ous and simple.. Old MadJtfne Carter DESTROYING AMERICA TO 5 v4r^v-- one time had this country pretty well "Tefm, he S7i expecting Hr. Is had wished her wall Ward hid written RECONSTRUCT EUROPE bamboozled while under the spell of Fex to comeHarriet from college that he thought It .1 war psychology.—National Republican. smoothed her tumbled hair was frotten," and that she bad beat and went slowly downstairs. v' Professor -Irvin Fisher, of Yale University, a corker to get Dad to raise his allowance "But I love him!" she said, suddenly a for him Nina had felt her is fair sample of the proEuropean BIDS standlng stlll on the landing, FOR ERECTION OF SCHOOL own wings the stronger for "the propagandist in the Unjted CLOSE MARCH 31, 1922, at 2 F. M. PIPER to look out at the softly falling snow change and Richard bad interrupted States. He has just returned from with brimming eyes. "I love him with his little speech of regret to answer International Falls, Minnesota. ^Germany, where he went .to look into all "my soul !*V the telephone, and had given her a Sealed bids will be received up to the claim of a chemist that he had check that placed, It seemed to Harriet, A moment later she knocked at the the hour of two (2) o'clock, Friday, been able to procure synthetic gold, the obligation^ permanently with library door, opened it in answer to March 31, 1922, by the Board of Education by Kathl een Nornr which is a good deal like saying that his call and went In, closing It behind* hen The utter desolation of spirit for the Unorganized School District, he has been in Pittsburg examining her.- with which she had left them was evidently Koochiching County G. A. Olson, Clerk, International Falls, Minnesota, unshared the only word she a new perpetual motion machine. Ttifc for the erection of a consolidated had had from that old life had been CHAPTER X. Newspaper Enterprise Association is school building at Silverdale, from Mary Putnam, and even this cordial putting into circulation some articles Koochiching County, Minnesota. There was'trouble at Linda's house note jarred Harriet with Its frank by Professor Fisher on the world economic All bids must be in strict accordance trouble so terrible that Harriet's unexpected revelation of the change in her position^ situation,—the following extracts with plans and specifications prepared arrival caused no continent, give an idea of their drift: by Liebenberg. Kaplan and lCar•tin, caused no more than a weary flicker "I cant keep this up!" she told herself, Architects and Engineers, Minneapolis, of Linda's heavy eyes. Pip, the adored playing games with little convalescent "Sound economics demand that Minn., and must- be accompanied first-born son, lay dangerously ill, and Pip, walking over frozen roads ^epqriqKI' Ih| Kathleen Norris. by a certified check for five (5^fc) America should make further. the whole household moved on tiptoe, with the girls, reading under the evening per cent of bid as evidence that the loans to Europe instead of haggling heartsick with dread. It was diphtheria, lamp. "I can't keep this up! bidder will enter into the contract if &r-.V over war debts." "Sfr. Carter—what of your wife?" (Continued From Last Week) very bad, Fred stated lifelessly. Twenty-seven, and a governess, and awarded the work. His eyes met hers wearily. "If we nurse Europe along perhaps Linda hardly left the room they-were in love with a married man who does Plans can be seen at the office of 8YN0P8J9. "Divorce proceedings were instituted twenty years from now afraid for her, too, "if anything happened." the Clerk of the Board. not know I am alive!" summarized immediately it was definitely established "If anything happened!" there will be a prosperous Europe If plans other than the above are Harriet, bitterly. "I will simply have CHAPTER I.—Harriet Field, twentyeight gone young she had with Harriet thought she had' heard the desired for personal use by any contractor, to forget it, and begin again, that's yMura old and beautiful, la the aoenkl paying handsome dividends." Pope. be secretary of the flirtatious Mrs. Xea« The decree will absolute." he can receive them from the a phrase hundred times before thrdreadful all!" "War debts are practically belle Carter, at Crown landa," Richard architects on payment of $25.00, $15.00 night came._ "But that will not—cannot alter the And she meditated upon David, the Carter's home, and governeas of 17-yeareld hopeless anyway. "^lo reasonable of which will be returned on date of Nina Carter. Ward, twenty-four yean She had taken Lindas place for'arbour, situation—" Harriet ^faltered. excellent, steady, devoted David, who man in Europe expects any of the old and impressionable, fancies himself In opening bids if a bona fide bid is filed "You mean—" the man hesitated, lore with his mother's attractive secretary. but before it was up the mother was Fred's brother and a dentist In international war debts to be paid, and plans 'and specifications returned Mrs. Carter's latest "affair" la "you mean you—that you regard me "came back, and they kept their vigil Brooklyn, and who gave the children to the office of the architects. with young Anthony pope, and the youth excepting perhaps Great Britain's as married still?" la taking It very seriously. together. Fred answered the strange, wonderful holidays) at Asbury Park, The successful bidder must furnish debt to America and part of the Harriet, mute with emotions absolutely untimely, ringing of the doorbell, bond in compliance with the State laws, It would make Linda and Fred very CHAPTER II.—Presiding over the teacups German reparations. They laugh overpowering, nodded without this summer afternoon, Harriet Is to insure the faithful performance of brought In packages, conferred In the happy to have her change toward v. profoundly disturbed by the arrival or a speaking. in their sleeves at the idea. They the contract. halls with the doctors. Midnight him: they were a little hurt and silent visitor, Royal Blondln. Next day, at a "Will you—will you let me think think we abandoned them,—and The Board reserves the right to reject tea party In the city, Blondln makes himself came, two o'clock, four o'clock. about David. He always went agreeable to Nina, and leaves deep about It?" she faltered. A sudden any or all bids. they are willing to let us whistle Suddenly there was panic. Harriet, with them to the crowded beach where Impression on the unsophisticated girl. brightness came into his face. "You G. A. OLSON by chance in the hall, saw Linda for our money." they spent July and August, had had Clerk. Harriet's agitation CHAPTER III. know how I waa brought up to think and Fred and the doctors together, a car this year, Linda told her sister, "A great deal of these- (Eu^ ver the appearance of Blondln at March 16-23. over of divorce," she went on pleadingly. 'Crownlands'* is explained by the fact heard Linda's quick, anguished "Yes!" and had been "so popular." rope's) dangers and their reactions "I've made plenty of mistakes in my that he had been a disturbing element In and Fred's "Anything!"- Her heart David was there, Christmas day, and her life ten years before, and she fears on America and the depression In the Matter of the Adoption of Jackie life, but I've never deliberately done pounded the nurse ran upstairs. Harriet him. Is an avowed adventurer, there was afire and a tree, happy children The man Fahey by Ray Holler and May Holler, of our trade arje due to what I felt was wrong." living gullibility of the idle rich. on the fell upon her knees with a sobbing everywhere, -rosy little neighbors Husband and Wife. He frankly announces to Harriet Intention his the refusal of America to join the "And this would bfft" Richard asked whisper, "No—no—no!" and Linda of marrying Nina, who, as the coming in to see the toys, snowy wet slowly. League of Nations- YVithout us daughter of the wealthy Richard Carter, clung to her husband with a cry garments spread on the porch after DISTRICT COURT, la a highly desirable "cateh," and urges "Well—I haven't thought about it!" it has only a feeble power." torn from the deeps of her heart, MOh, church. David took Harriet walking Fifteenth Judicial District her to aid him. She Is In a sense in his She answered idowly. "My people— power, and after pleading with him to Pip—my own boy!" STATE OF MINNESOTA, in the fresh cold air, a Harriet so In short, because we went to the abandon his scheme agrees to follow a my sister and her husband—would Koochiching County. 1 beautiful in her furry hat and long policy of neutrality. say so I—I would have said so of rescue of the allies and saved them Petition of Ray Holler and Mary Dawn came sfowly and reluctantly coat, with her brilliant cheeks and her CHAPTER IV.—Harriet visits her married some other woman!" from defeat, territorial loss and the Holler, husband and wife, having been at seven the village lay bleak and blue eyes .shining under a blown film sister, Linda Davenport, with whom "This would not be an ordinary presented to the Court asking that imposition of huge indemnities, or at she had had her home during her unfortunate closed under a sky of unbroken gray. of golden hair, that Linda, a* *hebasted acquaintance with Blondln, and marriage you would be entirely your they be permitted to adopt Jackie Fahey, Here and there smoke streamed upward the ttarkey in the hot kitchen, the best an indecisive conclusion of tells her of his reappearance. The two a minor child, six years of age, own mistress," Richard said, with from a chimney, or. a windowpane women, realizing the unscrupulous nature couldn't help a little prayer that that the World war, we have therby incurred, whose father is dead and the whereabouts quiet significance. "It would be a of the man, view the future with apprehension. showed an oblong of pale light. would all come ou{ "right." justly as Professor Fisher and of whose mother is unknown, marriage only In the eyes of the Harriet put out the light that was "But, Davy dear!" Harriet and and which child has no legally appointed others of his ilk allege, not the gratitude, world." V.—Knowing the tender CHAPTER becoming unnecessary. Butlier heart David had stopped short In the exquisite, guardian, In but the ill will of the allies, because. feeling she has inspired Ward Carter, "I see," she said. "I—I must have was singing for joy, and the house silent woods. "There is a feeling—a Harriet is tempted to marry him for the And, C. W. Stanton, one of the Judges time to think about it!" having done this service, we he can give position and wealth her, was brimful of an Inner light and something that makes marriage of said Court, having made and filed does not love though realizing she him. "As long as you like!" She had refuse to use our capital to reconstruct cheer that no winter bleakness coul£ right! And I haven't it, that's all!" an order designating the time and with ^Blondln has ingratiated himself risen, and now he rose, too,. and went and Europe's economic system rather Madame Carter, Richard's mother, touch. The girl had been crying untH "How do you know you haven't?" place of a hearing on said petition., In of with her to the library dpor and she is wholeheartedly favor his she was almost blind, but It was a crying NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursu^ he said, smiling. "Harriet, if once than to restore our own, and, having marriage with Nina. Ward urges Harriet opened It for her. "When you decide once. mixed with laughter and prayers ant to said Order that a hearing upon to marry him at She procrastinates. you said you would, it would come, asked nothing by way of territory come and tell me," he said, bowing. said petition will be held at the City of utter thankfulness. ikarrlet," his arm was about her now, or indemnity while millions of square She turned to give him a parting of Bemidji, in said Judicial District, She met Linda at the door, a weary CHAPTER VI.—Angered at his wife's miles of land and ^billions of dollars smile, with a desperate wish to tell on Saturday, the 18th day of April, too open flirtation with young Anthony Linda, ghastly as to face, grayer as Pope, Richard Carter markedly shows his-' in money, materials and" shipping were him half the honor and joy she would 1922, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. to straggling hair, but with such radiance resentment. Isabelle, ardently returning (Court Seal) being divided up by our associates in feel In taking* his name, in sharing his her youthful lover's attachment, elopes in her eyes that Harriet, clasped J. H. DRUMMOXD, with him on his yacht, and pursuit Is responsibilities, but the pleasantly impersonal the World war, we now hesitate in her arms, began to cry again. useless. The news of the sensational affair, Clerk of Said Court. ncJd he gave her chilled the about paying the German indemnity exaggerated, of course, by gossip, "Oh, Harriet—If I can ever thank March 16-23-30. is kept as much as possible from being words unspoken. Harriet fled to her God enough!" Pip's mother said, beginning ourselves. public property. room. on her breakfast with one long Our associates in the World war CHAPTER VII. Ward Carter again "My chance," she whispered, pressing sigh. "Oh, my dear—! He's sleeping "THE DEVIL'S urges Harriet to marry him, but she cannot "laugh in their sleeves" at the thought her cold finger tips to her hot like a baby, God bless hlfn, and dear bring herself to an alliance with him of paying back the eleven billion, dollars cheeks, "my chance at last—and I /merely tor the s^ke of self-advancement, old Fred is sleeping, too. Oh, Harriet, and refuses. The fact of Mrs. Carter's they borrowed from the United can't take it! No, I can't take it—I to go about the house, as I just have, elopement becomes public. Harriet's capable don't care what his world does or managing hand Is more than ever States, although that money is what covering Nammy and the girls, and needed at "Crownlands," and despite the thinks—my world doesn't permit it! feeling that we're all going to be saved them from the loss of many complications she foresees as inevitable No—I can't. Not a divorced man, nota she decides to remain. happy together again, in a few days— times that amount as the result! of SHADOW" man with a living wife! I've been my dear, I don't know what I've done defeat in the World war. Nevertheless CHAPTER VIII.—Blondln puts pressure a fool—I've been wrong, plenty of on Harriet to forward his marriage with to be so blessed! My boy, who has it would be unreasonable for us Nina, but she makes up her mind to times, but I've never committed myself never given anyone a moment's care defy him. Richard Carter questions her to refuse to lend a few billions more to folly and wrong!" concerning her knowledge of Blondln's or trouble since he was born—my darling, to nations which are ready to repudiate intentions, and she, counsels active opposition She stared blindly ahead of her. who looked up at me yesterday to the match. The family, with loans made to tl^em in an hour After a while she spoke again, halfaloud: Harriet, move to a summer establishment with his beautiful eyes—" on Long Island. of dire necessity. The floodgates were loosed, and fi REV. A. W. MacNEILL "Oh, but why does It have to be Linda laughed and cried/ while she CHAPTER IX.—In the new home Harriet, It is our duty, in other words, to with Madame Carter and Nina, settle this way! If I could go to him, tell enjoyed her breakfast with the appetite impoverish America in order that the down for a vacation. In a frank talk him what he means to me, if we were with Nina Harriet endeavors to show her of a normal woman releftsed from financial and industrial fabric of Europe poor—If we could take a little place Blondln's unworthiness, but it has little cruel strain, whose whole brood lies effect on the infatuated girl. On Richard may be restored, and to join a Bethlehem nexfto Linda—never to see Nina or safely sleeping under her jroof. Nammy's Carter's insistence, Harriet is installed ^European League of Nations confessedly his mother or Ward or Roy again— as mistress of the household, but finding light Illness, Pip's wet feet, Linda's her position untenable, declares her feeble without us, by pledging unwillingness to believe that It intention of leaving. Richard makes.an offer of marriaare. as a way out of th* the wealth and man power of the was anything but a cold, every hour 1 situation, but Harriet, considering such a Church United States to the support of nations of the four awful djays of danger, she thin.sr impossible while Mrs. Carter (tbouEch divorced) is s.Ull alive, refuses reviewed them all. And oh, the goodness we have only made angry and and leaves the house.- To her old-fashior.ert of people, the solicitude of nurse tho fact that Richard Carter ungrateful by the hundred billion dollar "Harriet, His Arm Was About Her has been evrited a divorce from his erring and doctor, the generosity of God! expenditure we have already made wife rloos not free him from his mar'1 Now, His Voice Close to Her Ear, ipji. Hi marriage with him is imP0vr:1lle in their behalf- "Don't Let Those Years With Rich It was the afternoon of the next day People 8poil You for the Real That there are Americans who have Sunday Morning, 10:30 when Harriet could first speak of her "T* ilon't know how tKls will strike Thing, Dear." this conception of America's responsibility own affairs. Linda listened, over her you ft has occurred to me before. his voice close to her ear, "don't let and duty, seems astounding mending, nodded, pursed her lips, or Gardiner hintol It—or I thought he those years with rich people spoil you yet there are many of them, especially raised her eyebrows. did, and the more I think of it the for the real thing, dear!" If Linda might ever have been in seats of higher learning. They are more possible it seems. You are a She looked up at him,-v with something fousinpss woman and I am a business worldly minded, she had had her lesson just now busying themselves with a wistful in her blue eyes. Instantly now, and the viewpoint she gave man. You know exactly wha{ I am movepient to rehabilitate the Wilson she saw leap to his face the Harriet was the lofty one of a woman EVERYBODY INVITED exactly what occurred in my married brand of internationalism through the look he had hidden so many years life, after twenty-two years. That— who has faced a supreme sacrifice Wilson Foundation campaign and by shetieard a new ring In his voice. that sort of thing is over,' of course. without shrinking and with unwavering other means known to those who at "Ah—you darling! You will? You'll faith. But there is that way of settling it, 11 let me tell them—?" "You did right, dear," she assured you care to consider it—" "No, no, no!" Half-angry, halfsorry, hep sister. "You could not stay there, He paused, with a questioning look she put away his embrace. "I'll under the circumstances. Whatever -of encouragement, embarrassment and —Davy, I hate to spoil your Christmas their code is, yours is different, yours affectionate interest. Harriet had Feature Articles day—I don't know what to say' has not been vitiated by luxury and grown pale and had fixed her eyes I'll think about it!" /a Idleness. As for Mr. Carter's talk of upon his as if. under spell. She turned to go home. Her heart marriage, that, of course, Is simply an "You mean—" Her voice failed was lead within her. her. Insult!" Written Expressly For The International Falls Press "I suppose there's no help for it,** "No, I don't think It was that," Harriet "I mean marriage. I mean that you said, feeling herself' revolt inwardly she thought, in a panic. "LIndall and I shall quietly get married in a These are Big, Vigorous, Vital Messages, Inspiring, at this plain speaking. see—It'll all be out in five seconds!" few weeks, when I am free," he answered. "I don't see what else it could be" But Linda met them at the door, full "I have just indicated to you Educative and Sensational. of an announcement. Linda pursued, serenely. "A married what it would wean to me. I hope," We have the Exclusive Right of Publication of These man—you would be no better than his •'Harriet, Mr. Carter is here!" he added, watching her closely, as she Ml Love Him With All My Soul!" —well. It's not a nice word—but his "Mr.—who?" Articles in This Community. sat stunned and silent, "I hope that it mistress!" Back came the tide with a great would also have Its advantages to you. Oh, what heaven! How I should "love rush, nothing else' mattered. For a Articles In This Issue "Not at all," Harriet said, trying Your position then would be unquestionable, it, planning for things together, as moment Harriet was turned to stone. my mother—Nina—the world, hard to hide the irritation, that rose "LEGION F,OR PEACE"— Linda and Fred did, having him come Then in a dream of radiance ^nd de» would have nothing to say. Tour influence rebellious within her, "he Is legally home to me every night! By Hanford MacNider, Head of the America* light she wen|$fnto the little parlor, on Ward is the one thing that free, or will be soon, and so afa I!" "But'it isn't that way," Harriet suddenly Legion. and Richard Carter stood up to greet may save the boy. Of Nina we've "I am speaking of God's law, not recalled herself sensibly, "and her. and there was nobody else In the already spoken. My mother—I know man's," Linda said, gently but awfully, "LIFE INSURANCE, PAST AND PRESENT"— it is folly even to think about it! He world. Linda had introduced herself her!—would Immediately become the and Harriet was silent. "Fred-says is a rich man, and a married man, By RobL W. Huntington, President of Connecticut David was Introduced. Harriet glanced -champion of her son's wife. There that such men regard these matters and that ends it. That ends it." General Life Insurance Company. about helplessly he had not come would be a three days' buzzing—that far too lightly," Linda finished. Fred's Vv A great desolation swept her spirit. here to say "Merry Christmas," surely. would end It!" ,j name, thus introduced, always had the ——Next Week She fell from bitter musing to weakening. "I suggested that Hansen take the The swift uprushing of Joy An Harriet's effect of angering Hajrtet. She had The law permitted it, after ali. little people for a five-minutes' drive," shared the family exaltation over Pip's heart was accompanied with the "MAKES PLANS FOR MOTORIST HEAVEN"— Plenty of good women1 had shown her he explained, "and then I shall have first agonies of renunciation, was perhaps recovery, and had thought more than By Geo. C. Diehl, President American Automobile the way. The family needed her she to hurry back. I wanted to speak to once In that fearful night of his illness all the more poignantly sweet Association. might do good here. And above all, you on a matter of business, Miss that even poverty, gray hairs and the ^because of them. She had not come she loved him. Field. I wonder—since you're well to this hour wlthouf knowing what he agony of parenthood, shared with the "ONE ACRE OATS, ONE DAY'S PAY"— •v. She heard a stirring Iq. the bedroom. wrapped—if we might walk to the cor* man she loved, would have been ecstasy meant to her, this quiet man with the —A By Eugene Davenport, Dean, College of Agriculture, .• ser and meet them I'll only steal you to her. But in the slow days splendid mouth and the keen gray IWA* University of Illinois. "What time Is It, Ros»?" she catted, & from your family for five minutes." and weeks that followed, her spirit eyes, and she trembled now with fen suddenly aware of weakness, and was "Certainly!" Harr^t's heart became exhausted with the struggle exquisite emotion that seemed to fatigue. ___ Watch for these articles written by the nation's and all that never ended within her. Her singing. She was hardly conscious of drown, out all the past the fu- "My goodness, how you frightened h' was he what he"said it enough that leaders, ^hey will appear in every, issue of the International bridges were .burned behlnd- her lt ture—everything except that she4ove4 me, Miss Field It's Jutt noon." was to was all over. Whatever, her emotions had sought her frit," that she •rrWK him and he needed her But when sh^ Falls Prys during the coming year.. "Do. you happen to know if Mr. Car? as have him. had been in leaving Crownlands, the one1 more word with spoke it was as coolly fee* r, terJs stiU downstairs & Carters! feelings had been oiflte obvt (To be Continued^ Ut MZ wUm