INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS BROUGHT MEMORIES OF HOME NEW OCCUPATION FOR GOAT CLIMB THAT REQUIRED NERVE was so much better. *We all know that ropes. These fanatics claim to be BOTH CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN Albert Bigelow Paine, working on Christians, but their practices have Mark Twain's "Life," found it necessary How Visitor to London Zoological Gardens and Nanny May Billy Be Profitably English Workman Went 450 Feet In been condemned by the church, and to discard much of the autobiographic Held Converse With Lonely Employed in Clearing Away the Make Rites of Mexican Festival Constitute Air to Repairs to Marconi like the Matachines can be traced back material Mark Twain had written. Tibetan Yak. Impeding Underbrush. One of the Strangest Mixtures Wireless Mast. to Aztec times. Investigation, talks with men Known to History. The shaggy old Tibetan yak at the still living who knew the facts, simply The monkey cotton picker was never The Morning Post of London gives NEWSPAPER HAD SHORT LIFE proved that the tales were not so. "zoo" died some while ago and a new an entire success. The monkey could Probably the strangest mixture of the description of a climb performed And Mark Twain was no liar. He had yak occupied his shed and Inclosure. pick tlje cotton, but it cost more to {gx the ancient and the modern, and of by a workman in the employ of the a glorious, almost superhuman, imagination. Yesterday a visitor stood watching provide human direction to guide his Christian and pagan rites, which can "Publick Occurrences" In 1690, Got Marconi company at their works in As he approached threescore the yak munching at a truss of hay in efforts than the negro cotton pickers be seen in the world today, is the annual Chelmsford. A short time ago the Out One Issue, and Then the Authorities and ten he said, as quoted in the his manger. He called the yak and it asked for the whole job, picking, direct-' Mexican festival of the "Matachlnes." Suppressed It. highest part of a wireless mast 450 "Life," "When I was younger I could took no notice. Then, having read ing and all. But the Angora goat as a feet high, higher than the cross on remember anything, whether it happened Hooker's "Himalayan Journals," he remembered clearer of land requires no direction. No white man can tell exactly what America's first newspaper, the Boston the top of St. Paul's, was broken by a or not but I am getting old, the calls of the Tibetan .lust string a few strands of barbed1 is the significance of this festival, News-Letter, first published In gale. How was It to be repaired? and soon I shall remember only the maidens when they bring the yaks wire around the land to be cleared so which is celebrated in all parts of 1704, op exhibition at the Massachusetts Ladders were out of the question. But home at sunset. facts."—William W. Ellsworth, "A that Mr. and Mrs. Goat and the kids the Mexican republic every spring. Historical society, marked the the difficulties did not daunt one of Golden Age of Authors." The visitor uttered the call. The yak shall uot clear the land that is not ta Those who take part in it are typical beginning of continuous Journalism in the workmen, who noticed that the dropped a mouthful of hay, gave a he cleared and they will do the job Mexicans of Indian and Spanish the British colonies. Until 1704 the mast was made of quarter-sections deep grunt, and came shambling to without even a casual suggestion from blood, with some purebred Indians nearest approach to a newspaper in bolted together and then fitted one on the bars of Its stable. The visitor patted the land owenr. among them. The dances are much top of the other. He asked, and was the everyday life of the colonies was and fondled it. and grunted yak The success which has attended th like the war and harvest dances of the the manuscript "news-letter," which given permission, to try the climb. He language and it licked his hand, and Insect Life In Winter. Apaches, Comanches and other southwestern raising of Angora goats in the rugged was usually addressed by the writer made himself a belt, at the two ends when he left the yak house it ran out In the dead wood of the old snags Indians, except that many of Ozark country of southwestern Missouri to a governor or a leading clergyman, of which were rings that would slip of its shed and followed him around are many insects that live through the has suggested to specialists of the •the dancers flourish swords, and wear and was presumably shown around over the ends of the bolts. Thus its large barred inclosure. winter regardless of how cold it gets department of agriculture that it might' by way of decoration, the tin tops of and the "news" further circulated by equipped he started to mount on high, He returned later and found the yak creatures whose weak bodies seem to he equally profitable to place such beer bottles. the bolts being his only means of word of mouth. still restless. It had deserted its meal defy the frigid temperature. Pull off herds on many other wild tracts, particularly The dancing is kept up for two or An earlier effort than that of the support. On the first day he swarmed It paced the inclosure and made plaintive a bit of old bark from a snag and note those which have been cut three days, and the ceremony ends Boston News-Letter to publish a newspaper up 200 feet, fitted the tackle, and noises. The visitor gave the Tibetan that there is life beneath it little people over, because these goats are proving with a dance about a great wooden in the colonies is on record in descended to earth, for it was too cold girl's call again, and again the yak that try to scurry for cover when of great help in clearing away undent cross which is set on a high hill near the attempt to publish Publick Occurrences, to proceed farther. On the second day ran to him. "Good heavens!" cried a their home is wrecked. They are not brush. Growing mohair and producing the town. This would seem to show he was hoisted up the 200 feet, and in 1690. The introductory stranger, "how do you tame 'zoo' animals so agile as when the weather is warm, kids, the Angoras in the Ozarks are a Christian influence, and it probably then, hand over hand by means of his paragraph announced that "it is designed like that?" He was told the secret. but they are not in a state of torpor. also trimming down the brush, manuring does, but the cross Is known to have rings and bolts, he got to the top of that the countrey shall be furnished The fish do not hibernate during the the hills and preparing the way been sacred to hncient Aztecs. Indeed, the mast, where he effected the necessary once a month (or if any Glut "Poor old yak, poor old fellow," said winter. Some species find homes in for grass, cattle and sheep. this whole ceremony is undoubtedly repairs. The last 250 feet of of Occurrences happen, oftener) with the stranger. "How can we guess what holes or beneath rocks and roots and one of Aztec origin, with Christian According to reports secured by a climbing was done in an hour. The an Account of such considerable things chords you have touched—vhat memories get along very wTell without food during representative of the state college of elements added. man's name was Post. as have arrived unto our Notice." The of snow and ice, and praying the cold weather, but they are not This bewildering mixture of pagan agriculture in Missouri, the Angoras "legislative authorities" of the time, wheels and idols, of Tibetan girls with torpid like the bears and groundhogs required to clear an acre of land and Chi'istian religion is seen throughout however, found some "reflections of a turquoise ornaments in their braided Mark Twain's Imagination. that hibernate. Most of the fish swim the Southwest. The "Penitentes varies from two to five, depending on very high nature" in its columns, and hair? Look how troubled the old yak Mark Twain had such a vivid imagination, about in the cold water and gather a the density and size of the brush. Hermanos" of Mexico and New Mexico the Publick Occurrences made no second is—It isn't fair to give home-sickness such a brain for embroidery, living in winter just as they do in are another example. On every appearance. to prisoners at the zoo J"—London that it was a difficult task for him to summer, but none of them require so Good Friday they whip themselves until SOUL'S ORDEAL AFTER DEATH Daily Mail. tell a straight story just as it hap—he much foocj when the water is cold. the blood comes, as a penance, and could make UD one that ucimsm erneifv one of their number with EXPLAINS ACTION OF NODDING Old Volume, Known as "Judgment of the Dead," Is a Fancy of the Ar.cient Egyptians. Indication of "Yes" and "No" a Trait Common in Humans and the "Book of the Dead" is a very old Lower Animals. book, known in Ancient Egypt as the "Judgment of the Dead," and it contains Before a child learns to say "yes" the funeral ritual of the Egyptians, or "no," he instinctively nods his head describing in mystical language —a haughty, condescending up-anddown—to the experiences of the soul after death show that he approves, or and the text it must quote to escape a vigorous shaking from side to side the torments and trials of the lower when the imperious will has been world. In one chapter, the longest in 'crossed. Later on, as he seems the book, .is a picture showing the to show a preference for this way of judgment which the defunct, before entering expressing himself, it is often necessary into the fields of the blessed,, to remind him that he can speak. will undergo in the lower world, in the' Many of us may sympathize with presence of Osiris and 42 judges of the man who said to Darwin, "Your monstrous form, who are on hand to ancestors may have been apes," but it devour the guilty and drink his blood cannot be denied that we have many £nuhis, the god of the dead, an things in common with the other Thoth, the god of wisdom, examir species. the deceased by weighing his heart Watch a young animal ready to receive the "sacred" balances of Justice. T^ food. With eager eyes and famous "negative confession" enunr* :AT mouth open it makes quick, forward ates 42 caiptal sins from which the movements of the head. When the ceased must be free. Should he fail' food is not acceptable a tightly Littlefork Town Hall pass the ordeal, he is either hand clenched jaw and sideward motion of over to be devoured by the monst the head serve to keep the mother animal part hippopotamus, part crocodile ai[ from forcing food upon it. part lion, which represents the Egyj So after all these centuries man's tian Cerebus, or is thrown into tlf mouth is still relaxed when he nods fiery lake. "yes," but there is a strong tendency to clench his teeth and even close his Ten o'Clock Sharp Queer Wedding Presents. eyes when he shakes "no."—Exchange. The following are a few of the man SATURDAY, AUG. 7, '20 curious wedding presents that havt Blacksliding Organ. been received by those about to entei An appeal now being made on behalf the bonds of matrimony. of a poor country church for a new A well-known author received on organ has been re-enforced by a coincidence—the his marriage, from a rival man of let# old organ happened to ters, a scrapbook containing a collection cipher, or produce of its own accord, of all the adverse criticisms his a long-drawn, wailing sound just as works had ever received while a the words were being read from )b, popular artist was on similar occasion. "They rejoice at the sound of the presented with a set of elementary' organ." This has been interpreted as works upon self-Instruction in drawing a good omen, and it reminds a correspondent and painting. of what happened in the Sussex Unusually vexatious was the gift received village of Jevington. A new organ from his neighbors by an Infirm was bought of the kind which could octogenarian who had married a be played by turning a handle. The List of Articles and Property for Sale pleasure-loving woman more than fifty church was crowded to hear its opening years his junior. It took the form of recital. All went well till the end a large brass cage, "Intended"—so ran of the first psalm the singing then the accompanying note—"to restrain ceased, but the organ went on playing. the wayward flight of a giddy young It seemed that the man in charge had 5 Milk Cows, 2 Yearling Heifers, 4 wife who had married a decrepit old failed to discover how to put on the fool for his money." brake. From the psalm tune the organ went on to give a lively secular catch Spring Steers, 1 Spring Heifer, 1 Good called "Drops of Brandy," and then Timid Old Soul. started on a merry air entitled "Go to My aunt was a timid old soul and the Devil and Shake Yourself."—London was quite afraid of holdups. For safe' Stock yearling Bull, 7 Six Weeks Old Morning Post. keeping she always put her money in her stocking. Qne day when she was going to do some Christmas shopping How "Wallop" Originated. Pigs, 2 Pure Bred Rhode Island Red she thought she would play a joke on An incident of interest in English the holdups. She put the money in her and French history occurred In the pocket and carried her purse. In the year 1514. The French fleet ravaged purse she put newspaper crumpled up. Roosters, 25 Barred Plymouth Rock the coast of Sussex and burned She kept her hand in the pocket that Brighthelstone, now Brighton, whereupon had the purse and walked along merrily. Sir John Wallow, one of the best But to her surprise when she commanders of his time, was Hens, 6 Indian Runner Ducks, 1 naval had purchased her needs she reached sent by Henry VIII to make reprisals. for the money, but it was missing. In this he succeeded only too well he Then, forgetting, she reached for her4 burned 21 French villages, demolished Cream Separator, Cooking Utensils, pocketbook and pulled out the paper several harbors, and thrashed the enemy She had to give back all the articles to his heart's content. His men, and walk home empty-handed.—Chicago however, proud of his achievement, declared Tools and many other articles too Tribune. that they had walloped the French. Thus there came into the English language as a synonym for As to Brevity. numerous to mention. Of course brevity can be carried too thrash the new word wallop. far, may be awkward and inarticulate and incomplete. We may be brief and After Many Trials. tedious at the same time. Some one Cash Under $10 Bankable Paper Above $10 "He took my ball," said a youngster brought Voltaire, the master of brevity, when reproved for fighting with an epigram in two lines. "Ah I" said another boy. Voltaire. "Very good, but it drags in "Did you try to get it from him spots." The old comic dramatist said peaceably?" of a dull oaf: "The laconic ass makes ••Yes'm." brevity ridiculous." We do not want "How many times did you try?" to make brevity ridiculous or let it "I tried once, twice, thrice and make us so. force, and I didn't get it until the last Nevertheless, we should all do well time."—Boston Transcript to cultivate and practice brevity, and we may be sure that we should much more listened to if we spoke less. Hoary Jest. —Youth's Companion. "After the lapse of centuries Shakespeare's humor is still fancy. Owner "Well?" Incredulous Lady. "That's the real test of real humor, "Why do you sit at a ouija board is it not?" when you might be enjoying interesting "I don't know about that. People conversation? You can't believe OSCAR DOUGLAS, Auctioneer G. J. VANDERWALK, Clerk still laugh at the mother-in-law Joke a thing the toy says." at the vaudeville shows and it dates "Well," replied Miss Cayenne, "I back to the stone age."—Birmingham mightn't believe the conversation, Aiza-Haraldl either."