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47-9=—In" Congn 2 +,1858—July 24, challenged Doug-.. to the great debate, Novemher, gefeated for the % Senate. 2% 1860—May 18, nominated - for President by .the Repub- ++fican ‘national "convention at Chicago. /: HE' irdn-throated ‘cannon of the 3 . Washington. navy. yard, breaking - ~'the’stiliness of a ‘March dawn in 1854 with” its 100 eguitafif roars over the’ repeal” of ‘the Missourl - Compromise, awakened “Lincoln to -the great mis- | . “mion Yor which' his whole life had © ap ‘unconsci o A siagle term in° congress, where-his crit- dclsm of the Mexican war in the midst fof ‘that: conflict 'had “left"him' unavail; le for a ‘second term, and after | Deacons, each | No. 1 Northerh Dark - 5. preparation. After’ a £ rovidentfally filing to obtain the snug | - BEMIDJI CASH MARKET QUOTATIONS. GRAIN AND HA¥ 00600 -18¢ 1 MUtlon .o HOgs. 4D. ... . ‘Dressed “beef, pauud i Turkeys, live, Douud; . Old Tome, iive. pound (Geess, \ive, pound ... ‘|'Ducks, 1176, i 2¢-13¢ Oc-11¢ 14¢ e =25¢ Horse kides, 1 MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN MARKET. }t'c'loie of business'September 24 Low ~_ High Chlicé: Barley INo. 2 Rye Former St. Paul Man Given ‘Hearing at Cando-on’ berth of commissioner -of the general Jand” , B8 had retind@ to his dingy law office in Springfleldr.- = oo % - { The wiping ‘out of ‘the dead line -against-the spread ‘of ‘slavery. aroused aim from his indifference to political . ‘questions and drew him ‘from his. re- * trement.” “I know there is 8 God and i e hates injustice ? - he sald simply .storm coming, , .t Ie:hé-has’ &' place and work for ‘me—gnd I think he hag,I belfeve I'am Joining th‘érnew party, he be-, | i ! 1 i} “the. Cando jai | came A&t vnce- its. leader in TMin@s;: i to hiswown surprise, the second man i in _the balloting for its candidate for i wice president in 1856, and its ‘candl- { date for senator in 1858 against Ste- < phen A. Douglas, the author of -the re- ¢ peal. s 4 While~Lincoln made ready for that ,eampaign, as always in every hour of decision, he'retired within-himself. He i;ongulted\no one and gave no hint of 18 line -ofiémttack™ until he called to- ivigether -a - ddzen friends_and read to ;.1.them his opening spegch, which began ywith these immortal words: “A’house Adtvided against itself cannot stand. ' elieve that this government cannot endure .permanently half slave and| half free <. . . It will"become’ all one thing or all the other.” b . _Every.man in the little groyp. warn- ‘ed him that if he delivered the speech it would :defeat him for the semate. “It I had to draw a pen across my record ‘andl"erase* my ‘whole life’ from 7 sight,> he quietly” répited, “and’ I had ene poor gift or cholce left as to what 1 should save from the wreck, I should ehoose that speéch and leave it-to the world unerased.” . : ! Douglas carried a’ few more legisla- tive districts and was re-elected, but : Edncoln led in the aggregate popular wote,” 2 T | “Lincoln had met his-Bunker Hill, - fThe great unknown, who had dared to «cross swords with the foremost cham- pion of the repeal, piqued the curlos- 3 th of ‘the country. Accepting an invi- [tation to speak in New. York, his ‘Oooper union address “established his fntellectual and moral right to lead | #he matfon. iy . Nevertheless, when xealous neigh- /dors had first entered him as a candi- 'date for.president,. he protested that Fn was not fit for the place. Until the/ tequnflon of 1860 actually met in Chi- 2 , his name sgldom was mentioned ffor the honor outside: his own-state: § .Mrd] of, the_delegates really ‘fa- ¥ « L ivored ‘the momination 6f Willlam H. - € ISeward, .but .as.so, often happens: in 3 itics, the very pre-eminence of the . ¥NeW York 'senaitor made him unavafl- ~ 7 lable e end, Lincoln .was nomi- "~ . imated iargely. because he was the least known man on the list of candidates.] Murder Charge { - (By United St. - Paul; “"Sept. 24. Snydet, 27, who yederd: to killing two men -nesr -Ro has not been seen.at hig Paul home for ‘gix years,'in tion disclosed today in" the borhood given-- by-Snyder; as’. his ome. ., o Sh s JOF : It was Tevealed- that. he has mot lived in St. Paul sirice: Before he was|f 2 After threelg married six yenrs ago. / years_of domestic trouble he and his wife.parted and the child, a"daughtef now. yeazg of age, is with her nna Hoffntan, of Sioux City, Towa. . ~ A O During <the time Snyder has been away he has worked on farms in Jowa and the Dakotas, before .going Ito Rolla, N. D.,-where he killéd Earl ;and .Archie Fletcher, "of :Clearfield, Pa. It is alleged that the three -worked together near Marcus, Iowa. In his alleged confesston Snyder stated’thatthe three got into trouble over -a half breed Indian girl and !because, the, brothers threatened to. do away with“him while they were out riding last Sunday, he shot the two men. After that he ‘was ‘ar- ‘rested in a hotel’ in "Minnewaukon, N. D., with the girl in the case. He confessed -to Assistant ‘State Attorney Butteric took him 'to ‘Candd; wheze.~he “wis iven -a prelimipary hearing: today. inyder’s old: mother s’ tricken -with grief .and plans to yisxt her “‘sonin (By United Press) 7]110c’ and_ 26c - higher; l2se higher; top, 50. 'Hens: 4 108, and uver — i - VEGETABLES Potatoes, per cwt. } ‘Cabbage, cwt: Onions, dry Beans, cWt . bt 3 $1.50-$2.0. _Qnttlc‘—l!ecei ts,” .3,600;- market, stéady to weak; top, $15; bulk of sales,-$3.76@15.00.. . - o5 Hogs—Receipts, ;3,000; - market, top, $16.60; bulk of sales, $16:15@16.30.. - - Sheep—Receipts,; .1,000; ~“market, $11.50; bulk of sales, e v SCANDAL RUMOR IN =~ " CITY .CAUSES GOSSIP | It seems that a bit of scandal has .| been rumored in this city, and about one of the best known young mien in the community. Many say. that Frank Perry is'not so much to blame, or .ap least. should not' be blamed, owing to the drouth that the country is undergoing at- the present . time. But it seems that Perry, a prominent young man in this: ¢ity, has been step- ping- out among them since his wife went on 8 visit to Minneapolis. Friend wife retumred rather unex- ‘| pectedly, s wives will. Explanations 0| were in- ordey, it seemed, and Frank, | to’ square himself, told Mzxs. Perry ‘that every evening during last four ‘Abgut 12,000,000 boys and glirls, cons> ‘posing nearly balf the.school popuias tion of the United Siutes, are meinbers of the Junior Red Cross, which is'help-. {ng the children of Lurope, while &t I the same time It is doing an important | work bere at home. "Kalitan Chetwelf, whe wears the engaging smile shown in this _picture, is the son of ‘an Im- disn guide and trapper. He i3 the ‘youngest'Junior living in the neighbop- | beod of Juneau, Alaska—and he sends Marion; O., Sep Clapper) .—*“Th l’b paign’ are teo. big’ a vaudeville 7 G.. Harding’ ! " to~- appul? tol mnything ,PQtty - 3 BRITISH MINERS. v A T0 POSTPONE day, for anoth weéek " the mine: colliery. owners Subscribe. for ‘. Sheriff Oak’and [ Valley City; N. D..'Sept. 24.—Fol-| "~ lowing. a gun battle in which the man was,shot in the leg, an uniden-' tified - man “and ‘woman ~who" were roadster were arrested’ after eight cases of Mlquor were found in the car. The man is in the hospisal and the woman in jail Officials ‘sa liguor from Canada. riff had ordered: the car to stop the man jumped out,and dodged behind the sheériff and drew out a.shaot gun. Although only. a faw feet away, he missed the officer, who returned three thots. The first two went as- ltray:and the third hit him in the eg. .' : they smuggled “the - “BABE” RUTH KNOCKS, FIFTIETH HOME : RUN " (By.United Press:): New York, Sept. 24.—*“Babe” Ruth made his. fiftieth home run: of the season in the fourth inning of the rst game, a’ double header with ‘Washington, here today. *'(By. United Press) _-Washington, Sept. RuthAsl;uck the second home run of the day‘in the first inning of the sec- ond game against Washington here today. ' This brings his record to 5Y for the season. = i 84nd -Long Retained Properties. _Prof. H. L. Fairchild’ of the Unk versity of Rochester and Dr. H. Car- rington Bolton of~New York found the sands at Rockaway beach emitting a high-musical note one sumrmer ‘day in 1884. They collected ‘some of the sand and took It home, where Prof. Fhirchild put In a large glass bottle a sample, but except for-that one in- stance the sand-has” been undisturbed for more than thirty-five years. ~ Professor Fairchild writes now to $clence, saying that on Decémber 32, 1919, he poured the contents, of the: bottle into a stocking and f that when quickly. compressed it gave ont its characteristic’ high note, aud- ible, at a considerable distaiice. . But, slmce he spread It out in.a dry room apd handled. it ‘considerably it “has lost Its sonorogs quality. THE PIONEER WANT - ADS BRING RESULTS o - 24.c—“Babe" |1 passing thru here today in-a Buick - After the she-|. “ “I'am in my ei%hty-fifth year; but since ‘taking Tanla I am as hale and hearty ‘as I ever was and can do as much ‘work as ‘I ‘could_thirty years) %go,” declared W. H:. Morse, of .62 Blainé St., Seattle;Wash. Although in his eighty-fifth ‘year, Mr. Morse is still daily to be_ found engagedin hard work down at the Ames Ship-|§ yard amd is remarkably ‘w'ell -pre- attack of { I served for his years. “Lagt spring ‘1 had an a long while/ that I- couldn’t.: bronchial “tubes. that 1 ‘was -co m I had no appetite ‘and in.fact ate %o little that I w: eadily Joesing weight. 1" couldnffssteep at nights and became very much worried about my éondition, because I-couldn’t find |§ anything to straighten me’‘up and restore my- lo: ngth. . “papers what' fine Jac. was doing for othellt' { ‘t]':e, start, |} e for myself. it from sare did’ enj slept ‘better feeling much 1 have gained and am so mucl turn out about'as much work as mést any othér.man, in spife of my years. Tanlac - certainly. must be.a medicine to-put meé on my £ it has, and I'm ‘giad of the chance to tell everybody .abdut it in' every way. unds in weight Tanlac is sold in Bemidji by City{fi Drug Store, Knutson & .Lib'auat Graceton, and by the leading drug- gists in every towni—Adv. - © ger that I cénif feet like (] ~Among the numerous. landed : pro] arties which are.coming, into-.market during the mext few months Is ‘one of than- ordinary. interest.’ namety, ‘Grendon: Underwood estate, Buck- nshire, says the London Tele- -graph: This; belogs to Mrs. Pigott, & | - member:of a family resident in:the dis- ct-for-centuries, ‘who has decided to | . well, " This -village 'has many historical ‘and’ literary assoclations, whi nter'’round where stands thé oid Elizahethan f_n waysl 10l Shippe, | afirmed. - used..to stdy. when Journey- ing to and from-Stratford-on-Avon. To’ Destroy Red Ants. : "Soak a sponge in sweetened water, ng and place where the apts have > They will swarm ap the - Four pounds Pure Lar(i s chiefly - its’ westerlyz portion. |. - weeks had beéfspent by him in: tak- ing atory. work in the Masonic lodge. Of ‘course. these proceédings- are .secret and the leds ‘said - about them the better, but Prank’s pal,.f George Fisher, and incidentally "an- other live one, made a slip that near- ly.resulted in a hard fall for trusting - Mrs: Perry, and nothing:is known of his jeining the ~Masonic 'lodge by members in good standing anyway. To complicate. matters for the ‘Bloodgood family, now residing in Crookston, it is ‘intimated that: Mr. Bloodgood has ~been ‘carrying :fon again,: and there seems to be oceans of trouble with grief on every wave, in store for him. ot the kind off ‘ensily if what she: k’s ‘wife: ha hears s trde. d her mother rs. Bloodgood is! ' 4f a woman to:let him: to visit her here and ‘expects soon with ~ her ‘sisters, Annie; and: Lulu. - When mother-in-law ‘arrives ‘there. will: be something - doing: for “Prankie as Mrs. Bloodgood _has +had- too much experience! in dealing with a ‘gay husband to ‘be: conciliated ‘by any foolish -stories: about . lodges that Frank can’ As Bemidji society;, ‘ested 'in the o decided .to ¥x Grand theal Thursday, *Septembe all ‘'who attend. the pe: “Ate You g Mason,” whe of ' the_ Bloo d: family for ' themsajve i to’come ta’ ! to hear abgutithe affair. 3 ", ~CHlgary, ‘Alberta.—Alberta’miliers predict.a drop. in the price of flou: 80 soon as new wheatis:put on- thi market, for milling ! | WANTED—Girl for- general houpe-. work=in family of three. Home W modern conveniences, electrd, washer. Only a competent . g need apply. Wages $10 a.w "Mrs. G..O. Ryges. . 3dheE FOR ~.SALE—Young “ geese, - almggt full-grown.at $3.each. Telephoni Frank Hubert. 12t1 A Prescription Take~ our .woi'd.'ft')r it, as no: medicing which is /a NE B su B Nature ;ef'tecied ,"the :“;;uie'{ asid.perhaps w ‘scription. But.the prescription must first by, & :doctor, who has gone Merely Nature to Get Stamx "Yest 'we. know. there are 'peo A ‘stich ‘and such “cuted” them:—but it didn’t.. Helps Again* draggists; that there.| . 4 gg;'e" .for 'anwng: ple who “claim’ that: h_emel'f_—!iufure aided.|. : hipped up to-eéxtra effort by-a pre- ‘into yeur case; who |’ .| has determined: upon. your. actual ;personal rieeds; |- who“finds ‘6utin just what particular way nature: has fallen-down; and who knows what s’ nieeded. Then we, as, druggists, follow his orders and thus fornish the help.to _naturé. G s exfi'cffy‘ ~ “Five and One-half pounds. 'Srugar 5 i s B Five ‘pound can Guaranteed -Baking Powder. . ... . - Ten pounds good Cooking and Eating “Apples. " = Twenty-one bars “Laundry Soap ........... k. Washing Powder- . . "Three largg pkes. Sta/r Naphtha Seven tall cans Milk.......... One gallonsBrown Syrup. . . ‘ Two pounds Japan Tea.". . : ‘Four pounds Prunes. -0 One 1 can Corn .. ... y e > el : Gn:eAlummum OnecanPesas ... ... Two Corn Flakes. .. One ‘six-pound sack Rolled Oné . Post Toasties.......... One: Vegetable Cutter ......... ' One Butcher Knife ........ L. Ofifie{ f\ofi_i‘fluart?. Enamel Kettle it Ladel . .. - Twelve rolls Toflet Paper. . ne can Dill Pickles. ... e e ] O.aj:s vt