friLU1 «P jr^y »A. *-S INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS LEQPPLAF SE\/Eftl SLEEPERS Not Common. dunno whether that feller is engaged "I Of. Syrian Origin, the Story Has AW in some shady occupation or ways Been Widely Current in not. But—" Eastern Countries. "Well?" '."' v. ?'f' A "Therefs something mighty suspicious The quotation from Dickens' Christmas What Is Your Community Doing to about the way he mlpds his own Carol, about the "other six" sleepers, business." Louisville Courier-Journal. Is a playful reference to- the legend of "The Seven Sleepers of Help Your New Settlers Succeed? Ephesus." The legend goes back to th^ time of the persecution of the Old England's Twelfth Night. Christians during the reign of the Twelfth night is a time-honored festival Roman emperor Decius. According to in England, the chief feature of the story seven Christians fled from jUTINNESOTA and Wisconsin have gained the evening being the cutting of a Ephesus in Asia Minor in the year 250 cake containing various small articles GENUINE 34,450 new farms in the last ten years— or 251, and hid in a'cave. There they of special meaning. The incomparable were discovered, and their persecutors Pepys rarely fails to make special most of them in the cut-over districts. This is walled up the entrance in order to reference to the date in his diary. starve them to death. The seven fell He has been to see "Twelfth Night" almost one-third of the total gain for the whole into a sleep in which they lay for and finds it "but a silly play, not relating nearly 200 years, for it was not until United States. at all to the uame or day." At DURHAM the reign of Emperor Theodosius II another time his wife and her company (447) that they awoke, believing that stay up all night to celebrate, they, had slept but a single night. lot of these new settlers are in your county. tobacco makes 50 A but he merely chooses his piece of One of the seven went into the city cake and goes to bed. Again he attends flood cigarettes for The greatest obstacle these men have to overcome to bjuy provisions, and hie was amazed a great dinner on twelfth night, to see crosses on the churches and and as his piece of the cake contains 10c and the one thing that keeps hundreds other buildings, for while ihey had a clove, "the mark of the knave," he been asleep Christianity had made away is STUMPS! slyly manages to stuff it into the slice great progress. taken by another man. A year or so Offering a coin of the time of the later he celebrates the date with a Emperor Decius in a baker's shop, he The Du Pont Company can put you or your simply gorgeous time at his own was arrested, his startling story not house, his guests staying all day apd DR. H, H. IHRIG Commercial Club in touch with various state being believed until he guided the citizens until midnight. He says: "In the to the cfivorn where he had left Dentist evening I did bring out my cake—a and national agencies which will be glad to bis comrades. The emperor heard Office over Holler's Confectionery noble cake—and there cut it into from their lips enough to convince him help you make blearing easier for these new International Falls, Minnesota pieces with wine and good drink. of the life beyond the grave, whereupon And so we were mighty merry they sank again to sleep till the settlers. till it was midnight and, being moonshine resurrection. This legend is of Syrian JOHN H. BROWN and a fine frost, they went home, origin—it Is widely current in the I lending some of them my coach to Attorney at Law East, and was adopted by Mohammed, The traveling representatives of this company help to carry them." Office over O. Carr & Co. who even admits the Seven Sleepers' M. are familiar with your local conditions and are International Minnesota dog Kitmer, into paradise. In some Falls, parts of the world the festival^of the Burials In "the Abbey." always glad to be of service. Seven Sleepers is held on June 27. Westminster Gazette: How man J. J. HAPLER The names usually given to the Seven more burials will there be in Westminster Sleepers are: Maximianus, Malchus, Lawyer abbey? Within its walls lie Martininanus, Dionyslus, Joannes, the remains of close on three thousand International State Bank BUf Seraplon and Constantius. people, and so numerous are the. International Falls, Minnesota monuments and memorials that it is Address your inquiries to Egyptian Worship of the Sun, Impossible to prevent them jostling The Egyptians were, early in their each other without the slightest pretentions N O E N I N N E S O A E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. to artistic arrangement. Both history (about 4000 B. C.), attracted HOSPITAL Westminster abbey and St Pauls' are by this flight of the sun, They evolved Incorporated excepted ^rom the general prohibition Hartley Building Duluth, Minn. their religion on the thesis that life Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and of intramural interments, but the W8S given by the sun. It was the heat Surgeon in Charge time has almost arrived when, from that he gave that caused all things to Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 sheer want of space, no further burials grow, and he gave to man warmth and will be possible In the abbey. It has comfort. So they created the god of Office Int'l State Bank Building been suggested that a national mausoleum the sun, and called him Ra-Harachte. International Falls, Minnesota should be provided by utilizing In one of the earliest cities, built on the old "undercroft" to the east of the the east side of the Nile, and a little Great Cloisters,, part of which is the to the north of modern Cairo, they LAWRENCE'S PHARMACY Chapel of the Pyx and part of the erected his first temple. The city was The Rexall Store gymnasium of Westminster school. called On, later named by the Greeks Though this is outside the abbey Itself, S. N. Rubin, Proprietor Heliopolis, the City of the Sun. JBere in the. abbey: precincts. it is the Egyptians established the priesthood International Falls. Minnesota of Ra, a sect that became famous for its knowledge of the occult sciences, the practice of magic, and the laws of medicine and astrology. It was with them the youthful Moses was brought up, and It was by the art" he had mastered In the priesthood YOUR BOY of On that enabled him later to put Into practice his magic before Pharaoh, which finally led to the liberation of Is growing inch by the Israelites. inch. Get him started He Signed With an "X." in the right direction An unusual suit, Involving the use of a cross-mark as a signature, was by opening aibank account tried at Atlantic City, N. J., before Judge Ingersoll. The action was for him. His brought by the estate of Michael Qulnn against Mrs. Mary Henry for $150 for first, banking connections rent for an apartment, and Mrs. Henry may have a displayed receipts for the money. Quinn, when living, was unable to positive influence upon his success in life. The conservative write, It was testified, and was in the habit of signing papers with a cross* business experience of the officers of this mark. The estate averred that the crossmarks bank should make it your choice. on the receipts were not made CAPITOL AT INCyTQN by the same person as marked the lease. The handwriting expert from Philadelphia testified that the crossmarks Is onUotfi Were made by the samg FIRST NATIONAL BANK person and were thtifSfore authentic. Judge Tngersoli gave judgment for Mrs. Henry. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. China's Metal Imports. The value of China's metal imports was $76,931,631 in 1919, as compared with $21,619,174 in 1913. The advance in value coincides with an equal advance DURING FAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON in quantity. Copper Ingots AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND were imported In very much larger quantities than ever before and the E. SOL VANG WHEN YOU WANT TO— value was more than 100 times as great as in 1913V The copper imported FIX THAT FENCE StcccnoT to G. is used almost exclusively by the LAY THAT FLOOR Cabinet Maker, Furniture mints. Manufactured Iron shows considerable SEE HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, & g^ins. There was a large BUILD THAT SMALL General Carpenter, Contracttor Increase In the Importations of tin In BUILDING OR COTTAGE and Builder. slabs. This Is a product of the 502 THIRD STREET or any Big Carpenter job— Kwangsi mines, and is relmported from Hong Kong after having been exported there from China. THE "WHITE HOUSE. Hard Times. A I NT PICKING 'EM TALL NOW "Elderly married men have a pretty WHAT'S DIFFERENT? 1 GREATEST SONG BIRD hard time of it. Their wlvesjpare for CAN YOU TELL? them no longer, and pretty girls actually despise them." The speaker was George Ade. He went on: "In the lounge of a fashionable restaurant FOR EVERY PURPOSE— I overheard one night a low* voiced conversation between an elderly Inside and Outside House Paint married man and his wife. 'Bill/ the wife hissed, 'I don't like Automobile Paint .the way yon looked at that girl In the Boat Paint Hmf.H outrageous yellow gown.' •Well,' said Bill savagely, 'she ^Kalaomine didn't, either.'" •ullds Rainbow Bank. A monument to the persistence of We carry the Old PHitiHr j^ndi Mmirrrrtfi fS-- the pioneer spirit Is a bank building seed Oil Paint Co. and Certain-teed. la northern South Dakota, a unique structure, its owners are strre. It it made entirely of r&Nck from the field's Pasquafle Of Ptetroa photo wan iind prairies roundabout. Bat" the new fashion In mage inHeory found among W.0M ta-tb* Detroit A startling part of the story is that the ftottiksthm Bimat Look The Serious illness of the great Savag* when Miss Josephine wfrrk of preparing these stones was nl his hands 8ix digits on ^eh UjHr.. Carnso. brought. ont adc Adair wasouu asaoabretteta done by one mason, unassisted. For Mi and all perfectly proportioned tin natj Billy She Is a jwi| Ptetro beastg tlttt bejtt ifiaost year he tolled, splitting the hr -AM Ills or. tow Whole QMICSl €alif«r*lan who stands ~*trt«*Uy ml eereoe whow eatre lagers do so* gfaclaL Boulders with Iron wedges to PHONE 81 ¥ortt acknowledge ¥lii tfo.gr&t fu feet tall. bat UnenblesowM* mpaltbelr rich color—gjnk, red, pur(1% tto eat *n«orofa»riai« allKit m« SUM. brown, yellow sod gray, I