Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1909, Page 13

NEW-CHIEF OF CZAR'S ARNY General Suhomlinoff Chosen Because He is a Fighter. STOLYPIN MAKING MANY CHANGES n Irritation Over the Unrea, ness of the Empire for War Une Canse of His Appointment—— Still Another Cause. ST. PETERSBURG, April 17.—Russia_has Her army, which a new minister of war. has for three years known Genera Roediger of Finnish extraction and Luth eran upbringing! as chief administrator, passes now under the officlal of General Suhomlinoff, governor of Kleff, Podolia and Volhynia. and ‘an avowed Russian natlonalist. This is the fifth change that command formerly military Premier ers. Soon after he took office, at a time when the Internal situation was at its blackest, the czar created a committee of Imperial defense, with the Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolalevitch as president. It Immediate purpose was to executo the de- crees of the military dictatorship shoule that have become necessary.. It had als, entire control of Ruesian military straiegy General Rocdinger was not only n meniber of the committee, but the War de partrienl was represented on it by an of. ficer of the grand duke's selection, Gen- eral Palitzin, chlef of staff. Roedinger was confined strictly to questions of en listment, morale and discipline in the army In due time he had his revenge for grand duke's slight on his office. 1 Plain Speaking s Popular, . The essential principle In military mat- , |ters for some months back has been plain speaking. With Prem’er Stolypin's personal ervatives In the Duma have 'been proclaiming that the active heads of the army in time of peace must be capable of Liing its leaders in time of the | THE 18, 1909. .. We are agents for the Vul- can Gas Stove, the kind thac *aves gas and is odorles MILLER, STEWART & BEATON 413 - 15 - 17 South 16th Street SOME REMARKABLE VALUES FOR PRUDENT BUYERS This week opens with many fine opportunities—indeed every week this interesting store holds out astounding attractions—household goods of all descriptions from the cheapest dependable goods to the highest grades made will be offered for your inspection and comparison. This special showing of bedroom furniture is praticularly worthy of your attention, everything new and the assortment is remarkable, nor have we ever before been able to offer greater values. DRESSERS Quartered-sawed and polished oak Princess Dresser, tion, full swell front, cast like {llustra- brass ORIENTAL We are exclusive agents for the Hohn Dry Al Synhon Por celnin-lined Refrigerators, best Refrigerator made. RUG SALE It is very convinoing to ourselves that we are offering to the Orlantal Rug Fanciers a price opportunity never befors enjoyed in Omaha. Our store is filled with anzious customers, who readily take advantage of the great values which this sale offers. We still have thousands of dollars worth of war. handles, French plate beveled yios ol Stolypin hax made in his cabinet since the | year began. He has already chosen new | administrators for the navy, the church, the state railways and commerce. The trend in all cases has been toward men of definitely Slav extraction and sympa- thies, and toward getting rid of the school of administrators associated with Count Witte, whose relationship with immigrant families was for some reformers & promise of progress along western lines, but has never ceased to be looked upon with sus- plefon by the Orthodox League of True Russian Men. Both Internationally and to the Russians themselves the future of the army Is more tmportant than any other public considera- tion, In the first place, should the little csarvitch, who s not yet 5 become sov- erelgn while he has stlli before him a long minority ih vears, the army means | to take charge of him, to protect him from | the politics that it dislikes, and if need | be to make up his mind for him. Then the present change in the professional head- ship of the Russian army has some features of more immedigte interest. Roediger ‘Has Hard Task. Géneral Roediger has been minister for over three years. He took office after the fallute of General Kuropatkin's campaign at Manchurla. He has previously been in- structor and examiner at the army head- Quarters staff; hig record was that of a well read authority and consclentious ad- ministrator; he had no career as a field campalgner. It was Roediger's first business to save Russla from the moral debacle that was | feared when the defeated and discontented | returned home, and its members dis- rsed among thelr familles. When an army -returns from war without glory the first soclal symptom is that the sons of the rich cease to think it fashionable to be- come officers. That happened in Russia, and the military academies had not half their complement of puplls the year after the war. General Roediger got the ready consent of the czar and the goverAment for his t A In the Duma debate on the army budget a fortnight ago General Roediger dopted this doctrine. He went further and sald that as supreme military matters nad Iy recent past he couid nst say that possessed ready at chief. n arran Ru: haal a communder-in- as high treason. It meant that the czar had proved himself wrong In the chol:e of lis servants. dld Stolypin for supreme command was Grand Nicholas himself, and the government put no one forward to defend him. Roediger made 10 reply. nor The man poinied at as unfit Doubtless it was a valuable service that Roediger rendered the army by his official candor, but it opened the way for his own exit. unprepared. When the premier got Grand Duke Nicholas deposed from the presidency of the months ago General, Palitzin, chief of staff, was sent out wih For this Premier Stolypin was not imperial the defense grand committee two duke's nominee, him. Suhomlinoff Has General Suhomlinoft Ability, was brought up from Kieff to take General Politzin's place. It temporary measure, recognized by everybody. cluded to be a man of more energy and strategic was seen from the first to be only a for Suhomlinoff was Roedinger in- ability than any of the onaries in the War department. func- He is an officer who has hitherto fought shy of court circles and of St. Petersburg. succeeded the indomitable General Drago- miroft at Kieff and learned his campaign- ing with that officer in the Turkish war. He The present situation thus amounts to a deciaration that Premier Stolypin regards General Suhomlinoff as the oficer who, be< Ing actlye chief of the army during peace, could be war. among the strategic problems of Russla's its commander-in-chief during Suhomlinoff's work has been always ustrian and German frontiers. He is a European soldier and took part In neither the Chinese nor the Japanese war. He {5 now in his 60th year, but as his personal tastes are for a simple life he is ed In the The ulira pairicts shouted that this Duke first step toward Improving the situation. He raised the officers’ pay. Next, the conscripts, he abolished the rule which gave officers of all ranks the pick of their their personal men to choose from hody seryants. for Following on that he tricd the effect of the uni- enhancing the sttractiveness of as a means of bettering the esprit de corps of a much younger man that most Russian officers of his age. He began his soldiering in the cavalry and has remained always a 1 [ keen horseman. He becomes at once the most Important personal factor in Stolypin's cabinet, and it is on him that Russia must rely for the restoration of its prestige. Its unreadiness to fight has been 0 rubbed into it by Austria and Germany In the last aix months that there have been days when it almost broke out fighting out of sheer vexation of spirit. Tt Is made abundantly clear to Suhomlinoff that Rus- sla depends of his head ns well as his hand to be ready when the day comes. form as a means of pcpul The rad tienal dirk tenics, and i it knce brete, with hoi I‘II\' v . m slan the least spedtacular soldicr in Europe. This uniform was insisted on by that plain liv- fur, plaln sfoken man, Alexinder 111 form ia the Ru n cavalry is represented this year by a new and showy outfit Gencral Roediger has not been above taking lessons In (alloring from the hatred Austrinns, whove fashi able regiments wear the prottiest clothes in the world. Weapons In the matter « Roedbrer 1 form. As | concern ty pro Lis wbcond to ‘hrov » with guns, Most of tae Wfuntry still only the arms that afrved them through the Japan- | “No' language can describe the feelings esa war, A more scrious defect, in view | of £ deaf mute when he steps on a tack of the short life of quick firing artillery | In the dark when it has been freely used In warfare, | It I8 quite possible for a fellow to be | well bal d vit I8 that the big Euns are also the same. | in the middie, © 1oUt Pertng his hair New 'batteries are due this summer from | When a mother says her boy is fall of the Krupp founderies at Essen; but (i ;{‘:::;“{';:lr!o);' ;n;i:hbun realize that it means fact that they are not here now has been A 9. 17 sonie men had their lives to live over @ heavy griet to the militant patriots dur- | again they probably wouldn't leave so much ing the dipldmatie struggle with the Ger- | for their heirs to scrap over. man-Austrian combination. | After eating onfons a girl should Roediger could show very promptly that ‘mufln(-l_\ #it down and persue some y of fiction that is calculated to take the blame for this belong on other shou'd- | breath away. —Chicago News. 2'ng tie army, s trousers he rongh Pointed Paragra, Sneezes, like misfortunes, sinely. Nothing but a’ strike will arouse a base drum to aetlon. | These who keep late hours haven't | use for carly hours. Oery—Would a hen | =10 stana it on end? | _Tha Ao owned by vour nelghbor | “2arlv alwave a howling success. e- {0 succeed you must have push. even run a lawn mower with seldom come - much Not wa 1wt with men and | o | | fortune to the man who is down to his lasi penny. t im work her S A S Is an ordeal which all women approach with dread, for nothing compares to the pain of child-birth. The thought of the suffering in store for AMOTHm her robs the expectant mother of pleasant anticipations. Thousands of women have found the use of Mother's Friend robs confinement of much pain and insures safety to life of mother and child. Thisliniment is a God-send to women at the critical time. Not only does Mother’s Friend carry women safely through the perils of child-birth,« but it prepares the system for the coming event, rq!iu'cs “*morning sickness,” and other dis- comforts. RO SEnatone tion malled free. THE llAnAnl LLD lfiEGULA‘lbl. co. ! o anta, (ROOT \ print it Extravagance is not necessary to good printing. The best work depends upon the good taste and capability of your printer A. L Root, Incorporated, 1210:1212 Heward Stroet Spring Aanouscement Gucke 1909 i most o0 R T ST and guv early inspect! J afford rtuni ohoos- fhe Hhom s farge Sumber of exciusive styles. © tmport fn “Single suit lengths,” and s sult cannot be duplicated. An order placed Dow may be deliv- ered at your comvenience. McDonald, Tailor $17 Seuth Fifteenth Street ESTABLISHED 1887 | program are given in the April number of lay an egg If she @('nl@n!l, | three admiralty And a silver dollar looks llke a wheel of | | Thus the Brass Bell, like {llustration, has two-inch posts, six filling rods instead of nine as {liustrated best price 3 Brass Bed with 2-inch posts, finish, very substantial cos price Brass Bed, price Brass price o Bross Bed, 2-inch continuous pos! ally goc alue < UV Many other styles in dull or anging in price up to .. construction and finish, our Bed, 2-inch po In our iron bed section, we are showing all atterns in both plain Mission and cream, prices range .830.00 to 34.35 the new Colonlal Designs, colors in white, nis Martin, dull black and gold from Yabvert Felt mattress, qual, If not better, than the Ostermoor Mattress at $15.00-—our price only Other felt mattresses in fancy ti We make box springs. atin or polished ruction,” speciel s0lld construction, solld construction seses hos SHL00 exception- polished mirror, 36x18, and French one of our bargains— price Golden Oak Princess mirror 18x40 inches, construction, . finely plece, price spl fin 18x36 Inchese, splendid const finely finished plece, price. . Meahogany Princess Dresser, 18x36-inches finely finished, i a Bird's-eye Maple Princess Dr mirror 18x86-inches, highly fin solid construction, very fine of furniture, price Golden Oak Dresser, 16x26-inches, this is plece of furniture, of Golden Oak Dresser, “Ha.oo oval a special $18.50 shaped, Golden Oak Dres: shaped T finish $135.00 Golden Oak, quarter-sawed ished Dresser, mirror special price and Ver- legs, Dresser, lendid ished -+ -822.00 Golden Oak Princess Dresser, mirror tion, $14.76 nirror nd of excellent construction, price $19.00 esser, ished, plece ..$31.00 mirror well- made price 10.75 mirror 20x24-inches, excellent value, $11.35 mirror 24x30-inches, excellent value $16.00 pol- 24x30-inches, ... 81978 CHIFFONIERS Golden oak Chiffonler, with five drawers, 34-inches long, this is a well price of . Golden Oak Chiffonier, long, excelles Golden Oak ( ere speclal 34-inches price Golden Oak Chiffonier, made plece of furniture at the special .96.28 34-inches ches, draw- made, and finely finished, 3 ..811.50 quarter-sawed; drawers 33-inéhes seven drawers, with nt value . H “hiffonier, with mirror 16x20-in: long, well long, mirror 16x24 inches, excellent value at..$16.78 The arri ture, val of our New Dinning Room Furni- the showing of which we devote one entire floor, makes our stock more complete and give us a wider range of styles and finishes, than is shown elsewhere. o Kyonix, som: We have all the staple finishes and the new finishes, such as Autumn leaf, Stratford, ething entirely new in' Omaha. these beautiful examples of the Oriental Bug Weavers Art, all to be sold ‘within the next two weeks. BNarly purchasers will secure the best values. .We herewith quote some of the prices of the different classes of rugs which this stock contains: $60.00 Kashmir rug, size 4-7x7-6, sale price. ...........$45.00 $43.00 Kashmir rug, size 4-10x6-6, sale price $32.00 $38.00 Daghestan rug, size 3-6x6. 1, sale price $32.00 Daghestan rug, 4, sale price $28.00 Daghestan rusg, 5-1, sale price $40.00 Daghestan rug, 6-2, sale price........$32.00 $60.00 Daghestan rug, very fine plece, size 4-4x5-4, sale price $60.00 Bokhara rug, size 3-2x5-3, sale price. . ... ..A.34o_o§) 48.00 Bokhaga rug, size 3-4x4-3, ’uale price \ .e ,844.00 $35.00 Mosul r size 4-1x6-6, sale price. . ... o¥ .524_0? 32.00 Mosul rug, size 3-4x6, sale ‘prflce »4821.;)? 0.00 size 3-2x7-3, ':lle price . 5%76.?? .00 Guenji rug, size 3-6x6-11, ‘3.619 price. ... .. ..$24.00 $44.00 Guenji rug, size 4-9x6-8, sale price .,$30.00 $50.00 Guenji rug, size 4-3x8-2, sale price. e ..$34.00 $60.00 Guenji rug, size 4x8-11, sale price ) ’3400 $56.00 Kazak rug, size 4-9x7-10, sale price ....$37.00 $60.00 Kazak rug, size 4-2x9-3, . sale price $40.00 $56.00 Kazak rug, size 4x9-9, sale price .$38.00 $70.00 Kazak rug, size 4-6x8-9, sale price. . .. $47.00 size 3-3x6- --$22.00 slze 2-11x $44.00 Kazak rug, size 4-9x6-10, sale price $64.00 Kazak rug, sale price $20.00 Mosul sale price $36.00 Beloochistan rug, size 2-11 x5-5, sale price. ......$24.00 $40.00 Beloochistan rug, size 3-3 x5-10, sale price. .. ...827.00 $30.00 Beloochistan rug, size 2-9 x5-2, sale price $20.00 $24.00 Beloochistan rug, size 2-10 x4-3, sale price ..$16.00 $32.00 Beloochistan rug, size 3-8x4-2, sale price. ... $21.00 $34.00 Beloochistan rug, size 3-8x4-6, sale price $44.00 Beloochistan 3-7x6-2, sale price. $30.00 Kellm rug, sale price....... $36.00 Kelim rug, éale price. .o $80.00 Iran rug, price $60. $68.00 Saruk rug, size 3-1x5, sale price - -852.00 $100.00 Senna rug, size 4-5x6-3, sale price. ...........875.00 $110.00 Khiva rug, size 7x8-6, sale price $80.00 $28.00 Beloochistan rug, size 2-11x3-11, sale price . . 820.00 $30.00 Beloochistan rug, - size 2-10x4-11, sale price. .. $20.00 $48.00 Beloochistan rug, size 4-2x4-11, sale price...832.00 $40.00 Beloochistan rug, size 3-7x5, sale price $27.00 $10.00 Anatolian rug, size 1-9x2-9, sale price. . --87.50 size 5-2x7-8, rug, size 3-2x5-9, rug, size size 4-7x9-8, size 4-2x10, s $24.00 size 4-4x8-1, sale GERMANY IS BUILDING DOCKS Facilities for Handling Floating Forts Part of Naval Program, COUNT REVENTLON MOVING SPIRIT By End of Present Year the Kalser Will Have Nine Lmmense Dry Docks in Readiness, with Others Provided For. BERLIN, April 16.—An account of the ex- | isting blg German docks and those that 1s | review edited by Count Reventlow, one of | | Germany’'s foremost naval authorities. | docke | enlarged ° are planned or In progress of construction | in connection with the German battleship a novel and miiitary maonthly Bix docks are described as yeady, namely, | docks, the imperial -dock | at Wilhelmshaven and two dry docks at Kiel, the greatest dimensions 500x97x33 feet, | and three private docks, which are th Kalser dry dock at Bremerhaven, belonging | to the city of Bremen and leased to the| Norddeutsche Liloyd, measurements TioxS7 x36 feet, and two floating docks belonging to Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, the larger of which is 614x30x25 feet. The larger dock consists of three sections, one of which can be added to the smaller dock to enable it to take a warship of 22,500 tons. In addition to the above there are two admirality dry docks at Wilheimshaven which are expected to be completed by the | end of this year and one floating dock to take 36,000 tons, which Blohm & Voss | have just completed. This new dock is con- | structed of separate pontoons firmly con- nected by side boxes. Rach of the side boxes contains complete | boilers and steam engines, dynamos and | compressed alr machinery, so that the dock | is completely independent of the land and can be anchored anywhere. Bach of the | toons can Itself be docked In the dock. e measurements are TRIX110x30 feet. Nine Ready This Year. At the end of 1908 Germany will thus own nine larn ks, but others are projected. mperial yard at Kiel is to have a floating dock capable of passing with a 4 crulser through the Kiel canal when Vulkan works of Stettin will 35.000-ton dock for their Hamburg | These two will be ready at the end pa i A branch of 1 The adm docks at the Elbe a dry adapt ralty further projects two dry Burnsbuttel, near the outflow of Wilhelm canal into the River | of Bremen will construct | dock at Bremerhaven. An Ingenious on of canal locks as docks s pro- 3 at Brunsbuttel and Holtneau, where the locks now in process of enlargement | will able of being used as docks without interfering with the canal passage. These last mentloned adaptations will be hirdly finished until 1814, All the docks are designed to ac- commodate battleships of a minimum ton- nage of 21,000 and dimensions of H0SxS5x30 fect, and crulsers of a minimum tonnage of M and dimensions of 538x79x27 feet. The new German ships, owing to the shal- low waters around the coast, will draw less water, but with their characteristic foresight, the Germans are leaving a mar- gin for further increase in displacement. Nor are docks for airships forgotten. have been taking place during the las! week wtih a view to ascertain how quickly emergency sheds for military alr- ships can be erected The army author- | ties wish to know how long it would take to provide proper shelter for an aerial | crutser forced to descend on account of Katse The city new Tlals 1in other parts of the city which serve atmospheric conditions or breakdown. Experiments were made wtih a transpor- | table shed built of canvas, divided segments capable of being quickly pleced togcther lke a tent. The equipment cludes a set of several dosen tall ste masts, between and across the tops of which the walls and roof of an alrship dock can be erected. The masts are eighty feet high. The experiments are said to have into | a in been satisi To open the tile ships of erman eapital to mercan- considerable size from the I Baltic via the new Berlin-Stettin canal, as it is already open to ships from the North sea, $10,000,000 is to be spent in equipping two great artificlal harbors in the west and east of the city. The east harbor will accommodate twenty-three ships of 50 tons burden and the west harbor as many as seventy-seven vessels. Owing to a rapid improvement in the canals and rivers of North Germany Ber- lHn every ycar gets a smaller proportion of Its food supplies and’raw material for manufacturers by rafl, and the new har- bors are expected to Increase and cheapen transportation still further. They will be connected with the state railways and will be equipped with up-to-date electrical machinery for loading and discharging cargo. SMALLEST HOUSE IN LONDON Stuck In the dence D such Center of the Best Re: trict—Land Belongs to a Convent. LONDON, April 10.—This spring the hith erto inhospitable door of “the smallest house in London" is to be opened to such | of the sightseeing tourists who visit the| metropolis as care to penetrate into its tiny interior. | In the heart of ultratashlonable T.ondon, | opposite Hyde park, this little house fs flanked on either side by Imposing stone residences, but its own dimensions are: | Width, six feet: depth, thirty feet. and in height it reaches half way up the second | story of its tall neighbors. It has a front door that leads into a long narrow passage | way. Walking thrcugh that and out at the back, one sees the only steircase ths| house possesses. It closely resembles a fire escape, as it is cn the outside of the | buflding and is scarcely more than an iron | lucder. | At the top of the ladder is the one and only room, a long, narrow hall like place | lighted by one large window. It is almost pessible to stretch from one wall to the other, so limited is its widdth. There fs no fireplage, for no chimney was ever put | in the house and no water fipes have ever been lain in it. In fact, no one has at- tempted to live in it for a great many years past. City of Wasted Space. London might as well be christened “the city of wasted space,’ as any one knows who has roamed around the sireets and scen the unused and unbuilt upon land in therwise crowded districts. This absurd, tiny, useless house right in the midst of one of the most fashionable residentiaf dis- tricts in the metropolls, is an example : f wasted space, and the lanes and squares no purpose, and whioh might have been added | to the buildings on either side of them, are further evidences. Why the smallest house was not divided between the two residences which flank It is & problem. Al the land around it be- longs to & rich convent situated In an adjcoent street. When the two large houses were put up evidently the builders leased just enough land from the convent to erect such houses as they wished and left between the two residences this six feet of space. It was not wide enough to cut a street through, and besides a street would only have led to the convent gar- ders. The sisters, perhaps fearing such a contingency, bufit this shell of a house which preserves the continuity of the hand- some block of residences and nowadays is let with the house to the right of it, though it is absolutely clstinct from it and has no connecting docis at all. It is & most embarrassing possession in- deed to the owners of the large house, for they must keep it painted on the outside and have fresh curtains and window boxes, so that it wiil not spoil the appear- ance of the other houses in the row. Its one room fs, of course, quite useless, for & -foot wide room, with no heat or water, is like Whitechapel in discomfort, yet the rert they would have to ask would be like Park Lane in its figures, so naturally the tiny house stands idle and unused and is a small but nome the less undoubted white elephant. The sisters of the convent have reserved the right to walk In at the front door and through the ground floor passage into the lane at thie back, which leads into their garden, any time they please, but, as a matter of fact, they avail the privilege once a year, and then they | file slowly along it by twos, just to keep the right-of-way through their property themselves of | vada line, there are vast snow sheds five miles In width, more than 100 miles long and varying from five to thirty feet in depth. From this never falling source the tributaries that flow into the Owens viver are fed, but the river Iitself, Instead of bearing the precious draught on to a It means that if the work laid out for the coming twelve months fs completed the whole scheme will be easily completed in four years. the approximate time set. According to the estimates 569,658 lineal feet of the big task will be excavated and lined tunnels, 36,140 lineal feet excavated |HUGE WATER WORKS PROJECT according to English law. Of course there is nothing of interest to seo in the little house. The one room is distinctly ugly and evidently no one has ever lived in it long enough to take the slightest Interest In decorating or embal- lishing 1t, so If the tourists were able to avall themselves of the privilege of going throvgh it, it would only be interesting as an‘example of the absurdity of some of the English ground laws and land leases. thirsty land, empties into Owens lake, whose waters are so highly Impregnated with alkali that no life exists in them. Superintendent of Water Works Mulhol- land has direct supervisions of the con- struction of the great conduit for the eity, and nome of the work will be done by private contract. Mr. Mulholland has this to say of tie engineering feats inyolved: “There will be about thirty-five miles of tunnels, chiefly between Majave and San Fernando . valley. We shall use no pipe, but expect to bring the water to Los An-| Which is twenty-elght miles long. One geles by a gravity flow in a concrete con- Austin and two steam excvavators are at duit large enough to carry 30,000 miner's | work in this division, and are expected to inches of water. The tunnels will make | Bive & progress of 6,000 feet a month, and this possible, this will complete the work In two years. “Some of the tunnels will be immense| Work on the various divisions is being affairs, but the expense of excavation wi)! | rapldly pushed and an army of workmen not be as heavy as for rallroad construc- | humbering up into the thousands have es- tlon. We shall simply give the water an | tablished temporary homes along the line opportunity to eat its own way Into the | Of construction. Schools have been es- San Fernando valley just as it probably | tablished at various points for the children did a few t! mand years ago without the of the workmen and teachers have been ald of electMcal sclence. The fall fs so|Sent out from Los Angeles, so that during great that by installing an electrical plant | thelr four years' residence in the wilds of in the valley we can obtain enough power | the desert there will be no lack of educa- to drive half a dozen of those tunnels at | tlonal advantages the same time. This will mean a com- paratively cheap method of construction.” The estimate of construction to be ac- complished during the next year, as re- ported by Mr. Mulholland, shows that 291,640 linenl feet of work is provided for. 1t includes much of the most difficult work in the whole project and the accomplish- ment of the quantity in the time specified will be a tremendous gain in approaching the final completion of the whole system posure to Disease Germs In the Spr s greater than at any other season, because the blood, having been vitiated, impoverished and de- vitalized during the winter, mostly by unhealthful modes of living, has less power to defend the body. Loss of appetite, pimples and other eruptions, bad eomplexion, languor and lassitude, mental and physical weariness, so cojmon at this time of year, are all indications that the blood is wanting in the power to defend the body, be- cause they are all indieations that it needs cleans- ing, enriching and vitalizing. The medicine to take is Hood’s Sarsaparilla, aceording to the experience and testimomy of thousands of people every spring. Hood’s Sarsaparilla makes the blood of the right quality and quantity,—normal in red and white corpuseles and all other constituents. It cures all humors, catarrh and rheumatism, relieves that tired feeling, restores the appetite, cures paleness, weakness, nervousness, aud builds up the whole system. It will make you feel better, look better, eat and sloep better, and give you the best protection possible against all infectious and contagious diseases. tunnels and 19,842 feet excavated and lined conduit. This is distributed through eleven sections of the work. In the celebrated Jawbone division, the most difficult. of the whole number, the tunnel work, aggregat- ing 49,183 feet, is to cost $1153,362, and is the largest cost of any single division. An electrical shovel was/placed in commission in this division January 1 and is expected to make sixty feet progress daily. In the Mojave division & distinct finan- clal gain was made in the conduit work, Sturdy oaks from little acorns grow— advertising in The Bee will do wonders for your businsss, Los Angeles to Tap River Two Hun- dred and Forty Miles Away at To carry @ tremendous volume of water across deser's, through canyons and be- neath mountains; to build at the cost ol $23,000,000 a concrete conduit 240 miles long, and make it waterproof, fireproof and earthquake proof, so that, though the floods may come, and the forests be swept away by fire, the mountains be re- moved to the sea, still this artery will carry life to the heart of a city by bring ing to it 250,000,000 gallons of water a day— this is the vast project undertaken by the city of Los Angeles. Away in the heart of the high Slerras, Inyo county, California, near the Ne- With the exception of ancient Rome no city of ancient or modern times, 8o far as known, ever boasted such a mammoth supply of water carrfed for so far a dis- tance. Already are the beneficlal effects being realized. Property values in Los Angeles and vicinity have advanced by leaps and bounds since the project was declded upon, and this advance gives every evidence of being permanent.—Los An- geles Times. in ach. At first they were quite long times apart, but later came more and more frequently and more severe, until I dared not eat food that I wanted and could hardly keep anything on my stomach. I took a course of Hood's Sersaparilts, and am glad to say I am completely cured of: all that trouble. Last spring I used the medicime again as I was not feeling very well, and Bhad rheumatism quite badly. I was also tired and weak all the time. When I had taken two bot- tles I felt all right again. It is truly a splendid stomach tenic and spring medicine.’”” Mrs. Ed. Chawplin, Greton, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1809, B@~Hood’s Sarsaparilla effects its wonderful cures, not simply because it contains sarsaparilla, but because it combines the utmost remedial values of more than 20 different ingredients, each greatly strengthened and enriched by this peeu- liar combination. These ingredients are the very remedies that successful physicians prescribe for the same diseases and ailments. There is no real substitute for Hood’s Sarsaparilla. If urged to buy any preparation said to be ‘‘just as goed,”’ you may be sure it is inferior, costs less to make, and yields the dealer a larger profit, “T am glad that such a medicine as Hood’s Sarsaparilla can be had, and I write this letter to thank you for it. My experience may help someone else by telling them where a good medi- cine for them may be found, and so I will say, I doubt if I should be alive now if I had not taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I was troubled for & long time with spells of great pain in my stome Begin taking Hood’s Barsaparilla today, im the usual liquid form or in the tablets knewn as BSarsatabs. 100 Doses One Dollar,