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Show Friday, December 10, 1937 AUTO LOANS 'and INSURANCE Page Three THE BULLETIN HISTORIC MANSIONS FAST DISAPPEARING Pkot.sr.ph. Will B. Col, WINTER CLOSEOUT Win Accept Any Reasonable Offer 37 Ford Cab. '33 Chev. '35 Ford Sed. 20 Otheri to Choose From New Orleans, La. Richard Koch can't save his charges so he taking pictures of them instead. Koch, head of Louisianas division of the WPA historic American building survey, is making records and drawings of the states old plantation homes and historic buildings before they fall to pieces from age and neglect. He has photographed 150 of them. CO. The days of Louisiana's great 702 So. Main St. plantation mansions are a thing of the past. The old homes, some of Was. 6105 them built of marble and having 75 Grant. Morgan, Mgr. rooms, are crumbling. Their window panes are smashed and their a etuai-iroofs caved in. Their beauty, however, still is apparent. It is Koch's job to record it for the congressional library in Washington. Buy Only The popular conception of the Louisiana cane country is one of great manor homes with fields of cane stretching out from all sides, Call the planter established on his front porch sipping a mint julep. All that has gone. Today most of the cane is raised on huge, highly commercialized and mechanized plantations CASTLE GATE greatly exceeding the production of BLUE BLAZE the state's 9,540 small farms averD ABERDEEN aging 100 acres each. n KING COAL There are a few scattered plantations on the Mississippi river in LouAgents for Sentinel Stokers isiana which are kept up in their A Prepared Stoker Coal antebellum style, Koch points out, but for the most part they have been divided into small farms. Usuon the ally amid these farms, with their JOB humble dwellings, stands an old plantation home magnificent in its decay, but useless to the small farmer. Just as the ruins of the Forum at Rome and the Acropolis at Athens were caused by poorer people who 8191 Highland Drive Ily. 2520 borrowed their stones and wood to build smaller residences, so are the old Louisiana mansions being Blue Point Oysters stripped of their woodwork and maThe original blue point oysters got sonry. their name from Blue Point, a vilZebus of Various Sizes lage on Long Island near the eastern In India zebus are in practically end of Great South bay. In this vicinity deliciously flavored oysters all sizes. Some are as small as dogs; of a small variety were found in some are larger than any other catnatural beds. Any similar small- tle. There are all sorts of colors, sized round oysters suitable for be- from a cream to a gray-bl- u But d zebus are white. ing served raw are called blue the These animals are sacred to Hindus, points. cannot be harmed, must be worTrain Runs Are Long shiped at all times. White zebus London. Great Britain holds the sprawl all over the sidewalks in record of having the seven longest Indian cities. Hindus never disturb p runs among the them, passing in the gutter after daily world's railways. bowing. 2-- MORGAN MOTOR FINANCE 8 jJMiraJUIflMM GOOD COAL Hyland 2520 LOBBS SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. most-prize- non-sto- lraier u-- Police Station Has Advantages d a Indianapolis, Ind. Dentists St'S? S!tdin J.'T.rs Crkhtun, uviorJ'n of-- -- blogr tinkers, SSS com-v.onl- wur.-.'rrfj- Owner Finds Business Won't Pay for Repairs. y Dayton, Minn. The Inst of the ferryboats which once did a thriving business on the leisurely sweep of the mighty Mississippi has been doomed. Fate of the boat hung in the balance for a time last summer. Then elderly Capt. DufTy Martin sat down, grabbed a stub of a pencil and chewed his voluminous mustache as he figured. When he had added up the cost of a new cable and of repairing the cable towers he realized it would cost him more than he would ever get out of it. Today the boat lies on the bank at the end of a dusty trail in Day-to23 miles upriver from the Twin Cities. Its floor planks are ripped up, its beams and timbers are drying in the fall sun, and its cable is wound around a pair of convenient trees. The towers are down and the river before Martin's frame house for the first time in half a century is clear. So one of the toughest hangers-o- n of the old romantic river occupations on the Mississippi is gone. Born Adolf Martin in New Brunswick, Dully, as everyone knows him, came to Dayton in 1881. He bought the ferry in 1902. He has no idea how long it had been run prior to that time. Its total life span has been at least 50 years, he calcu- es rs Fire-walkin- Washington. The number of milk cows on farms decreased an .average of more than 1,000 a day during 1936, according to reports to the Department of Agriculture. The milk cow population, which has declined 7 per cent nearly 2,000,000 head during the past three years, is believed to have reached the low point, the department said Someincrease in milk cow num- ben is expected in the next two years and a more marked increase is anticipated in 1939. There are now about one cow to every five persons in the United States. The cow population dropped from e an peak at 26,931,000 head in 1934 to a low of. 25,040,-00- 0 head on January 1, this year, cow census the department showed. The drouth and high feed prices in relation to the price of dairy products was blamed for a decrease of 398,000 head tff milk cows last year. Prices of milk cows have been unusually low in relation to other commodities during the pvst three years. The inventory value per head rose from $27 in 1934 to $50 on January 1, 1937. Featuring Stock From Closed St. PauL Recent celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of what is called the founding of the state of Minnesota recalls the bargain the white man drove with the Indians for a wedge of land between the St. Croix and Mississippi riv- to take Advantage of the Great FORTHEGIRLS Compare Folks! Use Our ers. The wedge was ceded to the United States by the Sioux in consideration for annuities of food, goods and miscellaneous provisions. In addition, the government took over outstanding debts of the Indians concerned. This wedge was the first land in Minnesota to be opened to white settlement and is considered the origin of the state. Handy Will Call Plan and Lay-Aw- and the SAVINGS ABE YOURS EAST 21st SOUTH Use Your Z. G M. I. Charge Account iiifnA v z HYLAND 210 Presents Practical Gifts For All Hy. 8739 We Make the World Brighter For Xmas Give Him a BICYCLE Wc have o large assortment of rebuilt bicycles, neatly painted. $1000 and Up VELOCIPEDES and TOYS REPAIRED Phil & Joes 1113 E. 21st So. Hy. 8596 Experience Counts With Prospective Alor Bride I The name of the island, Alor, means Sea of Flowers, the myr- jadsf fie,ds c1?r1ed!booms nd the whole visible country like the very thing the name implies, a Sea cf writes a Kalabahai, Flowers, Dutch East Indies correspondent. Alor lies well to the east of Java and Bali and is in the same latitude. Here port dues are paid in cheese, pickles, jams, spiced meats, and,' even cheap, gaudy trinkets. Articles of food foreign to the island are beyond the value of money. Tinsel ornaments are accepted as the real thing and are prized even when the ; glitter wears off. Money seems of no value to the pigmies here. They do not have to buy food. All they have to do is reach out for it. There is neither metal nor paper money in circulation. Ludicrous as it may seem, the colony has a form of money of its own, used mostly in This currency is buying wives. dried fish, usually made into ropes. The people are small. A woman weighing 75 pounds is counted as1 big. .The average is 65 pounds. The odd thing no woman seems worth marrying until she has had a son or two. This is considered her wealth. Hence an pigmy warrior looks carefully around for a woman thus worthy of. his fish ropes. I he-m- an Mystery of Sleep Sleep is perhaps best described as a temporary loss of consciousness, but it is difficult to say how this is brought about. There have been' various theories put forward, such as that it is due to the flow of blood to the brain diminishing, that it is due to fatigue, or that it is caused by an accumulation of waste prodBonuses for Larger Nazi ucts. But no one has proved conFamilies Proves Failure clusively what really causes sleep, says a writer in London Answers How economic factors Berlin. are frustrating Nazi efforts to in- Magazine. During sleep the activicrease the German population by ties of the body are lessened. The the breathpaying marriage bonuses and giving heartis beats more slowly, not so and . slower, fami-ing deep, the concessions for large special lies was revealed in the official vi- temperature is lowered and the mustal statistics for the first half of the cles are relaxed. Another mystery current year. A decline which set is the cause of dreams. It is sugin during the first half of 1936 was gested that we may be dreaming maintained this year when the num- all the time we sleep, but that we ber of births was 4,000 fewer than only recall those dreams which ocwe are on the point of during the first half of 1935. The cur when number of marriages also steadily waking up. has declined since the boom year, Porcupines Kill in 1934, when they numbered 338,085 for the first six months. From JanThough its unusual for a porcuby uary to June of this year there pine to kill larger animals, itsbeen no means rare. Bears have were only 284,987. spines. laid low by the needle-lik- e When in danger, it erects defense. Goat Mothers Pigs its quills which are sometimes 10 Cheyenne, Wyo. A big brindle inches long. The quills are not shot, gcat called Granite has taken over but are so loosely attached they the job of mothering a litter of 13 come free at the slightest touch, are pigs. The goat nurses the suckling barbed so that once imbedded in an pigs and apparently takes great .enemys flesh they can hardly be pride in her job. Self-Defen- se ay ! 1088 ar Minnesota 100 Years Traced to Indian Pact ail FOR THE BOYS E. 21st So. Hy. 5051 THE PAINT POT Number During Past Year five-ye- SAVINGS! 1056 . all-tim- to Go Shop Cows Decrease 398,000 in fire-walki- As the Better Buys Will Be the First At Afton s Gift al. The ferry would hold two automobiles, or a team and wagon. Time was, Martin recalls, when business was brisk on the muddy Travelers couldnt Mississippi. spend the time to drive teams to the bridges. Martin is satisfied (at seventy-five- ) that hes been the last ferryman on the big river. The heavy currents used to make the cable twang like a bull fiddle string. Now its down and put away. That's all right with Martin. He likes it better quiet now. te Do-Not-F- Now Sold lates. Five owners had it before Martin got hold of it most of them for several years at a stretch. Of late years business hasn't been good. Travelers are only occasion- Navi-gato- COME EARLY! Formerly Made in Sugarhouse n, finger-printin- Fire-Walke- Critzy Belle ' Frocks o his v.as s man of very l yeuius. lie vvjs railed the "Admirable Crichthese days, according to Todd Stoops, secretary-manage- r of the ton" because of li:s intellectual I lousier Motor club. He was graduated from Instances also have been reported the University of St. Andrew's at of trailers used as a restaurant, tl.e age of fourteen, and before lie prospector's supply wagon, motion was twenty could speak ten lanpicture theater, telegraph office and guages. lie also excelled in drawcathedral. ing, fencing, dancing, music and The police station on wheels is other accomplishments, and was an outstanding example of the trail- handsome in form and feature. He er's flexibility in meeting special- was born August 19, 1560, at Eliock, Dumfriesshire. His father, Robert, ized needs," Stoops said. This was loid udvocate of Scotland. trailer has been put into operation When seventeen years of age, on Long Island and is completely tour, equipped to give first aid or to James made a continental chalserve as a base in investigating during the cuurse of which he crime. A veritable arsenal, the lenged doctors and scholars of Partrailer carries a machine gun, ri- is to dispute with him at an apfles, tear gas bombs and equipment pointed tune on any question and in any one of 12 specified languages, for scientific crime detection, inlie acquitted himself to the general g cluding apparatus, admiration of numerous professors magnifying glasses and test tubes. and others. He enlisted in the French army Indian Tribe Ascribes in 1577, and two years later reSobriety to Magic Herb signed and went to Italy. Here Unusual sobriety many debates were arranged for Reno, Nev. members the Washoe In- him, and he won similar triumphs ci among dian tribe has attracted the atten- el Rome, Venice and Padua. The Duke of Mantua engaged him as tion of peace officers. for his son, Vincenzo, a distutor Inquiring among the redinen they solute youth. heard reports that a medicine man One night he was attacked by six from another tribe visited the Was-howhom he repulsed. He disand distributed a magic herb persons,one of them and found it armed or root. This, when eaten, divested returned the them of desires to drink or do other was histo pupil. He who thrust it sword Vincenzo, things against their better judginto Crichtons heart. ment. Biographers do not seem to be White people go to church and sure of the but believe it was get religion, one Indian declared. about 1583, year, and the date July 3. root this to the By eating brought Washoes by the Messiah, the result The Cross on the Land is the same. It makes us want to Had young Prince Henry the r be good Indians. not crossed over from Spain to northern Africa in 1415 he would Horn Law never have learned from the MosResearch workers Philadelphia. lems there of the vast riches along have discovered a 1905 Philadelphia the unexplored western coast He ordinance limiting automobile horns would never have issued his royal to one note. edict to DIogo Cam to Plant the on some new headland. BeCross cause of this command there was 6,000 Bottles Start carved in 1486 upon solid rock a Off on Ocean Ride cross, the sacred symbol of the Rock La Jolla, Calif. The Scripps of Ages upon enduring stone. Institution of Oceanography has decided to give 6,000 quart wine Among the g bottles an opportunity to wander. is practiced in New The bottles are to be thrown Zealand, China and India where the into the sea in an effort to trace, method is the same, except that hot locate and chart ocean currents. stones sometimes are substitued for embers. In Bulgaria, near the Black Each bottle will be filled with is a part of a resea,' enough sand to make it stand ligious ceremony. There the women upright, and notes enclosed, in work themselves up to frenzied English and Spanish, asking the finder to send them back to the pitch for a week and then on a certain day they dance on hot embers institution together with the necand stones. Stones do not reach the essary information as to where heat of embeds find therefore can be and when they were found. endured for a longer time. One-No- fUiuiunciiuiiiu'iuDuuuuHittint'nimiiciiiuHittMatiiiHiniuai LAST FERRYBOAT ON Famous for Rare Genius MISSISSIPPI GOES .buiLMblc Crichton Wes |