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Your letter will be opened* read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence* Let the mind soar with the eagle rather than crawl with the snake. Good health cannot be maintained where , there is a constipated habit. Garfield Tea k overcomes constipation. Adv. Patient, “Is lie a patient man?” “Very. Even the telephone service doesn’t annoy him.” USE ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE ffTie antiseptic powder to be shaken into shoos ami sprinkled i??to the foot-bath. It relieves painful, swollen, smarting feet anti taUca the etingr out of corns and bunions. The greatest comforter ever discovered for all foot-aches. Sold everywhere, 25c. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, V.— Adv. Quiet Girl. Culler—That new girl of yours teems nice and quiet. Hostess—Oh, very quiet! She doesn't •ven (lislurb the dust when she’s clean ing the room. Realizing His Importance. Louis is the only boy, not only in the immediate family, but also jri the collateral branches. One night, sil bis nurse’s knee be said bis prayers aloud: “Now 1 lay me down to sleep. "I pray the Lord my soul to keep. “If 1 should die—” Pausing, be reflected a moment, and , then broke out: “Golly!” Wouldn't there be a row in ibis family if that 'ml happen!”—# Harper's Magazine. A Little Skeptical. “As 1 was walking through Centra! pftrlv, in New York, when 1 was there last summer,” the fat plumber re marked, “I saw a round, shallow sort of vessel on top of a short post and I have been wondering ever since wliat It was.” “Where was it located?" the thin 'carpenter asked. “Bight out in the middle of A lawn.” “And don’t you know wliat that was?” “Nope." “Well, I'll tell you. It was n bird hath.” Quiteber kiddin'.” “It's the truth.” “I don't believe it for a very good reason.” «• “What is the reason?” “Because I don't believe there Is a bird on earth that1 can tell Saturday night from an.v other time.” Youngs town Telegram. Tlie inventor ol’ a French monoplane modeled it after a winged maple seed. To keep clean and healthy take T)r. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv. Keeping Youthful. “She's a fascinating widow of only thirty-six summers.” “Fniph! What became of the win* tors?” "Oh. she spent those at stieli gay re sorts. they hardly added a day to her Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria East Indian Rulers. Saint Milutl Singli, writing in the Southern Workman, says: “Without a single exception I have found the In dian rulers to be men of great admin istrative ability and statesmanship, all devoted to the welfare of their sub jects and interested in till sorts of re form movements.” Puplcy's Fowls. When l’upley invested in six worse for-wear hens, he made straightway for the local grocer, and inquired whether that gentleman would give him market price for the produce of his leathered stock. i'hc grocer smiled at his hopeful 'ness, and told him lie would lie only too pleased to buy at current rates. To his surprise, I’upley called round with 42 eggs as the result of his hens’ first week's exertions. An hour or two af ter the tradesman hud retailed the first of the eggs, lie called round on I'upley. “I’d like to see your hens,” ho said; “there's something 1 can't understand about them.” I’upley piloted him down the garden. “There they )U-e,” he remarked; “splendid strain. I've given them a good run. you see. but this wet weath er they get into a frightful pieskle!” "Oil. that accounts for It,” answered his visitor. “For what?” x "Accounts for their laying pickled eggs," said the grocer. I There’s a good way to keep growing boys and girls healthy and happy and that is to give them Grape-Nuts for breakfast. This wonderfully nourishing food has a sweet, nutty flavor that makes it popular with children. One of the few sweet foods that does not harm digestion, but builds them strong and bright. Jit grocers everywhere. _I Arab Revolt Against Turks and Germans Not Unlikely: Capture Of Bagdad Ends German Dreams BY FRANK SIMONDS, Copyright—1917, Tribune Assn. New York, March 18—The fall of Bagdad is one of the most Interesting incidents in the whole war. One may exaggerate the important military ef fect and the ultimate political conse quence, but not the possible results, for it may be the first step in a new orient of Islam, the return of Arabian su premacy and the relegation of th# Os manli Turk to a place outside the walls of the Mohammedan world. By taking Bagdad, the British have amply and with reasonable promptitude retrieved the prestige lost in the whole near east by the surrender at Kut-El-Amara a year ngo. This surrender, coupled with the failure at Gallipoli, seriously, if only momentarily, endangered British prestige from Egypt to Slam. It was the kind of failure that could not be permitted to stand and its effect east of Suez could only be compared to that of the Rumanian collapse in Europe. Russ Wait On British. A year ago when the Russians had taken Erzerum and were pressing west through Armenia and southwest through Persia, there was a moment when it seemed possible that the three fold allied thrust of the allies might fuse into a single drive across the upper waters of the Euphrates, and the Tigris and that the Turk would be pushed out of Mesopotamia and threatened, if not attacked In Syria. The British failure ended this possibility. After taking Erzingan and Trebizond, Russian operations came to a dead halt and presently the Turks began to ad vance in Persia. Now' the Russians are again reported to be moving west out of Hamadan in Persia, and the posi tion of the Turks facing them will be come exceedingly difficult as British pursuit from Bagdad readies their communications. Riga; their supremacy In the Balkans was partially blocked by the allied oc cupation of Salonlki, and the British, by occupying Basra near the head of the Persian gulf and repulsing the Turkish attack on Suez, closed the doom of tlie middle European empire In the near east- As long as the Turks held Constantinople and the Bulgarian and Austrian axuiies kept open the road from the Danube to the Golden Horn, Mittle Eluropa is a fact. Neither the fall of Bagdad nor the exit of the Turk from Mesopotamia, Armenia and Syria would destroy the Gorman scheme utterly or erect an adequate barrier to future resumption of the German ad vance. Mittle Kuropa will be abolished only when the Serbian barrier has been restored along the Danube and to the Serbia of 1914 are added the,lands of the Austrlan-Serbs—Bosnia, Herzego vina and southern Dalmatia, together with Montenegro. After all, war Is In a measure a thing of omens still, and It must be a real augury of great successes to come for the British to open 1917 with a victory precisely at the point at which they suffered disaster a year ago. And once more the east discovers that the Briton, sometimes defeated, does come back. As for the Turk, at the best, ho will now have to recall the divisions he has lent the kaiser In Galicia. Lithuania and the Balkans and send them to Asia to hold his Arab dominions. ■ * 1 - IMPORTANT FOOD LESSONS TAUGHT US BY EUROPE From the Kansas City Star. It Is quite possible that one of the most important lessons of the wur for the Unit ed States will eome from n study of the methods worked out by the fighting na tions for the control of the coat of liv ing. That drastic measures are bring adopted Is well known. Food dictators, assisted by the best advisory committees available, are at work on the problem. The governments arg giving effect to their recommendations. These governments, under the stress of war, are making surveys of natural re sources and are determining to a consid erable extent what shall be planted in order to make the most out of the- soil capacity. A hint of the principles adopted is given in Lloyd-George's recent speech In which he specifies articles of food which are not to be imported, or the im portation of which Ls limited. Apples and tomatoes are not to be Imported, and the imports of oranges and bananas are to be reduced. All of these are excellent things to eat to give you variety to the diet, but they contain relatively little nourishment. A nation which is bound to economize on food to the last degree can't afford to give cargo space to arti cles of large bulk with little food value. Tomatoes, for instance, are 94 per cent water. Britain Is not going to use its tonnage to import water In that shape. Doubtless before the war ls over the people of all the nations Involved will have pretty definite Ideas of food values. They will know how to spend their money to get the most nourishment possible. Another Important matter will be the organizing of the methods of distribu tion. In this country we have an exceed ingly complicated system, which can be supported only by a very rich country. We may be able to learn how to make the system more efficient, since the Euro pean nations are being forced to a high state of efficiency. In his book, "Lower Living Costs In Cities,” Prof C. L. King, of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, cites the results of various official investigations of the cost of distributing foods in the United States. For one bushel of potatoes, for Instance, the grower received 60 cents. The local dealer took 4 cents profit. Transportation to New York was 9 cents, commission to the wholesaler 4 ee.nts, cartage 2% cents, profit to jobber 10V4 cents, cartage, deliv ery and profit to retailer 30 cents, the con sumer paying $1.20. just twice as much as the farmer received. An Ohio farmer received $1.10 for 100 pounds of onions. The profit to the local dealer was 10 cents, cost of sack 10 cents, transportation 20 cents, wholesaler's commission 10 cents, cartage 5 cents, jobber's profit 15 cents, retailer’s cartage, delivery and profit TO cents: cost to consumer, $2.50, an Increase of 136 per cent Europe may teach us how our system may be simplified and this high cest of distribution may be reduced. English "Teachers. From the Ihdlanapolls News. In the educational supplement of the London Times a st rung appeal is made for . more teachers and higher- salaries In the English schools. Apparently the English educational authorities have for soma years been expecting teachers to take too much of their pay in the shs.pe of their privilege of serving humanity. In other words, the government expects them to teach because they like to teach, ami It pays them only because they must keep body and soul together. Under this pol icy the number of candidates for the pro fession dropped from 12,000 in 1906 to 7,000 In 1916. indicating that English girls are beginning to look upon teaching as a poor j career. Of late many good teachers have abandoned the profession for war work, and many have found congenial clerk ships, formally held by men, which bring better returns and allow for more leisure than teaching. The dearth of teachers has become so serious that the require ments have been lowered with a view to attracting persons whose general educa tion is good, but who lack specific train ing In educational methods. The Times Is of the opinion that after the war* the government will have to place the teach ing profession on a much higher plane if it expects to command the services of In dustrious and intelligent women. —-» • --' , mciy i ubdicm. So much for the Immediate military effect. Granted that the British army is capable of further effort, after its recent exhausting campaign, it seems probable that the Turks will be driven as far as Mosul, along a section of the Bagdad railroad which has been com pleted. At Mosul, the British will be abl* to join bands with the Russians, advancing from Lake Van. A resump tion of the Russian advance from Erzerum westward upon Diabekr and Ivharput is also conceivable. Such a campaign would inevitably compel a. Turkish retirement out of most of Syria, and this retirement may be ap preciable hastened by the pressure now being exerted by a British army com ing out of jEgypt and already reported at the gates of Jerusalem. But underlying the military is the political meaning of the new turn in the war. If j-ou draw a line from the Gulf of Alexandretta on the Mediterranean, straight east to the Tigris river, you will, roughly speaking, indicate the northern frontier of the Arab. Mo hammedans like the Turks, the Arabs have never reconciled themselves to the supremacy of the Osmanli; the tradi tions of the great days of the prophet and his successors who carried the green banner from Bagdad to the Loire have survived and the decline of Islam In the world remains for the Arab a consequence of Turkish supremacy. For many years there has been a growing restlessness among the Arabs. Syria, which is Arab by population, was on the verge of a revolt when the Young Turks overthrew Abdul Hamid, and it was long the Syrian di^am to create an autonomous Syria. Away to the south, about Mecca, there have been in terminable Arab revolts and now the last of these lias driven the Turk out °« city and thus deprived him or the possession of the center of Islam, which was one, of his chief claims to power. . The failure of the Turkish expedition against Egypt, the fall of Bagdad, the invasion of Palestine, are the circum stances which must combine to shake Turkish power. Add to this the great misery and suffering the war has brought to Syria and to Mesopotamia, and the unpopularity of the German, a < *a Pia*n that there is in sight surficient basis for a revolt of the whole Arab population, from the Ama nus mountains to the Yemen, and from the Mediterranean to the Tigris. No one will forecast the immediate out break of such a storm, but its coming must now be regarded as one of the most probable consequences of the fall of Bagdad. • mi... .in 7 -umauu: uetween tn© Turns ana Germans was designed by the Germans to serve as the first step in the as sertion of German supremacy in Islam. i^°nsr belore the war the kaiser had gone to the near east and had sought to build up a legend of Germunish power and his greatness in the whole I urktsh world. It was generally ac tn Islam that the kaiser was a Mohammedam This alliance was to permit the Germans, once the Bagdad railroad was completed, to go south and east, south to Egypt and east to India. The German plans included the arrival of the Bagdad railroad at huez and at the Persian gulf, this rail road to be linked up ultimately with the railroads in Egypt and in India. When Turkey entered the wav. a holy war was proclaimed against the infidel, and the Germans planned to harness the funticism of the Moham medan to the world plans of the Teu ton and conquer British and Russian territory by Turkish armies, trained officers and equipped by Germans. Nor did the German scheme pause at Egypt; it dreamed a further extension along the African shores of the Medi terrfttiean and contemplated repeating the triumph of the Arab successors of the prophet who carried Islam from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Atlantic facing Gibraltar. Allies Plan Counter Stroke. To expel the Turk from Islam, by separating him from Mecca, to restore the Arab to the place he once occupied, to confine the Turk to Asia Minor, by J erecting a French protectorate in Syria, a Russian province in Armenia and a British colony in Mesopotamia, | witli an extension of Egyptian terri- i tory to Palestine or the creation of art independent holy land, these have been ! the conceptions of the allies. This ha I been their answer to the German suc-J cess in capturing the Turk and thus] the machinery of Islam. One more circumstance should be ! noted. The German scheme of Mittel j Kuropa, which underlies the present ! policy of German statesmen, as it was j the chief purpose of pan German ««• tivity before the war, was based upon , the creation of a great state which I should extend from the channel at <'u- | lais to the Gulf of Riga on the Baltic, and from Hamburg and Bremen to Suez j and the Persian gulf. In realizing a , very great portion of their dream, the Germans have been checked at the t frontiers of complete success. They j did not take Calais; they did not take I Farrar Whistled in “Carmen. From the New York Loiter to the Cincinnati Times-Star. Ocraldin© Farrar astounded the audience and critics by introducing a whistling solo in “Carmen” at a recent performance here. Miss Farrar toned down her “Car- j men” materially from her “moving pic- | turv” style of iast year, but maintained her reputation by introducing an innova tion which was startling It cam© in the first act, when, with clear bird like notes, she whistled a short prelude to one of her important arias. The music critics searched their mem- i ories for a precedent and declined hat Bizet actually had written into his origi- ! mil manuscript a direction that at that point the soprano might whistle if she wanted to or could. Vor all agreed as to the historical accuracy of this assertion, but all wore of one mind in saving that no “Carmen” within their memory bad Introduced a whistling solo into tin- op< a. Why0 Probably because th. «-mid not# ; but Miss Farrar could and she did. Couldn’t Answer. m prom 1 h*‘ Philadelphia Pul 'i L-- href. The employer *'f a Pohsb se*-\ u>t nifiM who has learned to speak F.ng.'Nh was telling- of her • x perlr*neiie day x*. ring cum** and site jumped iu the instrument. “Hr llo!” came/ from the receiver. “Hello!” answered the girl, flushed w th pride* at being abb to give the proper an swer. “Who Is this'.'-’ continued the voice. “f don't know!” exclaimed the maid. “J , ■>an t see you.” Healthy Skin Depends On Kidneys The skin and the lntentlnes, which work together with the kidneys to throw out the poisons of the body, do a part of the work, but a clean body and n healthy one depends on the kid neys. If the kidneys ore clogged with toxic poisous you suffer from stillness in the knees in the morning on arising, your joints seem “rusty,” you may have rheumatic pains, pain in the back, stiff neck, headaches, sometimes swollen feet, or neuralgic pains—all due to the uric acid or toxic poisons in the blood. This is the time to go to the nearest drug store and simply obtain a 50c. package of Anuric (double or triple strength), the discovery of Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y. Then drink a cup of hot water before meals, with au Anuric Tablet, and notice the gratifying re sults. You will find Anuric more active than lithia. I*or ttaiig-u,i void* Omaha, Neb.—“All of Inst winter I was Just about down and ontwitha heavy cold on my lungs that ihe old fashioned home remedies I had been accustomed to taking did not seem to touch. I was Just about to send for tile doctor when my brother adytsed me to try Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery. I only took the one battle, bat It certainly did give me wrtndcrful re lief and I believe saved me from a siege of pneumonia. My people have used Dr. Pierce’s remedies for more than twenty yenrs and consider them to be most reliable."—MRS. OOBA B. JOHNSTON, 2400 I St. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov ery contains no alcohol, no narcotic. Is put up in botli liquid and tablets and is to be found in all drug stores. If not obtainable at your dealer’s send $1.00 to Dr. Pierce, Invalids’ Ho tel, Buffalo, N. Y„ and he will mail large package of tablets. W. L. DOUGLAS “THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE” $3 $3.50 $4 $4.50 $5 $6 $7 & $8 Save Money by Wearing W. 1— Douglas shoes. For sale by over 9000 shoe dealers. The Best Known Shoes in the World. W. L. Douglas name and the retail price is stamped on the bot tom of all shoes at the factory. The value is guaranteed and the wearer protected against high prices for inferior shoes. Tie retail prices are the same everywhere. 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A woman In a railway waiting room The mighty Andean mountain range I he other day had n great deal of trou- of South America, the highest in the ble with oue of her children, a boy of western hemisphere, has Just been seven or eight, and a nmn who sat crossed by aeronauts for the first time, near hoc stood it as long ns possible The feat was accomplished by two men pud then observed: In a balloon. The aeronauts left Snn “Madam, that boy of yours needs tlago, Chile, on the Pacific side, and the strong hand of a father.” descended five hours later in Mendoza, “Yes, I know it," she replied, “but on the eastern slope of the range, in he can’t have it. His father died the Argentine Republic. They report when ho was six years of age, and I’ve ed a very difficult trip, and had to rise done my best to get another husband to n grent height to catch a favorable and failed. He can’t have what I air current. So far the Andes have can’t get.” not been crossed by airplane. The Commercial Muse. No Hope. “Scribbler Is very fond of putting ad- Pansey—Isn’t it tragic that John fell vertisements In the newspapers, isn’t down on his job? he?” Lily—Well, he still can make good. "Yes, very. He says that’s about all Pansey—No. he can’t; he was n he writes thnt gets into print.” steeplejack.—Jester. n .-.. - -=3 You Can Make Excellent Cake | With Fewer Eggs Just use an additional quantity of Royal Baking Powder, about a teaspoon, in place of each egg omitted. This applies equally well to nearly all baked foods. Try the following recipe according to the new way: CREAM LAYER CAKE Old Way New Way 1 cup Augar 1 cup sugar % cup milk 1 cup milk 2 cups flour 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 4 teaspoons Royal Hiking Powder 3 eggs 1 egg 7% cup shortening 2 tablespoons shortening 1 teaspoon flavoring 1 teaspoon flavoring Makes 1 Large 2-Layer Cake DIRECTIONS—Cream the sugar and shortening together,then mix in the egg. After sifting the flour and Royal Baking Powder together, two or three times, add it all to the mixture. Gradually add the nxilk and beat with spoon until you have a smooth pour batter. Add the flavoring. Pour into greased layer cake tins and bake in a moderately hot oven for twenty minute*. This calre is best baked in two layers. Pul together with cream Ailing and spread with white icing. Booklet of recipes which economize In eggs and other expensive ingredients mailed free. Address ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. 125 Wlllium St., New York ROYAL BAKING POWDER made from Cream of Tartar, derived from Grapes No Alum No Phosphate No Bitter Taste * Canada Offers 160 Acres Free to Farm Hands Bonus of Western Canada Land to Men Assisting in Maintaining Needed Grain Production The demand for farm labor in Canada is great. As an inducement to secure the necessary help at once, Canada will give ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES OF LAND FREE AS A HOMESTEAD and allow the time of the farm laborer, who has filed on the land, to apply as residence duties, the same as if he actually had lived on it. Another special concession is the reduction of one year in the time to complete duties. Two years instead of three as heretofore, but only to men working on the farms for at least six months in 1917. Tins appeal for farm help ism no way connected with enlistment for military service but solely to increase agricultural output. A won derful opportunity to secure a farm and draw good wages at the same time. Canadian Government will pay all fare over one cent per mile from St. Paul or Duluth to Canadian destination. Information as to low railway rates may be had on application to M. J. JOHNSTONE. Drawer 197. Watertown, S. D.sW.V. BENNETT. Hoorn 4. Baa Blilsf., Omaha, Nib., nud K. A. Cl UtRETT. 3 II J.icIisob St.. 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