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Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for advice—it will be confidential. Legal Day of Rest. Tho New York court of appeals has given a decision sustaining the "one day-rest-in-soven” law that meets the strong approval of progressively minded citizens. The following sen tences are worth quoting: "We havo no power of decision of tho question whether it is the wisest and best way to offset these conditions and to give employees the protection which they need, even if we had any doubt on that subject. Our only inquiry must be whether the provision on its face seems reasonable, fair and appropri ate, and whether it can fairly be be lieved that its natural consequences , will be in tho direction of the better ment of public health and welfare, and therefore that it is one which the state for its protection and advantage may enact and enforce."—Chicago Eve* ning F’ost. Tearful Note. The Texas onion crop will be 187,220 bushels short of tho 1915 crop, though there has been an increase of 12 per eent in acreage, according to the esti mate of the department of agriculture Just made public here. The depart ment predicts that tho state will pro duce 1,935,972 bushels this year, about 55 per cent of normal. The total acreage of the state in 1915 was 8,943 and this year is 10,057. A man who thinks the world is growing worse imagines ho is growing better. Thousands Tell It Why daily along with backache and kidney or bladder troubles? Thousands tell you how to find relief. Here’s a case to guide you. And it’s only one of thousands. Forty thousand Ameri can people ore publicly praising Doan’s Kidney Pilla. Surely it is worth the while of any one who has a bad back, who feels tired, nervous and run-down, who endures distressing urinary disor ders, to give Doan’s Kidney Pills n trial. A South Dakota Cast) Mrs. O. Hanson. 158 „ ^ | Second 8t.. 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Come, or ! write for Free Illustrated Book Dr. WILLIAMS SANATORIUM MW UaireriityAT., Mhuuepoln.il fan. P| 1 F S IN A FEW DAYS No laying up—No koupita; |J eooratlon—N«^>ay c leai C T. Clement. M. D.. S33 Good Elk.. Ecu rdoiecc RUSSIA CRIPPLED BY I HYPHENATED CITIZENS j By Warlam Tcherkesoff, Special Petrograd, Russia, Jan. 17.—The Russian and foreign press have mentioned lately tho German Intrigues that are carried on to induce Russia to make separate peace, amt special attention has been drawn to Mme. Vastllchtkoff's mission from Vien na to Petrograd. In reality the arrival of this woman, who for the last 10 years has been living In Vienna was not very im portant and ended In a complete fiasco be cause she addressed herself to Rodzianko, tho president of the dutna, an enthusiastic supporter of tho war, who promptly In formed the police of her mission. But Mme. Vasillchlkoff and the persons behind her—the court of Berlin Is said to be as Interested In her success as Is the court of Vienna—did npt wholly miscalcu late, as In Russia, and especially In Petro grad, from the beginning of the war there has been a fairly strong party of high of ficials and aristocrats, in close touoh with the court and ministers, who all the time are pleading for an Immediate and sep arate peace with Germany. Russia Has 5,000,000 Germans. Without speaking of a few arehreaetlon arles and clericals whose direct Influence on Russian business Is not great, there la the powerful German nobility of Blvonla and Courland, which for the last two cen turies has played the greatest role In the bureaucratic and military organization of Russia. Besides, It must not be forgotten that Russia has nearly 6,000,000 Germans, who, wllh the exception of about 200,000 dissenters (Mennonites and others) In southern and southeastern Russia Trans caucasia, are all Germans In customs, language and sympathy. These are even more pro-German and pro-fatherland than the Germans In tho United Slates. The latter are citizens who In some towns and localities by their vote may have a certain Influence and a few thousands may he ready to go to extreme measusjrs to promote what they bclle'-o to be Germany's Interests. But tho Amer ican democracy Is welt able to deal with such cases. Petrograd Under German Influence. Quite different Is the condition in Rus sia. Since the second half of the reign of Peter the Great, and especially from tho reign of the three empresses In the Eighteenth century, the Russian court life, high officialdom ami ministers have been preponderate^ German. Minich, Klelnmlcbel, Totlebon. Nesselrode, Glers, Bunge, Schwartz, Sabler, Seyn (Finland's present oppressive governor general), ure some of the long list of German minls i 4 ♦ 4 A FIRE IS A GREAT 4 j 4 EVENT IN JAPAN 4 4 4 44444444444444444444444444 Samuel G. Blythe, In the Saturday Eve ning l’ost. A fire Is a great event In Japan. One would think that, Inasmuch as the flimsy construction of tho Japanese houses and their packing together make tires of al most dally occurrel ce—in the cities, at any rate—fires would have lost a portion of their novelty durln f the 10 or 15 centuries Japan has regularly been burning down. They have not, though. When tho lire bell begins to toll the whole population goes to the Are. I was In a Jlnrtklsha In Yokohama, on my way to the railroad station, when I heard tho clangor of a bell, and tho coolie who was drawing me shouted: "KwaJI! KwaJI!"—or what sounded like that—and displayed strong evidences of breaking in to a gallop. “Boro wa nani desu ka?” T Inquired po litely, remembering, from my phraso book —"what Is that?" "KwaJI!” he shouted—"KwaJI!” And so It fell out that wo wont to the flro—tho coolie, tho jlnrlklshu and myself— for I had no words to stop him except a very uncertain "Tomaru!" And ho did not choose to tomaru. Tho coolie galloped down one street and up another, and In 10 minutes I was In the midst of 20,000 people clad In every style of Japanese dress, and all running back ward and forward. Not a man walked. All ran. They wore so Interested and ex cited that 1 thought they must bo share holders In the shanties which were burn ing. A man dashed wildly to one end of the street, elbowing people out of Ills way. stepping on them, pushing against them: and then ho stopped, emitted a wild screech and dashed hack again. I say one man did that; In reality a thousand did It on each side of the four sides of the block In which tho lire was, unconoertert ly and in a casual and unhampered man ner. demolishing some small houses. Other thousands—many %of them—ran this way a few steps and that way a few steps, all hy-ali-ing. Not a man stood still except my self, and I soon got away, for the Japanese, frenzied with cxoHe ment. were bumping Into me from all bides Presently the firemen came. They dashed In from all quarters of the city, dragging little hose tnrts painted red and flying white and red flags. The hydrants In Yokohama are in man holes below the surface of the street. The firemen Joined In the milling throng. They ran back and forth, too. and the specta tors ran hack and forth after them. There was much shouting and gesticulation. Every fireman, whether regular or volun teer. seemed to ho a chief. They all gave orders that nobody obeyed, like a volun teer fire outfit In n country village at home. There was 10 or 15 minutes of this run ning hack and forth and shouting bv the firemen; then some tiny streams of water began to sprinkle on tho lire. Also, a few big engines began to squirt. Meantime the firemen were paying no attention to the houses on fire, but were trying to keep other houses from burning. A few of them tore slates from adjacent roofs and east them Indiscriminately Into the crowd. Women with bundles of household belong ings straggled out of the houses that might catch fire. More thousands came. For four blocks each way the streets were packed from wall to wall with excited j>oo plo, all running back and forth, and all shouting. The Essential of Sovereignty. From the Kansas City Star. ~Tou are no King at all,”’ said the Ear! of Salisbury to King Louis IX, of France, "since you cannot enforce Justice." The enforcement of Justice has been re garded always as the hall murk of sov ereignty. There Is really no other func tion of organized society than to see that Justice Is done between man and man, and between man and the state. Certainly, the ideal of justice and the fact of Justice vary with varying times and civilizations. But the sovereign power (which may be a pure democracy) lacks sovereignty in Just the degree that otto man or set of men can take an unfair advantngo of another, if a child does not get the pure air and food that is requisite to an equal chance fir sldengtli and life that any other child has the reproach can rightly be made 10 "King People” that was marto to Saint Louis: ' You ore no king at all. since you cannot enforce Justice." And so one eould go up and down the line in that broader conception of justice. lh,t eveu In the restricted sense of jus tice enforced hi count of law, the people ua no king a-t all If they do not hare .ha administration justice purely in Jnlr hands. And if* ,*stice Is In large noasure In the hand of privately paid! attorneys so that one man can get better service In "the king's courts" than some uthe • man. then tile sovereign power has been invaded. Tln.ro are those who say that Justice should no more he free and open equally to all in allotment of food" or the distri bution of clotlr’op and houses be free and be taken out or the f-«:d of individual ef fort. But these do not see that Justice Is the very breath of society, or Its life Correspondent of Chicago News. ters, field marshals and governors In Russia. Petrograd life always has been under German domination. Except for two short periods of liberal reform, at the begin nings of tho reigns of Alexander I and Alexander II, when English and French influence dominated. Russian education. In order to paralyze all liberal aspirations, was modeled on the German system with Its methods of crushing Individuality and independence. Germans, masters of Russian education, bureaucracy and court, have had their powerful Influence on the whole Russian state machinery. When the war broke out they found themselves In a very awk ward position, but they set to work at once to obtain a speedy peace and to par alyze the awakening of the national spirit and tho collective effort of the Russian nation, which has done such wonderful work under the guidance of Moscow and the zemstvos. German Influence Against Democracy. To obtain the support of the court and of high circles the German elements threw suspicion on the work of the towns and zemstvos and intimated that only a speedy peaco could save autocracy from tho demands of the awakening national spirit. Tho sowing of distrust against tho nation has been successful. The for mer minister of Justice, Shekeglovltoff; tho archbishop of Kiev; Dr. Dubravln, leader of the ultrareactionaries, and Mak lakoff, the former minister of the interior, publicly anathematized In the congress of reactionaries the work of Moscow and oth er towns and zemstvos, and called upon the minister to suppress It. The deputy, Alexandroff, said to the budget commission: "The war has taught much to the Rus sian people and now i<olItics Is discussed In the street. You ministers aro afraid of public forces, of the nnlons of the towns and zemstvos, who during tho ter rible retreat of our troops came forward, not for a political fight, but In order to support our army, which had to retire. Instead of appealing to tho nation, you followed tho advice of former reactionary ministers." Tills reproach was well merited, as the government, Instead of welcoming the splendid patriotic work of the municipali ties and zemstvos, has promptly acted on the request of the reactionaries and put tho voluntary organizations of towns and provinces under the control of the local governors and police. Germany has reason to be thankful. blood. Then do not sec that Justice should be free In courts of law; and that. In the field of Individual effort, It should be free In this parallel sense—that every man, woman, and child should enter the lists for food and shelter and clothing and happiness unhandicapped by conditions which he does not control. -- » -- The Russian Retreat. Charles Johnston In the North American Review. Russia has no intention of letting Germany keep the upper hand in this matter of weapons and munitions. Al ready from three directions new sup plies are pouring into her battle fronts. From the north, the port of Arch angelsk, which will very soon be sup plemented by a new ice free port on tha Lapland coast, kept open all the year by the warm current of the gulf stream which bends round the north of Norway, and in process of being joined by railroad to .central Russia; from her Pacific ports, whence a con tinuous supply—intercepted at a crit ical moment for Russia by the threat of trouble in China—is once again pouring along the Trans-Siberian rail road. a supply steadily increasing in volume, under the stimulus of Russia’s former rival and present ally on the Pacific, and from tho third source, the ’ machine shops and factories of Russia herself, which are being pressed to the utmost possible output by the very re markable movement which is popularly called “the mobilization of the Russian nation.” Whether yet a fourth source will shortly be added, coming through tho gates of the Dardanelles, is a secret which lies in the lap of the gods. A concluding word: Such is the re treat, as Russians see it. How, in their hearts, do the really wise and far sighted men in Germany see it? What face does it bear to them, with the early winter already upon them, the tlrst frosts announcing tho time, close at hand, when iron ground will make the digging of trenches well nigh im possible, when snowdrifts will pile mountainous obstacles in the way of their daily supply of munitions and food? They know, too, that Russia’s supply of men is well nigh inexhaust ible, while they themselves are near the bottom of the purse. Do thoy fore see already, with startling clarity, that their army of invasion has come to stay?—that the world war, as they prophesied, is really being decided on tho eastern front, though not in the sense of their prophesies? If there be men in Germany with genuine fore sight and wisdom, 1 think they regard the retreat of Russia’s armies with a dismay akin to terror. The Fusiliers Marins. Arthur Gleason, in the Century. "These sailor lads thrive on lost causes, and it was at Ghent they won from the Germans their nickname of ‘Les demoiselles au pompon rouge.’ The saucy French of that has a touch beyond any English rendering of ‘the girls with the red pompon.’ 'Les de moiselles au pompon rouge' paints their picture at one stroke, for they thrust out tire face of a youngster from under a rakish blue sailor hat. crowned with a fluffy red button, like a blue flower with a red bloom at its heart. I rarely saw an aging marln. There are no seasoned troops so boyish. I came to know their youthful throats. They wear open dickies, which ex pose the neck, full, hard, well rounded. Tho older troops, who go laggard to the spading, have beards that extend down the collar; but a boy has a smooth, clean neck, and these sail I ors have the throat of youth. We I must once have had a such a race in our cow-boys and Texas rangers — I level eyed, careless men who know no | masters, only equals. The forco of gravity is heavy on an old man. But marins are not weighted down by their equipment nor muffled with clothing. They go bobbing like a cork, as though they would always stay on the crest of things. And tiding on top of their lightness is that absurd bright red button in their cap. The armies for 500 miles are sober, grown up people, but here are play boy» of the western front.” Trank Avowal. Frcm the Washington St ir. “1 wUh to marry your daughter,” said the straightforward young man. “What do you wish me to do?” “Speak a good word for me.” “My friend. I’d do anything In my power I for you. But if you realized how little in ! tluence I have with mother and the girls, ' you'd realize that you are playing mighty poor polities ” A German substitute for sole leather withstood six week*' test of the se [ verest character. E GLOVED HAND] 'Detecti'Oe Story By BURTON E. STEVENSON [Tie HoIIaday Case," “The Marathon Mystery," “The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet,” etc. CHAPTER XXVII (Continued.) Godfrey walked to it, picked up a blotting book, which lay upon it, and turned over the leaves. "Ah,” he said, after a moment. “I was sure of it. Here is the final link. Have you a small hand mirror. Miss Vaughan?” She brought one from her toilet table and handed it to him in evident as tonishment. "What do you see in the mirror?" he asked, and held a page of the blot ting book at an angle in front of it. Miss Vaughan uttered an exclama tion of surprise, as she read the words reflected there: Mr. Frederic Swain, 1010 Fifth Avenue. New York City. If not at this address, please try the Calumet club. “ ‘Tall oaks from little acorns grow,’ ’’ quoted Godfrey, tossing the book back upon the desk. “But for the fact that you blotted the envelope. Miss Vaughan, young Swain would never have been accused of murder.” ”1 do not understand,” she mur mured. "Don't you see," he pointed out, “the one question which we have been un able to answer up to this moment has been this: how did Silva know you were going to meet Swain? He had to know it, and know it several hours be fore the meeting, in order to have those finger prints rea<!y. I concluded, at last, that there must be a blotting book —and there 11 is.” Miss Vaughan stared at him. “You seem to bo a very wonderful man!” she said. Godfrey laughed. "it is my every day business to re construct mysteries," he said. "Shall I reconstruct this one?” "Please do'” she begged, and mo tioned us to be seated. Godfrey’s face was glowing with the sort of creative fire which, 1 imagine, illumines the poet’s brow at the mo ment of inspiration. "Where did you first meet Silva?” he asked. "In Paris.” “What was he doing there?" “He was practicing mysticism. My father went to consult him; he was much impressed by him, and they, be came very intimate.” "And Silva, of course, at once saw the possibilities of exploiting an im mensely rich old man, whose mind was failing. So he comes here as his in structor in orientalism; he does some very marvelous things, by continued hypnosis, he gets your futher complete ly under nis control. He secures a promise of this estate and a great en dowment; he causes your father to make a will in which these bequests are specially stated. Then he hesi tates, for during his residence in this house, a new desire has been added to the old ones. It had not often been his fortune to be thrown in daily contact with an innocent and beautiful girl, and h« ends by falling in love with you. He knows of your love for Swain. He has caused Swain to be forbidden the house; but he finds you still indiffer ent. At last, by means of his own en treaties and your father's, he secures your consent to become nis disciple. He knows that, if once you consent to sit with him, he will, in the end, domi nate your will, also. “But you ask for three days’ delay, and this he grants. During every mo ment of those three days, he will keep you under surveillance. Almost at once, he guesses at your plan, for you return to the house, you write a letter, and. the moment you leave your room, he enters it and sees the impression on the blotter. He follows you into the grounds, he sees you throw the letter ever the wall, and suspects that you are calling riwain to your aid. More than that, Lester,” he added, turning to me, “he saw you in the tree, and so kept up his midnight fireworks, on the off chance that you might be watch ing!” Yes; that explains tnat, too,” 1 agreed thoughtfully. “When he realizes that you are ask- j ing your lover’s aid,” Godfrey continued to Miss Vaughan, “a fiendish idea springs into his mind. If Swain an swers the call, if he enters the grounds, he will separate him from you once for all by causing him to be found guilty of killing your father. He hastens back to the house, tears the leaf from the album of finger prints and prepares the rubber gloves. That night, he follows you when you leave the house; he over hears your talk in the arbor; and he finds that there Is another reason than that of jealousy why he must act at once. If your father is found to be insane, the will drawn up only three days before will be invalid. Silva will lose everything—not only you, but the fortune already within Ills grasp. “He hurries to the house and tells your father of the rendezvous. Your father rushes out and brings you back, after a bitter quarrel with Swain, which Silva has, of course, foreseen. Yon come up to your room: your father flings himself into his chair again. It is Silva who has followed you—who lias purposely made a noise in order that you might think it was Swain. And he carries in his hand the blood soaked handkerchief which Swam dropped when he fled from the arbor. "Up to this point," Godfrey went on. more slowly, "everything is clear— every detail fits every other detail per fectly. Hut, in the next step of the tragedy, one detail is uncertain—whose hand was it drew the cord around your father’s throat? 1 am inclined to think it was Mahbub’s. If Silva had done the deed, he would probably have chosen a method less oriental: but Mahbub, even under hypnotic suggestion, would kill only in the way to which he was accustomed—with a noose. Parden me,” he added, quickly, as she shrank into her chair, “I have forgotten how repellent this must be to you. I have spoken brutally." "Please go on,” she murmured. “It is right that I should hear it. I can bear It.” “There is not much more to tell," said Godfrey, gently. “Whoever it was that drew the cord, it was Silva who moistened the glove from the blood soaked handkerchief, made the marks upon your father’s robe, and then dropped the handkerchief beside his chair. Then he returned softly to his room, closed the door, put away the glove, cleaned his hands, made sure that Mahbub was in his closet, took his place upon the divan, and waited. I think we know the rest. And now, Lester," he added, turning to me, “we would better be getting to town. Re member, Swain is still in the Tombs.’ "You are right," 1 said, and rose to 24 take ray leave, but Miss Vaughan, her eyes shining, stopped me with a hand upon the sleeve. “i should like to go with you, Mr. Lester," she said. “May I?” The color deepened in her cheeks as she met my gaze, and 1 understood what was in her heart. So did God frey. “I'll have my car around in 10 min utes,” he said, and hastened away. “I have only to put on my hat,” said Miss Vaughan, and I found her wait ing for me in the library, when X en tered it after arranging with Sim monds and Goldberger to appear with me in the Tombs court and join in asking for Swain's release. Godfrey’s car came up the drive a moment later, and we were off. The hour that followed was a silent one. Godfrey was soon sufficiently oc cupied guilding the car through the tangle of traffic. Miss Vaughan leaned back in a corner of the tonneau lost in thought. It was just six days since I had seen her first, but those’ six days had left their mark upon her. Per haps, in time, happiness would banish that shadow from her eyes, and that tremulousness from her lips. Every battle leaves it mark, even on the vic tor; and the battle she had fought had been a desperate one. But, as X looked at her, she seemed more complete, more desirable than she had ever been; I could only hope that Swain would measure up to her. At last, we drew up before the grey stone building, whose barred windows and high wall marked the prison. “Here we are,” I said, and helped her to alight. Godfrey greeted the door keeper as an old friend, and, after a whispered word, we were allowed to pass. A guard showed us into the bare wait ing room, and Godfrey hastened away to explain our errand to the warden. “Won’t you sit down?” I asked, but my companion shook her head, with a frightened little smile, and paced nerv ously up and down, her hands against her heart. How riotously it was beat ing I could guess—with what hope, what fear. There was a quick step in the cor ridor, and she stood as if turned to stone. Then the door was flung open, and, with radiant face, she walked straight into the outstreached arms of the man who stood there. I heard her muffled sob, as the arms closed about her and she hid her face against his shoulder; then a hand was laid upon my sleeve. “Come along, Lester,” said Godfrey, softly. “This case is ended!” (The End.) How the Submarine Fails. Arthur If. Pollen, in the North American Review. The most questionable elment In the American program is the very large provision of submarines. Fifty fleet submarines and 85 coast submarines, which are to cost in all nearly $80,000, 000 make a vast hole in the half bilion that it is proposed to spend. As it is in many respects the most striking, so in another it is the most difficult item to criticise. Kssentially the submarine is a variant of the destroyer. Once within attacking range of an enemy it has what the destroyer has not, the power of delivering a daylight attack, remain ing itself almost unseen. But its in visibility does give it a function new to naval war. It has the capacity to pass through waters which are abso lutely commanded by surface ships—■ because it can pass them submerged and unseen. The use of nets, of mines and of pa trols—especially when assisted by air craft—these at any focal point which submarines coming or going must pass, can do much to obstruct their free passage. The highest submerged speed does not exceed the half-power speed of the slowest warship. The point is that if the ship Is armed the submarine must keep sub merged, and if it keeps submerged its maneuvering speed is low. Its capacity to get within striking distance is very limited, and its weapon very uncer tain. If the ship it intends to strike is both at speed and accompanied by de stroyers or fast craft, the area of dang er of the submarine and the intensity of the vigilance are increased, and the dancer from submarines becomes alto gether negligible. ‘‘Distance Makes Heart Grow Fonder.” In the Woman’s Home Companion appears an account of a husband who recently spent $375 in travel. From the standpoint of culture the travel prob ably did not do him any good, but from it he gained one thing of importance— a better appreciation of his home. Fol lowing is an extract from article: “He nnd she had reached that, state of mutual boredom that comes some times to people who have lived too close together and known each other too well. It seemed before he left as though they could not get on together, and she saw him leave without regret. But to her surprise the place seemed very lonesome after he had gone; and to his surprise he found himself roam ing hotel corridors, restlessly, vaguely yearning for the companiship that had so long been his life. And when at last he came home it was to discover that his home was the neatest, her cooking the finest, and she herself the most beautiful woman in the world. “We sometimes wish that the posi tion of 'traveling salesman' were not conferred on one man for life, but could be passed around, so that the lawyer, the doctor, and the preacher who have lived at home forever might each be separated from home at least once in a lifetime. It would add a wonderful freshness and zest to the comforts that too often become commonplace." “Freedom of Seas” In Baltic. From the Springfield Republican. One exasperation we have been spared because of distance Is the mining of our eoast. To appreciate the feelings of Eu ropean neutrals we should imagine a fleet of mine sweepers having to go out from New York every day to clear the chan nels for shipping. Sweden has Just under taken this dangerous task In order to clear the outlet of the Radio from the mines laid by the German navy which have blown up several Swedish ships, one of them in territorial Swedish waters. Exporters of flour have little trouble with their English customers, because they live up to their contracts, but ex porters of what are in hot water at Liverpool because much of their gralj has been below contract grade. Look and Feel j Clean, Sweet and Fresh Every Day Drink a glass of real hot water before breakfast to wash out poisons. Life is not merely to live, but to live well, eat well, digest well, work well, sleep well, look well. What a glorious condition to attain, and yet how very easy it is if one will onlf adopt the morning inside bath. Folks who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when they arise, split ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy by opening the sluices of the.system each morning and flushing out the whole of the internal poisonous stag nant matter. .KiVeryone, whether ailing, sick or well, should, each morning, before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoontul of limestone phosphate in it to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous day’s indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans ing, sweetening and purifying the en tiro alimentary tract before putting more food into the stomach. The ac tion of hot water and limestone phos phate oa an empty stomach is wonder fully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid ap petite for breakfast. While you are enjoying your breakfast the water and phosphatd is quietly extracting a large volume of water from the blood and getting ready f a thorough flushing of all the inside rgans. The millions of people who are both ered with constipation, bilious spells, stomach trouble, rheumatism; others who have saliow skins, blood disor ders and sickly complexions are urged to get a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from any store that handles drugs which will cost very little, but Is sufficient to make anyone a pro nounced crank on the subject of in ternal sanitation.—Adv. Statistics on Baths. In kinship to godliness, the Bronx leads. In estrangement from cleanli ness, Manhattan goes farthest. So stated the reports of the sani tary bureau, submitted to the board of health. An inspection of ail lodg ing houses except the municipal lodg ing house, where baths—alas for Man hattan lodgers—are compulsory, re vealed the fact that Bronx lodgers faithfully take their daily baths: Brooklyn lodgers take one in five days; and Manhattan lodgers take one in eight days. There were 3.000 in spections.—New York Times. SPEAKS UPTOR CANADA And No Wonder—Renting His Land He Made $8.50 Per Acre. So many Americans now have per sonal knowledge of Canada that false reports concerning this country are being continually corrected by Amer icans themselves who know the facts, and who aro too fair-minded to let a false statemont go unchallenged. A case in point arises out of a statement supposed to be made by a resident of Alberta, and published recently in the Spokesman-Review, of Spokane, in which the condition of settlers in this country was painted in a very bad way indeed. The writer of this at tack on Canada refused to let his name be known, so it can be taken for what it is worth, but Mr. S. L. Wallace, of N 4723 Crestline, Spokane, who lived for some years in Western Canada, came to the defense of the country in the following letter which was published in the Spokesman-Re view of February 11, 191£:— “To the Editor of the Spokesman-Re view; "In Sunday's Spokesman-Review was a letter from a man in Alberta to the chamber of commerce, asking that something be done to keep Americana from going to Canada, and saying that that government, was run by the rail roads, banks and manufacturers; that once a man got there he never could get away. Had this man published that letter over his own signature there is no aoubt hut he could get out of Canada. No country will do as much to help | a man to get on his feet, if he tries to | help himself, as Canada. I know of the government helping people to pro visions. feed, seed grain and fuel, and charging only cost of delivery to the nearest town and G per cent. What more could a man ask? I lived five years in Southern Sas katcliewan and earned a patent to 320 acres of as good land as I ever saw. I have raised over 10 bushels of oats on sod. 40 bushels of wheat, and 20 of flax to the acre. Until 1 lost my health l never was better satisfied any where. I had my land rented this last year for one-third. It brought me al most $S.50 per acre, or $1,143.91 for 135 acres. This man says he loves the land hia fathers died for. So do I, and I love the land that gave me my home. “S. L. WALLACE." N4723 Crestline. Spokane.—Advertise ment. I The leap-year girl who proposes tc " a wine bibber wins if she loses.