Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 24, 1913, Page 4

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The Rush for Land. Over thirty-four thousand acres of Minnesota state land were sold through the auditor’s office at the last series of land sales. The average price per acre for this land was about 37 and the purchaser has forty years in which to pay for it. Interest at four per cent is charged on delayed payments. This land all lies in the park reg- don of Northern Minnesota where climate conditions make for the pro- duction of record crops. Why any one can go through Minnesota to the Canadian west and pass by such op- portunities as are offered here is hard to understand. It must be that they are not familiar enough with the fact that Minnesota wants settlers on her thousands of acres of cheap but good lands. The spring rush for land is on. Every possible effort must be made now to keep some of the transient immigrants here. It might be well to note here that only this week forest and prairie fires wiped out the prop- erty of thousands of settlers in Sas- katchewan. Stotk growers are facing financial distress because of the loss |- € ©of grass. keep the Americans in America and get Minnesota settled first. A Government Budget. With the announcement. of the plan of the new Democratic tariff, it is plainly seen that the drift toward @ national budget is becoming pro- mounced. The ways and means com- mittee of the house has roughly esti- mated the expenditures of the gov- ernment for the next two years and has framed a bill which will raise the required revenue. The protection principle has been lost. . The action of the ways and means committee is a step in t‘he direction of a budget for the government. The United States civilized country in which the receipts and ex- penditures of the government are not closely related and almost balanced. The hap-hazard system which has ob- tained here in the past cannot last much longer. With the coming of the budget will come a tariff which will be for revenue only. The income tax is destined to be- come one of the principal sources of revenue under the budget 'system in- asmuch as the rate is quickly changed to meet conditions and no upset of business follows the making of the rate. In fact, one congressman has gone so far as to predict that the in- heritance and taxes ~ will eventually be the only sources of gov- ernmental revenue. In the present “bill, incomes as low as $4,000 will be taxed but less than one per cent of “the people of the country will come under its provisions. ; \ is the only income While direct taxation has never been and probably never will be pop- ular, the budget system should not be dropped through fear of the income and inheritance taxes. By definitely correlating revenues and expendi- tures, it cannot help but save the country money. “Next to The Bible.” A Sears-Roebuck catalogue appear- ed"at our office Jgist week. . It came like Poe’s raven, uninvited and unso- licited. The omly thing it brought was food for thought. In 1912 the Sears-Roebuck corporation earned $7,000,000, making a surplus of $12,- 000,000 at the end of that year. That profit was made by underpaid girls, whose sole means of livelihood is the revenue derived from positions pay- ing little better than starvation wages, and when complaint SS made they are advised to employ their eve- ning thours. Over the length and breadth of this wonderful land of the free and home of the brave live men who support such an institution. Lieut.-Governor O’Hara, chairman of the senate white slave investigating committee said that “in Chicago and other Illinois cities, girls work ten hours a day and work hard for a pit- tance of $1.50 a week.” = Think it over, you people who believe that| next to the Bible the Sears-Roebuck catalogue comes first in the lst of books for the home.—Standard, Pop- lar, Mont. THE FILTHY F| The H{ is filthy. Born in filth, he feed€ on filth, crawls in filth and then, with filth sticking to his feet, legs and body, he feeds and walks—if you let him—on and in your food. Would it not disgust you to see a fly feed in a foul smelling garbage can or something worse and then fly to your din- ing room and wipe his feet on the sugar, tangle his legs in the & soft butter and take a bath. in . the milk? Notice for awhile the flies that come into your kitchen and you will see that most of them come from such filth to the food on your table. How to Prevent Breeding. If you have a stable do not allow wauie fo accumulate. The manure shou.d ve removed twice a day to a Adosedd it and should be removed from this Wi ¢ @ week Do not tolerate wEnnre pies Greco vitriol, one pound in a gallon of water. applied once a day will kill the magpots in the manure from a one horse stable. If the old fashioned dug outhouse is used it should be ‘thoroughly treated at frequent intervals with chloride of lime. Garbage cans should be closely cov- ered, or, better, should have a fiy trap attached to the cover in such a way that all flies flying upward from the garbage will be sure to enter the trap. KILL THE WINTER FLY. The crusade against the fly has spread to all parts of the country. It is well that this is the case, as the fly is responsibl. for much disease. It iz an cially prudent plan to kill' every fly possible before the real warm weather sets in.—Roches- A FEELING OF SECURITY You naturally feel secure when you know that the medicine you are about to take is absolutely pure and contains no harmful or habit .pro- ducing drugs. Such a medicine is Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy. The same standard of purity, strength and excellence is maintain- ed in every bottle of Swamp-Root. Swamp-Root is scientifically com- [ pounded from vegetable herbts. It is not a stimulant and is taken in teaspoonful doses. It is not recommended for every- thing. It is nature’s great helper in re- lieving and overcoming kidney, liver and bladder troubles. A sworn statement' of purity is with every bottel of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. If you need a medicine, you should have the best. ; If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you mneed, you will find. it on sale at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, fifty-cents and one dollar. | Sample Bottle of Swamp-Root ! FreebyMal Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing- hamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle, free by mail—it will convince any- one. You will also receive a booklet of ‘valuable information, telling all about the kidneys. When writing be sure and mention the Bemidji D.ny Pioneer. ANGERS T0 . THE EYES!GHT “I believe,” said Dr. Myles Standish in his lecture at the Harvard Medical school, according to the Boston Tran- script, “that it i8 a crime to have pointed scissors about in any house- bold in which there are children under six years of age. Children will inva- riably play with scissors; they fre- quently fall on the points and puncture the eye, and often the wound, while it will cause. blindness, is too small to be noticed by the mother. “Next in point of danger to the eye- sight is the pounding of steel on steel, which throwing out slivers, eventually destroys the sight. Machinists and stonecutters meet with similar acci- dents, and now that the public is pay- Ing for these injuries through insur- ance, workmen who are subjected to such dangers should be compelled to wear glasses of some sort to protect their eyes. “I have known of quarrymen going | on strike because their employer tried lo force them to wear glasses, and I have seen a quarryman who has lost | an eye through a premature explosion of dynamite go back to the same work and loge the other eye. “‘Glaucoma,” which occurs only in people over forty years of age, may be ranked as an accident, since it is in » moment of excitement or deep emo- tion that a person begins to go blind. "; There comes an instantaneous, agoniz- > |Ing pain in the eyes, which, if not at- tended to at once, will cause total blindness within a few days. “The danger signal, which warns > |people that their eyes are becoming seriously affected by overwork, diges- 2 |tive or circulatory disturbances, is see- Ing a rainbow halo. This halo is vis- i 1 street. light.” ‘.,sromr TOLD BY MR. HOGAN Rather Late to Publish, But Really 8o +Good That It Is Hard to Pass Over. A group of revolutionary heroes were swapping tall stories, and from the lips of each there fell wondrous tales of what he had done in the shock of battle or the frenzy of the tharge. Finally one old fellow with long, white whiskers, remarked: “I was personally acquainted with Feorge Washington. “I was lying behind the breast- works one day, pumping lead into the { Britishers, when I heard the patter of & horse’s hoofs behind me. Then icame a voice: “‘Hi, there, you with the deadly aim! Look here a moment!’ “I looked around and saluted, rec- ognizing General Washington, and he said: “‘What's your name? “‘Hogan,’ 1 said. “‘Your first name? “‘Pat, sir—Pat Hogan." “‘Well, Pat,’ he said, ‘go. home. You’re killing too many men.” “‘I think I'd better get a few more, general,’ I said, kind of apologetic. “‘No,’ he said, ‘you've killed too many. It’s slaughter. And, Pat, don’t call me general; call me George.’ ™ Short Stories. Foundation of Republics. It 18 an old maxim that republics live by virtue; that is, by the main tenance of a high level of public spirk and justice among . the citizens.— James Bryce. ‘ble often when the person affected | strikes.a. match at night:or looks.at a:| WAYS.. OF . INDUCING . SLEEP Many and Curious Methods Have Been Resorted to in All Ages, Many and curicus have been the methods employed to induce sleep in all ages.” Even from the primitive pil- low stuffed with the narcotic-leaf to the more modern one advocated by a well known Swedish doctor—of get- ting between the blankets dripping from a cold bath. But perhaps none is so extraordi- nary as that recently invented by an eminent German doctor and scientist. By his system it 18 possible to switch sleep “off” and “on,” precisely as one maniplates the electric light. Thus it i8 by electricity that the doctor is able to promise sleep to the most ‘inveterate of ‘insomnia - victims. By means of a small electrically- worked machine, he applies the cur- rent to the base of the skull, which produces a ‘“deadening” effect on the nerves. This state can be kept up for as long a period as desired. Up to the present experiments have been practically confined to animals; but, as it was found they could be brought to full consciousness within a minute or two, it is believed the invention can huve no evil effects on humans. “Yankee Doodle” a Sllly Song. Of the origmal words of “Yankee Doodle” it is impossible to say one good thing. They are to be seen in the British Museum on a single sheet, quarto, printed about 1825, and sold at the time by L. Dennlng, Hanover street, Boston. There are 15 stanzas, and each succeeding one from the be- ginning grows more idiotic. And yet what a sensation the melody has made in the world'—ntzgeukl Sto ries of Famous Songs. WORRY FILLS THE.ASYLUMS Forty Per Cent. of the Insanity- Cases 1 Are Attributed to It by Alienists. An eastern alienist told the Menta Hygiene society that if worry c¢ould be eliminated the number of our insane would be decreased by 40 per cent His assertion is corroobrated by othez experts. The diagnosis, one sees, iz delight [ully simple, but the remedy is hard to apply. Worry is of two sorts—that which comes from within and that which is imposed from without. The nervous specialist treats the first and wmental suggestion succeeds in a cer tairr proportion of cases. As for the worry incident to our mad scramble to survive, the doctors we look to in that case are the ecoonmists and the sociologists. The problem of the nerve specialist is not an easy one, but iooks almost simple when compared with the problem of the economists. Both sets of doctors are making head- way, and at present we may look for much improvement in our insanity statistics.? So_let us not worry about worry, but work to remove its causes —Chicago Record-Herald. e Straight at It. There is no use of our “beating around the bush.” We might as well out with it first as last. We want you to try Chamberlain’s Cough Rem- edy the next time you have a cough or cold. There is no reason so far as we can see why you should not do so. This preparation by its remarkable cures has gained a world wide repu- tation, and people everywhere speak of it in the highest terms of praise. It is for sale by Barker’s Drug Store. I—Adv. New Spring Merchandise ‘ Worth Your Attention " The ? Bazaaf Store IN we will try it. described below. Children’s Muslin Underwear buying the goods for this store we first bear in mind the particular needs of this community, and then we insist that each purchase we make shall be of thoroughly dependable quality. In selling these goods to you we mark them at a fair profit and give you a guarantee that you will be perfectly pleased in each particular. If there is any better way that this store might suit you better, tell us and Store visitors are invited to look at our special mentions Dresses Curtain Scrims Spring Coats Ladies’ House Dresses Hosiery Next to Secunty Bank ~ Just received a new shipment of Ladies’ Spring Oxfords, including the latest styles and lasts in Whites, Tans and Blacks. Bemld,u. Minn.