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i | office at Bam(dfi fi‘At&r under Act rery afternoon except Sunday No attention paid to anonymous con- tributions. ~Writer's name must be known to the editor, but not necessar- ily_for publication. ‘Communications for the Weekly Plon- eer should reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publica- tion in the current issue. Six months, postage One year, postage paid .. The Weekly Floneer. Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. 'ublished every Thursday and sent. postage paid to any address tor $1.50 in advance. /I3 PAPER REPRESENTED FUR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES A “Leading Leader” is Leader Un- derwood. Dollars differ in size. It depends on whether it is coming or going, also on how long it is until payday. One of the lights not in the lime- light is the supreme court these days. You hear of it only when it adjourns, Could you say Bryan is making a good cabinet officer, or wouldn’t it be better to say that he was making a good cabinet. The Chicago man who was just sentenced to a year in the pen testi- fied that he worked for a railroad by day and as a burglar by night. evil minded person would consider it merely a continuous performance of the same business. Some Maxwell’s job is in great demand. Now Koll of Cass Lake wants it. Op- sahl of Bemidji has been suggested, he too, it is believed wouldn’t sneer at it. The state could do worse than to select such men. At any rate it is a big job for a big man. Both may be improved by time and experience. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says it’s not a matter 0t being afraid. The jingo press all over the coun- try ascribes the government’s anxiety in the California matter to fear of Japan. Stuff and nomsepse! This government, this country, is no more afraid of Japafi*than it is afraid of any other power of the But this country ought to be afraid of treating Japan un- fairly. e The question is not whether the United States is big eonugh to whip Japan, but whether it is big enough to act honorably and treat a smaller friendly nation with courtesy. It is a question not of physical prowess same size. but of moral courage. The Psalm of the Gas Buggy. Yea, verily, the man who owneth an auto is of few happy days that are full of trouble. In the morning he putteth his goggles and speedeth away “like siyty’’ and lo and behold in the evening a mule team draggeth him home like a snail. He prideth himself on his buzz wagon for which he putteth up many shekels and it outshineth his neighbor’s. He liveth in his car for he has his home in it. He cranketh and starteth up but she balketh and busteth the buzzer and filleth him full of misery and woe‘.He shedeth his coat, rolleth up his sleeves, crawleth under her, monkey- eth with her vitals, getteth red in the face, hot under the collar, filleth up with cuss words. = When she scooteth about as he turneth the brass wheel then it is he filleth himself with haughty pride, becoming mon- arch of the whole highway and he honketh his joy horn exceedingly as he getteth there Eli, and whosoever getteth not out of his road he knock- eth galley west. But when she bron- choeth, goeth of toward Jake’s run- neth amuck and turnéth turtle in a grand kerflummux, then it is'she is'a delusion and a snare and her owner’s name is Dennis.—Ezx. Fertilize the Language. Surely there must'be something the matter with the Yocabulary of our young people when they have to de. pend so exclusively upon such words as “Sure!” “Dandy!” and “Wonder ful!” to express their principal emo tions. What 18 most extraordinary about all this is that the vocabulary of young women does not seem: to be improved ‘by a ‘college career. One ‘would think that it would be quite im- possible to study Latin and French and German, literature and philosophy for a number of years (even though studied in the most.superficial mun- ner) without acquiring enough variety. of words ‘to carry one tlirotigh any’ common experience. ‘The method: of; studying English in our schools is en- tltely wrong. There should hcll-m Just wholesome, pure, baccos— - FATIM TURKISH BLEND CIGARETTES The ness of this clever Turkish-blend has given it’ a country-wide popularity I “Distinctively Individual” BEAUTIFUL MUSICAL COMEDY Will appear at srinkman theater, May 12, 13, 14. What Fargo papers have to say about it: “Beautiful Mus- ical Comedy—Fourteen people with Mrs. Bob Fitzsimmons as the star and E. Dano & Co., assisting, form the great star attraction at the Orpheum the first three days of this week, and it‘might be stated that it is the great- est attraction that Manager Fowler of the house has ever presented here. mance, is the vehicle that the strong company uses for its work. There is one great scene, that of a Bulgarian cafe and during the action of the beautiful musical skit there are six sweet musical numbers, and Mrs. Fitzsimmons, whose stage name’ is Julia Gifford, has an excellent part which she carries well. She is one of the big stars in musical comedy and has a strong personality. The little playlet which runs over 50 minutes, is well costumed, grand groupings with dances, nicely staged and ‘there is a world of beautiful lighting, es- pecially a stone bridge scene which is lighted from the rear. It isa great bill and the three audiences of yester- day evinced pleasure by continued applause. Each member of the prin- cipal staff received encores. It is a sweet, beautiful act without the least objectionable features and . it went ‘exceedingly well.” A Produc- tiop like Mrs. Bob Fijzsimmons & Co. caf only be seen -at first clashk road shows charging $2 admission. The Brinkman admission during this engagement, 50 cents to all.—Adv. SR S b SR i The musical comedy, A Bulgarian Ro- || 30,000 VOIGES ! And Many are the Voices of iemidjx eople. Thirty thousand voices—What a grand chorus.” And that’s the number of American men and women:who are for relief from backache, kidney and bladder ills. They say it to friends. They tell it in the home papers.. .Be- midji people are in this chorus: Here's a Bemid}i-case. ‘W. H:.'@arrison, barber, 604 Third street, Bemidjl, Minn,, says: “I had| pains across my loins and my back’ was-often 80 lame that it hurf me to stoop-or lift.. ‘The kidney secretions were unnatural.- I got Doan’s Kidney Pills at Barker’s Drug Store and they | helped ‘me 80 much that. I can recom- mend them to anyone suffering ln a similar way.” For sale by all denlers Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, ‘New York, sole agents for the United States. - Remember the name—Donn’a—nnd take no other. THE SPALDING EUROPEAN PLAN Duluth's Largest and Best Hotel DULUTH MINNESOTA ded More than §i ono.ou neonfly &m ded ‘modern copvenlence: Luxurious m elighifal tory. huho d L ke """"‘""'%m"“"’."f.‘x’:n‘g"% evorTnIng. Oxa of the Great Hotels of the Northwest publicly praising Doan’s Kidney Pills| :On a'cettaln dny in February, 1492, there rode along the marrow pass ‘at th ot of Mount Elvh-a, a tew miles £ m Granada.in: Spain; a: man: -with -hig head :bowed 1ow- over his breast: The 1little' mule he was riding stumhled along wearily. Sud- denly behind him he heard the noise of “awifly gzuopmg ‘hoofs, = Still he did- ‘notTaise his head. -But when the: ing horseman - drew &longaldé at last and'slowed ‘down, the rider of the mule;looked up- to see who it was. There followed a hurried conyersation of few 'words, and then-the man on the mule, his eyes beaming, his face alight with hope and pride, and his head erect; turned: his' jaded beast, and, togeth- er with the man on horseback, who had followed him, rode back the way he had come. May Days of Preparation _Itdoesn't much matter what your plans for June, July, or August are, but you must agree that your comfort during those months will be greater if in the pleasant month of May you take advantage of all of the opportunities offered for preparation. Last-minute shopping is distressing and unsatisfactory. The weather is warm, the streets and shops ‘are crowd- ed,and the stocks are not nearly as fresh and attractive as they are now. Therefore be forehanded and “let your head save your heels.” Plan your summer outfit now, no matter how small or how extensive it may be; and not only plan it ‘but get it You will have a lot more fun later on if you have provided yourself with “what you need in apparel and sport- ing goods before the -season is'in full swing. If you have any doubt about what you want look. at the advertisements in THE PIONEER and other good news- The man on the mule was Christo- pher Columbus, and the one who caught up.to him was-a messenger sent by King Ferdinand of Spain to tell him that at last, after-seven long years of weary waiting and pleading of his cause, his requests wére to be granted. 'He was to be made com- mander of an expedition that was_to ;attempt to disecover a new and short- er way to Asia, India; and the magic East. Only. that very morning Co- lumbus; tired of waiting around the Court of Spain, had set forth intend- ing to present his cause to France, with the hope that he might get aid there to pursue the great enterprise he had in view. This man, Columbus, or Colombo, as his name is spelled in Italian, was The Story of America in Pictures THE DISCOVERERS “Learn One Thing Every Day” No. 1. CHRISTOPHER cor.mus 'Cowrlgm, 1918. ‘by The Amlnted Newlnnperfichaal,fi Inc. [1dea of discovering ‘a new route - to born ‘at Gsnaa. Italy, about 1446 or 1451, about IA’Mthqt he first concelvgd the Asia; - For the mext ten ' years he made proposals, of duoovsny to many ‘of th«i governments ‘of Furope: but none would listen to him. ~ Finally, after he had almost given up hope, Spain.agreed to aid him. On Friday, August 3, 1492, Colum- bus set sail in command - Of three: lttle ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and ‘the Nina, the largest of which, the Santa ‘Maria, was only ninety feet.long. On the twelfth of October of the same year land was, seen, and Columbus-landed on one of the Bahama Islands, formally taking possession in the” name of King Fer- dinand of Spain. Columbus; returned ‘ to Spain in March, 1493,'and his journey through the country to Barcelona was a triumphant march. In September of that" year ‘he sailed again, and dis- covered the Windward Islands, Jam- aica and Porto Rico. He founded a colony and returned to Spain. On his third voyage he discovered the Orin- oco. Then he was accused on false charges by men who were envious and jealous of him, and he and his brother Bartholomew -were taken back to Spain in chains. The captain of the ship on which he was brought back offered to remove the chains; but Co- lumbus answered, “No, I will wear them as a memento of the gratitude of princes.” On reaching Spain, however, he was quickly freed. His fourth voyage was to explore the Gulf of Mexico; but he was taken sick at San Lucar and lay there for several months. Broken in body and spirit he returned to Spain and died at Valladolid on May 20, 1506. The tablet which reads simply, “Here. died Columbus.” Every day a different human inter- est story will appear in the Pioneer. You can get a beautiful intaglio re- production of the above picture, with five others, equally attractive, 7x935 inches in size, with this week’s “Men- tor.” In “The Mentor” a well known ~‘somewhere | 1t was probably| | house in which hé died bears a small || a varnis (ou the fronthalland stanrs). and éven here Kyanize ~ will stand up, look well and wear for.a long time . . flows so freely and dries so quickly . -that you can put it on yourself without showing ‘laps. ~ It dries with a hard, “lustrous, sanitary surface that is easy. to keep clean—and is as tough and dur- "‘able as a varnish can be made. Use it on your stairways, floors, linoleums, all inside woodwork and furniture. Clear and seven permanent and beau- tiful colors. ¢ “Your money back if !yanue doesn’t do all we claim for it CIVEN HARDWARE CO. YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU WANT IT 316-318 Minn:sota Ave. BEMIDJI, MINN. Phone 57 GO TO BATCHELDER’S G0OD GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE FRESH EGGS AND BUTTER BATCHELDER Phone 180 L. P. 117 Minnesota Ave. SUPERIOR LOTS “The New Steel Center” Lots on-easy terms. No interest, no taxes. In- vestment in Superior Lots will make you money. Information--Bradley Brink Co. (Inc.) 909 Tower Ave., Superior, Wis. K. K. ROE, Agent, Bemidji, Minn. pictures and stories of the week. Readers of the Pioneer and “The Men- tor” will know art, literature, his- tory, science, and travel, and own ex- quisite pictures. On sale at Aber- crombie’s boek store. Price ten-cents. TRY A WANT AD papers and you will find plenty of suggestions. 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