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under Act Published every afterncon exoept Bunday No attentton paid’to anonymous con- tributions. ~ Writer's name must be known to the editor, but not necessar- 1ly_for D\lblloltl uni uaunn- for the Weekly Pion- reqc] office not-later than 'l'undxy of each week to ingure publica- tion in'the current 1ss One month by carrier Cne year, b The Weekly Ploneer. Eight containing a su £ the ‘Hews oF the wWeek. Hbusfi‘olg‘ar\’:e?y and sent postage .pald to an address for $1.60 in advance. 5 7HIS PAPER RERRESENFLD FCR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES No just man should permit his wife to do all the domestic drudgery. Canned frog legs. This ought to make them an every day food article. “Man drowned in an aeroplane.” The mext thing that will happen is, someone will fall out of a submarine and break his neck. “It’s a man’s business to do the washing Monday mornings,” said Rev. I. E. Honeywell. We agree with him—but—well we can say no more, only some of us who agree do - not practice what we preach. Micheal Papatheodorekuwomdropo- lis is the name of a man to whom first papers were issued the other day at Freeport, Ill. by county clerk Stec- en. The man should change- his name to Papa in order to keep the moving picture men from camping on his-trail. Montgomery, with his newsy In- ternational Falls Journal keeps boosting and boosting. He is always at hand when the reputation of his city or the Northern section of the state is at stake. International Falls is a growing city and promises to keep right on growing, and it's just such men as Montgomery who help bring this about. The Resignation of Maxfield. The sudden resignation of State Immigration Commissioner Maxfield, because of a difference with the board over a matter of policy, may have the good effect of centering public atten- tion on the difficulties that now im- pede the work of settling the state’s vacant lands. Progress will continue to be slow and difficult until the whole system of handling state lands and other re- sources is overhauled and modernized. The legislature, listening to the self- ish arguments of the politicians and officeholders, refused to take any ac- tion in this direction. must continue to lag behind. So Minnesota will the legislature think better of its, duty, when it meets next fall in spec- ial session?—Minneapolis Journal. The Parcel Post Justifies Itself. What of the parcel post, which the nation demanded for many years but did not get until this year? After four months of operation, of- ficials of the postoffice department say that it is already a great suc- ces, Its business is increasing at the rate of ten million packages a month, and there are strong indications that its expansion will-soon be at a much more rapid pace. Merchants are planning to extend their business, by its means, into new flelds, and the number ‘of pack- ages of farm products sent by it is growing steadily. This news, though not finexpeeted. will please those who fought for this service against - odds. for so many Years, President Wilson's new postmas- ter general is thoroughly in sym- pathy with the parcel post, and there- fore he. is construing very liberally the regulations relating-to it. That’s wise, and it will be appreciated. The parcel -post should be made of the ut- most benefit to the people, and to that end the less red tape there is mixed in it the better.—Duluth Her- ald. Minimum qu m Worh Well Great Britain has a minimum wage law .specifically applicable to. but a few industries, and of too recent-en- actment to have had a fair trial. But in New Zealnd and Australia glven ercellent results. 0 and pay. many. years, and j‘t“ ;uglfl_ ‘tn 1 Among the benefits noted are elim- ination of sweatshops and general ,|adoption of the elght-hour day. And it is ‘sald that employers « opposed to-such 1aws are nos n their supporters,.. because . unfair etasily competition and strikes vktunlly. have been done away with. These results have been had under what are known as which hear and decide questions. aris-{ ing in the various-trades, as to work:|: One good feature of the system, as described by Professor M. R. Ham-{ mond, of Ohio, who recently viaké& the Antipodes, is that the Australian system allows infirm or slow workers, within certain defined limits, to ac- cept less’ than the regular minimum wage. retain employment from which other- wise they would be dismissed. It appears that the success of the| - minimum wage system in Australia was what lead to its partial or experi- mental introduction in Bngland a few | Living With’ People. irmuon "hias human intelligence enough years ago.—Sacramento’ Bee. 8ilk Hat Is a Century Old. Last year was the centenary year. of trousers, this year sees the high:hat @ hundred years old. As a matter of fact, the top hat is much older than that, but it is exactly a hundred years since the variety known. as.the silk hat was placed on the market. It at once became the fashionable form of headgear, and hae retafned its position ever since. The inventor of the silk hat was a London hatter named - Ben- nett. Prior to his day top hats were made of beaver; but he introduced silk and fabric as an alternative ma- terial to beaver skin for tall hats, be- cause the great increase in the popu- larity of the tall hat caused a famine In beaver skins. - Since that time the silk hat has shrunk two inches, for the top hat of today is only different to the founder of its line in being about wage. boards,|. This enables such workers to.| ' “I eould live with anybedy,” bright.:young ;woman 'the .other day. “If the othes :party to the agzeement would leave me alone. Brother Jack and T get on capitally, when we run the house alone. He minds:his own affairs and I mind mine; He 't al ‘ways:rushing into my room: 1 remembered to sew- shields in my ‘walsts, -and-1f 1 remembered to put on my heayy flannels this morning because it is colder, or to-ask if I realize it is half-past-eight-and I am "due at school at nine o'clock: And I am not nagging him-to wear rubbers every time there is a sprinkle nor in- sisting on knowing what girl he took home from.church Sunday night nor fussing at because he talks:ten minutes over the ’phone. -We just to think, gurely he or she can :tak care of little things without being eternally nagged. Living together is very simple ‘# you just mind your own business. ‘It.is when someone minds 1t for you ‘thgt you want to live oa'a degert 1sland.” . Dalily Thought. There is yet no culture, no. method of progress-kunown to_men, that is so tich and complete as that which is ministered by a truly great friendship. —Phillips Brooks, Greater Than Conquérors. ‘We_ cannot conquer fate and necessi- Ly, yet-we can yleld to them in such take. 1t for granted that the other thinks, and let it go at that. If a two inches lower, with a correspond- ing reduction in the size of the brim. The fabric of a modern tall hat is of gossamer soaked in shellac to give It the necessary stiffness. The firm founded by the inventor of the silk hat still conducts business in Piccadilly, London, and, according to their re- ports, the centenary of the high hat. finds it as popular as ever. Discouraged Firefiles, During a pause of a brilliant display: of fireworks on of the circle of friends commented upon the conspicuous ab- sence of the innumerable fireflies that had been noticed several evenings pre- viously. The query as to what had become of them all was promptly an- swered by my tiny boy of five sum- mers, who remarked: “I guess: they must be discouraged.”—Chicago - Trib: une. " = Best Test of Man. The keenest test of a man.comes when he has attained; the struggle to attain keeps him strong, but.the.line of least resistance soon showa.itself in success.—Hugh Black. FRRIFRERRRERRREIEIIIIRRHK found in Bemidj{ Come right here.and. get them, as we pride ourselves on having' only " the: best- money ¢an- buy. 0TTO @. scnwum nemfERe20 *hx KA RAK RAKE MeCUAIG. | KRR NINRNRNA R Pyl g * * * ‘We: are: Jobbers * * ot * * PIN TICKETS * x and x 14 GUMMED: LABELS x % No need-to send outside of ¥ 4 Bemidji hr t.hcm : * & Ploneer Enle Store & * Can-Save You Money : * « BEMIDJI PIONEER PUB. 00. : . x 3 anmwnmmc. ¢ '\ii#%ki‘kkiiil{!k”fli*fl” : 'lj*t **'fi***, Tk ok T T TR T LT TS RFRFR AR ETAR RN *EEAIR & manner as to be greater than it we could.—Landor. PLAIN GARDEN SAGE NATURALLY IJAHKENS FADED, GRAY HAIR AND IS HARMLESS T00 RESTORES ITS . LUSTRE- PREV- ENTS SCALP: ITCHING; DAND- RUFF AND FALLING HAIR. That beautiful, even shade of dark, glossy hair can only be had by brew- ing a mixture of Sage Tea and Sul- phur. While.it is a mussy, tedious task it well repays those whose hair’ is turning gray, faded and streaked. Your hair is your charm. It makes or mars_the_ face..~ When. it fades,|r turns gray and looks dry; wispy and scraggly, just an application or two of Sage and Sulphur‘enhances its appearance s :hundred: fold: Don’t bother to prepare the tonic; you' ‘can‘ get from any drug store a fitty cent bottle of “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur ‘Hair' Remedy;’* ready: to use. It matters not where you reside or what you want, lffl”ifllfllifi"!&’lfll q l : NORTHERN GROCERY : x COMPANY: X x- * * * X B X ®essessssoes x ¢ % - * WHOLESALE ® x ® 2 [} S o x x ®” * % x ;‘ i 5 3 This can always be depended upon to ‘| bring back the natural color and lustre of your hair and is the best thing known to remove dandruff, stop scalp itching and falling hair. Everybody -chooses “Wyeth’s” Sage and Sulphur ‘because“it darkens so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. = You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush and draw this through the hair, taking one small strand at a time which t.a few. moments. Do this nd by morning the gray hair has disappeared and after an- other application it becomes beauti- fully dark and-appears glossy, lust- rous and abundant. It certainly helps folks look years younger and twice as attractive, 'says a well-known ‘| he saith, I'will“return‘unto my housé wasidftenisozlame that: it liurt me to | than himself; and they enter in, and, Tt * 3 HousEHOLD DTENEmS - % & and FARM IMPLEMENTS : : of : *x £ cmaaTIE X x Bemtagt, - Mimn. % ¥ o o |down town druggist.—Adv. um«nmun»unm i EVJR GOOD THINGS TO EAT G0 TO “THEY.BEAT.” 207 Fourth strest, Bemidjl. Phone 206. AN AR AA TN *}f KRKREARAK K * H i ii i§ AR RR K § g ] BRI BRI KRR KRR g g v s KRR RKRTAAKN F MENTAL MUPA‘MON 2g0- ia gho: uu re publishied in Le Bresil ety , " @M ut. wlfi f American men and -women who,are Bardly he i publicly praising-Poan’s Kidney Pills doubt whather, b waR :::“.’.f’d . ‘:‘,:: for. relief from backache, kidney and (They tell it in.the home papers, “Be- emidjt, Minn., pains across” my loins and my back DIMI: Xest;.and finding none, whence T came out. And when he|stoop:or lift.. The kidney secretions om.neth, he findeth it swept and gar-|were unnatural. I got Doan’s Kidney nished. Then goeth-he, and takethi to | pills at Barker's Drug Store and they him seven other spirits more wretched helped me so muckr that I can recom- Jjmend: them™ toianyone 'sufferingdn a similar way.” d well therd;: and:the last dtate of ‘that thamthe first,!" 3 :a‘:::. » “soul wu::m. created| For sale by all dealers. Price 50 Dby the expulston-of evik And evil ro-|Cents. Foster:Milburn' Co., Buffalo, turned with . greatly reinfol Neéw York, sole agents for the United trength.: It is precisely o with a&iStates.® ‘mental vacuum.” It ean‘be filled, and!” Remember the name—Doan” s—and must be filled if ruin is to be avelded:| .y ¢ nio other: No one need leave his mind the gport ey_of evil influences. But' the only way to exclude those influences is to keep the mind’ filléd with noble thoughts and * sound ‘learning.’. It ia shrewder purchaser than another make ‘youa better mannem' of your -annual agent of any a all there is 1o know about the things he buys. midji people are in this chorus. Here's!{ efficient: | ducted - their ; purchasing . departm-nt families they would ~ be bankmpx be- fore very-long.> _reason why every. individeal should ot get~ 100" cents worth for every The” merchiant_or " the purchasing ‘g organjzation knows s His dollar is 100 per_ cent. If some large- organization con- 8 loosely and thoughlleailyn some And yet there is really no good ollar he spends-for himself and his the emptiness that invites and prac- 2 B fKyanize -, Ry tically insures invasion: And the emp- tinees is the result, not of the activity of another, but of one’s own neglect. Men are: very largely what ‘they are because of what they think. This was recognized - by the apostle, and his 316-318 Mimnassta Ave. BEMIDJI, MINK, Pome 67 the toughest ‘words are-true, whether applied to the Without 2 do“bt = intellectual or the spiritual life. It character. 18 ‘molded by’ thought the Fasfly applied, dries ove\'mght thought must be lofty if the character. & » is to be lofty. So we have this advice GIVEN HARBWARE w from the apostle: “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things. are hon- est, whatsoever things are juet, what- soever : things. are pure, whatgoever things are lovely, whatsoever things pet are of good report; if there be any-vir{}=: B % tue, and if there be any praise, think 8. Y Tag P e William- G. Kiein: We doubt whether there can be such, J "y Ll & thing as an absolute “mental vao- = : ‘ uum,” that is, a ‘wholly tenantless K mind, 8o empty asto be-widely open to leu RANcE evil. It must be-filled, and with things that are. true, lovely and of good re- port. Otherwise it will' become the slave of other: influences. - It s not enough to ‘“cease to.do. evil"—men must “learn to do well.” Virtue con- sists, not in'the absence of evil, but by dteadiom in the presence.of good.’ That is the on- City and - Farm teaching both of Christianity and of Z ¥ the non-Clirlstian philosophers—Indi- Property anapolis News, and 6, O'Leary-i msmr‘rat’mm"‘ X1NG pprlON TO STATB OP lfi Beltra of the above na; decedent, being filed in tms coure = ot [ Said estate aad T all interested: there ate and. o n ted: therein that certain lands of said deced, - scribed therein be sold and- pnyxe“ e Rentals, Bonds; Real Estate ;,:-15'1“‘“?: F by ort el e el should not be First Mortgage Loans of 2 Lars Rosn 4td 430-521. PETI- mi. In Probcte oF the Matter a:‘- éhe Eumte of Asmund MINNESOTA: TO ons’ interested in Ixe sale ot certain ds belo! fln& 1o said decedent: The tition’ of Bohe. u representative YOUR MONEY BACK'IF YOU WANT IT- |Inthe X Tepresenting that it is d f0r the beSt Interests of llcense be to him granted. to sell"l‘r‘l: on "the prayer--of said petiton grant 8" the’ Judge: of said Court, and the seal of said court, this 281110::) April, 1913; M A, A.Rl{ Judge ‘of Pmbate Court. ess, Attofliey for Petitioner, 415 N. Y. Life Bldg., St Paul. Minn. | 801t Seems. Stella—“No 1man is indispensable. Bella—“But some man i Phone 19, Bemidjl, Minn, the merchants below can it get for. you .at. a price that. will-defy competition. reliable and will give you the bestvalue »»for- your money. - ”fl*fll{(fik’i’kfl'&lfin& bt dn s i s sl s dsdssld * ¥ * i TOM SMART x FURNITURSB * * x oK = x x Dray and Transfer * : J. P. LAHR * * * * 4. SAFE AND'PIANO MOVING ¥ ¥ * * x : Furaiture, ‘Rugs and:-Stoves; : x- * > % Res. Pnone 58 : : Undertaking. : x e * 818 America Aveaue * : Phone call 178-2. : * x I Ollu Phone 18 X : 323 Minnesota' Ave. : ¥M’Mmm”fi” amnnuinmunu«n :flk&flifitflrfli&lfi#{ifil{ :mcunnnw S oAl Vet T (MIUMIMG. ) % a8 much-or: as: TR 2 | 2o Aike:at-the: wir JEWELRY STORE ¥ x % * * 1o 4 Wholesalers and. Retallers . & x R S Too and satisfaction. Mall" & x * * m“fivfll that ‘same' ser- & * : S : vice' you ‘get in person. : * e Oodflnd “wood-also for'sale: & -~ ¥ _ BARKER'S * i mnn-oh Ave. lnd R:R. 8. 4! :'fllln! BL Bemidji, Minn. : nnnnnnnnumau mm«mcmm «nm-nn«mmm» St e RRR RN P E « *xk: *K xE ounrm & m“ ‘F x - * 614 lfluonw Avc-a~m . X S 3 3 e x 4 . Wholesale and retail Pia-_ Oon andi: Bullddre : Phones 431, 376. ii'f*mnm-_t wkEx X * 4'*!':’%!44 i Kk hk ANk AEINKN 'TRY A WANT AD Every merchant.is ?