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Mimmm The Bemidji Pioneer. KAISER & GREELEY, Publishers Entered In the postoCbco at Bemidji as socond-clasa matter. PUBLISHED KVKK\ THCRBDAY. Official County and City Paper. PLAIN TALK. THE PIONEER The is not ready to concede that the man who has set back the railroad develop ment in Beltrami and Itasca counties for at least one year, if not two, will be unanimously nominated for governor in the republican state convention which will meet on July 1st. It has not been customary for repre sentatives of southern Minnesota constituencies to do more than they were absolutely compelled towards assisting the northern part of the state. State institu tions of all kinds, road and bridge funds by the hundreds of thous ands of ollars, have been freely built and liberally maintained and bountifully expended in southern Minnesota for the last fifty years but all that northern Minnesota is able to get is a very limited supply of money for the digging of ditches in the lied River Valley. And at a time when what has heretofore been considered a wilderness, in Bel trami and Itasca counties, is be ing settled by thousands of would-be industrious citizens and farmers and when the railroad owners are exerting themselves to the utmost to raise funds in the American market to build branch linos into these counties, and similar lines from here to the Pacific ocean, a southern man in the governor's chair sets up an old-fashioned and fagged out popuiistic howl against the railroads, and calls off the whole scheme of development between here and the coast and between here and the boundary line. PIONEER will not cease to protest against such a course on the part of a republican gover nor of the state. It has never been the policy of the republican party, even in the rankest days of farmer legislation in this state, to array itself as a party machine against those elements which have gone most largely and intelligently towards the de velopment of the state. The PIONEER regards it as party suicide to renominate a man who swells himself up with a sense of public virtue on tho score of hav ing embarrassed the greatest financial and industrial genius that the state and the northwest has ever produced and who is constantly straining every re source for the continued develop ment of the country that lies be tween Lake Superior and Puget Sound. i Prom Seattle to St. Paul, by either line of road which|is now under Mr. Hill's direction and control (regardless of what Governor Van Sant may or may not do) is a distance of 1800 miles. That is tantamount to a steamship haul of 18,000 miles. In other words, from Yokohama to New York by the nearest steamship route (not by way of Panama), Oriental freights can be carried for exactly the freight charge which Mr. Hill must make from Seattle to St. Paul by rail. For it costs, as all the com mercial, railroad and steamship reports go to show, only one tenth asjnuch to carry goods by deep-water steamship as by rail. So that when Mr. Hill under, takes to delievr Oriental stuffs in St. Paul for distribution throughout the Mississippi Val- ley, be must carry from Yoko hama to, Seattle for nothing. And between Seattle and Yoko hama he must compete with French and German vessels earn ing subsidies and employing sea men at a low rate of wages. It is inevitable that he must also build up along the lines of his two railway systems an enor mours short-haul or local traffic from which to make up the losses which he must sustain upon the ocean. To these prob lems he has addressed himself. And to the problem of embarrass ing him in this vast undertaking in the interest of Minnesota, where all his eastern terminals are, the governor of Minnesota has addressed himself and the republican party of the state. So that whether the PIONEER considers the question from the viewpoint of the settlers in Itasca |,nd Beltrami counties, or as a newspaper interested in Minne sota and its welfare, it is still bound to conclude that so shal low a governor should not be per mitted to lead the republican party of the state into those quicksands which it has so skill fully and wisely evaded for the last twenty-five years. The commonest "sucker" of a farmer in Beltrami county knows that Governor Van Sant's fight upon Mr. Hill is a useless grand stand play which can accomplish, nothing except to restrain rail road development in Northern Minnesota, and perhaps embar rass Mr. Hill and compel him to go to Europe for money upon bonds when he might otherwise have secured it in the open stock market in America. The Bemidji Sentinel rings in W. F. Street this week with the already announced prominentRe publican candidates for senatorial honors in this district, and en deavors to give him a "black eye" in that direction. AttorneyStreet it has been generally understood, has had no thought of taking a seat in congress, but that he is willing to till a chair in the state senate is quite possible, and this senatorial district will make no mistake in placing him there. Men of energy, activityand ability are required in our state legisla tive halls at all times. W. F. Street is one of these fellows. He is one of the kind who accom plish things. That is the kind of a senator this district wants. Fosston Thirteen Towns, The Republican State Central Committee failed to develope back-bone enough to resist the campaign shouts of the Minne apolis Times, but fell into line with that popuiistic journal and ordered the State convention to be held July 1st at St. Paul. The committee will now proceed to devote all its energies to the nomination of a man for governor whom a large majority of the committee believe cannot by any possibility be elected. There has not been a time in the history Blood* We live by our blood, and on it. We thrive or starve, as our blood is rich or poor. There is nothing else to live on or by. When strength is full and spirits high, we are being re' freshed, bone muscle and brain, in body and mind, with con tinual flow of rich blood. This is health. Wrhen weak, in low spirits, no cheer, no spring, when rest is not rest and sleep is not sleep, we are starved our blood is poor there is little nutri ment in it Back of the blood, is food, to keep the blood rich. When it fails, take Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. It sets the whole body going againman woman and child. If you have not tried it, send for free sample, its agreeable taste will surprise you. SCOTT & BOWNK, Chemists 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and ji.oo all druggists. of the Republican party ofMinne sota when there was so much need of a few strong men to lead off in its affairs.. That so weak a man as Van Sant, and so anti republican a newspaper as the Minneapolis Times, should have' succeeded in so completely razzle dazzling a committee of twenty five of the leading republicans of the state, does not bode well for the party in the coming cam paign. There are a whole lot of fellows who have contemplated running on the republican ticket for different offices, legislative and otherwise, who will proceed to hesitate and dally and doubt about doing so. It is given out from from Fer gus Falls that Cyrus Little Smith, who, it is claimed, hails from Beltrami county, will also be a candidate for the republican congressional nomination. Who is Smith? No one knows, but if he can pay the freight, the joys of the contest are open to him Crookston Times. Who is Smith? A nice question to ask. Anybody who doesn't know Smith is too blind to know his mother-in-law. "If he can pay the freight." What does the Times mean? Does it expect a bo ".us for supporting Smith? If it does, it is high time Mr. Smith knew it. For if Polk county papers require "the stuff" to in sure their support for him, there are a number of Beltrami county papers that can treat Mr. Stee nerson to the same kind of medi cine. Tit for tat is fair play in politics. Mr. Smith is an old war-horse of the republican par ty in Minnesota, and stumped the Red River valley in its inter est when the Polk county giant was shivering in his tent be cause of the populist uprising. If Smith is nominated, it will be by republican votes, and not by those of men who have been re viling that party or sulking or freezing in their Ajax tents. Notwithstanding the friendly feeling which exists between Governor Van Sant's forces and those of Auditor Halden Duluth, who is a candidate for State auditor, Sam Iverson seems to be holding his own in all parts of southern Minnesota, and will get his share of the votes out of the northern part of the state. Sam is good enough stuff for anybody, having both capacity and honesty. After all, Morris and Eddy had their wisdom teeth along with them when they declined re-nomination to Congress. The situation is not encouraging to old time republicans, many of whom readily understand what Van Sant's re-nomination means to the republican party of the state. The St. Paul Dispatch is rapid ly becoming an ardent free-trade journal, thus "on the side" play ing into the hands of the merger of which James J. Hill is the head. Mr. Hill is understood to have become again converted to the democracy, and the Dispatch is falling into line in fine form. Our fellow townsman, C. L. Smith has announced himself candidate for congress from the ninth district. Our information comes from a circular sent out from Crookston. If what we hear is true Mr. Smith will make a vigorous campaign. The Crookston Press was printed last week on a new Cottrell cylinder press, and the general appearance of that paper is greatly improved. Spiritualistic Meeting. The First Spiritualist church of Be midji will hold their closing meeting Sunday night May 25. Mrs, Ted Smith will deliver her farewell lecture for the season, subject will be given by the audience and spirt greetings after the lecture. All are kindly in vited to be present. Any one wishing to unite with the developing circle, which will be held at the homes of the different members, may hand their name in after the meeting to Mrs. Ted Smith, chaplain. Backwoods Sketches... ,1, T* ^1 9\ i a Br 1 A. M. $ GREKLEV A TRIUMPH IN TAXIDERMY. A Morbid Story in Three Morbs. MORE III. His supposition proves correct. On the table is a letter addressed "To Him Who Finds This Message." When we reach the upper air and when our nerves have partially recovered from the shock, we read the message winch shocks us more: February, '99. "I, Paul Labree, suffering all the tortures of the damned, set down these words liefore grief shall totally crush me. Within me the flames of sorrow are at white heatremorse is gripping my throatmemory is struggling to fly away. The spell of a lost soul is upon methe curse of my life even now jeers at me litce an imp of hell as I pen these words. I only pray for time to finish this message to some wanderer who may come and wonder at what he sees. It is not well that a soul goes down to the grave wrapped in too much mystery. While reason yet burns dimly, I write this, my last farewell to the world. "I was born in Montreal of French ancestry. My mind was well fed with books. Mv life was the common run of men, but 1 did not fully exist until I reached the age of thirty. Then I met Josephine. From the first I loved with a love that drives vice from a man's nature, that scourges religious doubt from the atheist, that inaketh the-weak mighty. And Josephine re turned love for love. "It was then that the great sorrow (no matter what) fell upen me. But for every burn of hell, heaven has a salve'. Josephine cleaved to me. To gether we turned our backs upon so ciety and fortune. We sought the black woods of the West, each to live for the other. "I made use of my knowledge of chemistry and anatomy by maunting birds and animals. In a short time I could do good work which was much admired in the towns where I went to sell them. Instead of using glass, as other taxidermists do, I endeavored to discover a method to preserve the eyes of my specimen. In this I succeeded. I not only preserved the eyes, but learned to give them any natural ex pression. "All this time my wife loved me as a saint loves his God. Trouble, and not years, has made me an old manI am hardly forty'. We never pined for the world. Never was there a more happy love. So many times has she said to me: 'Paul, what care we for the worldwe are the world to each other.' But I must hajten. Reason burns^more dimly. "Some days ago I was cleaning my rifle. Oh, God! I do not know how it happenedthe ball pierced her poor body. Wild with fear and remorse, I caught her in my arms to hear her whisper a last farewell. For hours I was a maniac. I could not look upon A Double Barrelled '/M\ ^Wih /TKiu'e\/ '/If jffi 1 IfFL vL1 her face, although a happy smile hov ered upon her lips. Then I decided to defeat deathto preserve life of her natural body. In my holy task, you may judge ray success. There are her own eyes, natural as life, kept bril liant by my discovery which no man will know. The Hush of health is on her face: on her lips the smile with which she greeted me on my return from hunting trips. But, Oh! she is dead, dead, dead! No discovery out side of the hand of God can call back the soul. This room I have fitted for her tomb. Ae for me, seek roe not. I feel that soon my soul will be seeking her's,and we shall embrace again to live in love, love, love! Reason burns i 0 w," Paul Labree.'' (The eucl)- Northeast 1 Press.... Bulletin Experiment Farm, Grand Rapids, 9 Minnesota. *l* Corn for Fodder. Perhaps the most marked change in farming methods during the past ten years has followed the introduction of corn grown solely for fodder. At tempts were frequently made to utilize the cornstalks after the ears were har vested, and people were slow to realize that one cannot harvest a corn crop and have left fodder of any feeding value. Cattle fed on ripe corn stalks from which the ears have been re moved cannot thrive, nor is the yield of such fodder per acre large enough to pay fur its handling. The custom is now to sow the corn thick and cut it while the stocks are yet succulent. The ears will be either lacking alto gether or very small and immature. In this way, five to seven tons of cured fodder are obtained per acre, which may be economically handled and makes a valuable feed. The advantages of growing fodder corn apply even with greater force to this section than to more southern re- MONE SAVED! 1 FREE! FREE! We are giving away free with every one-potmd can of "Crown" Baking Powder five elegant pieces of China. We are also making a very liberal Discount on all our Dishes and G-lassware, of which we have a large and carefully se- lected stock. We also have a fine line of Crockery and Stone- ware. If you are in need of some fancy Flower Pots it will pay you to look over our line. J. P. YOUNG Telephone No. 42. Bemidji, Minn. gions. The season -while sometimes short for corn, is always long and hot enough for a full crop of corn fodder. The yields obtainedtwice that of haymake it valuable on farms with only a small area cleared, and great ly increases the capacity of such farms for livestock. Cornfodder is equal in feeding value to timothy hay, and for milk cows it has the advan tage of being succulent and maintain ing the flow of milk. It may be fed to sheep as the chief portion of their diet, but they will do somewhat better if hay is also fed occasionnally. Horses relish an occasional feed of it. Cornfodder ma,y be sown at any time from the last week in May till nearly July 1st. The seed should be obtained from southern Minnesota, either di rect or through dealers. Any dent corn which ripens there will be suit able for fodder. Large Southern or Ensilage corn should be avoided as it grows too coarse and is late, and the smaller northern kinds do not give as much fodder per acre. Farm, Truck and Dray Wagons and Carriages and Sleighs Mad to Order Blacksmith and Wagon Shops between 1st and 2nd Sts., south of P. O. [REYNOLDS & SON: PROPRIETORS". Offer: Two excellent brands of Flour are carried by us and we want all good housekeepers and other consumers of this im portant article to become better acquainted with their merits. These goods are of fine flavor, rich in nutritious elements and go fartherest HERMAN H. CHAPMAN. Memorial Day The following program will be ob served on Memorial Day, Friday, May 30, 1902: At 10:30 a. m. the members of the post, all soldiers of the Civil war, soldiers of the Spanish war. members of the Circle, Ladies of the G. A. R. and all citizens are requested to meet at the city hall and proceed to Green wood cemetery, to assist in the ser vices at the graves of departed com rades. At 2:00 p. m. appropriate ex ercises will be held at the city hall, consisting of orations, essays, music, etc. H. W. BAILEY, Commander. Stops the Couefli and Works Oft' the Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No cure, no pay. Price, 25 cents. 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