M I CANADA is ss profitable as grain growing. Successes as wonderful as those from Browing wheat, oats, barley, and flai have been made in raicing Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hoga. Bright, sunny climate, nutnt ioua grasses, good water, enormous fodder crops—these spell success to tno farmer and stock raiser. And remember, you can buy on oasy ferine arm Land at $15 to *30 An Acre —land equal to that which through many years ha9 yielded from 20 to 4S bushel, of wheat to tho oero—grazing land convenient to good grain farms at proportionately low prices. These lands have every rural convenience; good schools, churches, roads, tele phones, etc., close to live towns and good markets. If you want to get back to the farm, or to farm on a larger ocale than is possible under your present conditions, Investi gate what Western Canada has to offer you. For Illustrated literature with maps and particulars regarding redound railway rateo, location of land, ate., apply to Department of Immigra tioi), Ottawa, Canada, cr G. A. Cask, Drawer H7. Watertown, S. D.i W. V. Bennett, Room 4, Eld,.. Omaha. Neb., as4 R. A. Garrett, 311 Jecbaea Street, St. Paul, Mina. Canadian Government Agents, j Kill That Cold With CASCARA fcf QUININE TOR AND Cold*, Coughs h)M^V Grippe Neglected Colds are Dangerous Taka no chances. Keep this standard remedy handy for the first sneeze. Breaks up a cold in 24 hours — Relieves Qrippe in 3 days—Excellent for Headache Qulnlhe in this form does not affect the head—Cascara la best Tonic Laxative—No Opiate in Hill's. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT UNWILLING TO TAKE CHANCE Colored Man Evidently Had Little Con fidence in His Own Judgment in Important Matter. A visitor in Kentucky cnme across that rare specimen, an unmarried col ored man. The negro was a quiet, elderly per son, not shiftless, but quite industri ous, so the northern man felt curious and determined to find out why he had remained single. “Uncle Jim, how does it happen that ^ you are so opposed to matrimony?” . The old fellow looked up with a grave face, but there was a twinkle in his eye, ns he replied: “Me suh! I ain’t erposed to matrimony.” “Well, why is it you have never married?” his Inquisitor continued. “Haven't you seen anyone you liked?” “Lawdy! yessah—but you see it’s i thlsaway; I couldn’t resk my Judg U ment.” -- Sympathy's Cheaper. “It’s nil right to sympathize with the under dog in n fight,” remarked the Observer of Events and Things, “but a fellow would be a fool to bet cu him.” Teach the young folks to take only those pleasures that leave sweet memo ries, not uncanny ones. If a woman is heartless it is the fault of some man. Unsanitary Prices. She—Don’t you think the food they serve in this restaurant is healthful? He- -Maybe, but the prices ure sick ening. ThoS i who marry for love are just «s likely to bump into disappointment as those who marry for money. LOOKED^ LIKE PROMISED MAN Victim of Carelessness Came Back With Pointed Remark Concerning Companion’s Immediate Future. Two negroes were working in a coal bin in a Mississippi town, one down in the bln throwing out the coal and the other wielding a shovel. The one Inside picked up a large lump and heaved It carelessly into the air, struck the other a resounding blow on the head. As soon as the victim had recovered from his momentary daze he walked over to the edge of the bin and, peer ing down at his mate, said: “Nigger, how come you don’t watch where you throws dat coal? You done hit me smack on the hald.” The other looked surprised. “Did I hit you, nigger?” “You sho’ did,” came the answer. “And I jes want to tell you, I’se been promising the debll a man a long time, and you certainly does resemble my promise.”—New York Evening I Post. A Difference. “Does yo’ still refuse, salt to pay me clem two dollahs I done loaned yo’ de I.awd on’y knows when?” “Nussah !” dlguifiedly replied Broth-, er Bogus. VI doesnt refuse; I dess refrains.”—Kansas City Star. As Friend to Friend. “Marry my daughter!” cried the angry merchant. “I should hope not Be off with you, sir! Go to the devil, sir.” The young man was not a bit upset by these definite Instructions. “Very well,” he replied. "Can I take any message for you?” All things wnit for those who corn* after them. What Better Drink for Table Use than Postum Cereal When well boiled-twenty minutes or more — it has a rich, color and a partic ularly delightful flavor. In these respects.Postum Cereal is the eojual of fine coffee; and much better for health. 4 "There's a Reason j SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE mtmp P Made by tk ! x Postum Cereal Company, Inc. —W V Battle Creek, Mick. % ^ ' I >»■■■■ . .- ■ . ---- --...... - - From the Kansas City Star. New g-mind was broken In the government efforts to regulate the rail roads when Hale Holden, president of the Burlington company, appeared be fore the Interstate Commerce commission to show why his company should be allowed to capitalize its large profit and loss surplus. In the old days rail road directors could issue bonds and stocks with no such lknltatlon. Under the new transportation law, no railroad can issue bonds or srock without first obtaining the consent of the Interstate Commerce commission. To obtain this authority detailed information regarding the object of the proposed is sue must be submitted. And thep the following sworn annual reports of tho carriers must show exactljtwhat use was made of the new funds. Since the new' law was passed many railroads have applied to tho com mission for authority to sell securities. But this is tho first time that the question of capitalizing accumulated surplus lias come up. Twenty years ago Great Northern and Northern Pacific acquired control of Burlington by offering to exchange for Burlington's outstanding stock $200 In their own Joint 4 per cent, collateral trust bonds (which were to be secured by deposit of Burlington's stock) for each $100 of Burlington's stock. All but 2 per cent, of Burlington's stock was thus acquired by Great North ern and Northern Pacific without any outlay beyond placing their joint credit behond the collateral trust bonds, interest being paid on these bonds by the dividends declared by Burlington on its stock and collected by Great North ern and Northern Pacific. These 20-year collateral trust bonds of Great Northern and Northern Pacific fall due next July. What Great Northern and Northern Pacific now propose to do is to have the Burlington company issue a bond and a stock dividend against Burling ton's accumulated surplus to help them pay off their maturing obligation. In effect Burlington is being asked to place a long-term fixed interest-bear ing mortgage on its property to retire stocks. Mr. Holden in his testimony stated that In the transaction of 20 years ago Burlington had obtained an outlet to the coast, while Great Northern and Northern Pacific had secured a Chicago connection It was also made plain that Burlington has been well managed. Mr. Holden showed in detail that during the past 20 years Burlington's efficiency had increased fastern than its traffic; that besides paying out $179,000,000 dividends in 20 years (mors than the entire outstanding capita'.) an accumulated surplus had been built up of $233,000,000, which might be increased $21,000,000 when the govern ment rental was collected. Having piled up this surplus before the new law was passed, what is the Burlington to do with it? There are some other prosperous railroads with large accumulated sur plus. In a little over 10 years Lackawanna increased its surplus from $24, 395.000 to $89,304,000; Atchison from $19,985,000 to $151,626,000; Louisville from $18,130,000 to $80,488.00; Union Pacific from $42,796,000 to $222,844,000. These companies and others are watching to see what will bo allowed by the commission in the case of Burlington. In the old days railroads declared stock dividends whenever a surplus could be built up, and then charged all improvements to capital, some of them afterwards going into bankruptcy. Back in 1883 even Great Northern declared an extra dividend in bonds. But in recent years there has grown up quite a different viewpoint. For example, here Is one court decision on the subject; “If a company has charged rates, not only adequate to pay a fair and reasonable profit to tho stockholders, but also to permit the building out at earnings of extensions and improvements aggregating as much as the tot* investment of tho security holders, there is some justice in the argumcj that unless this has been done for the benefit of the consumer it represen pure extortion. Profits in excess of a fair return should either be distribute *to the consumer in lower rates, or if used for extens;ons and improvement should bo deemed to be held in trust for the exclusive benefit of the con turner.” To permit a railroad to capitalize its surplus earnings and then enjoy return on this additional investment, according to one widely recognize* authority, is equivalent to making the shipper pay more in the future and forever because he has already paid an unreasonably high rate to create the surplus in the past. J “ 27ie End of the World ” From the New York Times. In “The End of the World”, written by Joseph McCabe, (published by Dutton, N. Y.), the author discusses for t\e popular ear the various solutions to the question how it will end. Enu It will; the only question is how. Mr. McCabe sets them all forth, the collision theory included, and docs not take pains to destroy any or them except the idea that we are to be killed by a Comet. He also gives frankly the theory he favors, which is that we shall liave an lee Age once too often and that it will stay. We have had five of them so far, and the intervals between them have been growing shorter and ihorter. In fact, he calls rurs already a dead world; if it were not dead cos mically, or rather dying, imankind could not live upon it. We live upon the cooling crust of a planet which is practically ceasing to burn even inwardly. He says From the astronomic? 1 point of view, our globe is already dead, or has at the most a feebie puls) of vitality. But it is the cosmic law that what we call life shall arise o ly cn a dead world, and it is possible because here the analogy with living' idings fails. The heart of our world is 92,000,000 miles away. As long as the sun maintains its vitalizing stream above a certain level, Ve five Will the heart f dl? Will the cold rigor of death one day rob earth of its color and movemer, 1? That tins will happen no one doubts for a mo ment. The question here is not if, but when. But, after all, the carta is not dead >\ t, but only dying hard, as it proves by earthquakes and volcaioes. ‘‘The belt of rock” on which we live is only about 40 or 50 miles thick, and this belt, in comparison “with the fierce inter ior, is hardly thicker tha i the shell of an egg.” It should not surprise us, therefore, that the rnoltjn matter “bursts or oozes from below through every pore and fissure.” Coming to the five Ic« Ages, he says that we are living in "the penum bra” of the latest one. Of oourse he looks for more, and the end of the world may come through the pemanency of one. All scientists agree that the life of the world has been made up of long periods of heat alternated by long periods of cold; but it is a so true "that the earlier periods between Ice Ages were much longer and wanner than the later similar periods.” After giving the figures, he comes to tha conclusion that "Ice Ages are apparently coming upon the earth at intervals which lessen by about 50 per cent, at each recur rence.” In the earlier ages the warmth of the intervening ages reached both the Poles: There was no winter; there were no zones of climate; there were no polar cape. With the cret reous chill winter sets in as a permanent insti tution, as the rise of our c aciduous trees tell, and earth soon began to grow colder at the Poles. Since the last lee Age we have permanent ice-sheets at the Poles, broad temperatf latitude and marked changes of seasons. If there is a permanent principle at the base of this phenomenon, iL is obvious that the earth will endure a permanent Ice Age long before the millions of years of which astronomers speak are run out. Unfortunately the geological esti mates c.f time are still so conflicting that it is useless to attempt to predict the time when this condition may be reached, supposing that the progres sion is maintained. Still, he reckons about 5,000,000 years between the cretaceous chill and the last Ice Age, and if the rate of progress of the Ice Ages continues at the PtlUlC IlUt /.II II1C IJtlOl, II LHC Hlltl YU1 ULLYYLLII HIW1I V.UIIlinui.O *** the same proportion, he thinks the permanent one is due some 5,000,000 or 8,000,000 years hence. There is a possibility that even this might not mean the extinction of human life, for, he says: But 1 will not be tempted to enlarge upon a vision of mankind crowd ing into a shrieking equatorial belt, nor is it necessary to observe that even if the earth becomes wholly glaciated, this will not necessarily mean the end of the human drama. A great synthetic chemist, Berthelot, believed that tile 2tlth century would inaugurate the change from natural to artificial food. At least we may be sure that the men of some millions of years hence will not laboriously breed tattle and grow corn In order to secure the few daily grains of carbon nitrogen, etc., that they need. Then'he takes up the question of collisions, and first the ancient fear of comets. He dismisses that derisively. "We have no more reason to fear a passage through the tail of a comet thun a locomotive has to fear an en counter with a trail of smoke; and an encounter with the head of a comet Is probably something to be desd-ed." It was easy for the astronomer of the 19th century to demonstrate that the tail "was the thinnest of phantasms," through which the stars shine. The head gave more trouble, but was finally found—at least the theory has never been discredited—to consist of a great number of meteors. Meteors are harmless to us; when they enter our atmos phere at their great speed they are rendered incondescent and generally re duced to ash. Ha calls it "an Invisible army that assails our globe day after day.” The figure is usually represented as between 20 and 100,000,000 a day. Such meteors, coming together to form the head of a comet, but still de tached from each other, might do some damage, hut could not bring about thb end of the world. As for other stars, “no collision is possible within the limits of our solar family.” For stars outside our system, he is content with pointing out the extreme difficulty of wandering into or near it, and the utter improbability ol.' such vast spaces becoming covered so as to strike this rushing planet at the right moment. If two stars did approach each other, actual contact would not be necessary for destruction. "The tidal influence on each other of such vast bodies will be enough to tear open the crust that confines their molten interior, and this would mean the destruction of any planetary life in their vicinity.’ Some astronomers interpret in just that way some flaming out burst they have seen in the heavens. Real Highbrow. From Philadelphia. Public Ledger. "It certainly does pay to have an ed ucation,’* said thfc man In household prods to the man from the rugs, over their lunch. “As to what?" asked the rugg^ur. "W*y this morning a woman came in md put her lorgnette to her eyes and asked me for a ‘ref-use chalice’.’’ "Good night! What’s that?" “See—I told you it paid to have an education. I happened to recognize the woman and to know that she had just noved here from Bouton. So I got her I garbage pall, which was exact/y v> hat the wanted.*** The Diplomat. From the London Mail. “By Jove. Milly, you look topping to. night, but what a fearful lot your frocks cost me these days.” "Gilbert, dearest, what does monej matter when It's a caae of Making you happy ?" Suspected Him. Little Clarence who accompanied hta mother to church was given a nickel to drop Into the collection plate. After doing so he remarked In an audible whisper: “Say, ma, the caadhebor didn't stag it up!** MRS. BARBETTE TELLS OF SPLENDID RESULTS Prominent New Hampshire Woman Says Tan lac Brought About a Won derful Change in Her Condition. “Tnnlac Is n grand medicine, and I think every suffering woman ought to know about ft," was the statement made recently by Mrs. Aurore Bar rette, at her residence, 133 Second Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. Mrs. Barrette Is u well known and highly respected resident of that city. "I have not felt at all well for the past year or more,” site continued. “1 haven’t been sick enough to be in bed. but I was far from being a well woman. At times I thought I had kidney trouble, for I suffered almost constantly from severe pains across my buck, Just over the kidneys. When ever T tried to do nnv housework at all that dull pain would be there, and if I attempted to stoop over it just felt os though my back would break. [ would get so weak and worn out I would have to sit down and rest several times a day, and I felt tired all the time. “Tills condition made me awfully nervous, so that I rarely ever slept well at flight, and every now and then I would jump In my sleep, os' If In a fright, and my condition wa» renlly becoming serious. “Only two bottles of Tartlsc have brought about a wonderful change In my condition. In fact, the results I have received from this medicine have renllv surprised me. Those terrible . MPS. AURORB BARRETTB of Manchester, New Hampshire pains in my back which used to trou ble ine every day have utmost disap peared, and 1 am going to keep on taking Tanlae until they leave me en tirely. I have lots of energy now, and am not only able to do my house work, but I get through the day with out feeling the least bit tired. 1 am no longer nervous like I was, and 1 sleep well at night. “I shall always be thankful for what Tanlae has done for me." 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Precious Materials. “The fact that a gown is not large does not prevent It from being expen sive.” “I should not he surprised,” rejoined Miss Cayenne, “If we planned our method of buying fabrics and used weights instead of measures. Some of the weaves are so p ecious that they might as well be sold by I he karat.” Well, anyway, some of the apples (hut were trying to get sold at two for 15 cents rotted. !■ am Will i ib *. Where Many Men Lack Judgment. It requires approximately the samq umniat of breath to utter a curse or a )enedic|ion. Vet how tunny tacit seem o lack judgment In choosing which to liter! i RUB OUT SORENESS, SPRAINS, BACKACHE WITH OLD ST. JACOBS Oil Hack hurt you? Can't straighten up without feeling sudden pains, sharp lehesand twinges? Now, listen! That’s lumbago, sciatica, or maybe front a strain, a,.J you'll get blessed relief lha moment you rub your back with rootli ng penetrating "SI. Jacobs Oil!” Nothing else lakes out soreness, lame tes- and stillness so quickly. V’oti simply rub 11 oti and out comes tha pain, Jt trm!re, was talking about masterful ,vivos. “Masterful wives,” he said, "were n the minority heretofore, but with In- coming of universal suffrage the najorlty of wives are getting pretty nnsterful. “Believe me,” Mr. Brown con *1 tided, “it won't be only in his otltcf that the husband of the future, when lie starts to dictate, will be taken Juwn.” Muck usually wins. A man's suc cess often depends upon bis ability to pluck others. Weather men are unquestionably storm scepters. Unless you see the name “Bayer” on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for 21 years, and proved safe by millions.—Say “Bayer”! SAFETY FIRST! Accept only an “unbroken package” of genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” which contains proper direc tions for Headache, Earache, Toothache, Neuralgia, Colds, Rheu matism, Neuritis, Lumbago, and pain generally. 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