Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 14, 1920, Page 3

S — | WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1920 MINES MENACE SHIPS fiuhlans Have ‘Not ' Finished © Sweeping Their Area American Fleld Swept as Completely. as Possible, Says Admiral Knapp. London.—Until the Germans com- plete the sweeping of mine fields they "1aid In the North Sea there will be con- siderable danger to shipping in wa- ters adjacent to the British Isles, say British and American naval authori- tes. «€d, which will not be before next sum- mer, there will be some danger which, they predict, will gradually diminigh. “The American barrage is swept as «completely as is humanly possible,” Admiral Harry S. Knapp, of the Amer- 4can navy, said to the Associated Press correspondent. “After our area had been pronounced one hundred per ~cent clear we reswept 860 miles of it and found only four more mines. | ‘These were at a buoyed spot where ‘the sweepers believed they had missed -some.” “The greatest menace now,” sald Lieutenant Commander Benson, of the dnternational mine destroylng com- mittee, “is the unswept German area. Until that field has been cleared there ‘will be many drifting mines about. Afterward there will be some danger, but it will rapidly diminish as the ele- anents destroy the effectiveness of the mines.” ‘He' sald the committee accounted for mines on the basis that five per -cent ‘explode when laid, five per cent -are” defective, ten per cent soon be- -cofe ' tiseless through leakage ‘and fifty pér cent of the total number laid are déstroyed by the different systems -and Americans. Committee mémbers belleve that a igreat many of the other thirty per cent will' be e ‘cartied ‘by ‘the natur i‘zol‘%; -ward ‘currents of the North Nea ini -Arctic ice packs and destroyed; others ‘will go ashore on the Norwegldn coast, as have many already; a great num- ‘ber will become harmless through re- maining in the water and a ¢ertain number will be destroyed by patrols ‘which the British navy still is' main- tainfiig. ’ Also the British navy has just arm- -ed all merchantmen, except those call- dng at Irish ports, with high velocity Tifles with which to destroy any mines sighted. CHAMPAGNE THING OF PAST ‘8ol of District Where Produced Said to Be Permanently De- stroyed. Paris.—Champagne soon will be a ‘thing of the past. The original shal- 1ow top soil of the Champagne district is reported to be permanently de- stroyed by the ravages of war and re- Tertilization is deemed impracticable Ddecause of the chalky character of the No attempt is to be made to rebufld the, Cathedral: of Rheims, which is likely to remain as a war monument. ‘The present inhabitants of the city are mostly speculators who are in- ‘vesting millions in buying destroyed -or damaged property at a big discount, ‘hoping to recover from the government the original cost plus war inflation. The city is still without light, wa- ter or heat, hotels, restaurants or tram- ways, and operators or taxicabs are reaping huge profits. The sanitary <conditions are appalling, the drainage System being unrepaired. "Man Quits 47-Year Job; Never Missed Day’s Work Dan Mahoney has completed' forty-seven years’ service in the| employ of the Boston and Maine| railroad as a gate tender at Mil-" ford, N. H. He has never missed a day at his work. Mahoney has never ridden in an automobile, or attended a moving picture show or theater. He has never been to a dance. He says he always retires at 7 o'clock and rises at 4, summer and winter. dorvrrrrrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrrre s Couldn’t Digest China Egg. Smith Center, Kan.—Two months ago, while Mrs. Ellen Chitwood was gathering eggs her hand came in con- tact with a big bullsnake in one of the nests. Mrs. Chitwood took what eggs were left, and in their stead left ,one made of china. To her surprise, next day this one also was gone. She thought no more of the matter until a day or so ago, when she met his snake- ship again. This time she mustered courage to kill it with a club. No- ticing an enlargement in the middle of the ‘snake’s body, she performed a post-mortem examination and found the missing china egg. Women Dog Catchers. Denver, Colo.—“The only woman dog catcher in the world” is the title applied to Mrs. Laura Dietrich, depu- ty poundmistress at the dog pound here. Mrs. Dietrich is highly efficient in the unusual role, according to Wil- fiam C. Fox, superintendent, who de- clares that he had misgivings at first as to the advisability of securing a woman for the position, as he thought it would be too difficult. ‘“However, T soon discovered that dogs resist a woman much less than a man,” he sgid. . “They are handled by Mrs. Dietrich with much less trouble than Even after that work has end- |' View of a community jack rabbit roundup in the West, where that animal does vast damage by eating the crops. The government is co-operating with the states and communities in exterminating animal pests. STR/ING FROM MILK WEEDS Something Worth Remembering on the Next Camping Expedition You May Take. “Take the stalk of any of the com- mon milkweeds and break it, and you will find that the outer bark does not break and may be stripped off into silkenlike threads, which can,be twisted together and used as thread with which to sew ditty bags, knife scabbards, etc.,” says Dan Beard, boy scout chief, in his depart- ment in Boys’ Life. “No one showed the chief how to use the milkweed ; that is, no human being showed him, but there it a lit- tle orange and black woodcrafter who builds its nest of string and yarn, when he can find it, in the shade trees of the village streets, but in the wilderness, like the rest of us, he must use material he finds in the woods, and it is there that the chief discovered that the Baltimore oriole was using milkweed fibers with which to build its hanging nest. “The chief also discovered that the vireo was using the inner bark of the chestnut with which to make its cup-shaped nest, and the chief immediately began to experiment with the inner bark of the chestnut, and with it he made a rope the size of an ordinary clothesline, which could support him without danger of breaking, and ever since then he has used this bark for string or rope wherever chestnut trees were handy. “Not only, are these things good with which to sew and with which|. -to do up bundles, as was pointed out to you readers in the chief’s story of the ‘Rest Cure,”‘but ome may also use them for ropes with which to bind together the logs of a raft, for a boat or a canoe, or as material with which to braid a belt, or as fiber to be used as raffia in basket making.” HOW CLERK “GOT IN WRONG” His Desire to Please Mother of Small Shopper May Have Cost Store a Custoimer. Mother took her three-year-old Ruth downtown the other day to get her a pair of shoes. Now Ruth had set her little mind on brown shoes and mother, on account of the care the brown ones demanded, wished black ones. So she enlisted the aid of the clerk in prevailing on Ruth to be satisfied with black. Together they argued and Ruth finally accept~ ed the black ones. Then mother and Ruth started out of the store. The clerk said: “I hope these will be all right.” Before mother could assure him that they would, Ruth spoke up. “Yes, these will be all right this time,” she said, “but the next time we’ll go to another store—won’t we, mother ?” While behind a rather amused clerk wondered whether or not it was wise to take sides on a question ! like this one.—Indianapolis News. IT SKIPPED HIM. A broker had rung for the eleva- tor. Five seconds later it passed him going to the second floor. He was exasperated. “What kind of a blank building is this?” he cried. “Do they use the skip-stop system here?” HER REVENGE. “How did you ever come to marry him?” “He was always bragging that no woman could henpeck him, and I just had to show him.”—'Tenshum 1% The Bite That Failed. As a rule the relations between Russians and Japanese soldiers in Si- beria have been friendly enough. But at a town on the Transiberian railway, which had just been freed from the foul tyranny of bolshevist rule, a Jap- anese soldier haled a big, staring moujik into the presence of his com- manding officer. *“What has he been doing?’ usked the colonel. “I gave him a cigarette,” said the soldier, “and then he tried to bite me!” Kiss- ing, even between members of the op- posite sexes, is not a Japanese cuse tom. The Cheerful Exterminator. On moving into our honeymoon apartment we discovered that it was sadly in need of the services of an ex- terminator. With a bride’s ignorance of apartment house life and the club- by ways of the cockroach, I regarded this as a personal disgrace, snd took great care to keep It a profound se- cret from our friends. One day, while exhibiting my shiny new kitchen equipment to a girl friend, I answered the back-door buz- zer, and there was the exterminator, inquiring in a loud. cheerful tone, “Well, how are the cockroaches?” The situation reduced my mind to such a pulp that I babbled, “They’re well, thank you!”—Exchange. THE REMEDY. “Isp’t the price of meat awful now, Mrs. Comeup > “We don’t feel it so much since most of the family have turned vege- tudinarian.” A DRAWBACK. “There is one queer thing about a wocalist.” “What is that?” “It hurts her reputation to have 8 sing-song voice.” - HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS Be Better Looking—Take Olive Tablets If your skin is yellow—complexion —tongue coated—appetite poor- L ey oot tedingyoa showid a , DO~ eeling—you taklgzalive Tablets. 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Phone $5 —— ,Jt:flt:fl h?mson CO. & Building HAVE FOR SALE 5 COMPLETE ' LOGGING CAMP OUTFITS At Deer River, Minn., including complete cooking outfit, bunkhouse equipment, chains - of every de- scription, tools, sleighs, jammers and jammer boxes, 50 heavy sets of harness, etc. Must be moved at once and will accept any reason- able offer for all or part. Arrange- ments for sale can be made with glrl.mAlva Baker at Deer River, Beltrami County —Travelers—— ' will find a warm welcome at BRING RESULTS ! DENTAL CORNER 00 NOT DELAY YOUR - DENTAL WORK AT THESE REASONABLE PRICES, NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO NEGLECT THEIR TEETH | $5.00 . 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