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For one six months subscription to the Daily Pioneer, fifty cents will be paid, and for each additional six months subscriptions secured the rate will be paid the same. these six months subscriptions tional gift of $25 will be given. Thus, when two hundred of have been turned in an addi- A six months subscription counts just half of a yearly subscription for the Daily Pioneer. ‘siants, frequently standing forty feel high. ‘West African ant hills are verttable These ant hills are shaped something like a sugar loat and are idivided inside into hundreds of tiny rooms. They have, needless to say, 'myriads of inhabitants, and these are all busily making roads, gathering ifood and watching over the eggs and iyoungsters. The natives are afrald to touch these hills, except from a dis- tance with firearms. The ants often make their. strongholds around trees and they are built very solidly, with sides sometimes twenty inches thick. ‘The inside is hollow and at the top there is a sort of attic. The “royal (cell,” where the queen ant ltves, is al i © Telk In Pescs. | The fesrful ones may take - heart once more. The telephone is not the deadly menace some of: its patrons think. There are women who will not use -the receiver of a telephone with out wiping out the mouthplece with a disinfectant, so sure are they that it is a transmitter of disease, ! Now an eminent bacteriologist, Dr | ¥ Harold Spitts of London, has madae |} extensive experiments and declares the telehpone cannot spread infec tion, public opinion to the contrary. ‘Therefore, ye fearful ones, wipe out your mouthplece if you think it daintier, but talk in peace—you will not catch tuberculosis or other dread diseases from your predecessor at the “phone.” i Admires French Manner. “Of course, the Frenchman is in- sincere—but who wants sincerity in a casual acquaintance? Surely it is more Dpleasant to be told that you never looked more charming, that your hat is the very choicest thing possible and so on, than to be greeted with an indifferent handshake and a remark about the weather? What does it matter that he has forgotten you an hour after? He has made you feel ‘purry-purry’ at the time and has glven. you the added: confidenée and the brightness of outlook that only the consciousness of a becoming hat can give a woman.”—*“My Parisian Year,” by Maude Annesly. | Lemon Hint. Instead of throwing away hard, dry lemons, put them in a pan of hot wa- ter and set it where it will maintain | about the same degree of heat with- out boiling for two hours. When ta- ken out and dried the lemons will be as soft and juicy and rich in flavor as though they had never grown hard —McCall's Magazine. LA Headquarters for useful Christmas gifts for the house--- gifts that the entire family will enjoy the year round ~ Netzer’s Pharmacy Post Office Corner Don’t overlook this Xmas shopping center when you are ready to buy. We have presents for everybody, young and old. Cut Glass - Community Silver Hand Painted China Combs, Brushes, Mirrors Purses and Hand Bags Stationery Xmas Cards, Calendars and Novelties - FURNITURE STORE Library Tables China Closets One yearly subscription to the Weekly Pioneer counts same as six months to the Daily, the only difference being the subscrip- tion price which is $1.50 a year. The Daily for six months is $2 and the Daily for one year is Free Premiums will be given to every subscriber. $4. Detailed information may be had by telephoning Number 31, or calling in pervon at the Pioneer Oftice. MODESTY NOT STRONG POINT ‘@oth Schopenhauer and Auerbach Had Excellent Opinion of Their Place In the Worid, Schopenhauer, the great German philosopher, afforded one of the most Temarkable examples of self-compla- cency that has ever been known. His maive eulogiums on his own produc- tions are almost beyond bellef. In ‘writing to his publishers of his work, Ze says: “Its worth and importance are so great that 1 do not venture to express it, even toward you, becausa Jou could not believe me,” and he pro- «ceeds to quote a review “which speaks clally the Tclassics—as if they were | something remote from the scheme of i life, and to be approached with awe. If you will read the best literature you will discover, perhaps to your amaze ment, that it is very simple. The | word “classic” has perhaps frightened You away from many libraries, Just as people vary, books vary; and while you may admire one type of person, you may not admire another. Because you do not care for a cen tain book you need not necessarily be ashamed of the fact. You may realize its intrinsic greatness, but 1t may have no special message for you. That 18 the way a fine writer once felt about Milton, and he had the courage and Pedestals Dressers PR Smoking Tables Extension Tables | Buffets Writing Desks Chairs Foot Stools § - Chiffoners Beds p Nothing will be more appreciated than a “HOOSIER GABINET” all white enameled in- Only $30.00 THE ROYAL COMFORT CHAIRS easily adjusted with foot rest and magazine rack, $14.75 to $24.50 side. THE HOOSIER SPECIAL. ®f me with the highest praise, as the| COmmon sense to say so, greatest philosopher of the age, which| We should always beware, however, 1s really saying much less than the! Of judging too hastily. A person may good man thinks.” *“Sir,” he -sald to: Mean very little to you on a first cas an unoffending stranger who watched | val meeting; but don't give that per with the new automobile seats Rockers SAVES MILES OF STEPS FOR TIRED FEET Rim across a table d’hote, where he wcted the part of the local “lion” tnbitually—"nir, You are evidently as- ‘tonished at my appetite. True, I eat: three times as much as you, but then; have with you in times of trouble, and 1 have three times as much mind!*| the friend, no less valuable, who is Auerbach, the German novelist; alse had a great appreciation of his own| are books for rainy days and bright powers and work, and many stories days, for dark moods and light moods. are told of the obtrusive way in which | scn up immediately. Try again. A ; deeper acquaintance may lead to a . lifelong friendship. There is the friend who is good tc wonderful in times of joy. So there Choose your books according to your he displayed his vanity. A German| mood, and see how the doors of en twriter says of him: “Every year Auerbach visits three or four fashion- | able watering places, at each of which | “the following episode occurs at least thirty times. The novelist indulges in |. amall talk with the little children of 4the natives, and invariably ends the fconversation thus: ‘Knowest thou ‘who has been talking with thee? Be- &old Auerbach! Tell that at homel!’*™ 600D THOUGHTS ABOUT BOOKS flothlng Ever Penned Could Sult Al Minds—In That Respect They Are chantment will open for you. Curlous Iliness. “Yes,” said the good woman wha was describing the last illness of a friend, “she was taken suddenly sick with pantomine poisoning, and four doctors came to the house and insult- ed about her and diagrammed her case very clogsely. 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