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RAT DESERVES NO MERCY INTERNATIONAL FALLS FRtSS very deepest forest heart, I Imagine There is nothing more wonderful boats steered by enchantresses, like Traveler Writes of Peculiar Charao than the noiseless way a new day la Has Been Estimated That Its Presence those that carried Sir Guyon or Rinaldo, tar of Romance Noted Ireland's slipped into place with each rising In AND BORDER BUDGET Coats This Country Sum of $167r passing up or down like the W "Forest*." sun, a new day with its attendants of 000,000 a Year. broken off narratives of the poets. special duties and fresh outlooks, different Entered as Second Class Matter une 23, 1909, ai t.he Pttstofflce sit International Returning to these woods, I »w from all yesterdays, carrying According to a bulletin issued by the Falls, Minn., under the Act of Congress oi March 3, 1879. struck once more by the peculiai LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE with it unexpected opportunities, fulfillments Ohio state board of health, there are character of their romance, says a or losses. Its hours, whether more rats In the United States than writer in Scrlbner's Magazine, it la flying or dragging, are unmarked IE0R8E P. WATSON, Eiit* 111 toMC* Young Wife Scored Heavily When INTEMUTIMML FALLS PRESS PUILISHIMB CO. there are people. The Incorporated so different from that of a German by ticking of clocks there is nothing Hubby Came Forward With the Society for the Destruction of Vermin forest, where the imagination is hired in its silence to give a hint of what Stereotyped Comment. estimates that there is at least one Official Paper of Kanier Official Paper of International Falls. and lost in the depth of thickets and the next hour holds, or to remind one rat for every man, woman and child baffled by the endless lines of serried of the passage of time, or the brevity There was a worried look on the gRK In the British Isles. Similar estimates trunks, brooded over by the canopy of life. A day is a slow, leisurely pro* cer's face as he rushed hatless down have been made for Germany, France of dark, high bluish fir boughs, Inter cession of events that, one by onek elapsed and much money has been the street and ran up the steps of Registration day is Tuesday, and Denmark. woven solid. salute our consciousness as they pass. Acacia Villa. expended. Men cannot do public The annual cost of each rat to the March No one sees the figures as they greet 31st. The poetry of these Irish woods— "I—I'm to say there's been a Borry ousiness unless they are perfectly country has been computed at $1.80 In Election day is Tuesday, April another. Each one is surrounded by and not merely froin a resemblance slight mistake, Mrs. Grumble," he Great Britain, $1.20 in Denmark and $t free .independent &nd honorable, a silent world of his own, full of mystery they certainly bear to the Pinetas ct panted. "You ordered two pounds of 7th. in France. As specimens of the depredations and they cannot be free, independent and wonder, created out of the Italy—is southern, or perhaps Celtic my oatmeal yesterday, and by mistake The last day for filing of candidates of rats, Dr. Lantz, in Public invisible substance of yesterdays.— passed through southern imagination, apprentice put up some sawdust that and honorable unless for the city election is next Health Bulletin No. 30, cites the alluring, fascinating, but not quite ta From "A Kingdom of Two," by Helen our grapes came packed in!" absolutely detached from the salacious following: Monday, March Filing fee R. Albee. 23rd. be taken seriously. "Oh!" replied the lady. "Then I "An Iowa farmer, writing to an agricultural sediment of vice but as is $5- reckon my 'usban' must 'ave got Enchantment without end and end* journal, reported that rats had they are unable to separate themselves less adventures in and out, in theii through about arf a pound o' the wood Emigration From Scotland. destroyed in one winter about 500 The tide of emigration continues unabated. from such sources of filth, filtered green light among the big for breakfus'." The Anti-machine Republican bushels of corn of a total of 2,000 Thousands every week continue twisted many bushes under the oaks, "Y—you don't mean to say that he and as they are the servants of bushels stored in cribs. Another farmer Convention nominated W. E. Lee to leave London, Liverpool and ate it?" gasped the man in the apron. and the high grasses and meadow* the people, it becomes immediately reported that rats had robbed him of Long Prairie for governor by Glasgow for Canada and Australia. "Course 'e did," was the reply. sweet, and into their open spaces, of an entire summer's hatching of 300 imperative on the community There is every indication that the year a vote of Iverson received marshy and flowered with pale lilac The lady leaned back on the doorpost 553. or 400 chicks, and still another one attributed 1913 will beat every record in the recent to force that separation even and for three minutes indulged in seabius, where the sunset sky is wide, votes, Peterson Elwell his loss in grain and poultry 197 194, history of emigration, and that a laugh that brought all her neighbors though it may tear with it a part and there is the gibbet for wfeked 11, and Jacobson 1. for one season due to rats as sufficient before the end of the year 300,000 will hawks, and where not merely wild to the scene. of its own flesh. to pay his taxes for three years." Mr. Iverson made a strong have left these shores. And what is duck rustle up, but a great heraldle "Wal, that's right-down funny," she The upkeep of a rat in this country A new face will appear on the even more ominous than the quantity speech indorsing Lee, and prophesied heron where at dusk It beeomes rather observed with a laugh. is about half a cent a day. Estimating town if citizens demand and get of the emigration is its quality. It is "Funny?" queried the grocer. frightening among the Immense that Lee would win. one rat to each person, $167,000,000 are the young men, the enterprising and at the polls what they in ample "Yus, funny! 'Ere we've been married pale oak trunks. lost annually by the depredations of the energetic that are leaving. It is A wayward in-and-out romance, aa 13 year come 1st of April, and numbers have signed for. Things this pest. Troutdale, Oregon, has the right the old men, the women and children In the pages of a book, that one Indulges Charles 'as never paid me a compliment are absurdly too expensive for the Rats begin to bear young when three that are left behind. Some of the most kind of a mayor. This particular In because one chooses (not usder till this mornln' at breakfus', months old. They will litter about average man, so that in most beautiful districts of Scotland are being when blest if 'e didn't pass 'is plate the terrifying necessity of the mayor is the female of*the species six times a year and bear from 6 to 12 depleted. Whole cities, like the cases he is driven to despair of German and Alpine forests), in those for another go o' that sawdust, an' told and is no respecter of persons, at a litter. This remarkable fecundity, old country town of Jedburgh, are left Irish woods and alongside this brown, me it reminded 'im o' the porridge 'is ever having a home. A homeless together with the fact that they are even though a violator of the law desolate, _and houses are crumbling clear river, which under the great mother used to make."—Tit-Bits. town is a poor excuse for a city. nocturnal in their habits and live In be her husband. When she found even in the main streets.'—London Everyman. oak boughs has tortglsfrshell flickers hidden holes, accounts_for the large I am absolutely sure that things that evidence had been found will in general cost less where against the husband, himself a the traffic in vice is least. Those liquor dealer that he had sold intoxicants who try to keep honest, decent to minors, she promptly lodging houses and restaurants had him arrested. "If he is guilty will bear me out in this. When a he will have to take his medicine saloon rents let us say for $400 like the rest," said the mayor.— a month, it is a standing argument Littlefalls Transcript. and an established rule for the rent of the honest dealer who WANT CHEAPER BEER tries to rent next door, thereby Because the saloonists of International a forcing him to starvation on one Falls charge cents 10 side or extortion on the other. I for a glass of beer, the drinking know that people here are mortally men threaten a revolt and have afraid, but let them take up issued an ultimatum. "Give us 5- courage, or else take down the cent beer or we will join with the SPRING flag under which they claim protection, prohibitionists and vote the town for if freedom of expres" dry." is their slogan. The Koochi" sion in matters public and their ching county seat is the only own is denied it is not worth the place in this state where cents 10 bunting which bears the color. is charged for beer. On the othCr They ought to go to the polls hand, the saloonists are determined with the determination of getting that there will be no reduction their rights, and carefully seeing in the price of beer nor will International to it that the result of their determination Falls be a dry town. is not smothered. The election is April The 7th. 10- They say that Fort Frances will cent beer is a rfelic of pioneer get the trade—well, she is welcome days. The country surrounding is to that class of trade. They a lumber district and the population openly accuse the citizens of Fort comprises many transient Frances of patronage of the vice woodsmen. It also has a large troughs. Well, that is a question paper mill, employing many men. Thurs. Mar. 26 I will put up to the citizens of His These began thinking over the Majesty, but due reservation price of the foamine liquid. Said must be made for the number of one: "I have two beers before our exiled brethren who were and lunch and two before dinner and are still subjects of U. S. it cots me merits a day. If beer 40 Of this I am absolutely certain costs cents I could slip in two 5 that the respectable hotels over AT before breakfast and the six there will not harbor the garbage PETERSON & CO. would cost me thirty cents."— of this thriving community. You Bemidji Pioneer. have not .seen any of those here plying the trade over there, have A COMMUNICATION you? You have not seen those 1 meretriciously keen for business To the International Falls Press. having branches established over Dear Mr. Editor, there is not that peculiar in the THE STORE OF QUALITY Please publish the following in face of Yankee enterprise? What your valuable paper: is the reason What is the reason We are constantly striving after and of the difference of character of improvement in all tl-.vngj. places within a stone throw of human. 1 see that at the next city one another. Sodom versus Zion. election the choice of license or It sounds peculiar that all the r»f THE WHITE GROCERY license will Lc put before the 110 years the brother protectors of voters. It shci'l 1 have beer done the commerce have lost the opportunity long ago, but it is never too late afforded under the Union to mend. It is a question of extreme Jack right at their doors. interest for the community, An honest man is the noblest Music Afternoon and Evening. Free Flowers for ail the Ladies. who have been ridden, browbeaten, work of God, and people should abused and intimidated by be on the lookout for such, and what is undoubtedly a blackguard promote their temporal advance" element. A wholesale change ment in all matters of business, must be made if any real municipal CLOTHING DEPARTMENT MILLINERY DEPARTMENT and do all in their power to weed business is to be done. We out the lowly inclined from business Any man who appreciates good clothes cannot afford to have a great chance of doing This department is in charge of Miss McCreedy, formerly and above all public business splendid work at home in our own miss this opportunity of seeing the finest line of men's wearing of Minneapolis. We have a large and complete showing of life. locality, with a young population apparel. Our line of Hirsch-Wickwell suits, Gordon and the very latest styles in ladies hats. The most particular Yours truly, and a virgin country: Improvement, Stetson hats, Packard and Hanan shoes, is simply incomparable, because up to the present can find just what they most desire and they will be able to P. J. Killeen. and they cannot fail to please the most critical eye. whenever anything was to be select from the finest assortment of new creations ever Differing on Grammar. done in that way the question "THE WHITE GROCERY" shown fin International Falls. Is be In Indianapolis a tablet to was: What will the low element placed on a branch library building In Do not fail to visit this popular store and see what we think? will business suffer? If honor of its donor. The proposed inscription DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT have to offer in the finest quality canned goods, green vegetables, prostitution be impaired our business contains this sentence: "All etc. is ruined if gambling is not praise to the man who serves his fellowmen." Now has on display a full line of the renowned Palmer Then it was suggested that permitted our town will be dead BASEMENT the "who" ought to be that, and so a if robbery and murder is not and Redfern garments and ladies suits, Royal Worcester and controversy arpse as to which word hushed and covered from legal In this department we have on display innumerable bargains waa truly grammatical in that eonneo* Albert corsets, newest styles of waists, gowns, etc. and public scrutiny our prosperity tlon. They referred it to two authorities, that* the prudent housewife cannot afford to overlook. We call your attention to our large line of dry goods, is doomed. But you have tried and they disagreed, one saying Our line of chinaware, stationery, toys, novelties, etc., is who and the other that. Then they that cowardly attitude, and what notions, etc., for which our store is particularly noted. ready for your inspection at very attractive prices. referred it to the Literary Digest for have you to show to a stronger an expert opinion, and the decision P' to attract his attention and show came in favor of that, on the ground E. E. PETERSON & CO. the him that the city as a city shows that the sentence referred to word donor personally, whereas If the careful and diligent management. general I who referred to mankind in don't say that all things can be be right to use There it would who. done at once and prefectly, but. I doubt in as to the is still oar mind say that no serious attempt has reason for the decision, since that la international Falls, Minn. aa strong as the dedslon ftaelf^ been made towards improvement, not Columbus Journal. even though five or six years have y: