.?*• -INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS.- BLOwrjmicA a The CANADIAN BANK on fhe^bankToTirrest thetoat wEen 1 International Falls Press GUN COTTON. should call out. in a little while we and Border Budget came to a fit place, and I cried, 'Hold A Terrible Peculiar Characteristic of This hard. Klrango!' 'Please God, master,' OF COMMERCE County and Village Official Paper Explosive. he replied and forthwith sprang on Published Every Thursday Morning Things That Happen When a Ei^ Many and odd are the materials entering the shore and seized the grass with Into the manufacture of modern both hands, while we, of course, were INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Storm Breaks Loose There. explosives* but perhaps the most interesting ESTABLISHFD 1867 PUBLISHING COMPANY rapidly swept down river, leaving him HfcAD OFFICE, TORONTO. of all these elements of destruction alone and solitary on the bank. The as well as the simplest is gun cotton. I Paid-Up Capital $10,000,000 A. H. FERRELL. Manaeer boat's crew roared at the ridiculous A WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 8. E. WALKER. President The gun cotton manufacturing Industry sight, but nevertheless his stupidity 6,000,000 StirplUS, is large, as enormous quantities ALEX. LAI RD, General Manager SI.50 A YEAR SUBSCRIPTION cost the tired men a hard pull to ascend are used in the charging of torpedoes again, for not every place was It Will Leap Out of a Clear Sky and and for similar purposes. A all General Banking Business Transacted at Branches Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, available for a camp. The base of gun cotton is pure raw Level Almost Everything In Its 1909, at the post office at International Falls, "He it was also who on an occasion Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of cotton or even cotton waste, such as is Path Then Comes a Torrential when we required the branch of a species March 3, 1879. used to clean machinery. This is steeped ^P08**8 $1 and upwards received Of Downpour That Ends In a Flood. of arbutus which overhung the in a solution of one part of nitric The depositor is subject to no delay in the withdrawal of the whole river to be cut away to allow the canoes "Have you ever been through a West THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1910 and three parts of sulphuric acid. It is or any portion of the deposit. to be brought nearer to the bank Indian hurricane?" said a uaan who the former ingredient that renders the for safety actually went astride of the COLLECTIONS made in all parts of Canada and the United States. has lived in the tropics on and off for mass explosive, the sulphuric acid being branch and chopped away until be fell CARAVAN BREADMAKING. a used merely to absorb all moisture, number of years. "Do you want to Into the water with the branch and fOREIGf^WJSlNES Cheques and drafts on the United States and otb-» thus permitting the nitric acid to combine know what the experience is like? lost our ax. He had seated himself on foreign countries bought and sold., more readily with the cellulose of Afghans Use Cobblestones, While Turcomans "A hurricane will leap out of a clear the outer end of the branch." the cotton. Like Sand. F. M. GIBSON, Manager, Fort Prances, Ont. BraiicH sky, swoop down on a city, blow everything After being soaked for several hours The bread of tlie Afghan caravan THE BABY TURTLE. iu its path flat and pass on. In the solution described the cotton was cooked by heating small round Then follows the tail of the hurricane, is passed between rollers to expel cobblestones in the fire and then poking He Has to Paddle His Own Canoe a steady breeze blowing in the same all nonabsorbed acid, a process carried them out and wrapping dough an From the Moment of Birth. to completion by washing the cotton in direction, but at a much lower velocity. Inch thick about (hem. The balls thus Just so soon as a baby turtle emerges clear water. This washing process is a formed were again thrown into the This is likely to continue for Motion Picture Show from the egg off be scuttles down to long one, requiring machinery which fire, to be poked out again when cooked. many hours, sometimes for many days, the sea. He has uo one to ttucli him, reduces the cotton to a mass resembling The bread tasted well there in the and is always accompanied by a torrential no one to guide bim. In his eir'ous paper pulp. Should any nonabsorbed downpour of rain. desert, although in civilized communities little brain there is implanted a tttreak acid be allowed to remain it the grit and ashes would have "I was In Kingston. Jamaica, at the of caution based upon the fact that would decompose the cotton. VILLAGE HALL 1903. 3 seemed unendurable. time of the hurricane of At until a certain period in bis life his If the explosive is to be used after After good fellowship had been established o'clock in the afternoon 1 was in my armor is soft and no defense against the manner of powder it is still further the Afghans actually sold us office on the top floor of a rickety TWO SHOWS EVERY NIGHT hungry fish, and he at once seeks shelter pulverized and then thoroughly some Hour, says a writer in the National wooden building. As suddenly as a in the tropical profusion of the dried, but if intended for torpedoes it Geographical Magazine. The clap of thunder the room went dark. gulf weed, which holds within its is pressed into cakes of various shapes camp where we used it a little later "I had a pretty good idea of what 7 4 5 a 9 0 0 branching fronds an astonishing abundance and sizes—disk shaped, cylindrical, flat happened to be beside the sandy bed was about to happen and, going to the of marine life. Here the young squares and cubes. When not compressed of a trickling salt stream, which was window, looked out across the roofs. turtle feeds unmolested while his armor gun cotton is very light, as drinkable in winter, but absolutely unusable A black cloud had whirled up out of undergoes the hardening process. light as ordinary batting. in summer, when evaporation the southwest, obscuring the sun, but Whatever the young sea turtle eats A peculiar characteristic of this terrible Three Changes of Program a Week is at its height and the salt is concen1 the mountains back of the city wure and wherever he eats it, facts not generally explosive is that a brick of it trated. still golden with light. ascertained, one thing is certain when wet may be placed on a bed of "See," said one of our Turcomans "In less than a quarter of an hour TICKETS 10 ar)d 15 cepts —it agrees with him immensely. He hot coals, and as the moisture dries out as we dismounted "here is some sand. the wind reached us. The first structure leads a pleasant sort of life, basking in the cotton will flake and burn quietly. Tonight we can have some good that went was a wooden watch the tropical sun and cruising leisurely If dry originally, however, the gun -otton bread." tower about 200 feet high that had in the cool depths. will explode with terrible force at When some dry twigs had been gathered been used in the old days to locate about 320 degrees of heat. Once he has attained the weight of lie proceeded to smooth off a bit ships approaching the harbor. It ul twenty-five pounds, which usually occurs lii general it is the custom to explode of rhe cleanest sand and built upon it weathered all previous hurricanes, but within the first year, the turtle is gun cotton by detonation or yi a hot tire. When the sand was thoroughly this time it went down like a house of free from all danger. After that no lish intense shock instead of by heat. In a We Are after the Meat Business hot he raked off most of the cards. Spars of lumber from that or mammal, however ravenous, however torpedo the explosive charge is wet. coals atul smoothed the sand very neatly. tower were carried as far as twenty well armed with teeth, interferes this wet cotton being exploded by Meanwhile one of the other men blocks before they came to the ground. with the turtle. means of dry cotton in a tube, this had made two large sheets of dough "Then the spire of the church went, When once he has withdrawn his having been fired by a cap of fulminate about three-quarters of an inch thick the roofs of a good many residences of mercury, the cap itself having head from its position of outlook into And if fair dealing and courteous treatment and eighteen inches in diameter. Between were torn off. and some tine palm trees the folds of his neck between the two been fired by the impact of the torpedo counts for anything, we are quite these he placed a layer of lumps in the public gardens snapped off about shells intending devourers may struggle against the target.—Harper's Weekly. of sheep's tail fat. making a huge sure we -will get our share. We shall halfway from the ground. Buildings in in vain to make an impression round sandwich. This was now spread endeavor to be prepared to offer the Kingston, however, are calculated to upon him.—Harper's Weekly. His on the hot sand, coals mixed with sand Rent Flag. trade at all times a full line of well selected stand a pretty severe blow. They are On Jan. 18 every year, the anniversary wer.. placed completely over it. and it fresh and cured meats and invite the built only a few stories high, and the of the battle of Waterloo, the was left to bake. Now and then an LINCOLN'S LESSON. public patronage. roofs present a broad and comparatively Duke of Wellington is bound to present edge was uncovered, and a Turcoman flat surface to the wind. Considering to the sovereign a small flag, which is smelled it appreciatively and rapped The Way He Learned to Tell When a the velocity at which that hurricane the annual rent in "'petit sargenty" by on it to see if it was yet cooked. Thing Is Proved. was traveling, the damage was which the estate of Strathfieldsaye is When the top was thoroughly baked International Meat Market Abraham Lincoln was once asked not great. Even my crazy office building held of the crown. The flag must be the bread was turned over and covered how he acquired his wonderful logical withstood it. But the tail of the a miniature tricolor or eagle of the up again. It tasted even better than powers and his acuteness in analysis. thing followed, with a heavier rain Napoleonic army, fringed with gold, ADOLPH KICKER, Proprietor the Afghan bread after it was cooled Lincoln replied: "It was my terrible than I have ever seen before or since. with a gilded eagle on the head of the a little and the sand and ashes had discouragement which did that for me. To say that it came down in bucketfuls Phone 73 Oveson Block, Fourth Avenue staff and the number of the year embroidered been whisked off with a girdle. The When I was a young man I went into would be mild. It was as if the at the top corner of the flag Turcomans are so accustomed to life an office to study law. I saw that a clerk of the weather had taken the near the eagle. in the sandy desert that they think it lawyer's business is largely to prove plug out of some huge vat suspended impossible to make the best kind of things. I said to myself, 'Lincoln, above our heads and allowed the water bread without sand, while the Afghans. when is a thing proved That was a to plump straight down on us. who live in the stony mountains, poser. What constitutes proof? Not "In three hours the macadam on the think that cobblestones are a evidence that was not the point. There streets had been washed into the harbor. requisite. STATIONERY may be evidence enough, but wherein The street outside my window consists the proof I groaned over the was a rushing river as much as four question and finally said to myself, THE ZANZIBARIS. feet deep in places. 1 saw a cart try 'Ah. Lincoln, you can't tell.' Then to cross it. but with the water above thought what use is it for me to be in the axle of the wheel and the horse's Dense Stupidity and Amusing Blunders a law office if I can't tell when a thing legs being washed away from under it !•&. the Natives. is proved? it was an impossible task, and the In the "Autobiography of Sir Henry "So 1 gave it up and went back driver turned back. Big casks and M. Stanley" ilie author says of the and OPPICE SUPPLIES home. Soon after I returned to the old packing cases were dancing on the surface colored natives of central Africa: log cabin I fell in with a copy of Euclid. like corks. "Good as the majority of Zanzibaris I had not the slightest notion of "As you can imagine, I did not get were, some of them were indescribably what Euclid was, and 1 thought 1 home to supper that evening. It was 8 and for me most unfortunately would find out. 1 therefore began at o'clock before the rain stopped and the vdense. One man who from his personal the beginning, and before spring 1 had water in the streets had drained into appearance might have been judged gone through the old Euclid's geometry the harbor. Even then traffic had not to be among the most intelligent was begun to. reorganize itself. and could demonstrate every proposition after thirty months' experience with "The trolley car tracks had been in the boob. Then in the spring, his musket unable to understand how washed out, and no cars were running. you are in business you when I had got through with it, 1 said it was to be loaded. He never could to myself one day, 'Ah, do you know Cabs, however, were doing a remember whether he ought to drop when a thing is proved?' and 1 answered. roaring business, and eventually 1 got quite oftei) need something the powder or the bullet into the musket 'Yes, sir I do. Then you may a cabman to drive me home for three first. Another time he was sent go back to the law shop,' and I went." times his customary charge. in tl^e line of Stationery and with a man to transport a company of "The damage to property in Kingston men over a river to camp. After waiting mounted up to hundreds of thousands Office Supplies. If you are just An Old Idea. an hour 1 strode to the bank of of dollars, but the real destruction "In those old times when they cut the river and found them paddling in UQdoubtedly starting in business you will off was wrought in the country districts. people's heads the train of events opposite directions, each blaming the Floods wiped out many a negro proceeded on one modern idea." other for his stupidity and, being in a village and sent the flimsy houses need office furniture, "What was that." passion of excitement, unable to hear floating down the rivers. The railroads "The block system." Baltimore the advice of men across the river, were tied up for nearly a week. Every books of differeQt kiQds, together American. who wore bawling out to them how to banana tree in the path of the hurricane manage their canoe. was uprooted. Oh, yes, a West witb minor supplies. Making Sure. "Another man was so ludicrously Indian hurricane can do a lot of damage Highland Ferryman (during momentary stupid that he generally was saved when it gets busy. lull in the storm)—I'm thenkin', from punishment because his mistakes ThJE PRESS is in a positioi) to fit sir. I'll just tack yer fare. There's no "Loss of life, did you say? Of course were so absurd. We were one day sayin' what micht happen tae us.— there was. Nearly 200 people were floating down the Kongo, and, it being you out from your greatest Qeed London Punch. killed throughout the island on that occasion, near camping time. 1 bade him, as he but we grow accustomed to happened to b«» bowman on the occasion. to the smallest, ar)d our prices are He that plants thorns must never that in the West Indies. We expect.a to stand by and seize the grass expect to gather roses.—Pilpay hurricane every once in awhile, and right. we know that it will take its toll of human life when it comes. If you had We handle Globe-Werr)icke and been telling the story you would probably have mentioned that first of all. Macey office desks, filing cabinets, but sudden death is so common below the tropic of Cancer that we get callous. YOU OUGHT TO READ THE I sectional book-cases, etc. JourOals, suppose."—New York Sun. DULUTH HERALD ledgers, cast) books, day Albion and Columbia. "Albion, the Gem of the Ocean," was books, typewriter and carbon written and composed by Jesse Hammond, an English government dock official, papers, letter files, card indexes, about 1820 and was beard above all others in the theaters, music balls EVERY DAY! ink wells, pens, peQcils, and in fact and on London streets. It is apparent that "gem of the ocean" tits an island anythiog iQ the stationery line. 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