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THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER WAS THERE WITH THE/RAZOR Golored: United States Soldier: Mads 8hort Work:of Hun and His Trench Knife. " How ‘a negro soldler. met & stray ‘German prowlihg about ‘a. plece’ of " was related by one of the col- “ored troops from New York, on his re- turn to that city,: The . German had ilost his gun and revolver and was arm- “§ | ed only with d trench'knife The ne- | @ro, @ resident of Tenth avenue, lock- Nu&urtlumm The nawn of. Perfect sudn. cou_ec'nha FLOWER SEEDS ment for them is the mud o!'ponds lnd It is dedmb!e to save one's seeds, Lllles have . certa!n “enemles that not’only as'a matter of economy, but {have to. be . reckoned with. Rats, #5-ameans of {mproving the varety, | SWans and aquatic birds, often pull ction”of annusl plants; ali| them to pleces. : “from the same stock of seed, there will | If you are planning a' water garden be considerable varlety presented. et a means of raising ‘liies, select a ‘Bome may’vary from the: gefieral | Place open'to ‘the sun;renewed by: stock In ‘the.size or.color of the flow.| small Inflow and protected from rough er and others:in the habit of the plant. winds by a pmtectlon of shrubs or - These peculiarities are mot certain | 6mall trees, o be teproduced, but the probability, In artlficial pools, prepared sofl E'is that some of the seeds from suci | made of mixing loam:with a Xidlesand plants will show them; and by follow-| &nd fome of the rich deposit of leaves ing & course of- ge]ecflon one can jn | And mud- found on the bottom of thn & few years establish a varlety ‘that Dools. « . will come constantly true from seed. Try to keep the plants far onough It has been .found in practice that|epart to keep them distinct. . Some “though ‘ pecullarity may not show. it;| lilies: are. easily increased from seed, self very strongly the'first year, it will | Some are sterile and others are slow in, ‘ing Uke a tiger's, manifest ftself “the next ‘year it the grower perseveres.: It 18 well to mark’ thone;plants. the seeds of which-are to be saved, whila the plants are in full bloom, and not trust to memory. ‘In a bed of plants from which seeds _are to be saved,” promiscuously, and * when it i{s desirable to have all one color, those of a different shade from the required, must be pulled out: ay 800n as they show themselves. Some seed pods open with a jerk as soon as ripe and scatter the contents for a distance. Some open by a holg or crack, and a8 the plant 18 swayed by the wind the seeds are gradually. sifted out. In other cases there s no provision for the scattering of the seeds, but the fruit of seed vessels' must decly be- !m they are liberated; - It is not necessary to- wait untik fllodl are dead ripe before collectinj -Alittle experience teuches on know the point at which'it is safa to gather. - Those sbed vessels ‘which in’brenl: Ing scatter the seed, should be gath: ered inst allowed to pop under sonie conyenient cover, As soon as the seeds are gathered, put a label with them, and when they are thoroughly dry, clean nnd store !;hm away. The manner of cleaning:seed is va “tled, according to circumstances, sift- g, gently winnowing, rubbing be- tween the hands belng resorted to ac- cording to the kind of seed. i-A serles of sniall sizes of mesh will gccomplish most of the work. WATER LILIES By L. M. BENNINGTON. g No more interesting adjunct to & country estate from a pictorial stand- polut can be imagined than a pond of: water llfes, - 8o far as the planting goes, an easy method is to put the plants with soil in ‘some ehallow baskets and slnk these to the bottom. Nymphae before they open, and baj germinating, under. The beauty of lllles as they grace: tully lie upon the.surface of the water, garden lends a particularly pretty plc‘ torial note to the home garden. ‘Weeds must- be: lept “~ Plant Iris in beds in the open ag soon as the bulbs are received in the autumn, Protect the beds during the winter months and early in April cov- er them with glass so as’to have the flowers ready for cutting in May. - TRY CYCLAMEN Amonz wlnter-flowerlng plants there fs nothing more beautiful than: the .bulbous greenhouse plant, the cycla- men. i They come highly recomménded for house culture, as they thrive well and bloom profusely in the average tem- perature of the living room. Thelr quaintly formed flowers and oddly marked follage, and their variety of shades and wealth of coloring maXe them an agreeable adjunct to the list of houee plants. hardy ltly and the culture of it ls pot| BEST GRASS FOR DRY AREAS a problem which presents grave diffi- cultfes. Before the baskets have rotted away the plants will have at- * tached thamselm to the bottom of the pond. ‘Where therc is & rich, muddy bot- tom to the pond a piece of pipe is L fastened to a root and cast in where the water is between 20 inches and, two feet deep. ‘While lilies thrive in cement tanks which have a foot of soll'and the re-. Brome grass ls probably the best of the cultivated grasses to grow in dry areas. When established it will fur nish grazing early in the season, not so early as winter rye, but earlier than the natlve grasses. It will also furnish grazing in the autumn ' proportionate to the fmount of the precipitation. During the entire season, therefore, it should furnish more grazing than malnder for water, thie natural® ele-;the native grasses, Sattioys Rdwardl-A New Hybrid Orchid. e & wva Deano ed ‘him over, flroppegl his own gun'and ‘bayonet and revolver, and took a long, wicked xazor. from his boot. "“Now, you M'i"Hun'boy." sald the American’ soldier, ‘*now you and me's a'gwine ‘to fight ‘tair and square. ' I'se a-going® to carve you! = Here goes! Wif yvo's’ kunlfe: and ma knife we's fightin® even.” The German: grasped his' knife and walited for the negrg, who ctept upon him llke some sayage from the African Jungles, his eyeballs gleaming In his black face, his snlendld teeth glisten- There was ‘a flash of Bteel, & grunting;:a swish of knives in the air and the.German reeled back, his face gashed and gashed agaln. Again the negro crept up, laughing. ‘| Again there was the flagh of steel and An acid-stomich cantiot digest food }m:perly. 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An addition to, the- 81%.‘" and miseries it _causes, ACID-STOMACH is the starter of ‘a'long train'of ailments’ that most people never dreamed eare m any &gl (he German reeled; blinded With the blood streaming {nto his eyes. - The third time the negro actually half se- vered 'the Hun's head from his trunk with one wide, glittering sweep of the TRzZor. [+ Ancient Rock Engravings, The prehistoric art museum lately revealed In Montesqui-Avantes, Arlege, southern France, contains rock en- :gravings ‘estimated to be 30,000 years' iold. -Continiting’ the exploration in- terrupted by the war, Count Begouen @nd his three sons discovered on - the inner walls of the cavern a b&s relief of n real llon,Avith numerous figures of reindeers, bisons, horses, bears, ele- phants. rhinoceroses, and such birds as ducks and swans. 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