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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03
SPlNSTEERETTES,

All spinsters are single from choice.
they say
How good a few barrels OF silence
sounds the day after.
The good man who goes wrong is
a bad man just found out
1t is up to a man to pay his rent
or get move on himself.
Paradoxical though it may seem.
6 spoiled child is always fresh.
Any judge has one advantage over
lawyers; he gets the last guess.
Nothing makes a girl so weary as
to have young man threaten to kiss
her.
When a man hegins to take whisky
as a medicine he soon becomes a
chronic invalid.
presence Of the donor unless you have
wonderful self control.
If man doesn't require the re.
formation germ when he's sick there
isn't much hope for him.
When young man places a girls
picture in a watch he expects her to
marry him in time.
An Ohio spinster has been arrested
for abducting {. three.year-old boy.
Next time she'll know enough to
take one Of her size.---Chicago News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03

For drinks try the Valley sa-
loon. Fred Senyard.
Green River whisky at the Val.
ley saloon, corner Fourth and Main,
--For beer, cigars and liquors cal
at Valley saloon. Fred SEWARD.
proprietor.
Lest-="aterlnan Ideal fountain
pen. Return TO Graphic office and re-
ceive reward
Lady solicitor wanted. III good
moneymahinS business Address !. n.
r.. care Graphic.
i have a few more Wheeler ard
Wilson sewing machines which viii
close ont at cost. r. y. Ware.
Mr.. Tom Groves Of Delaware.
Ohio, has accepted a position as clerk
! in the Leverenz Trulock shoe store
Fresh barbecued meats. home
made sausage, etc. at J. NJ. Lambeth's.
1902 East Fourth avenue. Old phone
526.
--Wanted-Three FURNISHED rooms
for light housekeeping. State price
and location. Address Rooms care
Graphic.
Wanted-Grocery clerk. Young
nan of some experience preferred.
References required Address
CLERK" care of this paper.
We buy and sell all kinds Of sec
ond hand goods: also pack and ship
furniture. Sidney Helms, 210 West
Second avenue. Both Phones
For sale cheap, fine horse and
delivery wagon, ice box, salt case
and all fixtures suitable for meat
market. The wagon has license for
reddling meats, which cost $50. Apply
to Quong Wah, 701 Elm street.
-Mullikin's Cash Store" now oc-
AHupies two stores. Grocery depart
vment, corner Fourth and Main. dry
goods department remaining in same
cId stand. No. III Main. These stores
now enable us 10 give our customers
better service in each department than
ever before. Call and give us trial
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03

Why Sh'uidit 1--WE eli Il vi ySdi .
friends of mine have told me of being
turned away from one house after an
Kill off child or two to oblige the
landlord"
And, bearing this in mind the two
men set 10 work 10 build and to invite
al the women with babies to live
there unmolested, and never ask in
scathing tones when a woman ap-
preached with babe in arms:
"How many more have you got like
that"
The flats are big, cream-colored at
fairs. with an immense easement for
storing baby carriages and a big play
ground, where the lite people can
play and enjoy outdoor life to its full
est. The tendency will be to .encour-
age the best children TO move in first
though had children will not he bar
red.
So far DC these benevolent men car
ry their plans that they invite the pat
ionaee of ncwly,nlarried people. aud
Oh the christening of the first baby
v IL give month : rent free. II there
are two babies two months rent will
he given. and the fortunate father Of
t1iplets Will have his rent prepaid for
a quarter hecafse Of his multiplicity
e blessings.
The friends of the stork do no{
mean to stop at three modest build
ines, but mean to go on building until
he entire block is one of model flats.
VI here babies are always wanted and
parents are not afraid to acknowledge
t the world that they have children.
Mr.. Smith, the owner interviewed.
is a man Of pronounced ideas and has
q forceful way Of putting them at
times, When asked if the crying of
babies wouldn't De noisy, he said:
1ry house healthy and happy. I'm no
p!lilanthropist. I'm just business
man who happens to love children,
aid would rather see them about 4
house l have to rent than to see lot
Ct hideous pug dogs. squalling cats
and squawking parrots"
And to prove his words he had ex'
ira Fairgrounds made on the roofs,
With stone coping four feet high al
around the edge, others fitted very
n,uch as a gymnasium in the base.
uents and all the floors and walls
Geadened with felt,
Louisville, after a fashion. has fall
en- in line With this theory about the
Value Of children. The pastor of the
Marcus Lindsey Memorial Methodist
church has recently arenxed a creche
tc his church, where babies may be
checked during preaching hours and
tired. oVerworked mothers may be
.iven a chance to enjoy the hour of
Worship. Knowing their babies are
safe in the hands of competent nurses.
Babies are great civiliZers and the
lost substantial chords with which
homes are bound together and love
made more fast, and possibly when
landlords prove more relenting and
women grow more tender and woman
~ the style recently encouraged by
these New Workers will become a per-
manent one.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03
TABLOID PHILOSOPHY
+ + = + + = + = = + + = + +

Love is blind, especially to its own
;aHlts.
With pugilists it is a case Of jab and
jabber.
Ambition and contenment never
travel in double harness.
A little knowledge is generally pa
raded with a brass band.
Even a wheelbarrow won't :ccom
plish anything unless it is pushed to
it.
The young man with his fist swal-
low tail coat feels like bird.
No man has ever become celebrat-
ed for diplomacy who has no mother
in.law.
When there is a black sheep IL the
fsmily every effort is made to keep it
dark.
Many man takes more pride in his
ancestors than in making name for
himself.
Don't put off until tomorrow the
things you can get some one else 10
do for you today.
Instead of eating husks the prat;isal
son might have utilized some of his
wild oats as breakfast food.
The restaurateur will soon be DOM
onstrating that sparrow in the hand
is worth two reedbirds in the bush. -
Philadelphia Record.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03

of the canal that they had to be drag.
eed out by the bystanders. Young
Fitch is a scholar at Gopsall Street
Board school, Hoxton, where swim
ming and life-saying are taught, and
are enthusiastically followed by the
boys He obtained a certificate for
swimming one hundred yards last Sep.
tember. !5e is the second scholar in
this school to win the Royal Humane
Society,s bronze medal. Last year
similar honor was gained by boy
named Thomas Be,Iamy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03
FAREWELL SONG SERICE.

The large auditorium Of theFirss
Methodist church. was crowded with
the many friends of Mrs. Addie l.
Owen Sunday night who had gather
ed to listen to the last song service
given in her honor at the church un-
der the auspices of the Epworth
league. Many people were compelled
to turn away at the door, being un-
able to find seats in the auditorium
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03
HER QUALIFICATIONS
FOR THE STAGE

It is not often that the stage asplr-
al. manages to reach the Office OF
Wells Hawks, who is the right hand
Ian of that Napoleon Of theatrical
managers, Charles Frohman. OF course
it was a woman who did the trick
the other day. She apparently Great
ec fair impression, for the generally
busy Mr.. Hawks asked her:
Are you married or nnmarrled?N as
he prepared to book her application.
"Unmarried; four timest" was the
reply that so startled the placid man
aeer that he found no time to ask
other questions New York Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03
CHILDREN ARE COMING
IN STYLE.

Children are to come in style again.
So the decree reads not because OF
Rooseveltian doctrines or the crlll'
c.sms of Mrs Van Worst and IL. Il,
Marriott Watson, hut because builders
OF flats are beginning to erect estab'
Eshments for families and it is possI'
ble that in a few years Anne the sign
will no longer read
+ g i = * =
Parties with children need not
apply.
+ 4 y y ). x * *
Only parties with children need :"
apply.
$500 n * y y q y & * * s t
For several decades the average
child has been made to feel that ne is
a despised and outcast creature, at
the mercy of heartless landlords and
yinega1-faced clearinghouse keepers.
Whoever applied for suite OF rooms
IN anv flat or tried to lease some at
tractively furnished home, was strict
ly catechised regarding the size OF his
family. The one word children was
as red rag in the face OF the lra'e
landlord. The meek seeker for rooms
was regarded as red-handed Villain
if no 50 much as dared to possess chl''
d-en. to say nothing OF his nerve I'D
asking people to admit them under
the roof of decent dwelling.
The rights OF a child to life. liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, guaran'
teed him by the constitution, have
been denied him by those who have
set the false standards of modern ilIe'
and the prettiest Fairgrounds, the
incest houses, the most comfortable
flats and most of the attractions OF
the big, beautiful. busy world are de-
MED him because he is child.
The revolution that is to make chill
dren a. proper and desirable commod-
ity was brought about by ateouple OF
rich New Workers.. living in the Bronx,
who are building three great, mod
ern apartment horses on hilltop and
Who have sent invitations to the four
quarters of the city for mothers with
n,anv children to come and see ana
rent their flats if they wish. Their
hilltop residence must stand to the
discouraged home-hunters like the
shadow Of rock in a weary land.
One of these philanthropists sald'
in an interview not long ago. to
a. rep0rter of the Now York Sun:
I'm one of a family OF nine chill
d.en, and Rave had four myself, so
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03

When a girls figure begins to get
shape she acquires q perfect mania
for having somebody teach her how
10 swim
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03

is the reason that J an ru Se71iiafly
interested in the r'atfcrr{ which VIZ.
lie adopted at Chcas6. u know that
will have another in Hawaii. Chi
tago Inter Ocean.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-03

II is the easiest thing in the world
for a woman not to see the point Of a
joke.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09
AMUSEM ENTS

''Quo Vadis will be presented
at the City opera house on Mon
day, March Il, by the distin-
guished actor, Mr.. Harold Nelson,
and his complete company. With
out doubt this is one of the great
est religious plays ever pro
duced. tits apowerful dramati.
zation of a powerful novel and is
interesting alike to those who.
have or have NOT read the book.
Mr.. Nelson carries an immense
production for the play, having
special scenery, handsome cos
tunes, fine lighting effects and
allthe paraphernalia necessary to
play in a metropolitan manner.
''Petronius, the character which
Mr.. Nelson has selected, is ar
bitter of fashion to the court Of
the cruel Nero. He is most
fascinaticg individual as por-
trayed by Mr.. Nelson. The sup
porting company, headed by Mr..
Clifford Bruce and Miss Florence
McLeay, is large and competent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09
A OWNPOUR
This Is What the Book Shower
Planned for Next Wednesday
Promises to Be.

The ladies who have in charge
the book shower planned in aid
of the public library report that
they are receiving encourage
ment from all sources and there
is every prospect that the shower
will add number of volumes to
the library. Everybody inter
estcd in Bcmidp is invited to be
present and the admission ticket
will be a book, but if anyone
comes with two or more admlS
sion tickets he will not be denied
entrance. The shower will take
place at the opera house Wedncs-
day evening, March 3.
The following program Will be
rendered and will in itself form Il
sufficient attraction to bring ont
q large concomsc OF pcoplea
PROGRAM
PART L.
March Erangcsa " $3.50. MnrIo Costa
a',, Mandolin Club
+. Z Carlson, T. \ Barker a G. Cunning
ham. j II Hubbard
kcvrl the Leaves, +. ...,t.,, ~, g. \. NrWte'
m Quartvttc
f. II Jcrard G. W WarioId. Mrs J. n.
Ham, Airs Ida jackson,
Sleep Little Rahy Of Mine G peunr
II,Ini t,rnnt
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09
THE CITY
Soc JOnes-W c. Jones.

See Jones W. G. Jones.
Willis and Cahill write fire in.
surance in reliable companies.
More powerful then Svengali $
hypnotic power is Marks Lung
Balsam.
George Lydick, the genial Cass
Lake gentleman, was in the city
last night.
Mrs. r. j. Achenbach left to-
day for visit with friends In the
southern part Of the state.
E. J. Willets represents the
Northwestern Marble works.
Be sure and buy Of no other.
The trustees of the Pres by
terrain church held a meeting last
night at which a considerable
amount of routine business was
transacted.
The supper served by the male
members Of the M. b. church
last night was success in every
detail and Melted a neat sum for
the church society.
The Misses Belle Sims and
Alice McCauly are the latest
students to be enrolled at the
business college. Prof. Conway
now has 25 students.
VIM. M ulligan, who is wanted
for failing to liquidate a board
bill at st. Cloud, was arrested in
Bemidji yesterday afternoon and
taken back to st. Cloud by
Sheriff Bernick last night.
The old timers say that it will
be unsafe to cross the lakes with
loads much earlier than ordinarily
this year. The ice was covered
with snow much earlier than
usual and will rot sooner than If
it had not been. This will be
especially true Of running
streams.
Judge Spooner is making plans
to beautify his residence prem.
ises on Lake boulevard on quite
an extensive scale. The Judge
has one of the handsomest homes
in the city beautifully located
and proposes to do his share in
having the natural advantages Of
the city shown off to their best
advantage.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09

Sergeant Witte shipped nine
recruits to Duluth today.
The Daily Pioneer want col
umns are good result getters.
Try them.
The Berman Emporium is now
nicely located at its new quar-.
tiers. The store is one of the tin
est millinery establishments in
the country.
The issue of the Solway elec,
ton yesterday is said to have
been whether the town would Or
would not tolerate gambling and
the anti gambling ticket won out.
Thre canvassers who have
been working for a Chicago house
which enlarges crayon portraits
and have been in Bcmidji for sew
eral days, eft the city this morn
ing. Owing to the disastrous rN,
perience of ladies of Bemid il
with picture men recently,
they did not find the local field
what they had hoped itwould be,
and left the city very much dis,
appointed.
James A. +. I'edro, the
Pioneers efficient foreman has
received a very llattering offer
from the North Dakota State
Printing office to take charge of
the make-upon the state reports
which will be printed in the near
future. Mr.. Fedro had charge
of the reports during two SEES
sions of the legislature. He has
decided to remain with the
Pioneer however, and every mem
Der the force and his many
friends will learn Of his decision
with pleasure.
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Editor G. r. Martin continues

Editor G. r. Martin continues
to improve.
We are in business for your
health. Be convinced by using
Marks Lung Balsam.
S. S. Stadsvold, the Fosston
miller, is in the city today in the
interests of his milling esta blish-
ment.
There is but one vacant store
building in Bemidji. This is a
sufficient indication of its pros
perity.
Reports received in the city to-
day are to the effect that Mayor
Stein and the caucus ticket were
elected by large majorities at
Cass Lake.
The window trimmer at the
OLeary & Bowser store has a
shoe display this week that is one
of the neatest things of the sort
ever seen in the city.
Nero fddled while Rome
burned. We cannot believe that
anyone will fiddle away their
chance to cure a cough when it
is so easy to get Marks Lung
Balsam.
M. D. Stoner has disposed Of
all his lumber stock at Black
duck to Brainerd parties. 1t
will make about sixty cars and
will be shipped out of Blackduck
in the near future.
The Independent Band which
made it's initial appearance last
night made a very good showing.
Bemidii needs a band and the or
ganization has received many
hattering offers of support from
the citizens and business people
generally.
"Dad" Palmer says he is re-
ceiving lots Of inquiries regard
ing his summer resort, and there
is every Indication that it will be
popular place meet summer.
"Dad" will forego the art pre-
servative with the opening Of
spring and devote his entire time
and attention to the resort.
The next Is days will witness
the practical close of logging
operations in this section of the
state. A few of the camps in the
north country will remain in I'M
til the first Of April, but the re
cent soft weather is having it's
effect upon the roads and if it
should continue will ,necessitate
an earlier suspension of opera
tiOnS.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09
Swallowed His False Teeth.

st. Paul, March "a few days ago
while eating plum pudding p Schom
of Ruthton, MINI. swallowed his false
teeth. He was brought to-this city,
where he died during the day from
blood poisoning resulting from an OPP
GRAFTON to remove the teeth from his
stomach. Schom, who was forty-fiye
years of age, was a prosperous farmer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09
Victim of Poisoned Candy.

Pierre, s. d., March 9.-After a
week Of intense suffering Miss Rena
Nelson, the victim of poisoned candy
sent from Boone Ia, is dead at her
home six miles north Of this city from
the effects of the drug. The remains
were brought to this city and an in
quest will be held.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09
FATHER AND SON KILLED.
Mississippi Farmers Fight Over Bound
ary Line.

Walden, Miss, March g. News has
reached here that in a fight between
Aaron Stewart and son on one side
and W. w. Hill and two sons on the
other the Stewarts shot and KILLED w,
w. Hill and his son, John Hill, and
seriously wounded Hunter Hill.
The difficulty arose In dispute ovcl
q boundary line The parties were
neighbors living about twelve miles
west Of here.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09
G.. E. Carson went to Minnea

polls on business today.
Henry Robideau, former fe--
sident of Bemidji, who has been
at Park Rapids for some time
past has returned to Bemidj il with
his family to reside.
The hay famine which has been
quite a serious matter with local
horsemen is abated by the ar,
rival of several carloads Of hay
the first of the week.
The ,,Remidj il gun e}erb' p}anss
quite a program for next sum
=mer. Improvements are to be
made at the range and tits prob
able that there will be several
matches here.
Sherman Paddock is doing
West Duluth for the Herald and
is giving the paper excellent Ser
vice. Mr.. Paddock formerly did
"local stunts" on the Pioneer.
Mayor Glidden of Nymore re-
turned yesterday from the woods
in the vicinity of Blackjack,
where he has been formanizing
logging camp for some time past.
A very great deal of interest
is manifested in the billiard
tournament. Bacon and Boss
man played last night, the former
defeating the latter by a score of
100 to 81. Blair and Browne are
matched for tonight.
r. E. White came down from
Kelliher this morning where he
had been looking over the camps
Mr.. White reports that the
Crookston Lumber Cos camps
at Kelliher will probably remain
in until about the first of April.
Paul Foucalt has received a let
ter from Leslie Brown, once
employed as reporter on the Pho
neer. Mr.. Brown has been in
North Dakota for some time. and
just. leaving for the Pacific coast,
where he expected to be EN-
ployed.
Local baseball enthusiasts are
talking up the organization Of a
base ball team to be composed OF
local talent. There are a number
of old time players in the city
and the club if organized would
expect to take on the teams from
the smaller towns in this vicinity.
Big Bass lake, about eight
miles from Bemidji, boasts the
finest black bass fishing in the
northwest and its resources in
this line are to be set forth in a
-pamphlet-handsomely illustrated
with half tone cuts. which will be
largely circulated throughout the
state.
A we'll known railroad man is
authority for the statement that
Bemidji receives more local
freight than any town on the
Great Northern between Crooks
ton and Duluth and Brainerd and
Northome. Nearly all the way
freight for the city comes in car
load lots.
The last resting place of w. f.
Street at Greenwood is soon to
be marked by handsome monu==
ment, which will be put up by
the family. The stone will be
one of the finest in the cemetery
and will long preserve the mem
ory of Mr.. Street, who was one
of the city's pioneer business
men and gentleman universally
respected.
Ahomesteader IN tile town of
Northern is reported to have
killed a large black bear yester-
day. 1t is quite unusual for a
bear to be abroad at this season
of the year They are unusually
savage at this time Of the year
and are gaunt and hungry after
alternating for the winter The
animal was met in a clearing
where the settler had been cut
ting wood. He returned to the
house secured his rifle and sue
ceeded in despatching it without
any great difficulty.
ETUTE 7--7TTrT W
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-09
Orders PAYABLE.

Notiee-is hereby given that the
village treasurer Of the village Of
Benidji prepared to pay all
outstanding orders issued on or
before July / 1901.
w. l.. BROOKS,
Treasurer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-11
One Man Is Decapltated.

Chicago, September 100 Che Foo cor
respondent of the Chicago Danly News
reports from a bandit camp of the chuc-
huns near Chucontin that a concerted
movement has been made against the
Russians by five mounted bands Of armed
Manchurians to the total number of 1900,
under General Dhzin. with seven Japanese
advisers.
This formidable force Is crossing the
Lao river and worrying Kuropatkin's
right and rear below Kukden. The ban
dts lately intercepted Cossack convoy,
bringing 2000 cattle and 500 horses from
Mongolia. They ambushed two sotias
and killed nineteen Cossacks. Six Co.'S
sacks were captured. One of them, an
officer. was decapitated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-11
viii Not Stand at Mukden.
Japanese Begin Lootlng.

Lao Yang, September L-(Vla Ilen-
Tsin, September 10.)-rhe japanese Of
hcers were unable to restrain their sol
diers after six days of desperate hghtlng
and looting became general Last night
the soldiers in attempting to rob the
missionary and Red Cross camp stabbed
DR.. A. NJ. Westwater, a well known med
ical missionary. in the neck and hand.
This is said to be the first instance IN
which the Japanese soldiers have been
known to be uncomfortable.
The Japanese were welcomed by the
Chinese but they abused the good name
which they established in the Chino-Ja-
panese war. Chinese refugees are still
arriving from the battle ground, where
native fortune-seekers are securing the
field for treasure. Most of the dead have
been buried. but broken accoutrements
strew the trenches. The Japanese oper-
ate the railway frequently with coolie
rover.
The Japanese reinforcements are en-
route north by all roads.
Prince Kai-Yen, brother of the emperor
of Japan, commander of the second brig
ade Of cavalry, has passed Hai-cheng.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-11
Weddina Set for March 22.

Berlin, September 10-It is reported
that March next has been selected
for the date of the marriage of the
Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenburg-
Schwer1n to Crown Prince Frederick
William. The nuptials will be cele-
brated with unprecedented splendor.
as he will be the first Hohenzollern
to marry as crown prince of the Ger
man empire.