Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 5, 1920, Page 3

the ruined churches, at the town and twisted iron work.of former factories, at-the ‘riddled walls and all ‘of the ‘| hideous .skeletons of the war which, passed along at the side of their auto- *| mobiles like black skeletons, “With extended arms the American ; tourists pointed-out. in the distance uge red spots that’either stood out B against’ the green verdue of hills or des y | burned-—Oh! Oh! Oh?’'*: that reddened the grnss of 'the prair- \irned—burned-—-e village “Their lips -never ceased to repeat this trembling lamentation ‘in tones that intermixed their pity, their sor- row, their lndlgnntlon and their an- ger. “There nre people whose sensibil- "| ities’ are-suddenly aroused at mo- ments like the ‘opening and shutting of doors: there are others where the sensibilities remain like a silent and-vigilant servant. ¥ '"With these ‘Americans there. was no exhulhrance of gesture, no fracas ords, no extravagance of expres- jon. It-was'only on their faces and 7i{in their eyes that I could read their “{mpressions and see the souls that re- flected: Thelr silence translated their emotions and spoke more loudly than “fas though they had uttered the most By Henry: Wcod (Uniteéd Press Correspondent) . Paris, Jnly 24. (By-Mail).—Here s the: impregsion-that “the first Am- B -the-war .tourists—espe- +oidlly “the ° ‘battlefield * tourlst.s—is making on the French: ‘Jean: Rogier, - leading French wrlt- r, 1o learn just-what effect the sight f the Fremch battlefields-and devas-1 egions might make on Ameri- eeing them for the first time; de ‘a four-day trip with-American ourists to Chalons, Saint Mlhn, Ver- n, the Argonne; Champagne, Reims " ':and’ Soissons. ,Duning those ‘four days,” Rog'ler ‘ared to the Vnited Press; “I liv- = ures, 1 stud.l ‘ip ‘watting for their look: and: glances observed theff. words, and T think regd- their heéar “These Amertc 8, espeelally the .olq nes, were very gay ‘and -their}. yetw, rather boyish, if not -childish s, first grated on me and :then hoekod me. I'would have preferted to ‘meet theni grave and already pre- rpar:d: for ‘the sorrowtul ‘proof to ‘which they were to be subjected. “But suddenty amongst the very ‘first ruins, this gayity died and seem- «ed:to bury itself in the stones of the .overgrown: villages. ‘They no longer ‘la.ughed and no longer joked. % e, frightfu] ‘image of fhe war X hegfln to appear.- "It was there before ~“their-eyes and no longer:.were “they ~able to turn their eyes-away. - - “They looked = with~ frightened - dise vehement cries. ‘ yet the thought ot death hed not ‘been:borné in'to: them.: :It only sgruck them a8 - they . stood ‘before Belleau Wood and Romagne wlhere ug in the shade of With slow steps, uncovered heads fous 'gestures they entered. as one enters a temple. On:.each cross "there was'a name, the number .of .the regiment, ‘but sometimes only one word: “ “ *Unknown,’ out ‘in-the middle-of -the-cemetery a crown of pearls resting against a flag. staff wrom the top of which floated the Stars and Stripes -worked dnto the crown with different colored beads| was the inscription which she trans- lated from -French into EngNsh: - ““The city "of Montrouge, mar-| ‘raine of .the village of Torcy. to the American soldiers who died for Lib- erty, Justice nnd Right,’ - ¢ “‘“That is “sweet—very .swe murmured:the American tourists. “One of them, a woman, continu- féd:. ‘It 48 very Sweet for ‘us to feel that France has not forgot our’boys who fought: along side her own.’ ““Then-one of the American women ran-to a little wooden house all white in the center of young cypresses and flowers where she exchanged a few words with young American girls sit- ting on- the veranda, ‘shook their hands and then returned to Join ‘her party. 3 “-don’'t know any of ithi " girls,’ she said“‘but they are the guardians of . 'the “:cemetery—all: volunteers— | they live there all alone and I felt that I wanted to thank on behalf of all the women of the United States.” delica of the heart, : Chma, Rogers Guaranteed suver. f-ware, . -Japanese --Lacquer. - Ware; Ladies’ " Silk Sport ‘Umbrellas, La- dies’ -‘Wrist ' Watches, vatious piéces of cut glass, beautiful rugs, prayer mats, ete. .- The finest collechon of | gifts that we could purchase | gifts at our dlsplay wmdow in-the Gas Company’s : tra;m Avenue, sale, Fnday, August 6th. ’WfiY Conce ;ng ‘the: presents we do " not give them away to-sell the lots, for you do not have to buy alot'to. secure-a present but it is: sxmply a method to have you attend the sales ; f York. Absolutely free, whetheryou, ffice .at 315 Bel- | . to. our first | - Tomormw_ Saturday : Sunday August 6th at 2 and 7'p. m. daily. Sales start ese touching acts, these ~moving words 1 found often during the course ;of the pilgrimage as we stood before ‘the ‘accumulated ruins of vil- lages’or hefore the nothinglbess of the ravaged. country. JBut” it was. at’ Verdun thut they really ‘had their; vision. of the night- ) mare.of war and of the dismay ot the earth. “‘Oh, we didn’t know,’ they ¢ i ‘All that we had 'imagined was no- thing compared ‘with this. Back in the ‘States no ome knows; its impos- sible’ to know. This torn ground; these burned fields; these 'stripped trees. . Nothing lives. You feel detth everywhere.’ ** ‘But you also feel glory. declnre an American_officer, ‘because it was here that France saved the world. And everythlng lives beenule Verdun is immortal.” “At Rhelms. it was the conster- nation. " 'The cathedral ' lifted its blackened skeleton above the ruins of the city: 'My American tourists look- ed at it all in‘'amazement and stupor. “‘The dirty " boches,’ The " dirty boches!' *They cried these words ex- pressing .their contempt, thelr anger and their hate.. .. At Berry-au-Bac, - in the center of whole devastated fields, above the immense _crater Where two Freuch alions were buried ~slive, and whqre this frightful sepulchre open- ed ‘at our-feet, there were tears in the eyes of everyone. ‘I havn‘t the heart,” cried one of the American ‘women, to - wa ground that is the grave of so many brave French. . Come, -let’s go away. It is a sacrilege to remain here,’ ‘and so together we entered- again our automobues and hurried away, DREW LAUGHTER FROM GRAMT Witty R.marku of Mark ’rweln Broke Down _Reserve Charactenistio of - the Famous Soldler. & *One of my companions polmed' Responding. to the toast of “Bables™ the memorable Chicago banquet, in honor of Gen. Grant in 1879, Mark Twain concluded. with a sentence that get. ‘the gathering In an uproar. In his, Inlmlnble drawling volce he said: “In” his cradle; somewhero ,under the “flag, the 'future" Hlustrious com- | mander-in-chlef of - the American nrmles 1s 8o little burdened with his approaching grandeurs -and responsi- bilitles as to be giving his whole strategic mind, at this moment, to’ trying to find some way to get his own big toe into his mouth, an achfeve- ment which (meaning no disrespect) the, lilustrious guest of this evening also turned his attention to some fifty-six years ago. _And If the child 18 ‘but: the father of the man, there are ‘mighty few who will dtmbt that he succeeded.” ‘At that conclusion . the ~audierice broke into cheers-and roars of laugh- ter in which even the merved Grant foined. - - : SOLAR. svsfl-:m MADE PLAIN lllumamn alvon by: Herschel Is Probably the Most CMpnhonaIvo Ever. .Devised. ; — Perhaps our most graphic picture of the: solar system Is given by Herschel. Imaglne a circular field two and a half miles in diameter; place a library globe two feet In dlameter in the very center; 82 feet away- put .a mustard seed. . The globe would represent. the sup and the mustard seed Mercury., Mt @ distance of 142. feet place.a pea, and another at 213. feet. These will; represent Venus and. the earth, both as to size and distance. A rath- er large pinhead at a_distance of 327 teet will speak for Mars, and & fair sized tangerine a quarter of a mile distant will gtand for Jupiter. A/ small lemon at two-fifths of a .mfle willplay the role of Saturn, a, large cherty three-fourths .of a mile distant will-answer for .Uranus, and a fair~ sized plum at the wvery edge of .the Beld will proclaim Neptune.; Bighty moons would-be required: to mlke one earth, A pluyer there could ball siz times as as It can be thro‘WB'gfi American aTEinona-. A fian welghing 150-pounds there would | = welgh 900 on the earth. The earth re- ceives as much light and heat from “the sun in 18 seconds as it gets from the: moon in a whole' year.~From a “Bulletin of the National Geographlc Soclety. Mlhogany. One of the materials cabinet makers delight in using is mahogany. The timber most prized by them s that of “Swietenia mahogani,” found in Central America and the West Indles. 'The largest of these trees attain a height of 60 to 100 feet, with a di- ameter of six feet. - However, these dimensions are not common. The woced, which is capable of receiving a high polish, Is of a reddisl: hrown color, and varies widely:fn itx shades | Employnient s ¢iven (il and markings. to a large number of wen ared exen in cutting and removing the tiher the coast for expurl‘ Long-LIved Trees. At Fountain abbey, Yorkshire, Eng- land the yew trees were old when the abbey was bullt, in 1132, Cali- fornia has a very ancient tree in Marl. posa grove. This Is ‘a “redwood,” which Is credited with many hundred years. Baobab trees of Africa have been computed to be more than 5,000 years old, and a deciduous cypress at Chapultepec is considered to be of a still greater age. Humboldt sald that the Dracaena Dracq at Orotova, on Teneriffe, was one of the oldest in- .Labitants of the earth. for: whatever they will bring “August 7th- and every day up to and ;ncl\_ldmg Wednesday, August 1 1th 0 . GWENG gffi E largest, finest andmost modern Transient ; Hotel in the Northwest—widely famous for'its _comfortable, homelike Accommodations. = Except- ional facilities for Society Functions and for Recrea- tion: * Attractive main-floor Restaurant, with Service both table d'hote and a la carte, ) RATES: oy 75 Rooms, Private Baths 3 ,,m[.‘ Single $2.00 Doubls £3.00 : ¢ ‘\ul}fi Lt 325 Rooms, Private Baths ;"r} i!",‘“. Stngle $2.50 Doubls $3.50 200 Rooms, ‘Private Baths Singk $3.00 Double $4.00 > Others $4.00 to $8.00 BTN ‘|| ANNOUNCEMENT!! We Have Recently Opened a Filling and Service Station at the -intersection of Second street and America avenue,-and are prepared to care for the needs of the motoring public. RED CROWN GASOLINE. POLARINE OILS AND GREASES Standard 0il Co. - LOCATION The property consists of every unsold lot of the Bemidji Townsite | August Sth F ree‘ and Improvement Company. Sev- eral choice wholesale and retail bus- iness sites, a number of . beautiful corners suitable for - apartment buildings, some scattered lots in the best residence section, and the bal- ance residence lots in the beautiful normal school district, destined to become the finest residence section of Bemidji. TITLE The title to the Bemidji Townsite and Improvement Company prop- erty is perfect. All lots will be offered and sold free and absolutely clear.” All taxes and special assess- ments to be paid by the Townsite Company. ; ¢ Whether you buy a lot or not = - ‘ See Wmdow Display at Gas Company’s Office, 315 Beltraml Avenue { corner Doud ‘Avenue and: Four- teenth Street “At the Big Sign.” ADVANTAGES THE.BEASON. - To liguidate the -holdings of the Bemidji Toansn:e and Improvement Company. -In this manner more lots ¢an be sold in a week than could be sold prwa?ely in'geveral years: THE DATE First sale at 2 p. m. Friday, Au-| gust 6th, and every day at 2 and 7p. m. up to and including Wednes- day, Aligust 11th. (This sale will last the six“days: providing lots are || not all sold before that time. s*u STARTS AT 2 & 7 p.m. DAIL Corner Doud Avenue and Fourteenth Street, “At the Big Sign” Owners TERMS——Small payment, balance to suit BEMIDJI TOWNSITE AND IMBROVEMENT COMPANY HEBER HARTER COMPANY, Auctioneers Never before and never again will you be able to secure Bemidji prop- erty at your OWN PRICE and not the DEALERS’ price. Many of the lots are fully improved. . SALE STARTS Daily at 2 and 7 p. m., commenc- ing Friday, August 6th, at the “Big Sign,” corner of Doud Avenue and Fourteenth Street. ‘All lots to be sold will be marked with Stake and Red Lot Number.