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With all the grass, so lush in June,
In haymows stored or stacked a-field,
And July's harvesting in tune
For such a glowing, bounteous yield;
"With all the hot, midsummer days
Garnered alike in weeks gone by
"We wait the while the soft wind plays
Through orchard boughs whose yield is nigh.
And while we wait our play-day comes
The holiday of all the year N
"When Labor's noise no longer hums,
And Labor's voice is heard in cheer.
Then hey the picnic, is the call!
And sports come on with leap and bound,
The while we hear a voice "Play ball!"
When merry Labor Day comes round.
We pack our baskets or the wife
And children do, with hearts alight
All heaping full and seek the life
That Nature whispers us is right.
We all are boys and girls again,
Although our brows with age are crowned!
We are not women now, nor men
When merry Labor Day comes round.
What merry tales the women tell
The portly ones we scarce would know
As willowy Jane and slender Nell,
In those dear days so long ago!
What roystering yarns the men spin out
While pitching quoits on springy ground,
The other fellows' girls about
When merry Labor Day comes round. ;
And thus with sport the day goes by,
The toil of all the year forgot;
For cteaper 'tis to laugh than cry
For man as well as little tot.
God bless the holiday that comes
Into our lives with such a bound!
When Labor's noise no longer hums,
And merry Labor Day comes round.
Literature
BAYARD TAYLOR.
JUbor, yoa, know, is prayer.
Toll to somo is happiness and net to
others.
BEECHBn.
It Is not work that kills men; it is
worry. Work, good, honest labor, Is
healthy.
Let a broken man cling to his work.
If it saves nothing olso it will savo
him.
WHITTJEIt.
f hino to work as well an pray.
HOMER.
Lbor conquors all things.
ELIZABETH BROWNINO.
Get work. Be suro it's better than
frrLat you work to got.
.&.
on Labor
ADDISON.
Thero is nothing truly valuable
which can bo purchased without palna
and labor. Tho gods havo set n prlco
upon every real and noblo pleasure
LOWELL.
Blessed aro tho horny hands of toll.
SCHILLER.
Labor is tho ornament of tho citizen.
Tho reward of toll is when you con.
fcr blessings upon others.
SCOTT.
Toll is necessary to tho enjoyment
of leisure.
BTJLWER-LYTTON.
What men want is not talent, It lb
purposo; not tho powers to achieve
but the will to labor.
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Barbers Denounce
ST. PAUL. MINN. Ways nnd means
tq deprive the safety razor of its
cllIzan'R right nnd dolnre II unconsti
tutional, to nnnlhllato It, removo It
from tho homo of every free-born
American, nnd thus bring tho bnrber
shop again Into Us own, furnished one
of tho subjects for tho emotional dis
cussion that took place at tho National
Darber's Supply Doalcrs association
convention hero.
As tho Insidious lnfluenco of, the do
grading safety razor fired tho speak
.ere at tho convention to elonuont
heights, these points were brought
forth:
Barber shops aro not so popular as
they wero In tho past,
Tho dark man with tho beard, In
Rtead of permitting himself the cc
stney of a 15-ccnt shavo, attacks him
self with tho safety, In wild, carcfreo
swoops, which aro equally Injurious to
tho llfo and complexion of the victim
and to tho profession.
Accident Leads to
BROOKLYN, N. Y. A score or raoro
dogs of assorted breeds livened up
things on Fifth avenue tho other day
by becoming intoxicated on tho spilled
contents of an overturned brewery
truck. It is said by eyewitnesses that
the drunken dogs acted almost "hu
man" In the delirious frenzy which fol
lowed their excessive libations.
The truck, one or tlio motor variety,
was chugging along Kifth avenuo be
tween Ninth and Tenth streets, when
it broke down and Its contents, sev
eral cases of a very popular brand of
hop bevorage, were spilled into the
gutter. Immediately n golden Btreain,
sparkling with tho pent-up efferves
cence, gurgled and bubbled down tho
gutter.
Tho day was hot and all the neigh
borhood dogs, most of which belonged
to Fifth avenuo storekeepers, wero
wandering about In search of water
to drink.
Blltzen, a graceful greyhound, raised
her head from between her paws as she
lay In tho doorway of a millinery es
tabllblllllfclU and bnlned lliu air uua
plclously. Tho couchant Blltzen be
came rampant.
Blame Middlemen
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INDIANAPOLIS. 1ND. An experi
ment to determine how fnr a city
can go In reducing the cost of living
is to bo mado In Indianapolis under
tho direction of Mayor Shank. Fol
lowing a suggestion of Jumes Wilson,
secretary of tho department of agricul
ture, that municipalities take up tho
question, (ho mayor appointed a com
mission to make an investigation.
These men will spend the next few
weeks investigating conditions that
are supposed to be responsible for tho
high cost of farm and garden prod
ucts. On their report will depend the
city's action.
Several yearn ago Indianapolis es
tablished a market place for the pur
pose of giving the people a chance to
deal direct with producers and In thnt
manner to keep prices as low as pos
sible. Preliminary inquiry Indicates
unscrupulous middlemen havo been
bartering the market, buying up farm
produce at wholesale prices nnd then
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Divorces a Close Second to Wedding
KANSAS CITY, MO. As a habitation
of tho matrlmonlnlly distressed,
Kansas City, nccordlng to figures Just
compiled. haB Reno bncked Into obliv
ion. Theso figures show that ono of ev
ery three Kansas City marringes has
Its finale In tho divorce court. In 1010
the figures showed that ono In every
four marriages in1 this city wero fail
ure's and tho great Increase in the
number has caused much perturbation
in the churchca.
Various causes havo been given for
It tho high cost of living, tho laxity
of tho dlvorco laws, the grenter Inde
pendence of women.
Whatever tho cause, slnco January
1 thero hnvo been 1,900 marrlnge
licenses Issued, und In tho same time
nearly 700 divorce suits filed. This
is an Increase In tho number of mar
riage licenses Issued over n like period
In 1910, but a proportionately greater
Increase In tho number of dlvorco suits
filed. Incidentally, more children from
broken homes havo been taken chargo
of by tho Juvenile court than In any
similar period. Sociologists and min
isters aro worried nt the showing
nnd thero Is a demand for moro strin
gent divorce laws
Judgo Porterfield of tln juvenllo
court also Is worried nt tho snowing,
hut ho sees no relief In moro strlngont
dlvorco laws. Ho believes that tho
only remedy lies In mnklng require
ments for mnrriago moro severe, and
Btlll not so severe that Its result will
be to drlvti muny persons Into com-
NVS Vh'w1WVm'V..
How It Got Out.
"Gladyb Maud promised faithfully
that sho wouldn't breathe u whisper
about my engagement nnd now it's all
over town,"
"She kept her word."
"I don't see how."
"She didn't 'breathe a whisper.' Sho
wrote it in a note "
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the Safety Razors
Safety razors p onioto efficiency. If
allowed to flourish thoy will ovontuatly
accomplish tho ruin of Amorlcan man
hood. Rome's celebrated slump was
duo to just such Introductions as tho
ornery safety razor.
"And," finished ono of tho speakers,
"after weaning Its owner from tho re
finement of tho bnrbor shop, making
him minister to tho demands of his
whiskers across Ills own threshold, tho
safety will gradually pall upon tho
man devoted to It. Growing cnroless,
the man will ono dny lay open tho In
terior of his face with an unusually
negligent swing of tho supposed 'safe
ty razor, and what then? Tho man,
being weaned from tho barber shop,
docs not caro to return. He Is timid
tho fault of the safety. Ho lotB his
whiskers nssumo abnormal propor
tions. Ho bccomoB a hotbed for germs.
Therefore, down with tho tyranny of
tho r. b."
It was prophesied that In tho short
span of n year all tho old ndheronts
of tho stubblo beards and curved
Adam'3 apples will be filling tho red
plush chairs of tho shop. Tho safety
razor, It was allowed, was all right
for, tho more youths and tho trem
bling hands of tho old, but further It
had not just causo for existence.
a Canine Debauch
"Woof, my dears!" she bayed, and
In 20-foot Jumps made for tho spot
whenco camo the tantalizing aroma of
tho wasting beverage
Immediately every other dog on tho
block, nnd somo others from adjacent
blocks, realized that at Inst it was his
"day." Following the lead of tho leap
ing greyhound, they mndo for tho gut
ter and eagerly began lapping up tho
nmber drink.
How many aching heads there wero
next day In Fifth avenue dogdom will
nover be known, but members of tho
largo crowd which quickly collected to
watch tho drinking bout aver that tho
quantity put away by the canine tip
plers was something to marvel at.
Tho dogs, too full to find their way
home, and loo dizzy tu .uuvigale any
way, wore later led or carried to their
homes by their owners.
for the High Prices
selling at whatever prices they could
extort, thus forcing- all prlcc3 on tho
nuuket upward. Somo have even gono
so far aB to disguiso their employes
as fnrmers nnd havo thorn tako their
places In tho market with what were
supposed to be farm wagons with
fresh produce. It developed thnt mid
dlemen control tho prices of four-fifths
of tho produco handled on tho Indian
apolis market and that they havo ad
vanced tho prices to suit themselves.
Comparisons mado botwecn tho
prices of a fow farmers not taken In
by tho middlemen with tho prices fixed
at the market stands show that tho
farmers hnvo been and aro selling food
stuff at an nvorago of loss than one
half tho amount fixed by tho middle
men. Tomatoes, apples, potatoes and
other staples havo been Bold GO per
cent, lower by tho farmers than by tho
market stand proprietors in spite of
the city's regulations.
Tho city government hopes to get
at the bottom of tho situation soon
nnd to dovlso means by which tho mid
dlemen will not be ablo to grab the
farm products and forco tho people to
pay their prices. Tho farmers aro
maintaining that they aro not respons
ible for tho existing conditions and
that tho high prices do not benefit
tftcm.
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mon law marriages.
"Too many persuing many who
should not," Judgo Porterfield says.
"Thiu's where all this llvore trouble
begins, nnd right thero tho lawmakers
must begin It they nro to help condi
tions. You can't leglslato divorces
and biokcn homes out of existence its
long an Just anybody can get married
regardless of mental and physical de
fects. Thero ought to bo a commis
sion to pass on the meutal and phy
sical condition of applicants for mar
riage licenses, and on tho enrning ca
pacity of tho men. Worthless men
who can't oven support themselves
marry,
"Something will havo to bo dono or
the pcoplo of this and other statos
will find themselves tho keepers of a
lot of degenerate children. A man and
woman should bo required to know
each other nt least six months before
they are mnrrlcd. It would bo an out-
I rage to make property restrictions, but
the man should give ovldonca of nn
enrning capacity and frugality thnt by
stilct economy, would provide tho nec
essaries of llfo for two at least. They
should bo without such diseases as
would bo bequeathed to children."
Self-Educated.
"But don't you think you could
lonrn to love mo?" ho Inquired of tho
beautiful hclross.
"Pa always said I was hard to
learn," sho replied, tnntallzlngly.
"But I am not n book," ho protested.
"Oh, I can read you, all right," sho
answered. Judgo.
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H
OME TOWN
HELPS
ALL CLASSES AID IN WORK
Many Cities Devoting Energy and Vaat
8uma to Cause of Civic Im
provement. It Is ono of tho practically hopeful
phenomena lu cities making effort to
became prosperous and comfortable,
hero and 1ft Europo, thnt tho work Is
not In tho hnnds meroly of art soci
eties nnd "bonutlflers," but In tho
hands of boards of trade, chambers of
commerce tuxpayors nnd merchants'
associations, Bhippors, manufacturers.
Boston fnlt Itsolt declining, not ns
an American AthcnB, but na a well
let tho roport which stirred up hor
business mon spenk for Itsolf:
"Tho foundation of convenient thor
oughfares Incidentally creates sites for
important buildings. Aro tho court
house nnd Symphony hall, Horticul
tural hnll nnd tho Conservatory of Mu
sic nnd tho Christian Sclonco tcmplu
placed whoro thoy show to tho best ad
vantage? How much thoy might hnvo
addod to tho city If thoy occupied mon
umental sites I
"Our roport otters somo suggestions
for atreet changes that will creato
monumental Bites, as well n3 for cut
ting streets through wnsto nnd desert
ed districts nenr tho city contors, nnd
for tho profltnblo expansion of tho
city expansion that might bring dend
land Into activity, ralso taxablo val
uob, Increase tho uso of tho water
front or hnrbor, nnd thus ndd to tho
riches of tho city.
"Tho fever for municipal Improve
ment has also reached Sonth America
and wo aro told that In Rio Janeiro
thoy nro not only building lino docks
and Improving tho harbor, but thnt n
9paco of two and n half miles long and
threo hundred feet wldo has boon ap
propriated through tho settled city
from wnter to water for n boulovard
ono hundred foot wldo and ovor a
mile long. The snlo of tho ono hundred
feet on either sido Is Bald to havo paid
for tho wholo improvement. In tho
short spneo of elghton months tho
city constructed this benullful avonuo
and gained nn enormous amount of
taxablo property,
"In Formosa tho Japaneso aro plan
ning n capital. Mr. Fnshlinn, tho arch
itect who tins tho design in hand, has
recommended tho essential principles
of tho original plan of Washington.
"Those American cIUob which havo
had time to think are devoting energy
nnd vast sums of money to work of
this or of similar character. They find
that municipal Improvement not only
tends to their own convenience, but
also to attrnct strangors and to di
rectly contribute townrd a city's mate
rinl prosperity."
PLEAS FOR THE PLAYGROUND
Boys and Girls of the Cltlea Should
Have Their Publlo Placea
of Recreation.
Horr Froobol, In "Tho Education
of Man," snys:
"Every town should havo Its own
common playground for tho boya.
Glorious result would como from this
for tho entire community. For at this
period games, whonovor It Is feasible,
nro common, and thus dovolop tho
feeling nnd desire for community, and
the Inws nnd requirements of commu
nity. Tho boy tries to soo himself in
his companions, to feel himself in
them, to wolgh nnd measure himself
by them, to know and find himself
with their help. Thu3 tho games di
rectly Influen'" nn oduonto tho boy
for life, awaken and cultivate many
civil and moral vlrtuos."
From tho eastern part of our coun
try comes an eloquent plea for tho
tondent of playgrounds at Pittsburg,
tondent of playgrounds at Pittsburgh,
writes: "From tho juvenllo court,
from prisons, from hospitals, from
students of social ovlls, from ovory
depnrtment of science devoted to tho
study of mnn, comes tho warning that
In our day, as In no other day, tho
world h&s yet seen, vre seed Is. our
great cities to give hoed to tho naturo
and spirit of childhood and youth and
to tho right of tho pcoplo to happi
ness. Society has not so much for
gotten aa it has failed to realize In
theso strenuous days of materialism
how much modorn city and social
conditions arc making void for many
n fundamental tenet of our national
cr.ocd. In tho boys nnd girls of tho
streets, In tho delinquent, tho fallen,
tho outcast, tho unuccessful and tha
misfits thero Is tho samo hunger for
hnpplness thnt Is our own. But if
that hunger mu3t bo satisfied In the
ono or two or three-roomed home of
rh tenement, in tho street, nickelo
deon, cheap theater, snloon or publlo
danco hall, or not at all, who can
wondor nt Individual ruin or social
dlsastor?"
Telllno a 8ecret.
"Horace," asked his uncle, "what
was tho subject of your graduating
essay?"
"Tho Alarming Prevalence of Hy
perkntnbollsm,' " the young man an
swered. "Whnt put such a queer topic as
that Into your head?"
"1 was racking my brains for some
thing unhncknoyod, hnppenod to pick
up n dictionary, opened It at random,
nnd 'hyporkatabollsm' wns tho first
word that caught my oyo. It was aB
eaBy ns pie nfter that. Don't say
anything about It, will you?"
Beautifying tho Home.
Whllo critics havo been calling loud
ly for somothlng truo and originnl in
Amorlcan architecture, thero haB boen
quietly developing a typo that 1b really
both now nnd nrtlstlc, saya CharlcB
M. Cheney in tho Houso Beautiful.
Discarding tho restrictions of tradi
tion, a strong and vlrilo stylo founded
ou tho best principles of composition
and design Is asserting itself in tho
small house, Beauty is arrived at
through tho simple elements of construction.
HARVESTER AT WORK
Uncounted Miles of Bountiful
Crops Make Glad tho Farmers
of Western Canada.
YIELD WILL BE RECORD ONE
Practically Beyond Reach of Accident,
the Fruit of the Pcrtlle Fields
It Being Gathered Elevators
and Rallroadi Will Bo Taxed
to Their Capacity.
On a bcnuUful Saturday afternoon,
four weeks ago, tho writer started for
a twenty-mile drlvo into tho country,
from on of the hundred cr mere tics'
towns that hnvo been well Btartcd dur
ing tho past spring, In tho Province of
Saskatchewan, in WcBtorn Canada.
Mllo after mllo, and mllo nfter mile,
was traversed through whnt was ono
continuous wheat field, tho only rollof
to tho scono being the roadways that
led back Into other settlements,
whoro would hnvo been repeated tho
samo great vista of wheat.
What a wealth! Horo were hun
dreds und thousands, nna millions of
biiBhols of whnt was declared to bo n
quality of groin equal to any that hns
ever been grown in tho province As
wo drove on nnd on I thought of those
follows down on the Board of Trado
nt Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis
nnd Duluth. Whllo they woro exploit
ing each others' energies the farmer
of Saskatchewan, AiDerta nnd Mani
toba was contemplating how much ho
would realize out of his crop, now
past nny dnngor of nccldont, over
what IiIb nntlolpatlona woro two
months ago. Ono man said to mo:
"Tho profits of that field of wheat will
glvo mo sufficient money to purchaso
320 acres of land, for which tho rail
way company Is nakhig JG.400, nnd
pay It in cnBh." Another, with n Hold
of flax It was Only 320 ncrcs said
Stesrn Plowing in
ho could do the somo and still havo a
balance in tho bank. Flax produces
wonderfully well, and tho current
price Is about $2.50 per bushel. We
then drove ovor Into another town
ship, getting further back from the
railway, and the main travelod road.
Hero wo found ourselves in tho center
of a Swedish settlement. Those form
ing the settlement were originally
from Nebraska. Invited to put up our
horses nnd stay over for dinner, and
a dinner that was enjoyed not only on
account of tho generous nppotlto cre
ated by tho exhilarating drive, but
also becntiBo of tho clean linen, tho
well-prepared dishes of roast fowl, po
tatoes, cabbage, and a delightful des
sert, somo of the history of tho settle
ment was learned. Tho host and
hostess wero modest In describing
their own achievements, and equally
modest ns to those of their friends,
but enough wns learned to satisfy us
that they had come thero about threo
years ago, In modcrato, almost poor,
circumstances. Most of them bad re
ceived their homesteads as a gift from
tho government, and by careful dili
gence had purchased and paid for ad
joining land. They had plenty of cat
tlo and horses, some sheep and hogs,
and largo well-kept gardens, showing
an abundance of potatoos and cabbage
and other vegetables. Their buildings
wero good. Schools wore In the neigh
borhood and thero was evidence of
comfort everywhere.
On to the Park Country.
Reluctnnt to leave these Interesting
pcoplo, the horses thoroughly rcstod,
wre "hooked up" nnd driven on, un
der a sun still high In tho heavens,
with tha horses pulling on the bit and
traveling at a 12-mllo nn hour gait
over a ron1 that would put to shnme
mnuy of the macadamized streets, we
woro whirled along n sinuous drive
through tho woods nnd then out In tho
pnrk country.
Hero wan another acono of beauty,
groves of poplar, herds of cattlo,
fenced fields of wheat nnd oats and
barley and flax. Hero was wonlth,
and happiness and surely content
ment. The crops wero magnificent
Tho BottlorB, most of them, by the
way, from Iowa, hud selected this lo
cntlon because of Its beauty. Its en
tire charm was wholesome. Fuel was
In abundance, tho soli was the best,
the shelter for tho cattlo afforded by
tho groves gave a splondld supply of
food, while hay was easy to get. They
liked It. Hero was a Bturdy farmer,
with his throe boys. He had formerly
been a merchant In an lawn town, his
children had been given n college edu
cation and one of tho boys wns about
to marry tho accomplished daughter
of a neighboring farmer.
Through Land of Wealth.
Tho Invitation to remain to supper
was accepted, but tnat given to re
main over night wna tabled. It was
only a 25-mllo drlvo Into town over
tho best of ronds, through such a
Chess Players Mourn.
In tho death of Albort do Roths
child tho great fraternity of chess
players hns lost a devoted brothor, ac
cording to ono of tho Vienna biogra
phers of tho lato financier. He was
ono of tho founders and for many.
years tho president ot tho Vienna
Chess club nnd n devotee of thp royal
game. "Not only in tho councils of
the organization did ho tako an active
pnrt, but for years he spent a part ot
nearly every day at its headquarters
whore ho attained a high placo as a
player," says ono paper.
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BiiiiiiiiHBBViBilHHrlEiEHU
Bplendtd country, all one beautiful pie'
turo, nnd such an opportunity to uw
ono's Imagination In figuring up tk,
amount of tho wealth of the crw!
through which tho trip int town toe
us, was not to bo njoyod every day.j
And away wa started. J
It waB delightful. Wo drove mr
drove through avenues of wheat,
which today, having yellowed wltk
tho beneficent sun, is bolus laid low
by tho reaper, stacked and threshed;
by tho thousands of handi required 6
do It, and In great wagoas is feels
taken to tho olovator.
A night's ride by trala took
through 225 miles of thin Rrwat prey- -
inco oi oasaaicnewan inio tae south
western part and from appearance
It might have been as though a traaa
fcr had been made acrosa a township.
Thero wero wheat Holds, oat fields,
barley fields and flax Holds, and maBf
more that could not be aeon. Yet'
thero thoy wero, and during tho nlgbt
T?e had ysrsed throunh s COTtrr 2h-
ilnrly cultivated.
It wilt all socuro a market and get
lta way to ocoan or local mill by
means of tho great railway whose
well-arranged systems aro penetrating
ovcrywhoro Into tho agricultural parts.
Proaperoua Alberta.
Wo afterward went over late Al
berta, and hero again it was grain adi
cattle, cattlo and grata, comfortable
farm homos, aplondtdly bwiK cities
and towns; tho best of chvrefeos and
the moat thoroughly equipped schools.
Whllo talking with a Soutkera Sas
katchewan farmer ho said that tto
lnnd ho was working, and for whicb
ho had been offered $60 an acre, bad
ueen purchased five years ago far $12
an ncre, but ho won't sell. Ho Is
making a good profit on his land at
$60 on aero, and why ohouM ho aellf
Farther north, lnnd was selling at
from $15 to $18 and $20 nn acre. It
was learned afterward that the soil
was similar to that in tho south, the
prlco of which tfiday Is $0 an acre.
Tho climate was similar and tho mar
kets aB good. In fact tho only differ
ence was that today theso northern
lands occupy tho samo position that
tho moro southerly onos did five years
ago, nnd thero nro found raeay who
Western Canada.
say thoy will como into a prtee nearer
their legitimate value of $50 er $69 aa
aero quite as quickly as tbe sutuory
lands. And I believe It.
Throughout all this greM euatar.
practically 600 by 80 miles aqua,
there aro still a great assay kosm
steads which aro girca fre to'actaSt
settlers. Many who have seevred par
ents for their homestead consider
their land worth from $lf to $25 tet
acre.
Immense Cropa Assured.
Throughout tho southern portion of
Alberta, a district that suffered mete
or less last year from drovtb, theie
will bo harvested this year me of the
best crops of fall wheat, winter wheat,
oats, flax and alfalfa that has ever
been taken off theso highly pwduotrvo
lands.
In Central Alberta, which eeeapriees
tho district north of Calgary aad east
two hundred miles, through tbmroecv
Sodgowlck, Castor, Red Deer, Wetas
klwln, Edmonton, Lacomb; Tegre
vllle, Tofleld, VcrmlUIoa aad a scare
of othor localities, where are settled
lnrge numbers of Amcriraas, the
wheat, oats and flax, three weeks ago,
was standing strong and ereot, large
heads and promising from M ts X
bushels of wheat and as Itgfe as 10
bushols of oats on caret!? tilled
fields, while flax would yrebaMy
yield from 15 to 18 bushels er acre.
In these parts tho harvesters are
busy today garnering this great oren
nnd-lfwlll ahorttj-boknowBwtiether
tho great anticipations are to be real
ized. Throughout all parts of Saskatche
wan, whether north, aoata, east er
west, tho same story waa heard, aRd
tho evldenco was E-scn of the splendid
and bountiful crop.
Rich Yield In Manitoba.
In Manitoba it was the seiae. The
fields of grain that wore passed
through In this province promised to
glvo to tho growers a bumper yield,
nnd as high as 35 bushels of wheat
and CO bushelB of oata was freely dis
cussed. It would appear as if tho expecta
tion of an average of S!6 Imekels ot
wheat throughout the three Brevincee
would be mot.
In a fow days tho 40,00,e-buBhel
elevator capacity throughout the coun
try will be taxed, the 25,00M bush
els capacity at Fort WlUUaa aad Fort
Arthur will bo taken up, aad the rail
ways and their equipment vial be
called upon fcr their best Weeny the
great, broad, yellow fields) are tedus
trlal haunts, tho self-blnde 1st at werk
In its giant task of ledsishig toto
sheaves tho standing grass, the har
vesters are busy stocking trod stack
ing, tho threBhlng machines' are being
fed the sheaves, tho large box iregosB
are taking it to tho elovatora, aaid no
matter where you go it to she same
story and a plcfuro such as ea& only
bo seen In tha groat grain fields ot
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Market for Human Hair.
Tho quaint annual hnlr fair waa
hold at LlmogoB, Franco, a fow days
ago. This curious market brings the
groat dealora in human hair and the
representatives ot important halri
dressers from all parts ot Europo, buy
ers and Beliefs coming from Berlin
and Rome, Spain and Austria, and
from nil the great towns ot France.
Fair and dark hnlr is seen there la
great quantltlos, hut here aad there
can be seen rarer plaits of, white hair,
which with tho red, are sold for aa
much as $60 and $70 a kilo.
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