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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
A Mothers Argument.

"The most to be regretted act Of my
life" says commander Of the navy,
twas letter / wrote to my mother
when about seventeen years of age.
She always addressed her letters to me
as my dear boy felt at that time
I was a man, or very near it, and
wrote saying that her constant adj
dressing me as a boy made me feel
displeased. received in reply a letter
full Of reproaches and tears. Among
other things, she said: You might grow
to be as big as Goliath, as strong as
Samson and as wise as Solomon; you
might become ruler of nation or en-
peror Of many nations, and the world
might revere you and fear you, but to
your devoted mother you would al
ways appear in memory in your inno-
cent, unpretentious, unself conceited,
unpampered babyhood. In those days
when I washed and dressed and kissed
and worshiped you, you were my idol.
Nowadays you are becoming part Of a
gross world by contact with it, and I
cannot bow down to you and worship
you, but if there are manhood and
maternal love transmitted to you, you
will understand that the highest COM
pliment that mother love can pay you
Is to call you "my dear boy"'"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
A Very Busy Man.

a school inspector went to inyesti-
gate the case of man who, although
he could well afford to keep his chill
dren at school, had obtained labor
certificates for them all and was tax
Ing frequent holidays while the poor
little fellows worked to keep the home
on.
TO his wife's plea that the young
sters' wages were useful when sfey-
ther'' was out Of work the inspector
replied:
"A mere bubble, ma'am. Your hus-
band has constant work, but is too
lazy to do it. His employer told me
So"
"Then It's wicked story, and I'm
not particular who hears me say it!''
cried the woman Indignantly. my
husban' is the busiest man in England,
bar none. Why, he was up at day
break this mornin' teachin' my youn-
gest lad to swim, an he's walked ten
miles across plowed fields to fly a pi-
geon an won bounce ball contest an
boxin' match since dinner, an now,
to wind things up," she added as a
final proof of her husbands amazing
industry, 'he's down in the wood yon-
der trainin' his dog to catch an kill
rabbits without leavin' the marks of
his teeth on 'em. If you want more
work than that crowded into day,
you must be regular niger driver
London Tit-Bits.
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Live Correspondents of the Pioneer
Write the News From Their
Localities.
QUlRlNG.


Mrs. Ed DIETRICH visited with
Mrs. K. Hendrickson last Satur.
day.
Gustav Matson and Will Bou.
cher visited with Carlson's Sun
day.
Miss Helen Laurie visited with
Mrs. T. P. Dooher Saturday
last.
Gust Carlson went to Black
duck last Saturday to work in
some camp.
Miss Helen Laurie visited with
her sister, Katherine, last Fri.
day evening.
Cold weather and lots of snow
in During nowadays, which
makes the roads hard to travel.
Mrs. W. Hills made visit to
Blackduck last Saturday and
Sunday, returning Monday with
the stage.
The schoolhouse bell for the
North school house in district
SO has arrived and we will soon
hear ding dong for boys and
girls to be there in time for
work.
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NEBISH.

Harry Mcclure was at Island
Lake on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buskeand daugh.
ter of Bemidji have moved to
town. -
A. Edwards was TO Redby on
Wednesday evening.
Carl Saterlee was a business
visitor to Bemidji on Saturday.
Archie Ditty was to Redby a
few days last week.
J. R. Oringer spent a few days
at Island Lake, the latter part of
the week.
Alvin Dirty was to Redby Sat
urday evening.
John McComas was to Island
Lake on Saturday.
Chas. Hamlin of Redby was in
town on Monday.
Mrs. Ed. Achen bach and chill
dren of Bemidji came up on We'd
nesday evening and went to Is
land Lake on Thursday.
Mrs. F. Sibley and daughter
passed through Nebish enroute
to Bemidji on Tuesday.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
Glasses and the Eyes.

Every one knows that In using
field glass it is necessary to adjust it
to a proper focus Suppose that you
put one of the tubes at your focus and
the other tube at focus that suited
some one else and then you looked
through both tubes. You would have
q more or less blurred vision, and If
you kept on looking the chances are
that you would feel giddy and get
headache. Now, the two eyes are sup
posed to have an equal natural focus,
and when by any chance that focus is
unequal headache results The rem
edy Is a pair of glasses or a single
glass to make the eyes equal In power.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
No Rhyme For Tipperary.

A poet once jumped to the conclusion
that there was no rhyme to Tipperary
and said SO, whereupon an indignant
1rishman, who CHANGED also to be bit
of a versifier, pounced upon him and
poked fun at him in a lengthy poem.
every other line of which rhymed or
was supposed to rhyme with the place
In question. Thus:
A bard there was in sad quandary
To find a rhyme for Tipperary
Long labored he through January,
Yet found no rhyme for Tipperary;
Toiled every day in February,
But toiled in vain for Tipperary;
Searched Hebrew text and commentary,
But searched In vain for Tipperary.
And so on through many scores Of
stanzas, ending up with:
He paced about his aviary,
Burnt in despair his dictionary,
Slew up sky high his secretary,
And then In wrath and anger sware he
There was no rhyme for Tipperary.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
FROHN.

Albert Brewer sawed wood fe r
Geo. Zue Tuesday.
Geo. Zue has gone to Gust
Eikstadt's camp to haul logs.
John Dahl is making wood on
his father.in- laws place ear
Rosby. ..s ...
John Bolster has hired out
with his team to skid logs for
Gust Eikstadt.
Mrs. Carl Eikstadt who has
been on the sick list for some
time is very much improved.
Bert enbaugh, one of our
jolly bachelors from over the
river transacted business in town
one day last week.
Art Donnett and Peter Hon.
quist who have been visiting at
j. Bolster's left Saturday for
their home at Anoka.
Almost as much snow as we
had ten years ago. Remem Der
it ye old pioneers, any little boy
with pair of skies could run
down deer any old time. The
deer are not so plentiful now.
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When Buttons Were BIG.

! Bachaumont writes in his "Secret
Memoirs" Nov. 1S, 1886: '"The mania
for buttons is today extremely ridicu-
lous. They are not only Of enormous
size, some Of them as big as six pound
crowns, but miniatures and pictures
are made upon them, and this orna-
mentation is extremely costly. Some
Of them represent the medals Of the
twelve Caesars, others antique statues
and still others the Metamorphoses Of
Ovid"
/ Isabey, in his biographical notes,
says that when he came to Paris he
worked for living by making copies
Of Vanloos and Bouchers on the lids Of
snuffboxes and that for these medal
lions he was paid from to 8 francs
each. "As it was still the fashion," he
said, Ito wear buttons as big as five
franc piece, upon which Cupids, flow
ers and landscapes were cut in cameo,
I went into that business. / got II
sous for each."-Paris Figaro.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
What Words Can Do,

"Any one who swears," declared the
bishop of Carlisle, ''manifests the beg
garliness Of his vocabulary" The Con-
cord Patriot puts it in this fashion:
'People swear because they do not
know the possibilities of plain Eng
lish or have not the skill to manipulate
it so that it will yield the amount of
fire they want. You can do almost
anything with common words. No
matter how tame and lifeless they
look standing in stupid rows as if
they didn't know enough to come in
when it rained, they can be made to
dance like imps, to frolic like fairies,
to float angelwise on light wings, to
glow like fire spirits. They can do
things that make the ordinary bits Of
profanity look like feeble scarecrows
stiffened up with fence stake. The
cure for rofanity-reformers and edu-
Gators please make note-is merely
wit enough to~.zhandle your words SO
that swearing will seem like baby talk
in comparison"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
Pawnshop Art Sales,

Zone of the most interchangeable paint
ers in Philadelphia has almost exclu-
sively a pawnshop trade" said a pawn
broker the other day while discussing
the many tricks Of his business. .He
has been working this market" he con-
tinued, 'for almost four years. be-
lieve was his first customer. He was
reduced to the point where his only
capital was lot Of pictures that he
could not sell. In his extremity he
came to me. I advanced him a little
money on several pictures, which I
was lucky enough to sell. The funny
part of it was that the man himself
couldn't sell a picture to save his soul.
He finally realized that he was def
Client in business ideas and confined
himself strictly to painting pictures,
while attended to the sales. At last
he got other customers in my line, and
today he actually makes a living from
the pawnshop trade" = Philadelphia
Record.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
When BIondin Was Afraid,

One of Blondin's favorite jokes was
to offer to carry some distinguished
spectator across the rope with him on
his back. Everybody naturally refus-
ed, and the great equilibrist, with a
genial smile, would say, II am sorry
you are afraid should drop you"
But he was hoist once with his own
petard.
He was exhibiting in Paris and was
about to cross the Seine on his rope.
Cham, the great caricaturist, had come
to make sketch. Blondin, recognizing
him, at once invited him to cross with
him.
with pleasure replied Cham, 'but
on one condition"
"And that Isl queried Blondin.
'"That shall carry you on my back"
answered Cham.
"Not if I know myself" answered
Blondin.
"Ah," triumphantly exclaimed Cham.
''this time, M. Blondin, it is you who
are afraidv
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
Nursing Mothers and
OVer-burdened Women

In all stations of life, whose vigor and
vitality may have been undermined and
broken down by over work, exacting
social duties, the too frequent bearing of
children, or other causes, will find in DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription the most
potent, invigorating restorative strength
gtver ever devised for their special bene-
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~ valuable in sustaining oheir strength
and promotingan abundant haurishment
will find it a priceless &oDa9e5 4rspaxe the
system for. baby's coming and rendeSing
the ordeal comparatively painless. It
can do DO harm in any state, or condition
Of the female system. :
Delicate, nervous. Weak women. who
suffer from frequent headaches, back
in the abdomen, or from painful or irreg-
ular monthly periods, gnawing or dis
tressed sensation in stomach, dizzy or
faint spells, see imaginary Specks or spots
floating before eyes, have disagreeable,
pelvic catarrhal drain, prolapsus, ante
version or retro-version or other displace-
of parts will, whether they experience
many or only a few of the above symp-
toms, find relief and q permanent cure by
using faithfully and fairly persistently
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
InlS WOfld-1amed Speclhc Tor WOman'S
weaknesses and peculiar ailments is a
pure glyceric extract of the choicest ma
tive, medicinal roots without drop Of
alcohol in its makeup. All its ingredi-
ents printed in plain English on it's bottle
wrapper and attested under oath. DR..
Pierce thus invites the fullest investiga-
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be found to contain only the best agents
known to the most advanced medical
science of all the different schools of prac-
tice for the cure of woman's peculiar
weaknesses and ailments.
If you want to know more about the
composition and professional endorse
ment of the rFavorite Prescription" send
postal card request to DR.. R. v. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y, for his free booklet treat
ing of same.
You can't afford to accept as a substi-
tute for this remedy Of k1,oaO1e composition,
a secret nostrum of al1ale1a0av1o compost
tao1a. Don't do it.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
lllustrious Shoemakers,

Shoemaking is calling which has
given the world some very great men.
One authority asserts that the major
lty of cobblers have exceptional brains,
that their attitude when STOPPING over
their work tends to cranial develop
ment in the part where the intellectual
faculties are seated. Some one has
written book on illustrious shoemak-
ers. In it are Sir Cloudesley Shovel,
Clifford the Terrible, Bloomfield, author
Of the we'll known Farmers Boy"
Carey, the orientalist; Admiral Myngs,
George Fox, founder of the Society of
Friends; John Kitto, the Biblical schol-.
ar, and Sturgeon, the electrician. The
list Of illustrious shoemakers runs into
scores.
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What Allied the Speech.

At the close Of one Of the sessions in
the trial Of Warren Hastings when
most Of those engaged had gathered in
the anterOom DR.. Parr stalked up and
down the room in his pedantic, POM
pous way, growing out praises Of the
speeches of Fox and Sheridan, but say
ing not word about Burke's. Burke,
sensitive at this omission and anxious
for some commentator from the great
authority, could at last contain himself
no longer and burst out:
doctor, didn't you like my speech?"
''No, Edmund" replied DR.. Parr,
calmly eying his excited questioner.
"Your speech was oppressed with met
aphor, dislocated by parenthesis and
debilitated by amplifcation!'
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
Rocks That Float In Water.

A geologist who Is well up In his
business can name dozen or twenty.
different specimens of rocks and min
erals that have less specific gravity
than water and which will, If tossed
into that element, float on the surface.
Hubelite is one Of the best known rep
resentatives of that class The common
pumice stone is another example. The
rock with the very least specific grav-
ity known is damari, substance
found in an extinct volcano in Damara-
land. It's atomic weight Is 5, or exact
" one-half that Of hydrogen.
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sPAULDlNG.

M. Rygg called on John Han.
son Sunday.
liver Myhre is reported to be
on the sick list.
H, T. Huddal was visiting at
Bemidji Wednesday. a
Elmer Anderson is cutting
cordwood for A. P. Blom.
L O. Why're made a business
visit to Bemidji Thursday.
Fred hide made a business
trip to Nymore Tuesday, return
ing Thursday.
L. hide of Nymore spent last
Monday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. +. hide.
A. E. Hasfjord proved up on
his homestead at Cass Lake
Wednesday, accompanied by l..
0. Why're and P. Becker as
witnesses.
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CUNNINGHAM.

Mrs. Claud Fish has been sick
in bed for several days with a
severe cold.
Mary Whittinger of Bergvi]le
has come to make her home with
Mrs. H. M. Cunningham.
Catherine Cunningham spent
Tuesday in Blackjack, having
her teeth attended to by DR..
F'reeburg.
w. H. Howard, who is helping
Cunningham Bros. plane lum Der,
was laid up with a severe cold
the fore part of the week.
Burt Allen of Bridge has had
his three teams hauling lum Der
from the Cunningham mill to
Bridge during the past week.
The Mutual Improvement So
ciety will hold their next meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Helen
Cunningham Saturday evening,
Feb. 2.
Cunningham Brothers have
just received a fine new set of
hob sleds. They had them made
20 order in their old home at
Rockford.
Miss Hunter came over from
WEIGH lake Friday evening to
stay with Mrs. Fish until her
school duties call her back Mon
day morning.
Penelope Cunningham, who is
attending school at WEIGH lake,
came home Friday night to spend
Sunday. Miss Dora Howard &C.
companied her.
Mrs. David Rose has been on
the sick list this week. In fact
all the neighbors are more or
less affected just now by the
colds that are so prevalent.
On Tuesday Messrs. Parsons
and Mitchell of Popple town
passed by here on their way to
Northome for provisions. Miss
Minnie Stump accompanied
them.
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The Toad and It's skin.

The toad sheds Its skin at certain
periods, the old one coming off and
leaving new one, which has been
formed underneath in its stead. It
does not give its cast off coat away to
any poorer toad, and there are no toads
dealing in second hand raiment. Mel
ther does it leave its cast off jacket on
the ground after the fashion of the
shiftless snake. It swallows it's over
coat at one mouthful, converting its
stomach into portmanteau.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-31
Art Of Reading.

To get the best out Of reading we
must begin early and work hard. It is
an art like music or painting and de-
mands its stern apprenticeship. It re-
mains true that a man who knows only
his own tongue does not know that
Christian World.
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His Shaky Seat,

A small Canadian ventured into the
room while his eldest sister was en-
tertaining masculine caller.
''Mr. Harris the youth finally inter
rupted, IT wish you would take me
with you some day."
''Take you with mev' echoed the call
er. where do you want to go, Bob
bie?''
II heard Mr.. Grant, next door, say
you were on the water wagon and he
guessed you'd soon fall off. I'd love to
help you drive Canadian Courier.
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J Noses Ont Of Joint.

When was girl, the aristocratic
nose was high, beautifully modelled,
rising In delicately waving ridge and
at the tip standing we'll out from the
face and not turned up. But now the
fashion has completely changed. The
pretty women one sees portrayed In IL
Illustrated papers and magazines very
seldom have much to speak Of in the
way Of noses.-Dowager in London
Chronicle.
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The Difficulty About Our Composers.
who is your, fayorite composer?" in
quired the artistic person. II can't say
just at this moment" answered Mr..
Cumrox, with an appealing glance at
his wife. "but It's, somebody whose mu-
sic i can't remember and whose name
/ can't pronounce" w ashington Star.
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The Danes.

The Danes, or Mortimer, first be-
came prominent in European history
in 783, when they began to ravage
the north coast Of France and south
ern shores of Great Britain. The dar-
ing of these hardy seamen was re-
markable, for in their small ships they
even penetrated the Mediterranean and
became terrors to the seaboard popula-
ton Of Italy, Sicily and Greece. The
first king Of Denmark is said to have
been Skiold, 60 B. @.
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Way of One Man.

he was romantic, but bashful for his
age. At twenty-five it is expected
nowadays that man should be matter
Of fact. She was his equal in romance,
but a trife older, old enough indeed to
be widow The conversation had
turned on the ever important subject
Of mothers-in-law. There was lull in
the argument. Gazing far, she sighed
and said:
"Ah, me! shall never have another
mOther-in-lawv'
He looked at her with interest for a
moment and then suddenly blurted out:
my mother died when I was very
youngv'
It was an inadvertence, but he could
not draw back. She threw herself into
his arms, and they have lived happily
up to now.-New York Press
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Chris Hillisheim spent the
pat week in Bridge, scaling
lum Der as fast as it is hauled,
and also looking after cars. AS
yet he has only been able to pro-
cure one.
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The Secret Of Human Society.
It is only because each man is so
different from his fellows that we are
able to endure one another's company.
Florida Times Union.
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Polished and Vigorous.


Observing a passenger with the TN
lighted butt Of a cigar in his fingers,
the street car conductor requested him
to put it out
1T is out, you chump,' responded the
passenger.
Pardon me- resumed the conductor,
IF have failed to make myself clear.
The condition to which I had reference
was not one Of mere temporary non,
combustion, but Of elimination, the
eradication, might say, of the physic-
al presence of your nicotine laden rem
nant this process followed necessarily
BY cessation of the odor now permeat:
Ing an atmosphere already somewhat
deficient, fear, in the essential ele-
ment Of ozone. I'm humble conduct.
OF, and my aim is to please; but, you
big porcine stiff, you throw that cigar
through the door or TIL throw you and
1t both. SeeY'
Excuse me, professor replied the
passenger meekly, and the incident
was closed. philadelphia Ledger.
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The Brides Way.

Friends the bride you're working
for getting to be a good housekeeper?
Cook-No; she hasn't learned to keep
out of the kitchen yet.-Detroit Free
Press.
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WANTED: For the u. S. Mar
inc Corps, men between the
ages Fl and IS. An oppor-
tunity to see the world. For
full information apply in per-
son or by letter to Marine Re
cruting Office 208 third street
Bemidii, MINI.
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Not to Be Fooled.

Gle wanted me to order basket of
champagne" declared indignant Mr..
Nuritch
s'Well?'
II may be ignorant, but I know that
champagne comes in bottles" wash
ington Herald.
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HELP WANTED.

WANTED-F'or u. S. army able.
bodied, unmarried men be-
tween ages of 81 and IS, cit:.
zens of United States, Ct
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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The Kindness of the Poor.

Inc OLD adage that the poor are the
best friends Of the poor was instanced
In the story of chambermaid, who is
young widow with two children to
support. After a lingering sickness the
younger Of the children died, and, the
young mothers bank account having
oeen depleted from defraying the ex-
peDses Of the weeks of medicine and
doctors visits she was obliged to con-
tract debt at the undertaker's. After
that she paid small monthly Install
ment until the bill was half settled,
when one day there came through the
mail receipt for the remainder. The
receipt was accompanied by badly
written and blotted note from scrub
woman in large uptown hotel, who
knew Of the trouble, knew the family
and the circumstances and in her note
explained that she had no family nor
near relatives and that she earned
enough to support herself and that she
wanted to use this surplus money for
the little mother, who needed all that
she could make extra to support the.
remaining child. AS scrubwomen re-
ceive only SO or Is cents a day, one
will readily appreciate the spirit which
moved one kind soul to help another
In distress.-Leslie's Weekly.
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Wicked men cannot be friends either
among themselves or with the good
Socrates.
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FRIEND TO FRIEND

The personal recommendations of PEG
pie who have been cured Of coughs and
colds by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
have done more than all else to make 1t a
staple article of trade and commerce over
q large part of the civilized world.
Bankers Drug Store