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BATTLES IN VAIN.
Mate* of a Schooner Drowned When
Rescue Seemed Almost Accomplished.
Milwaukee, Aug. 4.After battling
In vain for twelve long hours with
storm and wind and waves on Lake
Michigan Saturday night Charles Mor
bach, mate of the little schooner Ten
riie and Laura, was drowned when his
rescue seemed almost accomplished,
and only heroic work by the captain
and crew of the steamer Mark B.
Covell saved.the captain of the schoon
er, John Sather, from a similar fate.
The -wrecked schooner, which was
built twenty-seven years ago, has prob
ably been dashed to pieces by the
waves before now, and its broken hulk
Is drifting toward the shore near Port
Washington.
CALAMITY JANE DEAD.
She Will Rest Beside Wild Bill, Her
Former. Consort.
Deadwood, S. D., Aug. 4.Calamity
.Jane, whose name has figured con
spicuously in the fiction and early-day i
history of the Black Hills and other
frontier regions, died at Terry, eight
miles from Deadwood, of inflammation
of the bowels. Her name was Jane
Burke, her last husband being Clinton
Burke. A daughter is married in North
Dakota. At her request she will be
buried by the Black Hills Pioneers be
side the grave of Wild Bill Hickok. her
former consort, in Mount Moriah cem
etery at Deadwood.
FINDS WIFE MURDERED.
Pros-
Tragedy in Farm House Near
pect, Wis.
Prospect, Wis., Aug. 4.Mrs. Henry
Peske,- aged seventy years, wife of a
prominent farmer of Waukesha coun
ty, was found murdered in her home,
one mile south of this village. She
went to the house from a held where
she had been working with her hus
band, and an hour later he entered the i
kitghen to found her dead. The sher
iff and a large posse heavily armed
are scouring the country in search of i
tramps, whom they believe may have
killed the woman.
STRUCK BY A FOUL.
Young Woman at Ball Game Is Seri
ously Hurt.
Duluth, Aug. 4.What may prove a
tragedy happened at. the picnic of the
Duluth & Iron Range and Duluth, Mis
sabe & Northern employes at Two
Harbors. A game of baseball was one
of the features of the sports program
and a foul ball struck Miss J. Tranah
of Duluth, one of the spectators, in the
breast, inflicting injuries which cause
apprehension that she may not re
cover. She was brought to a Duluth
hospital.-
LEG BROKEN IN WRECK.
Train Ditched at Rice Lake and Brake
man Is Injured.
Cumberland, Wis., Aug. 4. While
running at a speed of thirty miles an
hour train No. 94, the Omaha fast mail,
was ditched at Rice Lake. The mail
oar was smashed. Brakeman Ed Pease
of this place had his leg broken. The
fireman escaped death by jumping.
No passengers were hurt. It is said
that section men left the switch open,
causing the train to crash into the
oars on the sidiuc
STABBED ON THE STREET.
Prominent Citizen Killed and No Trace
of His Murderers.
Canton, Mass., Aug. 4. Hiram H.
Poole, a baker and one of the best
known citizens of Canton, was stabbed
to death last night on Sherman street
not far from his residence by one of a
party of three Italians. His assailants
fled after the murder and have not yet
been arresteft There were no other
persons on the street at the time of
the murder and there were no wit
nesses of what transpired.
Meat Costly Handkerchief.
The dowager queen of Italy is in
possession of the most costly hand
kerchief in the world. It is of the
earliest "Venetian lace. Though made
in the fifteenth century, this unique
handkerchief is in a perfect state of
preservation. Its value is estimated
at $10,000, but Queen Margharita
would not part with it at any price.
Queen Margharita always was fond of
collecting old lace, and she still has
this passicn. Alter her majesty's I
death tl.e matchless handkerchief
descends to her daughter-in-law,
Queen Helena.
The Box Kite.
The chief defect cf the box kite, of
which Dr. Langley's aerodrome is an
elaboration, is that the weight in
creases with the cube as rapidly as
the lifting power does with the
square, so that the larger the kite
the less It will lift in proportion.
Prof. Graham Bell's kites are equal
sided triangles, so that they need no
bracing, and it is found that the lift
ing power increased at a greater rate
than the increase in weight, A flock
of these kites recently lifted a 200-
pound weight.
Mrs. Roosevelt Has a Way.
"You might not think it, judging
from her photographs," said a well
known Washington woman now in
New York, when she saw that the lady
of the white house had called a 'halt
on the curious experiments being
made to beautify the terraces of the
presidential demesne "but the presi
dent's wile knows how to put her foot
down and leave it. And she can man
age her strenuous spouse and the
whole of the family with a soft, irre
sistible despotism they all enjoy. I
would like to tell tales out of school,
but 1 mustn't,"New York Mail and
Rlfi"*-
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THE GOAT AND HE PLUG.
Old Darkey Was Satisfied the Animal
Could Read.
Three colored men were discussing
the intelligence of different animals.
One claimed that the dog knew more
than all other animals put together.
The horse was favored by a second
man, but old Peter Jackson said that,
"in my opinion de goat am de 'telll
gentest criter livin'. I kin prove dat
de goat kin read. I saw him do it,
an' I know it am true. Several days
ago, I wuz walkin' down street,
dressed in man best suit ob clothes,
an' wearin" mail new plug hat. When
I got down on de main street I seed
a billboa'd on which it said, "Chew
Jackson's plug.' A goat wuz standin*
thar when I passed, an' when I wuz
about ten feet away he must hab rec
ognized me, for de next thing I knew
I went sailin' out in de mud. When
I looked 'roun', dat goat wuz chewin'
mah plug hat for all he wuz worth.
Gem'men, da is no question in mah
mind about de 'telligence ob de goat.
He am a wondah."
NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
Why Conductor Thought Women
Should Not Have Ballot.
How many-sided and how funny is
the life load in a city street car. Not
long ago a woman gave the conductor
of one a dollar bill. On receiving the
change she counted and recounted it.
"This is not right," she called after
him. "Ain't, eh there's 95 cents.
Don't suppose yer wanter ride free."
She made another mental calculation
and blushingly subsided. As the man
reached the rear platform he was
heard to grumble: "And them's "the
things as wants to vote."
Wig Good Cause for Divorce.
The widow of a large estate owner
in Germany, who recently married a
count of small means, has obtained a
separation from her second husband
on exceedingly novel grounds. After
the marrip? the br'de discovered
that her husband wore a wig and re
ceived such a shock at the sight of
his bald hee.d that she took a violent
antipathy to him, and commenced
proceedings against him. Her suit
was successful, and she obtained a
separation after three weeks' mar
riage. The grounds upon which the
decision was based were that if she
had known of the wig she would
never have married the count.
Will Loan Money to Poor.
A body of philanthropic New York
ers have formed themselves into the
Personal Protective Loan Associa
tion, with the purpose of loaning
money to the poor at 6 per cent per
annum. The capital of the organiza
tion is $10,000 and the incorporators
are Thomas M. Mulry, Edwarc F.
Cragin, Rev. Dr. David J. Burrell,
Father A. P. Doyle and Robert B.
Miller. Individual money lenders
never chargo less than 30 per cent,
and sometimes a great deal more.
There are 300 pawnshops in New
York.
Had to Pay to Find Out.
At one of the New York theaters
they are playing a piece called "A
Fool and His Money." A preacher
from Wisconsin was visiting Gotham
last week and in passing the theater
one evening was curious to know if
the play conveyed the proverbial les
son suggested by its title. Stepping
up to the box office, he inquired re
garding the matter. "I think," said
the suave party behind the grating,
"that the mo/al of the piece is that
the fool and his money gather no
moss. It will cost you $2 to find out
exactly." The preacher murmured
"Thank you" and withdrew. He tells
the story himself.
New Way to Do Time.
Dr. Lillinksjold, of Butte, Mont., is
credited with having adapted hypno
tism to a novel purpose. The doctor,
having been placed under arrest, tried,
fined and sentenced to gaol for twnty
days for some small infracton of the
law, deliberately hypnotized himself,
saying he would awaken from his
trance at the expiration of twenty
days. All efforts to awaken him were
unsuccessful till the end of that peri
od. As a mean of "doing" time, or of
whiling away long intervals, Dr.
Lillinksjold's plan is probably unique.
Inspecting American Railroads.
J. T. Tatlow, John Wharton, George
Banks, F. Dale and H. O'Brien, offi
cials of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
railway of England, are in this coun
try and will make extended inspec
tion of American railroads. They
have been viewing things in several
eastern cities and will shortly vist
Chicago. They represent the me
chanical, freight and passenger de
partments of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire road.
The Coming Man.
"Mrs. Frisbie is suing her husband
for divorce." "Indeed? What is the
i trouble?" "Well, she says she tried
not to mind when Mr. Frisbie used
her curling Irons, wore her shirt-
waists and borrowed her collar but
tons. But when he began to go
through her pockets and extract her
small change after she was asleep
she felt that patience had ceased to
be a virtue."Brooklyn Eagle.
Costly Skipping-Rope,
A skipping-rope has been presented
by a fond Pittsburg millionaire to his
six-year-old daughter. The handles
are gold, studded with an odd Jewel,
while the cord, the finest procurable,
ccst more than a dollar per inch.
When the child grows a little older
she will be able fully to appreciate her
papa's gift. At present she treats it
as if it were an ordinary rope.
A WAITER'8 RECEPTIVE BRAIN
Used to Quick Orders, He Becomes
an Automaton.
"I believe that there is no work In
the world that makes such machines
of men as does the business of waiting
I in some of these 'quick lunch eating
places,' said the business man. 'The
brains of the waiters seem to work
like phonographs. What they hear in
the way of orders given them is seem
ingly registered and reproduced with
out any apparent mental activity or
realization of exactly .what the order
means. The other morning, for in
stance, I overheard this dialogue and
monologue in one of these restaurants.
Two men seated at the same table
gave their orders to the same waiter.
'Bring me a couple of soft-boiled
eggs and a cup of coffee/ said the first
man.
'Same thing for me, waiter,' said
the second, adding in a jocular way,
'but be sure the eggs are fresh.'
'All right,' was the reply.
"And a moment later his voice came
from the back of the restaurant: 'Soft
boiled for twoan' have two of 'em
fresh!"'
A GATHERING OF ARTISTS.
Commingling of Great Voices Made
the Windows Rattle.
Now that the operatic artistsor
most of tnerahave gone abroad, Mr.
Campanari is desolate. His comfort
able apartment has for several years
been a favorite trysting place for many
of the song birds during the long New
York season and Mine. Campanari
serves spaghettiEdouard de Reszke
can say how well. The singing giant
used to forego almost any other grati
fication of the palate to enjoy the
Campanari Italian paste, together with
strange sauces, anchovies, bovoli, fag
ioli, and caviare, like the fellow in
"Cynthia's Revels."
"Alas!" mourns the versatile and
semper paratus baritone, "what Sun
day suppers they were and how Ed
ouard and I did sing and how the win
dows rattled."New York Mail and
Express.
The Editor Ate Too Much.
The editor and wife had another
jiquare meal Sunday on account of
having received an invitation to dine
at the hotel. Perk said he was afraid
we wouldn't accept, but we did. For
the benefit of our lady readers we will
state that they had chicken and the
stuff that goes with such a layout, and
strawberry ehortcake and lettuce. Our
wife wore her blue and white and
looked real dear. Mrs. Perkins had a
new skirt and looked too sweet for
anything. The editor wore his Sun
day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday Friday, Saturday suit and
was Pick all night.White (S. D.)
Leader.
Razor 150 Years Old.
Charles Morton of Bardstown, Ky.,
is the proud possessor of a razor that
is something over 150 years old, but
is in a splendid state of preservation,
and is far superior to the razors of
modern times. The razor was former
ly owned by Judge Veneble of the col
ony of Virginia, and who was a prom
inent patriot. Judge Veneble was ap
pointed judge of Kentucky county by
Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia,
Kentucky then being a county of that
commonwealth. The razor was made
at Sheffield, England, in the year 1751,
and is very heavy, the blade being ex
tremely thick and broad, with a large
wooden handle.
Trees and Novels.
Nine successful novels recently pub
lished in the United States had a total'
sale of over 1,600,000 copies. Since
the average weight of each book sold
was probably twenty ounces, a little
calculation will prove that these 1,600,-
000 books contained approximately
2,000,000 pounds of paper. A manu
facturer of paper asserts that the aver
age spruce tree yields a little less than
half a cord of wood, which is equiva
lent to about 500 pounds of paper. In
other words, these nine novels swept
away 4,00ft trees and they form but
a small part of the fiction so eagerly
read by the American people.
Monument to Rumsey.
An effort will be made to secure an
appropriation from the West Virginia
legislature for the purpose of erecting
a monument to the memory of James
Rumsey, who. it is claimed, was recog
nized by George Washington as the in
ventor of the steamboat. The pro
posed memorial will be erected on a
high cliff of the Potomac river at
Shepherdstown, overlooking the spot
where it is alleged that the first ap
plication of steam to the purpose of
marine propulsion was made.Scien
tific American.
Demand for Rolling Stock.
The exceptional activity in Cana
dian railway circles, with the admit
ted scarcity of rolling stock and mo
tive .power, has led to a large number
of orders being placed by the railway
companies for new equipment with
both Canadian and American firms,
and the facilities of the companies i
have been taxed to the utmost to fill I
these orders, while the Canadian Pa
cific has had to go to Scotland and
Saxony in order to obtain the loco
motives required by the road.
New to Londoners.
The Londoner will be greatly an
noyed by Innovations when the
American electrical cars are running
in the Metropolitan underground and
tu'penny tube railways. The fare
will be five cents for any distance
there will be no first, second or third
class the high speed will be over
sixty miles an hour, and the twenty
second limit to stops will give him a
Ohicaxo education ia movement
PRAISE FOR COLONIAL TROOPS.
8Jr Frederick Carrlngton Extols Their
Services In Boer War.
"I have never commanded a better
lot of all-around men than the Cana
dians," was the remark made by Sir
Frederick Carrington. whose name
was a familiar one during the South
African war. Sir Frederick and Lady
Carrlngton have just arrived here
from the Pacific coast. Speaking of
the colonial soldiers, the General said
they left a very handsome record be
hind them, He said they were treated
somewhat differently from the regular
troops, as their military training had
been different. However, the Cana
dians, Australians and New Zealand
ers were highly intelligent men, and
adapted themselves very quickly to
their new surroundings.Montreal
(Quebec) Gazette.
A STORV ABOUT DU CHAILLU.
Had Very Much the Best of Encounter
With Duke of Argyll.
He was a little man of great good
humor, but of very quick temper, and
used to relate with satisfaction his
first encounter with the late Duke of
Argyll. When the skeleton of the
first gorilla ever brought to Europe
was on show in London the public ad
mitted on presentation of cards. The
duke wrote to Du Chaillu that on such
a day "the Duke of Argyll proposed to
visit the gorilla." Du Chaillu at once
wrote back that the gorilla was to be
seen every day between certain hours,
and that if the Duke of Argyll pre
sented his card he would no doubt be
admitted like the rest of the public.
Narrow Escapes from Death.
Fantastic escapes from death were
by no means uncommon features of
the Boer war. There was exhibited
some time ago in the.museum of the
Royal United Service Institution one
of Queen Victoria's chocolate boxes,
in the lid of which is still deeply im
bedded a mauser bullet. To that same
collection there has just been added
an even more remarkable relic. This
is a silver cigarette holder case,
which was struck by a bullet at a dis
tance of 1,200 yards while it was in
the pocket of a captain of the Imperi
al Yeomanry. The curious part about
it is that tho officer was not aware
until afterward that he had been
struck, although the bullet also
pierced the sovereign purse and cig
arette case which he was carrying in
the same pocket.
Carnegie's Gift to Tuskegee.
Booker T. Washington was much
overcome when he heard of Carneg
ie's gift of 1600,000 to the Tuskegee
institute. The millionaire's letter re
quests that "the modern emancipat
or" be relieved of further pecuniary
cares. It also declares that Mr. Wash
ington is a second Moses, leading
his people to a better condition.
"Maybe," said the recipient of the
compliment, "but I'll differ from my
predecessor in thisI'll not burden
my people with another set of com
mandments. The original ten will
suffice."
Probably a Gold Miner.
A Maine farmer was attacked by
highwaymen and $200 of gold filling
removed from his teeth. A bucolic
Sherlock Holmes thinks the robbery,
having been done in a thorough man
ner, must have been shared in by a
good dentist. This is bad reasoning.
In the first place, he could not do
such a bad thing if he were a good
dentist. And in the second place,
what dentist, good, bad or indifferent,
would take such chances when he
could make that much money out of
two or three patients without risk of
punishment?
Feathers by Photograph.
The power of the camera in repro
ducing form and texture in feathers is
well shown in an article in "Photog
raphy." The marvellous accuracy of
its drawing, its power of reproducing
texture as well as form, appear to
render photography a most suitable
process for the purpose of recording
those minute variations in plumage on
which our classifications are based.
The one difficulty which presents it
self, that of color values, can be over
come by the use of ortho-chromatic
plates and light filters.
The Candidate's "Sociability."
Major Gen. Isaac Catlin tells a
story of one of his political cam
paigns. "I voted for you," said a
workingman the day after an election
in Brooklyn, where the general fig
ured as a candidate for a county of
fice. "I didn't intend to at first, but
one afternoon you were going by my
house and you patted my goat, Billy,
and guv him an apple, and, says I, 'if
the general's so sociable as all that
he must have my vote.' "New York
Times.
To Examine Historic Documents.
A. C. McLaughlin, the professor of
history in the University of Michigan,
has been given a leave of absence
beginning next fall and continuing for
a year, and he will spend the time in
Washington making an examination
of the manuscript material of historic
value which is to be found in the
archives of the government. The
work will be done at the expense of
the Carnegie institute.
Mormon Progress in Mexico.
James Butler, representing the large
Mormon colony in Chihuahua, has
been in the City of Mexico applying
for a concession to develop the im
mense water power of Ouaynopa can
yan. In return the Mormons offer to
construct miles of canals and flumes
and would install a power plant to op
erate sawmills in the vast forests of
that region.
REED
Beltrami Avenue.
WINTER I N EXTREME SOUTH.
Frightful Gold Experienced in the Ant
artic Circle.
A sailoi on the antarctic ship Dis
covery, whose commander, Gapt. Sctrtt,
has approached nearer the south pole
than any other explorer, writes as fol
lows of his winter experiences: "We
had 123 days without the sun, and 104
day's complete darkness. We went
through it all gay. Lowest tempera
ture registered, 58 degrees below zero.
You do not feel the cold very much
without tne wind then, with wind,
look out! First your nose, then ears,
then fingers go. We never go out
alone on account of the heavy bliz
zards. Your companion will turn
round and say: 'Your nose is gone,'
It turns as white as this paper. You
turn away from the wind and pull your
mittens oft to bring your nose around
by that time your fingers are gone,
so it's no pleasure going out in a
slight breeze. The blizzards are fear
ful. Mr. Bernacchi and the engineer
went to a hut fifty yards away, and,
though roped from hut to ship, were
lost in a blizzard for two and three
quarter hours."
HAIRY AINOS OF JAPAN.
Peculiar People Whose Character* Be
lie Their Looks.
A traveler in Japan thus describes
I the hairy Ainos .of^iat countrvr "TIIA
REED & KNUTS0N
Blacksmith and
Wago Makers
BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA
& KNTJTSON have opened a blacksmith and wagron shop one
door south of The Pioneer, and are prepared to handle any and
all work in their line and guarantee satisfaction to all comers. Mr.
Reed makes a specialty of horseshoeing' and general blacksmith work,
and his work 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
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Bemidji, Minn.
men are about the middle height,
broad chested, broad shouldered, thick
set, very strongly built, the arms and
feet large. The bodies and especially
the limbs of many are covered with
short, bristly hair. I have seen two
boys whose backs are covered with fur
as fine and soft as that of a cat. We
were ferried over a river by an Aino
completely covered with hair, which
on his shoulders was wavy like that of
a retriever and rendered clothing quite
needless, either for covering or for
warmth. A wavy black beard rippled
nearly to his waist over his furry
chest, and with his black locks hang
ing in masses over his shoulders he
would have looked a thorough savage
had it not been for the exceeding
sweetness of his smile and eyes."
New idea in Physiology.
It is passible that the school child
may be quite as readily fatigued by
inspiring tae waste products of his fel
lows as by his own, and that the busi
ness man is more liable than the agri
cultural laborer to become run down,
not so much because he works harder
or more monotonously and therefore
personally manufactures more waste
products, hut because his tissues are
more liable to become saturated with
the waste products of himself and oth
ers derived from the confined atmos
phere in -which he works. Excessive
fatigue from a railway Journey is like
ly to be noticed if the cars are crowded
or ill ventilate