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Show THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I'll 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 WHO WAS WHO? By Louisa llllllll Af. Spain Could Not Bo Allies Friend MnH" ; No one could be surprised Mil lllllllll-- Physicians tell us that one condi- tion la nearly always present when a child haa a digestive upset, a starting cold or other little iimwit, Constipation. The first step towards relief Is to rid the body of Impure wastes. And for this nothing la better than genuine Castorlal Castorla la spurs vegetable preparation made specially for babies and children. This means It Is mild and gentle; that it contains so tank drug, no narcotic. Yet It always gets results I You never have to coax children to take Castorla. Beal Castorla always hears the name: HANKIE and Johnny were lovers" goes s fsmlllsr song, and few of Its many singers perhaps know that Frankie and Johnny were real lovers, who lived In the negro section of 8L Louis not so long ago, and that Frankie Is still sliver a thick-se- t colored woman, now fifty-nin- e years old, with graying hair and a razor scar received some forty years ago across one cheek. Frankie herself Is not prone to dl how she got her man who done her wrong, but the facts of the case may be dug up out of various police, morgue and hospital records and shaped Into a readable sordid tala Allen Britt, later Albert and still later Johnny, came to 8L Louis with his' parents In 1891, and there, at an Orange Blossom ball met Frankie Baker, handsome, but ten years hla senior, and formed 'll s a 'AV"' . :.y.;.v v W 'X- Annual Cattle 8how of Busnoe Aires. (Prepared hr the National Geosranhla C.) Society. Washington, (WNU Service) a t; five-bloc- k four-fifth- 1 road-makin- g iSsTcoit Bedridden with Rheumatism im k hard-ridind ills X'': In Collier's. Latln-America- n DoanS , j . - anti-Frenc- CASTORIA It v.,:.;.'; ,). v n. worlds largest market la tract planned for a for her his fatal attachment Buenos Aires, Argentina. One night Frankie found Johnny The market will have access to all In the hallway of the Phoenix hotel lavlshlngly on a railroads entering the city and also by tunnel, pretty negress named Alice Pryor direct communication, the attentions she elalmed exclu-slvel- y with the citys port No city In the United States Is so as her own, took him home, and as the climax of a violent quar- Important to us as Buenos Aires Is s rel which lasted all night shot him to Argentina. It handles with his own gun Just as he was of all Argentinas trade, and houses on her with a drawn 20 per cent of all the nations CHItORINttCSt "J'O R I T advancing knife. Inhabitants. All Its 2,000,-00- 0 Fatally wounded, Johnny people are either Europeans or staggered to his own home where his father called the police and his of European descent. This Is true Lock That Keep! Record A recording lock that not only tells mother an ambulance to take him of only one other the time It was opened but the key to the hospital. Re died tour days city Montevideo. that Aid It, has been Invented, says later and hla funeral was a gala Three times as big as Spains largest city, modern Buenos Aires Popular Mechanics Magazine. It can affair, well attended. Almost dlately after, the wretched affair as expanded and rebuilt in the last be used In connection with any ard make of door fitting. It prints was being celebrated In song, and 80 years Is conspicuous In all the on a tiny paper roll, like that In a Frankie, freed of the tolls of the world for Its magic growth. mch register, what time It was law, bore herself with the pride of The whole 25,000-mll- e railway system of Argentina has Its focus opened. It has facilities for ns many a wrong well avenged. own here the finest railroads In South as six keys, each making Its THE BAREFOOT BOl America. No great motor highways forgery-proo-f Imprint on the roll. radiate from the city, because the DOSING before the camera bare-- vast pampas afford no foot and with "turned-u- p panta- materials. But by rail and river loons" Just to make the matter con- Buenos Aires handles more than retired Lutheran preach- half as much freight as the port of clusive, er of Nebraska, recently got his New York, and the net tonnage of t drew out your name and bis picture In the papers hips calling each year la equal to cold like I act when nibbed oa as the original Barefoot Boy who In all that passes through the Panarent. Eaaca breathing anted la Huffy spired the American poet, John ma canaL . Jrc rod Greenleaf Whittier, to write his well Not trade alone makes It great. known praises of carefree boyhood Its social, artistic and political atout In the country. An examination tractions rank It among the worlds of the details of bis llfet however, most dazzling capitals. To It flock and the circumstances under which the rich, the Influential, the IntelWhittier wrote his poem, lead to ligentsia of all Argentina. "Our How Campaign Candidate (to campaign manager the conclusion that the Nebraskan country as a whole would develop and the barefoot boy could not have foster, said one prominent banker, You Issue the dodgers been one and the same person. Tf more of our best brains would And you dodge the Manager This preacher states that he came stay In the provinces to America from the old country In Stock Farms Are Enormous ISC?. Whittier Is known to have Yet, although so many land ownwritten "The Barefoot Boy while ers live In the city, the swift, probe was editing the Middlesex Standdigious growth of herds and formto have ard at Lowell, Mna., and ing on the vast campoa Is an ecotaken his theme from seeing a boy nomic phenomena In this comparathere starting out to his day's work new country. In Europe the Robs on o3 In the field, rake over shoulder. It tively visitor Is noted among Is matter of record that Whittier Argentine op right away hotels resorts and shop keepers edited the Middlesex Standard for for the freedom with which he Thanh nothing Uke six months, starting In the fall of good old St. Jacobs pends money. These Immense In1845, nearly twenty years before the comes are Oil for relieving the mostly from the solL chce and pains of preacher ever saw the shores of this One Estanda In Santa Fe provNeuritis, Rheuma- -, country. Is It not more logical, and ince runs 50,000 cattle, and boasts Lnmbago, Backache, Neuralgia more pleasing, to suppose that Whitbulls costing $10,000 each of prize or eon Muadaa. Yon rub it oa. Withtier's model Is the very spirit of and out burning or blistering It qnfcUy upwards There are 25,000 dnws out pain and Inflammation. boyhood Itself, viewing the world hogs 1,200 horses a creamery makthrough unspoiled eyes. Raliaf cornea before you can count 601 ing 4,000 pounds of butter dally for Get a smaU bottle from your druggist. export to England; private telePRINCE CHARMING phone system, a rambling chalet set in an artificial forest of Imported High Cost of Art This country purchased $250,000,-00- 0 1VTO, LADIES bsve never actually trees swimming pools tennis courts v worn glass slippers. But the a princely estate that would make worth of paintings and sculpture Cinderella theme, the story of the even a Texas cattle king dumb with In Comers Weekly. downtrodden heroine to whom at astonishment 8imllar ranches lie last has come Prince Charming and near Buenos Aires; others are for bliss forever, has become so deeply away, on the pampas Their numftlCOLD! Imbedded In our literature, that we ber, size, and money-makin- g orOURS WITH are scarcely surprised to find It ganization amazes the tourist with founded on a real happening. school-hoomemories of woodcuts About 1730 talented and wealthy showing a gancho French actor, named Thevenard, winging three-ballelasso over then a man over sixty, wandering his head and chnslng longhorn about the streets of Paris, observed steer or an ostrich. renpon a cobbler's stall awaiting Nature Is kind to Ruenos Aires pair a womans slipper. So dainty Up the Parana are the majestic was It, and of such grace, that Thevfoils of Igunzu, and Guayra, solenard was struck with admira- emn and stupendous ranking with tion and curiosity about Its owner, and Victoria in Africa. and a sort of fascination which Niagara Andes and under the shadUnable to Up the would not leave him. ow of Aconcagua highest mouninfree himself from his uncanny tain In the Western world runs a terest, he at length returned to the cogwheel railway that lifts you In Pride makes a hero, sometimes, cobbler's could from but stall, gain few hours from green plains to the mans rather than courage; but him no clew as to the slippers heights and snowdrifts 20 Alpine a hero, Just the same. ' owner. feet deep, where Argentine soldiers worn that little and Days passed, train on skis Winter hotels are slipper became an obsession with here now a new St Merits And the great man. Again and again. there Is ancient Cordoba, historic Irritated by his own folly but un- Tucuman, the famous baths of able to do otherwise, he returned to Rosario. the stall and watched the cobbler And aa melons and oranges rush as he worked upon the tiny shoe, It May Warn of Kidney or our East from California and to ownIn vain the that . always hoping Bladder Irregularities so fruits flow Florida, er would appear. She appeared only Into Buenos Argentina's Aires It lives well. A nagging backache, with when the shoe was done, and proved bladder irregularities and Whole tralnloads of fresh grapes to be a charming girl enough, but come from the famed a tired, nervous, depressed vineyards of humblest class. of the poorest and feeling may warn of some disMendoza and many reach our own real was a this tale, since But fairy ordered kidney or bladder conthat made not the slightest differ- markets dition. Users everywhere rely American Investments Heavy. ence, and this Prince Charming and on Doans Pills. Praised tor Mutual trade has brought huge bis Cinderella were married and more than 50 years by grateful to Buenos American Investments users the country over. Sold by lived happily ever after. Aires notably In packing bouses ifia Wwtin Howapwor Dnlom.1 druggists. public utilities and banks Two Yankee concerns alone control more Tragic Blender The greatest blunder of all time Hinn 100 light end power units In probably occurred on the day when Argentina. Hera, too, you see the the first of our prehistoric ances- new policy of great American cortors discovered that by making cer porations applied, by which now tain grunts and wheezes he could their Argentine employees are enImpart his own Ideas to some of couraged to become stockholders the more Intelligent among his Youth, vitality, sheer enjoyment Hendrik Wlllen Van of living, they sra the attributes neighbors. of Buenos Aires Shiny new motor Bothered with Backache? & t'jA H s CHILDREN Spain preserved a strict neutrality in the great struggle of Armageddon. The historical barriers between Spain and the allied and associated powers were not to be surmounted.' The deepest bitter memory of the Spaniard Is the Napoleonic Invasion and the agony of the Peninsular war. Even after a hundred years there could be no unity of sentiment between France and Spain. Gibraltar, though a faded cause of Irritation, till days a part In Spanish thought. But the real hatred was for the United States, and the final loss of the last remnants of the Spanish colonial empire left an aching void In the breasts of a proud race. The aristocracy were As The middle classes the king said, "Only I and the mob are for the Allies." The best that could be hoped for was that Spain should be neutral In the struggle; and certainly she prospered by her abstention from It Winston Church-11- 1 Comstock FRANKIE AND JOHNNY Made specially for BA B I ES and V. A r that g Gold Insurance He conies K with him, ready for just such times That little box of Bayer Aspirin. If he catches cold, what of it? Bayer Aspirin will stop it. If hie throat feels sore, he will end the soreness with one good gargle made from these tablets. Dangerous complications can follow the neglect of a common cold! Every case of tonsilitis began with just a sore throat I Its a wise plan to take aspirin after any undue exposure to bad weather, or whenever there is any chance that you've caught cold. If its genuine aspirin it can't possibly hurt you; and how it does banish the aches and puns caused by colds, neuralgia, neuritis, lumbago, and even rheumatism. Bayer Aspirin will insure your comfort through the worst cold season. The more susceptible you are to colds, the more you need it. Does not depress the heart. Tractor Statistics cars; fascinating, Paris-llkshop lb number of tractors per 100,000 windows; arc lights glaring on acres of crop land, California leads midnight crowds In bril- all states with 523. New York Is liant Calls Florida; cafes casinos second, with 402. Illinois has the restaurants and hotels most tractors on farms Kansas all packed with chattering, laugh-- , comes second, and California Is sevEndless places of enth on the list In value of all lng people. amusement, the great farm Including machinery equipment, Iowa Is Grecian Colon theater; and, on billat head of the list, Texas Is secthe boards many names familiar to ond and California Is tenth. These Chaliapin,' Broadway; Tltta 8cli!pa, are drawn from the govern"Pelllculas figures Splnelll, Mlstlnguetts ment census report of 1030. Parlantes, they call the "talkies' And still It, grows Hera lands Foreign Markat Basket the Immigrant stream. Bearded men Europe is now eating American In boots carrying bundles; wondering boys and girls chattering In groceries at the rate of $280,000,000 strange Slav or Latin tongues; be- a year. American Magazine. wildered their heads mothers d It Is the old Intellectuals who have lectuals are raising It's poor seed that Isn't stronger wrapped In shawls found out that whnt the young Intel worn out. women bent from work, carrying than the soil. babies and still more bundles you see them all come slowly down gangplanks from European ships to stand a bit on the busy wharf and stare at Buenos Aires Argentina needs these. She has as much land as the United 8tates; but only as many people as live In and about New York city. Or about one and per square mils as against 490 In the e well-dress- high-price- d hard-hande- fuss about one-thir- d one-thir- d British Isles Italians English, Spanish, French Germans Swiss Americas all mlngls So cosmopolitan Is the city that Its great papers La Naclon and La Prensa must serve news from everywhere. Their circulation Is enormous; their advertising hugs The quality, completeness and accuracy of what they print challenges the thought of every Their absorbvisiting Journalist ing Sunday rotogravures their feature articles on sport, travel. International affairs science, literature nd art many by world famous writers astonish the newcomer, at first Then he reflects; this Is a great, world city. It thinks like any other; and acts as Paris does or Berlin, or New York. Modern but Exotic. Italian workmen with power drills tear up good pavements New buildings rise higher and higher. Air students stunt at Palomar field, e and Yankee flyers corns peddling new planes. A man In fancy gaucho dress as obsolete now as old time wild west cowboy gear, colls a live snake about hla neck and hawks patent medicines A communist tries to harangue a crowd, and police lead him amiably away. Children ride tame llamas In the parka A weazened little man struggles through traffic with a huge basket of coconuts and offers them to world which seems to spurn coconuta Around the great Diagonal of the financial center grim, towering banka suggest Wall Street. Subways long suburban trains screaming newsboys 50.000 football fans Jammed before on loudspeaker Avenida de Mayo you see this a city greatest In South America. Its fog suggests San Francisco. Its flat ex;anse Is like Chicago. The vast plains beyond, with endless leagues of corn, wheat and cattle, conjure up Kansns or the Illinois pralriea And mules I Fat, with good harness they compete with trucks. Yon see a team draw aside, to let a luxurious motor lorry pass hauling glistening race horses out to the track of the Tiajuana like Jockey cluh. An unnsual organization thia Is. Its downtown gorgeous as a senate chamber, dominates all others. A member may ask you to hunt partridges at a great estanda on the pampas For many interesting hours a train hauls you past queer big corncriba shaped like tanks; wind mills; paropa wagons; endless riders In flat black hats baggy breeches short boots flying ponchos riding with short stirrups on clumsy saddles covered with sheep's wool. Leagues of wire fence stretch for as the eye can see, and artlfldij groves of Imported trees dot th4 pampas You stop at a lonely prairie station for all the world like Kansas west of Dodge City where you are to hunt Partridge are plentiful ; so are ostriches Hiding back to Buenos Aires you take the day coach, to hear cowmen talk. It Is like riding, in old days In the caboose of a cattle train from Texas op to Kansas City. Everybody talks herds hones fodder, calves branding and market free-lanc- club-hous- e, d prices Tie soap that makes 5096 mono ends richer, suds that soak clothes snowy white without rubbing, without harm to hands or dainty things. 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