INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS FISHING IN BOYHOOD DAYS USING THE SUN AS A STOVE BIG TEAM FROM SMALL TOWN WEEPS, PRATS AND PLATS Five Minute Chats Glorious Time When Mother Kept Device Invented by American Scientist on Our Presidents Supper and Praised the Five Is Acknowledged Valuable Little Sunfish. Fuel Saver. By JAMES MORGAN The city man who was the country Baking bread and roasting meat on boy of yesterday closes his eyes a few the summit of a mountain without fuel -w minutes and lives over again a summer by Is possible by the use of a device (Copyright, 1920, James Morgan.) afternoon of long ago, notes the invented by a scientist of the Smithsonian GEORGE WASHINGTON Milwaukee Journal. A day when his institution, Washington, D. C. little crowd, equipped with enough The intensity of the sun's rays is harnessed, worms to feed a school of fish, betook 1732—(Feb. 22) Bern near the unusual energy is capitalized. itself to the pool where it was annually Fredericksburg, Va. and food can be cooked beyond reported and fervently believed 1703—First ex^edit.on to the the line of perpetual snows. the big bass were hiding. West. An astronomical mirror at the They didn't get big bass. Bites came 1754—£ scon -:ped I ii on. Smithsonian institution is capable of slowly, and those they landed were little of Gsn. Brad­ -On staff receiving and measuring the eneriry sunfish. Is there anywhere in any clock. of the sun rays, calculating th^.t in lake a muskie big enough to give him 1759—"carried Martha Custis. summer the solar luminary rra'^v'its ii as great a thrill as tho«e little sunfish? upon each acre of land eneriry equivalent He was late to supper, but there to 7,500 horse-power. was supper kept for him. And mother X•£ As5i?VNGTON was made of the The so-termed "solar cooker" e.insists didn't scold. She was pleased as same clay as most Americans of a half-cylinder of iron lined punch, and told him to hurry and clean who have won high leadership and^ with mirror glass, which catches the the fish, and she would cook them. ike them, he cut his teeth on the rays of the sun and concentrates them And she did. upon a metal tube that is the halfcylinder's crust of poverty. Only four or five No other grown person praised his axis. The tube contains oil, of our presidents came from poorer catch. In all the world he and mother which expands and becomes lighter, bv homes than our first president and he In the Bluegrass section of Kentucky, at the little town of Dansrille to Centre College, with a alone recognized how worth while the heat as it passes through the tube. football team which has attracted the attention of the nation in the last two years—first in victory— had less schooling than four-fifths of those five little sunfish were. And yet then in defeat. It is a team made up of earnest young men who weep, pray and play the game with his successors. He was, in fact, the The latter is continued to form a loop erery ounce of their energy. It took the mighty team from Harvard—to beat them. 31-14—the first It didn't seem wonderful that she uly president in the first forty years outside the half-cylinder, thus making time Centre's goal line had been crossed in three years. Since then the great southern chamoions. didn't ask him where the bass were. a sort of endless chain. who was without a college education. Qenreria Tenh. at Atlanta. Oa.. beat them—but both great teams had to extend themselves to triumnh That was what other people did. Passing through the loop, the oil Not starting to school until eight, he GOOD It was a wonderful day, but as he cools. However, the sun's heat forcing had to leave at fourteen„to go to work. looks back on it, he sees that the wonderful Thenceforth until the Revolution the the oil through the portion of the tube I- however, near 1. Lire, thing was not the little string inside the half-cylinder, compels the -oir.e or the vil :. vs, short stretches woods and fields were his only schoolroom of "boy's fish," but the mother who cooled oil to follow it, otherwise there and life his only schoolmaster. of rmwrn'-jm pavi meat, generally in ROADS was so pleased that she stood over a We never can truly understand this vould be a vacuum. So while the sun vcrj' poor mtii'oa. The local traffic hot stove cooking them. How glad man if we start with the mistaken idea shines there is a continuous circulation of approximately 60 trucks, she was to do it. How happy she of oil. The "loop" passes through hat he was the product of wealth anu 7T0 r-ctor vehicles nrnl 50 horse-drawn would be if she could do it again, today. aristocracy. His people really were a box which contains an »oven. Heat vehicle?* per day, to vhich is added But she lives too far away now. only a plain, though always highly respectable from the oil warms the oven and does is.ur:n«r the suwn:'.r months a through We wonder if he remembers to write the desired cooking. family, living on the outskirts traffic of about 20 trucks and 200 passenger and tell her of his discovery—his discovery of the cavalier castle which set motor vehicles. that mother's heart was big INTEREST IN FARM MOTORS up its manors in the James river POSITION CALLS FOR ABILITY enough to make his little fish a splendid region. George's own father, who at PLANT -TREES IN MICHIGAN catch. Government Schools Give Special instruction Enqtishman Chosen to Administer Afdirs in Operation of Tractors in Jerusalem Has Been FINISH OLD NATIONAL ROAD FOREST ON DRIFTING SANDS Stock ta Be Distributed at Nominal and Trucks. Given a Hard Task. Cost by Gtate Agricultural Institution. Completion of Highway Now Under Frenchman's Ingenuity Has Made of The government in calling attention The office of governor of Jerusalem, Contemplation After Lapse of to the increased use of automobiles Waste Place a Region of Fertility once occupied by Pontius Pilate, is Nearly Century. A law was recently passed by the and Usefulness. and motor trucks on the farm, has now held by Col. Ronald Storrs, a Miclrignn legislature for the encouragement laid its linger on the one big factor graduate of Cambridge university and (Prepared by the United States Department of the planting of fruit and In the southwest corner of France, that is going to not only make farming son of (he dean of Rochester college, of Agriculture.) nut-hearing trees along the highways between the rivers Adour and Garonne. an attractive business proposition, !-]pg!a nd. A project under the federal aid road of that state. Stock is to be distributed are long stretches of pine woods, but will increase the number of productive His task is one to test the administrative act, filed with the bureau of public at nominal cost by the state agricultural ereen and cool. Where these pines farms and make life on the farm ability of any man. Jerusalem roads, Uni-fcid States department of college to local officials and now stand was a barren waste in the more •attractive. is a city of disunions, where whatever agriculture, which will undoubtedly private individuals who will set it out, middle of the eighteenth century. Sun The government schools teach men may come of the future, for hold the record for length and cost for under the supervision of the state and wind vied with each other in making how to operate farm tractors successfully. the moment Zionists and Arahs are some time to come, is of unusual interest highway commission. the land drier and dustier. Over thus creating a new business or passionately, divided, and to steer a aside from its great length and Whoever his traveled over the treelined the stormy bay of Biscay came winds profession, that of the farm mechanical just path between them and induce cost. It contemplates, after the lapse highroads of Europe will greet that set up great sand storms and operating expert—a man who can them to join him on that path is thankless of nearly a.century, the completion of with satisfaction this, measure as the sometimes buried whole villages. But take hold of the production activities work. the Old National road, extending from beginning of a policy of combining esthetic at last there came along a man who of the farm and through the correct It is to that task, however, that he the Potomac to the Mississippi, which and economic values In our acknowledged fate only as something operation of tractors, motor trucks and chiefly devotes himself. Twice a week already has been largely improved as methods of road-building. to be overcome. His name was Bremontier he has meetings of his favorite pro.Jerusalem other motor-driven implements and appliances far west as the Indiana line. The Illinois and he was an Inspector of can double and treble the production society, where French. Italians, improvement will extend from roads. He began fencing In the desert. and distribution of farm products. British. Americans, rabbis. Zionists, East Sc. Louis across the state to the Modern Morals. He built a fence and behind it leaders, commercial men of standing Indiana line, traversing St. Clair, Madison, Brander Mai'thews, the famous planted a handful of broom seeds. Behind The a-utomohile insures quick individual and others who are in any way Bond, Fayette, Effingham, Cumberland critic', condemned at a Columbia tea the broom seeds he put seeds of transportation from one field to prominent in the life of the city are and Ciark countics. a went French novel. the pine. The fence protected the brought together and in the course another on iln* farm, or from the farm The proposed type of surface is "They declare that the book is very broom seeds and the broom grew, of debate led to see that they have to the shipping point or city. nearest monolithic brick and concrete pavement, modern," lie said. "Well, to be modern 'fhen the broom In its turn afforded Washington's Earliest Portrait. iruck likewise insures eco­ in common a single citizenship. His The motor the average cost of which is is not necessarily to bo meritorious. shelter to the delicate pine shoots. nomical and dependable transportation motto j's governor is "unify and be s.bout $£0,000 per mile. The proposed one time had been a sailing captaip Soon the pines spread and their tough produce and live stock, from friends." of improvement includes also the construction "Iu a lox at the opera the other in the trade with the mother country, roots bound this sandy soil together. Colenel Storrs was one of the prime farm to shipping point or city. With of 40 bridge structures, of evening a ymng woman in a bare-back left his wife and children at his The first step was accomplished. Then in the establishment of an independent the insuring equal efficiency movers tractor lengths ranging from 22 feet to i00 gown was heard to say: death five thousand acres of land, canals were made to drain the wet Arab kingdom. He is thirty-eight in production of farm produce, the feet. At present the uncompleted portion 'My people are so ridiculously oldfashion'n. more or less unproductive twentytwo parts and carry water to the dry. years old. farmer of will be the equal of today of the highway is generally an unimproved Here they are celebrating slaves, a slender purse and a lean bis city in the matter of em­ brother earth road, which becomes their golden wedding, while I have already larder. hibor and cost saving Ammonia From the Air. Soaiching for the Point. ploying time, been divorced five times.'" While at Mt. Vernon, which his oldest A syndicate has been formed to establish equipment not only increases pro­ Joh-i George, executive secretary that brother, Lawrence, had inherited, a nitrogen factory for the manufacture duction !ut makes the actual work of the High street M. E. church of Juct Like a Relative. he learned the simple rudiments of of ammonia synthetically more attractive and remunerative. who is a Scot, was listening "Po you think he loves you 7" surveying, and Lord Fairfax, who lived Muncie. from the nitrogen of the air, says the Without a doubt, the farmer of a attentively to a story about two fishermen "I think so. He is beginning to nearby, employed him to survey a t| I few yer -s hence will employ mfitord"i\en American Chamber of Commerce in who had been having good talk like a member of the family." vast* estate in the Valley of Virginia. London. equipment on nearly the same luck fishing from a boat in a lake. "In what way—telling them all he In his young manhood Washington The syndicate has purchased the extensive 3* They wished to remember the spot A 5 loves them?" found his "inclinations strongly bent site in County Durham which where they had caught the fish, but "Xo. He said to me last night that to arms." To softer arms than those ihe British government acquired more looking shoreward they saw no landmark we have got to begin to teac-h my little of Mars the young militarist also was than two years ego for the purpose-of that would assist them in finding brother not to be so fresh. And then inclined. building a factory. The capital required the spot on another day. 4 a little later he said my father certainly Prying posterity finds him at sixteen will be $325,000,000. "Finally." said the story teller, Ooesi smoke rotten cigars."-— pining for a mysterious "lowland The process to be adopted, says the "one of tliem had a happy thought Houston Chronicle. beauty," who would not have the penniless American chamber, will be on the principle and cut a notch in his boat at this surveyor,- He received also by of the German chemist, Haber. spot." Saw Too Late. his own confession a "cruel sentence" ,/ Nitrogen and hydrogen will be combined The crowd laughed, except George, I was invited to dinner by some from a "Miss Betsy," and afterward into ammonia under pressure at who appeared puzzled. Finally, he. friends who were light housekeeping. SfTZtiy was rejected by Miss Phillipse of New 'KV~ a high temperature, the ammonia then too, burst out laughing. .Inst as dinner was served I was relating York. At last the oft-disappointed being converted Into nitric acid or "I was just thinking," he explained, some past experiences of camping. wooer came to the White House on other nitrates as may be required "what a good joke it would have been and remarked: "We had to use the Pamunkey, and once more he lost either for the manufacture of explosives on those fishermen if the next day tin knives and forks, and that always his heart. The mistress of the manor, A*1 1 or for use as fertilizers. they were unable to get the same spoils my appetite." Happening to Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis, was boat!"—Indianapolis News. glance at the table. I noticed (too wise enough to keep it, being a widow Must Not Disturb Swans. late) that tin knives and forks were of seven years, the mother of two Even the highest in the French Republic Incendiary Bullets. Earth Road Which Becomes Nearly the best my hostess had for this occasion. fatherless children, the owner of large must bow before the edicts of The incendiary bullets used during tmpasssb'e at Certain Seasons of It was a great relief to me estates. the French protocol, as Mine. Deschanel, the war, mostly fired from machine the Year. when conversation was once more^resumed.—Exchange. When flying embers from the war wife of the president, learned guns carried by airplanes, were in fields of Europe ignited the savage "t ccrlr'n season? when she objected to the presence of effect miniature high explosive shells. forests of the New World, Washington five white swans in the Elysee palace Those supplied to our armies (mil­ was a militia major, and he was ponds. The swans. Mine, Desclianel lions of them were made at the Frankford dispatched on a mission to the Ohio, A Particularly Serviceable Truck for FOUR GREAT AMERICANS FROLIC FOR A DAY admitted, were very beautiful, but arsenal) were of brass, hollowed a perilous journey of ten weeks All-Round Farm Work. nearly every morning early they disturbed out to hold a composition of which through a wintry desolation. The the rest of the president's the was barium principal ingredient scale that the manufacturer does in next year he went again with a band household, and therefore she inquired nitrate. To set this off. each bullet of soldiers, for now the Seven Years' the city, insuring the same benefits, whether tfcey could not be removed. of had a priming charge mag'i».'Siuni increasing his products and decreasing war had spread to America. His campaign The chief of the protocol found that and red lead. was hardly a glorious failure, his fiirin depreciation. sixty years ago a clause was written An ordinary rifle bullet, of course, but he reported that he liked to hear in the protocol which provided that is solid. The incendiary bullet is of lie bullets whistle. ROADS TO DEVELOP COUNTRY not less than five swans must ,be kept different construction, though wholly Now General Braddock came to in the Elysee palace grounds, for the of the same caliber, being meant to scorn the colonial breed while he feeding of which, the keeper of the Of 2,500,000 Miles of Rum! Roads in carry thime. Its discharge sets fire showed them how British regulars presidential gardens was responsible. United States, but 12 Per Cent to the explosive stuff contained in it. fought in proper, soldierly formation. Kansas City Star. Has Been Improved. The undrilled red children of the forest Hid Identity Many Months. stubbornly refusing to fight on the Miss Gwendoline Farrar, who inherited There are today some 2,500,000 miles New Grade of Rubber. European plan, Braddock fell amid his a fortune of several million of rural j-oads in the United States. Chrysil. a n«w high grad£ rubber, is panic-stricken troops on the Monongahela. dollars from her father, Sir George Of this amount perhaps 12 per cent vulcanized wi bout difficulty. It is produced At the head of his grave in the Farrar, the Rand millionaire, who was could be classified as improved, while by the Chr.vsothamnus, or rabbit wilderness the prayers for the dead one of those sentenced to death' by only about one-quarter of 1 per cent bush, a genus of shrubs yielding were read by Colonel Washington. Boers for taking part in the Jameson can be said to be suitable for the carriage in different species from 1,93 to 2,83 Although Washington had won no raid, is one young woman who can of heavy-duty motor trucks. And per cent, and in one individual plant battles, he had made a most important keep a secret. For more than a year in the face of this condition it can be as high 0.r7. Of Chrysothamnus as conquest. When the Seven Years' war Miss Farrar has been appearing on the said without contradiction that the nauseosus, chief species, vari­ the 22 came he was still an Englishman, and London stage, and only recently was future development of the United eties are known. 12 of them containing him an island thfee thousand miles her identity discovered by accident. States rests upon the road. chrysil. The plants are large away still was home. In his contact maturing in six or eight years, shrubs, •vfah British officers he was shocked Canada's Soldier Police. with an average weight of four find them aliens to him and his New Burden of Public Debts. The .Canadian Northwest mounted When we hear of such men as Henry Ford, the automobile mir•el to six pounds, and abound in many sVorld and himself only a colonial in Thomas Edison, the electrical wizard John the police is one of the most noted organizations Burroughs, The annual interest on the debt of parts of North America. The rubber heir eyes. With native condescension great naturalist, and Harvey S. Firestone, the great rubber king, of the character in the world Great Britain is 12.92 per cent of her occurring in the cells and not as a .'hey undertook to teach him his place, having a reunion, we naturally think of splendid hotels and a large because of the efficiency of its service, Income, that of France 32.17 per cent, latex concentrates near the soil line. city as the site of tlfeir day-of-frolic together. Not so, however, with but with native independence he objected. which was established nearly 50 that of Italy 14.43 per cent, that of them, for the one day that they set aside each year is spent in the the United States 2.53 per cent, that of years ago. Recently the headquarters A Strike. country. This year they all reported at Tama Farms Inn. at Napanoch, By the time the-Seven Years* war of the organization have been changed Germany 20.96 per cent, that of Austria N. Y.,i where they cast aside all formalities and cares forgot "I'll show 'em," said the hen as she vns over the colonial colonel no longer to Ottawa and the size of the Organization 25.92 per cent, that of Hungary hat they are really great men and romped in frolic like so many kicked the porcelain egg out of the as nn Englishman. That illusion was 24.78 per cent, that of Bulgaria 21.80 enlarged and the territory covered oys. They Indulged In woodsplitting contests, telling yarns by the nest. yno and had left Washington an ^reside and being Just plain boys once more. by the scarlet-coated officials has per cent, and that of Turkey 17.60 per "Th*y can't make a brick layer out suericau. been greatly increased. cent. of me."—Carnegie Puppet.