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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

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fit,- pv ~~??v .*:- TNTKRNATTOTSriX FALLS PRESS THE NCW EL DORADO CHECK IJ IN TIME. Few the grave dMH people realize the The ger of neglecting kidneys. be Nap -slightest kidney trouble may VlpvmsT or Cure's warning of dropsy, diabetes raaJsa gy Xtmrnctm dreaded Bright's dia* jMhJstorr if have any ease you kidney symptom, begin EDWIN MORM3 using Doan's Kidney Pills at once. COPYfiJCftr BY PJtoASO/fP//3. CO. Mrs. Sarah A. Black, 304 SL Douty St., Hanford, Cal., says: "Picture me lying crip* pled with Inflammatory rheumatism and stricken with dropsy, not able to move even with crutches. Such was my condition when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Folks in Hanford I know how bad off I was and must give Doan's Kidney Pills full credit for my wonderful recovery." '•r-T :.h£ Remember the name—Doan's. a For sale by all dealers. 50 cents A j&TRjrcrm TH£ jjrrrifsur/iT Y. fcox. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. THIRST. N the summer of 1909, when gold was discovered in the Porcupine Lake mining OURS district of Canada, about 500 miles north of Toronto, the region was so AfiOTJTL JJy T/i£/iEW EL DORADO inaccessible and the conditions of life were so hard that nothing except the lure of gold could have brought white Yours for uni men to the spot. Everywhere was a forxnity. trackless, low-lying forest. Perhaps it would be more nearly accurate to Yours for great est leavening say that everywhere was a great power marsh filled with trees. In the winter the temperature dropped to 60 degrees below zero Yours for never failing results. and the snow rose to the forest branches. In the summer there was a pest of insects. Poisonous Yours for purity. fjtV black flies—almost invisible because of their smallness—buzzed Yours for economy. all the day. At night the black flies Yours for everything laid off and the mosquitoes came on. There was that goes to never a summer hour, by day or night, when a human make up a strictly being could have lived at high grade, everdependable peace when his face would not baking have been stinging when his powder. swollen features would not have "Of all the tortures I should think That is Calumet. Try made him grotesque. •the most terrible would be to be awfully it once and note the improvement But few had ever suffered, because be in your baking. thirsty where no Filter could there were only a few to See how much more rjsecured.* suffer. Only an occasional trapper economical over the highpriced "Why water?" trust brands, how ever penetrated the wilderness. much better than the cheap The prospector had not and big-can kinds. LOW COLONIST FARES come, because the prospector, as •lire now in effect to California, and Calnmet is highest in quality a rule, goes only where mountains —•moderate in cost. shrewd, far-sighted persons are taking beckon. The prospector did not advantage of them to visit that know that mountains, like teeth, Received Highest AwardWorld's state and buy land in the famous Marcuse may wear off until only their roots Pure Food tract in Sutter County, near remain. Nor did the prospector Exposition. Sacramento, California, because the know that, in the great dentistry rise in value that will inevitably follow of nature, these mountain roots. Dare to Be Happy. the holding of the Pan-American are sometimes filled with gold and Let us never be afraid of innocent Exposition, San Francisco in 1915, silver, nickel and Iron. joy God is good and what he does is Will bring them handsome returns, to Yet such is the fact. When the well done resign yourself to everything, say nothing of the good income that world was young a mountain range even to happiness ask for the N •can be made from fruit raising, dairying, spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of renunciation, and general farming. Rich soil, Trt£ BASfK Q£ Trt£ and above all, for the spirit WJ.DC/lAfP 4 rpure watef, excellent climate. Write of joy and gratitude, that genuine and for particulars today to Homeseekers' religious optimism which sees in God Information Bureau, 1927 Bee Building, a Father, and asks no pardon for his gard to who first prospect the country thoroughly and stake out everything Omaha, Nebraska. benefits. We must dare to be happy in sight. discovered gold in and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves Porcupine as there During the following winter the husband of the always as the depositories, not To Incline Toward Mercy. woman who was so soon to become a widow was Is with regard to Jim had been far from a good boy as the authors of our own joy.— seriously injured in a mill. In a few days he who discovered during the day and toward nightfall Amiel. realized that death was near. He sent for the two America. George Ae realized the fact fully. Being well prospectors who had accompanied him to Lake Bannerman, however, acquainted with the workings of family In. A Way to Keep Love Abitibi. They came. appears to be descipline he essayed-a* little diplomacy. Mrs. Honeyblrd—But, Dickey, dear, "Boys," said he, "I guess I've got to die. I can't the Columbus of -jj^y the flat is so tiny. Why, the windows go back with you in the spring to stake the claims. the occasion. Banan "Shall you tell father about me?" are so small a mouse couldn't crawl I want you to promise me that if I die you will give a 'he inquired of his mother. through. prospector, In July, the old woman a third of what we found last year." "Certaihly I shall tell him," responded Mr. Honeybird—That is all the better, 1909, scraped the The men promised. The wife heard them. But his mother, with sorrowful firmness. dear. When poverty comes in she didn't believe them. moss from a bit of love- can't fly through the window. The widow had told Bill who the men were. "Shall you tell him before dinner or the surface of a RHEUMATISM He knew them. He knew where they were working. •after dinner?" asked the culprit. projecting rock and Bill hired out in the same place. In the course "After dinner," was the announcement. saw wet flakes of of a few weeks one of them told him that the/ were shining gold staring going to quit at a certain time in the spfiizg and "Mother," and Jim gave a wiggle up at him from take a long canoe and hunting trip in the country a •of anticipation, "couldn't you have the quartz. But the far to the north. blueberry pudding for his dessert? first great discovery Couldn't you do that much for me, That was good enough clew for Bill. Two weeks was made by mother?"—Youth's Companion. before the announced time for the men to start a gang of prospecto tmoom? sso *o to eo£££ryy//J£ jmjzo tv3ost£t h/gh Woodney quit his job, packed his kit and started a by for Lake Abitibi himself. Jack Wilson. Wil­ When he reached the lake he drew his canoe Rheumatism Advice son, or one of his subordinates no two reports extended from Minnesota, across Ontario, to Labrador. from the water, hid it in the "bush," as Canadians on this point are alike—found the great ^Dome Nobody but geologists make the statement Gives Prominent Doctor's Best call a forest, and prepared to wait. that bears Wilson's name. The "Dome is a with confidence. They say these mountains Prescription—Is Easily Mixed. On the eighth day of his vigil, as he was jieering ridge of rock, 550 feet long, 40 to 80 feet wide, were the oldest mountains on the continent out of the bushes, he saw the sight that Le had 20 to 30 feet above ground, and no one yet Knows that they were old when the Rockies were "Get one ounce of syrup of Sarsaparilla waited so long to see. Down the placid rive? came how deep, that is heavily laden with gold, rui yet unformed that the glacial drift and the disintegrating compound and one ounce of Toris Munyon'a Rheumatism Remedy relieves two canoes, cutting their ways through tha cool compound. Then get half a pint of good the moss from it anywhere and there is gold. effects of untold millions of years pains In the legs, arms, back, stiff or waters and leaving flatiron wakes in the rea?. ^vhisky and put the other two Ingredients swollen Joints. Contains no morphine, Nothing in the history of gold mining better of heat and cold have worn them away until only into it. Take a tablespoonful of opium, cocaine or drugs to deaden the Late in the afternoon Bill saw the two specks this mixture before each meal and at illustrates the eccentricities of gold miners than the "roots" remain and they point to the roots pain. It neutralizes the acid and drives disappear in what seemed to be an inlet. bed time. Shake the bottle before using." out all rheumatic poisons from the system. the discovery of the "Dome." The discovering as proof of their theory. This is not new in this city as Write Prof. Munyon, 53d and Jefferson The first night there was no fire, but the next party consisted of three men, headed by Jack advice, txiany of the worse cases of rheumatism The roots are there. Anybody can see them. Sts., Phila., Pa., for medical day Bill saw a blue spiral of smoke curling from the and bstcli-ache have been cured by it. absolutely free. Wilson. The expedition was financed by a Chicago Some of them are below the surface, some are Good results come the first day. Any bushes back of the lake. man named Edwards, who was engaged in above. Over most of the roots are a few feet druggist has these ingredients on hand The Farmer's Son's For five days and nights the fires burned. Then or will quickly get them from his the manufacture of lighting fixtures. Edwards of earth, but, here and there, a huge shoulder of wholesale house. Any one can mix there was no more fire, day or night. Evidently the them. was to put up all the money in return for a rock thrusts itself above the surface here and Great Opportunity men had gone. Bill wanted to be sure, so he waited half interest in anything that might be discovered. there a great ledge plows its way through the three more days. Then he went down to the lake A Ruling Passion. Wilson was to have a quarter interest and forests and then disappears in the marsh and Why wait for the old farm to become where his canoe was hidden, put it into the water, "Uncle Pinchpenny spent a great nowhere can one dig far without coming to rock. each of the other two an eighth. your inheritance? Begin now to took pains to observe that there was on the lake -deal of time at the home of George prepare for yoi»r future For several weeks they prospected, first to the A singular incident explains, perhaps, why prosperity and independence no sign of human life, then slowly paddled his way "Washington." A great opportunity east of Porcupine lake, in Whitney township, then these mountain roots were not permitted to remain awaits you In along the shore, looking for the inlet. "Yes. He couldn't be persuaded to to the west, in Tisdale township. They found Manltoba.Saskatchewan untouched for another hundred million Bill was paddling as quietly as he could when, at or Alberta, where you «top looking for that dollar George is gold and staked some claims. But the great years. The incident had its inspiration In politics. can secure a FreeHomestead T?J)A the "knuckle" of the water finger—a point where eaid to have thrown across the Potomac." or buy land at reasonable "Dome," although they camped, some of the time, The Ontario government felt that it was prices. the inlet was not more than 50 feet wide—he suddenly within sight of it, almost escaped them. It was losing strength with the farmers. Wise men in Now'stheTime saw on the left bank—the two prospectors! finally discovered, according to the story that the ministry looked around to see what could be The next instant one of them threw an ax at Bill's Important to Mothers —not a year from now, is generally believed, only because one of Wilson's done. The farmers in the "clay belt" had been when land will be higber. Examine careiully every bottle of canoe that all but cut it in two and sunk it as quickly subordinates stumbled across it. He was The profits secured clamoring for a railroad. The ministry decided CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for from the abundant crops of as a mine could sink a battleship. not a miner, knew nothing about geology, but did that it would be good politics to give it to them. Wheat, Oats .and Barley, infants and children, and see that it Woodney doesn't know yet why he is alive. He as Well as cattle raising, are know enough to scrape off moss. Also, he had So it was decided to build a railroad from North causing a steady advance in seemed to have no chance to live. It was two Bears the "ce. Government returns show eyes. When the moss was off he could not help bay, on the shores of Lake Nipissing, to connect the number of settlers against one and the one was in the water. So were seeing the gold. The great ridge that was henceforth "Signature of 'Western Canada from with the great transcontinental line, under construction Che U. b. was 60 per cent his food, his weapons and his tools. If he were not to be known as the "Wilson Dome" had :ln 30 farther north. urge* In 101O than the Use For Over Years. murdered during the next second it seemed certain previous year. been found. Stakes were driven and claim laid It was while this railroad was building that The Kind You Have Always Bought. Many farmers have paid that he would starve during the next month. Not for their land out of the to the huge boulder. Fred La Rose, a member of the construction proceeds of one crop. that he thought out all of these things while he was Perhaps the most remarkable story, however, Free Homesteads of 1.60 gang, blasted his way into an old mountain root, All Over. acres and pre-emptions of sinking. He thought out nothing. All he did was to The Tiger—What's the matter with made himself rich, m&de Cobalt, made more than that has come out of the Porcupine was told by a 160 acres at 83.OO an acre. act first and think afterward. A few strokes with Fine climate, good schools, the giraffe? He doesn't look well. a score of multimillionaires and caused Canada, prospector named "Bill" Woodney. excellent railway facilities, his hands and a few kicks with his feet put him The Lion—No, he says he feels sick low freight rates wood, wato^andrlnmbw which had produced almost no silver, to produce a mining man whom I believe to be reliable told easily ob- against the bank. No rabbit ever took a trail faster «11 over. 12 per cent, of the world's output Two men, in that Bill came to him one day and showed him me For pamphlet "Last Best West," than Bill took to the brush. The Tiger—Has a sore throat, I sup* six days, trundled out $57,000 worth of silver a remarkably rich piece of gold quart at the particulars as to suitable location The rest of this story can be told In short sentences. gtose. with a wheelbarrow. As an indirect result Sud- game time asking him where he supposed it came •:i Hunger, within the next forty-eight hours, bury became the world's chief producer of nickel, from. .N. drove Woodney into the very camp of the men Dm. Pifflpi, Clifford Bhcfc, Ornl Forks. R. #. The Practical Agriculturist. 'Not from anywhere in Canada," was the reply. All of which seemed to be against the rules 1R. NadadlM, Drawer 197, Watcrtwii&ft. Adam sniffed at the book farmer. who would have slain him. He crept up to them, 'I thought you would say that," was the com- LT.HefaMS.315 JxkMSL.St. Paul. 10* made and provided by nature. Canada had never Use address nearest you. «T "I don't believe in spraying apple late at night, and stole their Jood. He could not been known as a silver country. Near Cobalt ment, "but you are wrong.' trees," he snorted. steal much at a time, but he stole enough to keep Then "Bill" told his story. there was nothing on the surface to indicate that Northwestern 401n,trnctor» him alive. He stole, not once, but three times. The silver might be near. But ho eye had seen below He said the quartz was given to him by a widow. next time he'went to steal they were not there. Constipation causes and aggravates many the surface. No mind had dreamed of the gold Her husband had been accidentally killed a short 600 Students g% Conservatory serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by They had pulled up camp and gone, bag and baggage. and silver filled roots of worn-off mountains. An time before she gave it to him. The widow told Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. The favorite He took his life in his hands the next day SKdilSmcrSesfca explanation was required—and geologists who ex- him that the quartz came from a vein near Lake family laxative. and went down to see the claims they had staked. AH branches of Music Art and Dramatic Art, amined the formations gave it. Abitibi, a frigid sheet of water up toward Hudson's Orchestral and Band instrument*. Normal Courses a He didn't find a stick or a sign Of a claim. He The chap who gets a free ride In The geological assurance that the entire re- bay, 300 miles north of Cobalt. Her husband and in Public School Music, Art. Piano, Physical Training, couldn't even find anything himself that seemed Domestic Science. TcfllS Beisonakle. CaUwf Fitt tpatrol wagon isn't carried away with gion might be sprinkled with precious metals two other men whom she named had found the worth claiming. O. A. EVERS, Pres. Minneapolis, Mina. -enthusiasm. quickly caused the country around Cobalt to be vein. They had not staked their claims and regisprospected. The prospectors never returned. Whether they But prospecting in forest-covered tered tnem with the government at Toronto, bemarshes C.M1 E were upset and drowned in one of the many rapids In the Spring cleanse the system and does not proceed rapidly. Not until the cause such registration would have'been a notiflcasunimer purify the blood by the use of Garfield Tea. whether they fell to fighting and killed each of 1909 did prospectors push 250 miles tion to the world that they had found gold in the other, no one knpws. Nor have they ever filed was was northward, to the region of Porcupine lake. region. Winter near when the discovery Improvidence In trifles never made a cl&im to ore bodies along Lake Abitibi. Thpre is about as much uncertainty with re- made and they wanted to return in the spring, millionaire nor swelled a bank account fr Couanm Co lllf 411