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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1914)
THE WHEAT LANDS OF WESTERN CANADA AN ATTRACTION THE EUROPEAN WAR MAKES THE GROWING OF WHEAT EX CEPTIONALLY REMU NERATIVE. One result of the European War has been to reduce the volume of busi ness done by many of the manufac turing institutions of the United States, commercial enterprises have been affected, business of many kinds have been hampered, and a financial stringency has been forced on almost every community. It Is not only be cause It has brought these things about, and created a lot of hardship, but there Is tlvo outstanding fact of the terrible loss of life, the great de struction of property, and the disrup tion of everything near and dear to those whoso countries are Involved in the war that makes the whole affair highly regrettable. The heart of the entire world goes out in sympathy to those within the area of the trouble. Arrangements have been made to re lieve the distress by money and other means. But there Is one great thing —wheat and (lour—that the European countries will need. The wheat-pro ducing countries are no longer pro ducing, ami there Is the gravest rea son to fear that they will not be for some years. In this case, It would be fully as beneficial and charitable to make provision to meet the loss of Europe's grain crop by encouraging a greatly Increased growth on this con tinent. The wheat-growing sections of the United States have about reached their limit of production, and this source cannot bo depended upon to meet a great deal of the demand that there will be for some years. The only country that Is In a position to meet It Is — Canada — that portion known as Western Canada. Here there are millions of acres of land, capable of producing from 20 to 40 bushels per acre. All this laud Is ex cellent for wheat, and very much Is still in the hands of the Dominion Government, and 160 acres of It can be had by the payment of a ten dollar entry fee. Another vast area Is that held by railway and reliable land companies, held at from $10 to $25 per acre. Im proved farms are slightly higher in price. Information regarding these lands may be had of any Canadian Government Agent. The fact that Canada offers such a splendid opportunity should be ac S0METH1NG USEFUL FOR XMAS I V 801(1 at the best stores ® most everywhere. If your dealer cannot ji supply, we will gladly I assist you. Illustrated Bill® S _ , folder on request. f: ... JUE. WATERMAN COMPANY 178 It road way New York Barber Supplies The K leeblatt Barbers Supply Co.,618 Pierce SL, Sioux City ,1s.,will treat you right. Write them. AGENTS—100% PROFIT Selling our KLKAN PIPE, which every smoker «"> sight. Prevent* nicotine from eoeklug in to bite tongue end disgnsUasto— always g|Vee cool, fragrant emoke—met puff good u first Bottom easily pushed up to clean off aaliee and keep fire ex posed to sir. bottom end stem re moved to thoroughly ileen. 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An item to which special exception is taken is one which says: “They are sending them away as rapidly as possible; but the young men are not permitted to leave Can ada. All the .citizens and those who i have taken up homesteads are subject to military duty.” In direct refutation of this, we beg to quote from a recent editorial in the Rochester, N. Y., Herald: “There is no legal process by which Great Britain can command a single Canadian soldier to enter the field in her aid or even in her most needful defense. Great Britain cannot legally take a dollar of Canada’s money for this or any other war without Can ada’s consent. All must be given vol untarily, if it be given at all. Yet men and dollars are given to the limit of Canada’s power to give, just as if Great Britain had both physical and legal power to exact them. Indeed, it is possible that they are given more freely in this way, for what a man gives because he wants to give is likely to be greater than what he t gives under force. “All in all it is a noble picture of devotion to her motherland which Canada offers to the gaze of her ad miring and unenvious neighbors.” Canada's Invitation for Immigration extends to all who are willing to go on to the farms. Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada. Advertisement. MADE THE VICTORY CERTAIN Gunner's Announcement Naturally Brought Joy to the Heart of Artillery Captain. With a ringing cheer the enemy ad vanced to attack the entrenchments. “Fire!” hoarsely shouted the artil lery captaiu, and the roar of the guns responded, but without checking the steady advance of the enemy. One piece remained undischarged. “Why don’t you fire?” demanded the captain. "I—I don't know if it’s loaded," re sponded the gunner. A gleam of joy lit up the stern fea tures of the commander. “Then victory is ours!” he shouted. "Fire it and let’s find out!” The discharge mowed down the ad vancing column and the assault was repelled. ’Twas ever thus. Father’s Ultimatum. “I think two can live as cheaply as one, sir.” "You can’t edge into my family on that theory, young man. I’m willing to keep on supporting my daughter, but you’ll have to pay board.” Time isn’t always money to the chap who does a credit business. A fool and his money are always on the go. I < I I I I I I I I I ► I I I > Canada is Callin&Ybu her RicliWheat Lands She extends to Americans a hearty in* itation to settle on her FREE Home lands of 160 acres each or secure some of the low priced lands in Mani toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. 'his year wheat Is higher but Canadian land just as cheap, so the opportunity is more attractive than ever. Canada wants you to help to feed the world by tilling some of her soil—land similar to that which during many years has averaged 20 to 45 bushels of wheat to the acre. Think what you make with wheat around $1 a bushel and land so easy to get. Wonderful yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed farming is fully as profitable an industry as grain growing. The Government this year is asking farmers to put increased acreage into grain. Military service is not com pulsory in Canada but there i3 a great demand for farm labor to replace the many /oung men who have volunteered for service. The climate is healthful and agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good schools and churches convenient. Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Siin*rinn»T.<wt Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to HERE’S LATEST KRUPP GUN FOR THE KAISER’S FLEET At the huge Krupp gun factory at Essen, Germany, almost fifty thou sand operatives are working feverishly day and night turning out engine* of destruction. One of the latest big guns made by the Krupps is here shown. Several of these will be mounted at once on the German dread noughts. It is said the biggest and most destructive guns ever made ar* soon to be turned out at Essen. A current rumor ten days ago was to the effect that if the Germans gained control of the French seacoast as far sonth as Calais they would mount these big guns at the latter seaport and bombard Dover across the English channel. It is doubted, however, whether any gun could be made which could carry on a successful bom bardment over so long a distance. ' 8 UWG/r. woo- —r-~—^ 4— WAR ORDERS PLACED IN THE UNITED STATES Manufacturers already crowded with huge European demand. Woolens, agricultural Implements, wire, steel, cotton goods, auto trucks, hides, cop per, etc., etc. Manufacturing Machinery for Russia. On Saturday the liner Czar leaves New York for Archangel with a great cargo of machinery and supplies ordered by a local bank upon Instructions from the Russo Aslatlc bank. Machinery houses are feeling the trade Impetus of a booming export market. The Iron Trade Review tells of a single ship ment of 800 lathes to Russia. Other ma chine tools for working metals are being ordered In like qualtltles. In these lines fair shipments are being made to France. Italy and South Ameri ca, the orders Including types of ma chines rarely exported from the United States. John and James Dobson, Inc., Philadel phia, are at work on one order for 2,000,000 blankots. It Is understood, for the French government. The Rexford Knitting company, another Philadelphia mill, has 100,000 cotton gar ments to produce on an order from the French. Medicine Order. The largest order for lockjawk anti toxin evgr placed. 6,000 packages, has reached a Philadelphia chemical company from the British government. Cotton Orders. Southern mills share largely In the or ders for export. The Parker mills, Green ville, S. C., and the Cannon mills, In Con cord, N. C., have orders for hose, towels, blankets and heavy shirting. The Pittsburgh Coal company has bid on an order for 300.000 tons of coal a year for tliree years, it Is understood, for the Chilean government. The asphalt roads In Queens Borough, New York, are crowded with automobile trucks which are being tested out for an export order. The cars are being painted a light drab, like war paint on ships. One factory has an order for 90,000 parts, amounting to $1,000,000. Maas in «merica. From the New York American. One New York exporter Is quoted: "I am having manufactured for shipment to England goods that England has bought heretofore In Germany and Austria, I have stipulated that the mark shall be •Made In U. S. A.' ’’ A mill which rolls sheet copper Is send ing to South America copper circles 72 inches In diameter. It was necessary to wrap them In riveted band Iron for ship ment. Heretofore the goods were export ty by Germany only. The Parish Manufacturing company, Reading, Pa., has an order for the frames of SEO motor trucks which the Pierce Arrow company Is building for France. American car builders have been Inter viewed by Russian representatives regard ing a rush order for 1,400 freight cars. De livery will be at Vladivostok or Archangel. .* Peabody. Mass., firm has an order for * .000 worth of tanned hides for export. „ie Colt Arms company and the cart ridge companies In Connecticut are work ing overtime and will bo for many weeks. Canada has ordered 600 Indian two cylinder motorcycles. The Knox Motors company has a large order for motor trucks for Germany. The Germans are to accept delivery at seaboard In the United States. One hundred tons of horseshoes and 20 tons of horseshoo nails Is one order for export to a Pittsburgh mill. Another mill Is rushing out 5,000 tons of bayonet and saber crucible steel. Manufactured Cotton Sellinq. Dry goods merchants are selling for ex port trade where they never sold before, and articles that heretofore they stocked for local demand only. In the last manifests were domestics for Corlnto; domestics for Da Faz; general dry goods and cotton goods to Cuba; shoes, notions and domestics for Santiago de Cuba; duck, domestics and dry goods to Shanghai; duck, shoos and notions to Hon£ Kong; duck to Singapore; general dry goods and notions to Kobe. Those foreign orders are duplicated to many South American ports, and the size of the shipments are fairly large consid ering Importers must feel their way. Ex porters realize this may be only the be ginning of an enormous export trade In general dry goods to the West Indies, South America and the Pacific ports. Ernest A. Wakefield, consul at Port Elizabeth. South Africa. Is another for eign representative of the government to ask American exporters to Investigate a new market In his part of the world. - .ie largest carpet and wool corporation In this country has Just bought 2,000,000 pounds of carpet wools. Other like orders have been placed, making the total near er 4,000.000 pouonds. These wools were lying on the market until the present buying movement be gan. The orders cleaned up one-third of the wool of this grade. Philadelphia as well as Boston supplied raw material for this order. Combing and filling China and Russian wools figured in the transactions. Wool shipments from Boston this yssrj total 228,300,139 pounds, against 140,084,150 last year. England Is buying heavily. Condensed Newt Stories of Big Business Twenty-three members of a buying com mission formed by the French are now In this country making purchases for the French government. They are in charge of Consul D’Anglade. The demand for automobile trucks by the belligerent nations Is increasing, and one order for $7,000,000 of automobile trucks will probably be placed within the next day or two. Manufacturers of munitions of war are fast depleting their supplies. One large concern has disposed of all Its ,45-callber revolvers and is now sending .38-caliber weapons to France and England by way of New York. This company now has three shifts of men working day and night. The South Bethlehepi Steel company has begun work on 900 six-inch guns for the French government. The total contract amounts to $25,000,000. St. Louis has an order for 20,000 horses for the French army, at an average of $175 each. On this basis the entire order will total $3,500,000. Other purchases are being made In Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Wichita, Chicago and Memphis. It Is costing $1,500 a day to feed the animals awaiting shipment to Montreal. One hundred and forty-one railroads doing business of over $1,000,000 a year, earned during September last a net rev enue of $77,042,145. The same roads for September, 1913, earned $76,695,864. Dur ing the present year for the same month 190,950.96 miles of railway were operated, against 189,131.20 for the same month in the previous year. The total revenues for September last were $229,151,350 and ex penses totaled $152,609,205. The production of anthracite coal In October was larger than that of October last year In spite of the drought. If early indications do not fail, tho output will not fall far short of 6,600,000 tons, against 6,338,194 tons shipped last year. Demand for wire products for foreign shipment continues to be large. One in quiry for barbed wire for shipment to one of the belligerent nations Involved 60,000 tons. A portion of the tonnage Involved probably will be distributed this week. Wire product manufacturers In the Chica go district are driving mills at capacity. Some mills have been operating at 100 per cent capacity In the wire department for several weeks. More Important mills are unable to promise shipments of plain or barbed wire before the latter part of this month and some mills are out of the mar ket until December 15 Big French Order. London—The Standard says the French government desires to buy 1,000,000 pairs of woollen socles from some English woollen manufacturers, but owing to the other large demands on their stocks and supplies the English manufacturers have been unable to accept tlfe order, which consequently has gone to America. A number of other large orders In woollen goods which the French government tried to place in England has gone to America. Intrenching Tools. Pittsburgh—The Pittsburgh foreign trade commission announced yesterday that a local manufacturing concern has received an order from a warring Euro pean nation for 1,000,000 Intrenching tools to be delivered at tho earliest possible moment at a part In Ioeland. Inquiries have also been received from one of the belligerents for bids on a large order for steel wheels foi* use on gun and ammunition transport and also for heavy wagons. Shirts for British Soldiers. Reading, Pa.—A Reading Arm yester day received an order for 600,000 hospital shirts for the British army. The con tract Is for $350,000. It will require nearly 2,000,000 yards of muslin to All the order. Tariffs Spoil Trade. Letter of Fidelity Trust Company, Balti more. Until within quite recent-years the ex port trade of the United States was princi pally in products which other countries required and whioh have been shipped abroad almost automatically In response to a natural demand, to which have been added from time to time certain other products, tho surplus not required by the markets of this country, and sent to for eign lands In response, not to a special de mand for them there, but to the wish here to sell them. Experiences of European na tions tltat have succeeded in gaining mar kets In South America emphasize an ex actly opposite policy. Johnny Spreads Sunshine. From the Ladles’ Home Journal. "It is the duty of everyone to make at least one person happy during the week,” said a Sunday school teacher. “Now, have you done so, Johnny T” “Yes," said Johnny, promptly. “That’s right. What did you do?” "I went to see my aunt and she was happy when I went home.” To Iron Silk. From Mothers Magazine. In pressing silk. I always spread a sheet of tissue sper, thin onough to be seen through, ov.r the silk. The paper protects the silk from the Iron and prevents the shiny appearance made by the Iron coming in direct contact with the silk. _ As the resistance of grains to in sects and disease is due to their hard ness, a Bohemian has Invented a deli cate Instrument that measures the force needed to cut thorn, The Siberian Ivory. From the Washington Star. Not all the Ivory brought to market Is derived from living animals. Certain ivory is obtained from animals long since dead—relics, indeed, of a remote age. Ivory of this sort is found in Si beria. the ivory of a creature unknown. It is cut from the tusks of mastodons whose skeletons are found frozen in masses of ice or buried in the mud of Siberian rivers and swamps. The northern part of the country abounds in extensive bogs, which are called ur mans. and in these are found the tusks of the mastodon. It is inferred that these animals lost their lives by ven turing upon a surface not capable of sustaining their weight. To most creatures these urmans are forbidden ground. The nimble rein deer can sometimes effect a passage of them in safety during summer, but other large and heavy animals at tempting to emulate these deer would be engulfed. In the Tobolsk museum are to be seen various specimens of mammoth, and throughout this region they are not at all rare. When an ice pack breaks down a river bank, or the sum mer thaw penetrates deeper than usual into the ground, some of these antedi luvian monsters are very likely to be exposed. In many cases their remains are so fresh and well preserved, with their dark, shaggy hair and underwool of reddish brown, their tufted ears and long, curved tusks, that all the aborig ines. and even some of the Russian settlers, believe that they are speci mens of animals that still live, bur rowing like moles, and that they die the instant they are admitted to the light. The farther north one proceeds, the more abundant are these remains. They are washed up with the tides upon the arctic shores, and some extensive isl ands off the coast contain great quan tities of fossil ivory and bones. Tusks long or repeatedly exposed to the air are. brittle and unserviceable, but those which have remained buried in the ice retain the qualities of re cent ivory and are a valuable article of merchandise. The greatest market for these mammoth tusks is Yakutsk on the Lena Thence they find their way to workshops of European Russia and to the ivory carvers of Canton. Ltr I UVtKS. (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) Save all left-over pieces of soap, too small to use conveniently, in a glass jar. Sort the toilet soap and the laun-1 dry and kitchen soap. Put the kitchen and laundry soap in a wire shaker. Of the other, make a liquid toilet soap of three-quarters of old soap to one-quar ter of boiling water. Shave the soap, pour the boiling water over it, stirring all the time, and add the juice of a lemon and a teaspoonful of glycerine. Save the juice from all canned fruit. Usually there is more juice than fruit, and some is left over. Add it to mince meat when you are making that. Use , it for sirup on hot cakes and waffles. Add it to cold tea and lemon juice to make a delicious beverage. Use it to season water ices and sherbets. Add it to cut up orange and grapefruit, for a fruit punch. Save all bones from roast" and stews and every three or four da, s simmer them, in water, for stock with which to season meats and vegetables. Crack the bones, add to them a little onion, and simmer gently for several hours. Strain and season. Save soup meat. The flavor is gone from it. hut most of the nourishment is left. Use it for croquettes, well sea soned. Use it for force meat with which to stuff tomatoes and green peppers. Mince it. add a little tomato or green pepper, season and mix with enough white sauce to moisten well. Serve very hot on toast. Save all left-over vegetables to add to soup. A delicious soup is made from lima beans, tomato, a little chopped carrot, a little chopped celery, all boiled tender, and a little meat stock. Save all left-over soup, even if it is only half a cupful. It is useful in cooking meats and vegetables. Sweet potatoes that have been parboiled are delicious if they are baked in a drip ping pan and bested every five minutes until brown with stock or soup. Soup can be used to moisten hash or minced meat, and it can be used to season minced spinach and other vegetables. The Rose In Fashion's Favor. From the New York World. Fifth avenue and Riverside drive are one in favor of the rose on the shoulder as a feminine conceit. It's the new fall style. The rose may be a teeny-weeny bud for buds and a bull-blown flower for girls who have made their debute. The fashion provides that the flower shall be pinned a trifle forward of the top of the right shoulder. The color scheme is left to In dividual taste, although the pule pink tint has been adopted along the avenue. Later on, when the chrysanthemums are in bloom, it will be entirely proper to fasten a massive bloom In *he proper an atomical zone. Shoulder buds ran be bought at all florists. Artificial buds will do. Plenty of Blunders. From the Alexandria Times-Trlbuno. “A wise man learns something every time a fool blunders." says an un known writer. Why aren’t there more wise men In this world, if that is true 7 Sprains,Bruises Stiff Muscles Sloan’s Liniment will save hours of suffering. 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Every year, accorHing to scientists tvho attempt to keep the general rec ords, at least 80,000,000 human beings are born on this earth and 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 die. This indicates a daily birth rate of about 220,000 and a death rate of 180,000. The daily increase in population therefore is about 40,000. The total population of the globe is estimated at 1,800,000,000. The ravages of war do little to im pede the increasfe. Far more effective have been the upheavals of nature. The Franco-Prussian war killed about 130.000 in seven months. The death roll of the Russo-Japanese reached about 200,000. A single earthquake (1737, in India) has been estimated to have caused 300.000 deaths. The fa talities of the Messina earthquake in 1908 cannot have been far short of 100,000. A tidal wave in 189G drowned 27.000 persons in Japan, causing a greater loss of life than the whole war with China in 1S94. The earth juake in Japan in 1703 is said to have killed 200,000 people. The Lisbon 3arthquake in 1755 destroyed 50.000 luman lives, while 40,000 were lost in die same year in earthquake in Per )ia. Just Mother’s Way. Robbie (from the depths of a bed dme cuddle)—Mother, you ’member fou told me today that no one could possibly love dirty, noisy little boys? Mother—Yes, dear. What about t? Robbie—Then what for are you luggin’ me so tight?—Judge. Lots of the mistakes of married life ire home made. Quick Accurate Thinking — does much to make the difference between success and failure. And the food a person eats goes a long way toward deciding the difference. Grape-Nuts FOOD —with its delicious flavour and rich in the concentrat ed, nourishing elements of whole wheat and malted barley, is the favorite breakfast cereal of thou sands of successful men . and women — “There’s a Reason” for Grape-Nuts —sold by Grocers.