*3 ys 'INTERNATIONAL FALLS SHARKS TAKEN OFF NEW YORK .« «, HOW ARE MMlfiHIX JEAJLLEN1 THE BROCADE BAG VERY IMPORTANT Their Capture Said to Have Been a 'K' Regular Thing Prior to and During Year 1815. By KATE EDMONDS '. V^.- A shark nowadays even on the most 'S'^} t'%J 4 exposed beaches of New York and the 1*21. bjr McClur* N«wapap«r Syndlcato. Many Things to Consider That metropolitan area is a rarity and a Olive swung the bag carelessly as ess?® May Have Decided Bearing curiosity, but there was a time when she walked it was a beautiful thing, these fish used to be caught off Catharine created of oriental brocade in peacock on Home and Business. slip, says the New York Sun. shades. Larry Deane had given it to This was about 1815, when the fishing her on her. birthday, shortly afte* smacks and fish cars used to unload their engagement, and she cherished FERTILITY MOST DESIRABLE and load off this wharf in the East it above all her treasures save the river and the dead fish thrown out into beautiful cluster of diamonds on her the water used to attract the sharks. finger. An old man, Sam Way, a porter in Essential to 8ueeess of Enterprise Is "The cord will break and you will the old Catharine market, earned a lose the bag," cautioned Larry. High Quality of Live Stock— reputation as a master shark catcher. "It is quite strong," retorted Olive Look, to Source and Dependability "Shark around the slip," was the quite unpleasantly. of Water. cry that was raised when a shark was "I don't suppose it would matter if sighted off the pier and then Sam you did lose it," went on Larry ia a (Prtprnd by the United States Department would drop his broom and put out his Agriculture.) frigid tone. chain hook and soon would have the The wise selection of a farm is vital Olive pondered provokingly. "There giant fish struggling on the dock. He to the success and satisfaction of farm are some really precious things in it— is said to have hauled in as many as life. Choosing a farm often means my vanity case, my gold purse, the *even in one day, some of them fourteen choosing a place In which to live and philopena gift Joe Watterson gave ate, feet long. work for a lifetime. It is important,, one of his letters, and—" Devoe, the historian, tells an incident of course, to decide wisely In buying for "Isn't that enough?" glared Larry, which is passed on herewith without Investment, says the United States Department for they had been disagreeing about confirmation: of but in making Joe's attentions to Olive. Agriculture, "One day Sam hooked a big one and a selection for a "home is doubly it As he helped her out of the car at is This Germany's most powerful dreadnaught battleship, the "Odin," built jast at the end of the war.' he climbed into a skiff which lay tied important to consider various features It is now a freighter. The 'VDdin" is shown steaming Through the Kiel CanaJ with a deck load of locomotives. her home and she released her hand, to the end of the slip the shark took that may have a decided bearing on he discovered that she had left the to pulling and broke loose the skiff the farm business or that may make cluster-of-d^amonds ring in his palm. with Sam in, and away he went down the home life attractive. He grew white and stared at her. FREIGHT RATE CUT jection by Com. Babcock of a proposal community. It has been flooded for the river at race-horse speed, nearly "You mean that, Olive?" Home and Business Inseparable. as far as Red Hook before he tired SAVES ROAD FUNDS from railroad officials of a plan to a quarter of a century by certain elements "Of course." The home side of the question must out, or Sam could hold him up. He, grant special rates in individual cases. from eastern and southern "Why?" always be kept in mind, for the farm however, mastered him and brought Saving of approximately $250,000 on The commissioner insisted upon a Europe people who have no desire at "You do not trust me—you are home and the farm business are inseparable. him back, and Sam after that concluded Jealous." the 1922 construction program of the uniform cut applying to all rail lines all to learn American manners or The desirable farm from a not to be run away with again. "I am sorry you believe that—I Minnesota Highway Department is in Minnesota and was successful. American customs. Indeed, their set business standpoint many times is So he stuck to the raft or dock when said nothing until you criticised my virtually assured by a 20 per cent reduction intention is to retain their own customs found undesirable if it has no social he fished for 'shark' thereafter." dancing with Ella—well, what does it NEW YORK NOT or community advantages. On the in freight rates on road materials and manners. And inasmuch matter? If you really cared you could other hand, desirable living conditions ordered this week by the state AN AMERICAN CITY as there are millions of them in New PAID BIG PRICE FOR TITLES not play with happiness in this way. are. of little or no advantage unless railroad warehouse commission and York and vicinity they are steadily, To many of us living west of 'the Good-by," he said, and drove madly supplemented by a successful farm made public by Commissioner Ivan Hudson river—westward to the Pacific—the irresistibly, forcing their ways, their down the drive. White Men in South Africa Hardly business. Bowen. city of New York has customs and their ideas of morality Recompensed by Appellation of On the veranda, Olive watched him In selecting a farm it should be Brave and Noble Indunas. with unbelieving eyes as he went Charles M. Babcock, state highway and living on the people around them. loomed up as a place of wonders, as borne in mind that it requires a farm the gray car became a blur because commissioner, upon whose petition a city of divers immensities and mysteries. The only restraining influence is the business of considerable/ size to provide she was crying. When her mother Their adventure in Swaziland is the lower rates are ordered, made the AH this has been impressed large Irish population of New York. an income that will merely cover inquired why she wept, Olive confessed told by .a doctor who just returned estimate and said it is conservative. on our minds by plays, movie shows Say what you will of Tammany Hall maintenance charges, and that these that she had lost her beautiful a from ten years' sojourn there and It will mean a saving of about $1,000 and its galaxy of bold Irish politicians, charges are relatively larger for small and stories in which, as a matter of brocade bag. who, with two other white men, was farms than for large ones. A farm a mile on paving, $400 a mile on gravel-surfacing fact, the thrills and cleverness of New the absolute fact is that it is "How careless," chided Mrs. Dare. made sub-chief in the Swazi tribe of must be of such a size as to furnish for which materials are York were almost entirely imaginative. they who are keeping the metropolis "Perhaps it is in the car, dear. Shall South Africa negroes. The white uien most of the supplies needed in the shipped by rail, and other corresponding from being turned over, body and I telephone to Larry?" were not eager for the experience, farmer's living, such as garden and "No—no—please do not 1 I have savings, he said. Anticipating a There used to be a popular song on soul, to these strange, unwashed, unAmerican and the initiation was far from an fruit, and enough income to pay the given Larry back his ring—and I've freight rate decrease, Mr. Babcock directed the Bowery, once a filthy "joint" elements from the less civilized inducement, the rule requiring that taxes and running expenses. Unless, lost his bag—and—I—never want any that all highway contracts be they should spend ten days of purificatory district in New York where everything sections of Europe. however, there is a margin above these of them back again," announced Miss exile from human society, in so drawn that any savings would reert went. It ran like this: annual maintenance charges no progress Dare in a wavering tone. uative dress, with only native weapons, to the state. can be made toward accumulating WHY DEBS WAS PARDONED "You have lost something very precious," "The Bowery! The Bowery! depending upon their skill in the a surplus. "Commissioner Bowen's announcement remarked her mother sadly. use of these for food. The doctor told They say such things and do strange Another feature which the farm of the reduced tariffs means that "The bag didn't have much in it— with considerable feeling how they things A good many editorial writers are seeker should see to is that prospects there will be available this year an Just a bread-and-butter note from Joe were stripped by the leading mediine On the Bowery! The Bowery! printing columns of analyses of for crop yields are more than sufficient Watterson and a few other things." additional quarter of a million dollars man of every shred of clothing I'll never go there any more." Brother Daugherty's long statement to balance the cost of production. "I did not mean the bag—I meant iriven Swazi warrior costumes an I to enable the highway department The Bowery has gradually been Soils of low fertility are handicappedsome of his reasons for recommending Larry," was Mrs. Dare's quiet reply. onducted into the hills. They weiv to further spread and speed the are found to be a positive liability lost, lost in the immensity of a new Deb's pardon. Being a lawyer, Brother Mr ten by insects, scratched by thorns benefits under Good Roads Amendment if it is necessary to farm them. It is Daugherty didn't give the real "Some bird," ejaculated Larry, as iw.en at night, scorched by day, tin-. No. 1," said Mr. Babcock. Bowery, which new Bowery is practically well to inquire thoroughly into crop the little gray car poked along through reason in bald, blunt English sentences, are leel bruised and abraded una. Proceedings before the railroad and the whole city. yields, not only those that have been a pleasant byway on the road home. iiiey were in agony, kept in constant and the editorial writers, although obtained on the farm itself for a period warehouse commission followed re­ New York is no longer an American His gaze was fixed on a bit of brilliant the .ear of many poisonous snakes— they knew the reason, prefer to beat of years but those realized on adjacent blue-green perched in a shad most of hungry. In spite ut, all, oi about the bush also. farms. bush beside the road. tutoring in native methods Tunga's The real reason? Equally essential to the success of taking game, the white men, used "Olive's bag!" he ejaculated, recognizing of Precisely this: The American government the farm business is high quality of to depending upon the rifle for such it with a pang, and the little the live stock enterprise. To handle gray car stopped abruptly. Larry took Feature Articles preferred not to give the extremists purposes, nearly starved. However, live stock so it will pay for feed, care, when the chief medicine man and his the bag from its perch and studied a chance to make Debs a and labor is more than a mere matter the gorgeous peacocks woven into the assistants came to conduct them back matyr. of management, for it is dependent to the kraal of the queen, the famished, fabric. She had said Joe Watterson's Both Debs and his friends wanted dirty, desperate looking white letter was there—ruthlessly he pulled him to remain in prison at least two Written Expressly For The International Falls Press the bag open and looked the golden men, with ten days' growth of beard, or three years longer. You see, there purse, the foolish pencil Joe had given were acclaimed brave and noble Indunas. are millions of foreigners in this country These are Big, Vigorous, Vital Messages, Inspiring, her—it looked like a stick of peppert who are easy picking for smart mint candy—some letters which ho Educative and Sensational. American agitators and the latter recognized as his own—and one penciled Hibernating Fishes. scrawl which might be Joe's. were rapidly making the foreign Cold weather has a marked effect We have the Exclusive Right of Publication of These Suddenly he did not care about Joe. brother—and sister—feel that Debs on some of the fresh water fish at Articles in This Community. His own letters made the bag precious the aquarium of the New York Zoological was very badly treated by "the rotten to her—naughty little thing. Just then society. When the temperature American government.". he heard footsteps, hurrying. Articles In This Issue of the fresh water flowing through the Then, too, there are lots of simple Larry hung the bag on the shad tanks of the aquarium falls below 40 Americans who think little and who "INSURANCE HIGHEST FORM OF CONTRACTS" bush and the little car scampered to degrees, certain fish become very carry their hearts on their sleeves. By Thomas W. Blackburn, Secretary and Counsel, a bend in the road aad waited breathlessly. sluggish. The young yellow perch lie These are willing to believe more in Larry peered through the underbrush. American Life Convention, Omaha, Neb. quietly at the bottom of the tank, the fact that "Debs is SUCH a kindly as evenly spaced as if put there by "YOUNG MAN COME EAST, IS ADVICE"— It was Olive. man" than they were willing to be^ their keeper, and take little food. A She was hatless and there were By Chas. H. Cox, Governor Massachusetts. of lieve in the law and the constitution of low temperature affects young black traces of tears on her soft cheeks and bass In quite a different way. They the land. her lips were very pathetic. stay poised somewhere above the bottom, Debs didn't get his fervent wish. Sad Next Week When she saw the brocade bag she but crowded close together. Fifty to say. they ousted him from jail before A Deserwu wrenard Farm in the uttered a soft cry of pleasure, and or more will often gather in a compact "INSURANCE SOURCE OF STRENGTH TO NATION"— he could be thoroughly matyrized. Northwest—The Owner Failed Because snatching it from the bush, hugged It mass, all facing in the same direction. Inasmuch as a free, well-fed of Poor Soil and Lack of to her lips. The aquarium has several Irrigation. "You dear, dear thing!" she sobbed, jaw-smith doesn't produce large gobs tanks of young black bass, all groups By W. L. Alexander,. Secretary Equitable Life "you are all that I have left—" of sympathy, we believe you'll find of which show the same curious habit. not only en cheap roughage, pasture, Assurance Society. That Is what she really said, for the good-natured Mr. Debs will be market, and securing labor at reasonable Larry had stolen upon her and heard rather peeved for quite a while just rates, but alao on the quality of Didn't Play the Game. her just in time to hold her very tightly because he couldn't continue to sleep Watch for these articles written by the nation's the animals kept. She is a young woman of artistic In his strong arms. under prison auspices. talents and makes a snug bit of Crop land. In itself, Is of little value leaders. They will appear in every issue of the International "Is it too late for happiness, dear?" change manufacturing dainty bits of unless It is so situated that It can be he asked the repentant girl. Falls Press during the coming year. made to yield profitable returns embroidery and fancy work. She was Press want-ads bring results. Try "Not—If you can forgive my folly," displaying samples of her handicraft through the use of labor and she whispered. them and be convinced. in her home, the purpose being to sell machinery. farm of 180 acres, "Then—iet us say It will never happen her wares for Christmas gifts. valued at $100 an acre, may he a much again—and the ring Is In the The other day an interested caller better purchase if practically all of bag—" looked over the various displays. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE SCALES the land can be put to some profitable At last when they were seated in "Here are some bridge table covers use, than another farm of 100 acres, the car and Larry had started It, Olive that many of my patrons admire," at $50 an acre, of which large areas turned swiftly. said the young woman of artistic talents. are practically useless, owing to "What was that sound?" streams, and swamps that cannot be Larry said he didn't know, but I "Not for me," the prospective customer drained, or rough stony tracts poorly think he suspected it was a quiet replied. "I only play euchre." suited even for pasture. chuckle from the sympathetic little —Indianapolis News. gray car. Another factor is ease of cultivation. If the land Is very steep or broken it Seek Cheap Power Alcohol. is not practicable to use improved Regular Zoological Garden. Gasoline users will be interested to machinery and it is often difficult to Wm swiped this question from a contemporary know that the search for cheap harvest the crops and remove them and asked some of tho sources of power alcohol still continues. from the land by the usual methods. wives for their answers to it: A recent writer in Nature This is particularly true in loading hay "What does your husband do?" suggests that foodstuffs are too valuable and grain on steep hills. Here are the answers: at present for such uses, but The experienced farmer in selecting He always is growling—he's a bear. thinks that waste land in Ireland a faun generally looks first to the He always Is barking—he's a tog. might be used to produce crops to be source and dependability of the water He Is always crowing—he's a utilized In this way. Arrowroot^ supply. He knows that a farm without rooster. cassava and corn are possibilities In and adequate supply of water la most He never says a word—he's a wise tropical countries and a number of undesirable. Attention should Be directed old owl. cellulose materials, such as straw and to the quality of the water, He la always saying neigh (nay)— sawdust, offer possibilities In Industrial the question of whether the supply 1a he's a horse. regions. dependable at all seasons of the year, He is always kicking—he's a milt and to the cost of obtaining it The He's always scratching (for moaaj) H, coat of upKeep and supply of water on Mummy's Wisdom. —he's a cat.—Cincinnati Enquirer "Mummy, may I have that chocolate a farm la often a big item Mi you promiaed me now?" Aa an aid to persona about to buy The Cynical One. K, "Bless the diild! Didn't I tell you farm land, the Department of Agriculture Constant Reader writes in to •ay you shouldn't have any at all if you baa published Farmers' Bulletin that be baa never aeen a deaf, didn't keep quiet?" 1068 entitled, "Selecting a Farm." and blind politician, paralysed in 7 "Yes, mummy." Copies of the bulletin may be had eTeigr limb, who wasn't honest.—Mcafo (C "Well, the longer you keep quiet the free by addressing a request to the American. eaexewr «eai Mk Awpoerwrs* so* eoh aeoner you'll get if—Brooklyn Eagle. department at Washingtoi xv -vie?!