Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 17

LANDS MUST BE " KEPT AT WORK chlet of the Forest Service Issues +—— The — Scrap-Book HAVE MANY KINDS OF BELIEF Almost Every Denomination Would ‘L Warnin, -Against Depletion Seem to Be Represented in Con- “ X Of. oud Supplles. gruulonal_li:mhonmp. 1 That the churches are well repre- sented in both houses of congress is evidenced by a statement issued by the board of temperance, prohibition und public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church, which recently made a survey and issued the followlng OUR TIMBER IS RUNNING 0UT More Than 80,000,000 Acres Denuded to Poing of Absolute Idleness So . Fac as Production of Timber Mg toment 15 Concsenid Out of the toral of 435 mewmbers of ? g !congrexs 24 are non-members, and church aliaiion of 98 ‘ould not be p iy ! b_;::"",‘:‘ ;-"“I I"""" Jhads 1ot poeitained. The following are he seicillire GUSt be kept | caueen afiliations: ut work growing timber instead of be- Ing allowed to lie idle. This warnlng was soyKded by Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of the forest nry.flce, who stopped here en route to Wagshington, D. C., from Mather Field, Cal,, where he attended, the forest fire conference. © “If we are to remain a natfon of wood-users we must become a nation bt wood growers,” declared Colonel Greeler, pointing out that the United States produces more than half of the entire Jumber cut of the world, Bnd uses 95 per cent of the amount vright here at home.” H Timber Running Out. i “The exhaustion of our timber sup- ply Is coming about,” said the forest service chief, “not beeause we have used our forests freely, but because we have failed to use our timber- growing land. The problem in a nut- shell I8’ the enorinous area of forest land, which has been so logged and burped that it is producing little or hothing. We have more than 80,000, P00 acres, an avea greater than all the orests of ¥rance, Belgium, Holland, 2enmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal, which have heen denuded to the point of absolute dle- hess so far as the production of any Mmber of commercial value Is con- terned. “We have other enormous areas of tatover land now growing but a frae- ton of the amount &f timber which fhey might produce. And we are add- Ing to these areas of idle or largely 1dle land from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 acres every vear, as destructive log- Ejng aond still more destructive log- ;u:z progresses. Sees Trouble Ahead. « “Thls sitnation cannot continue long without grave consequences, “Where Americans need more for- ests i3 largely on these 80,000,000 tim- ber-denuded acres. which could be made produetive Kuln vith proper at- upuon and proper gmfiecflon lnlnlk Some of the reasons why these for- ests are needed, according to Colonel | of Connecticut valley sandstone on Greeley, are: which are found fossilized mud cracks “OQur manufacturing centers | are | and ripple marks of bygone ages, and @rawing at an enormous rate Anon with them seven footprints made by bur timber supply—from two to four | giant dinosaurs. The slab is an un- times as fast per capila as the coun- | usually good specimen, as both sides try at large. have marks of geological Interest. It “Our railroads require 123,000,000 | measures 12 by 6 feet. wooden crossties annually to maln- The ripple marks were made in the tain thelr roadbeds in fit condition aud | coze millions of years ago, when the take care of new construction. region of the present Connecticut val. “Qur average well-kept farms, using | ley was a large river bottom, occa- the upper Mississippi valley as an In- sionally flooded. They are unusually stance, require 2,000 board feet 'of | distirct. lumber annually for repairs and im- The footprints show that at least provements.” two dinosaurs, one a big one, the oth- et apparently its young, roamed over PROVES HER BROTHER THIEF the mud flats on their hind legs. The larger tracks are about 8 inches long New York Woman Crosses Continent to Get Revenge in Washing- { and the indicated stride 4 or 5 feet. ton Court. , Tacoma, Wash.—Without the flicker of an eyelash, devoid of all emotion, Miss Sadie Offerman attained the goal she had long sought as she sat In the Superior court here and heard her brother, Sam Offerman, branded by a United Brethren, Mormon, lndepead- ent, Mennonite, Dutch Reformed, Evan- gelical have one meimber each. There are two Unlversallsts. There are three members of the Quaker church and three of the Jewish church, five Uni- tarians, ten Disciples, ten Lutherans, 11 Christians, 18 Catholics, 23 Congre- gatlonalists, 35 Episcopallans, 29 Bap- tists, GG Presbyterians and 99 Meth- odists. In the senate the survey showed that out of a total of 96 senators the church affillations of 23 was unknown and only four were mnon-members. There was one Protestant Ipiscopals lan, one Christian. The Lutherans, Dutch Reformed, Unitarians and Mor- mons all have two members each. There are six Cathollcs and six Bap- tists, seven Congregatlonalists, 11 Presbyterians, 12 Episcopalians and 17 Methodists. & STARTING A FAD Mrs. Fussbody: |f you must wear patched trousers while you're doing my work why don’t you use patches that match? The Serving Man: Oh, dear me! Didn't you notice? Th pants are the very latest. It's the popular camoufiage pattern, copled from the army motor lorries. Shows F-otpflm- of Dinosaurs. The department of geology at Mount ‘Holyoke college, in -replacing collec-- tions lost by fire, has obtained a slab African King’s Curious Custom. In Central Africa is a little kingdom that has a ferocious king that has an old and curlous custom of frightening his subjects, no matter whether they wish to spesk o him or he to them. It one of his sublects wishes to in- terview the king, the subject must cough three times and the king will roar at him and try to frighten him away. If the subject is unafrald nnd repeats his cough, he can gain nco.wm\ the king, but if he lh )fi' ‘the’least sign of fear and starts dackward, the king follows him untfl the man is off and away. she bad looked* forward to for, mpre than two years, as, according’ to*her 'own story, she saved a part: of her Imeager earnings in a New:York gar- ‘ment factory to return to Tacoma and prosecuté her brother, Brother and sister more than two years ago were partners in a small garment factory in Tacoma. They :quarreled, and Miss Offerman decided to go to New York. Sle was residing at her brother’s home. After her ‘trunk was packed he took it to the statlon. When she arrived in the East the trunk, instehd of containing the ‘clothing and other articles she sai :she packed in 1t, was filled with card- board, according to her story to the Jury. Tom Cat “Adopted” Turkeys. An Alberta woman who owns a farm says that she had two turkeys hatched out late in the summer, by an old hen. The hen would have nothing to do with the chicks so she brought them up around the door yard. At night she covered the birds up but in the id | daytime they wandered at will. A young tom cat took a fancy to the little turkeys and it was a common sight to see Tom curled up in the sun- shine with a turkey ou either side of FRANCE IS SECOND IN WHEAT | b= the United States and P N e ura According 5 A ten-year-old Walsall, Staffordshire, Eng., schoolboy went to school regu- t 3 : Statlstics larly for five weeks with a broken o ranks | Deck. The lad, when in a hospital for Winolpes, dianttoba.=Franes treatment, made a slight movement Eecond among the wheat-producing na- tlons of the world, according to figures which caused pressure on the spinal compiled by the International Insti- cord and instant death. The surgeon said that the boy had been protected Lived Long With Broken Neck. Agricultore here. The United ! tsl:t:leztis gflrst. Canada is third, The | By nature's own method of contrac- United States produced 740,665,000 tlon of the muscles. bushels; France, 815,639,000, and Can- ada, 204,388, These are the figures shown. 5 The report states that this year's harvest is the third France has grown since the armistice, amd notes that = i nothing could tell more eloguently than dates back to “:‘“’" e fhis great harvest of the Fehabllitatloy [ NOTMAR conquest, of the sturdy French nation and its D""""llg"""r' ‘(“ recovery from the desolatios f war, yaslation of 4inel Ancient Legislative Body. 1t Is sald that the “House of Keys” of the Isle of Man, which is the ggland’s parliament, is the wmost an- elent existing legislative bod _|WORK THEY ENJOY Darkeys in Their‘ Element at Cane-Cutting Time. Busy Scenes Are Those on the Sugar Plantations When the Harvest ls Being Gathered. “Wake up, you niggers, and git yoah brekfus ready! Wake up and git to work % rings through the streets of the little town still rapt in slumber, Helene Robbins writes in the New Or- leans Times-Picayune. Four o'clock and the crier goes slowly on. The hisch. (oggy night iage in flight as if ~ondering when the brilliant sen will come o (rightea it away. Loudly snd mores insiatanily the old man criex the slarw, aliernsliog beiweea & 5ing-Fopg and a wore emphatic call, till gradual- 1y one seems to know that life bestirs itself behind the closed doors of the cabins. Here a woman, opening the door, stares at the receding back of the crier, there a man’s dark head pro- trudes from the white curtains in an open window and calls to a friend in the neighboring house. Smoke curls upward from rows of chimneys. The odor of eoffee fills the air. Lights gleam in the curtained’ doorways, and boisterous ehatter proclaims the work- ers preparing for the field. Seon they stream from the cabins, men and women, young and old; huge sun hats cover the dusky heads. The women's skirts, looped up by the tie- strings about the hips, reach only to the knees, the upper excess of cloth forming a busile effect of ample pro- portions. Pipes in mouths, dinner buckets in hand and cane-knives slung over shoulders, the colorful procession of workers wends its way, slip-siop, slip-slop, through the streets, into dusty roadways and on to the cane- field destination. Cbildren, too, ac- company it, to play with the shanty children on the plantation grounds. Or left to themselves at home they grasp their chance of uninterrupted squabble and play with happy hearts. Now in the fields, the slashing of the tall cane stalks forms an accompani- ment for the songs and chatter of the negroes. The overseer as he rides by, stopping his slow-moving horse for a moment to survey the fields of work- ers, sees bended backs, hears the calls to one another or the now almost breathiless songs, and smiles a bit, for he enjoys the cane-cutting harvest as much as they. And truly the negroes enjoy 4, that camaraderie especially, and te opportunity to exchange the sawmill jobs at $2 and $3 a day for $1.50 and a full day’s work in- the field. They cut, as they say, “from kin to eain’t,” from the time when they can see till the time when they can't, lnd they enjoy it. Bot the negroes.are not. the only: ones who enjoy the cane cutting and grinding season. The boys of the nelghborhood are in the element. ‘When armed with a stout knife they battle against the huge ever-revolving carrier that hauls the stalks up into the mill, and out of their reach. Bet- ter anfl =weeter still is the cane chewed on the sly in the solitary midst of a waving cane field, or “swiped” from lozded freight cars in the early morning, one eye ‘“peeled for the watchman,” the other on the lookout against wormy cane. How torturing are the after-howrs spent at school for lesson failure or for ‘teasing the girls,” when the other fellows are out in the cane fields or at the mill! And when knives are forfeited for a perlod, for cutting desks instead of cane, how cruel to them is the punish- ment! Sugar cane season is indeed a schoo] season of cutting and squirm- iag. One can imagine, for houts at 2 time, the scenes taking place in the fields or in the mill, byt cares and dutles call and the fascinating planta- tion view must be left for fall house- cleaning, or garden-making, or busi- ness, until the bell calls once again. In the meantime, megroes bend to their task in the flelds, the great mouth of the derrick hauls the cane fnto the enrrier, boys and girls chew cane, and ' lite on the plantation, a midget world In Itself, goes along In humdrum, every- day fashion. The Swiss Are Thrifty. The British seaboard saves the post- master general from a great deal of the competition which is robbing the Swiss post office of revenue, remarks the “Undex the Clock” columnist of the London(England) Daily News. 1 saw the other day a post card ad- dressed to Geneva by a Swiss businesy mwan living near the Austrian border. The card bore Austrian stamps to tha value of seven crowns, and had been posted at Feldirseh. A post card from one point to another in Switzerland cosis ten centimes, but for ten cen- times a Swiss can buy a hundred Ans- trixn inlandskronen, with which ha conld, by posting from the other side of the frontier, send into Switzerland fourteen post cards and have still two crowns in hand. Fur Bearers Vanish. The muskrat, formerly held in small esteem, is today recognized as the most important of American fur-bear- ing apimals. Its pelt, having become fashionable, commands an ever-n- creasing price. Thereby the pursuit of the little beast has beer stimuiated, with the result tbat its numbers nearly every- where are rapidly diminishing. Trappers in the state of Wisconsin took more than 800,000 muskrats in 1917. In 1918 they took fewer tham 300,000, and in 1919 only about 150,000, —Philadelphia Ledger. e BRITISH LOSE BILLION Hit Hard by Strike and Boycott ) in India. Ghand!, Boycott Leader, Considers Violence Mortal S$in—HIls Punish- ment Would Set All India Aflame. ‘Washington.—How a slender, mild- wannered man of fifty-two, who be- lieves violence of any kind a mortal sin, has caused the British government more trouble than any number of revolutlonists, was described in an ac- dress to the National Popular Govern- ment. league by Syud Hossign “Ihe Knglish goverameyt knows uot what 1o do with this wean, Mahatwa Ghaudl,” sald Hossian, “I1f they iwpti will set India affame, 1f they allow his non-violent, non-co-operative move- ment of boycotting Britlsh goods and everything British to proceed, it will bapkrupt them and overturn the ‘strategic’ center of emplre in the Orient. “This month is the first anniver sary of the start of the boycott insti- tuted I;y Ghandl, and it has already cut down English esport trade to i per cent of its normal volume, result- ing in a cash loss of not less than $1,000,600,000. “If the same success altends the refusal to pay taxes, which began Iast month, it will mean a loss of §300,000,000 per year in revenue {o the government, which means collapse. John Bull is being hit In his most vulnerable spot—his pocketbook.” Hossian described Ghandl as the most remarkable person he had ever met. He quoted Colonel Wedgeyood, a member of parliament, as saying: “Ghandi s the only man in the Wworld whose name can be mentloned with that of Jesus Christ without blasphemy.” “Although a trained lawyer,” said Hosslan, “Ghandi earns his living as a weaver. He works at his modest home, s a great reader and student. “Ghandi believes the use of vio- lence in any form is a mortal sin. Physical force ha regards as the wea- pon, not of the strong, but of the weak. “He thinks the most potent instru- ment for all purposes is ‘soul forge’ and the power of self suffering, and does mnot permit himself an unkind thought, even toward his bitterest ene- mies.” SHELL CARRIES MESSAGE Carlo Serra of New XYork is here shewn with a model of his message- carrying shell and recelving station, recently Invented and patented. The shell may be fired from any gun or by compressed air. The receiving station comprises a wall forming a support for a series of spring buffers. Each shell has entangling pins which become entangled when the shell hits the selected receiving station. The receiving stations are designed to withstand the impact of the arriving shell. The hollow interlor of the shell carries the messages. JE R —— X-Ray Solves Theft. Casper, Wyo—An X- tion of & woman's stomach solved & diamond ring mystery, according to County Attorney Purcell. Mrs. Hammond, a prisoner in the county 3ail was placed in custody of a phy-! siclan while county nuthorities con- ; sldered what method to pursue in re- covery of the ring. Mrs. Hammond was arrested after she attended a dance one pight, following complaint charg-|' ing her with theft of a diamond ring valued at $1,200 last October, A tip|! from Mrs. Hammond's daicing partoer led to the X-ray test. Death Takes Man Watching by Bier New York.—WIith his bhands pressed tightly over his eyes, the body of Abraham Berger, sixty, was found kneeling beside the coffin containing the hody of Al- According to Rerger bert Rosenblatt. the medical examiner, dled of heart disease. Crowds of superstitious folk stood around discussing the death and repeated folklore dealing with strange deaths. Undertakers had hired Berger to watch the corpse and to attend to funeral detalls. ou execute him it v examina-| Eva, WIMENVOTERS 0" | | THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 18 TO BE HELD IN BALTIMORE, OPENING APRIL 20. ENTIRE CONTINENT INCLUDED Their Sisters of Latin America Are Invited to Help in Discussion of Tepics of Eapecial Importance to the Sex. By EDWARD B. CLARK Washingion.— The Natiooal lLeague of Women Voters, which has head- quarters in Washington, desires that the public shall know about its third annual convention which i to be held u the capltal's companion city, Baltl- more, Md., and Is to contlnue in ses- sjon for nine days. The conventlon does not meet until April 20, but as all the countries of South and Central America ave to be represented the ar- rangements for the mecting are belng wmade early. The blunt truth is that your corre- spondent personally has been asked to wrlto about this convention and s the more willing so to do because the National League of Women Voters 13 composed of women of the two great political partles and of some smaller parties, and 1t does not seek to create a womun's party, preferring the seem- ingly saner course of asking its mem- bers to get interested in politics and in legislation and to exercise thelr in- fluence as actual voting members of any of the political parties which they choose to Join. Both the Republicun and the Demo- cratic natlonal committees have asked the women to enter thelr respective partles and 1o work and to vote for such legislation as they may desire as Republicans and Democrats, and not as members of a separate group. It seems, therefore, to be the nim of the Natlonal League of Women Voters to fix upon euch legislatlon as women think it advisable to enact and then to attempt {o secure it by exercising thelr influence ns voters within one or the other of the great political parties, Subjects to Be Discussed. The women have borrowed the word “ggenda” from tho State department for use In outlining the proceedings of the coming convention which they call “The Pan-American Conference of Women." In a general way the | country can tell from the subjects for . discugsion - which have been chosen thie chiéf:things which are lnurenlng thg women ot-ug:rfl ”{tth- 2t There M'&n round table™ eontelpncu' on'the following subjects, each discus: 'ston, o be under the charge of a wom+ an whose name 18 given as leader: Chlld Welfare—In charge of Miss | Grace Abbott, chlef of the children's bureat; Department of Labor, U. S. A. + Education—In charge of Miss Julla | Abbott, kindergarten division, bureau of education, Department of lmerlor, U. S. A/ Women in Industry—In charge of Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the woman's bureau, Department of La. bor, U. S. A, Prevention of Trafiic in Women--In charge of Dr. Valerla Parker, execu- tive secretary of the Interdepartment- al soclal hyglene board, U. S. A. Clvll Status of Women—In charge of Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant attorney general, Department of Jus- tice, U. 8. A, Political Status of Women—In charge of Mrs. Carrfo Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman Suffruge alllance. Secretary of State Hughes, Secre- tary of Commerce Hoover and Dr. I. 8. Rowe, director general of the Pan- American union, are co-operating with conference a success, the governments of South and Central American countries to send delegates to the conference have been forwarded diplomatic representatives In the re. publics of Latin Amerlca, Agricultural Conference Called. Invitations have been issued {o a large number of American citizens to | become members of the conference on | agriculture which i3 to meet in Wash- ington the latter part of January. 1t 18 expected that at least 200 dele- gates representing agrlcultural and allied industrles, such as packing, mill- lnz and transportation, will be pres- ent. The administration seemingly be- lleves that the conference will pro- dued results. It is definitely known, of course, that the administration, with the coun . has been worrled about agricnl tural conditions and the troubles which \have come to congress in its attempt (1o adjust leglslation so that one great \Industry may be benefited without (working damage to other Industrles In brief, it can be sald that one ele ment fn congress thinks agriculture s uLmz too much and that another ’Hllnln it 1s not asking half of what it deserves, | Ir the conference on agriculture HOLD GREAT MEET| the women In efforts to make the |- Invitations to | ! by the State department through its || 'shall have the success of the confer- lenco on unemployment 1ts meeting probably will be held to have been in every way worth while. When the I onference assewbles It Instantly will egin to exchange views and to glve gomldnmuon 1o varjous llnes of pol- fcy. It 18 belloved a leader of each Lo _the Industrial groups which arg ¢ come here will have . policy to pre- sent In behalft of his group. This means probably that there will belf eight or ten well deflued policy pro- will be given due consideration. Congress May Act on Result. H Out of these conferences, with a due regard for the compromising of differences, there probably will come ‘something constructive. ‘ed that the President will take the reports of the conference and after \consultation with the cabinet officers iwill submit to congress certaln recom- ‘mendations for legislation. Congress has an immense amount :ot work ahead of it, but as agricul- iture enters into much of the work, 'it 1s not likely that it will take n‘ry 1t is expect. grams and of course each one of them | lovg for the mafsrity pasiy o ¢ Wil inte proposed legislaiion the e tatle of new policies, or, i n Lo put these policies into the f ‘new and separate legistarive wois in many ardcles the wouble bevweed’ ithe so-called farmers’ bloc and the rep- jreseutatives of other interests In con- {gress have been dwelt upen. 'There ware troubles and they ard rather hard ones, but no legislator can be found sin elther senate or house to deny that ‘agriculture Is the basls of welfara and ‘prosperity. In fact this world-old and world-known truth is the strongest ‘base for belicf that eventually agrl- (ulturo will be glven many of the thh)m; which 1t asks, but it is not to be ‘taken for granted that it will be given those things which some leaders de- ‘mand. So far as the coming conference 1s ‘concerned, it certainly wlil give the ‘representatives of the various indus- tries assembled a chance to get oue another's viewpoint, It also will have u tendency to remove some of the frice tlon which has developed recently be- tween the various interests whose busi- ‘mess lives are dependent one upon the other und yet which have been in some natters in a state of complete dis- agreement. Bird Sanctuaries Urged. Uncle Sam wants the farmers of 1he country {o make Dbird sanctu- nries of their land, This Uncle of ours believes and says that the Pirds which are attracted "will pay their host ten times over for his trou- ble in providing a welcome for them. * 7The Department of Agriculture has Just issued a bulletin intended te en- courage the establishment of commu- Dity bird refuges throughout tha coun- iry on farms, bird preserves and in i)(hm pluces. Some refuges of this 1 AERIAL MAFS T0 - HAVE MANY USES Ross Field Officers Deveiop Photo-Technic to Méet Traf- fic Needs of Cities, NOT TAUGHT IN ARMY SCHOOL RS EY Lenses Have Been Discovered Espe- cially Adapted for This T55e of Wark—Great Aid in K Surveying. . e Aveadia, € New fBelde fn an- winesring studies ace baing opesed gt ibe army ballaon and airship schgel at Ross fleld bere, in the departmen * of plotting from photographic maps, according to officers of the recently, reorganized school, ‘'he plotting study- room {8 equipped with an enormous photographlc map embracing 230 square miles of territory, almost to Los Angeles, of which Arcadia is the center. ‘The map Is a mosalc of sev- eral thousaud photographs taken by Lalloon or alrshlp from an altitude of 500 feet. Cities to Use Maps. As a result of these studles by the Langley Kield, Virginia, and Arcadia schools, the two great airship centers of the army air service, a mumber of cities are planning to use aezial photo- graphic maps fn connection with «ity planuiog, traflic control, street widen- ing and fire prof iom work, accord- Ing to army efficers. Other uses to whick photographic maps are being put are prellmisary investigations of watersheds, hyfto- clectric developments, highwar, rail- road and cenal localien, forest sur- veys and various engineering workx. Army afv oficers have perfected automatle timing of exposares (o cover the proper ground area, snd at the same time secure the gdecessary overlap for the accurate fttiap te- gether of individual negatives. This permits taking of pictures from the moving airship or airplame, Perfect Picture Methods. T.enses have been discovered espe- «ially adapted for this type of werk, und the officers have developed ‘the technique covering such detalls as the kind, the department reports, already | best belght from which to {ake pic have been cstablished, and in some cases there has been great success Ip r(mlm,lng colonles of gamie birds to bes come resldents. v the agricultural Interests. the govern- ‘nent department io 5u,lmgst recent bulletin says: g"fludl: an I‘dcultdrllw o8 e attacks of eevil bas 45 dlmm e Qrmy worm, b}.ll H ‘(on boll weevll, M ‘browmetall mo;? 81; chestnut weevll, 64 chibch buj Pd; clover-root borers, 85; ‘weevll, 26; coddling moth, 36; clover’ cotton worm, 41; cutworms, 98; forest tent i‘eaterpillar, 32; gypsy moth, 46; horse- flies, 49; leafhoppers, 120; orchard tent caterpillars, 43; potato hecties, 25; rice weevll, 21; seventeen-year lo- cust, 388; l.welve-spottefl cucumber beetle, 28; white grubs, 67, and wire- ‘worms, 168." How to Attract Birds. i 1n order to bring the birds to the doorstep, and to the outlying acres, it s only necessary to give them protec- tion, water, and in the case of some species of birds the housing facilities ‘which they like. It Is not necessary %o provide nesting facllitles for most {American birds, provided there are ‘lrres and bushes In fale abundance on ihe acres to which they are to be made welcomo. There are birds, how- 'ever, which come the more quickly If houses are made ready for t(hem. Amoug these house-bullding birds ard the purple martin, the white-bellled swallow, the house wren, the blue bird, and on occaslon some of the wood- ckers. It wax not known until a few years Bgo that woodpeckers would nest In Dird houses. They will do 8o occuslon- Inlly, but the kind of a house they pro- er 13 one which has close resemblance to the house which they would make for themselves. White-bellied swal- .Im\n will nest in any kind of a hox plun‘c-l on the housetop or on top of 1\ pole. Unlike the purple martins, ihey do not like to bulld colonles, and 80 there should be one box for each palr. ‘The house wrens will build In ‘anything which offers them protection from the wenther and from their nat- ‘ral enemies. A palr of houve wrens fiave been known to nest within the kind of a hat Impertinently but some- what popularly known as a plug. ! Birds like water to drink and water {0 bathe . Shallow tin puns sunk in the turf to the 1evel of the ground wre much to thelr liking. ‘These pans should be filled with fresh water lench morning. Some birds stay in the Vorth In winter, and I they are pro- wided with food they will become fa- ‘miltar and will do mych in the way of cheerlng up the dreary days of dark and storm. Glean Your Shoes. Always clean your shoes well before putting them away. Wipe off every partizle of dust and dirt and shine them with a good blacking if neces. wary. 1f you value the length of life and good shape of your foolwear, by all means use shoe trees. They may be purchased at any department store for a sinall xum. ‘They are especially valuabla for keeping low shoes in shapa, tures for specific purposes, apeed of airplane and maintenance of levcl fights to insuro vertiealily of riew The maps now produced by alr e Concerning the value of the birds to photographers, according to officers. attain a high degree of accuracy and wealth of valuable detall. " Aerial photography 18’ among the ' daj subjects uubc ay Rogs Bleld itaischao). AlE sorvlc a%ei‘mpm ot "that 'among polnts ot te Qp;lneeflnl to be found Ia 'ho!o‘rlphy are the speed with: which such’ maps may he producod ability to cover territory Inaccessible on foel, comparatively low cost and Impos- sibllity of omitting any feature of the .area photographed. The mosalc map, army officers say, does not mean transit, stadla and plape-table ave In the discard, but that engineering surveys made solely by these time-tried Instruments will be out of date. LUXEMBURG HARBORS EXILES Five of Farmer Suite of Ex-Emperer ; Charles of Austria- Hun|‘lry Flee to Duchy. Luxemburg, Grand Duchy of Lux- emburg—Five memherl of the suite of former; Emperor Chn,rle- of Aus- uln-uungnry, who, was exlled 10 Ma- deira, have lrrlvcd Ilfl‘t.y The Ruu- garians have been granted 2 temporary exile abode pending disposition by the allies. Inhabltants are not enthusiustic, as they fear that, under protection of ____.,_.— O S Prince Jelix of Bourbon Parme, hus. ' bund of the grand duchess of Tusx- emburg and brother of the former Kmpress Zita, a new monarchist plot may be flevalopul. $50,000 GEMS IN COAL PlLE Procter Jewels Roeov- ed at Home ol Burglar Suspect in Day- ton, O, Cincinnatl, Ohio.—Fifty thousand dol- lary’ worth of jewelrs, stolen {rom the home of Col. William Cooper Procter, oA November 28 last, has just been re- «overed in Dayton, O. It. was found nn- der a pile of conl in the cellar of the house occupied by Peter Velker, one of the men indicted in connection witl the robbery. ——— Women Husk Corn. Mundon, Kan—A woman's class joined In a husking bee on the farn of K. L, Baldwin in Liberty town- ship the other day. ‘The Sunday school class of Mrs. Arthur Dry of the Chester Sunday school of the Christlan church went there at the invitation of Baldwin and busked a' load of corn he offered to give themn for the husking. The corn will be sold and the proceeds used for Sun- day school purposes. Dog Hero Gives His Life. Lancaster, Pa—"Jim,” a watchdog owned by H. L. Rhoades of Buena Vista, awakened the Rboades family one morning early when thelr store and dwelling were in flames, and his alarm was instrumental in saving their lves. After the fire “Jim” had disap- peared and his body was found in the ruins, where he had been trapped, i