Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 20, 1920, Page 3

Evidences of War Thick in Vicinity " of 'Ypres. Shell. Holes Beginning to Grow Green, but Battered Tanks Are Every- where In Evidence on the Scenes of Slaughter. Leaving Zeebrugge the first day’s journey by motor takes the visitor gsomething more than a hundred iles, wWith. Ypres as the turnifg point and every variety of war-stricken lands and recovering countryside on ‘the way there and back. It was a point moot- ed with wearisome frequency in the real days of the place—when it was “gunctioning,” as one would have said —and among front-line troops in the sallent, whether they would ever care to come back and see that foul place under a peaceful aspect. Agreed, there were those at home who might z be taken, not without profit to them- gelves and the world In general, over the low ground under Kemmel, or where Passchendaele looked down on the swamps, and there were not a ) few of the armchaif gentry whose fnstant presence would have been wel- comed. But, for himself, it was the common verdict of the man in the mudhole that, once out of it, Wipers and he could be the best of friends— at a distance, says a writer in the Manchester Guardian. iding Into. the place from which fises the battered tower of the Cloth hall, in the high day and under, a burning sun; coming, too, unscathed and unfearful from what was unmis- takably the direction of “No Man's Land,” one had to question such'a verdict,. and finally, under: the stimu- lation of a hundred quickening memo- ries, allow. the -appesl. For the. in- terest of Ypres and of all ‘the ground in front of it would not be denied. The place was like itself—in a degree hard to credit. ~And if only sSome mimic had been there.to reproduce the shrill crescendo of an approach- ing shell one would undoubtedly have taken cover. Going out by the way of the Menin gate and turning up into the high roagyto Poelcapelle, with first Hooge and then St Julien, with Pas- schendaele rolling up to the skyline as a background, is to pass into the field of an endless battle from which noth- ing has been cleared but the dead; and though elsewhere something has already been done of that “concentra- tion” of graves which is to give our dead an orderly and lasting memorial, they still lie here, for the most part in the scattered resting places - to hich the burried hands of thelr com- rades consigned them. ’ 3 The shell holes begin to.grow: gr:nen.. Ktfiflt Is only a beginning,: iches “are “a goes down the road, were " wvery clearly defined here? It is'a long time before a place is rea¢hed from which no battered tanks can be seen, " and now and again they stand three . or four deep on the very edge of ‘the road—ditched in "their first attempt at the mud. To-look back on war at 1€s worst, with almost all its.evidences but ' present slaughter, one could scarcely better the viewpoint of this road. A few miles farther, and the murdered forest of Houthulst; with | fts acres of stricken, trees and not a live one, gives a new ‘edge to terror. There Is something sound in the potion that one can ‘see the battle fields in a day:-the repetition would give no new toné, but intrinsically the same imprsslon. As a lesson Ypres and_its province could not be sur- passed. Coming out at Dixmude, be- hind what was an almost permanent boche line, the car returning to Zee- brugge comes again into a country which is alive. For the hinterland of Belgium has returned quickly to it- self. The army ‘Huts which serve in the broken areas as shelter for those who have returned to the shattered villages, ‘give place here to cottages already substantially - repaired, and the frugal cultivation of the soil goes forward, with an energy and resource- fulness typical of no ¢lass in the world so mucl as the Belgian or French peasantry. t Avoiding Lily Embargo. A new and curious industry, it is predicted, is soon to be born in Van- couver, B. C., because of the embargo placed this year by the United States department of agriculture on all Jap- anese nursery. stock packed in Jap- anese soil. This decree was intended to stop the importation from the is- land of Formosa of lily bulbs, ordi- parily brought into this country at the rate of $25,000,000 worth a year. But the trade will not be suspended, ourserymen of Vancouver declare. Thie bulb traffic will be deflected north- ward to this seaport, just above the boundary; and here the buibs will be removed from the soil in which they crossed the Pacific. They -ill then be repacked’ in Canadian lcam, and: go, free from “Japanese soil.,” will be qualified for entrance into the United . States.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. Oxygen Device Tested. Because of the. possible disastrous failure of an airman’s oxygen supply fparatus at great altitudes, the Inited States bureau of standards has ¥ gevised a reliable. method of testing /“the equipment in the lahoratory. All the conditions of high-altitude flights are accurately reproduced, says Pop- W~ TOWN DI Segovia, In Spain, Has Signs of Life Only Part of One Day of Each Week. Segovia is a dead city of Spain. There are dead towns in this coun- try which both lived and dled within half & century, and few that are much more than a century old. But Segovia died centuries ‘ago, and it is as old as civilization in Europe. The Romans - built Segovia. It stands. on a rocky ridge between two Swift rivers—a compact little city of parrow streets and old stone houses crowded together. A mighty aqueduct, which was buflt by the Romans, still brings the city its water supply from the Guadarrama mountains. Segovia, high and narrow on its ridge, lies like a great ship in the plain, moored by its aqueduct to the distant mountains. s'e’govm 1s a city of deserted churches. Long ago it lay in a sort of contested land between the region held by the Moors and that held by the Christians. Sometimes one held it ,and sometimes the other. Both built churches there. Now Segovia has lost §0 much of its population that most of these churches stand empty, despite Some of them have been locked for centurles, and only the bats know the secrets of their dark Interiors, where neither sound nor sunlight has been ‘for 80 long. Others have attendants who will open their doors to the cu- ‘rlous. . Once a week Segovia awakens. Peas- ants come to the city from all the sur- rounding . ountry..: ey are primi- tive people who look Iike figures from the: middle ages. There'is laughter -and’ color-in the streets then. Bells ring and ‘a’ few of the churches open their ‘doors to worshipers. But by sunset all” of the peasants are gone and Segovia goes to sleep for another week, - - ‘EASY WAY TO 'CLEAN CLOCK Small Piece of Kerosene-Soaked Wool Placed in Case Will Gather Dust Particlea When a clock stops it Is a mistake to, suppose that it must at once be tak- en to the workshop for repairs. In | .most cases clocks cease running be- cause of the accumulation of dust par- gle,les which clogs the bearings. It is not even needful to take the clock to pleces to clean it if a simple plan lsI followed which will be found to work very well. Soak a piece of cottoa wool in kerosene and place this in a small saucer, a canister lid, or anything sim- flar. Then put this in the case of the clock under the works. Close up, and at the end'of 24 hours, examine the .cotton wool, covered with black specks; these are the dust particles brought down by the fumes of the kerosene. Wind the clock up and it will start away again. Where the works of the clock are in an in- closed case a few drops of Kerosene should be poured. through the small hole which is present in the metal cov- ering. Turn the clock about a while so that the kerosene Is distributed and after an interval it is extremely likely that the works will commence - their normal operations again.—Sclentific American. Learn the Art of Life. Life is so full of beautiful stories that it is inconceivable that therd should be any need of fiction or any other form of art. Life itself is an art and requires artists to live it. There are few of these and that may account for written art. People who can live on the plane of of their antipathies make life an art. There was cobbler friend of ours, poor, honest, witty, a philosophér and withal handsome. He had a wonder- tully gifted, beautiful sister and she married a forceful “plute,” who was devoted to her and whom she loved shoemaker. The ‘shoemaker was & leéader in a radical reform movement; the plute was the leader of the oppo- sition. The shoemaker disdained any sort of financial help from his broth- er-in-law, but being an old bachelor, lived in the plute's house, snharing a happy family life. There was never a alar Mechanics “Magazine in an illus- . trated article appearing in its July is- " gue. Decreased pressure is “obtained /By inclosing the equipment in a bell jar_connected to an air pump. . e, discordant word uttered, because these three tacitly avoided topics on which they did not agree. They knew - the art of life.—Chicago News. [ED CENTURIES AGO |LONG A PLACE CF WORSHIP the fact that Spain Is a pious It will be found to be|. J AR Before the Christian Era Romans Hon- ored. Their Gods on the Moun- . tain of Monserrat. Monserrat, the famous shrine in the Spanish province of Barcelona, illus- trates the effect which high mountains have on men. When you climb to the top of a high mountain you feel wor- shipful and at peace with the universe, Monserrat Is an outlying spur of the Pyrennees which stands all alone, lp!endldly deminating a rich plain. It is one of the most ancient and famous of Catholic shrines. According to legend, many centuries ago an image of the Virgin was found at the top of the mountain. and it was impossible to move the image. Thus it was shown to men that they should build a shrine on Monserrat. . In medieval times it was a shrine of unexcelled beauty and splendor. An emperor came here to kneel and to cover the great Byzantine church with gold. A queen yatked up the moun- tain barefoot. The great and .the learned of all the Christlan world gathered at Monserrat. Its greatness came to an end in the nineteenth cen- tury when the French sacked the shrine and carried away the orna- ments. Now the church has been rebulilt and offers free lodging to the pilgrims who come there still, but the fame and splendor of the place have shrunk. Yet Monserrat will always be a shrine. Before Christ the Romans had a tem- ple of Venus there and before that more than likely savages worshiped their gods on the mountain top. ) Worslhip veritably grows in the sofl of Monserrat. i t Beetle Cultivator. Ants are not the only Insects.tlat practice the cultivation of mushrooms, although for a long time it was thought that they were the only creatures of a lower order than m&n that possessed the. intelligence ‘to follow.such an agri- cultural pursuit. = Bouverie, the ento- mologist, had found that a certain wood-boring beetle, known as the hos-' trychide, is as familiar with mushroom cultivation as is the species of ant of ’ which so much has heen written, Pro- fessor Bouverle dlscovered that the beetles in question hore holes in woord ahd half fill them with a prepared fungus which makes an ideal mmsh- room bed. The garden s carefully spawned and in course,of time the mushrooms appear. In this way the beetle provides Itself ‘with a food suf- ficiently tender for its feeble juws. Rubecribe for Tne *wnesr “CENTER” OF BRITISH EMPIRE Unpretentious Dweiling in London Houses the Real Rulers of Great Commonwealth of Nations. For 200 years a severely plaln and unpretentious three-story brick dwell- ing has become widely known through- out the world as Britain’s central of- fice- of the diplomatic service. *No. 10 Downing street” refers to one of London’s historic houses on the so- called “street of power,” which nestles close to the confines of Whitehall. There have dwelt therein celebrities, such as Walpole, Pitt, Chatham, Can- ning, Disraeli and Gladstone. In all, no fewer than fifty ministers have lived there. Sir George Downlng, after whom the thoroughfare is named, was the son of a London barrister, a nephew of Governor Winthrop of Massachu- setts colony, and a graduate of Har- vard, who obtained the house as a gift from Charles.II as a reward for unusual service performed by him while he was representing his country in Holland. He bhad emigrated to America at the age of fourteen and when he left Harvard, in 1645, & youth of twenty-one, he hecame an itinerant preacher in the West Indies. Shortly afterward he returned to England and became a chaplain.in Colonel Okey's regiment. As a faithful Puritan, who later in life assured Charles II that he saw: the error of his ways due to the principles imbibed during his stay in New England, he shortly afterward en- rt:llad under Cromwell as a scout mas- T. After Downing's death, when the lease on the building lapsed to the crown, the property was given to the Hanoverian minister, Count: Bothma, by George II, and, when the count died, was tendered to Walpole, who accept- ed it on condition that the house should forever remaln the residemce of Brit- aln’s ministers. Value of Snakes. Most people have a decided shrink- | ing from smakes, which is not to be wondered at In tropical countries, where their bite is venomous and often fatal. But the grass snake ought not to be confounded with the rattlers, cobras or pythons. It is as harmless to humanity as a frog and a good deal more useful. No greater enemy to bugs Is In existence. And slugs are among the most hurtful of garder and fleld pests. They keep down the num- bers also of such other pests as mice, shrews and other smail rodents. But as slug destroyers they deserve to be cherished rather than massacred at sight, which s their usual fate. ' P¥HAT'S NEWS—PHONE IT ) IF ANY ONE Died, Eloped, Married, Embezzled, Left town, Had a fire, Had a baby, Had a vparty, Sold a farm, Has been ill, Got divorced, Came to town, Had an operation, Committed murder, Has been arrested. Has bought a home, Had an auto smash, Fell from an airplane, Had auy unusnal thing happen, THAT'S NEWS Phones 922 or 923 ————meead) Joy! thelr agreements and avold the plane i as truly as she loved her brother, the |- 2 WHEN golfing, or walking, or working, or boating, or tennis, or shopping, or motoring, have aroused in you the overpowering thirst of a fatigued child—you’ll find joy in a glass of (0E-ALCONOUIZE™ —a fully matured wine which satisfies thirst. 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