INTERNATIONAII^FALLS PRESS lifiil THE Inkstand Mads of Paper. YOUNG FOLKS' CORNER Drawings are not infrequently ruined PROPER by Use of Water Power the spilling of ink. which might have been averted by the use of the simple inkstand cut from a sheet of heavy pa INE per, as shown in the sketch, says Popu Odd Water Cooler. lar Mechanics. The upper illustration Means Boon to WAY When a native woman of one of the cut and turn up broiling hot little villages of inferior Nicaragua wants to cool some water TO THE she sets about it in a way little calculated Prosperity of to cool herself. The average native W I N I I E S woman looks frail and listless, but there is no suspicion of listlessness about her process of water cooling. the Nation ALL STEEL She fills a half gallon earthenware jar (St. Paul and Minneapolis) about two-thirds full. The jar is made ELECTRIC of baked clay and, not being glazed, is AFTERNOON TRAIN partially porous, so that it soon be LIGHTED comes moist on the outside. Lv. Duluth 1:45 p- By means of two leathern straps By FRANKIN K. LANE, Secretary Lv. Superior MODERN 2:15 P. M. firmly attached to the neck of the jar. Ar. St. Paul the woman causes the same to rotate 6:30 P. M. TRAINS of the Interior swiftly in the air. The mouth is wide Ar. Minneapolis 7:10 P. M. then SIMPLE INKSTAND. open, but centrifugal action keeps the water from flying out The endurance the INmade shows the method of cutting the paper EVENING TRAIN exhibited by the native women is mar the marvelous material progress triai nation's life. Today we produce to fit the ink bottle and stopper and to DELIGHTFUL velous. by civilization during the last most of the commodities which make produce a -pen rack. The device will be Lv. Duluth 11 :io P. M. When the operator thinks the water century the greatest single factor ST. CROIX for this preparedness. To produce the found especially useful when materials Lv. Superior Is sufficiently cooled she stops the 11140 P. M. has been the substitution of mechanical others is very largely a matter of developing for drawing are used away from a RIVER movement by a dexterous twist of her Ar. St. Paul energy for human labor. In proportion those resources we have neglected, 6:20 A. M. place especially fitted for the purpose, wrist and hands the jar to the man to the degree in which man is COUNTRY and in the forefront of ^these Ar. Minneapolis since the inkstand can be made in a 7:00 A. M. I who has been waiting to quench his relieved from the necessity for devoting neglected resources are our water powers. few minutes from material readily thirst -TICKET OFFICES— himself to the mere struggle for available. Usually he takes a mouthful, gulps It ii' ate vial existence, there has been and Such development will open to the down and growls. "Moocha calora," Duluth: Superior: will be measured the advance of arts, West an industrial era of such possibilities Output of Silica. which is a native patois for "wretchedly science and philosophy, literature and The silica (quartz) sold in 1915 for Superior Street ft 6th Av. W. as have been almost undreamed Winter St. ft Ogden Av. hot," and she patiently resumes Spalding Hotel Block 823 Tower Av. the better things which make for the pottery, tile, glazes, paints, wood filler, of. The fuels available include natural her task of describing pinwheels. It is higher and nobler life of a nation or of gas, oil, lignite and coal. The coal, reduced wood polish, abrasive soaps, fine filters said by this process tepid water can be SAFETY and COURTESY with your TICKETS the world. and other uses! as reported to the to coke, offers raw material for reduced to the temperature of a cool We are living today in the dawn of the production, by electric smelting United States geological survey, mountain spring. an age in which power is the basis for processes, of the carbide extensively amounted to 243,340 short tons» valued used for illuminating purposes. Here at $1,270,835. This product was ob our material progress. The productive three pints of boiled oil. Apply as a green backs. The great drawback to Hints For Campers. at hand are great deposits of limestone abilities of our 100,000,000 people are tained from quartz veins, pegmatites, Ajw paint. paper currency is the likelihood of Following are two recipes used for that will furnish the lime required to quartzites, sandstones, sand, tripoli and Increased by the use of probably 125,000,000 A fact worth knowing is that matches counterfeiting, and this danger has waterproofing tent canvas: Before applying form calcium carbide used in the fixation diatomaceous earth. horse power of mechanical energy, can be made watesproof. without the mixture, the material must been the chief reason for the constant of nitrogen and the production of not including the animal power injury, by dipping them in very hot study of experts, who constantly seek be washed to remove all starch. When ammonia. At hand, also, are mountains furnished by 30,000,000 horses and Checking a Rip In Tire Tubes. paraffin. Allow them to cool and they a plan whereby bills cannot be copied. dry Immerse the cloth in a solution of of phosphate rock awaiting the installation mules. Most of the mechanical energy It is often difficult to prevent a small are ready for use The paraffin does Stacy J. Edson was the man who, In one part, soap and five parts water of appliances to free its content is used in the form of electrical rip in an inner tube of a tire from becoming not interfere with their use in tho 1857, invented the green Ink which Uncle then dip it into another solution of of phosphoric acid and combine it current. When applied to industrial longer, even though a patch regular way, "and they are absoir.teiv Sam uses, and this he patented. It one part copper sulphate in five parts with ammonia as a fertilizing agency uses one electrical horse power does has been applied, says Popular Mechanics. protected from dampness is anti-photographic—that is, it cannot water and let it dry. at less cost than any now known, An effective remedy is to the work of ten men without tiring. be photographed, nor can it be moved Another preparation is made as fol Sodium sulphate, sodium carbonate punch a small, round hole at each end with alkalis by counterfeiters Increasing Man's Productivity. working and sodium chloride are here, the latter lows: Boil three ounces of yellow soap About Greenbacks. of the rip before applying the patch. to get a facsimile of the notes. The offering material for electro-chemical in one pint of water and while it is Not a great many people have taken Conservation of human labor goes This stops the tendency to rip furthei secret of the ink's ingredients, of the trouble to find out why Uncle band in hand with utilization of mechanical production of soaps, bleaching powder, hot add two and one-half pounds of when pressure is applied. course, is carefully kept yellow: ocher. one ounce teratoid Sam's banknotes are printed with etc., in time of peace and for the energy, and utilization of that making in wartime of the deadly chlorine form of energy most cheaply and least Belt Dressing. gas now devastating the trenches tastefully developed accomplishes the About as good a belt dressing as can of European battle fields. maximum in freeing man from muscular be had is made by melting beeswax in toil and increasing his productivity. Iron deposits are here in abundance, neat's foot oil in proportion of one-half In the last decade we have harnessed which, with fluxing and reducing materials pound of wax to one-half gallon of the for our utilities and industrial at hand and cheap hydro-electric oil. To secure a good mixture melt Heeds something like 6,000,000 horse power as the agency for reduction, may the .wax first, then add the oil slowly, This is the package power of water. make the Pacific Coast a competitor stirring constantly to get it thoroughly This accomplishment stands for real with the Ohio Valley in the production compounded.—Blacksmith and Wheelwright progress, but. as compared with our of special grades of pig iron and the that holds the possibilities, it is not such progress as manufacture in electrical furnaces of high grade steels. Also at hand are "we should have obtained. Although we A Careful Woman. the materials for the manufacture of are utilizing today 6,000,000 horse Mrs. Talkalot—What I have just told cigarettes such steel alloys as ferromanganese, power of water, we are annually, daily you is a very great secret. It was told ferrochrome, ferrosilicon, ferrotungsten, neglecting and wasting ten times that to me in the strictest confidence. I ferromolybdenum and others. amount, largely because of our inapplicable must caution you against repeating it. Here are rare metals—barium in the laws, since most of the water Miss Caustique—I shall endeavor to form of sulphate and carbonate, zinc powers not in use are under government be Just as cautious as you are.—Phila and copper, gold and silver—all awaiting control, and the present laws do delphia Record. the magical touch of the cheap not adequately make provision for electrical potentiality in our wasted their fullest development and use. TO GET RID OF SHYSTERS stream flow to make their utilization There is in nonuse in the United States the basis of new settlement, new enough water power to equal, if harnessed towns and cities, new centers of civilization Efforts of State Bar Association Are to the wheels of industry and and new sources of activity and Highly Commended. "used continuously, the daily labor of wealth. The Minnesota State Bar Association 1,800,000,000 men. or thirty times our As a by-product, and not an unimportant is to be congratulated for its present adult population. one. of the atmospheric nitrogen heroic efforts to improve the standing This nonuse of our water powers is plants, we can produce cyanide, of the legal profession with the general a significant Illustration of the opportunities rr& giving new life and Impetus to the public. and possibilities of the future mining and production of precious In the program of their annual t)f America. It Is equally significant metals from low grade ores. In fact, meeting to be held at Duluth, Aug. 8th, of the lack of intelligent development this material either as by-product or 9th and 10th, the committee on ethics of resources, employment of opportunity, SO/VS from metallic sodium produced with (moral duty) express .themselves as and coordination of effort which "Wi the cheap power available, should being desirous of ridding the profession lias, to the present time, marked our -^1 ccoco make the Pacific Coast the logical distributing of lawyers whose conduct violates political and industrial growth center for cyanide used in their oaths and requires of the We have $200,000,000,000 of accumulated gold extraction. Our Alaskan copper, bar generally a proper standard of wealth, but we have mined only now shipped as far away as New Jersey moral responsibility. They also say the surface of our natural resources. for smelting, may be cheaply and that the public rightly looks to the JUany time?, two hundred billions of profitably reduced and manufactured bar to purge itself of those of its "wealth lie beneath this carelessly by electrical processes on the Pacific members whose misconduct merits scratched sir.'^ ve awaiting onlv the coordination Coast, and the same hydro-electric not only the criticism of the bar hut of.cnrrfr'.1. labor and states power which will bring these industries its disciplinary action. mans'.:p for its realization. into existence will afford the energy For years our courts have been And in this development and utilization for cheapened transportation of crowded with suits framed up by dishonorable o" natural resources, particularly their products over electrified railways. lawyers, mostly of the per* of warer powers, we have, for some that do for sonal damage kind. Security of Investment Needed. good rontons and some not so good, The present laws give them the We must depend upon private enterprise fallen behind the rest of the world. privilege of bringing a suit, presenting and capital to secure this development. "While we are bickering over terms of smokers what no their evidence and getting it dismissed, To enlist private enterprise and legislation to make our water powers going through this operation money in the work, our legislation ^available, other countries have devel- four or five times until the victim of operl their nowers and with them ere- must offer t° investors, to promoters the plaintiff is completely worn out, other cigarette has ated va^t new industries based upon and builders, tlie security of invest- and compelled to make an unreasonable scientific discovery and invention, of ment and hope of reasonable reward or settlement to prevent being "which we have none. return which will induce them to put harassed further. ever done for them We are depleting our fuel supply in their money and brains Into these en- As the law now reads a personal the manufacturing sections of the East teri)rises- door must be securely The damage suit can be brought against and Middle West, while in the far :locked against exploitation of the pubWest employers, property owners or householders before—they satisfy lie need and speculation In future values are mountains of undeveloped within five years from the of these power sites, but there Taw materials adjacent to unused water date of an accident. In the larger must be no improper barriers or handicaps powers whose development would cities action against the city must be and yet they're MILD to enterprise and development mean the establishment of great new brought within thirty days. Production of cheap power depends Industries In new manufacturing centers. The expense to the taxpayers of as largely upon the securing of investment Minnesota for such framed up lawsuits at low rates of interest as upon We are robbing our farm lands of is enormous and the principal economy of physical operation. If the fertility and failing to realize the utmost reason for the large increase in taxes fegislatlve conditions are such as force of our agricultural opportunities of recent years'. capital to earn large returns It necessarily because of our dependence upon foreign Special attention will be given to means higher priced power and sources of high priced supplies for the practice, now so general and so Chesterfield eliminates many of the desirable uses chemical plant foods or fertilizers, much condemned, of loading down to which cheap power could be put. If while mountains of phosphate rock, the courts of Minnesota with action it is economical to combine more than lime and lignite in the West await by nonresident plaintiffs against nonresident one water power under a single operating only the magic touch of atmospheric defendants on causes of action control or with one distributing nitrogen extracted and fixed with the arising outside of Minnesota. system which will Increase the percentage aid of cheap hydro-electricity to furnish In a recent issue of the Pioneer of generating capacity utilized a Ipw-priced and plentiful supply Press it was stated that the cost to and so reduce the unit cost, neither of fertilizing elements. the taxpayers of Ramsey county alone fe! mere prejudice nor political timidity Millions of acres of lands rich in for such suits amounted to $90,000 a CIGARETTES should be allowed to prevent such economical plant foods lie arid and waste in the «f. year. Unnecessary suits brought operation. western country which can be converted against residents of the state must The big things which should not be into fertile and productive farms, cost as much or more. lost to sight are that use constitutes gardens and orchards merely by pump It Is the purpose of the bar association the highest form of conservation of Ing onto them the waters of the to give the public the same protection water power, that power not used today streams flowing through them. This from the so called ambulance is wasted, and that power used today miracle of making the desert bloom chasers that the city governments now 20f«10c does not diminish the potential awaits for accomplishment only the receive. value of the same power for use In the laws which will permit capital and em The expressed intention of the Minnesota yet they're future, while every kilowatt of electrical and MILD terprise to engage in the harnessing of State Bar Association to rid energy produced by water conserves these streams so that they can pump the profession of dishonest and shyster Attractive Una of lMChwtovfleMa human labor or adds to its themselves onto the thirsty soil. lawyers is to be highly commended •nit, jH-cpaid. on receipt of 50c. if a productivity and Is the- equivalent of and will meet with the approval Complete Preparedness. fuel saving which closely affects not of all of the leading civic as* Behind a complete preparedness, social only present day industrial and R5 sociatlons of the state and the public be whether Industrial or military, must cost of living as conditions, but future generally. the jc"- complete machinery of an Indus- well. jf|t 1 mj|| nfa'Tlu*,,