THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
Doans Saved My Life
"I Had Given Up Hope" Says Mr.
Dent, "But Doan's Kidney Pills
Cured Me Permanently."
"My kidney trouble began with back-
nene, wntcu ran on
nbout a year," nays
W. II. Dent, 2213
Reynolds Street,
Brunswick, Ga. "My
back got bo I was at
times unable to sleep,
even in a chair. Of
ten the pain bent mo
double. I would bo
prostrated and some
one would have to
move mo. Uric acid
got into my blood
and I began to break
out. This cot so bad
I went to a hospital for treatment. I
stayed thcro three months, but got but
little better. Dropsy tfet in and I bloat
ed until nearly half again my size. My
knees were so swollen tho flesh burst in
strips. I lay there panting, and just
about able to catch my breath. I nad
five doctors; each one said it was im
possible for mo to live.
"I hadn't taken Doan'a Kidney Pills
long before 1 began to feel better. I
kept on and was soon able to get up.
The swelling gradually went away and
when I had used eleven boxes I was
completely cured. I have never had a
bit of trouble since. I owe my life and
my health to Doan'a Kidney Pills."
Sir. Dent
Get Doan'a at Any Store. 50c a Box
EY
FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO, N. Y.
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Temple of Solomon.
The Temple of Solomon was begun
In the fourth year of his reign (B. 0.
1012), and completed seven years
later. Tho whole area was Inclosed
by the outer walls and formed a
square of about COO feet. Tho front
of tho porch was supported by two
great brazen pillars. One of these
was called Jnchln and the other Boaz.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT PIMPLES
Because Cutlcura Quickly Removes
Them Trial Free.
On rising and retiring gently smear
tho face with Cutlcura Ointment. Wash
off tho Ointment In five minutes with
Cutlcura Soap and hot water, using
plenty of Soap. Keep your skin clear
by making Cutlcura your every-dny
toilet preparations.
Free sample each by mall with Book.
Address postcard, Cutlcura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv.
Women "Man" Mall Vanfc
Seven hundred horses belonging td
the royal mall vans of Gren,t Britain
are "manned" and fun entirely by
women, under the guidance of a skill
ful veterinary surgeon. The sick
horses are groomed and cared for by
uniformed women, who wear ordinary
breeches and knee-long coats of dark
blue linen. Tho drivers of the mall
carts wear very smart uniforms of
dark blue serge, edged with red and
having brass buttons with the royal
cipher. Their dark blue peaked caps
have also a line of red and n badge
showing that they are on his majesty's
service.
Started Right In to Fight.
"They quarreled immediately after
the wedding ceremony."
"That so? While the guests were
there?"
"Yes, right In the presence of ev
erybody. It seemed n disgraceful
thing to do until I caught tho Idea."
"What was the Idea?"
"It seemed he wanted to convince
U of us that he was not marrying
her to escape war."
Doesn't Have to Buy Grain.
Teacher Thirty-three eggs at 55
cents per dozen Is what?
Pupil Outrageous, pa says.
Its Aspect.
"There Is nothing In that case but
tho bald facts." "Then how can the
lawyers spilt hairs over It?"
PARENTS
who love to gratify
children's desire for
the same articles of
food and drink that
grown-ups use, find
Instant
POSTUM
just the thing.
"There's a Reason"
1W
Mr
mWMM
Washington's Clear Right to Title, "City Beautiful"
WASniNGTON. Washington Is tho city beautiful. In this second decade
of the twentieth centurv It realizes the dreams of Its founders. LKn-
font's plans have not been adhered to literally, but thcro has been n general
hewing to tho lino In the years of city
building and no radical departuro
from the nrtlstlc designs of tho great
engineer to whom George Washington
intrusted the laying out of the nntlon's
seat nnd Its scope of development. It
Is today the capital they Intended It
should be perhaps surpassing In
grandeur the most roseate vision of
that primitive day. It Is the distinc
tive American city tho city of cities,
destined to become increasingly beau
tiful under tho continued prodigal, yet
wise, paternalistic care of n proud and generous government. People speak
of Washington as "one of the most beautiful cities in tho world." There Is
no exaggeration In such encomium. Indeed, It falls short of full truth or
adequate prnlse. World travelers today unhesitatingly give Washington equal
ranit witn Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires and nio. nnd some of thorn avow that
It eclipses all other capitals.
Beauty, however, Is not Washington's solllnry chnrm. The life of the fair
city Is altogether chnrralng. It is cosmopolitan. In its transformation It has
acquired n metropolitan air and carries It nnturally. B.v contrast tho pro
vincialism of Gotham stands out prominently, even glaringly. Washington
Goes not go tho mad pace of the greater city, docs not spend Its short days
In sordid money-making and Its longer, if flcicting, nights dining and dashing
to the thenters nnd' patronizing maudlin cabarets. Washington tnkos time to
think.
Congress Takes Care of Banners of "Besiegers"
HEN the soldiers are relieved from duty In tho siege of n town do the
seneschnls of the watch tower come down to a little postern gate nnd
open a wicket nnd take In the lenguerlng unes that thoy may store their
weapons within the walls of their
enemy city?
Such thoughts as these ran through
my head only a few nights past at
something that took place in the house
of representatives office building,
writes Earl Godwin in tho Washington
Star.
You know there are always a pair
of suffrage sentinels standing guard at
tho corner of New Jersey nvenuo nnd
B street opposite the front door of
tho house ofllco building. They stand
thero with their banners dny after day, day after day. I doubt If any mem
ber of congress or nny one of the thousands of men who puss those banners
by could repeat properly tho words upon the purple and gold cloth, but, of
course, everyone knows the women are emulating soldiers standing guard on
n battle line; that they are besieging congress and will not raise the siege
until congress capitulates nnd pays a ransom in tho shape of universal suffrage.
Well, It was n night or two ago that I saw a skirt switching into a store
room in tho house ofllco building, and as I passed the switching skirt I
looked further nnd beheld an old employee of the building nnd the two suf
frage sentinels. Tho employee had just opened the door with his key and the
suffrage sentinels were in the act of leaning their banners against tho wall,
to be stored there for the night.
Which Is to lnugh 1 The soldiers stand about tho walls all. day, besieging
congress; nnd then when night comes, down fall the besiegers' banners, nnd
one of those within the walls opens the postern gate and takes Into the bosom
of the city tho very ones who are besieging It, that their weapons nnd banners
may be safe against the morrow.
HEY Ml
Come OUT dff
Capital Is Waxing Enthusiastic Over Garden Plots
GARDENING will be tho principal sport In Washington this summer. At
vJ least that Is what H. M. Connolly, expert of the department of agriculture,
predicts. He says It will be more popular than golf or fishing. Just what tho
essentials of n successful garden are
Connolly cxplnlns:
"The first essential Is n gardener
who Is enthusiastic, willing and likes
the work. I met a man the other day
who had a plot 10 feet square and he
said if he could only find someone to
spado It up for him ho would tend to
m toty V v& K( L cT5 " nf forward. It Isn't likely that man
-m, w v v. . )i lckws i "would D n successful gardener be
. febAJf "o, 4k&i?&03B cause If ho was too indifferent to
r2v? wSX'r spade It up he would likely bo too in
different to enro for It afterward.
"The second Is soil. Of course, eomo soils are better than others and
make better gardens, but nil this talk about soils being too poor to make
gardens out of is bosh. A garden can be started on almost any sort of soil.
You can have a good garden on the stlffest sort of yellow clay or the most
porous sand. There Is no such thing ns a soil too poor for garden use.
"The third essential is the preparation of the soil. If you have n good,
rich loam that makes n fine garden you want to keep It In good condition.
You can plant rye on It in the fall, and put on a layer of manure, and then
spndo It under In the spring. It won't do any good to nut this layer on in
the spring. If you have a stiff clay soil that will not nbsorb water quickly
you should put coal ashes or something similar In the 'clay to loosen It up,
Then, you must spade It when It will crumble not when It Is soaking wet
or hard ns a rock. If you have a Bandy soil you want to get some loam In
It so that It will hold moisture.
JWfA eL
Possible Explanation of Old Mare's Queer Name
RICKETY old colored man had drawn his horse to a curbstone to let tho
circus go by. The ancient mnre stood with n dejected patience that
somehow, implied humiliation at hnving to force the season In a rakish hor&fr
bonnet that had ouco been blue und
red ginghnm trimmed with used-to-bo
white fringe.
A clrcus-wntchlng person who
happened to stand next, and who
knows n gentlcmnn when she sees one,
asked tho old man If he reckoned his
Iiorso knew she had on a midsummer
bonnet on a spring day.
"Yes'ra., Suttlnly she knows sho
got her bonnet on I County Cider nln't
nobody's fool. Yes'm. County Cider
knows she gotter bonnet on, nn fur
thcrmo', she knows why huh, huh!"
The person nlso knows a story when It comes her way, and knows wluxt
to do with It, so she remarked that tho mnre had n rather queer name.
"Well'um, we thinks County Cider got n vchy fine nnme. It como outer
a book. I don't know what it call ltse'f on the klver, but there was somo
mouty cur'us folks inside. Tho fust nn' fo'must one of nil of 'em cnlled
hlsse'f a lord which Is mouty scnn'lous for a wiira of tho uth to name hlsse'f
after tho Hebenly Mnrstcr, an' I don't enre who heahs mo say so, nuther an
this lord man ho wanted to mnhy a young wlddery lndy name of County
Cider. But, law, mam, sho took to her heels an' run nwny with a po' gen'man
an' that's how Miss Fan como to chrlsscn tho old mare, because sho run
nwny with her ono tlmo when tho two of 'em was coltish an' now little Miss
Fan an' all tho res of my white family has gone th'oo the pearly gntes, nn
my fus' wife dald, nn' my 'other not nigh the snmo comfort, no, ma'am an'
mo an' County Cider, wo Jus' pokes nlong togover. Much obleeged, lady
I'm powf'l thusty for n little dram."
And tho woman, having paid for her thread of yarn, wondered, ns she
reeled It on a pad, If tho pallid old mare's unmo could have started out as
arm
KEEPING THE CITY ANCIENT
ROAD
BUILDING
00D ROADS NOW IMPORTANT
Transportation of Raw Materials and
Finished Products of Far
reaching Importance.
nighwny authorities nro facing n
now public demand which must re
ceive at onco tho most careful study.
Every resource of tho country must bo
utilized to tho utmost and all unpro
ductive expenditures of money nnd en
ergy must bo stopped. Tho elllcicncy
of tho American army nnd navy will
bo fostered by greater efficiency nmonj?
those cnlled upon to bear tho financial
strain on our resources nnd to furnish
tho labor nnd material needed to sup
ply our armed forces.
Tho products of tho forest, mine,
farm and factory must bo supplied to
both nation nnd private consumer nt
tho lowest reasonnblo cost In order
that all may contribute their utmost,
Rothenburo, Germany, Requires That
New Buildings Shall Do Built
In Old Style.
Thcro Is less enmoness, more per
sonality, to bo found among tho differ
ent cities of tho German empire than
In nny other great modern state.
Often you can travel a few miles from
ono city to another nnd it Is ns If you
hnd crossed an International boundnry
and stepped Into n new land. This
fact Is duo in largo part to the fact
that German unity enmo so lntcv Mnhy
of these snmo llttlo cities were Inde
pendent nnd nutononious for ns many
centuries ns they hnvo been parts of
tho German empire for decades. They
have built up a tiny nationalism pe
culiar to themselves, flavoring their
Germanism with a spice that Is nil
their own.
Such n city above nil others Is Both-
enburg, llttlo red llothenburg, with Its
trim walls and towers, Its air of an
cient sleepiness carefully preserved, Its
10,000 good burghers, who are Itothen
enburgers beforo all else, says tho Na
tional Geographic Magazine. Almost
every Gorman cherishes a friendly nf
fectlon for llothenburg; It Is such a
homely, comfortable place, with a
neatness and a mtnlnturc tessellated
beauty that It Is denr to tho Gcrmnn
heart.
llothenburg Is n city almost every
house of which Is quaint and Interest
ing. Most of tho houses nro centuries
old, and when ono has to bo replaced
municipal regulations ordain thnt It
shnll bo replaced with ono that Is built
In ancient style, nnd blends harmoni
ously with tho whole. The flue disci
pline the burghers of llothenburg
lay upon themselves out of their own
nrtlstlc sense of the fitness of things,
rather thnn as a bnlt for tho tourists,
for as a matter of fact, few tourists
visit llothenburg.
TO REBUILD COUNTRY ROADS
Good Road Near Chicago.
whether It bo small or large, to tho
national defense. The transportation
of rnw materials and finished products
becomes far more Important than ever
before, for transportation charges form
a largj part of the cost of many es
sentials. '
Utility must be given more weight
thnn heretofore In reaching decisions
ns to road improvements and mere en
joyment, ordinarily n legitimate ob
ject for some expenditure of public
funds, must bo relegated to tho back
ground for a time. Our roads have uc-
qulred an importance ns ngencles In
national preparedness which calls for
a mobllizntion of our road builders for.
tho greatest efficiency In tho broad
transportation problems of the coun
try.
FRECKLES
Now Ii tho Time to Get Kid of These
Ugly Spot.
There' no lonitcr tho sllirlitrst need of
feeling aihamcd of your freckles, as tho
prescription othlne double strength la
cuaranteed to remove three homelv snota.
Simply get an ounco of othlne double
strength from your druggist, and apply a
little of it nigm nna morning ana you
iihould Boon lee that even the wont freckles
have begun to disappear, while the lighter
onei nave vanisnca entirely, it is leiaqm
that more than one ounce Ii needed to com
pletely clear the akin nnd gain a beautiful
clear comnlexlon.
if a aura to aBK ior mo qoudiq airenain
othlne. na thla la sold under cuaranteo of
monoy baok If It falls to remove freckles.
Aav.
Back to Earth.
Wo had n friend who had been pret
ty prosperous, but who enmo upon evil
days. We met him ono day and ho
said thnt ho was pretty close to be
ing busted, but ho was still hoping.
Then ho honked his horn, mournfully,
nnd drove nwny, nnd wo didn't seo
him again till tho other day when wo
bumped Into him on tho street, says
tho Cleveland Plalndenlcr.
"Hello, old scout I" wo said. "How
aro things breaking now?"
"Fine!" ho answered. "I'm on my
feet ngnln."
"Bully 1" wo exclnimcd. "How did
you do It?"
"Sold my car."
Tho Joko was so obvious that wo
didn't see It till after ho had gone.
Present Rural System Laid Out Hun
dred Years Ago Vast Change In
Traffic Conditions.
Tho nation's rural road system
needs rcplanning, Prof. Frank A.
Waugh of the Massachusetts Agricul
tural college, Amherst, Mass., today
told the delegates to tho convention
of tho American Civic association.
"Our present rural road system was
planned years ago and In somo sec
tions they were laid out a hundred
years ago," ho said. "Traflic condi
tions were vastly different then, the
automobile had not been invented nnd
a largo portion of tho crops produced
on ench farm were consumed or man
ufactured at homo. .
"Up to tho present time major im
provements hnvo been confined to di
rect trunk lines connecting largo cen
ters of population. Such roads, there
fore, are especially vnluable for tho
movement of heavy freight and nro
now being used extensively by auto
mobile trucks." ,
The Ways of a Mule.
A person who has harnessed nnd un
harnessed n mulo for months may for
get himself and stoop for something
at tho animal's heels. Then tho mulo,
docile for so many days, begins to kick
Whop tho luckless driver regains his
senses ho Imagines tho mulo had been
waiting craftily all those weeks Just
to get a good opportunity to kick him,
ImnoiiBnt to Mothers
Examine carefully ovory bottle of
GASTOIUA, that famous old remedy
for infunts nnd children, nnd seo that it
Bears the stf ,
Signature of UZz&tr7ZZZZfa
In Ubo for Over 39 Yean.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Cnstoria
Didn't Do It.
"Ho's always knocking tho married
men."
"Yes, I know It."
"Only a few years ago ho told mo ho
was Just crnzy to get married."
"That's right, hut It seems ho wasn'
qulto crnzy enough."
CLIMBED STAIRS
ON HER HAND
Too III to Walk Upright. Operation
Advised. Saved by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
TJitn TOimnn nnw rnlnna rritMrnna finrl
docs manual labor. Rend her story:
T?llitnnnr1. Tnd. "For t.wn vnnrfl I
was so sick and weak with troubles
from my ngo tnot
whon going up
stairs I hod to go
very slowly with
my hands on tho
Btcps, then sit down
nt tho top to rest.
Tho doctor said ho
thought I should
hnvo an operation,
nnd my friends
thought I would not
live to movo into
our now house. My
ilntiirhtnr nuked mo
in trv T.vrltn V.. PInklmm's Verrotnblo
Compound na Bho had taken it with good
results, i uta so, my wcuKncsa uib
nppearcd, I gained in Btrencth, moved
into our new homo, did all kinds of
f garden work, shoveled dirt, did build
ng and cement work, and raised hun
dreds of chickens nnd ducks. I can
not say enough in praise of Lydia B.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound nnd
it ineso incia are useiui yuu may puu-
ItaVt tVinm fnr flin hannfit. nf other
women." Mrs. M. 0. JOHNSTON.Routo
D, Box 190,' Richmond, Ind.
ECZEMA!
Money back without question
If HINT'S OUKK fnllB In the
treatment of ITCH, KCZKMA,
ltlNaWOnI,TKTTERorothcr
Itchltitr skin diseases. Price
60a nt druggists, or direct from
ft, b. Hienarai mentis ca. , siumis, hi.
DAISY FLY KILLER Sl??"8,
all file. N..i,ti..o.
orntmftnUl, eonv.nl.nt,
h.tp. LuM ill Muon.
Midi of tn.Ul, eui'ttplU
or tip T.r will not wll
et Injur, injihlni. CJo.r
tntovd .tTKllT.. BoUbr
di.l.ri, or Pent by
pr.M pr.ptll tot $1.00.
HAROLD SOMlPt, ISO DC KALB AVt MOGKLYN, H. V.
WntsonB.Colenmn,Wth
Ington.U.U Hoof free. Illgb
est retorenoei. Uett results.
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PATENTS
W. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 25-1917.
The Desired Effect.
"Mnssahl I sho' is In a phudlcky-
munt, snh," whined Brother Slewfoot
"Muh chlld'en hns dono got do
mumps, nnd got 'cm so pow'ful pom
pous tint yo' kin hear 'cm cl'nr ncrost
do streot. And I wlsht you'd plcnso
gtmino 'bout naffer dollnh, say, to buy
somo modlclno for 'em. When nil deni
eight chlld'en gits mumpln' at once,
do sound "
"Pshnw I You enn't hear tho mumps.
Slowfoot, you nro an nbnoralnnblo
linrl"
"Ynssahl And won't yo plcnso
gimme dat haffer dollnh for beln' do
most 'bom'nblo Hnr yo' hns mot dls
bright mawnln', snh? Uh-yawl Haw I
haw I" Judge.
DRAG IS FUNDAMENTAL TOOL
. ' i"
It Is Simplest and Cheapest of All Im
plements Not Difficult of
Operation.
Economy in rond building calls for
consideration of tools, consideration of
operntlon, and comparison of results.
On nil those points tho split-log drag
scoren n bull's-eye. It is tho simplest
nnd cheapest of oil road tools. And It
13 tho cheapest and easiest to operate.
And, when assisted by farm imple
ments, it can bo made to do anything
thnt needs to bo done in building tho
average curth rond; with results that
It is difficult to obtain with any other
tool, no matter how expensive It may
be.
Men learn more aH they grow older.
Women never grow older.
Twenty-Five Years'
Experience With This
Kidney Medicine
It is a quarter of a century since I in
troduced Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root to
my trade and they all speak very favor
ably regarding it, and some friends said
it is tho best medicine they have ever
used. The sale we have enjoyed on the
preparation and the splendid reputation
that it feels 1b a positive proof that it is
ono of the most meritorious remedies oa
tho market. Very truly yours,
P. E. DRITTON, Druggist. I
Nov. 28th, 1010. Jonesboro, Term.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer t Co.,
Binghamton. N. Y., for a sample size bot
tle. It will convince anyone. You will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor
mation, telling about the kidneys and blad
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores. Adv.
Long Enough and Cold Enough.
Tho winter that has Just closed was
tho longest n'nd coldest winter In 8-10
years, so It Is announced by tho "old
est Inhabitant in England." Well, wo
can eaBlly believe him, but Isn't ho
nn old fellow and hnsn't ho a wonder
ful memory? Provldendco Bulletin.
An ensv mnrk by any other nnme
would bo Just ns foolish.
Cnllfornla supplies one-qunrter of
nil tho fruit consumed by tho peoplo
of tho United Stntes.
Conducive to Happiness.
Good roads are more conducive to
human happiness than Kood diges
tion. You can coddle your digestion
with molted milk, but thcro Is noth
ing more certnln to convert n cow-
path Into a hard-surfaced highway
than brains, plus money, plus con
crete.
Patience Rewarded.
Pntlcnt work with tho drag when
ever necessary during tho season will
mcun more for our roads thun will
Canadian Farmers
Profit From Wheat
The war's devastation of
European crops has caused
an unusual demand tor grain
from the American Conti
nent The people of the world must
bo fed nnd wheat near $2 a bushel
offers great profits to the farmer.
Canndn's invitation is therefore
especially attractive. She wants
settlers to make money nnd happy,
prosperous homes for themselves by
helping her raise immense wheat crops.
can get a Homestead of 1G0 acres FREE
and other lands at remarkably low prices. During-many
years Canadian wheat fields have averaged 20 bushels to
the acre many yields as high as 45 bushels to the acre.
Wonderful crops also of Oats, Barley and Flax.
Mixed farming as profitable an industry as grain rais
ing The excellent grosses full of nutrition are the only
food required for bed or dairy purposes. Good schools,
churches, markets convenient, climate excellent.
There Is an extra demand for farm labor to replace the
minr roang men who bite TolnnWMirea far tbe war. Tbe
OoTernmenv is urging farmers to put ultra. aeresK" luto
sraln. Write for literature and particulars aa to roduord
railway rates to Hnpt. of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, at
W. V. DENNETT
Room 4, Dee Dldg., Omah. Neb.
Canadian Government Agent
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Mr
Countess Ida !
trying for bond Issues.