.•*: •WSS®^- ,v V.v. -i.- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Your Liver -Whlat Impressed Him. W. H. Child, president of the Yellowstone is Clogged up Park association, went tp fcurope two or three years ago and 1*4 for a companion man Interested a Why That's You're Tired—Oat the hotel business. They traveled lb Sorts—Hm No Appetite.^ Europe, investigating hotel and commissary problems to some extent, CARTER'S lad LIVER PILLS finally arrived in Rome. They CARTERS w31 pat you right Grent into St. Peter's and stood beneath in few days. the dome. "Well," said Child, ITTUE They do "here it is. Here's the dome." The their daty. hotel man took one look forward. Then Cure lie turned to Child and asked: "How Coast ipa. much did that man in London say he tion, BUitusttt, wanted for them hams?" IndigestioB, amd Sick Hetdade. SHALL PILL, SHALL DOSE, SHALL PRICK Incredible Brutality. Genuine Bustfeeat Signature Willis—Under this year's football rules you can't assist the man with the ball. do they Gillis—Great Scott! What do—stand around and him die?— let Northwestern 401nstruc*orf Puck. f* 600 Student* Conservatory a Mrs. 'Winslow'a Soothing: Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces ln only the day that begins lamination,allay pam. cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. All branches of Music Art and Dramatic AA a year, but it is, Orchestral and Band Instruments. Normal Course^ Occasionally you hear some one in Public School Music, Art, Piano, Physical Traia» in the highest sense of Terms Reasonable. ing, Domestic Science. Cetilog mentioned as being a good liar. O. A. the words, le jour de EVERS, Pres. Minneapolis, Misx^ ''an—their "day of the No Man is Stronger year." Preparation for it begins early in December. The American Than His Stomach I Christmas shopper, if landed in Tokyo in mid-December, would strong man is strong all over. No man can be A strong who is suffering from weak stomach with its find crowds of her consequent indigestion, or from some other casts the other end over a brothers and sisters in spirit throng.igitng of the stomach and its associated organs, which impairs screen. Hidden players attach in shops decorated with the most digestion and nutrition. For when the stomach some gift to the free end of the attractive symbolic ornamentations is weak or diseased there is a loss of the nutrition rope, whereby often the best of and displaying with great skill the contained in food, which is the source of all physical fun comes, because of the things most requisite for the coming strength. When a man doesn't feel just right," prizes drawn. holiday time. At night, along the when he doesn't sleep well, has an uncomfortable But this great day of begin­ feeling in the 6tomach after eating, is nervous, irritable and despond* thoroughfares, the stranger would see languid, •at, he is losing the nutrition needed to make strength. nings for Japan, with its idling and many pleasures, multitudes crowded about street booths Such a"man should use• Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical at last comes to a close. On the second day to purchase the wares exposed there, Discovery. It cure* diseases ot the stomach and other of the year the duty of work is celebrated. In the ftll "which are significant of the New or&ans ot digestion and nutrition, it enriches the blood, Tear festival, and nothing else. Everywhere home the children strive to show to their parents Invigorates the liver, strengthens the kidneys, nourishes the best they can do in penmanship or in memory the avenue and by-ways would the nerves, and so GIVES HEALTH 21X3 STRENGTH TO nings," that is, of of things to be learned. Girls,,.try their first ornamental be illuminated with rows of shining THE WHOLE BODY. "year," of "month" and needlework or piece of music merchants lanterns, bearing trade devices and Vou can't afford to accept a nostrum as a substitute ior nonalcoholic secret this of "day." open their shops with a show of receiving their medicine op COMPOSITION, not though the family crests, all suspended from the KNOWN even urgent dealer When the household may thereby a profit. on first goods for the year. On the street many processions low eaves of stores and houses. Never make little bigger Ingredients printed wrapper. awakens on January of coolies are seen bearing beautifully ornamented are the streets of Japanese cities and specimens of the trades of their masters. 1 every member of towns so enlivened with gayly dressed the family seeks the Heavily loaded wagons, brilliantly decorated with •rowds and busy traffickers as during others to say "Omedeto" lanterns, flags and advertisements, drawn by oxen .he time of our own alien yet. kindred, (Congratulation). covered with many colored cloths, pass from district Christmas excitement. r4 And then an exchange The specific preparations for the to district, accompanied by singing and dancing of presents like our New Year begin about fhe thirteenth workmen. Christmas giving begins. Toward the evening of the second day street of the last month. Then, within every The New Year peddlers, crying "Treasure ships for sale!" go louse in the empire, a general clean-ng breakfast is a feast of about among the crowds. They sell rough drawings up takes place. A fresh, green of the "Seven Gods of Happiness," afloat in branch of the bamboo tree, with its leaves and symbolism and of good wishes. The New Year's wine,- too, is passed around, with the wish that a boat. Multitudes buy these caricatures of an twigs to symbolize good fortune, is used as a ancient sacred group, much as we might buy a duster in completing the thorough sweeping. At everyone may drink along with the cup a long, pictured Santa Claus. That night the "treasure long life. A soup containing a peculiar rice paste, this time the soft rice mats of which the flooring ship" must lie under one's pillow. The dreams in Japanese homes is made are renewed in mochi, is eaten by all, each one wishing the that come then mean much for the rest of the order that the callers at the New Year may be others ten thousand years of pleasure and prosperity. 'eceived where they can enjoy a spotless footing, Then the household prepare for a day opening year. On the third day of the New Year the firemen .it this time, too, all matrons and maids are of festivity. The busy broom and bamboo duster usy getting ready for wear on New Year's day are left idle all the day, for fear that they might of the towns have their annual parade and give Jmonoa that shall have no trace in them of the sweep out of the house the divine freshness that public exhibitions of acrobatic skill in many places. These exhibitions are no mean shows. Some of anished past. To old and young the daily theme has come into it. All the shops remain closed the performers display an agile ability in climbing, thought and talk is the coming "New Year," from dawn until the next day. It is the day^ of balancing and leaping that is of an extraordinarily ull as much as "Christmas" is to us. the home and of social happiness. There is no "Christmas tree" as the center of the Japanese high order. Outside the houses symbolic decoration has REPEATING RIFL! New Year celebration inside the house, but there Indeed, all the days of the first fortnight of the ull sway, and transforms the thoroughfares into is the Kagami mochi or "mirror rice cakes" that new year are red letter days, until the fifteenth ««ayly colored and evergreen avenues. The treeess are made as conspicuous as the "tree." These day comes, when seemingly a most comical ending streets are turned, for the time being, into cakes represent the round mirror, in which the of the whole festal season takes place. The .'istas of swaying bamboo and pine trees. Before We we just as proud of the REMINGTON .22 people after that settle down to the commonplace sight of her face enticed the sun goddess out of :ach house entrance, according to the tenants' Repeaters as we are of the Remington Big Game order of regular daily labor. The Japanese people her cave in the olden time. For eleven days these urses and taste, stands a kind of archway. Its high power rifles—for just as good reasons. No other at the present time do not take this closing event cakes remain decorated with fruits and flowers, pine branches, supposedly male and female, on make of the .22 class is built to as high a strnd&rd. more seriously to heart than we of this land now elevated on whitewood trays. Then they form he right and left, and the tall triple bamboo The a regard the ride of Tam O'Shanter but, theoretically, features that place the REMINGTON .22 in class by itself are the real big part of a family feasting. shafts (both trees symbolic of longevity that is REMINGTON features—Hammerless and Solid Breech. You clean the barrel froia the inhabitants of the infernal regions during wf a hardiness that has borne the storms and Throughout Japan the New Year's day is the in the breech—not forcing the dirt back into the working paits as other 22'*. i'n«»n'ng the first fortnight of the new year have as struggles of long life into a rugged old age) welcome one complete holiday of the year. Soon after life-time usefulness and maintaining constant shooting condition. merry a good time as the people of this world. On the visitor. Over head, spanning the space breakfast all the members of the families, dressed is a There perhaps greater difference between the REMINGTON and other .22 Re­ the fifteenth day, however, the instruments of torture between these uprights of the arch, is a decorated in their newest clothes, take to the gardens, parks peaters than is to be found between rifles of any other class. in hell begin to work again. On this day it rope always of rice straw, having on it various and streets for characteristic pleasurings. Universal A REAL RIFLE the REMINGTON .22 Repeater. Shoots without adjustment. is that the temples consecrated to Emma O, the )endants arranged in series of seven, five and visiting is a social law—calling on friends .22 short, ,22 long or .22 long rifle cartridges. king of Hades, are crammed with devotees and and relatives in person or by card. Universal hree (Iucliy numbers). The rope recalls one of Set of Targets Mailed Free. gather large sums of offerings from fearful sinners. gift making is indulged in, messengers being .he most revered and poetic traditions of the Japr-inese THE REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, Agency: 299 Brae 3way, New York City. It is a wonderful sight, a temple of Emma O past. The sun goddess, the ancestress of sent bearing presents all around the household in mid-January, in one of the great cities. A Roman 'h imperial house of the empire, was angered and friendly circles. Distinctive and exclusive carnival could not be more jostling, jolly or vith her brother in the ancient days, and in revenge games also belong to the New Year time. Battledore absurdly funny. Japanese fun making is at its hid herself in a cave. Darkness then prevailed and shuttlecock is probably chief among freest there, and all that is done seems to be forgiven ef in heaven and over the earth. The gods, them. In certain parts Tokyo, for example, the worshipers, if their contributions to the 'n their perplexity, tried to induce her to come streets are almost impassable because of the treasure boxes of his majesty, the regent of the ut of her hiding place. But in vain did they hosts of the players of this game. As far as one inferno, are generous. With the festival of this ppear, until, in a dance they had arranged, she can see, the scene is one of bewildering color god the new year on earth and under the earth •n, yas induced by a taunt that touched her vanity from the stir of the dresses of the girls, who are has for the Japanese passed away as a feast, and, 0 open the dQor of her self-chosen dungeon. One as active in'their sport as so many of our tennis life's duties fairly begun again. of the gods then drew her forth, and, to prevent players. Gayly ornamented battledores flash everywhere, Of course the Japanese New Year is today fast ler running back into the cave, stretched a §traw and the air is full of the bright, fluttering losing some of its old-time characteristic fascinations, ope across the entrance. The perpetual shining toys that are struck from one to another The Rayo Lamp is a high grade lamp, sold at a low price. but enough of its unique quaintness and the sun, secured thereby, remains memorialzed player. Penalty for defeat usually means grotesque There are lamps that eost more, but there I no better lamp made at any -•*, uwio, uui ineiQib no oeLUir lamp maue at any charm remain to give it distinctiveness among the in the garlanded barrier hanging above each markings of the face with strokes of charcoal DRICFIA CaI price. Coiistructed of solid brass nick*! plated—easily Ecptcleftn att jAU Rljl^ ll CTfi 1 1 All /llAttM ntk oniament to any room in any bouse. There is nothing kKown to the a?l festivals of the nations, and to keep it an object Japanese portal at New Year's time. ink. One may see thousands of children for foreign tourists to enjoy. merry under the comical markings imposed upon Among the most noticeable and significant cbects y&i£T8 their foreheads and cheeks. UGHT STANDARD a OIL COMPANY (Incorporated) ornamenting these doorway arches is scaret Kite flying is another peculiar New Year pastime. a Wj I, DOUGLAS lobster, embedded among some branches of And kite flying in Japan is a sight well To the New Year oush whose old leaves remain Unshed until after worth going far to see. The variety of shape, the the young leaves have budded. The lobster's •3.0b *3.50& *4.00 8HOES !°&om!n gorgeousness of coloring, the extraordinary size crooked body tells of old age bent with years, BOYS' SHOES, S2.QO. T2.SQ AND $3.00. BEST IN THE WORLD. of many of these toys, is something peculiar to Oh child New Year, on whom the inafitlc falls while the. bush branches around it show how Tfiie benefits of free McleSj If I could take you into my the Japanese. Then the skill shown in "maneuvering parents remain even while children and children's Of the departing year, who leaves to thee, wliieh apply principally to largo factories at Brockton, the kites is marvelous. They hum as they children may come into being. In the The labors/ taslcs, the duties and tie calls sole lenfcher,and. tlieraduced and sher vou hour care­ fully w. L. .Doagfcr j^oes sway in the January breeze with a sort of organpipe tariff ed sole leather, now same decoration fronds of. fern are placed, whose Which are the heirlooms of the past, to be enables mo to give the volume of sound, and, at times, they swoop pairs of leaves symbolize wedded life. The orange, A precious trust the heritage of time, wearer more value, for Ms you would th«n understamd why whose color brightens the clustered symbols, down upon antagonist fliers, like hawks, and, How will thou face the future all alone? money, better and longer Dollar f»r Dollar I Guarantee a a with their glass-dust-covered cords cut their enemies wearing $3, $3.50 and $4 bears name which, as pun, means "genratkns," How front the fees of sin, and vice, and crime, l«y Shoas to hold their shape, shoes than I could give pre* .}«ak and fit better and wear and tells of family perpetuity. Seaweed free, thus making them the property of Which muster round with force and might unknown? Ipr: longer than any other S3.00. 3.50 •ffio us to the tariff revision. is there, too, as a memorial of good fortune, their own masters. There is hardly a more fascinating iTake spectacle than one of these friendly battles .. bow the standard for over 30 commemorating also the prehistoric conquest Qf courage, child of time, be not dismayed, mnP r,iVdfn years that I make and sell more $3.00, $3.50 and §4.00 shoes than by in in the air of Japanese kites, under the guidance Korea the Empress Jingo. Her troops were Equip thyself with faith and hope dnd love, the Korean danger of defeat because their horses on of the skilled men who manage them. And. seek for strength and wisdom from above cAUTdealer ON I NO SUBSTITUTE of seashore were starving from lack food. Another distinctive entertainment for the New With these to help thee, never be afraid. If your cannot suddIv von wiTUTO 1. .. by be But, inspiration, she ordered seaweed to Year celebration is furnished by groups of masked Go forth with gladness on thine untrod way, an. and given plucked from the waters of the beach performers who go about the streets led by a And strength will 6ome-to thee from day to day. EUREKA were that to the horses, who then so invigorated curious animal-like creature, whose grotesque E. D. NALDER. Will Keep Your they carried their riders to glorious victory. Uon-head excites much mock terror among children. bands wave over the garlands Gohel white of paper The antics of these motley crowds are Harness of arches of the ancient tVe doorway symbolic supposed to exorcise evil spirits from the Japanese To the New Year that have won the favor of "the offerings homes, as well as to add gayety to the doings HARNESS soft as a glove myriad gods." of the day. Many other unique ceremonies and the Old Friends take place on the first day too many for an attempt After busy weeks of preparation at last the tough as a wire to describe them here. closing day of the year comes. On New Year's eve the whole country is astir and every place But we may not pass by the old card parties black as a coal The moon wanes pale in the sky, that needs alight for use or beauty is brightened. of the New Year evenings the matchings of the OIL A(1 through that night the people stay out of bed beginnings and ends of the "hundred songs of a And the stars al blink for morn to see the old year pass and to welcome the riew. hundred singers." Prom one January to another The old year is to die, Sold by Dealers Evarywhar* •Merchants do not go to bed until the dawn of this game is not indulged in but at the opening And the new year to be born, of the year it is the chief sport kept for the evenings, (•New Year's day. All the business accounts of STANDARD OIL COMPANY We have passed through the vale of tears, the closing year be settled that night, and whole families becoming absorbed in it It muBt (LNC0HF01UT£D) We have trod the journey long, In every sense of the word the year be begun is a contest of memory and of quickness at discovering AXLE GREASE ^afresh among those Japanese who are guided by in cards laid out before a group of play- We have shared our hopes and fears,. ^All tithe old social order. things are made new. the end of a poem whose opening llnei have ers We have shared our grief and- song ^Bad luck, Jad feelings,, unsettled debts, are *all been, read^ by a leader. ,1$ Is astonishing tp see And w?'ve.Bharod them all with otfr old iriehcls "to be dtaeawa/:wittf1 and a new chapter of life" &e skill thlt" many-of1"ihe players hire -Keeps the spindle bright and Our true friends, our few friends, pened, filled with happy prospects. The com- acquired. free from grit. Try a box*. And we'll drain anew to our old friends, ^e renewal of old-fashioned Japanese life at One more exciting New Year game deserves Sold by dealers everywhere. one of home he New Year is well shown In the names mention, the fortune lotteries.. In these The friends that are always true. STANDARD OIL CO- "The Three lotteries takes bold of a rope and at day bears, Ban Gan,. Begin- one ofthe end THWUT Christopher Christie, In Smart Set Oaaaiyomted) twig f-,r. ... ymtrnm