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WESTERN CANADA.
One of the Choice Spots on the Con
tinent Open for Settlement,
The following extracts from an in
teresting letter to the Mason City
(Jown) Kcpuulicnn, written by Mrs. S.
A. llrighain, late of that place, but
now of Iloss Creek, Alberta, Canada,
so nearly describes most of the dis
tricts of Western Canada that we take
pleasure in presenting same to the at
tention of our readers:
WEST13UN CANADA.
Crop I'rnnncctH itml Climntc About
Edmonton, N. W. T.
Interesting letter from Mrs. S. A. Brig
ham, lato of Mason City.
Editor Mason City Itcpublican.
Boss Creek, Alberta, N. W. T.,
Canada, Aug. 7, 1S99.
Dear Sir:
"We are located in the Beaver Hills,
30 miles from ft. Saskatchewan and
CO miles from Edmonton. To the cast
of these is an immense area of bot
tom lands, which furnishes abundance
of hay for the settlers. It is dotted
with small lakes, the largest of which
is called Heaver Lake, 10 miles in
length.
There is shelter for the cattle and
horses now feeding there.
Tho Beaver Hills are covered with
small green willows which arc easily
gotten rid of before breaking up the
land. Here and there poplar, birch
and tamarack trees abound. Small
meadows are numerous. The soil in
these hills is much richer than the bot
tom lands, being a kind of black leaf
mould. There is no tough sod to
break and it is very productive. Wheat,
oats and barley do finely, and vege
tablca are the finest that can be
grown. Potatoes especially arc large
and solid, easily producing from 200
to 300 bushels per acre, and best of
nil never a "taty bug" to wrestle with.
Wild fruit strawberries, gooseberries,
saskatoons (or pine berries), raspber
ries and cranberries are found in the
hills. Small tame fruit docs finely; the
red and white currnnts in my garden
are as .large again as common sized
ones.
We have long days during the
months of June and July, one can sec
to read many evenings tintil 10 o'clock
in tho twilight. Some nights less
than 3 hours of darkness and the
birds are singing at 2 o'clock. Then
again, it rains so easily. You look to
ward the west and see a little cloud
coming up, a gentle shower follows,
the sun shines forth again, and in a
little while you forget it has rained.
Cyclones arc unknown here and tho
thunder and lightning is very light.
We had two storms this summer ac
companied with wind and hail, but
nothing to lodge the grain. The nv
crage heat is about 78 degrees. We
had three or four days in July at 00.
The nights are always cool.
The winter season is one of great
activit3'. All the fencing is gotten
out then and logs for the farm build
ings, lly paying 25 cents you arc
granted a permit at the land office to
cut logs upon vacant lands. The roads
are gcod and smooth, for the snow
never drifts, not even around the
buildings, and this is a great saving
of time to the farmer. Hay is hauled
from the bottom lands all winter long,
nnd a man can work outside every
day as far as the weather is con
cerned. There are cold snaps when it
reaches 40 nnd 4S below zero, but the
lack of wind prevents one realizing it
and the mountains 150 miles wot of
us arc a great protection.
Our neighbors are mostly Canadian,
Scotch, Swede, and we have a nice
sprinkling of people from the States.
The creeks abound-in small fish.
We are now in the midst of hay
making (Aug. 7th). Wheat will not be
cut until early September, this being
n little later season than common, but
the crop will be immense. T send you
a sample of wheat and barley its
lieight is almost even with my shoul
ders, average 50 inches. Newcomers
lacking binders can hire their grain
cut for 75 cents per acre. Frairic
chickens are here by the thousands.
The water is good. We have a fine
well 15 feet deep. In the creeks the
water is soft and of a yellowish colour.
Then again we are surrounded with
bachelors; we have no less than 18
single men in this neighbourhood, on
matrimony bent. When a feminine
gender of any age between 14 and 40
visits those hills we pity her, so great
is the demand for her company.
In conclusion, if the remainder of
cur loved ones were here with ns, we
should better enjoy life on Ross Creek,
nnd unless the unexpected develops,
consider this will be a pretty fair
place to end our days.
MRS. S. A. RRIGIIAM.
The Rent Prescription for CIiIIIh
and Fovcr Is a bottlo of Guovr.'s Tasteless
Cium-Tonic. Itis simplyironnndnuiuinein
ata3tolcss form. No euro uo pay. Prlcc.OOc.
Every man thinks that only those whom
lie owca want to settle. Washington (la.)
-Luuiuurui,
To Core it Colli In Oiu Day
Talco Laxatlvo Ilromo Quluhio Tablets. All
druggists refund uioucy lilt fulls to cure. 25c.
Not need, but pride, keeps us poor.
Ram's Horn.
GAMING IN ENGLAND.
Mow the UcttltiK Man In linn Grorra
Anionic All Sort nnd Condi
tion of Dion.
"In my opinion," said Mr. Glad
stone, "there can bo no words too
strong for denouncing suitably tho
abominable practico of gambling."
A sweeping assertion truly, yet nono
who has studied the subject can re
gard it as n degree too sweeping. To
day the gaming problem threatens us
with a graver menace than perhaps
ever before. Never has it so perme
ated the whole of our national life;
never has it stood so safely under tho
protection of the law us it docs to
day. Ilcecnt judicial decisions have
given professional gamesters freedom
which even ten years ago would havo
seemed incredible.
In the early part of this century
the betting mania was confined within
comparatively limited circles; to-dny
it burns like n fever in every vein of
the body politic. There is hardly n
class or a section of the community
that docs not, week by week, almost
day by day, yield its tribute of ruined
lives, of blasted honor, of broken rep
utations, of shattered homes to tho
craze. The foremost gentleman of tlio
land is the leading patron of the turf;
members of the privy council take
chief part in the committee of tho
Jockey club; more than one of our
great judges are noted for their reg
ular attendance at all the principal
race meetings. From the highest to
the lowest it is much the same in
every class. There is hardly a work
room or office in which betting is not
one of the two principal subjects of
conversation. In East End streets you
see the ragged babies seated on tho
curbstones, with their shoeless feet in
the muddy gutters, playing with toy
cards for farthing stakes. The older
boys amuse themselves with pitch and
toss, carefully delegating one of their
party as watchman, to proclaim the
approach of a policeman.
In the factories of the north and of
the Midlands girls and women aro
the most eager and enthusiastic gam
blers. The growth of the working
woman gambler is one of the saddest
features of all. A few weeks agt
a woman was arrested as a book
maker. Every now and then a case
comes in the police courts of a do
mestic servant who stole her mas
ter's money to "have a bit on her
fancy." Recently it was shown in
court that a woman had sold her very
clothes to gamble. The gambling
business is organized as perhaps no
other in this country is. There aro
at least 10,000 bookmakers who live off
it parasites on our national life.
They have their touts inside or out
side of every workroom, who literally
force themselves on the young me
chanic or factory hand. In govern
ment departments, such as Woolwich
arsenal, it has been found necessary
to take the most elaborate precautions
to stop the work of these touts, so
patent is the ruin they effect. Puritan.
Old-Ttmi! Annie Daniitllncr.s.
To make old-time apple dumplings
take one quart of Hour, add three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, a level
teaspoonful of salt, a heaping table
spoonful of lard; mix with milk, roll
out, spread lightly with butter, roll
out again, and keep on doing this
until a tablespoonful of butter has
been worked in. Roll out half an inch
thick, cut in squares large enough to
cover an apple, place a cored and
pared apple in each square, gather up
the corners, pinch and bake. To make
them brown, brush with white of egg
when nearly done.
THE GENERAL MARKETS.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30.
CATTLE Beef steers 5 50 P B 75
Stockers 3 50 5 15
Texan.s 3 90 4 40
HOGS 3 70 0 4 75
SHEEP 4 00 5 50
WHEAT No. 2 red 70 71
No. U hard C3'jfP 0
CORN-No. 2 mixed 2Sf 20
OATS No. 2 mixed 23i
RYE-No. 2 51Va
ELOUR Patent, per bbl.... 3 25 3 40
Straights 2 70 2 SO
HAY Choice timothy 0 00 0 50
Fancy prairie C 75 7 00
BRAN (sacked) Cl C2A
BUTTER Fancy to cxtrn.. 18 23
CHEESE Full cream 11V 12
EGGS 11
POTATOES Home i;rown .. 30 0 40
ST. LOUIS.
CATTLE Beeves 3 25 0 C 40
Toxans 3 CO 4 85
HOGS Packers 4 CO 0 4 SO
SHEEP-Muttons 4 50 0 5 50
FLOUR Extra fancy 3 10 0 3 15
WHEAT No. 2 hard CO G3
CORN-No. 2 mixed WH40 31
OATS-No. 2 21 21Vi
RYE-No. 2 52
BUTTER Creamery 20 25
LARD Prlmo steam 5 C2 5 C7
PORK 10 25 1125
CHICAGO.
CATTLE Beeves 4 00 0 C 25
HOGS Mixed and butchers 4 00 4 00
SHEEP Nntlvo wethers .... 4 DO 5 10
FLOUR-Winter patents.,.. 3 40 3 CO
WIIEAT-No. 2 red COf; 70
CORN No. 2 31
OATS-No. 2 23
RYE May 53
LARD 5 80
PORK 10 55
NEW YORK.
CATTLE-Stcera 4 70 5 82
HOGS-Common to choice. 5 00 5 25
SHEEP Common to choice 3 75 0 5 50
WHEAT No. 2 red 750 77
CORN-No. 2 40','i 40
OATS-No. 2 , 29Vi
Artlflclnl Sight.
A Russian inventor has perfected an elec
trical appliance, which he claims will ennblo
the blind to sec. This will bring much hap
piness to those who have defective eyesight.
Another ercat discovery which will brine
t
much happiness to those whose stomachs
have become deranged is Ilostettcr's Stom- '
ncli Hitters. It has made a world wine repu- I
tation for itself as a certain cure fc ".ucli nil
ments us indigestion, dyspepsia, oonstijvi
tion, biliousness and malaria, fever and ague.
A Modrat Iloiincit.
Ambition is an admirable trait, but it is
not the single qualification for success.
Among highly ambitious youths must be
numbered a German who for several years
had been apprenticed to a cooper. The
young man felt that constant coopering was
not compatible with his hones for the future.
Accordingtly, after deliberation, a few
months ago he addressed a letter to the head
of the great Rothschild banking house at
Frankfort, setting forth at some length his
strong dislike for his trade, and asking to be
accepted as "an apprentice millionaire'
mumming (iinuciicu nun an application in
learning the business." The young man is
Btill a cooper. Youth's Companion.
IS
$100 Itcwnrd 9100.
The readers of this paper will ho pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh, llall'e
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faitli in its eur.i
tive powers that they oficr One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list ot testimonials.
Address V. .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 70c.
Hall's Family Pills arc the best.
It All Depend.
"I suppose you arc a believer in harmony,"
said the garrulous barber.
"Sometimes I am and sometimes I am
not," replied the local politician.
"How is that?" queried the knight of the
lather brush.
"Well, take your business for example,"
answered the 1. p. "I fail to see just why
you and your razor should pull together."
Chicago Evening News.
C.ivc flic Children n Drlnlc
called Grain-O. It is a delicious, appetizing,
nourishing food drink to take the place of
coiree. Sold by all grocers and liked by all
who have used it, because when properly
prepared it tastes liketlie finest coiree but
is free from all its injurious properties.
Grain-0 aids digestion and strengthens the
nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health
builder, and children, as well as adults, can
drink it with great benefit. Costs about as
much as coiree. 15 and '2m.
UncoiiNctonn I'lnprlnrlsm.
Crimsonbcak How history docs repeat
itself, doesn't it?
Yeast What now?
"Why, in our town Ave had .1 piano con
oert tho other night nnd the artist's name
was Prof. Gridley. When the manager was
ready to start the show he shouted: 'You
may bang away when ready, Gridley!' "
Yonkcrs Statesman.
The Pacific niul Oriental ainll
Leaves Grand Central Station. New York.
by the New York Central, every night in
the year at 0:15, and the fourth night there
after this mail is at' San Francisco, ready
for delivery or transfer to the steamers for
Hawaii, Australia, Philippines, Japan and
China.
. See the new "Round the World" folder
just issued by the Now York Central Lines.
A t copy will be sent free, post-paid, on re
ceipt of three cents in stumps, by George II.
Daniels, General Passenger Agent, Grand
Central Station, New York.
Tho feIlov whom you think wears hia
hair too long is quite as sure you wear yours
too short. Elliott's Magazine.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES nrc fast to
sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by all
druggists.
It is good to know we cannot give happi
ness without receiving it. Elliott's Maga
zinc. -
THE NERVES OF WOMEN
tydla 12. rinlchnm'M Vegetable Compound
ltd loves, tho Suffering from Over
wrought NorvcB.
"Dkaii Mks. Pinkiiam : I nm so
grateful for tho benefit derived from
tho uso of Lydia E. Pinldiam'a Vege
table Compound that I wish you to
publish this testimonial that others
may know tho value of your medicine.
I was suffering such tortures from
nervous prostration that
life was a burden. I could
not sleep at all and
was too weak to
walk across tho lloor
without aid. Tho
disensehad
reached a
condition
where iny heart was
affected by it, so that
often I could not lio
down nt all without
almost suffocating.
I took Lydia E.
Pinkhnm's Vcgc
tablo Compound
and it worked like, magic. I feel that
your medicine has been of inestimable
benefit to me." Miss Aiki.e William
son, 100 N. lioulcvard, Atlanta, Ga.
Thin, Sallow and Nervous
" Disau Mns. Pinkiiam : 1 was thin,
sallow and nervous. I had not had
my menses for over a year and a half.
Doctored with several physicians in
town and ono specialist, but did not
get any better. I finally decided to
try your medicine, and wroto to you.
After I had taken three bottles of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and three of Mood Purifier, my
menses returned, and I feel ns well
and fjtrong us I over did, and um gain
ing flesh." Miss Lkna Gaines, Visalia,
Tulare Co., Cal.
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NEURALGIA FOR 40 VEARS, has tried nearly everything she could hear of
without relief until she commenced using 45 DROPS" and now hIic Sh not
troubled with tho disease. Kaeh one that has used it says it is the best reme
dy, and all join in praise of "5 DROPS." For the enclosed money please
aend me three large bottles of "5 DROPS," one package of Pills nnd one
Plaster, and hurry them forward without delay.
Jan. U, 1900. SAMUHI, SPKHOI.K, l-'alkville, Ala
Gentlemen: My mother, Mrs. Elian. Austin, of rtSiniu ATlftU
Fremont, Wis., has been almost an invalid for years IflfltiUnl A I ISM
with RHBUA1ATISA1 and for the past five years has "-" "
not been able to walk 40 rods until she began to use ; DROPS," about two
months ago. vShe now walks n mile at a time and is doing all her own work in
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stimulates the hair follicles, supplies the roots
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for cleansing tho scalp of crusts, scales, nnd dandruff, and tho stopping of falling
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perspiration, in tho form of washes for ulceratlvo woaknosson, and for many sanative
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nnd liumlllnthit; e!:ln, rcnlp. nnd lilood liiimam, with loan of lutlr, wlmn nil vho fill la. rTTE
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WVtfri!W4?M tuicil for iniirkut without
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outn dny'H Kholtor. HpiiiI for Information um! .o
num a lruo homo In Wititftm (''itimlri IVrll., t.lm
HiiiinrlntonrionUif ImialiM'.ul'jn. on.-nwi.orucWrost
tho Umlorhlt'iioO, whowill infill yon uthiio:!, iiani
phloU. utc trcuoi rnu. lM'FI)hl!V Hnpt.of Ini.
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Gentlemen: I have been sending to you for your "5
DROPS" for 8ovcr.il parties who have used it atld who
aav itis tho best tlmv or iiaivI. Omp nlil Inrtv lina liml
the house, a thing alio has not done for years. You arc at
liberty to publish this testimonial, with my name and also
my mother's. Dee. 27, 1899. MRS. C. H. PUUDY, Waupaca, Wi.
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lVC pcalon nnl soften tlio thickened cuttclo, Cutiuuka Ointment (60c),
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F&lMiC
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audit docs. Have you used it?
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