The Bend bulletin., March 20, 1920, Page 6, Image 6

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I LAST FRAGMENTS OF EMPIRE
j Romance In Dlsappearanea of Rd
! Dota From the Map of West-
orn Canada.
I X limp of western Canadit kHt In
the olllcoa of (lie Hudson tiny com
pany In Wlmil4cjr U sprinkled with
Ulny red. dot. Two centuries aud a
half uf romance and history focus in
jtliase little red dots,
i When tlio Hudson Hoy company In
11870 surrendered to Canada the vast
(territory grunted to It by Charles II
f Knglaud. It rctaliicd ono-twentlelh
lot all the land In the "fertile belt" of
luanltoha, Saskatchewan and Alberta
between the North Saskatchewan
'river and the International boundary.
This one-twentieth was distributed
'throughout every township and each
lot these red dots on the map rop re
sents an area of from 100 to 640
acres.
I These lands are todny Just as they
were when the roinpnny's first forts
; were erected ou Hudson buy. They
'are Just as they were when the buf
jfalo pastured upon them and Indians
and trappers snared or shot fur-benr-llnj
animals In this domain halt a
jeentury aeo.
I Though now surrounded by farms,
they have never been touched by a
plow. They are still Islands of
primeval soil In the midst of rich
farming districts.
I The little red dots are disappearing
one by one from the map. Kach one
that disappears means that the hind
It represents has become a settler's
farm. All the dots represent 3,000.
O00 acres.
The company la rapidly disposing of
all Its remaining land to settlers.
When the last dot disappears from
the map, the last fmgment of Hudson
Bay company's old empire will have
disappeared from the North Ameri
can continent.
AMERICA'S FRUIT, THE APPLE
People Are Beginning to Show It
Proper Appreciation, and Crop
Should Be Increased.
: Americans are coming to treat ap
ples more as a food anil less as a
betweeii nieuls superfluity than they
used to do. yet when the north wind
blows and the (Iresldo glows they
can't refrain from paying especial at
tention to the question whether there
Is a plenty of them. This year, the
farm reports tells ds, there Is not.
There are, In the whole country,
1.081,000 barrels fewer than there
were In 1913. and almost the same
shortage from the crop of 1910,
though we are considerably better off
than we were In 1917. That Is, we
have 2in00.0Q0 barrels Oils year.
Thai's about one for each TumlTy In
the country, and each family, not each
member thereof, might. If "ly woro
evenly distributed, have one apple a
day. The true lover of apples will
never admit this to he sulllelont, and
he should not.
It la not especially cheering to
learn that the country's crop of ap
ples does not tend to Increase. Our
record crop was In 1012, Wit we had
almost as many In I Sal. and the crop
In 1W was greater than that In
either of the past four year. Hut
the apple Is America's fruit, the most
satisfactory, the most dependable, the
most healthful fruit lu the world.
Hartford Times.
Billions of Pins and Needles.
Fourteen billion ordinary toilet
plus are produced by American fac
tories annually. American mothers
also find It necessary to purchase
120,000,000. safety pins every year.
The yearly crop of metal htilrptns
la a billion and a quarter.
Needles of all kinds aggregate KB,
000,000 every 12 months. The value
of this pin and needle crop Is $t.V
000,000 at the factory. Forty-nine
factories are engaged In the manu
facture of the articles, the total cupl
talliutlon being JO.I'-M.OOO.
In 1W there were only four pin
factories In the United State, hav
ing a combined capital of fllM.nOO
and a combined annual product of
207.IW0 pins. It will thus he seen that
the growth of this Industry Is some
thing tremendous.
A Place for Everybody.
"Ve.i." proudly announced the ex
captain who Is now manager of the
new $10,000,000 hotel, "all our em
ployees are former service men every
one of them. The desk clerk Is an old
top kicker, the floor clerks have all
been noncoms In charge of quarters,
the chef was a mess sergeant, the
waiters were alt permanent K. P.'s.
the house doctor was a haw hospital
surgeon, the house detective was an
Intelligence policeman, the bell hops
were dog-robbers."
"And have you any former M. P.'s?"
he was asked.
"Yes." he replied. "When there's a
good stiff wind t. 'ving we use them
as outside window washers on the
eighteenth floor."
Ancient Grains Do' Not Germinate.
The United States department of
agricultural gives a hard knock to the
stories about the germination of
nheat and other cereals found
wrapped with ancient Kgyptlan inuni
nsles. It says that close Investigation
proves all such reports to be fictitious.
French tesrs show that grain more
than a few years old will not germi
nate. Tests Indicate that when seeds
are kept under Ideal conditions, wheat,
barley and oata may germinate up to
eight or ten years, but few If any
grains are nllve after 20 year.
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Silvis SteidI
Corner Wall and Oregon
From the Earth's Infancy.
The perfect state of preservation of
organisms which lived untold iitlt
llons of years ago Is showu by Pro
fessor Oliver In an archaic typo of
seed In (ho lower cotil measures of
Ijllicashlre. These are only one-fifth
of an Inch long, hut under the micro
scope their liiteguninnt la seen to pos
sess ten ribs, which project Ilka llttl
arms.
Doing Hla Duty.
Father "Now my son, I'm going to
give you sumo good advice. Some day
you'll wish you had taken It. It's tha
same advice I wish I hud tukeu when
my dad gave It to me." Life.
Warns of M!ne Danger.
The United Slates bureau of mine
hiu developed n novel means of giving
an ulurm of danger In all mines where
compressed air Is made use of through
out the workings. An III smelling sub
stance Is Injected Into I lie compressed
air Hue, and In a few minutes Ilia
odor has been spread through all parts
of the mine, and will ho Instantly rec
ognised by tlio workmen.
His Witt's Logic
And the main reuui why a man's
wife thinks hu Isn't getting all the
salary hu deserves Is becauso It la less
than she thinks she needs. Dallas
News.
Dad's Part In tha Qamo.
One day when Herbert was riding
with his father In Ills niaclilim, lis tohl
Herbert not tu forget to remind tit n j
of certain errand, After going a Ut
ile farther his father thought of an
other thing ho wished tu bo reminded
of. Herbert thought seriously for a
moment ami thou turned tu tils father
aud said, Well, dad, I guess you'll
please have to remind mo to reuilud
you."
Dlscovsrtd the "Hamao."
Columbus la said to have llrst dis
covered (he hammock at welt as Amer
ica. In Hun Halvudor he found the
natives sleeping lu what Ihvy culled
"hutuacs."
$500 3-room house, large
lot, Terminal add.
$2250 1 room modern
house, Mill add.
$1400 3-room plastered,
fine place, large lot,
west side, some fur
niture goes, posses
sion at once.
$3800 Dandy new modern
4-room bungalow,
Delaware avenue,
ready for occupancy
$3000 5-room modern, two'
large lots, Center
add.
$4200 5-room modern
house, completely
furnished, Mill add.
$3000 80-acre improved ir
rigated ranch, two
miles from city
limits.
1
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. First National Bank
O Bldg., Bend, Ore.