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PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN FRANCE
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m m-tmA i»*re fj- * .»ptin* German trenches.
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GOVERNMENT AVIATORS BUSY ON GOVERNO^slsLANO
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FLETCHER GOES TO MEXICO
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probed*1- has odt.-k.! lift- m1H n..t be
•specially easy.
Russm| Them Down.
K—il Tbl* paper soys that South
'k*B* has BO roadways.
<»***•»—I*o they want ns to believe j
that the aototnohile people run right
mm to the VM* after the pedestrians?
Typewriter Knowledge.
*lnofc at this letter.” said the «ts (
perated aat to his blond typewriter.
*Emt word in it that should hare |
two p’s ywi t* only pot one."
-Weil, tor.” said the girl timidly,
-there * only one p on the keyboard.”
WAR THE GREAT LEVELER
i -resting photograph shows how war. the great leveler. has brought
’••-eii»**r all e|a--e> of society front many parts of the earth to labor in a
• anon interest. These true soldiers of France, one a woman munition
worker, tie- other a I reach Senegalese private, are shown carrying boxes of
’an • 'i n from the machines to tin- point of transportation to the array
IWM'X
SCRAPS
Scotch oat breadstuff is made in
sausage link form.
Ih-uver is to liave four new Carnegie
branch libraries.
Genuine Turkish caviar in Us solid
roe form is clean to bundle and keeps
for years.
Cuttlefish preserved in its own ink
is the only preserved-in-ink foodstuff
known to us.
The German mauser can fire faster
than any other rifle used in the war.
The magazine holds five cartridges,
packed in chargers.
The British rifle ia the outcome of
the South American war. It holds ten
cartridges and la sighted from 200 to
2£00 yards.
Canadian merchants are in the mar
ket for feather dusters.
Out of the •■i.ToO.UOU children in Eng
land between the ages of twelve and
sixteen, only 1.100,000 received any
further education after thirteen, ac
cording to the latest reports.
The public library of New Orleans
set a new record for book circulation
during December, by an increase of 4 -
100 over the number of volumes taken
out for home reading during Decern
ber, 191o.
Chefoo Is a treaty port *n the prov
mce of Shantung, the most easterly
province of China. Its population in
cludes 400 foreigners, including mis
sionaries in the interior, and 80000
Chinese. Its currency consists of ’thu
Chefoo tael and the Mexican dollar.
DOMESTIC SCENE ON THE MEUSE FRONT
These “trench kitten- ' are among the best loved pets of the l-'rench troops on the Meuse front.
FRENCH SOLDIERS IN AMERICA ON FURLOUGH
A number of French soldiers, direct from the trenches of France, arrived in New Fork on the steamship
La Touraine. in their grayish blue uniforms and a great variety of helmets. They are on a short furlough. Several
ire noncommissioned officers and some had been wounded. As the liner irnssed the Statue of Liberty the soldiers
stood in groups about the deck and waved their helmets.
VESSEL DESIGNED TO CHASE SUBMARINES
Submarine chaser t'hiuagacook being transported through the streets of Xew York city to the Ilrooklyn navy
; yard. The craft has two rudders and two proptdlars. It is long and sits low in the water, is of a dark green hue
and mounts a small cannon in rear of pilot house. This is the type of U-boat chaser that may be adopted by the
United States to watch and patrol our coasts should the necessity arise. Other governments linve found this type
| jf boat of great value.
W. A. F. EKENGREN
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New portrait of W. A. F. £kengren,
the Swedish minister to the United
States.
American Temperatures.
It is no longer necessary to go
“from Greenland’s Icy mountains to
India’s coral strand” to find extremes
Df temperature, when on one day there
was a range of 106 degrees, from 86
above zero in Texas to 20 below in1
the Rockies, in the United States.—
Rutland (TO Herald.
BROTHER CAPTURES BROTHER IN FRANCE
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One of the strangest stories coining from the war concerns these two men.
A Pole serving in the Russian brigade in France, during an attack on the
enemy's trenches, captured his own brother, who had been compelled to serve
in the German army.
Helping Some.
Bill—I see that earthquakes accel
erate the movement of glaciers has
been proved by observations in Alaska
recently.
Gill—Of course. Why, Til bet some
earthquake would even make a chess
player move
The Difference.
* I heard you hud a case of lockjaw.
Didn’t you suffer terribly?’’
"No, indeed. I don't remember a
time when I enjoyed myself more.”
“Why, I thought it was something
awful.”
“Not when your wife has it.”
A DIFFERENCE III
THE INVESTMENT
The Western Canada Farm Prof
its Are Away in Excess.
Mr. George H. Barr, of Iowa, holds
seven sections of land in Saskatche
wan. These he has fenced and rent
ed. either for pasture or cultivation,
all paying good interest on the invest
ment.
Mr. Barr says that farm land at
home in Iowa is held at §150 per acre.
These lands are in a high state of cul
tivation. with splendid improvements
in houses, barns, stables and silos, and
yet, the revenue returns from them are
only from two to three per cent per
annum on investment.
Last year, 1915, his half share of
crop-on a quarter section in Saskatche
wan, wheat on new breaking, gave him
35 per cent on the capital invested—
§25.00 an acre. The crop yield was
35 bushels per acre. This year the
same quarter-section, sown to Red
Fife on stubble gave 3,280 bushels. His
shaiv, 1,643 bushels of 1 Northern at
$L5<J per bushel, gave him $2,563.08.
Seed, half the twine and half the
threshing bill cost him $453.00. Allow
ing a share of the expense of his an
nual inspection trip, charged to this
quarter-section even to $110.00, and he
has left $2,006.00. that is 50 per cent
of the original cost of the land. Any
one can figure up that another aver
age crop will pay. not 2 or 3 per cent
on investment, as in Iowa, but the
total price of the land. Mr. Barr says:
“That’s no joke now.”
jir. tsarr was instrumental in Bring
ing a number of farmers from Iowa to
Saskatchewan in 1913. He referred to
one of them. Geo. H. Kerton. a tenant
farmer in Iowa. He bought a quarter
section of improved land at $32.00 an
acre near Hanley. From proceeds of
crop in 1914. 1915. 1916. he has paid
for the land. Mr. Barr asked him a
week ago: “Well, George, what shall
I tell friends down home for you'’'’
The reply was: “Tell them I shall
never go back to be a tenant for any
man.’’ Another man. Charles Haight,
realized $18,000 in cash for his wheat
crops in 1915 and 1916.
Mr. Barr when at home devotes
most of his time to raising and deal
ing in live stock. On his first visit of
inspection to Saskatchewan, he real
ized the opportunity there was here
for grazing cattle. So his quarter- ..
sections, not occupied, were fenced
and rented as pasture lands to farm
ers adjoining. His creed is: “Let na
ture supply the feed all summer while
cattle are growing, and then in the
fall, take them to farmsteads to be
finished for market. There is money
in it.”—Advertisement.
For Moving a Stove.
Flatbusli—1 see legs have been in
vented for stoves which contain cas
ters, so mounted that pressure on lev
ers projects them and enables the
stoves to be moved easily.
Bensonhurst—I still contend, how
ever. that to move a stove quickly
nothiug can beat kerosene oil.
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biliousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out—the headache,
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases—turn them
out to-night and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, dogged bowels or an upset stom
ach.
Don’t put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret to-night straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
ind bowel action for months. Chil
dren love Cascarets because they
never gripe or sicken. Adv.
Couldn’t Blame Dog.
She—I wonder why 'that little dog
tried to bite me?
He—He heard me say you were a
witch and he’thought you were a sand
wich.
EAT yLsi meat
Excessive eating of meat is not only
tremendously expensive, but It is posi
tively injurious to health. In place of
meat try Skinner's Macaroni and Spa
ghetti the most delicious of all food
and the richest In nutriment. They
can be prepared in a hundred appetiz
ing ways at small cost. Write Skin
ner Mfg. Co.. Oihaha, Neb., for beauti
ful Cook Book. It’s free.—Adv.
Domestic Finance.
Kmcker—This family is living be
beyond its means.
« Mrs. Knicker—Why not issue bonds?
—Life.
When anyone swipes your umbrella
it’s a sure sign of raiu.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORLA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that it
Signature of
In Use for Over 30 Tears.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Pretty Low.
Johnny—What’s Bill’s social stand
ing?
Pop—He begins to wobble on the
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NOT DESIGNED TO PLEASE THE GERMANS
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