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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. RHEUMATISM TRUST REPUDIATED. BH jMinnesota Legislature! The National Grange Opposes tht Medical Trust. Two for One Seat 4 Proceedings at tlie Minnesota State Gapitoi for the In its last annual session the National Grange passed the following PastWeeK. resolutions: By M. J. PHILLIPS WHEREAS, The resolutions adopted St Paul, .Tan. 18—Planning the construction St. Paul, Jan. 20.—A comprehensive at the 43rd annual session of the Literary.Presa Copyright, 1910, by Associated of an intricate canal system, educational bill abolishing the boasd National Grange, favoring "the consolidation which shall form a complete network of regents of the state university and "Pshaw! This is no night for electioneering." the girl who had sat on his lap. of the various federal health over Minnesota, Representative L. C. eliminating every educational board Coombs fancied that she blushed. bureaus, have been used by the Committee Now that he could get a good look Spooner introduced a bill which may was submitted to the house committee I On the back seat of the car the want every chronic rheumatic to throw all of One Hundred on National away all medicines, all liniment, at her. Coombs realized that she was have incalcuable influence on the internal on education by Representative chairman and secretary of the county plasters. rive MUNYOH'S RHEUMATISM Health as an endorsement of the proposal ~very pretty. He wondered idly who development of the state. W. T. Stone of Park Rapids. It calls a committee were arguing as to the REMEDY trial. No xatter what your doctor ipay soy, no amtter what Mr. Spooner's bill calls for an appropriation for the creation of an entirely new she was. Probably the daughter of to create a new federrl department, best sort of speech for Coombs to your friends may Bay, no matter how of $40,000 and authorizes system of educational supervision in some wealthy farmer of the neighborhood, make at the Bristow schoolhouse, for prejudiced you may be against all advertised to be called the Department of remedies, go at once to your druggist the governor, the attorney general and Minnesota and is along the lines ot who had been able to give her which they were headed. On the and a Public Health and get Dottle of the RHEUMATISM the state auditor to investigate the the recommendation made by Governor advantages beyond the ordinary. Her front seat the chauffeur steered the REMEDY. If It falls to give satisfaction,! will refund your money.—Munyon WHEREAS, The attitude of the Nar feasibility of the proposed plan. Eberhart to centralize responsibility good looks and her becoming dress car straight into the harvest moon Remember this remedy contains no salicylic This is what is known as the Mershon in state government. tional Grange in this matter has been which was rising like a great shield were of the city rather than the acid, no opium cocaine, morphine or other harmful drugs. It is put up under system of canalization and was Mr. Stone proposes the creation of misrepresented by the advocates of a country. He speculated whether her at the end of the white road. Beside the guarantee of the Pure Food and Drug first presented to the state legislature a state educational commission to consist eyes were dark gray or brown. Public Health Department and him Coombs, candidate for congress, Act. by F. D. Mershon^two years ago. It of five members to be appointed For sale by all druggists. Price. 25c. Coombs arose to make his speech. was secretly indulging himself in one WHEREAS, The creation of such a Involves connecting the Lake of the by the governor. This board is to The audience applauded the handsome, of the let-downs which come even to COULDN'T BE VERY WELL. Woods with the Red River of the act in a supervisory capacity over Department would involve the appointment boyish-looking candidate. They the best regulated candidates. He every state educational institution in North, draining the Red River valley, of thousands of unnecessary office listened closely while he sketched was heartily sick of the campaign the state. carrying the water to the Minnesota holders, and the expenditure of national affairs and conditions in of the dally association with small W. I. Nolan's resolution providing river, developing the Minnesota river their own state, then in their own politicians who treated him with more millions of dollars, which could be better for a record of the roll calls on the from St. Cloud to the Twin Cities and district. The moment had come for or less familiarity of repeating the devoted to establishing parcels final vote on all bills, considered by then connecting by means of the St. the attack on Congressman Scott, but same things over and over to audiences post, aiding the states in the work of the committee, passed the house by Croix and other streams and the necessary Coombs did not make it. He looked friendly, hostile and indifferent. road improvement, and other reforms large majority. artificial channels with Lake Superior. into the eyes of the girl on the front He was tired of the whole business In which the Grange is interested It is planned to make this Representative C. E. Stone, of St seat. Doubtless she thought him like for the moment he sincerely wished channel deep enough to carry vassels Paul, introduced a bill providing foi therefore all politicians—ready to climb at the he were back at Demottville pegging an appropriation of $500,000 for the. plying on the lakes. Connected with expense of another anxious to tear away at his law practice, and letting RESOLVED: That the National construction of a historical library museum this idea is a plan to develop the down that other's reputation that he some one else work and fret for political Grange has not endorsed a Department and a collection of historic relics Mississippi river from Minneapolis to might build up his own. Well, he honors. And if he were, ae the gulf. for the State Historical society. of Public Health, and sees no would show her he was not an ordinary would be enjoying this perfect evening—an "Representation shall be based good reason why the farmers of the The explicit route of the proposed OH politician. August changeling set down population, except in cities of 100,00C system of canals Involves connecting country should favor the creation of The Bristow neighborhood was in late October. Buggy riding with or more, in which case the population the Lake of the Woods with' Lake such a Department, or any legislation rather disappointed in the tameness a pretty girl on a moonlight night shall be double that of other section! Traverse at interstate crossing, constructing of the speech the chairman and secretary that might be construed as a step in naturally appealed to -the bachelor as a basis of representation." Th« a large canal connecting were grumpy. But Coombs that direction. Coombs. And there were pretty girls above amendment to the constitutior Vermillion lake with Red lake and didn't care he walked out with the in Demottville. of the state of Minnesota was introduced developing water powers along the girl. MEALING WITH HIS DRINK. The car came upon a group wending by Senator Works in the senat« line. "You will ride back with us?" he its way to the schoolhouse. There and was referred to the committee Then comes another barge canal, OE asked. were five of them—two boys twelve reapportionment. connecting Red lake with the barge She shook her head, and held out or fourteen years old, and three young Senator Wilson introduced a bill canal first mentioned. A dyke or clam Mrs. Stoskson Bonds—StocKson, thai her hand. "No but thank you for women. "Oh, you candidate!" called regulating liquor licenses and brewer? about 20 feet high is to be constructed stenographer of yours is whistling! what you did not say tonight." one of the boys, as the car was rolling control. Senator Wilson's bill pro near the interstate crossing, and Is she in the habit of whistling when "What do you mean?" asked by. vides that it shall be unlawful for anj another dam is to be built near Granite alone? Coombs. He was oblivious of the fact "Stop," commanded Coombs, briefly. brewery or wholesale liquor house oi Falls, 80 feet high, in the Minnesota Stockson Bonds—I don't know. 1 that two score voters, whose ballots He had been taught never to their agents to assist in procuring a river, creating between the two was never with her when she was might elect him, were also waiting to "overlook any bets," in the parlance saloon license or own or rent an5 dams a permanent inland sea in the alone! shake hands. of the politician. Every person had building in which the liquor is re valley of the Minnecota river, while a "I mean," she said, "that I am possibilities, no matter how humble. Different Now, of Course. ship canal is to connect this sea or tailed. Frank Scott's daughter." Every one wielded some influence— New liquor option rules for cities oi "Civil service reform has given us lake near Sauk Rapids or St. Cloud The campaign drew to a close. possibly commanded a vote, and a the fourth class were proposed by Sen a splendid army of civil servants. It with the Mississippi river. Coombs was scheduled to spend the vote was a vote, wherever garnered. ator Sageng in a hill introduced before wasn't always so." Drainage canals are to be constructed "All aboard!" he invited, cheerily, last week in this county, and he managed The speaker, Mayor Whitlock of Toledo, the senate. to carry the flood or overflow to see a good deal of Beth Scott as the car stopped. smiled. His bill provides that a petition water of the surrounding country into They came promptly, the boys with between meetings. They avoided "When I was writing my first short signed by 10 per cent of the voters the barge canal, or into the inland whoops of delight. They dragged politics, but found many other subjects stories," he resumed, "we had civil lake. in any village or town of the fourth to talk about. They had read servants of a different stamp. An class was sufficient to compel the clerh The plan calls for the construction the same books and admired the same elderly resident of my native Urbana of the town to put the question oi of an intercity harbor in the gorge f"See here, my dear sir! Didn't I plays. There werev so many things sought out, back In those days, his liquor licensing or not liquor licensing of the Mississippi river below St. Anthony tell you not to drink with your meals?" to discuss that Coombs took to running congressman. on the ballot at the next election. falls. -.The canal system north over to the home of Miss Scott's 'Congressman,' he said, 'I supported "But, doctor, be reasonable. I have At least 10 voters must sign the pe to Lake Superior will run by way of you at the polls, and now I expect to eat some time." uncle, where she was visiting, mornings tition, however, even though there arc the Rum, Kettle and Snake rivers, running you to get my boy a good civil service or afternoons o. evenings— less than 100 voters. The number oi northeasterly from St. Cloud, connecting job.'" whenever the hardworked party NURSE TELLS OF SKIN CURES voters shall be the number who cast with the upper St. Croix river "'All right, friend th« congressman motor car could be spared, and he their ballots at the last election. thence down the Bois Brule river to answered, 'what can your boy had an hour to himself. A bill giving the railroad and warehouse "I have seen the Cuticura Remedies Lake Superior, the ship canal to be do?' Election day came, and Coombs commission authority to regulate used with best results during the past connected with the St. Croix river by 'Do?' snorted the other. 'What was beaten. He made a good run, telephone companies was introduced twenty years. In my work as a nurse, a channel navigable for the river can he do? By crinus, man, if he better than shrewd politicians had in the hous6 by Representative -many skin disease cases came under boats. could do anything, do you think I'd be expected, for Frank Scott was deservedly Schwartz. It would compel telephone :my observation, and in every instance, Reapportionment hopes of Northern bothering you?'" strong. companies to conect with intersecting I always recommended the Minnesota were advanced at the joint Goombs, somehow, did not mind lines of other companies where this session of the house and senate reapportionment Cuticura Remedies as they always Motherly Advice. the defeat there was no sting In it. action would improve the service. committees. gave. entire satisfaction. One case in Margery was playing school with Demottvile gloried in his good showing, Any city that appropriated funds particular was that of a lady friend Senator Hackney, chairman of the her dolls. The class in physiology and received him almost as a for the relief of the fire sufferers at of mine who, when a, child, was afflict£d senate committee, was made chairman was reciting. hero when he came home.. He became, Baudette and Spooner, without authority of the joint committee. He immediately With, eczema which covered her "Now, children," she said, "what are in its charter, will have their acts almost in a night, a prominent asked Representative Congdon face and hands entirely, breaking out your hands for?" citizen. In two weeks his law business legalized if a bill introduced by Senator to read three rules that the two had at intervals with severer torture. She "To keep clean," was the prompt doubled. He had "arrived." agreed on as tentative means of limiting Sullivan is passed. ,-could not go- to school as the disfigurement reply. ..v.,: ..... .Miss Scott was going {home, and the field of activity within broad looked terrible. I told her to get "Yes," repeate/1: the_,li£tle teach4r, Coombs had come- to ^say good-bye. lines/- '...r at once a set of Cuticura Remedies. "hands were given us so we could St. Paul/Jan. 21.—A tabulated estimate Likewise he planned 'as^he had been' ---?The first' Was' that the maximum for After the use of only one set she was keep them clean, a&d 'member,. too,"she of the appropriations' desired by olanning for a month, to say some.hing membership under, tne new. repportionment .perfectly well. added, "we must keep our feet the University ,of Minnesota was else. But It was hard to get it should be 63 senators' and .."A grown lady friend was afflicted clean, "cause there might be an accident."—Metropolitan* placed on the desk of members of the out Beth was so unconscious of 126 representatives. This would leave With salt rheum in one of her thumbs, Magazine. senate. The list tell a story, in figures what was going on beneath the surface the senate unchanged numerically, but and she was cured by the Cuticura of-the improvement plans for the next of his mind. would increase the house by nine. Remedies. "Still another, lady had dry Fame and. Fate. biennial session now in the minds of Go After Frank Scott's Record. At last he plucked up courage to salt rheum in both palms of her hands 'The second was that county lines Fame came to the man. the members of the board of regents. speak: every fall of the year. They used to should be left intact as far as practicable. "I will have a five-cent cigar named one of the young women, laughing As already published, it totals $5,499,895. "Eve/ since that night at the Bristow be so painful she could scarcely wet In Hennepin, Ramsey and for you," she said, sweetly. and protesting, between the'm. They school I've been wondering how her hands until she began to use the St. Louis counties the county lines Fate followed-on her heels. tugged at her, like young bears, and New Tax Law Is Proposed. you'd like Demottville." "I'll make you 6moke the cigar!" Cuticura Remedies which cured her. would have to be cut* or, where there before Coombs realized what was Speaking before the senate committee "It's a pretty_ little city, isn't it?" hissed Fate. I have also seen them cure children were cities like St. Cloud, situated in happening the girl was deposited in on taxes and tax laws Samuel she asked, with Interest. Hastily the man turned down the of ringworm. The children's faces three counties, the county lines would his lap, the others had bestowed Lord, a member of the state tax commission, "Yes I have a little home byway to obscurity.—Life. would be all circles and rings around have to be s^ered, but whenever possible themselves on the running board, and declared the present Minnesota there, surrounded by fifty-year-old the cheeks, and the neck ,and after the county lines should be kept. the car was on its way. statute,. providing for assessing maples. There's a fireplace in the Easy. treatment with the Cuticura Soap and The third was that, *n fixing the "I hope you'll pardon this enthusiastic property at its full value, had resulted living room, and a deep-padded leather "Does it cost much to clothe a Ointment they were completely cured. bounds of legislative districts, after response to your invitation," in innumerable violations of the law. chair that I like to draw up before family?" asked the economical man. My husband had rheumatism on hi3 grouping of counties for the purpose said the girl, striving to rise. "We need provision for a new basis the fire. That chair would hold two 'Not mine," replied Mr. Sirius of allotting senators and representatives firm and. I used the Cuticura Ointment. "I had no option, you see it was of assessment," Mr. Lord said. "Property just as easily as—as an automobile Barker. "My only daughter is a barefoot on a population basis, each such It' made his arm as limber and come, or get torn to pieces." should be assessed at 50 per cent seat." dancer and my only son is a marathon group should have the privilege, by its nice, whereas it was quite stiff before "And it seems to be stay for the of Its real valuation, or even less. Oh," breathed Beth Scott, comprehendingly. runner." representatives, of suggesting to the I began to apply the Ointment. same reason," replied Coombs, for County assessors should be substituted chairmen of both house and senate "Last May I had an ingrowing toe the boys stood guard, shouting: for village assessors. Under the present "But there's no use talking about CHEATED FOR YEARS. committees how the groups should be nail which was very painful, as the "You've got to stay right there, plan, the job of the village assessor it I suppose," went on Coombs, wistfully. Prejudice Will Cheat Ua Often If We divided into districts. The written side of the nail was edging right Cousin Beth!" is cheap and sometimes it is auctioned "Your father has won, and Let It. statement of Mr. Congdon said-the down in the side of my toe. I cut "Besides," continued the candidate, off or given to pensioners. As you are gohig back to Washington, reason for this-provision tfas that, the the nail out of the cavity it made, and "I welcome the opportunity to make the law now stands,- the man with the most wtriderful city in the country. You will be astonished to find how different sections understood the conditions of course applied the Cuticura Ointment a convert. In return for this ride I lots of property gets the best of the That's the only reason I'm sorry largely you are .influenced in every in their own parts of the state to the part affected. It soothed shall expect your Vote election day." deal." I lost. If I'd been successful, way by unreasoning prejudice. In better than anyone else could, and to it and in less than ten nights it was "Indeed?" questioned his passenger, At the committee meeting approval there'd have- been something to offer many cases you will also find that the have .each section the state -divide restraining herself unwillingly to all healed through" constant use of the of was given the Wallace bill exempting you/' prejudice.has swindled you, or rather, itself would save the entire committee the situation. "And what special Ointment. Ten days ago I had my from taxation the bonds of public corporations, "Do you *hink," 6aid the girl softly, made you swindle yourself. A case qualifications can you urge for congress? a lot of work. left hand and wrist burned with boiling and recommendation will be "that w^uld make any difference, in illustration: Are you competent or experienced? J. A. A. Burnqui&s recently defeated lard, and Cuticura Ointment has made, that it pass. Approval was also if one—cared? And I've seen "I have been a constant user of candidate for speaker of the house and Do you wield influence In completely cured them. I have just given the measure exempting from Washington But I've never seen Demottvile Grape-Nuts for nearly three years," chairman of the committee on normal Washington? Are you an orator? recommended the Cuticura Remedies taxation the property of fire relief associations. and—and that chair!" says, a correspondent, "and I ttm happy Can you do better than the man who schools, introduced his first bill for an to another friend, and she is pleased A sub-committee composed When the next session of congress to say that I am well pleased with has represented this district for ten appropriation of about $600,000 for the with the/ results and is recovering of Senator Boyle, Sundberg and Gunderson opened Frank Scott was hailed as a the result of the experiment, for such maintenance of the five state normal years?" nicely. I will gladly furnish the was appointed to examine the Napoleon of politics by his colleagues. schools of the state. The appropriation* it has been. Coombs considered. Then he replied, names of the people referred to above bill providing a tax on mortgages. "Seeing your advertisement in almost with a laugh: "To all your They had tried many is to be distributed as follows: if anybody doubts what I say." (Signed) Senator Boyle Of Eveleth, has been questions I fear I must answer no." schemes to retain the magic letterr. Winona, $73,950 Mankato, $193,050 all of the periodicals, for a long Mrs. Margaret Hederson, 77 High invited to deliver the Lincoln Day They had reached the schoolhouse. "M. C.," after their names. But' to St. Cloud, $161,350 Moorhead, $142,200 time I looked upon it as a hoax. But land Ave., Maiden, Mass., Oct. 1, 1910. address in St. Paul, on the occasion marry one's daughter to one's moTt after years of suffering with gaseous The girl smiled at him as she stepped Duluth, $69,500. of the annual celebration of that, dangerous opponent—that -was more out of the car. "At least you havo Representative Fisner, of Minneapolis, and bitter eructations from my stomach, Back, Then, to the Farm. event. Notable men have been invited than scheming it was genius! the virtue of modesty," she said. has introduced a bill which would together with more or less loss Richard Croker, during his visit to to address this gathering 4a ..the The chaiftnah and secretary had restrict the expenditures of candidates of appetite and flesh, I concluded to New York last month, discussed with past, notably Frapk B.' Kellogg, Joseph arrived at a conclusion, and the former for election to state and county offices. try Grape^Nuts food for a little time a reporter the high cost of living. The Proper Answer. B. Cotton and others. now took the candidate aside to and note the result. "The farmers are all right," said -Richard Harding Davis received say in the hoarse whisper peculiar to "I found it delicious, and it was not Mr. Croker. "It is the people who insist some time ago from a magazine a politicians: "This part of the county long till I began to experience the on living in the towns who find gushing request that he furnish it— REDMOND IS RE-ELECTED. NEGRO WAS LYNCHED. is strong for you, and they like to beneficial effects. My stomach resumed everything too dear. In the towns, gratuitously—with a New Year's see the animals stirred up. Go after its normal state, the eructations you see, the expenses are as bothersome greeting ahd a few appropriate mottoes. But His Victim, a Deputy Sheriff, Will Home Rule Leader Again Chosen President Frank Scott's record go after hira and bitterness ceased and I have as the children. of Irish League. Likely Recover. personally. You can't make a mistake gained all my lost weight back. "A little boy in a tiny flat looked up Mr. Harding Davis replied promptly: by putting his hide on the fence "I am so well satisfied with the Opelousas, Louisiana. Oval Boulard, Dublin, Ireland.—John E. Redmond from his drum one day and said: out here." was unanimously re-elected president a negro, who shot Chief result that so long as I may live and 'Mother, Adam and Eve lived in ''I can't 'greet' people I don't know, Their late passengers had front Deputy Sheriff Edgar Lefieur of of the United Irish league. The league retain my reason Grape-Nuts shall Paradise. What was it like there?" but you are welcome to my motto, seats in the schoolhouse Coombs discovered adopted resolutions reaffirming its position Evangeline Parish was lynched at constitute quite a portion of my daily "'Like what it is here,' his mother which is, 'Nothing for nothing, and when he made his way to Ville Platte. The negro was taken that no settlement of the Irish answered, 'Whefi you eight children food." very little for sixpence.' the rostrum and waited for the chairman question would be acceptable whicl from the jail and hanged to a tree. Read "The Road to Wellville," in are all at school.'" to call the gathering to order. Officer Lefieur, who was shot while did not confer the right for a full self pkgs. "There's a Reason." A college education enables many a The two boys winked and giggled government through an Irish parlia attempting to arrest the negro on a Modern life pushes a man into the Ever read the above letter A young man to refer to the allowance £llsm. when tUey caught his eye, and then one appear* from time to time. They ment with an executive responsible charge of discharging fi^e arms, will ud and then chides him for mater- arc cenulac, tru% u4 full of ll leaned over to whisper something to from his father as his income. such a parliament recover.. interest.