INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. o*o«o*o«o«o«oo«o«o*o«o*6*o to assume the form Hi "cats, and the tablished between families in the warring RAINING CATS AND DOGS. INDIANS AND BULLETS. A Glorious Part. •tormy northwest wind is called "the villages it was considered most Bridge "At last," exclaimed the low comedian, cat's nose" in the Harz mountains amicable and politic to visit by way Various Explanations of the Origin of A Sample of the Strenuous Life In "I have a part that just suits even at the present day. Then the dog of the long road around the shore and This Expression. Kentucky Ir. 1777. me." is a symbol of wind, which in old German avoid the unhappy bridge. In 1777. while Harrodsburg. Ky., Many explanations have been given "Good," said the first old lady. "Yott Fight pictures is figured as the head of Almira was thinking bitterly of O was so beset with Indians that the of the origin of the expression "raining are the only actor I ever knew who a dog or wolf from which blasts issue. what her father had said when she announced inhabitants were iti straits for daily cats and dogs." One is that it is a perversion was thoroughly satisfied with his part. The cat therefore symbolizes a downpour that lier engagement to Noah of the French "catadoupe," a bread, a young man. only sixteen years 8 What is it?" of rain the dog, strong gusts of Wade had been broken. He had Waterfall—"it is raining a catadoupes," old, made himself extremely useful by "Oh, the part isn't much, as far as wind, which accompany it, and so a stared incredulously at her. or cataracts. Another explanation is venturing out of the fort before daybreak that goes, but I'm supposed to be a O rain "of cats and dogs" is a heavy rain It Broke an Entitlement. "Why. Miry, honey, I was only joking! that the male blossoms of the willow and returning with a load of burglar, and I break into a pantry and with wind. Now, you go along and make it tree, which are used on Palm Sunday game after nightfall. This intrepid eat a real meal at every performance.'* up with Noah this minute. There'll to represent the branches of palm, Not a Question of Etiquette. By CLARISSA MACKIE. youth was James Ray, afterward General —Chicago Record-Herald. 0 be bridges standing long after we poor were called "cats and dogs" in some Mrs. Hendricks (the landlady)—Can Ray. Copyright, 1910, by American Press mortals are through trying to be happy parts of England, where they increase I help you to some more soHp, Mr. One day in the year just mentioned He Worked On. Association. in this world." rapidly after a few warm April showers, Dumley? Ray and another young man were Wife-George, this burning of the o«o«o*o*o*o*oo*o*o*o«o*o«o and the belief prevailed that the Mr. Dumley—No, thanks. But Almira could not make it up shooting at a mark near the fort, when candle at both ends means an untimely Mrs. Hendricks (engagingly—Don't with Noah Wade. He did not give the second man was suddenly shot rain brought them. grave. It is nearly 12 o'clock. Come It stretched across the salt marsh Others trace the saying to northern refuse. Mr. Dumley, because it isn't her a chance. He went away from down by the Indians. Ray looked in to bed. George—But I'm doing this and connected two villages. Harborhead mythology, in which the cat is said to considered good form to be helped Portside and found work elsewhere, the direction whence the shot had night work in order to find money folk called it "the red "bridge," have great influence on the weather, twice to soup. We're not particular and she had not seen him through the come, saw the enemy and was on the enough to buy you a birthday present. while Portside people grimly referred and sailors still have a saying. "The people here. long summer. Now she was thinking point of raising his rifle when he was Wife—Well, if you will persist in working cat has a gale of wind in her tail," Mr. Dumley—Oh. etiquette has nothing to it as "the white bridge." As a matter set upon by another band who had of him and of her foolish excuse for of course I can't stop it. Good to do with it, madam it's the when she is unusually frisky. Witches giving him up. crept near him unseen. night, dear. of fact, it had never been painted that rode upon the storms were said SOUD. He took to his heels and, being a at all. and now. after two ears' exposure A loud rumble of thunder sent the quick runner, reached the fort amid a pedestrians on the bridge scurrying to wind and weather, the new shower of bullets, but the gates were home, but Almira lingered, watching NOTICE OF HEARING wood had taken on soft gray tints that shut, and the men inside were so the lightning leap from cloud to cloud Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting Three Leaders blended with the silver tide that ebbed frightened that they dared not open ot the Board of County Commissioners to in that ominous black mountain in the and flowed between the piles. be held in the office ot the county auditor in them. Finding himself shut out. Ray northwest, listening to the crackle and the village of International Falls. Koochiching Although Harborhead and Portside threw himself flat on the ground in county. Minnesota, at 10 o'clock in the volley of thunder, harking to the sibilant forenoon on Thursday, the 25th day of August, were connected by the new bridge the rear of a stump, and here, perhaps hiss of the high tide among the 1910, the application of Gust Franson for seven steps from the fort and within a license granting to him permission to sell and the vehicles of both villages rumbled bridge timbers. intoxicating liquors in the east front room, sight of his mother, he lay for four to and fro over the planks, the Just as she turned her steps homeward ground floor, of a one-story frame building, Golden Grain Belt Beers hours, while the bullets of the Indians situate on section 5, township 69, range 23, Inhabitants were widely separated by there came a blinding crash that Koochiching county. Minn., for one year tore up the ground on either side of seemed to enwrap the whole village of ™mencing on the 15th day of September, a growing bitterness. him. 1910, and expiring on the 14th day of September, Harborhead in yellow light then all Parson Laue of Portside had pounded 1911, inclusive, will be heard at which Harpers Whiskey At last he grew impatient and called sound ceased for an instant, and out time any and all persons will be heard with the pulpit vigorously over the matter. reference thereto. out to the garrison: of the murky darkness there sprang a Gust Franson further states that he has "Pots of paint! Pots of paint!" "For heaven's sake, dig a hole under maae application and been granted liquor liyears bright flame and another and another. he exclaimed one memorable Sunday: the cabin wall and take me in!"' place for the past three El Paterno Cigars same The lightning had struck in Harborhead. The men inside set to work immediately, "Have my people drowned their souls o,, L. H. SLOCUM, eo B*,i5 County Auditor* and the brave young hunter 11 in pots of paint? The good Lord made Almira hurried toward home as the was speedily safe inside the fort. it possible for these villages to be united wild clamor of the church bells rang NOTICE OF HEARING. UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, Local Agents by a beautiful bridge, and you out. If the Portside people refused to GIVEN, that at a meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY FORTUNE ISLAND. ol the Board of County Commissioners bring out their fire apparatus to the wrangle over the painting of it as if to *ie held in the office of the county auditor International Falls, Minnesota. rescue of Harborhead the closely populated in the Village of International Falls, the color mattered! Brethren, see that Koochiching county. Minnesota, at 10 o'clock little village was doomed. It The Story of the Buried Prize of an your souls are as white as you would in the forenoon on Thursday, August 25 1910 English Buccaneer. was known that Portsiders were very the application of W. Buffey for a' license have the bridge painted. Let not the granting to him permission to sell intoxicating bitter against the people over the An English buccaneer, having looted liquors in the West front room, ground red smirch of anger sully its purity!" bridge. and fired a rich prize, found himself floor, frame building situate on northwest After that sermon the bitterness was corner of lot 1, Sec. 7, Twp. 160. Range 29 pursued in turn by a Spanish pirate, Just as she reached the -gate there Koochiching county, Minnesota, for one year MINNESOTA Intensified. The Harborhead people and in order to save his treasure sought came another sound, mingled with the commencing on the 1st day of September, 1910, and expiring on the 31st day of August some isolated shore on which to bury who weekly crossed the bridge to attend roar of thunder, the clash of bells and 1911, inclusive, will be heard at which time it until the time came to divide the the shouts of men. It was the high, any and all persons will be heard with reference Parson Lane's church fluttered thereto. spoils with his followers. So he ran sweet clang of the Portside fire bell, homeward to spread the good man's W. Buffey further states that he made application into the Bahama group and, landing on and was granted liquor license for and it was followed by the rumble of words far and wide with most unhappy Twp. 160, Range 28, on July 12,1910. a low lying strip of sand and palm the little engine across the bridge. It S A E A I L. H. SLOCUM, results. trees, cached his plunder and, naming b-ll S-25 County Auditor. dashed past Almira's gate, dragged by Noah Wade and Almira Turner were the place Fortune island, sailed away. a score of strong, willing hands. The to be married in June. Three times a He left a number of negro slaves behind NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION hook and ladder truck came in its Department of the Interior. to guard the buried treasure, and week Noah crossed the bridge to Harborhead wake, and there, sitting high on the U. S. Land Office at Cass Lake, Minn. the present inhabitants are said to be to see his sweetheart. They seat, steering the truck, was Noah ... July 30, 1910. Notice is hereby given that Cyrille Albert Namline, September 5-10 descended from these slaves. The Fortune had never discussed the bridge matter Wade, his face tense and set in the Choquette, of Manitou Minn., who, on September islanders believe the old sea rover because they had been too happy to 18, 1905, made Chippewa homestead entry glare of the fire. No. 726. Serial No. 02576, for swM of Sec. never returned for his chest and that talk about anything except their own The devastating storm died away 4, sei4 of Sec. 5 and nwM nwM, Section 9, it is still hidden somewhere near the wonderful affairs. township 159 n., range 26 w„ 5th Principal Meridian, Nat'l Conservation Congress while the valiant men fought the tide level. It is no uncommon sight has filed notice of intention to make final The Tuesday after Parson Lane's flames that licked greedily at the five year proof, to establish claim to the for tourists on the rare occasions when sermon Almira waited at the front land above described, before F. J. McPartlin frame store buildings and threatened a steamer stops there to see some half U. S. Commissioner, for the District of Minnesota, gate for Noah. She could see him St. Paul, September 6-7-8 many a nearby home with destruction. at International Falls, Minn., on the 18th naked black man digging in the sand, day of September 1910. stepping quickly across the bridge, Portside men and men of Harborhead probably in obedience to a dream or Claimant names its witnesses: Burt Miller. tall, erect, with his head poised high. worked side by side, and differences Corneilius Rusfeldtt. Fred McGillvery other sign. .All the Wades were proud. The girl's Slaivson, all of Manitou, Minn. were forgotten in the single aim that The natives are half civilized, exceedingly LESTER BAKTLETT, blue eyes did not soften at her lover's prompted all. 9"' Register. superstitious and very poor and Plan to attend both. Minnesota's State Fair has a national reputation approach. A new expression came Many times that night Almira's heart live mostly on fish and fruit. They of being one of the greatest attractions of its kind held in the into them. failed within her as she watched Noah CONTEST NOTICE do not attempt to plant vegetables, prefering United States and the Hamline grounds are nowhere surpassed in "Waiting for me?" smiled Noah, taking risk his life within the flaming buildings. Department of the Interior, to rely on the bounty of nature, the hat from his brown hair and in any feature. The Conservation Congress being a national movement Once he brought out a little child United States Land Office, as the fierce hurricanes that sweep the covering Almira's little hand with his Cass Lake, Minnesota. August 19, 1910. for the preservation of our resources, the subject is a vital importance from the tenements over the stores, Bahamas soon uproot and destroy gardens. own sunburned Angers. A sufficient contest affidavit having been to every one. President Taft, Ex-President Roosevelt and and the tenderness with which he bore The little colony is huddled together filed in this office by Byron O'Bryan She drew her hand quietly from beneath the child and placed it in its mother's many other prominent men will speak. The combination of two so contestant. against Homestead entry No. 1390, in a collection of squalid huts his touch. "Yes." she said gravely. Serial No. 03007, made February 6,1908, for e!4 arms brought tears to the girl's sad important events affords an exceptional opportunity, that will provide that are blown clear away in nearly seJi, sec. 33W'/2 SW^, ser. 34, Township 158 n., "Come with me. Noah 1 have eyes. Range 2.) w. 5th P. M._ by Pete Larson, contested attractions for all. Fix the dates and plan to go. Several trains every storm and have to be built anew. something to say to you. Let us go to in which it is alleged that said entryman And then came the moment when The island is nine miles long and a daily, going and coming. died intestate on the 10th day of March, the orchard." their eyes met across the flames. The 1908, and that he left no heirs-at-law, next-ofkin, mile wide at the broadest part and lies "What is the matter? Are you in or legal representatives in the United sudden leap of recognition in Noah's 110 miles northeast of Cuba. New States and none elsewhere whose names and trouble? Has anything happened?" glance was answered by Almira's appealing addresses are known.said parties are hereby York Press. demanded Noah anxiously, falling into notified to appear, respond and offer evidence eyes, and then the smoke hung H. A. McCORMACK. Agent touchini lid allegation at 10o'clock a. step beside her. m. on Septem ber 29,1810, before Register and between them once more. Surprises In Chinese. Almira shook her head. In silence K-ceiver at the United States Land Office The weeks that followed after the "Some peopie." said an American in Cass Lake. Minnesota. they went across the grass to the orchard fire were not soon forgotten. Differences The said contestant having, in a proper consul to China, "live as long as and paused in the shade of the affidavit, filed August 19,1910, set forth facts were patched up and mended so twenty years In China and never learn which show that after due diligence personal gnarled old apple trees. that they would not again break. Portside service of this notice can not be more than a dozen Chinese expressions. "What is the matter, Almira?" repeated International Falls, Minn, made, it is hereby ordered and directed that and Harborhead people mingled But not so my little girl. She such notice be given by due and proper publication. Noah at last. together as they had before the days used to meet me each evening with "I can't marry you. Noah." replied Record address of entryman, Blackduck of the bridge trouble. There were Minnesota. some new Chinese expression which Almira quietly. 8.25 9.29 LESTER BARTLETT. Register. church festivals and entertainments she had learned during the day. Now, "Why not?" Noah spoke gruffly. Northern Pacific Railway that were enjoyed by everybody, and the Chinese language, like the Japanese, He was angry at Almira's strange Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure Sale over all was the feeling of satisfaction is full of honorifics. and I fondly manner, at the coldness in her voice that the bridge trouble was at an end. Whereas, default has been made in the imagined one evening, when my little and her sudden aloofness. payment of taxes on the premises described The Harborhead people had gratefully girl greeted me with some entirely in and covered by that certain mortgage She looked at the distant sails with announced their willingness that made by Sarah E, Middleton, a single wV new expressions, that she was saying steadfast eyes. "Father says I shan't mar, as mortgagor, to the International the bridge should be painted white in something like this: 'Here comes the State Bank of International Falls, Minnesota, marry any one from over 'the white a corporation, bearing date the 6th day view ofJ the prompt and neighborly honorable personage, my father.' bridge.' and don't know that want I 1 of January. A. D„ 1910. and recorded in the services of the Portside firemen. Portside to." "To verify my guess I asked a little office of the Register of Deeds in and for the County of Koochiching, in the State of Minnesota, people agreed to abide by a choice Chinese boy to translate. At first he "Personally I don't care a rap what on the 6th day ot January, A. D.. 1910 by vote. was rather backward, but I urged him at five (5) o'clock, p. m., in Book E of Mortgages color the bridge is," retorted Noah. on page 157. which mortgage was on When the vote was counted it was until he finally said: "I've crossed it for two years to see the twenty-eighth day of July, A. D., 1910 found that all Harborhead had voted 'Your excellency, your daughter duly assigned by instrument in writing by you. Almira. and now at this late day the said International State Bank of International you suddenly drop me and say it's because for a white painted bridge, while Portside says. "Here comes that old wooden Falls, Minnesota, to Carrie B. Diefendorf. and said assignment was recorded 1 live over the bridge—a flimsy had courteously voted for red. headed bottle." Yes, there are some in the office of the register of deeds in and for surprises in Chinese." excuse. Why don't you say outright and the vote was tied. said County of Koochiching on the seventeenth day of August. A. D.,1910, at ten (10)o'clock that you don't care for me and never Then the question was solved by a a. m., in Book C. of Mortgages on page 512, did?" His face was growing whiter, suggestion to paint the bridge green, Not Interrupting at All. and whereas, it is covenanted in said mortgage that if default be made In any of the At the piano Mrs. Eacon was guiding and the hand pressed against the tree and it was done, and so peace reigned provisions thereof, it shall he lawful for trunk was clinched until the knuckles Edith and Edward and Jack through lCT 1QIO at last, and there was much passing said mortgagee, or its assigns, to declare the whole sum secured by said mortgage to be were livid. the intricacies of an old English melody to and fro. due and payable the said assignee of said Suddenly Noah swung away from when she became aware that the At last Noah came over to Harborhead mortgagee elects to and does hereby declare the entire sum secured by said mortgage to the tree and without one backward twins were adding their voices from and stopped at Almira's gate. be now due and payable, and there is now glance tramped across the grass, leaped an indiscreet distance and stopped Mrs. Turner greeted him pleasantly. claimed to be due and is due. on the indebtedness playing. secured by said mortgage at the date the fence into a winding lane and "Almira went over the bridge awhile of this notice Three Hundred Nineteen an4 "Children." she exclaimed, "you are disappeared along the shore road. £30,000RACING PROGRAM no 100 Dollars (#3i9.00),principal and interest ago. Noah. If you walk back you may not allowed to join in the chorus with and the sum ot Twenty-one and 35-100 ($21.35) After that it became known that Almira's meet her." she said. taxes, and in addition thereto Fifty Dollars Edith and Edward!" wedding garments were carefully (15).00) provided, attorneys fees as therein Noah walked back slowly, watching LIBERAL ARTS EXHIBIT IN THE NEWi "We weren't," the twins protested, and no action or proceedings at law or otherwise. laid away out of sight, and Noah for Almira's slender form and dreading have been instituted for the collection GRANDSTAND AND EXPOSITION BUILDING in slightly resentful tones. "We were Wade no longer crossed the bridge of said sum. or any part thereof to see it beside that of some other singing something quite different"— Now Wherefore. Notice is hereby given three times a week. admirer At last she came, stepping that by virtue oFthe power of sale contained Youth's Companion. Then followed a summer unprecedented in said mortgage and pursuant to the statute quickly. with now and then a in such ca^e made and provided the said for its lack of rain. Weeks glance at the rising full moon. mortgage will be foreclosed by the sale of Shakespeare Altered. followed iys. and months followed the lands therein described, situate in the Halfway across she met Noah, and A portable theater- had been pitched county of Koochiching, State of Minnesota, weeks, while ilie sun poured relentlessly they both stopped. Noah guided her and described as follows: to-wit: in an out of the way spot where the down tin sister town and burned Northwest quarter (NWI) of Section twenty gently to the railing where they could prospective theatrical patrons were (20) in townshipSixty-four north (64 n) of the vejM (•?:.! »ti to crisp brownness. :L& look along the bright moonlit path ranee twenty-six West (26 w) of the 4th p. m.. unsophisticated in matters dramatic. Only the grass that was wet by containing 160 acres also north half (n *4) of &RTlts that wrinkled the water. The players possessed the costumes the Southwest quarter (swi): South half the tides iv'.wiiied green. Crops died (8 of Northwest quarter (NWI) of Section "I've been to see you. Almira. Your for "Hamlet." and Shakespeare's tragedy in the hsikfd earth. Thirty-four (34), in township sixty-six North mother said I might meet you," he was selected for representation. (66 n) of range twenty-five west (25 w) of the September mine, fiercely hot. One 4th p. m. containing 160 acres. Also all the said wistfully. It then occurred to the proprietors of breathless evening Almira Turner walked timber on all of the above described land. "I—went to Portside to mail a letter the show that the frame might not attract, Which sale will be made at public auction listlessly along the bridge. It was to tne highest bidder for cash, by the sheriff —to you. Noah. I thought you might so they altered the title to "How of said Koochiching County, at the main entrance said that whatever breeze there might get it sooner—tonight—and perhaps the Stepfather Was Paid Out!"—London to the court house of Koo hichln* BEAUTIFUL SPECTACLE be would be felt on the long wooden county, in said county of Koochiching State you would come. I wanted to tell you Mail. of Minnesota, on Saturday, the 8th dav of structure that united the two villages, how foolish I've been"— October, A. D., 1»10, at ten (10) o'clock a PAGEANT NATIONS' yet in its way formed a barrier between to satisfy the amount that will then be' due Noah stopped her words with a swift He Pleased Her. on said mortgage, together with all costs many hearts. "She asked me how old I thought OF caress. "And I was on the way to and charges of the foreclosure: taxes dn» Others were walking on the bridge, and unpaid, and Fifty Dollars (150.00) attoi she was." tell you what a fool I've been, but WITH IOOO PARTICIPANTS nej fees as stipulated in and by said mortgage but it was noticeable that Portside "What did you say?* in the case of foreclosure, sublect to we've met halfway after all." FIRST NORTHWESTERN CORN SHOW folks walked only as far as the middle redemption at any time within one yea? "Well. I perjured myself like a gentleman."—Detroit When the wedding day came round from the day ot sale as nrovided by law of the bridge and then retraced Free Press. Dated AugastSOth A. D.,1910. both sides thought it would be a suitable £XCt//tS/OAf BATES their steps. Harborhead people did CABRII B. DwisDoar, occasion on which to celebrate the ON ALL RAILROADS the same thing at their end. so there No amount of effort to save the Oww P. Mc ESSET ""W"- return of peace, and nothing would do was no passing over the bridge save world can make up for failure to sacrifice but that the bridal processloo should for the salvation of your own by those who bad business to attend Minneapolis. Minnesota. 8-S5KHS pass over the bridge,which bad caused ^bere friendly relations were ea- little world.—Henry K. Cope. no much di(Mention. Vr*" *3* JK. iji ~,t. 4wL-*« .. j* j&i