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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-05-18
WILTON ITEMS.

Miss Maud Dirst came Out
from Bemidji last Saturday to at
tend the dance.
Mrs. Frank Patterson anC
Annie Warner were shopping in
Bemidji last Friday.
The Owens Minstrel show
gave a performance at the Gus
lawson hall in Wilton last Friday
evening. Quite crowd attended
O. Warner and wife were Will
ton callers last Saturday.
T. J. Brennan and family spent
Sunday visiting at Harry Bow
ers'.
T. j. Brennan was Bemidi
caller last Saturday.
Inger Soland left last Friday
for Austin, Mimi, to attend sum
mer school.
Miss Sadie Watkins left last
week for Walker. She expects
to be gone some time.
Miss Belle Dahl visited with
friends in Bemidj j last Saturday
DR.. Blakslee, wife and little
daughter called at Mr.. Foggs
last Sunday.
Miss Francis Bowers spent
Saturday and Sunday in Bemidj
visiting her aunt, Mrs. G.. Bren.
nan.
A social ball was given in the
hall at Wilton last Saturday night
by the I. S. W. A. lodge. An en-.
joyable time was had by all pre-.
sent.
John Melby has had his land
joining Wilton plated out in town
lots and has already sold four
teen Of them. 1t is called
"Melby's Addition to Wilton.
Miss Minnie Hinshaw spent
Sunday with her parents return
ing to her school Monday morn
ing.
The Wilton railroad is rapidly
being built. There are 400 men
at work between here and Island
Lake. The first bridge is to be
completed by Thursday. The
steel is to be laid and the road
completed as far-as Long Lake
by the first of July. W. G..
Weeks & Co., have the contract
to build the road from Long Lake
to Island Lake. Several carloads
of supplies have arrived at Will
ton to begin the work.
julius Bilden has taken. the
contract to build the camps for
w. G. Weeks & Co.
John Melby was a Bemidii cal
Ter last Monday.
A fire was started on John
Melby's land last Sunday by
someone who was camping there.
1t took several men some time to
get the fire under control.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-05-18

WANTED-For U. S. army able.
bodied, unmarried men be-
tween ages of Is and IS, citi-
zens of United States, of
good character and temperate
habits, who can speak, read
and write English. For in
formation apply to Recruiting
Officer, Miles block, Bemidji.
Minnesota.
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WANTED TO BUY-Six or
seven room house. j. j. Ros.
holt, Oil Irvine avenue.
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official Paper Village of Bemidji
SUBSCRIPTION IS PER YEA
State Land Sale.

MINNESOTA will this fall place
on sale something like one hun
dred thousand acres of state ag-
ricultural lands in northern Min.
nesota. The state has more than
three million acres of these lands
and law passed by the recent
legislature permits the sale OF
more than one hundred thousand
acres each year.
These lands will one day be
among thu finest agricultural
lands in the northwest and they
can be secured at the present
time at comparatively low figures
and upon almost rediculously
easy terms. The average price
per acre for which they have sold
thus far is about $6 but it is be.
lieved that the price will gradu.
ally increase as the lands are
each year growing more valua BILE,
Fifteen per cent of the pur.
chase price must be paid at the
time Of the sale, while the bal
ance may be paid at any time
within 40 years, interest at the
rate of four per cent. No one
person may purchase more than
800 acres.
No better land is to be found
anywhere and for land which
lies near to markets no more fav
orable terms were ever offere d
by any state,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-05-18

WANTED-Girl for general
homework, Mrs. Ward, 9O3
I Beltrami avenue,
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NY MORE.

Sam Dougherty an employee
of the M. & /. has been sent to
the Brainerd hospital where he
will undergo an operation for APP
pendicitis.
Frank Smith is at Bralnerd for
medical treatment.
Frank Comstock last Wednes-
day morning met with painful
accident which resulted in hav-
ing two fingers amputated.
VIM. Fox who has been on the
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MISCELLANEOUS.

PUBLIC LIBRARY = Oren
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat-
urdays, 2 to 6 p, NJ. Thurs
day Z to $50 p. m. also. Ii
hrary in basement of court
House. Mrs. B. r. Ryan, IL
brarian.
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Minnesota & International
In Connection with the
Northern Pacific.

Provides the best train passenger
service between Northome, Hovey juno
zion, Blackjack, Bemidji, Walker
and intermediate points and Mime
apolis, St. Paul, Fargo and Duluth
and all points east, west and south.
Through coaches between Northome
and the Twin Cities. No change
OF cars. Ample time at Brainerd
for dinner.
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Daily except Sunday
6:oO q. m. Lv. .Ke1liher. ..... Ar nm Tx
DAD a. M, Ar .Hovey Junction. .Lv. D. m. 7:11
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Cont Con- PIONEER e, !:
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Try Pioneer Want Ad--lc a word
HELP WANTED,

WANTED-To fill your wan is
Nothing does it like a Pioneer
want ad.
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WANTED Good girl for general
homework. Mrs. Lord, 9O3
Beltrami avenue.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
tennessee Praise.

Dayton, Tenn, Dec. 18th (SpeciaD
Among many prominent residents
to praise Dodd's Kidney Pills is Mr..
N. r. Roberts of this place. He tells
Of what they have done for him, and
his words will go deep into the hearts
Of all who are suffering in the same
way. He says
81 was a martyr to Kidney Trouble,
but Dodd's Kidney Pills completely
cured me. / shall always keep them
on hand in case there should be any
return of the old trouble, but l am
thankful to say they did their work
so we'll there has not been the slight
est sign of my old complaint coming
back. The pain in my back used to
be terrible. If / got down / had a
hard job to get straight again. But
my back is. like new one now and
can stoop as much as | please. don't
believe there ever was any medicine
half so good as Dodd's Kidney Pills"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
A BRAIN WORKER.
Must Have the Kind of Food That
Nourshes Brain.

Il am literary man whose nervous
energy is great part of my stock in
trade, and ordinarily l have little pa
thence with breakfast foods and the
eXtravagant claims made of them.
But cannot withhold my acknowledge
ment of the debt that | owe to Grape
Nuts food.
81 discovered long ago that the very
bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not
calculated to give one clear head, the
power of sustained, accurate thinking.
| always felt heavy and sluggish in
mind as well as body after eating the
ordinary meal, which diverted the
blood from the brain to the digestive
apparatus.
II tried foods easy of digestion, but
found them usually deficient in nutri-
ment. experimental with many
breakfast foods and they, too, proved
unsatisfactory, till l reached Grape
Nuts. And then the problem was
solved.
"Grape-Nuts agreed with me per-
fectly from the beginning, satisfying
my hunger and supplying the nutri-
ment that so many other prepared
foods lack.
81 had not been using it very long
before | found that ! was turning out
an unusual quantity and quality of
work. Continued use has demonstrate
ed to my entire satisfaction that
Grape-Nuts food contains all the ele-
ments needed by the brain and nerv-
GUS system of the hard working public
writer" Name given by Pos I'm Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, THE Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Pennsylvania Wealth.

OF all the coal of every kind that
was mined in the United States last
year, Pennsylvania produced almost
half, or over 4S per cent. OF coke 1t
produced 69 per cent, of pig iron more
than 46 per cent, of steel over sc per
cent, of steel rails SO per cent, and OF
structural iron and steel more than 81
per cent. Putting all the steel, iron,
coal and coke into a huge mountain,
Pennsylvania share would exceed Sc
per cent, while all the rest of the
United States furnished but A per
cent.
These are the impressive dimensions
of this states material wealth. In the
value of railroad property Pennsyl-
vania is also far ahead Of any other
commonwealth. There are so many
things in the way of natural resources
in which it leads that there can be no
doubt that for solid wealth the Key
stone state is the real backbone OF the
Union.-Philadelph Press
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
CHRISTMAS
MEMORIES

conclusion. that life is little better
than a dream, and little worth the
loves and strivings that we crowd
into it?
No! Far be such miscalled philos-
ophy from us, dear reader, on Christ
mas day! Nearer and closer to our
hearts be the Christmas spirit, which
is the spirit of active usefulness, per-
severances, cheerful discharge of duty,
kindness, and forbearance! 1t is in
the last virtues especially, that we
are, or should be, strengthened by the
unaccomplished visions of our youth;
for, who shall say that they are not
our teachers to deal gently even with
the impalpable nothings of the earth!
Therefore, as we grow older, let us
be more thankful that the circle of our
Christmas associations and of the les
sons that they bring, expands! Let
us welcome every one of them and
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Reed and the Little Judge.

In the days when his brain and body
were bigger than his reputation,
tom" Reed was taken in hand by a
friend who sought to make him &C
quainted with a somewhat noted
Maine judge, whose influence, 1t was
hoped, might prove valuable. AS a
precautionary measure, the struggling
young lawyer was warned not to Of
fend the eminent jurist, who was ex'
tremely sensitive with regard to his
dlminutive size.
The introduction took place at an
auspicious moment. The judge con-
'descendingly offered his hand, when,
from his superior height, Mr.. Reed
looked straight over the head Of the
little man, and, with a comical side
glance at his friend, asked blandly:
Where is he'"-Exchange.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21

summon them to take their places by
the Christmas hearth.
Welcome, old aspirations, glittering
creatures of an ardent fancy, to your
shelter underneath the holly We
know you, and have not outlived you
yet Welcome, old projects and old
loves, however, fleeing, to your hooks
among the steadier lights that burn
around us. Welcome, all that was
ever real to our hearts; and for the
earGestness that made you real,
thanks to Heaven! Do we build no
Christmas castles in the clouds now?
terfies among these flowers of chill
dren bear witness! Before this boy,
there stretches out a future, brighter
than we ever looked on in our old ro-
mantle time, but bright with honor
and with truth. Around this little
head on which the sunny curls lie
heaped, the graces sport, as prettily,
as airily, as when there was no scythe
within the reach of Time to shear
away the curls of our first-love. Upon
another girls face near it-placider
but smiling bright-a quiet and con-
tented little face, we see Home fairly
written. Shining from the word, as
rays shine from a star, we see how,
when our graves are old, other hopes
than ours are young other hearts than
ours are moved; how other ways are
smoothed; how other happiness
blooms, ripens, and decays-no, not
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Short. But to the Point.

Elizabeth R, when small girl,
was child Of many and lengthy pray
ers. Each night she prayed and pray
ed for everything under the sun. One
evening as she and her small brother,
Tom, were getting ready for bed, Eli
zabeth said out loud her usual long
petition. The little boy listened much
impressed, until she had finished,
when he knelt down and prayed: "Oh
God, give me things, tool"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21

Time was, with most of us, when
Christmas day encircling all our linn
tted world like magic ring, left moth
ing out for us to miss or seek; bound
together all our home enjoyments, af-
fections, and hopes; grouped every
thing and every one around the Christ
mas fire; and made the little picture
shining in our bright young eyes, COM
plete.
Time came, perhaps, all so soon!
when our thoughts overleaped that
narrow boundary; when there was
some one (very dear, we thought then,
very beautiful, and absolutely perfect)
wanting to the fullness of our happi-
ness; when we were wanting too Cor
we thought so, which did just as welD 4,
at the Christmas hearth by which that
some one sat; and when we intertwin-
ed with every wreath and garland Of
our life that some ones name.
That was the time for the bright
visionary Christmases which have
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
WEALTHY GIRL LIVES SIMPLY.
Mrs. George Gould Has Sensible Ideas
on Training.


Mrs. George Gould by no means be-
ileves in keeping her daughters In
cotton batting any more than she
does her sons. This season the Oldest
daughter Marjorie, has been sent to
a fashionable day school in Fifth ave-
nue., after having previously had gov
ernesses at home. During the week
Miss Marjorie stays at the school, go
ing down on Friday afternoon to
Georgian Court in Lakewood, where
she stays until Monday morning.
This daughter of one of the wealth
lest men in the country is most SIM
ply dressed, is unaffected and is much
liked among her young friends. She
has had so much country life as to
be more athletic than the average
girl, and looks forward each week to
her few days at home, where she
rides and drives to her hearts con-
tent.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
pEoNAeE SYSTEM IN ECUADOR.
Laborers In That Country Are Prae-
tleallY Slaves.

or labor conditions In South Ameri-
"a, Frank Wiborg, author of "A Com
mercial Traveller in South America"
says: The large planters of Ecuador
complain that they lose part of their
crop every year through inability to
get sufficient laborers to harvest 1t. AS
in most tropical countries, the ques-
ton Of labor Is most serious, for
among the lower classes the necessi-
ties of life are so few and so easily
obtained that there is little or nor
incentive for steady application. In
Ecuador the attempted solution OF this
is the introduction of the same vicious
system which our government found
in force in the Philippines and has
since been trying so desperately to
root out-namely, peonage or debt
service.
ITO gain hold on the laborer the
planter offers him a small loan which
he, with characteristic improvidence,
eagerly accepts, with the understand
ing that ne is to enter the service Of
the planter and pay back the debt lit
tie by little. Until 1t is paid he can
not enter the employ Of any one else.
1t is to the advantage of the planter
to keep the debt unpaid and 1t seldom
happens that debt once contracted
in this way is ever cancelled. More
over, the debt always grows, for fines
are constantly checked against the la
borer's account-if he misses day or
breaks a tool-until 1t actually results
that the longer he works the more
deeply he is in debt.
"Then the various members of his
family are drawn into the employ OF
the planter for the ostensible purpose
of helping to lift the debt and gradu-
ally they, too, become bound body and
soul. The poems are not slaves; this
Is vigorously asserted on all sides. But
they might almost as well be slaves,
for even IL their bodies are not pur-
chasable their debts are, and through
their debts their services, and a plant
err desiring the service of a certain
peon can get it by paying the poems
present employer the amount of his In
debtedness. This transfer of debt and
service is a common practice"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Women in the Armies.

Women, disguised as men, have oft
en- served as soldiers. The following
inscription is on tombstone in the
English town of Brighton: I'm mem
DRY of Phoebe Hassel; born 1913, died
1921, aged 10S years. She served for
many years as a private soldier in
many parts Of Europe, and at the bat
tie of Fontenoy, fighting bravely, she
received a bayonet wound in the left
arm"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21

decays, for other homes and other
bands Of children, not yet in being nor
for ages yet to be, arise, and bloom
and ripen to the end of all!
Welcome, everything! Welcome,
alike what has been, and what never
was, and what we hope may be, to
your shelter underneath the holly, to
your places round the Christmas fire,
where what is sits open-hearted! In
yonder shadow, do we see obtruding
furtively upon the blaze, an enemy's
face? BY Christmas Day we forgive
him! If the injury he has done us
may admit of such companionship, let
him come here and take his place. II
otherwise, unhappily, let him go hence,
assured that we will never injure nor
accuse him.
On this day we shut out Nothing!
Pause" says low voice. Moth
ing? Think"
"On Christmas day, we will shut
out from our fireside, Nothing"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
A Connemara Valley.

Sick little valley, meted out for Sadness
Bent thorns which rarely above your
brown floods rise,
trimming full your streams are, brim-
ming full yet holding
Little joyous commerce with the sun
and skies.
Sadly in the nighttime the moon, be-
sieged by shadows,
Over your bare boglands holds her pal
lid court;
Scarce an evening flower lighting for her
pleasure,
Scarce a silvery ripple dancing for her
sport.
In your baroness finding, in your sad
ness seeing,
Something strangely tender, strangely
near my heart.
Yet, o little valley, little bog flled valley,
/ who linger near you sigh and sigh to
part,
Turning with reluctance, often look
backwards,
Seeing, feeling, counting what hath
been before,
Finding in your baroness, seeing in your
sadness,
That which, having left you, find
-E. L., in the London Outlook
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Llaht Dumb Bells Best.

II you use dumb-bells, as the GUS
tom of many is in these days OF
strength and figures. don't have them
at all heavy; and the same applies
to the Indian clubs. II is not weight
but exercise of the muscles you want
light, regular exercise-not to over
do 1t one time and neglect 1t then for
q week.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21

To the housewife who has not yet
become acquainted with the new things
of everyday use in the market and
who is reasonably satisfied with the
old, we would suggest that trial of
Defiance Cold Water Starch be made
at once. Not alone because it Is guar
anteed by the manufacturers to be SUI
perior to any other brand but because
each 10c package contains 16 oZs.,
while all the other kinds contain but
II ozs. 1t is safe to say that the lady
who once uses Defiance Starch will use
no other. Quality and quantity must
win
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Snakes Easy to ship.

or all the creatures to be seen at
geological gardens. snakes are prob
ably the most easy to ship from one
country to another. Snakes take very
littl Groom, and throughout long voy-
age give not the least trouble. They
do not require to be fed, nor do they
require looking after in any other way.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Bonanza Kings.

The bonanza kings were: James G.
Flood, A. S. OBrien, John w. Mac
kay, and James G. Fair, four men of
Irish parentage, who acquired vast for
tunes from the gold and silver mines
on the Pacific coast. They had vari-
Gus imitators and successors, who
shared the name, but these four men
were the "only original bonanza
kings.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21

ed her much to leave him here, alone,
for so many years as it was likely
would elapse before he came to her
being such little child. But he went.
quickly, and was laid upon her breast,
and in her hands she leads him.
There was a gallant boy who fell,
far away, upon burning sand beneath
a burning sun, and said, Tell them at
home, with my last love, how much
could have wished to kiss them onoe,
but that | died contented and had
done my duty!" Or there was anoth-
err, over whom they read the words,
Therefore we commit his body to
the deep!" and so consigned him to
the lonely ocean and sailed on. Or
there was another who lay down to
his rest in the dark shadow of great
forests, and, on earth, awoke no more.
o shall they not, from sand and sea
and forest, be brought home at such
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
A Lost Art,

Somehow men and women do not
find time to practice the art of walk
ing They are always resorting to
vehicles of some sort other than
"shoemakers' nags" and thus depriv-
ing themselves of most delightful
and health.giving exercise. - Good
Health,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Had Same Excuse,

''Is this man maniac?" asked Mr..
Fordham, at North London Police
court on Saturday. 81 don't know"
was the reply of an applicant for a
summons. but / understand he is
married. London Telegraph.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21

Dating from medieval times, the
annual StratfordonVon Mop" fair
took place recently and eight oxen
and twelve pigs were roasted at open
fires in the streets in the presence Of
a record gathering from all parts of
the Midlands.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
Ennul.

A cold had kept the boy in the
house-he was fretful and wan and
weary. What shall | bring you" his
mother asked, from the great big
stores, my deary?" He looked at the
scattered toys around-once held dear
and Wanted. "Oh, bring me some
thing" he petulant, cried, that |
never knew wanted. Kate NJ,
Cleary in The Sunday Magazine.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21
observation-disclosures.

A New Mexico paper announces the
marriage of Miss S. M. Boots to E.
Barefoot, He now has Boots, but she
has become Barefoot. Thus it is seen
that in entering into marriage con-
tract the woman Is invariably the
loser. But there is no denying that
the match was one of an affinity of
soles.-Los Angeles Times.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21

An Irish street car conductor cali
ed out to the passengers standing in
the aisle: "Will thin is front Place
to move up, so that thin behind can
take the places of thin in front, and
lave room for thin who are nayther
in front or behind?"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-21

mot the shadow of a vast
City where the withered
leaves are lying deep?" the
voice replies. mot the shad.
ow that darkens the whole
globe? Not the shadow OF
the City of the Dead?"
Not even that. OF all days
in the year, we will turn our
faces towards that City upon
Christmas day, and from its
silent hosts bring those we
loved, among us. City of the
Dead, in the blessed name
wherein we are gathered al
this time, and in the Presence
that is here among us accord.
ing to the promise, we will re
ceive, and not dismiss, thy
people who are dear to us!
Yes. We can look upon
these children angels that
alight, so solemnly, so beauti
fully, among the living chill
dren by the fire, and can bea1
to think how they departed
from us. Entertaining angels
unawares, as the Patriarchs
did, the playful children are
unconscious of their guests;
but we can see them-can see
a radiant arm around one
favorite neck, as if there were
a tempting of that child
away. Among the celestial
figures is one, a poor mis-.
shapen boy on earth, of a
glorious beauty now, of whom
hie, J,yir n, -, ~ !, -, r,;l "a -