"x -u 'J^* Ws-p^ /a 'V *-0" INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SEVEN WHERE TURTLES COME FROM BEETLE IS "GRAVE DIGGER". WOMEN MARTYRS TO CAUSE 81BL0MANIA IS ODD DISEASE FORESIGHT OF POOR FARMER t"Uf, IT BOTHERS HER Thousands of Sea Tortoise Make An« Endure All Varieties of Torture Uncomplainingly Insects Which Are "Undertakers?' of Father, Whose Resources Had Been $hrewd Business Men Often Waste nual Pilgrimage to Ascension in Their Strenuous Animal World Scent Dead Bodies Thousands of Dollars in Making Taxed by Buying Violin for Son, Island to Lay Their Eggs. Efforts to Grow Thin. at a Great Distance. Hits on Novel Plan. Collection of Books. The city fathers are not the only In the American Magazine there a is When an animal dies in a garden or A man, shrewd, far-sighted, having A certain hard-working farmer had people who have the privilege of eating story about a woman who wanted to the woods and decomposition begins, seut his son to a good preparatory evolved a career and a fortune out of turtle soup, observes London Answers. save her husband's love. The writer carrion bugs come from far and school so that he might early begin a tested and exact training, will take The lords of the admiralty could, if 3ays: near. A dead bird, a mouse or a harmless up book collecting and plunge into it to receive the best instruction. For they liked, make a monopoly of the "Instead of the Saturday night bath snake wantonly killed by some his study of music the boy had to to the depth of thousands of dollars real article, for they hold sway over —in warm weather—Nancy learned to wanderer provides a banquet for hundreds have a violin, but he was such a little on the strength of a more puny acquaintance H. M. S. Ascension—which is not a take a cold bath every morning and a of insects. Among these the with the subject than he fellow that his teacher thought that a ship at all, but an island—where the hot one every night. A wicked waste "grave diggers" are found, embracing so-called "half violin" was all that would bring to bear on the purchase of turtles come from. of water from her point of view, but 43 species, 12 of which are found in a necktie. was necessary for him. According to Ascension island is a very lonely wasted in a good cause. Twice a day Europe, the rest in America. the Meggendorfer Blaetter, the father, A senator commissioned a book she exercised for 20 minutes, until spot. Its nearest neighbor is St. Helena, You can identify these beetles, says whose resources had been sadly taxed, dealer to supply his shelves with standard every muscle in her body protested 800 miles away. Ascension is half the Popular Science, by the two jagged was loath to part with the money for sets, the only proviso being that size of the Isle of Wight, and has a painfully. Clad only in a loose 'Mother yellowish red or. reddish transverse the instrument, but finally did so. books and space should come out even. populatioir of 120—or, rather, a "crew," Hubbard' Nancy twisted and turned, bands upon their black wing covers. The boy made rapid progress, and A lady signed contracts to the tune bent forward and backward, endeavoring for the people are almost entirely navftl Their scientific names (Necrophorus) became so proficient that a half violin of many thousands for what was represented to touch the floor with her finger who live at the garrison station of means no more than "buriers of the was no longer good enough for him. as a set of first edition Dickens Georgetown. The law of the island is tips, stood storklike, first on one foot lead." As undertakers,, the insects Again he went to the music store with In de luxe bindings, only to discover the word of the commanding officer. and then on the other, its mate making have legs especially adapted for digging, his father, to whom the salesman after she had paid more than wild plunges through the air in an Ascension is mainly noted for the annual "Fu! is. it not embarrassing," we showed the entire stock of violins. The half that the books were late editions endeavor to keep her bulky frame In visit of huge sea turtles. They A grave-digger beetle has a most extraordinary parent was apparently dissatisfied of the native damsel, "to say so and the bindings stuffed paper. The an upright position. She stretched her come in thousands to lay their eggs in sense of smell. He can ::y unsophisticated things? Do you with all of them, and his gaze wandered dealer Is now about half through a arms imploringly heavenward, protesting! the warm sand. It is probable they letect .the peculiar odor of decomposition often realize immediately that you round the shop seeking foi^ genuine edition of a prison cell. toward the other place she have come for tens of thousands of a long, distance away and flies to something better. Finally he saw a v? made a terrible break?" A man unfamiliar with language kicked, she hopped, she rolled, she perspired years. Some of them weigh as much the dead thing as straight as an arrow. ,violoncello. "Yoa," she answers frankly. "Leta paid several hundred dollars for a set gallons a#d she did it all uncomplainingly as 700 pounds! Every time they come His remarkably keen nose is times, after I have studied up a "We'll take that huge violin there," of Italian novelists in translation because and with an expression the inhabitants of Ascension take toll situated in his club like feelers. •rticularly shockingly innocent said he, as a smile of satisfaction JX"ession, he wanted to read the stories of dogged determination that helped of them, storing them in fenced pens, As a rule several grave diggers are spread over his countenance. "The I use it at entirely the wrong to stimulate my own often waning enthusiasm. that went with some very daring illustrations, and eventually killing them for food, found near a dead body. They crawl boy won't outgrow that right away!" only to find that the conclusion No Christian martyr that whilst a few of them are invariably under it and scratch the supporting ever lived, or died, was more entitled of the liveliest anecdotes slid into sent to the lords of the admiralty as a garth away, so that the bedy soon lies MARRIED BLISS. French. to the desired reward than Nancy. FINE BUSlNt^o. present from Ascension, a present in a hollow. Gradually the body is Gladly would she have burned at the which is greatly appreciated. I suppose to the average normal lowered until it sinks below the surface. stake, if by so doing she could have accomplished mind there is no folly quite to equal Then itx is covered with earth. her purpose." that of paying a hundred dollars for BASED ON ANCIENT CUSTOM The female lays her eggs around the a first edition when a later and better interred form, thus insuring for tlie edition cries at one from the 25cent TO SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE aewly hatched larvae a plentiful food Superstition Regarding Seeing the New stand, writes Stanley K. Wilson supply. Moon Through Glass is Older in the New York Sun. That the fact Butler Not Required to Wear Full Than Christianity.. of a mistake in tlie pagination of the Dress Suit When There Was Company SEES DOOM OF GOLDEN LOCKS a "Eikon Basilike"—the transposition of as Employer Needed It. "Don't see the new moon through one bracket or figures—enhances by glass," thousands of people are just many dollars the value of the book Statistician Predicts Extinction of A Southern lawyer of prominence recently now saying. The superstition is based Fair-Haired Women, as a Species, seems to us too fantastic for belief. went to Chicago to become general on a custom older than Christianity, «sss That a collector will cheerfully give Within Next Two Centuries. and enduring in places, travelers may counsel for a big lumber company, for Dickens' "Christmas Carol" with Having been reared in Kentucky, and tell us, to this day says the London It is gravely announced that the the "Stave I" double what he will pay Chronicle. The Jews had no real calendar, being an old-fashioned Democrat, he bright glory of blond hair, locks of for the "Stave One" issue, both first but depended for the inauguration rather prides himself on the fact that pale spun gold, such as the Lorelei editions, would appear to qualify that of the feasts of trumpets, which he has always lived in a state of Jef combed with her golden comb, are collector for a blank page sojourn in began with the advent of the new fersonian and Jacksonian simplicity. doomed to disappear entirely. A statistician an asylum. Yet these are among the moon, upon actual observance of the After the family had moved North has figured the whole matter mournful manifestations of the disease.—Stanley crescent. Jews watched, with reward and taken a* home, it was decided that out, and he issues a solemn, warning K. Wilson in New York in view, for the coming of the new the household would not be complete S$S:- that in two pitiful centuries the poets Sun. moon, as our sailors watch for the appearance without a butler. An advertisement (who will still be poets nevertheless) "How's the outlook for poultry this of a periscope. Immediately was inserted in the paper inviting applicants must cease to sing of blessed damosels She—George, you're not going out season?" they saw it they hied them to the high WHEN SNAKES ARE POISONOUS to call. Almost the first to with hair like ripe corn, except, of to your club and leave me all alone, priest at Jerusalem. They were permitted "Fine I expect to get at least a answer the advertisement was a dap course, retrospectively, or paying tribute arc you? What if a burglar should dozen eggs a week from a thousand* to travel even on the Sabbath per negro. His references proving sat knowingly to a triumph of the Reptiles That Are Dangerous Have steal me? for the purpose. Now the testimony dollar investment." isfactory, it seemed probable that he chemist's art. Diamond-Shaped Heads, Much He—I suppose I should have a little must be not only that of men of reputation would be engaged. Longer at Jawbone Than Neck. The reason for the diminution of the consideration for them. They're hu it must be that of men who had Yea, Verily! "Does you 'spect me to wear mal number of fair women, the final extinction man, anyway. seen the phenomenon with the naked Here's line truthful dope a of full dress suit ever' night at dinner?'' Poisonous snakes have a diamond' of the species, is given by the f-% We've evolved after a tussel eye. The appearance of the moon must he asked. statistician with the solemnity properly shaped head, about four times larger men have too much hopoj First Aid. Some not be noted as reflected in a stream, "Well, no," answered the lawyer, And too darned little hustle. at the jawbone than at the neck. They belonging to his profession and ups and downs nor through clouds, nor through glass. Of "On nights when we have company P3 There seems no province, says the New York Evening also have blunt tails. Nonpoisonous end That vitiated the value of testimony Not Convincing. [ike for you to let me wear it."—Saturday, But three-ball shops snakes have sharp heads, which are Post. It is that blonds have been observed and precluded possibility of reward. Are quick to lend. "What is this moving-picture Evening Post. stai nearly the same size at the neck, and to be less inclined to marriage Travelers from the East, possibly Crusaders, trying to register?" than their darker sisters. They are tails. All snakes, however, are Sharp brought the story to the West, His-Low-Down Joke. "Judging from the plot, I should saj poisonous during the "shedding" period Old Age. thus condemning themselves to the where it remains "unlucky" to see the The sun was setting In a blaze of the pangs of starvation." of seven days. They go blind two The Youth who sees the feeble Sir? fate which must little by little overtake new moon through glass. glory and the man and woman were "It can't be done. See what be* days before shedding. them and rob the world of something and sighs: "Ah, shall the years:,con: playing the chief parts in life's eternal Pitching curves show through her tat spire to bring me aches and frettun the world would not willingly be The Gila (pronounced heela) monster drama. The evening before the man The "Cork Convent." tered gown." bereft of. is so called on account of being moans and halting gait and palsied had claimed the woman as his own, A striking curiosity near Cintra, found near the Gila river in Arizona bones? Shall I go grumbling on my For the benefit of those who are and the world was new and beautiful Portugal, says a writer in the Wide Turning *Era Round. and New Mexico, says the WorldWide way, unmindful of the golden day, as admirers of white horses" it may be to them. A whole day had passed World, is an ancient convent built "Do you consider your second glum as yon old bearded guy shall I be Magazine. Its bite is deadly, and added that red hair does not count as since they had seen one another, and partially in the interior of an immense thoughts the best?" asked Aimee. it is much feared by the Indians, as no bent and gray, shall I, who 'feel my life blond. It is sui generis, and has staying now that they had met again the woman rock. The convent is situated in a "Sure thing," replied Omar. in every limb' some day have eyes as qualities as notable as that of the remedy is known for the bite. They could have swooned for joy. very isolated spot, and was formerly "Then why don't you have then brunette t.vn». are very peculiar creatures, having the blear and dim?" The Youth who thus "It has been the longest day of the surrounded by a dense wood of cork first?" she innocently. Queried, shape of a large lizard, with feet will muse, ah me! how very seldom year today," said the man softly, in an trees. The convent is known as the do we see. The heat of Youth but seldom marked like those of a monkey. Some unemployed interval. Convento da Cortica, or "Cork Convent," scientists say that the bite of the Gila fears the chills of life's last wintry She thrilled at the words. He had for the reason that the monks' *—». years. For thus with Youth it often monster is not poisonpus in itself, but missed her, then. It had been a long To the Farmer cells, chapel, kitchen and refectory are goes, he seems unwilling to suppose that their breath, blown, on the wound, for her, too. day all lined with cork to keep out the is fatal. If their breath is blown on later day will find himself forlorn and "Dearest," she murmured coyly, damp. From 1560 to 1834 the convent feeble on the shelf. Though many are a person with a weak heart the person longing to hear from his dear lips was inhabited by an order of monks the old he sees and notes their lame will faint away for an indefinite time. why the "day had dragged, "why has known as the Capuchians a remarkable rheumatic knees, their hairs all sil In captivity the Gila monster is fed the day been long?" feature of their religion being that, on warm milk and chopped meat every vered o'er and few, their teeth wherewith "Oh, you surely know, my own," he except on certain occasions, silence they cannot chew, he sees then? six weeks. whispered. "It's the 21st of June I" was obligatory. Since 1834, when the every day or so, yet somehow nevei We can insure your monasteries and convents of Portugal seems to know that he upon a later daj Gen. Funston's "Artillery." were dissolved, the convent has not Tale of Nine-Tailed Fox* will be-as old and bent as they. Yel In all his campaigns the late General been occupied, though it is open to The police in Korea have been investigating even so perhaps it's best, for should Funston carried a 45-caliber pistol the public, a caretaker residing there the circulation of a fabulous farm property, including he wail and smite his chest, for all his that extended from his waist to his for this purpose. story credited by superstitious sighs and moans and tears he could no1 knee—not a long way, at that. When Koreans that a nine-tailed fox appearing the speeding years. He's wise stay he came ashore at Vera Cru* to take in the form of a woman roams at When the Railroad Came. live stock, grain, who wears a peaceful ,phiz whatevei command of the city, Admirals Fletcher large in the evenings telling children In Thomas Bailey Aldrich's reminiscent time of life is his".—Illinois State Register. and Badger, with their staffs, were that she can foretell 'their future by account of his birthplace, "An Old drawn up in line to greet him. They licking their hands with her tongue. Town by the Sea," he remarks that the against fire, lightning, The Koreans declare that the children were. in white, with shining swords first train over the Eastern railroad A Misunderstanding. die suddenly. Many housewives lock and accoutrements. The general was from Boston to Portsmouth "ran over "May," said a lady to her servant their gates before dark to prevent the in his olive drab uniform without a and killed—local character." Till then "I am very tired, and am going to li« visit of the supposed fox. tornado or windstorm. blouse, and had his enormous pistol Portsmouth- had been a happily secluded down for awhile. If I should happec The fable has created consternation strapped to his waist. community, with the courage of to drop off call me at five." "Yes in the coiintry districts. The British consul was there with its seclusion. To many of its inhabitants* ma'am," replied the doubtful maid his staff, too, and, failing to see any content in their isolation, Boston The lady lay down on the couch, closed Campaigning for Safety. resplendent officer with gold and lace, The First National Bank was thousands of miles distant in her ey'esfand was soonjn thfc land ol A safety first campaign to minimize he asked: "Where is the general? Is effect, although only 56 miles away by dreams. She was awakened by the accidents in navy yards, arsenals and he the little Chinaman at the head of geographic measurement. Their Portsmouth clock striking six. "May, why didn't other government establishments has the column, or is that just an American was the center of their earth, International Falls, Minnesota you call me at five, as I told you tc been launched by the federal employees' artillery regiment?" General Funston and the invasion of a railroad with its do?" she said to the maid, indignantly compensation commission often told the storv himself. daily trains brought within their borders INSURANCE DEPARTMENT "Well, ma'am, you told me to call you working in co-operation with the national undesirable stir and bustle and if you dropped off. I looked in at safety council of engineers. of Digestibility Cheese. unwelcome visitors. The entrance of five, and you hadn't droped off at all In investigating the digestibility of the railroad train was in fact the beginning You were lying on the couch fast cheese it has been shown that much of a new era for Portsmouth, asleep depends on the special physical characteristics as it has been for many another place." of the food. All fat cheeses OLD HICKORY WAS GRAVELYVS WHY. THAT WAS Antiquity. are said to be dissolved and digested Second French Revolution. MIGHTY PARTICULAR PRESIDENT ANDREW Antiquity! thou wondrous charm CELEBRATED with great rapidity, because of the The French revolution of 1848 is ABOUT HIS TOBACCO what art thou? that, being nothing, art JACKSON'S FAVORITE molecules of the casein—the nitrogenous Chewing Plu§ sometimes called the second revolution, CHEW everything! When thou were, thou part of the cheese—are separated the first having been that of 1789, were not antiquity—then thou wert only by the fat, and so the gastric juice BEFORE THE INVENTION resulting in the establishment of a republic nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, can attack a large surface of the OF OUR PATENT AIR-PROOF POUCH which was followed by the empire as thou calledst it, to look back to with cheese at one time. Whether the cheese GRAVELY PLUG TOBACCO under Napoleon I, and this in blind veneration thou thyself being .to MADE STRICTLY FOR ITS CHEWING QUALITY be hard or soft does not appear to influence turn by the restoration of the Bourbon WOULD NOT KEEP FRESH IN THIS SECTION, thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery digestion, and there is no connection dynasty. ^The revolution of 1848 resulted NOW THE PATENT POUCH KEEPS IT lurks in this retroversion? or what between the digestibility and FRESH AND CLEAN AND GOOD. in the abdication and banishment half Januses are we, that cannot look the percentage of water present in the A LITTLE CHEW OF GRAVELY IS ENOUGH of King Louis Philippe, the forward with the same idolatry with cheese. AND LASTS LONGER THAN A BIG CHEW proclamation of a republic, the election which we forever revert! The mighty OF ORDINARY PLUG. of Louis Napoleon as president, *J?S3.fjravelyfo0ucceCo. 0aw/uf.VA. future is as nothing, being everything! The Schoolgirl's Mind. and later the establishment of the empire the "past is everything, being nothing not The mind of a schoolgirl does with him as emperor under the Charles Lamb. proceed like the mind of an adult it title of Napoleon III. This resolution +Ktttv, fatuMUt* imitates the motions of a grasshopper. was not accompanied by extensive BEFORE'BILLY POSTER Worthy Sentiments. It sings in the summer, it dances in military operations, but there was GETS THROUGH, A LOT OF I say that generous and patriotic the winter, it transforms values, it heavy fighting in Paris in which several OTHER PEOPLE WILL BE sentiments, sentiments which prepare doubts axioms, it is dogmatic upon impossibilities GETTING PARTICULAR TOO thousand persons were killed. us to serve our country, to live for our or what seem such to the into ra.«mW country, to die for our country, feelings vit/ttf wmj Mtut adult mind, it compresses dreams A Total Wreck. like those which carried Prescott and a creed, it has intuitions like the flash "What a smash-up that was of Jim's or Warren and Putnam to the battle field, of an electric candle, it plays the when he ran his motorcycle with his tight in broad are good—good, humanly speaking, of bat, shuts its eyes day- fiancee onlthe back seat, into a lamppost." It to light, folds its wings, hooks on to any the highest order. is good have them, convenient excuse, and goes f|it them, good to encourage good broken even "Yes, everything was to commemorate asleep.—H. D. Sedgwick In the Atlaa* to honor them, good the engagement." them.—Bdward Everett Ha A 1