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%% % DINNER ¥ ¢ 4 GUESTS BY GEO. V. HOBART, (“HUGH M’HUGH.”)

" Dear Bunch: Your letter from London to hand and contents noted. Peaches and I are mighty glad you're starting for home in two weeks, and we’ll meet you at the pier with bells on. : “We're all well here with the exception that Peaches gave an onion saengerfest night before last andl've been on the blink ever since. This onion saengerfest thing may be a new one on you, Bunch, so Il specify. An onion saengerfest is where a bunch of people gather in your parlor. in the evening and spill a lot of cheap songs all over the carpet while waiting for dinner to be announced. I don’t know just exactly where the onion comes in, but I suppose that applies to most of the guests. There were present at the battle I speak of Uncle Peter Grant and Aunt Julia, Bud Hawley and his second wife; your sister, Jennie, and her husband, Stub Wilson, from Milwaukee. Oh, I forgot to mention that old Dr. Guffhander, the celebrated food expert, was the guest of the evening. Dr. Guffhander is a great friend of Uncle Peter’s, and has been using him for a meal ticket for several days. Somehow or other Uncle Gregory :::1 on to the fact that Morty Smith sent me a case of Pommery, and

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there withthe glad and winning siile of a catfish on her face, listening with a heart full of pride while ‘her crimeladen husband chased that helpless song all over the parlor, and finally left it unconscious under the sofa. Bud was just about to pull the cork

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WALK THROUGH FIRE. Ceremony of Sect of Brahmins in Honor of Gods of Fire and Water. Six thousand Hindus and a select few English officials have recently wit nessed in the neighborhood of Madras a remarkable religious ceremony, the principal' actors being Soivrastas, a sect of Brahmins. The festival was called “the march through fire,” and it is appropriately enough named. The proceedings were in honor of Brahma and Vishnu, the gods of water and fire. o . Preparations for the ceremony had been going on for a month. A trench 23 feet long and 19 feet deep was dug, and in it a fire was kindled. At sun rise 40 fanatics, who were to demon: strate their asbestos nature, slowly marched around the furnace bearing the curious idols. Thé Soivrastas were clothed in yellow tunics, and without hesitation entered the fire trench sing: ing a hymn, the refrain of which was “Govinda! Govinda!” i _After walking around this artificial Gehenna three times they emerged apparently none the worse for their ex: perience, and have established an unassailable claim for sancitity among their people. : .

MINISTER A BUSY MAN. Virginia Pastor Caters Not Alone to - Souls of His Parishioners. Mr. R. J. McKay, assistant general passenger agent Toledo, St. Louis & Western and Chicago & Alton railroads, in his travels through the east recently noticed in a certain Virginia newspaper the following advertisement: REV. GEORGE W. WHARTON . Carries a Full Line of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. OH, OYSTERS! He receives almost daily, fresh, first-class Oysters, at moderate prices. FRESH FISH! Various kinds of Fresh Fish in season, the versf best, to tempt the epicurean taste. MATRIMONIAL MATTER. Rev. Mr. Wharton’s residence is a mecca for marrying couples. So just gain the consent of your best girl, secure the license, and together with a fat fee, give him a, call, and he will perform the ceremony in the most approved style. Who Wields Most Power. In the smoking room of a popular West End club the other afternoon a group of men suddenly raised. the ‘query as to which six men wield the most power in the world, and very considerable diversity of opinion was expressed. By general consent King Edward was placed at the head of the list, but it seemed impossible to arrive at any aZreement as to the remaining five. After some considerable argument it was decided to canvass the whole.of the members then in the building and ask them to write down the names of the six they considered the most powerful. The following was the result, with the”order of voting: First, the king; second, the pope; third, the czar; fourth, the sultan of Turkey; fifth, the president of the United States; sixth, the emperor of China. Among others who were voted for very generally were the emperor of Japan, the French president and the kaiser.—London Sketch.

Nor a Hospital. “Talking of our British cousins?” inquired E. Black Ryan, tax attorney of the Southern Pacific. “Well, I heard one the other day. Big fat Britisher shoved into one of those compartments at the last moment. There was an American in there reading his newspaper. “‘lt’s 60 miles to my station,’ remarked the Englishman, ‘and I say, old chap, I'm treating myself for a wounded foot, and I say, if you don’t mind, I'll put. some of this iodoform on my ankle. Beastly smelling stuff.’ “‘Go ahead,” said the American. But when he got the full odor of it, he shoved up a window, pulled out - a cigar and lighted it, and began puffing away vigorously. : “‘Here, here, my good fellow,’ protested the Englishman, ‘this is no smoking compartment!’”—San Francisco Chronicle. - Advice and Example, He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and good example builds with both hands, but he that gives good ad-

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The separator cannot be Kept toe clean. ;

If you are in the chicken business be alive and progressive.

When cream is not ripe for .churning you will lose much of the butter fat. : - :

To realize the best profit from dairy cows all the feed should be grown upon the farm. :

Dairy show at Chicago, December 2to 10. Remember the date and plan to attend. .

Be sure the rungs on the ladder are safe before trusting yourself on them at any great height. Loty

Cold fall rains will prove a sure robber of the sheep profits, if the animals are given no shelter. :

If the wearing parts of the harness are kept clean it will last longer, as the dirt is gritty and hastens the wear upon the harness, besides making it dry and liable to crack.

A look over the pigstye fence of a neighboring farmer showed me that his bunch of half-grown pigs were almost too busy scratching for lice to feed properly. That kind of hog raising don't pay. A ;

Do vou know the size of your various fields, or do you merely guess at it? You ought to know exactly, not only that you may accurately estimate fertilizer needed for the land, but that you may know the crop yields.

Not a single apple should go to waste.. What cannot be marketed, or used by the family should be gathered and fed to the stock. Rotting fruit left on the ground not only is a dead loss, but it insures a good insect pest crop for next seasen.

Keep the musty hay out of the dairy barn both as feed and as bedding, as the' mustiness represents the existence of millions of minute spores of fungous growths. The spores get into the milk by way of the air and often cause bitter and other flavors. Sometimes also they produce growths in the milk that ecause stringiness or thickening of the milk.

Rhubarb can be transplanted in the fall, although the best time to do this work is in the spring. Plow the ground thoroughly, then plow deep furrows four feet apart, and put manure in the furrows, placing the cuttings from the old roots upon the manure about 30 inches apart. A onehorse plow can be used in filling the trench and ridging -over. Rhubarb thus planted will be ready for cutting a year from the following spring. The matter of short or long period of milking of cows is a matter of habit.. For thlf reason if during her first period of lactation she is milked regularly to within a few weeks of dropping her second calf, she accepts this as her destiny. On the contrary, if the milking period with first calf is limited to four months, it will be a difficult matter to overcome the inclination here as elsewhere, to follow in the old path. The only remedy is persistent milking even when but very little milk can be obtained.

Open sores or cuts upon horses should be washed regularly with some good antiseptic wash which can be made up with water and creolin or some. of the coal tar products. Carbolic acid is .also good, but many make the mistake of wusing it too strong and set up an irritation instead of keeping things normal. A good antiseptic wash kills the germs which form pus, keeps the flies off and allows Nature to heal the wound. A healthy horse will get over a bad cut in a surprisingly short time if the wound is merely kept clean and sanitary.

The automobile is finding its way upon the farm more and more, and one of the important features of every state fair is the automobile section, Here is what a western farmer says concerning the horseless carriage. He has one: We have owned and used an automobile since last November, and find it very useful and satisfactory in our business. It is a great saver in time, as well as the cheapest way to get about. The principal use to which we put the machine is as a runabout. But it could be used advantageously for several other purposes in farm work, and we conscientiously recommend one to any farmer who farms on & large scale. by

Dr. B. T. Galloway of the departmeént of agriculture pronounces the variety of wheat known as ‘“Alaska” not a new variety, but one which has been known for many years in this country and Europe, and one which has been tried at several state experiment stations in the western United States during the past 15 years. But nowhere, he declares, have the yields been high enough to merit attention. The wheat has been grown to & very limited extent on certain heavy undrained soils in France for many years. In such locations it is said to yield rather better than ordinary wheat, but as it is one of the poorest wheats known for making flour, it is never grown where the ordinary varieties of wheat will thrive, :

Don't try to put in alfalfa seed wlen the ground is wet. :

Careful cultivation brings the farmer crops, coin and resultant contentment.

Don’t hang up the brush seythe until you have made a circuit of the fence corners. 3

Whitewash the stable, and if the horse gnaws the stalls paint the wood with tar. ; : e

. Sore shoulders on horses are as often caused by rough and dirty collars as by those which are ill-fitting.

Bad neighbors are often the product of bad fences. Mend up and quit your fussing. :

Cement floors in the hog pen are good if covered with plenty of good bedding. - :

The horse is made or marred by his first year. Start him right, and keep him going right if you would make horse raising pay. ;

One acre of turnips will provide feed for 25 to 30 sheep for three months. Did you grow any? A ‘mistake if you did not. e

The hired man has rights. Try to give him a square deal and he will appreciate it and generally do the square thing by you.

Don’t worry over the thing you can’t help and don't kill yourself trying to do what you have not time and strength to accomplish.

The reason a woman makes a success of poultry raising as a rule is because she is careful, watchful and mindful of all the small details.

Clean up the garden plot and burn up all the rubbish. This will make the place look more tidy and will destroy. a host of insect pests and weed seeds.

Pluck off the smut balls from the corn and burn them. Corn smut spreads rapidly if the smut-balls are thrown on the manure pile and the manure spread on corn-fields. Never throw a smut-ball on the manure pile!

r Dairy note from Life: “In the hot days of fly-time there are the -usual kicks over the milk,” and by way of illustration the cow is depicted kicking over the pail and incidentally the milker himself. ;

Experiment seems to prove that chicks grow faster upon soft mashes than upon dry grains. There seems to be least danger from bowel looseness when the dry grains only are fed, and it is very essential that the mash be dry enough to crumble in order to avoid that difficulty. Young chicks like the moist mash better than though it was not moistened and will eat more of it. There is no danger from the free use of the properly made mash twice a day, and being already ground the young birds can eat and digest more of it than when the food is all coarse.

Do you know how much it costs you to raise your calves? It would prove interesting and profitable for you to keep a record. Prof. Shaw of Michigan did so, and found that the Holstein calf used in the experiment the first year of its life 381 pounds of whole milk, 2,568 pounds of skim milk, 1,262 pounds of silage, 219 pounds of beet pulp, 1,254 pounds of hay, 1,247 pounds of grain, 147 pounds of roots, 14 pounds of alfalfa meal and 50 ,pounds of green corn. The grain ration consisted of three parts each of corn and oats and one part of bran and oil meal. At the end of the year the calf weighed 800 pounds at a cost of $28.55 for feed.

By the old pan process of raising cream in the summer time much of the butter fat is lost, as it fails to rise. The milk is soured by the time little more than half the cream contained in the milk has risen to the surface, and that which has already risen is soured beyond the point where it makes good butter. In the summer a hand separator is needed to get all the cream. In the winter one is needed to get the cream separated from the milk as quickly as possible that the milk may go to the calves ‘or pigs with the animal heat still there. There is no season of the year when the hand separator is not just the machine to have on the dairy farm.

Blobdy milk may be caused by a variety of conditions. Dr. Schroeder declares that some claim that the cow fighting flies, kicking and throwing the body to and fro, will tend to rupture the small blood vessels and thus cause the trouble. Others hold that the steady diet of‘ green, succulent food and perhaps the derangement of the blood caused by certain weeds, bring on this trouble. The latter opinion the doctor is inclined to believe, for it has been his observation that many cases can be cured by changing the pasture or changing the feed. “We have cured cases d6f bloody milk,” he goes on to say, “by giving sulphur and saltpeter mixed—half and half in the feed. Whether or not this is a sure cure I can not say, but it might be worth trying.”

The proper temperature for churning is the lowest temperature which can be used and produce proper granules within a reasonable time. 'A reasonable time is from thirty to fortyfive minutes, and fifty minutes or an hour is not too long. The colder the temperature, the better the granules and the less fat lost. The real churning temperature is the temperature at which the butter breaks. This s from two to four degrees higher than the starting temperature, from the friction -of the machine. If the granules form in less than 25, minutes, you may be certain that tlé temperature was higher than it should have been. : If the butter comes in 15 min. utes or less, a large amount of fat is Jost in the buttermilk and the butter will be soft and greasy in 'texture, Ordinarily from 56 degrees to 60 degrees is about the right temperature

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To the average person the mention ofAlaska brings to the mind a picture of ice and snow; that any person should take up a residence there to follow the simple life of a farmer seems beyond comprehension. Nevertheless this territory is fast becoming a garden-spot. With few exceptions the country will = produce everything in the agricultural line grown in the “states.” Seeds and labor are the two all-important factors. The men and women who-are subduing the Alaskan wilderness need not be exhorted to labor; they do their share of the world’s work nobly, and the garden seed is being furnished them by the experiment stations on application. The bureau of plant industry of the United States department of agriculture has kindly furnished seeds to the stations for this purpose. ;

Persons who are seeking information about Alaska are recommended to read the letters published herewith. They are in a way more valuable than reports from the experiment stations, in that they record the things the people accomplish. These are only a few of the letters received on that subject. . All that reach the station are not written in the same sanguine mood which characterizes most of these. Taken as a whole, the season was not favorable and many . report failure, though most of the following letters report splendid successes. Then, again, the reader is recommended to study them because of the practical directions found in many. To garden successfully in Alaska requires experience, whether one gets it for himgelf or utilizes the experience of others. The latter plan may often save time and labor, to say nothing of disappointments. The reports show the possibilities of the country. From the southernmost boundary to far north of the arctic circle they tell what Alaska can produce under ordinary pioneer conditions, with very meager facilities.

S. _.Siride, Haines, Alaska, November 20, 1907.—Thanks for trees and bushes sent last spring. All are alive, but the growth was not much on the apples, about 12 inches. The apple trees of 1906 did much better this year, ,growing 26 inches. The raspberries grew four feet canes, but one-half of the fruit did not ripen before frost came ?d destroyed.it. I think if you can get a cross between the salmon berry and raspberry it will ripen here all right. My currants bore fruit and are doing well. I sent to British CoIwmbia last spring for dewberry bushes, but they were too long coming and died. Shall try again. My potatoes, rhubarb, carrots, and turnips did well. 1. S. Williams, Montauk Point, Eagle, Alaska, October 15, 1907.—The seeds you sent me last year have been tried with fair success. The cabbage did not do well. I believe the soil was not suited for it. Lettuce, radishes and carrots of any kind grow as well as in any country. Scarlet Horn is really the best carrot. Parsnips and beets did fairly well. Potatoes about eightfold. They, as well as everything else, seem to grow better as the ground gets worked well with manure. My flowers -did not do very well, probably due to late planting. Rutabagas and turnips grow fine. I am well pleased with the results, but expect to do still better next season, as I am léarning. Henry Butke, Chena, Alaska, October 15, 1906.—1 wish to report the result of the seed that was sent me. Brussels sprouts, cabbage kale, car-

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rots and rutabaga all did very well; in fact, I never saw any better out in the states. Parsley, onions, and celery did not do very well. I planted turnips, potatoes and string beans, some seed that I had, and they were extra fine. In fact, the only stuff that did not do well were onion, parsley and celery. . ¢ b F. N. Kreuz, Fairbanks, November 4, 1907—My place is 36 by 50 feet. The soil was only six inches deep, 80 I wheeled some soil from the road to a depth of 114 feet, and had about three inches of wood ashes and four inches of old horse manure mixed with it and tamped so the soil was raised 1% feet above the ground. I planted two boxes with Wakefield cabbage, kept them in the cabin; and transplanted May 15. They did not grow much for the first two weeks. A big “worm” was eating the leaves off the stem. I had to keep transplanting them again until finally I had the worms destroyed. It grew profusely in dark rich healthy colors at all times. On June 15 it commenced to head up. Planted them 18 inches by three feet apart in rows. On September 15, when cut, from 10 to 15 heads weighed 15 pounds apiece, all good solid food for cooking; the smallest weighed seven pounds; 50 heads in all. It was the best I have seen anywhere around town. C. A. Fowler, Kunkokwim River, Alaska, February 2, 1907.—1 planted the seed sent here by the experiment station and can say that most of it turned out very successfully, in fact all but peas; they were planted on the first of June and came up in about five days and grew nicely for three weeks and then seemed to stop for nearly a month. They then took another very thrifty start and grew luxuriantly for the rest of the season, but did not produce anything at all. Potatoes, turnips, radishes, cabbage, kale, rutabaga and lettuce did just as well as at any place I ever saw. All seeds were planted in a sandy loam or a sedimentary deposit of the river. W. H. Snyder, Coun<sf), Alaska, December 5, 1906.—1 have fiad a garden here for the last four vears that has been a success. Radist=s, turnips, beets, and all early vegetables do well. Had one hill of potatoes that yielded six pounds of nic® potatoes. I have blue grass growspx; it does well. We have fine soil. I think wheat, oats and_barley cad¥ be grown ‘for hay. ‘

. Judge C. W. Thornton, Nome, Alaska, November 19, 1907.—-X hereby report to you my success and partial fallures with plants, trees amd seeds received from- your station: Mirst, apple trees; these, with currant and raspberry bushes, arrived ia July. They had evidently been on tie way for some time and did not appear to be in the best of condition. However, they were carefully planted and given attention and appeared to he doing well up to the latter part ef Axgust, when we had several cold storms, which seemed to blight an@ Wither them and from which they seemed never to recover. The final freese up came about the first of October, and these trees and bushes seem mow to be dead. With vegetables I have a very different story to tell, having had wonderful success with some, particularly radishes, lettuce, turnips and spinach. In:fact, I beg to venture the assertion that no better radishes and turnips can be grown any place in the world than right here in Nome. I raised three crops of radishes am one patch of ground and some of the first crop, left in until the close of the season, attained a growth of nearly two_inches in diameter, and were still as crisp and tender as any radishes I ever ate. Immediately adjoining us Henry Kuehne guarded and :tended one of his earliest and largest turnips and at the close of the season it measured Over 22 inches in circumference and weighed a little over four pounds. Do you think “Keep it up!” is the best advice to be given to a balloonist?

YOUNGSTER AN APT PUPIL. Every Indication That Tommy would Be Successful Politician. - The children, especially Tommy, were very much interested in the game of -politics, andfather was desighted with their precocity. = The sther day there was more than the asual -whooping .in the playroom, and their mother found the two smaller children assailing Tommy vigorously. “What's the matter?’ she asked. “Tommy, what have you been doing?” “Nawthin: - Only playing politics.” “Well, but what did you do to the children?” . i “Just playing convention. We adopted the unit rule and I was chairman of the delegation. Then we introduced a resolution to decide whether they should take my apple or I should take theirs.” e ' “Well?” g “I cast the vote of the delegation.”

" TESTING PAINT. : Property owners should know how to prove the purity and quality of white lead, the most important paint ingredient, before paying for:it. To: all who write, National Lead Co., the largest manufacturers of pure white lead, send a free outfit with which to make a simple and sure test of white lead, and also a free book about paint. Their address is Woodbridge Bldg., New York City. :

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BEST REACHED FROM DALLAS . Dallas and Gregory, S. D., are reached only by the Chicago @& North Western Railway. They are the only towns on the reservation border. . Dallas and Gregory are the main registering points. President Roosevelt has designated Dallas for the ‘, final drawing October 19, 1908, s . -w-:f;\:a\ | DULUTH &= ¢ a L A |el 2 ovinmed SX o |e, 00 A ; ///'. //j :.. SIOU* ‘ . : 4..-. .V "“"'* l’/% ‘ ~ 227707272/ ot €, ﬁ' \o(\. = % 2 g “‘ . % ’3 ",,v«}\’ & ' ?g,:_"’ e, k{éf ‘*"s i “otpw _‘\\ o* & (,“’ ' % o \\? BE B RASK A gun ey ) =AY The Chicago & North Western Ry. is the only all-rail route to the reserbation. . A million acres of fertile agricultural and grazing lapd in the great Missouri Valley Corn Belt is to be : — opened to Homesteaders October 5 SN | t 017,1908. : o GAR P HWE;S/'/L/ schedules, address i 3 ‘ N[]RT/ =y :W. B. KNISKERN sl NNE /4 Pass'r Traffic Mgr.,C. &N. W. Ry. g : - Chicago, Il i S : &=~> SendForFreeCatalogue E g€ 8 W business lively around your store when everything B@gii F) clse fails. BIG profits and QUICK returns. Full - (&, = g J/ live of aquarium supplies. Write to-day. - N&P¥Y7/ AUBURNDALE GOLDFISH COMPANY . - ¥ siNorth Peoria Street, CHICAGO,ILL. N eRSR & R 2 T ARsn AP S S R R e “s%‘—a&;‘&%‘?@?f"&i}iﬁ“s

Truth and i T - Qualityr appeal to the Well-Informed in every _walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. ' Accoringly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs ‘and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the (fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasaﬁtly and natarally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objecuonable substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine—manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. - ‘ -

An Income for Life Every man looks forward to the day when he may retire from the heat and battle of life, and sprnd!ﬁ declining years in the enjoyment of a substanti income. Oil, like stdel, has made “a thousard millionaires.” Mr. Rockefeller made numerous @assoc:ates in his enterprise enormously wealthy. Would you like to belong to a seconu Standard Uil? Nearly all men who amass a competence owe it to the fack that, at some stage of their career, they secured stock in agoung corPoratiun, which, as it grew and Sicarished, made their stock enormously valuable and gave it a substantial income producing power. If You are studying ways and means by which you may, at one lucky stroke, insure yourself A LIFE INCOME Send for particulars about the millionaire making industries, Oil, Asphalt and Rubber. in which weoffer you participation under conditicns where you can reap enormous profits. We will mail our expensive and informative booklet t¢ any reader of this paper .on request, absolutely without obligation and without charge. Send for it today. PITTSBURG-SALT LAKE OIL CO. Keystone Building, PITTSBURG, PA. Sanitary and a Marvelously Quick Dryer A towel which is sure to receive immediate and moss hearty welcomeby the user. Frumevery romuof view, economical as well as sanitary, itishy ong oddsthe best that has ever been put before the public. The "Hf'gienic" possesses every {ood guality that is possible to be put in a towel. It is of sirong. massive rough texture, assuring good wear. 1t isporous and absorbs moisture quickly, dryiog the body with hardly any effort. Itisa rapid absorberof waterand itremainsentirely odorless. Itismade in foursizes: 15x30 10c apiece. 18x40 15c apiece. 20x44 30c apiece. 21x50 35¢ apiece. Send forone ora p‘airforsa.l‘nple. Money returred if not satisfactory. Write directl{ to Mills, as we are the manufacturers. THE HYGIENIC MILLS, York and Howard Streets, Philadelphia, Psa.

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F‘OR- SALE-80acres fruit near Bridgman. Mich., on Pere Marg:ewe. Improvements, new modern 10-room house, hardwood trimmed, epen plunhiﬁ tenant cottage, 4 rooms, two good wells, bam a out buildings, 6000 trees, apples, ?umhsxn aears old, g‘nln and berries. Neighus chiefly erman. $15,000. One-third as‘ix. balance easy. Sydney 8. Date, 610-253 Ly, Salle Street. Chicago.

KEEP your eye-on Washington County. The best location in Omgn_x, for farms, Bomes. ldeal climate. Good soil. Prices reasonable. Two electrie lines, Portland, 17 miles away. Southern Pacificand Pacific Railway and Navi%?on.mkiw a railway center. Bnaour ticket to Hillsboro. rite to-day to Connell, Long & Imbrie, Hilisboro, Oregon.

a large Mst of fine lowa e ave farms from 40 to 1000° acres, rang-?\g in price’ from 840 to $lOO per acre. Write us kind of farm and location you want. We can furnish it Corn Belt Iland & Loan Company, Des Moines, la.

OWING TO HEALTH of interested parties, wo offer our business established five vears for sale. Incorporated, now_ earning 15% net, above ail exgensen and liberal salaries. Capacity, 12 dozen rooms per day. $7,500 will handle. Unincumbered real estate worth $6,000. Kansas City Broom & Brush Company, Kansas City, Kansas.

Califernia Self-Supporting Homes &.55%5%0s Ol e s B ety soae. Wt B o Nid cillare. B.uiﬁ'ﬁ.noxmmcd.

25% ifor your money lf_i{!hv"md in honest minng proposition with honest in it Mill'ons in s(‘glt-. pl‘élase heip me mm out. Money back if notas represented. Chance of a life time; better write to-day. Dr.J.H. Bmgin.l-‘rFmo,Cn. P —————————————— e

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GOOD TIMBER INVESTMENT. A fewshares of stock in a lumber business. Will pay from 3§ to 50 per cent. annually:. Box 1068. Seattle, Wash.

REAL ESTATE-—Liil}e tracts §2 peracre and up. Some small tracts. nd to exchange. Your lass opportunity. Write, Box 7, Minneapolis, Minn.

Good y i Cross Want a Jﬂb? Chemls‘?s’épecsiva'{xt‘;(;(;%ﬁap.

iamicted with: Thompson’s Eye Water

A. N. K.—A (1908—40) 2250.