Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 29, 1912, Page 2

afterne t Sun- miajl Plonesr Fublishing a n UA‘IIO'- S ... 2 X DENU. ¥. A. WILEON, Raitor. In the City of Bemidji the papers are delivered by carrier. 'l&!herc the deliv- ery is irregular please make Lmmediate complaint to this ofice. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they do not get thelir papers promnll{. 1l papers are continued until an ex- plicit order to discontinue is recelved, and untll arrearages are pald. Bubscription Rates. The Weekly Ploneer. Eight pages, containing a summar of the newa of the k. . Publish every Thursday and l:xgl' postige ;u.id to any address for $1.50 in advance. ENTERED AS SECOND - TER AT THE POSTDFF?@!%S%TM%§- IDJT, INN., E&’Chlg, 1'_h.ln‘l'DER THE ACT OF bt oo M S B ol 5 PEEOOPOPO000O G i THIS DATE IN -HISTORY S JANUARY 29 ® 1737—Thomas Paine, author @ of “The Age of Reason,” @ 1885—Statue of Sir George E. S Cartier unveiled in Ot- @ tawa. @ 1911—Appointment of Duke & of Connaught to succeed @ Earl Grey as Governor- @ General of Canada. PDPPOODPOOOOOOOOO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ born. Died June 8, & @ 1809. @ > 1756—Henry Lee, a distin- & guished soldier of the & American Revolution, ¢ e born. Died March 25, & ® 1818. ® # 1782—Daniel F. E. Auber, fam- @ ous operatic composer, © » born at Caen, France. ® & Died in Paris, May 13, ® ® 1871, @ ® 1795—Congress passed ae @ stringent = naturalization & @& law, requiring renuncia- & © tion of titles of nobility. & ® 1820—George 1V. succeeded © & George III. on the Eng- & @ lish throme. @ % 1843—William McKinley, @ @ twenty-fifth President & @ of the U. 3, born in & @ Niles, Ohio. Died in @ @ Buffalo, Sept. 14, 1901. ® ® 1853—Marriage of Napoleon & ® II1. and Eugenie de Mon- & @ tijo. . @ @ 1861—Kansas admitted to the © @ Union as the 34th state. & @ ® @ @ @ @ @ So long as there are fires to be built in the morning, this talk about universal peace will be premature. Henry Watterson is doing more than his share in keeping alive the story about the parrot that talked tea.mach, Near Moorhead the other day they found a 15 foot boa somstrictor froz- en in a haystack, and the haystack was perfectly sober, too. St. Paul is having an attack of grand opera this week but St. Paul has recovered from worse things. No, we do not refer to the legisla- ture. Perhaps all the total eclipses of the sun for 1912 have not been re- corded. Perhaps you had forgotten that the New York Sun is support- ing Taft for president. It must be admitted that at times Charles W. Morse, the New York banker convict, has done. things right. For instance, he did a good job when he picked out a wife. | NEWSPAPERS GROWING FEWER. Newspaper census figures for 1911, compiled by the American Newspa- per Annual and Directory today, in- dicate that multiplation of daily pa- papers in the United States has come to a halt. A year ago the number was 2,472; the 1912 Annual lists 13 less, show- ing that the trend is now in the downward direction. According to this authority, great- er mortality than birth rate is ex- plained by suspension or consolida- tion of newspapers in crowded and unproductive fields. New England has lost four dailies, New York four, middle west states nuine, and the western states have thirteen less than a year ago. Gains have been heaviest in the southern states, while the middle At- lantic section has an increase of three. Weekly and semi-weekly newspa- pers also seem to have reached their limit in numbers. The 1912 Annual namesg and describes 16,229 week- lies, 40 less than in 1911, and 605 semi-weeklies, as compared with 617 in 1911. The 1912 Annual marks its forty- fourth year, contains more than 1200 pages describing 24,345 newspapers and periodicals, presents ten distinct items about each, including its cir- culation rating, and gives 1910 cen- sus populations for the 11,000 towns in which newspapers. are; published. Aeronautics, moving pictures and Enpgnto are respousible for new lists 6 publications devoted to these subjécts. There are over two hun- dred of these lists in’the book just from the press. Religioug publica- tions number 865, agricultural jour- nals total 463, and there are no less than 129 separate divisions of class and trade periodicals. Exponents of more than forty secret society orders are catalogued. Foreign language papers printed in thirty-four differ- ent forms of speech are described in a classification of their own, These statistics are gathered from returns -by-the press-of the country ang sifted, verified and arranged by the publishers of this directory, who are engaged in such revision through- out the year. The importance of the newspaper publishing industry, like- wise the development and rapid in- crease of advertising, is impressive- ly illustrated in the magnitude- of this work. ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF MURDER ? From inside the walls of the Min- nesota penitentiary comes an excori- ation for prosecutors who seek for selfish motives conviction at the cost of a man’s life. At the same time the editor of the Prison Mirror paints a proper picture of the horrors of capital punishment and gives the outside world a faint glimpse of what unending imprisonment means. The Mirror says: “Shhll capital puzxishment—the death penalty—which was put out of existence in Minnesota, at the last session of the legislature, be re-es- ! tablished? No, a thousand-times no. “What arguments in defense of the horrible practice have ever remained unshaken? What arguments can be made in favor of it that will war- rant its re-establishment? It does not protect society; it does not de- ter others from committing murder, it does not even satisfy the law’s de- sire for revenge, in the eyes of the people at large. On the other hand, the law, in taking the life of a mur- derer, descends to a common level with him, for the wilful killing of any human being is murder, regard- less of who commits the act. “A life for a life is a barbaric doc- trine, and it should not be upheld by the enlightened Deople of these times. The law has at its disposal a far better and a far more effective punishment than the death penalty. It is life imprisonment; and did the people of the statb fully realize what life imprisonment really means, there would be no more agitation for the re-establishment of capital pun- ishment. “A few days ago the Minnesota County: Attorney’s association, at a meeting in St. Paul, unanimously de- clared in favor of the death penalty and resolved to urge Its re-establish- ment at the next session of the legis- lature. Why they did so is a ques- tion that can not be fully answered here, but it is certain that they were not moved to their resolve by unsel- fish motives, nor a desire for jus- tice. E “Are the people of Minnesota go- ing to allow and sanction the return of that abominable practice which works directly against all things that make for better . conditions? Are they, at the behest of an association, who branded the humanitarian idea; that a criminal can be reformed- as extreme foolishness, going to re-es- tablish capital punishment? “Heaven forbid!” GRANDMOTHERS USED SAGE TEA To .Darken. the Hair and .Restore Gray. and Faded Hair to Its Natural Color. It is easier to preserve the color of the hair than to restore it, although it 18 possible to do both. Our grand- mothers understood the secret. They made a “sage tea,” and their dark, Blossy hair long after middle life was due to this fact. Our mothers have gray hairs before they are fifty, but they are beginning to appreciate the wisdom of our grandmothérs in using “sage tea” for their hair and are fast following suit. The present generation has the advantage of the past in that it can get a ready-to-use preparation called Wyeth’s- Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy. As a scalp tonic and color restorer. (his preparation is . vastly superior to the ordinary “sage tea” made by our grandmothers. This remedy is sold under guaran- tee that the money will be refunded If it fails to do exactly as represent- ed. If your hair is losing color or coming out, start using Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur today, and see what a charge it will meke in a few day's time. E; This preparation is offered to’the public-at fifty cents & bottle, and is recommended ‘and: sold by all -drug- In Cuba raw sugar at the milt brings 4 1:2 cents a pound; the high- est price In 20 years. Telophone Dr. J.& McClure your horse troubles. No charge to answer Phones, Notrouble to show goods, Vete_r!nnry Mu for sale Dr. J. A. McClure, Phone. 105. | THIS BOOK ' WORTH READING: The Adler-I-ka book, telling how you can BASILY guard against ap- pendicitis, and how you can relleve | constipation or gas on the stomach almost INSTANTLY, is offered free for a short time by E. N. French & Co., Druggists. INSURANCE .R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND-EMBALMER Office’313 Phang 1 Huffman’ Harris & Reynolds Bemid)i, Minn. Phone 144 BANKRUPTCY NOTICE. In the District Court of the. United States for the District of Minnesota, Sixth Division. In the Matter of Martin Brekke, Bank- rupt—In Bankruptcy. To the Creditors of- Martin Brekke, of the Town_ of Hamre, in the County of | Beltrami; in said District, Bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on® the | 19th day-of Decomber, A. D. 1911, the! above named Martin Brekke, was duly | adjudicated a bankrupt, and that the | first meeting of his. creditors will be ! held at the office of the undersigned | {referee in bankruptey, in the City of | Crookston, in the County of Polk, in| said district, on the 16th day of Febru- | ary, A, D. 1912, at 10 o'clock in the | forénoon, at which time said. creditors | may attend, prove claims, appoint a | trustee, examine the bankrupt and y | : The MODEL | Dry Cleaning House Telephone 537 106 Second St. | French Dry Cleaning ‘ Pressing Repairing America’s & W akingThou C THE ORIGINAL HAS THIS SIGNATURE transact such other business as ma: properly come before .xaid meeting. Dated December 19, 1911. Ole J. Vaule, Referee in Bankruptey. | : Coods Called For and Delivered most business men do. -Most professional men do. Of course everybody should-keep a copy of his.letters. It mattérs not of how much importance ..your letters: may be, you. should by’ all“means have a record of all letters” you ‘write. did not have it? It has cannot now help, but we wantfcd‘ -a’copy.of a certain letter you wrote and occured to most of us. - What has happened we should guard against a repetition. We have it now at a. cost that will surprise you. 8 1-2 X 11 iniches the-exact size of a letter'head. Itisput up in neat blue boxes==100:sheets in-a:box. No not ‘at the old price of $3.00 a box but at the new factory price of : . “Just the size you want too. - We guarantee every sheet of this paper to be strictly first class and of high grade quality. - Heretofore you’ve paid from $2.50 to $3.50 per box of 100 sheets. - In order to introduce this new line into this territory we make the - above:special price. . : T — T