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The Daily Pioneer
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
EDWARD KAISER. Publisher.
Entered in the Ipostoffleo at Bemldji, Minn
as second class matter.
Official County and City Paper.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
Copyi for changes of advertisements in
The Daily Pioneer must reach this office by
10 o'clock a. m. in order to insure their
appearance in the issue of same day.
AERIAL TOURNAMENT.
One of the most interesting
features of the world's fair to be
held at St. Louis next year, and
something entirely new, will be.
the aerial tournament for the
grand prize of 100,000. Air
ships from all civilized countries
on the globe will compete in this
novel contest.
Airship cranks are working
overtime. The thought of the
magnificent cash prize is ever
with them, spurring them on and
giving thetn incentive to expend
their best efforts and keep the
wheels of their inventive faculty
moving.
The results of the contest will
no doubt astonish the world.
There is no question but that air
ships of a practical nature are
possible, and that they will in
time pass the toy stage and
attain to a point which will solve
the puzzling problem of aerial
navigation. Perhaps this point
has already been reached. The
tournament will tell. Already
different inventors throughout
the world, and a number of them
in the United States, are assert
ing that their airships will work,
and that they are confident of
carrying off the prize. Some
describe their inventions in de
tail to the papers others keep
their plans a secret, and there
are undoubtedly others who have
not as yet even gone so far as to
announce that they intend to
enter the contest.
Santos Dumont of Paris seems
to be a favorite so far. News
comes by cable that he has just
completed a new model, which
left its shed, traveled a consider
able distance and returned, its
inventor all the time having it
under perfect control. The
earlier models of the Frenchman
came so very near working, satis
factorily that it seems all the
more probable that his latest
may be near enough to perfec
tion to carry off the American
prize. Two men in Colorado and
one in Illinois have just an
nounced that they have per
fected designs which can, they
claim, sail about in the air in
every direction at the will of
their operator. All are, of course,
cf widely different designs, and
even though none of them should
work, it will be of absorbing in
terest to sightseers at the ex
position to examine into their in
tricate workings.
There are many people today
who smile at the attempts of the
would-be inventors trying to
jsolve the airship problem, and
^eall them fanatics. They say
that an airship of practical de
sign will never be constructed.
It is only natural to condemn
that which we do not compre
hend, but the people of today
would bo wise to learn from
events in past historyy-and not
call a man a fool and a lunatic
just because he starts out to ar
rive at the solution of some such
problem as that sf aerial naviga
tion. The airship today seems
far more probable even to the
most vigorous scoffers than the
steamboat, railway train, auto
mobile or telegraph did to the
wisest of their ancestors. Think
of the development of these, and
of the wireless telegraph, x-ray
and a thousand and one marvels
of electricity and then call a man
a lunatic if you can for attempt
ing to sail through the air.
The $100,000 prize will afford
amusement for thousands by
bringing about the aerial tourna-
ment, but this was not its real
object. The prize was offiered
for a purpose. Who can say that
this purpose will not be attained,
or that the contest may not prove
a lasting benefit to the human
race?
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 mark. He first became promi
nent in tho financial -world about
twenty /eavn ago, when he went to
Europe and successfully sold $25,000,-
000 worth of New York Central stock.
Vhis made the old financiers gasp.
By this piece of work Mr. Morgan
won the lasting friendship of the late
Wiuiam fi. Vanderbilt and incidentally
cleared 51,000,000 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, li.o 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 Is
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 a organ of the
trade. Space will be also devoted to
illustrating the various tools and in-
s.: r? 'ip"d by tire craft on noc
turnai excursions in town and coun
try.
Hotel Savoy'_ Immense Mirror.
The Hotel Savoy in New York
plumes itself upon tk possession of
the largest mirror in the 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
little mora than thirteen feet square
ana is nearly half an inch thick. To
get this perfect plate five different
glasses had to be cast It was made
at the S Gabian glass-works in Paris.
conectmg t/axa or Temperatures.
The British weather service is col
lecting report*- 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, tlie extent of Jie
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-eye
being thirty-six inches across.
Nearly Drowned in Cider.
Leo de Mille, 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 contenta
of the barrel followed and the ycung
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 bithdajr
recently. After nearly fifty years on
the srage she retired to her farm in
Connecticut, where she DOW 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 wit
dreamy eyes."
**Why not, ma?" asked the beauti
ful bud.
"Because," replied the mater, "it's
doughnuts to t*dge he'll also possess
a dreamy pocket book."
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 forfuel are
to be made from it. Tho manufacture
of briquettes may solve the problem
of smokeless fuel for citirs.
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Columbia Is No More.
Crookston. Minn., May 14. The
writ of ouster has been served oiTThe
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 parentaze.
NEW8 IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires In a Con
densed Form.
Patrick A, Ducey, a wealthy retired
lumberman, died at Detroit, Mich.,
aged seventy years.
Roger W. Woodbury, a pioneer
newspaper man and banker of Denver,
Colo., is dead, aged sixty-two.
William Ernest Henry, the author
and collaborator in several plays wkb
Robert Louis Stevenson, died in Loa
don at the age of fifty-four years.
Rumors are current that freah
troubles have broken out in the prov
ince of Yemen, Arabia, in consequence
of the appearance of a new prophet.
William Eugene Vanderpool, a fa
mous gas engineer, died at his home
In Newark, N. J., after an operation
performed upon him for apendlcltis.
Tristam Aram McKinnon, first vice
president and general manager of the
Boston & Maine railway, died at his
summer home on Marblehead Neck,
Mass,, of heart failure.
Father Antrobus, the superior of
Bronnpton oratory, is dead in London.
He -was regarded as a possible suc
cessor to Cardinal Vaughan as arch
bishop of Westminster. In his early
career he was in the diplomatic ser
vice and for a time filled the post of
second secretary of the British lega
tion at Washington.
THE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.
St. Paul, July 14. Wheat No. 1
Northern, S4(/S4 1^c No. 2 Northern,
83@83 l-2c No. 3, 81@82c no grade.
70@75c. CornNo. 3, 47 l-2c No. 4,
46c no grade, 45c. RyeNo. 2, 48@
49c. BarleyMalting grades, 45@506
feed grades, 39@44c.
Minneapolis, July 14. WheatNo.
1 hard, 90c No. 1 Northern, S9c No.
2 Northern, 88c.
Daluth, July 14. Wheat No. 1
hard, 88 l-2c No. 1 Northern, 87c No.
2 Northern, 85 l-2c flax, $1 oats,
361-2@37c rye, 50 l-2c barley, 35@ I
51c.
Milwaukee, July 14. "Wheat No.
1 Nortliern, 88@89c: No. 2 Northern,-'
86@87c. RyeNo. 1, 54@55c. Barley
No. 2. 58g60c Oats, 42 l-2c. Corn
September. 51 l-8c.
Chicago, July 14. Wheat No.
2 red, 83c: No. 3 red, 7580c No. 2
hard winter, 80c: No. 3 hard winter,
76S0c No. 1 Northern spring, 85e
No. 2 Northern spring, 80 3-4@83c
No. 3 spring, 75 80c. CornNo. 2,
511-2(5)51 3-4c No. 3. 51 51 l-4e.
OatsNo. 2. 4040 l-2c: No. 3. SP 1-2
@40c
Sioux City, Iowa, July 14. Cattle
Beeves, $4 4.90 cows, bulls and
mixed, $2.75@4.40 stockers and feed
ers, 2.75 4 calves and yearlings,
$2.50@3.80. Hogs, $5.25@5.40 bulk,
$5.30.
Chicago, July 14.CattleGood to
prime steers, |4.90@5.40 stockers and
feeders, $2.75@4.60 cows, $1.50@4
heifers, $2@4.50 Texas-fed steers,
$3.5(4.40 HogsMixed and butch
ers, $5.70@5.90 bulk of sales, $2.65
5.85. SheepGood to choice wethers,
$3.75(g) 4.25 fair to choice mixed, $3@
3.75 Western sheep, $2.50@4.15 na
tive lambs, $4@6.25.
South St. Paul, July 14.Good to
Good to choice steers, $4.25@5 good
to clioice cows and heifers, $3.25g4
good to choice stock steers, $3.25
3.50 good to choice stock cows and
heifers good to choice milch cows,
$35@45. HogsPrice range, $5.40
,5.65 bulk, $5.45@5.50. SheepGood
to cloico shorn lambs, $5.75@6.25
good to choice yearling wethers, $4.50
5 heavy, $4.25@4.60 good to choice
ewes, medium weight, $3.85 4.10
heavy, $3.5'J@3.85 culls and stock
ewes, $2.50@3.
OIL TANK EXPLODES.
Lightning Strikes and Sets the Oil on
Fire.
Chester, Pa., July 14.During a se
vere electrical storm lightning struck
the United Oil company's 30,000-gal-
lon tank at Marcus Hook, near here,
causing an explosion which shattered
the roof of the tank into hundreds of
pieces. The force of the explosion
shook the houses in Marcus Hook and
vicinity and did damage estimated at
$50,C00. The oil in the tank caught
fire and is still burning.
Excursion Steamer in Collision.
New York, July 14.The excursion
steamer Clifton, running around Man
hattan island, was in collision yester
day afternoon with the Fulton ferry
boat New York. During the panic
whih ensued on the Clifton two deck
haads jumped overboard, one being
drowned. No passengers were in
jured and both boats escaped with
trifLing damage.
Celebrate Peter's Birthday.
Belgrade, Servia, July 14. The
birthday of King Peter was celebrated
yesterday and thanksgiving services
-were held throughout the country. The
Mrig held a reception at the palace
and granted an amnesty in honor of
the occasion.
Payne Will Stick.
Washington, July 14. Postmaster
General Payne emphatically denies
that he ha? any intention of resigning
and declares his health is better now
than for some time.
Terrible Tetanus.
Philadelphia, July 14. Two more
deaths from tetanus as a result of in
juries received from toy pistols oc
curred in this city yesterday, making
a total of seven deaths from this dis
ease since the Fourth of July.
Child Burned to Death.
Perry, Iowa, July 14. Frightened
because he had set fire to his father's
barn. Abner Carpenter, five year* old,
yesterday hid away in the hay mow of
the burning building and was burned
to death.
THE ORIGIN OP "FUDGE."
Expression Now Omnoti Is Not Easy
to Ttece.
Where did that very common word
"fudge" come from, and what does it
really mean? The aitiquarian of the
Boston Journal say* first appear
ance of the word literature is the
description of the cell of Lady Blarney
and Miss Carolina Wllhelmlna Amelia
Skeggs on tho Vicar of Wakefield's
household: "But previously I should
have mentioned th 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 by the elder
D'Israeli: "There ^as, sir, In our
times, one Captain Fndge,* 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 Jt!'"
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 da7 he got sixty*
two. He fed the geese to his hogs,
which seemed to like the unusual
food.New York Commercial Adven
User.
But He Won't Do It.
Johnny's mother had been anxiou9
to Instill into the miiid 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 shoulc! have a knowledge of the
Bible as well as other hooks 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 ia a particularly
deliberate style when he came upon
the passage, "Keep thy tongue from
evil and thy lips from guile." "Keep
thytonguetfrome vilan dthy
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 OB,
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 fe-w cents an acre.
Extensive coal denosits were found
FENCING GOOD FOR WOMEN.
Exercise That Will Impart Grace and
Physical Strength.
Those who have seen women /rho
are expert fencers recognize th/t 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 reauired for this amusement, bu*
keenness of the eye and dexterity of
the wrist, and these are quite woman
ly. Quickness oi ^roeptioD 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.
rvecKiace Awans an owner.
A strange story is told about a dia
mond necklace whk 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
lace from the floor. A lanv camo to*.
DUTIES OF "MY" DOCTOR.
Physicians of Millionaires Must Be
Up to Date.
Such a man as Rockefeller or MOT
Ban 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 maay
cigars, drinks too much water, eats
too heartily of corned beef and cab
bage, talks too much to his Bible
filass, charges too email a commis
sion for promoting a trust or reor
ganizing a railroad, telegraphs sena
tors to bold up anti-trust legislation,
or commit, 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. You
know Mrs. Langtry spends six or eight
weeks every season ov her farm there.
She wears a short skirt and thick
bootssometimes no boots at all
goes about in a sunbonnet and lives
like a farm grfl. The fog of the island
*oe_ ina -s-t"
Atr of Wlrds
It Is only possible at present to Col
lect data from the duration of lives of
tUrds in captivity evidence otherwise
mnst 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 rscords of a
nightingale havi_ lived 25 years, a
thrush 17, a blackbird that was still
alive at 20%, a goldfinch 23, and sky
larks of 24 and 20. R?vens, owl3 ana
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 aquatic birds
appear to live to a rip& old age, for
we hear of a heron of 60, goose 80,
eut swan 70.
Wot 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 overeddication, 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 kno#
that Eddication has never hurt me."-.
Atlanta Constitution.
The New Chinese Minister.
Rev. William E. Griffls corrects a
published statement that Sir Chea
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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