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fullest investigation Of his formula
knowing that it will %be found to
contain only the best agents known
to the most advanced medical SCI
ence of all the different schools of
practice for the cure of all woman's
peculiar weaknesses and ailments. !.
DR.. Pierce's Lotion Tablets and
Antiseptic Suppositories may also
be used with great advantage con-
Jointly with the use Of the g Favor
lite Prescription ;" in all cases of
liberation, and in pelvic .catarrh.
They cost only rs cents box each,
at drug stores Or, sent by mail,
postpaid on receipt Of price in
stamps by Dr., Pierce whose adj
dress is given below. 5.~c.,g4
If you want to know more about
the composition, and professional
endorsement Of the vrFavorite Pre-
scription," send postal card request
to Dr.: R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y,
for his free booklet treating ~of
same. - -- .-,l'' IT, -, -
You can't afford to accept as as 4
substitute for this remedy efhnonvrsI
composition a secret nostrum q un-
'knoasaa congbositio,a. r Don't do il. ~
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Notice for Bids.

Notice is hereby given tn at sealed bids will
be received by the board of county commits
sioners of Beltrami county, Minnesota up
until O'Clock D. m. Tuesday, January IS,
1907, at the Office Of the county auditor. at
the court house in the city OF Remfdji. for d
physician for the county poor and chairman
Of the county board of health.
Whose duties shall be as follows:
Such physician to be a resident Of Be-
midi. and in the performance of his duties
must at his own expense. furnish all medi-
cineS. bandages and materials appertaining
thereto: and all tt ansportation for all con-
tagfous cases. except for non-res1dents Of the
state to the poor farm and pest house: and
morphine and coca inea and all necessary
drugs and medicines bandages and neces-
sary materials for the poor residents afflicted
with contagious disease: attend medically
upon all the poor at the poor farm and at his
own expense furnish all necessary assistance
in operations and in the performance of all
his duties, Quarant tine when necessary and
pay. all the expenses thereof. and attend
thereto accoding to the rules OF health: and
keep true and correct record OF all nom
resident patients"
Successful bidder will be required to enter
into contract with the county for the faithful
performanceof the work as above described
and bid for.
The board Of county commissioners reserve
the right to reject any or all BIDS
sioners OF Beltrami county. Minnesota
Dated January 8. 1907.
WEsWRIGHT.
Chairman of county board.
JOHN WILMANN.
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Dose-One DfmefuI.

GLOW big a dose do I needY asked
the customer of the old fashioned drug.
gist %zS e2H E&&# ~
"Oh. guess heaping dimeful will
be about right" was the reply. aE
"a dimeful?' echoed the customer
"You mean a dimes worth, don't your"
mo, DON'T 'said the druggist "a
dimes worth would be two ounces,
and you'd never survive such guam,
tity as that I mean for you to take
dime and pile on it as much Of this
powder as will stick. Then you have
the proper dose Measuring medicine
on aSdime is a method as old as United
States currency and almost as reliable.'
There are certain powders that can be
measured more accurately that way
than any other, and among us old
timers who have been used to meeting.
emergencies a dimefur is common
direction" ss. Is t4tIsfsfafgsl., az
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They scorned Doctors.

The learned ladies in olden times took
great comfort and pride in their skill
In medicine. With true professional
scorn they looked down upon the regu-
lar doctors as upon quacks. ''For Gods
sake beware what medicines We take
of any fyssissyans Of London I shall
never trust to them because of your
father and my uncle, whose souls God.
assoH. So wrote a lady in conscious
pride. She knew she could have saved
the lives of her unfortunate relatives
II she had only had a chance to dose
them with some of her wonderful con-
coctions orto have put upon them.
some such plasters as those for which
Dame @Margeiy Pastor was famous.
Her husband sent for one of her plas-
tiers for the kings attorney, James ;Ho-
barst, who was suffering with an ache
In his knee, and to whom Sir John Pas
ton felt himself sentimentally indebted.
"He IS the man who brought you and
me, together" he wrote to Margery,
"and had leaver than 94O that We
could with your plaster part him and
his pain" - ~,r.;,s ia II. q r,n
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i Grease In Wool Fabrics.

Few persons realize when they put
on wooden garments what large
amount Of animal fats wool contains,
for to the touch woolens are not greasy.
In the big clothing shops where mems
garments. are cut, however, the floors
around the tables where electric knives
clip out the odd shaped pieces soon be-
come as slippery as though they were
waxed for a dance.
''Why do you wax the floors to keep
the fabrics clean?" is common query
from visitors. ~ IA IIrs
But the clothing cutters explain that
this accumulation of grease comes
from the friction Of wool cloth over the
wood. The woods pores soon become
SO charged with it that they feel greasy
to the touch, and even the harder woods
In the cutting tables absorb from the
wooden fbers so much of the animal
fat that to all appearances they might
be in steady use in the rendering de-
partment of an abattoir.-New York
Press. 81 s. ~
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The Bite OF n Girl.

{ The bite Of girl may be as produc-
tive Of poisonous germs as improperly
prepared foods, according to the state
ments of Professor w. D. Miller Of
the University Of Berlin. In a lecture
the professor said that a bite of q
pretty girl would often bring a quicker
and more horrible death than the bite
Of serpent. Professor Miller, who has
made SPECIAL study Of the bacteria Of
the mouth, said that only short time
ago. he experimental on beautiful girl
in Germany and found that an arrow
dipped in saliva from her mouth would
send Its victim In death throes more
terrible than one dipped In the venom
Of the most deadly snake.-What to
Eat. @
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department. OF the Interior. Land Office at
Cass Lake. Mimi. Nov %, 1906 EsG
Notice is hereby given that Henry P. Rice
of Schoolcraft Mimi, has filed notice of his
intention to make final fye-year Eproof in
support OF his claim. viz: Homestead Entry
No. 22ss7. made March g. 1902. for the neI
SseM. section 49,. township 145 n. range 81 W.,
18th P. NJ. and that said proof will be made
before Register and Receiver u. s. land Office
at Cass Lake. Mimi. January II. 1907.
He ameS the following W1tE eSses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultfva-
tiOn Of. the land, viz:
Bert Clark. E. F. Sh aw. H. w, McDougall of
Maltby. Mimi. and Frank Tabor of School
craft, MINI. ~
; ~ <-sS4r@ aA& -. E. S. OAKLEY
E&kaS Register.
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na" Thoughts for Thinkers
Copy righted, with his six feet
two in his unwashed socks, has
departed for regions further
north, where the cooling breezes
from the north pole may tend to
bring relief for a fevered and
diseased imagination
And an expectant public will
be.combelled to forego a literary
treat in the promised printed
volumn of gems from the pen of
the yitrolic Oyler, whose insist.
ence athat this com N unity was a
modern 5Sodom Of Gomorrah
gained for him considerable
notoriety.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION
LIQUOR LICENSE. s9
STATE OF MINI

STATE OF MINNESOTA, . 81
so9GS itS Of # b Beltfami |ss
Notice is hereby given, That application
has been, made ia writing to- the city
in my! office, praying for license to sell intox-
icating liquors for the term, commencing on
J January, 49, 1905. by the following person
and at the following places as stated in said
application. respectively, to-Wit: q 81
MATT THDME.
In front room. first floor of that certain
two story frame building located on lots I3
H. Is. Is and II in block seventeen uN, or
iginal townsite of Bemidji. Mimi
Said application will be heard and deter
mined by said city council Of the City of Be-
mid at the city-clerls office IN the city hafl
in said city of Bemidji, in Beltrami
county. and state Of Minnesota, on Monday,
the 14th day OF, January.A.D 1907. at 8 CLOCK
D. m. Of that day.
Witness my hand and seal of city of Be-
midi this 9th day of January, A. D. 1906
[sEAL] THOMAS MALOY,
l42 City Clerk.
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ISMO0T WILL RETAIN SEAT
.~cr,rvry lr~r MAJORITY, oF,aTHE SENATORS
SAID TO BE OPPOSED To
3Ig4I0 G#A
HIS, y EXPULSION

s1< Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Reed
Smoot will hold his seat in the, senate
unless, before his term expires, he
4 does something tojjustify expulsion.
There is at present a majority in
the senate who believe that he cannot
0 be- deprived Of his seat under existing
conditions and that In no case can he
be put out of the senate except by
the method of expulsion, which re-
Quires two-thirds vote. II u Du5
Senator Shoots term does not ex-
% pire until two years from next March.
3: A report fayoring his being dropped
from the rolls in some manner has
been made by the senate committee
on privileges and elections as result
of a combination between Democrats
Z and two Republican senator's 60 A ma
jority of the Republicans on that com.
mittee, embracing some of the great
est lawyers in the country, are Of
opinion that SmoOt could not be de-
prived Of his seat unless it could be
shown that he had committed, some
crime or had been guilty of some i'm
proper act since his election, which
would justify the senate in expelling
him. ,....;i, 80,
A majority of the senator's, embrace
ing practically all the Republicans,
take this view, holding that, on a con-
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A Funny Earle.

A Russian grand duke was once the
guest Of German prince. It was
early in the last century. In Russia
the imperial double headed eagle is to
be seen everywhere and on everything
throughout the empire : stamped
painted, embroidered or sculptured. AT
that period the education Of grand
dukes was somewhat limited. This
grand duke went out shooting in Ger
many and, among other things, shot
large bird. He asked an experienced
huntsman who accompanied him what
the bird was. can eagle, your high
ness" was the answer. The grand
duke turned on him in an irritated
way. ''HoW can it be an eagle" he
asked. when it has only one head?''
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Are Minister'S, Sons BAD

A bishop marked the names Of those
whom he deemed worthy Of remem-:
brance for some service performed in
religion or politics or literature or sci.
ence or art or commerce or philan.
thropy or warefare, or some other as
poets Of the various life Of the nation.
OF such names he found 1870 who
were the children of clergymen or min
listers, taking no account Of those who
We're grandchildren Of clergymen or
more remote descendants. OF the chill
dren Of lawyers, there were $40, and
Of doctors $780,. The sons Of clergymen
who became themselves clergymen
were $50. He further asserts that the
superiority which the clergy enjoy in
respect to their children to the other
professions lies beyond dispute. The
superiority has been not of numbers
only, but of degree. From clerical
homes have sprung more distinguished
sons than from the homes Of any secu-
lar profession.-Leslie's Weekly.
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Natural History.

Mamma, what are twinsf asked
little Bobby.
"Oh, l know" chimed in Dorothy,
with all the superiority Of an elder
sister. Twins is two babies just the
same age, three is triplets, four is quad
rupeds, and five is centipedes." -Har-
per's Weekly.
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ShadeIess Forests.

{ Large tracts of dense forests in Aus.
ralia are practically shadeless. Many
kinds Of trees in that strange country
turn their edges instead Of the fiat sur
lace of the leaves to the sun, and thus
one may stand under a tree Of enor-
nous size and be as fully exposed to
the sun as though he were in the open
plain. Travel through these forests
is said to besexceedingly arduous work,
as the trees, while they do not cut off
the sun, prevent the breeze from
reaching the ground, and thus the trav-
eler experiences sitting heat.
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SUBSCRIPTION...$5.O 90 PER ANNUM
=THE=TRUE=iNWARDNES OF IT.

A great many people are close
ly following, with much interest,
the investigation Of the lHarri-
man lines (the Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific and the Oregon
Railway & Navigation companies)
whichis now being conducted by
the interstate railway and ware
house com mission, through their
attorneys, b Kellogg & Severance,
of st, Paul. y351 zi1} 3o-t ~rs.g1.@.,4s,
/ Tits expected that the public
will be greatly benefited by this
investigation. The fact is, how
ever, that -Messrs.o Kellogg and
Severance are attorneys for the
Great Northern Rail way com.
pany; attorneys for Rocker
feller's steel trust; attorneys for
threeof the milling com panies Of
Minneapolis recently indicted by
the federal grand jury for receiv.
ing rebates from the Great
Northern Railway CON pany; and
attorneys for the Great Northern
Railway company in a suit
brought in the district court of
Ramsey county to prevent the
consolidation of the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern Rail
way companies; and it is re
ported that they are also retained
by the Great Northern as associ.
ate counsel in suit now pend
ing in Ramsey county wherein
the attorney generalis endeav-
oring to restrain the Great
Northern from issuing $4,000,
600 of additional stock =
From the above It would appear
that this is, Perhaps another
fight between the Hill Morgan
interests and " the Hartman
Kohn-Loeb-company interests.
1t may be that the result Of this
will benefit the public. It was
expected d that the fight over
the Z! control of the Northern
Pacific might benefit the pu bic.
But2Hill won out, and the con.
sumner, who ultimately "paid the
freight, "received no benefit. It
looks as if this Investigation of
the interstate commission, when
tits completed, no matter which
side wins, will be of no benefit to
the man who "pays the freight. "
These Investigations, however,
are beneficial in one way: The
great masses j are receiving
information which heretofore,
perhaps, was only possessed by
a few people, The expense of
this investigation will be great,
and perhaps the benefit derived
,therefrom z will warrant II the
expense incurred. In zs@
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Not an ImDOstOr.

A proud young father telegraphed
the news of his new responsibility to
his brother in this fashion: "a hand
some boy has come to my house and
claims to be your nephew. We are
doing our best to give him a proper
welcome" The brother, however,
failed to see the point and replied: 81
have not got nephew. The young
man is an impostor.'
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use For Spoiled Beer.

'"There Is no need" said a brewer,
"for us to throw away beer. that has
turned sour, nor is there any need for
us to try to doctor it up. We have a
ready sale for our spoiled beer among
cement makers. Don't think from this
that cement makers have a morbid
taste for sour beer. Nothing Of the
kind, They use this beer in making
cement for leather joints. 1t takes
the place Of acid, being cheaper and
yet just as good"
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EOR-RENT.
MISCELLANEOUS.
>s-rs's>>@s"rN>~~~>NN<~~NN~.
PUBLICA LIBRARY = Open
Tuesdays and. Saturdays, 2:3O
to 6 p, ~. Thursdays z to 8
p. m-also. Library in base
ment Of Court House. Miss
Mabel Kemp, librarian.
one Way of Saying No.

Z Beerbohm Tree was once endeavor-
Ing to get well known actor back
Into his company. Tree received the
man In his dressing room as he was
making up. How much would you
want to come back to meg' inquired
Mr.. Tree, busy with his paint pots.
The other named an .exorbitant sal.
airy, to which Tree merely retorted as
he went on making up, Don't slam
the door when you go out, will yous''
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:. - z b: IWt.s. = - = y - n -
n The Benidjl Enterprise failed
to materialize during last week.
The paper, judging from hearsay,
has. drawn its allotted six feet of
Q oblivion and and. been consigned to
mother mother earth art aj IL. 5A.l3 (.
,,,;T[4hpe oh oe'btssee'quies were quietely
conducted d ted: and md there were no
flowers, -. tav.... ,.ag..'.f
Requiscat is pace.
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.... 3. .. III. DR. il PIERCE'S sos5 > @o.
FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION RES; ri

the most potent nvgoratng restorative strength gver
ever devised for their special benefit Nursing mothers will
find it especially valuable in sustaining their strength and
promoting abundant nourishent for the child Expect
ant mothers too will hnd priceless boon prepare
system babys coming and to render the ordeal compare
lively easy and painless t5I 1 jHO jhHl buH
F 1t can DO no harm in any state, condition
Of the female system. <,5 =; ,!:-,I- r,rz " *:
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Dies Trying to Save Pupil

n Riverdale, Mich, Jan: 12-Elbert
w. Gibson, principal Of the schools
here, was drowned while trying to save
fourteen-year-old Harry Valance, who
had broken through the ice while
skating. Gibson was called by the
boys and rushed to the rescue. He,
too. broke through and the swift cur
rent carried both teacher and boy
under the ice.
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.DRIFTED MANY DAYS
STEAMER PONCE At MERCY OF
WIND AND CURRENT FROM
DEC. 80 TO JAN. Z.
szAs@- esssl4AE-s So
FINALLY "a SIGHTED BY PASSING SHIP
DISABLED 3 VESSEL PICKED Up
i AND TowED. TO PORT OF l.
: HAMILTON, BERMUDA. rr i

Hamilton, BeImuda, Jan. 1.-THE
overdue steamer Ponce of the New
York and Porto Rico Steamship com
pany, which left Porto Rico Dec. 26
for New York, was towed in here dur
ing the day by a steamer which picked
her up disabled. A broken shaft was
the cause of her delay. The Ponce
had on board seven passengers and
crew Of fifty-two men. She carried a
cargo Of sugar, oranges, molasses and
general merchandise. tEt.4 }fI,ai
ID AT 4 o'clock on the afternoon Of
Dec. 30 the tail end of the shaft of
the Ponce broke and she drifted at the
mercy Of the wind and current until
the night of Jan. z, when she was
sighted by the German steamer Eliza
beth Rickmers, from Philadelphia for
Japan. At $3.50 p. m. the Ponce sent
up a rocket and few minutes later
the German vessel altered her course
and headed for the disabled steamer.
The Rickmers reached the Ponce at 7
p. M, but as the night was dark and
the weather stormy the captain de-
#cided to standby the Ponce until day.
light. At, 9 o'clock in the morning of
Jan. s the Rickmers got two hawsers
on board the Ponce and soon after
wards began to tow her towards Ber-
muda.
nj The, two steamers were then $40
miles from Bermuda. The tow proved
to be a heavy strain. During the night
of the 9th both hawsers parted ina
heavy gale and the Rickmers hove to
the rest of the night. The morning
of the 10th the German steamer sent
two new lines on board the Ponce and
no further trouble was experienced.
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Convention Petitions President.

Guthrie, Okla, Jan. 1.-THE con
iBtitutional convention has passed
memorial to. congress and President
Roosevelt. asking them to set aside
the ruling of Secretary Hitchcock in
segregating the 100000 acres Of for
est reserve in the Choctaw.s Nation.
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stitutional hasss=, moot is entitled to
MS seat in'~the first place, and, Sec
ondly, that the evidence brought out
-has-no t-justified the belief that he
was personally responsible or was
even responsible as an officer of the
Mormon church for the practice of
polygamy. It has been positively
proved that Smoot himself is not and
never was a polygamist. So" . Et"'s'.
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sH Delicate, nervous, weak women,
who suffer from frequent headaches,
backache, dragging-down distress
low; down in the abdomen, or5from
painful or irregular monthly Pc
RODS, gnawing or distressed SEN
sation in stomach, dizzy or faint
spells, see imaginary aspecks lor
spots floating before eyes, have dis
agreeable, pelvic catarrhal drain,
liberation, prolapsus, anteversion,
retroversion, or other displace-
ments of womarly organs from
weakness of parts, will, whether
they experience manyt1ors only a a
few Of the above symptoms, find
relief and, generally, a permanent
B cure, by using faithfully and fairly
I persistently Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. ,es6 7,ais3493 u -
This world famed specific for
woman's1 weaknesses and peculiar
; ailments is pure glyceric extract
Of the choicest native, medicinal
roots without drop of alcohol IN
its makeup All its ingredients
are printed in plain English on its
: bottle-wrapper and attested under
oath. DR.. Pierce thus invites the
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raging your debts is an expensive
way Of getting commercial credit, but
unless you are rich it's about the only
Way.-Puck. s3s
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Steamer Maracas Is Safe.

Quarantine, N. Y, Jan. 12.-The
overdue steamer Maracas arrived dur
ing the morning from Trinidad and
Grenada She was delayed owing to
arrangement of machinery. On New
Years morning at 4 a. m. the cir
culating pump gave out. The ship
stopped for thirty-six hours repairing
and then proceeded under reduced
Speed - s K - ~ + - a l. 81
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! Two Thoughts,

- = Two Though Is.
"1<want a business suit now" said
Slopay. 81 was thinking ofsgomething
In the way Of q. small plaid.'"
"And l." repliea3 the tailor, "calisx
help thinking of something In the way
of small check.' = Philadelphia
Ledger. sg, gss& Is Ee|Sz #
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81 PILES CURED IN 8 TO ID DAYS.

fPAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any
piles in 6 to14 days or money refunded. soc
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Nursing Mothers and .:.: j. :
- .,.->! I'm 6aB a5qi4 s:sw u8g4u:I l4olaum#
over Pdened women

In all stations ofl whose vgor and vitality may have
been undermined and BY overwork exactng
social duties the too frequent bearing of children or other
causes, will find in ar f,4
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WANTED: Competent girl to
q take chargelofs home as house
keeper, at once Good wages.
Inquire Of Mrs. Z. Gold berg,
Lake Boulevard.
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FOR SALE Rubber stamps.
The Pioneer will procure any
kind Of sarubber stamp for
f you on short notice.
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Decent Voters n the Majority.

Philadelphia Press: In every great
city like Philadelphia there is large
body OF men who for one reason or
another are practically bound mp with
the organized and generally ruling po-
htical machine. Some of this force Is
corrupt, some of it has an interest not
.venai, but still personal and pecuniary,
and some of it simply goes along. But
strong as is this body 1t is decided
minority of the people The great MAJ
iority are honest, well-meaning men
who want good government and who
are. personally in q position to follow