INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. LEADING QUESTION. Exercise. MSS "I'm afraid you don't get enough exercise," said the physician. "That," replied Senator Sorghum, "is because you never saw me at home PASSEN with my fellow citizens lined up to shake hands with me." Words of Comfort. "My doctor says I must sleep outof-doors," coprm/tr sr MA /Mmr/ismi said the man who is not strong. "Well," replied the friend who makes painful efforts to cheer up "it's all right so long as your landlord RESUMABLY everybody doesn't say it." knows by this time that there is a standing offer of Unfortunate Allusion. in cash for the man, $400 She—Too many men expect their woman, boy or girl who wives to run their homes on practically finds the nest of a wild pigeon nothing. They forget that no one' (ectopistes migra tortus), can make blocks without straw. otherwise known as He—My wife does—out of flour. the passenger pigeon, and Grace What lovely sleighing finds with it the nestling weather, Jack! Where Surgery Falls Short. birds. In order to get the "Surgery," said Simeon Ford at Jack—Yes, it is. Would you like •reward the person who makes the discovery dinner in New York, "accomplishes to try It? must leave the nest and the wonders nowadays. Hearts are sewed Grace—Dear me, I should be delighted! birds unmolested and prove the tryth of v-j*. Oi£zv up the appendix is removed th« It by making a report and giving the scientists large intestine is done away with. Jack—D-do you think your father an opportunity to the case. verify But—" would lend me his horse? Magazine and newspaper articles literally The noted humorist smiled. by the thousands have been written "But will the time ever come when ASK FOB ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE about the disappearance of the surgery will be able to remove thf the Antiseptic powder to shake into yonr shoes. Be. lleres Coins, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails, Bwollen and wild pigeons which once, as It Is always cheek of a young man or the jaw of ajj Sweating feet, Blisters and Callous spots. Sold put, "darkened the sun with their old woman?"—New York Sun. everywhere, 26c. Don't accept any tubttitute. Sample COLDS FRBB. Address Aliens. Olmsted, LeBoy.N.Y. flights." The members of the biological yar.-*. v^'v' jy r*\ 3 survey In Washington are specially Jfv T- Mt A Cause and Effect. -interested in the subject of the disappearance "Where is Bill today?" of this bird of passage from "Bill Is sick In bed." Its wild haunts. For years it has been "What's the matter with him?" hoped that nesting pairs might be found "Well, you know that girl of his In some part of the country and that CL.. *v ._f thinks he doesn't use tobacco. Yesterday with proper protection the bird might he was hurrying around the be restored in part at least to its place corner and he ran right Into the girl. in nature. He had a chew In his mouth." Recently there was a story published "Yes, yes go on." the effect that the birds, wearied of rto "There were two things to do—hurry the constant persecution which met by or swallow." them in the United States, had changed "Well?" the course of their flight and had gone "Bill talked to her for five minutes." into Mexico and there were living peacefully and happily. This story proved to Munyon's Cold Remedy Helleres the All 8nakes Are Killers. head, throat and lungs almost immediately. be absolutely without foundation. Still But all snakes, grett and small, are Checks Fevers, sto^s Discharges cf another tale was to the effect that the aches and pains tlie nose, takes away killers. All of them eat creatures and the country sportsmen caused by colds. It cures Gri IP and ob- pigeons had gone into the heart of South 1 which they slay. None eat vegetable Btinate Coughs and prevents Pneumonia. told Mr. Burroughs America and there finding conditions Write Prof. Munyon, 53rd and Jeffersoi) food of any kind. Nor will they eat that they had seen pigeons Sts., Phila., Pa., tor medical advice ab« pleasant were leading a non-migratory animals which they find dead. That that spring, at least solutely free. life. This tale also proved to be en* Is one reason, no doubt, why they have 1,000 of them, but that Your Liver tirely fictitious. always been shunned and dreaded by none of them had been In In all parts of the southern states human beings. shot. Mr. Burroughs was is Clogged up the winter seasons there are people inclined to believe the report, watching sharp-eyed for a glimpse of for the men who Constipation, indigestion, sick-headache -the bird that once was a common sight. and bilious conditions are overcome by a made it were old-time That's Why' You're Tired—Oak In the summer sharp eyes of the north course of Garfield Tea. Drink on retiring. sportsmen and supposedly Sort*—-Have No Appetite.^ are constantly on the alert for the same knew the bird well. purpose, but as yet no authentic report CARTER'S LITTLE, I am not so lost in lexicography as However, there is no positive LIVER PILLS has been received that the bird of mysterious to forget that words are the daughters CARTERS proof today that the will put you right disappearance has revisited the of earth and that things are the sons New York farmers and in a few days. scenes familiar through the centuries to of heaven.—Samuel Johnson. Tbeydo gunners were not just as vita ancestors. tkeir doty. much mistaken as were One of the scientists most Interested PIUS. Cure Ifrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children the old-timers who told In the search for the wild pigeon is Cotatipt teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, the story of the return of Huthven Deane, fellow of the American allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. tioa,Di the pigeons to the upper iosnui, Indigestioa, ud Side Hndich. -Ornithologists' union and president of Michigan country. Slight exaggerations do more harm the Illinois Audubon Society for the SHALL PILL SMALL DOSE. SHALL FKICB In The Auk, a quarterly than reckless violations of it.—Chesterfield. Genuine Protection of Wild Birds. Mr. Deane outUu Signature journal of ornithology virtually has given up all hope that any published by the living specimen of the passenger pigeon American Ornithologists' TO CUBE A COLD IN ONE DAT «ver will be found, but he is as tirefcss piso'S union, there recently appeared Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. H.W. ftoday as ever in tracing reports of the Druggists refund money if it falls to cure. on a paper bj Albert is each GBUVK'S signature box. 86c. bird's reappearance to their sources. """^UsCawi/MS TAKE A DOSE OF Hazen Wright on "Some The offer of $400 for the discovery of a Dost thou love'life? Then do not Early Records of the Passenger nesting pair of the pigeons and their squander time, for time is the stuff Pigeon." In this undistuibed nest comes from Clifton R. life is made of.—Franklin. TTHE BEST MEDICINE & paper are reported some Hodge of Clark university, but $100 additional *Tor COUGHS & COLDS of a will be paid for the discovery Nature's laxative, Qarfield Tea, is made which ever saw print of of a pair of birds and their nest if found of clean, sweet, health-giving Herbs. the pigeon multitudes of in the state of Illinois. The additional the early days. When one reward is the joint offer of Mr. Deane Life is a stage play it matters not Jxeaaers 1 of this paper de- reads them it seems albird how long we act, so long as we act *nd, as I remember it, of Professor Whitman of species which num­ Chicago, to look for migrating birds which had most incredible that a -the University of Chicago. well.—Bacon. bered individuals almost, it would appear, by tised in its columns *1101110 insift upon dropped down into the pleasure ground from One of the most curious features of the having what they ask (or, refuting all the million millions could ever disappear from the their night flight in order to rest and feed. I had search for the wild pigeon is the mistakes which Nothing under the sun has done substitutes or imitations. just entered the park when my attention was face of the earth. are made constantly by men who years ago more to help the fool killer earn his The account of the great pigeon flocks which attracted to a large bird perched on the limb of salary than inordinate self-conceit. trapped the pigeons and were us familiar with Is most familiar to the people of the country Is a maple tree and facing the sun, which was just their appearance as they weres and are today Pl6asant,Refreshin§, that written by John James Audubon, the naturalist. rising out of Lake Michigan. My heart gave for that matter, with the appearance of the common It seems from Mr. Wright's paper, however, a sort of leap, for I recognized it instantly as the robin of the dooryard. Reports have come that a century and a half before Audubon was passenger pigeon, a bird of which I had not in from all sections of the country of the reappearance born records were made of the immense numbers seen a living specimen for at least twelve years. of the pigeon, but on Investigation It of the birds which were seen in America. The Beneficial, Then instantly I began to doubt and thought Invariably has been found that the discoverers earliest writers called them turtle doves. Mr. that my eyes must be mistaken and that the atmosphere had seen nothing more noi less than the common was magnifying the bird and that what Wright quotes from the Jesuit father, Le Jeune, wild dove (venaidura macroura), or mourning who in the year 1637 likened the American Indians was before me was really a mourning dove. 1 dove, which is so familiar a bird that It to the pigeons. "Our savages are always savage drew closer and then I knew there was no possibility seems almost impossible that any man of the they resemble the migratory birds of their of deception. Before me was a beautiful countryside could have failed to overlook It as specimen of the male passenger pigeon with the own country. In one season turtle doves are sometimes Gentle aniEffoctiro, his constant neighbor and could confuse It with sun striking full on the burnished feathers of found in such abundance that the end of Its much larger cousin, the passenger pigeon of his throat. I stood within 15 yards of the bird their army cannot be seen when they are flying other days. for fully half an hour and then it left the maple in a body." NOTE THE NAME To give an example of how the search is conducted and went in arrowy flight down the lake shore Mr. Wright found another reference to the imsense for the wild pigeon and how conscientious drive toward the heart of the city. I have often numbers of the pigeons in the writings of CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP 00. are the scientists in attempting to verify reports wondered since what was its fate. another Jesuit father in the year 1671. The observation -of its reappearance this one instance, taken from Theodore Roosevelt Is deeply Interested In was made at Cayuga lake in New York In tfo Circle, a hundred instances, may be noted. Recently a the outcome of the search for surviving members, state. "Four leagues from here I saw by the side report from northern Michigan reached the president If such there may be, of the passenger pigeon on evenj Package of the Genuine of a river within a very limited space eight of of the Illinois Audubon society that the tribe. Mr. Roosevelt knew the bird when he was nine extremely fine salt springs. Many snares are jiassenger pigeon in very truth had reappeared a boy and in his trips afield he always has kept set there for catching pigeons, from seven to eight 'In the vicinity of a club house frequented by DO NOT LET ANY DEALER a watchful eye open for a possible sight of a hundred being often taken at once." Another father fishermen and gunners, many of whom had of the church in the latter part of the seventeenth specimen of the species now feared to be extinct. DECEIVE YOU, %nown the pigeon well in the old days and who When Mr. Roosevelt was president of the century writes of the passenger pigeons of -were certain that in this case they could not United States he occasionally went to a wild the St Lawrence country: "Among the birds of be mistaken as to the identity of the bird visitors. spot In Virginia where he owned a cabin. He every variety to be found here It is to be noted SYRUP OP FIGS AND ELIXIR OF SENNA HAS CtVEN called the place Pine Knot. While there one day TAimaxm that pigeons abound in such numbers that this UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS It was a long journey to the northern Michigan CI NT. or ALCOHOL he saw what he believed to be nine wild pigeons. year one man killed 132 at a single shot." AND ITS WONDERFUL SUCCESS HAS LED UNSCRUPULOUS club house, but an ornithologist undertook PAST, It would be perfectly proper today for a man Within the last five or six years reports have -the trip believing in his heart that finally the MANUFACTURERS OF IMITATIONS TO OFFER sr who saw as many pigeons as this together to come of the reappearance of the pigeon in Missouri, passenger pigeon had been found, for he knew INFERIOR PREPARATIONS UNDER SIMILAR NAMES AND shoot one of them—one only—in order to prove Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, t* nr mm nt p—wnur« that the men who had made the report had been COSTING THE DEALER LESSt THEREFORE, WHEN BUYING, beyond peradventure that the tribe still has existence. Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia and NotefeMNameoftfe Company IBIsIli familiar with the bird in the old days and supposedly mm «MA UNRTF IWI IWI When one simply reports the appearance perhaps from some other states. In no Instance knew the appearance of its every feather. of a pigeon or of a flock of pigeons everyone has proof been adduced that the real passenger .At the end of the Journey he was told that the TOSYRUPC? doubts very naturally the truth of the tale, CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. pigeon, tb6 bird of the old time,, was the species pigeons were there and he was led out to see holding that the mourning dove has been again seen. The disappearance of the flocks which once "them. They proved to be mourning doves, a PRINTED STRAIGHT ACROSS, NEAR THE BOTTOM, AND IN mistaken for its cousin bird. covered the sky as with a cloud is one of the mysteries bird common in nearly all parts of Michigan THE CIRCLE, NEAR THE TOP OF EVERY PAOCACE.OFTHE President Roosevelt did not have a gun with of nature. Man's persecution of course had MINIATURE PICTURE and in most of the states of the Union. The disappointment CENU1NE. REGULAR PRICE SOc PER BOTTLE ONE SIZE him on the occasion of his meeting with what OF PACKAGE. much, if not everything, to do with the annihilation was keen, and keener In this case ONLY. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. he thought were wild pigeons. If he had he of the species, but it would seem that someting because this was one report which seemed to probably would have shot one of them. He told SYRUP OF FIGS AND ELIXIR OP SENNA IKE MOST PLEASANT. WHOLE. else, disease perhaps, must be held accountable Jiave about it every mark of truth. SOME AND EFFECTIVE REMEDY FOR*" STOMACH TROUBLES, HEADACHES .no one except a few scientists and a few friends at least in part for the dying out of a noble When I was a boy I knew the wild pigeon AND BILIOUSNESS DUE TO CONSTIPATION. AND TO GET ITS BENEFICIAL of his discovery.. He knew as well as anyone race of feathered game. EFFECTS IT IS NECESSARY TO BUY THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE fairly well. It was nothing like as abundant else did that in the absence of the proof furnished CAIIFOHNIA WHICH IS MANUFACTURED FIG SYPUPCO. BY THE as it had been In the years gone by, but occasionally by a bird in the flesh it would be said at small flocks were seen in the vicinity of once that he made the common error. No one He Was Too Wise xny birthplace in the foothills of the Adirondack knows positively today whether the nine birds mountains in central New York. I am sorry to which the president saw were or were not passenger say that I shot some of the birds before I fully W. I. DOUGLAS pigeons. Every time that Mr. Roosevelt -realized the value of giving protection to a vanishing Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the government's food ex» has been to Pine Knot since he has hoped for race. The mourning dove I know as well a another sight of the birds which made him glad pert, said at recent dinner in Washington: •2-JG SHOESAWOMIH IE STAB. «,s I know the English sparrow, and I think that *3 *3^& *4 I 1876 I some years ago. "But in our search for pure foods we may go too there Is no chance of confusion in my mind respecting W. L. Douglas shoes cost mora to make than ordinary shoes, John Burroughs heard from his friend, Theodore far. Thus a lady entered a grocer's the other day because higher grade leathers are used and selected with greater the identity of the dove and its bigger Roosevelt, that the nine pigeons had been and said: care. These are the reasons why W. L. Douglas shoes are guaranteed relative, the pigeon. It is possible, though I am seen In Virginia. Burroughs believed the story "Have you got any currants?" to hold, their sliap«, look and fit better and wear longer .Dot sure that such Is a fact, that I saw the last because he knew how accurate an observer of than any other shoes you can buy. The clerk, a college graduate, replied: -wild pigeon reported in Illinois. Others may nature his friend the president was and is. The 'Yes, madam, we have very fine Corinths, or &-BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES.la &ave been seen since that time within borders the stories of the pigeons in Virginia led Mr. Burroughs small dried grapes from the Greek town of that The genuine have W. L. Douglas name and the retail of the state, but if so I have not their Been to make inquiries at once in the counties name—currants, you know, is the corrupted fcrm. price stamped oa the bottom, which guarantees full value appearance reported. in New York state west of the lower Hudson and protects the wearer against high prires ana inferiorshoes. How many will you have?" At five o'clock on the morning of a late April lying In the old line of flight of the migrating '"None at all if they are corrupted,' muttered REFUSESUB&TiTUTESCLAIMED TO BE'JUSTASBOOD' your dealer cannot supply yon with the alio 4ay(fifteen years ago, went into Lincoln pork, It genuine W.LD911IH pigeon years There the farmers BOYS* 8HOCS armies of :go. a (or Mall Ofdtr Oaulog. Show ant dli*ct Ci lady. 'I belong to pure food league.'" _rom factory to wearer, all enanea 1—paM. wTl«. BeeiVei, »»Mhii| IAS IAS Spark Sj St.* Biiektea, MM*. HOObtUOkltM