For years the rubber forests were
the sweetest song sung by the sing
ers that came up out of Mexico with
luring tales of fortune. The present
high price of rubber that has followed
the development of the automobile In
dustry will doubtless revive Interest ln
the rubber areas of Old Mexico. The
promoter with his photographs and bis
heavily stamped credentials, with the
red and blue seals will again invade
the United States
The Mexican Insurrection has help
ed him ln bis campaign against the
timid American dollar. It has aroused
an almost forgotten Interest In the
country of the snake and eagle ban
ner. Every one expects development
as soon as the muddled situation over
the country begins to clear up. People
are thinking Mexico and talking Mex
ico. Their knowledge of what Is go
ing on there Is at the best half knowl
edge, and the promoter finds the
ground already broken in which he Is
to sow the seeds of the lure of easy
wealth.
The recent troubles make good his
story of reverses because of political
conditions
He is a sort of a hero
among the suckers whose names are
on his list. They listen open mouth
ed to his tales of guerrilla warfare
and appear to sympathize as he de
scribes his arrest and deportation for
political reasons.
They decide to buy. “ Speculation”
they call It among their friends and
the Immediate members of their fam
ilies.
Some of the lands that they
buy have been sold scores of times to
different purchasers. Some of the Mex
ican rubber plantations sold to Amer
ican investors have been surveyed
and found to be out in the gulf some
where to the north of the- Yucatan
peninsula.
The legitimate exploiters of Mexico
have made the presence of this horde
of smooth tongued adventurers possi
ble. They are fattening ln the pub
licity given the real schemes of Mex
ican development.
SHE GOT
WHAT SHE
WANTED
This W om an Had to Insist
Strongly, but it Paid
a —
Chicago, 111.—" I suffered from a fe
male weakness and stomach trouble,
and 1 went to the
store to get z. bottle
of Lydia« E. Pink-
ham’s V e g e t a b l e
Compound, but the
clerk did not want
to let me have it-
he said it was no
ood and wanted me
o t r y something
else, b u t knowing
all about it 1 in
sisted a n d finally
________________ got it, and I am so
glad I did, for it has cured me.
“ I know of so many cases where wo-
men have been cured by Lydia E. I’ink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound that I can
say to every suffering woman if that
medicine does not help her, there is
nothing that will.” —Mrs. J a n e t z k l
2903 Arch St., Chicago, 111.
This is the age of substitution, and
women who want a cure should insist
upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound just as this woman did, and
not acceV something else on which the
druggist ca,. make a little more profit.
Women who are passing through this
critical period or who are suffering
from any of those distressing ills pe
culiar to their sex should not lose sight
of the fact that for thirty years Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound,
which is made from roots and herbs,
has been the standard remedy for fe
male ills. In almost dv°ry community
you will find women who have ix-tn
restored to health by Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound.
" a u
■ '* * * * » w-vl
--
f
•
ind the gwlndler who have followed ln
the steps of the honest promoter,
Many of the plausible tongued gen-
V P °U
t ofi Americans,
° ,dl MeI
ico to sell plantations
are
sun tanned, saturnine men, with a
g,ft of tons ,le» The great majority of
them, however, are gentlemen with
saddle coiored complexions and Cas-
tutan accents. They let It be known
that for reasons not unconnected with
the disturbed conditions of their home-
lnnd they muBt 8ell Thelr descrlptlons
weakening them. It IS equally bench- of their very great plantations roll
ficial for the very young and the mid- from pr;,rtlre(t tongues.
¡“ * r t
j. I. -¡way. efficient
tree trom all harmful ingredients. I 0 a gold mine
They prefer to deal in
get its beneficial effects it is always those " lost mtnes-" of which all trace
L, , l
’
L l vanished before the revolution of
necessary to buy the genuine, bear- ls38 Some oId Indlan ln thetr group
tng the name c f the Company — of family retainers has. so the story
California Fig Syrup C o __ plainly koes. recently rediscovered this place
printed on the front ofevery
packag^ Iof !?bulous rlchne88- The plau8,ble
•/r’a'-aa6c. gentleman cannot return, and work
__________________
,
black eye?”
d K‘ Ve * >U that
hv „
’
i ,
,
.
giving
a
black
-v
'
t*
p.
r
,’J
on
giving a black eye to the lady who
gave it to me.” —P. I, P.
w .
this mine.
He will be thrown Into
Jail or he will be persecuted by his
»olitlcal enemies
Alas, he needs
money-now. at once.
He must sell.
and he usually does sell.
The gold
Take Cold
« S and r ahowed
* ” the It speaker.
to the
Vhen the bowel* are constipated, poi
" w hy- 1 do“ 1 know, hut there's no
sonous substances arc absorbed into tbs telling what a buffalo will do when
Mood instead of being daily removed from he want* grap*a,' was the reply
the body as nature intended.■ Knowing I New York WorltL
t
this danger, doctors always inquire about
the condition of the bowel*. Ayer’s Pill*.
W IM h O . tr w O a . laeweiLI
“ How did you spend your
weeks’ vacation?”
“ Recovering from sunburn the
week and poison ivy the second.|
Washingon Star.
Good For Yoi
HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH BITTERS
It Does the Wor
Honorable, Dignified, Lu
When You
b
“ Is your son out o f danger yet?’J
“ N o; the doctor is going to nJ
three or four more visits.’’—L
ville Courier-Journal.
The Dawn o f Scientific
When He Wants Grapes.
City Building In Canada.
An expert condemns the common
"Champ Clark Is rather leery about
giving an opinion nowadays." said one practice on this continent of laying
of his friends ln the house press gal out our cities with the regularity of a
This system Is the
lery
"He la running for president. box of blocks
He Is much given to saying that be triumph of utilitarianism. We usually
will not discuss a subject that every build our cities on the plan of a cer-
tain sort of bookcase, so that It Is easy
body else Is discussing
"Mr. Clark reminds me of a young to add new sections whenever we like,
■ lawyer out west The legal light would without Incongruity.
One way is to pay no attention | n°t commit himself on any subject
Sound Phllosopny.
to it; at least not until it de ! Two of hts friends, Tom and John, un
A corresponden- of the Portland.
velops into pneumonia, or dertook to make him take a stand
Mass, Times asserts: "Men are like
bronchitis, or pleurisy. An They went to his office and Incidental bugles— the more .»wss they contain.
ly
commenced
a
debate
whether
or
other way is to ask your doc not a buffalo ate grapes.
the further you can uea them. Wom
en are like tulips the more modest
tor about Ayer’s Cherry Pec |
Of course, he eats grapes.’ said
toral. If he says, “ The best | Tom. I saw one climb twenty feet and retiring they appea-, the better
you love them.” There U som j truth,
thing for colds,” then take it
10 *et a bunch of grapes.’
we think, lit that.
What! ^ buffalo climb a treeT"
Do as he saya, anyway.
•Yea.’
Futile Arguments.
W « pu b.iah omr f o r n u l u
” What do you think of that propc
Tber* was ones an orator. Tv emit-
bwaitah ftl+ofcol
sltlon a buffalo climbing a tre* to
fVoaa o » r a o d io tn o o
get grape* judse"
”, Z ----- J” tocl#s, and aa he reasoned a Colonel
A yers
Stranger — Have you a good]
tonic you can recommend?
'
Druggist (in prohibition tow
Here is something that is spo^_
very favorably by people whoj
drank it.— Puck.
brick has always been a weakness of
When the Stomach, Live
the American.
Banana plantations are one of the
and B o w e ls have “ goni
main standbys of the dark skinned
promoter.
He always has many pic
b a c k ” on y o u there ij
tures. They are photographs'of beau
tiful banana groves, with himself
nothing will do you so mu
standing well In the foreground. Big
bunches of the fruit are dropping over
good as a short course of
his shoulder, and around him are
number of white clad halfbreeds, to
whom be refers as his "peons."
His language rises to Iridescent
heights as he describes the “ so grand
hacienda,” and the vast acres that sur
round his home.
His tongue fairly
For 58 YEARS it hasi
drips gold as he describes the fertile
land, the glorious climate and the
helping sickly folks back I
certainty of a fortune to the lucky
Berrying With a Bear.
man who grasps the providential op
health. Try it today.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Clark and family
portunity.
of
Milton
are
putting
ln
this
month
in
These gentlemen with the smooth
and versatile manners Invade Amer the mountains, and a few days ago
ican cities. They work very cautious she left the camp to pick huckleber
ly and very quietly among the sort ries, and when about a . mile away
of people who dream of getting rich found a bush well loaded with the
over night by some lucky speculative fruit and was busy filling her bucket
turn. They stop at the little out of when she heard a rustling noise on
the way hotels and tell a tale of perse the other side of the brush, relates a
cution that accounts for their secre dispatch from Milton, Ore.
She got up to investigate and there,
tive movements.
almost touching her, was a large bear.
Talk for the Investor.
They gazed at one another for some
As a rule the swarthy coloring, the little time, and then Mrs. Clark start
Castilian accent and the photographs ed to run for the camp, believing the
of the plantations, concessions, rubber bear was after her, but he was run
groves and banana forests are all that ning ln the other direction.
the promoter needs ln order to con
FOR RHEUMATISM |
vince bis victims.
The Rent Sheepskin.
Mrs. O live Huntington, Nortons, Ore.,«
“ Ah, but see, senor,” he exclaims,
The president of a college near Bos
“ I consider 3 ’our M exican Mustang l|
I iment the best o f liniments. I haTewl
"here Is the station of the railway ton tells me that he received today a
I it for different ailm ents and it alwd
that is located quite near the haci letter, the writer of which, a graduate,
gave satisfactory results. It is espedij
go o d in cases o f Inflammatory*
enda.” As he talks he rifles through asked for a second diploma. He said
I tisiu and all form s o f lameness.”
a bunch of Mexican photographs, se that he had been engaged but that
| 25c. 50c. $1 a bottle at Drug &. Gen’lSl
lecting one now and then with much to he and the lady of his choice had a
edify his listener.
falling out. The lady showed her dis
"You will see that there Is transporta pleasure by tearing his diploma Into
tion for the minerals, the fruits and bits. "I am afraid,” said the presi
T R A D E MARK
the dry stuffs from the plantation. dent, “ he will have to go through life
Then, too, senor, the labor Is the minus his diploma, but with a certified
cheapest. Do you see ln this picture copy.”— Boston Record.
the mozos who work for me? Ah, but
they are contented folk, who will
Roasted Victim Alive.
COUGH AN D CONSUMPTION |
work and' work hard if properly han
An almost unbelievably cruel hap
dled. It Is the Senor American who pening has come to light at Hiroshi
REMEDY
would know how to handle these pa ma. Japan
There a man and his
THE OLD & RELIABLE REMEDY F O II
tient workers. Dangerous? Not at all, wife have been arrested for willfully
& RECENT C0U6HS, HORSENESS. 181
and very temperate.”
cremating a live man. The prisoners
INFLUENZA ANO COLDS.
In the southwest they cut their eye were In charge of a crematorium, and
P R I C E 25 A N D 50 CENTS
teeth on such tales and pictures long while at work a faint voice coming
A S K Y O U * D EALS*
since. The business of marketing Im out of a coffin begged for fresh air.
S. B . MEDICINE M F G .C O .
P O R T L A N D , ORE.
aginary banana plantations and arid The couple took no notice, however,
wastes of sand for sugar beet fields and proceeded to apply fire, roasting
has languished there for years. It has the man alive.
forced the promoter to penetrate far
ther northward with his thrilling, en
Spiritual Insulation.
trancing and Iridescent stories of
Many a man. who is now thallled
wealth to be had for the asking. Pop with the currents of the life of this
ular Ignorance of Mexico has aided modern age freely passing through
them. Our estimate of the Mexican him. Is in danger of moral disaster,
shrewdness has made the task of the through defective spiritual Insulation.
promote! easy.
We think that be Are the wires of your ambition well
cause he cannot speak English flu wrapped around with the Insulating
Learn « Profession where d* |
ently he is already delivered Into our material of prayer and faith and love? mand is greater than the supply*
hands.
—Zion's Herald.
EXICO savors of romance,
mescal, chili, guitar thump
ings and gold. It has about
It the lure of easy money and
swinging
hammocks,
and
there ts a popular feeling that fortunes
wait for the hustling American who
ventures into the land of the Monte-
cumas.
Americans look upon the Mexican as
an untutored and childlike individual
who cannot compete with Yankee
shrewdness. Sooner or later the ad-
veuturous financier of the northern re
public ventures across the line Into
the southern republic and invests in
a banana plantation, a dye wood con
cession or a mine of Ineffable rich
ness.
Fleecing the "gringo" has become
an established business in those arid
lands that lie to the west and the
south of the Rio Grande del Norte. A
stream of good American dollars Is
poured across (he line Into the "land
of tomorrow.” The Mexican has taken
a leaf from the book of the dead and
gone boomers of the old boom towns
of the prairies. The recent insurrec
tion has stimulated business of this
sort, but It has been well established
for the last decade.
A HEALTHY,
HAPPY OLD AGF
—
s
A TVSX /CA-rr <SAZ,r AATY j ?
Student o f Human Nature.
Mrs. Carter and her cook, says the
Brooklyn Citizen, were discussing the
murder which had harrowed the dusky
citizens o f the countryside.
’ Will dey hang him fer killin’ o f
hia wife, Miss Cyarter?”
"W e can’t tell yet, Aunt Jinny.
The court will decide. O f course, if
they prove he did it on purpose— ”
‘ ‘ Done it a purpose!
Law, Miss
Fakers Looking for Victims.
Cyarter, in course he kilt his wife a
You can buy anything you may hap
purpose! Honey, ain’t I done been
pen to desire among these transient
married? Don’t I know men?”
promoters of the resources of Old
Mexico. They have aped the advertis
ing of the legitimate concerns that are
i | honestly endeavoring to open up cer
tain rich sections of the backward re-
. . .
i l l
public. The fact that many colonists
May be promoted by those whc well placed and carefully Instructed
gently cleanse the system, now ana liave niade money in the new lands
, l „_ - i _
_ J a
l
I
-•
has made business gooil for the faker
then, when in need of a laxative
remedy, by taking a deseitspoonful
of the ever refreshing, wholesome
and , tiuly
Syrup
j-»|. . beneficial
. c
J J\ , of . Figs
and rJlxir Oi ibenna, which IS the
only family laxative generally ap-
J l „ ,1
i
proved by the most eminent phy-
sicians, because it acts in a natural,
strengthening way and warms and
.____ I ________
,
lones up the internal organs without
fil“ “
“ Well, well, w ell,” said the kiJ
stranger, patting little Mollie on!
head, “ I suppose you are your , 1
little darling?”
1
“ I don’t know yet, thir ” i;J
Mollie. “ The court hathn’t de: *
yet. Jutht now I ’m the pet of I
Matrimonial Fidelity & CathuJ
Trutht company, thir” — Life. *
He took It up
audience with
the remark: “A weighty argument
but not convincing.” and the argu
ment* of some are like the stone of
Ahn follow la the crowd.
Write for Literature and informat»*
Prosperity Decreased Crime.
be to YOUR advantage.
! One hundred and seventeen persons,
Invalids and others needing »kilkd '
t _A _
• chiefly habitual criminals, were ban write for particulars.
\ ished for life from Perak last year. Of 4 0 9 C o m m o n w e a lt h B ld g .. P o r t h » |
1 these 99 were Chinese, 12 of whom
had been convicted of participating ln
j unlawful societies. It was discovered
that the number of prison offences
varied In Indirect ratio with the price
of tin. When tin was high and the
Industry accordingly prosperous In
mates of jails were few, and vice
1 versa.
I
Sublime and Ridiculous.
We like fine writing when It Is prop-
erly applied; so we appreciate the fol
lowing burst of eloquence ln a contem
porary: "As the ostrich uses both legs
and wings when the Arabian courser
P ortia » 1
bounds In her rear—as the winged 183 M adison S t .
llngtnlngs leap from the heavens
“ Jim my! What on eartk
"hen the thunderbolts are loosed—so
does a little negro run when a big dog crying about now?”
1* sfter him."
“ Tommy Jones dreamed W* ^
that he had a whole pie to
didn’ t .” — Toledo Blade.
No Exception.
Nothing, humanly speaking. Is pee
feet not even the fright* which ths
fashions make some women look._
Puck
FINKE PROS-