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Accused of Digamy.
Fergus Falls, Minn., Aug. 7. B.
Bamhart. formerly of Bluffton town
ship, was brought from Wadena and
committed to the county jail here om a
charge of bigamy. The complaint was
preferred by a man named King, who
claims that his wife married Barnh art
Jn Wadena a few months ago. Vhe
couple were arrested in Sparta, Wis.,
and both have been bound over, sue
woman giving bonds. King and his
wife had separated, but King clai ias
Jhat they had never been divorced,
Secretary Shaw Will Attend.
Deadwood, S. D., Aug. 7.Secretsry
of the Treasury Sha-', it is announc ed,
has accepted the invitation of the
Black Hills Mining Men's association
to attend the session of the American
Mining congress at Deadwood amd
Lead Sept. 7 to 12. Secretary Shaw,
it is said, will come as the special ep
resentative of President Roosevelt,
School Teachers Needed.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 7.There is
a decided shortage of school teachrs
in Kingsbury county, and school offi
cers are unable to figure out a plan by
which the shortage can be made p.
There are 138 schools to be supplied In
the county, while there are only about
one hundred teachers.
Charged With Forgery.
Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 7. Lomis
Freier was arrested on complaint mwle
by William O'Hara, charging him Ith
forging his brother's name to a dr^aft
for $700 and obtaining money therein.
O'Hara identified Freier at the ba-nfe
as the brother to whom the draft was
payable.
Damaged by Cloudburst.
Ottumwa, Iowa, Aug. 7. A clowd
burst lasting a half-hour struck tUiis i
vicinity yesterday. Skylights were
broken, the roofs of several business
blocks torn off and street car service
stopped. Every telephone line out of
the city was disabled and telegraph
wires crippled.
Despondent From Illness.
Menomonie, Wis., Aug. 7.John S-or
enson committed suicide yesterday
morning by hanging himself in lis
barn. Despondency caused by long ill
ness is supposed to have been the
cause. He was fifty years old.
Poisoned by Eating Sausage.
Jackson, Minn., Aug. 7. Through
eating summer sausage one boy is
dead and another is not expected to
live. They are the children of Ed
Flatgaardy, a farmer who lives ten
miles north of town.
Convict Is Captured.
Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 7.Conrict
James Roberts, one of the band of
fugitives from Folsom prison, was
captured near Davisville yesterday.
He was dressed as a tramp and car
ried under his arm a roll of blankets.
He also had a revolver.
King Is All Right.
Madrid, Aug. 7.Because of the ru
mor that an attempt had been male
on the life of King Alfonso the govern
ment has issued a statement officially
contradicting the report, and denying
further that the king is indisposed.
Burned to Death.
New York, Aug. 7. In a fire at
RonKonkoma, L. I., which has de
stroyed the residence occupied by
Commander D. C. Stuart of the na-vy,
one of the servants was burned to
death.
To Sue the City.
Sioux City, Iowa, Aug 7.In the ap
plication for the appointment of Mrs.
Sarah Fisher as guardian of her son.
Johnny Fisher, hurt while divinsr in
the public baths in St. Paul, it was
mentioned that a suit for dama-sjes
would be commenced against the cctty
of St. Paul.
Sells Too Cheap.
Albert Lea, Minn., Aug. 7.The po
lice have in custody a young man
named Anton Smeby, who was ped
dling gold watches at $1.50 each. He
is suspected of having stolen them-
Struck by Train.
Hastings, Minn., Aug. 7.A straiaeer
was picked up in the railway yards by
a policeman. He had been struck by a
train, his right hip being seriously- in-
jured. He is thought to be a tramp
named Patrick Burns from Pittsburrg.
Houston County Swept by Cyclone.
Caledonia, Minn., Aug. 7. At
o'clock yesterday morning a cyclone
passed over this county, doing serious
damage to the crops, moving buildfiugs
from their foundations and destroying
many wind mills.
BEAST8 BORN IN CAPTIVITW.
Those That First Set the Light In
Bristol, England, Ar the Best.
The birth of a litter ol lions at
Haslemere Park, a private menagerie
to England, leads one of the English
papers to note a fact that has for Hong
puzzled biologists, and that is notori
ous among those who interest them
selves in the study of wild beasU in
captivity, this being tfcat nearly all the
lion, tiger and leopard cubs bora in
that country have a cleft palate, which
prevents them from being properly
suckled, and usually leads to their
premature death. But, beyond this, a
more astonishing f*ct stilland one
that also greatly puzzles biologistsIs
that which determines that of all the
wild animals burn in England Done
born in Bristol are regarded as the
finest and as the most likely to live.
So well known is this to protessfoca
showmen and menagerie keepers that
"Bristol born" Is a recognized braci la
mum vild animal trad*
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THE PACIFIC OCEAN'S FLOOR.
What Would Be Revealed if Water
Were Drained Off.
Leslie's Weekly says: If the waters
of the Pacific could be drained there
would be revealed a vast stretch of
territory, comprising enormous pla
teaus, great valleys for which no par
allels exist on the land surface, lofty
mountains beside which the Himalaya
and the Andes would look like hillocks
and tremendous hollows or basins only
to be compared with those on the face
of the moon.
While there are great mountains and
huge basins or deeps, the plateau areas
are by far the most extensive. Rela
tively speaking, the floor of the Pa
cific is now at last revealed on the
plateau areas in level. There are un
dulations and depressions, but the gen
eral area is about the same depth be
low the surface.
Soundings develop a mean depth of
from 2,500 to 2,700 fathoms. In shoaler
spots there Is a mean depth of from
2,300 to 2,400 fathoms. Deeper spots
show from 2,800 to 2,900 fathoms.
WAS PRETTY DRY READING.
How Teddy's Ambition Received
Something of a Setback.
For some reason desire for higher
education had overcome Teddy. Tem
porarily he felt keenly his own ignor
ance, gloried in hearing about the lives
of illustrious, self-made men, and for
the first time realized his own short
comings. He decided to emulate ex
amples. The Encyclopedia Britannica, I
he thought, was a fairly well-informed
authority, and if he'd read just a page
or two of that every night, within a
few years he'd know about everything
extant.
"Well, my boy," asked his father
an hour after the 'course had begun,
"how do you like it?"
"I don't know," said Teddy. "Alge
bra is mighty slow but alligators-
phew!"
Warming the North Pole.
A novel scheme for rendering the
Arctic regions inhabitable has been
advanced by a scientist, who proposes
to widen Behring Strait and remove
all obstacles to the entrance of the
warm Japanese current, which he con
siders then would pour down insuffi
cient quantities to melt the ice of the
Polar seas, thus reclaiming a vast em
pire. Bohring Strait is thirty-six miles
wide at the narrowest part, with a
depth of from thirty to forty fathoms,
but the channel is obstructed by three
small islands. These he would re
move, and would also get rid of those
rocks and reefs along the coast which
offer most impediment to the free ac
cess of the current.
French Commissioner Disgusted.
Michel Lagrave, French commission
er to the St. Louis exposition, arrived
there recently with Mme. Lagrave,
and inside of twenty-four hours was
the most disgusted man in Missouri.
There was no one to receive him at
the d^ppt and as he does not speak
English he had much difficulty in get
ting a carriage to his hotel. The cab
man charged him $20 for the short
drive to the hotel, where he waited
until the next afternoon before his
presence in town was recognized by
anyone connected with the exposition.
i M. Lagrave declares that the steamer
cannot take him back to France too
quickly.Chicago Chronicle.
fo-- Prehi Search fo Prehistoric Horses.
For two jears past agents of Wil
liam C. Whitney have been searching
the western plains for relics of the an
cestors of the present breed of horses.
So far many interesting bones have
been resurrected from their burial
places in the rocks of the pre-Adamite
ages. The horse, in its origin, had
several varying prototypes. The Na
tional History Museum in New York
already specimens. Last autumn the
fossil remains of a small herd of the
species called the hipparlon were dis
covered in Nebraska. From them it is
believed that a complete animal can
be mounted.
Misquotations.
A correspondent sends the following
popular misquotations: The absurd
tautology, "Like angels' visits few (in-
stead of short) and far between
"Money is the root of all evil," for
"The love of money," a very different
thing. He remarks that it is curious
that the lat^ Dr. Patteson himself In
his monograph on Milton falls into
i the snare of quoting "Fresh fields and
pastures new" He suggests, also, that
the use of the Italian phrase, in petto,
as if equivalent to in miniature, is an
other snare into which many authors
fall. i
Matches Eight Inches Long.
The latest luxury for the smokers'
tray is the new English match that
measures eight inches in length. Fifty
of these fit a sumptuous silver and
leather box, which, with the cigars, is
set upon the table at the conclusion
I of a dinner party. One match will
light from ten to twelve cigars or
cigarettes. Sometimes, for the us 9
of feminine smokers, these matches
are made of Syrian cedars or aromatic
East Indian woods and burn with the
most delicious perfume.
North Dakota Legislators.
There are 140 members of the North
Dakota legislature, and of them fifty
one are farmers and only two are law-
I yers. Norwegians and their descend
ants are very largely represented in
the politics of North Dakota.
The Largest Opera Houses.
The Academy of Music, at New
York, will hold 4,700 people. The
next biggest opera house Is that at
Parma, In Italy. It is built of wood,
and wttt bold 4,500.
THE MEN IN LINE.
Figures- Show Immense Amount of Sol
diers Under Arm*.
The land forces a!or.e of Europe
number "on the war ."jotlng" 25,000-
000 men. Even Spain has an army
larger than our own.
Standing side by side 2.r
men
would make a continuous line from
Calais across Europe and Asia to Ber
ing strait.
Parading up Broadway at the usual
pace, Infantry in flies of twenty, cav
alry ten abreast and Held guns two
abreast, this force would pass the city
hall in about seven and a half months,
parading eight hours a day, Sundays
excepted.
On the continent soldiers are carried
standing in fourth-class cars contain
ing forty men each. Very small freight
cars we should call them. To mobil
ize these men at once would take 625,-
000 such cars in about 50,000 trains.
At a mile headway the trains would
reach twice around the world.New
York World.
SPIRIT OF SLAVIC WOMEN.
Their Love of Liberty Being Evinced
in Many Ways.
The Slavic women of Europe are
just now occupying much attention by
the part they are taking in national
affairs. The University of St. Peters
burg was closed because of the trou
bles of women medical students who
Perosi, the young priest composer,
whose latest oratorio, "Leo," was re
cently performed at the Vatican dur
ing the celebration of the Pope's jubi
lee.
A Question of Identity.
Thompson and Rogers, two married
men, wandering home late one night,
stopped at what Thompson supposed
to be his residence, but which Rogers
insisted was his own house. Thompson
rarg the bell lustily soon a window
was opened and a lady inquired what
was wanted. "Madam," inquired Mr.
Thompson, "isn't this Mr. T-Thomp
son's house?" "No," replied the lady,
"this is the residence of Mr. Rogers."
"Well," exclaimed Thompson, "Mrs.
T-Thompsonbeg your pardonMrs.
Rogers, won't you just step down to
the door and pick out Rogers, for
Thompson wants to go home."
Weather Signs.
The color of the sky at particular
times affords a wonderfully good guide
to the weather to be expected within
the coming twenty-four hours. Not
only does a rosy sunset presage good
weather and a ruddy sunset bad
weather, but a bright yellow sky in
the evening indicates wind a pale
yellow, rain. If in the morning the
sky is of a neutral gray color, the
indications for a good day may be
considered favorable. Generally
speaking, it may be said" that any
deep or unusual hue in summer be
tokens either wind or rain.
ham, but crossed the Water In 1891,
when he married Miss Mabel Burnand.
Their little daughter, Dorothea Burns
Hutchinson, is the next in the straight
to her: "I wish I could write jokes
that would find a market as readily as
do yours!" Up spoke the hero of
most of mother's witticisms. "I'll tell i
you how, Mrs. Sims: You get some
children, paper, envelopes, stamps,
and ask your husband to buy a type-
objected to the severity of the exami-1 in the Brixton district he used to
nations. Now comes the report that take his seat on a bus beside the
the Prussian government has arrested driver, and would chatter most volu-
a large number of Polish women in I hly till the journe- 'o the city or else-
Gnesen, charging them with conspir- where was accomplished, when he
acy. In that city was a large women's
club, formed for the purpose of study
ing Polish literature and history. The
police have discovered, or think they
have discovered, that the flub is real
ly but a cloak for political intrigue
which threatened much harm to Prus
sian in' crests.
Enthralled the Congregation.
It is related that a stranger once en
tered a cathedral in Sicily and begged
to be allowed to try the organ, which
was new and a very fine instrument present the best women players are
that even the organist did not under- the French, who frequent professional
stand. With some reluctance the or- games and eagerly follow the billiard
ganist allowed the stranger to play, news of the day. Patti is fond of the
and soon the cathedral was filled with game and had a table made in this
sounds that its walls had never heard country to take to her Welsh castle,
before. As the stranger played, pull- for which she paid $2,500. Among
ing out stops never before combined, American billiard players of repute
and working slowly up to the full are Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. Edwin
organ, the cathedral filled, and it was Gould, Mrs. AlmeriC Paget, Mrs.
not until a large congregation had Burke-Roche and Lillian Russell. Bil-
wondered at his gift that the stranger Hards are said to afford excellent ex-
told his name. He was Dom Lorenzo ercise.
Descendant of Robert Burns. their opposites in Russian society and
The only direct descendant of Rob- politics. It is frequently thus, though
ern Burns is a clerk in a Chicago Tolstoi began at the other end of the
shipping office. He is Robert Burns social ladder, sacrificing a title and a
Hutchinson, and his descent from the I fortune for the rewards that have
poet is unquestioned. His mother, I come to him as a novelist and a cham-
Sarah Burns, was a daughter of Lieu- pion of the oppressed,
tenant Colonel James Glencairn Burns,
the third son of Robert Burns and
Jean Armour. Mr. Hutchinson will be
48 this year. He was bcm at Chelten-
From this fact scientists conclude that i
the poplar has some value as a con
ductor of lightning.
THE EXPANSION OF RU3SIA.
Nothing Stops the Progress of ths
Giant of the North.
Th prorr~= of Rula is like the
spreading cf ink over blotting paper.
There is no natural barrier in Persia
to throw her back" or head her off,
such as the mountainous frontier of
India. But the prospect of Russian
absorption of Persia is not practical
politics to-day. Neither Is it practical
politics nor healthy patriotism to
hound on Great Britain to occupy,
finance, protect or claim rights in
every country which lies upon her
road to India or Africa or America or
the South Seas. Such a policy is mere
ly suicidal. We can barely govern
efficiently our present possessions.
Fresh large responsibilities in Persia,
In China and ultimately in Turkey
would simply weigh us down to the
gunwale and finally sink us.London
Chronicle.
FAD OF A FAMOUS JACKDAW.
Bird Took Trips on Buses and Gave
His Foes a Tongue Lashing.
The Brixton jackdaw, which was
found dead recently in the bar of the
Angell Arms at Brixton, London, was
a great celebrity in his own way. All
jackdaws have fads of their own, and
the favorite fad of this particular bird
was to travel all over London on omni
buses, trains and cabs. He was thor
oughly well known to every "busman
would fly back to his B-ixton home.
He was a bird of strorg likes and dis
likes, and when any of his master's
customers failed to find favor ir^ his
sight he would assail th^m with the
most embarrassing flow of language.
Billiard Players.
The.game of billiards has grown in
popularity of late with the fair sex.
According to Shakespeare, Cleopatra
played billiards with her favorite,
Charmion, in the year 30 B. C. At
Minister Bowen's V/ife.
Mrs. Bowen, wife of our minister to
Venezuela, talks very entertainingly
of the Venezuelans, whom she de
scribes as models of domestic virtue.
Many are also very beautiful, but they
go out very little in public, being of
Spanish descent. Mrs. Bowen, who
is slight In figure and of girlish man
ners, was a Miss Clegs of Galveston,
Tex. She is fond of pets, and among
the unusual ones entertained at the
legation in Caracas are several par
rots, a fine peacock and some monkeys
which are allowed to roam at will in
the garden.
The Deacon's Climax.
"Yes," said Deacon Stuckup, "the
works of Providence are manifold.
The omnipotence of the Almighty is
seen in all things, great and small,
high and low. The good Lord who
made the great mountains made the
smallest insect that crawls over them
the good Lord who made the mighty
ocean made the smallest fish that
swims in it the good Lord who made
man, the greatest of His works, made
the smallest flower of the field. The
good Lord, brethren, who made me,
made a daisy!"
The Methods of Novelists.
And here is Maxim Gorky paying
$150,000 cash for a beautiful palace on
the banks of the Volga This is the
reward of the skilful use of his pen
in glorifying the tramp and the lout
cast, and vilifying and scandalizing
Few Motor Cars in Portugal.
Motor cars as yet show no signs of
being used in Portugal. Last year only
wen
on als
line from the poet. were imported in twelve months222
from the United States, 151 from
A Recipe for Jokes. France and 35 from the United King-
Mother is a writer of jokes, being
very successful in disposing of those about the same as that of London,
in which her own children pose as the
heroes. One day a literary friend, I London's Army of Horses,
who is a wife but not a mother, said I
state( ove apar
men tha
writer! That's all that mamma did!" each night in London, necessitating
the daily removal of more than 5,000
Poplar a Lightning-Conductor. tons of manure and refuse.
A careful examination of the trees
that are struck by lightning shows
that over half of them are poplar,
were imported, of which
bteen were French,-one English and
Qerman The bicycle trade is
languishing only 572 bicycles
dom. The population of Portugal is
a rcen
mo
paper on "Electric Auto-
biies,e read before the Institution
Civl Engineers, Mr. H. F. Joel
that In London alone there were
16,000 licensed horse-carriages,
from private vehicles, trades
vans, etc., and it was estimated
ove 200,000 horses were stabled
Too Much for Him.
a
And do you mean to say," ex
i m6
Llves Saved by Science. man bein's go that a-way?" "Of
The number of deaths each year in course." "Good-bya" "Where are
London wat, 150 years ago, fifty-one a you going?" "Back noma I'm get-
thousand. In 1820 it was twenty-nine tin' used to ths steam care, bat I'm
a thousand, it now Is about eight-', durusd ef I'm ready to sent ay tale
o*n a thousand. i graph."
Farmer Brown to a policeman
in Lebanon, Pa, as he gazed at the
trolley wire, "that that thing is used
for travelln' purposes?" "Yes." "Hu-
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REED & KNUTS0N
Blacksmith and
Wago Makers
BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA
& KNUTSON 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 ehance 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 ofxro-to-date Painting, Paperhang
ing, Free Hand Relief Work, Kalsomin
ing, Etc __._
AL WOR IS GUARANTEED
DON'T FORGET TO SEE HIM BEFORE LETTING
YOUR JOB. HE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY.
LEAVE ORDERS AT BEAUDETTE'S TAILOR SHOP.
C. D. STEECE
THE SIGN MAN
BEMIDJI, MINN.
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PILARIA 18 A NEW DISEASE.
Responsible for the Death of Many
American Soldiers.
Capt Charles Kieeffer. a United
States army surgeon, says the Phil
ippines are infested with mosquitoes
more troublesome ac* dangerous from
a medical point of view than those
that swarm in the Jersey swamps. A
strange malady known as fllaria is
traced directly to them, and is com
mon among the American soldiers
quartered on the islands. Soldiers
contract the disease by drinking
water from stagnant pools in which
the mosquitoes hare laid their egg3.
The first indication of fllaria ap
pears in the form of a worm in the
victim's thorax. This develops Into
elephantiasis, which causes the pa
tient terrible pains, accompanied by
a constant cough. The sufferer is
worst at night, end the patient be
comes a prey to insomnia.
The only remedy lies in an opera
tion, which in itself is dangerous and
rarely successful. If the worm, which
is a female, is injured and dies
through the operation, its poison gets
into the blood, the disease is increased
a thousandfold and the chances of re
covery are small.
Derivation of the Word "Gin."
The word "gin" is not derived from
Geneva, but from "genievre," the
French word for juniper.
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How the Census Was Taken.
The last census in the United States
was taken with the, aid of 311 tabu
lating machines, and 74 adding ma
chines.
Pierpont Morgan's Success.
Pierpont Morgan, who celebrated
his sixty-sixth birthday iecently,
achieved his greatest business, sue-.
cesseB since he reached the three
score mirk. He first became promi
nent in tha financial world about
twenty ,eairs 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 thp "Hsting friendship of the late
Wlliiam ri. 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. 1IA 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,