INTBRNATTOWAC FALLS PRESS Views Don't Persecute TEN MILLION PEOPLE your Bowels qosevclt IN THE CANADIAN Cut oat cti&artKi and wf|riw. They arebrafc^ WEST BY 1920 whanh—oaneeesary. 117 CARTER'S LITTLE, LIVER PILLS OHraps of hunt Purdy vegetable. A A CARTERS gently on die In "Toronto Star," Dec. 16th, 1910. bue. and The prediction is made that before •oo3iemele£c 2%R£DMGDB.CURK cow?/c/tr by wj pjtrrsxso// ITTLE t&cn£i*n« of A "1920 Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia will have PILLS. ten million people. It.is made not by •a sanguine Western journal but by fliit'lT—ftflmMilItifirirtif itmifli—rhm that very sober business newspaper, Small Pillt Small Dose, Small Pries' the New York Commercial. It Is Genuine nmtbeu Signature based upon actual observation, upon the wheat-growing capacity of the Canadian West, and upon the prospects of development following the building if of railways. The writer shows how the position of leading wheat I Two Cruises to the market of the world passed from WA/rr/fOG Milwaukee to Minneapolis and thence WEST INDIES to Winnipeg, (panada's wheat-growing HAS been told before this how the African treasures of the National belt is four times greater than Two delightful cruises leaving New York Museum in Washington brought out that of the United States, and only Febraary 25 and March 28,1911 ImoN S.S. Molfke toe of the dark continent by Theodore five per cent of Canada's western agricultural area i3 under cultivation. Roosevelt, EJdmond Heller, Dr. Edgar ffEW mrJOHAl MUSEUM There are 170,000,000 acres of wheat A. Mearns and J. Alden Loring, are Spanish Main. West Indies, Panama Canal, Bermuda, etc. Colonel Roosevelt seemed to find special delight. lands which will make these Western stored away in great chests and on Two cruises of 28 days duration $150 shelves In by-rooms of the museum One can exhaust all the color adjectives In the Provinces richer, more populous, more and up. One cruise^ 16 days, and up. $85 Also cruises to the Orient, south Amort* building, and how the specimens of English language and yet hardly do justice to dependable for food supplies than the ca and Around the World. big game will not be mounted for the hues and combination of hues of the plumage Western Stages can ever become. The Write fcr Illustrated Baoilet. of the tropical birds which the expedition center of food supremacy will change general inspection until many months HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE Bm1767 P. 0 41 and 45 Broadway, N. Y. to Canada, and 25 years more will have passed. The treasures are all brought back from Africa. Dr. Edward A. Mearns, give this country 40,000,000 population In the big building, however, and if one has interest who is a surgeon of the United States army, but west of Ontario. and patience one of the scientists will now on the retired list, did most of the collecting draw them forth from their recesses and give of feathered big game and small game. Dr. SH P. YOUR All these estimates of populatioq him a chance to study and to admire. Mearns is one of the world's foremost ornithologists. are in the nature of guesses, and must not be read too literally. But tha It was my good luck not long ago to be invited While he was stationed with the troops Ti & wflot co. enormous area of wheat-growing land, by Theodore Roosevelt to go through the in the far west he made a special study of the MCMILLAN FUR the rapid construction of railways, National Museum with him on a tour of examination birds of the sections in which he happened to be, •v .^JNNCAPOlLjjS. Jf' and the large volume of immigration of the pelts of the big mammals, and the and on# several occasions he was authorized by skins of the many colored birds and of the small are facts which must be recognized, Uncle Sam to join scientific expeditions organized They point to the production of aq to make investigations and collections in DJK-D/K AJYD WATER BUFFALO ever-increasing surplus of wheat and new territories. ISO other cereals. However rapidly thq It is well known that In a general way the urban, the industrial and commercial more soberly clad birds are the best songsters. population of Canada may increase, For instance, take the hemit thrush and the IS THE NAME the increase of home consumption i3 mocking bird of America. They are both dressed OF THE BEST MEDICINE hardly likely to keep pace with that in homespun, but they have voices of the kind for COUGHS 5 COLDS of the production of wheat for a single which people call "fortunes in themselves." acre of wheat will provide for thq There are some sober clad birds in the tropics GOOD ADVICE. average annual consumption of foul and there as elsewhere they are the better people. singers. While production in Canada is thus In America we have a bird called the shrike, running ahead of consumption at a prodigious rate, consumption in tha a United States is overtaking produc, tion, and the surplus for export is growing smaller year by year. It ia true that the limit of actual power to produce wheat is as yet far away. By methods of intensive cultivation, euch as prevail in France, the production could be greatly increased. But oP£C//l£JiS F/tOJi T/f/ XOO&iVELT HU/YT with the overflowing granary of Canada so close at hand, it seems likely that our neighbors will begin to import to the museum's collection. Finally I got a shot from us, turning their own energies and down went the monster. I turned with a more largely to other forms of shout of rejoicing to Heller, who was near me. agriculture. Heller went over and examined the elephant and It must be remembered that while then turned to me with a grave face and said, the Northern. States resemble Canada 'Colonel this elephant.died of apoplexy. You. climate and products, the resemblance missed him a mile.' Heller keeps on telling that diminishes as you go southward. story and I am willing, for he gets lots of fun The wheat belt gives place to out of it. All I have to say is if the elephant Ferdinand—She is all the world to a'corn belt, and this again to semitropical dropped dead of apoplexy at the instant I fired me! What would you advise me to regions producing cotton, tobacco, it was the most considerate elephant that ever do? cane-sugar, oranges and other roamed Africa." William—See a little more of the tropical fruits. In the African fields there are thirty or forty world, old chap! .The man who'secures a farm in species of antelopes, one,,the giant eland, is bigger Western Canada at the present time than an ox, and it inhabits a fever stricken The Oldest Klickitat. secures an investment better thain the &AZEILE territory in which only a few hunters and those Jake Hunt, the oldest living Klickitat best of bond of any government or of the hardiest kind will venture. The colonel Is Indian known, lies at death's door bankv It is no unusual thing for a exceedingly proud of the giant elands which he at his home adjoining this town east which Is about the size of a red-winged blackbird, farmer "in Western Canada to realize secured and which are now In possession of the of here. The old Indian is reputed to the swamp blackbird known to every country a profit of from $5 to $10 per acre. be more than 100 years of age. museum and in perfect condition for eventual boy. The shrike preys on smaller birds, 011 Th^re are thousands of free homesteads Years ago an Indian village stood mounting for show purposes.' mlceand on big insects which it empaled on of. 160 acres, each still to be inhere the Hunt family now carries on One of th£ intelopes which the expedition secured thorns after making a meal, in the case of birds tia d, and particulars can be obtained a general farming -business. All that has a remarkable hide. Colonel Roosevelt and mice,- of the brains of the quarry.., Tha by-writing your nearest Canadian government is left of-the old settlement is a little spent a long time examining' and admiring this shrike is dressed in soft grays and while rather agent ». church, a totem pole and numerous specimen. The skin Is iridescent and as you a handsome bird it is by no means of brilliant mounds where tne Klickitats lie who turn it at different angles to the light it sent attire. Art could not reach the century mark. Old in the Nude. forth colors of blue, green, red and purple. It The African shrikes which Dr. Mearns collected The photographer's lady was very Jake says that this was the Indians' has a watered silk effect, but perhaps no watered and In which Theodore Roosevelt showed preoccupied showing some samples qf paradise before the advent of early silk that woman ever wore held such a marvelous a marked interest on the day in which he went Work to prospective sitters, when a white settlers. combination of hues. through the museum, are perhaps among the BLE3 -BOA tall and raw-boned individual, apparently Jake Hunt is destined not to die a Dr. C. Hart Merriam, who is now, as has been most brilliant colored birds of the world. They from "the land," stalked solemnly poor Indian. His lands are as rich and said, the head of the Harriman Zoological Foundation, are not unlike the American scarlet tanager only into the studio, and intimated that mammals of which hundreds and hundreds were productive as any in the valley and was the first man to suggest to Theodore the scarlet is of the kind that seems to burn the tfe would like to know what the "picters" brought to America to give the student an adequate command a high price. He is said to Roosevelt that after he retired from the prqpidency sight. Colonel Roosevelt has been having a little were worth. idea of the fauna of the African plains, have married seven times during his he ought to go to Africa, to collect specimens controversy with Scientist Abbott H. Thayer "Like that, $3 a dozen," said the mountains, valley and forests. long career, but there will be only a over the question of the protective coloration of for the National Museum. Credit for the photographer's lady, handing him It was Colonel Roosevelt's first glimpse of the widow and a few children to fall heir suggestion was given Dr. Merriam by Mr. Roosevelt birds and mammals. Mr. Thayer, in a general one. African quarry since he saw it living in its native to his valuable property.—Husum Correspondence in his lecture before the National Geographic way, thinks that most animals have a coloration The farmer gazed long and earnestly wilds. It was his desire to know how perfectly Portland Oregonian. Society. It is probable that Dr. Merriam is' the which protects them in a measure from at the photograph of a very small the specimens had been prepared and foremost. authority in the United States on several discovery. It is known that this is perfectly true baby sitting in a wash basin. what deterioration, if any, the climatic conditions How the Fight Began. branches of natural science. He is particularly of some kinds of wild creatures, but Mr. Thayer "And .what would it cost with my before shipment and after arrival had caused. Violet—I -wish you would tell me thinks that even brilliantly plumaged birds are interested in bears and it was by him that clothes on?" he finally asked. Accompanying Mr. Roosevelt In his trip how to get this pitch off my dress. I protected. Colonel Roosevelt on the day of his comparisons were made of bear skulls by which through the museum were Dr. C. Hart Merriam, have tried everything I can think of. visit to the museum held up one of the shrikes recently a separation of species was made where now the head of the Harriman Zoological Foundation IT IS A MISTAKE Reginald—You might try a song. in its scarlet attire and said Ironically, "There's It was not known definitely that a difference and former chief of the United States You always get off the pitch when Many have the idea that anything a fine example of protective coloration." Looking existed. Biological Survey Mr. Edmund Heller, who accompanied you sing.—Judge. -will sell if advertised strong enough. It must have been fully a century ago that an at the bird one might readily believe that Mr. Roosevelt to Africa and who prepared This is a great mistake. True, a against a background of grorcn leaves it would English scientist hunter who had secured a specimen most of the big game specimens for shipment few sales might be made by advertising be the first object in the iandsr *.ivj to attract of the cane brake bear declared that it was Edgar A. Mearns, the ornithologist, who an absolutely worthless article attention. a species distinct from the ordinary black bear Without accompanied the expedition and collected most but it is only the article that is There are storks in the African collection. I of the eastern United States, the bear known to of the birds Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the mammal bought again and again Nthat pays. think that three species were included in the every dweller in the eastern region remote from An example of the big success of a and bird painter John Snure, and myself. captures. Now it must be understood that when the ropulous centers. a Cook? worthy article is the enormous sale We had the huge rooms in which the Roosevelt the expedition went into Africa it was agreed There was a dispute among scientists about th^t has grown up for Cascarets collections are stored all to ourselves. Colonel that there should be no killing beyond the actual the matter, and it never definitely was settled, Candy Cathartic. This wonderful record Roosevelt spoke freely about his trip and told is the result of great merit successfully the general opinion remaining that the cane needs of science except of course when it was many anecdotes in connection therewith which made known through persistent necessary to kill game to supply the game table brake bear was simply the ordinary black bear Never mind—you can have do not appear in his book and which he did not advertising and the mouth-tomouth with food. The rule was that when a certain of the Alleghenies, the Adirondacks and the tell in his lecture before the National Geographic a a good breakfast if there's recommendation given Cascarets number of mammals or birds of each kind had woods of Michigan, Wisconsin and Maine. When Society. by its friends and users. been killed the shooting must stop and the number Colonel RooSev.elt killed his specimens of the It is hard to describe adequately the enthusiasm package of Like all great successes, trade pirates fixed was very small, although of course this cane brake bear he examined them and came to of the Oyster Bay hunter over the natural prey on the unsuspecting public, regulation did not apply to destructive animals the conclusion that the Englishman who had history treasures which his expedition had secured by marketing fake tablets similar Post like the beasts of prey, mice and other crop destroying separated it as a species'was right. The colonel for the National Museum and which, much in appearance to Cascarets. Care rodents.. to put the matter to the test sent the skulls of should always be exercised in purchasing to the Colonel's delight, had arrived in splendid The rule which Mr. Roosevelt Insisted upon the bears he had killed to Dr. Merriam, who put well advertised goods, especially condition, due largely to the hard, driving, painstaking and In which the others readily acquiesced was an article that has a national In a lot of painstaking study comparing them work of Edmond Heller and J. Alden Loring sale like Cascarets. Do not allow a lived up to the letter. When Dr. Mearns had secured with the skulls of the ordinary black bear and and Dr. Mearns in preparing the specimens substitute to be palmed off on you. a fixed number of storks he wanted to get it was found the Englishman who had contended under the heat of an African sun and with only one more because he thought there was some for separate species was right. If it had not natives to help them in their delicate and difficult Many who thfsJr they mean right point which might be decided if he could add been for the Roosevelt study and his determination task. •ire right mean. another stork to the collection. He told Colonel in the house. to submit the matter to the test science The first visit of the colonel was paid to the Roosevelt he was going to kill another stork. Hoods probably would still be holding to the belief that part of the museum where the elephant, the The colonel laughed and id, so it is reported: the eastern United States have only one species This delicious food, ready rhinoceros and the hippopotamus hides In their "Not on your life." Mr. Roosevelt's anti-raco of the bruin tribe. crude form are stowed away awaiting the day to serve without cooking, is suicide pronouncement may account for his devotlon In the bear room of the museum Mr. Roosevelt when they will be mounted and made to appear to the interests of the stork. saw the skulls of the species which he was in natural form in the great exhibition hall. The always welcome and makes instrumental In giving a separate place to and When we were ready to leave the museum Dr. colonel stopped before the skin of one gigantic Sarsaparilla he saw the skulls of every bear known to the C. Hart Merriam, who has made a careful study elephant. The hide had been placed on a huge Breakfast world. To the laymen present these skulls were of the collection brought back from Africa, t-rued. table which It covered completely while the to Colonel Roosevelt and said: "There can "overflow" went to the floor and stretched out for nothing but skulls and orlginially they might have a Delight Eradicates scrofula and aT be no possibility of mistake in saying that the formed the head bones of any kind of an animal, eome distance in every direction. "This," said but scientists can pick up a bone of any kind and expedition which you led was the means of giv other humors, cures all their Mr. Roosevelt, "is an elephant which I had the "The Memory Lingers*' ing to the National Museum the finest and most ardest kind of work to shoot. I labored for not only tell what it came from, but from it can effects, makes the blood rich valuable collection of African animals which ours junder the blistering sun to get within cer:in construct the entire naimal. and abundant, strengthens all a exists in the whole world. Science has profited killing range, for the specimen was a fine I& the room 6et aside for the present as POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD., immensely as the result of your labors," the Take storage place for the collection of African birds vital organs. it. and 1 wanted to be sure that I could add Battle Creek, Mich. Get It today In usual liquid form •kocoiaud taM'ts caiirt 0§r»atab«, "i -:ri"