AMERICANS GROW RICH IN CANADA Testimony Proves Falseness of Statements as to Onerous Taxation and Conscriptioi. m "The attempt to check emigrate® from the United States to our prairie provinces by publishing alarming state ments about the enormous war taxes that are being paid here—$500 on a quarter section yearly—about forcing young men to enlist for the war; about the cold, no crops and any old atory that by their extravagant bold ness might influence men and women from venturing north to Canada, is real ly In the list of curios to our people Knowing the country, we can hardly take It seriously. Our governments, however, dominion and provincial, arc taking steps to expose the false state ments that are being made, and there by keep the channel open for continu lng the stream of settlers tnat has been flowing to us for the past decade. We have thought to assist in this work, and to do so purpose giving, from time to time, actual experiences of Americans who have come to Saskatchewan during late years. We give the statements of two farmers in this Issue as follows: - STATEMENT OF M. I’. TYSDAL I lived near Lee, Illinois, for 46 years. I came to Saskatchewan in the spring of 1912 and bought land near Briercrest. I have farmed this land. 1,680 acres, ever since. I have had grand crops In 1914 1 had 100 acres of wheat that yielded 40 bushels to the acre. I sold this wheat at $1.50 per bushel. 1 like the country and my neighbors. My taxes on each quarter section (160 acres) are about $32 a year. This cov ers municipal tax, school tax, hall In surance tax—everything. There is nn war tax, so-called. I like the laws In force hero. There Is no compulsion to me In any way. I am Just as independ ent here as I was In Illinois, and 1 feel that my family and I are just as well protected by the laws of the province as we were In our old home In Illinois What 1 earn here is my own. 1 have leven children and they take thattle— has Inspired his regiment from the x ginning of its history. There were two companies of them at CevJs Crest and they held the ridge and 'ept bark the Bulgarians the whole morn tig. although supported only by rifle fire, bus giving Tommy Atkins the much lecded time to complete the defensive dis positions In the third line. It was this line hat finally held the Bulgars back for bur day8. Scarcely a man of the two Irish com panies survived that desperate resistance, but the day was saved. The official name of the Tnniskiliing regiment is the Sixth Dragoons. They bear as rt badge the castle of Inniskilling (the more familiar spelling of the Irish name, Enniskillen), the castle in which William and Mary of Orange were pro claimed king anti queen on March 11, 1689. Waterloo and Crimea. The history of the Innlskiillngs has in it two Incidents of most stirring and ro mantic Interest— Waterloo and Crimea. When the English forces were sent to the continent to check Napoleon’s victori ous campaign after his return from Elba, the Innlskiillngs went in six troops, mus tering 4.')0 men, to re-enforce the Duke of Wellington’s army in the Netherlands. Brigaded with the First Royal Dragoons and Scotch Grays, they formed the fa mous Union Brigade, representing three lportions of the United Kingdom—England, Scotland and Ireland. “About noon,” writes W. II. Davenport Adams, in “Famous Regiments of the British Army,” “Napoleon delivered his first grand uttack upon the British left and placed, under Count 1’Erlon, four col umns of Infantry. 18,000 strong, supported by a superb body of cuirassiers, under Kellerman. These advanced, covered by the unceasing tiro of 74 pieces of artillery, against the left center of the allied army, and as their stately array ascended ♦he slope and their skirmishers opened a scat tering musketry, a Belgian brigade posed on the ridge lost heart and took to flight. A Charge That Won. “Picton brought forward his two bri gades—they were scarce 3,000 strong—side by side, In thin two-deep line. As the French halted on the crest of the hill a; d began to deploy into line not more than 30 yards from the scanty force of British, Picton shouted to Kemp’s brigade, ‘A vol ley, and then charge!” "The musketry blazed along the whole line, and straightway the foremost sec tion of the French section bit the dust. A wild cheer—a ringing British cheer— and with leveled steel Pictori’s heroes rushed forward to the charge. “Their leader, ns he advances, is shot dead through the left temple, the ball crashing into the brain. Woo to the French! The loss of their well beloved general embitters the fury of the British. They charge the devoted column and huri it down the blood wet slope in terrible disarray. Pack’s brigade, in like manner, has repulsed the other three columns, and as they stugger and reel, all broken and disordered in among the mass glitter the i sabers of Ponsonby’s brigade of heavy cavalry—the famous Union Brigade—the gallant English Royals, the ‘terrible' Scots Grays, the fiery Irish Enniskillens; and whole battalions are mowed down by their avenging swords, while the remainder fall back on the hill utterly and Irretrievably broken up.” Valor at Balaklava. Less spectacular, but scarcely less im portant and serviceable, was the work of the lnnlskillings In the battle of Bala klava, during the Crimean war. Its glory has been somewhat shadowed by the fa mous “Charge of the Light Brigade.” the most thrilling moment of that great bat tle. Yet the charge sung by Tennyson was a mistake; it was the hard fighting of the* Intiiskillings and other “heavy” regiments which made possible the vic tory. The battle crisis is thus described by W. H. Russell, the special correspondent, of the London Times: “The Russians advanced down the hill. Their first line was at least double the length of ours—it was three times as deep. Behind them was a similar line, equally strong and compact. They evidently de spised their insignificant looking enemy, but their time had come. “The trumpets rang out again through the valley, and the Grays and Enniskillen ers went right at the center of the Rus sian cavalry “The shock was but for a moment. There was a clash of steel and a light play of sword blades In the air. and then the Grays and the redcoats disappeared in the midst of the shaken and quivering columns. In another moment we saw them emerging with diminished numbers and in broken order, charging against the second line. It was a terrible moment. Put Enemy to Rout. “By sheer steel and sheer courage En niskillener and Scot were winning their . desperate way through the enemy’s squad- j rons, and already gray horses and red , coats had appeared right at the rear of the second mass, when, with visible force, j like one bolt from a bow, the Fourth Dragoon Guards, riding straight at the right flank of the Russians, and the Fifth j Dragoon Guards, following close after j the Enniskilleners, rushed at the rem- • nants of the first line of the enemy, w’ent through it as though it were made of pasteboard, and put them to utter rout.” | “Had it not been for a daring rush of Scots and Enniskilleners,” writes Mr. Adams, “scarce one man could have re turned to receive the pity and the praise of wondering, tearful England!’’ The Innlskilling regiment was organized after the battle of Newton Butler, in July, 1689. Sir Albert Conyngham was author ized to embody 600 men in a regiment of dragoons of 12 troops, of which he was i appointed first colonel. This regiment has j taken part—more or less prominently—in I almost every war that England has I fought since that date. “SETTING-UP EXERCISES.” i'jacilidc j.-iaiu aim. vv iiuc ucvimj' inhaling (through the nose) slowly raise tho arms to a horizontal position straight out from the sides; let the arms fall slowly to the sides while ex haling. ii—Arm stretching. While inhaling raise the arms with a wide sweep un til tho palms of hands meet straight above the head; sweep the arms back to the sides while exhaling. These movements should be performed at the rate of 10 a minute. 3— Tree swaying. While in the stand ing position, thrust the arms straight above the head, then sway from side to side, moving from the hips upward, the arms loosely waving like the branches of a tree. 4— Leg lifting. Assume the standing position, hut with hands resting on the hips. Raise the right thigh until at right angles with the body, leg at right angles with thigh; thrust tho leg straight forward to a horizontal po sition, then sweep the leg back to standing position. Repeat with the left leg. I 5—Signal station. Assume the stand ing posture with hands on hips. Thrust the right arm straight upward while lifting the left leg outward and up ward and rigidly extended. Lower the limb and repeat on other side. PUTTING ALL ON THE GIRLS. (Copyright, 1916. by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) ‘‘The wijid came blowing out of the west As Jimmy mowed the hay. Milly came with her bucket by. With sunburnt cheok and laughing eye. Rain came pattering down amain. Seeking shelter, ran the twain. When the sun came laughing out Milly had ceased to frown and pout. Twittering birds began to shout. As if for a wedding day." If you ask a free lance, a jolly bach elor, why lie does not marry, do you think you'll get the truth in his quick wltted answer? Not a lilt of it. He is sure to put it all on the girls. He'll tell you that he doesn't seem to take with them, declaring ho no | sooner begins to pay court to a sweet girl than somo luckier man is sure to come along and win her from him. The truth is more likely to be that he grew weary of dancing attendance on one and introduced his fascinating chum to her. The result was understood. Another eligible bachelor will give you the story of young women's ex travagance nowadays, adding that his mother never had a feather in her bonnet In all of her life. She wore the same velvet cloak and silk dress for years and years, and they were made by her own hands at that. It was due to her rigid economy that the family got a start. He Is careful not to mention the fact that lie spends more for cigars at the cafe bar. for cab hire and flowers for chorus girls in a month than would support the average wife for many a .lay. One will make out that he is still searching for his Ideal mate to wed. while, in fact, he is frittering away his precious years on married belles, ac complished coquettes and flirts, with healthy husbands who have no inten tion of making them widows in their time. Then there’s the single man of mid dle age who dodges the situation by ' that threadbare excuse of having the old folks and his younger brothers and sisters to support. Such a home is like an omnibus; there’s always room . for one more. He does not intend to , have the inmates crowded or his own ! selfish comfort interfered with. He secretly wants those who do not want him, looking at the maids with their 1 hair braided down their backs instead of the sensible woman of more mature years He tells you the givls are un ’ appreciative have no love in theii hearts, that he’ll have none «f them. Kvery unmarried man hs*s his glib 1 exruse ready «s to why he’s single. Not one man in t (100 will tell the naked u—viuwmiK pusmun. urai on nanus and knees, thighs and arms at right angles to body, spine straight. Reach forward with arm and follow with thigh and leg of same side; repeat on other side. Knee protectors can be worn during this exercise. 7—Body bending. Raise arms straight above the head and sweep them down to the floor without bending the knees. The above is taken from monthly health letter No. 20 of the Life Ex tension Institute. At this season of the year the office man and woman must do something to keep fit. The weather forces them to stay indoors. The day 1? 'it hours are few. Almost irresistibly ttie tendency is toward flabby mus cles and sluggishness. A skilled labor er is no better off. He may be hard enough in one or two groups of mus cles, but taking his muscular system as a whole he, too, is on the toboggan and will be for three months. To carry out the above exercise will not require much time or cause much trouble. If you are not willing to do that much, at least go as far as holding the body erect or taking a few deep breaths before an open window. Per haps you would be willing to contract the muscles of your arms, legs, and abdomen a few times each day as you sit at your desk. truth about the matter, but will clothe his reasons in some way that puts it all on the girls. The Colonel’s Phrases Stick. From the Philadelphia North American How few things which any of our 27 presidents said can anybody recall off offhand! Washington's most frequently quoted phrase is: “In time of peace prepare for war.” John Adams talked all day and wrote diaries all night, but perhaps “Independ ence forever”—his toast for the very Fourth of July on which he died—is more widely known than any other one thought. “Few die and none resign,” heads Jef ferson's list of deathless sentences, al j though parts of the Declaration of Inde pendence are known to millions. The Monroe doctrine keeps Monroe's name forever to the front, but his state papers, speeches and letters, like those of Madison, John Quincy Adams, McKinley. Taft and many other men long and hon orably in public life, are devoid of handles. Nothing to take hold of. Rutherford B. Hayes gave us one good thought: “He serves his party best who , serves the country best." Jackson was forever saying, “By the ! eternal,’’ but what else? “With malice toward none” and “a gov ernment of the people, etc," are Lincoln’s master strokes. However, his letters and papers are full of unique thoughts and would afford a present day cartoonist enormous opportunities. Grant used one phrase which will live forever: “Let us have peace." It came at a time when that was the thing every body needed, and so it stuck. Harrison’s “A cheap coat makes a cheap man," cost him a lot of votes. Cleve land, like Roosevelt, was fond of working out odd expressions. “Innocuous deseu tude" and “public office is a public trust,” captured the popular fancy. Can anv btxly recall one of Mr. Taft’s phrases, good as all his papers and messages were? As a coiner of keynotes, President Wilson has been without exalted success. But the Colonel 1 Think how many are his output—“Big stick,’’ “The Ananias Club.” A spear that knows no brother,” 'malefactors of great wealth" and Arma geddon, where he was to battle for tho 1 ord. Gone, But Not Forgotten. From the Youngstown Telegram. Rankin—“What did you ever do with ihe $10,000 you got from the railroad com pany when an engine ran into your auto mobile. ” Phyle—“I Invested it In mining stock.” “Was it a good buy?” “Good-by Is right." Daughter's Hearing Was Good. From the Grand Rapids Press. “I hear you ea-a-ahng me," warbled daughter from the parlor.”. “Yes," sang mother from the kitchen. I “I want you to help me with the dls-s-hes.” And then a profound silence reigned. From the Tipton (Ind.) Times. Over in Akron, Ohio. 400 bright, young misses of the class rooms are waging war on snobbery. They are giving “the other girl” a chance. Four hundred strong, they have voted unanimously to adopt a school uniform, and incidentally, they have tabooed the smart designs of fashion, which a select few had exhibited at the expense of pride of that “other girl”—that girl whose widowed mother, perhaps, was pinching the family Income to give her the best ed ucation the city had to offer. And the uniform they have adopted costs no more than $3 if the garments are sewed at home, it consists of a middy blouse and a plain, blue skirt. A middy blouse and a plain blue skirt! Rather sounds like those Akron, Ohio, school girls are really going to school to learn something, doesn't it? And it ap pears that already they have learned a good deal, doesn’t It? But it is an extraordinary lesson those 400 girls are preaching to the world. It all came about after the occurrence of one of the incidents which happen ever so often In any school attended by girls who have reached the age of between 15 and 20 years. One of those Akron, Ohio, high school girls slipped into a class room, by mis take, and found a crumpled little piece of humanity, huddled up in a class room chair, her head buried In her hands, sob bing. She was one of the “other girls.” Day after day she had come to school wearing peculiarly out of style and much worn frocks. A fellow school girl had no ticed it, as, perhaps, had many others, but this particular school girl, possibly not with any intentions of wounding the feelings of this certain “other girl,” had spoken of the condition and the word bad finally come around to the little piece of humanity, who now sobbingly told her story to her who had found her. And it just happened that the one to whom the story was told, although not one of the “other girls” and not pe rhaps the best dressed girl in the school, saw tile situation in Its true light and began 11 light to secure the uniform which now ha s been adopted. Now. in that school building, the one who sobbed out her story is on an even basis with the girl to whom she told it. Now those girls who formerly wore such pretty frocks and wasted many moments admiring the dresses of one another, are Intent upon their books. Now. in that school building, there is greater fellow ship and there is real democracy. It must be repeated that this is an ex traordinary lesson those girls are preach ing to the world. And will the world see thd value in that lesson ? At least it’s something for school girls to think about; it’s something for parents to consider, and it’s something that should be discussed at parent-teacher club meet ings. >44444444444444444-44444444 4 4 4 GERMAN-AMERICANS MUST 4 4 APPOINT NEW SPOKESMEN 4 | 4 4 ilium me Milwaukee journal. Knowing them well and intimately, and I believing In them, the Journal feels that 1 American citizens of German blood, as a i class, have been placed in a position that Is as deplorable from the standpoint of the general body politics as it Is from their own. In their case the many are suffer ing from suspicion and Injustice because of the words and acts of the few. Sym pathy for their ancestral land they rightly and naturally feel, but there is no rea son for thinking that because of this feel ing they are any the less the patriotic citizens of America that they should be. Vet there Is no use blinking the fact that In the eyes of too many of their fellow citizens, they have come to be regarded as more German than American in their views and sentiments. This Is deplorable. It is cruellv and pal pably unjust Yet for this there Is a rea son upon which It is not difficult to put one's linger. Narrow, selfish leadership, leadership of I he self-constituted kind, is responsible for this great wrong to a great body of citizens that for usefulness and worthi ness. for all that makes for civic virtue, is second to no other class of Americans! Those, individuals and newspapers alike! who assume to speak for these citizens of German blood, have done incalculable I harm both to the cause of Germany, which they have espoused so vehemently and vociferously, and to Americans of German blood whom they have tried to mislead and whom they have certainly ! misrepresented. The case against these self-constituted leaders and spokesmen may he stated in a i nutshell. It is this: Since the world war began, they have fiercely and bitterly at- I tacked and condemned the American gov- I ernment's every word and act in every controversy that has arisen between ! America and Germany, and just as strongly they have upheld or condoned ! every word and act of Germany's regard ing or affecting America. They have I boldly and openly taken the ground that in tUcir dealings with each other Germany I lias invariably been right and America has invariably been wrong. Is it any wonder that these exhibitions of passion, prejudice and partisanship have aroused a feeling of resentment throughout the country? This feeling, we lielleve, is just and proper so far as the firebrands of press and platform are con cerned. but it is blind and mistaken, so far as the great body of American citi zens of German blood are concerned. They have been continually misrepresented. Ex cept for a very few men like Dr. Kuno Francke, men whose voices have virtual ly been drowned by the noisy clamor of unwise and unworthy men who seek to be come leaders and even guardians, the hon esty, good sense anil loyalty of the ranke and file of our German-blood citizens has had no genuine spokesmen. Thes^e citi zens, knowing themselves sturdy of faith and patriotic in purpose, as we know them to be. naturally may not realize to the full i he false position In which they have been placed by those who misrepresent them and would mislead them If they could. We believe that when they fully comprehend that these narrow, selfish, unpartiotie leaders have not only done everything possible to estrange America and Ger many ami to weaken America in dealing with assaults upon American rights, but have done things that tend to set German blood citizens apart by themselves, lead ers will arise worthy to express both their sympathy for Germany and their loyalty to America in terms that can not be mis understood. _ _ Birds In Winter. From the Chicago Tribune. Severe weather may be disastrous to birds but it Is not weather that dismays them'. It is lack of food. Ground feeding birds have more troubles than the climb ers and consequently are less met with in winter. Where there arc trees and people Interested in keeping feathered bits of cheerfulness about then them are birds, no matter how much snow is on the ground. Wherever birds are in summer, birds ran be kept in the winter, not the same lards or tile same kinds of birds, but neverthe less busv. singing, seemingly happy and Indubitably valuable birds. A piece ot suet best placed in a metal barred con tainer, will attract and keep nuthatches, downy and hairy woodpeckers, sapsuek ers and chickadees. Juncoes need grain. Hluejavs will appear fitfully. And it may he the good fortune of the provider of food to sc-' even a cardinal, exotic in bril liance. against the snow, appear timidly :n the underbrush. The chickadee alone is worth the littb attention that is needed to kn p him as a neighbor. A winter morning that has two, three or four chickadees singing again:-; a winter landscape can not tie dreai. Tic notes of cheerfulness are itI'csiSilbio. Tic chickadee is indomitable. He will sine against a temperature of zero or in a whirl of snow. All tie needs is food, an his favorite warming focal is sue. The downy woodpecker is finally: hairy woodpecker is shy, but hi Hi will i pond to the invitation of hum!. '! !:c : a ! do not happen in the laud. .a. T . :he consequence ot i m . a :.u he They will be any'., to re ’ . ana < ..a . to have then. The/ a a1 a. ... a i vocal, lively and 'act; CANADA’S PLANS , FOR WAR REVENUE So Wisely Distributed That Tax ation Will Affect Farmers to f a Degree Practically , llnnoticeable. I * oo many rumors have been circu- 'I lated regarding war taxation in Canada that the statement made by Sir Thomas White, Canadian Minister ot Finance, of the Government s plans for raising war revenue should be giv en the widest circulation. Sir Thomas made it clear that the revenue will be raised by taxing the profits of incor porated companies whenever those profits exceed seven per cent, and ihe profits of unincorporated firms or part nerships when the profits exceed fen per cent. On all such excess profits these companies or firms will have to contribute one-quarter to the Govern ment. Transportation companies, banks, mining, milling, and other com panies will be subject to this taxation, but life insurance companies, and com panies with less than fifty thousand dollars capitalization, and companies, firms, or individuals engaged in agri culture or stock raising, are exempt, and pay no part of this taxation. The only other additional taxation pro posed is an increase of fifty cents a v barrel in the customs duty on apples. ' and one-half cent a gallon in customs duty on certain kinds of oils. It will be noticed that this taxation is being applied in such a way that it does not affect farmers in the slight est degree, except, perhaps, through a small increase in cost of apples and oil. The war revenue is to be paid out of the profits of the big firms and com panies with capital of over fifty thou sand dollars, and even these are al lowed seven per cent in some cases, and ten per cent in others, of clear profits before they have to pay any part of this taxation. It will be seen that the whole policy is to place the war expenditure taxation on those who have been making big profits and are able to pay it, and to encourage farm ing and stockraising by exempting farmers and stock-raisers from the tax ation. This ought to set at rest every rumor that the farmer or the farmer’s land is being taxed to pay the cost of the war.—Advertisement. ^ STRAIN ON THE IMAGINATION Company Was Willing to Believe a Lot, Eut Longbow's Story Was Too Much for Them. Mr. Stretcher—Yes, it’s cold, but nothing like what it was at Christmas three years ago, when the steam from the engines froze hard and fell on the line in sheets. Mr. Cuffer—And yet that wasn't so cold as in ’87, when it froze the elec tricity in the telephone wires, and when the thaw came all the machines were talking as hard as they could for upwards of five hours. "Well, gentlemen,” said Mr. Ixing bow, “the coldest year that I can re member was in the Christmas week in ’84, when the very policemen had to run to keep themselves warm.” But - that was too much, and with silent looks of indignation the other J two left to his own reflections the man who treated the truth so slightly. Rough on the Water. The hobo had Just been forced to have a bath before being allowed to lodge at the municipal lodging house. “Well, what have you to say now?” inquired the attendant as the previ ously unkempt individual emerged much disgusted. The hobo glared. "Water,” he remarked solemnly, "is the curse of bathtuls.” THE FIRST TASTE Learned to Drink Coffee When a Boy. If parents realized the fact that cof lee contains a drug—caffeine—which is especially harmful to children, they would doubtless hesitate before giving them coffee to drink. “When I was a child in my mother’s arms and first began to nibble things at the table, mother used to give me sips of coffee. And so I contracted the coffee habit early. “I continued to uso coffee until I was 27, and when I got into office work I began to have nervous spells. Espe cially after breakfast I was so nerv ous I could scarcely attend to my cor respondence. “At night, after having had coffee i for supper, I could hardly sleep, and J on rising in the morning would feel weak and nervous. "A friend persuaded me to try Pos tum. “I can now get good sleep, am free from nervousness and headaches. I j recommend Postum to all coffee drink- 4 ers.” Xame given by Po3tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form— must bo well boiled, 15c and 25c pack ages. Instant Postum—a soluble powder— dissolves quickly In a cup of hot wa ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and ; 5Cc tins. Both forms are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. "There’s a Reason” for Postum. —sold by Grocers.