Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 18, 1912, Page 2

A 125 CHRISTMAS GIFT " 'Will be given to this Church for 100 Yearly Subscriptions to the Bemidji Daily Pioneer. Other Churches are making the same effort. If this is the Church you wish to help, turn in your subscription to any of the ladies whose names appear below. ° : METHODIST CHURCH Members of Methodist Women’s Band Mesdames Charles Flesher, presi-|A. Larson, E. C. McGreagor, O. Minor dent; T. J. Andrews, C. Alexander,|J. B. Minnick, A. W. Mitchell, J. W. F. R. Bishpam, Emma Botting, W. J.|Naugle, J. Scarrot, C. W. Shannon, Coleman, J. C. Courtney, S. A. Cutter,| Alma L. Smith, H. B. Southworth, Mrs. Dennis, Sr., E. H. Denu, W. P.|E. F. Stevens, T. Symons, H. J. Un- Dyer B. Getchell, Grinols, J. L. Kemp |ruh, D. Wilcox, P. A. Young. WHAT SUBSCRIPTIONS COUNT One dollar cash will be paid to each Ladies’ Society for every yearly subscription, old or new, secured for the Daily Pioneer. When a set of ome hundred has been reached a special premium or $25 will be given, Thus for one hundred subscriptions the society securing them will have received a cash gift of $125. 1f a club secures but seventy-five yearly subscriptions, it will receive $75; if but fifty yearly subscriptions, $50; and if only ten are secured a cash gift of $10 will be made. 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. Thus, when two hundred of ihese six months subscriptions have been turned in, an addi- tional gift of $25 will be given. A six months subscription counts just half of a yearly subscription for the Daily Pioneer. 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 $4. Free Premiums will be given to every subscriber. Detailed information may be had by telephoning Number 31, or calling in person at the Pioneer Office. Santa Claus will not be at the Fair Store at the hours as stated in Friday’s and Saturday’s Pioneer. Too many children and grown folks were disappointed the last time he was there. i You Know Why But---the Fair Store has the biggest line of Toys and Christ- mas Goods of any store in North Central Minnesota. Gold Fish Post Cards Postage Stamps At GCost Fair Store MISTAKE THAT IS GENERAL Yoo Often Time Is Wasted Consider | Ing Difficulties Instead of Per- forming Allotted Task. ‘When a hard thing is to be done the ‘patural inclination of most of us is to allow ourselves to think on the effort pecessary to do it, instead of going ahead and doing it. . And here we make one of the most sommon mistakes in our lives. ‘When one is confronted by a severe task of duty which seems almost be- yond one’s powers, it is fatal to pause | W consider its difficulties. Never mind how hard it may seem. ' @othing can be tolerated in the mind | except the consideration of ways of ! accomplishing it. The secret of accomplishment lies s in the answer of the urchin who was | asked if he thought he would get the | ‘woodchuck for which he was ener-| getically digging: “Get him? Why, | man, I've got to get him; the minls- Rer's coming to dinner and there ain’t | @0 meat in the house!” 1 It 18 & wise economy in daily lite, %o train the mind to take the attitude ' of determination ir the beginning; to e deaf to the self which insists upon | dwelling upon difficulties. and at once to bring into action the self that is determined to succeed. Most persons have had the exper!-| ence of looking back over an accom-| plished taak with amused surprise at: the exaggerated idea they entertained | of it beforehand. Do the thing fOrst’ and consider its difficulty afterward. NEW IN THE TEXTBOOK LINEi ftallan Meant Well, But His Knowledga | of American Schoolbooks Was Small. One morning, just as a teacher up In Harlem was entering her school, ghe was met in the hall by an italian eading his little daughter by the and. “She wan’ go school,” sald he po- litely, indicating the little girl. Ha| fpushed the child forward. “She wan': &0 school,” he repeated, with many! bows. “She has book,” pointing to| the book under the girl's arm, “an’ she wan’ go school.” | “I see,” sald the teacher. “You| dave brought her all prepared. Can whe read?” The only response from the father twas a shake of his head and a reitera %ed, “She wan’ go school.” I ‘Whereupon the teacher took the ook and looked at it. It was old and iworn, and neither a reader nor an warithmetic. It was a social directory pt the year 1909. Floral Death Legends. “By the Mexicans marigolds' are | coarse, asteraceous plant common in { The dwarf elder, for the same reason, | the morning, for if they were they ! variety of foods, including rice, tal-| { wounded taken after the Crimean en- | | gagements, but they were too horrible fnown as death-flowers, from an ex- ceedingly appropriate legend that they sprang up on the ground stained by the life-blood of those who fell victims to the love of gold and cruelty of the early Spanish settlers. Among the Virginian tribes, too, red clover was supposed to have sprung from and to be colored by the blood of the red man slain in battle with the white invaders, In a similar manner, the red popplea which followed the plowing of the fleld of Waterloo were said to have sprung from the blood of the killed and wounded in that famous battle. Ao cording to tradition, the Danish inva- sion is the cause of the Dane-weed, a England, as it sprang from the blood of Danes slain in battle; and, if cut on a certain day in the year, it bleeds, s called Danewort and Dane’'s blood.” —Suburban Life. What Alaskan Dogs Eat. Dogs in Alaska, when on the trafl, are fed once a day, after the day's work is done. They are never fed in | would be lazy all day, or, what is} more probable, would vomit up their breakfast soon after they got on the trail. Dogs, to work well, must be well fed, and it is false economy to| underfeed a dog. They are fed on a | low, corn meal and fish. If rice or corn meal forms a part of their food it must be cooked. Some men prefer to feed their dogs on bacon or fish, thus doing away with cooking. Cook- ed food I8 cheaper and more fatten- ing than raw feed, but the question as to whether dogs can work better on cooked or uncooked food is one that will never be settled so long as there are “mushers” to argue the question, Will the Films Stop Wart? The cinematograph as an institu- [ tion has come to life since the last im- portant war. It remains to be seen how a battle, or the awful fringes of a battle, will look upon the screen. For assuredly fllms will come into play. Soldiers have alwaya said— and correspondents have in a measure agreed with them—that the truth of war cannot be told. How if the truth of war were now to be seen? The late Colonel Stanley has pho- tographs (daguerreotypes they would perhaps be called) of the dead and | for exhibition. He showed them, long afterwards, to those who could bear it, sometimes to those who could not—and they will never forget them, Her Fervor. “So you have won the American heiress, after all,” observed the friend. “Yes,” fervently replied the foreign wobleman, “she is mine—a gold mine.” LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN THEM “0Old Codger” Notes the Various Points of Resemblance That Mark the Small Towns. “How muchk alike the country vil lages 1sok as you pass through them on the train,” ruminated the Old Cod- ger. “And in their daily life they are a8 similar as they seem to the passing stranger. Each has its vitriolic town row and its superabundance of real estate agents. There 18 In every one of them the local Big Toad, bloated and pompous in his small puddle. who ! would never even cause a ripple in the great ocean of the outside world. And there is the huge and jolly wife with the little dried-up irascible hor- net of a husband, the society leader with a following of three and a shape like a pouter pigeon, the flashy grass widow, the shabby lawyer who would be a wonder of the world if he didn’t drink, the good natured handy man who can do everything and never does anything.—Kansas City Star. Very Pecullar Pursuit. The queer thing to a woman about politics is how men don’t have to buy new hats to wear at their meetings.— New York Press. Plenty for All Don't be too generous with the ser- mon; what you take for yourself is no preprivation of another.—Christian Herald, Pioneer Want Ads | 1-2 Gent 2 Word Bring Results Ask the Man Who Has Tried Them However you should not wait until the last day for several reasons, one of which is: We expect to use nearly all of our large stock of card mounts. The kind that appeals the most to you, T)g'liaps will soon be gone. At present we have about sixty differ- ent styles for you to select from. You know of course that we are leaders in classy and good photographs; bear in mind also that a dozen photographs would make twelve excellent Xmas presents. - Also, bear in mind that you can have an enlargement from any negative made and finished in one or two days. Call up now and make an appointment with the Hakkerup Studio. u