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STOPPED HER SONG OF JOY. Slight Forgetfulnesi That Marred the Full Appreciation of the Welvome Rain. "Isn't that a lovely shower?" ex claimed Mrs. Randall to her friend in the parlor as they gazed out on the sudden downpour. "Yes, we need it so badly." "Need it? I should Bay we did. It's a God-send! Why, our goldenglows. hyacinths and roses out in the back yard are shrinking for the want of rain. The sprinkler can't take the place of rain, you know." "Indued not." "Oh, I tell you this Is Just lovely! See ftow It pours! And to think that Just when everything threatens to dry up and every one is praying for rain nature answers these appeals and sends us beautiful Good heavens!" "What's the matter?" "I've left the baby out in the yard!" The Circle. PLAIN TALK. "I think she's double-faced!" "Ob, don't say that! One face like hers is bad enough!" Sex In Cromwells. Of course with the sexes on a foot ing of equality as regarded oppor tunity, It would not be long until a fe male Cromwell made her appearance, and, having made her appearance, was getting her portrait painted. The painter, once more a fawn ing, courtly fellow, would have the picture a flattery; but she rebuked him in words that became historic! "Paint in the hips!" she command ed, sternly, showing that she could be more rigidly devoted to the truth than Oliver himself. Puck. Sheer white goods, In fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beau ty. Home laundering would be equal ly satisfactory If proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the Improved appearance of your work. Another Step Needed. "I like my house all right," said Luschman, "except for one thing. I guess you'll have to fix that." "What Is it?" asked the architect. "Several times lately I've nearly broken my neck reaching for another step at the head of the stairs when I got home late, so I guess you'd better put another step there." Catholic Standard and Times. Crime. She I can't bind myself until I'm sure. Give me time to decide, and if, six months hence I feel as I do now, I will be yours. Ardent Wooer I could never wait that long, darling. Besides the courts have decided that dealing In futures, without the actual -delivery of the goods, Is gambling pure and simple. Puck. With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt waist Just as well at home as the steam laundry can; It will have' the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear of the goods, and It will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the Iron. A Domestic Combustible. Doctor Did you give your husband the powder I left, Mrs. Mulligan? Mrs. Mulligan Indade, 01 did, sor. An' he's been blowln' me up Ivir since." Nebraska Directory KODAK FINISHING attention. Al I auppllea fur tlie Amateur utrlrtl J frMh. HrnA for cntnloirur and finishing prior THE ROBERT DEMPSTER CO., Box 1197, Omaha. Neb. 1 THE PAXTON European Plat Rooum from t 1 .00 up hIiiIo, 76 1'rnlri up double CAFE PRICES REASONABLE DRAIN flLE Mtmmrn Ts,m,.. Hollow Btilldlmr Block, Brlrk, Tile Itoolinf nml all klmla of Paint and Color. Omihi Brick, Paint Mill Co.. Works 2nd tnd Hlckom Sti., Omihi, Neb. TYPEWRITERS MAKES ktoH Mfra Tlo. a.li ,r tin., mrnta. KMiUl.rnl.nllM. W.ahlp nywhar. for Irm .lamination. ol ' .a..,4ll Itn4ullll, ,(lait M. Splesberger & Son Co. Wholesale Millinery ThtSMtlnthtwail OMAHA, NEB. Dain Hay Tools are the Besl IilritonhTlngtl)im. Ask jour local dealrr.or JOHN DEERE OMAHA YL uanaws old bf the RotI Daalara. Wlll aand to pup I la and taach.raoafw.lpt of H rutin Lni. a IHn.b. hard Biapla, braaa adiiad nil. JOHN 0. WOODWARD CO."Tha Candy Mn"Councll Bluff, I Mysteries of Nature By G. Frederick Wright. A. M. LL. D. ORIGIN OF- WORLD'S FERTILE SOILS. It hardly needs saying that in gen eral the prosperity of a nation is de pendent upon thefertillty of its soil. In some few caBes. It Is true, nations may prosper because they have a mo nopoly of mines, of manufactures, or of the means of trade and commerce. But the larger purt of the things which minister to the necessities and the couiforta of mankind are the direct products of the soil.' The study of the soila becomes a department of geology because all soils are rock in processes of transformation. The earth is cov ered by. a very thin veneering of soil. At a depth of a few inches or a few feet, or at most a few hundred feet, solid rock is everywhere reached. The soila of the world have their origin In the disintegration of these rocks by ex posure to the atmosphere or to various mechanical agencies like that of run ning water and moving ice. The relation of the soil to the under lying, rocks, however, is dependent upon the action of transporting agen cies which are at hand. Where there are no transporting agencies sufficient to carry away the disintegrated parti cles as fast as they accumulate over the surface we have what is called "residual soil," whose character will partake entirely of that of the under lying rock. If the underlying rock Is a conglomerate or sandstone resid ual soil will bo composed of nothing but sand and gravel, which is capable of supporting only a limited variety of vegetable life. It Is fortunate, however, that these barren sandstone ridges alternate with the rocks of different character whose disintegration produces a residual soil of remarkable fertility. From one end to the other of the, Appalachian chain cf mountains outcrops of limestone ap pear in lines horizontal to those of the sandstone outcrops, such as are cut through by the Delaware, the Lehigh, the Susquehanna, the Potomac and other rivers Just before reaching the Atlantic coast plain. These limestones contain ail the elements required by the higher class of vegetation, and the thin residual soil over them has fur nished the basis for some of the most prosperous communities of the coun try. The celebrated Wyoming valley on the Susquehanna, the Shenandoah valley in Virginia and that of the up per Tennessee are illustrations of the agricultural wealth which is supplied by the disintegration of limestone rocks. In numerous places in central Pennsylvania as in the mountains south of Wllliamsport, there are limit ed outcrops of limestone over which have sprung up flourishing communi ties surrounded by barren sandstone mountains, as islands are surrounded by water in the sea. The blue grass region in Kentucky is similarly situated, being bordered by barren outcrops of Devonian sub carboniferous conglomerates and sand stones, while the thin covering of soil resulting from the disintegration of the Silurian limestone supports a veg etation which furnishes the elements most necessary for the best develop ment of cattle and horses, and so In considerable measure accounts for the pre-eminence of that region in those departments of industry. It would not be strange, also, if the pre-eminence claimed by the Kentucklans for '.he beauty of their women and the strong physique of their men were due to this gift from nature of a richly endowed limestone soil. The agricultural richness of Pales tine Is traceable to a similar cause. Soil there which would seem to a west ern farmer worthless, produces the finest vineyards and the most flourish ing olive groves, because the disinte gration constantly going on in the fragments of limestone rock that cover the surface, annually supplies the ele ments needed for these most Impor tant ministers to human need. But so limited are the deposits of rock containing the concentrated ele ments of fertility that an undue por tion of the world would be barren if it were not that nature is provided with elaborate means, of transporta tion, whereby the richness of one sec tion Is carried to another, resulting In a commingling of elements, which Is of the highest advantage. During the long geological ages water, Ice and air had been engaged In transporting and depositing In distant regions the residual boIIs which were accumulat ing thousands of years before man came upon the scene. The flood-plains of nearly all rivers are rich In agri cultural possibilities because they have brought to them the elements of soil supplied by the entire river basin. The Mississippi valley from Cairo to the gulf is a deposit of sediment to which the whole upper portion, extend ing from the Rocky to the Allegheny mountains has furnished its quota, and so It is with nearly all the larger river systems of the world. The Nile, the Indus, the Ganges, the Yangtse-KIang and the Koang ho fur nish old flood-plains of great extent, where agriculture bns been carried on for thousands of years with little d tterloratlon of the soil. The vast plain of Eastern China, through which the great canal wends Its way, is little else than the combined delta of the two great Chinese rivers. The valleys of the Ganges and of the In dus are simply filled with sedlmont brought down from the disintegrating rocks of the Himalaya mountains, and so are the valleys of the Amazon and the La Plata reveling in the agri cultural wealth brought down by those rivers from the Andes and spread out within reach of man. In the northern part of Europe and of the United States and in the south ern portions of British America gla clal Ice has been the plow and the harrow and the scraper which have prepared the region for Its most sue cosHful occupation by man. The north ern part of the United States Is liv ing to a considerable extent upon the richness of Canada. Everywhere down to the limits reached by the Ice of the glacial period Canadian bowlders are found, mingled with the finer grist of Canadian rocks which were ground off from the highlands by the ice and car ried In Its movement south for hun dreds of miles. A European expert has taught us how to enrich our soil by grinding up the granite rocks, con taining a large amount of feldspar (which Is the basis of clay) and other elements of value, and spreading it An eminent authority in the United States recently asked me If we could not accomplish that purpose in the United States by grinding up the Cana dian bowlders. The answer at hand was, nature bus already performed that work for us. The Ice movement of the glacial period ground a large part of the elements it brought with it to the finest of powder and spread It far and wide. It Is estimated that on an average the deposit of glacial grist over the northern part of the United States Is 100 feet thick. When I had nearly completed the survey of the glacial boundary In Ohio 20 years ago I chanced to meet Prof. W. I. Chamberlain, the accomplished sec retary of the board of agriculture, and showed him the line across the state. He at once remarked that that line separated the more productive agri cultural portion of the state from the least productive. And still Canada has enough remain ing. In Ontario, between the lakes, It has reserved a vast glacial deposit of indefinite depth and unbounded fer tility. The valley of the St. Lawrence is one of the richest soils In the world, resulting from the deposit of glacial material In a temporary arm of the sea which existed during the closing portion of the glacial period. But per haps the most remarkable of such ac cumulations is that in the bed of the glacial Lake Agasslz, which occupied the valley or the Red River of the North, covering the central portion of Manitoba and extending a triangular projection far up into Minnesota and Dakota. This area of 100,000 square miles or more is covered to a great depth with the glacial sediment which collected over the bottom of this tem porary lake, and is now, and is des tined always to be, one of the most re markable wheat-producing regions ot the world. The unrivaled richness of the Mis sour! valley, where it passes through South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kan sas and Missouri, is due almost entire ly to the "loess," which is principally the fine portion of the glacial grist de posited during the extreme floods which characterized the final melting of the ice-sheet from the northern part of the United States. In many places, as at Sioux City, Omaha, St. Joseph Mo., this fine silt has accumulated upon the edges of the valley to a depth of more than 100 feet, and all along it is spread out on either side to a distance of 40 or 50 miles. In Europe the glacial deposits play an equally prominent part In furnish; ing fertile soils for the agriculturist All the lowlands of northern German) and western Russia consist of glacial debris largely ground off from tbc mountains of Scandinavia, and spreuo out over the area to a depth ol oftentimes 100 feet of more. The ex tensive plains of black earth which cover southern Russia and have long been famous for their production ol wheat, are covered with loess to b depth of 60 feet or more, precisely likt that in the Missouri valley which hat Just been referred to. In the opinion of the Russian geologists this Is a water deposit connected with the clos ing stages of the glacial period. Anyone familiar with the dust storms on our western plains or on the borders ot Mongolia will not be surprised to learn that some or tht most eminent geologists believe that the great deposits of loess In China, and even In our Missouri valley, were originally derived from the arid re gions to the west, from which the ma terlal has been brought by the winds Whatever may be true as to the agency of water in Anally distributing this rich soil Into Its present sftua tlon, it is In China most probably a slow accumulation of dust blown b the prevailing west winds from the vast plains of the desert of Gobi; while that in the Missouri valley hat very likely come In a similar manner from the arid regions of the Rock) mountain plateau. Oftentimes on the borders of these regions the sun will be for a considerable time almost dnrk ened by the dust that fills the air Thus by various methods is nature able to transfer the richness which Is superabundant In one region to other areas less generously provided, but otherwise more suitably adapted to the occupation of man. TRUE RESIGNATION. Old Maid Is It really true that mar riages are made in heaven? Doctor Yes, I believe so. OJd Maid (resignedly) O, then, doctor, you needn't call again. DREADFUL DANDRUFF. Girl's Head Encrusted Feared Lost of All Her Hair Baby Had Milk. Crust Missionary's Wife Made Two Perfect Curei by Cutlcura. "For several year" my husband was a missionary In the Southwest Every ono In that high and dry at mosphere has more or less trouble with dandruff and my daughter's scalp became so encrusted with It that I was alarmed for fear she would lose all her hair. After trying various rem edies, In desperation I bought a cake ot Cutlcura Soap and a box of Cutl cura Ointment. They loft the scalp beautifully clean and freo from dandruff, and I am happy to say that the Cutlcura Remedies were a com plete success. I have also used suc cessfully the Cutlcura Remedies for o-called 'milk-crust' on baby's head. Cutlcura la a blessing. Mrs. J. A. Darling, 310 Fifth St., Carthage, Ohio, Jan. 20, 1908." Potter Drug A Cbem. Corp., Bole Propi, Boiton. Hospitals a Benefit to Property. Tho National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis has recently concluded an investiga tion, which shows that 67.6 per cent of the tuberculosis sanatoria and hos pitals of the United States have been a benefit to the property and health of the communities in which they are located. In tho case or more than 62 -per cent, or the sanatoria the presence or the Institutions has helped to In creaKe the assessed value ot surround ing property. Wanted to Defer the Petition. A Los Angeles mother tells the fol lowing: "One summer's eve my little son of six years was sent to bed at his usual time; but he could not sleep. Upon my Inquiry what troubled him, he re plied: " 1 can't finish my prayer. I've got as far as 'Forgive us our tres passes as' but I can't get any furth er, for Howard licked me to-day and I want to lick him to-morrow. Starch, like everything else, la be ing constantly Improved, the patent Starches put on the market 25 yeprs ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. In the lat est discovery Defiance Starch all Injurious chemicals are omitted, while the addition of another Ingredient, In vented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never ap proached by other brands. Caste Below Stairs. "Are there degrees of rank In the servants' hall?" "To be sure. Maids who have charge of dogs won't associate with maids who take care of children." Pittsburg Post. Better than gold Like it in color Hamlins Wizard Oil the bent of all rem edies for rheumatism, neuralgia, and all pain, soreneM and inflammation. The good times we long for will not come In the guise of 48-cent watches. There' a rich, satisfying quality in Lewia' Single Binder thut in found in no other 5c cigar. Does the ugly chorus girl come un der the head of "stage frights?" ttw Sunshine' Grahams Mljff1lf edpa ' s ''!.'. ',..' ''f. " '. '"" j yi 7 " i' v . ." if , TIRED ALL THE TIME. Languor, listlessness, dullness of spirits are often due to kidney disor ders. Tain and weakness in the back, sides and hips, headaches, dizziness, urinary disorders are sura signs that tho kidneys need immediate attention. Delny is dangerous. OiSii. Alonzo Adums, Os ceola, Iowa, says: "My kidneys failed me. I suffered aw ful puin and waB so weak I could not work, and often had to take to bed. I was dull and exhausted nearly all the time. I consulted doctors and used medicines, but only Dunn's Kidney Pills helped me. Soon I was perma nently cured." Remember the name Donn's. For Bale by all dealers. 60 cents a box. Foster-MIlburn Co., buffalo., N. Y. Burning String In the Slck-Room. Months spent In a sick room have taught me many things for tho com fort of an Invalid, one of tho simplest and most effective of which is burn ing a string to purify the atmosphere. Take a soft string and slick it with a pin to the back of a chair; after lighting, blow It out gently, leaving the tiny spark, which will create smoke enough to make a decided dif ference in the atmosphere. Harper's Bazar. c ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT A!fficablc Preparation for As similaling the Food and Regula ting the Stomachs and Bowels or Promotes Difiestion.Chccrful- ness and Rest Contains neither Opium .Morphine nor Mineral WOT NAHCOTIC Wjb ifOM DrSAMVUHTtlrSA nim Sum hpptrmiiti . htrmSt,4 . Wnkyrum flute AnrrOrl Rrmrrlv fnrfnrwlina- lion . 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Sent by mail FREE TRIAL la a Block, ie alien rad-Usc' ALLtiN a. uuns 1 ed, LE ROY, N, Y. riw ' Graham Crackers at their Best There are no better Grahams than "Sunshines" none half so good. Sunshine Grahams arc made of the best whole wheat graham flour, at the "Sunshine" bakeries the finest in the world. The ovens arc of white tile and are on the top (nrtr snndiinp nnd nnr olr oil nrnnnl Kp,v, Each package triple seal. So cro- 10c seal' ckages. JoSE-YlL,ES SICK HEADACHE Positively cured by these Little Pills. They a!ao tellers Dla trtaa from Dnpepala, In tllfccstlou and Tik Hearty liavl 1 ii ar- A perfect rem edy for Dliiinesa, Nau , TrrowaineiM, liail Turtle I ii t lie Mouth, Coat ed 'i'unitue. Pain In lha Side, TOKF1D LIVER. They regulata the llo wela. Turely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMAIL DOSE. SHALL PRICE. CARTERS Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. THE MARK OF EThe Day Lumber Company In It I1 1 a V'tfkllM fitf I n ra t 1 . ... 1 L flllta-r, bWIIK bill) Ut'Itb WASHINGTON RED t'EDAlt 8I1INOI.LS that arc on the mar ket. We never over dry our shingles to save a few pounds on the shipping weight. It takes the life out of the wood and mitkea them crock.warpaud rot Look for !'f,V.ff!,1l'!!r7l:'V"'r ll'V'-"r-rl-t in . m m r, ii i-1 i n t . , m. . iftllV avivV.Waah! ll.wSK'YDWKAUJll.Nhl W. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 29-1909. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Use VJj For Over Thirty Years Hi mm h t Marraua mar, aw to .a mm. by all Druggists, 25c. Do not accept for 25c. in stamps. PACKAGE sent by mail. Address ' ' is protected bv the you can be sure they are .holesome. ;al" on the end is Be sure it's there. in Grahams .inafv t.fcJuiiSr'lI Biscuit Co. CARTER'S niFiE I Ilver