel followed and the young
man* was nearly drowned before he
could be rescued.
Veteran Actress in Splendid Health.
Fanny Herring, the actress who
charmed the audience of the Old Bow
ery Theater thirty or forty years ago,
celebrated her seventy-first bithday
recently. After nearly fifty years on
the stage she retired to her farm in
Connecticut, where she now lives in
the best of health.
Usually the Case.
"Daughter," said the mother wh
was long on Solomonic wisdom, "what.
ever you do, don't marry a man with
dreamy eyes."
-Why not, ma?" asked the beauti
ful bud.
"Because," replied the mater, its
doughnuts to f*dge he'll also possess
a dreamy pocket book."
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Lignite as Smokeless Fuel.
Thousands of square miles of lignite
underlie the Dakotas and Montana,
while another belt extends from Flori
da to Texas. Briquettes for fuel are
to be made from it. The manufacture
of briquettes may solve the problem
of smokeless fuel for cities.
Columbia Is No More.
Crookston, Minn., May 14. The
writ of ouster has been served on the
Columbia county officials, and that or-,
ganization has ceased to exist. The
papers were served yesterday by Sher
iff Sullivan of Polk county.
His Suicide Succeeds.
Hastings, Minn., May 14.The man
who attempted suicide near Etter a
few days ago died last evening at the
hospital here. He said he was Edward
Coffey and was of Mexican and Ameri
can parentage.
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Bell Tolled by Electricity.
The 22-ton bell at the Sacre Coettf
church in Paris is tolled by electrici
ty. A single choir-boy can thus do the
work which formerly took five men.
Concerning Jags.
It is d^^u in the ranks of the toll
er for daily bread that the awful
blight of the humdrum is most keenly
felt, and here the need of an intelli
gent form of jag is most evident
Dress is forbidden as a luxury be
yond attainment. Alcoholic excess
is\a curse whose hideous after results
are only too well known. Blessed is
the man who shall find or devise a
new and harmless jag that shall come
into the tired lives of the masses like
a burst of sunshine on a leaden day,
dispersing and haunting shadows of
vice jags, and giving the necessary
relief from grinding monotony with
out any demoralizing after effects.-
A. K. Bond in the Booklovers' Maga
zine.
"Sized Jf/ Hl Man.
"Brother" Sheldon, author of
His Steps," has a sense of humor. He
tells this story on himself of a young
couple who'Applied-flb'him td"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,"
tie said, '"that I ain't got any money
io 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."
Pierpont Morgan's Success.
Pierpont Morgan, who celebrated
his sixty-sixth birthday lecently,
achieved his greatest business suc
cesses since he reached the three
score mirk. He first became promi
nent in t.hc financial world about
twenty ^eafts ago, when he went to
Europe and successfully sold $25,000,-
00 worth of New York Central stock.
Vhis made the old financiers gasp.
By this piece of work Mr. Morgan
won tho fasting friendship of the late
Winiam 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. Ii.e 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.
"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,
BO far as known an organ of the
trade. Space will be also devoted to
illustrating the various tools and In
stil! used by the craft on noc
turnal excursions in town and coun
try.
Brain and Mental Activity.
Much the larger part of a brain is
composed of white matterthat is,
Of nerve fiberswhich has nothing
whatever to do with real brain work
and which only carries messages.
Again if research is to be trusted, it
is only the brain cells of very lim
ited (probably the frontal) region
which have to do with the highest
mental operations. When, therefore,
we talk about the size of the head
and brain and the weight of the braip
Milky Sea Is a Puzzle.
The milky sea, as it is known to
mariners, is not yet fully understood.
It seems to be most common in the
tropical watess of the Indian ocean,
and is described as weird, ghastly and
awe-inspiring, and as giving the ob
server on shipboard the sensation of
passing through a sort of luminous
fog in which sea and sky seem to join
and all sense of distance Is lost. The
phenomenon is probably due to some
form of phosphorescence.
The Art of the Palmist.
The girl who was the picture of
health came out of the palmist's
booth with a startled expression on
her face. "Do you know," she said
to a bevy of girl friends"do you
know, that palmist told me I was in
perfect health. Now, you know, I'm
never ill but how could he tell that
from looking at my hand?" And her
filends murmured, "How wonderful!"
Spread of Irrigation Works.
The government is to begin the con
struction of irrigation works in five
localities. The Sweetwater dam, Wy
oming Mill river, Montana the Gun
nison tunnel, Colorado^Truckee, Nev..
and Salt river, Arizona. The cost of
the five plants is estimated at $7,000,-
000 and they are expected to furnish
water for 60,000 acres.
Two Masters.
In the primary class of a certain
Sunday school the lesson was being
reviewed^ by. a visitor. When she
finally asked for the Golden Text, a
little boy on the back row eagerly
raised his hand and proudly repeated:
"We cannot serve God and women."
Little Chronicle.
Monster Cake a Feature.
At the ninety-ninth birthday cele
bration of the Bible Society at the
Guildhall, London, a few day* ago
the cake weighed ninety-nine pounds.
The cake is an institution among the
Juvenile collectors, and a pound is
added to Its weight every year.
THE ORIGIN OF "FUDGE."
Expression Now Common Is Not Easy
to Thhce.
Where did that very common word
"fudge" come from, and what does it
really mean? The antiquarian of the
Boston Journal saps first appear
ance of the word fc literature is the
description of the cell of Lady Blarney
and Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia
Skeggs on the Vicar of Wakefield'*
household: "But previously I should
have mentioned the very 'impolite be
havior of Mr. Burchell, who, during
this discourse, sat with his face turned
to the fife, and at the conclusion of
every sentence would cry out 'Fudge!'
an expression which displeased us all,
and in some measure damped the ris
ing spirit of the conversation." Does
the word come from the provincial
French "fuche" or the Low German
"futsch"? Or shall we trace it to the
story of 1700 quoted byjfche elder
D'lsraeli: "There* was, srr, in our
times, one Captain Fudge, who always
brought home his owners a good cargo
of lies, so much that now aboard the
ship the sailors, when they bear a
great lie told, cry out, 'You fudge It!'"
QUAY STOPPED THE PANIC.
Brave Act of Pennsylvania Senator
in Civil War.
A great many persons do not know
that Senator Quay won a deserved
reputation for bravery in the civil
war," said Dr. Edward Bedloe at
the Waldorf-Astoria. "It was in the
charge upon Marye's Heights where
Quay was a voinnteer aide de camp.
When an effort was made to rally the
breaking line he noticed a backward
movement among the men.
"'Dn it, boys!' he cried, 'what
are you dodging for? If I can sit on
my horse and the bullets go over my
head, they certainly can't hit you.'
His presence of mind stopped the
panic."New York Times.
A Colorado Goose Story.
The telegraph columns of the Chi
cago Inter Ocean are responsible for
one of the most interesting stories
that have come out of the West.
John Gridley is a ranchman at Grid
fey, Col. His principal product is
hogs, but he has several hundred
acres in wheat. His wheat has suf
fered greatly from wild geese, and
neither scarecrow nor shotguns help
ed him out. So he stuck a lot of
stakes in his fields and on each stake
he fastened a fish line and fish hook,
the latter baited with a pancake. The
first morning he had twenty-seven
geese. That afternoon he got four
teen and the next day he got sixty
two. He fed the geese to his hogs,
which seemed to like the unusual
food.New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
But He Won't Do It.
Johnny's mother had been anxiou3
to instill into the mii.d 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 shouic". 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
thytongue-Hfromevilandthy
lipsfromgirls," he drawled out.
A WEST VIRGINIA CROESUS
Henry G. Davis Has Had Rapid Rise
to Affluence.
Henry G. Davis, formerly United
States senator from West Virginia,
does not figure as often in the news of
the day as he once did, but that does
not mean that he is not taking a large
hand in the great matters of business
and politics, reports Harper's Week
ly. He began life as a brakeman on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and
got his start, Then, when he had
enough money to branch out, he
bought 18,000 acres of West Virginia
wilderness for a few cents an acre.
Extensive coal deposits wexe found
FENCING GOOD FOR WOMEN.
Exercise That Will Impart Grace and
Physical Strength.
Those who have seen women /h
are expert fencers recognize th4/t
it
is an extremely grareful 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, bu*
keenness of the eye and dexterity of
the wrist, and these are quite woman
ly. Quickness oi perception and ac
tion are necessary.
Platinum a Valuable Mineral.
Platinum, which is indispensable In
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.
PTecKiace Awaits an owner.
A strange story is told about a dia
mond necklace whii was found at one
of the English cou balls some years
ago. One of the late queen's ladies
in-waiting picked up a diamond neck
I*BA from the floor. A ladv oamo tu.
DUTIES OF "MY" DOCTOR.
Physiciar.a of Millionaires Must Be
Up to Date.
Such a man as Rockefeller or Mor
gan is a life study for a physician,
and the man who can keep in perfect
order a human machine of vast im
portance in the community is worthy
of Schwabian compensation. The
big insurance companies are willing
to employ a physician at $100,000 a
year to keep either of the gentlemen
mentioned alive ten years longer.
"My" doctor in such a case must
know what medicine to prescribe
whenever Morgan or Rockefeller
sneezes, frowns, swears, limps,
groans, growls, thunders, kicks over
the waste basket, smokes too many
cigars, drinks too much water, eats
too heartily of corned beef and cab
bage, talks too much to his Bible
Rlass, charges too small a commls
iio.n. for promoting, a..trust or reor
ganizing a railroad, telegraphs sena
tors to hold up anti-trust legislation,
or commlu any other little indiscre
tion that billionaire flesh is heir to.
He must be familiar with the slight,
est symptom and ready with his dose.
New York Press.
FOG AS A BEAUTIFIER.
New York Society Woman Divulges
Mrs. Langtry's Secret.
Mrs. Langtry attended a reception
In New York last week and roused
much envy among fashionables who
were present because of her beautiful
complexion, which is really a marvel,
Subsequently a rather faded beauty
exclaimed: "How: on earth does she do
It? Why, she's 50 if she's a minute."
Another grande dame, who spoke as
though she knew, gave this explana
tion: "It's Jersey, her birthplace. Yon
know Mrs. Langtry spends six or eight
weeks every season ov ber farm there.
She wears a short skirt and thick
bootssometimes no boots at all
goes about in a sunbonnet and lives
like a farm gfrl. The fog of the island
*oee thft -est."
At'*! of IJlvils.
It Is only possible at present to col
lect data from the duration of lives of
ftirds in captivity evidence otherwise
must be unreliable, and it is purely a
matter of theory as to whether the un
natural possible life is greater than
that under the unnatural conditions of
captivity. There are rseords of a
nightingale haviut, lived 25 years, a
thrush 17. a blackbird that w^s still
alive at 20y2, a goldfinch 23, ar)d sky
larks of 24 and 20. R?vens, owls and
.cockatoos are popularly supposed to
live to a very great age, and the fol
lowing record appears to be authentic:
Raven, 50 gray parrot, 50 and 40 blue
macaw, 64 eagle owls, 53, and ons
still alive at 68. Some fcquatic birds
appear to live to a rips- old age, fr
we hear of a heron of 60, goose 80,
TUte swan 70.
Not Hurt by Education.
We are in receipt of a letter of
which the following is a faithful copy.
It may be well to remark that the
writer of it doesn't live in Billville:
"Sur and Editor: We have been
preeched to down in this settlemeent
that Eddication is the ruination of
the country. Now, whilst I don't be
lieve in overeddicatioa, I holds to it
that eddication is all rite in its place,
though I can't often locate just wher
its place is at. I would like some lite
on this subject for the benefit of our
people. As for miself, they all know
that Eddication has never hurt me."
Atlanta Constitution.
The New Chinese Minister.
Rev. William E. Griffls corrects a
published statement that Sir Chen
tung Liang Cheng, the new Chinese
minister, is a graduate of Yale. He
merely studied there, being one of
120 students brought to this country
by Yung Wing. The minister ex
plains that the first part of his name,
Chentung, corresponds to the Ameri
can John. The middle part, his fam
ily name, is pronounced Leeang.' His
title, about which there has been a
good deal of talk, was bestowed by
the British government after the au
thorities of his own country had con
sented that he accent, it.
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vi/ of the late Mrs. A. E.Milne. The building will be remod- &
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New Carriages
and Good Horses
New and Second Hand
Carriages For Sale
BEMIDJI _-_MINN.
Jay L. Reynolds
Attorney-at-Law.
Office: Over Lumbermens Bank
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