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
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cepted with a wide-spread apprecia
tion, and not met with attempts on
the part of some to spread misleading
statements. The Dominion Govern
ment has not taken steps to deny
many of the false statements circu
lated by those who evidently are more
I rinterested in injuring Canada than
benefiting those who would be bene
fited by taking up farms in Canada,
but in order to correct a highly er
roneous impression that conscription
is carried on in Canada, that compul
sory military service is employed, and
that there is restraint as to the move
ment of those not Canadians, the ne
cessity is felt of giving ns much pub
licity as possible to a denial of theso
statements.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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BALANCE KEPT BY NATURE
Increase of the Human Race Seems to
Be Regulated by Wars and
Other Devastations.
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.