V. .. ^i^snpp yrjz^r-' ,7 -t^'S T^7r^fr' 55tw^/ v* i* INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE THREE RECORD BELONGS TO SIRIUS THE STUBEE KEROSENE FOR SCALY LEGS The Wishing Small Vessel Was the First to Cross ei the Atlantic Wholly Under Its In 8hort Time After Dipping Scales Well Own Steam. Will Peel Off—Avoid Wetting Sash and Door Factory the Feathers. anniversary This spring marks the eightieth an of important event in Here is a simple remedy for scaly By EDNA RUTHERFORD modern history—the voyage from Cork legs in fowls as a rule, one application IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS to New York of the Sirlus, the first a is sufficient: Take small, deep (Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.) vessel to cross the Atlantic wholly under can and fill it with kerosene. Dip the Its own steam. All that remains feet and legs in it up to the feathers, "And John Gilbert?" of that stanch little craft is a number We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of but do not wet the feathers, and hold "Dead for over eight years." of brass paper-weights made from the them in it a second or two, but not "And his family?" MILLWORK metal work after it was wrecked in a longer. In short time the scales will "All gone but little Viola. I call her Ballycotton bay in 1847. Captain Roberts, peel off and the legs will be in as good little because I've known her since she commander of the 412-ton Sirius arid you will make no mistake by getting COMFORTABLE COOP FOR HEN condition as though they had never was a baby. She's eighteen now, but on its maiden trip, was later transferred their prices before ordering elsewhere been scaly. as pretty, childish and innocent as to the President, which went ever. She's happy, for a regular fairy Need Not Be Expensive, but Should down with all oft board. Thus both PRODUCTIVE FLOCK OF HENS child is Viola. When she isn't laughing a Be Dry and Roomy—Fresh Air the Sirius and her master met with or singing she's dreaming." Building and Contracting & Specialty Is Essential. tragic end. The well-dressed, handsome-faced The Sirius made the voyage from ~owls Whose Best Laying Days Are All Work Guaranteed Department questioner looked grave and disappointed. (Prepared by the United States Cork in 19 days, reaching New York Over and Poorly Developed Chickens of Agriculture.) David Willis stood studying only a few hours before the Great Ia in Should Be Sold. order to be more successful him critically, a queer twinkle in his LARS STUBEE, Prop. Western, another steamship which raising chickens the poultrymen should eye. had sailed from Bristol. The latter (Prepared by the United States Department provide a house which meets certain "I make you out now," he spoke of Agriculture.) made the best time, crossing the requirements. It need not be an expensive 2nd Ave. and 6th St. Phone 50 abruptly. If efforts were made to dispose of all ocean in 15 days. The Sirius had a it structure but is essential hens when their best laying days were "What do you mean?" inquired the passenger list of seven on its initial that the hens have a comfortable over, a large quantity of poultry meat stranger. voyage, the youngest of whom was is house which dry, roomy, and would he placed on the market. All "Why, just this—you are Earl Rivers." Vincent E. Ransome, then four years abundantly supplied with fresh air developed chickens should be Doorly old, who was reported living a few and sunlight. It never pays to overcrowd culb out and sold meat, also. This The other started quickly. He for years ago in Wiltshire, England, the fowls. would allow the poultry keeper to flushed a trifle, then he smiled upon where he was long the rector of a No particular style of house is peculiarly The Provision Store rnaKe the best use of his grain by feeding his challenger and extended his hand. parish church. adapted to any section of this it to younger and more productive "I hope you are glad to see me," he The Sirius was a schooner-rigged country. A house which gives satisfaction towls. said. ship and was 178 feet over all, with in Maine will also give good "Always that, and many a time since a beam of 25 feet and a depth of 18 results in Texas or California, but it "P) you went away have I thought of you. feet. I don't forget my best friends. You're To Warm Room Evenly. not the man to be forgotten by a fellow Electricity on the Farm. on account of confusion in receiving merchandise the Company The temperature of a heated room whose life you saved. Remember It is apparent from the fact that Is several degrees warmer at the ceiling Store will hereafter he known as The Provision Store. that stormy night when you found me 200,000 horse power in electric motors than at the floor. To equalize the face down in a water puddle, just is now actually being used on the Remember we are Sole Agents for Chase Sanboun's celebrat­ temperature, it is necessary for the about all gone? Well, that was my farm that the phrase "Electricity on air to be in circulation. This may be lesson. I haven't touched a drop ed coffees and teas and the "Home Brand' goods of all kinds. the Farm" does not constitute an idle accomplished with an electric fan, but since." dream any longer, remarks the General We sell the best of goods at lowest prices. to prevent any unnecessary draughts, "Good for you, Willis!" cried Earl Electric Review. Although 160,000 the blast from the fan should be confined. Rivers in a friendly, inspiring way. "I horse power of this is used for irrigation As the air must be driven from suppose I have changed a good deal in and reclamation purposes (a peculiarity the floor to the ceiling, place the fan ten years, for you are the only one of semiarid sections), the The Provision Store in one corner of the room in such a who has recognized me. By the way, remainder, or 40,000 horse power, is position that it will drive the air upwards. having done so, suppose you keep it to actually being used for miscellaneous To keep the air confined, make yourself who I am for a little while." farm purposes, such as driving the a cardboard tube about six inches in "Surely, if that is your wish," cream separator, butter churn, and so diameter to carry the air up and across promptly assented Willis. on. The only thing that we are not the ceiling to the opposite corner of Nobody in particular in Leesville doing with electricity on any scale is the room. This will take the cold air had paid any especial attention to the plowing and cultivating, and this now from the floor and force it out at the stranger who had come quietly into bids fair to be a commercial reality in JUST IN—A Full Line of ceiling level. Naturally the air currents town, registering as Walter Brown at the very near future.—Scientific American. are forced from a lower to a the village hotel. S»«* Willis alone through eyes of keen higher level, thus equalizing the temperature.—Popular RAUDENBUSH PIANOS memory and gratitude had recognized Science Monthly# »•. v* TO SAVE TORPEDOED SHIPS PATHE PHONOGRAPHS him as one who had left the town nearly a decade previous. He recalled Hard on Medical Units. SINGER SEWING MACHINES Chickens Do Better When Made Comfortable the mere lad who had been in a Well-Constructed Tennessee Man Invents Clever Device brought into the village In a farmer "With the American army in France, SOLD FOR CASH OR ON EASY TERMS House. He Thinks Will Do the wagon, picked up on the town pike July 2.—The American medical units Work. where an automobile had run him Why pay the high prices for shoes when you can get the best is preferable to build more open, and In the mountainous battle front sectors down. The motor fiend had driven of Alsace are faced with great consequently less expensive, houses in Wear-U-Well Shoe made for $3.98 Better make us a visit Chattanooga, Tenn. C. Stewart on heartlessly, abandoning his victim difficulties in evacuating wounded the South than in the North. The best Henslee has invented a device and JOHN M. GISH, Jeweler, 430 Third St. to his fate. from some points high on the steep site for the poultry house depends principally offered it to the navy department to "I have never forgotten the kindness, ridges traversed by American trenches. on the local conditions. The save torpedoed ships by instant application the care, the interest betokened Many of our field dressing stotions location should have good water and of a plate to the hole caused by by the true souls who nursed me back in the front line, are only ac?epsib1e air drainage, so that the floor and the entrance of a shell. The device, to health—I, homeless, friendless, penniless, hv winding roads and moun»ain yards will be dry, while the housti which has been demonstrated before who put me on my feet again, prifhs Even under best conditions should not occupy a low pocket or hoilow a number of government officials and found me work and gave me a heaven of the road':, ambulances are unable in which cold air settles, and it congressmen, consists of a number of of a life for two years/' said Earl. to cljmb within a mile or two of theia- should be situated for convenience in cone-shaped buckets of rubberized canvas "When I left here I made a solemn management and adapted to the avail' attached by a chain. At the end vow that if ever I got on in the world. able land. Wherever possible a south* President Saves Deserter. of a series of these buckets is a closing I would return and make my home Finest Horses in Land Coming era or southeastern exposure should Washington, July 23.—President disk of steel plates. When the among these God's people. I'm going be selected, although this is not essential Wilson has commuted to life imprisonment hull of a vessel Is pierced the crew to do better than that, Willis. I am if there is any good reason for facing the death sentence imposed by lowers the chain of cones, which are going to bestow some signal reward, the house in a different direction. military court-martial upon Private drawn by suction of the water into for I have made a fortune. Foreign Buyers Are Expected Albert E. Beauregard of Company H. Poultry can be raised successfully on the hole and pull after them the closing There were half a dozen people who any well-drained soil. A light loaia 16th infantry, American expeditionary disk, is which brought up against had been kind to the orphan stranger forces, who was charged with deserting which will grow good grass is well the bole and remains in place by pressure in those old days. Of these some had adapted for this purpose, while a very in the face of the enemy. of the water outside. died, others had moved away. Rivers lisht sandy soil through which the water grew more and more sorrowful, as he leaches freely will stand more intensive realized that the generosity he had poultry conditions, but most of come back to bestow would reach only the green feed for the fowls kept on an old war veteran in another country such a soil will have to be purchased. and the daughter of John Gilbert. A heavy clay or adobe soil is not as "You won't recognize Viola, the little well adapted to poultry raising, as child you knew years ago," spoke such land does not drain reau:ly, and Willis. "She has had to earn her living It is much more difficult to keep the working at a farmhouse for over stock healthy. Long stationary houses, three years, but she is patient willing or the intensive system, saves steps, and contented. You see, my daughter but it is easier to keep the birds healthy Nellie is a good deal like her. They and to reproduce the stock under the don't care for company and excitement. colony system, where the birds are allowed When they have leisure they free range. Breeding stock, and read poetry, and all that together. This especially growing chickens, she aid is Friday, isn't it? I say, Mr. Rivers, have an abundance of rangs, while if you want to see Viola just as she Is, hens used solely for the production of come down to my house about dark market eggs may be kept on a very and I'll show you what she is like. She small area with good results. The colony and Nellie always have Friday evenings house system necessitates placing to themselves." the houses, holding about 100 hens, It was a lovely night, and with a certain from 200 to 250 feet apart, so that the spice of mysteriousness as Rivers stock will not kill the grass. The colony appeared at his home, Willis led him system may be adapted to severe through a garden maze and across the CLEVELAND wivter conditions by drawing the colony lot of an abandoned mansion, gone to Get away from the heat and dust of land. Make a houses together in a convenient wreck and ruin. place at the beginning of winter, thus vacation of your trip East Substitute for the CFamped "Don't talk," whispered Willis, "we reducing the labor during these months. monotony of rail travel, the comforts and ease of a are getting near the Wishing well." cruise. Be free to pace long promenade decks—to "The Wishing well?" repeated Rivers HOW TO BREAK BROODY FOWL nap, to read, to rest in comfortable cabins—to sleep vaguely. In spacious staterooms, in wide berths. Eat meals that "Yes, they call it that, the fancy of Confine Hen in Small Coop With Slat are famcus throughout Lake Districts for their ex­ the a lot of sentimental girls and boys. Bottom and Give Her Plenty of cellence. Exercise, dance^ be happy—enjoy the companionship The moon Is coming up. Keep well Water to Drink. of congenial shipmates. Let the tonic of among the foliage. There, that is Viola, lake air restore your hcakh—arrive at the end of your the one with her chin leaning on When hens become broody and it is journey "fit" her hand." not desired to allow them to hatch fivers peered towards a dismantled Three Ships Weekly chickens, they should be "broken up" rustic bench near a moss overgrown as quickly as possible. The sooner this well top. The face of the maiden designated, is done the «ooner they will resume Dulutti—Ft. William—Ft. Arthur thoughtful and lovely, was irradiated laying. To break a hen of broodiness 8oo—Sarnie—Detroit by the clear white moonlight. she should be confined to a small coop, to tries have been compelled draft Such a serious shortage of heavy Its rare charm fascinated the gazer. The three big modern liners, S. S. Ncronic, S. S. with a slat bottom. Give preferably all the available horses to help •work horses exists everywhere in "We will come here some time, Viola, Hamonic, S. S. Hurcnic, sail tri-weekly over the her plenty of water to drink she may save their lands from complete destruction. in the world, because of just at midnight, and call down Northern Navigation Route. be fed or not, as desired. Not much the heavy inroads of war our dearest wish," Nellie Willis was difference will be found in the time You may big your ticket ever any railroad with the Northern upon the industry, tbat Industry Destroyed. saying. "Oh! what won't I ask for— Navigation V/ater-link it. required to break her of broodiness American breeders of a pianO, an automobile, a diamond sun In Belgium, the home of the Belgian whether she is fed or made to fast. Special boat trains between Winnipeg and Port Arthur-Sanaa dralt ^orses have a wonderful opportunity horse, the horse business lias hurst. And what will you. wish for Usually three to six days of confinement r* ^E:1 connections eai and west at Duhith, to dominate the business been wiped out completely. All of Viola?" Port Arthur, the Soo, Sarnia Detroit. and will do the work, but some hens in the future/ It is for this these noted horses have been Just ordinary peace and happiness." reason require ten to twelve days. Tlie broody DulutH to Detroit Cruise that so much emphasis is being pressed into military service by ihe responded the other in a mellow, longing hen will be recognized by her inclination given the draft horse show at the Germans, or shipped back to Germany. tone, "someone to love and cherish. —without an equal as a vacation voyage. Everything included to stay on the nest at niglit, the Minnesota State Fair, September 2 The Percheron horse industry A good kind husband,, and oh, Nellie! mec^s, bert.i, p-.cmc at Kakabeka Falls, dances, afternoon, ruffling of her_ feathers and her 'desire teas, etc. in France will not recover to 7. v: how my heart longs -for it—a real to pick anyone who approaches for years, and it will be necessary The horse industry ..in the noted home!" Special Sumner P.ctss to all points East. her, and by the clucking noise she for France to import Percheron horse producing countries of Eu-_ It was not till sis. mon,ths later, after IIrite for Cruise Booklet to H. Hurdon, Western Arent, Diiluth makes. Mtnn. horses from other countries to rope is demoralized. In many instances he had won and wed this peerless build up the local business. Great so many horses have been eroature, that Earl Rivers told her ho\\ 'Northern Navigation Company I-lsbil3 of Turkeys. Britain, the home of the Clydesdale, pressed into military service that had overheard her wish. '•••Young turkeys usually remain wJt* Shire, and Suffolk horses, has been nearly all the farm work must be "And, oh the fairies have more than Samia, Ontario by, tfie inomer hen until about Octiber.- drained dry of its surplus stock done by manual labor. Invading answered it!" breathed Viola fervently, It our golden sir November, when' the males ordinaiv. military necessity. is armies have requisitioned- all the Information Ask Your Local Ticket Agent or any American and nestled For her happy face close to his iiy separate from the^ females, Express Company Department Office opportunity.—Copyrighted. TrraOel Jiorses found, while invaded couit**, own. \4 lyiSii range by themsti.cs. SB .*,'• 4 it 'hsk jX/