Spring Colds
Are the Worst
They lead to catarrh .and
pneumonia. They weaken
the entire system and leave
it unable to resist the sudden
changes. They interfere,with
your digestion and lessen ydUr ac
tivity. Neglected they soon become
that dread disease known as sys
temic catarrh. Don’t neglect them,
i It’s costly as well as dangerous.
PERUNA
Will Safeguard You
Have a box of Peruna Tab
lets with you for the sudden
cold or exposure. Tone your sys
tem up with a regular course of the
liquid Peruna, fortify it against
colds, get your digestion up to nor
mal, take care of yourself, and avoid
danger. If you are suffering now
begin the treatment at once. Give
Nature the help she needs to throw
off the catarrhal inflammation, and
again become well.
Peruna has been helping people
for 44 years. Thousands of homes
rely on it for coughs, colds and indi
gestion. It’s a good tonic for the
weak, as well.
The Peruna Company
Columbus. Ohio
One Great Truth.
"I suppose you claim that you wil.'
leave oflice poorer than you entered
It?”
“I’m not making tiny statement about
^ that. But I can truthfully say that
the campaign depleted my bank roll
considerably.”—Kansas City Journal.
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' CORNS LIFT OUT!
COSTS FEW CENTS
~.. J
Drops of magic! Doesn’t
hurt one bit! Drop a littie
Freezone on a touchy corn,
instantly that corn stops hurt
ing, then you lift it off with
the fingers. No pain! Try it!
I
Why wait? Your druggist sells
a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few
cents, sufficient to rid your feet of
every hard corn, soft corn, or corn
between the toes, and calluses,
without soreness or irritation,
j Freezone is the much talked of
discovery of the Cincinnati genius.
Proving~Their Patriotism.
“Of course we have a family skele
ton.” ,
“Well, let’s trot it out. It will be
a credit to us now. Shows we are
not overeating.”—Kansas City Journal
Building-up for the Spring Attack at
the Front is a good deal like putting
the body in condition for an invasion
o? the germs of grip, pneumonia or
“Spring fever” here at home.
At this time of the year most people
suffer from a condition often called
Spring K,ever. They feel tired, worn
out, before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches anil
sometimes “pimply” or pale skin and
white lips. The reason for this is that
during the wintertime, shut up with
in doors, eating too much meat and
too little green vegetables, one heaps'
fuel into the system which is not burned
up and the clinkers remain to poison
the system—a clogaing up of the circu
lation—with inactive liver and kidneys.
Time to put your house in order.
* For an invigorating tonic which will
clarify the blood, put new life in the
body, sparkle to the eyes, and a
wholesome skin, nothing does so well
ns a glyceric herb extract made frcm
Golden Seal root, Blood and Stone
root, Oregon grape root and Wild
Cherry hark. This can be bad in con- ;
venicnt, ready-to-use tablet form at all
drug stores, sixty cents, and has been
sold for tho past fifty years os Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. By
reason of the nerves feeding on the (
blood, when the blood is pure the!
nerves feel the effect, and neuralgia or
t[pother nerve pains disappear because
such pain Is the cry of the starved
nerves for food. When suffering from
backache, frequent or scanty urine,
rheumatic pains hero or there, or that
constant tired feeling, the simple way
to overcome these disorders is merely
to obtain Dr. Pierre’s Anurle front
your druggist. In tablets, sixty cents.
C @ 0 G H 0 N ©
anpr.yr others nrd hurts you. Retier- thr-it
■rntation und tickllntr.and (ret nd ofeoajhs,
and hoarseness by taking at ouco
CLEVER EXCUSES ARE
PUT OP BY SLACKERS
While Others Who Want to
Se^’ve Are Equally Ingenious
About Getting In.
Kansas City. Mo. (by mall)—The
very serious business of selecting from
the manhood of Kansas City and vicin
ity the representatives in the national
army was attended by much humor and
pathos. Tire draft appeal board from
its opening session was besieged by
throngs wiio sought to serve their coun
try in any but a military way and ex
hausted their ingenuity in thinking up
reasons why they should not be draft
ed. And in contrast, there were those
who yearned for army life and some
times were hard put to it to prove
they would be useful to their country
in soldier uniform.
There was the man who declared, in
answer to a question as to why he
thought l’.o should he exempted, that
no other man in the world except han
sel? could live with his wife. To this a
member of the draft board replied: "If
t should tell her on what grounds you
are asking exemption, I’ll bet you
couldn’t either.”
There was the representative of a
county organization who asked the dis
trict board that his entire county be
dealt with leniently since it was an
agricultural county and there was the
woman of 47 years who asked exemp
tion for her 30-year-old husband be
cause she loved him so much. There
was a coffee salesman t<ho pointed out
that several hotels would suffer if he
were called to the colors.
Likewise there was a petition signed
bx 40 members of a Sunday school eon
<1 mted in a rural church live miles from
e Itown asking for exemption for the
q jnool’s superintendent and asserting
tl is school could not bo maintained
1 ithout his leadership.
Work for the government did not ex
empt from military service. A post
t faster in vain filed an affidavit that a
iural mail carrier was necessary to the
|iroper distribution of the mail on his
poute and a district draft hoard refused
io make any concessions tor an assist
nnt secretary of a state board of agri
culture seeking exemption on indus
trial grounds, although many influential
public men were interested in his case.
The physical director of a high school
who had charge of the senooi military
('rill was not exempted.
On the other hand a deputy United
iStates collector of internal revenue was
placed in division 1, class 3, as a neces
sary government employe. He was en
gaged in technical work in the adminis
tration of tho income tax law.
One Buchanan county man assigned
five reasons to the appeal board why
he should bo exempted. He said lie was
under weight, had a crippled foot and
defective eyesight. These reasons were
rejected. Then ho claimed he was the
solo support of his father and, that be
ing disallowed, made the claim he was
a farmer working on land his father
rents. Ho was certified for trie national
army.
Although the small salaries given
country school teachers in this as In
other states are notorious, many school
boards in (he Kansas City district filed
affidavits that the teachers were neces
sary in educational work.
In one case “an act of God” was re
sponsible for an exemption claim. The
overflowing- of the Platte river in Buch
anan county devastated (lie farm of the
grandfather of a man already serving
at Camp Funston. The grandparents
were left destitute and 40 of their
neighbors petitioned the district draft
board to return the grandson from
training camp.
Some actual fraud and deceit was
found among those seeking to avoid
military service. One man, asking ex
emption on the ground that he was the
sole support of his wife, challenged the
draft board to find that either he or his
wife had funds or property. They ac
cepted and discovered he had a bank
account of about $3,500 that had been
hidden in a safety deposit box and that
his wife owned property.
Another man became ill when noti
fied to report for service and his mother
asked that he be examined and ex
empted because mentally unbalanced.
The doctors made a written report,
finding that the man’s mental condition
was brought on by his own volition.
Some queer exhibits reached the draft
boards to back up claims for depen
dency. One man produced a jeweler’s
diamond guarantee issued last April to
prove a dependency claim in the ease of
marriage since May IS. Ho passed a
dependency claim although married last
September. He had been engaged in
the spring, he explained, and to prove
it pinned the engagement ring guaran
tee to his questionnaire. Love letters
were offered to show intention to mar
ry before the draft law menaced and
a Wichita paper with news of an an
nouncement party and pictures of the
bride and bridegroom-to-be was sent to
n draft board. To prove that one bride
groom was no “marriage slacker,” a
Jewish couple sent In a marriage con
tract made out last winter.
REAL ACTION SEEN
IN IBM RAIDING
Personal Combat Counts Most
and That’s Where Fritz
Falls Short.
London, (by mail).—The following is
a graphic description of the work
American soldiers have tu learn in
France; it is told by a British Tommy
who is here in hospital:
“I got this packet in a raid on the
Gerries’ line. It was a good little show
—took you_ back to the finish of th'e
Cframe. We used to have a raid every
other night then. I like a raid better
than a push, though of course a push
in more useful. Vv’liat I mean la this,
you get good and close to the Gerries
In a raid—right in amongst them—and
you sometimes can get to grips with
them. In a push they're too keen on
getting away to let you right in amongst
them. You get bile of their line, though
In a push and I suppose that’s the game
right enough.
"Our officer was a first class ch.'ii
In a raid. lie was a great big man
not fat. but hellish powerful. I bet
he weighed if. atone if he weighed
a pound, and it was all big bone and
herd muscle. It gave you a tickle '■
the throat to go after him. He used ■
go Into the raid with a revolver at: '
two knucklo-dasters. If be got close
enough to use his fists. God help Ihe
Gerry that lie hit. IF1 used to grim*
es bo hit. you know, ‘Atich! biff." nr.
over they would go. It was -- bit <
nd right v-nlching hfm. 'Jf course, no
one German had a chance n.tiinsi hill',
but the wonder was how ha escaped
being copped out. ihcy used to go for
him so much in bunches.
"Well, this was the officer that took
us out on the raid that night. It was
lc u bit of the line \\ o took in the au.i
push we dhl, and the CUrnwns hadn’t
been able to put up much wire. What
there was had been flattened out by the
T. M. B.’s.
Trench Mortar Work.
‘‘It was a good little T. M. battery w©
had in that bit of the line. The officer
in charge of them was a Yorksbireman
—one of those keen ehups that are al
ways on the job. He didn't belong to
our regiment, but he'd have been a
credit to us if he had. He lammed It
into the Gerries the whole day, and of
course it meant that they hit buck. They
strafed us with five-nines; and that was
a bit deadly; still, I suppose you’ve got
to take that as it comes. Anyhow, this
T. M. battery ott’icer was a pretty fair
dodger. 1-Ie would give the German
j trendies two bombs and tile wire one.
| They thought he was after their blood.
■ 1 expect, and all the time it was tiio
I wire he was at. He blew two or three
I clean paths through the wire. He was
! a workman, a Journeyman at his job,
j that T. M. battery officer.
The Raid.
j "We knew that the Gerries would he
out mending their line that night, put
! ting up wire and that. So our officers
j arranged that the raid was to come off
i as soon as it was dark. It was very
well clone. The T. M. battery officer
! kept banging away until the dark was
just coming on, then started to cut
! down the firing a bit and let them have
bursts at odd times. Half an hour, a
burst. 10 minutes, another, 10 minutes,
another, with odd bombs in between.
The Gerries must have been wondering
their beaus off. It must have been just
after 7 o’clock when we crept out, while
the mortars blew over a few bombs,
natural like.
"We were out for the usual thing,
sheer devilment in the German line;
damage dugouts, take prisoners and
generally kick Up Hell. Our ldg officer
led the way, as usual. I had a couple
of bombs, though I’m a bayonet man,
but a bomb’s a handy thing to have
about you. We nipped into the German
lines and found a pretty good windup
among them. There was a bit of
Kamerading’ and a bit of fight, too.
It was a strong point in the German
line, with two or three machine gun
emplacements. One of the machine
guns started to play on us and I let
drive with tho bomb into the post. Then
we rushed it and landed into a bunch
with a bit of"Ilght in them. There was
a tidy mixup then, and I engaged a fel
low with the bayonet. He fired at me
and got me in the side just as I made
a point at him. Whether it was being
hit. or if I slipped I don’t know, but
I got him in the shoulder when I meant
to get his chest. He did tho ‘Kamo
rad' act, and I took him prisoner. He
talked good English, too.
“Linht Duty" for Wounded.
“The sergeant saw I was hit, and told
mo to take four Gerries back with my
prisoner. I could hardly breathe with
the packet I had, so I made the Ger
mans pull me out of the trench and
lead the way to our lines. Behind us
our chaps were playing the devil with
the German trench and machine gun
posts, stink-bombs in the dug outs,
good charges under the machine gun
emplacements, general bedevilment—
I that is what these tip and run raids are
i for.
i “The prisoner I took spoke good Eng
l lish. Ke’d been a butter merchant in
i Hamburg—never been in England
* though he could speak tho language
| so well. He was a sort of corporal or
something, and he thought I’d bear a
grudge for my packet, but I gave him
a gasper to smoke when we went down
to the dressing station, to show him it
was all right. That loosened hie
tongue and he talked a lot.
“He had the hump about Germany.
Ho said that they seemed to have a lot
of victories, but none that led to any
thing, and ho said the news from his
homo was very bad. Ilfs father’s
business bad all gone, and food was
awful scarce with the folks at home.
Lots of his relations were sick and
couldn’t get better, and it seemed to be
prettv general in Germany all over.
He said that the Gerries in the firing
lino were fed up with tho letters they
got from home, always grousing about
no food and about being sick.
“Too Many Victories.”
"He couldn’t understand how it was
if they were winning such a lot of
victories that there was no peace, i
told him they’d had no victories worth
talking about, and asked him about
Vimy and Messines. He said it was
just because we had such a lot of guns
that no troops on earth could stand the
fire. Then I spoke about Cambrai with
no artillery fire, and he seemed to
think that they’d won all the ground
back. I told him what a little bit it
was they’d taken back, and that it
didn't make much difference, as wo
were still holding Mr. Blooming Hin
denburg’s line—only I spoke respectful
like about Hindenburg. I didn't like
to hurt a chap that was down and a
prisoner. It wouldn’t be good man
ners—we leave that sort of thing to
the Gerries.
“He praised up Hindenburg, hut still
I could see that he was not too suro
everything was all right; he-seemed to
think that the Germans were being
diddled by their superiors. Ho was
a decent enough chap, that Gerry, and
had the makings of a good soldier. He
said a queer thing, too, something about
1 me making our wounds a 'bond of
sympathy.’ He couldn’t get over mo
being decent to him though he’d shot
mo in the side.
“1 cannot understand you, English
man,’ ho says, ‘you are generous too
much.’
"I says to him, ‘That’s all right, cor
poral. If you hadn’t shot me, you’d
have been dead. I was going straight
for your chest.’ ’’
Shelling of Rheims Cathedral.
From the Wide World.
A great wave of sunlight lit up a
somber picture of carnage and suffering
j at tho western end near tho main en
trance. Here on piles of straw lay the
; wounded Germans in all stages of suffer
I ing Their round, shaven heads, thin
j cheeks and bluish gray uniforms con
trasted strangely with the somber black
I of the silent priests attending them, while
■ In the background tho red trousers of the
French soldiers were Just visible on the
I steps outside. Most of the wounded had
i dragged their straw behind the great goth
i Ic pillars, as if seeking shelter from their
! own shells. The priest conducted us to
' one of tho aisles beneath the window
i where the shell had entered that morning.
\ great poo! of blood lay there, staining
i the column JlK.t ns the blood of Thomas
: a Becket must have stained the altar of
| Canterbury seven centuries before.
; “That monsieur, Is the blood of the
! French gendarme who was killed at 11
tills morning; but he did not go alone.”
a tin priest pointed to two more recumbent
'Cures clad in the bluish gray of the
iser’s legions. There they lay stiff and
d as the effigies around them. All
'hree had perished by the same shell.
Horrors.
From the Florida T1me*-Ur.lon.
“Well, darling, here is some consola
tion.” said tho impecunious lover to the
pretty little heiress, "here Is one ship that
n never be torpedoed.”
What ship is that. Harold?" asked the
• :ng thing, shifting her chewing gum.
■■Coust-ship.” lie. replied, and Just then
her father came In and gave him a blow
i ing up.
! A seven-pound electro magnet thnt
j will lift 15 times its own weight has
I been invented for many uses about ma
; chirm shops.
Lemons Whiten and j
Beautify the Skin! j
Make Cheap Lotion j
Tlie juice of two fresh lemons strain
ed into a bottle containing three ounces j
)f orchard white makes u whole quar
ter pint of the most remarkable lemon
thin benutifier at about the cost one
uust pay for a small jar of the ordl- 1
aary cold creams. Care should be tak-s
sn to strain the lemon juice through a 1
Sue cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, ,
thou this lotion will keep fresh for
months. Every woman knows that loin- !
on juice is used to bieuch and remove .
guoh blemishes ns freckles, sallowness I
and tan and is tlie ideal skin softener, j
pmoothenor and benutifier.
Just try it! Make up a quarter pint i
af this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion
and massage il daily into tlie face, j
neck, arms and hands. It should natur
ally help to whiten, soften, freshen and
bring out the hidden roses and beauty I
of any skin. It is wonderful for rough, j
red hands.
Your druggist will sell three ounces I
of orchard white at little cost, and any |
Croecr will supply the lemons. Adv,
His Righteous Wrath.
“1 received a compliment yesterday
In which 1 did not thank the giver,”
grumbled old Festns I’ester. “A total j
stranger wrote me a letter and ad- !
dressed me as ‘the IIoi).’ I do not
know why lie should have applied that ;
epithet to me, unless It was because he j
did not know me. I feel safe in saying
that even my enemies would not
charge me with having many of the
characteristics of an Hon. I am not
a fawning, smirking blatherskite, too
lazy to work, nor am I a Mar and dead
beat. It may he that 1 have one at
tribute of an Hon.—very likely T am
n bore, but beyond that 1 am not
guilty.”—Kansas City Star.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottlo of
CASTOIilA, that famous old remedy j
for infants and children, and see that it
In Use for Over 30 fears.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria |
Ideals That Uplift.
We cannot revere anything lofty
without ourselves becoming exalted; i
we cannot revere anything holy with- j
out ourselves becoming purer. The ]
character of our homage determines '
our characters.—J. H. Jowett, D. D.
How’s This ?
Wo offer 1100.00 for any case of catarrh \
that cannot be cured by HALE’S
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE Is talc- 1
en Internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
•Sold by druggi3ts for over forty years.
?rice 75c. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Cautious.
“Have you been taken, too, with
these arguments about the excitement
of aviation?”
“Well, I wouldn't so to speak, care
to fall for It.”
—
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
for a laxative, three for a cathartic. Ad. 1
_._j
A Hot One.
Foxy—He seems to be well seasoned.
Handsome—Yes; lie’s full of ginger, j
We must learn to read before we 1
can read to learn, and learn to listen
before we can learn by listening.
It is estimated that 1,000,000 horse
power could bo obtained from Scot- j
land's waterfalls.
Millions of particular women now use
and recommend lied Cross Ball Blue. All
grocers. Adv.
Everything comes to the man who \
Advertises while he wafts.
MHIIIIIBIilllH 'll II1111 ll'l llllll I HI III Ii 111 I—
Win the War by Preparing the Land
Sowing the Seed and Predating Bigger Crops
Work in Joint Effort the Soil of the United States and Canada
CO-OPERATIVE FARMING IN MAN POWER NECESSARY
TO WIN THE BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
The Food Controllers of the United States and Canada are asking for
greater food production. Scarcely 100,000,000 bushels of wheat arc avail
ahjlc to be sent to the allies overseas before the crop harvest. Upon the
efforts of the United States and Canada rests the burden of supply.
Evsry Available Tillable Acre Must Contribute; Every Available
Fanner and Farm Hand Must Assist
Western Canada has an enormous acreage to be seeded, but man power
is short, and an appeal to the United States allies is for more men for seed
ing operation.
Canada’s Wheat Production Last Year was 225,060,000 Bushels; tbs
Demand From Canada Alone tor ISIS is 400,000,000 Bushels
To secure this she must have assistance. She has the laud but needs
the men. The Government of the United States wants every man who can
effectively help, to do farm work this year. It wants the land in the United
States developed first of course; but it also wants to help Canada. When
ever we find a man we can spare to Canada’s fields after ours are supplied,
we want to direct him there.
Apply to our Employment Service, and we will tell you where you can best serve
the combined interests.
Western Canada’s help will be required not later than May 5th. Wages to com
petent help, 550.00 a month and up, board and lodging.
Those who respond to this appeal will get a warm welcome, good wages, good
board and find comfortable homes. They will get a rate of one cent a mile from Canadian
boundary points to destination and return.
S* For particulars as to routes and places where employment may be had apply tot
U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
DES MOINES, IOWA
Carter’s Little liver Fills
You Cannot be ^ A Remedy That
Constipated Makes Life
and Happy Worth Living
SmnU Pill Genuine bear* slcnature
Small Dose .
Small Price
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A'gSJFJSL^iK (HARTER’S IRON PILLS
many colorless faces but will greatly heip most pale-faced people
stop n>*aii Distemper
CURES THE SICK
And prevents others having the disease no matter how
exposed. 50 cents ood 91 u bottle, 95 and 910 a dozen
bottles. All good druggists and turf goods houses..
I Spohn Medical Co., Manufacturers, Goshen, Ind.,U.S.A*
Scenes of Prosperity
Are Common in Western Canada
'The thousands of U. S. fanners who have accepted fit
Canada's generous offer to settle on homesteads or buy H
farm land in her provinces have been well repaid by ■
bountiful crops of wheat and other grains,
Where you can buy good farm land at $15 to $30 9
per acre—get $2 a bashel for wheat and raise 20 to I
45 bushels to the acre you arc bound to make money If
—that’s what you can do in Western Canada. J
In the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan or 9
Alberta you can get a
HOMESTEAD OF 160 ACRES FREE
and other land at very low prices.
During many years Canadian
wheat fields have averaged 20 bushels
to the acre — many yields as high as
45 bushels io the acre. Wonderful
crops also of Oats, Barley, and Flax.
Mixed Farming is as profitable an
industry as grain raising. Good
schools, churches; markets convenient,
climate excellent. Writefor literature and
particulars as to reduced railway rates to
Supt. of Immigration. Ottawa, Can., or to
M. J. Jobutono, Driver 197, Water
town, S. D.; W.V. Bennett, Room 4. Ben
Bldg., Omofaa, Neb., and R. A. Garrett,
311 jaciuon Street, St. Fail, Mina.
Canadian Government Agents
The Preliminary Crop.
“When nr<> you going to begin dig- j
glng in your garden?”
“Not for some time. It is still too
early for fishing worms.”
Gas is always shut in when it Is j
turned out.
Heal Skin'Roubles
That Itch and Bum
with Cuticura.
The Soap to cleanse and
purify,the Ointment to
soothe and heal. Every -
_Mhere Soap25«Ointaeni25i3(K,
Are Hera Told She Best Remedy
for Their Troubles.
Freemont, O.—“I wa3 passing through the critical [
period of life, being forty-six years of age and had all O'
the symptoms incident to that change — heat flashes, oL,
nervousness, and wa3 in a general run down condition, OK
80 it was hard for me to do my work. Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound was recommended to mo as \
the host remedy for my troubles, which it 3urely proved
to be. I feel better and stronger in every way since
taking it, and the annoying symptoms have disap
peared.”— Hrs. U. Goddeji, 925 Napoleon St., Fremont,
Ohio.
North Haven, Conn.—“Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- Q
ble Compound restored my health after everything else G
had failed when passing through change of life. There J
is nothing like it to overcome the trying symptoms.” I
—Mra. Fioasxca Isexla., Eox 197, North Haven, Conn.