Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 7, 1912, Page 8

“this country the farmer is practically ‘fHE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER S HELP FOR FARMERS Plan to Supply Them Money at Reasonable Rates. EUROPEAN SYSTEMS STUDIED Btate Department Has Been Investh gating Credit Foncier and Land- sohaften and Probably Will Subs mit Legislative Program to Congress. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington.—The American state depariment through five of its ambas- madors has been investigating Euro- E:an systems by which the farmers ere are enabled to borrow money at reasonable rates. The Intention of khe state department, after studying the results of the investigation, is to attempt to introduce the European sys- ‘em in this country, so that the Amer doan farmer can borrow money at cheaper rates. It seems to be the administration’s thought that if the European system §s adopted in America the farmer can ralse money on his farm by means of & bond saleable in any part of the country. In Europe, it is said, the farmer borrows on equal terms with the biggest railroad, industrial corpor ation or municipality. The state de- partment in a printed communication ito the public on the matter says: “The investigation is consldered one of the most important undertakings yet attempted in dollar diplomacy. Myron T. Herrick, the newly appointed ambassador to France, is Secret.a' Knox’s right-hand man in the invest gation. Mr. Herrick is himself the product of an Ohlo farm, and has made ihe “problem of the farmer” a hobby for years. When the work in Europe 1t completed the state department will prepare an organization plan to fit the scheme to American conditions, and a8 legisiative program will probably be meapped out for the president to sub amit to congress. The investigation is centered about the Credit Foncier of France and the Landschaften of Genr How the Credit Foncier Works. | “The Credit Foncier is a limited-l ability company operated under the su bervision of the French government for the purpose of lending money te public service corporations, communt tles, counties and landowners, and ta create and negotiate bonds based on mortgages which are limited to the amount due from the lender. In other words, the Credit Foncler acts @s the agent for the French farmer, sg that instead of laeking to raise money directly from some iocal investor by mortgaging his farm, the farmer places his mortgage with lhe Credit Foncier which in turn issties a bond based upon that mortgage and which can be sold anywheve throughout the country. In this way the French farmer is freed from the necessity-of borrowing in the fimited market of his own immediate vicinity. “It is just this restriction which ig torcm" !he American farmer to pay ex- orbitant rates of interest and to put up with none too acceptable terms. In fore, % (Q bm" oW hr‘m some investor i T Tocal Gon- ditions make mongy "tlght’ there he suffers accordingly. In one section of the country he pays six per cent, i« terest, and in another ten per cent., though in both Instances the security offered may be the same. Never can he compete with the bonds of the big industrial ~corporations, though in many instances the security which he offers is just as good as that of the corporation.” It is intended to make the venture, it adopted here, a project primarily for the benefit of the farmer. The pro moters of the plan are not to receive any portion of the profits, and even the earnings of the stockholders will bave to be kept down to very reason: able rates. Thomas 8. Purcell’s Death. Thomas S. Purcell, who is known as the builder of the Washington monument, is dead at his home in this citv. Under Mr. Purcell’s direc- tion the second corner stone of the Washington monument was laid and every other stone, for that matter, un. til the aluminum plate was reached 155.5 feet above the ground. Mr. Purcell was considered one of the most capable stone setters in the Uni- ted States. It must be remembered that the Washington monument s built in two sections. After the ma- sonry had risen to a point about a hundred feet above the ground work was stopped and it was not begum again until long after the Civil war. Looking at the monwment, one can see where the first work ended and the new began because of the differ~ ence of cotor in the stone, time hav- ing darkened the granite of the first hundred feet of the towering struc- ture. Not long ago Mr. Purcell wrote a history of the building of the monu- ment, & memorial which by its se- vere simplicity and its towering height is sald to be one of the most beautiful in the world. Thomas 8. Purcell was personally acquainted with all the presidents :since just prior to the Civil war time. /He built the naval observatory and i nls superintended the comstruction of many other Washington builldings and his ald nearly always was asked 'when pedestals for bronge monuments 'were to be put in place. In fact, the unfolding leaves on {many many & tree are as beautiful as \hloasomsa. I—rr—___— f AUTE 203 T NOTED POET WELL GUARDED Paludan-Muller Was Kept From All Social Intercourse by His Eccentric Wife. The famous poet of Denmark, Palu- dan-Muller, was closely guarded in his later years by an eccentric wife, great- ly his senior. Of her preposterous odd- ity, writes Mr, Edmund Gosse in “Two Visits to Denmark,” stories were everywhere current in Copenhagen. She kept him as much as she possibly could from all intercourse with the ! outer world. During a visit to Copen- hagen the host of Mr. Gosse decided | to invite the poet to dine, and his daughter and guest were sent on a| mission to invite him, If we could secure him for a night convenient to him, writes Mr. Gosse, all that was brightest and best in Co- | penhagen was to be constrained to| come, too. But fortune was against us; if we had found him alone it is possible that success might have crowned our efforts. When we ar- rived, with our dinner invitation on our lips, we were damped by being told that the poet had gone out for a walk, but that Mrs, Paludan-Muller would receive us. The fierce little lady, in fact, closed our retreat by peeping round the edge of the door and commanding us to enter. Miss Aline Fog, overwhelmed by the event, 1 lost her presence of mind, and blurt- ed out the invitation, which it would have been wiser to suppress. The answer came at once: “Impos- sible, my dear lady, impossible! I could not sanction it! Mr, Paludan- Muller is weak; he is good-natured; he is only too ready to go into so- ciety. It i8 my privilege to prevent it. I say to him, ‘You are too deli- cate, my dear, to mix with others. You must positively consider your health.’ ” Miss Fog feebly asked whether the poet might not himself be appealed to, “Such old friends! so small a party! so early an hour!” The lady was quite obdurate, however. “I could not trust him with your message. He is so weak, sogood-natured. His placeis at home with me. 1 do not wish to dine abroad, why should he?” PUTS OUT PETROLEUM FIRES| Caustle Soda Solution Mixed With Alum Is Found to Be Most Efficacious, There are no fires more disastrous than those in which petroleum min- eral essences, benzoin, etc, play a part, on account of the difficulty of getting them under control. No real- ly efficacious method has ever been put into use to _extinguish fires ot FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1912. hydro-carbonic origin. Water 1s ut- terly useless. Danger may be at times reduced to a minimum by pre- venting contact of air with the flame, choking it between blankets, mats, damp cloth, earth, or sand, but this is by no means always sufficient. For this reason. sclentists are interested | In some experiments made recently in German laboratories bearing on the possibility of controlling fires of vary- ing chemical origin. It is said that it a stated quantity of caustic soda solution be mixed with an equal quan- tity of alum it forms a dough—or mor- tar—fifteen times as great as the or- iginal single quantities. This dough is very light and foamy. If this sub- stance be flung over the petroleum, ete, and the entrance of alr impeded, the fire will at once be put out. An experiment was lately tried in Germany to establish these facts be- yond question. An improvised fire extending over four cubic millimeters was extingulshed in less than two minutes by an eighty-per cent. solu- tion of the above mentioned sub stance. Kept Its Ministers Long. “The town of Lancaster, Mass., in which I live,” said Mr. Harold Parker, “Is a place of little size—not over 2,000 population—and yet it has enough of individuality and quality, not to speak of history, behind it to SaL VDAY make 1itd Inhabitants very proud ot living there. In the first place it is anclent, a charter having been grant ed it in 1653, and the same year wit- nessed the establishment of the first parish church, which I can agsure you 18 no commonplace house of worship. “The present structure isn’t so very old and yet it dates from 1810 and looks good te last another century. The remarkable feature, however, 1s that in its history of over 250 years this church has had but eight minis- ters, including the incumbent. Sev- eral of them were pastors for fifty years or more and the average is over thirty years, which I imagine is a rec- ord no other religious congregation can duplicate.”—Baltimore American. Just His Job., Joakley—Now, there’s a fellow who doesn't do anything but pick up pins all the time.” Coakley—Well, well! that's a queer superstition. Joakley—Oh, no; it’s not a supersti- tion, but an occupatlon He's em- ployed in a bowling alley.—Catholic Standard and Times. Every City’s Pride. “No matter what city you strike,” remarks Senator Gore, who travels all over the United States each Yyear, “Somebody 1is certain to confide to you: ‘There are more auwlnobue' used here, for the population, than anywhere in the country.’ That's one fact about his own town that every man firmly believes.” The Ruling Passion, Did you ever know a man so pros- perous he wasn’'t figuring how -he could make a little money off a side Une?—Atchison Globe. Plants That Go to Sleep. Plants have a mind of their own on the subject of winter sleep, and gardeners have tried various methe ods of waking them up prematurely, to furnish blossoms at a time waen they are scarce and costly. Mere greenhouse heat and moisture failing to yield the desired results, they have successfully tried warm baths and ether vapors tu shorten the hibernat- ing period of bulbs. From Germany comes a description of the latest nfan devised by a man named Weber. By sticking a needle into the base of the bud he has caused it to unfold two or three weeks aheasd of its fellows. Still more time was gained by inject- ing water into the buds. Not content with water, a physician has tried in- Jections of water with ten per cent. of alcohol. 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