llwlSlfi INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX E THE HARVEST JUG How a Blind Mendicant Aided Cupid Farm Bureau By HAZEL SMITH. ((£). 1921, Western Newspaper Union.) With the magic of a smile Walter Davis ruled all the little world of Milville. He had started in at the bank as messenger, and at twenty-two, bright, intelligent, energetic, had PICNIC worked his way into the favor of every person connected with that institution from-the president down to the janitor—save one. The exception was Bruce Lowell. He seemed always to have envied Walter his rapid advancement and popularity. If the light-hearted Walter had more closely scanned the surface of affairs, he would have noticed that Lowell scowled at him most particularly when he was in the company of Viola Merton, the daughter of the president of the bank and the belle of the town. Walter was always doing kind things and making other people happy. It was ipo marvel to anybody, therefore, when one day, going home to supper from the bank, he stopped to When daddy's worhin' in the field, I always play that If speak to a blind man slowly making \m one his big halves-ten, 'En lift the jag up high. o' his way along the street. 1 drink, 'en drink, 'en drink until, I'se t'fall t'even sigh. "Can help you, friend?" inquired Walter, in his warm-hearted, impulsive way. is the destiny of women to become "Why, yes," replied the beggar. "I FEMINISTS ARISE IN PERSIA members of the congresses and parliaments want to be set right on the road to AT THE of all the countries of the Clyde." Required Insist That Veils Are No Longer world.—San Francisco Chronicle. "Why don't you take the train?" and That Women Are asked Walter. Independent Thinkers* "Because I have no money," was the ^1 ROME HOME OF GLUTTONS blunt response. That feminine fashions will not be "But I have, and there you are!" Watrous Place coerced by law, even though prison Table of Ancient Emperor Vitellius cried Walter, handing the mendicant sentence be inflicted, was the opinion Said to Have Cost Him a two-dollar bill. of Prof. Jenabe Fazel of the Queen's $1,500 Every Day. "Hold on," spoke the blind man. university of Teheran, who addressed "I want to know your name, anyhow," Very little is known of the food of members of the California club recently persisted the mendicant. the ancient Egyptians, authorities say, on the feminine movement in "Walter Davis." after explaining that the dwellers in Persia. "I'll remember it. This is the most the Nile valley were so fond of their While some American and English timely help I have ever received." cabbage that they deified it. women were being imprisoned for The parting benison of the blind The Romans raised a great hurroo asking for the suffrage, their progressive man, however, did not follow out. In about the art of the Athenian cooks sisters in Persia were filling the stead, bad luck, indeed, came to the they captured, history records. But prisons because they insisted on leaving young bank clerk. The following day At Pelland the delicate aroma of the Grecian pot off the veil. The unveiled became the manager of the bank called him was never meant to satisfy the thick such a majority that the jails in Persia into his private office, serious-faced Roman palate. Rome, in its pursuit were overcrowded and in despair and somewhat distant in his manner. of physical pleasure, discarded its the government acquiesced. That "Davis," he said, "I am sorry to tell A cabbage and sought for rare and delicate women may appear on the streets of you that you will have to take a leave viands. Pollio, It is said, fed the Persia without the veil imposed by of absence until the return of the flesh of human slaves to his fowls to WEDNESDAY the state religion is regarded over president of the bank, Mr. Merton." invest their meat with a new flavor. there as a great triumph in the emancipation "Why, what does this mean?" exclaimed Emperor Vitellius' daily market expense of womanhood. Walter, staring vaguely. was $15,000. At one banquet he Professor Fazel, who holds the chair "Just this: Only yourself and Mr. dispensed 2,000 kinds of rare fish and of philosophy in the only university Merton have keys to the bank. Coming 7,000 bird species. His table cost for women in Persia, spoke in musical from another town late in the him $20,000,000 for one four-month Persian, his sentences being interpreted morning, I have found no use for one. period. To arouse their jaded appetites. as he went along by Mirza Ahmad Last night someone entered the bank it is written, the Romans ate Sohrab, former secretary of the and removed the money and notes we brains of humming birds, tongues of Persian legation at Washington, and keep in the cashier's box. It is not nightingales and roes of the rarest likewise a believer in the emancipation usually locked up in the vault, as the fish. of the women of the Orient. Both sum it holds is generally small. However, Testamentary to the skill of the are followers of the Bahia philosophy, Grecian cook is the story of the fish the notes and some two hundred JUNE 29th through the teachings of which the dollars are missing." which was so much of a sport and Persian women attained what independence artist that he smiled in admiration The matter was plainly put and of thought and action they in the face of the chef who was frying Walter could not rebel. •enjoy today. him so deftly and with such flavor. Walter kept up a brave front. Innocence According to the Persian savant, it armed him against real fretting, and hope made him cheery and bright as usual. "I have good news for you," announced his lawyer, appearing at the Davis home just after dusk one evening. YOUR BOY He was quite excited, and he had a companion at whom Walter glanced curiously and then recognized. Is growing inch by "Why, I've seen you before," said Inch. Get him started Walter. "Yes, you gave me some help about in the right direction a week, ago," replied the blind man. "I happened in town today. I learned by opening a bank account of your trouble and I found your lawyer. Come, bring your lunch and for him. His "Go ahead, Mr. Lawyer. You've described first banking connections that fellow, Lowell. He tallies. Give me a sight of him." help to make it the biggest may have a It was a moonless night. Suddenly, as they turned a corner, they came positive influence upon his success in life. The conservative face to face with Bruce Lowell, strolling along by himself. The blind business experience of the officers this of and best picnic ever held in man took a step forward, bent his bank should make it your choice. glance on the approaching figure, and cried oat sharply. "That Is the man!" Koochiching county "You are positive?" questioned the 1 'W* lawyer. FIRST NATIONAL BANK "I'd swear to him anywhere," avowed the mendicant. "That man was one of two men whom I saw enter INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. the bank at midnight on the night of the robbery. The fellow with him S3 had a wooden leg." "What is this nonsense?" demanded Lowell indignantly, but pale and trem? t~ INTERESTING PROGRAM OF bling. "This man identifies you as one 0f PAINT the bank robbers, he replied says," the lawyer. "Why! but he is blind," exclaimed AMUSEMENTS BEING Walter. "Yes, day times," said the mendicant. FOR EVERY PURPOSE— "I am what Is called a nyctalops—I can see at night." ARRANGED The next morning the lawyer remembered Inside and Outside House Paint that Lowell had a relative Automobile Paint there, an ex-convict, who had but one leg. The man confessed to the crime. Boat Paint Lowell was given his walking papers and disappeared. Somehow the Kalsomine story got out. When the banker and his daughter returned to Mlllvllle, It was to learn the whole story. We carry the Old Reliable Brands—Minnesota Linseed "Yon seem always making people Everyone Invited happy," said Viola a few evenings 00 Paint Co. and Certain-teed. later, referring to the blind man, whom Walter had sent again on his way rejoicing. "I wish I was as fortunate as you." Falls Lumber & Coal Co. "Do yon really?" asked Walter earnestly. "Then begin the good work, by telling me that you will make me. the happiest of men by returning PHONE 81 my love." "Oh, Walter," confessed Viola impulsively, "I did that long ago!" j(I v"1 'jy 'I 1 •mmmmsmmm "T i'-ni r'fiv