IfiNMpapBi INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, acre els of flax per on 300 acres Minnesota Legislature 29 James Bullick averaged bushels of THE 6REATEST WHEAT wheat A. Allen 30 bushels Jos. Runions, Old Grimsby's Pride 4- R. 40 Alex Ferguson, 38 W. ON THE CON­ MARKET Thompson, 35, all on large acreages. The flax crop of J. Cleveland is rather Proceedings at the Minnesota State Capitol for the TINENT a wonder, as his land has yielded hint $60 per acre in two years with one Past Week. By NELLIE C. GILLMORE ploughing. Russell, Man., farmers REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT, threshed 30 bushels of wheat and 60 OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN to 80 bushels of oats. A. D. Stenhouse, St. Paul, Feb. 17.—The Wisconsin St. Paul, Feb. 22.—The joint committee WESTERN CANADA LAST near Melford, Sask., had an system of organization in the lower of the legislature completed its YEAR. average yield on 13% acres of new "Stop! You humiliate me beyond Young Grigsby entered the room branch of the legislature is provided state fair bill which will be introduced land, 63% bushels of Preston wheat endurance. Give up this wild Infatuation, whistling, tossed his hat on a table house for in a bill introduced in the in the house early next week. Figures recently Issued show that It a to the acre. Hector W. Swanston, or look for other quarters immediately!" and drew up a chair to a sadly-littered by Representatives Andrew Davis, the wheat receipts at Winnipeg last makes the state fair a quasi-state organization farmer near Welwyn, Sask., had 5,150 uniting desk. He picked up a pen, Mattson and W. Nolan. It does and places Its finances under year were 88,269,330 bushels, as compared L. bushels of wheat from one quarter The outrage was so unexpected, was dipped In in the ink and poised himself away with women stenographers, the supervision of state officers. with the Minneapolis receipts section of land. John McLean, who such a complete shock to him, that for composition. cloak room sergeants and committee The proposed bill reduces in membership of 81,111,410 bushels, this placing Winnipeg owns two sections, threshed 12,860 Peter Grigsby was struck dumb by his All at once his wandering gaze gathered clerks The chief is given supervision the number of agricultural societies at the head of the wheat receiving bushels of wheat. father's decision. Into concentration, narrowed— over all the assistant clerks, postmasters, entitled to delegates. markets of the continent. Following focussed itself upon a sealed letter "Furthermore," continued the other, doorkeepers and sergeants at County fair associations which shall up this Information it is found "no woman with proper delicacy would NOT ACCORDING TO PROGRAM lying face up, before him. And ...notwithstanding arms. All of the employes are appointed maintain an active existence, hold annual that the yields throughout the provinces that "Mr. Peter Harwell consent to enter a family where it was by the speaker with the exception fairs and shall have paid out at of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and distinctly understood she was not terisby,—Sixth avenue, New York Practical Joker Meant to Astonish of tile chief clerk and the sergeant the preceding fair the sum of $400 in Alberta, as given the writer by agents wanted." City," was in the habit of receiving His Wife, and Doubtless at arms. The bill provides for premiums and have a membership of of the Canadian Government stationed "What do you mean by that, Just such a letter, addressed in the He Did. 12 general clerks who must also be 55 are entitled to three delegates each. in different parts of the States, Identical hand, seven, and sometimes father?" competent stenographers, able to pass Two of these are to be elceted and the have been splendid. A few of the tight, times a week, his heart began "Merely that I have met your Miss When the first shipment of frozen a competitive examination. The chief third is to be the president of the fair instances are given: to perform its usual gymnastics as he Downing. She was graciously accorded eggs arrived from Australia their extreme clerk and sergeant at arms are to society. In cases where more than Near Redvers, Sask., Jens Hortness Jbroke the seal of pale gray wax and me as a dinner partner at the hardness astonished the brokers. keep a full list of all legislative property cne county agricultural society exists threshed about 50 acres of wheat, averaging read: Westons! I undertook, in a delicate and file an inventory with the the senior society shall be entitled to 29 bushels to the acre. Near **Dear Peter: way of course, to let my views be One man, calling at a broker's office, custodian at the end of the session. choose such delegates. Such seniority Elphmstone, Sask., many of the crops "It is all over between us. Under known—" was amazed to see him taking aim at The bill gives the chief clerk a shall be determined by the state auditor of oats would run to nearly 100 bushels separate cover I am expressing your Peter Grigsby started. A curious expression the wall with an egg. straight salary of $1,900 for regular no delegates are to be seated until to the acre. A Mr. Muir had about things to you. Don't ask me for an flashed over his features. "So "What the dickens are you at?" he sessions and $10 a day for special sessions. they have certificates from the 200 acres of this grain and he estimates explanation, dear. I cannot, consistently, —you acted the part of a—cad. I'm said. The other employes received state auditor. the yield at about 60 bushels give it. Let it be sufficient that glad you told me." But the broker let drive, the only from $3 to $5 a day. Under this bill One delegate is allowed from every per acre. Wheat went 35 bushels to I deem this course the wisest, and believe "If you must put it that way—yes. result being a slight dent In the walL the number of house employes would county in which no county fair society the acre on the farm of Mr. A. Loucks, me, I have the best of reasons I did it, however, to save my own The thing being explained, the man be reduced from 73 to 55. exists and he is to be appointed by for taking the step. near Wymyard, Sask., in the fall of flesh and blood from future mortification." took a couple of the eggs, put them Bill Bans Pistol Displays. the county board of commissioners. 1910. K. Erickson had 27 and P. "Sincerely, in his pocket, and left to startle his Fines or imprisonment for all dealers No one is allowed a vote unless he is "JULIET." Solvason 17. In the Dempster (Man.) "Very thoughtful of yon. Still, for wife. Arriving home, he waited till displaying dangerous weapons so a resident of the state. This section "P. S.—It Is nothing you have district last year, wheat went from the sake of decency, you might have the family was assembled for dinner, they can be seen from the streets are was put in the bill to eliminate several 25 to 30 bushels per acre. Fifteen done." spared yourself the rudeness." and then banged an egg at the new provided in a bill introduced, by Senator honorary members who reside outside All over between them! The indignant The old man checked an exclamation. acres on the Mackenzie & Mann farm Fosseen. Six months in the county dado. the state. The bill provides that crimson gushed into Grigsby's Instead, he said quietly: today went forty-three bushels to the jail is the maximum penalty fixed. But the smile quickly faded from honorary members may be chosen by temples. Only the afternoon beiore "You don't 6ee it now, my boy but acre. In the Wainwright arid Battleriver A companion bill providing a penitentiary a vote. his face. The egg had thawed.—London lie had left her with her parting kiss the day will come when you'll realize districts yields of wheat averaged Tit-Bits. Sentence for any one carrying Societies Allowed Delegates. warm upon his lips, and she had promised the wisdom of my course." for the district 26 bushels to the a dangerous weapon without a permit Two delegates are allowed each of that when he came again she The words fell on deaf ears. Young acre. M. B. Ntss, of the Tofield, Alberta, also will be presented. the following societies: State Horticultural Simple, Rather. would name the all-important day. It Grigsby was lost in thought. All at district, got 98 bushels and Representative C. R. Fowler has introduced society, State Dairymen's association, He—You are the only woman I ever was for this purpose he had hurried once he smiled. The whole thing was 28 lbs. of oats to the acre, while near a bill revising the present inheritance State Beekeepers' association, loved. home to lunch and to write and beg suddenly clear to him the reason for Montrose, over 94 bushels of oats to tax law. She—Do you expect me to believe Minnesota Livestock Breeders' her to make the date some time next Juliet's strange action, the "man" at the acre was threshed by J. Leonie, Senator G. H. Sullivan has introduced that? association Minnesota Field Breeders' month if possible. And now—this! the bottom of it. notwithstanding the dry weather of a bill to make closing arguments He—I do. I swear it is true. association Minnesota Swine Breederers' He seized his discarded pen. Yielding "I'm sorry this rupture has come, June. Further reports from the Edmonton before juries brief, replying only to She—Then I believe you. Any man association, Minnesota Horse to a heated impulse, he dashed down father," he said in a softened tone, district give Frank McLay of arguments advanced by the defense who would expect a woman to believe Breeders' association, Minnesota Veterinary a single line: "but I think we understand each other the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats and introducing no new facts. that cannot have been much in the association, Minnesota Cattle "Is some man at the bottom of the better for it. I shall take to the acre. They weighed 45 lbs. to company of wom«n. Examination of their own volition, Breeders' association, Minnesota this?" rooms at the club." the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring without petition, into the reasonableness Sheep Breeders' association, State Peter Grigsby's first move was to The answer came from Juliet 12 wheat on Johnson Bros.' farm near of any railroad rate by the state Poultry association, Minnesota State Important to Mothers send a to Juliet, telling her that hours later. It was even more brief. letter Agricola yielded 40% bushels to the Examine carefully every bottle of railroad and warehouse commission is Implement association, Minnesota he understood everything and setting ''Yes," she wrote simply. There was acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910 a safe and sure remedy for provided for in a introduced by CASTORIA, bills State Florists' association, Minnesota aside in advance any protest she no address, no signature—no formal was grown on McMillan Bros.' farm infants and children, and see that it Senator Duxbury. It also provides County Exhibitors' association, Minnesota might make. In due time her reply little phrase beneath whose lines he near Westbourne, who have a total that the commission shall have- full Bears the Federation of County Fairs might glimpse the old spirit of tenderness. came. crop of 70,000 bushels, netting $40,000 power to fix rates. and the State Foresters' association. Signature of "Dear Peter: off 2,200 acres. G. W. Buchanan of All subsidiary organizations are eliminated Cigaret Bill Recommended. In Use For Over 30 Years. In the meantime the express package "Now that you have discovered the Pincher Creek, Alberta, had 25% C. A. Congdon's mill repealing the from representation. had arrived and without even The Kind You Have Always Bought. truth, I shall make no effort to deny bushels of No. 1 spring wheat to the anti-cigaret law was recommended for The members of the governing 'Opening It—his grief was too fresh to it. Yes your father made it quite acre. Mr. A. Hatton of Macleod district passage by a unanimous vote of the board of the State Agricultural society clear to me that his only son, descendant Didn't Care. had wheat which averaged 21 house committee on public health and by virtue of their offices are entitled to Hewitt—I guess you don't know who from a long line of blue-blooded bushels to the acre. B. F. Holden, pure food. The bill was reported out one vote each. I am. ancestors, could never wed any but a near Indian Head, Sask., threshed 950 with practically no discussion. Its The annual compensation of the Jewett—No, and I haven't any woman's girl with the same aristocratic pedigree. bushels of wheat from 20 acres. pasage was favored on the grounds members of the governing board ot curiosity about it. On the Experimental Farm at Indian that the anti-cigaret law of two years the state fair is fixed at and thp $600 "I had never looked at things from ago is a dead letter. Head, wheat has gone below 40 president, under this bill, would receive that standpoint, but of course now, I LADIES CAN "WEAR SHOES bushels, while several, such as the $1,000 a year. The board fixes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, could not do anything but give you up. Marquis and the Preston, have gone the antiseptic powder to be shaken into the the salaries of the Secretary and trea- You are his only son, his all, and it is St. Paul, Feb. 18.—Ray G. Farrington shoes. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. his^:urer.' as high as 54 bushels to the acre. At For Free trial package, address natural for him to feel that way about of Ortonville was defeated in Re/use substitutes. Blstow, Sask., the quantity of wheat Allen S. Olmsted, Le Boy, N. Y. you contest for the seat in the Minnesota County Option Is Defeated. to the acre ran, on the average, from "Please do not try to see me, and senate held by S. J. Froshaug of Benson County option was given its quietus Chilly. 26 right up to 40 bushels per acre, don't write again. This Is final. by the vote of 31 to 30. The 30 in the senate by a vote of 37 to 24. "They say the pretty Boston girl is a while oats in some cases yielded a JULIET." votes for Farrington were made up It was the Rines county option bill good pick. I wonder what kind o£ a return of 70 to 80 bushels per acre, Nevertheless, Peter Grigsby did try of 18 Democrats and 12 repted anticounty defeated in the house, and introduced pick she is?" with flax giving 13 to 14 bushels per to see her. She declined an audience. option Republicans. The 31 in the senate by Senator V. L. Johnson. "Ice pick, I suppose." acre. He wrote her a score of letters. They votes for Froshaug came from two W. C. Carnell had a yield of 42 were returned unopened. He tried to Democrats, 28 Republicans and one Senator Johns* opened the debate. No harmful drugs in Garfield Tea, Nature's bushels per acre from six acres of intercept her on the street. She evaded Populist, some county option, some He said the county option bill was the laxative—it is composed wholly of breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles him. anti. most important measure before the clean, sweet, health-giving Herbs! northwest of Strome, had a yield of Meanwhile he had taken up his residence By a vote of 33 to 81 the house rejected legislature. More people were interested 42 bushels of wheat per acre. Wm. Cheap Form of Fuel. at the club, spending his nights in it, he said, than in reapportionment, the minority report of the house Lindsay, two miles east of Strome, A Welsh rabbit may be coQlced on in the rooms and crowding the days railroad legislation or workingmen's committee on public acounts recommending an electrical chafing dish at an expense had 1,104 bushels of Regenerated with labor. compensation bills. He described the passage of R. C. Dunn's of 1% cents for current. Abundance oats from ten acres. Joseph A month passed. He had not once the harm done by "that monstrosity bill appropriating $28,100 to 274 newspapers OTTUMWA Scheelar, 11 miles south of spoken to his father except in the of modern civilization, the for publishing last fall the proposed Strome, had 12,000 bushels of wheat briefest business way. American saloon." Also, "the farce constitutional amendments, and and oats from 180 acr^s. Part of the comedy recently enacted in the socalled One night, when he could endure it adopted the majority report, deducting oats yielded 85 bushels to the acre, 'Indian lid' territory" came in no longer, he went to the club and requested $8,180 from the appropriation. and the wheat averaged about 40 to be shown to his son's for its share of excoriation. Senator J. E. Haycraft introduced a WOMAN bushels. Spohn Bros., four miles rooms. He rapped unsteadily on the bill providing that all village officers Roll Call Results. southwest of Strome, had a splendid door and waited in a tremor for Peter hold office two years instead of one, The roll call was as follows: grain yield of excellent quality wheat, He to open it. Rapped Unsteadily on the Door. as at present. For county option, RepublicanBedford, grading No. 2. A. S. McCulloch, one The boy held out his hand. *Come As the result of criticism of the expenditures Dale, Dwinnell, Elwell, Fosseen, CURED mile northwest of Strome, had some permit him to gaze upon the bitter in, father," he said gently "you look of the state board of health Gunderson, Hackney, Hanson, reminders of a dear, dead past—he ordered wheat that went 40 bushels to the tired." and particularly its allowance for the Haycraft, V. L. Johnson, Lende, Nelson, the butler to "chuck it in the acre. J. Blaser, a few miles southwest "I've come to ask you to come back expenses of Dr. H. M. Bracken's trip Putnam, Rustad, Saugstad, Sundberg, attic." of Strome, threshed 353 bushels home, Peter," he said in a husky te Europe as secretary of the board, Thoe, Wallace, Wilson Democrat—Cashman, Two days later, he was surprised to of wheat from 7 acres. Among the voice. the house committee on public accounts Odell, Peterson Prohibitionist—^Froshaug •receive a summons from his father to "I cannot." He pulled up a chair good grain yields at Macklin, Alberta, authorized the appointment of Populist—Sageng. come to the latter's study at once. and the old man sank into It wearily. reported are: D. N. Tweedle, 22 bushels a subcommittee to make an investigation. "I have been led to understand," the "I'll give you anything in the world to the acre John Currin, 24 bushels By Lydia E. Pinkham's Chairman Albert Pfaender Against county option, Republican— -older man began coldly, waving him you want. I'll double your inheritance. wheat to the acre Sam Fletcher, named Dr. W. T. Stone, R. J. Clarke Anderson, Benson, Boyle, Carpenter, Vegetable Compound to a chair, "that my son has so far I'll—" 20 bushels to the acre. and N. S. Hillman. Clague, L. O. Cook, Denegre, Duea, forgotten himself as to engage in a— "You can never undo what you've The senate committee on finance At Craven, Sask, Albert Clark Duxbury, Gunn, Johnston, Klein, Marden, Ottumwa, Iowa.—'Tor years I was 41 love affair with a young person by done, father. You've broken my heart recommended for passage S. F. 247, threshed from 60 acres of stubble Murray, Olson, Pugh, Rockne, almost a constant sufferer from female the name of Downing." and ruined two lives." 1,890 bushels from 20 acres of fallow trouble in all its by Senator F. E. Putnam, authorizing Stebbins, G. H. Sullivan, Swanson "I love Juliet Downing, If that Is The old man hitched uncomfortably dreadful forms: fifteen more state high schools for 900 bushels of red fife wheat that Democrat—Ahman, Cheadle, Coiler, C. shooting pains all iwhat you mean." In his seat. A dash of red streaked his the teaching of agriculture, handicraft weighed 65 pounds to the bushel. F. Cook, Glotzbach, Handlan, C. D. over my body, sick The angry crimson flared up In the withered cheeks. "Are you still moping and home economics. There are now Johnson, L'Herault, McGrath, Pauly, Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels to headache, spinal •other's face. "Then the sooner this over that fool business?" he demanded ten such schools, and it is said that Poehler, Schaller, J. D. Sullivan, Van the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young, weakness, dizziness nonsense is abandoned the better it irately. they have proved so popular among Hoven, Weis, Works. of Stony Beach, southwest of Lumsden, depression,ana iwill be for all concerned." "I am a very unhappy, disappointed 52 everything that was young people in their vicinity that educators Representative Robertson has introduced threshed bushels per acre "You mean—" Peter Grigsby broke man." horrid. I tried many a are convinced of their practicability a bill in the house making it from summer fallow, and George doctors in different "Then why in thunder don't you •off sharply, surveying his father with and worth. The bill carries an misdemeanor for a company to make Young 5,000 bushels from 130 acres of parts of the United marry her and be done with it? Probably Indignant, unbelieving eyes. false and misleading statements con appropriation of $87,000 for the maintenance stubble and fallow, or an average of States, but Lydia E. she's heard about your altered "I mean, simply, that you cannot cerning its products through newspa 381-2 of twenty-five schools for the bushels to the acre. Arch Morton Pinkham's vegetable fortunes and the pauper racket is a Imarry any woman out of your own biennial period, 1912-13. per advertisements. got 5,600 bushels of red fife from Compound has bit skittish, eh?" (circle. And I'll have no more time The farmers of the house came to Representative Henry Rines presented 160 acres. James Russell got 8,700 done more for me than all the doctors^ Peter Grigsby held back his anger 'wasted in sentimental tomfoolery." I feel it my duty to tell you these the aid of Representative Herman Nelson a bill relieving upper Minnesota bushels from stubbie and late breaking, and said coolly: facts. My heart is full of gratitude to "Circle!" Peter laughed derisively farmers from paying taxes on mineral and his bill compelling threshermen an average of 23% bushels. "Do you want me to tell you the you for my cure."—Mrs. E. HARRIET "'Miss Downing is a lady. Ia not that rights reserved by the person from to clean their engines and machines At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had 27 W AMPLER, 524 S. Bansom Street truth? Do you? Then listen. Juliet tenough?" whom they purchased the property. of noxious seeds and weeds before bushels per acre from 80 acres on Ottumwa, Iowa. Is Downing too proud and highspirited "Decidedly not for a Grigsby! John G. Lennon introduced a bill moving to the next locality. The new land and an average over his a girl to come Into a family 'Where is your ancestral pride?" The fixing a tax of one mill on every bushel committee on agriculture recommended Consider This Advice. whole farm of 21% bushels of wheat. like ours—where the head of the id man's knotty fist came down with of wheat or flax handled by elevators the bill for indefinite postponement No woman should submit to a surgical John Schultz threshed 4,400 bushels house has not even the instincts of a ta thud on the arm of his chair. or warehouses and' one-half operation, which may mean death, on the theory that it imposed too much from 100 acres, or *4 bushels to the gentleman." until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's I am twenty-one years old, father, mill on all other grains. The present of a burden upon the threshermen. Mr. acre. John Lepp had 37 bushels per Despite his 70-odd years, Horace Vegetable Compound a fair trial. nd if I choose to set aside the silly law provides for a tax of one-fourth Nelson, as a substitute, moved that acre from 200 acres. A. B. Dirk had Grigsby bounced, literally, out of his of a mill on wheat and flax and oneeighth radltions—" the bill be printed and placed on general This famous medicine, made only 42 bushels per acre from 25 acres. seat. He sputtered, fumed, sat down of a mill on all other grains. "You may—at a forfeit of your enItlre from roots and herbs, has for thirty orders. Ifp Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshed 1^ again and gripped the arms of hlf years proved to be the most valuable by fortune. I will disinherit you, 45 bushels to the acre from 420 acres. tonic and invigorator of the female chair. [the saints!" Sedley, Sask., is still another district organism. Women residing in almost "And she-^she refused you, huh?" EDITORS MUST PAY CASH. TURKS DIE IN QUAKE. Young Grigsby paled. "I'd forfeit that has cause to be proud of every city and town in the United "Precisely/* toy hope of heaven," he said calmly, the yields of both wheat and flax. States bear willing testimony to the Horace Grigsby grew .purple. Final Decision In the Monon Railway Mosques and Houses Demolished in "for the sake of Juliet Downing." at J. Cleveland got 30 bushels wheat wonderful virtue of Lydia E. PinS? J'" Cases. Monastir. Tht old man was trembling with "Won't—won't have you! Bah! Yes. ham's Vegetable Compound. per acre on 100 acres and 18 bushels Washington, D. C. Only money jfjrage. "Then you're a fool, and I'm she's right was a hog to her. But Constantinople, Turkey. A violent of flax on 140 acres. .^ T. Duadas, Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass* and hoi advertising can be accepted by Ceshemtnl pf you," tie burst out vehe[mentlyf I'll go further now I'll mafee* of myself earthquake was felt at Monastir and 4*0 southeast pf Sedley, bushels per invites all sick women to write interstate railroads on payment for "No Grigsby has ever before a fool—a fool do you hear? I'll elsewhere through the vilayet of Monastir. acre on 30 acres M. E. MiileV, 34 her for advice. Her advice is free, transportation, according to an inter dared to look at a woman below his get down on my knees. I'll move There was some loss of life. :1ft' confidential, and always helpful* bushels per acre on 170 acres of stubble, pretation by the supreme court of the heaven and earth to make her marry station Several mosques and houses were demolished. and 35 bushels per acre op 250 law "The girl la not below my station. I United States of the Hepburn rate you. By the eternals! Where's the is The population capping acres fallow W. A. Day had 32 bushels |cnow nothing of her lineal descent, of 1906. The decision involved a large pride of my race? D'you think I'll sit out with the and suffering Intensely per acre on 200 acres of stubble, of the number contracts' between do I care a flg to know it Sfce Is. still and have It said that—that anybody cold. 1'he authorities have appealed and 35 bushels on 250 acres of fallow and pure and true and she'd hon- God's blue sky Monon Railway Company and varioiu under refused to the government for 300' tenta 'and J. O. Soott bad 30 bushels of wheat ir Grigsby?" publishers. me by becoming my wife—'* rellet funds. per acre on 200 acres, and 19 bush­