Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 2, 1919, Page 5

Dd S TTRRSEEENEEAT. Ve aumn 7 Vonumsmsemest ) on American Continent. 8Bpanish Conqueror of Mexico Not Only ¢ Set It Up, but Op- - erated It Monterey, Mex.—What is sald to be the oldest and most Interesting relic on the American continent has come unscathed ,through the long rev- olutionary perlod In Mexico, according to Martin Sergus, who has arrived here from the southern part of the country. He says he recently visited Cuernavaca-and went out to an an- «clent sugar mill constructed In 1535 by Hernando Cortez, the Spanish con- “queror of Mexico,” who personally su- perintended. the mill and the adjacent sugar plantation. This was the be ‘Innlng of the sugar lndustry on this eontinent. “That this sugar mill was built and run by Cortez there I8 not the slight- est doubt,” Mr. Sergus said. “Its his- .tory 18 set forth in the early records of Spanish occupation of Mexico, and. the traditions of the natives confirm ft. The'mill 18 In good condition, and d recently finished a ‘run’ of sev- eral weeks on ‘Inst season’s crop of sugar cane. “In the pm—revalutionary dnys many tourists - visited the- litgle ‘pu- eblo of Atlacomuico, where the mill 13 Iocated, The village s primitive 2nd full of interest. The mill build- irz i3 of stone and sun-dried bricks. When one thinks that it was built nearly a century before the Pllgrim Fathors landed at Plymouth Rock the antiquity of the structure may . be comprehended. “At one end of the low building i an altar where Cortes, on occasions, |+ is said to have paid his religious de- votions. It is still a sacred spot in the minds of the natives, who live in huts around the mitll. “It was at Cuernavaca that the ill- fated Emperor Maximillan made his summer home. cording to tradition, was - served . #agar from the old Cortez mill.” MAKES DURABLE FENCE 8aplings Planted Years Ago Serve as Posts. A fence that has no posts was re- eently cited by a lumber expert as an gbject lesson in the utility of wood. This fence without posts is on the big road to Monroe, Mich. 80 many years ago that nobody In that section knows when it was, nor who was the labor-saving genius who did it, this fence was built by forcing split boards between saplings. Then the trees grew. They kept growing, until now they are of immense size, and deeply im- bedded in them are the ends of those old rails. It is impossible to tell how far they extend into the tree trunkm They are weathered, yet they ring a¢ true under a hammer as though just hewn. It happened that the trees formed a boundary line for one of the old tracts. The growth of the trees around the rall ends has created one of tha 0st substantial fences imaginable. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1919. ANCIENT SUGAR MILL| ‘Most Interesting Industrial Relic Thoreau’s Interesting Account of the Chanting of Vespers by a-Whip- poorwill Chorus. What a pleasure it would be to know the woods and the wood folk as Tho- reaun did. In “Walden,” he tells us that “regularly at half-past seven, in one part of the summer, after the eve- ning traln had gone by, the whippoor- wills chanted thelr vespers for half an hour, sitting on a stump by my door, or upon the ridgepole of the house. They woujd begin to sing almost with as much precision as a clock, within five minutes of a particular time, re- ferred to the setting of the sun, every evening. I had a rare opportunity to become acquainted with thelr habits. Sometimes I heard four or five at once in different parts of the wood, by acci- dent. one a bar behind another, and so mear me that I distinguished not only the cluck after each note, bat often that singular buzzing sound lfke a fly in a spider’s web, only proportion- ally louder. Sometimes cne would cir- cle round and round in the woods a few feet distant as if tethered by a string, when probably 1 was near its eggs. They sang at intervals through- out the night, and were again as musi- cal-as ever just before and about dawn.” Unconscious on Ledge 48 Hours. Miss Doris Heller, student nurse, fell from the twentieth story of, the Daniels & Fisher building observation tower at Denver and landed on a lodge at the seventeenth story. She was found 48 hours after the accident. She probably will recover Kettle Brings $30,000. .A Japanese kettle, once owned by ikyu, brought $30,000 when the Matz- uzawa collection of antiques was sold at public auction in the Tokyo Art club not long ago. Connoisseurs to the number of 500 attended from Oska, Ki- 0zo, ,Kiobe and Tokyo, and the com- petition was very keen, accordlng to the. Japan Bulletin HAD REQULKR SINGNG TWE | Spperr) By TYPHUS Whole Towns Are Wiped Out in Poland. Pitiful Tales of Distress and Sufferinge| Told by the Red Cross Mission, Washlngton .—Pitiful tales of the dis- tress and suffering throughout eastern and southeastern Poland have been brought to Warsaw by members of the American Red Cross misslon who have just returned from an eight-day tour of inspection during which they covered 1,500 miles and distributed food, clothing and medicines in 20 eit- fes and numerous villages, according to cable advices to the Red Cross headquarters here. Everywhere théy found typhus, which had practically wiped out whole towns. Smallpox and trachoma ‘also were prevalent, epidemics threatening because sick and well are herded w- gether In many homes, In many of the isolated villages starving peasants llned the roadside and begged for food. For weeks they had been living on an imitation bread made from potato peelings, dirty rye and the bark of trees, but the supply of even these ingredients had been exhausted. RATS HEED CLUCK Hen Has Become a Mother to Five of Them. Mrs. Elmer Niles, living near Elgln, 0., owns a hen with a strange family. The other day when she was feeding her chickens a hen crawled from be- neath the barn and clucked as though she was calling a brood of chickens. A few seconds later she was sur- prised to see five rats coming from va- rious directions to participate in the meal announced to them by the hen. Observation discloses that the hen has become_a mother to the rats. Upon his table, ac-|<“— GERMAN SHELLS COMING AS TROPHIES A huge plle of German 17 centirueter naval shells at the munitions depot at Mulheim, Germany. and lbraries. produce. They are to be shipped to America to decorate parks These shells are considered the best of all Germany could Elko Hat Shop Opens the Month of May With the arrival of a beautiful line of New Sports Hats. Wonderful black band- ed Sailors, from $3.95 to Slo 00. White ribbon Hats, $8.50 to $10.00. Pink, Blue and White Sports Hats in various styles, reasonably priced. We also received a beautiful line of dressy Leghorns and White hats. REPEATING SALE Owing to the great success of our Sale last Wednesday, we will repeat same to- day and Saturday. Choice of a lot of pretty hats at Choice of a lot of pretty hats at All these hats are worth twice as much. Come ‘to see us today and Saturday. ELKO HAT SHOP “THE STORE AHEAD” | » (PR ELKS BUILDING THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER In Praice of the Arab Steed. Thix polvphonic prose about the Arah horse s rmked up by George Jennison. i the Manchester Guar- dian: “Allsh muude the horse before mun. and Ailnh said: ‘1 have called thee horse; 1 Lave created thee Arab; T have hesto upon thee the color koummite. 1 have attached good for tune to the ha'r that falls between thy eyes. Thou shnlt be the lord of all other animals. Men shail follow thee wheresoever thou goest. Good for pur- suit us for flight. thou shalt fily with- out wings. Upon thy back shall riches repose, ‘and through thy means shall wealth come’ And he signed the horse with the ghora fa the middle of the forehead—the white star of glory and of good fortune.” Advantage of Wings. Another good thing about the flylng an angel does is that he never has to light upon the top of a house and bawl for somebody to help him down.—Dal- las News. ;i@ v VYYYVY V¥ OUR SUNDAY SPECIAL y Maple Walnut Brick lce Cream y VVVVVVVYYVY SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY PIONEER We Fit The “Hard to Fit” Are you hard to fit? You ~won'’t be if you come to Gill's. man is hard to fit, here. No Whether you are long-stout, short-stout, me- dium-stout or slender, we can fit you exactly in clothing that is becoming to your personality. Through their years of experience and study THE HOUSE OF KUPPENHEIMER has produced special and in-between sizes design- ed to fit every type of figure. Right now you will find here a large assort- ment of these splendid, exact-fitting Kuppen- heimer Suits in the latest styles and colorings. . Our salesmen will be glad to demonstrate our ability to fityoutoa mcety——wnthout the least ob- hgahon on your part. : Gill Bros. “THE Kuppenheimer House,” Bemidji