INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESl SILHOUETTES OF Temperamental Toilet Table. A very aged Englishman many year® a&o gave this advice to his daughter WESTERN CANADA in a letter as to what a lady's dressing table should contain: h£ €afoinet The best beautifier a young lady can use is good humor. The best renovator The man from Iowa began to talk truth the best rouge is modesty the land before the train was well out of best eyewater is the tears of sympathy the C. N. R. depot in Winnipeg. The the best gargle for the voics talk began in rather wide circles. The is cheerfulness the best wash for rush to the land, the bumper crop, the smoothing wrinkles is contentment system of summer fallowing pursued the best cure for deafness is attention B% ETO^IUQD ©o in the semi-arid districts, were all the best mirror is reflection, and discussed, and then, with a sort of the whitest powder is innocence. apologetic smile, the Iowa man said: (2CLADQD& There is no use going into a political "I'm a bit interested in this country campaign with any reputation, because ZQPY RIGHT /909- BY W..A PATTERSON myself. Some of the men down home you won't have any when you got a few sections up here along this come out. line, and I'm going to have a look at them. Never been up in Canada before"— Constipation causes many serfons diseases it (it is curious how these midwestern Is thorougnly cured, by Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One a laiatwe, three for cathartic. Americans pronounce the A woman who is perfectly stunning name of the Dominion as if it was isn't always stunningly perfect. "Can'dy")—"but if it looks good we FRA/YK //. HJTCftCOCK, will be up to stay next fall." POSTMASTER -GEftERAL "You see, it's like this," said the HE members of President man from Iowa—quite manifestly continuing Taft's cabinet as one of the legal lights of the Unii«»d THROW an argument that had been going have a new room in States. on in his mind for some time. which to meet, and If an account were kept it seems AWAY J'Back in our State land has become it is so located that likely that the visits paid to the dear. Anybody wanting to sell can they have complete White House by George W. Wickersham, get $70 or $80 an acre for it, and privacy not only on the attorney general, would be the every farm that's offered is snapped the days when the found to outnumber those paid by any up. In Saskatchewan we have just as cabinet is in session, but other cabinet official. Mr. Wickersham good land that cost us $11 and $12, so when as department chiefs, is in charge of the prosecution of the that a man can take up five or six law breakers which the government is times as much there as in Iowa on the carrying forward, and the attorney same investment of money. general knows, as the country knows, It's a nuisance "It isn't the money, though, that that the legal opinion of the president Always sifting ashes brings most of us up from Iowa. I'm is worth while. Mr. WickQrsham, not sure that money would be enough. when he was first mentioned for a Poking out clinkers The 'invasion' is a family affair. We Fire gone out have no chance of keeping our sons around us back home. They have Colder than Greenland to leave the farm and go into the big It's simply awful cities of the neighboring States to get When you burn coal work. To keep them on the farm and in touch with us, we come up here You can't help it and make little colonies with the children Be wise and change around us, on homesteads or lift bought land. This makes it easier for P. C. HMOK, SECRETARY OF STATE, the farmers back there in Iowa to get Buy land for the stay-at-homes. The families HAH]NO A DRIVE that come to Canada are kept Milwaukee together and the families that buy GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM. Solvay the farms they leave are kept together, ATTORNEY-GENERAL too. There won't be any slackening of the rush, either, for they still raise big families back in Iowa." ColtG One could almost see the mental process of this typical American farmer in defending a step that meant a new flag, a new allegiance, a new Tha Fuol without a Fault" land, and new associates. To abandon Old Glory of the Declaration of Practically pure carbon Independence for a good thing in Nothing but heat element cheap land would hardly be playing the game, but to go out into Saskatchewan No ashes to sift FRANKLIN n*cV£AGH .SECRETARY to "keep the family together," OF THE TREASURY No clinkers or slate was another and a quite higher by the cabinet position was called motive. Easy to start fire presa of the country "the great unknown." Why seek too closely to analyze the Keeps all night Mr. Wickersham is no reasons for the greatest land trek in longer unknown. His position as Cheaper than hard coal the history of America? It is enough the attorney for the United States to know that the sons of the frontiersmen Better than hard coal in all its civil and criminal proceedings of Iowa, and Kansas, and Minnesota—the Smokeless and sootless keeps him constantly in best blood of the mid-west— the light. are pouring into the Canadian west in Housecleaning made easy CHARLES NAGEL, SECRETARY Of The attorney general looks like an ever-increasing stream, and are COMMERCE AND LABOR Abolish fuel trouble a student. Lawyers say of him that learning that "God Save the King" and he has one of the keenest and most analytical soil he brings his best Be up-to-date "My Country 'Tis of Thee," are sung JAMES WJLSON, minds known to the profession. Mr. Wickersham efforts to bear to cultivate to the same tune.—Toronto (Ontario) SECRETARY or cares very little for the outdoor life and perhaps he a garden. The Globe. AGRICULTURE 2,000 dealers in the is a man who by temperament would not have appealed secretary has read the Slight Misunderstanding. Northwest sell Milwaukee in the least to a president like Theodore story written by Mrs. Mickey's mother visited a young Solvay Coke—all Roosevelt, but the attorney general has diversions Theodore Thomas, the school teacher on the East side the which occupy his leisure hours, and they are diversions, sizes—ask your dealer, they wish to talk with the president widow of the great other day, says the New York Sun. As of which, unquestionably the country and write for interesting without being obliged to wait their orchestra leader, a nearly as she could make out from the will approve. He is interested in the welfare of booklet of coke information turns with senators, representatives and story which told how mother's splutterings the teacher had JACOB fi. 0/CH/Njd/V, SECRETARY at least a dozen charitable organizations and one private citizens of the land, who she made a successful the to been calling Mickey "names that no or WAR of his beliefs is that: "He gives twice who gives under the new arrangement are given garden on the lady would use and no dacint mother quickly." Mr. Wickersham is immensely interested a waiting room of their own. rock-bound hills of the north. Mr. MacVeagh has would stand for." The teacher thought in the welfare of the blind. He is a director of a PSokanefs9 Brown & Go* Mr. Taft's cabinet forms what might be called profited by the reading and while his garden perhaps hard, but could recollect no time when great New York institution which cares for and educates a legal family. Most of the members are lawyers Golhy-Ahbot BMtjm is not equal to that planned and cultivated she had given way to an impulse to children who have lost their sight. of the first rank, and it is an open secret by Mrs. Thomas, it contains many of the flowers Milwaukee*, Mf/s« call Mickey dreadful names. Frank H. Hitchcock, who is Mr. Taft's postmaster that they were selected because of their high of the kind that make pleasant what people are "Sure but you did," insisted the general, is a bachelor, devoted to the outdoor ability. There are no longer books on nature and given to call old fashioned gardens. mother. don't know what you meant "I books on general history subjects in the office library life, a lover of birds and beasts and a student of Mr. Taft consults his treasury chief about economies by it, but scurvy elephant is no nice of the White House. New book shelves nearly every branch of natural history. Not only in government. It was Mr. MacVeagh who name to call a boy. That's what he Is the postmaster general a student of nature, but have been put in and on them are hundreds of was asked as soon as Mr. Taft took office, to provide said you called him, a scurvy elephant." Sol the brownish-red covered volumes which betoken he has done an immense amount of work along scientific ways and means to save money in the different the law bcok. It is said that cabinet meetings lines. departments. The merchant cabinet member "Scurvy elephant No," said the lfei these days take on the semblance of a consultation Three years ago last summer the writer of this had the advantage of a long business training, teacher, in a relieved voice didn't "I of lawyers. As an example of this it article went to Oyster Bay, the home of President call Mike a scurvy elephant. called and It did not take him long to discover that It I may be said that one day the president in talking Roosevelt. Mr. Hitchcock was there also, and sev was possible to save many thousands of dollars him a disturbing element, and reiter­ I to some newspaper correspondents said that no eral hours were spent in his company in the ate my statement." by putting business methods in effect in the different matter what subject was broached in the cabinet grounds outlying the former president's home Mickey's mother went home partially bureaus of government. It was found for room at that time the thoughts of everyone went There is a deep wood just beyond the Roosevelt instance, that a good many bureaus of the departments satisfied, but not quite sure that the from the suggested subject to the matter of the lawn and garden, and from the wood on that sum were in the habit of purchasing their supplies teacher hadn't been calling her names, strengthening of the anti-trust laws. of mer day there came constantly, songs birds, too. independently. The result of this was that What the president said at that time is practically many different species singing one after the other. some of them were paying much more money Make the Liver true of most of the present sessions of Where Is Bessie Hartman? for some articles than was being paid by others. Many of the notes that were heard were those the cabinet, for it is known that while Mr. Taft Rosanna and Bessie Hartman lived of different members of the little warbler family Reform in purchase methods has come and it Do its Duty is anxious to carry out the Roosevelt policies, he with their mother at Chapman, Nebr., birds whose notes are so similar that it is impossible has come also in many other lines, the net result wants to buttress them with the law so that no in 1901, the year that their father was for any except the most sensitive ear to differentiate being that Uncle Sam's pocketbook is being constitutional flaws can be found in them by killed by a falling tree at Anada, Mo. between them. Mr. Hitchcock identified one saved a good many thousands of dollars yearly. Nine times in ten when the liver right the means of which after the best intentions on the bird after another simply by hearing its song. Once Their mother, an invalid, being unable stomach and bowels are light. Jacob M. Dickinson, the secretary of war in Mr. a part of the legislators, the guilty might find on a time the postmaster general classified 10,000 to care for them, the girls were sent CARTER'S LITTLE Taft's cabinet, is a southern man and a Democrat. means of escape. birds for a museum of natural history with which LIVER PILLS to Omaha to school, being housed and It may seem a little curious at first thought, It he was connected. One of the ties between the must not be supposed for an instant that because mothered by a Mrs. Smith. gently but firmly com' but it is a fact that the army officers in the main, CARTERS present postmaster general and former President most of Mr. Taft's cabinet members are pel a lazy liver to Finally, in 1903, Bessie, the younger are glad that a southerner is the chief of the war Roosevelt was their common love of nature. do its duty. lawyers, they have no avocations in life to turn of the two, was taken in charge by the department. Despite the attitude of some Democratic ITTLE Cures Con' them aside frequently from their vocations. Take Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Ballinger Nebraska Children's Home society, southern members of congress on army •tipation, the ranking member of the cabinet for instance, has few diversions except that of golf. Mr. Ballinger who refused to tell her married sister, questions generally, the southerners feel kindly Indigea PILLS is Philander Chase Knox. The secretary of state toward the officers and men of the service. There was born in Iowa 50 years ago, and nearly all Rosanna, where she is. Bessie became tion, is a devotee of the outdoor life, and no less active his life has been spent in some part of the west. Is something in the military life that appeals fo Sick of age last February. If she in open air pursuits than was President Headache, and Distress after Eating. them, and while the official southern Democrats will send her address to P. O. Box When James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, it Roosevelt, though is true that Mr. Knox does Dose. generally are outspoken against what they call Small Pill. Small Small Price 898, Omaha, Nebr., 4t will be forwarded was asked once what his diversion was he answered, not care for the pursuit of game nor for the study GENUINE the danger of a great standing army, the military must bear signature: to her sister Rosanna, who "farming." This idea of diversion is one of natural history. establishment as it is has their sympathy always, is now Mrs. Geo. Duerr. that Is held largely by men who combine the love The secretary of state, when he is not discussing and their support frequently. of nature with agricultural instinct. Very Funny. matters with the president, or is not engaged The secretary of war comes from that section One of Mr. Wilson's diversions is story telling. Borroughs—Mr. Merchant's out, you in straightening out international tangles, is either of the country where everybody loves horses, and They say in Washington that if his homely sayings say? Why, he had an appointment playing golf or- driving a pair of fast, spirited he is no exception to the rule. He is a golf player could be gathered and put into a book, the reader BRONCHIAL TROCHES with me here. That's very funny. horses. There are few more ardent lovers of "the also, and this fact perhaps makes him appeal would get a fund of humor and wisdom combined. New Office Boy—Yes, sir I guess Save the voice in all kinds of weather. Singers and noble horse" than Secretary Knox. He rides occasionally to Mr. Taft's sympathies just as much as does the When Charles Nagel, Mr. Taft's secretary of he thought it was, too. Any ways he public speakers find them invaluable fot clearing the and he is not averse to taking a fivebar fact that the secretary is a great lawyer. Secretary J'oice. There is nothing so effective for Sore Throat, was laughin' when he went out.— commerce and labor, is not engaged in the work of red gate if his mount is a jumper, and if the Hoarseness and Coughs. Fifty years' reputation. Dickinson is not serving in Washington in Catholic Standard and Times. his department he is thinking over matters of education Price. 25 cents. 50 cents and $1.00 per boz. gate happens in his way. The secretary's chief an official capacity for the first time. Years ago Samples mailed on request. and art. Mr. Nagel is to some extent a devotee JOHN 1. BROWN & SON. Boston. Mass. delight is driving. On his Pennsylvania farm he was the assistant attorney general during the This Will Interest Mothers. of the outdoor life, but he is prone to giving near Valley Forge, the scene of the awful winter Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, last 24 months of the Cleveland administration, much of his time to the study of matters pertaining (f cure Feverisliness, Headache, Bad Stomach, which was passed by the continental army under and he was counsel for the government afterward to the schools. Teething Disorders, Regulate the Bowels and Children Like 1 George Washington, Mr. Knox has many horses Destroy Worms. They break up colds in 24 in the matter of the settlement of the Alaskan Taking Mr. Taft's cabinet all in all it Is just about hours. Pleasant to take, and harmless as milk. of approved pedigree, and many dairy animals boundary dispute. They never fail. At all Druggists, 25c. Sample as human a body of men as can be gathered together. also of noted forbears. mailed FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted. the When the president has a particularly knotty There Is an impression prevalent that members Le Roy, N. Y. f, Franklin MacVeagh, the secretary' of the treasury, problem in legislation on hand and needs to study of this Washington official family are rather In Mr. who is the second ranking officer Doubtless. it from a legal standpoint, he goes over it himself of what Walter Scott calls, "the-dry-as-dust" material, Taft's cabinet, is a merchant, although in early The Homebody—What's the industry as first, just a Judge on the bench does with submitted but there has been a misunderstanding apparently not given days he studied law. Mr. MacVeagh Is CURE in New York, near as ye could evidence, forms his own opinion, and then concerning the nature of these advisers of the as is particularly to the strenuous life it viewed jedge, Agner? calls In the "supreme court" of his cabinet which president. They know their law and they know He a a generally. is much of walker and has The Traveled Man—Steppin' lively, TO tin mmt rn Is composed of the great lawyers, Knox, Dickinson, their agriculture and their finance, but while they a love of nature which leads him afield on many I reckon.—Puck. Wickersham, Nagel and Ballinger. It Is possible know to how to study they also know how play, but but games, and the secretary It is so pleasant to take—stops the ramble, for for shooting, Mr. that Taft depends just as much upon not xne of them knows how one whit better to play a Those who claim that woman cares little. cough so quickly. Absolutely safe legal opinion of of war as he the his secretary than their chief, who is as jolJ/ does about in isn't so apt to indulge crooked Up near Dublin, New. Hampshire, the treasury too and contains no opiates. does upon that of his attorney general. At any man personally as United States has y«i pra th» saw work as a man evidently never has a country home and there on the rocky "felef AH 28 cent*. Dnngiili, rate the war secretary is accounted Mr. duced. by Taft a try to drive a nail. woman