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. THOUSANDS OF ACRES " IN‘RBD LAKE PROJECT Improvements Required Would Begin at Red Lake and Go Down Stream project is a combina- and drninag: P"}:’bl; sm. The area comprises a waters ne ]z;imnbuut 2,400 square miles of which about 440 square miles is lake :ur‘ Yace. The improvements require n: Red Lake river ‘channel will begin a the lake and continue down stream abodt 40 miles. A control dam and gates will be necessary at the outlcé of the Red lakes to conserve flu.n Yers for powey purposes. It is pro- posed to straighten, widen and deep- on the channel to provide for currY: ing 1,000 cubic feet per second during the flood water state. Through the control system it is proposed to pro- vide a minimum of 600 second feet of water at all times of ~t}le year for the water power plants in Red Lake river as far down as (‘,r?nkston.. At the present time there is sufficient water in Red Lake river for power purposes only’ during about seven months cach year. If, after the pro- posed improvements are provided, 600 second-feet will be uvm}able dur- ing the entire year, it is evident that the additional water power created will be of tremendous advantage to Northwestern Minnesota, On a trip of inspection taken July 19 and 20, Adolph F. Meyer, consult- ing engineer; E. V. Willard, state commissioner of drainage ax;d waters; Georgel W. Walker, the district en- gincer, and G. Selvig, - president of the board,jmade the journey from Neptune to t outlet ‘of thq lake by motorboat in order to study first hand the topngmph_y,‘of the area. Mr. Mq)u' er in his prelip\inury report with | reference to the proposed work sub- mitted at the' ggnclusion of this mp,l stated that a Storage space of lone foot is necessary on Red lake to hold back the flood waters which run into the lake until such a time as they can be discharged safely through the improved outflow channel. Because the area of Red lake is so large iny comparison with the drainage area which sends its runoff into this body of ‘water, the"lake acts as a naturyl reservoir with a tremendous equaliz- ing effect upon the outflow. A stor- age capacity of at least three ‘feet is tentatively recommended by Mr. Meyer in order to best utilize the water from Red lake for water power purposes. He states that the regula- tion outflow from Red lake would have furnished the wat power plants forty-three and on-third; bil- . lion cubic feet of water, during the | period from June, 1910, to April 1916, in addition to what they could have utilized in a state of nature. At one cent pey kilowatt. hour the amount of power that could have been generated was estimated: at about $60,000 a year. “Assuming all the wa- ter power utilized and’all the fall de- veloped, the annua) benefit during these dry years would have been worth a quarter of a million. dolla Considering both dry and wet years, the annual benefit of regulation to'| present power plants on the Red! lakt river computed .on the same pasis I\c'lould be about '$15,000,” saicl M. eyer. For more than thirty yeaws' the farmers living on lands adjacent to these streams have suffered eriormous losses from uncontrolled flooc; viaters. They look forward expectantly now to the day when the improyements planned are completed. If, in addi- tion' to controlling flood “water, ad- ditional water power can alse be created, a boon' of ines’imable value will be conferred upon, ‘the residents flchi‘):tléw;:smrn Minr esota E . G. Selvig, presid St age board, is Optihl:Astict gsct,h%;‘l:mlg_ velopments pointed, v 5 B ) ayout by the: engi- neers in their revjort. “Wit’) flood ¢ x’:tclj‘:“f“r°lled¢’un(l additio nal wa- e tl‘*’e Igédclml?t ed, the neople living future,” he s:,(; in hie face a bright ment at the confernnxu::wiafaf' unequaled “40il und an ‘lmterprising i pqfi“l.nt“’:"' this, section of the state will cont'nue to forge :alead in its devglndpr.lgnt: The_advent of such ?fi:t ‘;h:’"l’!‘ oad faciliticis in_the area Y er” Y In ul ng u & Yeritabl ¢ empire.” Ban) The Red lake tion conservancy T e ‘600D AND BAD WEDDING DAYS Many and Varied Are the Superstitions " }That Have to Do With the va 3 Marriage .Altar. i The superstitions that cluster re2ana the' altar are as 1pany and as fnys- terfous as the ways of a mald v ith a man, May has always had n bad ame as | o ‘wedding month slnce gr-away | Romuan days. and Lent has heen in equal bad otor, But why sbe.uld June be considered the Yucklest month of &l the year for.n tip to, the altar, with October a wood seconcdf? And why | should specla)’ happiness - nwait thase | who wed when'tHe moon is at the full, or when {ly: sur and moegn are In con. Junetion? iy | ].jrldnx is the most. unlucky day of all ‘the week to set the wedding-hells d-ringg, except, covionsly enough, in chtlnml, where it’seqms to be held In gpecial favor, n the other hand, for some obscure reason, Sunday has ‘been u day of good omen for wedsling ‘couples, eygr since | (and o doubt L loug bgre) Shakespeare ‘made . Petruch¥, say to Katherine, “Kiss me, < Katgr e will be ‘married o' Svnday.” - What of Your Occupatign? Bvery occibhtion 1ifts itwelf with the enlarging life of her who prac- tces It. The occupation taat will not do that ne one really has -a right to oc- cupy herselt about.—Philips Brooks. i | perlod, made lv>r somewhat unstable. STREAM A FREAK OF NATURE But Phenomenon in State of Washing- ton Seems Simple—After It Is Explained. A small stream called’ Bear creek flowing from the glaciers of Mount Adams, near Husum, Wash,, is a freak. It plays hide and seek along its course through the forest, slipping Into a cave lere, a crevice there and reappearing below a full fledgéd rivulet. Its bed is ice coated nearly the entire year; on the sarface rocks float and in the water logs sink. The water is bright yellow in one place, red in another and light bluing when it flows into the Columbia river, Bear creek, differing from other streams, freezes at the bottom first in- stead of the surface, This is caused by a rocky formation, stmilar to a corru- gated washboard, retarding the move- ment of the water, forcing the surface to move swifter. TIn this way air bub- bles are shot downward, carrying freezing temperaturas, and ice forms. Often in winter the stream flows while the bed is solid ice. This stream also contains more water In one part of its system than in another. A 4-foot depth quickly becomes a tiny brooklet by the water disappearing into the porous voleani¢ bedrock. Later it renppears and re- sumes its course. The logs that readily sink are a specles of Dblack juck pine with a specific gravity heavier than water. They are carried into the creek by 1andsllides. Rocks seen floating are a sort of pumice or lava clinkers released by melting glaciers. The yellow volor 18 directed from the ‘glaciers, the red coused by red clay bluffs, and the blde by a deposit of copper quartz thirough swhich the stream has cut its bed. MYSTERY OF OLD EGYPT! ‘Archeologists at a Loss to Expilain the Presence of Buttons Found in Country, . Historians, ‘archeologists and. other experts in arkient lore arve trying to solve the mystery of the buttons found in anclent Efrypt; used in a country and at a time in which @l garments were Jastened by means of bunds slipped into place, or by ties' and loops. Buttons were not used. The hutton, sorfar as is known, is of south European origin and it was only in the last two or three centuries that it came into ‘use in north Europe, where the dress had been tied. together | and hose wdd douhlet were fastened with point and laces. Somehow buttons found their way from south Europe to Kgypt. Some of these arrived in Egypt at about 2500 B. C., and otlers 1500 B. C. His- torfans awe hoping that withi the but- tons as clues they may be uhle to ob- tain moye information connekting the so-calle/l prehistary of Eurgppe with the agees-old records of Egypt.—Cleve- and News-Leader, Tinted wrltlng Paper. Okulists have often called attention to the fact that the eyes are easily fatigued by the reflection from white papler, especially when the surface is under a strong light. Since green Is known to be tlje color most resthil to the eyes, it ig a common practice to use wall papeps and draperies of that color in librarvies and private studiles. Tor wrtting paper, however, green is an unsitisfalctory color. It imparts a y'c(]dlsh appearance to the writing and. makes it hgrd to read. Yellow writ- ing paper i% not open to the same ob- Jection. ¥ strorig daylight it is softer than pure white paper, and in artifi- clal Hght 1t f¢. not too dark. Black { previous adjustent, and leads to a ON THE MAKING OF MATCHES | Chinese Factories Now Are Producing Thousands of Tons, to the Great Alarm of Japan. There is a joy in considering the old verse which told of fleas having other fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, the process continuing ad infinitum, Be- cause out of the Kar Kast comes the interesting Intelligence that the Chi- nese have gone into the manufactur- ing of matches, and are so diligent and skillful in the business, that the Jap- anese trade Is becoming fearful of dheir progress, as competitors, the | Cincinnati Enquirer states. Not so long ago the American mar- kets were flooded with clieaper Imita- tlons of the cheap Swedish matches, which compete with the sturdier and more dependable flame-makers turned out as profusely in America. It was not thought that there could be made anything worse than the Scandinavian product, but when the Japanese fraud arrived, this view was revised sharp- ly. If it is possible that the Chinese have been able to make the matches at a lower cost than their Nipponese rivals, then indeed they have accom- Pplished the miraculous, and the world will applaud them for the feat. Ap- parently success has come to them, four large factories at Tien-tsin be- ing needed to supply the demand, which is measured by the thousands of | tons, If they are being shipped to this country, as undoubtedly they will be, it Is to be hoped that the triumph over the low-grade Japanese imitation of the erratic and undependable Swed- ish splint has not .been effected through the sacrifice: of efliciency in striking fire and holding it. Nothing could be wor NEW WAY TO FOIL ROBBERS Hard to Get Away With Satchel That Is Equipped With a Powerful Alarm Gong. Holdup men whq have been special- jzing in the robbery of bank messen- ‘gers and pay-roll carriers will not re- joice in the invention of the latest security satchel, designed, as it is, to prevent their silent getaway, says the Scientitic American. The satchel Is ordinary enough in appearance, save that it is of steel. In the lid it car- ries a monster bell, operated by two dry cells, which are capable of ringing the alarm continuously for six hours. The switch is hidden in the grip | handle- and has two buttons so ar- ranged that when the messenger dis- covers that he is being held up he can instantly push one of them. The alarm will go off and stay off, and can be heard for a distance of half a mile. The second button is for delayed action ‘that holds the ringing up for tem or twenty seconds—enough | to.enable the messenger to make his getaway from the immediate range of the holdup man before the latter dis- .covers what he is up against. We must agree with the inventor that no crook is likely to march through the streets carrying a ringing satchel, or to get very far with it if he attempts it. Certainly, until the stick-up artists learn how to put the muffler on the vell instantly and permanently, the new trick ought to be effective. And that is all that could be asked, for the man who is coping with a robber must expect to change his plan of cam- paign as fast as the thief learns what it is. Trackless Trolley Abroad. From a German periodical, Eleki- \rotechnische and Maschinenbau, we jearn that electrically-driven = buses connect Vienna with a suburb a short letters on a/ “yellowish background show glear anfd distinct. Mauy mathe- maticisus use yellow paper in figuring long' and difHcult calculations, and many writers) have adopted it for man- useripts, It ' has the additional merif: of chegpness, —t Firt*t Great Warship.« The first real advance in securing stabliity and] great earrying power in | a ship was ngade by a British architect, Phineas Pet ¢, who built the Soverelgn. After laun é¢hing he found that her enormous 'ppper works, in which he Tnd follovped the fashion and, in- cidentally, the shipping defect of his So he took her back, boldky swept away all, the cnhimbrous upper fittings, increasedl her length, gave her two decks Tistead of. the original three, and reflonted her as the Royal Sovereign. Under this "ilatter title she re- mained for, 6 years the finest, staunchest, and most’ easily ‘hamdled vessel in ‘the Rritish navy, far In advance of any other ship of Her kind in the world. — Mytholcigical Birds. ! The Australinn thick-headed shrike iy about six inches long, rich-yellow below, with a jpt-black collar uhad a white throat, black head and ylartly black tall. It i sometimes called the hlack-breasted fiycatcher and white- thronted thick-feend, and it has alsb a variety of KFremch and New Lajtin names. In the mythalogy of some low trilbes such as‘the Caribs, Brazilians, Har- vey Islanders, Karens, Bechunas and Basutos there are legends off a flap- ping or flashing thunder bird, which seem to translate imto myth the thought, of thunder and lightning de- scending from the upper regions of the air, the home of the eagle, and the vulture, k f i to stop when, passing each other, ex- of the Seas, to carry 100 guns, in 1637, | distance away. These trackless trol- leys run on pneumatic tires and are fedhfrom a double trolley line on which rolls a small contuct-making carriage, connévted with a flexible cable to the car. The length of this cable can be varied, as its end is wound around a take-up drum. Approaching cars have change their cables and proceed again, The cars are driven by two.motors, built into the rear wheels. They are multipolar, slow-speed, direct current 550-volt motors, transmitting their power directly without any gears. The buses accommodate 24 passengers, but can earry as many as 40.—Scien- tific American. Something to Fall Back On. Little. Owen lived near a southern Yadiana town where a hub factory had Jist been built. The new industry had Just caused a great deal of dis- cusgion anfpng his clders as to in- creased property values, sale of tim- ber ind opportunities for employment. Owen one day went across the sunny fields and up a hill to the old farm- house . where his great-grandfather was spending the summer afternoon on' the: wide porch. erward an aunt, listening to the con- versation between the two, heard the following: “Owen, what are you going to do when: youtre & man?" “well, T guess T'll be a preacher or maybe a teacher. When I'm not preaching or teaching I guess Il he hub factory.” avork at t k! —_— Wanted the Best. 4 want you to teach my son a for- i beneath salt water. e R S VR THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER NOT EASY TO .CRIPPLE CRAB Nature Has Provided That Lost Leg or Claw May Be Replaced in i a Short Time. “For, you yourself, sir, should' be as old as 1 am, if like a crab you could go backward.” True,; Hamlet, true, but a crab can also walk for- ward and sideways. At the bottom of warm salt water, where he likes to take his leisu the crab walks slowly about on .the tips of the secc- ond, third and fourth pair of legs, and then as you may see, he walks back- ward, forward and sideways, though. he seems to prefer the sidewise gait. Generally he folds his heavy claws, or pincers, and works his paddies with a lazy sculllng motion to assist him on his walk. One of the many remarkable things about the crab is his ability to throw off or drop his legs and claws and grow them again. The scientists call this “autotomy,” or “the automatic throwing ot of appendages of the body and then renewing them,” I a erab is seized by.a leg or claw in the water, it often throws it off and escapes, and at the place where he breaks off his own leg nature has fur- nished an angement which pre- | vents excessive Diceding. This phe- nomenon s common among - crusta- ch the erab ix one. nple of “autotomy” the eau of fisheries has ) which swas kept in-a small cage When put in the cage the crab had lost its left claw, Day by ¢ a new: elaw grew: and the rate of growth «ur be had from the fisheries bureaw. . At the end of 51 days the left claw had: heen resfored and was the same as the right. o R T Figure It Out. Hows many “apples ¢ld Adam and ve eat? f Some say Eve éight and Adam two —a .total of ‘ten only. Now we-figure the thing out far dif- ferently : also—total 16. We think the above figures are en- tirely wrong. 1f Eve eight and Adam 82, certainly the totz] will be 90. Scientific. _men, however, on the strength ‘of the theory that the ante- diluvians. were giants, reason some- thing like thi ceans, of W As an ¢ United Statés bur the record of a ¢ under observation Bt Wrong again. What could be clear- er than it Kve 81 and Adam 812 the total was 8932 i the following to be the true solution: Lve 814 Adam and Adam 8124 Eve—S8938. Still another calculation is as fol- lows: If Eve 814 -Adam, 81242 oblige Eve,:’ total 0. change.. s Stiit It Must-See a Lot. A sclentist declaves (hat the giraffe ts utterly dumb. Perhaps it is just as well. We never sgw one yet that tooked as if it had yihing of im- ortance to say.—Doston Transcript. n Iivé eight and Adam eight } Bve 81.and Adam 82 | FATHER AND SON WEEK TO BEGIN NOVEMBER 6 The week beginning with November 6 and ending with the 12th has been set aside for the promotion of the TFather and Son idea. Ever'since this movement . hus vecome @ national event, the county, state,” and inter- national Sunday school associations, along witit'the Y. M. C.A. and Boy Scout organizations have this program throughout America until today thousands ‘of fathers and sons anxiously await the coming of the event. The promoting agencies are striv- ing this yoar to widen their range,| reach out into the state and bring together more fathers and sons than ever before. 8' = 1 BEMIDJI, MINA. _' SYNTHETIC OR ARTIFICIAL promoted *IOB COMPANY The HALLMARK Steref SILK NOT ENDORSED . The Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agri- culture has given no approval to any process for-the manufacture of syn- thetic or artificial silk. This statement is called” forth by a number of in- "quiries to the department. Considerable “circulation has been given to an article saying that chem- ists of the Department of Agricul- ture and of the War Department had “put the seal of approval on success- ful experiments in perfecting the process for the manufacture on a commercial scale oi synthetic silk, developed by America’s new chemical INTO YOUR HOME Baker PHONE 34 MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1921 ELIVERS THIS BEAUTIFUL COLUMBIA y built up du g the war to compete with the German world-wide monopoly of the chemical and dye- stuff industry.” The fact that the Department of Agricultyre aided; in perfecting the manufacture of aniline dyes after the supply from Germany was cut oft’ by the war, gave a semblance of cred- ibility to the synthetic silk story, and inquiries and requests for further information as to what firm is putting out the artificial siik referred to in the stery, it has made no investigation of the process, and has not endorsed it. indus THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS eign language,” ‘said a lady to a teacher of languages. “What shall it be, madam?” the teacher replied. *Would you like Po- lish, Czechoslovakian, Armenian, perhaps even Arabie?” “well,” mused the lady, “which s the most foreign?"—Iouston Posts or THE PIONEER WANT! 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