Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 18, 1917, Page 3

VELDT. MARKS ITS DWELLERS Loneliness and Silence Affect Thou \; Doomed to Livé in Plain of British South Africa. Before the Boer war there was a saying current among the Boers of South Africa that you could always recognize a man who had spent five years on the veldt. This was a saying no less true then than 'mow, for the veldt is a place of great silence and loneliness and it leaves its mark on those who dwell in it. The veldt Is the great plain of what is now British South Africa, the limit- less, featureless stretch of prairle dot- ted with knobs of hills that the Boers call kopjes, pierced and gasbed by in-washed gullies that run their isting course from horizon to horl- zon. The word “veldt#¥ is closely al- lied to the German word for “world” or “universe,” and the relationship is something more than mere coinci- dence. To the man standing in the midst of this plain it seems, to extend in every direction to the outermost Mmits of space. : . The veldt is without sound or color, Without striking features to catch the eje. A day’s trek among low hill§ ered with gray grass, plods wear- y through mile after mile of the same bhills, and ends in a dry valley as like the valley of the morning as one pea i3 like another. After a few days of this the traveler wonders if his prog- ress is.not a mere illusion, if he is not returning day after day to the ‘same spot. Now and- again the “monotony 18 broken by some veldt farm, a place of exceeding loneliness for the exiles who till it. There will be a farmhouse, a barn, a kraal, a well and a few huts for the kaffirs. To the rallroad may be a distance of anywhere from 20 to 70 miles, - Half the year the roads are impassable. The little community must be sufficient unto itself. Life on a veldt farm is a severe test of the inner resources of man or woman. Mongoose as Cat Understudy. Islands in the tropical or semi-trops ical seas furnish ideal conditions for rats, and in many instances they have L _Increased until they have become in- b lerable pests, threatening the total rula of the inhabitants. On one sugar cane plantation in Puerto Rico 25,000 rats were killed in less than six SO monthe, € In Jamaica an effort was made to 1t suppress them by introducing the’mon- b1 goose, which resulted in the establish- ment of a second pest. In the Ha- walian islands the introduction of' the mongoose caused the rats-to take ref- uge In the tree-tops, where many of them have nests and have arboreal habits, like squirrels. Wherever pres- ent on these islands thé mongoose has rendered. it exceedingly, . difficult. o se: domestic fowls of any kin Natianal ‘Geographic*Magaziha'* ! He Caught Thet. “Tommie, you were absent from school yesterday,” said the teacher. - * “Yes'm,” answered the boy. “Father 'wanted me to go fishin’ with him.” “But don’t you know it would have been more profitable to have come te school ?” “Why, we wouldn’t have brought home a durn fish if I hadn't gone algng.” a— Ik [ Its a small thing in comparison with what the men "6 in uniform are doing. They may lose their lives. least two billions. and they ought to do it. Ty Hf;\ve a Fine Car 6f Jonathan Apples $1.50 per bushel basket IO0,00'O 7 ft Jack Pine and Tamarack wanted at once . P. Batchelder Phbne 180 | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIlIlIIII READ BETIDJI PIONEER ADS SRR WE HAVE THE LOTS Bemidji What kind of a lot are you looking for? A good business A location for a fine residence? Or just a place for a cozy site? litte home? EASY PAYMENTS Pick yours out and call on B"local agent, The Bermar Agency, Markham Hotel Bldg., for prices and terms. BEMIDJI TOWNSITE COMPANY Capital Nat. Bank Bldg. St. Paul, Minn. Nobody can give them their lives back again. The government can’t pay them for their lives. But yon give only your money and you get four per cent for it and you get it back again. .We're buying all the LIBERTY BONDS we can "and we’re also trying to serve in another way : buy- ing good merchandise and selling it on a narrow margin of profit. Other merchants can do that too, But the first way for you to help serve is to help over-subscribe the LIBERTY BONDS by at Let's all get together and make this America’s second big victory. The Home of the Free! | et IHE QUALLTY STELR. The Parting Gilt There is always room in: the soldier's kit for portraits of the home folks. soldier’'s pocket --- the ideal gift. 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The next time you are in the vicinity, step in and look over our fine overcoats from those good clothes-makers— THE HOUSE OF KUP- PENHEIMER, SOPHO- MER ANDSTULE PLUS You will find many pleasant surprises in the brand new ideas we are showing in belted aiid trench coats. Copyright 1917 $17,20,22.50, 25, 30 T, GILL BROS. l “Tke House of Kuppenheimer in Bemidji’ 66 — e