Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 24, 1921, Page 6

The: \ MICKIE, THE PRINTER’S DEVIL “TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED » Cheap Fish “To_ introduce .our new 50c tube of' Klenzo tooth-paste, we are g { two gold fish with each purchiasé. Paul Lyon, The Rexall Store.” Gold fish and tooth-paste! Why not give away a plug of ‘tobacco to intro- duge tooth-brushes. . < /. —Breathing” Space— . 'Why the Remainder? “Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Konst leff last | - ‘Wednesday for Burlington this state. Mr. Konst will return and ship:the remainder of his household goods.”— Exchange. You can plainly see how she stands with that editor. —A Couple More Breaths— The Visionary “John, do you ever play cards for \money?” “No, my dear; I sometimes think I do, but_it’s always the other fellow who does it.” Did it ‘ever happen to you? mean? SUPPRESSIW' ORUGE AN A GOOD NEWS IYEM JESY X0 OLE SE\SSORBILL WHO \S TELLIN' EUERMBOON THAT WHAY TWiS TOWN NEEDS \S'A GOOD Shimmying” Aloud.” What do they! QUEER CUSTOMS OF AFGHANS And then we saw a sign in a win-| g . dow, advertising “Fleece Lined Ladies | People Eat Only With the Right Hand Gloves.”. Page Tarzan of the 1}};23!‘ ~Animal Life of Every Descrip- tion Held Sacred. —Some More Breathing Space— —Curtains— ~ —_— Keeping Him Company e ___ | The average Afghap has no particu- Nt A v The story is told that Sam Jones, | lar fondness for winéhor spirits. the great American evangelist, in clos- | ing his services for the evening, ask-, ed all those in the audience who be-| “ lieved they were Christians to please stand up. Several remained seated. The evangelist then asked that all . HIDES those who wished to go to heaven Cow hides, No. 1..... stand up. Only one man remained |Bull hides, No. 1, b, in his seat, and the evangelis. uuuc-, Kipp hides, No. 1, Ib. ing this, allowed the others to be CAlf skins, No. 1, 1Ib seated. 'He then asked that all those | Deacons, ;b‘“h eees who wished to go to the “other place,” | Horse hides, large. MARKETS FPTPPOPITTPITPPPPIPPTPPTRITTTTIIER, . . 4e-be 3c-de Ge-Tc 6e-7c . .50c-60c ..$2.50-$3.50 stand—and the one who had re-| 3T ATOR \mained immovable during the previ-| -~ POTATOES ous performances then stood up. The | Chicago, Feb. 24.—Potato receipts, evangelist pointed him out, and then|24 cars. Market firm. Northern asked him why he wanted to go there. | Whites, sacked, $1.30 to $1.35, bulk| The man replied that he had noticed |none. Wisconsin mixed red and that the evangelist remained stand- White varieties, sacked, $1.10 to ing and he wanted to keep him com-| -15 pany. ] | WEEKLY MARKETGRAM (U. S. Bureau of Markets) —Some More Breathing Space— Picturesk ed February 23, 1919. Live Stock and Meats: Prices of practically all classes of live stock at Chicago advanced during the week | .—those of gheep and lambs leading. Yearling wethers up $1.50 to $2; fat lambs, $1.75 to'$1.85; {100 s ‘butcher cattle, 25¢ to 50c; feeder |steers quoted from 55c to $1 higher; An airplane view of what most per- sons see on their first trip into the air. | hetter weights gaining most. Feb- And then they come down and tell us |}yary 23 Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk how fine the sights were! At least, |of sales, $9.20 to $10; medium and they say that NOTHING is morg|good beet steers, $8.65 to $10.25; - beautiful than an airplane view. Is'butcher cows and heifers, $4.25 to it? Look at the above picture forrfl).«w feedér steers, $7.256 to $9; comparison, !1ight and Medium Wel(ght veal cnl;gs. 1$9.50 to $12.75; fat lambs $7 to $8.- —A Couple More Breaths— 35} feeding lambs, §7.75 to $10.75; Breaking the' Record yearlings $6.50 to $8.25; fat ewes, A young girl student had, for sev- | $%:25 to 36.25. young g ucen) iy | Dairy Products: Butter markets eral weeks, shown fine markings on.,;yinjie firm with tendency upward: ~ her report submitted to the t"“}‘“‘Best grades none too pientiful. Ré- on the number of hea}th chores per- celpts New York temporarily light. formed each day, until one day the Chicago is again on parity with teacher noticed that she had sudden-|prices, or above, Eastern’ markets. ly stopped marking the usual crosses | Many' Chicago dealers think market after “the daily cleaning of teeth.” |has advanced about all it will stand. Upon being questioned by the|Prices 92 score: New rork 49¢; Chi- teacher as to why she had stopped |cago, Philadelphia and Boston, 60c. cleaning her teeth, the little girl re-| ¥ruit and . Vegetables: Sacked plied that her mother had aeeident- round white potatoes strengthened ly stepped on THE toothbrush and|5c to 10c per 100 Ibs. f. 0. b. North™ had broken the handle. |ern ehipping station, reaching 90c¢ to i {98c. Chicugo carlot market up 25c¢ to 30c, closing $1.20 to $1.30, sack- 'ed. Round whites showed further Put on the Soft Pedal weakness at Western New York ship- Dear Twentieth Century: In a|ping points, reaching 90c to 9be. town not far from here we lamped the | New York market weak at $1.10 to following sign in a dance hall, “No$1.25, bulk. —Breathing Space— Wacshington, D. C., for week end-| |'hogs advanced 5c¢ to 25¢ per 100 1bs,, ! || Tdbacco raised in fhe land is of in- | terior quality; the better sorts are | imported from Persia, Russia, India (and Egypt. Amir Habbibullah Khan always had a good private stock of | Huvana cigars. Both young amnd old people take snuff. Tea, sweetened and unsweetened, is Tthe favorite drink and is consumed in prodigious quantities. When you go to see an Afghan, you can hardly es- | cape before swallowing four or five cups of tea; it is, therefore, no trifling. gastronomic feat to pay several visits in one afternoon, the more so if he polite host (with a view of honoring the Furopean guests) has the ted served in big Russian glasses. The right hand is always used in | eating and drinking, the left hand be- | ing considered unclean. Dogs, though numerous and useful; are looked upon as unclean, and pious | people never touch them. } Animals that go badly lame on the !march or camels that get snowbound !In the mountain pastes are abandoned | to their fate. Afghans never kill such nimals, as we might do, to put them \ feeding | out of their misery. They believe that [tambs, $1; fat ewes,'$1 to $1.50 Der ' the lives of all living things are in the- Beef steers up 35c¢ to 65¢; | {hands of Allah, and that man sins if i he presumes to interfere with the Su- | preme Will. Afghans will not even kill | fleas or other vermin; they merely pick them off and throw them away!— Frederick Simpich and “Haji Mirza Hursein” in the National Geographic Magazine. | | | Chang Smoked Pipe. Li Hung Chang was the first to pay me a visit in my capacity of minister |oC finance, Count Sergius Witte late Russian diplomat, writes. in the !\Vnrld's Work. When we had taken | our tea, I inquired of Li Hung Chang { whether he did not want to smoke. | He emitted a sound not unlike the feighing of a horse.\ Immediately two Chinamen came running from the ad- Jacent room, one carrying a narghile and the other tobacco. Then began the ceremony of smoking. Li Hung Chang -sat quietly inhaling and ex- haling the gmoke, while his attendants Wwith great awe lighted the narghile, held the plpe, took it from his mouth, and put it back. It was apparent that - T Hung Chang wanted to impress me with all these ceremonies. On my part, T made believe that I did not pay the slightest attention to the proceedings. Vs THE UNIVERSAL CAR . ““THE FORD COUPE’’ when not more than two or three are to be reliable car service. HlfRE is one of the most useful of all closed cars. Specifically so a couple of minutes. So it doe demands for the Ford Coupe, but with the increased our allotment is limited. C. W. JEWETT CO., INC. ‘Authorized Ford Sales and Service . TELEPHONE 970 The Ford Coupe is a mighty cozy car, in that it is absolutely watertight, at the same time with its sliding plate glass windows you can have an open car, to all intents and pug 't make any difference what the weather may be rain, or shine, summer or winter, in the Ford Coupe you have an -;ncloud car of comfort and service. What more do you want? # It has proven particularly a valuable car for traveling-salesmen, physicians, engineers, architects, and others who have much out:of-door work all the year around. ‘We have never been able to fully meet all of the factory we are now able to make reasonably prompt deliveries.’ Yet we urge you to leave your order with as little delay as possible— accommodated with 8,-in producing capacities BEMIDJI , | NEWSPAPER ™ ALL N TRE WE SR Silks Caught Reminine Fancy. Silk and fashion are closely linked throughout the centuries. changed to conform to the new fabric as it was brought into each country. There were the ladies of Greece who first discovered that the heavy ori- ental fabrics could be unraveled and rewoven, like their linen garments, in- to filmy, translucent materials of wondrous beauty. Ornamental silks were not intro- duced into Europe until 500 A. D, and with them came the influence of Byzantium on the styles of the day. It wWas through the wars waged by the Crusadefs that silk weavers were brought into Italy, and the fame of Venetlan and" . Florentine 'fashions spredd abroad. 3 . #4Folk Sangs. Folk songs differ| from all other songs in being the expression, unhin- dered by culture or self-consciousness, of primitive emotions and aspirations, Their simplicity and directness, says the Christian Science Monitor, are un- doubtedly strong ' élements in the charm ‘they exercise, more especially as they offen display within t its of a simple form surpri pacity for complicated rhythmical ef- fects. The feeling” for rhythm is in- show itself, and is, therefore, more de- veloped than any other faculty in these primitive songs. Pagan’ Creed Cgncerning Fire. That fire;and wafer are the habita- tious of spirits is perhaps a uhiversal article ‘of the pagan creed. The sa- cred ever-burning hearth fire was, in primitive days reckoned the special abode of the household gods; it was, therefore, —considerad dangerous to give a stranger o burning brand, Modes /| variably the first musical faculty to | | MUCH'INTEREST SHOWN IN FARM INSTITUTES (Continued Zrom Page 1) | of ‘the potatoes roots system. §y means of a simple seed cutting device i he demonstrated a new rapid and ef- ficient method of cutting potato seed. At Solway he discussed briefly the op- erations of the State Potato ex- change. ; The interest shown attending those meetings was gratify-/| 'ing. Addea interest wae given to the eeting at Puposky by a group of boys brought down by H. M. Clark from Nebish, and the special musical selections rendered by John Doyl, one of 'the boys from Nebish. The farm- ers’ clubs served dinner at Turtl River and Solway. vk \ SPORT MODEL AIRSHIP ' IS LATEST THING YET - i U (By United Press) | Washington, Feb. 24.—Comes now the “sporting model” airship. Zep- pelins and trans-Atlantic ‘“blimps? ihave proved unsuited for small barn- lvard garages and the more playful requirements of aerial jaunters, ac- cording .to Air Service officials de-. scribing a late model aerial roadster. . The new ships “are equipped with 60-horsepower engines,” the de- scription reads in part, “an. envelope with 1,000 cubic meter gas capacity and one ballonet.” Th/ey carry but two or three passengers. “Such a ship would serve not only as a sporting ship, but would be val- uable for training also,” the; state- ment says. - / THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS by everyon(é . AND R\ WANE NN WY WL NEVER GO GIVINE HOA- PORTABLE JAILS MAY BE | REALITY IN NEAR FUTURE Kansas City, Mo., Feb. Strange, house-like objects soon may be seen lumbering a‘long Jackson county roads. The county court has decided to ask state prison officials for six port- able jails which will allow prison gdngs to work on county highways, yeis the weather is good. - Each jail ould house six prisoners. with an area sufficient to allow “elbow. room” for swinging picks and shovels. The county jail has become a pop- uldr’ lodging ‘place of late, officials explained, and prisoners earn their “keeps.” ought to ADDITIONAL WANT ADS Smith hotel. ! WANTED—Ccok at Solway. 6t3-2 3 FOR SALE—25 black Langshang chickens, thoroughbred, - seven months old, are now laying, prlce[ $2-each. I will be at Sunshine, Store Saturday, March 5. Jos. La- - ' Douceur. Gt3—4| 'FOR SALE_-A nearly new hard coal : heater. Phone 294. 2t2-25 - | It’s terrible. breath and mean disposition. ant, certain—so thoroughly cleansing friends. i FEB. % Jazz Music for the Evening Dances Wl Big Wedding Friday Evening Everybody THE AT KILL THAT COLD takie-'a Bot eupful of BULGARIAN BLOOD -TEA Increase the blood circulation, flush the kidneys, stimulate the liver, ward off flu, grippe and pneumonia. Sold by druggiste and grocers e Thér Causeof Gout Rheumatism "According to medical men such as Garrod, Minkowski, Hans, Vogt and Raach, the cause of gout is due to an ! excessive accumulation of uric acid im'the blood. The same effect happens in rheumatism: - Wrien your kidneys feef 1ike lumps of lead,;when your back hurts or the urine 8 cloudy, full of sediment, or you are obliged te seek relief two or three times during the night; when you suffer with sick headache, or ~dizzy, nervous spells, acid stomach, or you have rheumatism- when the weather is bad, ask your druggist for An-uric- (dnti-uric ‘acld) -tablets; or gend Dr. Pierce, Invalida’ Hogel, Buf- talo, N. Y., 10c for trial package. An- uric is more potent than lithia. (Girls--Ladies--Women Constipation often results in pimply face, sallow color, bad ‘Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea is a_“positive” Laxative—mild, pleas- and purifying that CONSTIPATION disappears, and when your Constipation gees—your COMPLEXION im- proves, you feel better, eat better and enjoy living. ) Give it a thorough trial and you will recommend it to all your women 36 cents a package. Tea or Tablets.—Boardman’s Drug Store.. - . GIVEN.BY ‘ i THE ELKS LODGE OF BEMIDJI | l Thursday, Friday and Saturday ; 4-25-2! AT THE Dozens of Attractive Booths Entertainment Galore b RNIVA 1 The Public is Cordially Invited <