'f*,yf '^J'^r^'-' i11 :^^, ,v ji INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS (Tvrwi*i»!.»»i immtp PAGE TWO PROFESSIONAL CARDS WAR BEGAN IN APRIL, 1913 PICTURE OF GERMAN VAMPIRE I Huge War Credit Was in That Year Kaiser's Possession Embraces Many JOHN H. BROWN Put yout-Mone Voted in Germany and Supported Miles, bUt No Square Meals, Says Attorney aft Law by Socialists. This Writer. in Office over O. M. Carr & Co. OUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED When did the war begin? April, The German empire, better known International Falls, Minnesota 1913 not August, 1914, as the press as the German vampire, embraces 208,830 always has it, writes Charles Edward square miles, but not a single BANK DR. H. H. IHRIG Russel in Harper's. The real declaration square meal, says the Brooklyn Eagle. SUGAR of war was made by the German It comprises four kingdoms, six grand Dentist reichstag when it struck observing duchies and 3,S76,531 grand goosesteps. How can we save sugar? Office over Holler's Confectionery Europe dumb and chill by passing, an In outline and inclination it is likely By using substitutes and giving International Falls, Minnesota extraordinary war credit of $250,000,000 irregular. On the east it hounds Lenine. up candy and sou drinks. and to that act of belligerency in On the north it is hounded by the Does it save sugar to use brown sugar a lime of profound peace the socialists allied fleets and on the west by General instead of granulated? F. J. McPARTLIN in the reichstag gave practically their Haig. If there "is any saving it is too Lawyer support The principal waterways of Germany slight to be of value. Office over International State Bank All men in the world accustomed to are the seize and the Kiel canal. The How much sugar may we eat? make upon the day's news an intelligent high C's now under its control are confined Not more than 3 pounds a month International Falls, Minnesota diagnosis must have gasped and to the opera house. The Kiel per person. stared at this portent. Unless Germany canal is used for exercise by the bottled Does this amount include candy and PHINNEY & CAMPBELL deliberately planned now to ships on pleasant Sundays. soft drinks? Lawyers bring down upon mankind the war her The seaboard, greatly restricted, like Yes. We should reduce our consumption armament had silently threatened these all other kinds of board, is known as of candy and soft drinks International Falls, Minnesota many years, there was no good reason the high cost of living. The country as much as possible. DONT LET for this perilous saber rattling certainly is not entirely on the level. It has in Does this amount include the sugar W. E. LAWRENCE none appeared in the state of the interior a large table land, entirely used in canning fruits and vegetables? \GANCE CRUSH The Rexall Store Europe. Yet the socialists seemed to empty. There are also deep depressions be for It that was the incomprehensible in all parts of the nation. No. International Falls, Minnesota Berlin, the capital, was established fact. What could we accomplish by cutting IU AND KEEP YOU POOR In the thirteenth century on the Spree out the use of candy alone? August Bebel, then still active, was DR. E. A. THOMPSON river. It has not yet recovered. The We could thereby release enough the ablest and most famous of their inhabitants are divided into two main sugar to meet England's shortage, leaders, and criticism from many lands Dentist EXTRAVAGANCE IS A HABIT-SAVING IS A HABIT. classes—junkers and junked. or to more than meet the shortage seemed to goad him into a defense. Phone 245 The present fooler is Kaiser Billious of France. It was of a nature to chill the last IT IS EASY TO PUT A LITTLE MONEY INTO THE Office over International State Banl What was one factor that probably II. His principal occupation is look, hope in any friend of peace. Two BANK EACH LDAY, AS 'IT ISITTO FIGURE ON WHAT ing for a place in the sun. There is helped bring about the sugar shortage reasons he gave for the reichstag's International Falls, Minnesota last year? something warmer than that in store action. One was that President Poincare PET EXTRAVAGANCE"YOU^CAN INDULGE IN-BUT YOUR Canning and preserving. In August, for him. It sounds something like of France, who had been but newly DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN 1917, there was an increase of Helgoland. The crown prince is the EXTRAVAGANCE WILL'LATER BECOME A GREAT BURDEN elected, was a warlike and dangerous 48 per cent and in September, 1917, barely apparent. man, and no one could tell to what Anaesthetist -YOU'LL GET THE "Dl-BT HABIT". an increase of 44 per cent of sugar The national motto is "Spurlos versenkt." lengths he might go. The other was Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted consumption over the corresponding that in the Balkan wars the Turks, YOUR SAVINGSZWILLS SOON SHOW A BIG BALANCE months of 1916. Phone 223 Office 800 2nd St taught by German officers, had been Was this good conservation? beaten by the Serbians, taught by CAPITAL WELL WORTH VISIT AND YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO SOMETHING WORTH Yes it will be justified in the NORTHERN MINNESOTA French. long run. WHILE. The judicious might grieve indeed HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION Merida, Chief City of Yucatan, Is by Will there be another sugar famine? when they came upon such an offering WE PAY PFR CENT INTERESTCOME No Means Lacking in Attractions If the American people use not Dr. C. C. Craig Phone 22. from such a source, and anybody able for Tourist. more than 3 pounds per month per TO OUR BANK Dr. Elizabeth Monahan....Phone 223 to read might see that war was close person allowed and refrain front Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 at hand. A capital which most tourists never FIRST NATIONAL BANK hoarding, there will be enough sugar Hospital Phone 79, visit and of whose very existence this year. Office over International State Bank ANGRY AT BEING DISTURBED many people are ignorant is Merida, flow is sugar used commercially? Phone 155 the chief city of Yucatan. Yucatan is International Falls, Minnesota Ik breadstuffs, condensed milk, one of the richest Mexican provinces International Falls, Minnesota flavoring extracts, chewing gum, Old Gentleman Vastly More Annoyed and, to go further into the intricacies certain medicines, confectionery, at Constable Than He Was at Hun of geography, forms the right arm of Air Raiders. canned fruits and vegetables, cocoa, the Gulf of Mexico. Merida, its show chocolate, syrups, beverages, and in WHAT ARE YOU GOING TRAIN MIND TO REMEMBER city, officially began to exist in 1542, a number of nonedible products, "He wasn't half angry," said a constable TO BUY THIS HAVE THE FIGHTING SPIRIT when the Spaniards laid the corner to me, smiling reminiscently as such as paste, leather, explosives, SPRING stone with much ceremony and proclaimed By the Proper Exercise of Will One etc. he cast his eye over what remained— grandly that the very loyal Yankees' Pluck and Daring Illustrated Can Teach the Brain to Regie, When did the beet sugar industry begin mostly top story only—of an old-fashioned and noble city of Merida, chartered by by Boy Who Killed Five in the United States? ter Photographs. house which had suffered in a his most Catholic majesty, Philip II. of Enemy. About 1886. recent air raid. "You should have was now on the map. A man who has a wonderful memory What has its increase been since heard his language!" five be­ Knoxville, Tenn^r-'T killed Since then Merida has grown considerably, then? says in the American Magazine: "Curious thing," I said, "the top floor fore they got me!" If you can train your right arm to acquired a plaza, cathedral, From 896 tons to 820,657 tons, or Wewill get you anything from doesn't appear to be touched." This exclamation of a lad who was university, hotels and a goodly number over 90,000 per cent increase. deliver a good blow, you can train "Yes, that's where he was," said the a baby cab to a htreshing machine being brought back in an ambulance of millionaires, and considers itself a Does the United StateB get most of your memory to retain facts. There constable. "Of course, we thought he and meet any mail order from the firing line, his leg having city of some importance. its sugar from this country? are just as many flabby-minded men was a casualty. We cleared away the price. We can do this and been torn by a piece of shell, shows No. Most of it Is Imported, and in the world as there are flabby-bodied rubbish, and somehow or other got up One governor of Yucatan, with a make a small profit the same the spirit of the Sammies "over refined here. ones. Both kinds of flabbiness are due to his rooms with an ambulance and well-developed sense of civic and national as Sears and Roebuck, as with there." The incident is told by Dr. Why should we not compare our total to laziness, the one mental, the other the doctor. The door was closed, so we pride, tried to separate the the buying connections we have consumption of sugar with the sugar Carl Holliday, director of educational physical. started prying it open. That's when wealthy citizens of the capital from work in France, in a letter to his parents. we cao buy from any factory rations of the Allies? Above all, you must remember that some of their surplus change for 'Improvement the fun started. Because total consumption means the brain is a photographic machine— they can and at the same "The door was flung open, and there of the city. The millionaire household use and commercial use, "Just yesterday I returned from a and you can make it take an enormous stood the old' gentleman with a big element could not see how it would price. We are entitled to this while the rations are amounts allotted three-day trip near the battlefront," number of photographs. I don't contend took in his hands, his 'specs' on, and gain anything by installing the beautifully business because we will give to individuals, and do not he wrote. "All day and through most that each man may eventually in a proper temper. I just caught a paved boulevards described so you better terms. Youl will even include the allowance for canning of the night one could hear the sullen have as good a memory as his neighbor's, glimpse of a cosy armchair drawn up graphically by their promoter and refused have to send maney with the and preserving. boom of the great cannons, and but I am firmly convinced that to a blazing fire. to contribute. But the governor order when you order from What was the total per capita consumption it was a horrible thought to consider 90 men out of 100 can have better and them while we only ask you a "•What the does this mean?' placed a tax on the henequen. the chief in the United States for that every time that sound was heard more serviceable memories than they he says. 'Haven't I been disturbed source of Merida's wealth, and with SMALL PAYMENT DOWN 1917? some one or more of our friends or enough this evening? Get out of it, now have. the proceeds, which ran into millions Balance when goods are ready 84.35 pounds. foes fell in death. Day before yesterday Teach your brain to register photographs all of you.' And without troubling to of dollars, he laid pavements which to deliver and found satisfactory. How much of this was for household I rode down in an ambulance of what you want it to retain. shut his door, he went back and sat made walking and driving in the city That is worth something, use with a mere boy whose leg had been down with his book beside the fire, Be enthusiastic about it. Work at it a joyous affair, instead of the unpleasant and besides, we take all of the 61.15 pounds per person. torn by a piece of shell. 'I killed every day while you are doing youi muttering most awful. It gave me necessity which it had been. trouble of putting in claims, What was the total per capita consumption five before they got me,' he said 'five other work. It isn't very hard. Most the biggest shock of the raid."—London etc., if goods are lost or damaged in England and in France —I counted them. I never thought men use about 30 per cent of their Mail. while on the road. Thracians Used "Tanks." in 1916? that I would thank God that I took the available energy when they're working. Are we not entitled to this The modern tank had its precursor, 66.82 pounds in England. lives of five men, but I do thank him business? Concentrate on what you are Not Equal to It. however, in crude, says the Christian 37.83 pounds in France. this very minute.1" doing. Let it soak into you: Absorb They had not been married very Science Monitor. One can read all S.E. THOMPSON & SON What is the individual ration now in it—and always absorb it with the conriction long, but she had grown cold and listless about it in Alexander the Great's exploits. England, France, Italy, and Germany? that it is going to stay absorbed. so one evening, after she had Just to show their dislike of APART FROM REST OF WORLD yawned about seventeen times, he said: Alexander in particular, and of Pan England, 26 pounds a year. There you have my recipe for a "You seem to be so cold and indifferent, Hellenism in general, the Thracians invented France, 13.2 pounds a year. good memory: Determine to remember, Malvina. Have you forgotten those war machines in the shape of People Dwelling in High Valley of the Italy, 13.2 pounds a year. FOOD mL^IN don't worry, and learn how not to happy days when I was paying you loaded wagons and conveyed them to Indus Are Isolated, but Completely Germany, 21 pounds a year. let your office worries and work go to my addresses?" Mount Haemus, so as to command the Satisfied. These rations are not guaranteed. bed with you at night—and, above all "I should think I haven't! I should pass through which Alexander's soldiers They represent the maximum things, get into the open and give nature think I haven't forgotten those happy must march. At the critical moment, In the high valley of the Indus, portion possible if the government a chance. Fresh air and sunshine days. I never had less than three fellows the big, lumbering wagons, loaded WAJR. guarding the entrance to mysterious can get the sugar. have as beneficial an effect on every evening calling on me." with rock, were launched straight Tibet, lies Leh, the capital of an Indian What is the total amount obtainable the memory as they do on the other "But, dear, haven't you got me to on the helpless men below. Alexander, province, writes Niksah in Chicago from our present sources of sugar? parts of your general makeup. pay you attention now?" however, met this onslaught Daily News. Leh is not a haven 6,759,968 short tons. "Yes, I suppose I have. You are doing by ordering his men to lie down, and for tourists. Occasionally a few travelers What are the requirements of the the best you know how but you to interlock their shields above them, ORIGIN OF ALPHABET LOST with a passion for adventure and United States and the Allies? don't flatter yourself that you are so that the vehicles could roll over a a lack of consideration for the comforts 7,945,423 short tons. equal to three, do you?"—Stray Stories. road of shields: By this maneuver, SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS of home, work their way through What is the deficit to be made good? Generally Accepted Theory Is That the we are told, he saved his army from mountain passes and over rivers, on 1,185,455 short tons. Letters First Came Into Use annihilation. What possible amelioration of this caravan ponies and primitive rafts, Among the Egyptians. Commends Sailor's Bravery. condition could we expect? and at last reach Leh. Misunderstood. For gallantry in rescuing from Sugar from Java and the Philippines, Usually the journey is taken for the The alphabet we use is a queer drowning a lad eight years of age Secrotary Santo Domingo—A few evenings ago and larger crops from Cuba pleasure of unconventional travel and thing, when- we come to think of it. our warden, Sweet (who, by the way, Daniels has commended Arthur and the United States. not for the purpose of visiting Leh, for In effect, it is made up of conventional doesn't deserve his name at all), was Otto Radcliffe, a seaman of the United Would it be wise to depend on all wi merely to view the town is hardly igns. dining at a "Fonda" with one of our States navy. Alongside of the United these favorable conditions? worth the hardships of the trip. If Turn this page upside down, and doe-eyed damsels and was looking over States steamship Wadsworth, on which Decidedly not. you are an astronomer, however, you Saint Thomas you cannot read it. It might almost as the the menu when he asked her whether Why can we not get sugar from Java sailor was stationed, lay a tug. A look at the matter differently. The well be printed in Russian characters she would have a little shrimp. She and the Philippines? -mall boy played about the deck with or in Arabic. meterological observatory of Leh is no thought of danger. Suddenly he blushed deeply and answered in subdued Because the journey is so long the most elevated in Asia and your Few subjects have enlisted on the SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA tones: "Oh, Mr. Dulce, you are that it is an extravagant use of fell overboard. Before the warning true lover of the stars will not balk part of language students more speculative Under the and Direction of ArcMrislnp Ireland Control so sudden." Sweet, of course, denies ships. came the child had floated seventy-five at the blinding snow and scorching sun thought than the origin of the Collegiate, Academic, Commercial this but you perhaps don't know him What, then, is required of us? yards or more from the tug and ship. which follow one another in such maddening alphabet. It is today a matter much That we reduce our sugar consumption like we do.—1''Slim Jim," 44th Co., U. Then Radcliffe came into action. Jumping and Preparatory Courses succession in the Himalayas. in dispute. by 15.33 per cent. S. M. C., in the Marines Magazines. into the water, he swam to the boy There are those who aver that on Devout Buddhists find congenial surroundings A COLLEGE COMBINING FINEST CATHOLIC Why is this more than our Home Card and brought him to safety. Radcliffe pebbles almost as ancient as the early in Leh, for the neighborhood TRAINING WITH MILITARY DISCIPLINE asks for? Wasn't Doing It for Fun. enlisted in the navy in 1915, at Des cave dwellers of southern Europe have is filleil with lamasseries, as the monasteries Because the Home Card was issued A London banker was disturbed during Moines, Iowa. been found inscribed characters representing of Tibetan Buddhists are Designated by before the sugar situation was an air raid because a British threeinch the origin of some of our War Department called. Over half the men are priests, known to be so serious. gun, mounted on an automobile as "Honor School" "Germ-Proof Money. alphabetical letters of today. or "red coats," and spend their days —A truck, took up a position directly in distinction To a bank in Spokane, Wash., belongs But the theory most generally accepted in the woAhip of Buddha. Nowhere BEEF ONCE A DAY IN PUBLIC reserved to ten best front of his house. He went out and the distinction of circulating the at the present time is that the else are there so many prayer wheels Military Schools EATING PLACES UNDER asked the officer in charge to move first antiseptic germ-proof national letters of our alphabet originated with endlessly revolving. On these wheels in the United NEW RULE. Lank notes. The United States treasury the gun farther down the street, as the ancient Egyptians. They were, to are manuscripts bearing the inscription, States the racket was too much for his nerves, is still experimenting with devices begin with, "ideographs." "Jewel in the lotus, Amen," written Splendid Biddings, Favorable developments in the beet and go. this reply "Look here, do to laundry dirty bank notes to bright Take "S" for example. In form it many times. As the wheel turns, Grounds, Library and situation have made it possible for you take this for a blooming hurdygurdj crisp ones, but the Spokane bank has represents a snake. The sound of the Equpment the paper unwinds and the prayer is the food administration to ease up the first sanitary money on record. letter is the hissing of a snake. There considered said. Junior and somewhat on the rather complicated Fifty thousand dollars in bills, put out you have it. What more could be demanded Senior The people of this section know little and stringent rule regarding the use by the bank, were signed with an ink visions of the Here's German Efficiency. of a single letter in an alphabet? of outside affairs. They live at an altitude of beef in public eating places and Reserve Officers' raid to consist largely of carbolic acid. German industrial efficiency is sc It is a whole picture. of from 11,000 to 16,000 feet these are now permitted to use beef Training The result is the bills are saturated "Q" is supposed to have been a knot nearly a fetich in the popular mind above sea level, in the highest populated for the mid-day meal every day in the Corps. with an agescy which means death to In a string—the letter being originally that it is a distinct shock to hear it altitude in the world. If they descend Eight hundred week. The mid-day meal hours are the most vigorous germ who'd live a.piece of sinew. "G" was a bow pulled and forty-two challenged by competent authority. as low as 5,000 feet, the unaccustomed set at from 11 o'clock a. m. to 2:30 students regis* there. taut. "C" was the hollowed hand, from "In my young days" said a contractor atmosphere causes illness. tered last year. p. m. which one drank—whence the sound at a recent trade gathering, But they are happy in their isolation, For catalog Householders ave permitted to pur1 address Her Repartee. "we awarded a contract to bridge one of the letter. L" was the crooked and view complacently the monotonous chase no more than 1% pounds of Very Rev. "John, I wish you'd stop snoring." stick used in primitive times as a of the swift western streams to a-firm grandeur of the mountains, which clear beef, or 1V2 pounds including H. Moynihan, D. D. Pres. "What's the matter with you now?*' plow. "N" was a pickax. "V" was an of German engineers. Guess what they cut them off so effectually from the bone per week per person "Nothing, only I'm getting tired of ox yoke. "X" was a crossroads. "T" did! Blamed if they didn't build the rest of the world. these sleepless nights." 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