mm- mm .JS&T INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS The Farmer's Son's OF CANADA Great Opportunity Vv By Trait fop the old farm to become your Inheritance? fiegiauow tc 3TS GROWTH IN TEN YEARS prepare for jTiur fnture PAST. prosperity and independence A great opportnnity awaits yon in Manitoba, Saskatchewan A census of the Dominion of Canada or Alberta, where yon can secure a FreeHonie8 Tvill be made during 1911. It will reasonable tead or bey land at prices. .flhow that during the past decade a remarkable development has taken the night before Christmas. If one howl on that UAINT and curious are some of the jjlace, and, when compared with the night he will go mad within the year. Lights old customs, beliefs and superstitions —not a year from now, when land will be higher. population, a greater percentage of increase should be kept burning all of Christmas eve. If of past ages which have come down The profits secured in industries of all kinds than from the abundant crops of they are allowed to go out some one in the house through different countries regarding Wheat, Oats and Barley, has ever been shown by any country, will die. When the lights are brought in on as well as cattle raising, are Christmas eve and Christmas. Many causing a steady advance Jin Commerce, mining, agriculture and Christmas eve, if anyone's shadow has no head of these pertain so closely to the price. GOTemment returns show that the number or settlers railways have made a steady march he will die within the year if it have only half rites and ceremonies of heathendom in Western Canada from onward. The population will be conciderably the U. 8. was 60 per cent a head the death will occur during the second that the connection may be easily ?'v larger In 1010 than the over 8,000,000. Thousands half-year. If a hoop comes off a cask on Christmas previous year. traced others spring obviously from Many farmers have paid of miles of railway lines have been eve, someone in the house will die during for their lana oat of the legends, incidents and history surrounding proceeds of one crop. construction since the last census was the year the journey of Joseph and Free Homesteads of 160 Acres And pre-emptions of taken ten years ago. This construction Somewhat more cheerful is the belief that if —.OO Mary to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, was made necessary by the opening od you make a little heap of salt, on the table and it the adoration of the three kings —v vv" i" ~y up of the new agricultural districts does not melt before morning you will live at low freight rates -wood, -water and the shepherds and the life and teachings and and lumber easily obtained. in Western Canada, In which least a year longer. Woe tohlm whose salt pile final martyrdom of the Christ. Most of these described For pamphlet "Last Best West," there have been pouring year after melts, however, for he will die within the year— here are so strange and out-of-the-ordinary particulars as to suitable Ipcation year an increasing number of settlers, and low settlers' rate, apply to the comforting part lying in the fact that a salt that it is safe to say few readers are famil Supt of Immigration, Ottawa, until the present year will witness heap is not likely to melt, although some one Can., fe.Motets,CCffortNock,SL,St.Forks,Mian.B.N.Agent.Pail,Wittrttm£.DLGortGrind197,DriwffJacksonCanadian315toorMkUcMm,Pitllus,H.T.L lar with any of them settlement of over 300,000, or a trifle having a spite against the maker of the salt heap Throughout Europe the people engaged in IE less than one-third of the immigration farming and agricultural pursuits generally have Use address nearest you. 87 to the United States during the same always regarded Christmas eve and Christmas as period with its 92,000,000 of population. Constipation Even with these hundreds oi thousands of newcomers the great Vanishes Forever majority of whom go upon the land, there is still available room for hundreds of thousands additional. The Prompt Relief--Permanent Cur* census figures will therefore show a CARTER'S LITTLE treat—a vast—increase In the number LIVER PILLS never of farms under occupation, as well fail. Purely veget CARTERS as in the output of the farms. When able—act surely the figures of the splendid Immigration but gently on ITTLE the liver. are added to the natural increase Stop after/! the total will surprise even the mos1 LIS. dinner PI optimistic. To the excellent growtfc distress— that the western portion of Canada cure indigestion— -will show may largely be attributed improve th© complexion brightea the commercial and industrial growth the eyes. Snail Pill, Small Dote, Snail Pricc* of the eastern portion of Canada. All Genuine mmtbeat Signature Canada is being upbuilded, and in this transformation there is taking part the people from many countries, but only from those countries that pro cluce the strong and vigorous. Aa Stepmother of Mint Julep. come evidence of the growth of th€ Romance and poetry have delighted western portion of Canada, in agricultural to weave garlands with which to celebrate industry, it Is instructive tc and perpetuate the glory of the point cut that over 10*000 home blue grass in old Kentucky, famed for steads of 160 acres each have been 1 its fine horses, beautiful women and transferred to actual settlers in th« mint. past two years. This means 25,00C, Kentucky has been designated as square miles of territory, and then' the home of the mint julep, and its when is added the 40,000 160-acre pre over colonels have become famous all emption blocks, there is an additional the world for the easy and graceful 10,000 square miles, or a total of 35,! way in which they drink whisky with 000 square miles—a territory as larg« JFANyo/V£iS SHADOW HAO MO fi£ADt or a little dash of sugar and a sprig as the State of Indiana, and settled THATPERJQ/i WJLL DJ£ DURJM7 TX£ Y£XR two of mint in order, chiefly, to overcome wliMn two years. Reduced to the a the necessity for large amount producing capacity imperative on th« of water in the beverage. The true cultivation restriction of 50 acres oi )T/£ WFT JTPAW BAfID3 AROJJM YOUR might cause it to diminish and appear to melt Kentuckian doesn't want his whisky cultivation on each 160-acre homestead TR££C TO JiAHB TN£J1 &£AR FUJiTtrUl IY away by carrying it off. drowned. within three years, there will It transpires, however, that the real Lead, steel and vermin may be circumvented be within a year and a half from now home of the mint and the mint julep if the proper precautions are taken. For the atively new. The extent to which they are used upwards of 5,000,000 additional acres' Is right here in Missouri, whose crop first wear a shirt spun, woven and sewed by a has, of course, increased correspondingly with from this one source added to the entire 7,653 pure, chaste maiden on Christmas day wear of mint last year amounted to the general popularity of the post card. producing area of the Provinces something sewed with thread spun on Christmas pounds, or enough to make 1,224,320 Joseph Cundall, a London artist, claims to of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. eve and "no vermin will stick to you." juleps. This amount includes the marketed have issued the first Christmas card proper in product only, no account having If one be born at "sermon time" on Christmas 1846. It was a lithograph, hand colored, about In 1901, at the time of the last been taken of the countless thousands morning he can see spirits burn elder on the size of a lady's visiting card. In 1862 cards census of Canada, successful agriculture of juleps which were compounded Christmas eve and you will have revealed to you of this character were first issued in large numbers. in the Provinces of Monitoba, a during the year with base of the all the witches and sorcerers in the neighborhood. They were still of the visiting card size, Saskatchewan and Alberta was an whisky that undiluted moonshine Inscribed, simply, "A Merry Christmas." Later experiment to many. There were paid a of tax.—St. Louis never cent Thieves will find it consoling to know that if holly, mistletoe, embossed robins and figures and skeptics who could not believe that Star. they steal anything on Christmas without being it was possible to grow thirty, forty landscapes were added until the present stage caught they can safely steal things all the year. has been reached. and even fifty bushels of wheat to the Kept Umbrella Thirty Years. Likewise, steal hay and give to your cattle, and As a forerunner of the Christmas card were acre, or that as high as one hundred A faithful old umbrella which has not only will they thrive all the year and grow and thirty bushels of oats to the acre the "school pieces" and "Christmas pieces" of the shielded the family of Dr. James A. fat, but you will not be caught in any of your could be grown. The skeptics are not early part of the nineteenth century. These were Mullican of Greenwood avenue from future thefts. to be found today. The evidence ol sheets of plain writing paper surrounded with the storms of 30 years, was stolen on A Christmas day passed without eating any the hundreds of thousands of farmers elaborate pen flourishes and scrolls, and sometimes Sunday. During the rain on that day beans and you will become an ass eat a raw egg is too overwhelming. Not only have headed with copper-plate engravings, plain the physician lent the umbrella to E. on Christmas morning, fasting, and you can carry colored. Schoolboys used them at the holiday the lands of western Canada proven A. Seek, and while the latter was in a heavy weights. t^ason, says one writer, "for carefully written their worth in the matter of raising store some one stole it. If you have been disappointed, save the. ltit^rs exploiting the progress they had made "The umbrella belonged to my father all the smaller field grains, but for crumbs for three Christmas eves and they will in com^b^.ion and chirography. Charity boys and has been in the family for mixed farming, and for cattle raising more than thirty years," said Doctor there is no better country anywhere. be effective a£ a physic shake out the tablecloth were larg§ purchasers of these pieces and at Mullican the other night. "It has been over the bare ground under the open sky after Christmas tlma used to take them around their The climate is perfectly adapted to all povered several times. your Christmas dinner and crumbwort will grow parish to shor/ aad at the same time to solicit these pursuits as well as admirable "To persons who are unable to keep for health. The Dominion government there hang a wash clout on a hedge on Christmas a trifle. the same umbrella for more than thirty literature, descriptive of the country, day or Christmas eve, then groom the horses days this may seem incredible, but Is what all that are interested should with it and they will grow fat. It is true," concluded Doctor Mullican read. Send for a copy to the nearest Take great care of your fire on Christmas Modeling for Children with a smile.—Chicago Tribune. Canadian government representative. morning if it burn brghtly that betokens prosperity for all the coming year if it smolder, beware, A Willing Witness. Without Malice. for that portends misfortune and adversity. "Did his actions have an air of verisimilitude?" "What have you done?" exclaimed It is unlucky to give to a neighbor a live coal Give of 'Making Things" in Ctay Pupils Idea the lawyer asked the witness. Mrs. Cumrox, as she flourished a letter with which to kindle a fire on Christmas morning JF A DOG St0m.d NJTWJIL 31/ft FLY GO Form. Artistic Beauty and at him. also it is unlucky to carry a coal or anything /TAD WJr/i/ti TJif Y£AR "What was that, sir?" "Has that anything to do with the else from the house on Christmas morning "I say, did his conduct wear an air correspondence I tried to help you There are sculptors who make a specialty of until something has first been brought in. of verisimilitude?" with?" portrait busts and statuettes of children and recently Our Christmas tree, which is a feature of a season for signs and portents regarding the "Oh," replied the witness. "Sure! "It has. It's an indignant protest. a movement has been started to make most public Christmas eve celebrations, and in success or failure of their endeavors for the coming He was versimllitudin' all around the I told you to address that distinguished plastic art, in the form of small models and figurines many homes, is comparatively new in Christendom, year. place."—Saturday Evening Post. pianist as 'Herr Professor.' distributed among the public schools, a medium but it springs from some very ancient customs. "And I did so." for teaching new art^tic ideals in youngr The Egyptians regarded the date palm as "Yes. But you wrote it 'Hair Professor!' WONDERED WHY. If you beat your trees on Christmas night they pupils. an emblem of immortality arid of the starlit firmament Found the Answer Was "Coffee." were certain to bear better crops than they had Strangely enough, the idea of giving the cbildred and at the time of the winter solstice the year previously. A like result would follow a lump of clay and setting them to "making decked their houses with its branches. It was Many pale, sickly persons wonder for It Worked Well. the tying of stones on every Christmas eve, or to something" themselves seems never to have occurred held by them to be "a symbol of life," triumphant years why they have to suffer so, and "How is the new filing system? Success?" tie wet straw bands around the orchard trees on except to a few of our school teachers. In over death, and therefore of perennial life in the eventually discover that the drug—caffeine—In asked th© agent of the merchant Christmas eve would increase their fruitfulness. many schools the kindergarten sand box is about renewal of each bounteous year. coffee is the main cause of to whom he had sold a "system" To make the grass grow well the succeeding the nearest approach to it, but in some of the A Scandinavian myth speaks of a "service the trouble. a few days before. year, thrash the ground of your garden with a public schools in great cities modeling in clay is tree" sprung from the blood-drenched soil where "Great!" said the merchant. "I was always very fond of coffee flail on Christmas eve with only your shirt on. taught in the primary grades. two lovers had been killed by violence. During and drank It every day. I never had "Good!" said the agent, rubbing his In several of the old counties of England the Modeling, the concrete expression of the sense the Christmas season mysterious lights which no hands. "And how is business?" much flesh and often wondered why I custom long survived of "saluting" the apple of form, is the beginning of all art. wind could extinguish were often seen flaming "Business?" echoed the merchant. was always so pale, thin and weak. trees on Christmas eve, and in Sussex they used "The vital law lying at the root of all that in its branches. A later explanation of the "Oh, we have stopped business to attend "About five years ago my health to "wassail," or "worsle" and chant verses to have ever tried to teach," says Ruskin, "is the dependence Christmas tree dates back to Martin Luther and to the filing system." completely broke down and I was confined them. of all noble design in any kind, oi the tells «f him attemptinig to describe to his family to my bed. My stomach was in sculpture or painting of organic form." Christmas time is regarded by the maidens the beauties of a snow-covered forest under a such condition that I could hardly take Important to Mothers The appreciation of form, as Mr. Schreiber argues, of many countries as the season when the oracles Examine carefully every bottle of starry sky. Unable to make them comprehend sufficient nourishment to sustain life. can never be so well taught as when the are pleased to give them information concerning CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for satisfactorily, he went into the garden, cut a "During this time I was drinking coffee, their love affairs, telling them by various processes pupil has a bit of clay in his hands, and that it is Jnfants and children, and see that it small fir tree and set it up in the nursery with didn't think I could do without it. what will be the color of their lover's natural is well proved by the desire of every Bears the its branches covered with lighted candles. "After awhile I came to the conclusion child to mold something out of mud, if no clay is hair and his eyes, his occupation and whether At about the season when we celebrate Christmas that coffee was hurting me, and Signature of to be had. The children at the seashore try present love affairs will terminate happily or otherwise. the Jews celebrated their Feast of Lights, or decided to give it up and try Postum. their best to "build something," though the sand Jn Use For Over 30 Years. the Feast of Dedication, of which lighted candles I didn't like the taste of It at first, but slips away. So they wet it, and do the best, they Kind Tou Have Always Bought. Some of these curious beliefs hinge on the The are a prominent feature. "The Night of Dedication," when it was made right—boiled until can. Give any normal child some clay and see exact time of the birth of Jesus. Scotch folklore Christmas eve is called in Germany, while dark and rich—I soon became food of how easily it learns to model familiar objects Its Office. has it ichat he was born at midnight of Christmas the "Feast of Lights" is celebrated also in it. "This cork is very tight in your and how eagerly it amuses itself with this artistic eve, and that the miracle of turning water into Greece, at our Christmas time, although Christmas "In one week I began to feel better.. play. It is along the pathway of clay that a .brandy bottle. I.can't budge it." wine was later also performed at jthat hour. This is a dismal time In Greece, being disliked I could eat more and sleep better. My "Yes, that's the nature of cork. It child can be most easily instructed, being (aught belief is also recognized in parts of Germany, by that warmth-loving people because It is cold sick headaches were less frequent, and was put there to keep the bottle's to see exactly-and to reproduce more and more where it is held that water turns to wine between within five months I looked and felt .spirits from going down." and dreary—also a favorite season for ghosts and skillfully as it gains skill by practice. It education the hours of eleven and twelve on Christmas eve, like a new bein& headache spejls entirely goblins tfo walk abroad. of eye and hand at the same time. The while in other sections of that country the change gone. Unfortunately the people, who joy of creation is aroused and stimulated and the During the middle -ages the Christmas tree Is believed to take place on Christmas night. marry in haste are not the only ones "My health continued to improve and powers of production are given full play. became an institution at Strassburg and was familiar Gossips in Germany must find great satisfaction who repent at leisure. today I am well and strong, weigh 14& sil Hi along the Rhine for 200 years before its If left to its own free will the child is apt to in the superstition that if one walks into pounds. I attribute my present health popularity extended throughout the rest of the attempt the 'complex rather than the simple and the winter corn on Christmas eve he will hear all case of pain on the lungs Hamlina to the life-giving qualities of Postum." Tp. therefore a certain amount of suggestion and world. that will happen in the village that year. Likewise, Wizard Oil acts like a mustard plaster, la Read "The Road to Wellville." guidance is necessary. To this end an entire if one goes to the crossroads on Christmas except that it is more effective and is so pkgs. "There's & Reason." series of models have been set as a course that Christmas cards, which may now be had in annch nicer and cleaner to use. day he will hear "that which most concerns him will help to lay the foundation for later arMstl© every degree of elaborateness and gorgeousness Ev« read above letter A new for the coming year." Pr appears cn« from time to time. Tfcey The noblest motive is the public education. at prices from a penny each upward, are compar- Dogs should have a care as to their actions Iimi nre genuiT^, true, aal fall of Interests vicood.—Virgil. 4 i-" mm