Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 21, 1922, Page 8

i « -tana is on the qui vive for a pnsmble FIT OF REMARKABLE DEPTH Strong Belief Held in English County : That “Elden Hale” Is Abso- { 1t lyhly loglomlul. | Far ‘from nhabitation, on a Hillside in the moers of Derbyshire, England, Mes a dreadful chasm in the rock. The ‘chiasm is of no great width, but has & sheer descent to a tremendous depth. THhis Is the bottomless pit of “Eldon Hole” regarded for centuries as un: fathomable. ; The gap is surrounded Dy, low stone wall, and a projeeting lefige. at one end enables the adven- turoys lnvutintor to peer down into the gloomy depths For ages the chasm was regarded 18 a terrible place, pop- ulurly supposed to lead directly to ‘in- fernal reglons. A gruesome story re- iates that 300 years ago a man was lowered into the cleft to a depth of 800 feet. When the unfortunate fel- HARRY WONG TI, LEGION MAN New York, Worker for His Organization. ‘ble garh qt flu celestlals, the danger- o ous dives and the | ornate JolI- ed out to sights : York's rubber- neck busses rum- hling through Chinatown. . But perspicacious persons realize that ‘“China in America”. is rep- resented as often by elean-cut young ‘men as by long-haired ancients, low was hauled up again he was a rav- ing maniae, agd died eight days later, For centuties the place was regarded with superstitions awe and no real at- tempt was made ‘to find the bottom until’_about 1700, when one writer stated that half a milé of rope had ! falled to reach it. As the whole diz- trict is honeycombed with holes and crevices, it is-probable that the chasm of “Eildon Hole” leads to a maze of underground passages, - GATHER EGAS OF SEA FOWL| Indians on the West Coast of Wash- Irgton Take Desperate Risks Robbing Murres’ Nests. " The sea fowl known as the murre arrives off the west coast of Washing- ton early-in the spring, finds a slit in the rockeliffs or. @, convenient ledge where, with-no nesting material, the eggn are lald. Bgg gatherers, mostly Indians, ¢iimb the clifts dnily, tuking out oné fresh egg from each nest. The climbers maintain their positions on the almost perpendicular rocks by chip- ping out hand and foot holds from the cliffs, These are used year after year. * A ‘bag ‘hung from the neck.and exténding down the back contains the egg harvest. The egg of this sea fowl, the Detroit Neivs states, has excellent nourishing qualities for invalids, and contains an abnormal amount of 'white albumen. Though the murre subsists on fish, the fiavor of the egg Is not dissimlilar to that of the domestic hen. A curlous feature In cooking is that the albumen dors not become solldified and of an opaque whiteness, as does that of the chicken egg, but retains its jellylike character and is light- blue in color. In size the eggs are approximately that of the goose. Dog Mothers Baby Chicks. A Qollie dog wlilch of her own ae- cord has adopted two orphan chicks, is reported from British .Columbia, One rafny day the wife went out to take the chicks in from the rain, and found them cuddled up in the fur of the dog. When they are kept In a tin “In the house the dog rests her head on'the tin; and when'a cloth 18 put over-“the ‘tin, she pushes it away and puts ler nose in the tin. When they are In the yard she guards them constantly and when Bhe leaves them they chirp qnlte pitifully. At' a recent meetlng of a London literary club an author gave an ad- dress on the subject, “Why Write?" Lest anyone should accuse him of adopting ‘any pose of Mterary Phari- saism, he frankly treated his theme auteblographically and for this purpose set out arithmetically his motives (a) when he first began to write, and (b) at ‘the present day. In the first case the total was made up of 50 per cenf, ambition, 256 per cent vanity, 20 per cent the urge to earn a living and 6 per cent soyething to say, In the second case ambition had disappeared and the proportions had changed to 560 per cent earning a living, 25 per cent vanlty, 25 per cent something to say. AL JESTER, FORMER BEMIDJ1 MAN; TELLS ABOUT OIL 0il prospects around Kevin, Mont,, | ¢ 150 miles north of Great Falls, where considerable cxploratory work. has been going on for several months, are considered promising, according to Al Jester, formerly deputy United States marshall of Minnesota, now manager of the Stone-Ordean-Wells company branch at Great Falls, who has been in Duluth a few days at- tending a meeting of department managers, Mr. Jester says that speculation in oil leases is one of the chief occupa- . tions of many in that section, ‘options bemg secured on land at prices that ~look large when the value of the land .. from a farming standpoint is consid- ered He says that a noted geologist lnmlilr with oil regions of other v.;ecmms. is authority for the state- , vment -that somewhere in the Keyin «locality is a great reservoir of 'oil, +rand everyone in that section of Mon- gusher ‘any day. Several pumping wells are already producing, accord- * ing to Mr. Jester.—Duluth Weekly Herald, ENJOY PICNIC SUPPER Mrs, W. F. Jameson and daugh- ters, and their guests, Mrs. Erickson and little son. Bobbie, also Mrs. -W. S. Baker of Blackduck, and the nine State ‘Teachers college summer stu- dents ‘who have stayed at the Jame- son home while here, enjoyed an out- Harry Wong Ti, who served in the Seventy-seventh division, is one of Chi- na’s nost active sons in New York. One of three American-born Chinese ex- service men of the John Purroy Mitch-‘|" €} post of the American Legion, Ti is buslly aoccupied in ralsing funds for a' lean-to at the veterans’ mountain camp in the Adirondacks. He also serves on the executive committee of his post. In a recent round-up of slackers in Ohinatown several Chinese ex-soldiers assisted the Leglon “detectives” in the work of tracking ‘their quarry, and in many other ways Chinese service men have proved to the Legion, by their progressiveness and their inithative, how 'orthy they are as patriotic citl- e o3 e OLD GLORY AND UNION JACK Emblems Flost Side by 8ide ‘Over Great Arch Astride Canadian and United States Border. Astride . the Capadian border at Blaine, Wash., is a great peace arch, celebrating a hundred years of friend- ly relations between Candda and the United States. 'Siile by side float the Stars ‘and Stripes and the Union Jack ~na symbol nf our-international good will, The vista of peaces which American Leglonnaires saw in thelr mind’'s eye’ through “this “portal gave - them ‘the' hame of thelr “Peace Arch post” at Blaine, /At the time of the unveiling 62 the monument the Legion took an - The Great Peane Arch. active part in' the ceremonies, and rep- ressnted with_thelr uniformed ranks the strengthening of the bonds of brotherly feeling with Canada which ¢ame a8 a result of the recent alllance against a common enemy: £or common |deals, - On the. architrave of the monument gre carved the wordy, “Children of a Common Mother,” to’ perpétuaté “the jdet of the triangular relationship be- tween England aud her two American offspring, Carrying On With the 3 ‘A'plen‘that ®ll students-at Nebraska university Joln ‘{he ‘Leglon ‘for. the honor of ‘the institution and the per- petulty of our country” has been made by - Chinncellor “Avery. P The “Soclety of Military and Naval Officers of the. World ‘War” has come into existence* In New York state Plans are under Wiy to niake it a nu- tlonwide organizZation, wlth hereditary membership. . -“ . Ex-seryice men ‘who ask for. ald at Racine, Wik, recéive no hearing un- less..they - hold & letter of .endorse- ment from the American Legion. “Im- postors . in ‘bought ‘uniforms” have brought on the move. sEoh ipd S e e Influx of Japanese on newly opened farm land is gpposed by the American; Leglon of 'central Oregon. :George Shima, so-called Japanese potato king, has_shares“in a company which owns 17,000 acres of this landa. . " » “To.aid and to ald quickly” is the object ‘of ‘the ‘Washington State as- sociation 'Iin New York City, which | 1 checking ‘up oh Washington state soldlers in need. The Legion I8 asking other states to “do likewise.” . s s “Wait two years until the gas gets working good,” was no idle jest on the part - of 'the ‘Germans. . Almost one- third of - the ‘80,000 hospltal cuses in America are suffering from mental ing with a picnic supper at Diamond Point last evening. disorders, the X-Af‘lnn‘ reports. suvecribe Sox The Delly Floneer. One of China’s Most Active Sons In | The: Tong-talled queues and honors- |- houses are points | seers aboard New 5 4(‘ Yor Country imply Provide“Funds for can-tmcllm (Prepared ' by tgtn A"Lnigx‘llt ml}:m Department Federal .ald has cone a great deal more for the country than simply to provide funds “for' road construction, according to the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of ‘Agriculture. One of the most far- reéaching results has been its influence in placing the greater part of the high- way work of the country in the hands of experienced engineers of state high- way departments, : 1 'In 1915, prior tn the federal-aid act, 70 per cent of the road work was done by agencles other than state high- way departments, most of it by county officials. Such a system was bound to be wasteful. Overhead costs were bigh, engineers were not always em- ployed, systems to serve the best In- terests of the state as a whole were not developed, and the opportunities for eprruption were greater. - ‘With the passage of the federal-ald act of 1916 and the insistence of the A Mogern Impiement for Smoothing Dirt Roads. government upon the construction of federal-aid- roads under the supervision .| of ‘#tate departments, -existing state highway departments were enlarged ana ‘strengthened, ‘and in 17 statés adequate departments have been crea- ted where there had been none, or the existing one was not properly equlwed i to_perform necessary functions. ith adequate departments the work has been shifted to their control until at the present time they 'supervise more than 60 per cent of the road work. This assures to the taxpayer the services of engineers trained in road work, a centralized authority re- sponsible for the expenditure of funds, and a far-sighted plan of development and, flmmclng COMPILING COST OF PAVING Figures 8ecured by Bureau of Public Roads Cover 68,000,000 Yards of Work. b Average costs per square yard of va- rious types of paving for country roads have been compiled by the bu- reau. of public roads, United. States Department of Agflcultum The fig- ures covér’ 68,000,000 square yards of paving constructed :with federal ald in all parts of the Unlfed States dur- ing the period of 1916-21." The costs per square yard are as follows: Sand- clay, 18 ‘cents; gravel, 46 cents; plain and surface‘treated . ‘macadam, 95 cents ; bituminoys macadam, $2.10; bi- tuminous concrete, $2.50; plain cement concrete, $2.567; reinforced-cement concrete, $2°74; -and-brick, $4.10. These figures cover only the cost of the paving; they do not imclude tife cost of grading, and officlals point out that it must not be-assumed that roads of the several types can be construct- ed In any locality at these figures. For example, the cost of bituminous con- crete varied from $1.70 in the New Englang states to $3.18°in the group of states including Kentucky, Tenhes- see, Misslssippi and Alabama. Inone group of statés. the cost of brick dropped to $2.40. Costs of construct- ing these typeu in the various groups of states have ‘been compiled and can be obtained from the bureau. HELPS - TO SUSTAIN PRICES One of the Biu‘ Factors Is Construc- tion of Good:Roads Planneéd for the. comlng Year. Oile ot the factors that will help'to sustain farm . prices 18" the ‘large amount of’ road: building planned for this year, The govemmcnt will spend a larger Sum for thif”purpose than ever bemm. and states ‘and ‘countles will co-operate to the extent of their J}anclul abilities,” Money for Good Ro-d- In_Washington a bill authorizing $140,000,000 for good roads for the next two years was recently passed in the house by a vote of 239 to 81.-The measure provides that-$65,000,000 shall be available by June 80, 1923, and $75,000,000 by June 30, 1924, Good ‘Roads in Quebec, During 1921 the proyince of Quebec constructed 416 miles of good roads. More than' 4,000 miles’ of highway are' now belng kept In perfect repair in tizhec province. @abecride for The Delly Ploneer. | PRICES ONLY $20 to $45 A Few a Little ngher - No Interest or Taxes, for Two Years SHh A "No Payments When Sick g THESE LOTS are too far from our home ofl"1ce We were about to wholesalé ‘them at slaughter pric but decided to give the wage earners of Bemidji the - benefit of the reduced prices. ; ALL DAY SUNDAY When you can select your lots . ¢ and get ¢ontract later o == You an Be Your é)wn Sa‘lesma ; OIL The rice_and Terms are Mark : Pra‘inly on Each Lot We should sell these prme, but instead, to clean up we are reducmg the price 25 to 50 per cent ‘ : To Reach North Park--Come out Irvfne Avéhug North side of Falr Grounds and see our sign on the 1e