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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.
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bead, tho other a fair tread.
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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
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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.
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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
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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