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' Mi4 tlw- Ilfg Enthusiastic Praise for Well Known Kidney Medicine I • t • ‘ T.4 a Bwdi nr for t!s* pa** r .fleet «*-.-» to tvagM* «*t rahie • K I: »Jt to tt''U b ■ - • m m. i > Tv^'riRwTi led Ac e~ * . *.* ‘ r--j.rt» re-need from tbow « . o J r. I ats met. irf!> that it i* A r»Bic *- lt»4 *!H t.w sat riAl'ixmftf at p* •#* Vm trulr nivri V V 1U.RU: hrufr-*: Sept fl, MUt Oxford Neb. fre e What Souap-Eoot W.U Do for Yoa • tea ws'j to Dr. K. r-wr A Co.. I ; . - =.- a. N. Y'., lor a aaa.pie mm bet t 1 - Will ***«are art. tie Y oa will a - r- - -e a Doi^et «! tCaable lafor t 1-4 r t about -te ki iaet . id blad der V -a wr - .of, be »urr aad nwnljon tie {*•■— Re* -T Bfty-eea* aad one e r» lor •» t at ail drug w-rm — Ad». THOUGHT IT “REGULAR TALK** L tt e k -se-ja-^en Attendant la Very M_c*■ S.-o» aed Wren Told That Set Can Speak Eng. ah. I‘* ' )«» '.If ■' ;* . ;rti Mhe of us - for *. .»> if the center of the uni t. •«* •! .:* «) • - ..ur folks" do 1* the pr.-per ’! •; ml all elfc- mere eccen * — loin lacking. hut It come* «• ■ .. sitig'.x in childhood. -t speak Ftwi :n<*st heau t.f lied Elsie'* tig sister. * - .f* — t » t.g <!e—-ribed at length To ’ll- ';•! > a' the SU(<|ier table the <-t- ami arcrunphshment# of a new fr end. a girl who had lived several }-»r* nbroad ar.d had cotne recently t«> Kara's wlsail. “I .: a a g.rl." put it. Elsie at thl* ;> t*. >ith an air of importance. “and ►be tod to live In England. She's in aiy l t.dergarteB and she ran -peak English ! gaeas ~ -Weil a hat of Thatr demanded K ra *■*» cats you speak English." -Jfc. 1 cunt; I don't know how! Why of course I cnn’t speak English." Elsie appealed froth the laughing face* now toward her “can I. mother?” VeesiiJf you can «f*eak English, child •» what «e all *peak: we're speaking it now." “What? I» it Eng; *h we're talking right this nnnute? Is It truly. mother*" *•< »f cv -,r*c my dear' What lan guage -t 1 iua *«h»sc It was that we t alk T " -Wi t mother. I didn't sujipose It a*» Eng *h or any other language. I a- '.-t regu ar talk, of course " Strictly in Keeping. -fi„i i.,a ~ee where some railroads to r< — charges for icing refrigerator cars?" w i -r t 'hat giving the public a cw5<J deal?" True rmneoiv Me* in making the it*. u*e of what i* tertight. Relieved Her Feelings. • •• uami summer afternoon little "ti the porch with her :•! She became quite restless; 1 down und around she would d ?::i:11 '• > with a big >igh, she '■ r., f n t,..r little rocking r :i d -:i.d ■ "Oh. darn the good ■ " gracious.” H. r mother said: “Why, Helen, bat made you say that?” 11 I Ju>: t ad to say or do some thing.” irbin lea dry up an 1 i. - ; ear with Doctor Pierce's Golden M- i: Discovery, in tablets or liquid. —Aiiv. WAS DETERMINED TO ENLIST Apg .cant. When Found Too Old for Regular Service in Navy. Declares He Will Go as a Pearl Diver. M 1 bun ■ tou< Incidents have ri. d the rush for recruits which :. w *u-. n mad** at the army, navy anil ■ r].s .-nhsting stations dur • ::.~T few days says the Indian - Vew *. i >ne day at the navy sta • tin- f- !- r:il building a big. niw • d !• :• a applied for enlistment - i. apprentice seaman. <*:. examination, the officers at the station found that he was just a little -r age f. r tb - class of service. He on offered to "ship” as a cook. He . s a*k* d whether he had any recom mendations for that sort of work. “I haven't got uny recommenda •: he said. "P.ut if you order some !. .ti. and eggs I will show you what I mn do along that line.” That didn't seem to satisfy the offi cers and the man appeared to be up against it. “Well. I won't ship as a fireman.” he st. d “that sort of work is too tough for uie. If you won't have me as a cook I guess I will have to enlist as jiearl diver.” Eminently Qualified. A tiny Ixiy wearing smoked specta < • - -at on the curb and watched other t.">s playing tiall in the street. He ti.: de an excitable audience, jumping up. moving his arms Hnd calling out as if he really had something to do irh the game. And sometimes—jtist soai.-times—a boy would think to wave track. He was rather a pathetic little • bap. but he dldn' know it. for when a man paused to ask hint if he was having a good time he pii>ed out with happy importance: "Yes. sir; I'm the umpire." “That’s a fine position. How did • hey come to give it to you?” “lbs-ause I can't see straight." The man said it was a most excellent reason, but he doubtless knew that Tie- I.. >« 1: 1 a finer one.—Washington Star. Getting Even. Surgeon (to auto agent)—Don't wor ry ib,. operation will be as safe and easy as that last <ar you sold me. Within tin* case of a new clock of •g. grandfather type is concealed a _ | li Mid cabinet for records. SS THOUSANDS 2ft UPON THOUSANDS OF HEALTHY BOYS & GIRIS EAT Grape-Nuts AND CREAM EVERY MORNING BECAUSE WISE MOTHERS KNOW "There's a Reason ! IIJ The Easter Contains Features Not Found in Some Other Modern Structures. BEST PROTECTION FOR COWS There Must Be Freedom From Insects, Gcod Ventilation and Comfort in Temperature for Sure Milk Production. — By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST or. all subjects pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the read,rs of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all Inquiries to William A. Rad ford. No. lsfT Prairie avenue. Chicago. 111., and only Inclose two-cent stamp for reply The important development of dairy farming during the last decade is very forcefully indicated by the changes which have occurred in the stables used on such farms. In the improve ment of sanitary conditions around such stables, one thing at a time has been found wanting until the dairy stable has come strongly into the at tention of farm-building architects. Ventilating experts and equipment en gineers causing it to he given a thor ough overhauling and redesigning. Several types have been established, all of which aim to accomplish prac tically the same thing. Primarily, the animals must he furnished the best possible conditions in which to live nnd, secoudarily, the building must be easy to keep clean. This is an Easter cow stable. It has some features which are different from other pond stables, some of which are well liked by everyone who has tried them out. Where the winters are cold, as they are where dairying has been conducted to the best advantage, a stable really should he built for warmth in winter and clean, airy coolness in summer. This design sometimes is fitted with tral air duct to admit fresh air. Orel this air duct is placed a wo.idea walk built of 2 by 4 cross pieces, with the boards nailed on lengthwise. This leaves an opening between the 2 by 4 cross pieces for the entrance of air into the stable directly in front of the cows' noses. According to the principle of warm air circulation, this arrangement is theoretically correct. Air is admitted in the center of the room that is prop erly proportioned and close enough built to prevent the influence of out side air currents. The cold air from outside is heated by the lungs and the body warmth of the cows. Warm air will rise to the ceiling and spread in every direction. As it loads up with impurities, and as its temperature is reduced, the air becomes heavier. As it reaches the outer walls it descends and is drawn through the outlet flues from near the floor behind the cows. Practical stable ventilation must bo studied for each building separately. What will work out in one stable would be useless in another, because of some peculiarity in the structure. This center horizontal air duet is worth a trial. Being made of con crete. it may be kept perfectly clean, and, being open, it is less of a harbor for rats and mice than some of the wall air duets that are placed in sta bles. This center walk is made in sections, so it may be lifted up and -rested against the front of the manger while the stable is being swept with a broom or cleaned with a hose. .Any system of stable ventilation re quires a temperature above 50 de grees F. to keep air in circulation. A temperature above 50 may be main tained in a good stable in zero weather by packing the cows close enough to gether. This is. of course, likely to lead to the old argument about the amount of air space required for ani Rials, and this is a subject that has never been settled to the satisfaction of dairymen. But good cowmen like to have the air changed whether there is much or little to change. These men make their stable ceiling low and are particular to have a good-sized cow in each stall. In building these stables in the East, dairymen are particular not to leave any ledges to hold dust. They use inside ceiling without beading and they paint the ceiling in such a way as to fill the cracks so far as possible, so the ceiling is smooth and airtight. For the same reason there are no window stools. There are no unnecessary pro Modem Sanitary Dairy Stable for Twenty-Eight Cows. Floor Plan. outside blinds, painted dark preen. This is for the purpose of shutting it up dark after the cows are milked in the morning in summer. When the blinds are shut the stable is so dark that flies will not stay in it. Dairymen have taken lessons from good house keepers in this respect. Flies will rrawl out of a very small crack to get from darkness to light. Tou can’t shut flies out of a cow stable, that is, vou can’t shut them all out; but it is possible to shut up a stable like this so dark that they will all leave it be tween morning and evening milking hours. Of course, the cows will carry flies In with them when they are stahled in the afternoon, and this cannot ho avoided very well. However, some Xew York dairymen have dark pas sageways leading to the stables, where a good mnny flies are brushed off by the attendant as the eyws pass in. One dairyman experimented with station ary brushes in n dark passageway, which is an automatic way of brush ing the flies off the cows is they enter the stable. Easter dairymen usually are well supplied with sma'l hills or banks on which to arrange Zheir stables, barn yards. ete. For this plan, a gently sloping bank, falling away towards the south or southeast, is preferable. The north is usually protected by a group of trees or high hoard fence. During the last ten years stables have grown in size and dimensions. Little cellar windows of meager sizes ,n lonesome connection have been dis placed by two sash windows, as care fully made and adjusted as the win dows in the house. The system of ventilation in this stable is a combina tion system, with the ceiling openings that permit the ventilators to carry off the warm air from the top of the stable in summer. There may be bui,t—,n the concrete floor in the feed passageway—a cen jections anywhere on the inside of the i stable. The same idea is followed in j the stall partitions. In this particular stable the only support to the ceiling is from the par I tition uprights between the cows, | which are cemented in the floor and fastened to the ceiling by screws through threaded plates. A loft over a | stable like this is not used for any ! purpose except as an air space, and the air is changed by having a window ! | in each gable. The silos are placed j j between the stable and storage barn. 1 ' with room for a feed carrier to pass through ; this carrier track extends the whole length of the cow stable, and runs far enough into the storage barn , to load the litter carrier. The value of this arrangement may lie better understood by the study of [one fact—that north of the forty-sec- ( 'ind parallel of latitude diere is an average of only six weeks of good pas ture. There are droughts sandwiched in between late spring and early fall frost, so that df-irymen are obliged to supply manger feed for ten or eleven months. In fact, some of the best dairymen don’t depend on pasture, ex cept to have a run for the cows for exercise, fresh air and general health. < >f course, they want cows to get some picking, and this is necessary to in duce the cows to travel about. But when it comes to actual feeding, the stable is depended upon in summer as well as winter. The storage of silage j and the growing of alfalfa have brought i about this change. The old plan of growing soiling crops is not carried on to any great extent; labor is too expensive. SKI age and alfalfa are better and cheaper. At the same time, good cows appreciate a feed once a day of green stuff. It may be clover, oats, succotash, alfalfa, or any other good forage crops, but this feed is given as an appetizer more than for the actual returns In milk de rived from It NOT NOBLE ANIMAL Man Not Such Finished Product as Imagined, Says Savant. Human Body Has Points of Decided Inferiority to Despised Mammals, It Is Asserted. Investigation is proving, declares Dr. F. Wood Jones, professor of anat omy at the university of London, in his new book. “Arboreal Man,” that the hu man body is no such finished product of evolution as we have fondly imag ined. It has points of decided inferior ity to the physical frames of mammals upoti which we look with disdain as less finely formed titan ourselves. Some of the lower animals are more capable of exquisite adaptations than are we ourselves. Their bodies are more splendid instruments titan ours are. more complex, indicative of a higher stage of evolution on the physi cal plane. The upright attitude of man lias been employed as an argument in favor of his superiority to the four footed beast physiologically, although the evidence makes such an argument ridiculous. It would tend the other way. says a review in the Lon don Lancet. If we compare man's body with the body of so-called “tower organisms'" v.e are astonished to find that his points of resemblance are with the lowest in the scale of conscious being. Man is oddly unlike tile noble beasts of the jungle; but he is amazingly like the creatures of a primitive type that infest the bog. the pond and the swamp. His relatives are not the lords of the forest, not the kings of the jungle, nor the mighty eagle, but the creatures of the slime. How is it that the various elements of the remote ancestral limb have been preserved in human limits? Professor .Tones' answer is that the primates broke away from the early land living mammalian stock while the primitive (tones and muscles were still preserved in that stock. These primitive ele ments proved useful and were pre served in that particular form which adopted an arboreal life and used the hand and foot to grasp with. The prim itive plan on which the hands of man are built can be accounted for only by supposing that man's ancestry spent a long pilgrimage in the trees. It was during man's arboreal phase of exist ence that the vast majority of those anatomical characters which we re gard as adaptations to man's upright posture were evolved. These anatomi cal traits indicate how low we are.— Current Opinion. Dirty Windows and Poor Eyes. The factors largely responsible for P°or illumination are small, narrow windows, low power artificial lights placed too far from the point of opera tion. and neglect of facilities at hand for obtaining light, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. By this neglect is meant lack of cleanliness. This applies first of all to the windows. There is scarcely a single industrial locality which does not contain at least one building, and all too frequently sev eral bniidings of the same type. They are built with a supply of window space sufficient to illuminate amply the interior. The dust and dirt accu mulated upon them, however, destroy in large proportion their usefulness. The same condition is found in arti ficial lighting. The electric light bulb, dusty or streaked with dirt, the result of hurried and incomplete attempts at washing, often shaded with a fixture meant to be a reflector, but which in reality is anything but that, faintly illuminates the work and impairs the health and the efficiency of the work er.—Scientific American. His Fables Were Classics. Jean de )a Fontaine, the seventeenth century French genius, who ranks among the greatest fabulists of all time, died 222 years ago. at the age of seventy-four, aud to the lust he was as naive, improvident, reckless aud good hearted as a child. He was the son of a magistrate, and in his youth proposed to become a priest, hut abandoned that project aft er eighteen months in a seminary, and thereafter, for several years, led an idle and dissipated life. His early ef forts as poet and dramatist were of little worth, and it was not until he was forty-four that he gained fame with his “Contes pour it ire"—tales for laughter. La Fontaine's masterpiece. his “Fables," were published between H56S and 1*594. the last book having been completed shortly before his death. In these he satirized the whole range of human nature in its animal counter parts. and produced a work that will always rank as a great classic. The Eccentric Chinese. Petroleum may he a thing for which one's taste lias to he cultivated. At any rate, the Chinese dislike the smell and touch of it so badly that they are much in the situation of the people who seventy-five years ago had salt works in western Pennsylvania—they abomi nate the petroleum and abandon a well when the proportion of oil to brine gets high. Their repugnance for crude petroleum may tie measured by the fact that in China it takes from one to three generations to bore a well! For the refined products of petroleum they have no such aversion, or even for the tin cans in which they get it from the United States, making out of the latter a source of almost as many of tin* necessaries of life ns a South Sea islanders finds in his favorite co conut pahn.—The Nation's P.usiness. A Helping Hand. Decker (watching the game over her shoulder)—Gee. .Miss Oldgirl, Td like to hold that hand of yours! Miss Oldgirl—Oh. Mr. Decker, this is so sudden! Low Postage Rates. The cheapest postal service in the world is said to be that of Japan. Let ters travel for two sen—about seven temhs of a penny. Figuring on a Necessity. “Ton ought to be happy, with wheat at $2 a bnshel.” “I'm not,” answered Farmer Corn tossel. “I’m not any happier than I'd be if the springs were going dry for a season and water was worth $2 a gal lon.” FOR SKIN TROUBLES That Itch. Burn. Torture and Disfig ure Use Cuticura—Trial Fife. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. They usually afford immediate relief in ach ing. burning eczemas, pimples, dandruff and most baby skin troubles. They also tend to prevent little skin trou bles becoming great if used daily. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Guaranteed Harmless. “What does this chap do for a liv ing?" asked the secret service man. “Writes musical comedies.” “Pass him along. He never had any thing to do with a plot in his life." An Excellent Medicine FOR THE STOMaCH THE LIVER SND BOWELS Hstomach Bitters Try a bottle at t.:e first sign of Indigestion or B-iicusn^ss See Man 'Cperatiens The Right Medicine in Many Cases Does Better than the Surgeon's Knife. Tribute to Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound. Doctor Said Operation or Deatb—But Medicine Cured. Des Moines, Iowa.—“My husband says I would have been in my grave today had it not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I suf fered from a serious female trouble and the doctors said I could not live one year without an operation. My husband objected to the operation and had me try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. 1 soon commenced to get better and am now well and able to do my own housework. I can recom mend Lydia E. Pmkham's Vegetable Compound to any woman as a wonderful health restorer.”—Mrs. Blanche Jeffekson,703 Lyon St., Des Moines,Iowa. Another Operation Avoided. Richmond, Ind.—“For two years I was so sick and weak from female troubles that when going up stairs I had to go very slowly with my hands on the steps, then sit down at the top to rest. The doctor said he thought I should have an operation, and my friends thought I would not live to move into our new house. My daughter asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Yegetable Compound as she had taken it with 'good results. I did so, my weakness disappeared, I gained in strength, moved into our new home, do all kinds of.garden work, and raised hundreds of chickens and ducks. I cannot say enough in praise of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Yegetable Compound.”—Mrs. M. O. Johnston, Route D, Box 190, Richmond, Ind. Of course there are many serious cases that only a surgical operation will relieve. We freely acknowledge this, but the above letters, and many others like them, amply prove that many operations are recommended when medicine in many cases is all that is needed. If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medi cine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence, INFLUENZA 'zsssss*. Fever, Epizootic And all diseases of the horse affecting his throat speedily cured; colts and horses in same stable kept from having* them by using Spohn'g Distemper Compound. 3 to 6 doses often cure; one bottle guaranteed to cure one case. Safe for brood mares, baby colts, stallions, all ages and con ditions Most skillful scientific compound. 50c and $1 per bottle; 15 and tlO a dozen. Any druggist or deliv ered by manufacturers. SPOHN MEDICAL CO.. Goshen. Ind. Marital Graft. Mose Johnsing—What will be yo’r charge fo' marrying me and Melindy to-morrow? Parson Jackson—Two dollars. Mose Johnsing—Well, say, just charge her five and send me de differ ence to Lake Squeedunk, whar we’s gwine on de honeymoon.—Puck. Old Gold — Silver—Antique or broken Jewelry. Diamonds, Watches, Platinum, etc. We pay full value— money by return mall. Oldl reliable firm. Stag gpaelaitWa C«., D*pt. 17, B*jU»orr BdL w. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 17-1917. —1■—■> In Italy a process has been invent ed for making sidewalk tiles of screen ings from old brick pavements. Do You Neglect Your Machinery? The machinery of the body needs to be well oiled, kept in good condition just as the automobile, steam engine or bicycle. Why should the human neglect his own machinery more than that of his horse or his engine? Yet most peo ple do neglect themselves. To clean the system at least once a week is to practice preventive measures. You will escape many ills and clear up the coat ed tongue, the sallow complexion, the dull headache, the lazy liver, if you will take a pleasant laxative made up of the May-apple, juice of the leaves of aloes, root of jalap, and called Pleasant Pellets. You can obtain at almost any drug store in this country these vege table pellets in vials for 25c—simply ask for Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. There can be no counterfeit if they have the Dr. Pierce stamp. Proven good by 50 years’ use. WHAT HOME FOLKS SAY Omaha. Neb.—“All my life Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets have been used in my home for sluggish liver and biliousness. When I was sixteen years of age i had a very severe attack of biliousness and the ‘Pleasant Pellets’ were the only medicine I took and they cured me in short order. Since that time I have not used any other liver medicine because they are simply per fect. I am glad to recommend them to my friends.”—MRS. C. H. CONE, 4205 Brown St. Omaha, Neb.—“For the past 26 years I have kept Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pel lets in my home ready for immediate use in cases of sluggish liver and con stipation, and they have proved most satisfactory. I heartily indorse them as a safe and reliable home remedy ”— MRS. JOHN SYME. 4207 Brown St. Write Dr. V. M. Pierce, Invalids’ Ho tel. Buffalo, N. Y.. for free book on stomach, liver and bowels. Canada’s Liberal Offer ©f Wheat Land to Settlers } is open to you—to every farmer or farmer’s son | V^^1° *s anxi°us to establish for himself a happy home and Tjf7W\3mTj&PA prosperity. Canada’s hearty I nUMrLVjklM I invitation this year is more attractive LdMfl Q IT I than ever. Wheat is much higher but 0f il Jfy L A I her fertile farm land just as cheap, and djggl rin the provinces of Manitoba, Saskat chewan and Alberta wU^L 5 160 Atie Homesteads Are Actailly Free to Settlers end Other Lead Sold et from SI S to 120 per Acre ,The Breat demand for Canadian Wheat will " 1 ke*P 2P,*h* Price- Where a farmer can get -■ ,. near £ for wheat and raise 20 to 45 bushels to ^ r*\ ■ ,h* »cre he u bound tomake money - that's yon can expect in Weatem Canada. Won \yl derful jnelda also of Oau. Barley «nd Fla*. KS’»b&K5ijr£,S,‘SS; “ “> “ “$w|K| an^TOwajTa«sss.’ \iJki) Kiwi marketeconvenient.climate k^vTlfTl WlTwaH 1 Ls an DnnBual demand for farm * ,YI rliillRH JSfi2!,*ii1I3Pd£?.wle many /ouna men who have LAti\• Mlllli "rite for literature and iJflSf ftJRJ ESSSS^c&St,,3a.5i1;y» *•*“ w 801,1 of fjjplH W* ^ BENNETT T 'XW Boom 4, Dee Olds., Omaha. Neb. Canadian Government Agent