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■T Mix llj W in One ^ I Minute with! jtCold 'Water-® AReatfy to Apply- r mod Alabastine is the most effective, economical and simple wall decoration on the market. It has demonstrated its superiority in thirty-five years use. Think of it! No boiling water, no glue added It’s one of the easiest jobs in the world to prepare and apply Alabastine, and the resulting surface, if ordinary care is taken, is solid, streakless and mat-like. The Motl Beautiful Walt Tint And when you consider that you obtain the mosf beautiful, mellow, nature colors, via., soft buffs, delicate greens and exauisife blues, or any shadt you wish by combining shades of Aiabastine, then you’ll know why Alabastine is one of the mosf popular wall decorations with millions of Painters anO Householders, Decora tors and Womenfolk, who take a pride in their homes the wide world over. The Alabastine Co. 382 Grand villa Rd. Grand Rapids, Mick. fie rore Ac ted cross and circle are on each package oI Alabastine you buy. Alabastine it aold by mott druggists hardware dealers and paim stores everywhere. If yours ton col handle Alabastine. take at substitute, write ua The Trouble. "Those soldiers don’t look natural. It's a fake lilm.” "No. it is not. The soldiers are real soldiers. Not being versed in acting, of course they don’t look natural.” F R E C K L E S xSow Is tlie Time to Get Bid of These Igly Spots. There's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, ae the prescription othine—double strength—ia guaranteed to remove these homely spots Simply get an ounce of othine—double strength—from your druggist, and apply a little of it night and morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while the lighter on* s have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than one ounce is needed to com pletely clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion Be sure to ask for the double strength othine. as this is sold under guarantee of money back if it fails to remove freckles.— Adv. In the neighborhood of Reading. England, there are three army horse depots staffed entirely by women. ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE DOES IT When your shoes pinch or your corns and bunions ache, pet Allen’s Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to be shaken Into shoes and used in foot-bath. Gives instant re lief to Tired, Arlans', Swollen feet. Over 1CO.OOO packages are being used by the troops at the front. Sold everywhere, 25c. Dcn't accept any substitute. Adv. A girl is often called “giddy" be cause she makes the young men's heads swTim. Dr. Pierre’s Pleasant Pellets are the original little liver pills put up 40 years ago. They regulate liver and bowels.—Adv. A man who thinks the world is growing wrorse imagines he is growing better. ASK FOR AND GET SKINNER'S THE HIGHEST QUALITY SPAGHETTI Save the trademark signature of Paul F. Skinner from all packages and exchange free for Oneida Community Silverware. Write today for free 36-page recipe book and full information. SKINNER MFG. CO., OMAHA, U.S-A. LARGEST MACARONI FACTORY IN AMERICA Nebraska Directory Hail Insurance We save you $5 OO on every thousand dollars of hail insurance Traced with us compared with the rates charged by eastern companies. Losses paid in cash as soon as adjusted. Drop us a postal card today and get the name of our nearest agent and full information. NATIONAL HAIL INSURANCE COMPANY. Lincoln. Neb. REDUCE TIRE EXPENSE Duplex tires are good for WOO to 5000 miles’ service. Cost $2 to *6. Send us two (or as mao? as you have) old, discarded tires, or write and ask us bow. Be sure one tire has a good bead, tho other a fair tread. DUPLEX TIRE COMPANT. 261<' Famaro street, Omaha. Nib. DEFIANCE STARCH is constantly growing in favor because it Does Not Stick to the Iron and it will not injure the finest fabric. For laundry purposes it has no equal. 16 oz. package 10c. A more starch for same money. DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Nebraska EVERY FARMER having hogs will want Bright’s neyr pat ented Automatic Wooden Hog Waterer. Never clogs or spills. Works all the time summer and winter. Needs no heater. Price $5. To agents $3. We want agents in every community. Write quick. Tke Aituatk Stock Foaataa Company, Dcparlacs! K, (taka, Ncknak) HUMANE SUNDAY : 10 BEJ6SERIIED CHURCHES THROUGHOUT COUN TRY BEHIND MOVEMENT. SUNDAY, MAY 21ST, SELECTED Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Designate Week of May 15-20 to Further the Cause. May 21st is to be observed by hun dreds of churches throughout the United States as Humane Sunday. At this time clergymen are being urged to preach sermons on the subject of kindness, particularly as it concerns children and animals. The movement is under the direction of The Ameri can Humane Association of Albany, N. Y., which is prepared to send out a large amount of literature dealing with this subject. A most valuable leaflet has been prepared for clergy men which may be had on request. The week of May 15-20, inclusive, will be known as Be Kind to Animal* Week by Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. During this week every effort will be made to em phasize the economic and moral value of treating animals humanely. Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls are co operating to make the movement a success. Work horse parades, com mon dog shows, illustrated lectures and the distribution of humane litera ture are a few of the special plans laid out by the local societies. The anti-cruelty movement is mak ing very rapid progress throughout the United States There are now 5<52 anti-cruelty societies, a slight gain over last year. These organizations \ handled cases involving 212,215 chil- t dren and 2,291,721 animals during 1915. Neoro Town a Success. Birmingham, Ala. — After several years’ struggle against heavy odds, including local' unsympathetic senti ment and gloomy predictions of fail ure by white people of neighboring towns, Hobson City, Ibe only munici pality in the United States with one exception which is wholly populated and conducted by negroes, has won its battle by demonstrating that it is a pronounced success. When the plan to found an exclu sively negro town in the south was proposed, scarcely any white people in the Anniston district, where it is located, dreamed it would work out. But the negroes were not discouraged and went ahead. Now Hobson City is firmly established as a progressive town and governs itself successfully both in a financial way and in law enforcement and observance. Back in 1900 this exclusively negro town was started by a band of negroes who obtained a charter and incorporated. The population shows a gain of 150 per cent. No man with out employment is allowed to stay in the town. Either a job is found for him or he is required to move away. The town has four churches with a. combined membership of 700, a good public school with 250 pupils, a .dozen progressive stores, water works, elec tric lights, police and sanitary depart ments, a well built jail and a govern ing board elected every two years. It is the only town in the state that is out of debt and has money in the treasury. More than half the citizens own their own homes. Some of its residents produce within a stone’s throw of the town limits from $800 to $1,500 worth of cotton and other farm products, besides large quantities of vegetables and fruits. Hobson City’s governing board con sists of seven couneilmen, a mayor and four other municipal officers, in cluding a chief of police. Every resi dent of the town is a negro. V/iuuca Ddiumuic vdmptuyn. Baltimore, Md.—The eight weeks' revival conducted by the Rev. Billy Sunday came to a close Easter Sun day in a magnificent manner. And Baltimore, that great last day, saw 96,000 people at the five services. These 96,000 brought Baltimore’s to tal for the great campaign up to nearly a million and a half people who heard the evangelist From the million and a half people there came more than 23,000 trail hitters, 1,843 of them on the last day, 944 of them at the last service. Bal timore’s committee believes that the free will offering to Mr. Sunday will show as large a figure as did Phil adelphia. Philadelphia's was $51,000. "Home Run" Baker and six other New York American league club ball players hit the trail. More Help Needed. New York.—Because increase of bread lines and the growing number of destitute persons in Belgium and northern France, it was announced here, the commission for relief In Bel gium has issued a call for eight addi tional delegates for duly there. Holland Steamship Sinks. London.—A Lloyds dispatch from Ymuiden, Holland, says the Dutch steamship Lodewijk Van Nassau has been sunk. She went down in six min utes. Five of her crew were drowned. Woman Grocer Held Up. St. Louis, Mo.—Mrs. Hetty S. Wal ker, proprietress of a grocery store, was robbed by three men in the store of $2,000 worth of diamonds and a small amount of money. They tore open her waict and took a cnamois bag in which she carried jewels. Germans Seize Danish Ships. Copenhagen.—The Danish steamer Esbjerg, bound from Bordeaux for Copenhagen, with wine, has been seized by a German cruiser in the Cattegat and taken to Swinemuende. m (afe GARDES of ,5 U)in is cmmi V,OG CABIV"WJzr Of 'S2W&AHP C&ttvr -1 CXME7&fJZA$-&G>ttZ/JTTtZ?£ ! FJWZ AHDZV&-' THERE’S an Old 8^Gentleman in a Kansas town who has done some unusualu 'ork in the modeling arP^> By ROBERT H. MOULTON. P. DLNSMOOR of Lueas. Kan., calls it the Garden of Eden, and being seven ty-three years old. a great grandfather five times, a survivor of 18 battles and nonhyphenated. all of which he freely admits, he has a right to his opinion. Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the devil and all the old charter members of the original garden are there, done forever in cement; also, for the sake of variety rather than consistency, 125 more figures. Biblical and otherwise, perched in concrete trees in his front yard and glowering down in their im passivity on villagers wrho pass thpt way by day, but who sedulously aWid it after dark. In the center of the Garden of Eden, in the midst of all this ghostly array of cement creations, is Mr. Dinsmoor’s cabin home, a “log house" built of 3tone from native ledges. One of the two porches is ornamented with ce ment beer bottles and jugs and mug3 as a sort of merry jibe at Kansas’ pro hibition laws. One of the many in laid tables in the cabin home is a small one which contains 1G2 pieces of wood. Over the door in the living room is what the old gentleman calls a wooden sermon. It is the motto: "Home Is What You Make It.” Outside, as he facetiously explains, the sweep of his hand taking in the petrified Garden of Eden, are 130 stone sermons. It took over 43% tons, or 130 sacks, of cement to make them, and the cost so far has been over $1,000. But even at that Mr. Dinsmoor declares he is far from being through. There is a system to everything about the place. The garden to the west represents the creation and fall of man according to Moses. The front, sr north, represents modern civiliza tion, how one animal preys on an other down to the little worm. There ire eight cement trees from 30 to 40 feet high lighted with 20 electric lights. For the grape arbor, flag, ievil and rambling rose to stand on there are 13 trees from 8 to 20 feet high. It all seems to represent a lot of Qard work. But Sir. Dinsmoor is a philosopher. It wasn’t work, he says, but play. Work, according to his theory, is doing something you don’t like to do. He worked for 50 years. Then he went to playing. He found when he fed pigs for play they got fat; if he fed them for profit he fed too much, and they died. He figured \ ZfZ'J2Z/Z°r£?,ZPCtXZffT I ' m." ui'isxfT'pyiiAixo osr Vtne/f'JTTt/iw T J2£ZXr VZM& JU&GSOhZtf&* ou. that he never did make any money | as long as he worked. He lost near- | ly everything except his wife. Then he got to playing at farming, j and his mules and horses got to malt- ; ing money for him and his land grew ‘ in value. It got so valuable that a j man came along with a checkbook I and ran him off. Then he moved into j town, and it looked like he was go- | ing to dry rot and be made fit for the ; boneyard until he took to playing ; again. He started his Garden of j Eden, and today he is friskier than j ever. The first figures one sees on enter- I ing the garden are Adam and Eve. j who stand eight feet high, hands j clasped over the gate. One serpent | is putting an apple in Eve’s extended i palm and another is being stamped 1 to death by Adam, while the devil ap- j pears overhead on a limb, with spear poised and malevolent eyes glaring at ' this world’s first lovers. Mr. Dinsmoor confesses that they j were made with cement and a trowel. | Some people don't like the looks of I Eve. and their creator admits he ' doesn't blame them. But then, he ex- I plains, his models were women who : passed the house, and as they gen erally passed in a hurry, he couldn’t follow them very closely. There are two things about the gar den that the townspeople do not like. One is the all-seeing eye on a high cement pole which winks electrically ! at night as if it were a solemn warn- ; ing to all who look at it. The other has to do with the prin- i cipal figures of the garden, which are i mounted in trees re-enforced by gas pipes. Very often when a curious j crowd gathers outside and gapes at j the creations, Mr. Dinsmoor, who : loves a Joke, will slip to the base- i ment. Presently the angel with the I flaming sword, perched high in a ce ment tree, will speak sotto voce: Cain, Cain, you son of a gun, where is Abel?” To this unangelic query Cain will give the twentieth century reply: “Search me, kid. I'll be darned if I know." Whereupon the devil from his dig nified position will bawl out: "I should worry." This generally makes the crowd move on. especially if it’s Just growing dark and the weird conversation is accompanied by the winking of the all-seeing eye. Among the ce ment wonders the most notable is a flag four by eight feet done in red, white and blue ce. ment and weighing nearly half a ton. It swings in the breeze on ball bear ings, making a weather vane. An other odd feature is a cement pyramid on which strawberry vines are planted in the spring. The cement is about one and a half inches thick, over a soil in terior, with tiling and spray to irri gate. On top of the pyramid are plant ed touch-me-nots, and when the straw berries are ripe and visitors come Mr Dinsmoor calls their attention to the flowers. He says, however, that next spring he intends to set out milkweed in place of the flowers, hoping to raise strawberries and cream on the same bed. -— Lot of Truth In a Jest. The managers of new apartment ha tels are very particular about new ten ants. After a man and his wife had hired apartments in an uptown hotel yesterday, the manager asked about references, financial, social and moral “I suppose the fact that I am to pay in advance disposes of the first,” said the newcomer. “As for the social end we are not in the swim to any extent always fearing to get out of out depths. So far as our moral standard is concerned. I happen to love my wife and 1 expect her to live here with me." “Good, very good," exclaimed the manager. “Only a matter of form you know." “Well," said the pros pcctive tenant in a doubting manner “how about your references? 1 am very particular, you see.” “What,’' gasped the manager. “Why. this is one of the most exclusive—” “That’s all right," interrupted the man. “has the president of this hotel company been sued for divorce and did his af finity live here? Is she here now? I wouldn't like my wife to meet her. What kind of people have you living here? On whom did you say I could call for information?" But the man ager was speechless.—New York Times. Unconscious Joker. What the case was about no one seemed to know exactly. The lawyer! themselves were pretty well mixed up Then an important witness entered the box and was presently asked tc tell the court the total of his grost income. He refused; the counsel appealed tc the judge. You must answer the question,” said the judge sternly. The witness fidgeted about and ther burst out with: "But—but. your honor. I have nc gross income. I’m a fisherman, and it's all net."—Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. WORTH KNOWING Peru's 1914 foreign trade amounted t $66,163,571. Alaska's 1915 mining output was val ued at $32,000,000. India's coal production has passed the 12,000-ton mark annually and elec trical machinery is being introduced nto its mines. A new glass for electric lighting .hat absorbs but about 9 per cent of the light is said to be the most effl uent yet produced. So that programs can be read in larkened theaters a storage battery light has been mounted in an opera glass by an English inventor. A headless setscrew has been in vented that can be driven flush with any surface by a specially designed wrench which engages slots in its top. Wooden shoes are frequently worn oy employees of breweries and tan neries and others w hose feet need pro tection from heat, the demand hav ing grown so large that a factory for their manufacture from red cedar has been established at Everett, Wash. An English inventor has patented a shaving soap that is packed in wooden bowds so that no mug is needed, the bowls being thrown away when empty. Bulgarian rose gardens, which pro duce much of the world's supply of at tar of roses, cover 18,000 acres and yield 40,000,000 pounds of flowers an nually. The owner of a granite cutting es tablishment in Los Angeles has suc cessfully used the compressed air starter on his automobile for driving the pneumatic tools used in lettering Transmutation of Metals. "The alchemists vainly sought to change mercury into gold. We now know,” wrote John Candee Dean in Popular Astronomy, “that mercury might be changed into gold if we could expel its atoms one alpha particle and a beta particle; or if the metal thal lium could be made to expel an alpha particle it would become like atoms of gold. This has not yet been done, but it is possible that it might be done by the application of an electric current of some million volts.” on monuments. Air was conducted by hose from the air reservoir on the auto to the pneumatic tool and the plaD worked admirably, saving considerable time and expense in the work of let tering on a monument standing in a cemetery far away from the shop. Current is being transmitted from Sweden to Denmark through a subma rine cable between Helsingborg, Swe den, and Elsinore, Denmark, a dis tance of about ten miles. The powei comes from water falls in southern Sweden. To eliminate glare from street lamps an English engineer proposes to illuminate streets by the reflection of lights thrown upon the fronts of build ings. The Saxon government has bought several large brown-coal fields in the vicinity of Leipzig with a view to the eventual electrification of its state railways. Texas is not ordinarily thought of as an iron-ore district, but business men who have recently bought 12,000 acres of Texas land estimate that it ulti mately will produce from 40,000,000 to 50.000,000 tons of ore. \ STEAKS UPFOR CAM' And No Wonder—Renting His Land He Made $8.50 Per Acre. So many Americans now have per sonal knowledge of Candda that false reports concerning this country are being continually corrected by Amer icans themselves who know the facts, and who are too fair-minded to let a false statement go unchallenged. A case in point arises out of a statement supposed to be made by a resident of Alberta, and published recently in the Spokesman-Review, of Spokane, in which the condition of settlers in this country was painted in a very bad way indeed. The writer of this at tack on Canada refused to let his name be known, so it can be taken for what it is worth, but Mr. S. L. Wallace, of N 4723 Crestline, Spokane, who lived for some years in Western Canada, came to the defense of the country in the following letter which was published in the Spokesman-Re view of February 11, 1916: — “To the Editor of the Spokesman-Re view: “In Sunday's Spokesman-Review was a letter from a man in Alberta to the | chamber of commerce, asking that ' something be done to keep Americans from going to Canada, and saying that that government was run by the rail roads, banks and manufacturers; that once a man got there he never could get away. Had this man published that letter over his own signature there is no doubt but he could get out of Canada. j No country will do as much to help a man to get on his feet, if he tries to help himself, as Canada. I know of the government helping people to pro visions, feed, seed grain and fuel, and charging only cost of delivery to tho nearest town and 6 per cent. What more could a man ask? I lived five years in Southern Sas katchewan and earned a patent to 320 acres of as good land as I ever saw. I have raised over SO bushels of oat3 on sod, 40 bushels of wheat, and 20 j of flax to the acre.' Until I lost my health I never was better satisfied any where. I had my land rented this last year for one-third. It brought me al most $8.50 per acre, or $1,143.91 for 135 acres. This man says he loves the land his fathers died for. So do I, and I love j the land that gave me my home. “S. L. WALLACE.” N4723 Crestline, Spokane.—Advertise- ! ment. Refuted. “Dinks thinks he knows it all.” "You’re mistaken there. Whenever he meets one he says: 'Well, how’s everything?’ ” A stiff upper lip has nothing in com mon with a limber tongue. Woman is the natural “rib” roast. --I—-— .1 Be Ready for Mealtime Of With appetite keen, m digestion normal, S and no fear of any lift af ter eating distress. I HOSTETTER’S ■’ Stomach Bitters ‘ helps very materially H in bringing about £l such a condition. It m is an excellent tonic m and appetizer. Try it Forethought. “You seem to be rather busy." “Yes. I'm writing a love letter. I’ve been working on it for more than an hour." “Why- take such pains?” "I want to feel sure that if this let ter is ever read in court it won't make me look like a fool.” For a really fine coffee at a mod erate price, drink Denison's Seminole Brand, 35c the lb., in sealed cans. Only one merchant in each town sells Seminole. If your grocer isn’t the one, write the Denison Coffee Co., Chicago, for a souvenir and the name of your Seminole dealer. Buy the 3 lb. Canister Car. for $1,00. —Adv. Taxis Come High. Mollie—You were in a taxicab with her? Chollie—Sure. “And you kissed her?” "Certainly.” "How much?” “Eight dollars and forty cents’ worth." important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that It Signature of In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry lor Fletcher’s Castoria Ignorance of McDuff. McDuff—Phwat kind av a horse is a cobb? McDunn—It's wan that’s been raised intoirely on corn, ye ignoramus. Among the “things to worry about” Luke McLuke has discovered that you can’t drown a bedbug. A New Remedy for Kidney, Bladder and all Uric Acid Troubles Dear Readers: I appeal to those of you who are bothered with kidney and bladder trouble, that you give up the use of harsh salts or alcoholic medicines and in their place take a short treatment of "Anuric.” I have taken many of Dr. Pierce's medicines for the past twenty-five years with good results. I suffered with kidney trouble for some years. I recently heard of the newest discovery of Dr. Pierce, namely, his “Anuric” Tablets. After using same I am completely cured of my kidney trouble. A doctor pronounced me a well preserved woman for my age, all due, I believe, to Dr. Pierce’s aid. MRS. MELINDA E. MILLER. If you suffer from backache, lum »ago, rheumatism, get “Anuric” now. After Grip Winter Colds— Bad Blood You are pale, thin, weak—with little vitality. Your liver is sluggish and the bad blood causes your stomach muscles to lose their elasticity and be come flabby—then indigestion. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Vledical Discov ery, purely vegetable and free from alcohol or narcotics, is the great and powerful blood purifier of today. Ex tracted from American forest herbs and roots. Contains no alcohol. In gredients printed on wrapper. Taken as directed it will search out impure and poisonous matter throughout the system and eliminate t.—Adv. the easy way to heal sick skins Resinol Ointment, with Resinol Soap, usually stops itching instantly. Unless the trouble is due to some serious intamal disorder, it quickly and easily heals most cases of ec ._ zema, rash, or similar tormenting skin or scalp eruption, even when vjNJ other treatments have given little relief. Physicians have prescribed Resinol for over twenty years. Resinol Ointment is an excellent healing tfutment for burns, scalds, wounds, etc., and with the gk. bclp of Resinol Soap. clears away I'implts and uandrufT. Sold by ail Wanted 50,000 r Farm Hands V of experience at once on the farms of K Western Canada To replace the young farmers who have enlisted for the war. Good wages ny and full season’s work assured. There is no danger or possibility of Cona scription in Canada. References required from all applicants. For spe i^cial railway rates and other information apply to W. V. DENNETT, Room 4, Bee Bldg., Omaha, Nebr. Authorized Cent chan Government A seat NO PASSPORTS ARE NECESSARY TO ENTER CANADA
