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The Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, . • NEBRASKA FOR HE BUSY MAN NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON BE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs. CONGRESS. The senate passed the military academy appropriation bill carrying $1,125,000. Senate passed over president's veto Webb bill to prohibit shipment of liquor to dry states. Senator Sheppard introduced a bill to forbid change of size and color of present paper money. Senate pased naval appropriation bill, with an amendment to authorize the construction of two battleships. Reliable information says William J. Bryan of Nebraska has been named as the secretary of state in the new Wil son cabinet. Senator Owen introduced resolution Pilling on secretary of interior for all Yorrespondeuce on proposed Osage In dian oil land leases. A bill to reduce the number of of ficers for each regiment of infantry', cavairv and field artillery was intro duced in the House by Chairman Hay of the house military affairs commit tee. The senate passed a resolution call ing on the secretary of the treasury for all correspondence relating to treasury' order No. 5, requiring cus toms receipts to be deposited in na tional banks. The senate will take no action at this session on the treaty recently ne gotiated with the republic of Nicar agua, by which the United States would secure, for the sum of $ ’.,000,000, a perpetual and exclusive right to build an inter-oceanic canal through that country. The postoffice appropriation bill, car rying approximately $283,000,000, an Increase of nearly $3,000,000 over the house bill, was passed by the senate. The largest single item in the bill is for the transportation of mails on rail routes. $51,500,000 being authorized by the senate for this purpose. That a man cannot live on $720 a year and “keep up appearances" was the decision of the senate when it overturned its postoffice committee, voted out $720 salaries for postal clerks and mail carriers and accept ed the $800 minimum salary previous ly fixed by the house. The effort that Senator Gamble of South Dakota has been making to se cure the location of a new land office at Carter, S. D., met with success when President Taft signed an order which abolishes the two land offices at Chamberlain and Gregory in that state and established a new' one at Carter. House and senate gave the annual appropriation bills a vigorous push to wards completion and made marked inroads upon a mass of legislative mat ter that has crowded the calendars of the congress. The last appropriation measure, the general deficiency bill, passed the house and that body has only conference reports to act upon from now until adjournment. The gen eral deficiency appropriation bill carry ing $24,658,245 passed the house with practically no opposition. GENERAL. A memorial to congress suggesting the annexation of Senora and Lower California to the United States was Introduced in the Arizona state sen ate recently. Police Captain Walsh of New York, implicated by Policeman Fox, self confessed collector of protection money, who later confessed to having received graft money front Fox, has pleaded guilty. With a stethoscope applied to his ears, Karl W. Schneider, a manufac turer of surgical instruments at Phil adelphia, listened to his heart record its dying beats after he had pierced that organ with a steel lance. Carved marble is to perpetuate the fame of “Uncle Joe" Cannon in congress. Superintendent of the cap itol, E. Woods, stated that a marble bust is to be presented to conress by the "Sage of Danville,” and placed in the mam rotunda of the house office building. Rev. H. Miller Scott, former pastor of the Butler Avenue Congregational church at Lincoln, Neb., who has been attending Columbia university, in New York, has accepted a call to Flushing, Long Island. While bathing at her home at Des Moines, la., Mrs. E. B. Austin was electrocuted by a "massage vibrator.” James I. Gillespie, a fireman, was killed and a dozen others narrowly es caped death when a building collapsed at Atlanta, Ga. Joe Rivers, the lightweight boxer, and Miss Pauline Slirt, daughter of a Santa Monica contractor, will' be mar ried in Los Angeles soon. Salt Lake City has been chosen by the executive committee as the meet ing place for the convention of the National Education association to be held July 5 to 10. The third member of the board of arbitration to settle the differences between the eastern railroads and their firemen will have to be chosen by the United States commissioner of labor and the chairman of the Inter state Commerce commission. Ten thousand American soldiers have assembled in Galveston, ready for service in Mexico. At Paris, France, four of Bonnot's "auto bandits” have been condemned to die by the guillotine, four were freed, eleven were sentenced to from one to ten years’ imprisonment and exile, and two to life imprisonment. The government has awarded the contract for building the battleship Pennsylvania. United States civil service examina tions for different positions will be held throughout the country during the spring. Moving picture men, testifying for the government in New York, de-, scribed operations of the “moving picture trust” in opposing the busi ness of an independent company. The department of state at Wash ington has authorized Ambassador Herrick to lease new offices for the American embassy at Rue Chaillot, France. An engagement of fifty-two years will be culminated at La Crosse, Wis., with the marriage of John Knight, 70, and Lydia Reed. CO, of Elberta, Mich. The couple became engaged in 1861. Emperor William of Germany lo.-t a lawsuit brought against him by a tenant farmer named Sohst, whom he boasted during a recent speech that he had "thrown out because he was no good.” Arrested for a series of small for geries, A. J. Heinn, founder and for mer president of a loose leaf book manufacturing company of Milwaukee, gouged out. both of his eyes in self punishment. Representatives of the bathtub trust convicted of criminal conspiracy in re straint of trade have given notice that they will pay the fines imposed on them if the government will cancel a second criminal indictment. By a vote of 244 to 95 the house repassed over President Taft's veto, the Webb bill, prohibiting shipments of intoxicating liquors into “dry states." The senate passed it over the veto and the bill now becomes law. The recent storm put a crimp in car loading on Nebraska railroads. Beginning with the start of the storm grain and stock loading dropped off and the record for two or three days bears a close resemblance to Sunday loading records. Joseph Ellison, aged 73 years, a vet eran of the civil war from Fredericks burg. la., and a member of the sol diers' home, wandered away from Marshalltown, la., and froze to death on the Missouri &. St. Louis right of-way. Dr. B. Clark Hyde’s purchase of cyanide shortly before the death of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, with the explanation that he wanted the drug “to kill dogs with” was the point which the state attempted to bring out at the Hyde murder trial in Kan sas City. Thomas and Robert Holmes who are believed to be the oldest twins in the west, celebrated their eighty-first birthday at Long Beach, Calif. Both are in good health and spirits. The twins jointly held the office of post master at Albion, Wis., for thirty-one years. The University of Iowa will send the first psychologist to be a member of a polar expedition north this spring with Vilhjul Stefansson. Luther E. Wi den of Iowa will accompany the ex pedition with a complete labaratory outfit of psychological apparatus to measure the efficiency of the Eskimo mind. The United States, it is stated in a Washington dispatch, has begun an action before the interstate commerce commission to prevent what is called an attempt by the Union Pacific Rail way company to monopolize all the traffic bound for the Pacific northwest from points in the middle west and great lake points. On orders from the Department ot Justice at Washington indictments brought at Dallas, Tex., for alleged violation of the Sherman anti-trust law by officials of the Standard Oil company of New York, the Standard Oil company of New Jersey and the Magnolia Petroleum company of Tex as have been noile-prossed. The Indiana senate has passed the house corrupt practices act bill, which makes it a crime in Indiana for a newspaper to publish “any article or cartoon” tending “to expose to ridi cule. hatred or contempt" any person at any election, and providing a tine of from $500 to $1,000 and imprison ment for not more than a year for each offense. Thomas R. Marshall, vice president elect, refused $4,800, that amount being carried in the regular appropria tion bill to reimburse Mr. Marshall for money spent for house rent, light, heat and water during his four years as governor of Indiana. The former governor said he did not believe the appropriation constitutional, and sent word to the conference committee to strike out the $4,800. For half an hour after he had killed George E. Marsh, an aged manufac turer of Lynn, Mass., William A. Dorr drove up and down the Lynn boule vard with the body propped up beside him in the single seat of his runabout. The Department of Justice has re sumed its investigation of the Amer ican Smelting and Refining company, to determine whether it is a “smelt ing trust” in violation of the Sheri man anti-trust law. SPORT. The Chicago Nationals, in training at Tampa, Fla., played their first ex hibition game of the season, defeating the Havana (Cuba) Athletics, 4 to 2. Four men will represent the Uni versity of Nebraska in the indoor meet which is to be held in Kansas City. So widespread has become the in terest in golf and so many its devo tees that courses have been buik in nearly every part of the civilized world within the last few years. , As the beginning of the spring draws near base ball interest increas es among the amateurs. The Sidney High school basket ball five is now the undisputed champion of western Nebraska in the Nebraska High School Basket Ball league. March 7 is the latest date that has been named for the proposed bout be tween Packey McFarland and Jack Britton. Will A. Ziegler, Rhodes scholar from Iowa, won the weight putting event with a put of forty-one feet nine inches on the concluding day of the Oxford, England, university sports. PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON. Many thousands Witness His in duction Into Office. CEREMONIES ARE IMPRESSIVE New Executive of Nation Takes Oath on East Portico of Capitol After Marshall Beccmes Vice President. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington, March 4.—Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey is president of the United States and Thomas Riley Marshall of Indiana is vice-president. The instant that the oath-taking cere monies at noon today in front of the capitol were completed, the Democrat ic party of this country "came into its own” again after an absence of six teen years from the precincts of ex ecutive power. A throng of many thousands of people witnessed the newly elected president’s induction into office. Nine tenths of the members of the crowd were enthusiastically joyful, the other tenth cheered with them, as becoming good American citizens watching a governmental change ordered in ac cordance with the law and the Con stitution The Bible which during each suc cessive four years is kept as one of the treasures of the Supreme court, was the immediate instrument of the oath taking of Woodrow Wilson. Ed ward Douglass White, chief justice of the United States, held the Book for Mr. Wilson to rest his hands upon while he made solemn covenant to support the Constitution and the laws of the United States, and to fulfill the duties of his office as well and as faithfully as it lay within his power to do. Thomas Riley Marshall swore feal ty to the Constitution and to the people in the senate chamber, where for four years it will be his duty to ’ preside over the deliberations of the members of the upper house of con gress. Ceremonies Simple and Impressive. Both of the ceremonies proper were conducted in a severely simple but most impressive manner. The sur roundings of the scene of the presi dent’s induction into office, however, were not so simple, for it was an out of-door event and the great gathering of military, naval and uniformed civil organizations gave much more than a touch of splendor to the scene. President Taft and President-elect Wilson rode together from the White House to the capitol, accompanied by two members of the congressional committee of arrangements. The vice president-elect also rode from the White House to the capitol and in the carriage with him were the senate’s president pro tempore, Senator Bacon of Georgia, and three members of the congressional committee of arrange ments. Ceremony In Senate Chamber. The admission to the senate cham ber to witness the oath-taking of the vice-president was by ticket, and it is needless to say every seat was occupied. On the floor of the cham ber were many former members of the senate who, because of the fact that they once held membership in that body, were given the privileges of the floor. After the hall was filled and all the minor officials of govern 1 ment and those privileged to witness the ceremonies were seated, William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson, preced ed by the sergeant-at-arms and the committee of arrangements, entered the senate chamber. They were fol lowed immediately by Vice-President elect Thomas R. Marshall, leaning upon the arm of the president pro tempore of the senate. The president and the president elect sat in the first row of seats di rectly in front and almost under the desk of the presiding officer. In the same row, but to their left, were the vice-president-elect and two former vice-presidents of the United States, Levi P. Morton of New York and Ad lai A. Stevenson of Illinois. When the distinguished company en tered the chamber the senate was still under its old organization. The oath of office was immediately admin istered to Vice-President-elect Mar shall, who thereupon became Vice President Marshall. The prayer of the day was given by the chaplain of the senate, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, pas tor of All Souls’ Unitarian church, of which President Taft has been a mem ber. After the prayer the vice-presi dent administered the oath of office to all the newly chosen senators, and therewith the senate of the United States passed for the first time in years into the control of the Demo cratic party. Procession to East Portico. Immediately after the senate cere monies a procession was formed to march to the platform of the east por tico of the capitol, where Woodrow Wilson was to take the oath. The pro cession included the president and the president-elect, members of the Su preme court, both houses of congress, all of the foreign ambassadors, all of the heads of the executive depart ments, many governors of states and territories. Admiral Dewey of the navy and several high officers of the sea service, the chief of staff of the army and many distinguished persons from civil life. They were followed by the members of the press and by those persons who had succeeded in secur ing seats in the senate galleries to witness the day’s proceedings. VV hen President Taft and the presi dent-elect emerged from the capitol on to the portico they saw in front of them, reaching far back into the park to the east, an immense con course of citizens. In the narrow line between the onlookers and the plat form on which Mr. Wilson was to take the oath, were drawn up the cadets of the two greatest government schools, West Point and Annapolis, and flanking them were bodies of reg ulars and of national guardsmen. The whole scene was charged with color and with life. On reaching the platform the presi dent and president-elect took the seats reserved for them, seats which were flanked by many rows of benches rising tier on tier for the accommoda tion of the friends and families of the officers of the government and of the press. Mr. Wilson Takes the Oath. The instant that Mr. Taft and Mr. Wilson came within sight of the crowd there was a great outburst of ap plause, and the military bands struck quickly into "The Star Spangled Ban ner.” Only a few bars of the music were played and then soldiers and ci vilians became silent to witness re spectfully the oath taking and to listen to the address which followed. The chief justice of the Supreme court delivered the oath to the presi dent-elect, who, uttering the words, "I will,” became president of the United States. As soon as this cere mony was completed Woodrow Wilson delivered his inaugural address, his first speech to his fellow countrymen in the capacity of their chief execu tive. At the conclusion of the speech the bands played once more, and William Howard Taft, now ex-president of the United States, entered a carriage with the new president and, reversing the order of an hour before, sat on the left hand side of the carriage, while Mr. Wilson took ‘‘the seat of honor” on the right. The crowds cheered as they drove away to the White House, which Woodrow Wilson entered as the occupant and which William H. Taft immediately left as one whose lease had expired. TO THE NATION Inaugural Address Delivered by the New President. SEES WORK OF RESTORATION Task of Victorious Democracy Is to Square Every Process of National Life With Standards Set Up at the Beginning. Washington, March 4.—President Wilson's inaugural address, remark able for its brevity, was listened to with the greatest interest by the vast throng which was gathered in front of the capitol's east portico, and at its close there was heard nothing but praise for its eloquence and high moral tone. The address in full was as follows: There has been a change of govern ment. It began two years ago, when the house of representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It has now been completed. The sen ate about to assemble will also be Democratic. The offices of president and vice-president have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change mean? That is the ques tion that is uppermost in our minds today. That is the question I am go ing to try to answer, in order, if 1 may, to interpiet the occasion. Purpose of the Nation. It means much more than the mere success of a party The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Demo cratic party. It seeks to use it to in terpret a change in its own plans and point of view. Some old things with which we had grown familiar, and which had begun to creep into the very habit of our thought and of our lives, have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critically upon them, with fresh, awakened eyes; have dropped their disguises and shown themselves alien and sinister. Some new things, as we look frankly upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to as sume the aspect of things long believ ed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions. We have been refreshed by a new insight into our own life. We see that in many things that life is very great. It is incomparably great In its material aspects, in its body of wealth, in the diversity and sweep of its energy, in the industries which have been conceived and built up by the genius of individual men and the limitless enterprise of groups of men. It is great, also, very great, in its moral force. Nowhere else in the world have noble men and women exhibited in more striking form the beauty and energy of sympathy and helpfulness and counsel in their efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering, and set the weak in the way of strength and hope. We have built up. moreover, a great system of govern ment, which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set liberty upon foundations that will endure against fortuitous change, against storm and accident. Our life contains every I great thing, and contains it in rich abundance. Evil* That Have Come. But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded. With riches has come in excusable waste. We have squan dered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of na ture. without which our genius for en terprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admir ably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thought fully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener gies overtaxed and broken, the fear ful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn, moving undertone of our life, coming up out of the mines and fac tories and out of every home where the struggle had Its intimate and fa miliar seat. With the great govern ment went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid, fear less eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people. At last a vision has been vouch safed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the de based and decadent with the sound and vital. With this vision we ap proach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it. There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been ‘Let every man look out for him self. let every generation lock out for itself,’ while we reared giant machin ery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. We had not for gottefi our morals. We remembered well enough that we had set up a policy which was meant to serve the humblest as well as the most power ful, with an eye single to the stand ards of justice and fair play, and re membered it with pride. But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great.. Things to Be Altered. We have come now to the sober second thought. The scales of heed lessness have fallen from our eyes. We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proud ly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. Our work is a work of restoration. We have itemized with some degree of particularity the things that ought to be altered and here are some of the chief items: A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument in the hands of private interests; a bank ing and currency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell its bonds fifty years ago and per fectly adapted to concentrating cash and restricting credits; an industrial system which, take it on all its sides, financial as well as administrative, holds capital in leading strings, re stricts the liberties and limits the op portunities of labor, and exploits with out renewing or conserving the nat ural resources of the country; a body of agricultural activities never yet given the efficiency of great business undertakings or served as it should be through the instrumentality of science taken directly to the farm, or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to its practical needs; water courses un developed. waste places unreclaimed, forests untended, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal, i unregarded waste heaps at every mine. We have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effective means of production, but we have not studied cost or economy as we should either as organizers Of industry, as states men, or as individuals. Govsrnment for Humanity. Nor have we studied and perfected the means by which government may be put at the service of humanity, in ! safeguarding the health of the nation, [ the health of its men and its women and its children, as well as their rights | in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty. The firm basis | of government is justice, not pity. These are matters of justice. There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and chil ; dren be not shielded in their lives, i their very vitality, from the conse I quences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Society must see to it that it does not itself | crush or weaken or damage its own ! constituent parts. The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it I serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws, ! and laws determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless j to determine for themselves are inti i mate parts of the very business of jus tice and legal efficiency. These are some of the things we ought to do, and not leave the others undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be neglected, fundamental safeguarding of property and of individual right. This is the high enterprise of the new day; to lift everything that concerns our life as a nation to the light that shines from the hearthfire of every man's conscience and vision of the right. It is inconceivable that we should do this as partisans; it is in conceivable we should do it in ignor ance of the facts as they are or in blind haste. We shall restore, not de stroy. We shall deal with our econ omic system as it is and as it may be modified, not as it might be if we had a clean sheet of paper to write upon: and step by step we shall make it what it should be, in the spirit of those who question their own wisdom and seek counsel and knowledge, not shallow self-satisfaction or the excite ment of excursions whither they can not tell. Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto. Nation Deeply Stirred. And yet it will be no cool process of mere science. The nation has been deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn passion, stirred by the knowledge of wrong, of ideals lost, of government too often debauched and made an in strument of evil. The feelings with which we face this new age of right and opportunity sweep across our heart-strings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercy are reconciled and the judge and the brother are one. We know our task to be no mere task of politics but a task which shall search us through and through, whether we be able to understand our time and the need of our people, whether we be in deed their spokesmen and interpr. ters, whether we have the pure heart to comprehend and the rectified will to choose our high course of action. This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men s hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! The Wheelbarrow. If you have occasion to use a wheel- I barrow, leave it, when you are through with it, in iront oi the house with the i handles towards the door. A wheel barrow is the most complicated thing to fall over on the face of the earth. A man will fall over one when he would never think of falling over any thing else. He never knows when he has got through falling over it, either; for it will tangle his legs and his arms, turn over with him and rear up in front of him, and just as he pauses in his profanity to congratulate himself, it takes a new turn, and scoops more skin off of him, and he commences to evolute anew, and bump himself on fresh places. A man never ceases to fall over a wheelbarrow until it turns completely on its back, or brings up against something it cannot upset. It is the most inoffensive looking object there is, but it is more dangerous than a locomotive, and no man is se cure with one unless he has a tight hold on its handles, and is sitting down on something. A wheelbarrow has its uses, wltlaout doubt, but in its leisure moments it is the gppat blight ing curse on truw dignity.—James Montgomery Bailey. Removing the Rust From Steel. Rust can be removed from steel by covering it with sweet oil for a dav, then rub it with a lump of fresh lime 1 and polish in the ordinary way. WESTERN CANADA’S PHENOMENAL DEVELOPMENT ITS PERMANENCY VERY LITTLE QUESTIONED. There have been booms in almost every civilized country and they were looked upon as such, and in the course of time the bubble was pricked and they burst. But in no country has the development been as great nor as rapid, whether :n city or in country, as in Western Canada. There may sometimes be found one who will say "Can it last?’’ Winnipeg, today, stands where Chicago stands as far as be ing the base of the great commercial and agricultural country lying a thousand miles back of it. It has an advantage that Chicago did not have, for no country in the world's history has attracted to its borders a larger number of settlers in so short a time, or has attracted so much wealth in a period of equal length, as have the Canadian prairies. Never before has pioneering been accomplished under conditions so favorable as those that exist in Western Canada today. The provinces of Manitoba, Sas katchewan, and Alberta have the largest area of desirable lands on the North American Continent, and their cultivation has just begun. Even with a two hundred million bushel wheat crop less than eight per cent, of the land Is under the plough, four per cent, being in wheat. Less than five years ago the wheat crop was only seventy-one million bushels. It is a simple calculation to estimate that if four per cent, of the available cultivable area produces something over two hundred million bushels, what will forty-four per cent, produce? And then look at the immigration that iB coming into the country. In 1901 i it was 49.149; 17,000 being from the , United States. In 1906 it was 189.064. ! of which 57,000 were Americans, and in 1912 it was about 400,000, of which about 200,000 are Americans. In the I three years prior to 1912, there were ! 358,859 persons who declared them selves for Canada, who brought into ! Canada in cash, bank drafts, stock, implements and effects over $350,000. j 000. Why have they gone to Canada? The American farmer is a man of shrewd business instincts, and when he finds that he can sell his own farm at from $100 to $200 per acre and move into Canada and homestead 1'60 acres for himself, and similarly for all his sons who are adult and of age. upon lands as rich and fertile as those he had left, and producing, indeed, sev eral bushels to the acre in excess of anything he has ever known, it will take more than an ordinary effort to prevent him from making the change. He can also purchase good lands at from $12 to $25 per acre. And, then, too, there is the Ameri can capital following the capital of brawn, muscle and sinew, following it so as to keep in touch with the indus trious farmer with which he has had dealings for years back. This capital and the capital of farming experience is no small matter in the building up of a country. Will Western Canada’s development continue? Why not? The total area of land reported as available for cul tivation is estimated as 218,000,000 acres; only fifteen per cent, of this is under cultivation. Nothing is said of the great mineral and forest wealth, of which but little has yet been touched.—Advertisement Its Negative Virtues. “I wish you'd get rid of that abso lutely worthless poodle.” ' Absolutely worthless?” "That's what I said! Absolutely— absolutely worthless! What does it do that makes it good for anything?” "I was thinking of what it doesn't i do.” “Oh-h. what it doesn’t do” "Yes. It doesn’t chew tobacco, smoke a pipe, fight booze or use pro fane language.” Taking a Lesser Chance. A government inspector was con ducting an oral examination for ma rine engineers. Said one: "If you had tested your gauge cocks, had looked at your water glass and had found no water in the boiler, what would you do?” Came the answer, swift and true: "I would jump overboard.” Onto It. Blobbs—Skinnum is trying to pro mote a new mining company. Did you fall for it? Slobbs—No; I tumbled. Liquid blue is a weak solution. Avoid It. buy Red Cross ball Blue, the blue that's all blue. Ask your grocer. Adv. When a pretty widow begins to hand baby talk to a bachelor he might as well surrender. Happy? It’s really only another word for per fect digestion_active liver—bowel regularity. Sickness always brings discontent and “the blues” but why remain so? Get a bottle of HOSTETTER’S Stomach Bitters today. It will make the “inner man” strong and healthy and prevent Stomach Ills, Colds, Grippe, and Malarial Dis orders. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES 25CT5. PISO’S REMEDY Best Cough 8 jrup. Totes Good. Use 1b time. Bold by Druggists. FOR COUGHS_AND COLE \