THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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Worlfi larartt tnanufaelurtrt ef Kocflna
ami llulldiHa l"aptr$
New York Cltr Boitia CUct Ftttitwik
PkiUdtlAU AlUala Clmtia4 Detroit
SI.Lnli Claclnnitl KautaCitj KiMtpeti
gta Fnnflco Seattle l.ndea lUmtnn Srdaer
Submerged Timber.
The strength of a hemlock stick a
foot square that had been in water for
almost forty years wan recently test
ed in tho G00,000-pound testing ma
chlno at Rensselaer Polytechnic insti
tuto nt Troy, in New York. Tho tim
ber, which was 1G feet 9 inches long,
had formed part of ono of tho piers of
tho Congress street bridge at Troy.
When tho pier broke down after tho
flood in the spring of 1913, the timber
was turned over to ono Qf tlie lnajq-rial-testing
laboratories of the insti
tute. I was kept in the onon air
$-i&?U?lSife n,j4 lIr pniced'In
a dry room foTa lFCiio more than nine
month's. "When pjneed In tho testing
machine, tho"calumn failed under a
load of 384,000 pounds; that is, tho
long-submerged wood showed an ulti
mate strength of 2.G70 pounds to tho
Bquare Inch. In the opinion of Prof.
T. It. Lawson, who conducted" tho test,
tho romarkablo strength of this piccj
of hemlock seems to show that be
ing immersed in water for a long time
does not decrease tho column strength
of timber tbit is subsequently permit
ted to dry out. Youth's Companion.
Couldn't Get It,
"I llko this quaint little mountain
vlllago of yours, wnlter. I suppose 1
enn got plenty of oxygen hero?"
"No, sir; we've got locnl option."
Sacred Heart Itcvlow.
THE PROFESSOR'S STATEMENT.
Prof. Aug. P. W. Schniitz, Thomas,
Okla., writes: "I was troubled with
Backache for about twonty-flvo years.
When told I had Brlgbt'u Discaso in
its Inst stages, 1
tried Dodd'c Kid
ney Pills. Aftei
using two boxes I
wns somewhat re
lieved and I stop
ped tho treatment
In tho spring of
tho next year I
hml nnnthor nt.
Prof. Sehmitz. tack. I went for
Dodd's Kidney Pills and they relieved
mo again. I used three boxes. That
is now thrco years ago nnd my Back
echo has not returned In its severity,
and by using another two boxes a lit
tle later on, tho pain loft altogether
and I have had no trouble since. You
may uso my statement. I recommend
Dodd'a Kidney Pills when nnd wher
ever I can." Dodd's Kidney Pills, 60c.
per box at your dealer or Dodd's Medi
cine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv.
Cruel, Too.
"I'm saddest when I sing."
"You're a durn fool to sing thorn."
Boston Evening Transcript.
How She Considered It.
lie So you arc going to consider
my proposal?
She I do consider it a joke.
school
J A Good Heart.
"George, where aro your
books?"
"When notices appeared that books
were wanted for tho wounded, I gave
mine to them." Humorstlcko Llsty
(Prague).
The Reason.
"Young Mrs. Millyuns certainly did
prove a devoted nurso to her husband
In his critical illness. She must lovo
him, after all."
"Love him, rot! She knows she
looks ilerco in black."
Too Much Singing.
Bill I see n clock built by a Call
fornla electrician plays a different
tune on a series of pipes for every
hour.
Jill That may bo nil right for a
man to sing at his work, but when
it comes to a clock I draw tho lino.
Nother Testimonial.
Gyer My brother has been greatly
benefited by patent medicines.
Mycr So? What klnddld ho take?
Gyer Oh, ho didn't take any. He's
a druggist.
Its Only Meaning.
Uncle Roger had been po'ly for
some time, and had tried with alacrity
every sort of patent medlcino he could
secure.
An old acquaintance hailed him
with:
"Hello, undo. How aro you'all now
adays?" "How Is I? W'y, baw8s, fo mos'ly
six munts a meal's vlttles aln' mean
nufiln' t' me, 'scusln' somepin tuh tako
medicine atter!" Judgo.
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Big Jobs
are gained largely by doing common tasks
uncommonly well.
But to do unusually good work of any kind,
fitness of body and mind are required.
Food plays a big part in this matter food that
contains true nourishment. And true nourishment
be it remembered must include certain important
elements which unfortunately are often lacking in the
ordinary dietary especially in white bread. These
elements are phosphorus, iron, lime, sulphur, etc,
stored by Nature in her field grains, and absolutely
necessary for building strong, vigorous bodies and
active brains.
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
made of choice wheat and malted barley, affords all
"the nutriment of these grains, including these important
mineral elements, in form for easy, quick digestion.
Grape-Nuts food is always fresh, crisp, sweet and
ready to eat with cream or milk.
Thousands have found that a ration of Grape
Nuts each day makes for real progress towards the
bigger things of life.
"There's ' a Reason1
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Plans of Washington Hostesses Are Disarranged
ASH1NGTON. The usual bugbear of Washington olTlclnl life has raised
its head again, and tho hostesses of that circle aro in despair over the
upsetting of their social affairs. Tho dispatching ot Secretary Lane, for In
stance, by the president to represent
him at the opening of tho California
exposition upset many a dinner list,
Tho Btory told by Mrs. Daniels, wlfo
of tho secretary of tho navy, anont
her own troubles In that way, istsomo
consolation to tho disappointed
hostesses.
Mrs. Daniols tells tho story on
herself, and nbout a dinner she gnvo
last spring for a diplomat, who was
Just urrlvlng or departing from this
post for another. Invitations woro
out nnd arrangements for tho dinner nil completed, whan Secretary Daniels
was obliged to lcavo town on official business. Mrs. Daniels called up Mr.
Bryan, secretary of state, and told him her predicament and asked him If
ho would not play tho part of host for her.
Ills reply was most dlsconcortlng, for he confessed that not only would
It bo Impossible for him to como, though he had already accepted the Invita
tion, but that it was going to bo his painful duty to tako her guest of honor
off to the White House.
Other regrots followed, and nt last on the night of the dinner only threo
quests arrived and they had to leave after tho second course, and Mrs. Dan
iels, who Is, by tho way, the soul of hospitality, found herself not only
hostess, but the whole company at her dinner tnble.
No Change.
Pollco Magistrate So you belong to
tho Smith tribe, oh? Whnt's your full
namo?
Prisoner John Smith, your honor.
Snmo as when I'm sober.
Tho American mnn's tobacco
Inst year was $1,200,000,000.
COLDS
and Catarrhal TtoubUt
Cured by Pe-ru-nn
A cold If aeute catarrh.
Parana la n rccognued standard
remedy for catarrh.
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Tho Parunm Co. Columbus, O
Beautiful- Pottery From a Valley in New Mexico
N tho latest publication of tho Smithsonian Institution Dr. J. Walter Fowkes
of tho bure'nu of American ethnology litis described nnd figured a collection
of beautiful pottery from the Mlnibre3 valley of New Merico dating back to
prehistoric times. This ancient pot
tery is tho first ever brought from
that valley to tho United Stntcs Na
tional museum, and is unrepresented
In other museums. Its importance
lies in tho fnct that a comparatively
largo number of specimens have hu
mnn and other figures painted upon
them and that they resemble those on
triQ popery from Cuaas Grandes, in
Mexico. '!-J;".7. 'i - -
As the former inhabitants of tho
Mimbros vallov have loft no tracoablo
descendants and as there uro no historical records concerning them, It Is
necessary to rely on a study of tho' archeologlcal remains for knowledge of
their culture.
The early dwellers of this land were Ignorant of writing, although they
cut on tho rocks pictures or plctographs, many, of which occur In tho Mim
bres valley near tho sites of old ruins.
The animal and human figures painted on tho pottery bowls aro very
realistic, and remain todny practically little changed In design and color oven
after tho lapse of centuries. Tho art shown in these figures was well ad
vanced; the drawings represent human figures, although there are many
mammals, fish and birds. The delineations of tho birds aro especially truo
to nature, and at the same timo quite realistic, though somewhat conven
tional. Geometric designs as well as symbols are characteristic and highly
instructive.
Ono of the bowls collected bv Doctor Fowkes shows thrco hunters follow
ing a deer, another depicts a hunter with a curved stick, evidently an archaic
weapon resembling tho throwing stick.
Tho stone tobacco pipes of tho Mimbros aro tubular In form llko tno
cloudblowers used in certain Pueblo Indian ceremonies. Thoy are mado of
stono and shaped llko our cigar holders. By sympathetic magic a cloud of
smoko resembles a rain cloud, and tho creation of tho former ceremonially
brings rain. A priest using the cloud-blower Is illustrnted on the Interior of
one of tho painted bowls.
Tho stono idols or fetiches collected In tho MImbres valley havo tno form
of frogs, bears and mountain lions, and aro similar to thoso found In ancient
ruins in Arizona. .
sold by Grocers everywhere
Wiley Boy Never Tasted Candy; Doesn't Want To
rp HERE is a little boy In Washington, tho son of ono of tho best-known men
JL in the United States, who has never tasted candy, Ico crenm or cako.
When he goes to parties, llko nil other little boys and girls ho' takos several
graham crackers and when his com-
lanlont. eat candy and cakeB nnd Ico
cream, ho eats crackers. And this
boy oes to Bcores and scores of
parties. Ho has never been HI and
is strong and healthy, with "hard
muscles," according to his father.
This little follow with thlB uniquo
record is tho two-and-oue-half-year-old
son of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former
chief chemist of tho United States de
partment of agriculture. And, be
sides, Master Wiley doesn't want any
of these delicacies. "Last May the Northern Pnclflo railway sent him an
eight-pound fruit cako with two gold-plated candles on 1U" said Doctor Wlloy.
"i cur. a smalt piece anil asKeu nun tr no wuni.ua some.
" 'No, daddy,' ho said, 'cako not good for your boy.' "
Doctor Wiley said ho was strongly opposed to feeding children sweets,
such as candy, Ice cream and enke.
"It makes children fat and It's a sin to bo fat in babyhood. We get
that way soon enough," added this big, stout man.
When the boy attended his first party, Doctor Wiley said, ho wont along
and when tho other children had lunch ho told his boy thnt sweets were not
good for him and that ho Bhould not eat them. The lad agreed, Bald Doctor
Wiley, and ate graham crackers Instead.
Irl (candy, FRUIT
bill
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Those of Middle Age Especially.
When you have found no remedy for the horrors that
oppress you during change of life, when through the long
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when your head aches constantly, you are nervous, de
pressed and suffer from those dreadful bearing down pains,
don't forget that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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Read what these three women sav:
From Mrs. Hornung, Buffalo, N. V.
Buffalo, N. Y. "I nm writing: to let you know how much your
mctlictno hns dono for mo. I failed torribly during tho last" winter
nnd summer nnd ovory ono remarked about my appearance. I suf
fered from a female troublo and always had pains in my back, no
appetite and at times was vory weak.
"I was visiting at a friend's houso ono day and she thought I needed
Lydia & Pinkham's Vegotablo Compound. I took it nnd havo gained
eight ixninds, havo a good appetite and am feeling bettor ovory day.
Evorybody is asking mo what I am doing and I recommend Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegotablo Compound. You may publish this letter if you
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get health frbm your mcdicino as I did." Jlrs. A. IIohnuno, 91
Stanton St, Buffalo, N. Y.
Made Me Well and Strong,
Maoedon, N.Y. "Iwns all run down'and vory thin in flesh, nor
vous, no appetite, could not sleep and was weak, and folt badly all
tho timo. Tho doctors said I had poor blood and what I had was
turning to water. I took different medicines which did not help mo.
hut Lydia E. Pinkhain's Vcgetablo Compound mado mo wolf nntl
strong, and I am recommending it to my friends." Mrs. Fhee
Uhaois, ii. sso. Aiaccuon, JN.l.
The Chance of Life.
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Boltsvillo, Md,
For SO years Lydia E. Plnlclmm's VogetaWo
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Known Something of tho Sea.
Naval ltoorultinB OIHcor (to actor
who lias applied to Join tho naval re
serve And what oxporlonco hnvo
you had?
Actor Quite considerable, I wns
two years a midshipman In II. M. B.
Pinafore, a lieutenant In half a dozen
plays and an admiral in the Chinese
Honeymoon. Ixmdon Opinion.
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"Is your mnld trustworthy?"
"Trustworthy? Why, J even
her the key to tho bread box!"
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Uncle Sam Starts War Against Adulterated Time
NCLE SAM has launched a pure watch movement. Henceforth If youi
time is adulterated It is your own fault. Out at thu bureau of standards
a uniquo serien of tests of watchon has been going on for months, but tho
first results havo jUBt beon tubulated
and the announcement that any
watch may bo tested at Uncle Sam's
timepiece laboratory has been madt
And lest sny friends jjrow sus
picious over your missing watch,
while tho bureau experts are putting
it in cold storage, in a hothouse, and
placing It on lis back, upside down
mid in other unusual positions to seo
If It stays on tho Job, Uncle Sam will
glvo you a receipt for it. After tho
test Is completed ho will hand you a
certillcato to show whether your watch Ih in Class A, Olaes H, or whethor It
tails to class at all with tho bureau's standards.
Uetter yet, it soon will bu possible, according to bureau plans, to ask for
a certillcato when you buy a watch Manufacturers already aro arranging
to send higher-priced watches to tho bureau of Btnndards, so that they muy
use the certificates thus gained as an Inducement to customers.
Hut this is strictly u proletarian movement so far as Uncle Snm Is con-
corned. Ho in not trying to Improve tho breed of watches ut the expense of
tho average man who must havo one, so his next step will to collect n num
ber of cheaper watchos and see how thoy stack up with tho more oxpenslvo
kind.
Not only will Undo Sain test your watch, but ho has got out a circular,
entitled "Measurement of Time nnd Tests of Timepieces," Bottlng forth
results of recent teats, and giving careful directions about tho caro of
watches, their proper winding, carrying, adjustment, placing when not, lu uso,
nnd even suggesting which Docket is best to carry your watch In.
Important to Wlothero
Examine carefully ovory bottlo ot
CASTOniA.asnfoandBuro romody for
infants and children, and seo that it
riniirfl thn
r, .
signature or KV ,&S,JZJA
In Uao For Ovor 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castpria
Flashes of Humor.
"Why aro you wearing glasses,
Blinks?".
"I waB noarly blinded by my daz
zling wit, Jinks."
Many a man who thinks ho Is wed'
ded to tho truth is a grass widower.
Don't Persecute
Your Bowels
Cut out cathartics nnd purgatives. They sr
uruiai, naran, unnecessary, i ry
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS
Purely vegetable. Act
gently on tho liver,
eliminate one, nm
sootho the delicate.
membrane ol the.
bowel, cur
coattlpallon,
Biliousness,
Slek MeiJ.
sche and Indlftstlsn, aa millions know.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
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W. N. U.( OMAHA, NO. 12-1915.
Yes, waiting for every farmer or farmer's
son any Industrious American who is
anxious to establish for himself a happy
home and prosperity. Canada's hearty in
vitation this year is more attractive than
ever. Wheat is higher but her farm land
just as cheap and in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
160 Acre Homesteads aro Actually Free to Settlors and
Other Land at From $15 to $20 por Acrs
The people of European countries as well as the. American continent
must be fed thus an even greater demand for Canadian Wheat will keep
up the price. Any farmer who can buy land at $15.00 to $30.00 per acre
get a dollar for wheat and raise 20 t6 45 bushels to the acre is bound to
mako money that's what you can expect in Western Canada. Wonder
ful yields also of Oats, Barley nnd Flux. Mixed Forming is fully as prof
itable an industry as grain raising. The excellent grasses, full of nutrition,
arc the only food required either fo beef or dairy purposes. Good schools,
markets convenient, climate excellent
Military scrv'ce Is not compulsory In Canada but there ii an unusual demand for farm
labor to replace the many young men who have volunteered for service in the war.
Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Superintendent
Immigration. Ottawa. Canada; or to
VV.V. Dennott, 22017(h St., Room
4, Uee Uulidino, Omaha, Nebr.
Canadian Govcrment Agent.