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NTFR-VATTO\TAL FAT I.*? PRKS^ THEY ARE ONE AND A HALF. When millions of people use for years a medicine it proves its merit. People who know CASCARETS* value buy over million boxes a? a ey f.A.wpiGHT month. It's the biggest seller because it the best bowel and liver, is vA medicine ever made. No matter' what you're using, CASCARETS just try once—you'll See. sir URING the first week In February, 1919, the Cuban National Horticultural CASCARETS 10c. a box for a week's society, an organization the membership treatment, aU drug-gists. Biggest seller !B A the world, Million boxes month. of which is almost exclusively American and Canadian, held its fourth annual meeting in Havana. In Send postal for connection, a horticultural show was Free Package open among the exhibits were citrus of Paxtine. fruits from every section of the Better and more economical island. The fruits were large, juicy, tban liquid antiseptics clean, thin-skinned, heavy, beautifully Benham—The paper says that in ALL TOILET USES. FOR colored and delicious in flavor. Florida Norway married people can travel for had sent across grape fruit and a fare and a half. oranges from famous orchards of the Mrs. Benham—Married people aren't peninsular state, to facilitate invidious comparison, one, even in Norway, are they? and the comparison, when made, showed that TOILET ANTISEPTIC Cuba can produce citrus fruit of first-class quality, SCRATCHED SO SHE COULD and, moreover, that she is doing so. Give* one a sweet breath clean, white* NOT SLEEP Citrus-fruit culture is the principal interest germ-free teeth—antiseptically clean of American and Canadian settlers throughout mouth and throat—purifies the breath Cuba. Cubans and Spaniards are growers of no write to tell you how thankful after smoking—dispels all disagreeable "I I citrus fruits save pineapples—the grape fruit and am for the wonderful Cuticura Remedies. perspiration and body odors—much appreciated A by dainty women. quick orange groves belong to the English-speaking My little niece had eczema for remedy for sore eyes and catarrh. colonists. Orange and grape fruit culture is the five years and when her mother died ""7 W business which has been boomed mercilessly by A little Paxtine powder 11 took car© of the child. It was all of solved in a glass hot wstci land companies advertising largely and sometimes over her face and body, also on her makes a delightful antiseptic solution, unscrupulously all through the United head. She scratched so that she could dUfANMnL J-' possessing extraordinary States and in Canada during the past ten years. no.t sleep nights. I used Cuticura cleansing, germicidal and healing Their customers, arriving in Cuba, have insisted Soap to wash her with and then applied power, and absolutely harmless. upon growing nothing but grape fruit and oranges, Cuticura Ointment. I did not a Sample. Try 50c. matL even in regions where other crops would use quite half the Cuticura Soap and large box at druggists or by assuredly have proven more immediately profitable Ointment, together with Cuticura Resolvent, THE PAXTON TOILET CO., BOSTON, MA SC. if not the better investment in the long run. when you could see a changa For instance, there are Americans and Canadians and they cured her nicely. Now sho growing citrus Your Here 1 an exceptional opportunity for you is eleven years old and has never been to earn a liberal weekly income. Furtiiojw fruits in the heart of Salary more, you can establish a permantiifc, bothered with eczema since. My profitable business, or a well-piivinj Vuelta Abajo and in friends think it is just great the way HlEiapaKlaa#! "side-line"' by working on our'spowUCalHESIotirU cialplan. Our work isslmpleuiid a in a the baby was cured by Cuticura. I remuneratlve,andrequircsnocapitalor previous experience. Remember, your salary is guaranteed—mid del Rio province on send you a picture taken when she was is entirelj* apart from the liberal cash commissions and other bonuses. 6ome of our representati vcsLavo lands that might be about 18 months old. incomes ranging from S1.50O.CO to $ 10.000.00 yearly. need a representative in your town at once. Tliea made to produce tobacco "She was taken with the eczema insure yourself thoblp: returns you can3ecure from iiii* of the qualities which preat unworked field by mailing this ad—NOW—to when two years old. She was covered COSALOruLlIAX MA.CiA.ZiNE, Room3D, 17c0 iiao^WA* ,NEW Yets CtT* have made western JWJ/T Gfiwggs WWJT" or e/r/Ms with big sores and her mother had all Cub#, famous the world the best doctors and tried all kinds of around for this one Put a salves and medicines without effect so than otherwise, for, exactly the opposite of crop, were the owners until we used Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. the case in the west, these far eastern lands need willing to co-operate H. Kiernan, 663 Quincy St., Brooklyn, to be reduced. with Cubans on the partidario Sept. 27, 1909." N. Y., They are almost too rich, and the fruit of system, according KNOWN THE WORLD OVER trees they produce, particularly young trees, ia to which the newcomer in your vacation outfit Wife and Country. apt to be coarse-skinned, too big, and pithy. furnishes the requisite Paul D. Cravath, the noted New These defects, nevertheless, time remedies, for capital and the York lawyer, said at a luncheon at the as groves age they lessen the supply of plant native furnishes the Lawyers' olub: "Vacation time is DAISY FLY" KILLER food. Eventually it will become necessary to fertilize here, and already that dreadful song skill no less necessary the trees, and then growers, by selecting to success in the delicate about the wife gone to the country tai,coavemeut,ch2cpfe their fertilizer, can control the quality of theiv Lasts All Season. undertaking. It is is being resurrected. But a variant Mii'ie of ni' ial.cannot splil or tip over, will fruit. a notable fact that few to the song was furnished by a conversation uot fioiloriujuro Gunranwilef-tiiyftc They have, meanwhile, acquired their grove thiii?. Americans or Canadians I overheard the other night. ive. Of al I dcalt-m without the expense for fertilizer the grower ?.n or prepaid for20a. 'Hello, Smith,' said one man to who themselves do the the west has been put to in order to produce his. HAROLD another, 'I'm glad to see you back SO'JIERS actual work in their to- 150 DcKalb He, on the other hand, has been to less expense at the club again, old fellow. Wife Brooklyn, Ken Tort than the man in the east in the matter of clearing, off to the country eh?' and he has not had to sit up nights weeding 'No,' growled Smith. 'She's got PARKER'S to keep his grove from disappearing under a HAIR BALSAM back.'" Cleanses and beautifies the h*u\ tangle of tropical vegetation. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray The obvious conclusion, is therefore, that six c/rjXAs r#i//r £smr£/3us Hair to its Youthful Color. Taking Fatner's Job. Cures scalp diseases & hair falling. is one-half dozen. Groves in both eastern and or fOc, and $1.00 at Druggist* "Why should you beg? You are western Cuba will produce trees and good fruit, both young and strong." but neither will do so for any owner not willing 10 Post Cards 10c igSKifS&SS "That is right, but my father is old there are wortf-out fields, sun to pay the price under one head or another in DB£XEL POST CARD CO., all different. and weak and can no longer support baked through years, which S901 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, 111* cash and also in hard work. me."—Meggendorfer Blaetter. wear, however, to the inexperienced It is conservatively estimated that no man £f afflicted with Thompson's EyeWa(«r eye, the aspect of virgin, should undertake even a five-acre grove anywhere sore eyes, use I Mrs. WInslow's Soothing Syrup. though lightly wooded or savannah in Cuba unless he has at least $5,000 where he PATENTS Forchildren Hammntinn-ateething, soften3 the gums, reduces 1 n- .lln.ys W ntson E. Coleman,Wesli. lands there are also sain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. can lay his hands on it. If he is a lively, capable Ington, D.C. Books free. H" sections—desolate palm ear references. Beat Other man he will probably not need that amount of Tips you get are almost as worthless barrens—where no man save money, but no matter what his ability he should as those you give. W. N. U., Minneapolis, No. 32-1910. the sort who purchase real estate be able to command at least that sum before embarking "sight unseen" would ma$ in the citrus fruit business here. He The Fountain Head of Life think of attempting to grow need it all, and more. anything. There are, too, south While no complete statistics are available, ft of the mountain range, cn the is the writer's impression that in western Cuba, Is The Stomach v'-'Bim plain which drops gradually including the Isle of Pines, the acreage of oranges from its skirts to the Caribbean is more than that of grape fruit, while lft GAOYF OF YOISMG LCAfO/V 7y?tt3 sea,, certain sandy, gravelly the east it would seem that the grape-fruit acreage A man who has a weak and impaired 6tomach and who does not reaches, poor In plant food. It is the larger. The older groves seem, usually, properly digest his food will soon find that his blood has become weak and impoverished, and that his whole body is improperly and bacco fields have found this crop profitable. is here, however, with proper fertilization and to be orange groves the younger the grovt Insufficiently nourished. There are "tricks in the trade" of which Cubans care, that growers are developing orange and the larger the proportion of grape fruit In it. are masters, especially those persons whose families grape-fruit groves. Problems of transportation to market demand Dr. PIERCE'S GOLDEN MEDIC TIL DISCOVERY have for generations out of mind engaged in These lands will produce the trees, if food makes the stomach strong, promotes tho flow ot careful study from all growers, prospective or digestive juices, restores the lost appetite, makes tobacco culture entirely. They seem to be possessed to support them Is supplied in the shape of fertilizer, established. Groves situated at a distance from assimilation perfect, invigorates the liver and of an intuition which enables them to and the trees will bear citrus fruit of the railway lines are handicapped at the start,, for, blood. purities and enriches the It is the treat blood'maker, handle the seedling, the plant and the leaf, when very best quality—bright colored, weighty, full although there are many good roads in Pinar del flesh'builder and restorative nerve tonic. It makes men germinating, when maturing, and especially when of juice, inclosed in smooth, thin rind. No fairminded Rio province, and all over the Isle of Pines, every strong In body, active In mind and cool in Judgement, ^curing, in a manner to Insure a better outcome person can longer doubt that they will foot of haul counts, and where the roads are not than any foreigner is likely to compass. To grow do so after seeing fruit of the quality which excellent, it counts heavily, most especially in This "Discoveryis a pure, glyceric extract of American medical roots*' the very best tobacco requires capital. The venture growers located at Taco Taco exhibited at the absolutely free from alcohol and all injurious, habit-forming drugs. All its wet weather. is a gamble, the result of which, however, latest horticultural show in Havana. These gentlemen ingredients are printed on its wrappers. It has no relationship with secret Americans and Canadians have plunged headforemost is known in a single season. If the planter wins, nostrams. Its every ingredient is endorsed by the leaders in all the schools of had, however, the money to keep their into citrus-fruit culture in Cuba. They medicine. Don't accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this time-proven he probably rakes in "big money." If he loses, trees properly nourished. Many others who have are building up against odds, by their indomitable remedy NEIGHBORS. They must know of OF KNOWN COMPOSITION. ASK YOUR at least it takes him only months, not years, to failed to succeed as they are suceeding owe that courage and optimism, an industry into which many cures made by it during past 40 years, right in your own neighborhood. find it out. failure to the fact that they did not have the preceding owners of the lands they hold did not World's Dispensary Medical Association, Dr. R.V. Pierce, Pres., Buffalo, N. Y. In the Isle of Pines, which was formerly a money to do as much for their groves. venture. The Spaniards and Cubans did not s? cattle and hog country, producing especially valuable Some land companies doing business in western venture may have been because they were blind draft oxen for sale In Cuba proper, American Cuba deny overtly or by implication that fertilization to the possibilities, lacked specific knowledge citrus-fruit growers consume large quantities is necessary, but no prospective owner or the energy required or possibly they were of canned condensed milk, at high prices, as well of a -citrus-fruit grove in western Cuba can afford outmatched by adverse conditions in past decades. as large amounts of canned meats and vegetables, not to include in his estimate of expenses the Then again, it may be they were deterred despite the fact that some good pasturage exists, cost of fertilizing early and often in amounts not by these things at all, but by a true understanding while still more could doubtless be planted, and properly augmented as years pass. Fertilizers in of basic conditions here by a realization the further fact that fine vegetables in remarkably general use in the groves of the region mentioned of difficulties in the way of competing, not to large variety can be grown along the river cost, on a fair average, about $45 a ton. say controlling, in the markets where the citrus banks, or, really, almost anywhere else where This is the situation in the Isle of Pines, as fruit of Cuba must be sold and, especially, by a Irrigation Is possible. They also Import hay and well as in the western and central mainland of keen appreciation of more profit to be made more feed at ridiculous cost. All this into a region Cuba. "The soils are all poor in plant food compared quickly and inexpensively elsewhere. In fine, The Rayo Lamp is a high grade lamp, sold at a low price. where corn at least can be grown and large, herds' with the average soils in the United States, they may have been governed by caution, which /f' llA«A tamnii AA U..* AA. 1 used to "find" themselves. and the gravel ridges are especially so," states does not notably distinguish the Anglo-Saxon ornament to any room In any house. There is nothing known to the'art In central, but most particularly In, eastern of lamp-making that can ouu add to the value vaiuo ui of the tuc RAYO IVAI\jLampasa Lamp as a lightTTI ugni* Mr. H. C. Henricksen, secretary of the Cuban when engaged in opening up fields to him new. ILD 1AV1/A GltrnKTr dnnUa T4 11 lviog tr device. Every dealer everywhere. If not at A. yours, write tor MVfiw. ftoi/ ucaivl OfOl^nilClC. 11 Cuba, Americans and Canadians are developing lAcuiri nhvo iwml» ai National Horticultural society, referring particularly Iptive circular to the nearest agency of the New to him, be it noted, but in Cuba's case groves in lands admirably adapted to sugar cane, STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Incorporated) to the Isle of Pines, "but I have never seen not in themselves either new or untried. This which is a quick, certain and profitable crop, sold the effect of good fertilizers so sharply outlined island is not a virgin wilderness in toto. It has either in the field, or cut and delivered wherever as in these very soils, and from experience in been under the domination of white men for 400 there is a mill near enough to buy up the cane. Florida and Porto Rico I would predict an abundant years. Not all these white men were idle and KANTLEAK METAL SHINGLES They are growing their trees on sites natives crop of fruit of superior quality wherever incompetent. They appreciated the country and would assuredly prefer for coffee and cacao, or, the groves are properly treated." in developing its resources—not to the fullest extent more wisely, for the numerous indigenous crops The vital question in these regions is, then, Cover your "Lid" with Kantleak Metal possible nowadays, to be sure, but as far (names, boniatos, etc.) for which there is constant whether the owner is able to afford proper treatment. as was possible to them in their times—they Shingles and keep dry! Best metal shingles f," and remunerative deinang. He will, save in exceptional cases, where made fortunes. on the market. If your dealer does American and Canadian settlers In Cuba, including the soil is too "American" for any use whatsoever, The Spaniards devoted all the energies they the Isle of Pines, are citrus-fruit mad. In get his crop provided he has the money to not handle them, write to had for agriculture in Cuba to sugar cane and tobacco iff -Ait"! Pinar del Rio, in the Isle of Pines and in central supply enough fertilizer. in the eastern and central provinces, and and eastern Cuba there Is, nevertheless, in fheir For there are richer lands in Cuba than those especially to tobacco in the west. For four centuries DULUTH CORRUGATING & ROOFING CO. madness so much method, plus grit and utter inability on which Americans and Canadians are developing they held fast to these two products, thu* Manufacturers of Metal Shingles, Roofing, Siding, etc. W V:-1' kjr: to realize the odds they are "up against," their groves in western Cuba and the Isle of demonstrating that they were possessed of no DULUTH MINNESOTA that it seems to be very probable they will succeed Pines. more versatility than the American and the Car regardless. Money, time and hardship are 'Along the Cauto river, to mention but one nadian who, in Cuba, insist upon discovering no to them no object at all. locality, there are exceedingly deep, fertile, virgin future save in citrus fruit. Pinar del Rio is a province possessed of most soils which need no fertilizer to produce citrus From tobacco and from cane the Spaniard, and fertile lands in certain districts. There are fruit groves. Such lands must, at the very the Cuban with him, has wrested the "wealth of among the foothills and in the "Organos" themselves commencement, be cleared, at some expense, of the Indies." "Rich as a Cuban planter"—planter of rich valleys unfortunately, some the the thick woods that cover them, and groves, of cane and tobacco, not of oranges and grape choicest are as yet almost inaccessible. There is once planted, must at all costs be kept fairly free 54 Minnesota S. 3rd Street, Minneapolis, fruit—is a significant English phrase. To attain good land always along the streams, and arable of Ufa Conrf of its graduates weeds. Secondary crops—corn, for instance— Every graduate an enthusiastic friend every employer llav to the wealth and the ease it implies has been I a the privilege of training you for ready reference. May we have areas are to be found, here and there, 'every* may be grown between rows without detriment success years. thfe ambition of the adventurous and the avari You Our Free new? Established over thirty where. Also here and there antf everywhere to the trees in fact, it to do would seem wiser Catalog? I GROVJS A. GBUHAK, Secretary cious 1492 from to the present time.