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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-01

They have little or no concern about
the science of the game, yet they as
sumo degree of intense interest.
The seats they occupy cost them moth
ing; heat and light are furnished
free, and there is always someone
who has time to listen to what they
have to say. W.
These men-or loafers, as they are
called-are beggars! They beg a
place to sit; they beg the heat that
keeps them warm--and the man who
has once become a beggar has robbed
himself of all positiveness and force,
and can never become an emphatic
personality. These men always have
prospects They are looking for a
position and will have "defnite an
swer tomorrow The years pass, on,
as they always do, and these char
acters come listlessly around with the
same old story-but each day appear
again with prospects" ever and al
ways The act of going out. and
mailing something down" before the
weeks end is thing undreamed. It
is not part of their plan, or their
scheme
In the evening of life these men
get in the way of others who are do
ing useful work, ask silly and child
ish questions, assume an air of i'm
portance, talk learnedly on subjects
of which they know nothing, borrow
little money now and then, and
consume the time of others in ex
planning how they have been OPP
pressed and why they have never had
an opportunity.
These men have no enemies, no
particular friends. They have new
err done anything in particular and
have no particular ideas. They con-
sumo, the same amount of air that
useful men require, talk considerably
more, eat equally as mucn, are always
conspicuous about public places, and
are the most prominent figures at
fires, street fights and labor parades.
These men are always busy; they
haven't time to read; they haven't
time to study or to think-they are
so "busily Employed that they
haven't the time to keep themselves
informed on any important thing:
AS the days pass on, these men are
more and more convinced that their
failure is the result of a world wide
conspiracy, when in reality the trou-
| BILE has been that of every man who
always intends to but never gets
around to it.
If you are not first and foremost a
man and accuse the community of a
vast conspiracy of jealousy, you are a
mere pigmy, a sponge, and you have
not won your fight because you have
failed to fit yourself to the job.
Efficiency.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-01
THE 1DLER.

If you are not first and foremost a
man, and accuse the community or
the world Of conspiracy to defeat
your success, you are mere pigmy
and will not win your fight in the
race of life, because you are not
preparing yourself for the job
During period of five months four
young men, who take train each day
to their work, have never exchanged
a single important idea. Their time
on the train each morning is spent
in discussing the most trifling frivol-
ties, incidents of no Importance or
concern, most of which should never
have taken place.
These young men, each of them un-
der the age of thirty, are preparing
themselves for the "Ancient and Hon
orable Order of Failures" These
young men have no concern about the
more serious purpose Of life. The
ideas of great men do not interest
them. Subjects which improve the
mind are to them of no concern. They
are preparing themselves for nothing
except ''leisure" The only thing of
Importance is six o'clock and the pay
envelope.
These young men, like thousands of
others of their kind, are drawing a
shadow over their eyes to shut out
the light of their future opportuni-
ties. They are blind to the things of
great concern and do not understand
or attempt to know the meaning OF
the higher type of individual. The
wasted days, months and years of
these young men have written the
story In their own makeup. It is evil
dent in every movement and gesture
Their limitations have become physi.
cal, and they are, day by day, dis
tinguishing themselves as sspigmies'
in the race of life.
Around billiard parlors and hotel
lobbies we find this class, referred tt
as ssloafers.'' Peculiar, as it may
seem, these men, seldom, if ever, &C,
tua1ly engage in a game of billiards
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-01
Conscience Fund Increased

The conscience fund of the Cynited
States treasury has been increased bv
the sum of 5000. A letter and draft
for the money were forwarded to Sec.
rotary of the Treasury MacVeagh BY
Rev. Charles w. Chantwood' of Fee
leysville, Ind. It seems that some. old
soldier of that vicinity swiped; a bi.
mule some time during the war, and
his conscience has been hurting him
ever since. He concluded to- get rid
of his uneasy conscience and, valuing
the mule at 5000, confided Ia his pas
tor, who sent the money in with this
same explanation. The name of the
donor 10 not known and never will he.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-01
Letter to
DR.. xunaor 8 co.
lBinghamton, II. Z.
Prove. What Swamp Root will Do For

Prove What Swamp Root will Do For
You. .s
Send to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bling
hamton, N. Y, for a sample bottle.
1t will convince anyone. You will
also receive booklet of valuable in
formation, telling all about the kid
neys and bladder When writing, be
sure and mention the Bemidji Daily
Pioneer. Regular ffty-cent and one
dollar bottles for sale at all drug
stores.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-01
Easv ENOUGH.

Marks-So you think Miss Bloom IL
both pretty and intellectual? Huh!
You can't make anyone believe that.
Parks-Can't I? I made her believe
it.-Tit-Bits. -..-.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-01
| AIM THE Want AD

live that others may be happy and
prosperous, Ever day carry hundreds of
messages to many thousands of men and
women. Never was there such busy work
er, such tireless worker as l.
A purse is lost; l restore it,
A home is without maid, maid is
without place; bring them together. ~
New furniture is bought; FIND APUR-
CHASER for the old How many attics have
I emptied to the housewives profit
. Is there laundering, scrubbing, white
washing, painting, sodding, to be done? leave
it to me-
:. One man has house for sale; another
is looking for home. They consult me,
and 10, the house changes hands.
Bookkeepers, salemen, stenographers
watchmen-all kinds of workers-look to me
to keep payday alive.
Merchant and manufacturers call me,
saying: 81 want such and such help. In the
morning they have only to choose -
How my work is appreciated. People
never tire of praising me. am so swift, so
faithful; yet make no promises. simply do
the best can for one and ALL
AHu now cledply WOTk. have oOlu
second hand automobiles at the cost OF
gallon Of gasoline A man bought piece OF
property, one day; the next he sent me out
to sell it; the next, the deed was recorded.
he made $4,000 less my fee of Soc. lsit any
wonder am popular? And ISM tit a wonder
am content to dress in six-point type? Why
every day somebody telephones, calling me
off the job, saying | have done enough.
haven't always been as important as I
am now. Oh, dear, no! There was time
when had very few opportunities to exercise
my talents. remember how good felt
when first filled half column Everyone
in the Office talked about it. But now! Well,
you can see for yourself how have grown.
Yet how could | help growing. when was
all the time doing such wonderful things?
am still growing The doctor says it is
because my circulation is so good. am glad
ofit. / want to become more and more use
ful to the people of this beautiful city, If
there are any whom haven't served pre-
sent my most respectful compliments and
solicit test of my powers. AS for my old
customers, they feel Of course that they.
can't get along without me-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-01
CHE
ADVENTURE
or TIE
DEVILS FOOT
Continued from Yesterday

CONTINUED from Yesterday.
Y Sterndaie mopped his forehead with
his handkerchief. upon my word,
you are getting on" said he. do all
your successes depend upon this pro-
digious power Of bluff"
"The bluff said Holmes, sternly,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-01
Sincerely,
D. A. KOONCE,

CIOIumD1a, Ala.
Personally appeared before me,
this 18th of September, 1909, D. A..
Koonce, who subscribed the above
statement and made oath that ,the
same is true in substance and in fac.
G. T. HARRIS, Notary Public.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
RECORD FOR
WINTER IN
CANON CITY
WEATHER MAN SUMMARIZES THE
CONDITIONS HERE AND
ELSEWHERE

Some one recently asked the wealth
er man how much snow We have had
this winter. The weather man looked
at the daily papers and concluded II
was about time to give the people OF
Canon City an opportunity to be glad
they are living In such favored
spot. And whether our climate COM
pares favorably with that OF Florida.
we shall leave for others who seem to
know TO decide; one thing we do
know-we have a decided advantage
over the variety OF weather they have
been having 10 the eas; es ~. We
have been able to get around without
much difficulty. the snow plow has
run very few times. and we have not
suffered from very many spells OF
excessively cold weather this winter.
We have grumbled quite a good deal.
and the weather man has been looked
upon as a very bad sort OF fellow. but
We have not stopped TO consider what
he has done to other people All the
states OF the middle west have suf-
fered intensely from cold and heavy
SHOWS How have We fared7
We had our first killing frost oc-
tober 4th.and the lowest temperature
reached was twenty degrees above
zero. There we're ten and one-halt
inches OF snow. December had two
days when 1t was five below. and ten
inches OF snow. January had one day
when It was ten below. and three and
one-half inches CT snow. February
had no day when It was below zero,
and four aad three-quarter inches OF
snow. Five above has been the cold
=, est day OF March to date, and the
snowfall has been nine and one
quarter inches. The total snowfall to
date is forty-one and one-haIf inches
not as much as fell during this last
blizzard in Kansas. There have bean
altogether twentyone snowfalIs heavy
enough to measure. We have had this
winter an unusual number of cloudy
days for Colorado. but as for down
right bad weather. We have had very
little.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
CHILDREN INJURED
Ordinary Cathartics and Pills and
Harsh Physlc Cause Distressing
Complaints.

You cannot be over-careful in the
selection OF medicine for children
Only the very gentlest bowel medicine
should ever be given, except in emer-
gency cases. Ordinary pills. cathart-
les and purgatives are apt to do more
more harm than good. They may
cause gripping, nausea and other dis
tressing after-effects that are fire.
quently health-destroying
+ We personally recommend and
guarantee Rexall orderlles as the
safest and most dependable remedy.
which we know. for constipation and
associate bowel disorders. We have
such absolute faith in the virtues OF
this remedy that we sell 1t on our
guarantee of money back In every In
stance where II fails to give entire
satisfaction. and we urge all in need
or such medicine TO try It at our risk.
Rexsii OFdeTiies are eaten just ike
candy. are particularly prompt and
agreeable in action, may be taken al
any time. day or night; do not cause
diarrhoea. nausea. gripping. excessive
looseness. or other undesirable eff
fects. They have very mild but posi-
tive action upon the organs with
which they come In contact. appar-
emily acting as a regulatiye tonic up
on the relaxed muscular coat OF the
bowel. thus overcoming weakness,
and aiding to restore the bowels TO
more vigorous and healthy activity.
RexaIl orderlies commonly corr
p1etely relieve constipation. except o.
course when Of surgical character.
They also tend to overcome the ma
cessity of constantly taking laxativcs
to keep the bowels in normal condi-
tion. Three sizes Of packages, IL
cents. 25 cents and so cents. Remem.
Der, you can obtain Rexall Remedies
in Canon City only at our store-The
Rexall Store. The Palace Drug Store
Mitchell & Egbers. Props. COL Main
street, Canon City, Colo.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
WILLlPLANT BIG ORCHARD
ON MOUNTAIN VIEW PARK

c. l. House has placed an order
with one of the best nurseries in the
country for 5000 apple and 5000
cherry trees for early delivery. The
apple trees comprise the following
varieties: 1000 Gano. 1900 Johnathan
$50 Rome Beauties. 500 Wine saps
and 25o Arkansas Blacks. The 5000
cherry trees consist of the Montmo-
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
ROBERT ARNOLD SENT
TO CANON CITY

In the arrest of Robert Arnold 5y
Chief McDermott, the authorities OF
Fremont county believe they have the
last of a trio of burglars, which oper-
ated at Florence, Portland and Will
liamsburg late last fall, when stores
at all three places were robbed OF
several hundred dollars worth of
merchandise.
Arnold was returned to Canon City
by Sheriff Esser OF Fremont county
last night. His two accomplices, Bert
Henderson and AL Williams, are now
serving time in the penitentiary. VIII
liams is said to have confessed to the
burglary, duplicating Arnold.
According to the confession, Arm
old is said to have brought the loot to
Pueblo in buggy and cached 1t near
the wilcoxson dairy. Later he went
to New Mexico, and returned to Pu-
eblo a few days ago. He was arrested
on description furnished by Sheriff
Esser All three of the alleged Grim
Inals we're arrested In Pueblo.--Pueb-
10 chIeftaIn.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
REX DYSPEPSIA TABLETS.

Relieves gas In stomach, distress az
ter eating. stomach nervousness. dlz-
ziness. headache. heartburn. heart
palpitation and other ailments caus-
cd by faulty digestion. Price csc. Pre-
pared by United Drug Company. Bos-
ION. Mass. Sold in Canon City only by
P~Iace Drug Store. Mitchell & Eg-
bers. Props. Sol Main st.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21

rency, wiagg and Early Riohmonds.
The trees will be planted in Mountain
View Park on the old Tribble ranch
1t will require 100 acres on which to
plant them. Cherry trees viii be used
to fill spaces between the apple trees.
Mr.. House has FIVE hot beads of
thrifty tomato. celery. cabbage and
caullflower plants ready for early
transplanting- Citizen.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
4 COLD, La GRIPPE, THEN PNEU.
MONA.

Is too often the fatal sequence. and
coughs that hang on weaken the sys-
tenn and lower the vital resistance
II. G. Collins. Postmaster. Barnegat.
~ c.. was troubled with a severe la
grippe cough. He says: Il would b.
completely exhausted after each at o..
violent coughing bought a bottle Of
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and
before I bad taken Il all the coughing
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
William Allen White
On the Country Town

men know one another well, is the
cement that holds together this union
of the States. 1t is not created in
great cities.
Great cities give much in aims,
but little in justice. Only as we know
each other well can we treat each
other justly; and the city is wilder
ness of careless strangers whose in
stincts of humanity are daily becom-
ing more and more blunted to suffer
ing, because in the nature of thing3;
suffering in cities must be impersonal.
1t is not the suffering of friends and
neighbors and kith and kin as it 8
in the smaller towns. So the mail or
der house crushing out our towns is
drying up the milk of human kindness
in our hearts.
"And that brings us back to first
principles; if we who live in these
small towns in America cannot see
that our duty to our country lies first
of all nour duty to our neighbors,
then we are blind indeed to the basis
of real patriotism. for after eli patrl-
otism is only nieghborly kindness.
Patriotism is not in cheering for the
flag; 1t is not in feeling our eyes
filled with emotional tears at hearing
"The Star Spangled Banner" patriot
ism is just old-fashioned human duty
ITO sacrifice our nelghbor-the man
who helps the town with its taxes,
with its public business. with its
myriad activities for neighborly right
eousness-to sacrifice that man and
his business for the mere sake of
saving a dollar on the purchase of a
hundred dollars worth of goods is
just as unpatriotic as it is to spit al
the flag.
For the flag if it means anything
means the golden rule; the flag means
friendly burden bearing; 1t means
mutual help in trouble; 1t means
standing together against common
foes.
Tho motto OF the mail order house
is every man for himself and the devil
take the hindermost-and you bet the
devil will
"That spirit never falls to work:
and the weak man, the unprotected
man. the man alone-the man on the
farm. at the end of the fact, when his
farm market is gone, when this town
is gone, when the spirit OF selfishness
and greed has left this country cold
and hard and mean and neighborless
the farmer will he the hindermost.
$50 I am glad to know that this
association is taking up this work-a
cherries. thankless but necessary
patriotic task-and pushing 1t to ?
successful conclusion. You have my
heartiest sympathy and may call up
on me whenever I can help"
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
Modern Milling Ideas

are followed in its manufacture process making lumber today
costly few and much better lumber pro-
is first class lumber made under modern methods
a prices low enough to
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21

Writing to the convention of the
Southwestern Lumberman's Associa-
ton, held recently at Kansas City. he
says:
Il am exceedingly sorry that l can
not attend your convention 1t seems
to me that the lumbermen of this sec
ton are undertaking work that
should commend them to all good
citizens.
"The preservation of the home
trade to the home town carries with
it the preservation of many of our
American institutions.
1T seems to me that lot of good
things in American life will pass il
the country town passes. And it will
pass Just as surely as Capitalization
OF retail mail order business In cities
continues.
"The American country town, the
town of from one hundred to one
hundred thouand people. preserves
better than the crowded city and bet
ter than the lonely ranch and iso-
lated farm life. the things that make
America great.
Here in these country towns the
spirit of neighborliness is the pre-
vailing spirit. Men come to know one
another and when any two human be-
ings come to know one another, in
the one who is intelligent and wise
respect always rises for the other.
To know ones fellows always is to
sympathize with them. Neighborliness
spells fraternity.
"The American country town with
its broad circle of friendships, with
its close homely simple relations be-
tween men, with its spirit of Coop
Grafton and with its economic status
that permits the creation OF no in
decently rich and no abjectly poor,
the American country town. 1t seems
to me. is the most hopeful of our
Ameriacn institutions.
"To destroy that town. furnishing
the market for the farmer and giving
steady employment to labor, means a
reorganization of our commercial, So
cial and industrial life that will be
revolutionary-and more a matter OF
doubtful value.
THE mail order house therefore
becomes a menace to this country, the
mail order house unrestricted Will
kill our smaller towns, creating great
cities with their terrible contrasts of
life. with their cruel social relations.
with their inevitable caste feeling
that comes from the presence u
strangers who are rich and poor liv-
ing side by side.
Friendship. neighborliness, frater-
nifty or whatever you will call that
spirit of comradery that comes when
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21

merce. 260 strong. will undoubtedly
be back of Mr.. Newell and his asso-
ciates to man in recommending this
land, and inviting those who are
looking for location on some of the
best available land in the valley. TO
look 1t over.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
Save Money for You

spells had entirely ceased. Foiey'a
Honey and Tar Compound can't De
beat" It stops the cough by healing
the cause. Refuse substitutes.-For
sale by all Druggists
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21
Trail Runs Through Land.

The Santa Fe Trail and Rainbow
Route, and the state highway, as rec
ognized by the state highway COM
mission, from both Pueblo and Colo
Tado Springs to Canon City run di-
rectly through the heart OF this land.
For this reason Mr. Newell has very
sptly appropriated the name, Rain
bow Addition, and the plat when
completed by the engineers will be
filed under that title. thus giving to
Florence the first addition to take its
name from the Rainbow Route. The
county commissioners of Fremont
county were over the land last wee.S
and have arranged to commence work
next week, If the wather will permit
on a sanded turn pike, which will
be constructed east from the end ol
Third street in Florence to the Soda
spring. a distance of about two miles
This will be one of the first links In
the Santa Fe Trail and Rainbow
Route to be put in perfect shape since
the recommendation of that route as
the link in the transcontinentai high
way.
The Florence Chamber of Com
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-21

Mr.. ard Mrs. David L. Robson and
two children. Lyman and Margaret,
left this afternoon on the Santa Fe
for San Diego. Callr