F. C. ROGERS "Did I understand yon to say Dab* One Hundred Million Pounds of Cop* w&ite was a close student of political Weapons of United Defendinr, Giant States ^per Used in 35,000,000 Shells Ordered economy?" Panama Canal Project Shoot by Allies in United States. T'*'Yes in one sense." Weighing Over les Ton. "How is that?" Up to date the allies of Europe "The last time he ran for office he warring PRACTICAL FURRIER It is not easy to understand what have placed orders for 35,000,000 spent less than one hundred dollars, of a gun really is—its penetrating the power shells in the United States. This means and that was borrowed money." Fort Frances, and destructive power, ^observes Ontario a lot of valuable metal going to waste, Popular Science. What we.call for these orders require a total of 101,000,000 In Charity's Name. s. 15-incli gun—which means one pounds of copper, 46,750,000 Aimee—Oh, what a lovely ring! v.iiose muzzle or hollow part is 15 THE OLDEST EXCLUSIVE FUR HOUSE pounds of spelter and 173,250 pounds never noticed it on your finger before. ^nehes in diameter—will hurl a shell of lead. Hazel—Of course not. It's my engagement right through a plate or wall of the A British 18-pounder, or 3.3-inch ring, and I only got it yesterday. IN THE WORLD hardest steel 12 inches thick seven shrapnel, requires 5 pounds 9% ounces "V miles the muzzle. The power of from of brass, containing 66 to 70 per cent Aimee—Really? And how much did rae very largest land guns ever made of copper, or nearly 3% pounds. A you pay for it, dear? German howitzers or 16.5 guns —the small copper band around the shell that one of their missiles —is such adds ounces, making the total copper Dubious Outlook. 4% open a steel and concrete fort ers:*fcs 4.04 pounds. Spelter consumption "I understand you have anew neighbor." it were a nut. if as per shell of this size is about 1.87 are two classes of guns— There pounds. Lead bullets weighing 7.92 "Do you expect to be friendly with naval guns and army or land guns, .a pounds constitute the metal load of the him?" jocause they can be manipulated more projectile. "I hope for the best, but he has five than those of a ship, land guns -asily One pound of copper is used in making little boys and my library windows are the heavier. From eight to ten ire 24 Lebel rifle cartridges. Every. in an exposed position." the greatest distance that a niles is 125 of these cartridges consume 1 can cover successfully at sea. :-niner pound of spelter and a small amount The Difference. naval gun is the 15-inch Th" largest Far Above Such Matters. of nickel. Steel consumption per shell Automobilist (recovering after accident) on the famous superidnantrht m!is!i gun "No man in public life can last long varies more widely with the different Seventy-five dollars, doctor, and the largest land gun unless he knows how to feel the public types. A finished 3.3-inch shell contains seems rather high. howitzer. Is the Gorman Of the two pulse." 6 pounds 15% ounces of steel, the steel Doctor Emdee—Oh! I don't know. a naval gun fires shell weighing :I:o "Depends on what you mean by public shell weighing 6 pounds 5% ounces and You paid the garage people §470 to a while the :ver half ton, other fires a life." the diaphragm 9% ounces. lepair your automobile. a in weight. jniji-vtile ton But the "Yes?" Just 33 complete chemical and mechanical giant lG-inch guns of the United H.\Y "Traffic policemen owe their success operations have to be gone WISE YOUTH. ntes defending the Panama canal primarily to the fact that they pay no through with great accuracy, precision at New York Sandy Hook shoot attention to what the public is thinking." and carefulness, before white cotton, weighing pounds, projectiles 2,370 EXPORTER AND IMPORTER OF mixed with sulphuric and nitric acid, RAW FURS over a ton. •iiich is These immen.se becomes smokeless powder. can sink a ship it guns before It. The Shame of come into sight has really on the horion, Mrs. Poorman—Oh, dear! I do USE LANCE BOMB AS CHASER location of the battleship the having wish we were rich. Just think of the determined by airplane or been good we could do if we only had the Britain's Mosquito Fleet Armed With to'.ver. money. Novel Weapons for Fighting in Poorman—True, my dear but we Close Quarters. TAXING POISON OUT OF SALT can do a great deal of good in a quiet Highest Cash Prices Paid on way as it is. The armament of Great Britain's Mrs. Poorman—Yes, but what's the World's Supply Seems to Be Inexhaustible Raw Furs 80-foot "chasers," "ML's" they are use? No one would ever hear of it. of But None It Is Wholiy called, is interesting. Each carries, Pure Until Treated. besides its deck gun, a "depth charge," He will pay the duty and war tax on all furs from the United Shelbyviile Wisdom. six "lance bombs," and a rifle for each "Wives, as a rule, are more liberal As as the supply of salt goes far States and pay as high a price for them as any of its ten men. than husbands," remarked the Sage of it is estimated that there is enough, The story of the lance bombs goes house in the United States. Shelbyviile, ova liable to last forever. Michigan like this: A British destroyer was "Why do you think so?" queried the flone, it is said, claims, to be able to once placed in the embarrassing position skeptical person. the whole world ior 2,000 years supply of having a U-boat bob up right "Because,?' explained the wisdom dispenser, with all the salt it needs. But no BE SURE AND SEE ME BEFORE YOU SELL OR BUY alongside. It was impossible to depress "the wife who Ms a mind of matter how plentiful salt may be, it a the guns sufficiently to strafe "Why did pa call Mr. Jones her own is always giving her husband has the disadvantage of being a poison, the stranger, and there was nothing chump?" pieces of it." no salt is wholly pure. Thus, for else to strafe him with. What happened *'Cause he's smaller'n pa." if the poison in salt can be eliminated .to the destroyer I can't say, vast additional sources will be available. but it must have got away to tell the SHE FEARED THE WORS" SO FOOLISH story, for each boat is now provided Scientists have come to the front with lance bombs for just such emergencies, and have tackled the problem successfully. says William Washburn Nutting By adding a solution of Subscribe for the Press in Collier's Weekly. just the right amount of sulphate of The lance bomb is a 14-pound contact soda, the barium or poison in the sail bomb on the end of a six-foot handle, is changed to sulphate, and with it is the idea being to use it at close removed the pink or brownish color range by hurling it much as an athlete due to iron salts. Thus is made available throws the hammer. These are an unlimited supply of salt, which implements loaded with awful possibilities means more raw material for the in the hands of an amateur, chemical industries, because the barium-bearing and the surest road to unpopularity salt is used for making,ice For Those Who Want A with one's shipmates-is to suggest-a lance bomb rehearsal. Real Vacation Delilah and the Czar. Nicholas was not the first, nor Will Tapping a Submarine. he be the last, to yield up judgment It's in the In and Out club, th« and will into the hands of a queenly junior service club in London, whert and beautiful woman. The motive of tall yarns are spun by the fellows ic Samson and Delilah of the vale of we suggest town on leave, and this one is th€ Sorek is a scarlet thread that runs best, but with it goes no guaranty oi through all history. And Empress Yellowstone National Park Rainier National Park refund money. But before shooting Alexandra herself, a broken-hearted my piece let me state that, no mattei woman from the beginning, was led to North Pacific Coast and Alaska how wild the lie may sound, truth at the brink of the precipice by forces of "My dear, you and I have got to "She's neglecting her game of bridge least in this war is stranger than fiction, tremendous and universal strength via agree upon a plan of some kind whereby dreadfully." writes a London correspondent her passionate and morbid love for her we shall be able to keep down oub "Why is she doing that?" In a cove on the east coast of Ireland invalid son, born after long waiting. bills this month." "Some silly excuse. Says the dill, Fritz submerges, thinking, he could Whose pains were alleviated, it would "But aren't you afraid if we do sp dren need her, I believe." escape his sole pursuer, an old-time seem, by Rasputin's magnetic force, that the courts will get after us for gunboat on patrol, with a busted wireless, just as the fatal malady of the czar's combining in restraint of trade?" and without any way to call for father, Alexander III, was lightened help. By means of a grapnel the gunboat by the similar but more benign power finally locates him lying still on Father John Kronstadt her obstinate of of the shelving bottom. A diver is sent WE-U. and unconverted devotion for down. He has a big hammer. He the land of her birth her passion for knocks on the hull of the German sub, I and Tumors successfully treated autocratic power. Those are not vulgar NOTHIN& (removed) without knife or pain. and the taps of the hammer spell out, or trivial motives they have All work guaranteed. Come, or in the Morse code: "Will you come write for free Sanatorium hook Special Summer Fares swayed great souls through all history.—North Dr.WILLIAMS SANATORIUM up or will you take a bomb?" Frits American Review. 308 Unrtnitr A* Min. comes up. Let me help you plan a worthwhile vacation trip SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS And Then He Kissed Her. "Daughter," said the mother, severe Send for[free travel booklets ly, "I wish to speak to you on a verj serious subject." C. G. WHITNEY, Agent International Falls, Minn. Daughter assumed her most childlike expression and murmured: "Yes, A. M. CLELAND, General Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Ninn. mamma." "I must tell you that I was passing Northern Pacific Railway through the hall last night and I saw that young Mr. Simpkins kiss you." "Yes, mamma." See America First— "Did you give him permission to kisf Start with Yellowstone Park you?" "No, mamma." Have You Bought Your Liberty Bond? "Then how did he come to do it?" "He asked me if it would offend m« If he kissed me." "Yes, yes. And what did you say?" is: Fit THE POINT NOWJ "I said how could I tell until I knew I WONDER WHY THEY ARE GRAVELY S how it would affect me."—Cleveland TELLING MEN WHAT EVERYB0 YOU CAN GET GENUINE GRAVER HAS KNOWN FOR 85 YEA Plain Dealer. CELEBRATED AROUND HEREl Birds Heaviest Eaters. Chewing Plu£ v,1 Birds are the heaviest eaters in tht BEFORETHE INVENTION 'J-•*' animal kingdom. Assuming—which OF OUR PATENT AIR-PROOF POUCH jC -^^^v^/is conservative—that an adult lark GRAVELY PLUG TOBACCO consumes fifty grasshoppers a day MADE STRICTLY FOR ITS CHEWING QUALITY VVr/'' and that five pairs of larks nest each WOULD NOT KEEP FRESH IN THIS SECTION. season on every good-sized farm where NOWTHE PATENT POUCH KEEPS IT 4 a FRESH AND CLEAN AND GOOD. Af disturbed by the plowing and mowing rA LITTLE CHEW OF GRAVELY IS ENOUGH 'of all the suitable land, the number of AND LASTS LONGER THAN A BIG CHEW OF ORDINARY PLUG. j% "{£•*'.«?! y,igrasshoppers dispatched daily on such farm means a-boon the enlightened ^'^"^^•farmer must appreciate. Russia Plans Waterways 1 Russia may carry out a complete re EVERYBODY IS FALLING organization on a huge scale of its inJand ""ilSk-' INTO STEP-BILL POSI0J5 waterways, if plans made previous wwJj#$i0MAKE VICTORY CERTAIN. BltLBQARDS ARE BEING to the recent political upheaval are firnrnm a REAQT realized. The project includes improvement Food or defeat—that is the problem that confronts America. V' z- r•-i*V of existing waterways, construction A, We must have abundant food to win this war. The Minnesota .fig of new waterways and ports, State Fair Food, Training Camp, Sept 3 to 8» through its utilization of waterfalls for producing electric power, improvement of navigation, machinery exhibits, will point out the way to obtain greater etc. The work, it is estimated, crop yields from-the same land. Do your bit by showing yoaf. ^will b« finished ia 1080 and ebst Attmuitk* inthUwork. Minnesota State F«ir. fM'