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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-13
Everybody Should Come To
This Trading Festival
GENUINE BARGAINS IN EVERY LINE OF BUSINESS
Stores Crowded With Immense Stocks
Wonderful Values OfferedIn SeaSonable Merchandise
srful Values Offered In SeaSonable Merchandise

The Merchants of Bedji
and their buyers in
order give real genuine
have Bemd done
This great "Trading Festival course considerable
competition the better for
those who buy and line
business.
Never before in the history Bemidii
offered such immense stocks from which
select.
noer THIS plan the shoppers
their patronage they DESIRE Each store
will issue efundng
Will be paid in cash to the
to the Office of the Bemd act as clearing house
in refunding fares stores
The only condition Fare that the
aggregate purchases
vary for the various number of
You will time bnvinq
trip by using the advertising for YOUR bnvne
guide Turn to the advertising now
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-13
Stores Make Arrangements
To Welcome Visitors
Big CROWDS ARE ANTICIPATED EACH DAY
Railroad Fares Are To Be Refunded
Every Merchant Offers Wonderful Inducements
Railroad Fares Are To Be Refunded
reliant Offers Wonderful Inducements


"Cooperave
Bemidji
plan large continue
Saturday.
December
be
passed duplicated city
refund your railroad
if of
Trading Festival
merchandise.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-13
SPECIAL BARGAINS OFFERED HERETOFORE UNE0UAIED
BUY FROM THESE MERCHANTS

ABERCROMBIE'S-Novel Store
AKERBERG & KITTLEsON-Men's FURNISHINGS
BARKER'S-Drug and Jewelry Store
GEO. T. BAKER & CO-Jewelry Store
BAZAAR STORE-Dry Goods Etc---~~~~@s . ~
BATTLES-Hardware Store.
BERMAN EMPORIUM-Dry Goods, Etc.
T. ]. CRANE & CO.-Women's Ready -to-wear ETC.
CARLSON'S-Varety Store
FAIR STORE-Five and Ten Cent Store
GILL Notwithstanding Store.
GIVEN HARDWARE COMPANY
LAHR'S-Furnture Store.
MEGROTHS- Variety Store
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Store
NETZER'S-Drug Store
OLEARY- BOWsER co. - Dry Goods and Clothing
Store
PALMERS- Hardware Store
PIONEER-Offce and School Supply Store.
ROE & MARKUSENS- Grocery Store
SCHNEIDER BROTHERS Clothing Store
W. G. SCHROEDER General Merchandise
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-13
To Advertise Bemidj As A Trading Center
Reason For The Movement

which
outof-town
town
ouotown buvers
this Cooperative advertise Be-
midi the trading
Bemidji now for yourself and family
advantages offered during this
"Cooperative Trading
Turn to the Advertising
put down this
Big Opening Day
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-13
Be Sure You Trade With
Merchants Who Have
Agreed To Refund Fare
HOW TO GET YOUR FARE BACK


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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1

l
The hinges of true friendship never rust.
Don't spare the rod if you expect 10
get any fish.
The man who invests in green goods
must want money bad
MANY a bewhiskered man has been
known to tell barefaced lies.
A woman always suspects another WON
an who never sheds tears.
It's an easy matter to forgive those who
treSpaSs against others
woman's second thoughts are nearly
always the most unsatisfactory
There is always more or less prejudice
against man holding an office.
man isn't far from right when he's
willing to admit that he is in the wrong
If a man doesn't know how to make
love to a widow she knows how to teach
him.
And every man who owns a dog thinks
the animal has more sense than his
neighbor.
girl knows a lot of things she doesn' t
want certain young man to know that
she knows
Notwithstanding all the arguments that
have taken place, few disputed questions
have been settled
When a girl tells young man that he
may have a kiss If he can catch her she
invariably manages to get caught
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
says UNCLE CAV

Trust your ambitions. For every
man who has made himself a con-
spicuous Ounce through the pursuit of
Ill-founded aspirations a thousand
have failed for want of such spur.
There is no choice in this matter.
Not until you have devoted life
times effort to the accomplishment of
some high purpose can you tell to a
hind your ambitions or merely pride.
Moreover, when pride puts enough
steam into your mental and physical
activities, it becomes genius. For
genius, after all, is courage, persis-
teIce and concentration. These quail
ties attain mastery, and he who is
master of men or his art Or his bust
ness VIC call g. genius. There is no bet
te- definition and none more fraught
with hope for the climber.
So wise a man as Emerson was
wont to utter warnings against the Sc
auctions of ambitions which might
lack the necessary concomitant of
genius. Genius, however, Is seldom a
birthright; it is rather attained. The
first step to genius is ambition. With
out it potential genius sleeps forever.
Tho, world refuses to recognize as
seniuses those overeducated ne'er-t1o-
wells who are never of use. It knows
only one kind of talent-that which
gets results. And the desire for results
is ambition.
He who stops to consider whether
his ambition is i'll founded never ar
ClN0S. Inc greatest Things IN the WCrlQ
have been seemingly 1npossible-the
work Of men whose aspirations were
apparently absurd. ! carpenters son
with all mankind against him became
one of the two greatest religious forces
of all times. A diTninutive, i11-favored,
unpopular. obscure Corsican became
emperor of France and master of
Europe. The glory Of Greece is the
name of a blind singer. A nerve
wrecked hunch-back with military
ambition. debarred by physical de-
fofmity from service in his own coun-
try, mC1ded unwarlike coolies into an
army the other day. freed China from
the Manchus and esta blished the lat
est republic.
There have been Few fruitful am
billions since the dawn of time that
were rot ill-founded, absurd and
ridiculous Trust your ambitions-it
is the explanation of the divine para
dox by which the stone rejected of the
builders becomes the head of the coll
1912, by the Nc
CIure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
SHILLING THE RoosTER's CROW

Burbank, the wizard of fruits and
flowers and all things growing, de-
serves well of his countrymen. The
things he has done in the way of
grafting-not the legislative kind bu.
that of horticulture-have added to
the pleasure of nations in the eatins
line. The things he intends to do
wedding the EGGPLANT to the milk
weed and then grating a tiny bit Of
the vanilla bean, so that every family
with an by 10 garden patch, or even
the ordinary window box, can have
full favored ice cream, winter o.
summer-wilI make him more of
popular hero.
Still, with these present and pros
pective honors,. Burbank cannot lay
claim to all the gratitude of his fel-
low citizens. A silica big slice
must go to A. ]. Wienland, a retired
chemist of Santa Monica, Cal, for his
epoch making discovery.
Burbank took the seeds from fruit
and vegetables; Wienland claims to
have taken the morning crow out of
chanticleer. His plan follows his for
mer occupation and IS medicate6 in
stead of murderous. He doesn't ex-
tract the crow by wringing the roosu-
er's neck or by some wonderful gall
linaceous surgery. He just gives the
bird a, dose of the dope he has con
cocted and, 10, no more of the early
morning call, or as Rostand, the
French dramatist, poetized it, in
''Chantecier, his barnyard drama,
the invocation to the sun.
While keeping the secret of his dis
covery safe hid within his breast, Ny
Wienland has a neighborhood gener-
osity. All his friends in Santa Monica,
they say, have been given samples of
the decoction and the town now boasts
that it is as quiet as Failing Waters
in the good. old Rip Van Winkelian
time. The dope is Harmless, and if, as
is probably the case. the inventor in
tends to put his goods on the marker,
he should have a gold mine in his
back yard for the rest of his life.
Prosperity may make him unambi-
tious, but it does seem that a man who
can do this crow-removing stunt
should keep on his philanthropic Ia
bors and concoct a medicine that viii
take the snore out of the slumber of
the sleeping car pest, or the mora
common terror of the flat. 1t might
be administered in his coffee, like the
secret jag cures which lure good dol
lars from Inundated but optimistic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21

charge of the defense in the case of
Becker, the lieutenant of police in
New York now standing trial for muir
der, are adopted by the bar in gen.
eraI.
In wedding out his tale of jurors,
Mr.. Mcintyre was very peremptory IN
challenging scrawny dark-eyed men
who admitted that they were bache-
lors. He had theory and, if it
proves successful, every other lawyer
in the land, anxious for success, no
matter how it comes, will adopt the
Mcintyre tactics. Mcintyre accepted
without protest every man who had
blue eyes, and was fat and married.
He explained his choice in this way:
BIue-eyed men are thinkers. They
can weigh and analyze evidence and
so can not be swayed by the emo
tional and the immateriaL Little men
are cantankerous and grouchy. They
nurse a grudge against the world be-
cause of their stature and they pay
it off every chance they can get.
And, finally, he prefers married men
because their welded life has taught
them seriousness and responsibility,
so that they will feel the weight of
their position better than filter
gibbet bachelor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21

ITS Prudence" cried Richard; I'm
go and get her."
When the young man reached the
rocks. he Jumped out of his dory ana
s'Your father is on my boat" he said
joyfully. Hes run away from Ben
Bassett's. and he says we can get
married.
Prudence sat down suddenly on the
rocks. Gracious" she calculated, /
didn't think it would work as well
as all that. And now what do you
think I'd better do, Richard?"
Marry me at once" said Richard,
preacher, and take you both out to
the schooner. and your father can
give us his blessings. and then we !,
all take a little cruise together, TIL
things blow over a bit with Ben. he
can be pretty hateful when he wants
to be-
The wedding supper had as its
main dish a pot Of baked beans !,
with plenty of pork in it" SAID
the captain, slicing through the crisp
brown rind. 1T seems as If coulo-
mt eat enough to fill up, Prudie. l
was as empty as a drained hogshead:"
you're 81 dear" said wise little
Prudence, as she kissed him on top
of his head. Then she tucked her
hand into her husbands arm. RICH
ard is a Dear. too, and 1 love you
both, and that's better than having
a house on hill, and owning coal
yard"
yes, it's" said the captain, light
ing his pipe, but you and me and
Richard have got to learn to save.
I amt goin' hack on what | said, that
a savin' husband will keep you out or
the poorhouse. But don't begin on
the food, Prudie. till your old fathers
gone. I want to have pork for my
beans, and butter for my bread as old
age creeps upon me. It's a little thing
to ask, but 1 guess you and Richard
will see to it that I amt brought down
to water gravy
And Richard and Prudence, think
ing of things sublime, smiled over his
head, and promised in glance more
than he had Copyright, 1912,
by McClure's Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
QUAKER fluctuations.
[From the Philadelphia RECORD.

EF'rom the Philadelphia Record.I
Too many strings spoil the beau.
Many a reed bird is as thin as rail-
1t comes much harder for some people
to spend money than to make 1t.
1t takes a lot of Imagination to be a
poet, or even to imagine you are one.
Most girls are just as pretty as they
can be. If they are not it's their own
fault.
Wigg-'I always take things as I find
Them Wagg-"So does a burglar"
The Lord helps him who helps himself,
but don't let that prevent you from help
ing others.
Sillicus-'Pm crazy to get married -
Cynicus-"Far be it from me to contradict
you
Conscience and custom house officials
are apt to trouble those who shirk their
duty.
Nell-"What makes YOU so positive
Maude is engaged?'' ''BeIle-"She takes
such pains to deny it."
THE land of promise may be very allur-
ing says the Manayunk Philosopher,
but give me a land where people pay"
Blobbs-''Wigwag goes about his work
with such air of resignation SlobbS-
Eyes, he expects to lose his job
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
FQO9s OTHER pEN5
PENSIONING POETS.

Mildly strenuous efforts are being
made in America just now to revive the
love of poetry in the general reading
public prominent New York pape-
recently carried on a lively contest for
tha purpose of securing good original
verse, while 4 magazine bearing tho
simple title Poetry has launched its
first number in Chicago and has been
received with approval-by the news
Papers at least. On the other hand, an
English writer inveighs against the
civilization that spends many million
dollars to build a dreadnought and let's
such poets as Richard Middleton and
Jchn Davidson die of psychological and
physical starvation. According to Mrs
Frank Harries. the suicide of the p0es
Middleton in Brussels last year and the
demise of John Davidson, who also
gave up life in disgust, is a national dis
grace. IT would rather lose a dreud-
nCUght than a Divtdson or d Middleton.
lie asserts. 1T would be better to stone
them than to starve them; better hate
thnn this ineffable, callous contempt It
is her best and her greatest whom Eng
land persecutes: the second best and
the third best and the fifth are laudcd
to the brazen skies" Versifiers In Eng
land. as well as in America. will nod
approval no matter how poor their pro-
ducts may seem TO the readers. But 1t
will be a long while before England or
any other nation ambitious to be class
ed among the worlds powers, refrains
from laying down dreadnoughts in o.
der to pension poets. After all, why
should a poet be pensioned any more.
than any other creator of literature or
art that gives pleasure to the multi
tudes? And there are cases of poets
who ask no crumbs from a rich mans
table, but take care of themselves:
Rudyard Kipling and James Whitcorlo
Riley, for instance.-Cincinnati Times
Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHTsOHe GLOBE.

Carelessness causes more of your trou-
BILE than hard luck.
What Link Preston really wants is a
prosperity that will permit drones to
thrive
An optimist finds some consolation N
the fact that, if he could get what he
wants, he might not want 1t.
More voting is done on the strength of
prejudice than careful investigation of
the issues at stake.
There are various ways of learning
economy, although working ones way
through school probably is the most eff
fective.
There is temperance lecture reflected
in the barlxeep's diamond, but those as
sembled SO often are in poor condition
for reading.
About the only way the average man
can determine whether his suit is all wool
or not is by the price he pays. Even
then it is no cinch.
Savages wore necklaces. as the women
do now, but those bold barbartans never
dug up any form of torture like the liner
collar with a ripsaw edge.
noted offensive athlete was asked
what to do if held up by a highway
man. do what he tells you, and apollo
gize for not having more to give" was
the wise answer
One can tell an ugly woman she is L.
teresting,'' or fascinating" and get by
az well as by praising her personal
pulchritude and sometimes more TRUTH
fully but not always
When blooming young girl of eighteen
tells of her method of facial massage,
somehow it doesn't cause woman, VINO
is on the seamy side of forty-five to build
any great hopes on what 1t Will do loc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
THE DANCER OF BLUE EYES.

Any man knows whether he is tall
or short, plump or thin, but it's a. fair
shot that, unless he is more of an
observer than the average citizen, he
can not tell the color of his eyes. And
though he is a lover. married or sin
gle, it is almost safe odds that the hue
of the eyes of wife or sweetheart are
as vague to him, though he has often
celebrated their beauty, at one time
or another.
1t behooves him, however to learn
the color of his own orbs. The other
doesn't matter, except in a senti-
mental way. But if a man, looking
in the glass, discovers that he has
blue eyes, then he has cause to be
fearful. And if. in addition, he is
large, fat and married he can mark
up his batting average of uneasiness
to 1000 right away.
To be black-eyed. thin and mar
riage-free will give him a far better
chance to escape jury duty than the
blue-eyed. fat husband, If the court
tactics of Lawyer Mcintyre. who has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
HUAOR or THE Dry

And you are going to have the hero
and heroine of your story live happily
forever after? mo. just the opposite. .
Just the opposite? How so?' I'm going
to have them marry one another."-Hous-
ton Post
Patience-Jack is back from the sea
shore Patrice-Without a cent, I suppose2
Patience-No; he brought back quite a lot
of money with him. Patrice-YOu don't
mean to say Jack went down there a.
a waiter?-Yonke Statesman.
observation-disclosures Maggie hoid
dis bag o. peanuts fer me fer a minute
Unused.-"Sir. 1 have all the gems OF
English literature in my library" Yea
and I notice they are uncut gems ''-BkG
timore American.
''J4m's gal told her folks she was eoina
out to find a stylish coiffeur. What ~
of a thing is that7'' I'm ashamed -
your ignorance, Bill. It's one Of fbe5,
fellers what steers the ottymobbles- -
Baltimore American.
You never get what you want in tbt.
restaurant" said the irritable n ~, ms
Y GU can IL you know how to order. re-
piled the sad, sarcastic man. ar want
something cool I ask for a Gun ~ -
coffee and If want something warn
call for iced tea-"-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
Automatic Savings Device.

The Nuremberg City Savings bank
(Stadtische Sparkasse NLernberg), a mu-
ncipaI institution, has installed three au-
tomato devices for the announcement OF
saving among school children. These au-
tomats. upon the deposit of a 1O-pfennig
piece (2-38 cents) in the slot. deliver
gummed 10-pfennig savings stamp. The
bank furnishes without charge n saving.
card, inches square, marked OF into 81
squares, to which these stamps are to be
attached When the card is filled up A:
represents the value of marks "a q
centsD, and upon presentation at the hank
the depositor's account is credited WITT
that amount. One of these automats mas
been placed In the corridor OF the bank
office at the city hall and the other two
in the corridors of high school buildings
These stamp automats cost about $40
each- They are installed in the hope that
they may induce children to save their
lo-pfennig pieces rather than spend them
Tor candy ice cream, or other tempta-
tons, enough of which are always in evil
dence. If results are satisfactory. more
or these automats will be installed al
suitable places.-United States Consular
Report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
FALL DAYS ON THE FARM.

There isn't a spot in Christendom
where the full meaning of homelife, the
pride of possession and the dignity of
! independence are so exemplif1ed as
they are exemplifed in every hour,
these autumn days, out on the farm,
says IT, Kansas IndustriaIist. 1t may
satisfy a few disgruntled ones to smart
against the Back to the Land" move
ment but these unhappy wanderers
would know d joy past all understand
ing if only they could wake, one of
these crisp mornings, where no trolley
car disturbed the dawn, with break
fast served right where it grew; eggs
above suspicion and bacon made at
home.
No man ever enjoys anything quite
so much as he enjoys the product of
knows, of course, that his labor pays
for his food, but in the country-if the
old traditions still exist, as, happily,
they do exist in some fine homes of
Kansas-some member of the family
can point to some item of the daily
menu and say he produced it. That
ham, as a case in point, was not cured
and smoked with a thousand other
hams of unknown lineage. It grew
there, on the home place, and father
and mother and the children, possibly,
knew it by name-this ham and its
partner, all through it's roofing and
pasturing days. And when hog-killin'
time came round didn't the whole
family turn out and see the start?
Didn't father and the boys get up a
little earlier than usuaI-which surely
is going some-to get the fire built
under the stones? How about the
head cheese and the sausage that fol-
lowed, last winter? And the wheat
cakes that belong with every self-re-
specting hog-kiIlin' time? Aren't
these memories worth while? Well,
rather.
Go way with your theaters and your
stenOgrapher jobs and your street
earring and "shuffering.'' Talk not
in mournful numbers of lights that
dazzle and smiles that draw. One Whit
of hickory smoke from the old place,
one frosty morning, one breakfast
with father and mother there-even if
father was sore about something and
no one knew what in nation it was
even if there was pile of wood 40
feet high to be cut for mother, even if
we had to use the old, sharp-rimmed
tub, of Saturday night, even if there
were Is cows to milk and every one
of them kicked-every hard and knot
ty problem would be a joy, if once
it was lived, for one fine autumn morn
ing, now, back on the farm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
EVENING CHIT

Here is a problem in mathematics
| for every thoughtful American. If the
present generation is in twice as much
/ of a hurry as the past generation, at
/ what pace will the next generation
travel?
Now that the children have gone
back to school, when I look out my
study window, almost every morning
see at least two or three youngsters
walking their little legs off, or actually
running towards school.
Thus early is the American habit Of
! hurrying for every appointment in
augurated. Thus early do 1 say?
| What am I thinking about? Accord
ing to one letter friend our children
are taught the hurrying habit as soon
as they leave the cradle. Please write
something" she urges me, "about the
way people try to make little chill
| dren keep UP with their own longer
| strides. 1t makes me feel very sad
| to see a little fodder not more than
two or three years old dragged along
at a dog trot to keep up with some
| older person. feel sure that the seeds
of heart disease are sown in that way
1 don't doubt it, my friend, and L
also feel sure that these seeds are
tended and watered by the hurrying
to school habit, which careless par
ents permit.
In fact, 1 once came into contact
with tragic proof of that fact. For
little girl whom 1 used to know ran
all the way to school one hot after
noon after a hearty monday meal,
dropped into her scat, laid her head
on the desk for the opening prayer and
never lifted it again.
OF course, such tragedies as that are
mercifully rare, but even when it does
not cause any immediate calamity, the
hurrying habit is sooner or later a
trouble breeder, and We ought to teach
our children to fight it.
I suppose we hurry because we hope
to accomplish more, to crowd more into
our days, but if you will take notice
you will find that the people who ac-
complish the most are those who never
hurry.
AT a house where I once boarded,
the 12-year-old daughter of the hostess
did all the serving. Two grown women
would undoubtedly have baked at her
task, for there were sometimes 80 or
40 guests, but this wonderful little girl
performed it gracefully and sereneIy 1
used to watch her in wonder for she
never carried more than two or three
dishes at a time and she was not old
tific management. The secret of her
success was simply that she never hur-
ried and hence was never fIurried,
never lost time or poise.
The best thing this generation can
do for the next is to refuse to pass
on its own heritage of hurry. Let us
do what we can to teach our children
that the truest proverO ever written
IS Haste makes waste and waste
not only of time but of happiness, !
health and efficiency.