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IN MISERY FOB YEARS Mrs. Courtney Tells How She Was Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Oskaloosa, lowa.—>< For years I was simply in misery from a weakness ana ____________ awful pains—a n d nothing seemed to do me any good. A KffIMPIISRioMM friend advised me zXkHs ' to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s VegeJoJmSb moc table Compound. I 80 K ot r*" jQw lief right away. I can certainly recommend this vhluable medicine to ''wWiXwyW; other women who suffer, for it has Lii—————————l done suth good work for me and I know it will help others if they will give it a fairtrial. 0 —Mrs. Lizzie Courtney, 108 Bth Ave,. West, Oskaloosa, loWa. ' < Why will women drag along from day io day, year in and year out, suffering such misery as did Mrs. Courtney, when auch letters as this are continually being published. Every woman who suffers from displacements, irregularities, in- ' flammation, ulceration, backache, nervousness, or who is passing through the Change of Life should give this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, a trial. For special advice write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.*The result of its long experience is at your service. Insist on the name with three gsMg Ds enjoy freedom from kidney flit. At all druggists.

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married a man not of words but of deeds.” “Were they title deeds?”

Pimply Rashy Skins > Quickly soothed and healed by Cut!■cura often when all -else falls. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. For free samples address, “Cutlcura, Dept. X, Boston.” At druggists and by mall. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50. —Adv.

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“Did they try the new play on the dog?” “Yes; it was a howling success.”

THE GREAT WAR HAS MADE CIGARETTES A NECESSITY. “Our boys must have their smokes. Send them cigarettes I” . This iff a familiar appeal now to all of us. Among those most in demand is the" now famous “toasted” cigarette—LUCKY STRIKE. . Thousands of this favorite brand have been to France. There is something homelike and friendly to the boys in the sight of familiar green packages with the red circle. This home’ike, appetizing quality of the LUCKY STRIKE cigarette is largely due to the fact - that the Burley tobacco used in making it has been toasted. “It’s toasted” was the'"slogan” that made a great success of LUCKY STRIKE in less than a year. Now the American Tobacco Co. is making 15 million LUCKY STRIKE Cigarettes a day. A good part of this Immense production is making its way across the water to cheer our boys.—Adv. * A guilty conscience may need no accuser, but it usually has one. Love laughs at locksmiths, but not at wedlocks. FM COUGHS AND COLDS —take * prompt and effective remedy—one that acta quickly and contains no opiates. Yon can set such a remedy by asking far PISO’S

UNCLE SAM TAKES STOCK of HIS LARDER

»NCLE SAM for the first time in the history of the United States has taken stock of the national larder.. A monster inventory has been made of all fqod resources in the United States, and now Uncle Sam is in a fair way to know what food stocks he has on hand to last over until next season’s crops come in, how much food he can spare for the allies, and how sparingly he should make use of it at. home. Under an act of congress approved by the president August 10, 1917, the secretary of agriculture was authorized to investigate and ascertain the demand for, the supply, consumption, costs and prices of, and the basic facts relating to the ownership, production, transportation, manufacture, storage and distribution of foods, food materials and any articles required in connection with the production, distribution or utilization of food. An appropriation was granted for the survey, and within a week after the bill had been signed by the president schedules were in outgoing mails to food merchants and manufacturers. • Here are some facts regarding the correspondence which formed the basis of the nation-wide food inventory. The master list which was compiled by the bureau of markets was made, up of 525,000 names. There were 18,000 grain, flour and feed dealers; 1,200 brewers, 800 distillers, 6,500 canners of fruits, vegetables and sea foods; 1,400 refiners and dealers in edible oils, 1,800 sugar and syrup refiners, 32,000 wholesale and retail bakers, 1,040 fish freezing plants, and so on through the hundred or more-classified food trades.

A huge force of clerks was kept busy mailing schedules and sorting, editing and classifying the returned re--ports. The whole master list was more than duplicated by follow up letters and letters giving special information. The inventory covered 86 leading food items and brought in complete returns of the year’s harvests. Four general classes of commodities were covered: First, quantities of raw products on the farms, such as grain, live stock, poultry, eggs and honey; second, stocks of food products nearer the consuming stage In manufacturing, jobbing, wholesale,' storage and other commercial establishments; third, stocks in small retail establishments; fourth, food supplies' on the shelves and in the bins of the family pantry. Done Largely by Mail. The most Important part of Uncle Sam’s stock taking job was done by correspondence with food dealers and makers. But It was not possible to Inventory all food stocks by mail. There were 165,000 small retail groCets who, through inability to read or understand English, were unable to carry out the Instructions of the schedule. It would have been quite impossible to Inventory each one of these small concerns .by personal canvass. Therefore the bureau resorted to estimates based on a detailed survey of representative counties. > Aw a basis of selection for these type counties, all the counties in the United States were divided into seven groups according to the size of the largest village, town or city contained in each. The first group consisted of 25 metropolitan districts, in a number of instances embracing all or parts of several counties; the second group contained 19 smaller metropolitan dis-

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Woddland (Cal.) jail is empty. Los Angeles’ birth rate is one an hour. Joe Costa, thirty-seven, native of California, recently visited San Fran-’ cisco. First visit to any city. Isaac Miller of Myerstown, Pa., has continuously taught Sunday school for 50 years. Since the war the number of Jews in Palestine has been reduced twothirds by hunger, sickness and distress.

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tricts and adjacent territory having cities of from 100,000 to 200,000 population ; the third group contained counties having cities of from 25,000 to 50,000; In the seventh group there were 1,639 counties which had no village so large as 2,500. The survey work in cities was done by the bureau of chemistry through its food and drug inspectors and state and local health officials anti inspectors. These representatives went from store to store and left with proprietor or manager schedules of all possible staples, with the request that they be filled out in 48 hours. In many parts of the larger cities, especially In the poorer districts, the police had to explain to the grocers that the law’required them to fill out the schedule and, that they were liable to a penalty for failure to do so. The survey covered the stocks on farms and in the 22,000,000 households of the United States. The bureau of crop estimates, with Its existing army of crop reporters, attended to the farm stocks. The total nurjjber of returns exceeded 300,000. Household Inventory Made, To catch in the net for food information the 22,000,000 households In the United States was a stupendous task. As It was Impossible to approach each one of- these households, 44,000 families, representative of the entire population as to place of residence, family income and occupation were studied in detail and estimates derived from these figures covered with a fair degree of accuracy the entire country. The aim of the household survey was to get a fairly accurate idea ofr the food stocks, in individual households, supplementary to certain data sent in from cold storage concerns and makifig complete returns as to the quantity of preserved meats, eggs, fruits and vegetables in the country. Secondarily the schedule found out how much of certain staple commodities were being used, and checked up by means of Inquiries on the comparative amounts of certain foods consumed during the last two years on the ability of the average American family to follow out conservation food measures -which have been recommended. A vital phase of the household survey was the inquiry into milk production and the various ways In which this valuable food product is utilized. The schedule to be filled out by householders was divided into four sections : Section 1. Meats preserved for home use this winter and last. Section 2. Fruits, vegetables and eggs preserved for home use‘for 1917 and 1916. Section 3. Total quantity of milk produced, consumed and sold under the following Items per average week during the last year: 1, whole milk; 2, cream; 3, skimmed milk—

Philadelphia mint is to produce 3,000,000 pennies dally for awhile. A parachute for aviators that has been Invented in England is compact enough to be worn in a helmet, ready for instant use. A Californian is the inventor of a registering device to be attached to a hen’s back to record the number of eggs she lays. 0 A method has been Invented in Europe for treating old, hops so that they can be used as an acceptable substitute for tobacco.

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quantity fed to animals and quantity used in household. Section 4 covered the total quantity of 34 leading foods consumed during the calendar year 1917 and the estimated consumption of certain W these 34 leading foods during 1916 iff order to see to what extent families have been able to use substitute foods in the present emergency. Dietary Investigation Aids. Dietary investigations were made by Doctor Langworthy of the division of home economics which dovetail with the more sweeping household inventory of the federal food survey. Doctor Langworthy conducted an intensive research into the quantities and kinds of foods used in a number of selected families. These figures' will bring up to date dietary investigations made in the same division under Doctor Atwater’s regime, and which up to the present time have been the only statistics available as a basis for dietary calculations, even for those of the Royal British commission. ,The practical results of this survey will. It is believed, be of great value. For Instance, it will enable us to plan our crop production for the ensuing year with a degree of intelligehce which would be impossible without this definite and comprehensive survey. It would be difficult to find the owner of a factory who would plan out a producing program, without having a moderately accurate idea of market demands, and stocks already on hand.

We have been running our factory, so to speak, absolutely blind, without regard to orders or probable sales. It is ridiculous to urge greatly increased production unless we can say and say with-definiteness that there is a shortage and that the producer will be assured a moderate return for his labor. We are about to know for the first time by consideration of actual figures how We are situated with reference to our right to export the various commodities considering the needs of our own people. Again we shall know what we should substitute in the way .of those things that are present in a plentiful supply for those which are not plentiful. Information to the effect that there is a surplus of potatoes on the market will exert a leverage on the price fixer, and •will encourage the increased use of this specific food product. As increased consumption of potatoes means using less bread, It is a definite wheat conservation measure. We should know where we can use heavily and where lightly. Hoarding would be impossible. Charles J. Brand, who is at the head of the nation’s food Inventory, believer that a food survey taken annually, before the fall crops come In and just after they are in; will eventually become an established custom.

Philadelphia may bar German language teaching In public schools. A member-of the English Parliament has started a movement to prohibit smoking by girls under twenty-one years of age. The census bureau finds that hundreds of American girls In every 12 months are married at fifteen. Thousands annually are married at sixteen. A holder has been patented for safety razor blades to enable them to be used by tailors or dressmakers sot ripping seams

CHANGE IN THE FARMER'S LIFE

“Making a Living” Idea Has Developed Into a “Money Making Fact.” A few years ago—and not so many at that —most farmers were satisfied if they saw ahead of them the opportunity to make a fair living, a reasonable competence In their failing years, and an assurance of an existence for their families. They worked hard, and tilled their acres with this end in view. Honest struggle, earnest effort and a true conception of upright manhood, together with the increasing knowledge that upon the fruits of their endeavor rested the structure of the wofld, whose people had to be fed and maintained. Economy in method, improved conditions of working, have added to the farmer’s possibilities, and today Instead of being a plodder for an existence, which his early training had bred into him, he has become the bulwark of the nation, and, as such, has become elevated to a position where his word and his work are recognized as the factors it was always intended they should be. He is now the man of business —of big business. He has forced an appreciation of his work, and the true value has been placed upon it. The big men of the country today are the farmers, who, with business acumen and forensic forethought are able to tell you—from their books —what it costs to produce a bushel of wheat or a pound of wool. All of which is intended to prove that farming is a business, as much as banking or selling a suit of clothes. It is an industrial business, with more certain profits than accompany any other line of trade. It is a manufacturing enterprise, devoid of any of the dangers that the frills of fashion’s follies and desires force upon ordinary pursuits. Food is something that all must have and the farmer produces it. The cheaper it can be produced the less will be the cost to the consumer. And this is one of the chief thoughts of the farmer. Within the memory of the ten-year-old boy there have been improvements in aiachinery, changes in methods, scientfic discoveries of chemicals as adapted to agriculture,-all of which have lessened cost of production and made possible the cultivation of increased acres. In -some parts these things have brought about more intensified agriculture, growing heavier crops on less acres. Improved machinery and demand for greater production have led another class in search of larger areas, where their ability may cope with the growing of a greater number of bushels. That is one of the reasons why Western Canada lands have recently come into such demand. These, tit from twenty to thirty dot lars an acre, and producing the prodigious crops that are claimed for them, have attracted thousands of American settlers, while other thousands have gone out into the lands in the Western states. But, as to the Canada lands, there is this to say of them, today they are cheap, and if they will yield sufficient In one year to pay the cost of the entire purchase, why should not there be a demand. The country is well settled, and settlement is increasing. As evidence of the growth of the three Western Provinces Into whose territories the Canadlan Government invites settlers, recent reports show the following increases from 1913 to 1917 Inclusive: Value of Field Crops 1913 1917 Manitoba ...$ 64,557,000 $137,470,550 Saskatchewan.l29,376,ooo 349,488.200 Alberta 46,712,000 176,965,800. Tptal $240,645,000 $663,924,550 The total value of field crops for 1917 was $663,924,550, produced on less than 59,000.000 acres of land. Further evidence of prosperity and progress is found in the Government estimate of the value of farm lands, and increase in value since 1908: v 1908 1916 Manitoba 27.30 32.03 Saskatchewan 20.40 23.07 Alberta 18.20 22.18

Win the War by Preparing the Land Sowing the Seed and Producing Bigger Crops Work in Joint Effort the Soil of the United States and Canada CO-OPERATIVE FARMING IN MAN POWER NECESSARY TO WIN THE RATTLE FOR LIBERTY The Food Controllers of the United States and Canada are asking for greater food production. Scarcely 100,000,000 bushels of wheat are available to be sent to the allies overseas before the crop harvest. Upon the efforts of the United States and Canada rests the burden of supply. Evan Available Tillable Aera Must Contribute) Evary Available Farmer and Farm Hand Must Assist Western Canada has an enormous acreage to be seeded, but man power is short, and an appeal to the United States allies is for more men for seeding operation. Canada’s Wheat Production Last Year was 225,000,000 Bushels) the . Demand From Canada Alone for 1910 Is 100,000,000 Bnshsls To secure this she must have assistance. She has the land but needs the men. The Government of the United States wants every man who can effectively help, to do farm work this year. It wants the land in the United States developed first of course; but it.also wants to help Canada. Whenever we find a man we can spare to Canada’s fields after ours are supplied, we want to direct him there. ’ Apply to our Employment Service, and we will tell you where you can beat serva the combined interests. Western Canada’s help will be required not later than April sth. Wages to competent help, >50.00 a month and up, board and lodging. Those who respond to this appeal will get a warm welcome, good wages, good board and find comfortable homes. They will get a rate of one tent a mile from Canadian boundary points to destination and return. For particulars as to routes and places where employment may be had apply to» U. 8. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CHICAGO, ILL.; BLOOMINGTON, ILL.; DANVILLE, ILL; JOLIET, ILH - GALESBURG, ILL; ROCKFORD. ILL; GRAND RAPIDS,-MICH.

It will be observed that the average price of lands has not kept pace witn their producing value. It is therefore pointed out that the opportunities for the purchase of high-class land is still within the reach of those with limited means. A good idea of advancement in ft country’s progress may be obtained by a knowledge of what has been done in the production of cattle, and whenthese figures are studied in connection with Western Canada, a country whose fame having been heralded as a graingrowing country, giving the Idea; that that was what it was mostly adapted to, it will be realized that there Is there a vast storehouse of wealth awaiting those who choose to take advantage of it. In the three provinces tn 1912 there were—horses, milch cows, other cattle, sheep and swine, four million head, while in 1917 the number was seven* million. In 1901 the entire population was 419,512; in 1916 1,698,220. One marvels at the rapid progress of the United States during the nineteenth century. But America’s opportunities for growth at the beginning of that century were nothing compared to the opportuni ties nada’s at the present time. The fact that Canada lias as its next door neighbor a nation of over 100.000,000 —the richest nation in the world — is bound to have a stimulating effect on' Its progress. Already one sees signs of it on every hand. Canada not only has the largest area of unoccupied, but fertile, land of any country, but this land Is already made available by a network of railways. Cost of production of grain is. lower than elsewhere, while the prices are on a basis of those of the United States. —Advertisement.

Fair words butter few parsnips at 67 cents the pound for butter. KIDNEY SUFFERERS HAVE FEELING OF SECURITY You naturally feel secure when you know that the medicine you are about to take is absolutely pure and contains no harmful or habit producing drugs. Such a medicine is Dr. Kilmer’s SwampRoot, kidney, liver and bladder remedy. The same standard of purity, strength and excellence is maintained in every bottle of Swamp-Root. Swamp-Root is scientifically compounded frpm vegetable herbs. It is not a stimulant and is taken in teaspoonful doses. It is not recommended for everything. According to verified testimony it is nature's great helper in relieving and overcoming kidney, liver and bladder troubles. A sworn statement of purity is with every bottle of Dr. Kilmer’s SwampRoot. If you need a medicine, you should have the best. If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, you will find it on sale at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and large. However, if you wish first to try this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,’ Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper.—Adv.

She who loves and runs away may be sorry later on. How’s This ? We offer SIOO.OO for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE. . . , HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE Is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. , Sold by druggists for over forty years. Price 75c. Testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio. You can’t always tell by a man’s actions whether he Is a fool or a genius. BOSCHEE’S GERMAN SYRUP Why use ordinary cough remedies, when Boschee’s German Syrup ha? been used so successfully for fifty-one years in all parts of the United States for coughs, bronchitis, colds settled In the throat, especially lung troubles. It gives the patient a good night’s rest, free from coughing, with easy expectoration in the morning, gives nature a chance to soothe the inflamed parts, throw off the disease, helping the patient to regain his health. Made in America and sold for more than half a century. —Adv. No great man needs a brass band.