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THE POTWIN LEDGER, POTWIN, KANSAS WHAT IS LAX-FOS LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA A DIGESTIVE LAXATIVE CATHARTIC AND LIVER TONIC LAX-Fos is not a secret or Patent roots composed and of herbs: the following oldCASCARA BARK BLUE FLAG ROOT RHUBARB ROOT BLACK ROOT MAY APPLE ROOT SENNA LEAVES AND PEPSIN In LAX-Fos the CASCARA is improved by the addition of these digestive ingredients, and thus the combination only as a making it better than ordinary, CASCARA, stimulating laxative and cathartic but also as a digestive and liver tonic. Syrup laxatives are weak, but LAX-Fos combines strength with palatable, aromatic taste and does not gripe or disturb the stomach. Cne bottle will prove LAX-Fos is invaluable for Constipation, Indigestion or Torpid Liver. Price 50c. Wichita Directory PILES We own the greatest Formula in the world for the No treatment of Piles.

We treat Piles without surgery. cutting, tying or burning. 'No chloroform or other anaesthetic. Come to specialists who treat nothing but diseases of the Rectum. This institution has been in Kansas 33 years and has never yet failed on a case of Piles.

We will give $100 to anyone who can show us such a case. Don't let anyone experiment on you. COME TO MEN WHO KNOW. Write or call for informatien MILLS, THOMPSON MYERS 400 East Douglas Box Wichita, Kansas CRACKERS: Be Sure They Are the GOLD MEDAL BRAND Buy them in the 7 pound tin cans at 10c per pound at your grocers. Made by THE SOUTHWEST CRACKER CO.

WICHITA, U. S. A. AUTO REPAIRING machine general work. BROOKS MACHINE Corner 8.

Wichita Wichita, Kansas. BILL, McGILL, Auto Expert. Welding outfits and machines for sale. Protected. Donald was troubled with indigestion, which made necessary a careful supervision of his diet.

One night at dinner he asked for a second helping of dessert. "No, Donald," said his aunt." "Don't you remember the last time you ate so much pudding, how it made you dream about lions and bears and tigers and all sorts of wild animals?" "Well, I don't care," he whispered, "it made me dream that I had a great big gun there, too Automatic. "Mandy, what fo' you gib dat baby a big piece ob po'k to chaw on? Don' you-all know de po' chile'll choke on hit?" "Dinah, don' you see de string tied to dat piece ob fat po'k? De oder end's tied to de chil's toe. Ef he chokes he kick, an' ef he kicks he'll Je'k de po'k out. Ah reckon you-all don' learn me nothin' 'bout bringin' up chilluns." Quite a Difference.

"Politics in this country seems to have undergone a radical change." "In what particular?" "Time was when 'big business' dictated who was to be the successful candidate." "And now?" "The successful candidate lends an ear to the common people while big business sits glowering in an anteroom waiting to get an audience." Old Fashioned Ideas are being supplanted daily by newer and better things. This is particularly true where health and efficiency are concerned. In hundreds of thousands of homes where coffee was formerly the table drink, you will now find POSTUM It promotes health and efficiency, and the old time nerve-frazzled coffee drinksoon gives place to the er alert, clear-thinker who drinks delicious Postum and knows "There's a Reason" No change in price, quality or size of package. Kansas Netos Told in Short Paragraphs Frank Railey, a prisoner just released from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, started immediately for Washington, where he expects to appear before the navy department with a model of a two-man submarine that he invented while in prison. He says his boat will be as destructive as any of the German U-boats and offers to make a trip across the ocean in it.

Some of the prison officials believe Railey has a valuable invention. C. Claeys marketed hogs Marysville recently that weighed 1,165 pounds, for which he received $143.95, enough to buy two cows. Fire the other day damaged the Ottawa hospital, owned by Dr. R.

C. Dugan, about $10,000. Patients in the hospital were rescued. Robert Campbell of Anadarko, has been appointed a farm land appraised by the Wichita land bank board. His salary will be $2,400 a year and expenses.

Loans on land will not be made without his report. Robert S. Fleming, 101 years old, is dead at his home near Hartford, a small town near Emporia. He came to Lyon county about 1865. He is survived by ten children.

Dr. F. S. Schoenleber, professor of veterinary medicine at the Kansas State Agricultural college at Manhattan, has resigned. His resignation took effect March 1.

As the result of burns received in a gas explosion, Mrs. Anna Spivey is dead at an Atchison hospital. She was the wife of C. E. Spivey, local manager of the Postal Telegraph Company.

Memorial services for the late General Funston were held recently in the First Methodist church at Iola. The Rev. Z. B. Zook, who formerly held a captain's commission, was the speaker.

Edward Flynn, one of the pioneer miners of Kansas coal fields, died at Hot Springs, recently. He was a superintendent for the Walker Coal company. Habeas corpus proceedings, charg. ing E. C.

Willis, superintendent of the Kansas Orphans' home at Atchison, with conspiring with unknown persons to deprive Mrs. Mary Yocuam of the custody of her daughter, Hazel, 10 years old, were filed in district court there recently by County Attorney Charles T. Gundy and T. A. Moxcey, attorneys for the mother.

Willis was ordered to produce the girl in court. Injuries received by State Senator August Anderson of the Saline-Ottawa counties' district, in a fall down the stairs at his brother's home in Salina, will keep him in bed a week or more. He may be unable to attend further sessions of the present legislature. Parsons' new Y. M.

C. A. building was opened the other night. Dr. J.

P. Munn of New York, chairman of the International Y. M. C. A.

committee, was a guest. The Stars and Stripes at halfmast, draped in crepe, were displayed throughout the business and residence sections at Iola--the outward acknowledgment of the community's sorrow at the loss of her soldier-citizen, Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston. Elias A.

Wasser, oldest editor in point of service with one paper in Kansas, is dead at his home in Girard. For forty-eight years he was the active editor of the Girard Press. Until a year ago he had been at his desk daily. Mr. Wasser was 69 years old and a native of Pennsylvania.

In 1868 he helped start the Fort Scott Press. A year later he moved to Girard. He had charge of the paper constantly until a year ago, when his health made it necessary for him to retire. Mr. Wasser was a Republican, and several times was postmaster at Girard.

George B. Tremin, 60 years old, is dead from injuries received in a run away several weeks ago. He had been a resident of Salina eighteen years. Besides the widow, nine children survive. William Miller of Seattle, and Ivan Berry of Denver, were killed the other day by falling eighty feet from the top of a steel water tower being, constructed for Osborne, Kas.

Wichita will have an election on the city manager plan. Of the many thousand names on the petition more than 4,000 were found to be bona fide vters. The number of names required is a few more than 3,100. John H. Fenton, 79 years old, and a resident of Kansas fifty-five years, is dead at Ottawa from an attack of hiccoughs.

Mr. Fenton was a Union soldier in the Civil war and was the oldest member of Hiram Masonic lodge of that city. He once was am officer at the Kansas penitentiary, MOTHER! LOOK AT CHILD'S TONGUE If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs." A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If coated, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," then don't worry, because it i is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again.

A thorough "inside cleansing" is ofttimes all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given in any sickness. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv.

Its Condition. "This Zeppelin raid business does not seem to have panned out." "No; paradoxically speaking, it has gone up." For a disordered liver, take Garfield Tea, the Herb laxative. All druggists. -Adv. The Kind It Was.

"How did that smart yachting party get on?" "They found the sea very rough." "Then it was a real swell affair." GAVE HIS CANE AWAYI Mr. S. P. Benton, Kerrville, Texas, writes: "For several years prior to 1906 I suffered from kidney and rheumatic troubles. Was bent over and forced to use a cane.

For these disorders I am glad to say I used Dodd's Kidney Pills, which proved to be the proper remedy. I am 64 years old, feel fine and once again stand as straight as an arrow. Dodd's Kidney Pills deserve great credit." Be sure and get "DODD'S," the name with the three D's for diseased, disordered, deranged kidneys; just as Mr. Benton did. No similarly named article will Natural Result.

"Binks and I had an altercation yesterday and I called him a toad." "What did he do?" "He got hopping mad." YOU MAY TRY CUTICURA FREE That's the Rule--Free Samples to Anyone Anywhere. We have so much confidence in the wonderful soothing and healing properties of Cuticura Ointment for all skin troubles supplemented by hot baths with Cuticura Soap that we are ready to send samples on request. They are ideal for the toilet. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept.

Boston. Sold His Estimate. "Money isn't everything." "No, only about 97 per cent." WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY Is her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Creole" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price Our mistakes of yesterday are mainly responsible for our worries of today.

Red Cross Ball Blue, made in America, therefore the best, delights the housewife. All good grocers. Adv. There would be fewer old bachelors if single men were not allowed to associate with married men. Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC.

You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the system. 50 cents. To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Many a man's idea of comfortable clothing is the kind his wife won't let him wear. Important to Mothers Examine carefully bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it Signature Bears the of da In Use for Over 30 Years.

Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Prudent Decision. "Would you go to war if your country called you?" "Of course I would," answered the patriotic citizen, "but I would first make sure that my country was calling me, and not a lot of leather-lunged Jingoes." BACK TO ORIGIN OF SLANG Words That Are Considered Staid and Dignified Have a Meaning Known Only to a Few Users. WHEN IN NEED OF A TONIC OR APPETIZER You Should Try HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS No matter how loose the engagement ring may be, the diamond never slips around out of sight on a girl's finger. Coated tongue, vertigo and constipation are relieved by Garfield Tea. -Adv.

American preserves are needed in THICK, GLOSSY HAIR FREE FROM DANDRUFF Girls! Beautify Your Hair! Make It Soft, Fluffy and Luxuriant-Try the Moist Cloth. Try as you will, after an application of Danderine, you cannot find a single trace of dandruff or falling hair and your scalp will not itch, but what will please you most, will be after a few weeks' use, when you see new hair, fine and downy at -but really new hair--growing all over the scalp. A little Danderine immediately doubles the beauty of your hair. No difference how dull, faded, brittle and scraggy, just moisten a cloth with Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. The effect 1 is immediate and amazing your hair will be light, fluffy and wavy, and have an appearance of abundance; an incomparable luster, softness and luxuriance, the beauty and shimmer of true hair health.

Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any store and prove that your hair is as pretty and soft as any- -that it has been neglected or injured by careless treatment--that's all. Adv. There is a demand in Spain for hardware of all kinds. Pimples, boils, carbuncles, dry up and disappear with Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. In tablets or liquid.

-Adv. Quickly Inspired. Quickly Inspired. "Dubbs has a lively imagination." "I've noticed that. Dubbs can glance over a pamphlet issued by some western railroad and then rave about the scenic wonders of Arizona as if he had just been there." A Mother's Burden A mother who suffers kidney trouble, finds it hard to keep up her daily work.

Lameness, backache, sharp pains when stooping and nervous or dizzy spells, make home life dreary. Active kidneys bring back vigor, health and a pleasure in family duties. If the kidneys are weak try a box of Doan's Kidney Pills, A Kansas Case Mrs. David Johns, 309 W. Tenth Concordia, Kan.

says: "I suffered from a heavy, dragging down pain in the small of my a k. Mornings when I went to get up, I could hardly -do so. Dizzy spells 'bothered me, my sight blurred and, kidney we a ness was another annoyEvery ance. I was in bad Picture shape when I beTells a gan taking Doan's Story" Kidney Pills, but they soon made me feel better. Continued use rid me of the trouble and I have been bothered but little Get Doan's at Any Store, 50c a Box DOAN'S KIDNEY FOSTER MILBURN BUFFALO, N.

Y. Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine times in ten when the liver is right the stomach and bowels are right. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS gently butfirmly comdo pel a its lazy duty. liver to CARTERSI Cures Con- TLE stipation, IVER PILLS. digestion, Sick Headache, and Distress After Eating.

SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature Kaffir Corn Seed Blast Hulled $2.25 White per bushel. 1916 Crop, well- A recleaned seed. W. CHESTNUT, (Farmer) Kincaid, Kans WOMEN OF MIDDLE AGE Original slang is often poetic.

Perhaps the best way to prove this to the professors will be to remind them that some of their own worthiest and most classic and respectable words are themselves, if we go back to their origin, just the same slangy vagabonds as these. Examine, for instance, the word inveigh, Max Eastman writes in the New Republic. There is a staid and dignified term, fit to be incorporated in a president's inaugural: "I will not at this time inveigh against the custom prevalent among my contemporaries." You can imagine how it would sound. And yet, poetically, what does that word mean? In means "into." Vehi means to sail. "I will not at this time sail into my contemporaries!" Here is another Latin word-insult.

In its origin it means to jump on- exactly what is said everywhere by the schoolchildren of America when the appropriate situation arises. Diatribe is a pretentious term. It implies something more thorough than an insult, a more lasting denunciation, You not only "jump on" somebody, but you "rub it in." We used to say of a crazy person that he was "off his trolley." And the word delirious meant substantially the same thing in an earlier stage of civilization. It came from the Latin words de and lira, which mean off or out of your furrow. The word precocious means precooked, or, as we say, half baked.

Capricious means like a goat, and the slang correlatives here are innumerable. Imagine some worthy, refined and graduated soul being offended by a young upstart and responding somewhat as follows: "It seems to me you are a trifle capricious. I would hardly expect any one to inveigh against me in this delirious manner, delivering such a diatribe. Is it essential to your precocity to insult your elders?" And then suppose we translated this somewhat according to the etymological dictionary: "You goat! You must be off your trolley to sail into me like that and then rub it in! Just because you're half-baked you needn't think you can jump on your elders Where His Pay Goes. A Pittsburgher, who has been watching the diet squad eat and grow fat on 25 cents a day, writes as follows: "Both my wife and myself have followed the published reports of the different diet squads and have come to the conclusion that they have not succeeded in telling the average American housekeeper anything.

I occupy one of the munificently paid positions of railway mail clerk and get the enormous salary of $1,200 per annum. Now, let us see what becomes of that wealth. First there is the item of rent, and, do what I can, in this city we cannot get anything either decent or in an American locality for less than $25 a month; fuel, light and carfare eats up insurance, wife, $1,000, myself, $2,000, and accident insurance comes to $8, making a total of $38, leaving bills, for a family of eight persons. That's not quite $2 per week for each, and as none of them is yet a wage-earner, it is easy to see that the most rigid economy has to be practiced by my wife, to say nothing of myself. Of course we would like to have more of this world's goods, but not at the expense of the for they are worth more than material Leader.

Love's Labor Lost. E. Lemerle, a mariner, his home in France for America, where he hoped to earn enough money to support his wife and children in better style than at home. After sailing around the Horn to Portland, he could get no better job than washing dishes in a hospital. He made $20 a month, and sent $16 of it back to France.

Out of the remaining $4 he set nside regular sums to pay for his family's passage to this country, and for their home. One day he cut his wrist while at work, and blood poisoning cost him the use of his right But he kept at his dishwashing, and did odd jobs outside of the hospital. At last he had saved enough to furnish a little home, and he sent word to his wife by a friend who went to visit his native village in France. The friend wrote back that she had told him "I don't care for a husband who is a cripple." Epitaph of Romance. Romance may be alive under the glare of the bright lights of the great cities, but in this quaint old mountain town its swan song has been sung.

Witness the following: A young woman employee of a New York publishing house wrote her name on an inside page of a magazine published by the company. The magazine fell into the hands of A. B. Watson, twenty-one years old, of this place, who is considered matrimonial timber. Watson wtote the young woman.

Did he propose marriage? Not on your life. He told her she should be ashamed of herself for seeking acquaintance in this manner. Weldon, W. Dispatch in Chicago Tribune. Boll Weevils on Skates.

A distinguished Memphis lawyer, who has been down in Mississippi during the severest part of the recent cold spell, is authority for the statement that he saw boll weevils skating on the ice on the ponds and keeping themselves cool with palm-leaf fans. This rather contradicts the idea that frost will kill this ugly pest. -Memphis News-Scimitar. Mrs. Quinn's Experience Ought to Help You Over the Critical Period.

Lowell, Mass. the last three years I have been troubled with the Change of Life and the bad feelings common at that. time. I was in a very nervous condition, with headaches: and pain a good deal of the time so I was unfit to do my work. A friend asked me to try Lydia E.

Pinkham' Vegetable Comand it has helped me in every way. pound, which I did, am not nearly so nervous, no headache or pain. I must say that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the best remedy any sick woman can take." -Mrs. MARGARET QUINN, Rear 259 Worthen Lowell, Mass.

Other warning symptoms are a sense of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, backaches, dread of impending evil, timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, variable appetite, weakness, inquietude, and dizziness. If you need special advice, write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. Phewl "There's something in his face don't like." "It must be that rank cigar he is smoking." Take care of your health and wealth will take care of you.

Garfield Tea promotes Don't ask to know too much. That was where Mother Eve made her great mistake. The dangerous cold is the neglected cold. Get a box ofBILLS CASCARA QUININE PORN The old family remedy--in tablet form -safe, sure, easy to take. No opiates-no unpleasant after effects.

Cures colds in 24 hours -Grip in 3 days. Money back if it fails. Get the genuine box with Red Top and Mr. Hill's picture on it-25 cents. At Any Drug Store Green's August Flower When the stomach and liver are in good working order, in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred general good health prevails.

Green's August Flower has proven a blessing and has been used all over the civilized world during the last fifty odd years. is a universal remedy for weak stomach, constipation and nervous indigestion. A dull headache, bad taste in the mouth in the morning, or that "tired feeling" are nature's warnings that something is wrong in the digestive apparatus. At such times Green's August Flower will quickly correct the difficulty and establish a condition. At all druggists' or dealers', 25c and 75c bottles.

Green's August Flower 18 no more necessary TYPHOID than experience 3 has Smallpox, 0 demonstrate Army effi. the almost miraculous cacy, and harmlessness, of Antityphold Vaccination. Be vaccinated NOW by your physician, you and your family. It is more vital than house Insurance. "Have Ask your physician, druggist, or send for you had Typhoid?" telling of Typhoid Vaccine, results from use, and danger from Typhoid Carriers.

Producing Vaccines and Serums under U. S. License The Cutter Laboratory, Berkeley, Chicago, 111, MICE CARRY DISEASE Kill These Pests By Using STEARNS' ELECTRIC PASTE U.S. Government Buys It SOLD EVERYWHERE -25c and $1.00 New law just passed. New towns, business opportunities.

Map showing proposed railroads. Send 25 cents for maps and information. Address U.S. Commissioner, Outlook, Mont. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation of merit.

Helpe to eradicate dandruff. For Restoring Color and Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair. 50c. and $1.00 at Druggists. PATENTS Patent O.

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DEARBORN CHICAGO W. N. AVICHITA, NO. 10--1917,.