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TO HEAD BANK OF TURKEY Hy the establishment of a national bank Tur key has taken a decisive step towards reform and order which all Europe is watching with interest, and England with the keenest interest of all, for the bank has been floated thiefly with English capital and its president appointed "at the request of his majesty’s government,” in the person of Sir 11. Kabington Smith, who will resign his present appointment of secretary to the postoffice and proceed to Constantinople soon to take up his new duties. Until now the Ottoman government has been at the mercy of two foreign banks, the Ottoman bank and the Deutsche bank, and whenever Tur key got into pecuniary difficulties and found her self without the wherewithal to pay overdue sal aries to government otlicials. or the troops v.'ere yu me ^)ge ol mutiny without their money—a not at all infrequent occur the huriied oft to one or other of these concerns and humblv begged a tonn t® pacify her creditors. wt.» however, Turkey is regenerating her system of government and nenccforth will have a regular budget, so such a state of affairs will no iong< r be necessary, and the national bank, as soon as it gets into working order, will perform rhose financial transactions which the two foreign con • oiriH lormeily carried out. These will be of an extensive character, embrac ing those of an industrial, commercial and land-mortgage bank, and it is intended, also, to make it a channel through which foreign capital shall be attracted to the country lor the development of its resources. It will not be Sir Henry’s first experience of Turkey. Before his appoint ment ag secretary to the postcffice he was British representative on the t otiijitil of the Ottoman Public Debt for three years, and the experience gained curing that time will doubtless prove of great value to him iti his present position. Besides (hat. he lias served in many parts of the world in the British civil service. After an education at Eton and Cambridge university, where he took several honors, lie began his public life as-examiner in the education depart ment, afterward becoming private secretary to Mr. (afterward Lord! Goschen when- hancellor of the exchequer. In 1894 he went to India as secretary to the then viceroy. Lord Elgin, for five years, and in IS99 was sent to Natal on a financial mission. Me lecame a knight commander of the Bath in 1908. and he also has the 1 urhie.fi < rder, first-class Osruanieli. He is 16 years old and is a tall, broad shouldered. youthful-looking man. with a brown mustache and brown eyes under a clever overhanging brow. His wife comes of diplomatic stock, also, being tte daughter of Lord Elgin. He married her in 1898 while holding the i < 11 of secretary to her lather in India. j WORLD’S BIGGEST FARMER David Rankin is the biggest farmer in the world. "Lots of men have more land thar I,” says .Mr. Rankin, “but they use it for cattle ranges only. Mine is a farm." .Mr. Rankin nei ther raises cattle nor furnishes range. He buys the raw steers from the plains and fattens them until they are worth twice what he pays for the "li-eders," as they are called. He never sells any com. either, because by feeding it to cattle, ac cording to a minute calculation of his own, he gets more ample returns. Nearly to years ago Mr. Rankin, then an Illinois farmer, discovered that land on one side of a state line was se ling for $20 an a< re. while he might buy any amount on the other side of the imaginary dividing mark for less than a third of that amount. But real estate men told him that no railroad would ever vo n* .,r me .Missouri lands, but lor all tliat ho sold Ills farm and bought all ho <* old of tho land at $h an acre. Recently ho took an inventory of his possess.* ns in the neighborhood of Tarkio. Mo., where ho bought tho cheap acreage, and it. showed that he owned Jo,610 acres. 12,000 fattening hogs. b.000 cattle, S00 horses, more than 100 cottages, in which the employes of the big farm were housed, great quantities of farm machinery and the like. Mr. Rankin comes of Scotch-Irisli ancestry. Ho was born in Indiana in rural poverty, and he got his start in life trading a colt for calves and raising the latter into steers. To-day, in addition to his farm, he owns an implement factory, a municipal water system, a telephone company, a bank and other enterprises, and when the notion takes him he adds S.'O.OOO or so to the endowm« nt of Tarkio college, a Presbyterian schocd in his home tow n, which has known his generosity to the extent of $250,000. T i HIGH RANK FOR DUKE When the duke of ihe Abruzzi returns to Italy fiom mountain climbing in India, in the uear future, he will be promoted to the rank of ad miral in the Italian navy and put in command of the naval arsenal in Venice, according to infor mation from naval officials. These same officials assume that the duke has given up hope of marrying Miss Katherine Elkins. Hut in this assumption it seems most probable that the v» ish is father to the thought. The duke is as far as ever from being on good terms with King Victor Emmanuel, Dowager Queen Matghe rita and others of his royal relatives who oppose bis marriage to the American girl. Nothing could prolong the duke's quarrel with his kin but his continued determination to wed the woman he loves. Ccographers all over the world are lauding the duke for his ascent of the lefty Himalayan peak, K2, or Mount Goodwin-Austen, as the Royal Geo graphical society named tlie mountain in honor of the first explorer of that region. K2 >s the highest mountain in the world, save oue. It is 28.2.'>0 feet high, only 72# feet lower than Mount Everest, which rises to the blue higher than any other part of the earth. The duke reached the height of 24.000 feet on Mount Goodwin-Austen, and this is a record in mountain climbing, eclipsing that of l»r. Graham, who. in ISSll. reached the top of .Mount Kabry in the Himalayas, an altitude of 2:1,900 feet. FIRST WOMAN CORONER In these days of suffragists and suffragettes women are filling all sorts of offices, but it re mained for a St. Joseph. Mo., woman to become the original "lady coroner." The duties of the coroner of Buchanan county have for several weeks been performed by Mrs. C. F. Byrd, whose husband tills that office when he is at home. Just now Dr. Byrd is visiting the exposition at Seattle and is enjoying his vacation with the assurance that the emoluments thereto accruing are not escaping the purse of the Byrd family. Since Coroner Byrd left home there have been an unusual number of coroner’s cases in St. •lostph and the county, and in each of them there has been a prompt response by Mrs. Byrd, who was legally commissioned as his demits iiufn™ Dr. Byrd s departure. Mrs. Byrd has been summoned to investigate half a dozen suicides, the same number of fatal accidents, and has officiated in two cases of murder. "] haven’t found the duties of coroner especially disagreeable.” said Mrs. Byrd. "In the absence of my husband I look upon the work as my regular business and I try to dispatch it in a businesslike way. I am pleased to know that 1 have won the commendation of the other authorities and have not been criticised by the public. • Of course I am not a graduate of medicine or surgery, and in eases where it is necessary that an autopsy tie performed 1 deputize a physician, but there are not a great many such cases." Vagaries of Genius. Shakespeare could not use a type ■writer in composing his plays. Longfellow never wrote while eat ing. • Robert Louis Stevenson insisted upon holding his pen in his right hand. Sir Francis Bacon would not use a fountain pen under any circumstances. Doctor Johnson was never known to eat ice cream. Mrs. Hetnans did not wear peekaboo waists. Dante never called his “Inferno" history. Charles Dickens always walked up stairs.—Life. Troubles of His Own. High pitched, angry voices rever berated through the house. “1 just knew.” hoarsely muttered the skeleton in the family closet, “there was going to be a quarrel be tween them; I could feel it in my bones'” In the last ten years 325,000 per sons have emigrated from England to the farms of Canada. BR.'Xir A CULM ACR03& CKL/WOHA THE RIVER HEAR CUVEL/WO. i mrint BOT-rom r/r/?” Rivers are great studies. They are as changeable as a woman, yet ever keep in the same general course. Con fined within certain limits with moods that vary, they wander on, obedient to the laws that hold them to their course. They are sometimes tempes tuous and careless as men, wiping out at one sweep the farms that have claimed their ancient channels and as serting once again the full sweep of their individuality. Sometimes they sleep the peaceful repose of a babe At other times they burn away and leave but the bed, from which the fe ; vered waters %ise again to commence ’ the elemental cycle of vapor, cloud ; rain, rivulet and river. And each of ] these rivers has its own individuality. | Some are long; some large; some ! deep; some shallow; some quiet; ! some turbulent. j The Arkansas Is not long enough to be classed among the longest rivers j of the world, though among the tribn ! taries to the F'athcr of Waters it is i second only to the Missouri. It is not I large and does not spread out the ac cumulated waters in wide sheets; yet at times, when the Aztec rain gods pour out a deluge and the lower courses are fed by the inflowing creeks and rivers, its magnitude is majestic, inspiring, destructive. Nor is the channel deep. For the moun tain pebbles and the rich, red sand and the plain white sand and all other varieties of sand from the mountains to the gulf are constantly filling in, scooping out, rolling aud gliding down the swift current, piling in bars, building up islands or leveling the in equalities of the bed. And the flow is | strong; the sweep of the waters is a mighty power, unharnessed, to go on. ever, to the sea. >\ nether at the snow peaked springs where it rises in the Rockies and goes dashing down the mountain defiles, whether fretting its way between the ; man-bui!t walls through the city of Pueblo or gliding through the pebbly foothills, whether winding its silvery way across the Colorado and the Kan sas plains or gliding on between the Oklahoma bluffs and hills, whether watering the mistletoe bedecked elms or the ranehrakes in the state whose name it bears, the Arkansas has a beauty, a charm, that makes one love to dwell thereon. Anywhere along its course its acquaintance may be made : —a sort of chance acquaintance—and I one feels a nobler, wider sentiment, i like that which comes from the con ! tact with a broad, free-minded man. ! However, since it cannot be consid ered as a whole, let the acquaintance be narrowed to that beautiful sweep of the stream Rowing between the Osage reservation and Pawnee coun ty. Okla., where on one side or the other, and sometimes both, farms have been hewn from the wooded valleys; where the sandstone bluffs rise, sometimes 50. sometimes 100 feet, with niches where the great | horned owl. the peregrine falcon and ; the huge turkey vulture find a nesting ! site, and where, in olden days, the I eagles reared their young. Here the : red waters hurry down, down, down, | with a swish that mingles with the rustle of the leaves, the shrill of in j sects and the cries of birds, in one sweet symphony that drowns the j troubles, the stress of life, and gives ; new vigor to the one who can sepa ' rate himself from his business or his strife, as he learns new things first hand from God's great book. Here along the bottom roads the great cottonwoods rise, with massive pillars that reach up and up, over a hundred feet, just right for a giant's walking stick. Great pecan trees, huge burr oaks, walnuts, hickories and three or four smaller varieties | of oak. black, white, red and chin j qtiapin. are here. Then there are ! great haekberries with the corrugated and winged bark, aud here is that beautiful b ack coated member of the rose Tamil? which has been designat ed br the natives as the sbittim wood of the Sacred Book. The wood is hard, the hardest of the forest trees, with the possible exception of the persimmon; but the persimmon sel dom gets beyond the bush size, though there are some large trees. Here, underneath the taller growth, are the black haw bushes, while grow iDg out of the bluffs are Juneberries, both prizes for boys, but insipid to a mature appetite. And along dose to the stream are the few remaining ce dars which were uncut by telephone polers before the land was open to settlement. To climb among the bluffs, to in spect holes left by disintegrated fos sil trees; to listen to the tufted tit mouse's golden call; to see the “mountain boomer" scamper along to the sheltering rocks, where he leaves his tail in plain view and, doubling back, pokes out his head to see where the danger lies; to look at the ferns clinging to the rock, is rejuvenating, inspiring, life giving. There are at least seven varieties of ferns. The abrupt perpendicular walls clothed with the resurrection fern are .passed by unheeded when the heat dries up the fronds brown and inconspicuous i like the hands of a paralytic; but the rains come and the face of the bluff is spotted with great dark green patches where the mass of separate fronds blend in green drapery. And there, on the north side of a huge, wet rock, is the walking leaf, camptosorus cbiaophillus. the slender, leaf-like frond, a drawn-out arrow head, whose long whip cracker end takes root in the moss and liverworts aud starts a new plant. Of the spleenworta there are two species; one small, growing out on the under side of cool, wet overhanging rocks; another, tall and slender, living more in the open. And, clinging to me side of the canyon, are ferns a foot or more high and sub divided—a sort of magnified edition— varying, however, from the two small er species that can be found growing all about the woods. The most singu lar, however, is the very small, dwarfed one on the edge of lime rocks—frond and all bnt a couple of inches long with wiry stems like the maiden hair, which spring back and fortli with their sprawling, scattered double compound frondlets an eighth of an inch long, dark green above aDd white underneath, with whole masses growing from a perfect nest of fine, black rootlets imbedded in the cracks of the rocks. From the blufTs one can look out across the tree tops to the other side, where the Osage hills, wave upon wave, reach as far as the eye can see, with here and there a deadening, where the leaves of the girdled trees make a brown patch on the land scape. Fields freshly plowed or coy-' ered with corn and cotton stretch away in the valleys, while the nearby hills still bear the scattered growth of oaks and hickories. And far, far awny the bold prairie expanse, with here and there a clump of trees to break the contour, can be seen indis tinct in the distance. And the river banks, with fringes of willow, the white cottonwood limbs, the glisten ing bars, and the water ever gliding on and on. Keep interested in Something. Many old men break down and be come childlike because they abandon business, and thus lose much of their every-day interest in the world around them. It is not uncommon for old peo ple to take up courses of study and successfully pass through them. All such occupations serve to keep the interest alive in something besides mere selfishness, and do more toward warding off "the blues" than all the medicine in the drug stores. HER THREE ESSENTIALS Smartest Looking Girl at Resort Gave Most Attention to Hair, Feet and Corsets. “You’re about the smartest looking ' girl on this piazza,” remarked the old i bachelor to the bronze-haired girl at a nearby summer resort. “How do you manage it?” As he knew she worked for a living 50 weeks in the year, she didn't mind. “I'll tell you,” she confessed, “be : cause you can keep a secret and you know I don't have much money to spend. I have just two good points and I make the most of them. And [ then I always wear fine corsets.”' “Huh!” he ejaculated. "What are the alleged good points?” ; She smiled cheerfully: “Hair and feet.” He instantly surveyed each and I nodded his approval. “So,” she went on, “as I can’t afford much in the way of gowns, etc., I i blow myself on shoes and stockings. which are much cheaper and quite as noticeable.” ^es. he asserted; “the way you wear them.” "Then.” she continued serenely, “I get the latest style of hair the min ute it comes out. That keeps people so busy looking at my pufrs they don't have time to notice my dress.” But the—er—corsets?” he suggest ed, as she rose to go. “An absolute necessity,” she smiled back at him. Discovered at Last. Certain bacteriologists have been enlightening the public as to the value of tears. A good cry, they say, that washes the face with tears, is an ex cellent antiseptic bath. Owing to the large percentage of sodium chloride, or common salt, which they contain, they ^sterilize the delicate mechanism of the eye and render harmless the bacilli which may have found lodg ment on the cheeks. NEWS NOTES OF INTERE8T FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ULL SUBJECTS TOUCHES UPON Religious. Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Ot!~-e> Matters Given Due Consideration. The Labor day picnic in Lincoln was declared off on account of rain. Rainy weather very much interfered with attendance at the state fair. Governor 8hallenberger has ap pointed from Nebraska 125 delegates to the dry farming congress that meets in Raleigh. N. C., November 4. Miss Ixxiise Mears. professor of geography at the Peru Normal school, has returned to Nebraska from a sum mer in Minnesota, where she has been studying geology at the university and the St. Croix interstate park. At Sidney Sheriff McDaniel arrested Lee Weihn on the strength of a tele gram received from Sheriff John D. Miller of Neligh, Neb. Weihn is wanted for disposing of mortgaged property. Jasef Barcal, aged about 50. a pros perous farmer and an old resident, liv ing two miles southwest of 1 .inwood, committed suicide by banging him self to a tree near his home. No cause for the deed is known. Notwithstanding the large amount of money on hand the first of the month, State Treasurer Brian does not desire any more state depositories and last week turned down the ap plication of one bank that had writ ten to the governor regarding the matter. An accident resulting in the death of Harry Paulsen, the 15-year-old stepson of Henry Burgard. occurred on the latter's farm, two miles north of Bloomfield. Mr. Burgard and the boy were stretching a wire feme when the wire suddenly broke, strik ing the young man on the head. I he seventh annual state conven tion of the Nebraska rural carriers was held at Columbus, the following officers being elected: ,J. II. T£a(p 1 of Table Rock, president; I t!Jg of Columbus, vice presidenid^Tj'. A. Martin of Cheney, secretary; W. Wheeler of Hastings, treasurer. Dele gates to the national convention at Rochester, X. Y.: C. R. Itarber of Stromsbi’.rg, Xeb.; C. A. Martin of Cheney and O. ,T. Bleekman of Cozad. • B. F. Blythe of Ellis has died a damage suit against the Rock Island railroad in the sum of $1,742.40. Plaintiff stares that on July 4 he de livered ninety-eight head of cattle to the company to be shipper} toi the Chicago stock yards which did reach their destination until J i aj’ consuming twenty-four hoursij£]iM •“ time than was necessary, and owing to the natural shrinkage and lower market asks judgment in the above sum. Auditor Barton has received infor i mation that the Fraternal Order of j Owls of Indiana is organizing lodges I in Nebraska without first having ap j plied to the insurance department for ; a license or permit. Should the com ! pany not do an insurance business it ■ does not require the license and I neither would there be any state su j pervision of its affairs. Mr. Barton j has received a letter from the insur | ance department of Indiana that the company is not licensed by that de I partment. Chicago dispatch: At the summer convocation of the University of Chi cago last week there were 207 gradu ates and fourteen associates, mostly teachers from out of town who took a summer post-graduate course. Among them were John Wible Baum gardner (Ed. B.), Alliance; Arthur Howard Sutherland (Ph. I).), Grace Abbott (Ph. M.i, John Martin Fred erick Heuman (S. K.). of Grand is land; Emma May Miller (two year certificate), Lincoln; Fred Williams Gaarde (S. B.), Minden. J. W. O'Brien, state fish commis sioner. says a Xebraska City dispatch, has been here several times with his car and each time secured a carload of bass ranging from two to six inch es in length from the ponds on the east side of the river. There are mil lions of these game fish over there, and since the river has become low they have been left in the ponds, and as the water is shallow there is no trouble in getting all of the game fish needed. Many of them have been taKen to umaha and other points, where they were placed in lakes. With all the pomp and solemnity that attends a royal funeral, or a man who has spent a life in many different countries, a memorial cere mony was held over the grave of Ma jor Frank North near Columbus. The chief figure in the proceeding was Colonel William F. Cody, for many years a friend and partner of the dead man. Twenty-five different na tionalities marched from the grounds where Colonel Codvs’ Wild West show was holding forth to the cemetery. The annual meeting of Nebraska pioneers closed with a series of speeches at the state farm, chief of which was an address by Governor Shallenberger and a dinner, served also at the farm. About ISO pioneers and friends attended the meeting. .Northwestern Detectives Stewart of Omaha and Lawrence of Chicago en tered the home of Mrs. Mary Alshire In Norfolk and found $600 worth of merchandise alleged to have been stolen from Northwestern freight cars. William Alshire. her son. led the detectives upstairs and escaped through a window. v During an electrical storm lightning struck the Enoch house in Humboldt, one of the landmarks of the city, and did much damage to the roof. Fortu nately it did not set fire to the struct ure and none of the inmates, all of whom were sleeping, were hurt. The state board of public lands and buildings will go to Grand Island to investigate the reports of inmates of the home that the institution is not properly conducted and that goods delivered to the home are not always in accordance with the contract. Governor Shallenberger, at his own request, will accompany the board LATE PRIMARY VOTE. Two Counties Fail to Indicate Num ber Cast. The total vote of the state cast at the late primary was 93,374. This total does not include llorril and Val ley counties, which, though reporting, failed to indicate the total vote case. The following shows the official totals as far as the board figured: Supreme Judge. ■fames R. I Van «t«*m.).21.SS3 K. F. Good Idem.). tit.806 John J. Sullivan Mem.). 22.906 James R. Dean (pop-). 2,849 K. F. Good (pop.). 2,850 John J. Sullivan (pop.). . 2,915 Francis G. Hamer (rep.-i. 16.591 Kdward K. Duffie (rep.). 12.280 John O. V,*ise)- trep.). . 10,17 Samnel H. Sedgwidc < cep. (. 22.62 K. C. Calkins (rep.). 18.x: John B. Barnes (rep.). 21.tv Jacob Fawcett (rep.). 16.97 Joseph K. Cobbey (rep.). 15,6, A. G. VVolfenbargrr (pro.). 2‘ R. I,. Slaple (pro.). 83 Regents State University. Charles T. Knapp (rtcm ). 22.795 Charles S. Allen (rep. I. I0.H27 W. <5. Whitmore (op ). to.80S l). C. Cole (pop.). 2.966 Reaent to Fill Vacancy. Harvey K. Xewbranch Idem.). 22.422 Frank I.. Haller (rep.). 42.246 Much Cash in Treasury. At the close of business ori the last day of August, according to the rec ords of the office of the state treasur er. he had in his vault cash to the amount of $42,976.66. cash items which were represented by Fremont bonds to the amount of *27.000 and checks to the amount of $108,299.48. The state depositories were carrying all the money they are entitled to carry under the bonds they have given. Included in this amount in the vault was a government warrant to the amount of $40,000. September 1 the treasurer paid $40. 000 for North Platte bonds and bought $o5,000 Elgin bonds, which reduced his holdings by that amouut. The office of the secretary of state was a revenue getter this last month, there having been paid into the of fice a total of $130,637.60. This sum was divided as follows: Articles of incorporation, $120,065.25; notary com missions. $62; motor vehicles license. $832.10; brands recorded. $16.50; cer tificates and transcripts. $50.50; cor poration permits, $9,020.25. This does not include several thousand dollars paid to the office under protest. In Horticultural Hal!. The exhibits of fruit in horticultural aVal! at the state fair were fully as this year as in the past. The fruit was noticeably clean. • ree from work of insects and fungtfe diseases. The apple show was particularly at tractive and as large or larger than ever before. Saline. Washington and Johnson counties were represented by fine exhibits in the county collective class, premiums being awarded in the order named. Individual collections were large and attractive, first pre mium being awarded E. F. Stephens. Northwestern Does Well. The aunual report of the Northwest ern railroad, filed with the state rail ! way commission, shows a good in crease in the amount of business done in the year 1909. compared with the year 190S-19O7, notwithstanding both passenger and freight rates were re duced by the legislature of ' 907. Op erating expenses for 1909 were more than in 1908 and less than in 1907 per mile, but in the aggregate were greater than for either 190; or 1908 The great increase in 1909 is shown in the number of passengers c arried one mile. Stock Subscription Refunded. The railway commission has ordered the Miller Telephone company to pay to Mrs. L. A. Xortlirup what money she had paid for stock and dismissed the case. Mrs. Xorthrup complained that, though a stockholder in the com pany, she was refused service. At a hearing held at Miller it was brought out that after paying $20 into a mutual fund for the construction of the line, each stockholder was assessed $10 and later $fi. but the complainant had failed to pay the assessment. Dr. Peters Resignes Dr. A. T. Peters, head of the de partment of animal pathology at the state agricultural college, has tendered i his resignation, effective January 1, 1910. He has been offered the direc | lorsbip of the Illinois state biological laboratory at Springfield. Harlan Man Pardoned. Governor Shallenberger lias com muted the sentence of Oliver Stephens . of Harlan county to expire November j 2.7. this year. Stephens was originally i sent, to the state prison for two years for stabbing a neighbor in a fight, but ■ the supreme court cut the sentence in two and the governor did the same I thing to the remaining year. — Dr. A. T. Peters Resigns Dr. A. T. Peters, professor of ani mal pathology at the university farm has resigned his position to take ef fect .ianuary 1, and has accepted a position as director of the state bio logical laboratory at Springfield. 111. The complaint of W. F. Diers against the Missouri Pacific to force that road to install a telephone at the station at Louisville has been dismissed by the state railway commission. Insurance Men Worried. Insurance men are worried some what over the intimation from the auditor's office that all examinations of insurance companies may be pub lished in full after a few months. Auditor Barton has said nothing in re gard to this, but the rumor has gone forth and some credit is being given it. Some of the local agents say that such publication would injure their business and would give competitors unfair advantages. They also assert that bank statements are not made public. Stand Up For Nebraska. "We Nebraskans do not boost enough,” says Governor Shallenberger. "We have everything in this state that goes to make up a great common wealth, but we do not. as a rule, talk it enough. If we boasted and boosted as much as some of the other west ern states which do not begin to have the wonderful resources we do. Ne braska's population should he doubled in a very short time. I noticed on our recent northwestern trip that al most every person we met lold of the wonderful resources of his country. --— 3 BIG PROFIT MADE ON LAND Which Can Be Bought for a Mere Song in the Little Snake River Valley, Routt County, Colo. A ten per cent profit on a valuation of over $200 an acre is what is being made now by farmers in the Little Snake River valley in Routt County. Colorado, and lands similar in quality and with gilt edged water rights are now offered by the State of Colorado under the Carey Act at Jilo.oO per acre on ten years’ time. This land will grow in abundance oats, potatoes, sugar beets and all other grains, grasses and root crops, and is suitable for all kinds of fruiL except possibly the most delicate of tree fruits. The land is sold in tracts of 40. 80. 120 and 160 acres to citizens of the United States, or those who have de clared their intentions of becoming citizens. There is no drawing in con nection with this land; first come, first served being the policy. If interested, write to the Routt County Colonization Co.. 1734 Welton. street, Denver, Colorado, for Tull in formation as to the land, special ex cursion rates, etc. WHY NOT? One of the preachers has asked th* members of his congregation to bring their canary birds to church. Why not try to save some of the parrots? — WHAT IS PAINT? The paint on a house is the extreme outside of the house. The wood ia simply a structural under layer. That, is as it should be. Unprotected wood, will not well withstand weather. But paint made of pure white lead and linseed oil is an invulnerable armor j against sun and rain, heat and cold. Such paint protects and preserves, i fortifying the perishable wood with a complete metallic casing. And the outside of the house is the j looks of the house. A well-construet ! ed building may be greatly depre j dated by lack of painting or by poor ! painting. National Lead Company have made it possible for every building owner to be absolutely sure of pure white i lead paint before applying. They do j this by putting upon every package I of their white lead their Dutch Boy Painter trademark. That trademark ; is a complete guarantee. True Thrift. ! “When visiting a certain town in the , Midlands,” says a medical man. "1 was | told of an extraordinary incident wherein the main figure, an econotu ica! housewife, exhibited, tinder trying | circumstances, a trait quite character | istic of her. It seems that she had by mistake taken a quantity of poison— i mercurial poison—the antidote for which, as all should know, comprises the whites of eggs. When this anti , dote was being administered, the order ! for which the unfortunate lady had | overheard, she managed to murmur, al ! though almost unconscious. "Mary. Mary! Save the yolks for the pud dings ! ”—Tit-Bits. What’s the Matter with Baby? “I wonder what makes baby cry | so?" said the first friendly person. "Perhaps a pin is annoying it," ven tured another. "Or else it’s hungry," said a third. "Or teething." said another. "You can't do anything for that." "Aw, look at the way he's kicking, j and see how his little fists are doubled | up,” put in Bobby. “He wants some \ body of -his own size to fight with, j that's what he wants." Sub Rosa. She—She told me you told her that secret I told you not to tell her. He—The mean thing! I told her not to tell you I told her. She—I promised her I wouldn't tell vou she told me, so don't tell her 1 told you. PRESSED HARD Coffee's Weight on Old Age. When prominent, men realize the in jurious effects of coffee and *he change in health that Postum can bring, they are glad to lend their testimony for the benefit of others. A superintendent of public schools in North Carolina says: "My mother since her early child hood, was an inveterate coffee drinker and had been troubled with her heart for a number of years, and com plained of that ‘weak all over' feeling and sick stomach. "Some time ago I was making an of ficial visit to a distant pari, of the country and took dinner with one of the merchants of the place. I no ticed a somewhat peculiar flavor of the coffee, and asked him concerning it. He replied that it was Postum. "I was so pleased with it, that after the meal was over, I bought a pack age to carry home with me, and had wife prepare some for the next meal. The whole family liked it so well, that, we discontinued coffee and used Postum entirely. "I had really been at. times very anx ious concerning my mother’s condition, but we noticed that after using Postum for a short time, she felt so much better than she did prior to its use, and had little trouble with her heart and no sick stomach: that th<^ headaches were not so frequent, and her general condition much improved. This continued until she was as well and hearty as the rest of us. “I know Postum has benefited my self and the other members of the fam ily, but not in so marked a degree as in the case of my mother, as she was. a victim of long standing.” Head “The Road to Wellville,” in. pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever rend the above letter? A nrir one appear* from time to time. Ther ore genuine, true, and full of buiuui Interest.