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The Pioneer from Bemidji, Minnesota • Page 3

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Bemidji, Minnesota
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Penknives. Nowadays'we use penknives principally for sharpening peucils. There was a time, however, when they were used primarily for doing something else. They used to be just what their name would indicatethey were "penknives." The ancients used pens made of goose quills, just as our forefathers did up to about a hundred years ago. The quili pen was made by hand, of course, and whenever the point of one would break or lose its elasticity it was up to the penman to put a new point or "nib" on the quill.

This was done with a small knife, and hence we have the word that has outlived the quill pen a hundred years "penknife." In the olden times the penknife was a necessary accessory of the ritiug desk. When the claspknife came in the smaller sizes took their name from the little desk knife, while the bigger ones -were called "jackknives," "jack" signifying anything masculine or big and strong. Kansas City Star. Unapproachable. Tall StudentYour father is touchy, isn't Shoit StudentNo That's the trouble You can't touch him at ail.Chicago News WOMEN'S WOES.

Bemidji Women Are Finding Relief at Last. It does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches and pains that afflict humanity they must "keep up," must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs, or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing down pains they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. They must walk and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause rribre suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained.

Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people in this locality. Mrs. F. Sankey, of Becida, says: 'My back ached and was so weak that I could scarcely do anything. I also had dizzy spells and at such times spots apparently floated before my eyes.

Since I used Doan's Kidney Pills, I have had no trouble of this kind and have enjoyed good health." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 ceots. Foster-Milburn Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the nameDoan's and take no other. TOMDRAY SMART AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING lUsldsnce Phone 58 618 America Ave Office Phont 12 EW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open daily, except Sunday and Monday 11 to 12 a.

1 to 6 p. 7 to 9 p. m. Snuday 3 to 6 p. m.

Monday 7 to 9 p. m. BEATRICE MILLS. Librarian. T.

BEAUDETTE Merchant Tailor Ladies' and Gents' Suits to Order. French Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing a Specialty. 315 Beltrami Avenue F- M. MALZAHN CO. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE FARM LOANS, RENTALS FARMS AND CITY PROPERTIES 407 vrinn.

Ave Hemdii Minn HORSES We are ready at all times to fill your horse reauirements and make a special feature of handling the logging trade. Fill your wants at the big Stock Yards market where a large stock is always on hand and where the best prices prevail for goodstock. S8. ST. PAUL NORSE CO.

SO. ST. PAUL, "Tiit Housi Witt a Horn ftiputitioi." PULLEYS POWER lect th coMum urot ume bhop xn the West MINNEAPOLIS isTEEL AND MACHINEPY CO. MINNEAPOLIS MINN R. F.

MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313 Beltrami Ave. Phone 319-2. THREE HUNDRED MEN DROWNED PersianDockLaborersSwept Out to Sea. SUDDEN STORMON CASPIAN Scores of Ships Sunk at Their Moor- ings at Different Coast Points and Considerable Loss of Life Results. Towns Flooded and dreds of Inhabitants Are Rendered Homeless.

Astrakhan, Russia, Nov. 30.During a sudden tempest in the Caspian sea a landing stage on which were 300 Persian dock workers was dragged from its moorings and swept out to sea. The storm was so violent that attempts at rescue were futile and all hope that any of the men will be saved has been abandoned. Scores of ships, several with their crews on board, were sunk at their moorings at difterent Caspian coast towns. Seven towns along the coast were flooded, the inhabitants in hundreds of cases being torced to take refuge in haystacks.

The plight of the sufferers is pitiable, as intense cold has added to the genet al misery. A number of steamers have been sent from this port to aid the sufferers. UNITED STATES LEADS WORLD Thirty Thousand Men Killed in Coal Mines in Twenty Years. Denver, Nov. 30.Thirty thousand men have been killed in coal mines in the United States in the last twenty years.

At least three miners are killed in this country to one in other countries. Explosions of coal dust are 100 per cent more deadly than explosions of gas. More than half of the coal mine accidents are caused by falls of roof and coal and practically could have been prevented. The United States is far behind other countries in the conservation of men. These are a few of the facts brought out in the lecture of Professor James C.

Roberts of the federal bureau of mines, touring this section giving instruction in rescue work at the School of Mines. "The general government cannot compel mine operators to use the safety devices, as only states have that power. We can only recom- mend," he said. "Most of the mine disasters could have been prevented by the use of common sense." FAVORITE WITH POLITICIANS Will Known New York City Newsgirl 18 Dead. New York, Nov.

30.Flowers from many well known politicians and prominent business men grace the bier of "Winsome Winnie" Horn, a newsgirl, who for nearly twenty years sold papers at a stand near Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. Her regular patrons in the old days included the members, of the "Amen corner" in the Old Fifth Avenue hotel, notably Senator Piatt, Governor Odell and Senator Mark Hanna. It was "Winsome Winnie" who gave to Senator Piatt the nickname, "The Easy Boss." She was a favorite also with numerous Tammany chieftains. DIES ALONE IN LIBERIA Wisconsin Editor in Africa on Diplo natic Mission. Spokane, Nov.

30.Sur- rounded by savages in the interior of Liberia, where he had gone as an emissary of Secretary of State Knox to settle the boundary dispute between England and Liberia, Frank Abial Flower, formerly of Wisconsin and one of the best known newspaper men of the Middle West, died Aug. 16 of this year. Word of his death has reached his brother, F. George Flower of Spokane. Death occurred in a negro village with no one to take a last message or perform the last offices for the dead.

Given $25,000 for Services. St. Paul, Nov. 30.Judge Walter H. Sanborn of the United States circuit court has entered un order allowing.

Judge Charles E. Otis for his services as master in chancery in the Minnesota rate cases. This was the sum named by the master as reasonable compensation and it was allowed over the protest of E. T. Young, former attorney general, one of the attorneys representing the state in this litigation.

North Dakotan Dies in Fire. Garrison, N. Nov. 30.Frank McGregor, aged forty-three years, was burned to death in his home in this city when a fire destroyed the structure The flames had their origin from some unknown cause, and before help could be procured McGregor had been overcome by the smoke while trying to make his way to the door. FENNEL It Is to the Italians Somewhat at Celery Is to Us.

"'Tisn't often that an Italian table d'hote furnishes anything that takes me back to my grandmother's time," said a New York man. "but that was my experience last night The first nibble of something I'd supposed was celery sent my mind wandering back fifty years to an old New England village. 1 asked the Italian waiter. He nodded and smiled and gave me the Italian form of the word, which 1 carefully wrote down on a scrap of paper, 1 suppose it showed my ignorance, but never before did I know that fennel is to the Italians what celery is to us. Evidently the large bases of the leafstalks are bleached in similar fashion, and from the way it was served 1 could see it was intended to be dipped in salt, as we eat celery.

My obliging waiter told me that it was delicious as a salad and when boiled and served with cream sauce it made a popular Italian dish "But after all what did those culinary details matter? What really counted was that strange, penetrating flavor which took me back to my childhood As I thoughtfully nibbled my fennel stalks the last fifty years seemed a blank. I was a child again, picking big lusters of yellow, aromatic fennel seeds in my grandma ther's York Sun. AFRICAN WITCH DOCTORS. They Make Themselves, Like Their Idols, as Hideous as Possible. The most important period of the young African's life is that between youth and manhood (or womanhood) It is then that the witch doctor is extremely busy with his various mysterious rites.

It is an Important part of his calling to be hideous, as in most cases he undoubtedly is. A ridiculous mask covers his head, and wildcat or other skins are hung around his loins. Pigment of various colors is plentifully daubed over his body, and in this hideous state it is not to be wondered at that he strikes terror into the maidens' hearts as he dances wildly in the dim firelight, glaring at them with fiendish eyes-. The timid young creatures are like the hare which trembles as the hovering bird of prey flutters, over its head. Self will is and the erstwhile playful, willful child is transformed in most cases into a frightened creature, with, for the time being, no will of her own.

It is a curious thing that nothing connected with what one may call the spiritual side of the blacks' life is ever beautiful. Their carved figures are always, to say the least, grotesque and calculated to fnghten rather than comfort the bereaved.Wide World Magazine. Twenty Volume Novels. The longest novels of today are pygmies compared with those published in the seventeenth century. Mile, de Scudery's "Le Grand Cyrus" ran into ten volumes, its publication being spread over five years.

And when it was translated, or, to quote the title page, "Englished by a Person of Hon- our." it appeared in five folio volumes of some 500 pages apiece. Another novelist of the same period. La Calprenede, was even more diffuse, one of his works. "Cleopatre." extending over twenty-three volumes. These novels found plenty of readers despite their enormous length.

The Paris publisher of "Le Grand Cyrus" made 100.000 crowns by the first edition alone. Nearly all the works of Scudery and Calprenede were translated into English as soon as they appeared and many of them into German as well.London Chronicle. A Historic Spot. Linlithgow palace, ou the shore of the beautiful sheet of water of that name in Scotland, is somewhat square and heavy looking. Linlithgow was the birthplace of Mary, queen of Scots in Linlithgow church James IV.

of Scotland was forewarned by an apparition of the coming disaster at Flodden Field in its streets the regent Murray was shot close by the town Edward I. had twg ribs broken by his horse the night before Falkirk, and on its loch a chancellor of the exchequer, bent on economy, issued instructions that the royal swans should be kept down to a dozen.Argonaut. Good at Arithmetic. "For sake. John, how long did you boil hese eggs?" "Just as long as you told me to, my dear." "Impossible! They're hard as bricks." "I boiled them just twelve minutes." "Twelve! Why.

I told you that three minutes was long enough for an egg!" "Yes. dear, but I boiled four of them." Toledo Blade. In Musical Terms. Chief Editor-Look Sharpe. here's a fiddler been hanged for murder.

How shall I headline it? Musical EditorHow would "Difficult Execu on One String" Louis Times. English as She Is Spoke. "Must you go?" "Yes. Thp wifp's sitting up for me. and if I miss the last train I shall catch A Hard Job.

HusbandWhat are you looking for, dear? WifeI was looking for 1 just change angry is like emptying the pepper pot into your owo porridge AN Beau Brummel't Impertinence and a Brewer's Tart Retort. Beau Brummel, the famous English fop, was as notorious for his insolence for his fine feathers. At the Pavilion, at Brighton, he ordered the footman to empty his snuffbox into the fire because a bishop had taken a pinch unasked. A man whom he had met at dinner offered him a lift in his carriage to Lady Jersey's ball. "Thank you exceedingly," said the beau, "but how are you to go? You would not like to up behind, and I cannot be seen in the same carriage with you." He made uo secret of his humble birth and when asked about his parents declared that "the poor old creatures both cut their throats years ago eating peas with a knife." Once at least Brummel met his match.

He was playing hazard at Brooks', when a well known alderman, a brewer, was one of the party. "Come, Mashtub," said Brummel. who was the caster, 'what's your bet?" "Twenty-five guineas," was the reply, "Well, then, have at the mayor's pony," said Brummel, who proceeded to cast and by a urn of luck won the scake twelve times in succession. Pocketing the money, he thanked the brewer and promised that in future he would drink no one's porter but bis. "I wish, sir replied the brewer, "that every othei blackguard in London would tell me the same." Rolling Cigars.

It is common to hear men complain of poorly made cigars, but it is not always because a cigar is ind)fferently or badly made that the wrapper curls up and comes off. Much oftener this comes from the cigar having been rolled by a maker's Jeft hand and later smoked from the hand of a right handed man. All cigarmakers must use both hinds equally well, and economy both in time and material is the prevailing rule in tobacco factories. When a piece of tobacco is cut for the wrapper it i i cut on the bias and rolled from left to right on the filler, and at the same time and by the other hand the remaining pieces are used, being necessarily rolled in the opposite way. For this reason the man who holds a cigar in his right hand, which always gives a few twists during the course of a smoke, nibs the wrapper the wrong way, and easily enough it becomes loosened.Chicago Tribune.

Our Friendships. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams instead of the tough fiber of the human heart The laws of friendship are austere and one web with the laws of morals and of nature.Goethe The Greatest Bargain You ever saw. Two hundred Suits and Overcoats for men and boys "broken lots" to be sold at one-half price. "This means regardless of cash." One lot of men's heavy black kersey overcoats, mostly large sizes. Regular price $10 Now tpfJ.Ull Regular price $15' Kfk Now tpi.OlJ Regular price $20 $1A A A Regular price $25 1M9 A Boys' suits and overcoats broken lots to be sold at 1-2 regular price of its regular value.

Don't miss this rare opportunity of securing a suit or over- coat at 1-2 price. Madson-Odegard Co. One Price Clothiers Copyright Hart Schaffner Mane beinterested, we're sure in seeing the variety we offer in overcoats from the regular Chesierfield, or the box-back style, to the big storm coats, for driving. Hart Schaffner Marx make them for us and we've got them heie for you. Overcoats $18.

to $35 Suits $20 to $35 Clothing House This store is the home of Hart Schaffner Marx clothes.

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