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PAGE SIX on the east coast jiave been handicapped diverse peoples that made up the old :l$v There Is the treaty of 1808 with by the shallowness, of their D-f Austro-Hungarian empire was ripped France" which arranged for what la DITCHES DUG harbors, Valparaiso's difficulties have .apart by the treaty of St. Germain and probably the greatest real estate "deal" lain in the opposite direction. Its rearranged more nearly In accordance In history—-the Louisiana Purchase. waters are so deep that the building with nationality and language, it was There Is the treaty with Spain, which: of breakwaters and Jetties was delayed clear that the old Austrian province, added Florida to the new republic until 1912. The carrying out of Carniola, extending from the Klagenfurt with the new, extra low-freezing dynamite usable in and the uncompleted treaty with the of the entire harbor Improvement now area south almost to Flume, all weather ditching is practical— independent republic of Texas which wher# under way will cost $15,000,000 or was Slavonic in its population. It led to the only instance In which a was therefore included in the Jugoslav more. cheaper than you can dig them by hand—with separate nation has merged.itself with kingdom along with the other obviously In 1900, the year in which San Fran1 the United States. Near them in the Slavonic provinces in the cisco was destroyed by earthquake flies of the state department are the southern part of the old empire: Bosnia, and fire, Valparaiso was also devastated treaties with Mexico adding to the Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Croatia by the same two forces of destruction. United States, California and the other and Slavonia. Like San Francisco, South territory west of Texas and south ot Carinthla, the province adjoining America's greatest Pacific port city Oregon the treaty with Great Britain Carniola on the north and containing has risen from its crumbled stone and adding Oregon the treaty with NITROGLYCERIN-DYNAMITE the Klagenfurt area, was recognized, LUCKY ashes not merely to rehabilitate Itself, Russia arranging for the second greatest on the other hand, to be predominantly but to become even greater and more DRAINwet-spots purchase of territory, the Alaska your land! Make the swamps Teutonic as a whole. But It was prosperous. and on your property produce Purchase and the treaties which have that the southeastern-section of seen Valparaiso is in practically the same resulted In bringing Hawaii, the Philippines, crops—water often covers the richest the province, the valley of the Drave latitude as Buenos Aires, Cape Town, STRIKE Port Rico Guam, and the Virgin portion of your land. river about Klagenfurt, had a heavy' and Sydney, and is about the same Islands under the American flag. population of Slovenes. It was felt by Ditching with Du Pont Dynamite is the distance from the equator in the south the allies that the question whether modern way, for it is efficient, simple, economical as San Francisco and Charleston, S. the Teutons or the Slavs predominated and does away almost entirely with C., in the north. Because of South WHERE FLEET VISITED CIGARETTE in the region should be definitely determined America's position considerably to the hand labor. LIMA AND CALLAO and that the area should be east of North America, Chile's greatest If your project warrants, we will send an attached, according to the desires of. port is almost due south of New expert to demonstrate. American Blue Jackets of the Atlantic the majority of the residents, to the York, and therefore has about the fleet recently visited Lima, capital Your dealer will supply you with Du Pont Teutonic republic of Austria or to the same time. of Peru, after the passage of the Explosives and Blasting Accessories. Slav kingdom to the south. Warships are always to be found fighting ships through the Panama The Farmers' Handbook of Explosives tells The region which Austria retains as in the harbor of Valparaiso, for this canal. The fleet lay at anchor at you how to use dynamite for stump and boulder by a result of the plebiscite is roughly is one of Chile's chief naval bases. It Callao, the port of Lima, only a few blasting, ditching, tree-planting and almond-shaped, approximately fifty is also the location of the Chilean miles away. The history of Callao'sJ other farm work. Write for a copy TODAY. miles in extreme length and twenty-five navai academy, whose buildings* on sheltered bay, which constitutes one miles in extreme breadth, with an a great promontory, dominate the harbor. of the best harbors on the Pacific coast area of something more 'than 000 No better view of the city and of South America may be considered E. L. DnPont DeNemours & Co. Inc square miles—slightly less than onethird harbor of Valparaiso can be had than to have begun shortly after Pizarro that of Delaware. It contains that from the ^parked grounds of this and his bearded comrades entered Peru much mountain land but also a portion fine institution. in 1532. of the rich Drave valley, one of the From Callao in the years that followed most productive parts of Carinthla. sailed a constant stream of galleons BIRTHPLACE OF BOARDS One of the most important results loaded with the gold and silver OF TRADE AND TRUSTS of the vote to the Austrlans is that that the Conquistadores stripped from they will retain the rich lead mines of He who thinks that vast monopolies tho rich continent on which they had Bleiburg, perhaps the most important are modern enterprises, or that chambers gained a foothold. Lima, 6nly eight, in all the old territory of AustriaHungary. of commerce are latter day civic miles inland, became the seat of the In the city of Klagenfurt, institutions, or that Prussians flrst vice-regal government by which all with its population of about 25,000, strove to implant Kultur with alftvord South Americavwas ruled, and Callao the Austrian republic retains one of In 1914, will be disillusioned if he was practically the only gate through its important metal-working centers WHERE AMERICA'S VALUED reads the history of Riga, chief city which the treasure gathered by the The Klagenfurt region came near DOCUMENTS ARE of Latvia, on the Baltic, through which colonial agencies was poured into the being a bone of contention among city such intercourse as has been had lap of th$ Spanish king. Close to KEPT three nations instead of two. Its wrni Russia in recent months has Callao often hovered British and western end almost touches the flaring The most Important chronicles of largely been carried on. Dufch pirates to swoop down on the top of the Italian boot, and during some ancient nations have come down Rigar which was attacked by German treasure ships. a great part of the World war its to present generations engraved on troops in 1919, had to wrest itself Callao was the flrst Pacific port mountain peaks echoed the thunder porphyry and marble. The United in South America to have completed free from Prussian control once of the great Italian and Austrian guns States, however, having existed wholly before, and thereby hangs the story modern harbor works. on the Isonzo front, a few miles to in an "age of paper," has all Its most of an early exploit like the attempted A half hour after boarding an electric the southwest. precious historical records in the form car in the city of Callao the traveler of paper documents, which can easily subjugation of Belgium and the deportation alights at one of the many plazas be destroyed by Are, and injured by of Its workers. in Lima, the capital of Peru and a dampness, extreme dryness, or rough About the middle of the twelfth century Making Them Learn History. thriving city of 200,0Q0 inhabitants. Training Mine Rescuers. handling. Novel "Touring Care." a few German merchants established Enactment by the state legislature Not far away he will find the center The United States government A recent fire, which destroyed irreplaceable Tours of the battlefields of France settlements about the mouth of of Indiana of a law to make the teaching maintains nine railroad cars traveling of the city's life and traditions—the records in the census bureau are now made by means of "road pullmans" he Dvlna, which empties into the Gulf of American history compulsory among the miners of the country, Plaza Mayor, or "great square." All at Washington, and an almost which are very commodious of Riga nine miles below the present in every public and private school of of the city's street car lines radiate teaching them first aid, mine rescue simultaneous fire in the State capltol trailers hitched onto the rear of city of Riga. Whereupon Bishop Albert, the state is urged by the nation and other things which are. likely to i'rom this center as though representing of West Virginia, which practically powerful touring car, and in this the in the role of missionary, sought Americanization committee ov be of special interest to them. In the influence and power that radiated wiped out the archives of that State, traveler eats and sleeps. A party off to colonize the territory In 1201 by American Legion. The bill from the same spot to all South addition to this there are trains maintained six persons can be accommodated easily have reinforced the argument of those building a town where Riga now a'tso for the rosiipulsT.v America when Lima was the "City to rush to the aid of miners on one of these cars, and if they urging that a fireproof hall of records stands, and the following year he dvil government iit 11. who may be injured or trapped in the King." On one side of the of be built in Washington so the are willing to crowd in, a few more founded the Brethren of the Sword. and colleges of mines. Plaza Mayor rises the cathedral with federal government's priceless papers may be taken along. The new order was well named. It lofty twin towers. Pizarro is said its may be kept in safety. killed where it could not convert, have laid the foundation stAies. to While the Constitution is the most though slaughter was not the main object His is now exhibited Inside mummy important document possessed by the after a foothold on the promising the structure. United Stales, the Declaration of Independence Baltic port was obtained. The "missionaries" Facing another side of the main comes first among our were satisfied to reduce the plaza is the old vice-regal palace, still great state papers In point of time and Down Goes the Prices on native population to serfdom, appropriate used for governmental purposes. Not probably in the hearts of the American the land, and build fortified far away is the oldest university In people. The original of this challenge HAY AND FEED towns and castles to uphold this miniature the western hemisphere, the Unlversldad to tyranny which, like the shot fired feudal system in® a land they de San Marcos, established more at Lexington, has been heard round aimed to exploit. than half a century before the Pilgrims the World, and has helped to mould But the Llvonlans are a liberty loving landed at Plymouth. In the Lima of monarchies and colonies into republics. people. They resisted despotism the present the classic old Universidad is in the hands of the department then, and many times later, just as shares the educational field with of state and is kept in a steel a year or so ago they rebelled against the thoroughly modern technical colleges case in the State, War and Navy Bolshevism. When their early oppressors devoted to engineering, medicine building, which adjoins the WhiteHouse became too severe they arose au'tl and agriculture. on the west. The original ot drove out the "missionaries." Later Lima and Callao, thought of vaguely the Constitution is locked in the same Livonia, and Riga, which became its perhaps by many as somewhere near case, which may therefore be considered capital, espoused the Christian religion the i.orthern end of South America's the steel Ark of the Covenant and the Order of the Sword Pacific coast, are approximately 1,000 of the government of the United merged with the Teutonic Knights and =UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE= miles south of Panama—as far from States. continued to operate in other quarters. tl:e isthmus as Key West is from Nova Washington's farewell address may Though,Prussia's political hold wax Scotia. Though only ten degrees south fairly be considered one of the greatest shaken off Riga, it maintained its of the equator, and therefore well papers produced in the 145 years economic -ties there, and individual within the tropics, these cities, due of the republic's independence. This Hermans usually have been important to the dryness of the western slopes document is not owned by the federal factors in its commerce. This phase of the Andes and to the cold Humboldt government, but is kept In the New ..consummated of German, influence was Current that washes the coast, have, York public library, at Forty-second when Riga, in the thirteenth an equable climate. The temperature and Fifth avenue. Street of century, became a member the Hi summer- (December to May) seldom to out ^as a The next paper stand great trust Hanseatic league, the flrst rises above degrees Fahrenheit, 80 a national inileposf in the shaping of v. hich for two centuries controlled and" in winter rarely falls below by policy is the message to congress of practically all the tirade channels degrees. 60 Monroe President Monroe proclaiming the of continental Europe north the Alps.^ Doctrine. The original message -modern aspect of medieval $1.40 The third Is in the of the senate in £he VALPARAISO, WHERE OUR files Rjga to be found in the famous is OATS—SO pound sack.... capiroi building^at Washington. "Blackheads." It was this body FLEET VISITED Tlie Gettysburg address of Lincoln, $1.50 soon came to have the civic which Importance, Valparaiso,-home of Chile's naval scrawled in longhand, is in the library and apparently many of. the BRAN—per 100 pounds .......... academy, was visited recently by the of congress at Washington. of a chamber of commerce functions, United States^ Pacific fleet while the $1.50 of trade today. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation or board Atlantic fleet Ivas anchored at Callao, is in the library of the state department Originally it was organized by the SHORTS—per 100 pounds Peru. young traders who came to Riga,, as in Washington, and there The harbor of Valparaiso, while not $2.00 too are ail the treaties entered into a social club, to afford fellowship. In so remarkable as that of Rio de Janeiro by the United States, from that ot addition to the needful board and GROUND CORN—per 100 pounds. where tropical verdure runs riot with the French and that of fodgings during their sojourn. Since 1778 1788 among granite crags, nor so idyllic as $2.00 the members were mostly young men, which closed the Revolution, down to vivid, sun-bathed Naples, still deserves the present. Among these perhaps progressive, and somewhat assertive, WHOLE CORN—per 100 pounds.. to rank with them and three or four the most interesting are those which they took their name to distinguish $22.00 others as the most beautiful and striking themselves from their elders, or grey have contributed to the great territorial of the important harbors of the beards. Naturally Ihelr table talk growth of the country. TIMOTHYHAY-perton. .. ... world. It is no detraction to say that turned to ways of promoting business, $17.00 Valparaiso's name—"Vale of Paradise"—is #.• MM »j» and soon the club became, in effect, an not merited. Such a name eV V# e!W+ V« organization for a "Bigger, Better and 1 CAR UPLAND per ton suggests soft lines, rolling greensward, Busier Riga," as the modern trade body PROFESSIONAL CARDS I flower-strewn meadows, shady paths, 85 }f would phrase It. noble groves. The beauty of Valparaiso 3 CARS NO. 1 TIMOTHY HAY From the beginning of the World is more austere war Riga was an objective of the 4 Sailing into Valparaiso the voyager JOHN H. BROWN Central powers, because of its Importance enters a wide semi-circular bay flanked *1 as a focal point for the lumber Attorney at Law by high capes. On a narrow level from White Russia and Volhynia, the Office over O. M. Carr & Co. strip of ground that borders the enrv-, "1 flax from northwestern Russia, anu International Falls, Minnesota ing shore line is the well built business other products from a wide area with n. & section of the city. Behind and which it has rail and water communication. J. J. HADLER above this level portion of Valparaiso Its pre-war prosperity is Indicated tower bluffs and steep seml-arld hills. by the growth of its population Lawyer These highlands once hemmed in the from 102,000 in 1867 to than more International State Bank Bldg. old city, but modern Valparaiso has 500,000 in 1918. The Falls Lumber& Coal Co. burst its bonds* Fine castle-like residences International Falls, Minnesota now cling to the slopes of many KLAGENFURT: A SELFDETERMINED of the hills or perch upon the edges NORTHERN^MINNESOTA AREA il of the bluffs. HOSPITAL £'Valparaiso has a population of 280,000. The Klagenfurt area, the only region Phoie SI International Falls, Mian It is by far the most important In which a plebiscite was provided for Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and South American Pacific port, and the in the treaty between the allies and „4 Sturgeon fas -Charge annual value of its commerce exceeds Austria, has been retained by Austria Office Phoae 39 Hospital Phone 79 that of Montevideo on the Atlantic as a result of the vote which was taken Office Intl State Bank Building coast. several months ago. Falls/ While Beunos-Aires. and- Montevideo International Minnesota When the cfazy-aullt patch work of v?