A KLONDIKE TO IE REALM A Western Canada Crop Estimat ed at $12,000, Makes $19,000. Messrs. Harris, formerly of Audu eon, Iowa, wrote the “Audubon Advo cate," expressing their satisfaction of things iu Western Canada. They lo cated at Makepeace, Alberta. They say there are those who make good, and those who fail. The former are those that land agents refer to when advertising their land. “But,” contin ues the letter, “A great many of tho farmers In this vicinity pay for their lnnd with their first crop. A man near here bought a section of land In the year 1915 for $23 per acre. Ha broke 300 acres of the land during the Bummer of 1915. Tn the fall of 1916, he threshed 10,000 bushels of wheat, which paid for Ids land, all expenses and had a balance of $4,000. In the fall of 1917 lie threshed nearly as much off the other half of the section. At tho present, time he would not take $50 per acre for Ills land. “We have had five crops in Alberta. The two dry years (1914-1917) onr wheat made 20 and 30 bushels to tho ■ere respectively. In 101G we raised 50 bushels of wheat to the acre on summer fallow. The best results are obtained by plowing or breaking In the summer, working it down In tho fall so that it will retain the moisture. Thus farming one-half your ground’ each year. “Persons owning lnnd here and still living In the States should, If they don’t feel themselves able to coine up here and finance themselves until they ce: ' I get their first crop, get some of their land broken and worked down in the fall before they come. The next spring they could come and put In the crop, fence and put up their buildings. This way they have to wait only one summer for their first crop. “It la not advisable for a person to come here In the spring, break out Innd end put It In crop the first year, because the moisture Is not In the ground and a failure Is almost cer tain onless It Is an exceptionally wet year. “One of the boys from that locality, Mr. Peder M. Jensen came to Alberta last spring. He bought a 80-00 Rum ely Oil-Pull engine on the 8th day of June, 1917. After that dnte he broke 1,100 acres of prairie sod for which he received an average of $.".00 per acre. "Mr. Hansen from your community, ■was np here last fall with several prospective land buyers from that neighborhood. At that time In' in quired the value of the crop on tin* section we were farming. We told him that it would probably make in the neighborhood of $12,000. This same crop when sold brought nearly 919,000. The most of it being sold when prices were low for the year.”— Advertisement Sir Robert Walpole. Flowery oratory he despised, lie escribed to the Interested views of themselves or their relatives the decla rations of pretending patriots, of whom he said: "All these men lmve their price.”—Memoirs of Walpole. A wise man doesn't try to scare a cow into standing still while helnr milked. Pile* Cured In < to 14 Pays Pronin* raf and mousy If 1‘AZO OINTMWNT fatla to euroItching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. #iret application givens relief. 60c. Sin and misery always go together, but sin comes first. i - -. -—.—."-"..i., - ... THE TEETH OF THE TIGER by MAURICE LEBLANC TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATT03 ,x, . ■— —i—i mmtam—■ i i — CHAPTER TWO. (Continued.) “What did you do with the will Until the evening, until you locked it away in your safe?” ‘ ‘ I probably put it in the drawer of my deck.” “And the drawer was not forced?” Maitre Lepertuis seemed taken aback and made no reply. “Well?” asked Perenna. “Well, yes, I remember • * • there was something that day * • * that same Friday.” “Are you sure?” “Yes. When I came in from lunch I noticed that the drawer was not locked, although I had locked it beyond the least doubt. At the time I attached compara tively little importance to the in cident. Tt lay, I understand, I understand-” Thus, little by little, were all the suppositions conceived by Don Luis verified; suppositions resting, it is true, upon just one or two clues, but yet containing an amount of intuition, of divination, that was really surprising in a man who had been present at none of the events between which he traced the connection so skillfully. “We will lose no time, inou sieur,” said the prefect of police, “in checking your statements, which you will confess to be a little venturesome, by the more positive evidence of one of ray detectives who has the case in charge * * * and who ought to be here by now.” “Does his evidence bear upon Cosmo Mornington’s heirs?” asked the solicitor. ujjuii im* |Hiiin|i vious affection. And Maitre Lep s ertuis and Perenna, having fixei 1 an appointment for the paymen s . of the legacy, were themselves oi ij the point of leaving, when M. Des i-imalions entered briskly, e' “Ah. so you’re still here, Doi Inrls Perenna! I’m glad of that. I have an idea: those three letters which you say you made out on the writing table, are you sure they form the syllable Fau?” “I think so, Monsieur le Prefet. See for yourself: are not there an “F,’ an ‘A’ and a ‘U?’ And ob serve that the ‘F’ is a capital, which made me suspect that the letters are the first syllable of a proper name.” “Just so, just so,” said IVL Desmalions. “Well, curiously enough, that syllable happens to be-But wait, we’ll verify our facts-” M. Desmalions searched hurried ly among the letters which his sec retary had handed him on his ar rival and which lay on a corner of the table. • “Ah, here we are!” he ex-; claimed, glancing at the signature of one of the letters. “Here we are! It’s as I thought: ‘Fauville.’ * * • The first syllable is the same, * • • Look, ‘Fauville,’ just like that, without Christian name or initials. The letter must have been written in a feverish moment: there is no date nor address. • • f The writing is shaky-” And M. Desmalions read out: Monsieur le Prefet—A great danger la hanging over my head and over the head of my son. Death is approaching apace. I shall have tonight, or tomor row morning at the latest, the proofs of the abominable plot that threatens us. I ask leave to bring them to you in the course of the morning. I am in need of protection and I call for your assistance. Permit me to be, etc. Fauville. “No other designation!” asked Perenna. “No letter heading?” “None. But there is no mistake. Inspector Yerot’s declarations agree too evidently with this despairing appeal. It is clearly M. Fauville and his son who are to be murdered tonight. And the terrible thing is that, as this name of Fauville is a very common one, it is impossible for our inquiries to succeed in time.” “What, Monsiur le Prefet? Surely, by straining every nerve f r — “Certainly, we will strain every nerve; and I shall set all my men to work. But observe that we have not the slightest clue.” “Oh, it would be awful!” cried Don Luis. “These two creature's doomed to death; and we unable to save them! Monsieur le Prefet, I ask you to authorize me-” He had not finished speaking when the prefect’s private secre tary entered with a visiting card in his hand. “Monsieur le Prefet, this caller was so persistent. * * * 1 hesitated j _y y M. Desmalions took the card and uttered an exclamation of mingled surprise and joy. “Look monsieur,” he said 1o Perenna. And he handed him the card. 1 Hippolyte Fauville, : 2 Civil Engineer. : 2 14 bis Boulevard Suchet. : “Come said M. Desmalions, “chance is favoring ns. If this M. Fauville is one of the Roussel heirs our task becomes very much easier.” “In any case, Monsieur le Pre fet,” the solicitor interposed, “I must remind you that one of the clauses of the will stipulates that it shall not be read until 48 hours have elapsed. M. Fauville. there fore, must not be informed-” Th door was pushed open and a man hustled the messenger aside and rushed in. “Inspector • • * Inspector Verot?” he spluttered. “He’s dead, isn’t he? I was told——” “Yes, monsieur, he is dead.” “Too late! I’m too late!” he stammered. And he sank into a chair, clasp ing his hands and sobbing: “Oh, the scoundrels! the scoun drels!” nc was « iiuiiuvv mecjieu, sickly looking niau of about 50. His head was bald, above a fore head lined with deep wrinkles. A nervous twitching affected his chin and lobes of his ears. Tears stood in his eyes. The prefect asked: “Whom do you mean, monsieur, InspectorVerot'smurderers? Are I you able to name them, to assist our inquiry ? ’ ’ Hippolyte Fauville shook his head. “No, no, it would be useless, for the moment. * * * My proofs would not be sufficient. * * * No, really not.’’ He had already risen from his chair and stood apologizing: * ‘ Monsieur le Prefet, I have dis turbed you unnecessarily, but 1 wanted to know. • * • I was hop i ing that Inspector Yerot might have escaped. • • • His evidence. " joined to mine, would have beet 1 invaluable. But perhaps he was able to tell you?’’_ , (Continued Next W«*K » 4 HERE’S “RECIPE” FOR TRENCH CAP KNITTING Following a recent request sent out from Red Cross headquarter.* for morn trench caps instead of swea ters and mufflers, a large number of Sioux City women have besieged the central work rooms with questions as to what the trench caps are and how they are made. The trench caps are knitted rap* which are worn under the steel helmet* by the soldier's In the trenches. Ue cause of their warmth and comfort they are at present needed far more than sweaters and mufflers as there seems to be a fairly large supply of these latter articles. 0^ For the benefit of all knitters who desire to work on trench caps the fol lowing “recipe" is given which the women are asked to cut out and paste in their bonnets; Trench Cap. No. 3 amber needles pointed, or No. 10 steel. Set up 120 stitches, 40 on each needle; knit 2, purl 2 for 8% inches; kit one row plain. Diminish by knitting 6 plain then 2 together for one row. Knit six plain rows. Knit 5 plain then 2 togeth er for one row, then five plain rows. Repeat 4. 3, 1 until 6 stitches remain on each needle. Draw your wool through the stitches and puli up. 1917’s Lynching Record. Frdm the New' York Evening Post. To the Editor of the Evening Post; 1 send you the following, relative to lynch ing* for the year. I find from the record* kept by the division of records and re search of Tuskegee institute, Monroe N Work in charge, that there were 38 per sons lynched in 1917. of whom 30 wer* negroes and two were whites. Thirty seven were males and one female. Twelve or a little less than one-third, of those pat to death were charged with attacking women or attempted attack. The offenses charged against the white* lynched were: Attack and murder, une: fomenting strikes, one. The offerees charged against the negroes were: At tempted attack, five; attack, six; murder, three; killing of officer of the law. tvv for not getting out of road and being solent, two; attacking women, three; dis puting white men’s wrord. two; entering woman's room, two; wounding officer of the law', one; stealing coat, one: intimacy with women, one; killing man in alter cation, one; accidentally killing child by running motor car over it, one; vagrancy, one; wounding and robbing a man. one; attacking an officer of the law, one: op position to war draft, one; insulting girls, one: writing insolent letter, one. The states in which lynching* occurred and number in each state were as followei Alabama, four: Arkansas, four; Arizona, one; Florida, one; Georgia, six; Kentucky, two: Louisiana, five; Mississippi, one, Montana, one: Oklahoma, one: Sotith Carolina, one; Tennessee, three; Texaa six; Virginia, one; Wyoming, One. R. R. Moton. Principal Tuskegee Institute The “German Emperor.” ^rom the Kansas City Star In his book on his experiences in Ger many, Ambassador Gerard remarks that his commission as ambassador accredited him to "Germany,” a nation that had no existence. He should have been accred ited to the "German empire," Deutsche# Reich. Readers of Bismarck’s memoir# will recall his discussion of the title of the emperor when the empire was pro claimed in the Fra neo-Prussian war. Ob jections were raised to “emperor of Ger many," and the title finally agreed on was “German emperor.’’ In the title finally adopted concession was made to the local pride of the ruler# of the smaller German states, who felt they would be less subordinated if th© head, of the state were regarded as Ger man emperor than if he were proclaimed emperor of their country. Apparently their expectations did not work out. The German emperor na# wielded all the authority an emperor of Germany could possibly have assumed. For thifi authority he has claimed divine approval. The war is likely to do som# revising in the substance, if not in th# name of things. The allies are not par ticular about names. They are, however, suggesting rather pointedly that a Ger man reichstag, representing the people, could get peace quite a bit sooner than a German emperor claiming to rule by divine right. Wisconsin’s Little Germany. Samuel Hopkins Adams, In Everybody'*. The state with the heaviest Teuton pro portion of citizens in the country and yet the first state to organize a council of de fense and one of the first to oversubscribe the initial Liberty loan has an acute problem of its own. It is in the outlying districts of farm* and small villages, that Teutonism main tains the true strongholds. In some of the hamlets flourished, up to recent years, that sign so familiar in Berlin. “English spoken here.” Every activity In these places is carried on through the medium of German. In Sheboygan county is a small area claimed to be the “richest four mil.es of farming land in the world’’—which It probably isn’t. But rich It certainly is. and the farmers would be regarded in the east as agricultural magnates. Yet, strangely enough, when the Liberty bond salesmen made their rounds they en countered this identical response at every farm: “Koin geld”—“No money." Th# men didn’t want to argue. They had nothing to «ay about the war. “Koin geld" —and there was an end of It. The whole community. German to the core, reading nothing but German, speaking nothing but German, thinking nothing but Ger man. having none but German associa tions, singing in German, praying In Ger man, was secretly but Immovably In sympathy with Germany and against th# ^ United States. From that district tber# came into court as witness a bright evert, well dressed native born youth of -1 H# had to have an interpreter. German Ships in Use. From the Scientific American The following is a list of the German ships which have been seized and refitted as army transports for conveying our troops to France. The original German and present American names are given, the latter In parenthesis: Vaterland (Leviathan), 54,282 tons, $.800 officers and men; George Washington. VS.570 tons. 4.850 officers and men ; Arnerika (American 22.622 tons. 4,500 officers and men; Cecelia (Mount Vernon), 19,602 tons. 3,830 officers and men: Kaiser Wilhelm II (Agamemnon), 19,361 tons, 3,830 officers and men; President Lincoln, 18,163 tons, 6,200 officers and men; President Grant. 18.072 tons. 5,200 officers and men; Cincinnati (Covington), 16,339 tons, 4,000 officers and men; Grosso Kurfurst (Aeolus). 13.1091 tons, 3.175 officers and men; Barbarossa (Mercury), 10,984 tons, 2,620 officers and men; Prlnzeoa Irene (Pocahontas). 10,SMI tons, 2,540 officers and men; Friedrich der Grosse (Huron), 10,771 tons. 2,450 officer* and men; Hamburg (Powahatan), 10,531 tons, 2,100 officers and men; Rhein (Sus quehanna), 10,058 tons. 2,000 officers and men; Neckar (Antigone), 9.836 tons, 2.000 officers and men; Koenig “Wilhelm II (Madawasca), 9,410 tons; 2/00 officers and men. A Tip to Hoover. 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