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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01

department store is conducted. It's
buyers search the market for bar
gains, and when bargains are found
the fact is published broadcast to
the world. It's advertisements are
found in cities thirty or forty miles
away, and draw trade from right
under the noses of the city mer-
chants. Besides newspaper adver-
tisements in every community within
reach, this store sends out newsy
and intimate circular letters to rural
customers beyond the reach of news
paper advertisements. BY one means
or another the scent of bargains is
scattered far and wide, and train
of customers, following this irresis-
tible scent, finds it's way steadily to
the doors of the cornfield emporium.
Not every rural merchant, of
course, can build up such a business.
But every rural merchant can build
up a solid, far-reaching trade by
intelligent use of the same methods.
The bargain-hunt is fascinating
game. It is because they think they
are getting bargains that people
patronize the great mail order houses.
Usually they are not, all things con-
sidered, getting anything like the
bargains they think they are getting.
But the point is that the mail order
houses, through it's advertisements
and it's catalogues, appeals to this
natural thirst for bargains, and so
profits enormously at the expense Of
the non-advertising merchant. =
There are some rural stores in
Minnesota whose proprietors are get
ting rich because they have taken a
lesson from the catalogue houses and
the city department stores, and have
learned to offer and advertise bar
gains. There might be thousand
such stores if the proprietors would
buck up little and use the local
newspaper in an Intelligent and en-
terprising way.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01

Across the ocean in Europe are
thousands of men who are lonely and
who would like to receive a letter
from some person in this country.
A society recently organized in
New York is having people adopt SOL
diers by letters. When soldier is
adopted he receives letters, cigar
cites, clothing, etc., from the person
who adopts him, so as to make him
comfortable while at the front.
The idea is very fine and the re-
suits can be seen from a letter re-
ceived by a London paper from a
lonely soldier. The letter is as fol-
lows:
"The other day one of my pals
put me wise to the fact that there is
a society or something connected
with your paper having for it's OBJ
ject the befriending of soldiers who
have no people or friends who will
write to them while at the front.
IF that is right, put me on the list,
for the Love of Mike, as am the real,
genuine, unadulterated article. I
have lived the best part of my life
in the U. S. A. and had come to con-
slider myself a rue-blue-son-of-a-gu
of Yankee, until this scrap started
Well, as you know blood is thicker
than water. The only friends I've got
are the guys who will be waiting for
me with the glad hand if I should
happen to get back to Chicago with
few dollars in my pocket.
$50 if any of the Lonely Soldier
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01
A GREAT COUNTRY STORE.

Forest Crissey in the Saturday
Evening Post tells the story of a
country store, "cornfeld empor-
ium," he calls it, which might have
been exactly like any other of a
hundred thousand country stores
struggling along and echoing with
the walls of it's proprietor because
the mail order houses were putting
him out of business-but which does
an annual business of four hundred
thousand dollars, and draws trade
from many miles around, even from
cities of considerable size.
The story carries lesson to rural
merchants, lesson worth a lot of
money, says the Duluth Herald.
There were two reasons why this
Ttore succeeded while thousands up
IN thousands of other stores similar
situated fail, or hang on by the
kin of their teeth.
These reasons are that the pro-
7rietors studied merchandising, and
that they did not hide their light
Lnder bushel.
In other words, they sought bar
:-..ains, and they advertised.
The trouble with the average
country merchant who does not sue
= sed is that he hides his light under
:. bushel.
He may have bargains to Offer
Tough it takes a study and under
landing of merchandising and an
arnest pursuit of wholesale bar
~--ains to have them-but he leaves
is customers to find it out for them
slves. While his competitors are
lending thousands of dollars in ad-
ertising, he is spending little or
0thing. He may, indeed, have a
ord in the local paper announcing
>.e fact that he is in business; which
erybody knew already. But that
3 the next thing to zero in advertis-
ag, fon a merchant.
This "cornfeld emporium" is con-
t-.:lcted exactly as successful city
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01

When Mayor McCuaig revoked the
license of Frank Dewey's pool hall
he carried out the desires of the cit
izens of Bemidji.
AS the mayor said at the hearing g
yesterday morning, "selling liquor in
a pool room is a greater offense than
if sold in a building formerly used
as a saloon"
II all the city, state and federal
authorities will take the firm stand
that Mayor McCuaig took in the
Dewey case, it will not be long be-
fore the liquor laws and Indian
treaties will be enforced to the let
ter.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01
GOLFERS EXCITED BY
TRAGEDY AT CLUB

Cedar Rapids, Ia., Oct. 1.-Angry
because his wife had divorced him,
Joseph P. Lesinger, a teamster, went
to the country club where Mrs. Les
niger was employed as stewardess
and shot her as she stood at tele-
phone and then turned his revolver
on himself. Lesinger died shortly
afterward and Mrs. Lesinger is in
critical condition. The tragedy
caused great excitement at the club,
where many business men were play
ing golf.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01
MARTHA WASHINGTON'S
WILL GIVEN TO STATE

Richmond, Va, Oct IL. P. Nor
gan has sent to Justice James Keith,
president of the Virginia court of ap-
peals, to be disposed of by him at
his own discretion, the will of Mrs.
Martha Washington, taken from
Fairfax court house by a federal SOL
dier during the war and bought by
the late J. Pierpont Morgan for his
library.
Fairfax Harrison, president of the
Southern railway, was the mediator
between Mr.. Morgan and Governor
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01
BLOT ON OUR 'sCUTCHE0N.

Very much impressed with the
road system Of California, which he
has inspected recently, Engineer
Cooley of the State Highway Com
mission, has returned to remark that
the roads of Minnesota are very far
below par, says the St. Paul Pioneer
Press. He might have proceeded
much further. With some notable
system. The beauties of the state
are inaccessible and a large charge
is levied upon the agricultural in
terest by the failure of the people
to realize the value of good roads.
For at least ten years the gospel
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01

At Ottawa the street cars are
equipped with clocks. Thank for
tune, no self-respecting American
street car company would so sinfully
waste space on a clock when it might
just as we'll have the room to ram
in another passenger.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01
FOOTBALL GAME WITH
ENEMY WAS BARRED

Winnipeg, Man., Oct. 1--we
found the Saxons in the German army
mighty decent fellows, and would
have had a football game if the su-
perior officers would have stood for
it," says I. R. Buck, homesteader of
Swift Current, Sask., in Winnipeg
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01
CHS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE

We begin to understand
that it is not nationalities,
nor Principalities, nor Gov-
ernments that are entitled to
possess this earth, but just
men and women and children
wherever found. Humanity
is One because God is One.
Men of different nations are
not of different natures; and
it is fantastic egotism-mad-
ness, phobia, sheer diablerie,
to think otherwise. America
composite of all nations, "half
brother to the world" owned
in common by all who come
to her, is witness to this
eternal truth; a truth which
from out the blackness of this
brooding horror shines like
the Skekinah.-(Selected)
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01
THE BAZAAR STORE

people want to be a pal to me, I say
to them, come now, make no delay;
as the poet says, come early and
avoid the rush, r.:- ...
The lonely Halsted streeter's name
was not disclosed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01

Stuart and Justice Keith. The will
probably will be placed by consent
in fireproof vault at Mount Ver-
ion.
The state of Virginia had a suit
pending in the supreme court of the
United States to compel Morgan to
return the will.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01

today bound for home from the front
in France.
Hello, Canadians" was their
greeting to us as we relieved the
British in the trenches, he said.
"Our trenches we're so close together
we could readily speak to each 9TH
err
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01
How About Your Home
~
During Bemidji Dressup Week

No other store has more to offer than
0urs when it comes to DRESSING the home
properly: We have nothing else to offer.
but home DRESSUP articles. Our lines are
entirely for the home.
If you toy up yourselves you should
be fair to your living apartments They
should be in keeping with your best "T0GS".
Let us help you.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24

He was the night-watchman Of an
apartment house uptown, but gave
her an easy speech to the effect that
he was Bill Mendelssohn, a grandson
of old man Mendelssohn, who once
wrote wedding march so carelessly
that 1t is now used as a coon song.
She gasped and gurgled with de-
light-in Bohemia and having the time
of her young fife, so let her dream.
In the meantime Hep, with bucket
of wine, was busy trying to put out
the fire in the well Max used as a
neck.
Every time waiter looked at our
table Hep's roll would blaze up.
Peaches presently concluded she'd
broaden out a bit on Art and the Old
Masters, SO she asked Max II he liked
Rembrandt.
Max looked at her out Of the cor
ner Of his eye and murmured, Much
'bliged, but I'm up to here now!"
Then he pointed at his Adams
Apple and fell asleep.
Hep was beginning to see double
Every once in a mile he'd stop hum
ming Here Comes My Daddy Now
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24
WHITE, GRUB A MOST
TANTALIZING PEST
No Way of Preventing Its Depre-
dation6 Other Than to ThWart
Its Propagation.
fRv NJ. N. EDGERToN.N

In connection with the work of grow
Ing Strawberries the white grub is a
most tantalizing opposing force. Be-
cause of the manner in which 1t works
there is no way of preventing it's dep
relations, other than by preventing its
propagation.
Land in sod is the favorite place of
these grubs, hence 1t is good policy to
fallow such land two seasons prior to
setting to strawberries. This is the
only way to clean them out effectually.
AS it is not good for land to lie idle
and bare for such length of time, it
Is best to grow some sort of hoed crop.
Corn is preferable to potatoes, because
the grub seems to thrive on a potato
diet, feeding as it does ON the tubers.
The practice of growing corn after
sod and following with peas is good
one. Thorough cultivation of the corn
row kills the grass roots, and the pea
crop enriches the soil, both in humus
aud plant food.
But even when all due precautions
have been taken, the grub often re
mains, although in greatly reduced
numbers. Its presence may be detect
ed by the behavior of the plant at
tackled. When a plant fails to keeI
up with its fellows in growth ant
vigor one may be sure there is trouble
somewhere, and many times one o.
these grubs will be found at the base
of the plant. feeding on its roots.
AS this is the only portion of thu
plant attacked by the grub the plants
cannot be protected by the use of poi
sons. 1t is not often that the plan
attacked can be saved, but the killing
of the grub will save other plants, as I
grub goes from one plant to another
destroying a dozen or more If un
checked.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24
Rx NJ. coYERDELL.


Most farmers seem to breed the
cow with no concern as to her re-
sourcefulness or enduring qualities.
Shs is bred at an early age; bred
again just as soon as she will come in
heat after her first calving; held right
to her milk as nearly as possible to
the next calving time, and handled
thus until she is worn out, and no
longer useful.
With such management, her un-
born calf will have much of its susie
nance taken from it on account of the
nourishment going toward keeping up
the cow, which results in a weakened
offspring, and this influence gradually
wields a most deteriorating effect on
the grade Of the herd in general, since
each succeeding calf will be still more
undesirable than the one before it.
We have seen COWS whose nature
rebelled against such treatment, and
invariably these animals positively re-
fused to come in sufficient heat to be
gotten with calf. This shows, con
clusively, that the COW requires and
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24
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The head waiter met US at the edge
Of the reservation.
Hep slipped him something that
made noise like five dollars and the
H. w. bowed. Hep slipped him again
and he bowed lower. Hep slipped
him another little map Of the mint and
H. WIS forehead scraped the floor.
Hep ceased slipping and the H. W..
came up on the other side and led
US to a table.
The room was adazzle with Gaudy
Lights. Rag-time music hurried away
from preoccupied orchestra, hit the
ceiling, bounced off and scampered
around the tables. Laughter, both re-
fined and careless, tried to drown the
clatter of dishes-and won out. Ctga-
rette smoke and Mary Garden per-
fume clinched in a death struggle all
over the place and Mary put the boots
to Murad every time.
$50 this is, Bohemia!" sighed
Peaches as the head waiter pulled out
a chair and dared her to sit down.
John, dear, do point out the celebri-
ties to me, won't your
"They haven't come in yet" I CUR
gled, and Hep let loose a laugh SO
nearly like that of a nervous coyote
that four walters rushed up, prepared
to take any kind of tip.
Just as we were sinking gracefully
into our plush chairs, and the Sicilian
brigand was about to take our order
who should float into the dry-dock but
Max Mincenstein, one of Hep's friends
after 2 A. M.
/ don't know how Max ever pressed
close enough to get on Hep's staff.
Max has money. He'll always have
1.-THE same money.
Max is lazy loosener.
When the waiter returns with the
check Max is the busiest talker IL
the bunch.
Max loves money. Money loves
Max. They are inseparable.
Whenever Max passes a bank hi
takes of his hat and walks on hi
toes.
spoke his name rapidly when in
. troduced Max to Peaches, but as sh'
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24
WORK AROUND FARM
DURING The SPRING
Good Plan to Clip Work Horses
Clean Seed Before Planting
Gull Poultry Flock.

Mighty good plan to clip the horses
before the spring work begins-but
not too soon.
Do not rush the work in the gardens.
Time will be saved by waiting until
the ground gets warm, no matter what
the date may be.
Are you going to SOW seed without
cleaning it, and then raise big crop
Of weeds? Buy, beg or borrow a fan
ming mill.
Never buy seed from a dealer in a
far-away city, unless he is willing to
guarantee that it is pure. If he will
not guarantee his seed, be sure it is
wrong.
Getting seed corn from the crib in
the same old, haphazard way this
spring? Or, perhaps you are paying
fancy prices to dealers rather than
save your own seed? Either way is
bad business.
Do not let the trees from the nursery
lie in the wind single hour without
covering with a wet gunny sack or
damp earth. The latter is better.
Best way is to have your nursery
orders in long before planting time
with instructions to ship when you are
ready to receive them, and not a day
before.
Get rid of all the fuzzy-wuzzy old
hens and roosters. Remember that
any hen over two years old is moi
worth her keep.
1t is a pity to put sitting hens, OF
hens with chicks into old, louse-rid
den houses, when a bit of burning sui
phur, a spraying with kerosene aut
soap, or whitewashing will make the
premises sweet and clean. Going t
try it?
Rake every bit of rubbish from tn,
orchard, leaving not a thing undel
which bug may hide to hatch ou
trouble later. Suppose it does take
few hours to do it-how can we EN-
ploy the time to better advantage?
If the garden is plowed too early /
will be lumpy, and things vegetabl,
will not do well on Jumps. Harrow an,
disk, and then again, and once more
until the ground to the depth of 81,
inches is fine and fluffy.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24
.RIDDING POULTRY
OF LICE Is URGED
Chickens Enjoy Natures Way by
Dustlng in Light, Dry Earth
Best Dust Baths.

Natures way of Kidding poultry of
lice is frequent busting of light, dry
earth. Chickens seem to enjoy moth.
ing better, and certainly nothing does
them more good.
Birds are sometimes yarded ON the
tarm to prevent their getting into the
garden but wherever they are they
should be provided with some sort of
a dust bath.
In the summer the best dust baths
are made by spading places in the
yard, each about a yard square and
ten inches deep. If there are anv
stones in the dirt, it should be sifted
Care must be taken to have the dirt
nne and free from pebbles, or the
hens will not use 1t. Make the place
where the sun can shine on it. SO as
to keep the dirt dry, and after every
rain the dirt should be turned over
with spade or fork.
If they can have such a place n
dust themselves, the fowls will easily
Keep their bodies free from lice
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24
CAULIFLO OVER NOT
HARD TO MANAGE
Rich Earth and Abundance of
Moisture Are Two Most I'M
portant Factors.

Many consider the culture of cauli--
flower the same as cabbage. In many
respects it is similar, but it differs in
a number of ways.
In many of the southern states the
cauliflower plants are set out in au-
tumn and they live through the win
ter and head up quite early in the
spring. In the central or northern
portion of the country the plants are
grown in early spring, and kept in
hotbeds of only moderate heat, or in
cold frames, and in either case should
be given plenty Of room and a free
circulation of air to prevent the plants
being too spindling or tender. For late
Or autumn cauliflower, the seed may
be sown in May or early June.
Very rich earth and abundance of
moisture are the two most important
factors in the culture of caulitiower
Close proximity to lakes, streams or
the sea helps to insure good crop
as the dews are so much heavier.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24

deserves a short period Of rest from
her labors every season.
We aim to give the COW about
three or four months rest out of ev-
cry season, feeding and caring for
her, with a view to intensive dairying
the remainder of the year. This not
only enables the COW to do her best
while being MIXED, but yields us
greater returns for the time and labor
expended in handling her, and her
dairy products.
OF course the same rule will not ap-
ply to each individual member Of the
herd, as some can be dried up with
very little effort, while some will milk
right up to the time they drop their
calf.
In either case we discontinue feed
ing those rations which are conducive
to a profuse milk flow, for from two
to four months before calving time,
and so far, we have always been sue
cessful in drying up any COW in time
to allow her a good rest before 1t was
necessary to begin milking her again.
Regularity in feeding is important.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24

AY! Did you ever burst right
- into Bohemia and with the AID
of a complaining pocketbook try
TO Help yourself to a Hilarious eve
ming?
Tag me-I'm It.
OF course, don't mean Bohemia in
the highbrow sense-nix. Not one OF
those quaint retreats with the lemon
colored atmosphere where sad-eyed
Artistic Temperaments foregather to
chop spaghetti with fork and bark
handmade repartee at each other over
a beaker of absinthe-nix.
mean the Bohemia so called by
the Buyer from Max Plains Universal
Emporium, Waukesha, Wis, who hits
New York along in August and leaves
the imprint of his sandals all over
Longacre Square and adjacent by
ways.
The Bohemia, so called. which is
composed Of incandescent lights dis
guished as rosebuds; Bulgarian wait
ers disguised as second-story work
ers, and a menu card which. without
any disguise, leads the unwary direct
ly to a Petition in Bankruptcy.
The Bohemia. so called, where the
wise virgin trims her lamps about
nine o'clock of an evening and when
said lamps get to flashing over the
Martini and other happy waters, be
lieve me, the suckers rise to the sur
face so fast that the walters have tc
hand out eyeshades.
P. S.-Foolish virgins with untrim
mable lamps are not to be found il
this Bohemia, so called.
Ever since we've been back in New
York. Peaches has been Handing ou
Hints that she'd like to have me take
her over the hurdles into that Fail
Land where rag-time and Dreaded porl
chops do sister act-to one of thost
real devilish New York Cabarets.
Rub his ankles, Doctor; the bloot
has rushed to his Bean!
l tried to explain to friend wifi
that the Cabaret is an institution in
vented solely for the purpose of civ
Ing hiccups to Gold-plated Strangers
but Peaches was strong for Peek a
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24
Fable Up to Date.

A counterfeiter was once walking
along a lonely side street when he
was stopped by a bold, bad robber.
The robber presented large open
faced revolver and demanded coin. He
got it-about two gallons of lead dol
lars fresh from his victims private
mint.
Next day the robber bought himself
an automatic pistol of the latest de-
sign, weapon which he had long COW
eted. He paid for the gun out of the
proceeds of his latest haul and was
Immediately hailed before a magis-
trate and sent up for a long term OF
years for counterfeiting.
Moral-If they don't get you for
what you've Cone. they'll get you fOI
something else.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24

A Necessity In Every Rural Home
Is bottle of good liniment. Yager's
Liniment is the best external remedy
for man or beast. John Alderman,
Clermont Mills, Md, writes, For 4
years suffered with rheumatism, had
to walk on crutches and the doctors
said my case was chronic and incur
able. / tried Yager's Liniment: it is
the best Liniment to relieve pain !
ever used, its action is so prompt and
effective" Large 25-cent bottles at
dealers. Gilbert Bros. & Co., Inc.
Mfrs, Baltimore, Md.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24

the Night-Life of New York and 1t
was up to me to furnish the opera
glasses.
She wanted to know If l thought
she could toy with tenderloin steak
in some Musical Soup-House without
having a policeman call her by her
first name.
told her l was away on sick leave
the morning Cabaret Etiquette had
been passed around, but I'd ask my
friend Hep Hardy about 1t.
Hep Is what they call in the laura
jeans Prince of Good Fellows.
AS near as can size him up a
Prince of Good Fellows puts in
twelve hours a day trying to stab
himself to death with Bronx cocktails,
and the other twelve hours are de-
voted to screaming for help and Ice
water.
Mind you, I'm not Knocking Hep.
Far be from me to aim the Ham.
mer.
When 1t comes to falling off the
street sprinkler l can do an annette
kellermann that gets loud applause
from all the members of the High
Tide Association-so tuttley-tut on
the knock
His father cut out the breathing
business about four years ago and
left Hep with 100000 and long dry
spell on the Inside.
Hep has been in the surf ever since
His only recreation between bari
is golf. He invented the G. A. R
score in that game-out in '61, bacl
IN '65.
explained my sad plight to Hel
over the phone and, later on, will
Peaches all dolled up like a Coro
landscape, we met Hep by appoint
ment in front of Bustafiddlestring
Cabaret.
Hep in his man-about-town scener
was sartorial dream in black an
white. He had everything on, inclut
ing nalf bun.
well, If 1t isn't John Henry!" h
hagueandhagued. Touch thumbs wit
your old pail" Then in side speec
he wanted to know what musical sho'
had loaned me its prize chicken.
l introduced him to my wife an
he tried to square himself by explain
ing that now that his right eye wa
properly focused she didn't look at a
like a chicken-she was more of tt
squad type.
, Then with a merry burst of We
mouth-laden laughter he led the wa
into the Cabaret.