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i*fc* V pf * < > .I^W **V *-.< extensive •; experience / inSf IrrUAGon/ £f scheme, inasmii^^^e^Tojug; ^ 4 ® yWqrk In , has for years-been^cwj| /Turks refuse to admit-anY ..settlers ,',T|---- •*rv Jing^ the attention of .the ■ worM^^t^B ;Who will not become Turkish subjects., k o r “ Irrigation possibilities of i^efdelis,|og .Otherwise the surplus peoples .of In- the and the. T ig r i^ ^ T l^ ^ . jdia and , already, trained to work 4 b$mk good reason why the^atf&entj .on irrigated land, would' quickly, find FARM AND „ M ? /.»- s-^ ^s> .productiveness of this dtstrlct/should Prriud^ce.-.lsta'mard^thlngltonovarcomew ;thetr way here. It Is1 not at aR un/ but? where ■ health. then-.bo- comes- your .menace.*atuLysuvousht :;to ever it was. The only reason^pit&l*; have had a chastening that will re­ lay It aside. T h is Is /sold ‘ In -the.-'inter­ ancient productiveness—which^waa^flO' move this difficulty. In any case there est .of people , suffering’; from'' 'chronio 1 “ ’‘"f.”*'?•> great that • Herodotus waa afrald|to are the industrious K u rd s':‘of .the V constipation,;and I t .lBj{worthy o£ their' Towered?: Babel Is Again’ In .Use— describe it In full lest his vera<^F/jh0' mountains who would flock - down In attention,. ' ••-- v; - / V ' -"'/, In the opinion .of .legions o f reliable ’s y Reclamation—Sir questioned—wan the system of; canals numbers, while Hie Moslem’ Persians .*& American people the most . stubborn William Willeock’s'-/Great Project maintained by the peoples o f’ oldijiCv. have no scruples against exchanging CHAFF HIVES FOR WINTERING constipation imaginable , c a n , be' cured by a brief usp of Dr. 'Caldwell’s Syru; Now in Course of- Realization. It is to be remembered that^the their present sovereign for the caliph Pepsin. You .may* not' have, heard' of is dense' populations which filled jthiB of all the faithful. Then there is the No Better Place for Caring for the before'; but do-'notr douot Its merits on Bees Than Out of Doors Dur­ that account, or because It1 has -not been By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. delta In a former time were notjeav- not unreasonable proBpect that the blatantly advertised. It has sold very ages or barbarians; they represented roving Bedouin will settle down to ag­ ing Severe Cold Weather. /> successfully on word .of mouth recom­ mendation. Parents' are -giving -It to Babylon.— Possibly the greatest alike the beginnings and the high- riculture, when conditions become their children today who ;were given It present project of civilization, and water mark of ancient civilization. more stable In the land. I know of no better method of win­ by; their parents, and It has been truth­ certainly ' the most romantic, the <■ •. , fully said that more- druggists use It Greece and Rome were the heirs of Is This Germany’s Chance? tering bees than to winter them out personally in their families ' than any reclamation - of Mesopotamia, is this Eastern culture. Here It was At present the delta Is a land of of doors providing you have the right other laxative. ' now in course of actual realization. that many of the fundamental inven­ kind of hive, and pack them prop­ *- Letters recently received from Mr. lawlessness. Some of the tribes along E. M. Connelly, Genoa Jet, Wls., During the time of my sojourn in tions of civilization had’ their origin- the lower reaches of the tw o rivers erly and In season, says a writer iff and Mrs. E. Bolch, Hatfield, Wls., Mesopotamia the papers providing for the Orange Judd and Farmer. I have are but a. few of thousands show­ It was here that wheat and barley; are little better than sheer savages. ing the. esteem In which Dr. Cald­ the construction - o f these vast irri­ were first domesticated. Some of the Everybody carries a gun or a stout well’s Syrup' Pepsin Is held. It Is mild, gation wot ks were signed by the Turk­ sciences took their rise in this., part cudgel, with a ball of pitch on the gentle, non-griping—not violent like salts or cathartics. It cures gradually ish government and Sir John Jackson, of the world. A code of laws as old, end. The lack of safety for the farm­ and pleasantly’-so that In time naturo the distinguished British engineer, to or older, than the Mosaic, is now er is one reason forythe abandonment again does its own work without out­ side aid. Constipated people owe it to trhom the carrying on to completion of known to have prevailed in this Baby­ of the old irrigation works. The new themselves to use this grand bowel the imperial project of Sir William specific. lonian civilization. government, however, haB vigorously Willcocks has been entrusted. Sir Anyone wishing to make a trial of this For the present It Is enough to re­ undertaken the disarmament of the The Hive Bottom. remedy before buying it in the regular Tobn has left one of his consulting en­ call that a oomplete and wonderful people and the establishment of law way of a druggist at fifty cents or ona gineers In charge at Bagdad, and the system of canals covered all the.lapd and order. If It succeeds in this a five different styles of chaff or double- i W h e n \ dollar a large bottle (family size) «»n jther men of his staff are either al­ known as lower Mesopotamia. Noth­ greater obstacle to the prosperity of walled hives, the result of several have a sample bottle sent to the horns * B u y i n g • free of charge by simply addressing Dr. ready here or on the way. The mag- ing like it is known in modern times; Mesopotamia than any that confronts years' experimenting, and the hive il­ lificent conception of Sir William lustrated here is the one I like best W . B. OdldWell, 201 Washington S t, engineers have freely conceded high the engineers will have been over­ ! B a k i n g i Vontlcello, 111. Your name and address tVlllcocks, to give back to civilization praise to this achievement. Not until come. of any, as it not only winters well, on afpostal card will do. he fertile land between the Tigris Sir William Willcocks took up the Some persons there are who say but it admits of all kinds of manipu­ ;l Powder * tnd the Euphrates, which was the • » In Strange .Company. subject, from high humanitarian mo­ that Germany should be permitted to lation and tying up, as well as single- The Visitor—And what is that gray Dirthplace of history, and the home tives, was the re-establishment of the fulfill her ambitions in this region. walled hives. -g For this is g stone structure over there? )f teeming millions of people. Is no Babylonian canals ever seriously con­ Everybody knows that/a primary, con­ These hives are made as follows: g the baking g The Courier—Zat ees ze armory for onger a dream. sidered. His preliminary observations sideration in the building of the Bag­ Bottom board at least four Inches g powder that g to soldiers. So dramatic an event as the rehab­ led him to broach the question, and dad railway is to give Germany ac­ larger each way than the hive design­ m “makes the g The Visitor — Ah, yes. And that ilitation of this once-fertile land, now five years ago he undertook, on be­ cess to the wheat and cotton fields of ed to be packed in it. It would be g baking better.” g aecome a desert, is found to he full of half of the Turkish government, whose Mesopotamia. Here lies the potential Jong, low building that looks like a better six or even eight inches if you ■ It leavens the food g train shed— what is that? itartllng aspects. Not the least of interest he had enlisted, the actual granary which Germany so much can stand the extra lifting on tbe evenly throughout; « The’Courier—Zat ees ze arsenal. ihese I discovered when I came to mapping out and beginning of a canal needs. Here, too, may be grown the covers, which must be larger In pro­ puffs it op to airy • The Visitor—I see. And what is the Babylon and saw that what the arch­ system. This he has done for a nom­ cotton for which her spindles are portion makes it g big factory with the immense smoke- aeologists are' agreed upon as the re­ inal salary, which has straightway hungry. In all her projects looking Nail the four sides to lap over the lyappetiz- g ptack? mains o f the Tower of Babel Is now gone back into the project In some toward the Persian gulf she has been bottom, coming down flush with tbe fogSnd wholesome.. ^ The Courier—Zat ees ze gr-a-reat practically a hole in the ground; and cases the lines of the old canals, hindered by Great Britain and RuBBia. under side and thus keeping any wa­ Remember, Calumet a Aron works where is made ze big gun when I went out to the Hlndia Bar­ which to this day are the outstanding Now a school of British statesmen,' ter from soaking in onto the bottom. is moAocote in price * an’ ze shot an’ ze shell. rage, where the Willcocks engineers Make them high enough so that when —highest in quality. P The Visitor—And that peculiar look­ are at work, I saw the bricks from tbe *>■%'/ r V ' " your lnBide hive is placed therein, the Ask year grocer (or ® ing structure aoross the river—the V j A S V > ToWer of Babel being ground Up Into * - ' . W *X< ' / , is > 'v V ;, outside rim will be three or four Calumet. Don't take g one with the rounded roof? powder to make cement for the foun­ a substitute. g The Courier—Zat ees ze powder inches above the inside hive. dations of the new barrage. There Is Cover should be six inches deep at 1 magazine. a measure of fitness In this ancient The ViBitor—And what is this mag­ outside and deep enough in center • tower of deliverance being used to to make slant enough to shed water. nificent marble structure with its won­ help save the land from its thirsty derful dome and countless columns? O do of tbe secrets of successful out­ aridity. Lest anybody accuse Sir Wll- The Courier—Oh, zat ees only ze door wintering is an abundance of llanupf being an Iconoclast, it may be palace of peace!— Cleveland Plain packing. Make cover just large said that the bricks were taken from Dealer. enough to telescope over top of out­ their original site 30 years ago by the / ' - ‘w , - . side rim, which should have pieces Turkish government, which tried to ' ^ -x v,,; ;.i A Hunting Story. nailed on one inch below top to build build a that would send the wa­ y / > £r An old backwoodsman that Abra­ it up. ters of the Euphrates once more past ham Lincoln often told of had very If you tier up much In the sum­ Babylon, or, what meant more to it, heavy, over-hanging eyebrows, and mer, don’t hinge cover, but leave It wore big spectacles with brass rims. past the modem town of Hillah. / > One day he came rushing into his Making the Garden of Eden Bloom. Cabin and seizing his rlfie, aimed It Sir William Willcocks, like all arch- carefully through a crack of the door aelogists and students of tbe Bible, at a great oak tree that stood near, locates the Garden of Eden In the and fired. TIgris-Euphrates delta. Sir William “What Is it?” whispered his wife. fixes the site at a point west of Hit, “A wildcat, Salry,” he said, ex­ the famous springs from which both citedly, “ an' I missed him !” antiquity and modern times secured He hastily loaded and fired again, //H vast supplies of bitumen. These smok­ 8+ and then again. ing and forbidding regions are said by “Now, bold on, Joshua,’ said his some to have given the ancients their good wife. “Let me look at you. figure of the angels with the flaming Why, laws-a-dalsy, It’s nothin’ but a swords at the gatea of the garden. BAKING POW0^ little bug on one o’ your eyebrows!”-— No doubt is entertained by the arch­ Housekeeper. aeologists that it was in this region that civilization had its birth. Here Outside Packing Case. Wine Drinking. were the great empires of antiquity. France alone pays taxes In a good From beneath the drifted dust and so you can remove It and put on ex­ year on more than a thousand mil- JUST MAKING OUT A CASE silting mud of Mesopotamia the schol­ tra rims to raise or tier up to any - lions of gallons of wine— and there ars with spades are digging up the desired hlght Cover tbe bottom with Uncle Jeth Had Deep Reason for Oc­ are six bottles to a gallon—while Al­ wonderful stories of Babylon, Niffur, X- «y\\- \»V s’* o'x f-. ^ A v \ , / • '“< * tar paper, which will retain heat and cupation That Was Seemingly geria, planted with vines in the days Tello, Ntnevah and Asshur, while also keep out ants. Unprofitable. of the phylloxera, supples no less other “ tells,” or mouhds, such as mark than two hundred millions. A ton­ Make an inside bottom to fit the the site of Ur of the Chaldees, the city inside hive, and long enough to pro­ Jehu Collier, the secretary of New neau of 200 gallons Is a pretty large of Abraham's ancestors, await the vessel; a thousand such would fill a ject through the entrance in outside York’s hoard of moving picture cen­ coming of archaeological expeditions. good-sized ship; and we have a mul­ rim and leave an alighting boat'd two sors, said the other day: tiply that by a thousand before wo The Garden Made a Desert. or three inches wide across the front. “It’s no good getting up objeo- reach the production of this one A s every traveler In this part of the Make a bridge the width of your tlonaMe picture plays. We never French colony— one-fifth of all the world has remarked, the Moslem is Mode of Carrying Baggage. packing space to put over the pas­ pass them. In fact, we turn them wine consumed In France. not a builder, but a waster. The sage to outside entrance; and keep dowx so invariably that It seems to statement is commonly made concern­ feature of Mesopotamian Bcenery, are among whom Sir William Willcocks out chaff, etc. me the composers of such plays ard axJamted by a spirit of perversity. In High Life. ing; the Arab, but it is equally true followed. In others, newer methods, may be counted, have arisen to ask “So the Fllptons have separated?" of “the Turk. It seems as if the fa­ made possible by modern engineering for Germany the outlet that she so T%ey remind me of old Uncle Jethro Gathering Fuel. Husk. “Yes.” talism and'physical excesses of Mo­ skill, are employed. sorely needs. A t present she is hot- tied up. It is this very repression, If one can possibly get the time het "Uncle Jethro sat fishing on the “Do you know any of the particu­ hammedanism cut the nerve of initia­ A Livelihood for New Millions. will do well to pick up a lot of fuel hank of a tiny rivulet when a stran­ lars ?■” tive and endeavor. Certainly the fol­ The Willcocks operations, which the argue the men of this new school, in the wood lot that cannot be had, ger stopped beside him and said: “She keeps the poodle.” lowers of the Prophet found this re­ engineering firm of Sir John Jackson which makes Germany a menace to the peace of Europe and the world. after snowfall. It pays to gather up "Is It possible that there are any gion a garden; but they have made it take over at the first of April, provide this wood in more ways than one. A DRAIN WORKER. Give her a legtimate outlet for her fish In such a small stream as that?’ a desert. I have traveled over a con­ for two great works to be completed It saves the wood, makes the forest Must Have the Kind of Food That energies, and Bhe will cease to keep " ‘No, there ain’t none,’ Uncle Jeth siderable part of Mesopotamia, by in less than three years. One of these look more tidy and pleasing to the grunted. Nourishes Brain. kelek, horse,. wagon, donkey, small is the Hlndia Barrage, which will the statesmen of other nations awake at night Let her take on Mesopo­ owner’s eye. " ‘But you’re flBhlng!’ boat’and afoot. Everywhere the same cause once more to flow “ the rivers of “ ‘Yep,’ said Uncle Jeth. ”1 am a literary man whose nervous story is repeated. It is all poverty, Babylon,” now practically dry, and tamia, or a large part of It, and she energy is a great part of my stock in will have troubles enough right at Blanching Celery. ‘"W hat, then, is your object?’ ruin and desolation. The Arabs live the Habbania Escape, further up the “ ‘My object,’ said Uncle Jeth, 'is to trade', and ordinarily I have little pa­ hand, as well as a field for the la­ In order to have white stalks of cel­ in the same black tents that Solomon Euphrates, at Ramadl. When these show my wife I ain’t got no time to tience with breakfast foods and the bors of her surplus population. It ery, It is well to blanch it by banking sang about, or elsp in miserable mud have been completed, with their In­ sift the ashes.’ " extravagant claims made of them. But hovels. They have none of the con­ cidental canals (and the Hlndia Bar­ woiild be inconsonance with the Ideals with earth or placing ooards about It, I cannot withhold my acknowledg­ of th© twentieth century, and In par­ leaving just a few inches of tbe stalk veniences of civilization. Life is a rage may he ready In a year and a UNDEFEATED CHAMPION OF THE ment of the debt that I owe to Grate- hand-to-mouth existence. The appli­ half), three million acres of land that ticular with those of Sir William W ill­ above ground. This is done gradually NORTHWEST. Nuts food. ances of agriculture are primitive be­ is at present arid, will he available for cocks, If the great dream, and equally In warm weather; the hoards are more ‘1 discovered long ago that the very yond belief—a small triangular cultivation. The only real obstacle great achievements of this Briton, satisfactory, as the celery does not bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not aided by others of King George’B sub­ decay aB readily under them. T. A. Ireland, Rifle Shot of Colfax, shovel, a little hoe about the Bize and feared by those engaged in the work Wash., Tells a Story. ’calculated to give one a clear head, shape of an adze, and a sharpened is the lack of stablemindedness of tne jects, should he instrumental In de­ the power of sustained, accurate think­ livering his country from the peril of Mr. Ireland is the holder of four stick for a plow. • Turkish government, and its depleted Pasturing Winter Wheat ing. I always felt heavy and sluggish German militarism, while at the same world records and has yet to lose his Only a small strip of territory, lying treasury. This latter point is covered, Wheat which was planted early and In mind as well 'as. body-after eating time doing an incalculable service to first match—says he: "Kidney trou­ along the rivers, or the few subsidiary it Is understood in these parts, by the- is now up and making a good growth the ordinary meal, whichdiverted the humanity. ble so affected my vision as to inter­ canals that remain, is cultivated. Wa­ terms of the contract with Sir John may be pastured when the ground la blood from the brain to the digestive fere with my shoot-' Jackson, who practically finances the Back to the Garden of Eden. dry or frozen, without materially af­ apparatus. N ter is raised .by the “cherit,” a leather ing I became so undertaking, recouping himself from The Immediate results of. the new fecting next season’s crop yield. Keep “I tried foods easy of digestion, hut bucket let down to the stream, and nervous I could hard­ the Income off the new lands, receiv­ irrigation are fairly staggering. The the stock off when the ground is found them usually, deficient in nutri­ hauled up by oxen, donkeys, camels ly hold a gun.’ There ing what is equivalent to seven per land which within three years will be muddy. ment. I experimented with many break­ or cows. The process is cumbersome, was severe pain' in cent on the Investment. calling for settlers will, according to fast foods and' they, too, proved - un­ expenslye and inadequate. In a few my back and head satisfactory, till I reached Grape-Nuts. places oil engines and pumps made In At present the area affected by the Sir William, be capable at once of Telephone Wire. and my kidneys were producing a million tons of whe'at and And ,then the problem was solved, y Britain and America, have displaced Irrigation project contains about a The telephone wire Is one of the terribly disordered. , “ Grape^Nuts agreed' with me per­ the cumbersome cherit, and it seems million and a half of population. These two million hundredweight of cotton, strongest ties that binds people to the Doan's Kidney Pills fectly from the'beginning, satisfying inevitable that they - should become are mostly poor Arabs, vfho subsist not to mention rice, dates, beans, bar­ farm. It is the nene which keeps cured me after I had my hunger and supplying the nutri­ genera! in the new day that is dawn­ on a pittance, so .that thousands of ley, oats, melons, etc. Sir William has farm folk In touch with their friends doctored and taken ment that so many'-other prepared' ing for Mesopotamia. them are glad to get work on the new figured out an entire scheme- for the and neighbors and in touch with the nearly every remedy foods lack. /” ; ' Back of -these cultivated areas lies canals and. barrages at 12 cents a day. most profitable order of crops. This outside world. imaginable without “I had not been using'it-Very long the. Mesopotamia desert. I have The women and children make even scheme is at the present moment relief. I will give traversed sections of it where not a less than this, while some! o f the fore­ visualized in mountains of new-piled further details of my before I found - that I was turning out A Goal for the Farmer. plant bigger than the camel thorn men and picked workmen receive as earth, great canals, .throbbing engines, case to anyone en­ an-’unusual quantity and quality of Every farmer should work out and much as 25 cents a day. All, however, growling stone-crushers, thumping pile- closing; stamp.” work. Continued use has demonstrat­ could he. seen. It looks quite as deso­ adopt a permanent system of agricul­ drivers (which use Lackawanna piles), "When Your Back Is Lame, Remem-.. ed to my entire satisfaction that late as ;the sandy Arabian desert -to are learning, to a degree, the habits of ture under which he can increase and and.‘regiments of slow and singing bertheName— DOAN’S.” 50c, all stores. (Grape-Nuts food contains‘the elements, jthe .west of the Euphrates. Y et It is steady industry which will stand them maintain the fertility of his land, en­ &rab’laborers. Here are in prospect Foster-Mllbum Co., Buffalo, N. Y. - 'needed*by the;brain "and hervous^sys-,. CTery ^foot, good., gray earth,/friable in stsad when they come to take up joy a good living, rise in social value, tern..of the!:hid;.w orking' pubUq/wirt-: :'and:productIyeVneeding' only water to the land* that is being; redeemed by .the£fr'elghts of the new Bagdad rail- a ir - * and wield a good Influence in his way.;:/; Apicultural. .terV’l, Name'giveh by'PostumCo./Batr’ enrich’ the their present; labors. 'Sir/William Wfil- community. < * matkets ’of \ civilization ‘ and - to, deliver c'ocks,: is; authority for/ the statement ' ^(Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Mother— Yes, Johnny, the queen bee h . OC-CrM^Mi^i:!-?-^ A, r ’ Tiiere'Bi a^reason,” and it is ex- the’ present- population from dire 'poy- that there/Bhould* he1 At livelihood foi” Is bosB. -,. ' - • • ' ------; ------Dressing for Corn. Johnny — How/about tbe preside!*-; plalned'4n,