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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27
Serbs Are a Peasant People.

The inhabitants Of the Balkan prov.
inces are not the warlike, ferocious
people that popular imagination in
this country is apt to picture them.
The Servians, for example, are a
genuine simple peasant folk, whose
home life might be copied with ad
vantage by the populations living I'M
der the rule of the great powers OF
Europe. The Servian practices the art
of cooperation, while civilized people
are learning it's elements. Every lit
tie homestead in Servia is a family
commune, while in some of the noun.
tain districts exists the zadriga, OF
communal village, where everything
is held in common, and where the old
est man is the guide and commander
and final authority as to the mating OF
the people in his district.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27
UNUSUAL HANDICAP IN GOLF
Play Good Game on Account Of
Anticipated Noise.

An unusual golf handicap was play
ed on one OF the local links recently,
the proponent of the same winning
hands down. One of the rules of golf
Is that one must not talk to a player
when he is about to make a drive, nor
must others discuss any subject in his
hearing. It might take his mind OF
the game for just an instant and that
might be fatal.
In Kansas City lives crack but ex-
tremely nervous golf enthusiast. He
had been In the habit of beating fat
and phlegmatic friend until the latter
tired of it.
III tell you what I'll d." the friend
said not long ago. Il will play you
eighteen holes If you will give me q
handicap"
Done" said the nervous player.
Name the handicap"
There times during the game, and
not more than three, I am to be per-
united to stand behind you and say
Boo while you are preparing to
drive"
Every time it was the nervous mans
play his fat friend walked up and just
stood behind him. Never once during
the game did the fat man say "Boo!"
or anything else. But the anticipation
at the expected "Boo!" was fairly
nerve-shattering, and the fat man won
hands down.-Kansas City Journal.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27

diamond belt offered to the winner
by Promoter Tom McCarey was with
held from the champion.
McCarey since relented and as VOL
CAST was about to board a train for
San Francisco, McCarey appeared
and presented the champion with the
belt. much to the surprise Of the Cad
lilac battler. The belt, which Is Of
solid gold and set with four large dia-
uonds, is valued at $1,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27
Called the Bluff.

80 you advertised for your lost
purse, pretending that the person
who found it was recognized"
YES"
"How did the bluff work."
81 Didn't work at all. Next day this
I'd. appeared in the same paper: The
recognized gentleman who picked up
the purse on Boylston street re.
quests the loser to call at his housA'"
Boston Transcript.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27
Beware of Ointments FOR Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

Contain Mercury.
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense Of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians,
as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
featured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
O., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine. It is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J..
Cheney & CO. Testimonials free.
Sold by druggists. Price 75c per bot
tie.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27

Is your husband cross? An irrit-
able, fault finding disposition is often
due to disordered stomach. A man
with good digestion is nearly always
good natured. A great many have
been permanently cured of stomach
trouble by taking Chamberlain's
Tablets. For sale by Barker's Drug
Store. ADV. ,..% .-.L - !1.!-.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27
IF WOMEN. ! ONLY On | knew n
What Heap of Happiness it Would
Bring to Bemidji Homes.

Hard to do housework with an ach-
ing back.
Brings you hours of misery at lei
sure or at work.
If women only knew the cause
that
Backache pains often come from
weak kidneys,
sTwould save much needless woe.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys,
Read what a Bemidji citizen says:
Mrs. A. B. Wells, 103 Irwin Ave.,
Bemidji, MIMI, says: II got Doan's
Kidney Pills from Bankers Drug
Store and have used them at differ
ent times when having trouble from
my kidneys and suffering from my
back. They have always proven
beneficial. I consider them a valu-
able preparation"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster ilburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.-Adv.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27
Not ILLEGAL.

Household economy seldom goes tn
enough to be counted O conspiracy Il
restraint Of trade.-AtchisOn 0lohaT '
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-27
DIAMOND BELT TO WoLeAsT
Champion Is Presented With VaIu-
able Trophy by Tom Mccarey,
- San Francisco Promoter.

Because of the unsatisfactory ter
mination of the fight between Ad
Wolgast and Joe Rivers for the light
weight championship on July 4, the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14

Fifteen years experience in this business
enables one to become PRACTICAL type
writer repair man--and don't, forget we are
not here today and gone tomorrow, YOU
CAN relyaon u.s. Our work is guaranteed.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14

the summer and fall returning pill
grims from the holy places of Islam
have been seen in unusual numbers
in India and Afghanistan. They have
talked Pan-Isl iism and have cast
about for champion who can come
to the rescue of the threatened Is
lamic states. They think they have
found such man in Habibullah
Khan, Amir of Afghanistan. The
world does not pay much heed to
Afghanistan or to it's Amir, but here
is "a nation, self-contained and com
pact, and the only Moslem ruler in
the world. When Great Britain and
Russia came to an understanding re-
garding Persia and Afghanistan four
years ago, Habibullah paid no atten-
ton to their communication, and has
paid none to the frequent reminders
since. He refused to be present at
the Durbar. His country has no pub
lie debt. 1t has an army respectable in
numbers and fairly well trained. 1t
manufactures it's own munition of
war, from gunpowder to rifles and
small4bore guns. 1t has constructed
railroads and telegraph lines and
built factories. Machinery was in
stalled by foreigners, but they were
dismissed as soon as native Afghans
could 'be trained to take their places.
Mining and industrial concessions
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
Working Papers,


To an official window in one of
the city departments, of New York a
man came recently, leading his little
daughter. Il can't get work." he
said bitterly. This child can. They
are hungry at home? May she have
a permit?"
She was IA and met the other re-
quirements of the law. So the city of
New York gave her the desired legal
document, the "'Working-paper," as
the children call it. The man and his
daughter went o9t together, the little
girl to- join the great, army of toilers,
where the insistent sign of industry,
Girls Wanted-Boys Wanted" al
ways swings in the wind; the father
to swell the ranks of unemployed
men.
Last year 40,530 children in New
York city went the way of that little
girl past the official window carrying
their working-papers with them.
Throughout. the United States there
are somsx2, 900 900 of these child
breaSsY6 ers less than Is years of
age;
These papers are the passport to
! freedom from home constraint that
e16homic independence assures. One
sociologist has told the story of the
16-year-old girl who, in dance hall
of dangerousSrepute, tossed her head
in defiance of the threat, of parental
objection II pay the rent" she said
"What can my mother do to me?"-
Worlds Work.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
A DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.

! Now that Turkey admits her de-
feat, and has sued for peace, what
of it? What of the Sultan as head of
the Moslem faith? What of the green
flag of the. prophet? What of the IA
natcal- zeal that has so long sustain
ed the followers of Mahomet?
The nations, the peoples that bow
to the crescent are decadent. That
much is certain. But the zeal of fan
aticism still burns. That is equally
certain. All through the double con-
tinent of Europe and Asia, during the
past several months, there has been
talk of a Pro-Islamish alliance. In
the moSqeus of India, in the padagoes
Of Malaysia and Afghanistan and
Persia and along the northern shores
of Africa and elsewhere, prayers have
been going up for the success OF
Turkish arms-in the war with the
Italy and later, in the war with the
Balkan allies.
Everywhere is the realization that
the defenders of Islam are fighting
with their backs to the wall. Turkey
is in dire straits. Persia is PROSTATE
before the raking claws of Adam
Fad And the Islamish hosts every
where are apprehensive of the down
fall of their strongholds. All during
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
1ROLLFYNEN ARBITRATION

Chicago, Nov. 12.-The arbitration
board appointed to make an award
in the matter of the controversy be-
tween the ,Aualgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway. Men
and corporations controlling surface
lines of this city, is listening to the
arguments being presented by both
Sides w. D. Mahon, president of the
Amalgamated Association, has pre-
scented the case of the street carmen,
basing his contentious for an ad-
vanced wage scale upon the increased
cost of living. He has submitted fig
ures showing that family of five
could not live on less than $15134.44
year in Chicago, no provision being
made for Injuries Of any kind or saw
ings account. The minimum and max
imum scales of % cents and 80 cents
per hour, it was commended, would en-
able the employees to earn $839.5O and
81, 095 per year, respectively, provided
they work ten hours day and lose
no time. The new scale asked for
by the trolley men ranges from 80
cents to 35 cents per hour and would
figure in proportion with living cost
as it has been computed by govern
ment experts The cost of living in
Chicago has been Investigated by gov
eminent officials and the conclusions
were recently promulgated by a bull
letin issued by the the Bureau OF La
Dor.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14

be materially reduced. AS a result
Of its activity to thi send and the CO.
operation which it received from the
employers, there has been a reduc-
ton of 1856 per cent in fatal accidents
and 1856 in non-fatal accidents during
the last two years. The. publication
mentioned concludes with this state
ment: ''The contents of the report
as indicated in this necessarily brief
synopsis shows that the State Labor
Bureau is very energetic = and en-
phatic in performing it's duties and
is achieving great results for the
betterment of the working people in
this State. It also shows that the
opposition to it's requirements, as
provided in the laws, among the EN-
ployers has almost entirely disap-
peared, and that even its suggestions
concerning matters over which it has
only q doubtful jurisdiction, or none,
are welcomed and adopted by nearly
all employers. The amount of work
done, the comprehensive breadth Of
view exhibited, and the results
wrought ought by the State Labor De-
partment must be admitted to be al
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
WHAT EVERY BABY NEEDS.

The doings of the Vanderbilt baby
are Of absorbing interest to everyone.
Though not yet christened it has
gone out and acquired a model dairy
for its own exclusive use. This dairy
viii have selected COWS, producing
select milk, and the men who attend
the COWS will be thoroughly sterilized.
The Vanderbilt baby has not omitted
one, detail that makes for plenty,
comfort and safety. For baby only
few days old to have the fore
thought to acquire dairy for its own
use shows that the superior brains of
the owners of this country begin to
work at an early age.
Ordinary babies, without fore
thought, initiative and resourceful-
ness, are content with dip-milk that
Just barely measures up to the low
standard required by law. That is
WY so many of them die. Sometimes
the milk lis fairly good, sometimes
it is rank poison. Now, if these ba-
bies would get a move on and each
of the few millions of them acquire
a special select dairy, there would
not only be plenty of milk, but it
would be of a safe quality.
baby COWS and two men look. after
them. On this basis, if we have
100000 milk drinking babies, all we
need would be 100000 mich cows.
There are less than 100000 in the
country. But THAT is all the. fault OF
the babies. Then it would require
100000 men to look after the
COWS, if the babies had them. Besides
the babies would need each a day and
night nurse, physician and gov
erness or tutor. That would be
100000 more people looking after
them, or 100000 in all. N
If each baby could not consume the
milk of eight cows, then some OF 1t
might be given to children or to
the adults who looked after the COWS
and the babies. This, however, would
tend to make them dependents, and
would lower their standard OF self
dependence. They should each go
and get eight cows; which would
simply mean 720,OO0,00O for the nine
ty or so million people in the coun-
try. It seems like a. tremendous
herd, but if the Vanderbilt baby
needs eight, why don't the others?
And if the Vanderbilt baby can get
eight, why can't the others? If at
the age of few days a Vanderbilt
baby can get possession of eight
COWS, why can't an adult do 1t?
These are serious questions, for
those eight Vanderbilt COWS have set
a standard. No respectable baby can
ever have fewer, and all babies who
intend to be respectable should get
move on and acquire them.-NeW
York Call.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
Campaign Contributions
In England FIX

The practice of making big cam
paign contributions is not confined to
these United States. They do it in
England Whether the American
trust magnate seeking special privi-
lege learned thetrick in England or
whether the EngliShman yearning for
title got hte formula over here, we
don't know. Az
1t is gratifying to hear, though, that
We have taken the lead in blocking
privilege barter; and it is positively
exhilarating to be informed that Eng
land is looking to us to show her
how to- stop the peerage traffic. Our
informant is Perry Belmont.
/ Talking to the Kansas City Knife
and Fork club the other night, Mr..
Belmont related a London experience.
The proposed creation of new flock
of peers had brought on sharp con-
flict between the commons and the
lords. It seems that the candidates
had, as usual, given largely to the
party in power. Where we're men in
both houses who objected to the sale
of titles. Some Of them consulted
Mr. Belmont about our federal pub
licity law. He sent them copies OF
it. The plan to create the new peers,
however, was abandoned, consequent
" the need for the American method
of prevention was postponed.
But the force Of the object lesson
is in nowise diminished: Graft, it ap,
pears, is a highly adaptable plant. II
grows as luxuriaptly in soil fortified
with the blood of thousand earls
as in our common clay We have sue
ceeded, however, in causing quite a
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
EINESSE.

Senator Cummins. discussing a
campaign victory, said with a smile,
according to the New Orleans Plea
yune:
ct was won by finesse. The hnesse
displayed in it reminds me OF Con
cord banquet.
"'Why is it that you fellows are
emitting wine from your banquet this
vear?' one concord man asked an
other.
$50 as to make sure of the pres
ence of the AL after-dinner speakers
of the country was the reply. I'VE
have invited them, and they awon
dare to stay away.
"'Why pot?' =,
"'For the reason that II they dlo
people would say it was because there
was no wine, you know. -.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14

asked for by foreigners have been re-
fused. The Jealousy and suspicion of
foreigners is so great that none is
permitted without special permission
and is obliged to leave as soon as his
business is completed.
The Afghan people are now, per-
baps, the most Jealous supporters of
The Islamish faith. Their Amir is
"a zealot and a fanatic. In Recent ad-
dress at Kabhl he voiced his feelings
and that of his people toward the
Moslems of Turkey and Persia. Il
shall send Them" he said, the sound
Of my cry to- the spot where the loved
one dwells. Nashville Banner.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
MINNESOTA LABOR BUREAU.

st. Paul, Nov. 12.-The Minnesota
Union Advocate, in giving a synopsis
of the forthcoming report OF the
State Labor Bureau to the approach
ing session ofthe legislature, gives
publicity to some interesting data.
The biennial report of two years ago
showed that over 10000 persons were
killed or injured in the industries of
Minnesota in one year The Labor
Bureau believed this number could
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
CREEGSY1LL LIE CONCERT

At Greggsville on Thanksgiving
night, Nov. %, the Socialist branch will
have a vocal and instrumental concert,
speaking and dancing. An excellent
varied program has been provided, the
head liner being an grafton by W. L.
Bradshaw on .eThe Standard Oil Case"
Refreshments will be served and there
will be dancing from 10 until IL
O'Clock,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
The Tailor


slump in the special privilege mar
ket, and if England by sitting at our
feet can learn how to keep her peer
age fairly exclusive she is welcome,
to the omplishment.-St. Louis
Republic
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14

together admirable in volume and
character and deserving Of the high
est praise"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14
RAILWAY CARMEN

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 12-The
Brotherhood OF Railway Carmen have
received applications for charters
for five new lodges, and they have
been issued. Two Of these new or
CARNATIONS are located in Iowa, one
in Maryland, one in. Missouri and one
in Nebraska. A number of commit
tees in various parts of the country
are holding conferences with the man.
agement of different roads for the
purpose of securing increases and
signed agreements. Indications are
tfrat all these committees will be-
eventually successful.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-14

Capitalism is numbering machine.
It's progress and success depends up
on murder. Murder by the slow and
gradual process of ~overwork and
starvation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-26
Bryan at Baltimore.

The failure of William Jennings Bryan
to sway the democratic national conven-
ton yesterday by his matchless oratory
suggests that possibly the peerless leader
is losing his grip as spellbinder, or else
II may be that conventions are no longer
held under the sway of the impassioned
that Mr.. Bryan swept several hundred
democratic delegates completely off their
feet by a speech that remains today
masterpiece of American eloauence. Per-
haps the temper of people has changed
since 1896. Maybe they are not so i'm
questionable. Or perhaps Mr.. Bryan has
exhausted his influence to large degree
by his repeated public appe arances. The
orator of wide reputation both suffers a
handicap and enjoys an advantage from
his fame. His audience expects more OF
him than of beginner or of one OF
modest renown, but at the same time
prestige gains for him a close hearing
from the outset. The lightest words OF
his introduction are regarded as pulsing
with eloquence. His slightest gesture de-
lights the eye. The resonant tones of his
voice bring thrills even to the opposing
mind Yet If he has no new message his
task is a difficult one, for familiarity
leads TO expectation. Even the most
heartily applauded old vaudeville turns
grow stale with the repetition of many
seasons. and 1t is wise performer who
continues to freshen up his act with new
business. Mr.. Bryan Is one Of the most
capable of the platform artists today and
his performance yesterday at Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-26
For Psychological Effect. :"

One of the widest of the wild-eyed pre-
dictions of the moment is that the Roose-
welt candidacy will disrupt the solid
south. Is the man not half southern of
blood. and wholly southern of tempera-
ment? Does he not draw his impulsive-
ness and fighting spirit from the Bulloch
side of the house? And will not the south
respond to this in November?
Details even are given. States are
named as certain to plump for Mr.. Roose-
welt. North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia,
Kentucky and Missouri are on the list.
He stands. it is asserted, for what the
people of those commonwealth stand for
regardless of party, and they will support
him at the polls.
They will do nothing of the kind. In
those states and in other southern states
Mr.. Roosevelt enjoys certain popularity.
but 1t bears little if any relation to poll
tics. He appeals to the young men be-
cause of his personal tastes and habits.
He rides and shoots well, and so do they.
He is fond of outdoors. and so are they.
He mounts trophies of the chase, and
points with pride to them to visitors. and
so do they. The Buloch side goes in the
south.
of another color. That side OF the man is
rated as the Roosevelt side. His southern
admirers wonder at and deplore the poll
ttcian.. How did he manage to carry the
Bulloch side into the republican party :?
Why did he not train with the democrats
where. as they think, he properly be-
longed?
This bolt will not wash Mr. Roosevelt S
republican sins away in the eyes of south
ern democrats. They will rejoice in 1t
because they will see in it, not a gain for
him. but for their party. They have no
idea that by that path he can reach the
White House, nor any thought Of helping
him in any of his calculations. Call him.
self what he may as to the future, he will
remain republican in their eyes
Nor are they taken with his new doc
trines. AS they have in the past rejected
his republicanism, they will now reject
his thinly disguised socialism. They will
wonder at and deplore his assaults on the
courts and his remedy for the abuses he
alleges more than they have ever resent
ed his Intimate association with Mr.. AL
drich and Mr.. Cannon and other men
whom they have never tolerated at all.
No, this claim about the south must
have originated with Ormsby McHarg
and is but variation on his scheme for
advancing Mr.. Roosevelt's campaign for
the Chicago nomination. In that matter
it will be remembered, Mr. McHarg, for
psychological effect, as a move in prac-
teal politics. sought, through fake con-
tests, to show that Mr.. Roosevelt was
very strong in southern republican circles
So now "for psychological effect as a
move in practical politics. it is asserted
that Mr.. Roosevelt, as a bolter, will dis
rupt both of the old parties in the south
and lead a new alignment to victory.
Rats,