Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1912, Page 3

+ | | The Whistling Boy. But woe betide the hand that bids the whistling boy be still! He is the sole survivor from an age of innocence Into one of ill-starred knowledge;he binds the disparities of the present and the past. The same in. country lane and on the city pave—cosmo- polite, blithe, bohemian, a little pagan Pan'!—is he, Amphibian of truant idle- ness and endless preoccupations is he; without rest, without haste, he shut- tles back and forth between things as they are and things- as they are dreamed: If, in these. transmigra- Hons, from the inner to the outer world and back, Je impinges on the edges of things a little sharply, he cannot arouse our ire—for there is a whistling boy within every man who keeps his courage up as he passes through the graveyard of his hopes.— Washington Post. Obeying the Tmiputée.” ' Slowly, almost reverentially, the young clergyman who was taking his first trip across the Atlantic bowed his head over the vessel’s rail. ‘I'm doing this,” he muttered with- pale lips, “in response to an inward prompting.” 4 : Thereupon the others.drew away in silence and: left. him communing with the great deep. MEGROTH'S VARIETY STORE | MEGROTH'S VARIETY STORE MEGROTH'S VARIETY STORE GOOD OLD SANTA! He'll be a busy man in Bemidji this year, judging from the unprecedented amounts of holi- day goods being sold by Megroth's Variety Store. Our stock is holding up well under the assaults made upon it by eager Christmas shoppers. So there still is plenty for the eleventh hour buyers. But you had better buy NOW! Nobody can tell how long it will last---even such a tremendous stock as ours. The LOW PRICES---lower than usual --- prevailing here, to- gether with the well-known excellence of our goods, have stretched our selling powers to the limit. We won't holler till we're hurt. See the big line of Toys, Sitverware, Fancv Dishes, Dolls, Ladies’ Hand Bags, Jewelry, Hair Goods, and everything appropriate for Christ- But come on! Megroth’'s Variety Storé = mas Presents. b A,,.....‘...:,.___..__.. 4 CLEVER WOMEN THEN ANDG NOW, Writer Objects to Undue Glorification of Past Celebrities. - “Believe me,” said the Woman Who Thinks, “I'm a little weary of rhapso- dies over the supposedly superior in- telligence of the women of bygone days. Why don’t those so generous of praise give modern Wwomen a chance? It is a sort of mental fash- lon to assume that George Eliot and George Sand and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lady Blessington and others like them were peculiar to themselves and their periods; that no woman of to-day can hold ‘a candle to them in any pa¥cular. I wonder it that’s true. Seems to me there are dozens of women in New York alone who are every bit as clever as those heroines of the past. Lady Montagu wrote delightful letters, but the art of correspondence has not passed from earth, and surely the cul- tured woman of to-day can be as sprightly. As for movelists and es- gayists, they flourish in abundance in this enlightened age. And when it comes to social knowledge, almost any Fifth avenue hostess is far ahead of those of yore. Let's bring our com- mendat‘ru up to date’—New York Press. CLOSES TOMORROW The subscription campaign con- ducted by the ladies societies of the various churches of Bemidji will close tomorrow—Tuesday—evening at six o’clock. All those who have collected subscriptions, or who have any promises of new subscribers for the Bemidji Pioneer should turn them in before the offite closes to- morrow, if they wish to reecive pro- per credit. BEMIDJI PIONEER PUB. CO. The Business of Farming. We are just awakening to the fact that the value of farm land is rap- ldly increasing in America. Ever since the discovery of the continent there have been vast tracts of unoccupied land subject to free settlement until now. We have at last filled up the continent and all the land worth till- Ing is under ownership. We are doing much by irrigation to reclaim the arid lands, but these are rapidly filled up B8 soon as they are made tillable. Relieved of the pressure of vacant lands, there can be no doubt that.the value of farms will continue to rise and the value of farm products will rise with them. The present depres- sion in the commercial and industrial world has caused no drop in the price of farm products, no particular de- crease in the cost of living; indeed, it has increased, if measured by wages. ~—Indianapolis Star. ———— Legacy to Have His Health Drunk. Mr. John Dipple of Leytonstone, li- censed victualler, who died on Sep- tember 21, bequeathed £250 to the treasurer of the Leyspring lodge of Free Masons upon trust to apply the Income in providing for a silent toast to be drunk to his memory, to be pro- posed at the installation banquet of the lodge by the master.—London Times. S S — Costly English Tunnel. The new Rotherhithe tunnel under the Thames to Stepney has cost some- thing like $10,000,000 to construct and Is the largest tube boring of its kind im the world. Its total length, including: the two sloping approaches, is roughly. 11-3 miles. The length of tunnel actw-{ ally under the river is about one-t.hhlj of a mile, IOWA MAN STUCK WITH PITCHFORK A farmer living in the Northern part o. Jowa stuck himself in the leg with a p.ichfork. The wound would not heal and for two years he had & running sore. He tried all the com~ mon salves and liniments and some- times the sore would heal, but it al~ ways broke open again. Finally he healed it up to stay healed with Allen’s Ulcerine Salve. This salve is one of the oldest rem~ edies in America and since 1869 it has been known as the only salve powerful enough to cure chronic ul= cers and old sores of long standing. Allen’s Ulcerine Salve acts by drawing out the poisons and healing the sore from the bottom up. It is so powerful that it heals new cuts and sores in one-third the time that com- mon salves and liniments take. And it heals burns and scalds without a scar. Sold at Barker’s Drug Store. —Adv. ] ! i [