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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1905)
Wasn’t Disappointed. Chicago Journal: A 'title boy was being reproved by his mother. "Charlie," she said, "If you behave like this, you know, you won't go to heaven.” I The child thought a little and then ■aid: “Well, I’ve been to two circuses and to 'Unde Tom’s Cabin;’ I can’t expect to go everywhere." A Quiet Call Down. Bouth Bend Tribune: The Bystander •—Tour time must be of very little value. I’ve been watching you for an hour and you haven’t had a bite. The Fisherman—My time Is worth too mu,ch to waste an hour of It watch ing a man fish who Isn't catching any thing. A traveler In the upper Tangtse prov inces of China found recently In the town of Hlnganfu many Chinese Mo hammedans who keep up communica tion with their fellow religionists of Arabia. A missionary who has lived among them for yea's declares that they are very quarrelsome, much given i to boasting of their Turkestan origin, and. In spite of the prophet's Injunc tions drink a great deal of wine. This Is usually the case with Chinese Mo hammedans. Oeneral James Buchanan, who' has been appointed brigadier-general, Is a great-great-grandson of Samuel Ogle, a colonial governor of Maryland. Especially for Women. Champion, Mich., July 24.—(Special.) —A case of especial Interest to women la that of Mrs. A. Wellett, wife of a well-known photographer here. It Is best given In her own words. "I could not sleep, my feet were cold end my limbs cramped,” Mrs. Wellett states. “I bad an awful hard pain across my kidneys. I had to get up three or four times In the night. I was Tery nervous and fearfully despondent. “I had been troubled in this way for five years when I commenced to use Dedd'e Kidney Pills, and what they oauaed to come from my kidneys will hardly stand description. "By the time I had finished one box of Dodd’s Kidney Pills I was cured. Now I can sleep well, my limbs do not eramp, I do not get up In the night and I;.feel better than I have In years. I •we my health to Dodd’s Kidney Pills.” Women's Ills are caused by Diseased Kidneys; that’s why Dodd’s Kidney PlUa always cure them. PALACES OF GREAT RULERS. No monarch In the world excels the Csar of Russia In the splendor of his palaces. Tsarkoe, near St. Peters burg. where the emperor has been staying recently, has a park around It which is eighteen miles In circumfer ence. One room of the palace has walls of lapis lazuli and a floor of ebony Inlaid with mother^of pearl. Another has walls of amber curiously carved, and the walls of a third are laid thick with gold. In the throne room of the palace of the Shah of Persia there Is a carpet so thickly sown with pearls that the text ure of the cloth can hardly be seen. Near It is the throne of carved wood, ■tudded with Jewels valued at $5,000, 000. Near the throne stands, a huge silver vase set with pearls and turquoises, but, strange to say, alongside of It stands a cheap European painted urn, such aa can be bought anywhere for a dollar. The Shah has curious Ideas about the value of things, and on the walls of one room a painting by one of the old masters hangs side by side with a Saudy poster advertising a dealer In ■h hooks. And everywhere about the palace are cats. The Shah has a specimen of every kind of cat of which he has ever heard, and there Is hardly a country that Is not represented In the feline army which It Is the pleasure of the Persian ruler to malntuin. To take care of this assemblage of cats there le a corps of well paid offi cials. Te palace of the emperor of Abys elnla is a large building, built like a Swiss chalet, vflth a red tiled roof and whitewashed walls. It Is a very ordi nary affair, and Is surrounded by huts and other Inferior buildings. There Is nothing splendid about the palace or It* furnishing, and, indeed, it would be considered as quite lacking in every thing except size as a residence for an American of moderate means. But It is the palace of an emperor, nevertheless, and of a powerful one. CHANGED HU8BAND. Wife Made Wiae Change in Food. Change of diet la the only way to really cure stomach and bowel trou ble. *•". A woman aaya: "My huaband had dyspepsia when we were married and had suffered from It for several years. It was al most Impossible to find anything he could eat without bad results. “I thought this was largely due to the uae of coffee and persuaded him to discontinue it. He did so, and be gan to drink Postum Food Coffee. The change did him good from the begin ning, hla digestion Improved; he suf fered much less from his nervousness, and when he added Grape-Nuts food to his diet he was soon entirely cured. “My friend, Mrs. - -, 0f Vicksburg (my former home) had be come a nervous wreck also from dys pepsia. Medicines had no effect, neither did travel help her. On my last visit home, some months ago, I persuaded her to use Grape-Nuts food. She was In despair, and consented. She stuck to it until it restored her health so completely that she Is now the most enthusiastic friend of Grape Nuts that I ever knew. She eats It with cream or dry, Just as it comes from the package—keeps It In her room and eats It whenever she feels j like It. "I began eating Grape-Nuts food, myself, when my baby was 2 months old, and I don't know what I should have done without it. My appetite was gone, I was weak and nervous and afforded but very little nourish- j ment for the child. The Grape-Nuts food, of which I soon grew very fond, speedily set all this right again, and the baby grew healthful, rosy and beautiful as a mother could wish. He 1« 2 years old now and eats Grape Nuts food himself. I wish every tired young mother knew of the good that Grape Nuts would do her." Names given by Postum Co., Battle j Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. THE MASTER OF APPLEBY ' > ..-.-.=-.-j= By I'ra.ncia Lynda. ^-.■■■■■..» . ■■ ■...-■« .■ < j CHAPTER XX—Continued. Wo marched In Indian file, Ephraim Teatea In the lead, Uncanoola at hla heels, and the two of us heavier-footed ones bring ”5 up the rear. Knowing the wood ed wilderness by length and breadth, the old man held on through thick and thin, straight as an arrow to the mark; and so we had never a sight of the road again till we came out upon It suddenly at the ford of violence. Here I should have been in despair for the lack of any Intelligible hint to point the way; and I think not even Jennifer, with all his woodcraft, could have read the record of the onfall as Tates and the Catawba did. But for all the overlapping tangle of moccasin and hoof prints neith er of these men of the forest was at fault, though ten minutes later even their skill must have been baffled, Inasmuch as the first few aplttlng raindrops were patter ing In the tree tops when we came upon the ground. “That's Jest about what I was most afeard of," said the borderer, with a hasty glance skyward. "Down on your hunkers, chief, and help me read this sign afore the good Lord takes to sending Ills rain on the Jest and the unjest,” and therewith these two fell to quartering all the ground like trained dogs nosing for a scent. We stood aside and watched them, Rich ard and I, realizing that we were of small account and shquld be until, perchance, it should come to the laying on of hearty blows. After the closest scrutiny which took account of every broken twig and trampled blade of grass, this prolonged until the rain was falling smartly to wash out all the foot-prints In the dusty road, Teates and the Indian gave over and came to Join us under the sheltering branches of an oak. " 'Tls a mighty cur'.ls sign; most mighty cur’ls," qucth the hunter, slinging the rain drops from his fur cap and emptying the pan of his rifle, not upon the ground, as a soldier would, but saving every preci ous grain. "Ez 1 allow, I never heerd tell of any Injuns a-dolng that-away afore; have you, chief? hey?" The Catawba's negative was his gut tural “Wah,” and Ephraim Teates, hav ing carefully restored the final grain of the priming to his powder-horn, proceeded to enlighten us at some length. "Mighty cur'ls, ez I was ,a-saylng. Them Injuns fixed up an ambushment, blazed In a volley at the closest sort o' range, and followed It up with a tomahawk and knife rush—lessen that there Afrlkin was too plumb daddlcd to tell any truth, what somelever. And, spite of all tills here rampaging, they never drawed a single drop o' blood In the whole enduring scrim mage! Mighty cur'ls, that; ain’t It, now? And that ain't all: soma o' them same Injuns, or leastwise one of ’em, was a wearlng boots with spurs onto ’em. What say, chief?" Uncanoola held up all the fingers of one hand and two of the other. "Scbben In jun; one pale face,” he said, In confirma tion. I looked at Richard, and he gave me back the eye-shot, with a hearty curse to Bpeed It. "Falconnet!” said he, by way of tail piece to the oath; and I nodded. ” ‘Twas that there same hoss-captaln, sure enough, ez I reckon,” drawled Yeates. “Maybe one o’ you two can tell what-all ho mought be a-rlvlng at.” Jennifer shook his head, and I. too, was silent. ’ Twas out of all reason to Bupposc that the baronet would resort to sheer violence and make a terrllled captive of the woman he wanted to marry. It was a curious mystery, and the hunter's next word Involved It still more. “And vlt that ain’t all. Whilst some o' tha Injuns was a-whooplng It up acrost tho creek, a-chaslng the folks that was making tracks for their city o’ refuge, t'others run the two gals off Into the big woods at the side o' the road. Then Mister Hoss-Captalu picks up the Afrl kln, chucks him on a hoss and sends him a-kltlng with his flea in his ear; after which he climbs his hoss and makes tracks hlsself—not to ketch up with the gals, ez .you mought reckon, but oft yon way,” pointing across the creek and down Hie road to tha south ward. Jennifer heard him through, had him Bet it all out again in plainest fashion, and after all could only say: “You are sure you have the straight of It, Eph?” The borderer appealed to Uncanoola. "Come, chief; give us the wo’th of your Jedgment. Has tho old Gray Wolf gone stun-blind? or did he read them sign like they’d ort to be read?” "Wahl the Gray Wolf has sharp eye sharp nose—sharp tongue, sometime. Sign no can He when he read ’urn.’’ Jennifer turned to me. “What say you, Jack? ’Tls all far enough beyond me. I’ll confess." I was as much at sea touching the mys tery as he was; yet the thing to do seemed plain enough. “Never mind the baronet's mystery; ’tls Mistress Margery’s hazard that concerns us,” I would say. And then to Ephraim Yeates: "Will this rain kill the traU, think you?” He shook his head dubiously. "I dunno for sartaln; ’twill make a heap o’ differ’ If they was anyways anxious to hide It. Ez It starts out, with the women a-hos back, ’tls plain enough for a blind man to lift on the run.” “Then let us be at It,” said I. “We can very well afford to lot the mystery untan gle Itself as we go.” And with this the pursuit began In relentless earnest. The trail of the two horses ridden by Margery and her woman cut a right angle with tho road, turning northwest along tho left bank of the stream; and, despite the rain, which was now pouring steadily even In the thick woody the hoof prints were so plainly marked that we could follow at a smart dog-trot. In this speeding the old hunter and tho Indian easily outwoaried Jennifer and me. They both ran with a slow swing ing leap, like tho racking gait, half pace, half gallop, of a well-trained troop horse. Mile after mile they put behind them in these swinging bounds; and when, well on In the afternoon, we stopped to eat a snack of tho cold meat and to slake our thirst at one of the many rain pools, I was fain to follow Jennifer’s lead, throw ing myself flat on the soaking mold to pant and gasp and pay off the arrears of breathlessness. This breathing halt was of the brief est; but before the race began again, Ephraim Yeates took ttmo to make a careful scrutiny of tho trail, measuring the stride of the horses, and looking sharply on tho briars for some bit of cloth or other token of assurance. When we came up with him he was mumbling to himself. “Um-hm; Jes' so. They was a-maklng tracks along hereaway; sartaln, sure; larruping them hosses to a keen Jump, Hckity-spltt. Now. says I to myself, what's the tarnation hurry? Ain’t they got all the time there is to get where they're a-golng, Immejltly, If not sooner?1' Then he turned upon me. “Cap’n John, can’t you and the youngster lay your heads side and side and make out what-all this here hoss-captain mdught be up to? It do look like he hpd some sort o’ hatchet to grind, a-sentllng that Afrlkln back to raise a hue and ery, and then a-lettlng his Injuns leave a trail like this here that any tow-head boy from the set tlements could follow at a canter.” Richard said he could never guess the meaning of It all; and my mind was to the full as blank as his. I made sure some deep-laid plot was at the bottom of the mystery; but we had measured many weary miles In the wilderness, ar.d the plotter's trap had been fairly baited, set and sprung, before the lightning flash of explication cams to show us all Its devil ish Ingenuity. But now “Forward,” was the word, and we fell In line again, and again the tire less running of the two guides stretched and held us on the raok of weariness. Happily for us two who were out of training, the rainy-day dusk oim early; and though Yeatee and the Indlatt, run ning now with their bodies bent double and their noses to the ground, held on long after Richard Jennifer and I were bat-blind for any seeing of the hoof prints, the end came at length and we bivouacked as we were, flreless, and with the last of the cooked ration of deer's meat for a scanty supper. After the meal, which was swallowed hastily hi the silence of utter fatigue, we scooped a hollow in a last year’s leaf beil and lay down to sleep, wet to the skin as any four half-drowned water rats, and to the full as miserable. Fagged as I was, 'twas a longtime be fore sleep came to make me forget; a weary Interval fraught with dismal men tal miseries to march step and step with the treadmill rankings of {he aching mus cles. What grievous hap had befallen my dear lady? and how much or how lit tle was I to blame for this kidnaping of her by my relentless enemy? Was It a sharp foreboding of some such resort to savage violence that had tortured her Into sending the appeal for help? With thlB, T fell to dwelling afresh up on the wording of her message, hungering avidly for some hint to give me leave to claim It for my own. Though I made sure she did not love me—had never loved me as other than a make-shift confidant, whose face and age would set him far be yond the pale of sentiment—yet I had hoped this frlendshlp-love would give her leave to call upon me in her hour of need. Was I the one to whom her message had been aped? Suddenly I remembered what Richard had said; that the arrow was the Catawba's. If Uncanoola were the bearer of the parchment, he would surely know to whom he had been sent. Ills burow In the leaf bed ehanced to be next to mine, and I could hear his ateady breathing, light and long-drawn, like that of some wild creature—as, truly, he was—sleeping with all the senses alert to rprlrig awake at a touch or the snap In# of a twig1. A word would arouse him, and a single question might resolve the doubt. I thought of all this, and yet, when I would have wakened the Indian, a shak ing ague-fit of poltroon cowardice gave me pause. For while the doubt remained thero was a chance to hope that she had sent to me, making the little cry for help a token, not of love, perchance, but of some dawning of forgiveness for my des perate wronging of her. And In that hesitant moment It was borne in upon me that without this slender chance for hope I should go mad and become a wretched witling at a time when every faculty should be superhuman sharp and strong for spending In her service. So I forebore to wake the Indian; and following out this thought of service fit ness, would force myself to go to sleep and so to gather fresh strength for the new day's measure. HOW WE KEPT LENTEN VIGILS IN TKINITYTILE. ’Twould weary you beyond the limit of good nature were I to try to picture out at large the varied haps and haz ards of our watchings in the savage wilderness. For the actors in any play the trivial details have their place and meaning momentous enough, it may be; yet these are often wearisome to the box or stall yawning impatiently for the climax. So, if you please, you are to conceive us four, the strangest ill-assorted com pany on the footstool, pushing on from day to day deeper and ever deeper into the pathless forest solitudes, yet al ways with the plain-marked trail to guide us. At times the march measured a full day s length amid the columned aisles of the forest temple through lush green glades dank and steaming in the Au gust heat, or over hillsides slippery with the fallen leaves of the pine trees. Anon it traced the crooked windings of some brawling mountain stream through thicket tangles where, you would think, no woman-ridden horse could penerate. One day the sun would shine re splendent and all the columned dis tances would till with soft suffuslngs of the gray and green and gold, with here and there a dusky flame where the sweet-gum heralded the autumn, whilst overhead the leafy arches were fine lined traceries and arabesques against the blue. But in the night, mayhap, a dismal rain would come, chill with the breath of the nearing mountains; and then the trees turned into dripping sprinkling pots to drench us where we lay, sodden already with the heaviness of exhaustion.. Since the hasting pursuit was a thing to tap the very fountain head of forti tude and endurance, we fared on silent for the better part; and in a little time the hush of the solitudes laid fast hold of us, scanting us of speech and bidding us go softly. And after this the march became a soundless shadow-flitting, and we a straggling file of voiceless mech anisms wound up and set to measure off the miles till famine or exhaustion should thrust a finger in among the wheels and bid them stop forever. This was the loom on which we wove the backward-reaching web of stren uous oppressing. But through that web the scarlet thread of famine shuttled in and out. and hunger came and marched with us till all the days and nights were filled with cravings, and we recked little of fair skies or drip ping clouds, or aught besides save this ever-present specter of starvation. You will not think it strange that I should have but dim and misty memor ies of this fainting time. Of all priva tions famine soonest blunts the senses, making a man oblivious of all save that which drives him onward. The happenings that I remember clearest are those which turned upon some temporary bridging of the hunger gulf. One was Yeates’ killing of a milch doe which, with her fawn, ran across our path when we had fasted two whole days. By this, a capital crime in any hunter's code, you may guess how cruelly we were nipped in the hunger vise. Also. I remember this: as if to mock us all the glades and openings on the hillsides were thicketed with berry bushes, long past bearing. And, being too late for these, we were as much too early for the nuts of the hickory and chestnut and black walnut that pelted us in passing. The doe's meat, coming at a time of sharpest need, set us two days farther ’ on the march; and when that waa spent or spoiled we did as we could, being never comfortably filled, I think, and oftener haggard and enfeebled for the want of food. Since we dared not stop to go aside for game, the Catawba would set over-night snares for rab bits; and for another shift we cut knobbed sticks* for throwing and ran keen-eyed along the trace, alert to mur der anything alive and fit to eat. In this haphazard hunting nothing ever fell to Jennifer's skllless clubbing, or to mine; but the old borderer and the In dian were, better marksmen, and now and then some bird or squirrel or rab bit sitting on its form came to the pot, though never enough of all or any to more than sharpen the famine edge of hunger. For all the sharp privations of the forced march there was no hint on any lip of turning back. With Margery's desperate need to key us to the un flinching pitch, Richard and I would go on while there was strength to set one foot before the other. But for the old borderer and the Indian there was no such bellows to blow the fire of perseverence. None the less, these two did more than second us; they set the strenuous pace and held us to it; the Catawba Spartan-proud and uncom plaining; the old hunter no whit less tireless and enduring. At this far-dis tant day I can close my eyeB and see the gaunt, leather-clad figure of Eph raim Yeates, striding on always in the lead and ever pressing forward, tough, wiry, and iron to endure, and yet withal so elastic that the shrewdest discour agement served*only to make him re bound and strike the harder. Good stulf and true there was In that old man; and had Richard or I been less determined, his fine and noble heroism in a cause which was not his own would have shamed us into following where he led. ,We had been ten days In this starv ing wilderness, driving onward at the pace that kills and making the most of every hour of daylight, before Yeates and the Indian began to give us hope that we were finally closing in upon our quarry. The dragging length of the chase grew upon two conditions. From the beginning the kidnappers were able to Increase their lead by stretching out the days and borrowing from the nights; also, they Were doubtless well provis ioned, and they had horses for the cap tives and their impedimenta. But as for us, we could follow only while the daylight let us see the trail; and though we ran well at first, the lack of proper food soon took toll of speed. So now, though the hoof prints grew hourly fresher, and we were at last so close upon the heels of the kidnappers that their night camp fires were scarce ly cold when we came upon them, we ran no longer—could hardly keep a dogged foot pace for the* hunger pains that griped and bent us double. The tenth day, as I well remember, was furnace hot, as were all the fair weather days of that never-to-be-for gotten summer, with a still air In the forest that hung thick and lifeless like the atmosphere of an oven; this though we were well among the mountains and rising higher with every added mile of westering. The sun had passed the meridian, and we were toiling, sweaty-weak, up a rock-strewn mountain side, when a thing occurred to rouse us roughly from the famine stupor and set us watch fully alert. In the steepest part of the ascent where the wood scanted of root ing ground by the thickly sown strew ing of boulders, was open and free of undergrowth, Ephraim Yeates halted suddenly, signed to us with upflung hand, and dropped behind a tree as one shot; and in the same breath "the Ca .tawba, running at Yeates’ heels, lurched aside and vanished as If the earth had gaped and swallowed him. A moment later the twang of a bow string buzzed upon the breathless noontide stillness, and Jennifer clutched and dragged me down In good time to let the arrow whistle harmless over us. Then, like a distorted echo of the buzzing bow string, the sharp crack of the old bor derer’s rifle rang out smartly, setting the cliff-crowned mountain side all a-clamor with mocking repetitions. “Missed him, slick and clean, by the eternal coon-skln!” growled the old marksman, sitting up behind his tree to reload. "That there’s what comes o’ being so dRd-blame' hongry that ye can’t squlnch fair atween the gun sights. I reckon ez how ye’d better hunker down and lie dost, you two. ’Twouldn’t s’prlse me none If that red skin had a wheen more o’ them sharp p’inted sticks in his— The Lord be praised for all His marcles! the chief’s got him!” But Uncanoola had not. He came in presently, his black eyes snapping with disappointment, saying in answer to Yeates’ question that the yell was his own; that his tomahawk had sped no truer than the old borderer's bullet. “Chelakee snake heap slick; heap quick dodge,” was all we could get out of him; and when that was said he squatted calmly on a flat stone and fell to work grinding the nick out of the edge of the missped hatchet. (Continued Next Week.) It Was the Same Bunch. Dan Hart, the playwright, was in Pittston a few evening ago during the production of one of his plays for the benefit of the local Are company. As Mr. Hart is a native of the neighboring town of Wilkesbarre the "boys” deter mined to show their appreciation of, home talent and secured the biggest bouquet in town for him. One of the firemen was specially detailed to pre sent It to the young playwright at the moment of inspiration. Unfortunately the guardian of the "floral tribute” fell asleep and was In that happy condition when Mr. Hart was called before the curtain. The stage manager came to the rescue, however, and presented the bouquet amid great applause. Mr. Hart had a funny story to tell, and, laying the bouquet on a little stand in the w ings, stepped down to^he footlights to deliver the yarn to the best advantage. It was at this Juncture that the "spe cial committee of one on flowers" woke up. Catching a glimpse of the bouquet he sprang to his feet, and before any one could stop him, darted forward and presented it once more to the nston ished playwright, while the audience roared with delight. Mr. Hart paused a moment as he re garded the fireman and the bouquet with slightly embarrassed feelings. Then recovering himself, said with a smile: "I am doubly grateful for this re newed evidence of regard. I shall cher ish this bouquet, and the other one, as fragrant mementos of my visit to Pittston." "Ah, g'wan!" shouted a small boy in the gallery. "There ain't no other. It'3 the same buncli what’s been uncored.” It Didn’t Work. London Tit-Bits: Biway—Use an ■alarm clock nowadays? Jigsup—No; never tried one but once Biway—How was that? Jigsup—Well, you see, the first tinn it went off I didn't exactly know what it was, and so I said ' Oh, for heaven's sake, Maria, shut up!” Maria happened to be awake, and—well, that is how it ! was. IN WESTERN CANADA. WHERd MILLIONS OF FARMERS MAY FIND HOMES Vonr Territories With Sparse Popula tion Have Become Two Provinces with Hal f-a-Mil Hon People—Beat Agricul tural Country on Earth. When in 1809 the Canadian govern ment paid $1,500,000 for the extinguish ment of the Hudson's Bay Company's title to the whole of Western Canada, embracing an area of well ou to 2,000, 000 square miles of land, that ulti mately will be used in the different lines of agriculture, there were wiseacres at home as well as abroad who declared it to be a bad bargain. When again, in the early seventies the government be gan the effort to build the Canadian Pacific railway from ocean to ocean to open up this country, some of the ablest men inside as well as outside declared the road would never pay, not because they were not anxious to see the Domin ion grow and expand, but because they had no knowledge of what nature had done for the great West. They believed at best that the soil was not good and even if good, the latitude of the coun try precluded the possibility of anything like moderately successful agriculture; but it has remained for time, but a short period at that, to do the country justice. r~~" -.. .-\ WESTERN CANADA SCnOOLlIOUSE. At the time of the purchase in 1869, the white population of the entire country, including the officials of the Hudson’s Bay Company, could be numbered on four figures. With the creation of Manitoba into • province a year later, and navigation of the Bed river improved, the attention of settlers to a limited extent was drawn that way; but it remained for th* ap proach of the railway ten years later to give shape to the marvelous growth that has since followed. In short, the settle ment of the entire country is the work of but the last 25 years. The Western Territories. In 18S2, that part of the country now open for settlement was divided into four territories—Assiniboia, Alberta, Sas katchewan and Athabasca—and an ele mentary form of government conceded to them. In the present year these four territories were converted into two prov inces, with full provincial autonomy and admitted to full membership in the Ca nadian confederation with all the pow ers and privileges of the older prov inces. Very naturally the agriculturist of old er countries who is satisfied with present surroundings, and the man whose inten tions are to give agriculture a trial, have a few leading questions revolving in their minds, and ever before them for consid eration, such as climatic conditions, char acter of public institutions, educational facilities, postal conveniences, transporta tion facilities, and last, but not least, the nature and extent of the natural re sources and advantages of the country in which they are about to locate. Nobody claims that Western Canada Is perfection in every particular, but it is claimed and fully boruo out by the ex perience of thousands who have settled there, that there is no country ou the face of the globe that surpasses it in opportunities for the man of limited means who is content with pioneering for a couple of years. Its productive capabilities are now fully past the experimental stage, as the crop yields, dairy returns, profits of the rancher and general satisfaction to the man in mixed farming fully demonstrate. Under territorial or primitive govern ment, where authority between federal and local governments was divided, there could not have been the same liberties and freedom that now exist when the whole legislation of the country is vested practically in the hands of the people themselves under manhood suffrage. This gives them the freest form of dem ocratic governmeut under the suu. Low Taxation. One of the terrors of the people of the older countries is taxation. In the prov inces of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatch ewan, which constitute the entire Cana dian west that is open for settlement, there is no taxation but as the settler imposes it on himself. Oil the home stead in the unorganized territory, the tax collector is never seen. A- people organize municipalities, however, roads and bridges have to lie built, and schools have to be maintained; but the govern ment defrays much of the cost of the latter, and taxation is necessary for the former. The taxes for both purposes, however, rarely exceed $8 a year on a quarter section (160 acres). Schools are established in every coun try section where there are ten or more pupils to attend them, conducted by high ly certificated teachers under the best system known to the most advanced edu cationists of the world. In 1886 there were but 76 schools iu the territory that now comprises the proviuees of Alberta and Saskatchewan with a government support of $3,908. In 1904 there were 875 in the same territory with a govern ment support of $292,070. As the sub sidies these two provinces are now in re ceipt of from the Dominion government amount to about $1,003,000 each, they are a sufficiently large sum to carry on all the expenses of the country, includ ing schools, with but little or no taxation on the people. As these subsidies in crease as the provinces grow iu popula tion, settlers in the Canadian west will always have immunity from taxation. Crop Statistics. The following statistics as to crops and areas under crop of the territory bow comprised in the two new provinces, , toll a tala of advancement mora elo quently than can be given in word*: 1808 1904 Acres under wheat_ 327,580 869.750 Bushels wheat .5,750,650 17,250.350 Acres under oata. 115,275 560,680 Bushels oats .3,250,300 18,250.640 Acres under barley .... 17.640 72,850 Bushels barley . 485,350 2,350.420 Tbe average yields for those six years were as follows: Bushels. Wheat, per acre. 10.02 Oats, per acre . 32.25 Barley, per acre . 24.83 This docs not include the great grain growing province of Manitoba. As there is at least 25 per cent mors land under crop this year ((1905) on ac count of the favorable spring for seed ing. than there was last year, the crops will doubtless reach these figures: Bushels. Wheat .I... 22.500.000 Oats . 24,000.000 Barley . 3,000,000 It must be borne in mind that wheat , is the only grain exported easterly to any great extent, the local demand in Brit ish Columbia, the necessities of the in coming population for Seed and other wise consumes a large portion of the annual product. Placing the price of wheat at 00 cents, oats at 40, and bar ley at 50, which are very conservative figures, the value of the crop of 1904 wae $18,825,676. This would give each farm er established in the work well on to $1,000 for his year’s work. To this must be added the receipts from the sale of live stock, hay, dairy products, roots, vegetables, etc., well on to half as much more. From a condition of nature, the two provinces, though lying side by side and extending from the 49th to the 60tU parallel, have different climatic influ ences, and as a result are different in their producing capabilities from econ omic points of view. Alberta lying next the Rocky mountains, but moge especial ly in its southern district, is affected by the ‘Chinook” or warm winds from the Pacific ocean. As a result it has dryer summer weather than its sister province, and is not so much in favor as a grain growing country, but i« without question the most favorable ranching country on the globe. Large tracts are leased at a mere nominal figure, and the herd* live out the whole winter through and are invariably in excellent condition in the “round up” or enumeration in the spring. There are at least 150,000,000 ac-es o’ free grazing lands in this wide country, an area six times as great as the combined areas of all the Western States. x/auj Many of the ranchers take up farm ing with the cattle industry and inci dentally dairying as well. The latter promises yet, profitable as the other branches of agricultural industry may be, to become a leader in farming wealth. There is a system of dairying establish ed in the country under government con trol, supervision and management that relieves the farmers of much expense and anxiety. Instead of being compelled to build structures for the care of milk and its products, they simply turn their milk over to the dairymen, who call for it once a day, receive advances once a month on the butter and cheese, and at the close of the season, or when the year’s product is sold, balance up the accounts. As cattle double every third year, are worth about $35 as 3-year-olds, and are fed the year through on the native prai rie, the doubter can readily understand there are fortunes in ranching and dairy ing. There is a class of the community who imagine the country must be subjected to much inconvenience if not privation, because of lack of fuel. Because the country is prairie they conclude there must be a complete absence of fuel. The man who takes a trip over the country is, however, soon relieved from all anx iety on this score, as he finds all of the rivers, many of the lakes and ponds fringed with timber and often large bluffs of fair sized timber in patches in the open prairie, to say nothing of small forests in many districts of the entire I-1 GOVERNMENT CREAMERY AT CALGARY, country. When, however, timber is not available, an excellent quality of ooai is always on hand. As early as 1S87 some 75,000 tons were mined, and this was increased to 325,000 tons in 11XKJ, which amount has been growing annual ly. Although mining is but in its in fancy, enough coal has already been lo cated to do the whole of Canada for centuries. Wheat. To turn again to the great staple of the country, wheat, we may remark tiiat year in and year out, the entire cost of production to the farmer, even if he hires everything done from the ploughing to the delivery at the market, is set down by a number of calculators at $7.50 per acre. As the average crop of the country, year in and year out, is 20 bushels to the acre and the average price 00 cents, or $12 per acre, the proLit to the farmer is $4.50 per acre. If he does his work himself he, of course, earns wages in addition to this profit. These figures are very conservative. The farmers who are living on small overcrowded farms in other countries, or even land they cam sell for $20, $40 or $00 an acre, should bear in mind 100 acres of better producing land, where climate, educational facilities and Ev erything else necessary for the farmer's welfare, can be procured in Western Canada free of charge. Settlers are now locating at the rate of 150,000 a year from all parts of the world. The testi monies of these settlers, which can l>e got from any of them for the asking, are all the recommend the country requires to place it in a very few years in the front rank of the populous nations of the globe. It is already as prosperous as any and the success of those who bare ventured nud won is all the nssuraueo that is necessary for tho prosperity and development of the future.