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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR SALE-Lumber for sale cheap;
several thousand teet siding, 2x4 ),
and boards, good condition. Phone
1851. 4d5-25
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For Sale, City Property

FOR SALE-Strictly modern house
at 7O7 Bcmidji Ave. Phone 678.
5-8tf
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR RENT - Modern furnished
rooms, Sixth St. and Lake Blvd.
4d5-25
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR SALE-Or exchange for Be-
midi property, 40 acres 2 miles
west of Tenstrike. N. W., Bowscr
Bemidii. Mimi, St 5-22
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR SALE - Ford =, touring car,
$4,000 will take it, if taken at
once. 1922 Mill Park 6d5-25
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FOR SALE-A beautiful four acre
track on Irvine ave., just outside
the city limits. Will sacrifice for
$3.50 if sold this week. H. A.
Click. Phone 37-F-14. 3d5-23
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WANTED-Girls for laundry work.
Bemdiji Steam Laundry. Phone
1876. 4d5-25
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Wanted

WANTED-Married couple for no.
tel work. Apply office, ,Kaplan Ho-
tel Bldg. 5-22tf
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FOR SALE APIECE dinner set
new pattern-beautiful in design,
just the set for breakfast room, or
lake cottage, rs coupons of Cream
Laundry soap and $6.5O--see our
window. Come early. Sunshine
Grocery. "A tt
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR RENT-Two furnished rooms
for Misunderstanding, over Farm
ers State Bank, phone 1881,
Ct 5-23
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FOR RENT-Summer bungalows on
Lake Bemidii, two miles north.
Phone 983-W. 4d5-25
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR SALE-One nice flock pure
bred Shropshire sheep, about 40.
Inquire DR.. Gilmore, Bemidji or
Chas. Barclcy, Fairacres Farm.
5-1Stf
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For Sale

FOR SALE-Household goods. 317
America avenue, upstairs. I'D 4-22
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR RENT-One modern furnished
room. SIS Bemidji Ave-. 5-4rf
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR RENT-Single or double rooms
furnished or unfinished, all
modern. Also one large store
with or without basement suit
able for wholesale business or dis
play and storage garage. Morris
kaplan. 5-2Otf
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FOR SALE-Registercd Guernsey
bull, four years old; sound in every
way; bred at Island farm in one
of the best herds in the state.
Reasonable. A. j. Wiltse, Bemidji
Pioneer Office. 5-5tf
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22
For Sale

FOR SALE-Dodgc touring car, in
Al condition; bargain if taken at
once. Call 4Ol-W. 5-22tf
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR SALE-3-burner, high-back oil
stove; / small reed baby buggy.
Phone 421-J. 3d5-23
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR SALE
7-room house, 65-foot lot, in N.Y.
more, only $1,275.00 if taken
at once.
Groom house on 4th Street, So
foot lot.
Broom cottage, modern, on Irvine
Avenue.
Groom house on Dewey Avenue.
G-room.modern house on the Boule-
ward.
REYNOLDS & WINTER
6d5-26
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FOR SALE-Cash registers, coun-
tiers, shelves, scales, etc. Morris
Kaplan. 4gt: d5-2Otf
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FOR RENT-Summcr cottage at
Lavinia from this date to July
10th. Address Thos. Roycraft,
Lavinia, MINI. Phone l1-F-3
5-2Otf
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FOR RENT-Strictly modern fur
ished room. Phone 327. SIT If
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR RENT-Cottagcs at Lavinia,
Grand Forks Bay and Birchmont.
Reynolds & Winter. 6d5-26
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FOR RENT-One large room suit
able for two, also two front rooms.
$50 Bcltrami avenue. Phone 7G5-J
4t SIS
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-22

FOR RENT-Large furnished mod
e. ern room. 1923 Minnesota Ave.
t' Phone 317-R. 5-3tf
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For Rent

FOR RENT-Modern furnished room.
G21 Bemidji Ave. 4d5-25
FOR Observation-Disclosures house, phone
S33, 1115 Bemidji ave. At 5-22
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She nodded.
II am very grateful to Mr.. Silva
she said.
You have all the world before you,
my GIRL" said Boundary in his slow
ponderous way, "a beautiful and bright
future--plenty Of money, pearls, dia-
monds'--he waved his hand with a
vague gesture-''and Pinto. who is the
most valuable OF my business associates,
is very fond Of you"
The girl sighed helplcssly.
II thought the matter had been An
ished and done with, colonel she said.
II don't know how people in your world
would regard such an offer, but in my
world they would look upon 1t as an
insult"
And what the devil is your world"'
asked the colonel without any sign OF
irritation.
She rose to her feet.
THE clean, decent world" she said
calmly, ''the law abiding world, the
world that regards such arrangements
as you suggest as Infamous. ! 1t is not
only the fact that Mr.. Silva is already
married.
The colonel raised his hand.
pinto talks very seriously Of getting
n divorce he said solemnly, "ant
when gentleman like Pinto Silva gives
his word, that ought to be sufficient
for any girl. And now you have CONF
to mention law abiding worlds" h
went on slowly, Il would like to speal
of one of the law abiders."
She knew what was coming and wa
silent.
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I'm glad he cams along" and
Aloysius lcaped on him and tried to
sink his proboscis into the fliyyer's
forehead. Wasn't he surprised when
he found how tough the fivver's skin
was! But Aloysius tried another place
and another and sure enough his pa :
tience was rewarded and he found an
opening In the radiator where there was
leak. But the first drink was enough
Bloody murder" he yelled, leaping
back and dashing the boiling water
out OF his mouth. What a terrible
hot blooded creature this Is. So he
went around 1t and slipped at the gaso.
line tank.
'Thats better" he said and then
he found a small opening near the crank
case and sampled some Of the oil,
"What n delightful beast" cried Allow
sius and last of all he found another
opening near the springs and got a
generous portion Of cup grease.
HTTNHIS Is indeed worth while" cried
l. Aloysius. II never found n horse
before that had so many different kinds
of Juices. ! think III just stay right
with yOu.' And he did, until one sod
day the man pat alcohol in the hiyycr's 8
radiator and Aloysius got royal snoot =
full of It. That was the start of his
downfall, lie went to the dogs. And
that's the end of the story. Gwan "a
! bed. 4l
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G. ClUdn to Bed Story

ONCE upon a time, dear children,
~ there was dear little rackety-
packety f1ivvcr that bounced and jostled
and shivered over the roads in the most
charming manner imaginable. (Johnny,
get of the piano.
And, dear children, there was horse
fly named Aloysius, Il most delightful
chap, full Of humor and whimsy and
gay abandon, and a wcll-travcled lad
In the bargain. He was so.
NOW, wouldn't have you 60 to bed
~ thinking Aloysius was merely q
horse fly and nothing more. Not at
all. He was not so narrow minded as
that.
He not only associated with horses,
obtaining both bed and board from
them, so to speak, but he also visited
with the cows and he was not above
making delicate collation. off sheep,
opossums. giraffes and alligators.
To be sure his dentist forbade him
to 20 with alligators much, his apcgR
ton being that their rather imperyiOus
epidermis was injurious to Aloysius'
bridge work.
DUT the fact was, dear children, that
ID horses were getting scarce In little
Aloysius Il0rsetly's world and he was
forced to hunt far and wide for sus
tcnunce, where once 1t used to trOtty
| ot- -trot up and down on every road
And one day as Aloysius was lookin.
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his lean face shade winter than the
girl had seen it, and his breathing was
a little labored.
III you are thinking Of sending me
to prison." said White, "why, think
we shall make up a pretty jolly party"
Meaning mc?" said the colonel,
raising his eyebrows.
''iou among others. Pinto Silva,
Swell Crewe and Selby, to name few. -
Colonel Boundary permitted himself
to chucklc.
''On what charger" he asked. Tell
me that, Solly. The cleverest men In
Scotland Yard have been laying for
me for years and they haven't got away
with it. May be they have your assist :
ance and that dog Hanson's."
That's lie," interrupted White,
$50 far as | am concerned. I know
nothing about Hanson
Hanson. said the colonel slowly,
'is n thief. He ran Off with three
hundred pounds Of mine, as I've re-
ported to the police"
II see," said White with little
smile of contempt. Got your charge
in first, eh, colonel? Discredit the wit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-29
By Edgar Wallace

"You came up by car at night" said
white harshly; 1--WE arranged to meet
outside Guilford to divide the loot
"Loot?" said Colonel Boundary,
puzzled II don't understand you"
'I'll put 1t palmer" said White,
his eyes like smoldering fire. "a year
ago you got young Balston, the ship
owner, to put fifty thousand pounds
into fake company"
He heard Maisie gasp, but he went
on,
''How you did 1t I'm not going to
tell before the girl, but It was black
mail which you and Pinto engineered.
He paid his last installment; the four
thousand pounds was my share"
Colonel Boundary rose and looked at
his watch.
II have a taxicab waiting and, with
taxicab, time Is money. II you are
going to bring In the name Of an inno-
cent young man, who will certainly
denv that he had any connection with
myself and my business associates, that
is Il matter for your own conscience.
! tell you I know nothing about this
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check. have made your daughter an
Offer"
II can guess what It is," interrupted
White; "and I can tell you this,
Boundary, that II you are going to
frame me, I'll be even with you, II
wait twenty years! II you imagine
l am going to let my daughter into
that filthy gang','-his voice broke and
1t was some time before he could re.
cover himself-"do your worst. But
III get you, Boundary! I don't doubt
that you'll convict me. You know the
things that can't talk about, and
I'll have to take my medicine, but you
are not going to escape"
WAIT, colonel" It was the girl
who spoke, in 50 low a voice that hs
would not have heard her II he had
not been expecting her to speak. do
you mean that you wili-prosecuts my
father?"
with law. abiding people," said the
colonel profoundly, "the demands OF
justice come first. I must do my
duty to the State, but If you should
change your mind"
"She won't change hsr mind" re-
torted White.
With one stride hs had passed b..
tween tho colonel and the door. Only
for q second he stood, and then no lei'
back.
"Do your worst" hs said huskilyg
and Colonel Boundary passed out.
pocketing the revolver which had come
from nowhere into his hand. Pres'
emily they heard the purr OF the de'
parting motor.
He went to Horsham station in q
thoughtful frame Of mind. He was sun
thinking profoundly when he reachea
Victoria station.
Then, as he stepped on the platform, ,
hand was laid on his arm ana ~
turned to meet the smiling face OF stai
ford King.
"Hello," said the colonel, and some
thing within him went cold.
"Sorry to break In on your reyerie,
colonel" said Stafford King. but I've
warrant for your arrest A..
"What Is the charger asked the
! colonel, his face gray. =, L.,
"Blackmail and conspiracy, sur
King, and saw with amazemeht ,n'
look of relief in the Others eyes, y
"I;oundary," he added between h,S saS
teeth you thought ] wanted you '''
Snow Gregory
The colonel said nothing.
! To be continued Monday
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper Ss"o"s''
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there, and proceeded to put It on the
market. She organized what I'm surc
was the first advertising agency, and
ran it in odd moments Of her busy
days.
She was up and off to work early,
reading the morning paper as she ate
breakfast, which Uncle Charles had seen
to. Then they saw her no more till
night, when she came home walking
strongly in the door, looking very dis.
tinguishcd and chic in the beautifully
cut tailor suits Of the best material
that money could buy. am speak
ing now, of course, of the times after
that difficult beginning. That period
lasted, after all, only till she could
get her bearings in the 'new world.
Very soon, she was earning more
money than Uncle Charles had ever
dreamed Of making. BY the time Uncle
Charles was around on crutches, there
was a good competent girl in the kitch-
en-. This left Uncle Charles more time
and strength to give to the children,
more leisure to perfect his own music
and more energy to plan the thousand
ingenious variations, on the theme of
domestic life which made their home
the most delightful one to visit in, you
can imagine.
Aunt Emily fitted in It all very COM
fortably. She was always agreeably
tired by night, and relieved of her
surplus energy, she was astonishingly
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short hours Of respite, Uncle Charles In
an easy chair, the children piled on top
of him, his arms around them tight,
while they had what they called
visit" This meant q chatter OF little
voices, bird like and free, which Aunt
Emily had never heard in her life. Or
perhaps they'd all sing together. for
they had inherited Uncle Charles gift
for music.
If he had only time he would have
given piano lessons to all the children.
But. dear me. he had no time except
for that account keeping, and they had
no money to pay a professional music
teacher. Uncle Charles always looked
Ten years younger after such visit with
his children. whereas rainy morning
spent with the children in the house al
ways made Aunt Emily look a thousand
years old. they wore on her so. they
upset so the perfect order of her Won
dCrfully kept house" And yet they did
their best not to wear on her, by keep
ing away from Der as much as possible.
They never went home from school
until II was actually supper time, and
always played in our yard. not their
own.
The result was that Aunt Emily was
left quite to herself in Sahara desert
Of lonely housekeeping and desperate
economies with the poor pttance which
vas all that Uncle Charles could earn.
Her thin face grew grim and dark. as
she mended and patched and turned and
dyed and performed miracles on tough
necks Of mutton and cheap curtain
materials. All Of It she did with super
lative skill, but burning and raging in
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By Dorothy Garfield
One of the Eoenhng Public Ledges New Short Stories the Series Of Unpublished
Fiction by the Best American Writers OF the Day

THE first time I ever heard the
threadbare saying about square
neg in a round hole was when my
father used it in an attempt to ex-
cuse Aunt Emily. Up to that time
/ had never heard any one say any
thing of her except that she was a
detestabe woman, with the most in
fernal capacity for being perfectly
wretched herself and making every
body else so. What home she made
for poor, mild Uncle Charlie, and
( for their three nervous, scrawny,
rabbit-faced children!
You are not to think she neglected
her home or her children. Indeed,
no! She house-kcpt with fanatical
competence and expended on the up
bringing of her children an eXtrava
CANT energy which filed the house to
its remotest corner, as saw-mill is
filled by the strident energy Of the
saw. Never were three children so
brought up as my poor little cousins.
Aunt Emily was determined that she
, should do her whole duty by them,
that they should be perfect, and do
everything exactly right. Of course,
she knew much better than they
what was right, and hence had never
an instant of repose from her labor
Of pushing and showing them into
the way they should 60.
Oh, how we hated to be sent on an
errand to Aunt Emily's house. I
spare you the description of what a
meal at Aunt Emily's table was,
with Aunt Emily teaching the chill
dren table manners. There are
plenty of intolerable things in real
life, without dragging into a story
what happened when Uncle Charles
spilled gravy on clean tablecloth
You notice. perhaps. that I say, "a'
Aunt Emily's table" and not "at Uncl,
Charles" and that sets me Mt another
angle of their home life: what tha
home life meant to Aunt Emilys hUs'
band. He was known in America
~ man with no head for bust,
ness" and vet there had ncvor beer
anything but business In his life II
had been a handsome, dreamy eyed
musical minded young accountant II
Emery's Emporium when Aunt Emily
very young herself, had married him
married him apparently for the sam,
reason that he was in business. becauS
there seemed to be nothing else 10 do
But Uncle Charles was no money
maker, and imprisoned in a rrindin
tound Of petty economies and unescap
able shabbincss, how Aunt Emily at
her heart out, and what a life Uncl
Charles led. But not even Aur
Emily's terrible energy could put int
her husbands gentle. artistic, uncOm
mercinl soul a single gust of the storm.
ambitions which blew like tornado (
her harried heart. Uncle Charles hate
al business desperately, and found tn
only pleasure in his life in his children
MY MOTHER always said that thos
Av4 three Burton children would Ger
tainly just have wasted away, if
bad not been for their father at thi
) kime. He had as great gift for calm
Ing and cheering them as their mothe
had for damping the very life out G
them. Whenever Aunt Emily was ava
from home for few hours, and Uncl
Charles was there with the children
what 4 good time they had in thos
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ness. And what have you framed for
me?'
"Nothing," said the colonel, Tex
cept this. I've just had from the bank
check for four thousand pounds
drawn In your favor on our joint ac-
count and purporting to be signed by
Silva and myself
"As it happens" said White, at
was signed by you fellows in my
presence.
The colonel shook his head.
"Obdurate to the last, brazening it
cut to the end. Why not make a frank
confession to an old business associate,
Solly? ] came here to see you about
that check
That's the game, is IT." said White.
"You are going to charge me with
forgery. And suppose / talkf"
"I'alk?" asked the colonel innocently.
''If by talk you mean make q state
ment to the police derogatory to my
self and my business associates, what
can you tell? can bring dozen wit
nesses to prove that both Pinto and l
were in Brighton the morning that
checked wasDsigned.'
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The Mudr" of the Candle

There's a young gentleman named
Stafford King hanging around you"
He saw her face flush but went on
"Mr. Stafford King is a policeman"
"11e is an official of the criminal
intelligence department." said the girl !;
"but ] don't think you would call him
n policeman, would you, colonel?"
"All policemen are policemen to me, >"
said Boundary, "and Mr.. Stafford King
Is one Of the worst of the policemen
from my point Of view, because he's
trying 20 trump up a cock and bull
story about me and get me into very
serious trouble"
II know Mr.. King is connected with
a great number Of unpleasant cases."
said the girl coolly; "it would be a
coincidence II he was In case which
interested YOU"
1T would be a coincidence, would
it?" said the colonel, nodding his huge
head. Perhaps II is coincidence
that my clerk, Hanson, has disappeared
and has been seen In the company OF
your friend, eh? 1t Is coincidence
that King is working on the Spillsbury
case--the one case that Solly knows
nothing about-eh?"
She faced him, puzzled and appre.
hensive.
"where does all this leadr' sh'
asked.
"It leads to trouble for solly, that''
ALL" said the colonel. Hes tryinl
to put me away and put his bushes
associates away, and he has got to g
through the mill unless"
Unless what?' she asked.
"Pinto's a merciful man; I'm a mer
ciful man. We don't want to max
trouble with former business associates
but trouble there is going to be, believ
me-"
"What kind Of trouble?" asked tn
girl. III you mean that your so-calle
business association with my father vii
cease, I shall be happier. My fathe
can earn his living, and have my stag
work.
you have your stage work"-th
colonel did not smile, but his tone be
trayed his amusement7-'an you
father can earn his living, Ell? He ca
earn his living In Portland JAIL" h
said, raising his voice.
"For the matter Of that, 80 can you
colonel
The colonel turned his head slowl
and surveyed the spare figure. in tn
doorway.
"Oh, you heard me, did you, Solly?
he said not unpleasantly.
/. II heard you." said Solomon WAits
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the bleak discomfort Of prison cell,
and not even the sight Of the girl who
came through the door to greet him
brought him n qunlm.
You want to see father. colonel"
she asked.
Her tone was cold but polite. The
colonel had never been a great favorite
Of Maisie Whites, and now 1t required
considerable effort on her part to
hide her deep aversion.
DO want to see your father?' said
Colonc' Boundary. why, yes, l
think DO, and want to see you, too,
and I'd just as soon see you first, before
speak TO Soly.'
! She sat down, model OF patient
/ politeness, her hands folded on her lap.
/ In the light of day she was pretty,
straight Of back. graceful as to figure,
and tho clear gray eyes which met his
faded blue ones were very understand
| ing.
Miss White" he said, I'VE have
been very good to you"
"WeT repeated the girl
"Wc." The colonel nodded. II
speak for myself and my business asso-
ciates. II Solomon had ever told you
the truth you would know that you owe
all your education, your beautiful home
he waved his hand-'to myself and
my business associates. His tongue
rolled around the last words. They
were favorites Of his,
She nodded her head slightly.
81 was under the impression that
owed 1t TO my father" she said with
hint Of irony in her voice, for
suppose that he earned all he has
"You suppose that he earned all tina
he has," repeated III, colonel. well
very likely you are right. He ha
earned more than he has got, but pa.
day is near at hand
, There was no mistaking the menac
In HIS tone, but the girl made no com
: ment. She knew that there had beel
trouble. She knew that her father ha
for days been locked in his study an
had scarcely spoken word to any
body.
II saw you the other night, sal
.. the colonel, changing the direction o
his attack Il saw you at the orpheuH
Pinto Silva came to me. We were /
the stage box. -,
II saw you," said the girl quietly.
"A very good performance, conSid
ering you're kid" said Boundary
! "In fact, Pinto says you're the bes
= = mimic he has. ever seen on the stage.
: He paused. Pinto got you your con
{ r9Ssrs u.