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WHAT IS LAX-FOS UW-fOS IS All IMPROVED CASCARA A Digestive Laxative CATHARTIC AND LIVER TONIC Xax-Fos is not a Secret or Petent Medi cine bat is composed of the following ©Id-fashioned roots and herbs: CASCARA BARK BLUE FLAG ROOT RHUBARB ROOT BLACK ROOT MAY APPLE ROOT SENNA LEAVES AND PEPSIN As Lax-Fos the Cascaka is imp*», tile addition of these digestive ingtcui ■arts making it better than ordinary Cas caka, and thus the combination acts not as a stimulating laxative and cathar* tic but also as a digestive and liver tonic. Syru p laxatives are weak, but Lax-Fos combines strength with palatable, aro matic taste and does not gripe or disturb the stomach. One bottle will prove Uuc-Fos is invaluable for Constipation, Icdigestkra or Torpid Liver. Price 50a The Likeliest One. "Whom shall we send to write up this bear story?" "Why not send a cub report«-?" YESI LIFT A CORN OFF WITHOUT PAIN! Cincinnati man tslla how to dry up a corn or callus so It lifts off with fingers. Too corn-pestered men and women meed soff« no long«. Wear the shoes that nearly killed yon before, says this Cincinnati authority, because a few Aral* c£ freexone applied-directly on a hander, aching corn or callus, stops •araneas at once and soon the corn or hardened callus loosens so It can be •fled off, root and all, without pain. A small bottle of freexone costs very tittle at any drag store, but will posi tively taka off every hard or soft corn m callus. This should be tried, as It la Inexpensive and Is said not to Irri tate the sarronndlng skin. IT your druggist hasn't any free zone M him to get a small bottle for yon bla wholesale drag house.— aÔVc ' Lonesome. don't feel so sorry for the man sued woman who were divorced—they And brought their troubles upon them* ■elves. But onr heart went out to their (kOd—poor, little lonely kiddie I We ■newt to see* him. He looked pathettA to u, and as we hgd feared, he had a prematurely wise expression on his tittle face, says the Cleveland Pltin "Do you get lonesome?" was asked. "Mope," he responded quickly. "The court lets mamma come to sea wm Mondays, and papa comes to see ■m Tuesdays. On Wednesdays, the aaaa that's stuck on mama calls, and om Thursday the woman that papa's •Bing te marry cornea to see me. My .grandparents scrap over me on Frl ■ and Saturdays." He drew a deep then his face brightened, and thank goodness, to myself I" I have my Beat He Could Offer. "Then you think I can't learn "I fear not." , "But, professor, I do so yearn to be malcal." "Take up yodellng la my advice." If Bfa hands you a lemon adjust your saw colored glasses and start to sell lag pink lemonade. To remove Ink from white clothes, ank spot In sour milk, then wash as Steady Those NerVest M it'« caffeine—the drag in coffee — that's causing shaky nerves, the remedy is perfectly plain— Quit coffee, and for a healthful table POSTUM Postum is a delicious cereal drink, pure and noa ui a hm g and absolutely free horn any harmful in> There's a big army of Pfft*"" n acr e who are ed joying better health and comfort since joining the *There'* a Reason" ÏÀCT 5 CALF-FEEDER IS ARTIFICIAL Combination Pacifier and Nurse Bottle Attachment for Milk Palls Is Shown in Drawing. Who has not more than once angrily kicked a calf "in the slats" while try lng to teach it to take Its liquid din ner from a pail instead of from its mother's udder in nature's well ap proved manner? But the new efficiency movement in the business of farming has approved the artificial method of feeding the calves so as to increase the income to be obtained from milking their mothers. Some ingenious son of a farmer seems to have set himself the task of devising some method of mak ing the calf want to drink from the gggàâgâ fi gg New Calf-Feeder. pall rather than simply, and more or less forcibly, making him drink from it. The result of that thinking Is the combination pacifier and nurse bottle attachment for milk palls shown in the accompanying drawing. It consists of a metal float carrying a teatlike at tachment on which may be placed a rubber nipple. This arrangement lets the calf bunt and puck all It wants to, but still forces it to draw Its nourish ment from the pall instead of from the maternal udder. All you have to teach it is to stick its nose downward in stead of upward in order to get hold of ' the sourishing teat.—Farming Busi ness. " " v DAIRY COW AND HER PffODUCT Every Animal In Herd Should Be Tested Annually for Tuberculosis —Use Concrete Floors. It is a good rale to have every cow In a herd tested at least once a year for tuberculosis. To insure steady motion, a separa tor mast be fastened to a solid founda tion. A concrete floor gives this bet ter than anything else. Sometimes lack of exercise causes .barrenness in dairy cattle. It Is never well to allow the dairy cow to take on much fat. Always give her plenty of exercise. The average cow is full milk flow will consume from 30 to 40 pounds of silage to advantage. Add to this some 10 pounds of dry fodder, and the roughage fèed is complete. Only concrete floors should be per mitted In a dairy barn. They cost more, perhaps, originally, bat they are the cheapest In the long ran. For one thing, they make It possible to save some of the liquid manure, a very valuable item.—Clemson College Bul letin. SIZE OF DAIRYMAN'S INCOME Noticeable Increase Where Purebred Bulla Are Maintained—Scrubs Do Not Pay for Keep. Figures recently compiled by the University of Illinois seem to show that there Is a definite relation be tween a good ball and the size of the dairyman's Income. On 124 dairy farms where purebred bulls were kept at the head of the dairy herd, the average farm Income was $ 1,102 after deducting the taxes, interest on investment, etc. On 466 dairy farms where a grade bull stood at the head of the herd the farm income was found to be $734 per year, and on 83 farms where scrub bulls were used the farm income was —$243, or failed by $243 to pay inter est on the investment, to say nothing abont pay for the owner's time. FEEDING COWS WHOLE BEETS 8omewhat Larger Yield of Milk and Milk Fat Obtained Than When They Were Chopped. In a foreign experiment with dairy cows it was found that the feeding of whole beets produced a somewhat larg« yield of milk and milk fat than when chopped beets were fed, this in crease probably being due to more complete mastication and' utilisation. FARMERS' SUCE QUITE THIN Not Much Money Left for Producer After Creamery Man, Railroad and Retailer Get Theira. By the time the cream «y man gets his slice out of the milk profits, the railroad another slice, the commission mao still anoth« and the retail deal er his, the slice that is left for the man who ought to have the biggest slice of All is pretty thin. a A TORPEDO ON ITS FELL JOURNEY mmm Photographed instantaneously from the stern of a vessel when the tor pedo was running on the surface. Usually it runs a few feet below the sur face, and is only visible by a thin trail of white water behind it. Some times in a very choppy sea a torpedo may become visible, but this Is very unusual. PERONNE IS LEFT SMOLDERING RUIN Germans Post Ironically Worded Sign: "Don't Be Cross; Only Wonder." STATUE REPLACED BY DUMMY Beautiful Old Church a Pitiful Mass of Wreckage—Everywhere Is Evi dence of Carefully Planned De ^ , «traction by Germans. ltish Headquarters In France.— (the wrecked front of the Hotel de Je at Peronne the Germans before icunting the city painted a large lish, teads: "Don't be cross; only wonder." The meaning of this bit of parting Irony was only too apparent on all sides. Peronne lies a smoldering rain. The picture is most abject. Some sec tions of the city have been damaged by shell Are, but everywhere else there Is evidence of carefully designed de struction by the garrison before retir ing. Some fine old residences which, be cause of their outlying location, had es caped both shell Are and torch, had been wrecked Inside, top to bottom. Sfany of them apparently had been used for the messes of officers and men. All bear evidence of the part ing orgies. • Furniture, mirrors, crock ery and pictures have been shattered and the mantelpieces smashed. Ia some of them were found pickaxes that had been used as the wrecking tools. The dining salons' mirrors and windows evidently had been smashed with Rhine wine bottles, which were strewn about In scores. The deliberate character of the de struction wrought by the Germans be fore their withdrawal from Peronne is painfully evident in the once beau tiful avenue of trees leading to the railway station. These trees were un touched by shell Are, but each one was hacked in two with axes and the gashes and chips show that the work was done within the last few days. The beautiful gardens of the outlying houses also were wrecked and every fruit tree within several miles of the town was sawed two-thirds of the way through and then broken down. Views Great Scene of Ruin. The correspondent of the Associated Press was among the first visitors to Peronne In the wake of the English troops, who have swept well beyond that place. It was neebssary to pass through half a score of ruined villages, whlcfl only a few days before were within the zone of intense artillery fire, before reaching the banks of the Somme. Crossing the stream on an improvised bridge and trudging through Halle, Peronne was reached ovct a road which had been recon structed within 24 hours over succeed ing rows of German trenches and through recurrent masses of rusted barbed wire, some of these being at least six feet in height and 50 feet In width. There was a ghostly silence in most sections of the city. No sound of war was to he heard, except once when a prying German airplane scudded over in the shelter of the high clouds and antiaircraft guns opened, driving him to quick retreat. British offi cers pointed out building aft« building where apparently the total damage had resulted from Interior explosions. In many cose$ walls, facing away from the "line ci British and French fire, had great squares blown through them, differing strikingly from the round holes, made in other buildings by shells. Gaudily Clad Dummy la Left The beautiful old sixteenth century church of Saint Jean was a pitiful jnass of rains, hut one of its oil point ings still hung on a bit of wall in the transept and was miraculously un touched. The statue of Catherine Devotx, which had adorned the great square, had been taken away by the Germans and a gaudily clad dummy left in its stead. The railway station was wrecked, including the tracks and crossing bridges. The Germans left many relics be hind to show their occupancy of the French military barracks. In some of the rooms Christmas trees gayly decorated with tinsel were still stand ing. In some of the finer residences the libraries had been wrecked and the books torn to pieces and scattered in the streets. The Germans had left several foot bridges across the Somme, which were apparently intact, but, on closer ex amination, showed that false sections had been inserted, which gave way at the first foot pressure. The cor respondent, investigating one of these bridges too closely, had an icy bath in the Somme. On the blank walls of the city there were many printed proclama tions to the soldiers, including the en tire text of some of Chancellor von Bcthmnnn-Hollweg's later speeches in the relchstag. At a chateau just outside Peronne the Germans had killed two magpies and stuck them on the sharp points of the iron posts at eith« side of the entrance. "I suppose that signifies some German curse or sign of bad luck," said a British subaltern ns he went whistling on his way to find, as he said, "where the war had taken Itself off to." BORDER TROOPS FIND SUN INJURES EYES Atlanta, Ga.—Georgia troops r *tomlng from the Mexican bor de» have brought back a very larg% ^percentage of defective eyes. This, the soldiers state, was canted by the fierce glare of the birder sun. Eyes that were peik^ when the soldiers left hom# jj ave j n many j n . stances fal% to a very low rat ing. ENTER PUPILS\fSS THAN 5 Children May Go to l^raska School« If They Pass M^ality Tests. Omaha.—The Binet-SIm^ scientific mentality tests will be usedL ence f ort jj upon all children whose pavots want them to enter school before\ ey h ave reached the age limit of flV years Tests will be given by nervA pec i a j^ ists of the University of NehrfSt a Under this test a child who>\ f our years old, or even younger, biii w j 10 can pass a five-year-old mental ex _ amination, will be admitted to schL s One of the tests consists of havt child put a set of blocks together, another he will be asked to repeat tences until they are so long he ca: not repeat them, such as "I went dow town," "I went down town to buy something," "Yesterday I went down town to buy something and came home." TO BUILD MORE ZEPPELINS Working Force at the Plant in Fried richshafen Is Being Greatly increased. Berne.—The Zeppelin works In Friedrichshafen are increasing their working force again. Advertisements in German papers show that they seek 80 machinists, 20 metrff turners, ten toolmakers, ten tinsmiths and a num ber of other skilled workmen This proves conclusively that the German government has no idea of giving up the construction of Zeppelins, and that the report recently published by French and English papers that the German army administration had def initely decided to discard the giant air ship» was false. »nnnnnns g s o a'o~o~a u b o trer i DOCTOR FOR TREE THAT OWNS ITSELF Athens, Ga.—A specialist has been called-in to treat Athens' famous "tree that owns itself," one of the legal curiosities of the world. Several years ago n pub lic-spirited citizen wanted to do nate the tree to the city, and to prevent any possibility of the tree being destroyed, he made out a deed for the plot sur rounding the tree to the tree it self, built an iron fence around the plot, put up a marble slab, stating that the tree was owned by itself, and had the deed le gally recorded. The old oak has been showing signs of disease. 'JLSJUISJLSL iLCJLflJLg-Q-P-0. Q .ÜÜSL2 CZAR'S RICHES TO FINA NCE TH E WAR Russian People May Seize Enor mous Wealth of Their Former Ruler. RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD Prtvata Fortune of Nicholas Romanoff Eatimated at Not Less Than $2,000, 000,000—Own« 70 Per Cent of Russian Land. New York.—Nicholas II, deposed czar of Russia, is the richest man in the world. His private wealth is not less than $2,000,000,000. In many quarters here it is believed a large part of this will be seized by the Rus sian people to finance the war. Nicholas Romanoff's wealth is large ly invested in foreign bonds and stocks. His American holdings are said to be extensive. It Is understood that he owns $50,000,000 worth of the Penn sylvania railroad's stocks. His name does not appear In the list of that cor poration's stockholders for obvious rea sons. Instead, some nominal owners appear. The deposed czar also owns abont 680,000,000 acres of land In Russia. Most of Russia's mineral resources are his private property. Into the czar's private treasury, aceordlng to the Rus sian law, one-tflird of Russia's gold and sliver output is annually contrib uted. Since the treaty of Portsmouth the Russian empire has occupied 8,647,657 square miles, or one-seventh of the land surface of the globe. It has a population of about 200 , 000 , 000 , or fewer than twenty-five to the square mile. Owns 70 Per Cent of Land. Nominally the autocrat "owns" both land and people, but he and his family out of the Immense total of 948,063,763 acres actually own and receive the rev enue from 680,938,927 acres, abont 70 per cent of the whole land area of Russia—one-tenth that of the world. The balance, or 267,124,836 acres, is distributed as follows, according to the 1910 report of the department of agriculture, the latest: A«es. Nobility ..................181,606,519 Merchants ................ 38,321,303 Peasants.................. 85,141,880 Landed proprietors........ 8,381,839 Other classes............. 5,673,289 Total.................267,124,836 The nobility number abont 1,400,000, the agricultural classes (peasants and landed proprietors), 110,000,000. Thus the tiller of the soil and the taxpayer possess on the average about one-third of an acre ; the Russian nobleman, who does not pay taxes, possesses on an average some 128. Jo pnt the case In another form: From every 384 loaves of bread pro duced by the Russian agriculturist tbe noble land owner alone takes away some 383 loaves for himself, leaving one loaf for the producer, from which the latter has yet to devote a part to satisfy the state or autocratic tax collector. income Is Enormous. Nobody knows exactly the amount of the czar's enormous Income. The expenditure of some of It is traceable to certain public works whose bud gets are matters of public record, and n large part Is known to be absorbed by his family and their dependents, who number about 8 , 000 , and are en tirely apart from the noble clnss, hlch has no Romanoff affiliations, e czar had an annual salary of $ 12 , 000. Besides this enormous rev et^ he derives yet another nnnnal in coSb from his private estates and miny the latter being worked by com mon Vid political convicts. Ac<v ( ]i n g to the Almanach Ha chette Uj e czar enjoys an annual in come ofs42,500,000. or $85 per minute. All thrVis in addition to the Income from the Romanoff property of 680, 938,927 ncrÿi, 32.000,000 acres of which are at preset productive. This yields an annual teenue of $10,000,000. This sum goes for*he support of the grand dakes and dnhesses, who number 46. many of whom Jraw yet other incomes from private sources, or from various posts occupied the army and navy, or In the general administration of the bureaucracy. The Russian auVjcracy has besn. therefore, not only a political form of government, hut .a tréhjpndously pay' lng business for the aiWrnt himself and all his relations, neai an d renwrtR a is U « in not be he a or 70 of is to of Caused This Lady Much Suffer ing Which She Says Cardui Finally Relieved. Chndbonrn, N. C—Mrs. 51. D. Mc Pherson, of R. F. D. No. 1, this place» says: "My first trouble was monthly misery, ever since I was a girl. I had headache, backache, and would stag ger .. . with a queerness In my head. I would faint, and could not stand on my feet. Would suffer so» I would just get down on my knees by a chair at . . . time. We would have the Dr. and take things to relieve me» but without result. "I read of Cardui—took 6 bottles and was cured of this painful trouble. Since that I have taken It a bottle at a time as a tonic and find it all or more than recommended. Have taken« it before child birth which strength ened me, but my suffering before I heard of Cardui, at . . . was equal to . . . pains. T would have to go to bed for 2 or 3 days each month. "I. am strong and well today. I be lieve Cardui saved my life, for It 1» wonderful medicine. "My sister used Cardui. She too knows the great good derived from« It ... I praise it every day." Cardui may be the very medlcin» you have long been needing. Get a> bottle from your druggist today. Composed of purely vegetable In gredients, It cannot harm you, but should surely do for you, what it ^as done for others—help you.—Adv. Filling Up. "What will we put in the magazine this month?" "About forty pages concerning what we had last month." "Yes." "And forty more about what we will' have next month." "And then?" "That ought to be enough for this month." To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System. Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula I» printed oo every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. Th» Quinine drives out malaria, the Iroo. builds op the system. 50 cents. A Slap at Her Complexion. "Is It true that Mrs. Dubwalte and Mrs. Twobble are no longer on speak ing terms?" 'Yes. I fear the breach will never be healed." "What did they fall out abont 7" "They met on the street one day» Mrs. Dubwalte said to Mrs. Twobble t 'My dear, how do I look?' Mrs. Twob ble kissed her effusively and said : 'My dear, you are a work of art !' "—Bir mingham Age-Herald. CHILO'SJONGIIE If cross, feverish, constipated,, give "California Syrup of Figs." A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up witb waste, liver gets sluggish; stomadh sour. Look at the tongue, mother I If coat ed, or your child Is listless, cross, fev erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's aliment, give & teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," then don't worry, because it 1» perfectly harmless, and In a few hour» all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thor ough "inside cleansing" Is ofttimes alt that is necessary. It should be th» first treatment given In any sickness. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which ha» fall directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv. Perfectly Harmonious. "Do their lives blend well?" "Very. She has the gray matter and he has the long green." WOMAN'8 CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If yours Is streaked with ngly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Cre ole" Hair Dressing and change it In. the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. When you discover a man who knows all about everything y OU should lose him quickly In self-defense. T U only one "Bromo QqlSlnl Theîw ({future U on each box. Mo. W UBOVS» With the advent of a correspondence barber school the end must be near. Dr. Peery'e "Dead Shot" l. sente" or "«yrupT" Kit a real niSr. Î , ^* éoee of medicine which pie.Li 1 "' fa *hlone» « Tapewo rm with (Y. 0 ™* H people told only what thev kn there would be leas talking *