The daily pioneer. [volume], July 23, 1903, Image 4

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DUTIES OF "MY" DOCTOR.
Phyvlcians of Millionaires Must Be
Up to Date.
Such a man as Rockefeller or Mor
gas is a life study for a physician,
Mid the man who can keep in perfect
ordwra human machine of vast Im
portance in the community is worthy
of Schwahian 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 beet and cab
bage, talks too much to his Bible
''lass, charges too small a commis
sion for promoting--a trust otv rcor^
Sanizing a railroad, telegraphs sena
tors to bold up anti-trust legislation,
or commit, any other little indiscre
iion 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 gfrl. The fog of the island
the rast"
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Gas From Peat Not New.
At the Motala steelworks in Sweden
gas made from peat has been em
ployed as fuel for more than twenty
years past
Llght-Halred People Live Long.
Light-haired people, it is said, as
a rule live longer than those having
dark hair.
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The largest and most complete
stock of Furniture ever accu-
mulated beneath any roof in
Northern Minnesota, and at prices
that will induce you to purchase
CAME BACrv f-CR HIS OWN.
How Wilkinson Was Outwitte*1
by a
Brainy Tramp.
When Wilkinson went to hl office,
one day last week he felt calm and
contented. He hadn't any need to
worry about his wife's loneliness any
more, for he had bought a capital
watchdog for her.
But, alas! when he arrived home
his wife met him with the deplorable
news that the dog had gone. ,A
"Eh!" said Wilkinson, "did be break
the chnin, then?"
"No," she replied "but a great,
ugly-coking tramp came here and
actea so impudently that I let the dog
loose. But instead of tearing the tramp
to pieces the nasty dog went off with
him."
"Great Scott!" said Wilkinson, "that
must have been tho tramp I bought
bim from!"
Danger in Big Guns.
Recent accidents disabling some ot
our best battleships offer rather start
ling evidence of the weaknesses that
are inherent in vessels of this type.
For years inventive genius has been
applied to contriving guns of bigger
size and longer range than those used
before, and each increase has added to
the demands laid upon the strength
of guns and turrets and their mobility
in action. InevUABiy the line of safe
ty has been passed And the result is
shown in accider.ts which have caused
loss r* life, besides exposing thG para
doxical delicacy massive machin
ery.Philadelphia Ncr .-.K/oer?can.
The Modern Race After Wealth.
The mania for money-making has
developed into downright madnesa.
And the explanation is easy. People
see that it is fast becoming the chief,
if not the only, standard of respecta
bility. When Talleyrand was asked if
he was not ashamed to sell his Influ
ence in making treaties under the
first empire he replied: "My friend,
do you not see that there are but two
things left in Francemoney and the
guillotine?" We are rapidly ap
proaching the period in our own his
tory when there will be but two things
left in Ajierh'8money and contume
ly.Loaisviue Courier-JournaL
Historic Portrait Spoiled.
Among the best portraits In the
white house previous to the recent
"renovation' was that of Mrs. Benja
min Harrison by Daniel Huntington,
for many years America's foremost
portrait painter. In the "restoration"
this portrait has been renting to suit
som modern inteipretation of the
alleged original plan of the mansion
by Gecrge Washington. In doing this
the paint has been scratched and
scraped and in some important spaces
lias been knocked off entirely. Worse
than this, a hole about three inches
'org has been roiiu'bed in vb* canvas.
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want Al
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Money
OLD HIS SHOOTING BOOTS,
Man Fooled His Wife on the Price,
But the Result Was Sad.
Banks knew very well tnat he could
not afford to pay S20 for a pair of
shooting boots, but he reasoned with
himself, after the sophistical manner
of those who knew the joys af ex
travagance, that his twice-a-year trip
to hie Long Island club for two days
of duck shooting was really the only
luxury he allowed himself and his
economies in other directions deserv
ed reward.
So Banks bought the boots, and
told his wife a nice little story about
a friend who had struck a bargain in
boots and had let him have a pair
"for practically nothing." The boots
were not worth much anyhow, he
carelessly explained, and congratulat
ed himself on having safely and
sagaciously handled a delicate situa
tion.
When Banks came back from his
next shooting trip he was tired and
sleepy, and threw his new boots, ail
muddy as they were, into a closet, to
be cleaned when he should have more
energy.
"And what do you think happened
to those boots!" he said two days
later to a group of sympathetic
friend on 'change. "A junk peddler
came around the next day and my
wife sold him my $20 boots for fifty
cents. She knew th*7 were of no
special value, as I had said so, and
thought she'd done well to get fifty
cents tor them."
"And what did you say?" asked one
man, betwixt pity and amusement.
"SayT What could I say? I be
came hysterical."New York Mail
and Express
NOT A rOLYGAMlST.
Hew Bishop Potter Filled Out an Of
ficial Form.
An army officer just returned from
the Philippines teJ vjjis story on
Bishop Pottr.
When tb(
bishop went out to Ma
nila a year or two ago, on his arrival
at the islands he was confronted by
a formidable list of about thirty
questions. The list, prepared by
Uncle Sam for Chinese and native
Filipinos was nevertheless submit
ted impartially to all comers.
Gravely the bishop, as became his
respect of forms, wrote down his
name, age, occupation, place of birth.
He did no- even smile as he wrote
"No" opposite the question "Have you
any opium?"
But the last question was too much.
A look of mock pain crossed his fea
tures.
"Must I answei ihls?" he asked the
examiner.
The examiner nodded.
And in the space opposite "Are
you a polygamist?" the bishop grave
ly wrote "Not yet."
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THOUSANDS O VISITORS
VvVVVVW
will be in Bemidji this
week, and they are
all invited to call on
MkLTINQ OLD PLATES.
Ton* of Those Used for Printing Money
to Serve Ship BaUaat,
This was "melting day" at the Bu
reau of Engraving and Printing. All
the plates, rolls and dies u. ed in print
ing gold and silver certificates, postage
and revenue stamps, bonds and postal
cards during 1901 were loaded early
this morning en two big trucks. Al
though the precaution had been taken
to spoil the face of each plate with a
file, four strapping employes of the
Treasury Department rode on each
truck. A. Treasury committee rode in
a carriage.
The procession went to the Navy
yara foundry, where the plates were
unceremoniously dumped into one of
the furnaces, to r*ome out as pig steel
and to be used for ballast for war
ships. There were twenty tons of
piates, rolls and dies, from which
were printed last year $2,200,000,000 in
gold an li strver -lertlficates of-
various-
denominations, and ?S89/)00,00Q
postage stamps, besides hundreds of
millions of bonds, revenue stamps and
postal cards.
The engravers are now at work on
the plates, rolls and dies for 1903.
Those in use now will be destroyed
next February.New York World.
Teetotalism in Texas.
When Gen. Horace Porter was it
Texas he ca.ne ..ess 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 hsre by a temper
ance society in Kansas to distribute
these tracts. Well, wherever 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
gunll 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 som0
Mean to Enforce Sabnath Laws.
Sheriff Cummings of Lewiston Me.,
has undertaken a partial enforcement
of the .old blue laws by compelling the
confectionery shop owners to shut up
on Sunday. These storekeepers are
charging discrimination and now
threaten to serve papers upon the
sheriff in an action which will force
him to carry his crusade even further
and enforce to the very letter all the
famous old purity statutes. This will
mean, as is their purpose, that busi
ness and labor of all klrds must
ceai upon the Sabbath, ana even the
newsboys will be driven from the
streets and the electric cars prevfc-*
ed from operating.
Rising American Oarsman.
A young man with the poetic name
of Fernand Demoruelle, son of a for
mer police commissioner of New Or
leans, will be the representative of
the Young Men's Gymnastic club of
that city to compete
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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 fi-om that half-tone, enlarged
and retouched, that all pictures of
Conrad recently published have ?jeen
made.
the trying out
of the American oarsmen on Harlem
river, New York, on the occasion of
the Harlem regatta. If he succeeds
in passing he \ill be one of the com
petitors for the diamond sculls to be
warded at the Royal Henley regatta
in England. Mr. Demoreulle has made
an enviable reputation at the Cres
cent city as an oarsman.
Specialists in Demand.
One of America's most successful
oculists, Dr. Critchett, a specialist, re
fused $35,000 to go to India to oper
ate on a powerful native prince, and
Dr. Gelezowski of Paris got $25,00l
for ridding the second son of the late
shah of Persia of a troublesome eye.
A certain duchess paid $25,000 "to a
London specialist for eliminating a
trouble which seriously threatened
her beauty. Dr. Sheldon of New
York, for curing the daughter of a
Standard oil magnate, received se
curities worth in the open market
$87,000. Who would not like to be a
specialist at these figures?
A Chinese Innovation.
Some foreign clothing has been tak
en into the palace at Pekin for the
emperor and empress dowager to try
on, so that they may come to some
decision regarding its introduction in
official circles. Should the emperor
and empress dowager sanction the
wearing of foreign costumes by the
court an unprecedented departure *ttl
have been taken. In no way is the
conservatism of the Chinese shown
more strongly than by their adherence
to their national dress, even wheE
living in Western countries.
Women Want Palace Cars.
Society women in New Orleans have
begun a movement to have the street
railway company put on palace cars
for their convenience and comfort.
They say they can not ride in the
present cars when they are in after
noon or evening dress, as the cars are
dirty and there is no telling who their
aeatmate may be. They do not mind
paying extra fares for the use of
I vlusive cars.
Prof. SEAT0NII"
The Celebrated Scientific
Palmist and Clairvoyant
Has arrived and remains a short time only. The
Professor is recognized by press and public as the
foremost and most able Scientific Palmist and
Clairvoyant before the American public, and he
especially invites those to call who have been dis-
appointed or deceived in the past by some incompe
tent personthey will notice the difference be-
tween an adept and a pretender.
ARE YOU IN TROUBLE?
Do you find that with all of your natural gifts and talents that
you are baffled, discouraged and unsuccessful? If so, come and be
advised and find out the cause of your bad luck, and how you can
change your bad conditions to success, joy and happiness. Thous-
ands live today to bless and give credit of their success and happi-
ness to this wonderful man. Are you sick? If so, come to me
and I will tell you free of charge what ails you. I do not give medi-
cine, but tell you how to be cured without asking a single question.
Come and be convinced. Palmistry and Clairvoyant taught.
Prof. Seaton is located at
Roo 8 Remore Hotel
REED & KNUTS0N
Blacksmith and
Wagon Makers
BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA
& KNTJTSON have opened a blacksmith and wagron shop one
door south of The Pioneer, and are prepared to handle any and
al work in their line and guarantee satisfaction to all comers. Mr.
Reed makes a specialty of horse'shoeing1
and his wor.k is too' well known to need any introduction to the people
of this vicinity.
Mr. Knutson has been in the employ of the St. Hilaire Lumber
company for four years, and comes well recommended by that company.
Give the new firm a chance to show you what
they can do, and you will not be disappointed
REED & KNUTSON
Second door south of postoffice, BEMIDJI, MINN.
C. D. Steece
The Sign Man
Is here to stay, and is prepared to do all
kinds of iro-to-date Painting, Paperhang
ing, Free Hand Relief Work, Kalsomin
ing, Etc
AL WOR IS GUARANTEED
DON'T FORGET TO SEE HI BEFORE LETTING
VOIR JOB. HE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY.
LEAYE ORDERS AT BEALDETTES TAILOR SHOP.
CD. STEECE
THE SIGN MAN
BEMIDJI, MINN.
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