Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 12, 1918, Page 2

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Pub- Mhm Thursday snd sent postage paid to any address, f . in sesececs OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS : M ) The Man With a Withered Arm By Guy Fitch Phelps in the Portland Oregonian ls 2 5 (T There’s & man by the Rhine with a withered arm, " And withered soul and a withered brain; Who.has washed the world with a flood of blood, And soaked it deep with a storm of pain, - And turned hell loose with the hobbles off :And mangling hoofs and horrid mane. There’s & man by the Rhine with a withered arm, ‘And withered temples and shrunken skull, it i Who has nursed the veins of the saerificed; He has sucked and gorged, he is glutted full, And he sits on a throne of dead men’s bones, With horns that drip like a bated bull’s. There are maids in France who have mourned and wept, For lovers slain by the trench and hill; And Belgian women debauched and crushed S _When the dread Hun swarmed to the ghastly kill; And many a fair face in fair Alsace, As white as the moon—as white and as still. There are piles of rock where the village was, There are heaps of stone where the cotter dwelt, And the blasted trees and the tainted breeze Tell'sure enough what the lands have felt, And there’s nothing kindly or good to seé But the old sweet time when the: twilights melt. The earth is gutted with trench and pit, And poxed with holes where the shells have burst; And sown like leaves with the fruit of wombs, The strong, sweet fruit by a woman nursed, The mangled shapes of the Rhine man’s: rapes, Which he painted black with a paint accursed. But blood with God 1s a precious thing, Be it out of the veins of a dove or sheep; And it speaks with a voice that smothers out The roar of cannon which rip and aweep,. Iz And it speaks when' the batteries are red with rust .=~ And still as stones by the bristling steep. Ah, the man by the Rhine has a withéred arm, And a soul that is black as the gates of hell; But this is' the hour ‘when Prussian power Must hear the clank of the funeral bell, And I greet the toil with a bounding soul, For I know in the end all shall be well. For the throne of the king and the den of the beast, From the inland stream to the bordering sea, Like a house of cards, go down at last In the scorn of a world redeemed and free, For the snowy Christ must reign at last In the true and the clean democracy. —_— WEHY BUILD NOW (Mississippi Valley .Lumberman) One reason - why building should go on is because the larger part of the building, especially in the farming communities, can be made to con- tribute to our: success in war. That is a sentimental and patriotic reason; but there is another. Because it is cheaper.for the farmer to build mow than it has been for years. The average price advance of building materials such as are used in the average ‘farm building has-amounted to-less than 30 per cent. The rise in the prices of farm and many manufactured products has amounted to from one hundred to three hundred per cent. The dollar the:farmer gets for what he has to sell will -buy from three to seven or eight times as much building material as it would have bought before the war. Here is the proof: P Price Increase Price Increase Commodity Per Cent Commodity Per Cent Wheat ....cctocevnnes 176 Plaster 40 COTR . .ccvinesvnnnnns 236 Lumber ... 30 Oats Cement 40 Barley . F Brick 21 Hogs i Labor 18-30 The information in the right hand column is from the Chicago Board of Trade;.that in the left hand column is from Babson's Reports ahd C rent Quotations. R Bt The prices of building material have advanced—yes; but the prices of farm products have soared. Before they were getting those great advances in the prices of every- thing they have to sell the farmers were building; the building material business-was prospering. The farmers are now prospering as they never sefore prospered, and they can build, relatively, cheaper than ever before. y Do they want to go back to the prevailing market prices of four years ago—for what they have to sell, and what they have to buy? Do they expect that after the war the prices of building material will go back while the prices of farm products will stay up? T i . An honest horse thief, a virtuous denizen of the underworld and a re- spectable saloon are in the same class, =Y : instances was possessed of a soul. e g e i e WHEN IT IS BROUGHT RIGHT HOME When the inexorable mandate of law was imposed upon Roland Hen- rionnet Saturday afternoon for the murder of Oscar Nelson, the-seene held] much for us in the way ofreflection. For nearly four years we were a police reporter in:the city of Chicago. We have for several years acted in the eapacity of city hall:man;and:policé Teporter, have seen it& hideous- ness in its every form, consorted with it in the line of duty as assigned in | newspaper work—and ‘became calloused. X ‘ But there was something in that simple scene Saturday which meant so much to a young life, and it was a sad commentary. It seemed .unreal, and it seemed a$ if it could not have happened. It seemed as if the past must be recalled and the forendon: of November .15 ‘pass without incident: | Henrionnet had tried to enlist in the service of Xis country. e’ pre: sented himself while he was in thei!west.| He was rejected on account of ill health, the nemisis which followed him unceasingly. & 35 During his trial, when tate was.in the balance, he conducted himself with calm demeanor. As the fateful hour approached: when he was:te be[" called before the bar of justice to hear his sentence, he was unperturbed. In deference to the law of the country, when the judge enters the court room to take -his -judicial’ geat, the spectators rise. ‘When Judge Stanton entered, clothed with the law and its dignity, Roland Henrlonnet was the first upon his feet in honor to its'majesty, that was about to con- demn him to a state penitentiary for the rest of his life. Accustomed as he is to meting out justice in behalf of the people, Judge Stanton was visibly' affected. He iproceeded with the questioning. of the youthful prisoner who sat before him, and when he had' concluded asked the young man to stand and receive the sentence demanded from him by the law. e e Henrionnet stood respectfully. and ;unflinchingly and listened to the words being driven into his very soul. But he never wavered. As-Judge Stanton neared the end of his legal phraseology in the dead silence of the court room, his voice grew fainter and it was discerned that although the statutes have no sentiment, the man whose duty to interpret them im.such Henrlonnet took his punishment as he would have had he been accepted as a soldier ~and sent into * the trenches. His victim died from the bullet wounds with a smile; Somehow, so” “‘close to home;” it didn’t seem real, nor had happened. ! ———— DON'T WORRY, BRETHREN; IT'S OLD STUFF ‘Discovery’ right with me. The Ely Miner and the St. Peter Herald take exceptions:to references b made in the large city dailies, jesting at some of the items appearing in the small town newspapers. Don’t let that old stuff worry you any, brothers. The chaps who are hired to perform such intellectual stunts all have some one else’s name written on their collar, and they'd “break-their necks” if they could-get from under the yoke, breathe a'little fresh ozone, have something they could call their own, enjoy life a little and ‘‘get somewhere.” Be glad you're not one of the ‘““dogs.” We've been—and we know. 4 ToResistthe of the germs of many we . favor erms, if the liver is-inacf :blood-impure: * for germagrowth. in a way peculiar to itself. form; Tablets 60c. WinoNA, MiNN—*I" had attack of ‘ptomain poisoning which left ‘me in very bad condition. I tried many tonics, but no. better " until a2 friend suggested my trying a bottle of Dr. Pierce’s\\ Golden Medical \ Discovery, which . gave' me immediate relief, Willow Farm, R. F. D. 2: have in mind. Your friends will appreciate the wift & Company At a recent hearing of the Federal Trade Commission there was introduced correspondence taken from the private files of Swift & Company,which showed that the Company ‘had been con- sidering for some timean educational advertising campaign. The need for t! 's publicity has been apparent to us:for sev: eral years. The ross misrepresentation to which we have _ recently been subjected has convinced us that we should no longer delay in putting bef ire the public the basic facts of our business, relying on the fair- -indedness of the American people. The feeling against the American packer is based largely on the 'belief ‘that the income and well-being of the producer and consumer are adv :rsely affected by the packers” operations, resulting'in unreasonably large profits. - Swift & Company’s net profit is reasonable, and represents an insignificant factor in the cost of living. For the fiscal year 1917 the total sales and net profit of Swift & Company. were as follows: : d : Sales $875,000,000. Profits $34,650,000. I , This isequivalent to a $3,465. profit on a business of $87,500. -~ If Swift & Company had made no profit at all, the cattle raiser would have received only one-eighth of & cent perpound miore‘for his cattle, or the consumer would have saved only one-quarter of a' cefit per pound on dressed beef. MUSTERDE—QUEK the Burn or Sting Musterole is & clean, white. oinf made with the:oil of mustard, It does: the work of the old-fashioned mustard plaster—does it better and.does not blis- ter. You do not.have to bother with a on—and . FairFood Prices ¢ sold in Bemidji: Commoaity— WHOLESALE cloth. You simply rub it Granulated S $8.28 the pain is gonel Wheat Flour, 94: g:gg doctors and nurses use Musters | Whest Flour, 15.3 ounds 57 @rabham Cornmeal, 10 poum ole and recommend it to their patients, Rye Flour, 10 pounds ‘Beans .. will gladly tell you what relief it gives sore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, congestion, | gato; pleurisy, rheumatis and aches of the n sore muscles, bruises, ains, feet, colds of the chest (it often pre| Ric vents pneumonia), 30c and 60c jars; hospital size $2:50, ‘be comstant fluctuations in the market. vicinity as a guide, by adding the freight cost. diseases such as Gripyy Malari e ... -means - fort:all The odds- are- in tive and the ‘What is_needed ‘most is an increase the germ-fighting <trength. To do his successfully . you ¢ need to put’ on healthy flesh, touse ' the liver to. vig- ovous ‘action, so it.-will throw.-off- ‘germs,- and purify the blood: so that titere: will be no “weak-spots,”. or soil We claim- for Dr. Pierce’s: Golden’ iMedicali Discovery, that it does all this Golden' Medical Discovery contains no alcohol or narcotic and can be procured from any druggist in liquid" Send Dr. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel, Buf- falo, N. Y., 10c for trial pkg. of tablets, It is surely- n excellent tonic, does not- purge and not objectionable to“the taste. diving in ‘England when- I-first took the | ‘Discovery.’ Have since been around the world and.always carried a: I would not;| e without it.”—\VALTER - H.- DUNSTON; e e Today—Telephone the Pionger of- fice, 922, about that news:item you guests * and .courtesy. : DR. I'DWEN]’}I TR!GH (Prepared Under Direction of the United Srntes Food Administration.) Retail cost for the items of the United States Food Administration). 1: 5 9 $3. NOTE—This list mmmu & reasonable uniform standard, though thers must 1t 1s announced that this price list may be taken by other towns in this - BUSINESS | & PROFESSIONAL DOCTORS DR. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block of the - DR: E. H. SMITH . PHYSICIAN AND SURGHON . O!ficej Security Bank Bleck DR. E. A..SHANNON, M. D, PHYSICIAN' AND'‘SURGEON Oftice in' Mayo Block Phone 398 . 'Res. Phomne 397 3 A or tablet DR. L. A. WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Bemidji, Minn. a severe P DRS. GILMORE & McCANN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS: Office—Miles Block’ DB E A NORTHROE N : AND SURGEON Ibertson Block Office Phone 153 DR. EINER JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND: SURGEON Bemidji,' Minn. I was bottle of A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. SPECIALIST EYE EAR NOSE THROAT Glasses Fitted ‘DENTISTS Office, O’Leary-Bowser Bldg | Oftice Phone 376-W Res. 376-R DR. G. M. PALMER 4 DENTIST Oftice Phone 124 = Residence 346 Miles ‘Block, Bemidji DR. J. T. TUOOMY DENTIST - North of Markham Hotel Gibbons Block Tel. 230 DR. D. L STANTON DENTIST " Office in Winter Block CHIROPRACTOR - - THORWA L E DOCTEN DR CHIROPRACTIC Acute and Chronic Diseases handled with great success. 1st Nat: Bank Bldg. Phone 406-W Hours 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 7-8 p. m. VETERINARIANS J. WARNIN( X VETERINARY S%%%EON Office and" Hospital 3 doors west of Troppman’s, Phone No. 209 3rd St. and Irvine Ave, W. K. DENISON. M. V., M. V]il'l‘El’tIISI’Al'\‘.IANv M Office Phone 3-R Res. 99-J 3rd St: and Irvine Ave. LAWYERS GRAHAM M. -TORRANCE LAWYER Miles' Block BUSINESS GENERAL MERCHANDISE Gtoceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Flour, Feed, etc. Bemxdj}”‘ % S_"n°“¥%m 65 Phone 660 . L._HAKKE] 2 ]%HOTOGRAPK}‘I:}UI%, Photos-Day and Night Third St Bemidji TOM SMART . DRAY~AND TRANSFER Res. Phone 58 818 America Office Phone 12 DEAN LAND CO. Land, Loans, Insurance and * City Property Troppman Block Bemidji _MINA MYERS Hair dressing, face massage, scalp treatment. Switches made from combings $1.50. 311 6th St. Phone 112-W RETAIL 10 90 @300 1.50@1.58 68 es@es 78 ING DRY CLEAN Clothes dleunegs for Men, Women and Children MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines 117 Third St., Bemidji J. BISIAR, Mgr. FPhone 573-W FUNERAL DIRECTOR M b R TARS 405 Beltrami Ave., Bemidji, Minn.