MORE WHEAT. M0HE CATTLE .. MORE HOGS I I — ■■ .... t?nd Values Sure to Advance Because of Increasing De mand for Farm Products. Tim rvy from countries abroad for more of the necessaries of life is acute today; tomorrow it will be still more insistent, and there will lie no letup after the war. This is the day for the farmer, tlie day that he is com ing into his own. He is gradually becoming the dictator ns it becomes more apparent that upon his indus try depends the great problem of feeding a great world. Tlie farmer of Canada and the United States has it within himself to hold the position that stress of circumstances has lifted hitn Into today. The conditions abroad nrq such that the utmost dependence will rest upon tin* farmers of this continent for some time after the war, and for this reason there is no hesitation! in making the statement that war’s de mands are, and for a long time will he. Inexhaustible, and the claims that will be made upon the soil will with diffi culty he met. There are today 25,000, OOo men in the lighting ranks in the old world. 'I’lie bast of authority gives 75 per cent and over ns having been drawn from tlie farms. There is there fore nearly 75 per cent of the land for merly tilled now being unworked. Much of this land is today in a devas tated condition and if tlie war should end tomorrow it will take years to bring it hack to its former producing ^ calamity. 111sumi 01 me larmer producer pro ducing, lie has become a consumer, making the strain uporv those who have been left to do tile farming a very dif ficult one. There may he agitation as to the high cost of living, and doubtless there is reason for It in many cases. The middleman may boost the prices, combines may organize to elevate the cost, but one cannot get away from the fact that the demand regulates .the supply, and the supply regulates the price. Thy price of wheat—in fact, all - grains—as well as cattle, will remain high for some time, and the low prices that have prevailed will not come again for some time. After the war the demand for cattle, not alone for beef, but for stock pur poses, to replenish the exhausted herds of Europe, will be keen. Farm educae tors and advisers are telling you ro prepare for this emergency. How much better it can lie done on the low-priced lands of today, on lands that cost from ten to twenty dollars tier acre, than it can on two and three imndred-dollar un-ncre land. The lands of Western Camion meet all the requirements. They are productive in every sense of the word. The best of grasses can lie grown with abundant yields and the grain can he produced from these soils that beats the world, and the same may be said of cattle and horses. The cli mate is all that is required. Those who are competent to judge claim that land prices will rise in value from twenty to fifty per cent. This is looked for in Western Canada, where ^ lands are decidedly cheap today, and T those who are fortunate enough to so , cure now will realize wonderfully by A means of such an investment. The land that tile Dominion (iovcrnineut is giving away as free homesteads in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are of a high class; they are abundant in every constituent that goes to make the most productive • soils. The yields of wheat, oats and barley that have been grown on thos( lands gives the best evidence of theii productiveness, and wlu-n backed iif by the experience of the thousands ol settlers from the United Stales whe have worked them and become wealth) upon them, little more should be re quired to convince those who are seek* ing a home, even with limited means that nowhere can they secure anything that will better equip them to become one of tiie army of industry to assisl in taking care of the problem of feed ing tiie world. These lauds are free, but In those who desire larger holding! than 160 acres there are the railroad companies and land corporations frurr whom purchase can he made at rea sonable prices, and information can be secured from the Canadian government agent, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in this paper.—Advertise in out. Sea of Pumice. A steamship which recently made ^ the port of San Francisco reports lmv Y ing sailed in a sea of pumice, near Sydney, X. S. W. Apparently the ma terial had been east up by a subma rine volcanic outbreak, and (bunks ranging in size from that of a marble to a plug 'tat were thrown on deck by the waves. The vessel was several mft hours in passing through the affected region. The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head Bocausu of its uinic and laxative effect. Laxative Br.-iuu Quinine can be taken by anyone without causinit nervousness ot tinging in the head Tb-re Is only one "Hromn Quinine." B. W. UROVH'B elgnature is on each box. Sec. Cause and Effect. ■'ISIlltins is a true son of the soil.” "is that why lie always looks so seedyV” Von can’t guard your neighbor’s tongue, but you can close your ears. The future and tiie past tire near re lations to the present. HIS SECOND WIFE. A NEW YEAR STORY. “There don't seem any Way for me ind Jake to get along,” continued the complaining voice of Mary Ann Hur on. "You know when we got married 'ather 'lowed to give me something to ■tart on. but crops was bad that year, ind Juke never liked my saying any hlng about it since. I’ve done just is Jake said these ten years, and now hlngs are geting so bad that he had to jive in and consent. So I came over so see father!” “Well, what did he say?” her com panion asked brusquely. “Just wlmt he said when we was carried. Chops Is bad anil he can't tee liis way to helping us this year; chat lawsuit mighty nigh broke him ap, he says. He 'lows to give me iny ihare next spring if he ain't In the pool-house himself by that time. 1 sup pose father does have a powerful hard time, like tee rest of us. But next spring won't do Jake any good; he’ll have fretted himself into the grave by then." The weak, uncertain voice sank Into a sob of distress. The woman op posite her sat bolt upright in an un compromising chair. There was a look on her face of genuine sympathy, mingled with indignation. "Mary Ann,” she said, “don't you know that your father is the stingiest man in seven states?” She bivuglit this out as if from forced conviction. She was angry for having to say plainly what she had reluctantly ad milled to herself not long ago. Mary Ann stopped sobbing from pure astonishment. "You don’t mean to sa.v lie was lying to me?" she asked “No, he didn't think lie was lying to you. He thinks lie's getting poorer You've heard of misers? Well, John Anderson is on the way to become a miser. I believe he lays awake at night tormenting himself about the poorhouse. He's laying up money in the hank all the time.” "But what's he going to do with it?" Mary Ann asked in bewilderment. “Do with it? Why, give it to you and the children, and to them he cares for, to be sure. He can’t bear to part with a cent until it comes his time to die. and sometimes folks get mighty tired waiting. I'll tell you what. Mary Ann, I'd hate to see anything of that kind happen to your father, as good as he Is.” "But It won't.” protested Mary Ann. "Me und Jake wouldn't want him to die for all the money In the world." Mary Ann sobbed again. “Things are getting mighty hard. Little Susie ain't got no shoes to wear to school and frosty mornings are coming on. Jake don’t sleep at night for thinking about it. We've bad sickness, as you know. I told father all that and he paid it was hard.” "Yes. and that's all he’ll do. Here,” «he said, untying a knot in the corner jf her handkerchief, “Take this mon ey and get Susie some shoes, and I’ll find a way into your father’s con science and bank account or my name ain’t Mirandy Bowen. About tomor row I’ll be coming over.” She went to the door with her visitor and added: “If I was you. Mary Ann. I would’nt tell Jake what your father said, but I'd kind o’ get round it some way till I come.” She had come to the home of John Anderson before his wife died; had Btayed with that good woman through her long illness, and seen Mary Ann married. Then she hud remained tc keep house. Now, ten years later, shs was still there, and was regarded as the hostess by the visiting country neighbors, to whom the fact of her be tug “hired help” was no detriment She stood with her elbow on the mantel, the firelight from the hearth lending an additional glow of color to the bright dress. The dark wood be hind brought her out in stronger relief, and she was far from unlovoly. It looked like on? of Rubenn’ bright in teriors, only Mirandy was unconscious of that, and she grew momentarily un certain. The color shot Into her fpce as she heard a step outside. John An derson came in and looked at heiH-the central figure In his %spee!al Rubens— surprised and pleased. “Why, Mirandy,” he said, “I reckon you've fixed up to be kissed.” He rubbed his hands and chuckled ever his own gallantry- He waa a fine looking man. bale and hearty, with a strong tendency to humor. Mirandy looked at him, finding it hard to resist him. “No,” she answered, with a touch of coquetry, “no man kisses me until tbs preacher makes us better acquainted.” “I sa.v, Mirandy, what’s to hinder our goiug over to the preacher to-mor row aud getting married''. We can tell Mary Ann the next time she comes, and it ain't aayhedy rise's bus Iness.” She gave a hysterical laugh and blush, then shut her teeth together and drew a hard breath. “There ain't anything to hinder that I know ef ex cepting the settlements. They always take a lot of arguing among the law yers; so I reckon you’d better say next week, aud I’ll go ami stay with Mary Anu till it’s all fixed." ’Settlements?” be stammered. “What's them?” All his sordidness .-ante out. Mirandy felt no hesitation now; her coquetry fell away from her like an outdoor garment by the bouse fire. Afterward lie would have time to think of her charms; now he needed hard facts, without embellishments. "Why. haven't you never read any thing?'’ she asked. She got her idea front the only novel «he bar ■ ever read, one of Knglish life, I in which a long-delayed war 1 riage luing through a whole year of a weekly paper hh this one question. She remembered thinking J at the time that it wax a queer thing to talk to young people about— children j that might come—but here the case was different. There was Mary Ann. Sh^ went on to explain: “Settlements is money and property a man gives hi* wife, so If he gets to speculating, tlhit much is safe for her and the chil dren.” She did not propose to be more ex plicit, but stood tall, straight nnd de fiant by the mantel. He could only protest: "Why, Mirandy. you'll be pro vided for when I die.” "Yes. and every time I want five ?ents. and don't care about asking you for it. I may wish you were dead, so I wouldn't have to. 1 don't suppose you ■nteml to pay me wages, same as now, tnd let me take the most of It out of the privileges of being Mrs. Ander »on.” He shook his head doubtfully. “I 3on't know, Mirandy. about tlie set tlements.” “Oh, yes,” she said, confidently, “you'll fix that all right. I'll tell the folks we’re engaged; and. John Ander son, do you know, if a man goes back on a promise of this sort a woman never raises her head again?” He sat long by the fire in utter be wilderment, and at last, because the Idea was so new to him that he could see nothing deeper in it, concluded that it was nothing more than caprice “When a woman gets a fool notion in her head you might just as well wait until it wears itself out or give in at once,” he thought. He resolved t« wait. When Mirandy came down to get breakfast the next morning she sang a little hymn. But It tVas pathetic to set under her assumed cheerfulness the tender way in which she regarded the familiar breakfast cups. Some late fall morning glories blew In at the open window across the table, and tbe odor of ripening apples came In from the orchard. When would she come back to It all? Perhaps never. She recog nized the Impossibility of coming back to live there in the old order of things after what had happened. It made her still more uncertain to see Jolm Anderson’s cheerful, confident manner as he brought the wagon around to the door. “You’ll be back In a dny or so^ I reckon, Mirandy, and will be ready to go and get married,” he ventured. “It’ll take longer than you think to get the papers fixed. I thought we’u* better stop and get Granny Simpson to go over and keep house until you’re ready for me,” she answered. v “Oh, pshaw, now, Mirandy; there ain’t any need of that. I’ll just drop work at any time and come for you. You can just tell Jake yon are ready to come home. He’ll be picking ap ples in the south orchard for quite a spell.” Thus they talked for two long miles, each Ignoring the other's intention, un til he set her down at the farmhouse gate. Then he gave her a pocket book, saying: ‘That's to get weddin' flxln's. Spend as much as you like.” The blood rushed to Iter face at the offer of the bribe, but after a moment she said quietly: “Thank you; I reck on it’ll be used.” He drove away, leav ing ber much astonished by his fit of generosity. “Wedding flxln’s for me,” she said, contemptuously. “I ueed them about as much as a wagon does five wheels. But I reckon Mary Ann can find use for it. I’ll make her believe her fa ther sent it and me too. I wonder which will prove the greatest bless ing?" With that she walked Into the house and asked where she should hang her hat and shawl, to the great delight of Mary Ann, who looked npon her intention to pay a visit of lndefl nits length os nothing less than a mir acle. While affairs at the farmhouse were at their worst, work became scarce at Mary Ann’s, and Mirandy at last faced a day when there was nothing to do. What would become of her? Kvery thiug would go smoothly for a while now, until the need of money was felt again. She had no doubt she could tide over such places with them al ways. But that was not right, not Just, and bitter words might pass and teruorse. She would go to John Anderson and tell him plainly what her thought had been; then, though he might not for give her. still she would have done right. She walked over to the house In the bleak afternoon. A snowstorm was brewing in the sky. It was still early, and she could sit by the fire uu tlll supper time. As she entered ths house she saw that Granny was gone, and evidently intended staying to tea, because a cold supper for one was set out on the tabls. Ths fire was out and the kitchen cold. Mirandy pulled the table cloth straight mechanically, picked up a rusty knife and eyed the feast criti cally. The hand towel over the wash •tand was like the typical one in a printing office, only Mirandy bad never heard of that one. Well, here was work for one afternoon at least. No wonder he sent no word. Elbe felt much more lenient toward the wretch who had gone through all that and lived. Before fi o'cleck everything was in »rder. Th* fire sparkled in a clean stove, and the light danced among the aright dienes and cutlers on the (aide. Mirandy sat down to think what she should say. She looked around the cheerful room with a feeling of long ing for her home. The copper Uetile otirred like a cat. Worn out with her contending thoughts, she would fain lav* tested there and let tiling* take their course. But no. Site would go away until it was all clearer la her mind. Looking again to see if everything was in order, she saw one of Granny Simpson’s dresses hanging by the chimney. It was a dingy dress, and smelled of tobacco. She took it away to a closet, and then an Inspiration came to her. fShe brought eut ous of l her own, a bright pink calico to bang In Its place, after which she tied ou her veil aud went back to Mary Ann's. Presently John Anderson came in to his lonely supper, stamping the wet snow from his boots, his head down us usual, but the warmth and glow Struck his dulled senses, and he looked up in dazed wonder. ‘‘Mirandy!" he gasped. The clock ticked loud through the silent house; the golden sides of the copper kettle winked In the fire light and kept up a contented singing to itself. The truth dawned on hitu slowly. She had been there aud goue. He crawled over to his accustomed chair that Granny usually monopo lized. Miraudy's stood opposite with a fresh red-striped towel on the back. He leaned his head against the wall, and brushed with his grizzled cheek the crisp folds of a pink calico dress. Then he broke down aud sobbed out all the misery of six unhappy weeks. Two days later, and the day before New Year’s, he drove up to Mary Ann's gate in a new cutter. 11c did not get down, but waited for Mirandy to come out. “Mirandy,” he said, “the settle ments are made ready for you tc sigu. "Yes,” she answered, “blit you'l! have to take nie us 1 am. Mary Am got that money. Site needed it worst thuu I did wedding clothes.” lit meekly assented. Going back to the house she ob served: “Mary Ann, me and your father art going to town, and 1 reckon as tomor row is New Year's you and Jake aud the children had better pile into the bobsled aud come over to dinuer. I guess you’ll hear some good news.” These two undemonstrative women kissed each other and Mirandy went away without telling anything more. At 11 o'clock tin* next morning Mary Ann and the children appeared at tlie big farmhouse. The women busied themselves in the kitchen and ex changed confidences. i never saw sueu a uouse hi uu my born days. I had to get new milk crocks yesterday. Granny Simpson spoiled all the old ones a-lettlng milk sour in them. And the table knives are ruined by rust. Your father said that, as we had to get new ones, we might as well have them silver plated. The others were lots of trou ble to keep bright. Ain't they pretty?” Mary Ann looked sympathetic and ldmlrcd the silver. “1 reckon well have to trade peaches and cherries, since you didn't gel to preserve any clingstones." "Thank you. We got pretty tired of peaches last year, but if you want the Cherries, all right. 1 reckon your fath aceounted for John Anderson’s cheer fulness. When they sal down to the table the host bowed his head and prayed: "For these and ull other bless ings the Lord make us truly thank ful:" He looked around upon the little family aDd said In u gently, explana tory way: “And the other blessings are that I’ve got some dear children tnd a dear woman, who don't stick at anything to show me how mean I've been. Amen.” Mary Ann was bewildered. Minin dy was blushing brighter than her pink dress, but she managed to say: "Mo and your father have been get ting married, and be's got something for you and Jake.” John Anderson handed sju e papers to Jake, who was slow about some, things, and Mary Ann, leaning over his shoulder, could make out nothin# for the blur before her eyes. At last Jake sprang to his feet and waved the papers over bis head. "Mary Ann,” he cried excitedly, “it't a deed for the forty acres, with stock and $1,000 for machinery and stock sheds. Its given to us for good uud al! by—why—it’s from Mirnudy. 1 don’t understand.” “Yes, It’s from Mtrandy.” said his father-in-law. "Them’s her settle ments, for her and the children, and Bhe ’lowed that meant Mary Atm." He smiled benevolently and proceeded to help the children to drumsticks and gravy. There Is no knowing what ex planations might have followed, but the women were busy with the chil dren, and after dinner Juke and his father-lu-law talked about a hired hand, who must be secured to taki Jake's place, now that he had a farm of his own to manage. As they were going home in the evening the chil dren in the new cutter with grandpa, Jake said: "Mary Ann, what’s sertle rnents?” Mary Ann shook her head. "1 never heard of them before, but Miruudy knows, and she's learned father. It went kind o’ hard with him, but he teems relieved like, now it s over, and thankful. We’ve all got reason to be thankful for Miraudy.” NEW YEAR F;i*ANCE3. She (ileiigiitml'y) — V ipi s:w< i! v > went to art iimrriril lif'.l ]ii\ Hi ' u ii si[»»ii*e« o( fnrni» ho k* t«r i. . He (deipondeutU ) — li.il, w..o i Bur the etoer hall? Thankless Jon. “So you are In the motion picture business?" “Yes," replied the man with a band aged arm. “What is your specialty?” “I’ll explain. 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