HORSE NOT YET ABANDONED PROFESSIONAL CARDS FAKING FILMS IN BELGIUM His Observation. WILL J^EED METRIC SYSTEM* FORGOT ONE BIG ESSENTIAL "Do. you believe that suffering and severe trials tend to purify one's character?" Wo Tractor Itself JOHN H. BROWN Has Yet Proved Germans Take Pictures Showing Soldiers United States Will Find Adoption of Struggling Author, Who Had Determined asked the fair maid. Equal to Handling ofLight Animals in Distributing Bread Among New Measurements More Important Attorney at Law to Commit Suicide, Neglected "Certainly," replied the fussy bachelor. Action. Batteries in Hungry Populace. After War. Is Claim. to Put Coin in Meter. Office over O. M. Carr & Co. "I've heard of a number of cases where men have been reformed by marriage." According to a statement bj the International Falls, Minnesota That seeing is not necessarily believing, When the war is ended we shall Milton Balzac was a struggling author. wnv department, the forecast frequently Is where a motion picture camera have greater need than ever before Of course, he was poor, and, of ventured, that horses are to be displaced employed for purposes of influencing of an international standard of DR. H. H. 1HR1G course, he was starving and living in by tractors in our light field artillery Put to the Test. public opinion, is shown by an article weights and measures, says the American bare garret. No self-respecting author a Dentist Her (arising from the piano)—Do is not yet justified. Experiments in the Princeton Alumni, describing a ever struggled without a bare Penman. The continent of Europe you play, Mr. Sloboy? now being made with motored Office over Holler's Confectionery visit to a Belgian village, occupied by garret. and South America use the meter, Him—No but I'm thinking of taking batteries are apparently proving German troops. The correspondent the gram International Falls, Minnesota But now the end was at hand. He and the liter. It is absurd lessons. I've a splendid ear for timei successful only with heavier types. writes: had had no food for two days, and his for us to use the metric system for our Her—Indeed! By the way, was that The motorized light battery would In the middle of the scene was a masterpiece had been returned from and yet cling to the archaic money GEO. S. LANGLAND eleven or twelve the clock just struck! bo ideal, of course, says the Providence little line of ragged Belgian men, wornen the forty-eighth publisher. "yard," "pound" and "gallon." These Lawyer T. nrnal. Good horses are scarce, their and children. They had been gathered So at midnight he carefully stopped terms are Anglo-Saxon traditions, ijikeep is costly, they can be worked Quite the Contrary. In the litis Block on Fourth Avenue from the nearby streets. They up every crevice in window and door, childish in these days. "Do you find health and happiness only, a limited number of hours on a seemed much frightened. Appeared a turned on the gas' and lay down on his The growth of our large cities has. International Falls, Minnesota on the golf links?" stretch, their care requires the services dozen underofficers and privates carrying plank bed to die. almost destroyed the old-time exact "ftot always. You'd be surprised to of soldiers who could be valuably loaves of bread. These they But in the morning—such is the appreciation of weights and measures J. McPARTLIN F. know how many golfers I meet who mployed otherwise, and the animal thrust Into the hands of the people in Irony of fate—there arrived letter by our people. The latest generation a Lawyer have nasty tempers and diseased livers." casualties in war appeal to human the line, while In a corner the clicking in the cities does not know what a from a famous editor inclosing a .sympathy as well, as occasioning a Office over International State Bank camera recorded the touching scene, to check for $100 for one of his exquisite "bushel," "peck'^or "quart"'actually is, i?avy burden of expense. be shown In Germany and Austria and short stories. Ah, it was too, too sad! nor do they know correctly what a International Falls, Minnesota For the horse or the mule in the About the Size of It. in neutral countries throughout the But do not weep. M. B. was not "gallon," "quart" or "pint" Is. Perhaps "Life in camp," remarked the dear transport service the motor is readily world, of "Kind-Hearted Prussians dead. He is alive today, making ten only automobilists can visualize G. F. SWINNERTON, M. D., C. M. girl, "must be something grand." substituted. But it appears that nc Feeding the Belgian Populace." thousand a year from his novels. He a "gallon." "Pint" in a big city means Physician and Surgeon "Not exactly that/' rejoined the machine has yet proved itself equal That was what the camera showed. had forgotten to put coin in the gas a queer, varying quantity of liquid a young lieutenant, "but it's something -o animal power for bringing a light Eyes Examined and'Glasses Fitted But what it did not show were the meter! Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. held in a bottle or pail. This quantity in-tents." battery into action, or "saving the fields of Kansas and Manitoba, or the Office over City Drug Store. is rarely an exact pint. runs," under conditions that often ships of the American commission that The city population buys its vegetables International Falls, Minnesota •\'dst. Jn a parade over a highway the Information Wanted. had brought the wheat that had been HE MISSED. and fruit supplies mostly by WHAT HAS Little Lemu?J—Say, paw? •nofrr would serve, but for pulling converted into the flour from which "basket" or "bag," without any regard DR. JENNER PERRY CHANCE Paw—Well, what is it, son? power in mud, for a dash over a rough those loaves were made, or the American to the old "dry measure" of the arithmetics. Little Levwnel—Is painting the town field, a plunge to the selected firing position, Physician and Surgeon dollar sign indicating who had One of the queerest habits red a cardinal sin? or quick unlimbering for action, Office litis Drug Store paid for the loaves, or even the Belgian over that has grown up in cities is the buying which may be a maneuver of second?-, agents to whom the distribution of such things as sugar and flour Phone 11 no tractor yet invented approaches the was .the morning and evening work. MATCHED. in packages of "3^ pounds" each. Night Calls at Hotel mobility of the trained battery horse. Koochiching That day these agents had been thrust We have clung to the "pound" with And mobility is the life of the light Falls, Minnesota aside and their bread taken from International some intelligence—because it is a vital buttery. them. "On this occasion," they were necessity in the absence of the more PHINNEY & told, "our soldiers will perform your CAMPBELL scientific "gram," and the "mile"—in HAS HIS GARDEN IN BARRE! task. You can leave the loaves, and sheer necessity because we have not Lawyers go home." I thought I had a story to yet the international "kilometer." Falls, Minnesota International tell. I was disappointed when my description Los Argaies Man, With Smai! Backyard, fell rather flat. "We have Conceives Idea for a Unique MAKES MEW TYPE OF GUN W. E. LAWRENCE heard all about it before," men informed Strawberry Patch. me. "That comedy is being The Rexall Store English Manufacturer Produces staged from time to time all over. Belgium. A Los Angeles man whose backyard Weapon With One Barrel Above Falls, Minnesota International We don't mind their taking pictures, too small for growing strawberru3, Other Instead cf Side by Side. but we wish they would leave conceived a clever idea, which is DR. A. E. THOMPSON our bread alone." cribed in Popular Mechanics. A prominent gun manufacturer in IT made a strawberry patch out of Dentist England has recently produced a double-barreled TO THWART THE PICKPOCKET barrel. Holes-about 12 inches apart Phone 245 shotgun having one barrel •vero bored in rows in its sides. Several above the other, instead of the two being "No I never take excursions into Office over litis Drug Store tin cans with perforated bottoms side by side, says Popular Mechanics the realms of fancy. I deal with known Safety Chain Which Will Anchor Wallet International Falls, Minnesota wore piled one on the other in the center Magazine. This arrangement, Safely to Its Owner Is quantities, and leave the unknown for of the barrel and enough dirt was it is claimed, offers considerable advantage New Invention. the dreamers." W. E. MARTIN :rr:wn about them to fill the receptacle in aiming, for the hunter is not "Evidently you never courted a girl, r.p to the first row of holes. Contractor and Builder From sad experience, many a man confused by a barrel either side the then." After the dirt had settled sufficiently has learned that placing his wallet in line of aim. The breadth of the double Repairs Promptly Done strawberry vines were planted in barrel.is reduced by more than onehalf, even an inside pocket will not prevent She—I simply can't stand your hot So They Do. Phone 159 705 8th St. Iu holes and allowed to hang outside. thus permitting the game to be it from being stolen. But if the wallet tempers tiny longer. To err may be human, This process was repeated until the 3een up to the. moment of firing. is attached to the safety chain described And to sidestep divine, He—And I can't stand your cold barrel was full and vines had been set The Shoe Hospital But woman, lovely woman. The fore end of the stock is so fashioned in the Popular Science Monthly, dinners any longer. Backs of£ a car each time. in all the holes and on the top. that it fills the left hand and a pickpocket could not remove it As the soil was added, cans were allows a firm grip to be obtained, while without taking the coat along, too! REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT Yea, Verily. The Local Flyer. piled up through the center to provide the .arrangement of the barrels brings A fine steel chain connects the wallet Most females would silent be, "How's the 4:30 accommodation?" an irrigation passageway. A hole was NATHAN NURICIC, Proprietor that hand well below the line of vision with the coat pocket. When you Oft keeping quiet for a week, asked the stranger in Jiggersville. bored in the side near the bottom to If they'd among themselves agree when aiming. The gun is equipped 213 Third Street pocket your wallet, this chain is wound "She ain't more'n 40 minutes late allow water to drain off. To always think before they speak. with a single trigger and a special Next to Boston Luncli up on a spring-revolved drum in a very today," replied the ticket agent, affably. lock which make possible a light pull« thin casing which is sewed to the bottom "There's a new engineer on No. Matter of Looks. off, if desired. Using Old Tin Cans. NORTHERN MINNESOTA of the pocket. The chain, which and he ain't satisfied with himself Hyker—Love Is blind, they say. 17 We used to have some thrifty foreign has its free end secured to your pocketbook, 'less he's burning up the rails at 20 Pyker—Well, I can readily believe HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION neighbors who always used their A Saurian Survival. is about afoot long, so that you It since I met Jones' wife. miles an hour." tin cans several times over, says the Dr. R. H. Monahan Phone 223 The dingonek, says J. A. Jordan in can draw it out conveniently. Should Hyker—How's that? Syracuse Post-Standard. In opening the Wide World, is a huge, unclassified Dr. Elizabeth Monahan... .Phone 223 a pickpocket attempt to rob you, the Playing Favorites. Pyker—He told me that he married a No. 3 tomato or other can, place the monster. It resembles, in aquatic Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 tug on the chain would betray him. tor love. "They were dining in a swell beanery. can bottom upward and lay a big, many of its Characteristics, the extinet Eudestine Hospital Phone 79 very hot coal on the central circle or dinosaur, a huge reptile of the Mesozoic Japan Raising Medicinal Herbs. "What is your favorite game?" he Office over International State Bank- The Light That Fails. cap. In a minute remove the- coal, period, fossils of which have been Prices of all medicines have increased asked. Said She—They fe«y that the light of Phone 155 when the tin cap is easily lifted. Remove discovered by paleontologists in the to such a degree in Japan "Quail on toast," he replied. "And parlor match wili tighten a wolf. the contents of the can immediately, International Falls, Minnesota sandstone strata both of the Africaiand since the outbreak of the war that yours?" Said He—Possibly. But it takes more wash, dry thoroughly and store American continents. the Japanese Medical Investigation to "Eagles on gold pieces," she answered. than the light of a love match In a dry place, saving the little circular It lives in Lake Victoria Nyanza association has undertaken, with the frighten tlie wolf the loor. tin centers for use again. When tievn and its numerous tributaries, and aid of the department of home affairs, S. E. THOMPSON & SON It is wished to use the can again In there is no record of the monster having to stimulate the growth of The Diagnosis. Road to Wealth. preserving tomatoes, berries or other been seen in any other part of the medicinal herbs of all kinds, and at Slowboy—Doctor, I'm troubled with Let us then be up and doing, foods, proceed as with a new tin can. world. Whether it is a descendant of the same time to prevent the exportation Every salesman has his goal Insomnia. Frequently I tumble and If one is at all handy with the soldering Drop the rag you've been .chewing- one of the huge prehistoric saurians of all medicines from the country. toss in bed all night long. What do iron the can is resoldered with no Use ypur voice to peddle coal. that has by a process of adaptation— The Hochi of Tokyo regrets that you suppose is the cause of it? trouble at all. Never put tomato or living as it does in impenetrable regions Japan still has to import medicinal Doctor—Well, it is just possible that acid fruits in any but tomato or berry Agents for the Right Away. far away from the encratchments herbs to manufacture its medicines. you are worrying over that bill you cans, as such have been specially "I understand Mrs. Bangs knows ell of civilized man—continued Many varieties of these herbs are cul-. have owed me for the last two years. the treated to withstand the action of the details of that latest divorce scandal." with but slight modifications through Mvated in Japan, but the government acids. Corn, peas, beans, etc., can be prodigious ages to the present time, or tias not especially encouraged the industry. put in used tin cans in which such, "Is that so? I shall call on her tomorrow." Just Possible. whether it is an unclassified reptile An experimental station was "In some parts of Africa," said the vegetables came, if they were opened or amphibian, it is equally impossible established in Tokyo about 1883, many returned traveler, "one can purchase properly. Try your hand first at opening to say, as do specimen exists either of the plants being brought from Germany, a wife for a pint of common glass and resoldering any old tin can. Oil Staves Must Be Crooked. of its bones or of Its skin. That this but the station was abandoned beads." The work Is very easily done. "Beware of that fellow Slithersby." monster does exist, however, there can in 1889. The Hochi argues that Japan "Well," rejoined the fussy old bachelor, "What's the matter with him?" be no particle of doubt, as the testimony can and should produce most of her "no doubt a good wife is worth "I overheard him say to one of hfs War Reduces Insanity. of authoritative eye-witnesses own medicines. that much." War as a palliative of insanity 1s a cronies, 'Now, you and I are practical cannot be reasonably discredited. theory unfamiliar to most people^ but men.'" The only absolutely Dogs as Cart Drawers. we have no reason to doubt the conclusions The useful work performed by dogs of Doctor Oswald of the Glasgow Wzckless Oil Stove in France reminds us that within living Lunatic asylum on the matter, says the memory dogs were employed to London Globe. One phase of the subject on the market. draw carts in England for pleasure is instructive and significant. This as well as for the conveyance of fish, is "the removal of the powerful effect Burns just like in the first half of the nineteenth century of poverty-on the mind and its replacement they were largely useid by werl£* by the higher standards of livfrig Call and let us ingmen and the humbler members of and remunerative employment." Poverty the fancy" for Sunday outings, says and unemployment are thus by show you. the London Chronicle. medical testimony more fertile causes The dogs employed were sturdy animals of insanity than war. That is a lesson of a mongrel character, generally to be borne in mind when the war is with a strain of the old English bull minium illllll IHIIHI over. mastiff. Twenty miles in and out was •, X" nothing to them, and while on these Danger of Sleeves and Ties. excursions they were sparingly fed on Although time and again workmen bread soaked in a little beer, which is have been warned x'egarding the danger said to have been a sustaining diet. of loose clothing when working around machinery, it appears that Laurel as National Flower. PATRIOTIC CITIZENS many of them persist in ignoring the ^England, is fighting now with the FLY THE FLAG danger. As a result 986 workmen were rose as her national flower. The United We will ship by parcel post to your killed in the United States by being States has no national flower, recognized address one of our Prepaid Fast Color drawn into the wheels of machinery or as such, but the mountain laurel 4x6 foot seweu "All Weather Brand" thrown to death when parts of their comes nearer to being the right U. S. for $1.50. These flags have Flags clothing became caught in rotating candidate foe the honor than any other strong canvas headings and brass grommets members. Loose sleeves and neckties bloom particularly characteristic of the and will stand all kinds of weather are prolific sources of danger, and and are of our own manufa6ture. United States. should not be tolerated for a single The scarcity ana advance in price of The mountain laurel is not found moment by the careful worker.—Scientific materials at this time makes this offer in other lands. It is hardy, permanent, limited. Send in your order at once. American. beautiful and widespread in its Send check, money order or draft with distribution. The great artist, Henry order. Prices on other sies upon application. Not Much to Ask. Turner Bailey, finds in it all the symbolism The landlady bustled up to her new necessary to make it Uncle Northwestern Flag & Decorating Co. lodger as he came down to breakfast Sam's flower. Wholesale Manufacturers the first morning. Flag*, Banners .and Decorations "Good morning, sir," she wheezed. Why Ships Float. for all occasions "Good morning," said the lodger. Steel ships differ from those of wood ST. PANL, MINNESOTA "I hope you've had a good night's in that 'their hulls are made of steel rest," said the landlady., plates riveted together, instead of the NOTICE "No," said the mild-mannered little old method of using wooden planking. If the public will get the habit •nan. "Your cat kept me awake." They are enabled to float because, being of using their street address on all "Oh," said the landlady, tossing her hollow, they have what is called mails it will give them better service ,!i suppose you're going to ask mttiSmim buoyancy. A steel ship displaces a volume when the carriers are put in JAMES PATTERSON'S Trained Wild Animal SHOWS thing killed." to have the. poor jHI of water equal In weight to Its service and also be appreciated by the gentle N-no, not" exactly," said own. JThe principle of buoyancy may ANSGOLLMAR BROTHERS CIRCUSCOMBMED /the postal department iodgen, "But. .would you very be teslea an Ironpall in I muck- ty 'floating mind having it tuned?" Postmaster. bathtnb full of water.