Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 3, 1920, Page 2

{ 'Build to Rent. (Editoris] Trom August 2, 1900, of The Pioneer.) .. 'The demand for houses in Bemidji and the total absence of anything like an adequate supply is something that is known to every person who wants to secure a home. It has, in fact, reached the stage ‘where it may properly be termed. a house famine, for the situation has positively become serious. The most remarkable: thing, too, is that with all the vacant property im the city in desirable loca- tions, yielding no revenue to the owners, there is probably not 8 single house being built in the city today'to be rented. There are a number being built by people. who expect to occupy them themselves, but that is alk: - - The belief that it, costs too much to build is “probably responsible/for the fact that sp little is doing' in the building line today. It is true that last spring the price of building was high. Iron and Sts products were at the highest price for years. Labor was demanding. better remuneration and ev- erything gave to the property owner the belief that if he were to. build he. would have to pay a great deal more than he would care to. - That impression still lingers with him. He has not yet learned that materials which enter into the construction of build- | ings. Lumber has declined fifty cents per thousand. Iron is much cheaper. Nails are down materially. - Labor is cheap. Men that were paid two dollars per day are now ‘willing to work for much less. Nearly every-.contractor has very little ‘work on*: his hands and is willing to take contracts at a very reasonable figure in“order: to.get. the. work. = This is the time to build. Seaze — 00— ; While other papers are justly raising the sub- scription price in response to increased cost, The Pioneer has lowered its price to new, subscribers, . to whom we offer it eight month for 50 cents in advance. The Pioneer will be a -warm nunfber dur- ing this campaign and we want to send our heat rays ‘over as large a territory as possible. ~Sub- scribe now. ! What Shakespeare was to the literary world, ghe Columbia_and.Hartford bicycles are to the wheeling world. They are the best.. The Misses Jones and Ross sell them. A moving picture exhibition of the .fefiries- . Sharkey fight drew large crowds Sa-turday_in ‘the on Second street. ol e Ted Smith building there -has been a ‘change. Today it costs consid-. Word has been received that the ‘gold’ seekers, erably less than it did three or four months. ago.. . Carson, Carlson and Snyder from Bemidji,.hhave Phe reason for this is a general reduction in the arrived at the Nome goldfields. FINE CITY TWICE DESTROYED Antigua, Spanish -Capital of Centra) America, the Victim of Flood, Fire —_— Antigua, the glittering Spanish cap-| #tal of all: Cesitral Americs, arose high #a the centrsl plateau.in the beautl- #al valley ‘of Almocongo. Its palaces and churches, its monasteries.and hos- pitals, its sparkling fountains and av- enues were unsurpassed-in any part of the new world, while above all tow- ered -the - sweeping outilnes of - the great volcanoes known as tie “Agua” 4nd “Fuego” '(“Water” ‘and ' “Fire") which'were' destined to be her’ dbom, For twice Antigua was destroyed, the first time in 1546 by a flood of water from the crater of the volcano which was then appropriately called: Agus; and the second time in 1778. by fire and carthquake from Fuego. - (The Spaniards not. being able . to: remon- strate with the recalcitrant volcanoes in the same effective manner that was employed in dealing with the Indians, other means were resorted to, and these mountains were solemnly bap- tized “Agua” and “Fuego,” and taken with due ceremony into the arms of the church in the hope that they would eschew thelr heathen deities and re- form their uncouth ways. Neverthe- less, as a matter of terrestrial precau- tion, the capita! ciity. was moved 24 ‘miles distant to a safer location, where it 1s now situated. = Strange to say, both Agua and Fuego seem to have lived up to their new responsibilities, wifh but.g few half-hearted atremp:s at backsliding, until the recept great quakes that 1n 1017-18 again shattered the fair'city ‘of Guatemala.—Andrew Horton ‘Blackiston in the South Amer- MADE THEIR ‘WAY TO FAVOR Words. Banned. Fifty Years Ago Are Now by General Consent Recog: nized as Proper. Most newspapers have an index ex- _purgatorious In which are listed alk “the tempting words. hanned at the time of its compilation as to bhad usage, remarks a writer in the Home "Sector. ‘It '{s umusing to read one of those lists, drawn up for a New York mewspaper 50 years ago, a long. dis- -carded list, frowning on such words as ' aspirant,, bogus, collided, com- menced (for begun), employe, endorse (for approval), humbug; ignore, jeop- ‘ardize, (lengthy, loafer, ovation, post- ed (for informed), predicate, progress- ing, rellable (for trustworthy), row- dies, taboo, talented and vicinity (for neighborhood). Most of these are now quite respectable and would have the freedom even of those newspapers which once spurned them.: 'Thus, ‘as ever, do the heresies of today become the gospel of tomorrow. Thus does progress march, ; *It happens in language, in econo- mics, in politics. Tomorrow conserva- tives will be found stoutly defending the program which yesterday’s radicals drew up. Perhaps an appreciation of this fact\ ought to produce a philo- sophic calm, but it 1s quite ds likely t produce temper. -And yet it 1s absurd to swear at the conservative man as it 1s:to denounce the dam in'the ‘stream and the brake on the engine, Growth of Plants. Among plants, after the period of growth in spring and summer there is a period of dormancy before:the cold weather . sets - in, and it plants are maintained artificially at.a high tem- perature this dormant period persists. Exposure to cold is:needed to activate the plant for another period of growth. Perhaps the liberation of enzymes acts on the ‘stored starches, “converting them into sugars,” or the phenomenon may he due to a change_ in' the per- meability of the - cell‘membrane. Though normally the stimulus required for I renewal of growth is-supplied by cold, mechanical injury or a period of drying miay have ‘the same. effect. “The process occurs independently in any -exposed part of a plant, so that it -one or two branches of a plant' be ‘kept.continually warm while the other is subjected to the usual winter: chill- ing, the former wil) not develop on-the return of summer temperature thoug] the latter develops as usual. " " > ¢ Quite Natural. “This clock you sold me last week is extremely variable and erratic,” complained . the - custemer - with :the package under his arm. “It looks pretty,. but..it cuts up scandalously, and—" .. v 5 “Ah, but, sir,” suavely iiteffupted the jeweler, “you forget that it is a French clock.”—Kansas City :Sar. Laughter Is to Your Life as Sunshine to - the Day: Every one needs the tonic of laughter —and it is the cheapest tonic on earth. For the price of a subscription to the 8t. Paul Pioneer ‘' Press and' Dispatch you can get a good dose every day in the week and an extra large dose on Sunday. popular ingredients. / Bringing Up Father Here are some of the most by George McManus, is a_soothing fea- ture for those of us who have not as much money as we’d like. Poor old Jiggs is in the soup all the time on ac- - count 'of his darned wealth. . Polly and Her Pals is CHiff Sterrett’s idea of the average American household. 1t’s. a. scream! And 'so is your houséhold—and mine, too—if we could only get away back and see the f ally. The Katzenjammer Kids are the absolute limit. They ¢ gineer in:;ri" ‘mischief an all the kids iz eould%think b i can't: ing ‘five kids' a elp/lsa unny "side of it ocedaions"" your neighbor! i Bu COMING EVENTS September, 6-11—Minnesoia State tatr’ . 7 4 Sept. 15, 16, 27—Beltrami County Fair.- p > BEETLES AS HAIR RESTORERS Species of Insect That Has Peculiar Properties .Found In Many Partg of Europe. ISEFESTEESE RS R R 68 * LAKE HATTIE * 306 2% o 3 b ok % % i W. G. Cooper, left for. Rochester, last' week. He expects to be examin- ed for spinal affliction, The Wilsons ‘lost a fine horse by Paris green poisoning Saturday night ‘Roy Morton visited the Sunday school last Sunday and also the Be- cida meeting. The Stillwell families have been Of the thousands of people who use | hair-restorers, few know that the hair- growing power of these preparations 18, In most cases, obtained : from beetles. 4 A The particular beetles in ‘question are called blister-beetles, and belong- to the group known as Cantharides. These Insects, which are abundant in France, Spain, Sicily’ and' Russla, are collected In great numbers and killed by being plunged Into strong vinegar. They are then dried and grouad to a fine powder. This powder is soaked In chloroform and ;the; mixture - distlléd. The result is cantharidin, = . . This cantbaridin' mukes™ 'the .hair grow by causing tiny, invisible blisters to form underneath the skin. These blisters contain ‘' blood-seram ~— the | ' finest tonic in the world for worn:out _hair cells. The blisters do not cause any pain. All that is feit-is a”pleasant tingling nepaauon. The beétles themseives use lhln i blistering juice us a protection agalnsti} birds and animals which would other wise make a mieal of them. Varying .Opinions. Deacon Gildrow says that if a man loves a woman. well enough to cheer- fully write .a .check- in payment for her new suit, .though he knows it menns that he will have to make his old overcoat do another winter, 1t} is safe to marry her. And Mrs. Deéacon, Gildrow says. that if you love a man- well enough to think you would like to see the floor of the closet littered up with his old shoes it will be perfectly safe to marry him, ? entertaining relatives - from: Pipe- stone, Minn.,, and Wentworth, S. D;, | The Tiaras and Whites have been. enjoying a visit from Jowa relatives, My, ‘and Mrs. Geo.!'Till and her: | mother- dined at the Béll -home Sun-: day. . Encouraging news is received con- cerning the little Morgan boy who was operated on for appendicities re=.’: cently Subscribe for'tue Ploneer. THIS is the secret of the wonderful writing suprem. acy. of the Tempoint Pen. Caatiiy The ‘gold ‘is fused about the ample iridium tip—not snnealed. Then . it is hammered, which gives it a __steel-like hardness and flexibility. ; Pen cannot become “‘sprung” under severe use, nof weakened by harmful ink acids. L the _scientific Comb Other Tempoint, advantages are th s ; F?edm%izhe.air-fight .chamber-about the pen:. No. ° ‘Blots—no sweating in the pogket.. 'Filling and Screw Joint. styles, for. pocket, clmn. or ladyW bag. - Come and see.them and learn what & Nfica: the. Tempolit i in all ‘ogatain ‘pen PIONEER STATIONERY HOUSE .. . Phone 799-J ‘Bemidji, Minn. 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