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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-03-31

rich agricultural land. The value tof
these farm lands runs from twenty
dollars an acre in the cut-over dis
tricts of Louisiana and Minnesota
to $3.50 an acre in Iowa. The aver
age price would probably be close to
$50 an acre. Figure it out per front
foot on the 1900 mile frontage il you
want to.
The Lincoln Highway which
stretches across the continent from
coast to- coast will be- a wonderful
achievement when it is finished and
of untold value to- thea nation. But,
insofar as continuous trips are con-
cerned, the Lincoln Highway can
hardly excel in actual utility value,
the Jefferson Highway from Winni-
peg to New Orleans. The two high
ways are, destined to- be- the, great
transcontinental highways of the
United States and they form link
for travellers connecting the east and
the west, the north and the south.
It is particularly appropriate that
this north and south highway
through the great Louisiana Purchase
territory with the southern terminus
resting at New Orleans should be
launched in the year 1915: because
it was the one hundreth anniversary
of the battle of New Orleans and of
peace between the two greatest Eng
lish speaking nations or world en-
pires
The jefferson Highway, not only
touches the greatest chain of cities
west of the Mississippi river but is
a farmers route as we'll because more
than half the farmers of the middle
west now ride in automobiles and
they are fairly inoculated with the
tourist fever. The Jefferson High
way affords a trip from pine to palm,
from snow to semi-tropie. Touching
Winnipeg, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Des
Moines, St. Joseph and Kansas City,
it will carry thousands of northern
tourists southernward to the joys of
Louisiana, New Orleans and the Gulf
of Texas. On the other hand, it is
just as intensely desirable for people
living anywhere south of Kansas
City to take the Jefferson Highway
for the great lake districts of north
ern Minnesota and Manitoba.
Notwithstanding that it is farm
land route, the Jefferson Highway is
not by any means devoid of scenery.
To scenery must be added sentiment
and history. No section of the Unit
ed States is more delightful for sum-
mer outing than Minnesota. From
there southwark one passes through
the rich corn belt down to the Ozarks,
on through the scenery of Arkansas,
or across the rich prairies of Okla
homa, on through the old plantation
districts of Louisiana and to the
queen city of old time days, New Or
leans
There is military value attached to
the Jefferson Highway for it touches
the land which can put corn and pork
into the knapsacks of armies, furnish
lead and zinc for their ammunition
supplies, wool for clothing, cotton for
explosives and unlimited quantities
of oil for fuel.
The great majority of tourists will
strike the Jefferson Highway at about
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it's mid rib and thesdirection they
take will depend upon the season.
One cannot pick a time of year when
one end or the other of the Jefferson
Highway will not draw TOURISTS with
the pulling power ola magnet. =
The Jefferson Highway association
was organized in New Orleans on No
vembefe 5 and 16, 1915. In the few
months which have interviewed since
that great. convention, a spirit Of
road building has developed which
is a marvel of all good roads organi-
cations. Not only are individual
counties voting bonds that Will pro-
vide for hard surfacing their respec-
tive sections of the jefferson High
way but they are voting bonds which
will in many cases provide the whole
county with hard surfaced highways.
When the route from Winnipeg 20
New Orleans was first proposed there
was doubt eassstot. it's lpracticability.
But the extent, of road improvement
which it was found already existed
on the route selected aroused a con-
fident enthusiasm for the early COM
pletion Of the whole two thousand
mile highway.
| Not only are individual counties
taking up with the improvements of
the Jefferson Highway but in several
cases, the states themselves are back
ing the project through their high
way commissions: This is true par
ticularly in the states of Minnesota,
Arkansas and Louisiana.
The founders of the Jefferson High
way, enthusiastic believers in the
great value Of good roads have them
selves been surprised. at the wonder
fu1 spirit Of road building extending
throughout the states traversed,
which this International highway
project has created.
! The states of the Louisiana Pur-
chase territory can we'll afford to have
good roads. They comprise the most
remarkable single body of agriculture
al land in the world. In, addition to
agricultural wealth they have tim
Der, lead, zinc and other minerals
and unlimited quantities of oil and
gas.
| just take map of the United
States and glance over that strip of
territory comprising the eleven states
between Canada and the Gulf and the
foot hills of the Rockies and the Mis-
sissippi river. It is body of land
averaging over five hundred miles in
length and approximately three thou
sand miles deep from top to bottom.
This is an empire in infancy. Con-
slider that it contains the great plains
for stock raising, limitless expanses
of grain lands, comprising the richest
farming country, enormous timber
wealth, oil and gas and most import
ant of all, population in whose
blood is the spirit of empire building.
The Jefferson Highway passes
through the principal population CEN
ters of this part of the United States
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from nortlDte.soutla

from nortaE to.soutNs &
Straagez to~say, Observation-Disclosures
that this is the best third of the
whole United States, It has been one
|of the last great sseetl AsbatD tstlAie up
the question of public road building:
Here and there much has been done,
particularly in the stAtes ota MiAne-
sofa and Missouri but TIM spirit OF
highway improvements seemed tns be
readyzin ansthese states tos lsa8E int
flame and the Jefferson Highway or.
ganization has supplied the ignition
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FOR SALE-Ones set of blacksmith
tools and one good organ in black
walnut case; bargain. See Chas.
E.. Chapman, All Bemidji Ave.
II. s,- z.s..- 2d41
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-03-31

Thegsentdmsnt hns sp1Ad With -
|markable rapiditya until in- most eases
it has already become a statewide
movement. ~. ..>>2. =. ,S=..,. -
! p RI e:A fiji BIZ result of the Jefferson
Highway wi1f-not be- confined to a
single automobile trunk line from
FWinnineE to NeMFO rlAAnss It Will
|amonnt tosa grsats tzafnk line and
hunIlretls sof conneBting blaHerals east
|andAwsst and ansimproxeanent oEoaal
roads in the Jefferson Highway
states.
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FOR SALE=-Foury lots and <six-room
house, blocks from city hall.
Price $500. Part cash. M. A.
Soper. 6d46
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FOR SALE|LOts 21-22> Block IA,
Minnesota Ave: Address, Mrs.
Mary Stanley, Anderson, Alta,
+ Canada. 3d43
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FOR SALE room cottage on so
it. lot, 2 blocks from high school
and Central school. Herbert
Wood 819 America Ave. tt
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FARMS. FOR SALE.

The Pioneer Is the place to buy
your rolls of adding machine paper
for Burroughs adding machines: One
roil, g. dozen. rolls, ora hund:ed rolls
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FOR SALE-Seven-r room, house and
three fifty-foot lots, corner site,
cheap. Inquire B. English, Grand
Centralf Hotel. 3d331
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-03-31

FOR SALE Or will exchange for a
team of horses; four-room house,
lots on 21st St.. Inquire Charles
Madsen, 1901 Park Ave. 2d41
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FOR SALE OR RENT-The Nymore
House. Inquire F. w. Nye, N.Y.
more. 3d41
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INV HUDLI0 IID1A1Y.
Open daily. except Sunday, 1 to {. u
n, e p. q. Sunday. reading room
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
MADE HIS WORKMEN RIVALS.
How Charles M. Schwab Spurrss Them
on to Greater Efforts

In telling how he increased the eff
cheney Of one Of his departments
Charles NJ. Schwab, the lannon's steel
man, says in the American Magazine:
1T was near the end of the day; IN
a few minutes the night force would
come on duty. | turned to workman
who was standing beside one OF tho
red mouthed furnaces and askSd him
for piece OF chalk.
How many heats has your shift
made today: | queried.
six, he replied.
Il chalked a big 6 on the floor and
passed along without another word.
When the night shift came in they
saw the g and asked about IT,
1.-The big boss was in here today,
said the day men lie asked US how
many heats we had made and we told
him six He chaIked it down
The next morning passed through
the same mill ! saw that the g had
been rubbed out and big : written
instead The might shift had an
nounced itself That night | went
back The : had been erased. and Il
To- swa@4cJed III its place. The dav
force re- o4lizcd no superiors Thus 4
fine competition was started and 1
went on until this mill formerl, The
poorest producer was turning out
more than any other mill In the plant
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
Erohman,s Little Safe.

When Charles Frohman was treas
urer with Haverly's minstrels he con-
ceiyed novel stunt of arousing curl
osity in small towns. He bought a
small iron safe. about three feet high
and on 1t had painted in big letters
Treasurer, Haverly's Mastodon Min
strels." Now actually there was little
need for this safe, but it was always
carried on the first load of baggage
that went to a hotel 1t would be
placed in a conspicuous place, and then
Frohman, waiting until the proper mo-
ment, would hustle up to 1t with an
air of great Importance, open it, put in
two or three 500 bills, close it and go
away. When the crowd bad gone he
would slip back and get the money out
again. 1t proved good advertising
stunt.-"Charles Frohman, Manager
and Man"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
Origin of an Old Saying.

Many think that the saying Blood is
thicker than water" originated with
Commodore Tatnall OF the United
States navy, who assisted the English
In the Chinese waters, and, in his dis
patch to his government, justified his
interference by quoting the words. 1t
is, however, an old English proverb
and is to be found in Rays collection
of English Proverbs, published in 1872.
Walter Scott, too, makes Dandie Din
mont say: "Weel, 'bluid's thicker than
water She's welcome to the cheeses
and the hams, just the same" ."-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
RUSE OF A CHINAMAN.
Glover Way He Got Around the Law
and Gained His Case.

A cemetery is the one sacred spot in
China. To desecrate such a place Is
the worst of crimes. Some years since
there lived in a village on the plain OF
the Yellow river q man called Tu. His
little farm furnished him with COM
Portable living, but nothing more. Like
all farms In that part OF China, there
was no fence TO separate his fields
from those OF his neighbors. One of
these neighbors was rascal, who,
knowing Mr.. Tu to be of mild disposi-
ton, resolved to impose upon him by
plowing a few burrows Of Mr.. Tu's
land and thus Incorporating 1t with his
own. This act did not pass unobserved,
but Mr. Tu was cautious as well as
mild. He knew that litigation came
high and was uncertain. Better" he
said to himself, Ito endure the wrong
than to suffer loss Of both land and
money"
The next year the nefghbor repeated
the experiment and plowed up q few
more burrows. Again Mr. Tu consult
ed with himself and determined, as
previously, that law was too expensive
a luxury for him.
The neighbor encouraged by this
complaisance, continued to add to his
own acres at the others expense. At
length he became so bold as to incor-
porate in this way the family ceme-
terry where were buried Mr.. Tu's an
cestors.
Then Mr. Tu saw the chance for
which he had been waiting. By plow-
Ing up this cemetery the nelghbor had
committed sacrilege. The only diff
Guilty was that the punishment was SO
severe that it might not be possible,
unless he was careful, to get his neigh
Dor punished at all. For the law was
that if the magistrate should take no.
tice Of the suit he would have to send
up report to his superiors at the cap
ital Of the province and request that
proper punishment be inflicted upon
himself, seeing that so heinous a crime
had been committed in the district for
which he was responsible
Accordingly Mr. Tu brought the mat
ter before the magistrate in a way
that did not involve that official. He
brought accusation against his father,
who was dead, for having moved his
grave off his sons land to that of the
encroaching neighbor instead OF abid-
Ing In the cemetery where he properly
belonged
The Chinese love humor and greatly
admire shrewdness. When, therefore,
the magistrate read this amazing doc
ument he smiled with genuine appre-
citation OF Mr. Tus cleverness, called
up the offending neighbor made him
restore all the land he had approprt-
ated and punished him with due sever-
ity for his robbery. Youths Compan-
ION
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Effectiua Dancer SION.

A contractor who has observed that
pedestrians pay little attention to signs
has evolved new plan to guard against
accidents TO innocent bystanders.' A
steam shovel working many feet below
the surface of the street attracts scores
of persons daily They stop, lean over
the board railing around the excava-
tion and stare Sometimes the crowd
gets so large that there is danger Of the
railing giving way and plunging them
into the excavation. Danger signs
don't worry them; hence the new idea
of the contractor He has smeared the
top of the railing with tar and grease.
Now persons who never shudder at the
danger" sign flee from the grease
menace as if it were poison. Philadel-
phia North American.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
A CITY OF SILENCE.
Conditions That Make Santa Cruz de In
Sierra Noiseless

Amid gusts of Scotch mist and under
heavy skies we drifted inertly into a
sand paved, silent, tropical city street,
past rows of languid stares, and on the
last afternoon of the year. with CO.
chabamba "a town in the center of Bo-
livia) 335 miles behind us, we sat
down dripping and sunburned In the
central plaza of Santa Cruz de la
Sierra.
The capital of all the vast tropical
department OF eastern Bolivia owes its
fame largely to its isolation. Far
away one hears much of 1t; once there,
he finds little. Like the eminent men
of many secluded corners Of South
America, 1t Is important only through
the exceeding unimportance of its
neighbors.
1t is city Of silence. Not only its
bare feet, but its primitive OK carts
make not sound In the sand streets.
There Is no industry to add its strident
voice, and every street fades away at
each end into the trackless, whisper
ing, jungled montana.
LII IAll5 ldlIS ScusOll, w lllSn DeSllls III
earnest with the new year and lasts
through April, 1t had many muddy
pools and ponds, along the edges of
some of which the streets crawled by
on long heaps of the skulls OF cattle,
bleached snow white by the sun.
The larger ponds were almost lakes
and carried the mind back to Handy,
Ceylon. Frequently the streets were
flooded deep for an hour or more until
the thirsty sand had drunk up the trop-
fcal deluge. For these eventualities the
town has a system of its own. At ev-
cry street corner four rows of weather
blackened piles protrude foot or more
above the sand and along these step
ping stones the shod minority passes
from one rooted sidewalk to another.
The houses invariably consist OF a
large room. by day opening directly on
the porch sidewalk. though the best of
them are rather bare in appearance,
despite small forest of frail cane
chairs. black in color, as the best pro-
vided Cruceno family is not rich by
our standards Henry A. Franck, in
Century Magazine.
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visible anu consider what ii can do We
cannot fail to be astounded. 1t seems
the very quintessence Of deyilishness.
The honeybee's sting is complicated
so complicated that many words and
much ink have been used in discuss
ing its construction and use.
It is generally conceded that the
sting consists of shaft of three parts.
the principal one being a sheath within
which move two barbed lancets. Like
the barbs of fishhook, the lancets are
not easily extracted from the flesh into
which they have been driven. The
sheath and the lancets combined form
a hollow tube through which the poi
son flows from the poison sac.
Two hairy, soft projections, evident
~ very sensitive, inform the bee when
she is In contact with a shngable OBJ
ject.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
Fanny crosbx,s Memory.

The blind hymn writer, Fanny Cros-
by, who immortalized herself with
Safe In the Arms of Jesus" was ca
pable of the most amazing exhibitions
OF inability to forget"
On one occasion she contracted to
supply publisher with ninety hymns.
She composed forty-fve Of these, sim
ply storing them in her memory with
out committing a word TO paper When
she had finished the forty-fifth she be
gan to dictate them, going right through
without a pause She then did the
same with the other forty e.-Londor
Answers
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
POWER OF FROST.
Fall of Fifty Ton Bowlder of Granite
In the Yosemite.


In the Yosemite.
Delicate frost tracings on the win
dowpanes seem to be the work of fan
ciful and harmless sportiveness, but
the hand that forms them is capable of
greater deeds and other kinds.
An official of the geological survey
tells of an experience that must have
been wonderfully impressive to the
spectator He had been spending some
weeks in exploring the Yosemite valley
and the great rocks" like Ell Captain,
that wall it in.
Standing one day of late autumn
about the middle of the valley, he was
startled by report like cannon shot,
which filled the whole valley with
echoes that roared and doomed, re-
piled and multiplied, in long continu-
ed, glorious tumult.
AS the deafening sound died away in
sullen mutterinGs under the visor of Ell
Captain the spectator was able to dis
tinguish the point of attack by the long,
Gathering descent of a vast quantity
of rock.
The night had been a cold one in the
valley, and on the 1000 and 5000 foot
levels of the upper rim the temperature
must have dropped almost to zero.
Frost working quietly with his Archi-
medean lever, had just succeeded in
shifting from the shoulder of the senti-
mel tri1e of fifty tons or so of granite.
For near a thousand feet the bowlder
fell sheer, swift and silent; then, strik-
ing the cliff, it burst like bomb, shat
tered into a myriad flying shards and
splinters and dislodged IA smother OF
fragments that trickled down to the
valley in stream that lasted for min
utes.
Then from the spot where the bowld-
er had struck dust begsn to rise into
the sunny air. slowly building up like
summer cloud and every bit as snowy.
It was the -four of granite, powdered
instantaneously by the terrific shock.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
NERVE OF A STEEPLEJACK.
His Coolness and Resource In Time
of Extreme Peril.


Ordinary people standing on mar,
row ledge whence they can see down
200 or 300 feet are SO appalled, by the
danger of falling that their nerves give
way, their bodies finch and there
comes to some at least an impulse to
end the menta, strain by a leap into
the gulf But the steepIeiack is indif
ferent to height and proximity to the
abyss.
The coOlness and resource of these
men were never better shown than in
a case which happened in upper New
York state few years ago y steeple
jack had flown his kite over IA chimney
and subsequently drawn himself up TO
the top. He was just beginning his in
spection of the work when 10y some
mishap he dropped his rope and was
left, Ike St Simeon StyliteS. alone on
his pillar
Attempts were made to fly another
kite over him, but the wind had drop
ped. There were iron ladders inside
the chimney, but the fires would have
to be drawn and the chimney let cool
for hours.
The steeplejack was then seen to un-
lace one of his shoes, take off the long
blue stocking worn by such worllmen
and set to work carefully to unrayel it,
knotting the pieces of yarn together
when necessary.
He then fastened stone to the end,
plumbed the depth. picked the other
stocking to pieces and added it to the
first length Of yarn and let it down far
enough to meet a tall ladder, from
which he drew up first . piece Of
strong string, next a rope and then
after completing his inspection of the
chimney top lowered himself to the
ground Los Angeles Times.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
LABOR NOTES.

The next annual convention Of the
American Federation will be held M
Buffalo
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America demand a 50 increase and Il
forty-eight hour week.
The American Federation of Labor
has again pledged answering support
to the eight hour movement.
Cabo-R o-Rojo, Porto Rico. has Confec-
toners union affiliated with the labor
movement of the United States.
Mayor Elect Thomas Van Lear of
Minneapolis, Mimi, is an international
organizer for the Machinists union.
About $4,000 union men paraded in
New York recently to express sym
eathy for strikers who are in jail In
Minnesota awaiting trial for rioting.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
The White House.

A prize of $500 was offered in Wash
ington's administration for the best de-
sign for a house to serve as home for
the president in Washington James
Hoban, an Irishman from South Caro-
lima, was the successful competitor His
sketch contained so many wings and
colonnades that the public was horri-
fed, and frills and gingerbread decora-
tions were eliminated. The result was
the two story White House as we know
1t now Washington laid the corner
stone Of the building in 1892. 1t was
completed in 1899, the year of Wash.
ington's death
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-29
RAGAMUFFIN ABYSSlNIA.
Its Despotic Rulers Descend From
Menelik, Son of Solomon.

Menelk, Son of Solomon.
Abyssina Is the Ethiopia Of the
Bible, and it is almost unchanged since
the birth of civilization. The line of
despots that ruic Abyssinia today are
the lineal descendants Of Menelik the
son of the queen of Sheha and King
Solomon They seem 10 have inherited
very little II tnc well known wisdom
Of their famous sire. however. for
Abyssinia is today the unregenerate
ragamutin among nations-and also
the picturesque remnant OF the worlds S
Oldest civilization.
For Abyssinia. surrounded by trop-
ical wilderness and without seaport,
is a country apart from the modern
world-a country Of turbaned and san
daled men. of yelled women wearing
silver anklets. of mighty hunters who
still take their game with leopards and
hawks as in Biblical days a land
where gentlemen live by plunder and
monks by aims and man has as many
wives as he can buy or steal.
Abyssinia is a fortress Of antiquity,
defying the world by It's sheer physical
impenetrability But a few degrees
from the equator, 1t is a great mass Of
igneus mountain ranges flung down
upon tropical plain. Lower Abyssinia
is burning desert and fever ridden jun
gle. The interior is healthy upland cut
by great gorges, many Of which are
wholly impossible. In the midst OF
this wilderness is Lake Tsana, forty
seven miles long and more than 5000
feet above sea level. 1t is the source
of the Blue Nile. Exchange.