r«®?s^ £V "*".%? ^.^rT *jr*r: ?-~'~T '^""^l*-"- r-TJ, v- l"* i-v v^fr •.. .. it" T/l"- 5 ,i^4r *i, N 1 1 'I'---- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS -i, ,, „. .. ...,' EARL KITCHENER, ... 'JL .4. 4.vt several contracts—good contracts species of protection, which bar—which V.- -1 -1 telegram reached him. He was AUTOCRAT OF THE actually in his stateroom. would keep his mills busy red Japan also, has lapsed. There BRITISH EMPIRE for months. Kitchener's head is none to say Japan nay, not even "Return to London at once," THE PRESS Was the order, "to accept the post dropped down again over the the United States. One of the members of the secretary of state for war." figures he w&s studying. He did No one knows just how far of ^British cabinet was ip conversation Even those who did not like not speak. He just jerked his Japan will push President-for-life with a friend hot long ago. Kitchener, and there is a surprising thumb at the door. The officer in Yuan Shihkai, but everyone The friend said the cabinet should number of such persons, admit attendance took the manufacturer knows that the Chinaman has no take a certain course of action in that he knows just what to out. That sort of man is more force to resist and cannot expect a matter then on the hooks. do. He went to a telephone. He valuable at home just now than in any aid from without. About all 1' "I agree with you," said the chased every one out of the building the field. tht Japan demands, Japan will STORE cabinet member. in which the telephone was Kitchener's estimate when the get. "How do the other members located and posted guards about war began was that it would last The consequences of this war ®f the cabinet feel?" it to see that no one approached. three years. A recent incident outside Europe are likely to be as "They agree with you, too," He had no right to command the seems to show that he has not critical as the ones inside. Should police to do that sort of duty. J^-iaid the cabinet member "All changed his mind. A manufac- the war establish Japan in conturer Never mind He commanded Jbf-' except Lord. Kitchener." of certain goods was asked trol of China and give her the unif We always have on hand some of them and they obeyed. The cabinet he could not largely increase dsputed headship of the Mongchis "Then," said the other fellow, THE FANCY PACKAGE has told all that is known "why don't you do it?" output. lian world, the result may well about the talk. "Not without doubling the cap- mean more to the world ultimateacity STATIONERY The cabinet man heaved a sigh. "I will accept only on two conditions," my of plant," said he. "I ly than any other change wrought "I assure you," said he, "that and you will do well to come in said he. "My will must cannot afford to do that unless I upon the Continent of Europe. lye have very little influence with and see it before buying elsewhere. be supreme. You may not even am assured of at least three years'. There is one restraining influ-! kitchener." Also linen, ldd, or plain question it. And I will serve busniess." ence upon Japan, and that is her That may seem to be an exaggerated pound packages of society note only for three years." "Go ahead and double," said alliance with Great Britain. ToKitchener. statement of conditions in Those terms were accepted. If "You'll get the busi- kio has made manifest its absolute papers with wallet flap envelopes the British cabinet. But it is an the government felt like refusing loyalty to the terms of that aliihistory absolutely truthful one. Kitchener ness. to match. them—which isn't lkiely—their His past is an open ance, not only in letter but in is the cabinet. With certain limitations, hand was forced. There was no His quarrels with slack spirit. If England requires Japanese he is the House of Lords book. other man in England to do what assistance in Indian or in and inefficient administrators at 'as^iid the House of Commons and I* Kitchener w'ould be called to do. home and abroad are are known. Egypt, it will be forthcomng. ,,the royal family. He is easily the He had to build an army and clean That his achievement is raising England's interests in China are most powerful man in England out a War Office simultaneously. a new army at home and in feed- immense and Japan will in a today—no exception whatever being He has done both. As fast as ing the old army In the field is of measure consider those interests noted to that statement. This Our Supply of one man can cut the red tape that the highest order is admitted, in her own demands upon China. is the explanation. DENNISON SPECIALTIES tied the War Office he has cut it. Where Kitchener has incurred the! Bsides, Japan will be dependent The leaders of every party in He has been on the job all the most bitter criticism fis in his upon British capital to finance the England recognized that this war is very complete and includes time. management of the press. He is concessions she is wringing from threatened the very life of the crepe paper, table sets, table "Where is my bedchamber?*' an absolute autocrat. He has China. Japan has no money and Empire. Britannia is fighting covers, doilies, place cards, tally Kitchener asked when he walked made a joke out of that freedom unassisted could not develop the with her back against the Wall. cards, sheet tissue paper in an into his suite of offices at Whitehall. of the press of which Anglo-Sax- concessions, which with Britain's They did the very sensible and endless variety of shades besides The question was shocking. ons have boasted—with this ex- aid she expects to enrich her. In very extraordinary thing of selecting No one could remember that the striped and checked—gummed ception. all probability, then, we shall see the biggest man they had there ever had been a bedchamber Kitchener hasn't cared what after the close of the war, the labels, tags, etc. in stock to handle the war for there. The logical deduction was editors have said about him. But political alliance of Japan and Brithey England. Then they did the Slctmieon that there never could be. must not print tabooed news, tain deepening into a financial and equally sensible and positively revolutionary S MM "There is no bedchamber," they fcpar In Mil Md The English papers—especially commercial one to exploit the pothe thing of letting him +old him. Harmsworth group in London tential riches of China. handle it. No veto power can "There will be," said he, "by 6 —have attacked the military cen^ 1 Such an exploitation would be overrule his will. Kitchener is o'clock tonight. See to it." sorship with great bitterness, a tremendous event in the world's supreme. I It was seen to. He has a distressing Prince Albert wanted to go to. Nothing has been said on the history, as consequented as EngAmerican way of getting df^vu to side of half the edge land's exploitation of India. This '/War. Albert is a slender, deli I brass tacks in doing business. and weight of verom that is being consideration and not a meticusaid cate, blond little chap. If he were There was a parliamentary inquiry not a prince one would say that almost daily in England, lous respect for a treaty, explains into certain failures to feed Kitchener doesn't care. He is ob- Japan's eagerness to assist her he is 'positively bashful. If it and clothe the new recruits—for were not tragic, it would be livious to public opinion. Here's ally in every manner. while parliament is obedient it is ridiculous to see this boy trudge a story that proves it: It will be a relief to the United not muzzled. The fact was shown along by his towering grenadier It was charged against him in States that Japan's attention is NO. 3 that requisitions for necessary guards- If he were not a prince, South Africa that ne had ordered centered upon the other side of supplies were shuffed through a one would describe him as "nice.'' his troopers to ride into the tall the Pacific. It is the business of dozen hands before they were By no stretch of the imagination grass "and bring out the wounded our diplomacy to keep it focused filled. It is not likely that Kitchener could one credit him with value natives on their lances." That there. had known of the delay or in the field. King George and was almost inhuman, of course the cause. He is not omniscient. Queen Mary opposed his ambition. A great rowdy-dow was raised $40,000 FOR BILLY SUNDAY He got reports by telephone of Finally they yielded. about it. Kitchener didn't say a the revelations. Be'ore the clam "You may go," said they. word. He didn't deny or ex- Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 8.—Facts oring on the floor had ended Kitchener Then Albert needed Kitchener's plain. Finally some one got to and figures .-complied show that had sent a telegram to consent. He called twice at him and demanded that he speak. is the price Philadephians $100,000 every officer in command at a Whitehall to see that gentleman. "Damn them," said Kitchener, will pay for the harvest of souls recruiting station. The second time he was admitted. slowly. His face turned redder, reaped by Billy Sunday. "Buy what supplies you need it he a an of a an His angry eyes turned slowly up- It is altogether probable that and send me the bill," was the eral inches more than six feet, on the questioner, under his heavy the free-will offering of Philadelbrows. purport of this telegram. "Never wide shouldered, thin flanked, "Damn them. They ham- phia will be at least Out $50,000. mind previous rules. Get the brick red—bent his cold, heavy strung my horses." of this amount Mr. Sunday will stuff. I'll get you if you don't. eyes upon the princeling. Albert That was all. When his men pay immediately $1,000 to the We are exclusive agents for the There was one promising little stated his case. rode into the grass natives who members of his party and will put scandal that went by-by bright "You can't go," said Kitchener. REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS had been wounded or pretended to aside one-tenth for charitable purbe away. Kitchener isn't extravagant That settled it for the time. wounded laid in wait. As a poses, God's tenth, he calls it. and supplies in his use of government Xater on he changed his mind. horse passed they hamstrung it. That there will be other donaThen money—in one of .his Soudan "^fThe English troops were getting they chopped the rider. He tions by Mr. Sunday «to members campaigns he offered to do for banged about in France. They did not apoligize for it. He didn't of his party and to religious and what another soldier had were standing up to their medicine care shucks what any one thought charitable work is asserted by £500,000 gamely, but that medicine estimated would cost of it. The clamor died out when those who are close to him. It £3,500,000, and then he turned back a good was bitter. They needed a bit the English people—an essentially seems safe to say, however, that deal of the money—but just now of encouragement. So that Kitchener, Cut Your practical race—-learned the truth. Mr. Sunday will take approxi- he is not counting the cost. He who is supposed to disregard So Kitchener has muzzled the mately from Philadelphia HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES $40,000 is too busy to flyspeck cost-sheets psychology in favor of press in this war. He has*ruth- as his share of the contributions by keeping an account of them. with audit marks. His subordinates force, sent the Prince of Wales to lessly suppressed information made on the last day. are told to buy cheap when Our Poinsettia Household Account France. Those who were on the Which might be a weapon in the they can *spare time—but that battleline say the moral effect of Book is just the thing for hands of the enemy or make Revenue from the Big Ditch. his arrival was tremendous- There hours are worth any premium. trouble at home. He would not that purpose. They are in columnar Once in South Africa -his engineers are no more loyal people than the let the story of the sinking of the Tolls collected from ships that form, arranged so that English. These starved, freezing, were trying to throw a Audacious be told. He has not passed through the Panama canal each day's expense, and the bridge across a river? under heavy bloody, vermin-ridden Tommies let the English public know that during December totaled $411,Japan month's expenditure for meat, fire. in the trenches cheered their gallant intervened at Great Brit- 895.44, according to Associated "You are slow," said Kitchener. groceries, or any other item may heads off when they heard ain's request, or that China has! Press reports, this amount being The engineer in command said that a little boy—a slender, earnest, be found in an instant. protested against the violation of an increase of $24,653.04 over the that was true. But he was protecting ambitious boy—had reached her neutrality by both English November receipts. The total We sell Card Index Receipe Files. his men. He could save ^headquarters. He was their and Japanese troops. A long listj amount of tolls collected to Janof an hour's time by another method, prince. 4 like actions by the censor udry of this year was $1,547,100.might X' but it might cost fifty lives. When the war began Kitchener be cited. It is important to. 45, and each of the five months of "Save the hour," said Kitchener, was out of military employment. get at Kitchener's viewpoint. operation showed again over the turning away. "We can spare He had row'ed with the War Office He will not permit the publica-' previous month. Now it is said all his life. He is an efficient, men better than we can spare tion of anything which he, as a the receipts for January will be time." unpleasant, cold-blooded administrator. soldier, thinks may add to /the less than for December, as traffic FOR THE SCHOOL It recalls a more tecent story. The War Office is—was difficulty of his task. He is the is falling off for the.time being. We have a large assortment of A manufacturer of khaki called —completely filled with delightful No doubt the war and its effect sole judge. Where a doubt arises, pencils, pens, tablets, 6x9 package at the War Office to ask for a gentlemen. on commerce have much to do he rules against the newspapers— paper, theme paper, etc. commission. In time he was Because he knew he had no with this, though there may be and lets 'em rave. ushered into Kitchener's office. .chance to get the right sort of a other factors. But the big point 1 But they can say anything they He remained standing by the ®^job at soldiering he had accepted choose about him. is that the canal is becoming a cloor. -:. •the one important civilian appointment revenue-producer instead of a ip Egypt. He had dead financial load. Also those who "Any military experience?" Japan Makes Hay. 7 named his staff, and the staff had asked Kitchener. have used it praise its convenience been ordered to meet him at The manufacturer said he had and its operation, and it The war is Japan's opportunity. 7 Dover. Then Kitchener went to been an officer of Territorials, and seems certain now that with the Not merely has Japan ousted the the country—the war trouble developed—his this and that. Germans from Kiao-chow, but world's commerce once more on STATIONERY staff was recalled by will "What's your business asked a peace basis, the big ditch also she is taking it out of the 8$d Whitehall—and Kitchener reached Kitchener. Chinese hide. prove to be even more of a paying his steamer alotid. had expected The manufacturer said he made China, like Turkey before investment than many $£i' 1912, STORE 1® "Where is my staff he asked. be. khaki. was protected by the common it to The telegrams' sent him by the J. "Have you iany government jealousnesS or thp Powers, who government had iffcr some reason ••i-f ,0 contracts?,*' asked Kitchener. let her live in he* weakness, because -x li The Press office is headquarters miscarried. Kitchener had just The manufacturer swelled with they could notagi^eupon begun to frown when another He fee tor all kinds of school supplies. modest pride. said had her, disfaenibermfcrtt. But that