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A NEW IRRIGATION PROJECT It Will Make the Now Arid Lands Near the City of Denver of Great an Agricultural State. The writer remembers to have heard a prominent wholesale merchant--one of Chicago merchant princes--say, Jj that If the Creator of tho iir.ivfM'so had turned Adam and loose in America and told Jem 'ind the Garden ot Eden, they would have stopped content when they re.u hed the bite of the present city of this could be said of it by a visitor in those early days of its development, lor is not 50 years old. a -hall be said now as we direct on: at its iiKignificent buildings, its beautiful streets and its palatial honv s' But Denver has been noted also for the a i a character of its industries and foi the marvelous growth of its commerce, as it has progressed Colorado State Capital Denver. i i from the frontier of S5 or 40 years ago to its present metropolitan position; the gieatest railway center between the Missouu river and the Pacific coast. If has been said that Denver is built upon a foundation of gold," and true it is that the men who found gold in the hills built the first houses.

But while the treasure stream has been flowing in ever increasing volume from the mines to the so that the total contribution of the mines of Colorado to the upbuilding of Denver and the commonwealth has been estimated at more than $900,000,000 00, it is nevertheless true that the great resources of the state today are found its agricultural rather than its mineral development and possibilities. Tbe true development of agriculture in Coloiado began in 1870 and since that year there have been constructed Such a development requires, a first requisite, an assured wator supply. The investment in homes is so large, and the acreage value of crops grown under such conditions so great, that these must not be jeoparded by vicissitudes of seasons. One reason why this requisite has not been supplied, and why so much of the land immediately adjacent to Denver has never been improved, is that land values would not justify the expenditure required to provide the water supply. Those lands which could be irrigated at small cost have long been under iriigation, but the limit of cheap irrigation does not cover half the lands that surround the city.

The great increase in land values which has taken place all over the "United States in the last five years ARE PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS NOSTRUMS? To one not quallfled, and few lay. tnen are, to discriminate intelligently between physicians' prescriptions, proprietary medicines and nostrums, It may seem little short of a crime to hint even that physicians' prescriptions are in any manner related to nostrums; nevertheless, an impartial examination of all the facts in the leads Irresistibly to the conclusion that every medicinal preparation compounded and dispensed by a physician Is, in the strict sense of the word, a nostrum, and that the average, ready-prepared proprietary remedy is superior to the average specially-prepared physicians' prescription. What is a nostrum? According to the Standard Dictionary a nostrum is "a medicine the composition of which is kept a secret." Now, when a physician compounds and dispenses with his own hands a remedy for the treatment of a disease--and it is authoritatively stated that probably 60 per cent, of all physicians' prescriptions in this country are so dispensed--the dients which constitute the are not made known to the noranco or for mercenary reasons opposing the sale of all household remedies, why is it not equally necei- sary for to know the composition of the remedy prescribed by a physician Does any sane person be- lleve that the opium in a prescription is less potent or less likely to create a drug habit than the opium in a proprietary medicine? At a matter of fact, more and cocain-ftends have been made through the criminal carelessness of ignorant physicians than by any other means Unquestionably, there are a number of proprietary remedies on the market the sales of which should be prohibited, and no doubt they will be when the requirements of the Food and Act are rigidly enforced; many are frauds, pure and simple, and some are decidedly harmful. Of the average proprietary remedy, however, it may truthfully be said that it is distinctly better than the average physicians' prescription; for not only is its composition less secret, but it is prepaid for the proprietor by reputable manufacturing pharmacists in magnificently equipped laboratories and undo- the supervision and advice of able chemists, competent physicians and i pharmacists. It should not be ready-prepared proprietary rem- i than trust those of their has now made practicable an outlay Hence, since its composition is kept a that so secret by the the remedy or ph vsicians prefer to prescribe prescription is unquestionably, in the meaning of the word, a Simon- pure nostrum.

Fyrtheinore, the pre- scription compounded the average 1: physician is than likely to be a A AS perfect jumble--leplcte with therapeutic. i and chemical in-, Son He Had Nothing to for water which ten vears ago could not have been consideied. This enhancement in land values is shown in Colorado by the increase from $25 to $2,000 an acre at Giand Junction, and from an acre to $1.000 and $1,500 an acre at Cinon City. Xo section or city equals Denver in the extent of its local market or in its tiansportation facilities for reaching distant markets, and the time has now come when the values of the lands aiound Denver and the possibilities for their extensive cultivation will warrant an expenditure for water in almost any amount. It is, therefore, with great satisfaction that Denver contemplates cer- tain irrigation projects now launched by some of its own leading citizens for the establishment of a reservoir system shall assure a sufficient supply of water, during the entire compatibilities and bearing ail the ear marks ot i lun xreutical incompe- tencj; for it is generally admitted that unless a i In i 'ian has made a special study of pharmacy and passed some time in a drug store for the purpose of gaining a practical knowledge Reproach Himself with.

Kuoepfel. of St. Louis, has and hopes to patent a secret lov metho'd for the cure of b.ald- iesi A genuine cure for baldness," said Mr. Knoepfel the other day, Why, It is A BAS THE TEDDY BEAR. Ban Placed on Him to Save the Old- Rationed Doll.

New in the sewing department at the summer school of New York university have placed a bn on the Teddy bear, and henceforth the devotion showered upon him by school children will be discouraged. Fear has arisen in the minds of pedagogues and others that the old-fashioned doll will become extinct. The sewing department in the public schools of Manhattan includes teachers and supervisors from every state in the union, who have come to New York to get the latest methods in needle and basket work, 'weaving and dressmaking to take back to their classes in the fall. In different parts of the country a feeling of alarm has arisen over the banishment of the doll, and one clergyman denounced the Teddy-bear craze from the pulpit. It develops that those who come nearer to the children then any except their mothers take the same view.

Speaking of the Teddy-bear craze and its effect upon the children, Mrs. Jessup, in charge of the sewing department, said: "Formerly as I went about the city visiting the schools it was a delight to me to see the little girls sitting in groups making dolls' clothes or engaged in sewing that I knew they had learned in school. Now instead of these domestic scenes it is invariably a Teddy bear that is the center of attraction, and tte little hands are-idle." DUNKERS DON NECKTIES. of modern pharmaceutical methods, sh uld make a man very rich he is not fitted to compound remedies rich on fake cures for his patients. Moreover, a physi- a a it rea ily is, what fakes some cian who compounds his own prescrip- of these cures are et there's money tions not only deprives the pharmacist of his just emoluments, but he endangers the lives of patients; for it is only by the detection and elimination in them Mr.

Knoepfel gave a loud, laugh. "In their crookedness the. remind me," he said, "of the third son of the old eccentric. Per- tending from just without the city limits of Denver to points north and northeast of the city where the lands of the Longmont, Greeley and Brighton districts are touched. The development of an enterprise of this magnitude requires large capital, and the best business judgment.

That not only the initial steps have been taken, but that the enterprise has been fairly launched and is a going concern, and that these men have i. from the of ignorant physicians. blunders But contained a strange proviso. Each heir was to place $100 in the Nor can it be said that the average-- coffia imme ii a tely before the inter- physician is any more competent to nient. A few days after the interment formulate a prescription than he is to he three young men me and discuss- compound it.

When memorized or di- ed the queer prov iso and its execu- rectly copied from a book of "favorite uon said the oldest son, 'my prescriptions by famous physicians," conscience is i ear put my hundred or from some text-book or medical the coffin in cleajl( new note 'My journal, the prescription may be all conscience is said the see- that it should be. It is only when the physician is required to originate a formula on the spur of the moment that his incompetency is distinctly evi- dent Seemingly, however, the physi- ote Qut a ch eck fo $300" in poor, cians of the United States are little than the average British physician; for we find Dr. James Burned, lecturer on Practical Materia Medic a and Pharmacy, Edinburgh, lamenting in the Medical Magazine the parsing of the prescription and bemoaning fact that seldom does he find a final man" able to devise a prescript ion even in "good contracted Latin." onJ son. I put in my hundred in I too, iiavenaothing to reproach myself said the third son. 'I had ro cash at the time, though; so I dear father's name, placed it in the coffin and took in change the $200 in currency that I found PUSHED THE BEAR ASIDE.

Surveyor Tells of Experience He Does Not Care to Repeat. Flock of Colorado Sheep. some of the finest and most extensive systems of irrigation that the world has known, for irrigation is the bond of union between the arid climate of Colorado and its inexhaustibly rich soil. The evidences of popular interest in the development of agriculture by irrigation were never nwe pronounced than at the present moment. The recent decision of the supreme court of the United States in the litigation be- had sufficient energy and capital to do it, and to do it quietly and without publicity, is worthy of remark.

The people of Denver have been pleased to learn that this enterprise is in the hands of a company able to carry it to a successful conclusion, and the. effect of the completion of these works upon the growth and prosperity of Denver will be felt immediately by every business interest in the city. To walk right up to bear And what, it may be asked, is. the an a try to shove it out of the way and status of the written prescription--the then escape without so much as a prescription that is compounded and scratch is "an experience of a lifetime. dispensed by the pharmacist--is it, Harry I Engelbright found it so a few too.

a It may be contended i days ago in Diamond canyon, above that the patient, with the written. says a Nevada City cor- formula in his possession, may learn respondent of the Sacramento Bee. Old Religious Sect Makes Concession to Dress Reform. He Was Not ta Blame. Llttla Bartholomew's mother heard him swearing like a mult driver, says the Cleveland Leader.

displayed a fluency that overwhelmed- her. She took himo task, explaining the wickedness of profanity as well as its vulgarity. She asked him he had learned all those dreadful Bartholomew announced that Cavert, one of his playmates, had taught him. Cavert's mother was straightway informed and Cavert was brought to book. He vigorously denied having Instructed Bartholomew, and neither threats nor tears could make his confess.

At last be burst out; "I didn't tell Bartholomew any cuss words. Why should I know how to cuss any better than he does? Hasn't his father got an automobile, too?" Used Ink for Bluing. "One can never be too careful about apparently harmless articles setting about the house," said a housewife the other day. "Not long ago my husband brought home one of those big tall bottles of ink from the office. It had got to be such a nuisance buying one of the small five-cent bottlea'every time we ran out of ink, that be said he home a supply.

"About a week after that I got a new maid, and when she did the washing she took the big bottle of ink for bluing. Of course every stitch of our white clothes in the washing was ruined." Los Angeles, conference has ended, but a Bible institute has been carried on by a number of the leading brethren and evangelists. For at least another year the question of reform in the distinctive dress of the Dunkers has been settled. The last question of importance that came up before the conference before it adjourned until next year was whether or not the Dunkers should wear neckties or fashionable hats. The recommendation of the standing committee to the negative was voted down by a large majority.

It remains compulsory for the women members of the church to wear their little bonnets, but they may dress in as much the height of fashion as they please in other respects. A prolonged argument was heard also as to whether the Dunkers should have a peculiar cut to their coats and adopt a certain kind of hat distinguishable from those of other people. These two questions when put to a vote were laid on the table until the next annual conference. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods.

This trouble can be entirely overcome try using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. BUCK DIES TO SAVE DOE. tween the states of Colorado and Kan- The project has now reached a sas. relative to right of Colorado stage where the actual work of con- to appropriate the waters of the Arkansas river for irrigation purposes, has confirmed the right of Colorado to the use of such waters. This has stimulated not only capital, but also the farmers and townsfolk of the middle west so that new enter-' the other unique features prises for the irrigation of arid lands moth scheme is the fact that its pro- are being developed and there is a moters are doing it all themselves.

struction is beginning on a reservoir, cret. to be completed in two years, which contended that tne formula will probably be the largest irrigation reservoir ever constructed by private capital. Not less noteworthy the character of the remedy prescribed. So. possibly, he might if he understood Latin and were a physician or a pharmacist, but as he usually possesses no professional training and cannot read Latin, the prescription is practically a dead secret to him.

Furthermore, the average prescription is so badly written and so greatly abbreviated that even the pharmacist, skilled as he usually is in deciphering medical hieroglyphs, is constantly obliged to interview prescribers to find out what actually has been prescribed. It may also be contended, that inasmuch as the formula is known to both physician and pharmacist the prescription cannot therefore be a secret. But with equal truth it might be any so- called nostrum is not a secret since it is known to both proprietor and manufacturer; for it must not be forgotten than some of that according to reliable authority, of this mam- i er ceQt of the Proprietors o. so- continual migration of settlers from the eastern and central states to these lands. One goes immediately out of Denver upon arid plains, and the city to-day.

on many has a fringe of tin cans and cactus But it is. nevertheless. unsurpassed by no city on the continent in the attractions it might offer to those who have the dfsire and Titans to enjoy both city and country They are not asking any stock subscriptions or bonus assistance from Denver capital. They have put up their own money for the purchase of some large sys- called patent medicines prepared ia this country have their remedies made for them by large, reputable manufacturing pharmacists. But even should a patient be able to recognize the names of the ingredients mentioned in a formula he would only know half The young man, son of Congressman Engelbright, has just returned from the upper country, where he "has been doing some surveying, and relates his thrilling experience.

It was coming on dusk, at the close of the day's work. In the brush-lined trail he saw protruding what he thought were the hind quarters of some stray bovine. He walked up and gave the brute a shove. It came to its haunches with a snort that made his hair rise and caused him to beat a hasty retreat. The big brute looked around and then off into the woods.

It was either asleep or else so busy eating ants from an old log that it failed to "hear the young surveyor, whose footsteps were deadened by the thick carpet of pine needles. i.ater it was learned that the same bear, a monster cinnamon, had killed a dog earlier in the day. The dog ventured too close and with one blow of its paw the big beast sent it hurtling yards away, dead as a doornail. Desperately Charges a Locomotive Threatening Mate and Fawn. Waterbury, a desperate effort to save his doe and fawn, a handsome buck deer charged full tilt the other day against an onrushing locomotive as it swept around a curve on the Naupatuck division near The doe and fawn were saved, but the gallant buck was instantly killed.

The three deer were in a cornfield when the approach of the train fright- i ened them into a dash upon the track, which has a high fence on the far side. The buck cleared the fence at a bound, but it was too high for the fawn. Caught in the trap, it bleated piteously while the mother stood loyally at its side. The buck leaped back to the track, lowered its antlers, and dashed viciously against the locomotive. The engineer stopped his in time to avoid the two remaining deer.

Late Already. Five minutes after the tardy gong had struck, the principal of the school was walking through the lower hall when he saw a pudgy little fellow scampering toward the first grade room as fast as his fat legs could carry him. "See" here, young man, I want to talk to you," called the principal to the late comer. "I hain't got time to talk to you; I'm late already." replied the breathless beginne" as the door of his classroom Circle. Fresh Fuel.

The scrap between the married couple had died down to a few listless mutterings, and the canary bird in the cage was beginning to think about singing again, when she remarked, as a sort of afterthought: "At any rate, everybody in my family thinks I am very Intelligent." "Yes, by the side of them you are," he replied with a bitter snort. After this the scrap was renewed jubilantly. terns of canals which have, for many the story. It is seldom for instance i i that alcohol is specifically mentioned years, irricatine successfully, for early crops, large tracts of land, with water taken from the streams during the flowing season. alcohol is specifically a prescription, for it is usually Magnifying Choir Leader's Voice.

In the old village of Braybrook in Northamptonshire, England, is a monster trumpet, five six inches in length, and having a bell-shaped end two feet one inch in diameter. The trumpet is made up of ten rings, which in turn are made up of smaller parts. The masked in the form of tinctures and use of this trumpet--only four of the fluid extracts, as are a great many kind are known to exist at the present Thev hav; bought larse bodies of other substances. It is evident. 1 day-was to magnify the voice of the fore, that the ordinary pre- i leader in the cnojr and sunsson scription is.

to the average lit- people to the church service. At the I the land which is to be irrigated, be- have been laokinsr: sides sites for reservoirs, rights of facihtk-s and -way for main canals, laterals, etc. an ampl- for the ir lent reliable water supply of this land. facilities are now Th" union or merger of all those interests in order to secure a maximum results at a minimum of cost an 10 tto-5 to various an'2 Intel-urban point? IS a man li Trolley systems are i accomplishment which, after many and Greeley and i months or patient and involved nego- in the neich- tiations has brought about the organ- of these ization of the Denver Reservoir Irri- hrfs will make i gatjon company. am TTVR-I '-i liru i ba ii- froivi or.

a a i five r.cv Of -I I and con fort etirs of the city. from Denver i The effect will be seen in the rapid to ihe I development of small farms, within wi'lsin the an ride of Denver, devoted to of a few of hisrh priced rrops-- jxviatoes; tomatoes, sugar beets, fruits. improve --So a before we real-V ize jt, Denver will be the center of a 30 p-jb'ir- of market wardens of 10 n.e~ ra" have aere? each, whris-. incomes will of land a 1 of ihe tin- cheap- raise a crop of gram ori the uncertain co-intry life, and farming lands of the middle and east- eru states. WOMAN WITH WHIPPING MANIA.

One to Reckon With. There's a little girl who gave her folks a shock the other day. "Ma, I want a bathing suit," she said. "You shan't have any," ma replied. "Then I'll go bathing without one." The bathing suit matter is now being arbitrated.

Cause for Resentment. London Punch suggests as a reason for Raisuli's hatred for Caid McLean that it was the latter who introduced bagpipes in Morocco. tie less than a secret remedy or nostrum. present time neither the choir nor tae service is in need of this extraor- On the other hand, the formulae if dinary "musical instrument." but the nearly all the proprietary medicnies I virar of the church takes care of the that are exploited exclusively the medical profession as well as of a large percentage of th proprietary remedies that are to ancient and is fond of showing it to all visitors. Painfully Exact.

Haunts Maryland Highway and Lashes Prominent People Pasting. Rising Sun, community is excited over a series of lashings given a number of prominent persons with a buggy whip in the hands of a young woman, accompanied by a male escort, the pair driving in a closed top buggy. The assaults occur about dusk. Mrs. Ellen M.

Tosh and daughter Ellen were struck while near Harrisville. and Miss Margaret Phillips of that town, an aged lady, was severely lashed across the face. Charles LaRue received some ugly cuts around his neck. The assailant ran into a team driven by Alfred Smth and James Body, on Moores hill, and smasted the front wheels of the carriage. A number of horses have been badly cut across the shoulders, all the assaults taking place along the public roads.

The offenders manage to get before being identified. Prelate in Guise of Tramp. Wilmington. is announced that Bishop Coleman of the Episcopal diocese of Delaware is are public (the so-called patent merti- i A New Entfand man tells of a pros- ranging to take his annual pedestrian perous Connecticut farmer, painfully tour incognito next month etaot money matters, who married The venerable Prelate, who is 0 FOOD FACTS tints) are- published in full ihe Food ard Drugs Ac', every r. odi- cinal preparation entering commerce is new required a "he proportion or quar.lity rf i opium, cocain and otber ha" i the rr.ay contain plainly pr.rr--1 the iri seldom or reve i Grape-Nub A Body Balance People hesitate at the statement that the famous food, Grape-Nuts, yields much nourishment from one pound as can be absorbed by the system from ten pounds of meat, bread, wheat or oats.

Ten pounds of meat might contain more nourishment than one pound of Grape-Nuts, but not in shape that the system will absorb as large ft proportion of. as the body can take up from one pound of Grape-Nuts. This food contains the selected parts of and barley which are prepared ind by natural means predigested, transformed into a form of sugar, ready for immediate assimilation. People in all parts of the world testify to the value of Grape-NuU. A Mo.

man says: "I have gained ten pounds on Grape-Nuts food. I can truly recommend it tT thin people." He had been eating meat, bread, right but there was no ten pounds of added flesh until Grape-NuU food was used. One curious feature repardinR true health food is that its use will reduce tbe weiKnt of a corpulent person with unhealthy flesh, and will add to the of imssessing in I old. will discard his clerical garb wHght of a Ih5n person not own right th sum of $10.000. Shortly afiT the a friond met for a tramping outfit.

He is always mistaken en route for a poor man un- farmer. 10 whom offered con- able to pay railroad fare, and never the air time observ- reveals his identity. Last rear he cood thing for couple of hundred miles enjojecl by of families formerly away their lives to they are rie-r the And if it he corn- a marriage that means down the Shcnamdoah valley in about two weeks, sleeping wherever he could. This year nis tour will last orJ a for the rrihiir to know th" conr tloi of ,13 contended by those through OO-i you Not that. the a "not quite that" Win," the friend, 'I wilder- there a every cent of $10,000 it for o'i!" "I had to pay $2 for a rnarnage license," said Malachi.

because of a of church work. He will walk nearly a hun? miles. nourished. is abundance of evidence to prove this. Xuts halancet tho body in condition of true health.

Scientific selection of food elements makes Grape- Nuts good and valuable. Its 5elic50u3 flavor and powerful no'-irishinc properties have made friends that ia turn have made Grape-Nuts famous. "There's a Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs..