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A NERVOUS WRECK Mrs. Green Gained 26 Pourds and Recovered Her Hoait,. by Taking Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. General debility is a term that covers a multitude of cases where there is uo acute disease, yet the patient continues to lose strength and the doctor’s medi cines have no apparent effect. This is the decline that leads to death if means are not found to check it. In a great majority of cases Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills willcheck it and restore health and strength because they actually make new blood and so send renewed vitality to every organ and tissue of the body. Mrs. S. A. Green, whose address is Box 29, R. F. D. No. 4, Franklin, Ga., says: “For three and a half years I suffered with weakness and nervous ness. complicated with stomach trouble. At times I was confined to my bed for periods ranging from three weeks to twe months and was under the physician’s care most of the time for three years. I do not know the canse of my trouble but 1 was prostrated with weakness and, al though I took a great deal of medicine, nothing seemed to give me strength. At times my stomach hurt me something fearful and my head often troubled me< 1 was sleepless and what sleep 1 did get did not refresh me. “ Win n I began taking Dr. Williams’. Pink Pills, I weighed but 104 pounds. 1 knew I was so bad that a few doses would not cure me and I had patience. S ion the pills began to give me strength, my blood got in better condition, I could, sleep well at night and help some with the housework. Now I weigh 130 pounds and think nothing of walking half a mile. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have done won ders f' ir me and the neighbors all know this statement is true.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by all druggists, or will be sent by mail, post paid,on reooiptof price, 50 cents per box, six boxes si.50, by the J Jr. Williams Med icine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. Kemp’s Balsam Will stop any cough that can be stopped by any medicine and cure coughs that cannot be cured by any other medicine. It is always the best cougb cure. You cannot afford to take chances on any other kind. KEMP’S BALSAM cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, grip, asthma and consump tion in first stages. Education in Sweden. Nowhere else, unless in America, is education so universal as in Sweden, fclvery child must go to school be tween the ages of seven and 14, un less the parents can show that they are being privately educated. There are about twelve thousand common schools in Sweden, even the thinly -populated districts having “ambula tory schools," held in various part6 cf the district. When this is the case the school term is reduced to about half the ordinary duration.—The Craftsman. Tolstoy’s Latest Work. Count Tolstoy has completed a new work entitled: "The Divine Human.” The characters depicted include the principal revolutionary leaders in Rus sia during the years from 1880 to 1S90. He is already engaged upon the work of dealing with current events in Russia. Tank Wasn't Filled. “I want to see your tank.” said the waterworks man at the kitchen door. “Then you'll have to come around after midnight,” answered Mrs. Me Sosh, savagely. "He’s never home at this time o’ day.”—Cleveland Leader. From St. Louis and Kansas City via M., K. & T. R’y To Dallas, Ft. Worth, Waco, Houston, Galveston, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Laredo, and in termediate points. To El Paso and intermediate points .... $26.50 To Indian Territory, Okla homa, and Northern Texas points, one fare plus $2.00, but no rate higher than . $20 Correspondingly low rates from all points From Chicago. $25.00; St. Paul, $27.50, Omaha and Council Bluffs, $22.50. Tickets on sale only on September 18th and October 2nd and 16th good thirty (30) days from date of sale, with liberal stop-over privileges in both direc tions. Write for literature and full particulars w. S. ST. GEORGE General Passenger Agent, M., K & T. R’y Wainwright Building St. Louis, Mo. ©. A- MCNUTT. 80S Walnut St.. Kansas City, Mo, "SOUTHWEST” ! VAST GOVERNMENT PROJECTS IN LAND RECLAMATION How Thousands of Acres of Arid Soil are Being Converted Into Productive Farms. Probably no legislation since the passage of the United States home stead laws and the Morrill act, by which a large part of the public lands of the west were dedicated to the education of the people, has been so beneficial and contained so much promise for the future as the recla mation act of June 17, 1902. Under this act surveys have been made for thirteen great irrigation projects. Two of the most important of these are known as the Xorth Platte project and the Relle Fourche project. The large sums invested by the govern ment in these irrigation plans are derived from the sale of public lands. Water rights under each project are sold to settlers at actual cost and the money thus received is turned back into the reclamation fund for further and more extended operations. The purpose of the law is to make la*e tracts of land in regions of the west where rainfall is small cap able of cultivation without expense to the taxpayer. It applies the pro ceeds of the sale of irrigated lands to the construction of irrigating sys tems and reservoirs in the manner stated, selling the public lands to the people on easy terms, ten years' time, the land and water rights to be paid will have an important bearing on the future generation of home owners There are thirteen in all scattered throughout the west and south. Ir these projects it is said that aboul 70 per cent, of the land is under private ownership and the other 3t per cent, is government land. Eacf project has a water users' associa tion which is under contract with the government. It is stipulated that nt one owner may have more than 16( acres and all who own more than this number of acres must dispose of the surplus before the water is fur nished. The government takes a mortgage on the land in each project so that it is safe in expending money for improvements. If a land owner tries to hold more than 1G0 acres the water users' as sociations are empowered to step in and sell a man's surplus land, so there is no way for a person to re tain more than the plot allowed 11J law. The government laud has all been taken in a majority of cases, but many are selling their relinquish ments and in this way it is possible for men with a little money to obtain good farms. The land owned in priv ate is held a stiff figure in some places and this means that only a class of people with means will settle Main Canal in Belle Fourche Project. for in ten annual installments. The I law allows enough land to each set- ; tier to support a family, eighty acres! being the maximum, except where it i is adjacent to a town site, in which case the maximum is forty acres. No cash payment is required until after the first year’s crop has been raised and no commutations are allowed, but the settler must actually live on the land and cultivate it for five years. The land will produce alfalfa, srfgar beets, potatoes and the usual root crops of the temperate zone. When it is taken into consideration that the government has already ex pended the sum of $S.683,400 and that there is in this particular fund at this time the enormous sum of $22, 642.600 some idea of the magnitude and scope of the work may be imag ined. All of the first-named amount has been appropriated for the pay ment of work which is now under construction. This work is now be ing pushed rapidly in Arizona, Cali fornia. Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mon tana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, North Dakota. South Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Just qt the present time much in terest is being manifested in what is known as the Belle Fourche project in South Dakota. When completed r there. When work was begun In the different projects a great many peo pie flocked to the regions and took up land with the intention of work ing for the government. A good many of these people tire of the country ir a short time and are willing to re linquish their claims for a small bonus. One of the big feats of engineer ing in the Uneompahgre valley pro ject in Colorado consists of a tunne 30.000 feet long. The tunnel passes under a high divide and carries the water to Uneompahgre valley, where it will be utilized for the reclama tion of 120,000 acres of land in Mont rose and Delta counties. Construe tion of the tunnel was begun in 190^ and work thereon has since beet) progressing rapidly. Nearly two miles are completed. That irrigation is not a new thins in New Mexico is proved by the fact that there is a ditch there nowT which has been in use for 300 years. The Rio Grande project now under way involves the construction of a storage dam opposite Engle, across the Rk Grande, which will form a reservoii 175 feet deep at its lower end and forty miles long, with a storage ca pacity of 2.000,000 acre feet, for the irrigation of 180,000 acres of land in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. The Main Inlet to Belle Fourche Canal. this project will reclaim about 60,000 acres lying northeast of the Black hills in Butte and Meade counties, South Dako:a. Of the total irrigable area it appears that about 50.000 acres is public, or government, land. The classification of this has been com pleted and farm-unit maps are in course of preparation. The size of farm unit has not been determined, but will probably be eighty acres of irrigable land, escent in the vicinity of the new town site, where the unit may be forty acres. Present informa tion is that the major portion of these lands has been filed upon in 160-acre tracts. This being the case, a reduction of such entries to one half their present area will be or dered, an action which will make available for future settlement an ad ditional number of entries equal to those already taken up. Work on the main supply canal, the dam and distributing canals is progressing steadily. It is expected that the south side canal, which will furnish water to irrigate about 20,000 acres, can be constructed in time to deliver water in 1907. But while much attention is being directed toward the Belle Fourche project there are many others that Leasburg diversion, which is a part of the Rio Grande project, calls foi the construction of a low 500-foot con crete diversion dam, with pier, em bankment and sluice gates, head weii and head gates. In connection with the diversion dam it will be necessary to construct two miles of full-size canal to connect with the old Las Cruces canal. Construction will soon be begun. What to Do With Old Combs.—Tc render surplus combs into was. break them into small pieces and put them into a cheesecloth bag. Then put the bag of combs into a boiler half filled with cold water, and after boiling a half hour remove from the stove and sink the bag to the bottom with a weight. Cover up and let it cool off slowly, when you will have all the wax on top of the water and the refuse in the bag. Smut in Corn.—The only way to de crease the amount of smut in corn, is to pluck off the smut balls and burn them. Corn smut spreads rapidly if the smut balls are thrown on the manure pile and the manure spread on corn fields. Never throw a smut ball on the manure pile AWFUL PSORIASIS 35 YEARS. Terrible Scaly Humor in Patches All Over the Body—Skin Cracked and Bleeding—Cured by Cuticura. “I was afflicted with psoriasis for thirty-five years. It was in patches al! over my body. I used three cakes of Cuticura Soap, six boxes of Oint ment and two bottles of Resolvent. In thirty days I was completely cured, and I think permanently, as it was about five years ago. The psoriasis first made its appearance in red spots, generally forming a circle, leaving in the center a spot about the size of a silver dollar of sound flesh. In a short time the affected circle would form a heavy dry scale of a white silvery appearance and would gradually drop off. To remove ^he entire scales by bathing or using oil to soften them the flesh would be perfectly raw, and i light discharge of bloody substance would ooze out. That scaly crust would form again in twenty-four hours. It was worse on my' arms and limbs, although it was in spots all over my body, also on my scalp. If I let the scales remain too long without remov ing by bath or otherwise, the skin would crack and bleed. I suffered in tense itching, worse at nights after getting warm in bed, or blood warm by exercise, when it would be almost unbearable. W. M. Chidester, Hutch inson. Kan.. April 20, 1905.” WHAT BECAME OF OLD GLASSES? Mother’s Effort to Check Child's Curi osity Proves Futile. A Boston three-year-old, like Mr. Kipling’s elephant's child is distin- j guished by her “insatiable curiosity.” Bitter and embarrassing experiences have led her long-suffering mother to •ecognize this fact. Accordingly, when accidents in the kitchen and the expectation of guests to dine, rendered the purchase of new water glasses necessary, Mrs. S took her daughter into her confidence. “Sarah." she said, “these are new glasses. 1 bought them at Stearns’ yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Robert drove me over to the shop with Jim and the runabout. Robert wore ; his ‘butternut’ livery and his brown derby. I paid six dollars for the j glasses, and had them sent. Now you know all about them, and 1 positively forbid you to ask a single question about them when you see them on the table.” Sarah wore a subdued look during the process of the meal, and Mrs. S- was beginning to congratulate herself upon the effectiveness of her lesson, when an eager and interested expression came into Sarah's face, and she piped in her shrill but engaging voice: "Mother, what did you do with the old glasses?” Farewell of Noted Players. Macready's farewell benefit was at the Theater Royal in 1851, but he was not buried at Kendal Green until May 3. 1873. Charles Kean's last appear ance on the stage w-as at the Prince of Wales theater, Liverpool, on May 29, 1867. John Kembles farewell to the stage was in "Coriolanus." June 23. 1817. Mrs. Siddon’s farewell was as Lady Macbeth in 1812. Miss Cush man's farewell benefit was at. Booth's theater, November 7, 1874. Saved Many from Drowning. Five hundred persons saved from drowning in 4S years was the record achievement of Christian Langer. a Danish boatman, who has just died at Harboe, Jutland, aged S3. Lewis’ Single Binder straight 5c cigar made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. Flattery sometimes acts like too many lumps of sugar in a cup of cof fee. _ Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, For children t«*etiuutf. softens the irums, reduces in Kainn.ation ailajs j>ain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Many a man is honest because his price is too high. Talent is frequently mistaken for genius—by the fellow who has it. PUTNAM FADELESS DVES color j more goods, per package, than others, and I the colors are brighter and faster. There is no task too hard for a lazy man not to attempt. ' _You always get full value in Lewis’ Single Hinder straight 5c cigar. Your , dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. Five Million Miners. The number of persons employed in the mines of the world is about 5.000,000, of whom one-fifth are in Great Britain. Why He Wouldn't Lecture. Oliver Wendell Holmes was invited to deliver a lecture in a town in the central part of Massachusetts. He was not feeling very well and he wrote the following reply to the committee in declining to accept the invitation: “I am far from being in good physical health and I am satisfied that if I were offered a $50 bill after my lecture I should not have strength enough to refuse it.” HOLD and consider* . 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What JoyThey Bring To Every Home as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play—when in health—and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet oi which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injuri ous or objectionable nature, and if at anytime a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of rigs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, because they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform all reputa bis physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an original method, mom certain plants known to them to act most beneficially and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret remedy and hence we are free to refer to ali well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. h'lease to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company— California Fig Syrup Co—plainly | printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size I only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having II printed thereon the name of any other comDany, do not accept it If you fail to get I the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have I a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children whenever a laxative remedy is required. • •• o e © W. L. DOUGLAS *3.50 & *3.00 Shoes BEST IN THE WORLD W.LDouglas $4 Gilt Edge line, cannotbe equalled at an^ pr oe. To Shoe Dralert: W. L. Douglas' Job bing House is the most complete in this conntry Send for CataloQ ^ ^ i/ & SHOES FOB EVERYBODY AT ALL FKICLS. Men’s Siloes. $5 to $1.50. Boys’ Shoes. $3 to$1.25. 'Women’s Shoes. $4.00 to $1.50. Misses’ ft Children's Shoes, $2.25 to $1.00. Try W. L. Woiiirn’s, Misses and Children's shoes; for style, fit and wear they excel other makes. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass.,and show you how carefullyW.L. 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Scalp, ft Hftir.* AGE comes all too quickly to her who suffers from the diseases peculiar to women. Pain, weak ness, debility, soon leave you but a wreck of your former womanhood. VINE OF WOMAN’S RELIEF ' relieves female pain, cures fe male diseases. “I was scanty, had numb feelings, and was terribly nervous every month, but Cardui has made me fed so much better/* writes Mrs. J. Brandenburg, of Hunting ton, W. Va. Try it. ‘ At all Druggists. c is WRITE lor Free Advice, statins* ago and describing your symptoms, to Ladies Advisory Dept.. Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn, 90,000,000 BUSHELS THAT’S THE WHEAT CROP IN WESTERN CANADAJHIS YEAS This with nearly 80, 000,000 bnshels of oats and 17.000.000 bushels of barley means a con tinuation of good times for the farmers of West ern Canada. Free farms, big crops, low taxes, healthy climate, good churches and schools, splendid railway service. The Canadian Government offers 160 acres of land free to every settler willing and able te comply with the Homestead Regulations. Advice and information may be obtained free from W. D. Scott Superintendent of Immi gration, Ottawa, Canada: or from authorized Canadian Government Agent—W. V. Bennett, 801 New York I,ife Building, Omaha, Nebraska. Tboapsoi’s Eye Water W. N. U„ OMAHA, NO. 38. 1906.