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Raise High Priced Wheat
on Fertile Canadian Soil
Canada extends to you a hearty invita
tion to settle on her FREE Homestead
lands of 160 acres each or secure some ;
of the low priced lands in Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta. This year wheat is higher but
Canadian land just as cheap, so the opportunity is more at
tractive than ever. Canada wants you to help feed the world
by tilling some of her fertile soil—land similar to that which
during many years has averaged 20 to 45 bushels of wheat 5
to the acre. Think of the money you can make with wheat
around $2 a bushel and land ao easy to get. Wonderful
yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed farming
in Western Canada is as profitable an industry as
grain gmwing.
The Government this year is asking farmers to put in
creased acreage into grain. There is a great demand for
farm labor to replace the many young men who have
volunteered for service. The climate is healthful and
/ agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good schools and
A churches convenient. Write for literature as to reduced
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! end R. A. Garrett, 311 jackeon Street, St. Pool, Minn.
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9 Carter’s Iron Pills
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Inded They Do!
Little Willie, although not much of
u singer, lias tlie spirit all right. lie
was rendering an especially erratic
version of “Columbia, Gem of tlie
Ocean,” tlie other evening, and an en
tirely new, though suitable, interpre
tation ot the words of the song. He
began:
“O Columbia, gem of the ocean,
The home of tlie brave and the free—”
The listeners withstood several pain
ful lines of this and there wasn't a
break.
"A world offers homage to thee,” he
screamed.
Then came the triumph of the song:
"Thy banners make Germany trem
ble."
And the little group of listeners
broke out into cheers.—Indianapolis
News.
Encouraging Outlook.
“Well, old man, how are you getting
along with your poultry raising?
making expenses?”
“Not yet; but my hens have taken
to eating their own eggs, so I hope
that they will soon become self-sup
porting.”
How lucky some men would be if
they should lose their reputations!
* ’ _
Hearing part of our neighbors’ cares
mikes our own load lighter.
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WOMEN NEVER CAN SEE JOKE
This Was Brown's Conclusion After Ha
Had Recounted One That Had
Been Told to Him.
Brown iriet Johnson the other morn
ing hurrying along the street. The
latter had a parcel under his arm, and
Brown, always inquisitive, wanted to
know what it contained.
"Well,” said Johnson, “if you must
know, I’ve just bought a pair of gaiters
—very nice ones, too.”
“Where at?” asked Brown.
“Oh, I don’t know the name, but
it’s a little shop just down that alley
across there,” said Johnson.
“Ha-ha!” laughed Brown, who al
ways liked his little joke, then they
must he alley-gaiters.”
This so tickled Johnson that ho
made up his mind that lie must tell
that to his wife, so, on reaching home,
lie burst into the room, and laughed
until his wife thought he would never
stop.
She could not make out what on
earth was the joke, so Johnson started
to tell her.
“Ha-ha, he-he! Oh, lor, such a joke!
I just met Brown, and he asked me
what I'd got in my parcel.
“I told him I'd bought a new pair of
leggings, hut didn’t know the name of
tlie shop, hut it was just dovtn the
court.
“He immediately made a good joke
out of it. He said. ‘Good! Then
you’ve got two crocodiles! What!
You can’t see it? Well, I’m blest!”
said lie, as his wife maintained a se
rious expression. “That’s just the
worst of women. They can’t see a
joke when it is staring them in the
face, I saw it in a moment.”
Then he went out into the fresh air.
slamming the door as ho did so.—Lon
don Tit-Bits,
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Made So by Daily* Use of Cuticura
Soap and Ointment—Trial Free.
The last thing at night and the first
in the morning, bathe the face freely
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. If
there are pimples or dandruff smear
them with Cuticura Ointment before
bathing. Nothing better than Cuticura
for daily toilet preparations.
Free sample each by mall with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept L,
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Explosion Averted.
“I hear you have been a very sick
man,” said llie managed of the garage.
“Yessur,” replied Mr, Erastus Pink
ley. “Dey mos’ despaired of my recov
ery. But 1 never had (no doubt about
it myself. I jes’ had tq get well.”
“Why?”
“Well, .suh, l knowedll wasn’t good
enough to go to heaven. |An’ workin’ in
dis garage has got me flaked so chock
liil o’ gasoline, dar wihsn’ a chance of
deir wantin' me aroun’lde other place.”
USE ALLEN’S FTOOT-EASE
The r.ntineptic powder to be) shaken into shoes
and sprinkled into the w^ot-nath. It relieves
painful, swollen, smarting\feet and takes the
stiiif? out of corns and bun Iona. The greatest
comforter ever discovered for all foot-aehcK.
Sold everywhere, 25c. Tyial package FREE.
Address, Allen S. Olmstedi Le Roy, N. Y.—Adv
Not Mdjch.
“How popular is hwT9
“Oli, about tis popular as a paci
fist at ii recruiting stfand.”
Attending to on*'*’s own business
gives one a erdod steady job.
UNCLE WIGGILY AND NANNIE’S
PAINTS.
Uncle Wiggily Longears, the rabbit
gentleman, had been out ior a ride in
his automobile, looking for an adven
ture one day. when ho stopped behind
a green, mossy log in the woods, while
hie machine took a drink of water from
u bubbling spring. All of a sudden the
bunny rabbit gentleman heard some
one saying:
“Oh, dear! I never can got it right!
It’s worse than ever! I’m going to tear
it up!"
“Ha! That sounds as though some
one were sort of peeved and in trouble,”
said Uncle Wiggily to himself. ”1 must
see who it is, and if I can help litem,"
for you know Mr. Longears, as 1 call
him when 1 want to l.w stiff and formal
like, was always trying to help some
one.
So the bunny rabbit gentleman
peeked over the top of the log, and. on
the other side ho saw Nannie Wagtail,
The little goat girl, painting a picture.
Or as least Nannie was trying to paint
one.
Now it may seem queer to you. to
speak of a goat girl drawing a picture,
but I do assure you it can ho done.
Nannie had a little tin box of paints,
such as she and the other animal girls
used in the hollow stump school, where
they were taught by tlie mouse lady.
A“ j.. for a brush, Nannie had tied a
pi.-co of her hair ribbon around the
little bunch of whiskers that grew on
her chin, and this made a very proper
brush, indeed.
Nannie would dip her chin-brush in
the water of the spring at which l tide
Wiggily's automobile had taken a drink,
and then Nannie would rub her whis
kers on some red, green, yellow or pink
paint—whatever color she wanted to
use. Then she would rub her whiskery
paint brush on a piece of white paper
she had fastened to a free with sticky
pine gum, and in this way she couid
really paint a pretty picture.
"At least that’s what I’m trying to
do,” said Nannie when Uncle Wigs'!/
looked over the top of the log and ask'ai
her wliat was the trouble, “But, on.
dear!” cried Nannie, “I can t make it
come right!”
"What’s wrong?” asked Uncle Wig
gily, looking at the picture which was
partly finished. “It seems to me to be
very nice indeed.”
“Oh. but it isn’t at all,” said Nannie.
“I’ve made tlie tree pink, instead of
brown, and the sky is black instead of
being blue, and the leaves and grass
are purple when they should he green.
“You see,” she went on, “my chin
whisker brush is so short that 1 can't
see what color I'm dipping it in, and I
get everything wrong. The lad> mouse
teacher told me to take my paper in
the woods and paint what I saw. but
this picture looks like a sunset turned
upside down. All the colors are wrong.
Oh, dear! What shall 1 do?”
“I wonder if I could help,” said Uncle
Wiggily. So he made a brush of a
bunch of grass tied on a stick, and lie
tried to make Nannie’s painting better,
but the old gentleman rabbit had for
gotten his spectacles and he made the
grass blue, the sky green and the trees
pink, spotted with lollypop color.
“Is it any better, Nannie?” asked the
bunny.
“Well, a little, I guess.” said the goat
girl, not wanting to make Uncle Wig
gily feel badly. "But it isn’t just right
yet. Oh, dear! There’s no use of ine
trying to paint. I’ll never be an artist!
All I can do is to wash dishes and sew
buttohs on Billie's coat!”
"Well, that’s a very good tiling to
do,” said Uncle Wiggily. “Not all of us
can sew on buttons, and that's just as
needful as painting. But take your
paints and come with me. Maybe we'll
find some use for your pretty colors
after all. No matter if you do get the
wrong ones on the sky and trees, they
are bright and jolly, and that’s some
thing.”
So the rabbit gentleman- took Nannie
nnd her box of paints for a ride in his
automobile, and pretty soon the^ came
to a little house in the woods.
Oh, it was a very rough and shabby
old house, indeed, sort of dark brown
and moldy, and it gave one the fidgets
to look at it, and the doodle-oodleurns,
too.
“Who lives there?” asked Uncle Wig
gily of a busy little bee lady who was
gathering honey.
“Oh, an did fox man, as cross as two
sticks and a scuttle of coal,” was the
answer. “He’s cross and mean and al
ways unhappy.”
“No wonder! laving in such a col
ored house,” said the bunny gentleman.
“Quick, Nannie!” he called. “I have a
plan! Take your box of paints and
splash them on this house. Use your
brightest colors—pink, green, yellow,
red, blue, purple, white and spotted.
Daub all your colored paints all over
this dull, drab, brown house.”
So Nannie did this, painting the
chimney a bright red, the shutters
plue, tlie porch pink, the back steps
green, and so on, until she had used up
sll the paints in her box. And when
the house was finished it looked like
two bright sunsets stirred into one with
t scrambled egg beater.
And then, along came the cross old
fox man, sort of grumbling and growl
ing and saving:
“What’s the use of living! I can’t
lance, my teeth are almost gone and I
ran’t chew gum, nobody loves me
nnd-”
Just then he caught sight of his
pink, green, blue, yellow, red and purple
house. The sun shone on its bravely
find brightly, and reflected front there
on the face of the fo.x until he just had
to smile, though he didn’t want to, and
(ie cried:
“Oh, joy! Some good fairy must
have made my house over for me! Now
I feel so happy! Whoop!” And ha
ilanecd a fox trot then and there.
“See. your paint did some good after
all. Nannie," said Uncle Wiggily, where
lie and the goat girl were hidden behind
the billies, waiting to see what would
happen “You have made the fox hap
py.”
“I’m glad," said Nannie, and the next
flay she learned in the hollow stump
school to paint a fine picture of a rose.
So this teaches us if we can’t do one
thing we should try to do another.
And if the dining room table doesn’t
stand on its head and make the red
cross kidney beans jump down in the
salt cellar. I’ll tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and the old goose.
Wit in the Trenches.
From the Boston Globe.
Wit is often shown in the notice boards
which our soldiers set up in the trenches.
Thus a frequentl> shelled trench junc
tion bears the legend: ' Don’t stand about
here—there’s a war on.” A writer m the
Cornhill Magazim has collected a number
of these, one of the best being a spot
which had once been used by the Ger
mans as a dump for stores, now labeled:
“Fritz’s Dump—ruder Entirely New Man
agement ” A siege battery had the whole
side of their mess knoc ked out--s ob could
drive a gun team into Use horn where, the
door had been. On a bit of remaining
wall are the words: ' Don’t Stand Out
There Knocking—Come Right In.”
The Causus Belli.
O’Rourke—Oh, D’.imis, Dinnis, me
heart’s broke! Me hoy Mike's run away
and enlisted. It was the tig sitin’ blood in
him.
McIntyre—Well, what’s the use worry'in',
I’M? I always tould yez the boy took
afther his mother.
When the police arrived both were dis
abled.
Increased by About Sixty P?r
Cent in Past Six Months.
That Canada is at war is now more
fully appreciated on tills side of the
boundary line, now that the United
States has stepped alongside its north
ern neighbor and linked hands in tiie
great struggle for a freer democracy
throughout the civilized world. As a
result of this a greater interest than
ever is seen in the mutual effort to
develop both the United States and
Canada. Recently, just before the
time that the United States declared
its intention to enter the contest and
contribute of its resources to the de
feat of rite autocracy, whose design
was to permeate the world. Western
Canada made nil appeal for farm labor
to till the fields and prepare the soil
for the crops of grain that were nec
essary to feed tin' lighting forces and
keep up the requirements necessary
for the Allies. The responses were so
great that before half the time limit
expired, over six thousand laborers
were secured. Tills was not sufficient,
hut once the United States was de
clared to he in a condition of war, and
farm labor required here to meet any
exigency ns to short rations that might
arise, the sister to'the north, withdrew
from attempts, which might mean a
restriction of the farm labor supply
in the United States, I’.ut even with
tills it is thought Canada will now be
fairly well supplied.
Apart, however, from the farm labor
proposition, it is gratifying from both
a United States and Canadian point of
view itint the immigration of farmers
to take up homestead lands and to pur
chase improved and unimproved land
In Canada, has shown such a wonder
ful increase in the past three months.
The great struggle for increasing the
food supply has a broader and greater
significance timii ever. The food must
come into existence, whether the rich
soils of the United States or those of
Canada lie the factor.
It is altogether‘probable that the ac
tion of the Canadian Government in
taking the duty off wheat going into
Canada, thus automatically lifting the
duty off that coming into the United
States, may not lie responsible for an
Increased immigration to Canada. Can
ada’s reputation for growing larger nv
erflgo yields and a better quality of
grain, and on lands, many of which are
free, as well as those tlmt range from
•SI5 to S.'io nil acre, is an appeal tlmt
is being responded to by farmers who
are now renting high-priced lands. Is
another reason for expecting an in
creasing number of farmers from the
United States.
Mr. W. IV Scott, Superintendent of
Immigration at Ottawa, Canada, re
cently gave out figures concerning im
migration from the United States,
which shows tlmt the increase in the
past three or four months was (30 per
cent over tiie same period lust year,
and Mr. Scott forecasts that during the
calendar year of 1017 there will be
over one hundred per cent increase
and be much heavier than for many
years past. Mr. Scott declares that
already tills spring more settlers' ef
fects have entered Canada than
crossed during tiie whole of last year,
and the movement 1ms just merely
started.
Tiie new settlers ore coming from
numerous states througn the ports of
Emerson, North I’ortal and Coutts, as
well as from Oregon and Washington,
through Kingsgate and Vancouver.
There arrived in Saskatchewan dur
ing tiie year ending December ,'il, 1016,
a total of 8.136 persons as compared
with 5,812 during the twelve months
previous. At tiie same time nearly
twice as many immigrants passed
through the immigration department
iWomen of
Middle ytge
Many distressing Ailments experienced
by them are Alleviated 'by Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
Here is Proof by Women who Know.
Lowell, Mass.—“For the last three years I have
been troubled with the Change of Life and the had
feelings common at that time. I was in a very ner
vous condition, with headaches and pain a good
deal of the time so I was unlit to do my work. A
friend asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta
ble Compound, which I did, and it has helped me in
every way. I arfi not nearly so nervous, no head
ache* or pain. I must say that Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound is the best remedy any sick
woman can take.”—Mrs. Margaret Quinn, Rear
259 Wortlien St., Lowell, Mass.
She Tells Her’Friends to Take Lydia E. PiAkham’s Remedies.
North Haven, Conn.—“When I was 45 I had the Change of Life
which is a trouble all women have. At first it didn’t bother ipe
hut after a while I got bearing down pains. I called-in doctors who
told me to try different things but they did not cure my pains. One
dav my husband came home and said, ‘Why don’t you try Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash? Wen, I got
them and took about 10 bottles of Vegetable Compound and could
feel myself regaining my health. I also used Lydia E. I inkhani s
Sanative Wash and it lias done me a great deal of good. Any one
coming to my house who suffers from female troubles or Change of
Life, I tell them to take the Pinkham remedies. There are about 20
of us here who think the world of them.”—Mrs. Florence Ijella,
Box 197, North Haven, Conn.
You are Invited to Write for Free Advice.
No othet medicine lias been so successful in relieving woman's
suffering as has Lydia E. Pinkliam’s Vegetable Compound.
Women may receive free and helpful ad vice by writing the Lydia
E Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Such letters are received
and auswed by women only and held in strict confidence.
at Edmonton, Alberta, in the last
twelve months as for the same period
of the year before.
The number of settlers from Eastern
Canada migrating to the west also in
creased. From January 1 to March Ml.
1017, the number of cars of stock that
pass!od through the Winnipeg yards
was 750, as compared with Mill last
year. A fair estimate of the value of
each car would be about $12,000, which
means ttiat the west inis secured addi
tional live stock to the value of $150,
000 or more, during the first three
months of 1017, not taking into account
that brought, in by immigrants from
the United States.—Advertisement.
No Chance.
“So the judge sent your husband to
prison for ten years, MandyY”
"Yes he did. Pat’s a powerful long
time to have to get along without a
husband, missus.”
“It does seem like a long time. but.
maybe, lie can shorten it by good be
havior.”
“Good behavior, missus! If my hus
band’s giftin' out. o' prison depends on
good behavior he’ll be dere ten years
t’ de minit.”
No Result.
"Fishin’, little feller?”
“Nope; est baitin’ and yankin'.”—
Indianapolis News.
In being nice to his wife's fjtmily a
man knows that lie is acquiring virtue
in his wife’s eyes.
Patents for Poets.
“You are a spring poet, 1 believe?"
began Ihe intruder.
“I uni,” sadly responded the gentle
man of tin* third-floor buck; “although,
I must confess—
“Exactly I” broke in the intruder.
“That Is why I called.”
“You are a publisher?" cried the
spring poet. »
"No, sir,” responded the caller; “but
1 am general agent for one of the great
est money-making Inventions of the
age!”
“Alas! 1 linye no money to save!” t
moaned the man of sonnets.
“But listen,” replied the caller. “Sly
Invention is hound to suit you. It ts
a little rubber-stamp with the words
!‘Declined with thunks’ upon it. You
write your poem, put it in an envelope,
slip in a piece of paper with those
words on it. address the envelope to
yourself, open the envelope, read the
slip, throw tlie whole business into the
waste-paper basket, and by these very
simple means,” concluded the man of
gehius, “you may save ten times ttie
cost of my invention In a single week!”
Quid Pro Quo.
“It's a raw deal I got from you.”
“Well, ain't you giving me a roast?”
—Baltimore American.
Recently Invented kitchen dishes
made <>f glass re-enforced with wire
are intended to be durable as well as
' sanitary.
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I Feverishness ana
Loss OF SLEEP !
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Children Cry For
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium,
Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee.
For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the
relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea;
allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the
Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving
healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The
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