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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-07-17

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Saggau are
enjoying a visit from their daugh-
tiers of Omaha, Nebr., and their
niece and her husband and son
Of st. Paul. Mr.. and Mrs. Henery
left for Buffalo, N. Y, via boat
at Superior. Wis.
Mrs. Nels Breiland was struck
by lightning Friday while at
tending Ladies' Aid at Otto o.
sons. She was sitting directly
under the telephone when the
bolt came and she was rendered
unconscious for a time, but is
feeling all right at this writing.
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-07-17

Want Ads lie per word.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-24

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the public domain belongs to the peo-
pie, and there are more than 10000, 900
acres, or almost three times as much
az Ohio, open to homeSteadS or sale.
So far about 100000 acres of the
farm lands have been taken up in this
way and the balance is still awaiting
development.
In 1910 there were 1000 applica-
tions for homeSteads This number
had more than trebled by 1915, and
in 1920 the homeSteaders who wanted
lands numbered more than 10000.
The work is going on here and there
in the wilder parts of the archipelago
and the best tracts are being opened
up by new roads, the principal ones
of which are better constructed than
the well developed country highways
of the United States. Every new road
brings new applications and new peo-
pies and the work of pioneering goes
on in a small way like that which
conquered the wilds of our country.
+ x !:
DURING the past month I have
- travelled by automobile and on
horseback through the Provinces of
Nueva Ecija and Nueva Viscaya, the
latter of which has much new land
opened to settlement. l have seen
homesteads staked out in the woods,
and have met caravans of carts, their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-24

shedding, Some Of them was rush
ing 4th G. some back. One gentle
man from Kansas. where prohibition
was dishcovered. were attempting &c
drink a case of shampain to hide the
evidence. Another gentleman IRON
California were tossing whisky
through portfolio so that a Quaren-
tine Inspector could catch it and be
happy. But Fat Lady stood weeping
like 3 persons while saying she
gals MADEIRA wine what the DR..
order for her tonsilitis.
While 1 write this. Mr.. Editor, we
have passed the Statue of Libberty
and gave up hope. Passengers in
every stateroom is eagerly working
attempting to hide Egyptian sofa pill
their hats. Feeling of fright enjoyed
by all Everybody looking innocent
but nervus.
And now, what this? Goshes! We
are humping to wharf. From seaside
/ can hear sound of liquor pouring
secretively down drainpipes. And
now we are standing on topside deck,
watching a great number of emassed
persons standing on pier.
Are not splandid," require Cousin
Nogi, ito see such a collected crowd:
Perhapsly they are here to welcome
US home"
Not entirely" Club. They are
daring us to come ashore"
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly,
HASHIMURA TOGO.
(Conyrirht 1go4O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-24

| fire, by Eolly. To freedom I would
| give anything I got"
| What have you got?" That speech
| came behind me with sound of horrus.
l turn in circles g. what l see there
| One gentleman with eyebrows looking
| quite curio.
do not tempt TO evade me-" he
snarrel. You say you got some
thing. What are it?'
What are your business?" l ask
| to know nervely.
"Everybody's,' he dib. 81 are a
| Custom House Spy. What are you
| concealing from me-"
Nothing but my hair" l narrate
| distinctually.
Duty on hair-goods are 35%o," he
| notate. What that objeck in your
pocket what hludge so"
"A ancient Chinese hot-water bot
File" / goSp. 1T has no duties con-
nectcd with it because over 1000 yrs
| old"
you are fined 1905 for carrying
concealed weapons into l.. s. terri
| tory" he divludge meanly. Take off
yr trousers to show me what jewelry
| you have hidden"
20 not to do before ladies'" ! be-
| seek.
What ladies. coward" he insert.
bOQOtSS OF Liberty, i SuSSle q
| escape away to cellar OF ship where
my state room was.
;: :; X x
RUT no soonly I got there than
- what more can l see? There
stand short gentleman with false
musstache putting his strange hands
| into my suit case,
"Robber" | narrate hottily.
"Ezackly," he argue. Il are Govt.
Booze Inspector. What you done
with that bottle of Cream de Coocoo
what you purchased in Singapore?'
81 got drunk with it," l hummer
slightly.
THAT evidence will be used against
YOU" he amputate. Upon landing
in America please report to Judge
Rumhauser. Inferior Court 23. All you
say will be used against you"
After those speech he disappear,
drinking up my last bottle of Witch
Hazel Balm,
outside in ship I could hear loud
sounds of noise. All passengers was
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are missing their places are supplied
| by ferries which can carry automo-
bileS weighing two tons or more. The
expense of road building is much less
than with us, for the labor charge is
| often only 25 cents a day per man.
| The average cost of the first-class
! roads is about $4,000 per mile.
THE roads are constantly watched.
There is caretaker for every
| kilometer, or fiye-eighthS of a mile.
This man spends all his time in that
| stretch. He fills in the holes as they
come, digs out the grass, and daily
| goes over most of the road with a
| brush or rake made of twigs. He
gets Is pesos a month, or IS cents a
| day, and his job is considered a fat
one by the class to which he belongs.
He has a rake. wheelbarrow and
! shovel, and sometimes men to help
! him. He wears a calico uniform, con-
sisting of blue shirt and red pants,
| and you can see him a mile before
you come to him. These road men are
| to be found all over the Philippines,
| and their work is as we'll done as
| that of the same class who keep in
| order the roads of Germany and
| France.
|
| the Cagayan Valley is an evidence of
the care and engineering skill which
| the FiipinoS employ in making their
! highways. 1t has been laid out by
| civil engineers, and surveys are going
| on everywhere. Some parts of it hug
| the sides of the jungIe-clad cliffs.
The road is cut right through the
| Wilds. The track is wide enough only
for one motor car or truck at time.
There are gates to each section, where
| watchmen keep track of the traffic
by telephone, holding back the We
| hicles of one section until those of
the next section get through.
The road climbs about 5000 feet
| over one range of mountains, skirts
| the hills and drops into a valley. 1t
| then goes over other mountains, with
| frequent bridges and culverts, with
| horseshoe curves and all the windings
about of a corkScrew. In some places
| they were making bridges of pIanks
| of Filipino mahogany Is feet long, IS
| inches wide and 2 inches thick. Here
and there the Igorots were breaking
stone for the road bed, and farther
on putting in concrete culverts to
conduct the mountain streams under
| the highway. The whole ride was a
moving picture, equal to the widest
ever shown on the screen.
| AS we went farther on into the
Jungle we dropped down into valleys
where the homesteaderS had already
| taken up lands. We crossed long
bamboo bridges, and sometimes pom
toons made of dugouts with floors of
bamboo canes, which ratified as the
automobile ran over them. There
| were frequent ferries, where wire
cable was so hitched to the boat that
the stream did the work of carrying
US across. We had to pay toll at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-24
EVERY TIME LOOKED AT CHARLES FEEL THAT ONLY
WAY SOUL CAN GROW IS POISON HIM"

She beats her wings against the bars
in vain" AS for her husband, the
book Of the play says, Charles
Chown is evidently the kind of Il
man who would react to a share Of
Canadian Pacific stock rather than To
Il bunch of carnatiOns; who would
fail to read a page of BerGs"n's
philosophy, but would like marginal
option in the oil company" SO VIC
know exactly what Charles Chown is
like.
Derwent rises and they come to-
gether, saying "Heiga" and "LioneI.'
with an infinite depth of meaning.
Helga draws off her gloves and
drops into chair.
"Charlcs here" she says.
Just left. Did you want to see
him."
NO, to not to see him. Give me a
cigarette"
Lionel comes over near her and
gives her a cigarette and lights it.
"Wherc's Mabel" she asks.
Gone out to the dog show"
They both Shudder.
And Charles"
Went to the stock exchange"
They both shiver.
The audience is following the pla y
with great expectancy and growing
excitement. Its members don't ex-
pect passionate love scene. They
know better than that. But Lionel
and Helga are going to "analyze
| themselves" and the audience waits
for it with breathless interest.
Lionel starts first.
How easy people like Charles and
Mabel seem to find life!'
Helga mods. Yes, don't theyo'
"They never seem to stop to ana
lyZe themselves"
"Perhaps,' murmurs HclEa, they
can't This terrible thought holds
them both silent for a minute. Then
against the bars, speaks.
sometimes ! sit by myself and
think, and try to analyze myself and
everything seems so small and my
self 50 small too, as if nothing mat
tered, just like an infinitely small
bit of something bigger, something
lost in itself and looking for itself
in itself. You know what L mean"
Il think L do"
"Often it seems a if there were
just nothing"
Il know" Lionel murmurs.
and then. sometimes, ii seems as
if there must be something
II know" murmurs Lionel again.
Doesn't it seem queer, Lionel, how
people just go on living? Take
Charles and Mabel. There they are;
two commonplace, ordinary people.
They go about together, to dog
shows and thingS-and that seems to
be enough suppose they like one
another and that's all--they seem
satistied-and with you and me it's
so different-peopie like them don't
seem to know when the soul calls
to another soul"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-24
BIT FRANK G. CARPENTER.
IN N-J-L,NYh UJcCAy 4


"HE wilds of the Philippines.
Do you know what that
means? You look upon these
islands as thickly settled. You
know they have 100000 peo-
pie, one-tenth as many as the whole
United States, scattered over an area
about as big as that of New Mexico,
and You imagine a country of farms
crowded together like those of Ohio,
Indiana or Illinois. The truth is that
most of the Philippines is new land.
Nine-tenthS of it is unsettled. There
are tens of millions of acres in forest
and jungle; there are vast tracts Of
prairie land which are high and
healthful, and wild lands fed by run
ming streams, which need but little
work to fit them for irrigation.
Some of the richest islands are
almost bare of people Bohol has a
tract of unsurveyed forest which is
more than half mile above the sea,
and there are vast areas in Mindanao
high and salubrious and suited for
cattle.
The forests which have never been
touched are larger than the State of
kentucky, and some of the trees are
200 feet high and seven feet in dame
ter. There are other tracts, which
taken together are bigger than the
State of Virginia, suited for intensive
farming; and all told some of the best
lands are as virgin IS they were when
Ferdinand Magellan first saw the
Island of Samar.
1t is now about Is years since Uncle
Sam introduced our homestead policy
to the Filipinos, and since then more
and more of these wild lands have
been taken up every year. Most of
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make Hon. Suez Canal look like a
leak in the bathroom. And yet this
great Waterworks are run more
dainty and sweet than any watch we
could buy, if we could afford it, Mr..
Editor.
/ never saw such cute electricity.
A child could work it, if Sufficiently
spanked SO he would not stick his
thumb in the wheels. BY a remark
abilious sistem of lookup gates the
Pacific Ocean are pulled in from the
West to push Hon. Boat up 100 IT.
while the Atlantick Ocean walk up
from East to drag Hon. Boat down.
stairs again.
How you Suppose that are done?
enclose stamp for reply.
On Western end of Canal are a
Spanish lock called Miraflores 90
Iook-at-the- FlowersD and on East
ern end are another one entitled
Gatun Damn q shall not tell what
that mean. In the central middle of
this unnatural creek set electrician
in a high-up tower. On table befront
of him he got a toy Panama Canal
covered with punch buttons. When
he jabb button entitled Miraflores
Lock a very iron gate, weight $50
tons. % miles away, open up with
delicious smoothneSs resembling a
butterfly swimming in perfumery.
When he poke a button named Gatun
Damn another gate. size of 2I2
churches, II miles distance, swing
around with similar smooth.
How he do that? / ask to know by
radio.
1t take SIS Resolute hrs to go
through Panama Canal. For this L.
S. Govt. charge 20000s for rent. For
that price you could live in y. Y. apt
house two (2) weeks.
Gen. Gothals & Col. Gaillard, who
manufactured this gigantiferous split
through Nature are sometimes men
toned in newspapers. If they was
born in Europe they would now be a
pair of Dukes. This show advantages
of Republican government where no
body but novelists is allowed to get
conceited.
Panama Canal were manufactured
for purpose of helping American
shipping to jump from one side of
the world to another. One day when
we swan through this great slice of
water 1 was enabled to count 10
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I every ferry, but all the roads and
bridges were free.
AS we went on with our journey
we now and then passed through vii
lagos in the valleys, little collections
of matched huts upon posts, shaded
by cocoanuts or bananas. Every one
of these had it's Schoolhouse, some
times made of bamboo canes and
sometimes of boards. In addition to
the hundreds of substantially built
wood and concrete schoolhuses, there
are more than 1000 in the islands
which have been hurriedly put up for
the pupils. Every Schoolyard has it's
garden and athletic grounds, and the
most common sight on the roads is
the little ones going to and from
school In front of every school are
two poles. From one floats the Amer
lean flag and from the other the
Filipino flag. The children salute
both as they come in every morning.
In one of the towns l saw a woman
leading a 300-pound hog with a
clothes line. The line was forked at
| the end, and each fork was fastened
to the pigs ear by button or knot.
The ears had been punched, just as
you punch a strap, with holes as big
around as collar button. The holes
Just fitted the clothes line, and knot
OH the eIQ OI edc1 IOrk kept IL from
coming out. The pig seemed to IN
derstand it was battered and fol-
lowed it's mistress.
Next to chicken, pork is the chief
meat of these islands, and one sees
pigs everywhere. Men carry pigs to
the market strapped to their backs,
and l often see boy with one in his
arms.
T WISH I could show you the trees
and vines of the jungle. There
are hundreds of palms with silver
gray trunks foot in diameter and 80
feet high that break out into a mass
of fern-Iike leaves at the top. There
are great hardwoods as big around as
the boiler of a locomotive, with not
a branch below the height of a six
story house, and there are others 100
feet high loaded with orchids as big
as market basket, some of which
have wonderful flowers.
The bamboos are most interesting,
thousands of green poles, each as high
as an eight-story building, with
feathers of green running from bot
tom to top.
At night most wonderful of all was
the illumination made by the f1ref1ies
There are species of acacias and other
trees nero winch seem TO DC the homes
of these insects, and about which they
fly by the thousands, SO many shoot
ing stars darting up and down and
crosswise, making gigantic Christmas
trees filled with moving diamonds. 1t
seemed to me as though the heavens
had been robbed of the stars for the
trees. Sometimes the acacias were
in groves, which in the pale light of
the heavens looked like mighty pal
aces or apartment houses Illuminated
by spirits flying from window to win
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II know" Lionel murmurs His
part here is very difficult. He has TO
sit and look like a soul and keer
| murmuring. Il know
Helga goes on.
Tho other night at that silly dog
! show as soon as / saw you | could
| feel my soul calling to yours. right
over the dogs-and at the cat show,
| the same thing. But Charles and
| Mabel don't seem to feel things like
| that. At the dog show they seemed
| to be looking at the dogs. Just i'm
| agine."
* j. ::
| THERE is a long silence. and then
Lionel gets us and walks the whole
length of the room and back again
and sits down again. This drama tic
| piece of action means that something
| is coming.
He speaks.
| "Helga," he says, 'I only mention
| this as an idea. Have you ever
| thought of poison?"
Helga very calmly takes out
cigarette from a case and lights it
very deliberately. The audience is
desperately anxious. Has she or has
she not?
Have ! ever thought of poison i?
Poison for whom? Do you mean for
us, TOT you ana me
"Oh, dear no. For Charles and
Mabel. Mind, it's only an idea If
YOU don't like it, I'll say no more"
Helga turns to him face of pas
sionate Yearning.
Yes, Lionel, ] have thought of it.
! often and often. In fact. | came
| over here to talk of it. Every time
] look at Charles | feel that the only
way my soul can grow is to poison
him"
Il know" Lionel murmurs. Il feel
| that way toward Mabel: that it's
only just to her, poor girl, to poison
her"
Presently Helga says:
when can we do it,
To-day would he all right unless
you've anything else on. Mabel's go
ing over to tea with you this after
noon. isn't she? We can arrange it
for then.
ACT 1.-THE Drawing Room of the
Chown Residence.
MABEL and Charles have gone to
4'A the stables to see Charles new
mare, and Lionel and Helga are left
| together.
$50 you're off the poison ideao"
CLEAR off it." says Lionel; las I
| told you just now. L don't think it's
worth it"
Worth it?"
'Yes-I mean it would involve such
terrible fuss and nuisance. Here's
the poison-Meadows got it,"
Lionel takes from his pocket a
large packet in light green paper
marked with a skull and crossbones
and labeled arsenic in large letters.
we can use it if you like I'm
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Il ARE A CUSTOMHOUsE SPY" HE DIB

ships going to opp direction. 8 OF
them was English, Japanese and
one Cd (a.tug) American. This show
that America are anxious to rule the
waves. howeverly much it cost.
tBefore printing this important
chapter, Mr.. Editor. please to ask
yoLr printer TO straighten up the
figures, some of which are kind of
crooked)
60 for six Co days, Mr. Editor, this
~ IS Resolute has bumped across
hash Atlatick waves, hoping to reach
n. J. before the drug stores is raided
again. Me & Nogi are standing on
top story of IS Rcsolute where we
has watched Sandy Hook pass Us
with seasick expression.
And neXtly through fog q gasolene
what we see there? A tall iron lady
with nails in her hair & a hot torch
in her hand measuring II #
Statue of Libberty!" l holla senti-
manually.
Statue of Liberty" guggle Nogi
with tear-drop all over his eye.
DO YOU reelize," l cumbuSt, that
we have jurnied 310O0.0S miles around
the waist-line of Earth Gncluding
optional tours & the day we got lost
in ShanghaD" in all those dark
lands We find downtroddy boots OF
Imperial Power walking on knocks.
Think of India where you must ask
burnt policeman with Whiskers &
a sword before finding your direction
back to MOTEL. Think OF China where
you cannot cash check without
knowing the cashier, Think of Japan
where there are so many wage-slaveS
that everybody has got to work.
But ah." | say that Now we
can observe that hardware statue OF
that magnifcd angel. Liberty, 1t do
both my lungs good to sniff the air
which are free, if slightly smoky.
Now we are in America. residence of
equality, where tyranny are illegal
and nobody get ground up"
1T are sort of inspiring" dictate
Nogi from joy. II are slightly peeved
at Kingdoms, bolshive empires & other
forms of aristocratick govt. l are
craZed about America where / can
walk free without any chains on
20 Libberty"' | oratorio. See how
she hold up her mighty burner to give
us welcome come back. l are on
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Tin which man and woman. both trying to
find themselves, fine one another.
4 the opposite pole of thought
~ from the good old melodrama
"A with it's wind and seaweed
4 \ and danger. and its happy
ending, Is the ultramodern,
up-to-date Piff1e Play.
1t is named by such name as THE
Soul Call" or The Heart Yearn," or
The Stomach Trouble"-always some
thing terribly perplexed, and with so
per cent of sex in 1t. 1t always deals
in one way or another with the prob
lem of marriage. Let 1T be noted that
marriage. which used to be a sacra-
ment, became presently contract
and is now a problem. In art and
literature 1t used to constitute the
happy ending. Now 1T is the bad be-
ginning.
When the Pif1e Play begins. the
scene is room. 1t is called "A Room
in the Derwent Residence" An in
effective young man in gray tweed
suit is seated at little table on the
left. playing patience with pack of
cards
The audience. by looking up on
the program "the characters in the
order of their appearance" knows
that the Ineffective young man at the
table is Lionel Derwent, husband of
Mabel Derwent.
The book of the play explains to
them that Lionel Derwent is the type
of young man who would rather
smoke cigarette than work i'll
coal mine. In appearance he looks as
If proposition in solid geometry
would bore him. He is quite visihly
a man who might be fond of Pekin-
csc dog. but one sees at once that he
would not care to attend Motel
mans annual convention at Niagara
-the-Lake." Reading this, the au-
dience knows exactly what sort OF
man he is.
r r X
TN comes Meadows. the butler. with
l. the words: Mrs. Chown.
Helga Chown comes sliding into the
ROOM She is dark. very beautiful
and as slender as a liquor glass. Her
clothes are pure art and droop on her
like a butterfly's wings.
AS to her character, the audience
know all about it already from read
ing about THE Soul Call" before they
see it: and, anyway, they have the
book of the play. which says:
"HeIga, the wife of Charles ChoWn,
is woman whose soul has over
grown her body. Life presses her
on all sides and she cannot escape.