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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-06

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding
piles in 6 to IA days or money refunded. soc
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-06
Louis Napoleon Answered.


Lady Blessington did not always
meet with gratitude from some whose
position at last enabled them to serve
her. She sheltered in her London home
Louis Napoleon after he had escaped
from his prison in Ham. After Louis
Napoleon became president Of the
French republic he seems to have
turned the cold shoulder on Lady
Rlessington and Count D'Orsay when
they approached him in Paris. There
was a story going at the time, for the
accuracy Of which we certainly will
not vouch, but which appeared in sew
eral Of the London papers. Shortly be-
fore Lady Blessington's death she met,
so the story goes, the president driving
In the Champs Elysees he stopped
his carriage, she stopped hers, and they
conversed for a few minutes. His
manner seemed to her determinedly
chilly. 'Do you stay long in Paris 2"
he asked as he was about to drive on.
tNo," she answered "And your
London Spectator.
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He. Mickey was over from.
Cass Lake last evening.
from

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Cass Lake last evening.
Dennis Maher was Big Falls
representative in the city today.
DR.. Koch of Blackjack passed
through the city this morning on
lis way from his home to Brain
,.rd, on a professional visit.
Mss Isabel Wallin left last
evening for Blackjack and will
teach a three months term oil
school in district eight miles
from Blackjack.
Frank Lattimer of Turtle River
Was in the city today. Mr..
Lattimer is clerk of the board Of
supervisors of Turtle River
township, and procured tickets
for the forthcoming town election
while he was IN the city.
A son was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. George Kirk yesterday,
and Mr.. Kirk came post haste
from his logging camps at Nal
lard lake to welcome the new
born. George says his latest
arrival is a "stand-patter. and
greatly resembles his uncle John,
in many ways.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-06
PHONE ll8

B. E. Prince of Big Falls was
a visitor in the city today.
J. 3. Hall of Baudette was a
visitor in the city last night.
G. r. Ross, the Duluth logger,
came in from his home yesterday
afternoon.
Toric lenses the best in the
world. Fitted by Drs. Larson &
Larson. End floor Swedback
block. 49,.
Adolph Dahl, of the Selke
Mercantile. Co., was business
visitor in the city yesterday be-
tween trains.
Miss Blanche Lasher returned
last evening from Pillager, where
she had been visiting with rela-
tives and friends.
Don't consider lightly the evil
dence of disease in your system.
Don't take desperate chances
with ordinary medicine. Use
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea,
the great specific. 35 cents, Tea
or Tablets. Barker's Drug
Store. ~ 49,.
George Seaman, a homesteader
who owns a valuable claim near
Nor home, came down this morn.
ing from his home and went to
Cass Lake, where he appeared as
a witness for Mrs. Smith, a
homesteader living near North
ONE, who proved up on her claim
today at the Cass Lake land
Office.
Mrs. Osborn Upper, daughter
of W. A. Walker, has left for her
home at Prince Albert, Saskatch-
avian, after having visited. in this
city during the past two months.
Mrs. Osborn had an unenviable
trip when she came from her
home to this city, being tied up
in one of those North Dakota
blizzards; but the route home
ward is clear now, and she will
undoubtedly have a pleasant trip,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-06
History ON a watch Face.

Almost the last work Of the Belgian
astronomer Iouzeau was an article in
which, while arguing In favor Of a dec
tmal division of time, he pointed out
the origin of the double set Of twelve
hours represented on our watch and
clock faces. The ancient inhabitants
of Mesopotamia chose the number II.
as an arthmetical base because II he's
four divisors-viz, 2, 8. 4 and 6, wi.ile
10 has only two divisorsAslz. 2 ana
They counted twelve hours in the tly
and twelve in the night. measures. tie
day by the progress Of the sun ;tfri the
night by the progress IS. f',r stars
across the sky. his system. prevail
Ing over all others, has tome down to
US, and SO our watches bear on their
faces a souvenir Of those ancient days
when the sun served for clock hand
half Of the time and the stars the other
half.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-06
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas County. SIS.

State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas County,, SIS.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
that he is senior partner of the
firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the city of Toledo,
county and state aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of
one hundred dollars for each and
every case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by the use. of Halls
Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence, this 9Th
day of December, A. D. 1886.
(SEAL) A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, and acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testi-
monials free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation.
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Child cxnics.

A London writer exclaims at think
ing ''there is really nothing to &C.
count for the extraordinary critical
mood which the modern child has de
veloped in regard to toyland." The
modern child will simply not make be-
lieve. Little boys and girls alike be
come sticElers for the correct thing"
and if the build of steamship or a
motor car, the cut Of dolls frock or
the mysteries the eye does not usually
see are not .'just like" the real thing
there is trouble. It is said that toy
makers have even now to employ sci
entidc experts and French milliners it
they hope to pass the critical eyes of
the new child" The fact is the mod
ern child is born cynic and stated
little darling. It has no emotions, no
desires save to destroy and be lived
and breathed for BIZ necessary parents,
Boston Hera.u
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Some Comical Bulls.

A very absentminded German pro-
lessor named Johannes Amer once
lived in Vienna, and the following are
a few of his remarkable bulls:
"Julius Caesar, disguised as slave.
swan naked across the Tiber."
covered with innumerable wounds,
Caesar fell dead near Pompey's statue.
With one hand he covered his face
with his toga. with the other he called
for help
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The City
Read the Dailv Pioneer.

Read the Da1lV Pioneer.
DR.. Blakeslee returned this
morning from trip to Gemmell.
F. L. Patton, town clerk of
Eckles township, was in the city
today.
M. A. Rognlien, of the Wilton
lath mills, was a business visitor
NTH city yesterday.
Bemidji Elevator Co., jobbers
for Mascot Flour, also Cremo, Bar.
lows Best and Gold Medal.
The H. O. B. O. club will meet
this evening at the home of Mr..
Mrs. A. E. Otto, 413 America
Ave. #.
Mike Sullivan of Wilton was a
Bemidji visitor yesterday, re-
turning home on the afternoon
train. ..-.
Mrs. Mabel Smith came down
this morning from Nor home and
went to Cass Lake, where she
this afternoon proved up on her
claim, near Northome.
The LADIES' Aid society of the
Norwegian Lutheran church will
meet tomorrow afternoon at the
home Of Mrs. D. Backlun, 1115
Bemidji avenue at 2 o'clock.
Phone girls have many ills,
!! for which they take some nasty
pills; If a healthy and happy
girl you'd be, ring up for Rocky
Noun tain Tea. Barker's Drng
Store.
V. L. Ellis has purchased the
residence property formerly be-
'onging to Fred Sprague. The
deal was closed through the
Phibbs & Erickson real estate
agency.
Mrs. W. Garvin and son Edgar
are in the city from Seattle,
Washington, visiting with Mrs.
Ray Thomas, daughter of Mrs.
Garvin. The Garvin's formerly
lived in this city.
Adam Zion, chairman of the
town board Of supervisors of
Eckles township, and a solid
farmer of that community, was
in the city today, looking after
some business matters.
A party was given at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Stillings,
last evening, at which very inter.
esting games of Five Hundred
we're played. Mrs. George Nc.
Taggart proved to be the best
player among the ladies, with
Mrs. G.. A. Kreatza close second.
An excellent lunch, consisting of
three courses, was served, and
the evening was very njoyable
one.
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Long Legged Birds.

Long legged birds have tails so short
that they seem to be out Of proportion
to their bodies. But there is reason
for the short tails. Birds, while flying,
and often while walking use their
tails for steerage purposes. When
birds with long legs take to fight, they
throw their legs behind in a manner
that causes them to serve the same
purpose as a tail
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-06
Spoke For Himself

1t is told Of Charles Lamb that one
afternoon, returning from dinner
party, having taken a seat in a crowd.
ed omnibus. stout gentleman subse-
quently looked in and politely asked
"All full inside?' Il don't know how
it may be with the other passengers
answered Lamb "but that last piece OF
oyster pie did the business for me-
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a Fatal Advertisements.

Vestris, the great Ga.scing master
died at eighty-three. ard it was said
he would have lived Till hundred but
for sudden and mortal blow in. the
shape Of an advertisement. One day
he asked for newspaper, probably
for the first time in his life. Scarcely
had he opened the sheet wr,ea bis eyes
lighted upon the following: Wanted
professor of dancing at Calcutta
Must be a skillful chiropodist at the
same time" He took to his bed and
never left it again alive.
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Parental Inauence.

''Sir," said the young man, II trust
you will object to my marriage with
your daughter 2"
"Why SOP queried the astonished
parent.
Because" explained the young man,
iii you do think she will consent to
have me.''-Chicago News.
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Read the Daily Pioneer.

Falls spent today in Bemidji.
W. Il. Derring, a resident OF
Big Falls, was transacting bust.
ness IN the city today.
Dame rumor has il that Frank
Beaumont, who works at t rs
round house will soon becon d
"benedict. I"
| TIE Y. P S G. E. Of the Btp.
fist church thu IA Viii hold an
Irish social at tue chu ,.il parlors
Friday evening, March %.
st. Phillips Aid society will
meet at the home of Mrs. Sher.
wood, 811 Mississippi avenue,
tomorrow afternoon at 2o'clock.
H. N. Harding, cashier of the
First National Bank of Cass
Lake, spent last night in this
city and returned to his home
this morning.
William Doherty and wife OF
Turtle River, spent Sunday with
his parents, who live in Nymore.
Will expects to spend the sum-
mer in Bemidjl.
For quality, healthfulness,
purity, satisfactoriness IN the
baking. Use Hunts Perfect
Baking Powder the demand
grows every day.
James Doherty has been pro-
noted to section boss, by VIM.
Mills. Jim left last night for Big
Falls. where be will be located
at least for q few weeks.
T. j. Nary, the district repre-
sentative for the Pillsbury Log
ging company of Minneapolis,
returned this morning from a
business trip to Tenstrike.
| e. D. BeesOn returned this
morning from Northome, where
he had been to look after some
business matters for the Naugle
Pole & Tie company Of Chicago.
W. A. Ferris, llneman for the
NJ. & |. railway, lefu this morn
ing for Hackensack to look after
some line repairing to be done
there on the telegraph wire Of
the NJ. & I.
J. 3. Harris who has mum Der
of teams working for Ross &
Ross at Gemmell, came up yes
terday to transact some court
business. He returned to Gem
nell last night.
James Lappen, cruiser for the
Crookston Lumber company,
came down this morning from
Blackjack, near which place he
has been working in the Crooks.
ton company's logging camps.
Both night trains on the Great
Northern railway were late last
night. The west bound passen.
ger was forty-five minutes be.
hind schedule time and the east.
bound was an hour and half etc
the bad.''
DR.. Adams and wife of Big
Falls passed through the city this
morning on their way to Mime
apolis, where Mrs. Adams will
perfect herself in certain must
cal lines which she has taken ur
as study.
Mrs. A. B. Allen and daughter
Grace left yesterday morning fo1
Hood River, Oregon, where they
will remain until next fall. They
will spend most Of their time al
the home of Mrs. G. L. Rogers
at Hood River, who is a daughter
of Mrs. Allen.
Your brain goes on strike
when you overload your stomach
both need blood to do business
| with. Nutrition is what YOU
want and comes by taking Holli.
ster's Rocky Mountain Tea
1875 cents, Tea or Tablets. Bar
ker's Drug Store.
| G. L. Lasher, part owner O
the Bijou, dealer in meats ane
provisions, and an all-arount
hustler Of the thirty third de
gree, left this morning for Phi
lager, where he has valuable
farm that demands his attention
at certain seasons Of the year.
M. Il. Grifiths. the nonula,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-04-13
RICHEST WOMAN in BRITAIN.
Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot OF Wales
Has Distinction.

It will probably surprise most peo-
pie to learn that at the present mo-
ment the wea1thiest British woman
living is a Welshwoman; more, that
she is single. Miss Emily Charlotte
Talbot was one of the three children
of Mr.. Christopher Talbot, a popular
NJ. P. of the mid-Victorian era. The
only son died in early youth, and Miss
Talbot's sister, somewhat yeYngar
than herself, became the wife, just 40
years ago, of Mr.. Fletcher of Saltoun.
Miss Talbot remained at home, keep
ing house fer her father at beautiful
Margam Abbey, Glamorganshire, and
on his death, which took place some
Is years ago, his devoted elder daugh-
ter found herself left his sole execu-
trix, and owner of all the Talbot real
estate, valued at about a million and
a half sterling, as also of a reversion-
airy interest in a huge trust fund In
consols.
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SEE WHAT YOU BUY
DO NOT TAKE THE CATALOGUE
STATEMENT FOR 1T.
CASE OF A MAIL-ORDER BUGGY
The Purchaser Was Ashamed to Use
1t and Sold 1t to His Hired
Man-It Pays to Buy
at Home,
Copyright, by Alfred c. CIark)

copyright, by Alfred C. Clarkl
Inc East End of London is an ex-
ample OF what the city does for hu-
mainly in creating poverty, misery,
disease, drunkenness and crime. JEFF
terson was right when he said: Great
cities are great sores upon the body
politic." Is it any wonder that lovers
OF their kind are horror-stricken at
the grinding of these gigantic mills
whose grist is the bodies and souls of
men?
But there is another movement con-
nected with this current setting CITY,
ward which, like it, is full of grave
menace to the welfare Of humanity.
This is the dry rot now invading thou
sands of villages and towns. It is not
lack of capital or business energy in
the towns, or discrimination in
freights or exhaustion of the soil in
the surrounding country that is bring
ing about this change, but a new and
dangerous form of competition, and
the caprtces of those who buy. Go
into these towns and you will find
them at a standstill or going back
ward. Inquire of their business men
or commercial travellers and you will
learn chat business is not as good as
formerly and that the prospect is for
continued shrinkage in trade. An
obserTant commercial traveller said
to the writer: Il believe the day of
the village and town is over. The big
fish are everywhere eating up the lit
tie fish. A few small lines of business
that cannot be done by mail, such as
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MORE INTERESTED AT HOME.
Panama and the Canal Zone Were
Cecondary Affairs.

The man with the profound look on
his face, and who had been silent for
half an hour, suddenly frightened up
like maI who had solved a mystery,
and, turning to the man who had been
uneasy fer fear that the train would
leave without him, he said:
Sir, thought has occurred to me-"
You cont say!" was the reply.
1t is in connection with the earth
quake at Kingston"
You don't say!"
If an earthquake occurred at Ja-
malca why shouldn't one occur at
Panama."
That's so-that's So"
And should one occur at Panama
the canal zone might, and probably
would, be included"
1T probably would"
And If so, sir-if SO, what would
become of the water in the cana1-and
the banks of the ditch-and the men
and the machinery-and of millions
and millions of dollars? There would
be quake and twist and a wrench,
and then, sir-and them"
Heaven! see it ali before me as
clear as day." gasped the other. "a
quake, a twist and a wrench, and
then! Do you, think this train will
pull out on time?"
The profound man did not answer
He had frozen up.
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timekeeper than that famous watch
OF Capt. Cuttle's. Another friend
bought buggy at $34 and was elated
over his purchase until it came and
he saw that the top was very ordin-
airy article of oil cloth, instead of
leather, and he was so ashamed of it
That ne sold it at loss to his hired
man and bought better one in a
neighboring town. A lady and her
two daughters bought shoes from the
catalogue and when asked why they
had trouble with their feet said it was
because of ill-ftting shoes. But such
instances of the bad effects of buy
ing sight unseen" are da''y occurring
all over the country. 1t / 5 only natur-
al and inevitable that such things
should happen.
Let us see what will be the effect
of this formidable diversion of trade,
IT carried to its logical conclusion.
Nearly all the business houses of the
smaller towns will become bankrupt,
the value of town property will de-
cline, churches and schools will re-
ceive feeble support and the towns,
instead of being centers of business
and social activity, will almost cease
to exist. The country in general will
become like many portions of the
south where the large plantations, by
getting their supplies in the cities,
have kept the neighboring towns
down to the crossroads type-dreary,
implanted little places of a half dozen
ramshackle houses. The evil effects
of this loss of trade and destruction
of the value of town property will re-
act upon the value of farm property
by cutting off the home market They
will add to the taxes on lands by re-
ducing taxable values in the towns.
Surely it is not to the interest of any
body, except the bloated corporations
carrying on the mail order business,
to see the towns and villages fall into
decay. A live town is not only of
value to the lands surrounding it, but
its well stocked business houses are
a convenience and a benefit to the
buyer. Even if money could, in the
long run, be saved by ordering every
thing from the city, the inconvenience
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| barbering, blacksmithing or the serv-
1 ing of soft drinks and ice cream may
survive, but such lines Of trade can
not sustain a decent town. The
cause of this widespread loss of bust
ness is the aggressive and destructive
competition of the catalogue houses
| in the big cities. 1t has been possible
for 40 years or more to buy of some
houses in the cities, if one felt that
the merchants of his town were ex-
acting too much profit, but this effort
of the mail order houses to cut the
retailer altogether is new thing, the
growth of the past few years. Start
ing with a few lines of trade, this
form Of competition has come to cover
almost everything that can be sold in
country town and it is even asserted
that a savings bank department is to
be added by one of the catalogue
houses.
The claim that the mail order
houses of Chicago are doing an an
nual business of over $200,000,000 may
seem large, but one house alone has
sold goods to the amount of 29,000,-
900 in the past six months and is now
incubating a new plan to increase it's
enormous business by selling shares
Of stock to thousands of people in the
hope of making them regular GUS
toners.
The skiIlfully worded advertisement
and the big catalogue, with its pic
lures of articles in hundred lines of
trade, are very alluring to buyers,
most of whom are not familiar with
prices and qualities. Some of the
articles below the usual prices are of
an inferior quality, while the average
price is usually fully up to what would
be paid to the home dealer. AS was
shown last winter in a speech in con-
gress, articles for the mail order trade
are often misbranded at the request
of the mail order people with DELHI
crate intent to deceive. One of the
instances given by this congressman
was of some thousands of finger rings
stamped fourteen carats" when they
were in reality only ten.
The buyer who orders from his
catalogue, or from an advertisement, |
does not see the articles till they
come and is often disappointed in the
quality of the most of them, but there
is no redress as there would be if he |
bought at home He does not like to |
own that he is disappointed, so he |
makes the best of it and tries to per-
suade himself that he has saved
money. In many instances he is not
well enough informed in values to
know that he could have bought as /
sheaply and selected much more sat
issactori1y at home. On rural route
WITH which / am familiar and over
which most of the incoming letters
are from mail order houses and the
ones carry back money or
ders, lives a friend of mine who
bought . watch from the catalogue at
what he considered rare bargain.
The watch came, to be sure, but it did
not go, that is at the right speed,
and, although money enough was
spent on it to bring the price up to
4 good figure. 1t was no better as . /
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and uncertainty of it would always
make such shopping unsatisfactory.
Ordering from catalogue is a leap
in the dark, except in the case of a
few articles whose color, shape and
quality are always the same.
To the man who can soberly look
on both sides of the question and who
can put himself in the place of ''the
other fellow" the query will come:
Is it best from mere within, or even
for certainty of saving from one to
half dozen dollars in a year to turn
my back on the old, convenient ways
of doing business, and to do my part
toward running the business of my
old acquaintances and friends, and OF
destroying the value of property in
the town where my friends live?
r. 3. MILLER.
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Didn't Suit Him.

People who patronize the cars run
ming out to Forest Hills are familiar
with Conductor Crowley, the man who
wears six service stripes on his
sleeve, says a writer in the Boston
Herald.
On the afternoon of election day in
November one of his passengers was
an old man who had been imbibing
enough to make him go to sleep in the
corner of the car.
Just before it reached Dudley street
the conductor announced with his
usual rich roll Of the r, "Cir-r-cuit and
Guild"
Yer a liar! It's John B. Moran!"
shouted the sleepy one, waking up
suddenly.