INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS the county in which the land lies. At International Falls Press SPRING least two public sales shall be held in and Border Budget each county each year. The purchaser County and Village Official Paper of the land shall be required to OPENING Published Every Thursday Morning pay at once the price offered for the timber and one-tifteenth the price offered INTERNATIONAL. FAL/LS PRESS for the land, with the privilege PUBLISHING COMPANY of time payments on the balance the same as existing under our present A. H. FERRELL. Manasrer law the purchaser shall further be required to live upon and improve a $1.50 A YEAR SUBSCRIPTION cetain portion of the land each year for a period of at least three years before Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, he can obtain title. 1909, at the post office at International Falls. Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ATOP THE FREIGHT TRAIN. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1910 Walking the Cars a Hair Raising Experience For a kiovice. There came over me as 1 sat in the caboose that evening a wild desire to WE ARE FOR ride with the engineer in the cab. Planning to slip ahead along the half REAPPORTIONMENT mile or so of train at the first stop. I E. E. PETERSON & CO. made known my desire to our conductor GOOD ROADS over that part of the rife. INVEST STATE FUNDS AT "They'll be glad to see you." he told HOME me. "You won't have any trouble gettin* AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS there. It's a mild evenin'." He swung open the window of the lookout IMMIGRATION and called to his rear brakeman, "Jimmie, ruu along with this here party." Jlmmie pulled me through the window of I the lookout before clearly realized Ten thousand acres of swamp land the entire plan. "THE STORE OF QUALITY'' in Trempealeau county, Wisconsin, It was a slippery itb over the roofs has recently been sold for $5.00 an of sixty cars to the big engine that acre. The land will be drained by was pulling us, and the wind that the government under the reclamation swept in from the shores of the icebound Announces their Spring Opening swamp land act and the cost of lake, along which the tracks ran for many miles, snapped sharply over drainage assessed against the land those car roofs. Jinnnie huug on to drained. his lantern with one hand, to his convoy WEDNESDAY, MAR. 23 with the other. Long miles over Some of the newspapers in the those slippery car roofs had taught southern part of the state are beginning lliin to regard it as uo very serious to awaken to the that northern business. Minnesota is awake. If the vibration "This ain't nothin'." was his assurance. "It sometimes gets nasty when of the echo from the Northern Minnesota we get down to zero an' a blizzard Development Convention recently comes a-rippin' from off over the Like. Continuing four days including Saturday, flar. 26 held at Bemidji doesn^t have Sometimes you have to gel dowu an' them all woke up before~the next crawl on all fours. It wouldn't be state election we'll miss our guess. Concert Every Evening much fun to be swept off the tops of those cars." There was no disputing that, n»r In spite of all the anti-fat remedies that the three lengthwise planks at applied by federal authority and the the gable of the car roofs were not general public, the trusts continue to wide promenades. You jump from one grow fat. Even the boycott remedy During this Easter opeQing we will l)ave on to another to cross from car to car, applied by the public has apparently and a man has got to have something exhibition one of tl}e finest and largest advanced the price of meat, for the of a gymnastic training and some cir price is higher today than it was stocks of merchandise iQ tl}e Northwest. cus as well as railroad blood in his when the boycott began. Perhaps the veins to do it many times without Tt)e ladies will be delighted by our large application of the Osier system would dropping into one of the hideous dark abysses between them. showing of the most beautiful Easter creations bring about the desired effect, the A hand out of the dark slapped me same to be applied on all trust heads the In the face. "Drop." said Jimmie, and, as soon as a monopoly is formed. fearing possibly that 1 might not obey, he pulled me flat down upon the car Celebrated Gage Millinery roof. One of the best suggestions we have heard regarding the disposition of "That was a 'telltale.' he explained, and before 1 could ask further we state is outlined as follows: That 'and In addition we are showing Easter GOWQS were in a short reach of a tunnel, and they prepare as speedily as possible I understood. We were whirled ai}d Dress Patteros in all of the very Qewest an estimate timber on all state of through that tunnel like a package in mm'/: upon each subdivision, lands, place a price textures and shades, to njatch whict) we a tube, and if we had raised our arms VA V// with the timber, together we could have touched the flying roof have Gloves, RibboQs and Hosiery. public places showing and post lists in of the bore. The smoke lay heavy in mated amount timber the place. It filled our eyes and nostrils. the est of these lists to be and the price asked, For the Gentlemen "Not real nice," said Jimmie cheerily. year before the posted for at least one "But 110 danger in the holes, save now After the lists have land can be sold. and then an icicle gets a crack at your may make application Our display of H1RSH-WICKW1RE CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, been posted anyone nut. You see, there ain't much use in any of the for the purchase of Easter NECKWEAR, SHIFTS and HOSIERY is the fiijest ever arguin' the matter after that 'telltale' acres to any land, not exceeding 1(50 strikes you."—Edward Hungerford in shown in the Northwest. and shall be offered one person, the same Harper's. to he highest bidder and .sold sale held in the county in xit the lirst PARIS RAGPICKERS. March 23, 24, 25 and 26, the dates of this Easter opeQing, we will put on An Occupation That Is Passed Along display many other seasorjable articles. From Father to Son. A. M. JENSEN The ragpickers of Paris are born to their work, the occupation being passed from father to son lor generations. Undertaker 2nd Each ragpicker family has its own district. You are cordially invited to iQspect our stocl^ ai)d eojoy our Licensed Embalmer which is inherited by the children and grandchildren. concerts whether or not you buy. In spite of all the progress made in modern and elegant Paris barrels of Goods A Full Line cf Undertaker's E. E PETERSON & CO. waste are piled up on the streets in front of many buildings on beautiful boulevards in the early morning hours, Coroner KtoeKiching County and it is the privilege and in fact the mission of the ragpickers to examine BIG FALLS, ™M1NN: this refuse. They have use for everything, and but little is left after they have passed, their thoroughness being one reason "THE STORE OF QUALITY" why the system is still allowed. Every HIDES scrap of paper has its market rags are gathered for paper manufacturers shoes go back to leather dealers. International Falls, Minnesota FURS 1 Old sardine and preserved meat, tins etc are used for making playthings, old bones produce gelatin and glue, lemons Establ^bed Establ^bed Establ^bed 1867 1867 1867 .. .. TO .. .. and orange peels are greatly D.BERGMAN&CO. sought after and sold at the rate of a cent a pound to perfume and sirup at manufacturers, old metals are highly Paris are "just outside the~conBnes ST. PAUL, MINN. A Bunch of Kicks. prized, cigar stubs go to tobacco factories. the city—sections carefully avoided by *Tm in hard luck!" sighed the steel Deal direct with the largest and oldest house and eveu stale vegetables are most people who do not belong to the in the West. Highest prices and immediate roll. carted away. 4, -ash returns. Write for price list, tf"s an guild. Every member of the family, 'Look at me! 1 get nothing from lull information, YOU OUGHT TO READ THE _The quarters of the ragpickers of from the oldest to the three-year-old, morning till night but hot air," groaned takes part in the sorting of the spoils, the pumping engine. DULUTH HERALD and it often happens that members of The CANADIAN BANK "I'm always in hot water," sighed a family die either from poisoning the boiler. from stale food or from a cut from "Consider my plight," cried the macadam one of the tins.—Popular Mechanics. road, "Invariably walked over OF COMMERCE and trodden under foot." EVERY DAY! "I'm used to it, -for I'm always up against it," philosophically remarked Hfs Landscapes. HBAD nouveau riche recently attended a OFFICE, TORONTO. ESTABLI8HFD II the wall paper. IF YOU DO NOT, YOU ARE MISSING THE picture sale. A friend who had noticed "You're none of you as badly off as BEST NEWS MEDIUM IN THE NORTHWEST. him at the sale asked afterward, "Did I am," said the furnace, "for, no matter B. B. WALKER, President I Paid-Up Capital $I09000»000 you pick up anything at that picture where I go. I'm generally fired."— Read a few issues and be convinced. Send us your name ALKX. LAIRD, General Manager Surplus, 6,000,000 sale. Jorkins?" and the other responded: Baltimore American. and address and we will forward sample copies. They will "Oh. yes a couple of landscapes. help you get acquainted. A Imral Baikiig Basiiess Traisacted at all Br notes One of 'em was a basket of fruit and The Editor Won. The price by mail is 35 cents a month, or the other a storm at sea." A London paper described a children's three months for $1.00. DEPARTMENT Depo.it. IMM excursion as a "long white SAYMWS 1AMI of and npwaz* scream of joy" and was called to account Rather the Other. Now is the time to join The Herald's Happy Family The it subject to no delay in the withdrawal 0! (ha whole depositor "Don't you know that tune? I forget by a correspondent, who said of satisfied readers. or any portion of the deposit. the name of It. but it goes like that a scream could be long, but not this." And he whistled it. white, whereupon the editor justified ADDRESS COUfECTIONS made in all part, ol Canada and tKa United 8tataa. After he had finished his friend himself by urging that "a hue Is often HERALD CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT, DULUTH, MINN. Cheques and draft, on the United Stat— and ath— turned to him with a sigh. "I wish to associated with a cry." goodness you had. remembered the foreign countries bought and sold. name and not the tune," he said.—Llpplncotfs. Exactness in little duties is a wonderful F. M. GIBSON, Manager, Port PrancM, Out. Brand source of cheerfulness.—Faber.