'fc'L.Vrt •iw jP.'ICTfwiW'l •^ri'-p-y^^'^Xr-r r-'r ... ...-»- .- ...... ~'tf. ... -*?r v» .? -,* INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS 4« CHINESE 'GODDESS OF MERCY' terside, where a boat was ready to 5 the fish will turn up its white belly Orange Blossoms and Brides. against the ice. A dead fish floats carry him away. Then they bid him I BETTER Five Minute Chats Various theories have been .given Legend Popular In the Yellow Land with its belly upward, always. It Is a goe and mende his maners." regarding the use of orange blossoms on Our Presidents Because It Illustrates Quality common enough thing in some regions HIGHWAYS as bridal ornaments. The custom of Filial Piety. for boys to kill fish through the Ice, is supposed to have been brought Eucalyptus Fuel. and then to cut a hole and get them to Europe by the Crusaders from the Eucalyptus trees planted on tropical The Chinese tell an Interesting story ouf. By JAMES MORGAN East, the Saracen brides being accustomed mountain sides would produce relating to their "Goddess of Mercy," to wear orange wreaths at WAR "T. N. T." AIDS HIGHWAYS fuel at the rate of 20 tons, dry weight who was the third daughter of the their marriage. To this objection was GOT RID OF MALCONTENTS (60 pounds to the cubic foot), per king Mias Tsong. Her two elder sisters (Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan.) raised that although the orange tree acre annually. This in perpetuity, of High Explosive Allotted Bureau were married early, and when LAST OF THE VIRGINIANS was brought to England as early as the plantations when cut reproducing Pilgrim Fathers Had a Highly Effeotive Public Roads for Use in Road her turn came the third refused to 1290, it was long before there was themselves without further expense. Way of Dealing With the Colony's Construction. marry, having already given up the any real cultivation of it even in Such is the declaration of a scientist 1817—James Monroe, Inaugurated Undesirables. temporal pleasures and devoted her greenhouses. A second theory is that Trinitrotoluene is its proper scientific fifth president, aged who says that by this means the entire devotion to preparation for the orange blossoms came to be worn by name, but the human tongue has Deportation of "undesirables" is not sun's heat in hot latitudes can be fifty-eight. next life. The king then sent his brides on their marriage because they its limitations, and so this muchtalked-of an innovation in this country. The economically stored, the dry eucalypt 1831—July 4, died in New York, daughter to the temple, where she were not only scented but also were Pilgrim Fathers, confronted with the explosive is generally known aged seventy-three. timber being heavier than coal and was asked to draw water and cook rare and costly, and so within the problem of dealing with malcontents by its abbreviation, "T. N. T." It is a possessing more heating power, bulk dinner for 500 monks. But this reach of only the noble and rich, that among them, shipped the disgruntled pale yellow crystalline substance much for bulk. seemed to be an easy task, for when indicating the bride had to be of high MONROE'S used in the late war to furnish the ones overseas. Governor Bradford's administration was she went to cook, she found everything An acre of eucalypts in the tropics, rank. A third is that "Orange bridal story of the Plymouth colony shows explosive element for shells, bombs, the most serene and yet one of ready for her, a dragon being he asserts, would produce the equivalent wreaths had their origin in Spain, how things were done in those days. and the depth bombs, which did so the most important periods in the life of at least twenty tons of coal sent from heaven to help her. where oranges have been cultivated According to Bradford's story the much to check the submarine activities. of the nation. It was an eight years The king was angered and ordered per annum, the only requirements being for centuries. Thence the fashion "reds" in the Plymouth colony were crowded with glorious and lasting victories powerful sunshine and heavy rainfall the temple to be burned but the princess passed to France, and by means of represented by John Liford and John The sudden collapse of the German to insure rapid growth. So, with of peace, such victories as spat blood into heaven and a French millinery was spread to other Oldham, who conspired together, both resistance found the United States swords never can win. such a possible resource available, new temple fell down to earth. This lands. against the church and the government government with a large supply of T. By a mere exchange of notes between why worry about the threatened exhaustion angered the king still more and he of the colony, endeavoring to entice of the coal mines?—Exchange. the United States and England, ordered his daughter killed and that Fish Comfortable Under Ice. others with them. Oldham refused those two jealous neighbors pledged her body be eaten by the tigers. As By the way, says a writer in the duty when called upon by Captain themselves to disarm forever on the time went on, the king was afflicted Kansas City Star, the water never Standish, whereupon it was determined great lakes. By a common-sense business with leprosy, none of the doctors being All That Was Worth Seeing. gets colder than about 39 degrees, below to place Oldham and Liford on Whistler's amusing personal conceit transaction, Florida, which was able to cure him. A beggar monk the ice. So no matter how cold trial, all the members of the colony is illustrated In the following story later came and told the king he could of little use to Spain, but of much the day, and no matter how thick the being present. They were convicted, Meeting a friend entering a private cure him. Upon being given a trial use to the United States, was bought ice upon the stream or lake, the fishes the court ordering them expelled from view at the Grosvenor gallery, the artist over the counter in 1820, a peaceable the monk said that the disease could are enjoying a temperature of about the colqny, both being deported ultimately. took him up to a full-length portrait only be cured by the ash of the conquest that ranks only second to 39 degrees, and they move about in he was exhibiting of Lady Archibald burned hand and eye of a person who the Louisiana purchase. By a civil notice the water and gather supplies very Oldham came once again to the colony Campbell. After the friend had was on a certain mountain. to the old world, In 1823, the well at that temperature. Through and created a serious breach of4 expressed his appreciation of the beautiful When the desired hand and eye was whole new world was set aside under the clear ice one may see fish with work, he asked Whistler If the peace, whereupon "they committed finally found, the queen recognized the Monroe doctrine as an Immense their backs against it, where the temperature him till he was tamer, and then appointed there were any other pictures he them as her daughter's. The king was preserve of international peace. By must be 32 degrees, and if a guard of musketeers which wTould advise him to look at. cured by the ashes of this hand and give-and-take in the Missouri compromise you strike the ice immediately above he was to pass through, and everyone "Other pictures?" said the artist eye, which made the people honor the in 1820, North and South were them with the back of an ax, or a in a tone of horror, "other pictures! was ordered to give him a thump on name of the princess as the "Goddess bound together anew, though fwith sledge hammer, you will kill the fish. ye birch, with ye butt end of his musket There are no other pictures. You of Mercy," for her untold sufferings false ties. The concussion does the business and and then was conveyed to ye wa­ through I" and ucnmsui her filial piety to her cruel father. are Monroe's two terms cover what Is known as the "era of good feelings." Surfaced Shell Road in Eastern Texas. The old Federalist party having given up the ghost, he succeeded to the presidency N. T. on hand which it was not advisable to store. The bureau of mines as the last of the Virginia dynasty demonstrated by experiment that this almost as easily as an heir apparent receives the crown of his father. T. N. T. could be used for industrial purposes, and allotments from the war Washington's second election department's stock were assigned to would have been entirely unanimous had not a New Hampshire elector cast the department of the interior for use one dissenting ballot. in the reclamation service, national parks service, Indian service, Alaskan Yet that "era of good feeling" really was filled with many bitter engineering commission, and to the department feelings aroused by personal ambitions of agriculture for use in road construction work supervised by and the quarrels of factions. But Monroe formed one of the strongest tlie bureau of public roads. The value of T. N. T. in road-building cabinets in history, and, with John Qulncy Adams, William H. Crawford, operations has been fully demonstrated, and the bureau of public roads John C. Calhoun and William Wirt has published a circular to describe its characteristics, and to furnish direr tions for use of the explosive in place of dynamite for blasting, ditch digging and rock breaking. As a general rule T. N. T. may be used for any purpose :AT to which dynamite may be put. It safe to handle does not cause ''dynamite Littlefork Town Hall headaches" as readily as the commercial explosive, and is a trifle more powerful than low-percentage dynamite. JOHNSON LAUDS GOOD ROADS Ten o'Clock Sharp California Statesman Says Improved SATURDAY, AUG. Highways Have Helped to Develop His State. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, in speaking of the necessity of improved .. highways in the United States recently said: "We have had a great object lesson of the value of good roads in the paved highways of my own state— California. They have been a great factor in the development of the state, opening up regions which hitherto Elizabeth Kortright Monroe. were inaccessible and adding to the prosperity of all. The improvement among its members, he succeeded in of the nation's highways will be of reconciling to his administration the great economic value to the country List of Articles and Property for Sale most divergent elements. In his desire as a whole, relieving the congestion for harmony, he would also have which now exists on other transportation include Henry Clay and Andrew facilities and making distribution Jackson, but they declined. of the nation's commodities easier and One day the British minister glared cheaper. The good roads movement 5 Milk Cows, 2 Yearling Heifers, 4 across the White House dinner table meets with my warmest approval." and shouted to the French minister: "Are you biting your nails at me, BIG PROGRAM IN MINNESOTA Spring Steers, 1 Spring Heifer, 1 Good sir?" The Frenchman responded by drawing his sword, and the* two Construction Plans Call for Expenditure diplomats rushed at each other. But of $11,127,986—Trucks Sold as they were about to clash, the president Stock yearling Bull, 7 Six Weeks Old to Farmers. drew his own sword between them and stopped the fight. Minnesota has a road building program That little incident gives us a picture Pigs, 2 Pure Bred Rhode Island Red calling for the expenditure of of the spirit of Monroe and his ?11,127,9S8. As an illustration of administration. While he was in the what the farmers of that state think White House, men and factions had Roosters, 25 Barred Plymouth Rock of the motortruck a statement recently to leave their quarrels at the door. issued by a bank in Minneapolis The quiet, modest president was not might be cited, in which it is said that so successful in keeping the J?eace "trucks in large numbers, intended for Hens, 6 Indian Runner Ducks, 1 among the women of the official circle, immediate use In marketing grains, and their disputes over social rank are being sold to farmers." Elevator and precedence brewed many squalls. scales in many places are being remodeled Although Jim Monroe, as he was Cream Separator, Cooking Utensils, to accommodate the growing fleet familiarly called, was the last president of farmers' trucks. to cling to the ancient kn£e[ breeches,, cockade and sword, he was Tools and many other articles too BONDS FOR IMPROVED ROADS as plain and easy as an old shoe. When a newly arrived European Districts, Counties and States Making diplomat saw a bald-headed, wateryeyed numerous to mention. Big Appropriation for Better Highway man in a striped seersucker Systems. coat, a dirty waistcoat spotted with ink and with slippers down at the Bonds running high into millions of Cash Under $10 Bankable Paper Above $10 heel writing at a White House desk, dollars are being Issued by districts, he wondered that the president counties and states for the making of would have such a slovenly clerk until better roads. The national government he was dumfounded to find, that is aiding by appropriating money also, he was In the presence of the president based on the amounts raised by the himself. states. In the six years that remained to Mdnroe after retiring from the presidency, Much Interest Manifested. he set himself, as an ex-president, The widespread interest manifested a high standard of conduct in better roads Is shown by comparison Having received the supreme honor of previous totals with those at the hands of all the people, he felt of 1918, when $600,000,000 was spent that his name belonged to them and tor road construction throughout the he refused to lend it to any candidate country. or any party. Owner Feeble and alone after fhe death Roads Are Necessity. of his wife, Monroe sold Oak Hill, Passable roads are an actual necessity In his Virginia farm, the closing and every progressive community OSCAR DOUGLAS, Auctioneer G. J. VANDERWALK, Clerk months of his life. With the feeling recognizes this fact, and is improving of an exile, the last of the Virginians or will later improve. every road live a left his native state to with sonin-law over which there Is any considerable/ in Yprk where be New city, travel. died on July 4 1831.