The
Exceptional
Equipment
of the California Fig Syrup Co. and the
scientific attainments of its chemists have
rendered possible the production of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna, in all of its
excellence, by obtaining the pure medic
inal principles of plants known to act most
beneficially and combining them most
skillfully, in the right proportions, with
its wholesome and refreshing Syrup of
California Figs.
As there is only one genuine Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of Senna and as the gen
uine is manufactured by an original
method known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, it is always necessary to buy the
genuine to get its beneficial effects.
A knowledge of the above facts enables
one to decline imitations or to return them
if, upon viewing the package, the full name
of the California Fig Syrup Co. is not found
printed on the front thereof.
WESTERN CANADA
What J. J. Hill, the Great Railroad Mign&t*,
Bays About its Wheat-Producing Power)
“The greatest need of thin country
[United States] In unother genera
tion or two will be the pro
viding of homes for its
people and producing
euCicient for them. The
days of our prominenco
os a wheat exporting
country are gone. Can
ada is to bo the great
wheat country,* ’
This great railroad mag
nate is taking advantage
of the situation by ex
tensive railway build
ing to the wheat fields
ot,Western Canada.
Upwards of 125 Million
Bushels of Wheat
were harvested in 1909. Average
of the three provinces of Alberta.
Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be
upwards of 23 bushels per acre.
Free homesteads of ICO acres,
and adjoining pre-emptions of
160 acres (at $3 per acre), are to
be had in the choicest districts.
Schools convenient, climate
excellent, soli the very best,
railways close at hand, build
ing lumber cheap, fuel easy to
get and reasonable In price,
water easily procured; mixed
farming a success. Write as to
best place for settlement, settlers’
low railway rates, descriptive illus
trated “Last Best West"(sent free
Jon application), and other informa
tion, to Sup’t of Immigration,
Ottawa, Canada, or to the
following Canadian Gov’t Agents-. E. T. Holmes
815 Jackson St.. St. Paul, Minn.: J. M. MacLachlan,
Box 116, Watertown. Sonth Dakota, and W. V.
Bennett, 801 New York Life Building, Omaha, Neb.
(Use address nearest you.)
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•ole makers of the Genuine ^
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AGENTS—Get a g.ood steady job for the
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Write today to the Hawks Nursery com
pany, Wauwatosa, Wis.
FOR SALE—One section of good farm
land 11 miles from town, for $6 per acre.
Write. Terms reasonable. Ed Bergman,
Kimball, Neb.
RAW FURS—An absolutely Independent
buyer. No commission charged. One
shipment will make you a steady cus
tomer. A. J. Eekhoff, Nokomis, 111.
SIOUX CITY P'T'G co.71,324—5(7 1909
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The people who are training for the
passion play at Ooerammergau next
year are not worrying over the raise
In the price of hair cuts.
I
TIME TO GO.
He—Would you marry a man for hi*
money?
She—I wouldn't marry you for all the
money In the world.
Retribution.
From the Tatler.
"And so Cain cruelly slew his brother
Abel,” says the Sunday school teacher.
"And what was the penalty he suf
fered?"
“He married a woman in the land of
Nod,” answers the towheaded boy in
the end seat, "and he said his punish
ment was greater than he could bear!”
SKIN WAS ROUGH AS BARK.
Baby Boy Hail an Intense Itching
Humor—Scratched Till Blood Hun
—Found a Cure In Cuticura.
“Our son, two years old, was afflict
ed with a rash. After he suffered with
the trouble several weeks I took him
to the doctor, but It got worse. The
rash ran together and made large blis
ters. The little fellow didn’t want to
do anything but scratch and we had to
wrap his hands up to keep him from
tearing the flesh open till the blood
would run. The itching was Intense.
The skin on his back became hard and
rough like the bark of a tree. He
suffered Intensely for about three
mouths. But I found a remedy In
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment.
The result was almost magical. That
was more than two years ago, and
there has not been the slightest symp
tom of it since he was cured. J. W.
Lauck, Yukon, Okla., Aug. 28 and Sept.
17, 1908.”
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole
Props, of Cuticura Remedies. Boston.
The man who regularly compliments
his wife on her youthful appearance
and beauty, can carry both a latch-key
and corkscrew In his pocket and not
get found out.
WE PAY 11-13C FOR COW HIDES.
Furs are also very high. We sell traps
cheap. Ship to and buy of the old reliable
N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
The harm and charm of football play
ing are both likely to disappear under
a revision of the rules.
HELPLESS WITH RHEUMATISM.
. -
The Experiences of Mnny \\ no Do
Not Know the Kidneys Are Weak.
Jacob C. Bahr, 18 Broadway, Leba
non, Ohio, says: ‘‘For three months I
was helpless in bed
with muscular
rheumatism and
had to be fed. My
feet swelled, my
legs were rigid,
black spots flitted
before my eyes and
I was sore all over.
Doctors didn't help
me and I couldn’t
raise hand or foot.
To please my wife
I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills,
and in two weeks I was improving.
Then by leaps and bounds I got better
until well and back at work. After
such mortal agony this seemed won
derful.”
Remember the name—Doan’s. Sold
by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Some women are so suspicious that
when they are told they are ‘'sweet
enough to eat,” they are reminded that
some people eat lobsters.
Bud Doble,
The greatest of all horsemen, says: "In
my 40 years' experience with horses I
have found Spohn's Distemper Cure the
most successful of all remedies for the
horses. It is the greatest blood purl
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1 can supply you, or manufacturers.
Agents wanted. Send for Free Book.
Spohn Medical Co., Spec. Contagious
Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
It is more in accordance with the
eter. ’1 fitness of things to fight for
the best rather than hope for it.
Rheumatism and Neuralgia never could
i get along with Hamlins Wizard Oil.
! Wizard Oil always drives them away
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Some words are high sounding, but It
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40 years ago. They regulate and Invigor
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Lots of whole-souled men are obliged
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and wet le the first step to Pneumonia. Take Perry
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Unwholesome.
From London Tit-Bits.
Medicine Man—What is the matter
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i Cannibal King—Oh, I've an awful In
digestion!
Medicine Man—What have you been
: eating?
Cannibal King—I have Just polished
off an American millionaire.
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wonder you are ill! I’ve told you re
peatedly to beware of anything rich.
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Ode to a Grecian Urn.
Thou still unravished bride of quletnessl
Thou foster child of Silence and slow
Time.
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our
rhyme;
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about
thy shape
Of deities and mortals, or of both
In Temple or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What
maidens loath?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to es
cape ?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild
ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those un
heard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes,
play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but more en
deared
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst
not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be
bare;
Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss.
Though winning near the goal—yet. do not
grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not
thy bliss.
Forever wilt thou love, and she be fairl
Ah. happy, happy boughs! that cannot
shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring
adieu,
And happy melodist, unwearied.
Forever piping songs forever new;
More happy love; more happy, happy love!
Forever warm and still to be enjoyed,
Forever panting and forever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high sorrowful and
cloyed,
A burning forehead and a parching
tongue.
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar. O mysterious priest,
Leadst thou that heifer lowing at the
skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands
drest?
What little town by river or seashore.
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And. little town, thy streets forever more
Will silent be. and not a soul to tell
Why they are desolate can e'er return.
O Attic shape! fine attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens over
wrought,
With forest branches and the trodden
weed;
Thou, silent form; dost tease us out of
thought
As doth eternity: Cold pastoral!
When old age shall this generation
waste,
Thou shalt remain In midst of other
woe
Than ours; a friend to man, to whom thou
sayest;
Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that Is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to
know. —John Keats.
What Authors Have Earned.
Zola’s yearly income was $60,000.
Daudet’s "Sapho” brought $200,000.
Lamartine's "History" brought $100,
000.
"Paradise Lost” was sold by Milton
for $50.
Hugh Conway sold “Called Back” for
$400.
Chateaubriand's literary earnings
were $110,000.
Mark Twain In his lifetime has earn
ed $700,000.
Browning's earnings were about $10,
000 annually.
Hugo is said to have made $250,000
out of six books.
“The Wandering Jew” as a serial
netted Sue $20,000.
"King Solomon's Mines” netted $5,000
on Its first sale.
Goldsmith got 800 guineas for his
“Animated Nature."
Dickens left an estate of $400,000, the
result of hie writings.
"Uncle Remus” Harris has received
$100,000 for "Br’er Rabbit."
Tennyson received for his poetry be
tween $25,000 and $35,000 a year.
As an author Anthony Trollope re
ceived $500,000 during his lifetime.
Thomas Moore never made more
than $5,000 a year from his work.
For “Middlcmarch” George Eliot got
$40,000, and for “Romola" $35,000.
Macaulay's history brought the au
thor $100,000 during Its first 10 weeks'
Emile Rlchebourg used to get $20,000
each for his novels before they ap
peared In book form.
Scott earned from $50,000 to $75,000 a
year by his pen for several years. For
11 novels and nine volumes of tales h»
received $550,000.
George Ohnet received $10,000 for
"The Forge Master” as a novel, and
$15,000 from It as a play In the first
three months. Out of the play he made
more than $35,000.
vu yp
STRIKING AN AVERAGE.
Airs. Wabash—-You've been married 10
years, haven't youT
Airs. Sue Falls—Yes, just about 10
ysars. off and on.
Youthful Depravity.
From London Tlt-Blts.
At a railway station the other day "a
gentleman from the country” yielded
to the pressing solicitation of a per
sistent newsboy and bought a penny
weekly paper.
But Wiere was a difficulty—a shilling,
no change and the engine of the train
giving unmistakable evidence of a
spt4dy departure.
The bargain was about to be canceled
when the boy volunteered to get the
shilling changed Into pence.
"But,”*s;lid the gent, "perhaps you
will not return with the 11 pence.”
The boy’s face wore an injured look.
”lf you are afraid to trust me, sir,”
said he, and there was the least trace
of emotion In his voice, "you can have
the other II copies as security.”
Something suspiciously like moisture
came Into the old man's eyes as he
glanced Into the bright, open counte
nance of the boy, and he felt heapflly
ashamed of himself as he mechanically
held out his hand for the remaining
11 copies.
He watched the little fellow as he
trotted down the platform till he sailed
round a corner and was lost to sight.
Fifteen seconds later the engine gave
a final shriek and the train slowly
glided out of the station.
The man glanced round at his fellow
passengers and handed a copy of the
paper to each ^>ne from his pile.
He said nothing, but he seemed to be
thinking.
It is getting so that people can hard
ly go out for an auto ride without run
ning across some one they know.
To the Invincible Republic.
America: 1 have never breathed thy air,
Have ne, r touched thy soil nor heard the
speed
And thunder of thy cities; yet would I
Salute thee from afar, not chiefly awed
By wide domain, mere breadth of gov
erned dust,
Nor measuring thy greatness and thy
power
Only by numbers; rather seeing thee
As mountainous heave of spirit, emotion
huge,
Enormous hate and anger, boundless love,
And most unknown unfathomable depth
Of energy divine.
And as thou art vast.
So are the perils vast, that evermore
In thine own ..ouse are bred; nor least of
these
That fair and fell Delilah, Luxury,
That shears the hero's strength away, and
brings
Palsy on nations. Flee her loveliness
For in the end her kisses are a sword.
Strong sons hast thou begotten, natures
rich
In scorn of riches, greatly simple inlnds;
No land in all the world hath memories
Of nobler children; let it not be said
That if the peerless and the stainless one.
The man of Yorktown and of Valley
Forge,
Or he of tragle doom, thy later born.
He of the snort plain word that thrilled
the world
And freed the bondman, let It not be said
That if today these radiant ones returned.
They would behold thee changed beyond
all thought
From that austerity wherein thy youth
Was nurtured, those large habitudes of
soul.
—William Watson.
NEW RAILWAYS IN CENTRAL
CANADA.
American Settlers Welcome and
Doing Well.
The Portland Oregonian, of Port
land, Oregon, published a cartoon on
the immigration of U. S. people to
Canada, in Its issue of October 5, 1909.
The picture was accompanied by the
following article:
“Losing American Citizens. The ex
odus of American farmers to Canada
continues to be a phenomenon of the
first importance. More of them are
crossing the border this fall than ever
before, and they are flocking thither
from all parts of the country. Former
ly it was the Middle West alone which
thus lost the heart of its citizenship.
Now all sections of the Union suffer
aunc. l lie icgici vy nc cuum-'i
help feeling over the migration of
many thousands of excellent citizens
has an economic side which causes
some concern. The 70,000 farmers
who will go to Canada to live this
fall will take with them some $70,
000,000 in cash and effects. This Is by
no means a negligible sum, and makes
a very appreciable drain on our re
sources. But, of course, the most se
rious loss is the men themselves and
their families, who have forsaken the
land of the free and the home of the
brave to dwell under the rule of a
monarch.
“Why do they go? Naturally the
cheap and fertile land of Western Can
ada attracts them. Each emigrant goes
with a reasonable expectation of bet
tering his fortune. Indeed, in a few
years he may grow rich through the
abundant crops he can raise and the
Increase of land values. But perhaps
that is not the sole reason for the as
tonishing migration. There is a com
mon notion abroad that in Canada life
and property are appreciably safer
than they are here. Murders are not
so frequent, and are more speedily and
Burely punished. Mobs and the so
called ‘unwritten law' are virtually un
known in Canada. Again, the law Is
a vastly more ascertainable entity
there. Canada does not permit its
Judges to veto acts of a legislative
body. When a statute has been enact
ed it is known to be the law of the
land until it is repealed. This natu
rally imparts to Canadian civilization
a security and stability which we have
not yet attained.
“We must remember, in the same
connection, that the Canadian protect
ive tariff is far less exorbitant than
ours, and much less boldly arranged
for the benefit of special favorites.
Hence there is an impression, very
widely diffused, that the Canadians are
not so wickedly robbed by the trusts
as we are in this country. Reasons
like these sufficiently account for the
exodus of a body of citizens, whom we
can ill afford to lose, but they do not
much assuage our regret that they
cannot be retained in the United
States.”
Speaking of this, a Canadian Gov
ernment representative says that the
Americans who cross the border are
most welcome. The splendid areas of
virgin soil, a large quantity of which
is given away as free homesteads, lies
close to existing railways and to those
under construction. The railway lines
that are assisting in this development
are the Canadian Pacific, the Canadian
Northern and the Grand Trunk Pa
cific. The latter is built entirely on
Canadian soil, and has opened up a
wonderful stretch of land. Along this
line during the year about closed
thousands of American settlers have
made their homes. They have built
the towns, and immediately began as
factors in the building up of the great
Canadian West.
Agents of the Government are lo
cated in various cities throughout the
United States who will be pleased to
give any information that may be de
sired to further the interest of the
settler.
Mean Man.
From the Kansas City Journal.
The newest “mean man” story: In a
western county of Kansas the dead
body of an unknown man was recently
discovered. In his pockets they found
$100 in bank notes and a big revolver.
"What about it?" asked the Innocent
one.
"You would expect that they'd have
used that hundred in finding his rela
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the secrets of suffering, and they have been confided to Dr.
R. V. Pierce in the hope and expectation of advice and help.
That few of these women have been disappointed in their ex
pectations is proved by the fact that ninety-eight per cent, of
all women treated by Dr. Pierce have been absolutely and
altogether cured. Such a record would be remarkable if the
cases treated wero numbered by hundreds only. Hut when
that record applies to the treatment of more than half-a- mil
lion women, in a practice of over 40 years, it is phenomenal,
and entitles Dr. Pierce to the gratitude accorded him by women, as the first of
specialists in the treatment of women’s diseases.
Every sick woman may consult Dr. Pierce by letter, absolutely without
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a decent burial, now, wouldn’t you?”
“Sure.”
"Well, they didn’t,” Is the answer.
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A revision of the congressional rules
to provide for more open play would
lessen the frequency of such harrow
ing Incidents as the Kansas City
speech.
The Unfortunat® One.
From the Youth’s Companion.
Jean Paul Laurens, the famous
French painter, was the son of an hon
est cart driver of Toulouse. At on*
time when the painter was at th®
height of his Parisian reputation It
happened that two old women at Toul
ouse were talking about the Laurens
family.
’’Let me see,” said one, “there wer®
two boys, weren’t there?”
"Yes.”
"What became of them?”
"Oh, one’s a grocer right here In
Toulouse. He does a very good busi
ness.”
“And the other ene?”
"The younger one? He went off to
Paris and became an artist.”
“ii^ar, dear! And his father was
such a good worthy mani”
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