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I—Market square and town hall of Arras, which city the Germans tried to take from the British. 2—General Pershing inspected a detachment of his stalwart troops in France. 3 —Guy Empey speaking for the Liberty loan in City Hall square, New York, at the opening of the campaign.

NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Germans Divert Their Attack to Flanders, Again Failing to Break Through. BLOODY FIGHT AT GIVENCHY Kaiset Seeks B to Annihilate British Army—Americans Now in Great Battle—Premier Lloyd George .-. Proposes Conscription for * ' Ireland. > »< -fl -.. '"A . By EDWAf?I> W. PICKARD. “They shall,jmt pass.” Xot glossing 'over the increasing seriousness of the German offensive on west front, not making vain boasts,, but with unfaltering courage an< jdiogged determination, all the allies, French, British, Americans and Portuguese, in France and Belgium, Ayve adopted the Verdun slogan and refuse to let the Huns break through their line. Weary, and battered, drenched with gas and explosive shell, pushed back here and there by powerful attacks of masked infantry, greatly outnumbered all along th? line, they . cling as long as possible to every defensive position and exact a terrible price for every yard of terrain they give up. Failing to push his way through to Amiens, the kaiser Ijhst week turned his attention to Flanders, and after three days of intensive bombardment attacked the British on a 25 mile front of which Armentieres was the center. In the three days of fierce infantry fighting that followed the Huns shoved back the British and Portuguese line some five miles between Armentieres and Givenchy, and three miles at the north of the former city. On Thursday the British retired from Armentieres, , which is of little importance as a strategic point and is now blit a heap of Wins. They also had abandoned several villages but still dominated the battlefield from Messines ridge on the north and Givenchy on the south. The latter place was the scene of the bloodiest fighting, being taken and retaken several times. The British were outnumbered there more than four to one, bub defended it splendidly and retained possession of the town, which is situated on high ground. The losses of the Germans here as well as elsewhere were very heavy, and a considerable number of them were captured. • Though the immediate object of the Germans in this sector apparently is to take Bethune, an important center of British operations, and then by a wheeling movement push’on to the Eng- ► lish channel, their greater purpose, according to prisoners and captured documents, is nothing less than to annihilate the British army. It is expected that the kaiser will direct his full strength to the accomplishment of this aim and that the battle in Flanders will be considerably extended to the north and continued with desperation. —M— l Oh the southern front of the German salient the French, at the beginning of the week, withdrew to the west bank of the Aiyette river in the Coney region, thereby rectifying their lines and leaving to the Germans the marshes of the Oise. Since then the enemy have been greatly harrassed by the French outposts and have been unable to carry on any operations in the swampy ground. A little further to the west Chauny has been the center of furious struggles but up to the time of writing the French had repulsed every attack, and Were in possession of the town and the nearby cemetery. For the present, at least, Amiens seems to be safe for, though the artillery activity in that sector has been continuous and violent, Infantry opert ations almost ceased during the week. —— As has been said, the allies do not seek to minimize the menace in the successes the Huns have gained, but their commanders are as confident as ever that the kaiser cannot accomplish his alms, and the men In the ranks

■AIMS OF ALLIANCE REVEALED y Testimony Showr That German Reservists in United States Were , Urged to Invade America. Methods employed by the GermanAmerican alliance to influence legislation. and elections were exposed at the hearing before the senate judiciary committee on the bill for the revocation of the alliance’s charter. The chief witness before the committee was E. H. Babbitt, oflicial trans-

have no other thought than victory. The allies have ample supplies of guns and ammunition, but what.they must have is more men, and that quickly. England is sending troops across the channel with speed not heretofore equalled, and America’s fighters are being hurried over as fast as possible in response to the call. Secretary of War Baker, who is still in France, has learned hte lesson, and it Is understood he is urging the greatest expedition in. getting our army across. Day by day the American troops are being hurried up to the fighting front j and brigaded with the British and ; French, who greet their arrival with cheers. That they are now taking an active part in the great battle is evidenced by the lengthening casualty lists sent over by General Pershing. In their own sector the Americans continue to do fine work. On Wednesday, just northwest of Toul, they were subject to the strongest attack the Germans had made in,.that region, after three days’ heavy shelling. The Yankees not "only broke up the advancing ranks by their artillery fire, but promptly emerged from their shelters and chased the shattered Hun troops from the field. —fe— The German press has ceased to sneer at American participation in the , warfare and admits that this country will be a great factor in determining the result and that it is preparing far a long conflict. The turn events have taken and President Wilsop’2, powerful speech in Baltimore hg.ve convinced the Germans that the result of the war is to be determined by force of arms. Co»nt Czernln, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, finds his position /shai»n. since Premie? Clemenceau dis.-, proved his assertions concerning peace talks, and the Czech opposition to him > Is increasing. In Germany there is growing dissatisfaction with Chancellor Von Hertling and Foreign Secretary Von Kuehlmann, and there is a movement to make Dr. Von Helfferich imperial chancellor. Germany’s forces in Russia, after capturing Kharkov, proceeded 130 miles further to the northwest and occupied Lgov. They then sent an ultimatum demanding the surrender of Kursk, capital of the government of that name, but the local soviet decided to resist. The Germans also are continuing their operations in Finland, in aid of the government and the White guard, and have compelled Russia to remove or disarm Russian warships in Finnish waters. —fe— The bolshevlki government of Russia was concerned mostly last week with the landing of Japanese troops in Vladivostok. The press expressed the fear that this was the first step in the occupation of Siberia, and the commissioners demanded that the Japanese depart, threatening otherwise to declare war. If the Japanese really are on conquest bent, they would ask nothing better than that, but America and Great Britain probably stand in the way for they do not wish to have Russia throw herself utterly into the hands of the Germans. Indeed, the foreign cons»ls at Vladivostok promised the local authorities the troops would be withdrawn soon. Delayed dispatches from Harbin said American marines also had been landed at Vladivostok and were in control of the docks, while the Japanese were guarding the railway and ammunition depots. The diet of Bessarabia, the Russian province which borders Roumania on the east, is reported to have voted in favor of union with Roumania. Uk*raine has signed an agreement to furnish to the central powers about 63,000,000 pounds of foodstuffs and deliveries of grain already have begun. —M— George Creel, chairman of the committee on public information, brought a storm about his head by saying, in a public address, that he would thank God to his dying day that the United States was unprepared when it went to war, because otherwise it would have been false to its traditions and policy. In both houses of congress he was denounced bitterly, the senate seemingly overlooking the fact that only a few days previously it had voted to make that state of unpreparedness permanent by refusing to vote for universal military service. Creel made his out-

• lator for the department of justice. He read portions of a speech delivered by Hans Schmidt, vice president of the Alabama State alliance. One part follows: “The alliance now counts more than two million members scattered throughout the United States. We have become a power with which the politicians must reckon. We will always remain good citizens, but we wish to cultivate German things and German manners. We attack no one, but If any one attacks us we bite.”

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rageous statement when acting as spokesman of the administration at a meeting of Liberty loan lecturers, and his dismissal from government employ was demanded by the indignant con- i —te— On Wednesday the senate passed the amendment to the espionage bill, mak- ■ ing it the most drastic anti-sedition measure ever proposed in this country. It is designed to expedite punishment for disloyal acts and utterances, but was changed to permit of just critic-1 ism with good motives. Fear of antagonizing loyal citizens of German de- ' scent caused the elimination of a clause | barring from the mails publications in ‘ the German language. —fc— “ The senate had another exciting de-1 bate oyer the conference report on the ' bill for punishing sabotage and wilful destruction of war material. As reported, the measure provided that it should not be construed as making it unlawful for employees to agree together to strike or refuse to work foi the purpose of securing better wages or working conditions. Senator Underwood and others strongly criticised any such government indorsements of strikes during wartime. Next day the senate rejected the conference report I by a vote of 34 to 25. At the same i time Samuel Gompers was warning congressmen not to commit the “deviltry and folly” of passing the proposed law to prohibit strikes and lockouts. Too many of the laboring men of the ’ country fail to recognize the fact that when they are working for the government on war tasks, they are doubly Working for themselves. —fe— Premier Lloyd George again has Staked-the political, existence .of..himself and his cabinet on one measure, the new man power bill which includes the conscription of all men between ; the ages of IS and 50. years, and which furthermore extends conscription to i Ireland. The latter feature of course put the Irish Nationalist members in 1 a rage at once and the premier was [ warned that any attempt to enforce the I draft in Ireland would result in cfvil ' war; that it would take an army to raise a regiment. He stood firm, however, declaring the time had come when j Ireland must be treated like the rest of Great Britain in the matter of mil- ! itary service, and that if the bill was defeated his government would give way to another. The measure passed its preliminary readings by a large majority, but the press and people of England are decidedly anxious about its success should it become law. Submarine sinkings as reported by the British admiralty showed a great falling off in number, only six vessels being listed as lost, but both here and abroad there is a feeling that this j presages a concerted movement of the U-boat against the transports that are now carrying American troops to France in great numbers. However, the convoy system has been so per- j fected and so many warships are available for it that no grave apprehension J is felt for the safety of those transports. —to — The Dutch have quieted down concerning the seizure of their vessels by America and Great British, but Minister Phillips has left Washington for home, .ostensibly on account of IU health. President Wilson last week commandeered the Clyde, Mallory, Merchants and Miners and Southern i steamship' lines and turned them over > to Director General McAdoo. This i added 63 coastwise vessels to the 48 ! already under government management. Three Russian ships in a Pacific port also were taken over by the shipping board. — fe — General Allenby’s forces in Palestine are still pushing forward north of ; Jerusalem, despite stubborn resistance | by the Turks, who have been re-enfor-ced by German troops. In Berlin there is a belief that the Holy City will be recaptured, but this is based on false ideas of the British action in falling back after cutting the railway at EsSalt. . . The Liberty Loan campaign was most successful during the week. lowa lead the nation, subscribing its quota within four days.

Dr. Earl E. Sperry of Syracuse university testified that in the early part of the war the alliance urged 500,000 German reservists who were residents of this country to invade Canada, and that Germany sought to get the alliance to create strife between America and Japan. Doctor Sperry also quoted a statement by Prof. Julius- Goebel of the University of Illinois that “the German language Is' sufficient to prevent the Americanization of the German citizens of the United States.”

:: Seen and Heard : In Indiana Indianapolis.—Only for the objection of the federal food administration, Indiana would, have been placed on a flour and sugar card basis, by the county food administrators in their conference here. The sugar and flour shortages have been so serious and acute that many of the county administrators said there was only one way to handle it with safety, and that was by adopting the card system, and requiring every consumer to carry a card to the retail store when he bought sugar or flour, and have the retailer punch the card to show just how much of the product the purchaser obtained. Under this system, it was pointed out, it would be easy to control the distribution of sugar, flour and bread and prevent any person from obtaining more than he is entitled to have under the food regulations. Indianapolis.—General order No. 4, | issued from the headquarters of the ! Grand Army of the Republic in this city, states that the national encampment at Portland, Ore., will be held the week of August 18 to 24 this year. A conference between the commander •in chief and other G. A. R. officials and Railway Director General McAdoo resulted in securing a rate of one cent per mile in either direction with assurances of adequate equipment and preference in movement of trains. This rate approximates $45 for round trip from Springfield and Chicago. This is the lowest rate granted for mafly years and assures a large attendance. Lafayette.—The tenth annual egg show at Purdue university was marked by a large attendance from all parts of the state. The entry list Included 300 dozen eggs. R. R. Regan of Indianapolis completed the judging of student and high school classes and awarded the prizes. H. O. Blackwell won sweepstakes and grand sweep- ■ stakes "for the best dozen eggs in the junior class, his eggs scoring 98J4E. P. Lewis won the sweepstakes in i the sophomore class, his eggs scoring 98. The winners In the freshmen sections were E. H. Jones. H. C. Cocanower, C. G. Searel, A. Habegmer, P. R. Gyle and C. K. Y’arling. Indianapolis. — Governor Goodrich sent a vigorous law-and-order letter to all sheriffs and mayors in Indiana, calling attention to the recent lynching of an American citizen, of German blood in Illinois. The communication terms the “tyranny of the mob at home” as being a menace to institutions simiiar to the tyranny abroad. It assures the sheriffs and mayors that the state “stands ready at any moment to co-operate with you to the fullest extent In the prevention of any lawlessness in your coiftmunity.” Indianapolis.—The state-wide meeting of the Knights of Pythias will be held in this city April 26. Members of the order residing hi Marion county will have charge iw the' program. Preparations are being made for thousands of Pythians from every part of the state. .John J. Brown of Vandalia, 111., supreme chmicellor; Charles S. Davis of Denver, Colo., supreme vice chancellor, and the board of controllers, all of whom are supreme lodge members, are expected to attend. Indianapolis.—Every woman in Indiana will be registered according to her willingness and ability to aid the government in the wartime emergency through a state-wide census of women which will be taken during the ten days beginning April 19. Representatives of the woman’s committee of the state council of defense working under instructions from the woman’s section of the council of national defense will conduct the registration. Frankfort. —Fire destroyed the residence building at the county infirmary, a mile northeast of this city. The loss is estimated at $50,000. There were 43 inmates in the building, six of whom were helpless cripples and it was necessary to carry them from the second floor. The majority of the oldest and helpless inmates of the home were brought to Frankfort and placed - in temporary quarters in the county jail. Evansville.—Seventy-five men at Dale, a small town in Spencer county, threatened to do bodily harm to Josepr Goepfrich, a farmer, after he had attacked Donald J. Wallace, a Liberty loan bond salesman, with an ax. Goepfrich was arrested and taken to the state reformatory at Jeffersonville for safe keeping. A mob at Dale drove Goepfrich’s son, nineteen years old, from town, warning him to stay away or to join the army. Evansville.—Otto Messner of the State Normal school at Milwaukee, Wis., told the national music supervisors in convention here that music can reduce insanity, lessen crime and tid health. He urged that homes be socialized with pianos and phonographs and that neighborhood glee clubs and orchestras be organized. Indianapolis.—Belated declarations of candidacy for nominations at the primary election next month, received at the office of secretary of state, have raised a legal question, which has been submitted to Attorney General Stansbury. Some were received by mail. Others were received by telegram. and there is a question as to whether notice of candidacy can be filed, within the requirements of law, by telegram. Lafayette.—Col. Daniel B. Kehler was reappointed commandant of the Indiana State Soldiers* home by the board of trustees. Danville. —County Treasurer Wilson has failed to find a bidder for the sll,500 issue of 4% per cent bonds for the construction of the J. P. Christie road. No blds were filed at the meeting of the county board of commissioners for the construction of four three-mile -oads. Hammond. —An explosion of unexplained origin In the paint-mixing shop at the Standard Steel Car plant here, caused the most disastrous fire in this city in ten years. The passenger car plant, with 15 new cars ready for shipment wa« destroyed, with a loss of 1750.060

| Indianapolis.—ls coal cars are nol j ! promptly returned to the Indiana | fields, the fuel situation in this state I next winter will be worse than it was i last. This is. in substance, what a i i committee of the Indiana Bituminous ! [ Coal Operators’ association told Gov- j ernor Goodrich at a conference in his I ■ office. The governor assured the op- | ! eraters that the state would do what < I it could to improve the coal car sup- ! ply and encourage storage of coal this summer. He told them that E. I i i Lewis, chairman of the public serv- | ice commission, had already taken j steps to present the matter to W. G. I McAdoo, director general of railroads, j The operators told the governor that ! a lack of cars has already reduced the coal output to about 60 per cent of [ capacity. It was brought out that * many open-top cars have gone East j and have not been returned. I Indianapolis.—Every county in In- ■ diana will be assigned a quota in the i coming silo campaign and will be ex- ' pected to fill this quota the coming I season, the same as in a Liberty loan | drive, according to plans of the men i in charge of this project. Letters have ' gone from the office of State Food Director G. I. Christie to every county i in-the state for a meeting of the farmers to select one of their number as a county leader in the silo drive. Maurice Douglas of Flat Rock, a successful farmer, is state leader. To determine the x quotas for the various counties and make plans for an intensive campaign this summer, these county leaders will mee<. Indianapolis April 25. Gov. James P. Goodrich, Director Christie and State Leader Douglas will be on the program. South Bend.—Terrific explosions followed by leaping flames at six of the largest industrial plants in South Bend, threw the city into frenzied excitement for about fifteen minutes. Then extra newspapers, prepared in advance, carried the news that the detonations were mock explosions to impress upon the people what might happen should the Huns invade the country. The demonstration, which had been secretly arranged, was one of the j war chest stunts. Canvass for the $500,000 fund in one day resulted in adding $65,000 to the SIOO,OOO already • ; pledged. Ruth Law, aviatrix, flew over i the city to show how the water works ■ and industrial plants coultbbe bombed. Washington, D. C.—Overcharges for by-products and violation of the regulations which require that a barrel of flour be milled out of not more than 264 pounds of wheat have led to revocation of the license held by the Hays ; Milling company. Worthington, the food administration “announced. After operation has been suspended for 30 days, provided the company has observed all rules and regulations and gives assurance that it will commit no further violations, it will be permitted to apply for another license. It was shown that the Hays company had charged $45 a ton for bran. The agreed maximum price is $36.06. Washington, D. C. —Pensions of $25 have been granted the following Indianians: Katharine D. Young, Greenwood; Mary F. Remmel, Winchester ; Clara K. Powell, Aurora; Frances O’Dell, Waveland; Mary E. Montgomery, Fillhiore; Sarah E. McNabb. DuPont; Asenath J. McMahan, Richmond; Carrie M. Kerr, Bloomington; Margaret M. James, Frankfort; Ann Eliza Haley, New Albany; Eliza- ! beth J. Foster, Oxford; Frances Colter, Rockport; Charity T. Crouso, Valparaiso; Lavina White, Marion. Indianapolis.—Judge Louis B. Ewbank, in circuit court, following a hearing, refused to grant a restraining order or a temporary injunction against local city and county authorities, to prevent them from seizing liquors held by saloonkeepers and wholesale liquor dealers after April 12. The Evansville Brewing association, the J. E. McNamara Distilling company and 112 saloonkeepers had filed three suits, in which they asked for injunctions to preserve their stock of liquors. Petersburg.—lce one-fourth of an inch thick formed here and much of the fruit crop has been damaged. The peach crop practically is a total loss, and the apricot crop is damaged badly. Early potatoes were nipped and early gardening damages. Planting of corn has been stopped. The greatest acreage ever planted has been put In oats. Tomatoes are being hotbedded and watermelon fields are being prepared. Many tractors are being bought to take the place of horse power. Indianapolis. — Universal military training for boys of nineteen to twen-ty-one, which is proposed by a bill ; pending in the congress, was indorsed I by the city school board, which also [ delivered another blow at German j propaganda in deciding to protest to : the state board of education against { the use of the present “Beginners’ i German” as a textbook. Richmond. —Retail coal dealers at ; Richmond appealed to the federal fuel ’ administration for Indiana in an es- ! fort to obtain a special ruling from I the national sued administration at Washington that will permit the city to receive more anthracite coal than Is now possible under the national fuel administration’s regulations. p eru . —The convention of Indiana horseshoers decided on Logansport for next year’s meeting and elected officers as follows: President, Frank Perrey, Fort Wayne; vice presidents, R. W. Merchant of Brookston and Al Drumm of Peru; secretary-treasurer, C. F. Hornbostel of Evansville. Lafayette. —Librarians from a number of Indiana counties met at Purdue university for a war conference. Representatives of the state library board were present. Morning and afternoon sessions were held to discuss various library problems arising from war conditions. Bloomington.—The fifth annual conference on educational measurement will be held here April 19 and 20. under the auspices of the School of Education of Indiana university. Teachers from all parts of the state are expected to attend. Oakland City.—The Royal Coal, Mines, a common law corporation, represented by Vincennes business men, holds options on 15,000 acres of coal lands in this vicinity and is preparing the legal papers for buying the coal at S3O an acre. A location for the new mine has been made two miles west of here on the Southern railway.

WOMEN MUST HELP' Bi™ FUNDS \ i Lovers of Home and Country , Called to the Colors. ALL CAN BUY LIBERTY BONDS j Wive*, Sisters, Mothers, Sweethearts j Never Before Called Upon to Play Such a Vastly Important Part —Lend Your Money. * (By DOROTHY DIX.) j Buy a Liberty bond, ladies. No mat- | ter how many you have bought before, ; stretch a point and buy another. You can’t shoulder a gun aud go off | and fight for your country, as the men ■ are doing. You can’t put on a nurse’s I uniform and go and nurse wounded ; soldiers or drive an ambulance or work : in a munition factory, as many other women are doing, but you can do your i bit by backing up these other men and ; women, who are risking their lives to defend you with your money. Without guns and munitions, with- | out food and clothes, without hospital j supplies, the army in France is just ' so many sheep led to the slaughter; if we let them die for the lack of the l things that money buys, their blood ! I is on our heads, and our crime against them will be blacker than the Boches, because they trusted us. It takes money, money, money and yet more money to carry on war, and this war is to be the war of the long- J [ est pocketbook. It is the last ton of , bombs, the last load of shrapnel, and , the last big gun that will thunder out ! victory. Therefore, if we want to win this war, we must find more money, i and it is particularly up to us women,who can fight with our hands, to fight with our dollars, and pour them I like water at Uncle Sam’s feet. Women’s Greatest Sacrifices. In no'war in all history have women been called upon to play such a tremendous part as jn this war. Never before have women had to give so • many of their husbands and sons and brothers to be cannon fodder. Never have women before gone into the trenches and fought side by side with I men. Nbver have they gone into factories to make munitions of war with their own hands. Never have they j had to take upon their shoulders the I heavy burdens of hard physical labor that men laid down when they went forth to battle. And never before did their country call on women to make I such sacrifices as they are cailed on - to make now. It is because this war touches women more nearly in every -way than any i other war has ever done, because more women’s hearts have been broken by it, more women, impoverished and made homeless, more mothers have seen their babes slain before their eyes, mpre mothers have beheld their young | daughters ravished, that women must I use their utmost effort to put an end • I to war. i Women must see to it that there is j never another war to lay waste to the world and drench it with women’s i tears, and this can only be accomplished by our winning this war. And to do that we must have money. : So, let every woman who has some i loved one at the front buj’ a Liberty bond. Let every woman who has a i hearthstone that she would keep safe I | buy a Liberty bond. Let every worn- j an who has a babe that she loves, or a young daughter whose purity sha would guarci, buy a Liberty bond. Reasons Are Numerous. Let every woman who has a particle ' of sympathy in her soul for the for- ! lorn women and children of Belgium j . and France buy a Liberty bond. Let i every w’oman who believes in justice, and freedom, and right buy a Liberty . bond. Let every woman who hates ; war and craves for peace buy a Liberty bond. The trip that you had planned, the new frock you were going to get, how pitifully small is the sacrifice of these for the sake of those who are sacri- j ficing their lives to protect you and i yours. Buy all the Liberty bonds you can, and then go in debt for some more, so shall you prove yourself a worthy ; daughter of Uncle Sam. j This is a time when money talks j I and tells the kind of a patriot you are. The woman who hasn’t a bunch of ’ Liberty bonds if she’s rich, or who isn’t paying on a Liberty bond if she’s I poor, is a traitor to her country and I i should hang her head in shame every I time she passes a man in khaki or i feels the fold of the red, white, and | blue floating over her unworthy. head. — The Badge of Citizenship. The Liberty Bond button is no longer a mark of liberality or even of patriotism; it is the badge of citizenship. Are you wearing one? War and the Weather. The Almighty makes the weather, • not man, and jf the weather doesn’t suit us, we have to wait. The farmer knows what a day’s rain will do in the way of upsetting plans. One can’t plow in the mud and ft cutting of hay or wheat may be damaged or ruined by one night’s downpour. The war department, too, is up against the weather in France. Three inches rainfall may make the country impassable for half a million men and horses and motortrucks and ruin the chances of victory or bring defeat. Be a Fighter and Buy a Bond. It is time that we all realize the country is at war. The railroads found themselves relieved of the management of their properties overnight. Prices have been set for food and steel and coal. The draft is in full operation. It is no longer a question of patriotism in supporting the government; it is a matter of absolute necessity. If the soldiers refuse to fight, the war is lost. The man who refuses to buy bonds in this great crisis is in a class- with the soldier who refuses tc figlr

WHERE EARMING ; IS PROFITABLE • i The Future of Great Possibilities Some Idea of the great wealth that ; the Western Canada farmer had in j view a few years ago is now being renll ized. The amount received from the I sale of wheat, oats, barley, flax and i rye in 1917 was $270,000,000, while the sales of live stock at Winnipeg alone ’ netted $40,000,000 additional. Os this ■ sum hogs alone gave over eleven mll- : Hon dollars. The increases at Calgary i and Edmonton were over 6*4 million ■ dollars. This money, so easily earned, is be- : ing spent in improvements in farm property, purchasing additional laud, buying tractors, automobiles, and Improving home conditions, providing ! electric light, steam heat, new furni- ! tore, pianos, buying Victory bonds, paying off old debts, etc. Over five hundred tractors were sold ’ tn Southern Alberta in 1917. One Implement agent reports that the increase in his business in 1917, over that of 1916. was equal to the total I business in 1915. It is the same story ! all over the country. And it is not this evidence alone which proves th- 1 advaficement and growth of the three prairie provinces, but the large be ' crease in the number of settlers; tlf ■ improvement In the extent of the cultlvated areas and agricultural produc- ! tion; the increase in value of which \ over 1916 was $77,000,000. This wonderful progress that has ' been made in agriculture In Western Canada is but the beginning which ' marks the future of the greatest agricultural country on the continent, showing, a future of great possibilities. There are millions of acres yet unfilled, and of land as good as any of that which is now giving its owners a return of fromjfwenty to thirty dollars an acre, figure that in many cases represent the cost of the land, with all cultivation costs included. It is true that the cost of production has In- , creased during the past few years, but the price of the product has also inj creased to a figure which leaves a large balance to the credit of the producer. The following table shows how this works out: 191' Price Price FARM NEEDS, in bus. in bus. Machinery— wheat wheat i Self binder ,160 100 Mower 10 38 6H. P. gas engine 250 112 Seed drill 122 60 Cream separator "87 38 Building— Bathroom, sink and septice tank - >‘3oo 127 Pressure tank system... 156 118 Steel shingles, per 100 sq. ft T Lumber, per 1,000 ft. Hemlock 28 17 Pine 47 32 Bricks, pec M ..... 16 8 , Cement, per 350 lbs 2.5 1.2 i Steel fence, 40 rods 15 10 j Paint, per 10 gals 25 19 ; Pianos .....440 215 Clothing and food— Sugar, per cwt 6.2 4.9 Cottonseed, per t0n...... 50 24 Linseed, per ton 50 25 Blue serge suit 31 17 Percentage increases are shown too , in another way, leading to the same ' conclusion, from consultation of the : Department of Labor’s review of prices.' Taking 100 as the index numj ber of normal production in the de- : cade from 1890 to 1900, the increases ■in prices of farm products have t slightly outdistanced the increases tn i his neMs. Pct. pl 3 1916 1917 Inc. Grains and 'fodder.l3B 200 280 103 ; Animals and meats.l76 213 293 66 ! Dairy produce ....145 184 229 58 1 Bldg, materials.... 143 179 229 58 I House fur’sh’gs... .126 163 205 64 i Implements 105 ,139 199 90 —Advertisement. Expert Advice. “My husb.-ynd always makes a fuss when I tell him I need a little money.” “Your system is all wrong. Tell i him you need a lot of money. Then he’ll be glad to compromise on a little.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the ’ original little liver pills put up 40 years ago. They regulate liver and bowels. Ad. When a fool is unable to disprove the assertions of a wise man he can at least call him an idiot. Next thing to having a thing is knowing where to get it. I NERVES GAVE OUT Serious Kidney Trouble Had Made Life Miserable, But Doan’s Removed Ail the Trouble. Hasn’t Suffered Since. “I had such severe pains in my back,” says Mrs. Albert Akroyd, 304 W. Indiana Avenue, Philadel- • phia. Pa., “that they almost doubled me up. Many a day 1 could not do my housework and at every move it seemed as if my back would break in two. My feet and ankles swelled until I had to wear large- « W sized sHppers and k sometimes I couldn’t I. ’***’ r .. stand up. “I had dizzy spells and dreadful • head- \ aches and fiery ’pw' . flashes passed be- Mr». Akroyd fore my eyes. Had a heavy weight been resting on my head, the pain could not have been more distressing. The least noise startled me, I was so nervous. I couldn’t control the kidney secretions and the pain in passage was awful. “It began to look as though my case was beyond the reach of medicine until I used Doan’s Kidney Pills. The»first box benefited me and four boxes cured all the troubles. I have had no further cause for complaint.” Sworn to before me, Thos. H. Walters, Notary Public. Get Doan's at AAy Star*. COe w Boat DOAN FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO. N. Y.