Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 14, 1913, Page 4

TAX MAIL ORDER HOUSES. Congressman - Declares They Deplete Population of Towns. The great American mail order houses are fast putting- the country merchant out of business, asserts Rep- resentative Hinebaugh, the Illinois Progressive, who recently inserted in the Congressional Record in the house an argument in support of his bill tax- ing these concerns for rural benefits. His measure proposes that the reve- nue thus raised shall be expended in bullding country roads. Mr. Hinebaugh says that the de- crease in village population is due to the elimination of local merchants by mail order competition and that a so- cial deterioratiou of rural centers is the net result. “One mail order house in the city of Chicago has sixty-three acres of floor space,” he says. ‘“Another one in the same city, according to a statement under oath of its- president, made a net profit of $17,000,000 on last year's business. A million dollar building is to be erected by Montgomery Ward & Co. In Kansas City to duplicate its present building at Nineteenth and Campbell streets. “This mail order corporation is also about to enter New York, San Fran- cisco and Portland. “It should be perfectly apparent to every thinking person that the country merchant must go out of business as the great mail order houses gradually close down upon the local markets. In eight of our great states many towns have lost population during the last ten years. “It is contended by the friends of the mail order houses that as a great economic question the. rights of the consumer and purchaser to buy wher- ever he can obtain the lowest prices should not be raised and that if the extension of the mail order business means the elimination of the country merchant then the country merchant must go. “If such arguments were logically: sotind, which I do not admit, there is still the social, moral and religious view to be considered. The retail mer- chant is the backbone of the country town. The mail order house is his worst enemy. The farmers need the town, and the town must have the farmers.” Representative Hinebaugh concluded his statement with the assertion that “the great mail order houses have no difficulty in underselling the retail dealer, no matter how much he may reduce his margin of profit. Buying as they do from prison contractors the products of convict labor, they secure many of their manufactured articles at prices that would be utterly impossible to obtain if made by free labor. This source of supply is, of course, not open to the small retailer even if he was inclined to avail himself of it.” WAY TO KEEP BABIES WELL. Guard Against Heat and Bad Food, Experts Teli Mothers. The District of Columbia health de- partment has sent out printed instruc- tions on “How to Keep the Baby Well.” It advises: Be sure of the milk you purchase. See that milk is pure and wholesome; then keep it clean and cold. Scald the nursing bottle often and thoroughly; do not tolerate long tube attachments. Give the child as much cool water Find a buyer for the Second-Hand things which you no longer need—Through a “For Sale” Ad. GASH WITH ooPy cent per word per Issue as it will take. % Keep the child in the open air of parks, but not exposed to the sun’s hot rays. The clothing of the child should be light and loose. Children should be bathed two or three times each day during hot weather. At the first appearance of physical allments call a physician. Improper food combined with high temperature is the great destroyer of bables, causing 95 per cent of the deaths. CONSERVATISM. One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home, as good calves should, : But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked path, as all calves do. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way, And then a wise bellwether sheep Pursued the trall o'er vale and steep And drew the flock bghind him, too, As good bellwethers always do. And from that day, o'er hill and glade, ‘Through those -old woods, a path was made, And many men wound in and out And dodged and turned and bent about And uttered words of righteous wrath Because 'twas such a crooked path. But still they followed—do not laugh— The first migrations of that calf And through the winding roadway stalked Because he wabbled when he walked. So men prefer to go it blind Along the calf paths of the mind And work away from sun to sun To do what other men have done. Anonymous. A Popular Native Annual. Collinsta Bicolor is now in bloom on shady hillsides. It is of the easiest culture, very free flowering. and the seeds are easily gathered. It is a favor ite in the gardens in every state in the Union and in every country In the world. Why uot get acquainted with it this season and next year grow & bed of it? ADJUSTING SCHOOLS TO FARM Opinion Advanced That Country Boya and Girls Should Be Taught Rural Subjects. Advocating that the boys and girls ‘|stay on the farm and at the same time teaching city “subjects in the rural schools is contradictory. If the boys and girls are taught one thing they cannot be expected to desire to do something else even if 8o ad- vised. Boys and girls in thirty-four schools in Wright county, Iowa, were asked what they desired to do. Of the 164 boys, 167 desired to leave the farm and 163 of the 174 girls desired to do likewise. But after agriculture and Regular charge rate one cent per word per irscrtion. No ad taken for less than 15 cents. Phone 31 Answer by Correspondence All Blind Ads using a number, box or initial for addre: We cannot tell you. the advertisal the address printed in the ad. HELP WANTED. WANTED-—-Good girl for general housework, Mrs. H. W. Bailey 605 Minnesota avenue. WANTED—Competent girl for gen- eral housework. Apply 509 Bemidji Avenue. { WANTED—GIr] for housework. 910 Beltrami avenue. Phone 570. WANTED—Cook at Erickson hotel, 310 America avenue. Chambermaid wanted at the Briuk- man hotel. WANTED—A copk at the Nicollet Hotel. FOR SALE--160 acres good farm land, clay soil, hardwood timber, Birch, Oak and Maple, 10 acres under cultivation, a fine spring of good pure water on the land, miles from railroad station. This land is worth $20 per acre; will sell for $13. Half cash, balance three years at 6 per cent Interest. Address Bemidjl Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn, KFOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the ‘market at 50 cents and 76 cents each. Kvery ribbon sold for 76 cents guaranteed. Phone orders promptly filled. Mail orders given the same careful attention as when you appear in person. Phone 33, The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply Store. FOR SALE—Small fouts of type, Bev- eral different poiuts and-in first class condition. Call or write this office for proofs. Address Bemidji Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn, FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Do not ask this office who on’t waste time, but write to Ploneer wirt procure any kind ot rubber stamp for you on short no- tice. FOR SALE—Six Room Cottage on monthly payments. 1015 America Ave Inquire Jack Williams. FOR SALE—Good horse. For work or single, 1300 pounds. St. Hilaire Retail Lumber Company. FOR SALE—A young and gentle Milch cow. P. M. Lenard, Nebish Minn. FOR SALE—Three burner oil stove rnearly new 411 Minnesota ave, FOR REN1 ——— FOR RENT—Four room house cor- ner of Eleventh and Minnesota. In- quire George Smith, Phone 650, MiSCELLANEOUS ADVERTISERS—-The great state of portunities for business to classi- fied advertisers. The recognized advertising medium in the Fargo North Dakota offers unlimited op- Daily and Sunday Courier-News, the only seven-day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified advertising. The Courier-News covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of the state the day of publication; it 18 the paper to use In order to get re- sults; rates cne cent per word firsi Insertion, one-half cent per word succeeding Insertions; fifty cents per line per month. Address the Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand turniture. Odd Fellow’s building Across from postoffice, phone 12§ WANTED—Family washing 25 cents Dozen rough dry. 613 5th St. WANTED—Clean cotton rags at the Pioneer office. No buttons. G0OD GROCERIES AND FRESH EGGS I. P. BAT 117 Minnesota Ave. GO TO BATCHELDER'’S GENERAL, MERCHANDISE AND BUTTER CHELDER “ Fhone 180 home economics had:been taught.for three years the same question was asked in the same schools. This time 162 of the 174 boys desired to stay on the farm and 161 of the 178 girls. This changing of an almost unani- mous desire to stay on the farm seems almost miraculous. Yet it was done through making a change in the course of study, writes W. C. Palmer In the Breeders’ Gazette. Boys and girls will desire to do the things they have been taught how to do. Thelr interest is developed in the things they are taught. Agriculture and home economics are the things that boys and girls are most interest- ed in to begin with. They live in a great agriculture and home economics laboratory. . The knowledge that they have when they come to school i8 on these sub- jects. Education to be the most effec: tive must begin with what the chik dren know. The will to do springs from the knowledge that one ¢an do. One likes to do what one can do well. Do- ing work that one does not under- stand is drudgery. Most boys must enter productive work. If they are not educated for it then it will be drudgery. Most girls will manage homes. If they are not taught about 1t homemaking would be a drudgery, It is in the power of the schools to make their enthusiastic workers or drudges of the boys and girls. ILLS IN TRAIN OF AVIATION Sudden Ascent to High Altitudes, and as Sudden Descent, Frequently Brings on Sickness. M. Berget, a French aecronaut, aft. er speaking of.the conditions of the atmosphére in general, brings out some points on aviator's sickness. Aeroplanes sometimes reach altitudes of ten thousand feet in an hour, and here the effects on the ear such as bumming or cracking noise are about the same as in a balloon, but the ef- fect on the respiratory organs is dif- ferent. The pilot is sooner out of breath and he feels a special kind of uneasiness. During the descent, the heart beats are of greater amplitude, but without accelerating. A quicker descent in a salling flight at a speed of 1,000 or 1,200 feet a minute or €ven more, causes a feeling of a spe- cial kind, or uneasiness, accompanied with humming in the ears. Burning In the face is also felt and a severe headache, also the great tendency to sleep which has been before observed. The movements of the body are slug. gish and unskillful. These symptoms’ continue for some time after the land- ing, and the tension in the arteries is noticed to be higher than the normal. —Health. Novel Shoe Horns. . Bhoe fiorns with yard-long handlem are a movelty which all women will welcome, as by their aid footgear may beadjusted without having to bend the back and run the risk of breaking the corset steels, says the Philadelphia Times. The round handles of slender walking stick circumference come in polished mahogany or golden oak, and the horns in sflver or gold plate or PIONEER _—_ TO IMPROVE THE BLUEBERRY Governmental Efforts Directed to Maks Ing Frult an_Artlole of Agri- cultural Profit. : Blueberry patches, which used to be 80 numerous and so large that they ‘were a nuisance to the farmer, have dwindled until the blueberry is no more to be had for the picking andis fast becoming a luxury. The beneficent United States gov- ernment has recommended that it be cultivated and has for several years been experimenting with the propoga- tion and improvement of the blue berry. Mr. Frederick V. Colville, who has been in charge of the work, has issued a little bulletin of directions for blue berry culture for the encouragement of persons interested in the culture of this fruit. The blueberry plant will not thrive in rich garden soil. It needs an avid soil, a mixture of sand and peat, bul must have good drainage. Even the swamp blueberry does not want a soggy soil. Where it grows wild in swampy places it builds up & hummock or cushion of moss which rises above the summer water level and within which the feeding roots oi the bush are closely interlaced. The only commercial plantation of blueberries in existence is one near Elkhart, Ind,, which has been in ex: istence about twenty-one years. It has been profitable from the first, the net profits last year having been $127 an acre. This plantation was started with unselected , wild blueberry bushes. Mr. Colville observes that with bushes propagated from selected stocks the yield should be greater and the berries much larger, this greater size, probably effecting a:reduction in the cost of picking and certainly an increase in the selling price. In a series of experiments, involy- ing the selection of superior and wild strains, the growing of hybrids and the forcing of choice varieties to quick —— fruiting by building them on strong seedling stocks, berries 11-6 of an inch in diameter have already been pre- duced. : Story of Blg Maine Willow. One of the biggest willows in Maine may be seen on the BEmery Estes farm in Durham. This farm is on the river road leading from the bridge at Lis- bon Falls towand Southwest Bend. The base of the enormous growth here is between 12 and 16 feet. The top is luxuriant and affords fine shade for the front yard. Durham people relate the curious story that this great willow grew from a slender willow switch used by one of the ploneer settlers in town when he first came here, over a bridge path through the forest by horseback. His - com- panion who settled on an adjoining farm, also stuck a switch into the ground, by way of a memorial of their journey. His companion’s switch did not survive this transplanting. But the big tree in what is now Mr. Estes’s yard bears testimony to nearly two centuries growth. May Day In Quebeo. May day is scarcely a merry one 1n the province of Quebec. Yearly leases prevail, and expire April 80, 8o that the first of May is removal day. In Montreal and other large cen- e — e by the taste. They Why do so many men, to whom price is no object, insist on Fatimas? ' They judge don't smol e price —they smoke the cigarette—they enjoy that ters of the province many quaint Beenes are to be witnessed, and it is beld that you will see more furniture knocking about the streets May 1| than you ever saw in any second-hand dealer’s emporium. Many peculiar customs” have come into being through this habit of the Quebec Can- adians of flitting or removing at the |same time. One of the most remark- | able is that for the first three days of | the month houses are held in com- | mon, that is to say, if the people into Whose house 'you are moving have been unable to get away before your il May 3, when you can compel your splendid, mild, Turkish blend. They know quality | The package is not rich in a pearance,butinside are 10 more cigar- ettesthat hold their end up! 20for |5 cents. arrival, you may all live together un- 1 Sllbscl'ibe fflr The pioneel' Predecessors to make ‘their final exit. DAZAAR STORE To Bic SURPRISE i Watch for the Complete Detailed Announcement in Tuesday’s Pioneer : -~ and Posters