INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, JUNE 5, 1919 t*AGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS recognition of her just claims Were in many instances obscured by Oliver Erickson, Happyland. The Vacant Charles Draheim, Mizpah. the arrangements made previously between the European members Ben Wheelock, Manitou. of the Alliance, and the old school diplomacy had things so well AND BORDER BUDGET Chair Henry Setterlund, International in hand that one cannot see how it would be ever to satisfv possible Falls. GEO. P. WATSON, Editor Hellas at the expense of the stronger nations who had gotten in T. J. Johnson, Littlefork. Entered at the Post Office at International Falls. Minn., as Second-class Mattel the fight before Greece and who had played by far a more important Louis Tipple, International Falls. Gabrielle Robinson By May J. D. McDonald, Big Falls. role in the settlement of the great armed enterprise for freecorn SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR John Spencer, International Falls. and democracy. (Copyright, 1919, by Western Newspaper Union.) M. Horan, Indus. Americas' intervention, Americas' great sacrifice of blood and J. R. Allen, Littlefork. She was known as Miss Douglas and Diplomacy is one of the chief necessities for a good secretary of treasure, Americas' idealism, more than anything else have helped had lived in the handsome old mansion R- Middendorp, Manitou. a commercial club or any other public body. on the hill for two years, making no Greece to win what is her greatest victory at the peace conference. P. R. Scribner, Northome. acquaintances in the village and keeping George Harrison, .Indus. We Americans of Greek blood have no illusions about the powers very much to herself. It was only Ed. Goring, Greaney. Why not make the Fourth of July cel'ebration to be held in this and ability of a small country to do a big thing. But at the same when her former maid married and Frank Crandall, Northome. city, a welcome home demonstration to all our returned soldiers, went away, and after a new maid had time we know also that all the power of Hellenism, and all its effort J. Lewis, Manitou. been employed, that the town people sailors and marines and issue a special invitation for thelm all to be could not have brought about the present results, had it not been Sherman Buckmaster, Mizpah. gained some knowledge of the inner present in the grand parade and other festivities which may be given for the lofty idealism of President Wilson who took the cudgel Oriville Gowdy, Big Falls. life of the serious-faced, but still in their honor? young and handsome woman who had A. J. Porter. Wildwood. tavor of Hellas, because he saw that what the Hellenic race had become a sort of mystery to them. A. N. Bugner, Birchdale. claimed at the peace table was based on Right alone. Myra Lee was the new maid, and Ray Parmeter, Bannock. Mayor Ole Hanson speaking in Minneapolis last week, amongst President Wilson has studied the history of Greece very well when at the end of a week she was Petit Jurors other true things said: "He simply asserted the authority of the given an afternoon and evening dflL to to know that whenever Hellas held power, she used it for the liberation visit her folks, she had an .animated law, served notice on those inclined to be lawbreakers that the law Lawrence Moss, Wayland. of the oppressed, and the progress of mankind. The Hellenic story to tell. W would be enforced, and appealed to the law abiding sense of the O. L. -Gordon, Big Falls. democracy that built a Parthenon, the Hellenic Empire that fore one "Miss Douglas is Strang Fred Heinemann, International community for backing, and got it." He said "any mayor, if he has said Myra in her artl«9s thousand years held back the barbarous forces of the east, are the Falls. reads all day nearly. "Then. IOTB in backbone can enforce the law and maintain order in any community." best proof of what the Greeks will do when they are strong. Alfred Heritage, Ray. the afternoon it takes two hours to get ready for dinner. It isn!t so much Hellenic nationalism triumphs today after five centuries in the Harry Taylor, Northome. A few of the old time continual and habitual lawbreakers of what she has to eat, which is "always Alex McDonald, International Falls near east. Democracy again is establishing the Greek bulwark choice and plenty, but you ought to see this city and county have been invited to the office of the municipal Martin Hanson, Lundgren. against the dark forces that are advancing from the North to overwhelm how beautifully she dresses for the Thos. Cobey, Clementson. j\idge, smiled at and asked to pay $75.00 and costs, which th«ey all meal. And oh! such a layout of silver the peoples of the Mediterranean. Dr. T. W. Pearson, Ericsburg. and china and cut glass! And th.e cheerfully did and returned to their lawless pursuits feeling that J. O. Halvorson, Norden And Greece once more taking her place of yore in the Levant snowy napery! And she site in the they had performed their full duty to this community. What does Chas. Lucore, Craigville. grandest state, and I have to wait on unities in blessing the name of the great American President and the community think about it? Next week they are going to move Chas. Lovejoy, Birchdale. the table in a special dress. And the the powerful Republic he represents, and gratefully acknowledges four plates set at the table. up the lake till the Grand Jury is through, then they'will return and Henry Deckness, Wayland. its debt of gratitude to the triumphing democracies of Great Britain "Four?" repeated Myra's mother curiously. Simon Paul, Big Falls. continue to defy the law in spite of the presence of the District Court, and France, while extending a friendly hand to the neighboring Italian Gust Ek, International Falls. as they have done twice a year in the past. "Yes, Just that—four places all set people, in whose name the Government of Rome has just accomplished J. A. C. Lindsay, Border. and only one filled. And the first night Harry Anderson, Wildwood. an act of justice for which the shadows of Mazzini and I saw all this she said, 'Myra, you It is too bad that the first regular meeting of the new Commercial Nels J. Nelson, Lundgren. Santa Rosa will be glad. need not remark a fancy I have for Ole Johnson, Rauch. Club of this city ?hould be characterized by such a spitefuL having the table set for three guests. Hellas in the near east aspires at nothing than to become once J. Westlund, Big Falls. It makes me feel less lonesome.'" childish discussion of the foolishly imaginary character of the newspapers Emil Regal, Lundgren. more worthy of her great past and of her best traditions. That is "Why, there must be three especial of this city in view of the generous manner in which thev people Miss Douglass thinks of," Myra's G. A. Oveson, International Falls. the only promise the Hellenic people can give today to the allied l'ave both given such an abundance of space in championing the mother crudely expressed herself. J. Patterson, Ericsburg. democracies of the world, andto mankind in general—Atlantis. "That must be it," nodded Myra things of real interest to this community. The charge that these John Woitel, Rauch. "anyway, it's a regular thing every papers are guilty of "not rising above petty bickerings" is grossly dinner meal. Miss Douglas seems to like it, too, for she is nearly an hour tjnjust. It is true that the PRESS has, for the past six years, been at table." fighting for the freedom of this city and county from the domination All kinds of guesses were rife when as lawless a condition of things along drunken and immoral lines, cf this information got out. Husband, as has ever cursed any community, but this is not petty bickerings. children, parents, brothers and sisters—certainly the impelling motive of It is the duty every healthy blooded newspaper man owes to his the table set for four applied to some community, and we not only have no apoligies to make for the stand individuals who had played an important part in the past life of the lonely the fight we have made in this particula we have taken and long lady in the house on the hill. also expect to keep up until this city and county are rid but we it "Then, very often," went on Myra's pay practically no and area menace of this criminal class, who taxes narration, "Miss Douglas stands at public have been very meetings for the the front window and looks out the to the welfare. There few walk to the street, just as if she was public and vital interest taken good that have not been attended a watching for somebody she expected. paper. also paid our full ir- them by the editor of this We have But that somebody never comes." public ab­ With Myra the program she had depicted share in the coin of the realm for causes. We have been became a matter of regular occurrence sent from the last two meetings of the Commercial Club, not from and lost its unique and mystifying choice, but on account of serious illness in our family, and it grieves flavor. But one evening there should was a deviation from the dull routine. us to think that such a picayunish spirit prevail, that our The table was all set and Myra was necessary absence should be taken as an opportunitv for such uncalled chatting with the watchman who had for vindicatice remarks, at such an assemblage of supposedly just taken up his night patrol of the neighborhood, when an automobile representative men. drove tip in front of the house. Myra ran into the house to see Miss Douglas LAND CRAZY at the door welcoming with unfeigned Mills and Lumber \ards of the International Lumber Co., delight two dignified-looking men. vr began its season's operations A whom she called in turn Leonard and st Monday, making glad the heart and assuring a full pocket book to hundreds here Don't get discouraged because of the present low price of Koochiching Marcus, and whom Myra soon understood BAD SUFFERED TWENTY. **-FLVI were brothers who had not visited county lands, in a very few years this countv will be enjoying her for many years. And Myra COMING a similar appreciation of its land values that is now being lac is going to clear my system of also learned through her keen vision enjoyed by Lyon county described in the following clipping from IKE LONG YEARS Six in Minneapolis and sharp hearing that one was a altogether. I have been told that Arrr.y Avisf rs Are Due judge and the other a prominent physician the' Rock Rapid Review: Friday. r:ght knee would never be anv belter, in a distant city. Indianapolis, Juris 4. Lieutenant Everybody in Lyon county is either buying or selling or taking but I can ben it some already, Colonel Elaarget and his circus of five "How I have longed for this visit!" and the pain is entirely gone. I land these days, and many of them are doing all three. Some folks Myra heard Miss Douglas say, when 6""c: fiiers traveling through the air from Mrs. Ciarkson Had Rheumatism SoU"" ~T T" c, ^ave al5° been relieved ot constipa- Dallas, Texas, to Boston, Mass., on the dinner had begun. are unkind enough to say the community has gone land crazy. To be Night tion, my appetite is fine, and I am recruiting duty, left here for MinnePain. a Often Cried All In "And always prepared for us," spoke sure, the situation is an interesting one. Fortunes are made over feeling better in every respect than apolis, v%"here they will make a short Gains 30 Pounds the judge, as he glanced over the perfection night in this way that a man goes to sleep with a S300-an-acre of table service. Then he rested I have in many years. So I don stop" The fiiers arriTed here last Thursday and stayed over for the automobile piece of land in his possession and wakes up to find it worth S400. his gaze upon the one vacant chair. "My 'gain of thirty pounds pounds in' feel that 1 could say enough in pra races. "Adele," he said with gravity, "it is ot Tanlac. Within a few weeks land changes hands several times, each time It certainly is grand med- weight during the past in Minneapolis few weeks They are due to arrive on his account that we have come." icine." at a jump of from $25 to $50 an acre. One man who thought he next Friday. just speaks volumes for Tanlac," said "His" palpably referred to the person Tanlac is sold by X. S. Rubin, in Mrs. Catherine Ciarkson, residing at who might have appropriately could buy a nearby farm for S2/5 an acre, had made- up his mind to International Falls, by M. E. Dimon filled that vacant place at the table. 2440 College St.. Kansas City, Mo. recently. sell out at SoOO, and when he discovered the price of the neighboring DOGS AND HENS ARE WISER in Littlefork and all the leading druggists Peering from the next room, Myra noticed farm was "So/5 took it up and then marked his own land to $400 and that Miss Douglas began to. pale in every town. "There has been such a pronouncea Physician Arraigns the Modern Practice and tremble. She lowered her eyes sold it. Two men bought a farm not far from Rock Rapids for $275 change in my condition" she continued," of Treating Influenza and her breath became rapid and and within a week sold it for $340, a clear gain of $65 in seven days. COPS THIEF STEALS that my friends readily notice tremulous. Patients. These are mere instances. Lands are changing hands so persistently it and speak of it. Of course, I "He came to us in the city—after all Takes Loaded Revolver From One New Orleans, La.—"When a dog these years," subjoined the other it is hard to keep up with the movements of the speculators. think my increase in weight is wonderful Policeman and Shoes From gets sick, what's the first thing he brother. "He is, I believe, a changed and I am proud of it, but the Another. does? He sticks his nose between his man, Adele. In fact there is every evidence benefit I appreciate most is my reli .\ LAUDER, MAN AND KNIGHT hind legs. What does he do it for: that he has suffered and has reformed. from suffering. I have been a victim Philadelphia.—To steal a policeman's So that he can breathe the warm air. But there is his long desertion, shoes and then swipe another of rhematism for twenty-nine ye When a chicken gets sick, the first his terrible career of dissipation." "cop's" loaded revolver js what Sam­ It is Sir Harry Lauder now. W hy has this comedian been and only those afflicted the same ty thing it does is to tuck its head under "But if that is ended, and you are uel Smith put over in Lilanerch, a its wing—so that it can breathe the made a nobleman by his sovereign? Not because he has maie more can know the agony I suffered. Dining sure—sure!" cried Miss Douglas, in a suburb of this city. warm air. Physicians who advocate tone as poignant as though her heart damp weather and just before a people laugh than perhaps any other person now living. Not solely Smith broke into the home of Samuel the cold-air treatment for the 'flu' had been suddenly pierced by a keenpointed rain sharp pains would shoot all Love, a policeman, at Lilanerch because of the prodigious success of his recruiting activities 'n have less sense than either dogs or knife, "if he has cast aside through my body, but it was in my while Love and his family were sleeping, chickens." the cruel, cruel drink, then, then—" Britain or because he warmed the cockles of the hearts of so many pocketed Love's revolver and knees I suffered most. My right knee Such is the opinion rendered by X)r. her head dropped and the tears rained soldiers when he went forth as "a minstrel in France." Nor even quietly evacuated the premises. especially, has been so swollen, -tiff from her eyes. Cooper Holtzelaw of Chattanooga, A short time later Roy Jenkins, another because of the enormous sum he has raised to comfort maimed and painful during the past two years formerly president of the Association There was a ring at the front door policeman of the village, espied of Surgeons of the Southern Railway. and Myra hastened thither. There heroes in the unspectacular days to come. Harry Lauder has bejn that I could not bend it. I had to a man acting suspiciously. The man He said it before the hundreds of surgeons stood her friend the watchman. He made a nobleman because he is a nobleman. have a steel brace made to fit this was carrying a pair of perfectly good held a stranger by the arm. who attended the twenty-third knee so I could walk around. The ligaments shoes in his hand and keeping in the The war has reborn many men. The Harry Lauder of today annual meeting of the association, "Will you tell Miss Douglas to step and leaders were drawn until shadows. Jenkins arrested him. The held in this city. is a different man from the Harry Lauder of yesterday. The truth here for a moment?" directed the of I my knees was out shape, a"d shoes belonged to the patrolman. He was arraigning the modern practice watchman, and then, as the wondering is that Harry was unconscionably close-fisted before the war. He have cried all night long mar.v a of treating influenza patients in lady appeared: "Miss Douglas, I found Tab for Artificial Dog. had this Scottish trait it would be almost accurate to say that this I the open air. He insisted that the night with pain. have often th:» Tht this man prowling about the garden, Wheeling, W. Va.—Squire A. A. Minder best treatment for influenza is to keep trait had him to an extent rare even among members of his race. acting in a suspicious way. What my rheumatism was caused by constipation," has decided that the law in Wheeling the patient under such conditions of shall I do with him?" I as have always been troubled The death of his only son early in the war served to prove the does not discriminate between natural care and freedom from exposure as As he spoke he drew his shrinking more or less in this way, having to and artificial dogs and James Selers, character and the caliber of this famous Scot. He does not live for were wont to obtain when our mothers captive within the full radiance of the I take something constantly. also a music dealer, was ordered to of the old school used to treat the self. He lives for others. Great as he is as an artist, he is greater light streaming from the hallway. purchase a tab and place it on the lost weight and my general health be measles. Miss Douglas uttered one sharp gasp. as a man. "Lang may your lum reek," Sir Harry—Forbes Bagazine. neck of an artificial dog that he has I came very bad, and while just tried Then, with gentle dignity she stood standing in the window. everything nothing gave me any relief. aside for the stranger to enter. THE NEW GREECE "He belongs here," she said clearly, Didn't Stop Bullet. JURORS DRAWN steadily, "he is my husband, and. this Sharon, Pa.—Neither the New Testament "One day I read a statement made is his home." nor his mother's picture warded by a lady living on Prospect Afenue, At the time when the fondest hopes of the Greek nation are She closed the door upon the marveling The following are the jurors drawn off the German bullet that pierced telling how Tanlac had relieved Tier watchman. She faced the realized, the thanks and the gratitude of the entire Hellenic people the heart of Private Alexander Patterson. to serve at the term of the district of rheumatism, so I began taking: the stranger. Her hands went out and Among the personal effects received court which will convene here on go to that great American citizen who first put the ban on secret medicine myself. I am just now or clasped his own, her eyes fixed wistfully, by the family are a copy of the June 10th: treaties and the rcognition of the rights of the small nations on the longingly upon his face. That my fifth bottle and^ considering the New Testament given by the Y. M. C. victorious banners of the Great Alliance. Grand Jurors glance seemed to reassure her. A. overseas, a photograph of bis mother length of time I have suffered, th^results When Myra Lee again looked into and a fountain pen, all damased Without President Wilson the chances of Greece is have been remarkable. The Oscar Ness, Big Falls. the dining room it held four persons— winning by one bullet. rheumatic pains have disappeared al- Erick Enquist, GemmelL vacant chair was filled at last! tfee *4,"