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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1906)
CIAL Tbe progress of trade Ctiicago. generally Is reflected In a ' midsummer activity which exceeds all former experience. This week's developments sustain encourag ing Tlewa of the trade outlook. Foe tory work has recovered from the nd Terse effect of the bat wave, while crop reports carry a most ossurlng tone, corn having continued excellent ad ranee toward an unprecedented har vest Leading Industries remain press ed to the limit of production, new de mands for manufactures make Incrcas Ing aggregates, and distributive deal Ings steadily expand Jn staple nicr chandlse. The raw material markets testify to strongly sustained absorption of sup plies, and the average of cost rises to a higher level, due to advances estab lished this week In Iron and steel prod ucts. Heavy construction shows head way under the Influence of more sea onable weather. Hank exchanges for August compare favorably In growth with those of the corresttondlug month last year, mercantile collections are good and trading defaults less. Current demands show best In man ufacturing and Jobbing branches. Pri mary foodstuffs exhibit some results of accumulating stocks In lower values and decreased shipments. Other lines, however, maintain a strong position. Retail taifflc Is remarkably strong, tore stocks of summer wares are well reduced and country buyers place heavy orders for dry goods, boots and hoes, clothing and millinery. Failures reported In the Chicago dis trict number 25, against 19 last week and 28 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Better weather and defi Nev York. nite assurances of large crop yields stimulate full and winter buying, which Is close to Its Eenlth. Most leading markets re port buyers present Ip unprecedented "numbers, and the volume of August Sales exceeds all records for that month, except at a few points where weather conditions have been unpro pltlous. Sales of dry goods, clothing, shoes, leather, hardware and other Iron and steel products, and lumber are j-ery large. The fall shipping season Is Ulna nnnnrontlv at lt lmlirlit etiln. ping forces are working overtime, and the railroads are working to their full capacity, with a car famiue predicted for the not far distant future. A sim ilar movement of winter wheat 1)0,8 partly relieved the strain on the rail roads and made for a little more stead iness In the price of that cereal, which, however, has sagged slightly as the feeling grows that spring, like winter, jjrbcat will prove a largo crop. Brad treet'a Commercial Report Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $0.80; bogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.20; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 $5.50 j wheat, No. 2, 67c to 70c; corn, No. 2, 47c to 40c; oats, standard, 28c to 80c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c; hay, timo thy, $10.00 to $10.50; prairie, $0.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 18u to 22c; potatoes, 40c to 50c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.25; hog, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 09e to 71c; corn, No. 2 white, 51c to C2c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to Sic. , , St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.33; sheep, $4.00 to $5.50 ; wheat. No. 2,,' 70c to 72c ; corn, No. 2. 45c to 40c: oats. No. 2. 20c to 81c ; rye, Xo. 2, 59c to 00c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.25; hogs, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No, 2, 70c to 72o; corn, No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to Sic; rye, No. 2, 59o to 61e. . ' r D&troit-'-Cattie, $4.00 to $3.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.50: sheep, $2.50 to $1,50; wheat, No. 2, ,72c to 74c; corn,' No. 3' yellow, 52c to ode; oats, No. 3 white, Milwaukee Wlcat, No. 2 northern, 75e to 77c s corn. No. 3, 48c to 60c; oats, standard, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 57c to 59c; barley, standard, 53c to 54c r 'pork, ma, $10.93. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping stoers. $4.00 to $0.25; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.75 ; sheep, common to good nilrd. T.W IV lull U IUOIC, $3.00 to $8.50. ' New York Cattle, $4.00 to $3.75; fcog, $1.00 to $0.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; heat, No. 2 red, 73c to 7flc; corn, No. 2, 53c to 55c; oats, natural white, 30c to 37c; butter, creamery, 18c to 24c; eggs, western, 17c to 21c. Tololo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, 55c to 50c; clover seed, prime, $7.15. Note of Current Kventa. , San Francisco will build a temporary Hy hall, two stories high and costing $80,000. . Private Harold Bing of Minnesota, a member of Troop II, Fifteenth United States cavalry, was struck by a passenger train and probably fatally injured at Rutherford, Pa. Vice Chancellor Pitney appointed J. K, Louekel and Robert A. Mossier receivers of the Reeves Engine Company of Tren ton, N. J. The liabilities are $311,000 end tbe assets $258,000. Quartermaster Sergeant Dodds of Com pany E. Twenty-secoud Infantry, leafed t San Francisco, committed suicide by drowning. J. J. llardwkk of Phoenix and Los Angeles has secured a concession from the Mexican government for the construction f a railroad 500 miles long la Honors. Jim Jackson, Philip House and Joe Murray, negroes, have been arrested In Tulsa, I. T., for tb murder of Harry Printer. 8 years old, in West Tulsa a Buonth ago. The crime was most brutal; Prlester's body being horribly mutilated and thrown Into a car of wheat for concealment. ii Secretary Wilson lias made a compu tation showing that It would require nn Investment of $."i,(KX),(KK) ut two per cent to reproduce revenue enough to run the iJcpartnient of Agriculture for one year. Tills Is nn llltiNtratioii, lie snld, of what Is being done for the farmer. The income to the department from nil sources, Including tbe direct appropriations, revenues fro;n forest reserves, and the allowance for public printing Is n little more than $11,000,- 000 a year. When the new meat In flection lnw, the work of exterminat ing the cattle fever, tica, and the gypsy and brown-tailed moth, niul the Irrigation of dry land farming have been put In 0cratlon, tbe di-piirtmotit will have a pay roll of over , per sons. About half of these are scien tists, trained along sperlul lines. The average salary Is less than $900 a year. Over 12,000,000 pieces of literature are circulated each year, and this amount will be greatly Increased as new lines of Investigation are ltcgun. One of tho new lines provided for this year Is grain Insis-cUon, niul this promises to be one of the lurgest fields of scien tific labor. Tho census burea will soon begin collection of marriage and divorce sta tistics under the census authorized by Congress. A few sia'tlal agents will go Into the field at once to confer with county authorities niul others as to scope of the Information available. Over 200 clerks will be sent out to gather statistics o marriage and di vorce from tho records of counties, State courts and like available sources of Information, It !s the Intention to gather data In lurge renters like New York and Chicago this summer, and later to obtain It In the rural districts. The census will cover the last twenty years. President Roosevelt Is deeply Interested In It Uniform divorce legis lation In the States Is expected to grow out of It. . , . ..."j : : Nowhere In the world are bank de posits Increasing In a grenter ratio than in tho United States. The French, just ly famed for their economy and saving proclivities, are easily outclassed by the Americans, reputed spendthrifts and the most extravagant people on earth. Olllclal figures just at hand ahow that In France from 1885 to 1905 bank deposits Increased from $182,000, 000 to $579,000,000, or 218 per cent, lu tbe United States during the same years tbe deposits Increased from $1,- ' 248,000,000 to $4,733,000,000, or 271 per cent. This great Increase Is properly chargeable to the prosperity enjoyed In tbe United States rather than to a healthy growth of tle habit of ecouomy. Hereafter every man In the military service of the United States will hove his thumb prlut taken nnd filed with the records of his enlistment, so that there may be no mistake In his identi fication whether dead or ullve. Tbe Impression of different fingers will also be taken, bo that the loss of a thumb would not shut off means of Identifica tion. This system bus been adopted on recommendation of a board appointed by Acting Secretary Alnsworth. The board found that the chances of finger prints of two persons being alike wus one In 04,000,000,000. The system will ulso be employed for the detection of deserters and to prevent fraudulent In dorsements. The Postmaster General has Issued a fraud order against the Vluclcss Pota to Company of Chicago, which has been advertising a substauce at $1.50 per bottle known as potutlue, which was guaranteed to produce as many pota toes. In a bin of sawdust, without vines or fojlago, us could be grown on an acre of ground, within a period of sixty days. -; ; A statement made by the Secretary of the Interior showing the allotment of funds under the provisions of tho national Irrigation act, says that the sum of $41,000,000 derivuble from the sale of public lauds Is available for this purpose. Work will be continued or begun in fifteen western States. -: i- A force of fifteen sjwlal agents of the Interior Department which had been furloughed for several mouths on account of luck of funds, resumed ag gressive Investigation of land ftjiuds lu the Western and Southern States under the appropriation which becamu effec lve July 1. Tho Isthmian Canal Commission has Issued Invitations for proposals to fur nl not less than 2.5(H) Chinese labor ers for ctttittl construction over n icrlod of not less than two years. The work Jng day Is to consist of ten hours, with all overtime puid for at the time-and-a-half rate. The War Deportment has awarded the entire Issue of Philippine bonds to the amount of $1, 000,000 to Flske & Robinson, Xew York, at 102.28. These certificates bear 4 per cent Interest, are redeemable In one year nnd are accept able as security for public deposits. It i the sixth Issue of Its kind. t : The Postofflee Deportment has decid ed to test at Baltimore the use of auto mobiles In the collection of mall. If successful, the system will be extended to all the larger cities. Two automo biles have been constructed which are capable of doing work of four horse drawn vehicles. When thirty Hebrew children, who were orphaned by the KUhlneff massa cre, arrived at New York the Immigra tion officials ruled thut they must be sent back. An appeal was taken, how ever, by the United Hebrew charities and wealthy Individual Hebrews, and tbe order was rescinded by direction of the President. Homes have been pro vided by families who will adopt them. FMXEY SEES MANY HOSPITALS Will Make lie, nm.nrintlnna a to lir Service In I . !. Surgeon General l!ix?y of tin- navy In S trip around tin Vvo?M acquired coiedd irable Information v vii'ij the lion i:al sen ice of the navies of several countries, but more particularly the ho. pltnl service of the United States. At "San Franriseo he found much that could ttc Improved at the hoxjiital station and he will recom mend that a defen DR. Rl.XEY. ,jon ),niiH for di luted men similar to that at Newort be constructed there. At Honolulu he found health conditions ftatlsfactory. At Yokohama the United States has a large naval hospital, over which the med leal corps exercises complete jurisdiction. This was found In good condition and work was in progress upon a new admin miration building. At Nngnsakl and MlmnKtml the sanitary conditions of the hospitals where the sick sailors are taken were found in a fair condition, but not as K.itisfactory as the hospital at Yokohama Surgeon (Jenera! Rixey passed some time in the Philippines and not only visit ed the hoxpitals of the navy, but went tlirotiKh the hospitals In Manila, and es peclally studied the sanitary conditions of that city. The naval hospital at Cana cao, near Cavile, is declared to be In good condition, especially from a sanitary point of view. At Olongoo, which Is the proposed naval station for the Philip pines, but which Is still in a state of In- completeness,, the sick quarters were found unsatisfactory. At Paris and London the general vis ited the hospitals. From the naval hos pital at Indon, an Institution similar to the building this government Is erecting nt Norfolk, he obtained information that will be useful in the arrangements of the Norfolk' hospital. AVALANCHE OF MUD. ftnsalan Town OvrriThrltnril Itr Monnlnln Landslide. An avalanche of mud anil slime over whelmed the township of Kwarell, a few miles from Tillis. Practically without warning the side of a mountain rising over the district broke away and people and cattle were buried. At least 255 persons have been buried alive. I lie streets are flooded six feet deep with yellow mud. Acres of crops have been destroyed and hundreds of head of cattle. The (AM'nsliip of iCwarell occuprs an area of about five kilometers In the val ley of Tslaw, In the Caucasus. Similar disasters, but of less magnitude, are fre fpient In the valleys of the Transcaucasns, but never before has such an avalanche brought down such wholesale destruction. Tiflis itself js a city of 120,0k) people, For days the (Jreek priests In the mosmici have issued warnings of an impending calamity. In the panic which followed the landslide these warnings were recall ed. Many fled for refuge to the holy mountain Avhihar, upon the summit of Whicn stands the white Church of St. David. Kroreli Is In the mountainous regions of the Caucasus, where the mountains are ef a srml-volcanlc nature and where hot sulphur springs abound. Disasters of the kind occurring at Kwarell are so common the people have learned to disregard them, but It is comparatively seldom that towns are destroyed, much of !ii region being sparsely Inhabited, PACKERS' BUSINESS INCREASE. firming! Has No Appreciable Effect on the Domestic Sales. The output of products of the Chicago stock jrds packing companies for do west ie consumption, for the first seven months of this year has Increased mate rially over the volume of business for the same period in other recent years, in spite of the severe grilling the big jrrckers re ceived during most of that time at the hands of federal, Stato and city officials and tho newspapers of the entile world. The report of the Department of Com merce and Labor, made public in Wash ington, shows this to be a fact. The figures of the trade movements of the country are given for July and for the seven months ending with July. Shipments of parking house products from Chicago, with comparisons, follow: July-t-1!MM, 130,ll(,7IO pounds; 1!MI3, 102.4OO.724 pwuiTs; 11MM1, 203,252,030 pound. First seven months 1!M. 1,400.000, 000 pounds; 1!M.", 1,3S0,000,(HK pounds; l'.Mlil, 1,(573,430,202 pounds. The three birgest items were 070,041.. 0(15 pounds of dressed beef, 5IO.712.1li3 pounds of cured meats and 248,1129,253 pounds of lard. 0 COLLEGES Simplified spelling has Wn adopted in the schools of PUliilleld, X. J. Xew Britsln, Conn., raises the mini mum salary from $380 to $iOO. There ale How 303 schools in Canada for Indians, who number 107,(537. la Milwaukee college graduates receive $100 more salary a year than others. Fojest sanatoria for weakly school chil dren have been established by the Berlin municipality. The New York City board of education hss adopted a list of 300 words with sim plified spelling. T1m children of Kansas City spelled 10 per cent better than those of Springfield, Mass., In 1810. Russia devotes 20 cents a h.'ad to edu cation. This Is but bulf of 1 Kr cent of her total budget. South Carolina is discussing public high achuol system, recent legislation hav ing been passed in Its favor. Io New Jersey the average mutual sal ary of the teachers is $.VhH.H3, an increase of $3.58 over the preceding year. An Iowa County Superintendent has his teachers send hi a report of the plant ing of trees and shrubs on the school grounds to be kept and displayed in his office. There are 21,0(s:) colored teachers In ths United States, Oins divided between ths two sexes: Men, 7,700; womeu, 13,300. It costs London $20 a year to educate child lu school. In Uermsny the average cost hi about $14, lu Xew York about $:n. Col. Charles R. Hall has been appoint ed commaudant of the infantry and cav alry school, the signal corps, and the staff college at Leavenworth, Kan. Omaha's board of education has In creased the pay of teaitiers in that city's schools from a minimum of $380 a year to $120 aud from a maximum of $700 to Ml 1290 Edward I. exiled Jews from Eng land on penalty of death. 1505 Spaniard, under Oov. Mcnendcz, lanuea at St. Augustine. 1593 English foren under Iimka nn,t Hawkins sailed on expedition against Spanish settlements in the West In dies. 1(509 Hudson discovered Delaware bay. 1020 English pilgrims sailed from Plymouth In Mayflower. 1043 Treaty of peace between the New r.ngland colonic and Narragansett Indians. 1090 King William forced to rame the siege of l-inieriek after great loss. 1708 Haverhill, Mass., burned by French anu Indians. 1757 Battle Of Vni-lrnttin ,ln..u , Russians and Prussians. 1779 French fleet captured off Charles ton, js. c 1781 Washington and Rochnmbeau re ceived lu Philadelphia. 1801-i-Freneh evacuated Egypt in favor or ine jwitisli. Planet Juno discovered by Prof. naming of (iotliingen. 1814 CitV Of Alexandria Vo hited to the British Bombardment of Fort Erie continued by the Brit ish. 1S10 Treaty signed by Algiers and Eng land, ty which Christian slavery was to be abolished. 1818 New York State prison at Auburn openeu. 1833 Twelve thousand hutises destroyed oy nre in uoiistaiitmople. 184;) Convention at Monterey, Cnl., to frame State constitution.'. .Russians captured Fort Achulga. 1834 Maria Christinin i,,nnn ,i i, Spain, fled from .Madrid to escape the ! iuiu oi me people. 1800 Street railwaya first introduced in r.ngiauu. 1801 Bombardment and capture of torts uatteras and Clark. N. C. 1802 Union forces defeated in battle near Itichmond, Ky. 1S70 Capitulation of Sedan by the French. 1881 Steamer Belmont capsized in Ohio river; i, lives lost. 1890 British bombarded palace of Sul- ian ot Kanstliar. 1897 Boston subway opened. 1898 Col. Henry, who forged evidence against Dreyfus, committed suicide .,..Czar proposed an international peace conference. 1902 Volcanic emotion of Mount T..1,n 1903 Caleb Powers found guilty of complicity In tov. Ooebel murder in Kentucky. 1004 Desperate attacks of Japanese at Llaoyang repulsed by tho Russians. "905 Edwiu I. Holmes, Jr., indicted in the government cotton report scandal ....Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth reached peace agreement. The College II red Fanner. Prof. L. II. 1 till lev. diroetnr nt tio f'nr. Cell university colfeira f nirriKiiliiim :,. the third of his series of articles for The. Century, gives the result of his Inquiry among his students a to wlmt nrnet inn 1 use they exiiectcd lo put their education. lr the l ill replies received, seventy-eight were those of student renred nn (ho f irm Of these, sixty-eight desired to go into practical farming and then to teaching and experimental work. Of the sixty-nine students reared in town or city, forty- lour wish to go into practical farming, fourteen into teacliinir. eiirhl Inln Inn, I. icape gardening and the rest undecided. lit tlie lourteen women students, two want to Is'come practical farmers and twelve teachers of nature study and agri culture. Of the eighteen foreign students, lifteetl wisli to return to the fnrm m,,l three to enter experimental work. Prof. iMiiey says in.t tue agricultural college; s now leaching from the farm rather than from the iieiidemic point of view. A .Mew Aid to Itie IHlnd. Dr. C.eone Af. floul,! the 1M,!1,I..1,.I., rye sHM-ialist, writing to the New York science or tlie recently improved Itouls ell device for the lvnnvhiciion f wi.,h.K known as the tclcg.t phone, suggests that lliis l:e employed to tuke the place of the .umhersmie, expensive, slow ami weary ing embossed letters and 'Miuts through which books are now made available to the blind. In this way n book could be read to the sightless or to the invalid while the patient lie in bed, nnd b-ctuivs. concert, recitations, etc., may be had at will. Letters may be dictated or spoken upon the thin sheets of steel, and these, after being sent by mail to a distant friend, will reproduce tlie voice of the sender exactly as to inflect ion, pilch and emphasjs. The record may Im used again and again. New ol-Hiile Island Mailed. Officers of the reveuue cutter servi-.-o were able to explore on July 20 the new volcanic island in the BogoMof group of the Bering sea, althou-h It was still very hot from the action of the volcano which threw it up ten days prior to that. A great column of smoke aud steam contin ued to rise over thU new-born iie. At he northern end the land rises abriipily ;o 4O0 feet, and ou the west to a height of 7tK feet. Notwithstanding that, the J suruut was ki ill warm and soft the ex plorers ascended to the summit. A Defender f Horse Meat. I Prof. W. H. Itrower of the Sheffield ! .cientific school, addressing the national ronveiitiou of veterinary surgeons, said he wanted to see the time come when horse meat would be freely eat aud ho thought that there was less chance of dis ease iu its use. Atilea Ho. Unit on Trees. Throughout the big apple-producing sec- tlona ot Illinois the long continued damp ' aud hot weather has produced an alarm- lug amount of bitter rot. Heroic efforts ' are being made to staiuf it out by picking , the rotteu fruit. CANADA WHEAT CROP. ALL REPORTS INDICATE YIELD. A BIG ftreat llnrvesl tn the Canadian nrtbitf.t firing- . I nparnlleled Prosper!!? to the Farmers of That Hrilna, Winnipeg correspondence : For the past four or five weeks the re suit of the harvest In the Canadian West has ben an absorbing topic, not only with too Canadian people, but with a, large and interested number of Americans millers, grain dealers and farmers particularly. To such an extent lias this Interest In the Canadian grain crop been manifested that, when the Northwest Orain Dealers' Asso ciation left for their trip of inspection, they were accompanied by a number of American grain dealers who felt it neces saty to have a personal knowledge of the subject. Two or three weeks ago a public state ment was made by Mr. Kohl in. Premier of Manitoba, in effect that the wheat crop would reach 115.(XNMHH), and that rhere would be fully lOO.IMKMKK) for export, ana at that time them were many who believed that Mr. Roblln's estimate was weil within the mark; but since then con ditions have changed, and other estimates have been made. Every possible effort to get accurate knowledge of the crop has been put forth in many quarters. The Winnipeg Free Press put a corps 5 HARVESTING WHEAT NEAR of correspondents in the wheat field for twenty consecutive days. In this way thousands of miles were traveled by train tbroiip.h the wheat district, over 1,400 miles were driven through growing wheat, and 03 pivotal points were visited and observations made. As a result of the work s straight announcement is made that the wheat acreage is 4,700.000; that the average yield is 19 bushels to the acre ; and that the aggregate crop will reach 00,250,000. Bank statements regarding crops are usually of a dependable character, and the figures furnished by tlie Canadian Bank of Commerce more than endorse those given by the Free Press. The bnnk estimate places the figures at: Wheat, 91,813,900; oats, 80,834,(580; barley, 17, 735,700. Wherever a good wheat section exists in Western Canada there is an ele vator (or elevators) and a good shipping point; and where there Is a good shipping point, a thriving bank (or banks) will be sure to be in the midst of it; end the local manager of the bank, who has the most accurate knowledge of the fanning conditions and crop results, is the man who usually does the business. Hence the necessity for careful crop compilation. Then, there are others who watch the growing crop with a careful eye the grain dealers and shippers, for instance, Winnipeg has a Northwest Grain Deal ers' Association which Is so much inter ested in the crop return that this year, accompanied by the "city bankers and a nnmlwr of American grain dealers, they made a tour of Inspection through the principal grain arens by special train. The kju ;'tv v y THRESHING NEAR THOR.MIILL, MANITOBA. bulletin of the association sizes up the situation as follows: Wheat, 87,203,000 bushels ; onts, 75,725,000 bushels ; barley, 10,731,333. This is a lower estimate than either of the others, but we must consider that it Is a railway-tour estimate, whilst the others were made by men in the wheat field, so to speak ; and the circumstances somewhat favor tho correspondent and the local bank manager, respectively, in his estimate. But there Is ope point upon which all agree, and that is that the wheat crop of 10(M.l is of excellent quality throughout, that it is characteristic of Western Canada's grain and will grade high all along the line. On this point American grain men such as J. F. Whal lon of Minneapolis, Fiulay Barral of Chi cago, Sheriff Brainerd of Springfield, 111., and others, are particularly explicit in their statements. A careful examination of all tlie fig ure at present, available would lead us to believe that the yield will probably be about IHUNMI.OOO bushels. These figures may seem disappointing to many who be lieved that the increased acreage under ' " " " ' i " First Hint of the Truth. Some Advantage at Least. "When did you first become acquaint- She I can never marry you, but w ed with your husband?" can at least always be friends. "The first time I asked blin for lie I suppose that is one of the nd- niotiey after we were married." I-os vantages of not getting man-led. Phil. Angeles, Cal., News. tuh'lpliln Rtnurd. lleliet and I uderatanillua;. Hope. "Docs that man really believe all lie Tvss Mr. Muglcy has actually asked says?" Mfss Pussay If lie might cull upon her. "Believe It!" echoed Seuutor Sor- Jess You don't say? I'll bet she's ghuin, "why be doesn't even understand got her bridesmaid picked out already, It." Washington Star. . Philadelphia Press. Uettlnn" Kven. .Nolhlotf Doln. Mildred Congratulate me, dear. I'm "Why don't you go to work?" queried engaged to Mr. De Smytue. the kind lady. "A rolling stone gain- Clarice Oh, I'm so glad you ore go- ers no moss, you know." tug to marry liliu! "Dit'e all right, ma'am," answered Mildred Really T , the tusky hols), "but I ain't got no am Clarice Yes. I hate him ! blshun t be a mossback. nohow." Ke.l.l.. W.r. , .tV???ml W"' , Mayuie But why did you encourage M1,,'i Lidcrlelgn I wa surprised to youug Greene If you Intended to reject se yun ueI" U you. I wouldn't thing of letting a man klks me. Edytli-Why, I bad, to eucourage 111 in Mlss riuuiplelgh-Nor I. It'a so la order to cuuble me to carry out my ,uucn DJore atlafactory U let blin do It Intentions. unthinkingly. crop this year would have yielded a larger percentage of increase on the returns of 1905, but there ere several cause that have contributed to keep down the aver age yield. The greater the numlier of new settlers the greater the chance of in experienced and less profitable farming. It is the newer settler, as a rule. who. 'n his anxiety to break new land, has sown on tihl 'year's stubble, and a good aver age yield cannot be expected on this land. But, be that as it may, a cro,i of !M),000, XK bushels in the Canadian West Is not to be looked at lightly. Allowing 20,000,- 000 bushels for home consumption and seeding purposes, 78,000,000 bushels will represent the export trade, and this quan tity at a little better than 70 cents per bushel, will represent a distribution of nearly $5t.,000,000 for whest alone, be tween Winnipeg and' the foothills; and this large amount of money is altogether indeKndent of the cost of freighting this yist quantity of grain from the western elevators to tidewater. The Income of the Western Canadian farmer this year will be further aug mented by the returns which they will re ceive from the excellent crop of oats nnd the good crop of barley which Is their portion. Of oats alone over 75.000,000 bushels are claimed, and barley brings to market over 17,000,000 bushels. An ad ditional $23.HX).0O0 from these crops added to the $30,(KK),000 from wheat, and the proceeds from dairying and mixed farming, will contribute very materially to making agriculture in Western Canada a very deismdabie business. I A drawback to the more successful car-1 rying on of farming operations in the ; Canadian West for some years back has 7 KILLARNEY, MANITOBA. been the difficulty of obtaining needed help at harvest time. As each year an additional area has been put under crop this scarcity of help has been accentuated, and during the present harvest tbe cry all along the. line has beeu "Harvesters Wanted." The work of preparation and seeding is spread over several months, but the ingathering of the harvest has to be done in a few weeks ; hence the necessity for additional assistance at that particu lar time. The crop of 1905 required 18, (KK harvesters from outside, and this year it has beeu estimated that from 22,000 io 25,000 will be required to supplement the work of the fanners in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The demand for harvest hands Is not permanent, the work for which tiliey come lasting only from early in August until the end of the threshing season. Many of those who come to work in Hie grain fields, however, remain and becomfe grain growers themselves, creating additional demand for the same class of help, end thus the problem becomes more acute every succeeding year. The time was when a sufficient number of harvest hands could easily be obtained from Ontario, but in recent years the area token in by the harvest excursions has been extended nnd in 1904 and 1905 it reached clear down to Nova Scotia in the call for men to work in the fertile fields of the West. This year the limit has been further ex tended, and a new movement of British farm laborers has been inaugurated, which will be of incalculable benefit to the prairie country, giving a stimulus to immigration, nnd disseminating among the agricultural clasps in Britain a knowledge of the life, conditions and op portunities in the three prairie provinces that should greatly quicken the stream of settlement from the rural districts of Britain to Canada. From the Western States, too, valuable assistance has been received in the work of harvesting the crop this year, and some of the finest fields in Saskatchewan and ,u . , i , -, . .Aiuerm uhvh ueeu worneu auno.si exciu- sively by Americans. So successful has I been the settler from the Western States, I usually, that he is invariably the fore- runner of a colony from that portion of ; the State whence he came and, through .he new provinces particularly, there is , a very strong representation from North . and South Dakota .Oregon Minnesota. :;.:...-.:.., rl A nois, .Missouri ami other Mates of the Union. These are amongst the most pro gressive settlers, as they come well pro vided with money, completely equipped with stock and machinery, and possessed of knowledge of western farming which cannot possibly 1e possessed at first hand by the settler from beyond the ocean. Woman rooks of New York are forming a union. Tile layers have secured a 23 per cent Increase in Boston, Mass. Tbe German Metal Workers' Union is the strongest union in the world. Painters of Louisville, Ky., have ob tained the eight-hour day and an advance of 10 per cent. Seventeen new local unions have been formed by the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers' Alliance in the last quarter. Electrical workers of Grand Rapids. Mich., with the exception of three shops, have been granted the eight-hour day. The labor organizations of America gained 1,204 new unions last year, em bracing a membership of 300,000 Individ uals. During the first six months of 1900. fifty-three divisions of street railway em ployes effected written agreements with employing companies. The agitation for an advance in the wages of sheeting weavers employed at Oldham, England, has resulted in an in crease of 3 per cent being conceded. Even at the increased rate of wages, It is not easy to get spinners and weavers enough to allow the New England cotton mills to fill all the orders they might get. The union bakers of Chicago succeeded in establishing a new wage scale in every shop but one in that city. Thoy received a flat Increase of $1 per week over the old scale. The anti-sweating committee, appointed by the Sydney (N. S. W.) labor council promises to make astounding revelations regarding the sweating tactics of some Sydney employers. The earliest mention of a strike fund occurred in the strike of the Parisian stocking weavers, in 1724, when a crown a day was subscribed for every striker, and all blacklegs were boycotted. The Patternmakers' Association of San Francisco has returned to outside asso ciations that contributed to their aid af ter the earthquake 43 i?r cent of the fund sent In. It was not needed. The Retail Clerks' International Asso ciation will begin the payment of sick ben(fits to members who have been in continuous good standing upon the books for a period of twelve months or more. In Bombay (India) cotton mills an average worker, laboring thirteen hours a day, earns about 32 cents a day, that Is In, mills equipped with the best modern ma chinery and built in the most approved style. - The average wage of American work men Is double that of the English aij.1 nearly treble tiiat of the German wont1 men, according to statistics published by the Department of Labor, covering the year 1903. The Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America has decided to establish a mutual benefit department. A mortuary fund will be maintained similar to those cf the railroad brotherhood, from whicu death claims will be paid. The New York Electric Club is the so cial end of the New York Electrical Workers' Union. Its avowed object i to cultivate and elevate the social condition of the organization. The club has at present a membership of 430. There is a great scarcity of unskilled laborers at the iron and steel making cen ters of Pennsylvania, $2 a day being the wages paid. Thousands of men can find work with good pay nil through the West, where mining and railroad building are in progress. After a struggle lastiug nine months ind fire days the strike of the mainte nance of way employes of the Denver and I io Grande railway in Colorado and New Mexico has ended, the officials of the road having conceded the full rate of pay for foremen that had been demanded by the xmimittee representing the strikers. The other day the gold beaters quit work at every Boston shop in response to the national decision to estuhlish an In crease in wages from 7 to 8 cents per book for piece work and from $18 to $21 a week for week workers, also to bring: the foremen into the union, and to elimi nate what is called the "outside shop." In a resume of the work of the past two years, made in view of the approach ing biennial convention, which opens nt Niagara Falls Sept. 17, W. D. Huber, general president of the Brotherhood off Carpenters, says that while there were- 1 many strikes and some lockouts, almost till were settled successfully and satis factorily to the men involved. During the past three months 02 new charters were granted, and 378 in all were added during: the past two years. Progress, a lubor organ, says in its last issue rhat trade unionism is doing more to Americanize the immigrant than I anything else, not excepting the churches. and baks up the assertion by attributing ,,, ,,,.,, , ii e i I)ist.ll8inR the matter. Progress savs mt u dl,e t0 traJ(, uniol)ism l;U ,, immi t so 00n ,e , f AmPrioan government, because as soon s W(ml0s mml)pr of , , (hnt th(? tPrm govarliment in th j, StaU8 , not K).nonymous whh nl)I)ressioll, 88 it , , mnny of tll(1 ,". tries of the old world. The trade union iraws him out of the clannish spirit which heretofore not even his religion has been able to overcome. The article closes hv saying that the labor union man soon comes to realize that the best available mei'ns to save the body and better condi tions is through the means of the union. The United Cloth Hat and Cap Maker of America have placed a per capita tax of 10 cents per year for support of the tuberculosis sanitarium conducted by the organization of Denver for the benefit of its members. The same organization has declared for international socialism. The McGuire memorial fund for the benefit of the family of the late P. J. McGuire which is being raised by volun tary subscriptions among the members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has reached $3,735.91. The fund for the relief of California sufferers by this organization aggregates $13,843.75. Pile drivers and dock builders of Cleve land, Ohio, have affiliated with the United Trades and Labor Council. They art asking for the nine-hour day at present wages, and indications point to success. A decision of great interest aud impor tance to laboring men was recently se cured by tbe Boston Bartenders' Union. It sustained the organization in its con tention that a suspended member has no right to longer continue to weir the but ton ot the union. The man against whom the test cae was brought was fined $10 and informed that he bad no right to wear the token unless be woa a member la 1 good standing.