l V KOTA CITY IlKHAIil
JOHN H. REAM, Publisher.
CA.:r-A city.
NEDRAS..
h(m;n. and fv
Thirteen men were killed whllo on
burning excursions In this state In the
brief open season. That Is the num
ber of young men killed in football in
tbe whole country this year, or as
many Pennsylvanlans as havs died
from this cause In a century. These
figures are offered not to prove that
football Is without a certain amount of
risk, but to show that all human oc
cupations are occompnnled by some
dangers, says the Philadelphia Inquir
er. The iaw of averages is a reman
able one. It Indicates that about a
certain number of persons die each
year from fortuitous causes and If
One class Is lacking tbe other supplies
the deficiency. Parents who are
afraid their boys will be injured or
'killed playlDg football may be encour
aged by the fact that It Is proved to
be one of tbe most innocuous of sports.
,The danger from death or severe In
jury In any college sport Is not any
thing like so great as that of being run
down by an automobile or trolley car.
Human life Is precious and must be
conserved. Science has done much for
those who err In certain directions,
but It has nothing to offer those who
auffer from pure accident. All of
which means that what Is needed by
young and old is simply a modicum of
common sense. It Is not to be foi got
ten that the mother who kept ber boy
home from school because he dream
ed be had died was an actual mourner
a few hours later because be fell off
tbe roof. Let us all act sensibly, with
courage, faith and proper caution.
Those who take the most pains to es
cape accidents are apt to be the worst
sufferers, but it Is certain that boyish
sports are not dar,gyiuu compared
with tbe most ordinary avocations of
adults.
A New York chauffeur, 17 years old,
convicted of manslaughter In the sec
ond degree while on a joy ride, has
been sentenced to spend 15 years in
the Elmlra reformatory. Tbe judge
remarked that tbe next joy rider
brought before htm would be sentenced
to Sing Sing, adding: "You are only
17 years old, and It seems to me that
tbe state of New York Is guilty It
self la permitting such a youth as
you to drive an automobile on our pub
lic thoroughfares." The judge was
right both In Inflicting the penalty and
in bis comment on the recklessness
that permits children to handle these
powerful machines, says the Indian
spoils Star. It Is not until adequate
punishment Is measured out to care
less automobile drivers that their dis
regard for public rights will be check'
d. At the same time It Is worth while
to remember that not all tbe many ac
cidents by any means occur when
young drivers are In charge. There
ia tbe Anderson case for example, re
ported tbe other day, where a business
man of mature years turned to look
back while driving his machine, and
at that moment ran down and killed a
child.
Canada has custom bouse troubles
also. It seems some of tbe fair dam
sels and matrons of tbe Dominion
have the bablt of coming over to "the
States," getting new gowns and wear
ing them back across tbe border, with
out going through the form of paying
duty, says the Troy Times. And It Is
nor than hinted that the ladles not
Infrequently indulge la smuggling in
other ways. So the Canadian collect
ors have taken a leaf from the book of
Collector "Loeb of New York and at
the mora important lines of travel to
and from the Dominion have estab
lished sxtra Vigilant guards, assisted
by women searchers. The result has
been some clever captures and a con
siderable addition to tbe Canadian
revenue. From all of which It will be
seen -that trying to cheat the govern
ment is a practice confined to no one
dim or country.
Proportionately, it is said, the num
ber of insane people In this country is
increasing faster than the population
is growing, taking asylum statistics for
It Even at that, there is scarcely a
fellow but will declare that the asy
lums don't get them all, either.
A feminine scientist wants a moth
ers' course established In colleges.
Still, tbe old-faBbloned mother appar
ntly understood her business very
well, and probably present day scien
tlflo Infants are not so happy as her
cuddled and pitted bable.i.
A prisoner who stole 16 cents was
discharged by the Judge. That Is
great disappointment to tbe authors
of weepy poetry, who naturally ex
pected the offender to be sentenced to
Imprisonment for life.
French aviators fell COO feet in an
aeroplane and were not hurt. Fate
favors the bold, but then fate Is also
notoriously caprlclouB, bo experiments
need not EO on, depending oa fate's
favors.
Two Chicago hotel waiters who
came to tarn country yeiimii'Ms a lew
years bko have bought a million dollar
hotel for cash. This may glvu them
a chance to bi gin over naln, pentilluss
once more.
Tbe Harvard scientists have been noti
fied that u cluigyman In Ki.gluud has
discovered a new star. This is one
of the bappy results of following the
Axctlleut advice to "look up and not
Country Aghast at Opium Consumption
D HILADELPHIA,
Pa. The recent
I raid
raids on opium smugglers uade
In New York and other cities by fed
eral officers are preliminary to a na
tion-wide crusade by the authorities
in Washington to check the ravages
of the opium habit.
Government statistics reveal that
more opium is consumed In this coun
try per capita than In China. Four
hundred thousand pounds of crude
opium are Imported annually nnd the
raids show that vast quantities are
smuggled. Tbe population of the
United States Is 91,000,000. The an
nual consumption of opium In China
in all forms Is 1,600,000 pounds.
China's population Is more than four
hundred million.
One of the largest Importers of
opium In the United States called the
attention of the National Civic Feder
ation to the frightful growth of tbe
evil. "The figures speak for them
selves," he said In an address on the
subject at a banquet of druggists In
Philadelphia. "Unless an effective
chock Is put on the opium evil It will
sap the physical as well as tbe moral
strength of the nation.
Germany, with a population of
Burials Cheap in This Arizona Town
PHOENIX, Aria. Come to Arizona
to die and get burled cheaply. The
Maricopa county board of supervisors
baa just closed a contract with a local
undertaking firm whereby those who
die In such circumstances as to ne
cessitate burial by the county will be
laid away decently at the expense of
one mill per person. This Includes an
upholstered redwood coffin and full
funeral service.
Four Arms bid for the county busi
ness, and none may be said to have
Bought to exact an exorbitant stipend.
The highest price asked per corpse
was $4.25, while one firm offered to
do the work for 10 cents each and
another for one cent. The firm bid
ding one-tenth of a cent was the "low
est responsible" bidder and got the
business.
It might be gathered from this that
Maricopa county Is such a healthy
place that no one ever dies. Dut not
only do persons die here, but they die
by scores.
The county burial bill, even at one
mill, will in the twelve months for
Gotham May Have
THE VEKY
10 E A -
CV YORK. That New York City
has nearly reached Its maximum
of growth and will find its supremacy
as the biggest city and the most im
portant commercial center in the west
ern world threatened by competitors
during tbe next thirty years is the be
lief of Walter Laldlaw, secretary of
the New Yoik Federation of Chris
tian Organizations and a census ex
pert of note. Dr. Laldlaw frankly sets
aside as preposterous the commonly
aocepted estimates of the tremendous
growth of the city in the next three
decades and prophecies that in 1940
the population will not exceed 9,600,
000. In a long report on "New York's
Future," Dr. Laldlaw notes that the
two greatest causes of the city's rapid
rise to pre-eminence were the bulld-
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Threat to Sing Duet Wins Judgment
o
MA 11 A, Neb. In addition to music
"having charms to soothe the sav
age breast," it has been discovered
that It has the power to bring about
a verdict In the courts. This has been
demonstrated In Judge Scars' divi
sion of the district court In this city.
The case on trial was ono wherein
a wife was suing for $5,000 damages.
The .allegation being that a saloon
keeper had sold liquor to the plain
tiff's buKbnnd uutll ho had become a
drunkard. II. C. Murphy represented
the plaintiff and A. H. Murdock and
A. C. Panacoaat were attorneys for
th defendant. ' Th testimony hod
been Introduced, when Murphy an
nounced that, Intdcud of arguing the
case, ho would read tho "Drunkard's
Men's Clothes.
Since tho iloihtug of men baa
grown Hluipler nnd simpler. lf ,n)
causo of evolution h:is taken uwuy
from the nit lure menem ol tho crowd
it lias added to the dly.i
man. Men's Wetir.
of Miu
Giving Him the Wont of It.
"Saying you cun t bout a corpora
tion is all wrong. Why. wbeiievur
my factory whlbtlo blows It tells the
time of day to a lot of persons who
don't pay me a cent for It."
EJrr S.
dlid.
about 60,000,000, consumes only 16,000
pounds, as against the 400,000 pounds
actually accounted for in this coun
try; In Italy, with a population ol
33,000,000, the consumption Is about
6,000 pounds; in Austria Hungary,
whose combined population is nearly
DO.000,000, the annual consumption
does not exceed 4,000 pounds; Hol
land, with a population of 6,000,000,
consumes 3,000 pounds annually.
"In Europe there are 145,000,000
people who consume annually only
about 80,000 pounds of the drug, while
our population of 100,000,000, by Im
port figures, consumes more than ten
times that amount, to say nothing of
the vnst quantity that Is clandestinely
brought Into the country."
President Taft urges Immediate ac
tion to check the growth of the evil.
There is now pending in both
branches of congress a measure,
known as the Cullom-Foster bill, to
control the traffic by subjecting It to
heavy lntcrnnl revenue taxes. The
bill also provides for a practically
prohibitive tax $200 a pound on
smoking opium. The control of other
forms, principally morphine, will be
more difficult, It Is conceded, although
It Is said that In that form the drug Is
most widely used.
The highest medical authorities es
timate that 60,000 pounds of opium
should suffice for the medical needs
of the United States yearly, and that
fully 75 per cent of the 400,000 pounds
Imported la manufactured Into mor
phine. which tho contract is n ide, run up
Into several dollar. This Is due to
the fact that Phoenix, the seat of
Maricopa county. Is a famed resort for
tuberculosis victims.
Behind the bid lies the reason. It
Is worth something for the undertak
ing firm to get its name In the local
papers every time a pauper dies. At
the same time, one can never tell by
the appearance a living man presents
what his estate will divulge. It has
been demonstrated that not only do
the undertakers who have the county
contract not lose money, but actually
make a good profit In addition to the
advertising.
It frequently happens that one case
makes up for the losses on a whole
year's contract and leaves many other
cases of supposed Indigents to create
a handsome profit for tbe business.
The contract at one mill per 'orpse
means that the dead wagon must go
for the body and remove It to the un
dertaking establishment. There It
must be prepared for burial, the Arm
supplying all the essentials. It must
then be transported to the cemetery
and Interred.
There have been cases where under
takers have kept bodies for six months
while they sought throughout the
country for someone who would pay
a fair expense bill for the funeral. In
most or such cases they are ultimately
successful.
Reached Its Growth
log of the Erie canal and tbe Immense
Immigration, and he declares that
there are now certain factors working
against a continued Increase.
In the first place, Dr. Laldlaw sees
a continuation in tho decline In the
share of New York In the foreign
commerce of the nation. In the last
thirty years It has fallen from 54.8 to
47.7. Canada is becoming an Import
ant competitor and other American
ports are doing their best to overhaul
the metropolis. Providence, Boston,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and other
ports are formidable rivals. The pro
posed lntercoastal canal, tbe develop
ment of the. Mississippi, the comple
tion of tbe Panama Canal and the
favorable positions of cities to the
south of New York City to engage In
trade with South America, all will
tend to dwarf New York.
Other factors are the decline of im
migration, the diminishing export
trade with Europe, the awakening of
China and the Increasing importance
of Paclflo commerce. The Paclflo
coast, the statistician thinks, Is bound
to run the East hard for Its present
supremacy.
Lament," after which he would rocite
excerptB from "Ten Nights In a Bar
room," thereafter letting the Jury de
cide without further argument.
Murdock and Pauacoast btated their
willingness to submit the case without
argument, but before doing so they
wanted permission to sing a duet. A
settlement was reached by conference
and a substantial Judgment agreed
upon in favor of the plaintiff.
Murphy one year ago won an Im
portant suit by singing to the Jury
after ho had completed his argument.
He sang a few stanzas of a familiar
old song. Without leaving tho box
the Jury returned a verdict for his
client. Opposing attorneys appealed,
alleging that Murphy in ringing went
outside the record, that bis conduct
was Improper and that having a fine
and well trained voice, bo took undue
advantngo of counsel on tho other
iddo. Tlu Supremo court held with
Murphy, deciding that an attorney
could t:ilk or King his arguments to
tho J n i y ami that there was no statute
against fucIi proceeding .
Wanted to Mend a Tire, Mjyte.
We M ut n ( hark'Htuti wall'.i to Now
YoiU, but, (f coure, mine postal clerk
could nut Ktand tho ton plat Ion, and
ho took it. t'hnrleHton NVwh and
Coal lor
I anri's Horses In Demand.
Many of tho hordes rai.-ed In Prince.
Kdwaid Itiar.d are noted for their en
durance and swiftness, and they gen
erally command a higher price than
those of tie other eastern provinces
of ibo Dominion of Canada.
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BOOK AGENT?
What? Yet, why not? Es-
, , peclally since an ambitions boy,
with selling ability In him,
stands the chance of making a
mighty good Income as a can-
vasser or a manager of canvass-
era, or field selling agent for a X
X publisher, and In other ways T
now a Doy may start as a dook
agent, how he will be trained,
and how he may go up the
ladder of success rung by rung
Possible Income at different pe-
rlods In his development as an
expert seller of books, either
personally or as a manager of
other agents.
By C. W. JENNINGS.
H
IC-A 1FHAT! Dook agent!
i & y boy bo a book agent
Vjrjj,y llfework? Why, th
Let my
t for his
that Isn't
an occupation! A boon
agent Is nothing put a ped
dler! Who ever heard of a
book agent that amounted to anything
or had any money?"
This Idea is quite general through
out the cointry among people that
haven't hart opportunity to know much
about the publishing business; who,
lmmedlate'y the subject Is mentioned,
think of a comic picture they saw
somewhere depicting an Irate house
keeper emptying the contents of a
dish pan over the head of an offend
ing book canvasser. It is doubtful
if a book agent ever had Buch an ex
perience as that or one at all like it.
No, the proportion of successful
men who have made their place In the
world, through the medium of selling
books, particularly during the present
day. Is probably as great as in most
other lines, and if your biy has it in
! him to be a good salesman, and takes
, up tho selling of books seriously as
I a calling as he would other lines, he
has a fine and promising field all his
i own.
This might be called the book age;
for never In history has there been
such a tremendous printing of books,
I and, as practically all of them are
i made to sell, and their publication
rests primarily upon thut fact, It
! stands to reaFon that they are sold.
I Also, such a great proportion of them
' are sold by direct canvassing that
i this gives employment to an army of
book agents, who are seen In all the
highways and byways of the country.
Tho latest figures show that 150,000
volumes are published In the world
every year, of which 10,000 are turned
out In the United States and an equal
number In Great Britain, with which
our country maintains close commer
cial and publishing relations.
Now, we shall take It for granted
that you have Investigated the busi
ness carefully, have overcome your
opposition to It, nnd thut your son Is
willing to give It a trial. It Is Impor
tant, ns alrendy said, that he possess
natural ability as a salesman; but this
Is one of the commonest traits In
American character, particularly aa
nearly every material success based
upon It, and there is much more than
an even chance that your boy does
have this ability.
It Is easy enough for him to find an
opportunity to try his hand at book
soiling; for every publishing house
that does any canvassing, and most of
them do, is anxious to get good agents,
and will respond Instantly to an In
quiry. All you have to do Is to pick
out the book and the house and write
a letter to the publisher or selling
agent. In all probability you or the
boy will already ave read dozens of
advertisements asking for canvassers,
an answer to any one of which would
bring an Instant reply.
If your boy is in earnest and Intends
to take up the work seriously, and to
Informs his prospective employer, the
i latter will arrange a meeting with one
of the experienced general agents to
give a series of first lessons In book
salesmanship.
I had almost exactly this experience
when working my way at college. My
. name was handed to a geneiai agent
necking a likely representative at the
college to handle a somewhat popular
! book, and the aent thereupon ar
ranged to give me three weeks' In
struction In the business of selling. I
spent a couple of hours with him ev
ery day, my teacher each day using
tho part of a probable customer ono
day a housewife, the next a busy law
yer, then n merchant, then n farmer,
then a worklngman, etc.--until I was
i quipped, so far as technique was con-
erned, to sell a book to anybody on
arth.
In the meantime I was trying my
hand among real people, with tho re
sult that, soon after the general agent
l ad departed, I was able to average
Helling three or four books any after
nini.i 1 went out. As this particular
hook wan sold for $3. flu, and my com
mission was r0 per cent., 1 was able
to malio from over $a..V) to $7.f0 each
lay. This was not, nnd Is not, at all
unusual, even soon alter the begin
ning, and I do not know another occu
pation that offers such large early
tlnauclal returns.
Hut I was not content with those re
t uits and inv success soon attracted
:ho nt titioti of other students who
.. ( ro tin i of taU'.i'!- care f horses
ami furnaces and saving wood t.i
vav V . Ir board bl'ls wliilo :n n-n liip;
colloga. I fiivo a number m' tlic-o t!i
I'm training I had rec. hod and sot
theni out during tho summer vacation
ai (MUa'.-'-'i'l's, keeping ''" mils en
every votumo tnoy oai i no result
was that tlio next vt ;r, its several of
tl.o Mm'.etits remained out to aeon
mu'at''1 enout.ii money to pay tV Ir way
without work on tho File while studv
Ing. I had an Indcpeml tit Inoionu of
W?3
jr.,,:
several dollars a day without doing
nioro than to cash these subagents'
money orders and send them the
books. And then the publishing house
offered me a salary of $125 a month
and expenses to go out as establlsher
and trainer of other agents.
This opportunity. In the present day,
twenty years later, Is still open to an
ambitious boy, and he, can figure on
an income of 40 to 50 per cent, on
the gross amount of his sales. No
money whatever is needed at the
start, except enough to pay his board,
nnd he can take up his work while
still living at home until be accumu
lates sufficient to take him elsewhere.
A publisher will give him a limited
territory exclusively, or he can go all
over the country if he wishes, as ev
ery man and family are prospective
customers, and there are some 20,000,
000 such In tho United States.
After succeeding as canvasser,
which your boy can demonstrate
within a comparatively short, time,
say a year or so, he will probably wish
to be a sort of general or special
agent, the man that gets other agents
and puts them to work, in which case
he will receive ten per cent, commis
sion on all the books these agents of
his dispose of. Suppose he has the
ability to find and keep in the field
an average of twenty canvassers, sell
ing a book that retails at $2, and that
these agents average four sales a day
each, on which they clear 50 per cent.
Your boy's commission of 10 per cent.,
or 20 cents a volume, brings him an
income of $16 a day, or $9G a week.
Out of this he has to pay his hotel
and traveling expenses; but even so
he is getting what many would think
a very fine Income.
tn all probability the next step tak
en by your boy will be to arrange with
a publishing house to take care of the
canvassing in a large specified terri
tory such as two or three north
western states, for example for one
or more books, on the basis of receiv
ing C5 to 70 per cent, of retail price.
Out of this he has to pay his agents
their 40 to 50 per cent, and all ex
penses Incident to the agency. His
earnings, depending entirely upon his
ability to find good salesmen and the
popularity of the book, which rests
largely upon the ability of these sales
men, may amount to thousands of dol
lars a year.
Of course this has established him
In his own business, and he will In all
likelihood remain In It as the achieve
ment of such success before he Is
thirty or thirty-five will be sufficient
to keep him at it Instead of taking
charge of the sales department of a
large publishing house at a salary.
If your boy should choose to remain
In direct canvassing himself, he will
soon grow beyond any mere $2 or $4
book, and will take to selling entire
sets, or anything or everything that
the publishing house he Is connected
with turns out. Or be will make him
self a roving canvasser with connec
tions with a number of leading pub
lishers, to get a commission on every
thing ho sells. The writer Is ac
quainted with one such who thought
nothing of calling on a stranger and
coming away In half an hour with an
order on which his commission
amounted to anywhere from $25 to
$100. Indeed, this particular agent
had built up a following among rich
clients who took practically anything
he recommended that they could add
to their libraries, and In many In
stances he actually selected and
shipped to persons suddenly become
rich the entire contents of their libra
ries, which cost them from $20,000 up
ward. Still other canvassers make a spe
cialty of hnndling only rare and de
luxe editions, which retail from $100
upward, building up a following among
rich book collectors.
Whichever specialty your boy may
choose, he could not find a more re
spectable business, nor one in which
lie will deserve and receive greater
welcome more times than otherwise.
Many millionaires have given orders
to their employees to admit their fa
vorite book agent without announce
ment, as In this way they know they
will not miss the opportunity to ac
quire the best works In tho book
market. And at the same time the
book agent Is absolutely his own boss
and can Increase or decrease his In
come at will.
(Copyright,
l!Un. by tin
erary I'rtv
AHocinteI
is.)
Ut-
Packs of Hounds In Great Britain.
Leonard WUloughby tells us that al
together there ur. some 4afi packs of
hounds in tho United Kingdom, divid
ed up as follows: England and Wales
of which 173 are foxhounds, SS
harriers, 10 staghounds, 11 drag
hounds, C8 beagles and 18 otter
hounds; Ireland possesses 25 foxhound
packs, 40 harriers, 4 stag and 6 beagle
packs; Scotland bus 11 foxhounds, 1
harrier, 2 beagles nnd 2 otter packs.
These altogether make up an approxi
mate total of some 450 packs of
hounds. In round llgures tho packs
which hunt the fox and stag or deer
number some 9,0(10 couples of hour ds,
while tho harriers nnd beagles there
nre some ::.,'ui) couples of hounds.
Pall Mall Magazine.
Revised Version.
- Let me see, what's that
? a'eiut tnkin rare- of th,.
Scrlbhl.
old i.'Ull'
pernios?
Dl ibh'e
pies ami
your doi'i
T:'.lo c-ire of
yonr heirs will
our
fight
pen
over
Paradoxical Ruin.
tp is ono funny thing In
busl-
tiers lite.
Which
partlcular thing do you
menu 7
"Why, we say firm I
hen It toes up
going under
WIMMIPFR MANITflRA
IfllVIVII (.Up IflMlll I JUtf
THE GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE CON
TINENT REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OAT8, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.
Figures recently Issued show that
the wheat receipts at Winnipeg last
year were 83,269,330 bushels, as com
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
of 81,111,410 bushels, this placing Win
nipeg at the head of tbe wheat re
ceiving markets of the continent. Fol
lowing up this information it la found
that the yields throughout the prov
inces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, as given the writer by agents
of the Canadian Government sta
tioned In different parts of the States,
have been splendid. A few of the
Instances are given:
Near Redvers, Sank., Jens Hortness
threshed about 60 acres of wheat, av
eraging 29 bushels to tbe acre. Near
Elphmstone, Sask., many of the crops
of oats would run to nearly 100 bush
els to the acre. A Mr. Muir had about
200 acres of this grain and he esti
mates the yield at about 60 bushels
per acre. Wheat went 35 bushels to
tbe acre on the farm of Mr. A. Loucks,
near Wymyard, Sask., In the fall of
1910. K. ErioVson had 27 and P.
Solvason 17. In the Dempster (Man.)
district last year, wheat went from
25 to 30 bushels per acre. Fifteen
acres on the Mackenzie & Mann farm
today went forty-three bushels to the
acre. In the Walnwrlght and Battle
river districts yields of wheat aver
aged for the district 26 bushels to the
acre. M. D. Ness, of the Tofleld, Al
berta, district, got 98 bushels and
28 lbs. of oats to the acre, while near
Montrose, over 94 bushels of oats to
the acre was threshed by J. Leonle,
notwithstanding the dry weather of
June. Further reports from the Ed
monton district give Frank McLay of
the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats
to the acre. They weighed 43 lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros.' farm near
Agrlcola yielded 40 bushels to the
acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910
was grown on McMillan Bros.' farm
near Westbourne, who have a total
crop of 70,000 bushels, netting $40,000
off 2,200 acres. O. W. Buchanan of
Pincher Creek, Alberta, had 25
bushels of No. 1 Bprlng wheat to the
acre. Mr. A. Hatton of Macleod dis
trict had wheat which averaged 21
bushels to the acre. B. F. Holden,
I near Indian Head, Sask., threshed 950
bushels of wheat from 20 acres.
On the Experimental Farm at In
dian Head, wheat has gone below 40
bushels, while several, such as the
Marquis and the Preston, have gone
as high as 54 bushels to the acre. At
Elstow, Sask., the quantity of wheat
to the acre ran, on the average, from
26 right up to 40 bushels per acre,
while oats in some cases yielded a
return of 70 to 80 bushels per acre,
with flax giving 13 to 14 bushels per
acre.
W. C. Carnell had a yield of 42
bushels per acre from six acres of
breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest of Strome, had a yield of
42 bushels' of wheat per acre. Wm.
Lindsay, two miles east of Strome,
had 1,104 bushels of Regenerated
Abundance oats from ten acres Jo
seph Scheelar, 11 miles south of
Strome, had 12,000 bushels of wheat
and oats from 180 acres. Part of the
oats yielded 85 oushels to the acre,
and the wheat averaged about 40
bushels. Spohn Bros., four miles
southwest of Strome, had a splendid
grain yield of excellent quality wheat,
grading No. 2. A. S. McCulloch, one
mile northwest of Strome, had some
wheat that went 40 bushels to the
acre. J. Blaser, a few miles south
west of Strome, threshed 353 buBhels
of wheat from 7 acres. Among the
good grain yields at Macklln, Alberta,
reported are: D. N. Tweedle, 22 bush
els to the acre; John Currin, 24 bush
els wheat to the acre; Sam Fletcher,
20 bushels to the acre.
At Craven, Sask, Albert Clark
threshed from CO acres of stubble
1,890 bushels; from 20 acres of fal
low 900 bushels of red fife wheat that
weighed 65 pounds 'to the bushel.
Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels to
the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young,
of Stony Beach, southwest of Lums
dcu, threshed 52 bushels per acre
from Bummer fallow, and George
Young 6,000 bushels from 130 acres of
Btubble and fallow, or an average of
88 1-2 bushels to the acre. Arch Mor
ton got 5,600 bushels of red fife from
160 a"res. James Russell got 8,70"
bushels from Btubble and late break
ing, an average of 23 bushels.
At Rostbern Jacob Friesen had 27
bushels per acre from 80 acres on
new land and an average over his
whole farm of 21 bushels of wheat
John Schultz threshed 4.400 bushels
from 100 acres, or 44 buiiiels to tin
acre. John Lepp had 37 bushels ik;
acre from 200 acres. A. H. Dirk hail
42 bushels per acre from 25 acres
Robert Hoe of Grand Coulee thresher
45 bushels to the acre from 420 acres.
Sedlcy, Sask., Is still another dis
trict that has cause to be proud of
tho yields of both wheat and flax.
J. Cleveland got 30 bushels of wheat
per acre on 100 acres and 18 bushels
of tlax on 140 acres. T. Dundas.
southeast of Sedley. 40 bushels per
aero on 30 acres; M. E. Miller, 34
bushels per aero on 170 acres of stub
bio, and 35 bushels per acre on 2,'m
acres fallow; W. A. Day had 32 bush
ols per acre on 200 acres of Ftubble,
and 3." bushels on 2:0 acres of fallow;
J. O. Scott had 30 bushels of wheat
per nore. on L00 acres, and 18 lui.sh
ds of tlax per aero on 300 acres;
James llullirk averaged 29 bushels of
wheat; A. Allen 30 bmshols; Jos. Run
Ions, I1'; Alex. Ferguson, oS; W. H.
I
Thompson, :!.", all !! largo acreages.
Tho llax crop of J. Cleveland is rather
u wonder, as his land lias yielded him
$t;) per ncre In two years with ono
ploughing. Russell, Man., funnerd
threshed 30 bushels of wheat nnd 60
to SO bushels of onts. A. D. Sten
house. near Mclford, Sask., had an
rvorngn yield on 13'i acres of now
land, H3'2 bushels of Preston wheat
to tho acre. Hector W, Swsnston, a
farmer near Welwyn, Sask., had 6.150
'bushels n from one quarts
gection of land. John Mc.Uan, who
owns two sections, threshed
bushels of wheat.
11,869
Hli Head Was Hard.
It is a common Lellef that the n
gro's head Is hard, capable of with
standing almost any blow.
The following story told by a promW
nent young dentist of Danville, 111.,
would seem to Indicate something of
the kind anyhow. Two regro men
were employed on tearing down a
three-story brick building. One ne
gro was on top of the building taking
off the bricks and sliding them down
a narrow wooden chute to the ground,
some thirty feet below, where the
other was picking them up and piling
them.
When this latter negro was stoop
ing over to pick up a brick the former
accidentally let one fall, striking hlrn
directly on the head.
Instead of Its killing him, he merely
looked up, without rising, nnd Fald,
"What you doln' thar, nigger, you
make me bite my tongue." The Cir
cle. Probably Got Off.
Apropos of certain unfounded
charges of drunkenness nmong the
naval cadets at Annapolis, Admiral
Dewey, at a dinner in Washington,
told a story about a young sailor.
"The sailor, after a long voyage,"
he said, "went ashore In tbe tropics,
and, it being a hot day, he drnnk, in
certain tropical bars, too much beer.
"As the sailor lurched under his
heavy load along a palm-bordered ave
nue, his captain hailed bltn Indig
nantly. " 'Look here,' the captain said, 'sup
pose you were my commnnuer, and
you met me In such a condition as
you're In now, what would you do to
me?'
" 'Why, sir,' said the sailor, T would
n't condescend to take no notice of
you at all. sir.' "
And It Was All Imagination.
"I wonder how much Imagination
governs some persons' senses?" re
marked a visitor at the St. Regis yes
terday. "For a Christmas present I
sent to a young woman of my ac
quaintance one of the most elaborate
sachet cases I could find. It was such
a beautiful thing that I didn't put per
fume In It, for some women prefer to
use a certain kind all the time, and. I
thought I would leave it to the re
cipient to put her own particular sach
et powder In the case. You may im
agine I was somewhat amazed to read
this In her enthusiastic letter of
thanks: 'Its perfume has pervaded
the whole room.' " New York Press.
Crutches or Biers.
Richard Croker, at a dinner at New
York, expressed a distrust for aero
planes. 1
"There's nothing underneath them,"
he said. "If the least thing goes
wrong, down they drop.
"I said to a Londoner the other day:
" 'How Is your son getting on since
he bought a flying machine?'
" 'On crutches, like the rest of
them,' the Londoner replied."
Scott's Rebecca In "Ivanhoe."
The character of Rebecca, in Scott's
"Ivanhoe" was taken from a beautiful
Jewess, Miss Rebecca Gratz of Phila
delphia. Her steadfastness to Juda
ism, when related by Washington Ir
ving to Scott, won his admiration nnd
caused the creation of one of his fin
est characters.
Important to Mothers
Examine caret ully every Lottie of
CASTORIA, a Bare and sure remedy for
infants and children, and eeo that it
Bears the
Signature
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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Willie Knew the Quadrupeds
Teacher Willie,' are there
feathered quadrupeds.
any
Willie Yee, sir.
Teacher Name one.
Willie A feather bed.
Didn't Care.
Hewitt I guess you don't know who
I am.
Jewett No, and I haven't any wom
an's curiosity about it.
Chilly.
"Tfcey say the pretty Boston girl Is a
good pick. I wonder what kind of a
pick she is?"
"Ice pick, I suppose."
It is unquestionably true thst
wealth produces wants, but it is a.
still more Important truth that wants
produce wealth. Malthus.
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