Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 24, 1921, Page 2

. pense while the cost of feeding and GOOD HIGHWAYS HELP VALUES Lack of Improved Roads Responsible for Abandonment or Sale of New York Farms Improved highways now enter more than ever before into the question of profitable farming. The farmer whose | land is not accessible by good roads | which may be used for motor traus- portation can no longer compete favor- | ably with his more fortunate neigh- bor in the production and marketing of crops. Improved highways greatly extend the territory in which a farmer | can do business. In many cases he | can carry his produce directly to city | markets, the time required in haul- | ing to and from railroads Is greatly | lessened and fewer teams are re- quired. Motor equipment can be stored throughout the winter at little ex-| caring for teams through the winter | season becomes a considerable item of labor and expense. Lack of improved highways s di- | rectly responsible for the selling or | abandonment of many farms in our | rural districts, writes B. H. Paul of New York in American Agriculturist. | This statement is consistently sup- | ported by the fact that out of 75 farms ‘ | | \ listed for sale by a real estate agency in one county only three were locat- ed on improved highways. It may also be pointed out that these three farms were held at prices which indicated that the owners were not especially anxious to sell. On the other hand, | the farms which were less favorably situated were to be had for prices which in most cases would not under present conditions replace the farm buildings alone, A wider program for improved high- ways is therefore imperative if we are to maintain our agricultural indus- tries. The availability of state aid n Farmer on Unimproved Highw:y; Cannot Compete: With More Fortu- | nate Neighbor. | the construction of county highways in New York Is being taken advantage of by several counties. The program of road building must be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible If we | are to maintain a profitable and ‘con- tented agricultural population in our rural districts. ARTISTIC BENSALEM BRIDGE One of Finest Examples of Construc- tion to Be Found Along Route of Lincoln Highway. Ona of the finest and most artistic examples of bridge coustruction to be found from coast to coast upon t Lincoln highway is that spanning ¥ nypack creck in the northern outskirts of Philidelphia, known as the Ben- salem bridge. The bridge Is 085 feet in length, made up af a utral 100-foot arce two approach arches of 60-foot span, and about 1350 feet of approach on each side. It Is 78 feet wide, with a f4-foot rondway and two S-foot side- walks, with Intermediate strips of | lawn 4 feet wide. DIRT ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE Carefully Estimated That Farmer Saves $6 on Ton of Hay Hauled Over Gravel Road. If it costs you 33c to haul a ton of hay one mile over a poor dirt road, It | has been carefully estimated that you can haul the same load over the same mile of tarred gra for something | less than Se. I it is a ten-mile haul | +to market and you are hauling cne ton | of produce there, and a ton of other | material back to the farm, you save "$6 on the round trip traveling on the | treated gravel, over what it would eost | you on a poor dirt rond. If the dirt road is very poor you may not even | arrive at your destinntion, let alone | +make the round trip. Increased Road Co: Road construction throughout the | country last year cost about twice as | much as it did In 1919, As a conse- quence, the cost of gravel roads in- creased from $535 to $7,250 a mile; concrete from $210,165 to $40,000, and | brick from §33,000 to $§55,000 a mile. | New York City Leads, New York city has more than forty- | one million square yards of paved | streets. Chicago follows with 38,430, | 00 square yards, and Philadelphis | Wit 22,610,000 square. yards, 'Subscribe for Tnme Dally FPloneer. A glimpse at these Boston fishing boats gives an ide a of the hardships endured by the hardy fishermen when they put out in zero weather to catch a mess of fish. The boats are actually covered with heavy ice. COUNTRY OF SWEET SCENTS French City of Lyons Center of Region Which Supplies the World With Perfume. Lyons, in France, is the city of scents. It is the center of a region which supplies the world with per- fumes, and has the only university that offers a course in perfumery- making to students. Within the last few years Lyons ‘has developed a great laboratory system for the manu- facture of artificial perfumes by the process of synthetic chemistry. Thus its technical experts convert oil of verbena into violet and lily-of-the- valley, oil of camphor into heliotrope, aniseed ofl into hawthorne, ofl of clove into vanilla, and oil of rosewood | Into bergamot. Toluene (a derivative of conl tar) they transform into jas- mine and artificial rose. From xylene (likewise a coal tar product) they obtain artificial nfusk. Roses are grown on an immense scale in the reglon about Lyons for the manufacture of perfumery. Like- wise sage, thyme and sweet mar- joram. That reglon produces 90 per cent of the total world’s output of real lavender ofl, representing & value of 20000000 francs a year. One concern has 10 square miles atory on wood infested with them, any Xiln-drying process which can be con- stdered practical for seasoning ash of any thickness will put an end to the borers. It Stands to Reason. The other day a downtown princl- nal summotied before her two young- ing another boy. After proving eir guilt, she turned the husky- inoking youngster over her knee and administered 2 good, old-fashioned spanking. But at the other one she hesitated. She v . her reason to a teacher standing near: “1 hate @ whip him. He's so thin and sick- 1y looking,™ sl The chunky culprit overheard her speech. “I guess eril ssinny as well as fat,” he sobbed uc- cusingly Oak in River Bed. Just before the war, says the Ameri- 2an Forestry Magazine of Washington, it was dise red in Russia that the bed of the Mcksha river, for a length of 400 miles, full of magnificent oak trees. Oak has the peculiar prop- erty of lasting for ceuturies when buvied in water or wet sand. Oak olles from bridges constructed by the Zowans have been found to be as planted with lavender. ALMOST GAVE AWAY SECRET ! Little GIrl Would Have Had Sweat Revenge If She Had Reached That Toupee. A prominent Vigo county business | man wears a toupee. Only his family and closest friends know. But recently it almost became a pub- lic fact. He was dining with his wife and some friends at a large hotel, when in walked another friend with his four-year-old daughter. The busi- ness man likes to tease children, so he Immediately began on this one. He called her a little boy, and persisted in addressing her In that way. g It was evident she was not enjoy- ing the incident, and the Vigo county man's wife came to the child's rescue. “If he doesn't stop calling you names I'd pull his halr If. I were you,” she advised, The little girl started to follow that advice, and then fun did begin. The way that man ducked and begged the youngster to desist threw the crowd into paroxysms of laughter. But the people who knew about the toupee nearly went wild. They were almost sorry when he finally per- sunded her to be friends and leave his head alone.—Indianapolis News. Movies In “Maths.” Movie aids to instruction In mathe maties are belng utilized at Hunting- | ton school here. Geometry, a dull sub- Ject In other days, Is sald to have become almost a thing of joy. Text- books are used, but only after an appetite for sollds, surfaces and spaco has been created and stimulated by lines that move and by animated angles. Charles H. Sampson, the Instructor, says he uses two reels of 1,000 feet cach. “The purpose,” he says, “Is not *o teach geometry but rather to galn a valuable ald in the teaching of It. “The subject is introduced on the film by a Japancse Juggler. He appears with a basket filled with geometrical figures of all kinds which he Juggles with skill. Thus the students are early interested in the general subject. historieal background there is next New York Tribune. To Kill Wood Borers In Lumber. Kliln drying is fatal to some if not all the wood-boring grubs, the forest service lahoratory of the States Department of Agriculture at AMadison, Wis,, has discovered. This fact is of considerable Importance to users of ash, hickol Manufacturers using ash lumber, for instance, are much annoyed by the injury worked by the red-hended ash | vorer, Afr oning has no effect on the activities of these grubs, but, according to tests made by the labor- United | wound as when plzced, nearly 2,000 years ago. Panama Canal Locks. There are few things more interest- tng to the average traveler than to I'p through the great locks of the | Punama canal. The vessel enters very | slowly and as she does lines are taken eading to electric motors or | “1pules,” which keep her in the center | of the lock. Then the great gates at the rear swing together and the water is turned Into the enclosure thus | farmed. Looking over the side of the steamer one secs a great bubble of water rise from the bottom, then a second and third appear until finally the whole surface of the lock is boil- Ing. The pressure Is so great that often fish sucked into the drains that lead from the Gatum lake, are drawn i and thrown several feet Into the | ahoard 1 alr. When the proper level Is finally | renched the gate ahead of the vessel opens and the “mules start forward, @ragging the vessel free from the lock hefore she moves abead under her own power. Taiping Rebellion 1850-1865. What Is known In history as the Taiping rebellion was an insurrection of a section of the Chinese which orig- inated in 1850 and was not suppressed until 1865, The rebels were under the lendership of a man who declared | | that he was divinely commissioned by | heaven to establish a universal peace, | | though his real object was to over- throw the Manchurinn dynasty at Pe- king. This rebel chief, the Detroit News recalls, was named Hung Siuts- uan, who began life as a village schoolmaster. Branching out, he styled himself * dynasty “Taiplng” or “Great Peace.” | For a time the Insurrection was one ot formidable dimensions, but the reb- |els were finally defeated, largely | through the assistance of British Charles G. Gordon reafter popularly Chinese” Gordon. Galleon, The galleon was oviginally a war ship of three or four gun-decks. The Beenuse too few | name was subsequently applied to tl\ei students appreciate the value of the | Spunish treasure-ships which brought| from the Spanish pos ions in Mex. ! Introduced u serles of short life | fco and South America gold and silver | sketches."—Boston Dispatch in the | and other wealth to Spain. They were | | large, unwieldy vessels, and were hong\-rly sought after as prizes during the times of war on account of the | tmumense wealth they contained. Lilac Should Be Everywhere. No country lane or road today I8 | complete in the northern states un- less it shows touches of lilae. A few . and many other ' podges oceur here and there, but while | woods which are'attacked by Insects. ! otherwise adaptable, the lilac does not admit easily of such training. Longfellow’s “Craigie House" is still swrrounded by lilacs planted years ago, and the purple bloom makes it ‘ a rave retreat, s who had been guilty of fight- | rinals can be | e heavenly king” and his | ‘THE BEMIDJI: DAILY PIONEER Yk Ve PR FLYING ABOVE THE' CLOUDS| Possible to Expnrl’ence Every ‘Degres | of Fog and Sunshine Within a Few Minutes. The full majesty of the aerial per spective can only be realized when | one Is above the clouds and the earth | is shut off from view. In flying on an overcast day, when heavy banks of cumulous clouds lie at 3000 feet, it 1s possible to experfence within a minute or two every degree of fog and sun- shilne. When one is passing into the clouds, the lower surfaces of which are almost perfectly flat, there Is an nstantaneous transition from shadow to complete atmospheric opacity, similar in appearance to a dense fog at the ground, but differing somewhat from it in feeling, for the interior | of g cloud seems to be.drier. the alr | less saturated with water vapor, than the fogs which are met with at sea or ashore. If the climb Is continued a few hundred feet farther. the air- plane passes again into clear afr, but into alr now of a clarity and bright- ness worthy of Mediterranean sklies | and not at all to be compared with | | the sky at sea level.—Ohio State Joun | | nal. | | An Abused Word. A Chicago professor says some thoughts are not thoughts at all. We | agree with him. Some of the alleged thoughts wished oftf on the public are | merely brainstorms.—Cincinnati En- quirer, | i e e | Good Exercise. Each morning: before dressing ex- | ercise by stooping and touching your | toes 10 times. At first this may seem | impossible, but seon you will be able to do it readily. This will reduce your waist in two months, if faithful- ly followed each horning and night. | All Weicome. ! | Sunday School tfeacher—Children, do you know the Louse that is open to all—to the poor, the rich, the sad, the happy, to man and to woman, to young and to cld—do you know the house I mean?” Small Boy—*Yes, miss; the stationhouse.” { An Qld Dominion Philosopher. : The road downward to the hot plnce‘ | has always been crowded. The road upward to the land of “milk and honey” has plenty of elbow room for all of the self-denying people who have decided to go that way.—Rich- | wmond Planet. Queer “Religion” Survives. | Joanna Southcott, the Devonshire servant girl, who prefessed to be a | prophetess and who issued 6,400 sealed | papers to her followers, at prices ranging from 12 shibings to a sove-| reign, each “seal” guaranteed to se-| cure Salvation, has still her followers | in London. Some of these strange documents still survive, and are much | treasured by their words: “The seal of the Lord—the Elect Precious Man's Redemption—To inherit the Tree of Life—To be made helrs of God and Jownt heirs of Jesus Christ.” Lushen autoed to Montevideo Wed- nesday with Jim Heggie. turned Saturday and Mrs. Cushman mother to Mesdames Heggie and Lushen, Will Allen and wife and son, Leslie Allen and wife returned with them and will visit relatives here. J. G. Hoglin was a Park Rapids caller Friday. They re- TO-NIGHT- Tomorrow Alright Get a 25 BOX CITY DRUG STORE 2| Consumers Shoe Co. | %5 LADIES OX- FORDS — BLACK OR BROWN BOYS’ SPORT TENNIS SHOES __.Special 41 $1.98 LADIES’ WHITE CANVAS _OXFORDS Low Military heels, cool and comfortable— Special —$2.19 - Special —$3.98 MEN’S TAN OXFORDS Goodyear welt, sewed— Special $4.29 MEN’S TAN SCOUT WORK CHILDREN’S PAT. LEATHER MARY JANE PUMPS Very comfortable 'and serviceable— * Special $2.48 Girls’ White Canvas Oxfords and Pumps, sizes up to 2— Special ..............$1.69 Special—$1.59 Men’s White Tennis Oxfords, On account of delay in shipment last week we are going to GIVE AWAY 300 pair of Japanese Slippers. Saturday FREE Saturday FREE One Cost Operating 16 Exclusive Price Shoe Stores to All best quality ...........$1.29 Deadly Duel Between Eagles, Two eagles have had a fight to the death at Invergarry, Inverness-shire, wires a London Daily Chronicle corre- spondent. Within a few yards of a road a boy, the son of a herd keeper, saw two golden eagles engaged In a fierce combat. He watched the atrug- gle, and. saw one of the birds fall on its back dead in a ditch. Its adversary, with beak fast in the cther's throat, then stood triumphantly on the victim's breast. AR R XK KRR R KRR RS x ECKLES *| AR AR RSN The boiler on the engine belong-| ing to J. A. Stillwell blew up Friday | morning. Milo Stillwell was badly burned about the back and' limbs He| was taken to Park Rapids at once to| receive medical attention, and is get- ting along as nicely as can be expect-l ® a L. V. Harpel was a Park Rapids| shopper Friday. | Mrs. Allan, nee Miss Murray, who| | taught school here several years ago, | is a guest at J. A. Stillwell. Mrs,| Allan has her three children with her| and will spend the summer _in the| i-lountry. Their home is in Moline,L 1. George Segar is visiting his mnth-g {er, Mary Segar. Mr. Segar has been| in the navy for several years and his| home-coming ‘was a big surprise to ‘2“ mother, as she was not expecting | him. Mrs. E. L. Horner is spending the week with her mother, Mrs. Schuss- man. | R, F. Wilson was in Bemidji Sat-! urday purchasing supplies for his store. | Mrs. J. W. Heggie and Mrs. John| 1 | | i { v , 200wl | | * %mmfm'w “Fill Up Your Pipe and Tell Us A Story” | A GOOD Pipe with Good Tobacco, a good Cigarette or a good Cigar—what better things could men have on a camping trip! Without any of these your vacation jaunt would be a miserable failure. ' ‘ We have everything good for the smoker—in every line. And ev- ery man who comes here is certain to get quality merchandise cor- rectly priced—and that means most reasonably. BROSE'S Across from the First National Bank Soft Drinks Pipes and and Cigars Pipe Repairing i