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Entered at the post office at Bemidji Einn., as seoond-class matter under Act sf Cougress of March 8, 1879, 2ublished every afternoon exospt Sunday No attention paid to anenymous con- tions. Writer’s name must be to the editor, but not necessar- for publication. Cemmunications for the Weekly Plo should reach this office not l.‘.l' Tuesday of each week to insure lon in the current issue. Subscription Rates Ome month by carrier QOme year earrier ‘!'hue months, noll.ns- ix months, postage me_year, postage e pald to any !Ut fl 50 ln M‘v‘n‘ao& THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ABVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES A marked decrease in Minnesota fire losses for December, 1913, as compared with the figures for the same month of the previous year ds shown in the December report of C. E. Keller, state fire marshal. The Minneapolis decrease was most no- ticeable, the loss last month being only $28,000 against $188,000 for the previous December. Mr. Keller shows that the total loss for the state in December was $225,888 or less that half of the loss for December 1912, which was $479,709. A large part of the losses for the whole year of 1913 was ue to lightning fires. 3 The Dead Beat There are some men who are so constituted by nature that they care nothing about keeping their word. They may incur labllities, but lit- tle do they trouble themselves aboul when or how they will be able to pay up. Some one coined the ex- pression ‘“‘dead-beat” and used it to describe just such a person. There is a strange thing about these dead-beats. Almost everybody looks upon them as something of a joke on the man in whose debt they are. But the minute the fellow gets his “hooks” into one of us, then we fail to see the joke. As a matter of fact, the dead-beat is a detriment to his community. He is a leech upon society. He is an undesirable character, and as such should be shunned by every person who lays claim to be a decent man. He may wear good clothes, but who pays for these clothes? He may eat the best the grocer or butcher provides, but who pays for his meals? No one but those who pay as they go, for the tailor, and the ‘grocer and the drygoodsman, and the butcher, and the shoe dealer—every one whom he has thus beaten out of @ bill—must make up for the loss by asking a higher price from those who pay cash or discharge thelr ob- ligations as they agree. When the time comes that the ead-beat Is regarded as he should ba —as no better, than sneak thief— then possibly we will have less of. them, and those who trust them will do so at their own risk. EREEKKKKHKK KKK KN ¥ EDITORIAL EXPLOSIONS & FH KK KKK KK KKK KK KK An eastern preacher comes across with the statement that man makes his own hell. Maybe so, but he has to have help or it turns out to be a ‘half-baked proposition, and there’s No. 8004 18 a house dress which may be made with a high or square neck or a round collar. The sleeve is set- In, may be either full length with a band cuff or elbow length with a turn- ed back cuff. It is a design which is neat and at- tractive and well suited to the wash materials. Make it of a blue madras or percale, and let the trimming bands be of a contrasting color; the result will be highly satisfactory. In finishing the seams of -a house dress or a wash waist they may be pinked, French felled, or bound with @ bias strip of the material. I have found the last to be most satisfactory with a garment that requires much laundering. Buttons should be selected also with an eye to the laundry; if a cheap pearl is used they are apt to break; a small smooth bone button is r. This house dress requires for size 86 4% yards of 36 Inch material. The pattern is cut in 7 sizes; 34 to 46. This Is a Perfect Pattern. Be sure to state right size measuring over the fullest part of the bust for dimensions. It may be obtained by filling out the coupon and enclosing 15 cents in stamps or coin to the Pattern Depart- ment of this paper. Name . Street and No. City and State . Fatalities Among Alpinists. In: view of the fact that every man )r woman who walks up a mountain with alpenstock in band is a climber in the eyes of the public, it is not at all strange that the appalling aonual fatalitles In the Swiss Alps are laid at the door of one of the noblest of ‘sports. The truth is that these fatali- tles—there were 105 last year—are rel- atively' few and far between in the ranks of genuine alpinists, the ama- tear and professional mountaineers. They who climb with ice-ax instead of alpenstock are cautious—first, last and always. Considering the risk taken, few of them lose their lives. Most who meet this frightful death In the Swiss mountains have always been either nn- thinking or downright reckless tempt- ers of fate. With a complete disregard no fun in making a hell of that sort. ‘Some men, though, find the proper mixture and make a great success of the undentaking.—Hibbing Ore. —— ‘We do not believe a union of the three Minnesota leagues advisable at the present time. A federation of the three leagues, whereby each one could carry on its work independent of the other in boosting and build- ing up the great resources of the state, would probably answer the purpose a great deal better than a union—mBagley Herald. —— { One of the greatest drawbacks to any town is petty jealousy among its leaders and the throwing of cold water upon any project commenced by one man by others who had not the honor of bringing it to the no- tice of other citizens. No village or town can progress where the green eyed monster is allowed to force it~ self into civic affairs and betser- ment of - living conditions. ~ The | town that “gets there” is that which has for its citizens men of broad & caliber, who jump in and further anything, no matter what, that ig suggested with the town's advance- 15 - ment as its object.—Chisholm Rec- 14 B ord-Herald. How Rows Begin. “Hubby, | dreamed last night that you didn't love me.” “How foolish you are!” “Foolish, am 17 As if 1 could help what 1 dream about!" And the fracas was on.—Louisville Oourler-Journal. 8he Didn't Like Flattery. . = - She—1 bate flattery! He—Of course you do. Every pretty girl does. (Thea she drew & long. deep sigh and permit- ted him to put his arm round her ‘walst.)—EHxchange. l\wlhm:m:mmm “hhut—hnnd. of common sense, these unfortunates go where they have no business to go save in charge of an experlenced guide, and sometimes the mere reach- ing out for a coveted wild flower sends them to their doom.—Spur. COMB SAGE TEA INTO GRAY HAIR| Ladies! Try this! Darkens beauti- fully and nobody can tell— Brings back its: gloss and thick- ness. Common garden sage brewed into & heavy tea, with sulphur and al- cohol added, will turn gray, streak- ed and faded hair beautifully dark and’ luxuriant; remove every bit of dandruff, stop scalp itching and falling. hair. Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur reciper at home, though, is troublesome, An _ easier way is to get the ready-to-use tomic, costing about 50 cents a large bot- tle, at drug stores, known as “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy,” thus avoiding a lot of. muss. While wispy, gray, faded hair is not sinful, we all desire to retain our youthful appeareance and at- tractiveness. By darkening your hair with Wyeth’s Sage and Suld phur, mo one can tel; because it does it =0 naturally, so evenly.” You Jjust_dampen a sponge or sofe-brush with it and draw this through your Dair, taking one small strand st s time;: by morning all gray hairs have disappeared. After mnrm Pligation or two your ‘hadr. beeomres besutifully dark, llu moft_and Iuxuriant .llfl m wll' years London’- 'int Bank. ‘Banking, seeing that it fourished. ln the ancient world—in Greece, at Rome ‘and at Babylon—must, so far as Eng-| iand is concerned, be Tegarded as & comparatively modern business. - During. the so called renaissance ‘banking reappeared in Italy. - ‘From Italy the business of banking spread to France, then to Holland, and it was introduced Into England by one Francis Child, who established —the first bank in London in 1663. Hitherto London merchants had de— posited thelr cash in the mint of the tower of London. But when Charles T1. took it into his head to borrow trad- ers began to lodge their superfluous cash with the goldsmiths in Lombard street. Francis Child was one of these, and in a few years Lombard street became full of banks, The Bank of England ‘was founded in 1694.—London Globe. Love Song of a Bird. “Just before an April dawn,” says W. P. Pycraft in "The Courtship ot Animals,” “the cock"capercailzie pro- claims its love fever from a tree in a strange, unmusical serenade. “With outstretched neck, drooping wings and spreading tail he gives forth a weird, uncouth kind of song, more or less divisible into three parts. He begins with a series of notes which remind one of nothing so much as the sound made by two sticks knocked' to- gether at intervals of ten to fifteen seconds, getting quicker and quicker and changing in key till at last they become bell-like. Then follows a se- ries of sounds like the drawing of a cork out of a bottle, and these end with birdlike twitterings. - By this time, however, the singer has worked himself up to an ecstasy of fervor so intense as to deaden him to all that may be passing in the outer world.” Father Hubbard. The nursery knows nothing of Fa- ther Hubbard, but in 1604 Thomas Middleton published *“Father Hub- bard’s Tale of the Ant and the Night- ingale.” In the introduction he ex- plains: “Why I call these Father Hubburd’s tales is not to have them called in again as the Tale of Mother Hubburd. The world would show lit- tle judgment in that. i'faith, and I should say then. ‘plena stultorum om- nia,’ for I entreat here neither of rug- ged bears nor apes, no. nor the lam- entable downfall platters. 1 deal with no such metal.” Since Spenser's ‘*Mother Hubberd" does not seem to have bLeen called in and says nothing ahout bears or plat- YOUR NOSE Is a Filter for mAeronBreathe gt Vo o0 o Trghitul talde and" P bccdne oo ‘i was wi- iomedio B A Kondon's Catarzhal Jally is o soteheling Sl Wi cutnges o puassgiaandpuryisschons: | S ?hpl lnmlnfi—mheva el ) ing: . Fiaa 5o 5 fabes Bie SSorasts e KONDON MFG. CO. Minneapolls, - Minn. CATARRHAL JELLY PIANO if You of the old wife's|” Flush ‘the Kidneys at Dr;oe ‘When Backachy: or Bladder Bothers— Meat Forms Uric Acid. - No man or woman who east meat regularly -can make a mistake by say¥ a well: known authority. Meat forms urle acid which ‘clogs the kid- ney pores so they- sluggishly filter or strain only part of the waste and poisons from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheumatizm, headaches, liver trouble,. ‘nervous- ness, comstipation, ‘dizziness, sleep- lessness, bladder disorders come from sluggish -kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts, orif the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of pas- sage or attended by a semsation of scalding, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any- reliable phar- macy and take a tablespoonful In a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts i3, made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stim- ulate them to activity, also to neu- tralize the acids in urine so it no bladder disorders. Jad Salts is inexpensive and can- not injure; makes a delightful effer- vescent lithia-water drink which all regular meat eaters should take now and then to keep the kidneys-clean and the blood pure, thereby avoid- ing serious kidney complications.— Adv. fl ters, Middleton is evidently alluding to some other “Mother Hubburd.”— London Standard. Ibsen and Love. Tennyson says that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Ibsen maintained—not in a general philosophical way, but with respect to the conditions he saw im- mediately around him—that it is bet- ter, if youthfully, romantically in love, to separate rather than to marry. Ib- sen s in agreement with the brilliant Frenchman who asserted that all com- edies end with a wedding, because it is then that the tragedy begins!—From Archibald Henderson’s “European Dramatists.” | PAY CASH For Hides, Furs, Wool, Copper (-] and Rubbers. W. H. NEWTON You Can Make Someone HAPPY By Giving them your VOTES Saving For Yourself BE SURE AfiD ASK FOR THEM WITH EVERY CENT’S WORTH OF YOUR PUROHASE Why not enter fhe race yourself? W. G. SCHROEDER 8th 8t. BemIid)l Phone 510 Are Not INQUIRE OF Bemidjl, - ST.. PAUL This space regerved by the Bemidji Townsite & tmprovement Co. . For Price of I.ot,s, Terms, Etc., BElIDJI TOWNSITE & IMPROVETENT CO. 520 Capital-Bank Buliding- T. C. BAILEY, or write . MMNNESOTA | flushing the Kkidneys occasionally; (|’ longer causes irritation, thus ending|. | 873 @87%c; July, 89% @89%c. KEKKKKKKK KKK KKK K % One-half cent per word per ¥ ' issue, cash with copy. * ¥ Regular charge rate one ¥ % cent per word per insertion. No ¥ * ad taken for less than 10 % % cents Phone 31, * KEKKXK KKK KKK KF KX EERKEEHHH KKK KKK KX ¥ One-half cent per word per 0! . issue, cash with copy. ¥ Regular charge rate onmc i * cent per word-per insertion. No % ¥ ad taken for less than 10 % ¥ cents Phone 31, * KKK KH KKK KKK KK HELP WANTED WANTED AGENTS—To sell endless neckties (Patented) 12 ties in one _Write G. G. Nein, 724 Broadway, Fargo, N. D. FOR RENT FOR RENT—Suite of rooms suitable for office or rooming purposes. Over Edwards Sisters’ - Millinery store: See Carl L. Heffron. WANTED—Girl for general house- work. Apply Mrs. A. Lord, 903 Beltrami avenue. WANTED—Dishwasher at Pilsener Hotel. ‘WANTED—Experienced - tiecutters. apply of W. G. Schroeder. FOR SALE FOR SALBE—Oficlal 1913 automo- bile guides showing 500 Red Line trips connected including maps and instructions indicating roads, FOR RENT—House Lane. inquire Frank . VETERINARY SURGEON . DENISON 5 VETERINARIAN o Pogue's Livery "DRAY TINE TOM SMART ; DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE ANB PIANO MOVING ‘Res. Phone 6 818 Amerlcl Ave omca Phone 12, v DENTISTS DR D. L. STANTON, _DENTIST Oflflce in Winter Block Phone 164 DR. J. T. TUOMY 5 DENTIST First Natlonai Bank Bldg. Tel. 13 LAWYERS 2 GRAHAM M. TORRANCE "LAWYER : Miles Block Phone 888 JOHN F. GIBBONS ATTORNEY AT LAW Flr.t Natlonnl Bank Building Bemidji, Minn. D. H. FISK, Court Commissioner ATTORNEY AT LAW Office second floor O'Leary-Bowser Blds FARMS FOR SALE, FOR SALE—T765 and 30-100-acres on “famous twin lakes, one of the best locations in Minnesota for a sum- mer home or resort, having lake front and nice high banks with fine grove of Norway pines mear the water. Good level clay land about 100,000 feet of good ~ pine timber and 100,000 feet of hard crossings, guide posts, etc. Book has 500 pages showing distance in miles between cities. Apply at Pioneer Office Supply Store. FOR SALE—One black driving horse weight 1,050 1bs. Too light for our work. Apply Model Manufacturing Company. FOR SALE-—Rubber stamps. The Ploneer wirl procure any kind or rubber stamp :or you on short mo- tice. FOR SALE OR TRADE—New and used autoes, apply Anderson & Knopke 319 Beltrami avenue. FOR SALE—Or trade for farm land 5 passenger, 40 horse power auto- mobile, Reynolds & Winter. FOR SALE—Or trade for farm land 7 room house 50 foot lot. Reynolds & Winter. wood timber on the land. Only six miles from Hines and Tenstrike and on good wagon road. Fine fishing in these lakes. Price, If taken with the timber on, $1, 600.00. $600.00 down and it taken with timber reserved, $1, 200.00. $400 down and balance on time at 6% Interest. Addres: V. M. Owen, Hines, Minn, FOR SALE—320 acres of good hard wood land clay soil some na- tural meadow. Only six miles from Hines, on good road, near Nice River and Lakes. Several hundred cords of birch and tamar- ack wood. This will make an id- eal stock farm, and if taken soou can be had for $7.50 per acre, % cash, balance back on the land at 6 per cent interest, to sult pur- chaser. Write V. M. Owen, Hines, Minn. FOR SALE—No. 21—260 acres, 40 FOR SALE—Or trade for farm land. Good team of horses, Reynolds & Winter. FOR SALE—At once. All household furniture at 520 Beltrami Ave. WANTED. WANTED TO BUY—Fine table po- tatoes. Farmers bring potatoes to this store. We pay top notch prices. W. G. Schroeder. WANTED—To buy, a second hand single sleigh, or a pair of light bobs, with box and seat. Phone 82. Read Ploneer want ads, i|!i The Marke_?ll Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Jan. 20.-—Wheat—On track and to arrive, No. 1 hard, 87%c; No. 1 Northern, 86%c; No. 2 Northern, 841gc. Flax—On track and to arrive, $1.48%. South St. Paul Live Stock. South St. Paul, Jan. 20.—Cattle— Steers, $5.50@7.75; cows and heifers, $4.50@6.60; calves, $4.50@10.00/ feed- ers, $4.30@6.85.. Hogs—$8.00@8.20. Sheep—Lambs, $5.75@7.40; wethers, $3.75@5.40; ewes, 32.50@5.00. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Jan. 20.—Wheat—May, 91% @91%c. Corn—May, 65%@66c; July, 64%ec. Oats—May, 39%c; July, 89%ec. Pork—Jan., §21.80; May, $21- 90. Butter—Creameries, 28@32c. Pggs —28@32c. = Poultry-—Springs, 12%c¢; hens, 18%c; turkeys, 16c. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Jan. 20.—Cattle—Beeves, '$6.70@9.50; Texas steers, $6.90@8.10; Western steers, $6.25@7.90; stockers and feeders, $5.10@7.75; cows and heifers, $3.50@8.50; calves, $7.50@ 11.50. Hogs—Light, $8.15@8.45; mix- ed, $8.25@8.52%; heavy, $8.15@8.55; rough, $8.16@8.25; . pigs, $6.75@8.20. BSheep—Native, $4.75@5.95; yearlings, $6.85@7.05. Minneapol " Minneapolis, Jan. 20.—Wheat—May, Cash close on track: No. 1 hard, 89%¢c; No. 1 Northern, 86@88%c; to arrive, 88 @87%¢; No. 2 Northern, 83% @85%c; No. 3 Northern, 811, @83%c; No. 3 yellow corn, 57@57%c; No. 4 corn, | 62% @56¢; No. 3 white oats, 36@| 86%c; to arrive, 36¢c; No. 3 oats, 33@ 85c: barlev. 64@6fic: flax. $1.50%. WOOD SAWING sawed Telephone 385 £. C. JOHNSON ‘Are You Bo‘l to tht Ioruroglan "c'enteuulnfif Ewu‘fl ‘Berth'and: acres under cultivation, 26 acres meadow. 65 acres fenced for pas. ture. 9 room frame house with basement. Large hip roof barn with hay fork. Granary. Store building. $1000 stock of mer- chandige. 1 team of horses, 6 cows Complete line of farm machinery Price $8,000.00. Address H. E Reynolds, Bemidjf, Minn. PHYSICIAN, SURGEONS AN A A A A A AR A e DR. ROWLAND GILMORE ? PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 1 Office—Miles Block OR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. T PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON § Phone 836 Phone 3. DR. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offiice—Miles Block DR. L. A. WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National bank, Bemidji, Misa DR. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over Iirst Nallonal bank, Bemidjt, Mh‘ Office Phone 3 Residence Fhone 3¢ DR. E. H, SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office In Winter Block DR. E. H. MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Residence Phone 31} DR. EINER JOHNSON S Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Minn. Phone 12 A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. Practice Limited " BAR NOSE THROAT Glasses Fitted Office Gibbons Bldg., North Markham Hotel, Telephone 105. EYE KATHARINE GEHRET EXPERIENCED NURSE Phone 215. FOR SALE 160 acres land two miles from railroad ten acres under cul- tivation ten acres meadow good creek running through land large quaitity of timber good house barn and out buildings this will make a first class stock farm will sell at ten dollars per acre if taken at once half cash balance to suit, for parti- culars. Address J, H. care Pioneer. FOR SALE—The S.W. Yo of the 3 E.1/ of Section 21-146-32. This forty has a fair house and barn and a few acres under cultivation and is on 2 mail, telephone and cream route. Price $20.00 per acre. Time given to sult purchager interest 6 per cent. For further particulars call on or address A Kaiser, Bagley, Minn. FOR SALE—120 acres farm land, about 500 cords wood half hay land on good stream one mile from a town terms liberal price 12-1-2 pr. acre. W. G. Schroeder. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISERS—The great siate of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to classi- fied advertisers. The recognized tdvertising medium in the Fargo Daily and Sunday - Courfer-News the only seven-day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified ! advertising. The Courler-News | coyers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of the state the day of publication; it Is the __ Paper to use in order-to get re- Sults; rates one cent per word first ingertion, one-half cent per word Bucceeding insertions; fifty cents per line per month, Address the Courler-News, Fargo, N. D. FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for -every make of typewriter on the [| market at 50 cents and 76-cents each, ~ Every ribbon sold for 76 cents guaranteed. Phone ordérs promptly- filled. Mall orders given the-same careful attention as when ‘you appear in person. Pohne 31, The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply Store. Ifyouhnveanywoodtobe —————fi_ " FUNERF, DlREC’I‘OR _— KKK KRR KRR R ¥ RAILROAD TIME CARDS +* KKK KRR KKK KK KK R MPLS, RED LAKZ & MAN. 2 North Bound Arrives, 1 Nortk Eound Leaves. . Office in Mayo Block Res. § & 162 163 186 187 d Leave Freight West Leaves at Frelght East Leaves at. . MINNESOTA % INTERNATIONAL 82 South Bound Leaves 81 North Bound Leaves. 84 South Bound Leave 83 North Bound Leaves Freight South Leaves at. Freight North Leaves at. NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY Onen datly, exogpt Sunday, 1 to ¢ p m., 7 to D. Bt 4% &% T Sunday, redding reems R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER 710 @815 Beltrami Ave, STOVE WOOD FoR SALE BUNDLE WOOD, 12—20 in. l... Delivered to_ Bemidji, $2.25 to 7th St.; beyond, $2.50 sznz'sh'mh Nymore, ‘$2:00'and | - BLOCK WOOD Delivered to Bemidji, 7850, heyond, $228" S " sz%i'ddh Nymore, $1.75 and Telophons Ordrs Nc. 82 * “TERNS-—CASH ON DELIVERY < THE SPALDING PIAN PLAN Best Hotel £ DULlJ'I‘PI Hou than