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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1918)
WOMEN FARMING IN WESTERN CANADA Success Has Followed All Their Efforts. <tn tlic train from Edmonton to Win nipeg the writer took a seat beside a soldier who hud returned from the front. On ills breast lie wore the beautiful distinguished service medal. One coat sleeve was armless, and on his left cheek lie bore a scar that he would carry to his grave. He had served tiis country faithfully and well. At the first call for soldiers in August, 1914, he hastened to the' recruiting office, leaving his 320-acre farm, with its crop ready for harvest, a full equipment of farm implements, plenty of horses, and u wife. The wife should net he last on the list for she proved the master of the situation, and loy ally took hold of the question of pro duction, while her husband was on his way to tight the Hun. And she suc ceeded. Iri 1915 she succeeded, and again in 1916, and when her husband returned in 1917 she was able to show some contemplated farm buildings completed, the indebtedness of the farm paid off, a considerable addition to the stock, and the land ready for a 1917 crop. This was the story told by the soldier, and wasn't he a proud man! He was now ready to do what he could to keep up the period of prosperity and provide food for the allies. The Women of Canada have done nobly during the struggle. Among the most successful farmers of the Oak Lake district, Manitoba, are tlie Misses Clara and Beatrice For ward, who, for the past fourteen years, have farmed their own land, doing all the regular work on the farm, such as plowing, seeding, summer fallowing and reaping. They have been espe cially successful with stock, and have a splendid herd of shorthorns, both purebred and grade. At the recent Brandon sale they purchased a new purebred stock hull for $700. Their herd was last year increased by 2‘i calves. Miss H. M. Hillman of Keeler, Sas katchewan, is nnotlier successful woman farmer. She has gone In ex tensively for grain growing, and farms 1,120 acres. She also owns some of the finest Percheron horses In Sas katchewan. The prairie now boasts of many women who have had more or less suc cess, though few are farming on the same large scale as Miss Hillman and tlie Misses Forward. These women have demonstrated, and are still dem onstrating, ttiat a versatile woman may be just as good and successful a farmer as her brother. There are other women, too, on the Canadian prairies, who, though they have not had thrown upon them the rerv eponsibilities of “running a farm,” have been decided factoru in making the farm a success. They assist their husbands by keeping the farm ac counts, reducing the grocer’s bills by tlicir management of the poultry and butter, taking care of the house, and, very often, proving good advisers in the economic management of the men mid general conduct of the farm work. 'i he man who moves to Canada car ries with him a wonderful asset in a good managing wife.—Advertisement. Nora Will Know Better Now. “Why, Nora, 1 am .surprised,” ex claimed the head of tlie house as the cook cpme rushing into the parlor while he and the missus were entertaining company. "It is very unseemly of you to rush into tiie parlor in this manner. It shows n lack of proper training, to say the least. Now you should have knocked at tlie door and asked my per Inission to speak. Let us see if you can’t do better. Walk out into tlie other room and approach as I have fob! veil.” Xoi a walked away and then went through tlie ceremony of knocking. “Thar is better, Nora, much better. Now wlutt was it you wished to tell me.” “Oil. sor, it's mighty sorry I am to disturb ye. hut I thought ye’d like to know Unit the house Is on fire.” Comfort Baby’s Skin When red, rough and itching with hot baths of Cuticura Soap and touches of Cuticura Ointment. This means sleep for baby and rest for mother. For free samples address, “Cuticura. Dept. X, Boston.” At druggists and by mail. Sor.p 25, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv. Crisp Criticism of Gossip. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.—-George Kliot. Happy is the home whore Red Cross Ball lilue is used. Sure to please. All grocers. Adv. California Is extensively developing spinach-growing. Ford Owners Attention! A POSITIVE CURE FOR OIL PUMPERS Ever- Tyte Ford SPECIAL PISTON RINGS stop all carbon deposits and fouled spark plugs. Increase compression and speed wonderfully. PAT POE THkkSBLZE* IS SIX BOSTU: BI BATISifl IS BASOLiXE AXD OIL Guamuteed to do the work or your money back. $8.00 PER SET OF 8 RINGS HVKB-TyTes made In all sizes for auto, tractor aud gasoline engines. Ask your nearest dealer or write TOE EVE* TKBT PISTOIt *1*C COItPtmr feawtaMt F FT WHS. ISO | No Time to Experiment. From the New York Tribune. The reports of the national banks of the United States under the call of May 10 show that their resources have increased over $2,000,000,000 during the year. Their deposits have increase since May a year ago $1,300,000,000, and their loans have increasel $508, 000,000. It is not possible to find in that statement evidence of infla tion of credit, as it shows that depositors are banking their profits, rather than relying upon the banks for loans to bolster declining business. The reserves are now over $1,000,000,000, the excess reserves over legal requirements having increased by $38,748,000 during the year. It is an unspeakable benefit that our banking affairs function under strain most admirably. That is further shown by both the expansion and contraction of the banking figures in this city in connection with the Liberty loans. Mr. Treman, deputy governor of the federal reserve bank, in his address at Atlantic City gave similar figures in connection with all three loans. In connection with the third loan the expansion was from $262,000,000 to $655,000,000, with a contraction within a month to $538,000,000, and the reverse of the expansion is not yet done. Simultaneously, the treasury publishes the figures of the country's currency for June 1. The decrease during May was $71,884,000, and the increase of gold within a year was $285,384,000. The federal reserve notes have increased $1,089,686,000. That is a remarkable growth, but not more remarkable than the growth of trade on which it is based, or than is justified by the amplitude of the geld cover. "Within a year it has doubled, to over $1,000,000,000.^1#»der old conditions there would be anxiety about an increase of $1,000,000,000 in bank notes, but they would have been irreducible. Now the total will shrink when trade shrinks, as naturally as it increased when trade increased. It is singular to remark that, despite this satisfactory functioning of our banking affairs, there is a deluge of proposal in congress to improve upon it, and outside of congress a like surprising number of protests against such aetion. In a single day a score of banking amendments were introduced at Washington. None of them was asked for, and some of them were almost unanimously condemned. For example, the bill to guarantee deposits. The loss of deposits is only nominal, and a guarantee would work to increase the loss by making care unnecessary. Considering how satisfactory the situa tion is, attempts to improve upon it are well described in the words of Superintendent Skinner, addressing New York state bankers at Atlantic city: To my mi ml, any one who proposes radical changes in the banking laws or the banking system of the country at this time invites disaster. Petticoat Lane, Macedonia. j From a Correspondent, in the London Times. Every Thursday morning some one must go marketing for the mess to the neigh boring village of K. It is an agreeable duty, for what Is the New Cut or Petti coat lane on a Sunday to the many colored glories of IC market? The villagers themselves make as it were the groundwork of the pattern—the men in their dark blue braided Eton jackets, the women with their red or brown aprons. These are good to look at, but there is better still, for the whole countryside has come in with its dogs and its goats and its donkeys. There are the knitting gipsy women who make stockings, and never cease from knitting as they walk up and down. With them Is a little barefoot, elfish girl, with a won derfully dirty face and a tangle of black hair, who looks at us out of the corners of her savage eyes. Then 'there are the long bearded priests in their black gowns and tall black hats, ragged, benevolent and digniflied. There is a sprinkling of Turks in fezzes, and best of all there are the shepherds. They wear white stock ings, white kilts, white jerseys; round their waists are red sashes; round their heads bright handkerchiefs; and they carry their long slender crooks in their hands. The shepherds do not appear to do much business, though one or two are interested in a booth where a man is making combs for wool. For the most part they sit round tables, gossiping ferociously, drinking tiny cups of coffee, rolling and smoking cigarets. There is among them one old man with a narrow hawkish face, sunburnt and crinkled, great flaps of ears and a long grey mous tache. Surely there is a history written in that face, but is it of cutting throats and holding to ransom or simply of piping to the lonely flocks? He is too, inscruta ble for me. The shops are as varied as the custom ers. That one which announces itself as "Canteen B. A." pays the penalty of greatness by having no native trade; but there is a village Wlilteley's— pantopo leion—its frontage decked with gorgeous handkerclilfs, that is full to overflowing. Next come the tailor, the cobbler, the barber, and up an alley hard by the blacksmith is shoeing a donkey, which he does by throwing the poor beast on its back and lashing its four feet to a stake. The taps of his hammer blend with a mournful dirge from mo village school where the children are chanting the alphabet. How odd and delightful to find that small Greeks have to learn their own alphabet; and they certainly seem not to pronounce it as well as wo do. Over the way lives our friend whom we call Alexander the Coppersmith. He sits on a table by his big bellows, a copper dish on his knees, while the wood smoke curls up from his fire on the floor. On other days he deals only in copper ves sels which he makes himself with a very graceful art. Today his shop has become a general store, and he sells lamb skins and onions and cloth of a peculiarly hide ous check. Another friend Is the grinning* blaekavised boy at the vegetable stall. "Spinach?” he says in answer to our question; “Spinach finish. Today salad.” But when we spurn the lettuce and garlic that he wants to foist on us. he naively produces a secret hoard where there is spinach in plenty. He is, 1 believe, not unreasonably dishonest. It is he, more over, who, as interpreter, makes a bar gain for us with the knitting gipsies. It is he who, by calling on the awful name of the control post officer, strikes terror to the heart of a cheating mat seller. So what matters a little short weight of spinach? Last and loveliest of all are the shops that are, with unconscious poetry, called fancy shops—low and dark, with little crabbed lattice windows, full of the most beautiful things. I cannot tell what they are, for these are fairy shops such as we see only in dreams or, perhaps, once in a lifetime as we flit In a car through a sleepy southern country town at home. In front of them the women gather thickly, and come away bearing ribbons and trink ets, but we stand afar off, for we know that If we looked too closely all the colors and the glitter and the mystery would crumble before our eyes. SOLDIERS'MINDS IN NEED OF RELAXATION Are Given Something to Think of Besides the Art of Killing Huns. Headquarters of the American Troops With the British Army in France (by mail).—American boys in the war zone learning from British of ficers and soldiers what the war has taught in the way of battle tactics are getting an antidote for the mental ef fects of their fighting education. This is offset by a compound of gardening and pets. “It is not a good thing for these boys that their minds he centered sole ly on stabbing, shooting and throttling, said a young colonel of the British army to the correspondent of the As sociated Press today. This- officer, who won his promotion at a little over 30 by gallant conduct at Boos and other places where the Black Watch distin guished itself, now commands one of the British army schools where mus ketry, machine gun fire, the use of the bayonet and jlujitsu are taught. iie pointed to an American boy who was industriously spading a future po tato patch. "This is how we try to lighten their thoughts," he added. A New Zealand band was playing lively airs on the green, a litter of pigs closure alongside which was a pen of from a sty hidden behind a ttiicket and lust around the corner hens were clucking to their broods from an en closure adongside which was a pen of highly bred rabbits. Meanwhile two pet dogs barked in answer to the rattle of machine gun3 from the ranges where newly arrived allies were trying their marksmanship. The men who were not shooting, cul tivating ground already sown.or pre paring for further seeding were trim ming the lawn or tending flower beds. There Is everything here to suggest the opposite of war. The commanding officer who happens to lie one of the men under whom tIre regretted Johnny Poe served would say little of the work of his pupils with the bayonet and the gun further than that the American boys were keen to Wo and uu-'vk to absorb. Th*> ing education he left to his instructors. This policy prevails at other Brit ish school of the same character. Some of them add bee keeping to their pro gram. All of them have their pets and most of them their gardens. All of them will give their American pupils much to relieve the depressing effects of continual thoughts of bloodshed. Four Years Ago. Four years ago the red god Mars was resting, drowsy, on his throne; and so we talked of choo-choo cars, and small beer gossip was our own. Then trifling things Important seemed, and twaddle wae our stock in trade; reformers o’er the country screamed— you will recall the noise they made. Bridge whist employed the lazy dames at country clubs throughout the land; and stories of the baseball games at eventide were in demand. Would Jinks he chosen cOhnty clerk, or would he run against defeat? Discussing this our jaws we’d work, for hours together on the street. Would Willard get the dingo's goat? That was one theme of long ago. Were girls entitled to the vote, or should they stay at home and sew? The neighbors used to come at night and talk with me of many things; and we would whoop around and fight o'er cabbages and cats and kings. But since the war flags were unfurled and battle eagles raised their scream, it seems we’re in another world; the old time planet w'as a dream. The country clubs are drear and hare, no giggles from their porches rise; the girls no longer gather there, to see who gets the booby prize. And men have learned to think grave thoughts, and let the beer and sklttleo go; to plan how they may hand some swats, by sacrifices, to thfe foe. An Unconscious Insult. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Distinguished counsel was addressing the jury. He reached his peroration as follows: "The principal fault of the pris oner," he declared Impressively, "has been his unfortunate characteristic of putting faith in thieves and scoundrels-of the basest description. 1 have done. The unhappy man in the dock puts Implicit faith ir. you. gentlemen of the jury.” A Missing Steak. From Boys' Life. Walter thinting for a tip)—And how die you find the steak, sir? Diner—Oh! 1 Just moved that little piece c.r potato amt there it was. ROMANCE IN STORY OF “WHITE METAL” Spies Now Risk Lives For Plati num, Once Thrown Away as Waste. Washington, I). C.—New chapters In the romance of platinum, once thrown away as waste hut now the most sought after metal in the world, have been written since the war began. Na tions are fighting for it. Adventurers are risking their lives to obtain it. Women spies and diplomatic agents ere playing the game of international intrigue to control even an ounce of the ‘noble metal." ns it is known to geologists, so valuable lias it become and so necessary to the prosecution of the world war. The United States government re cently too!: a hand in the game by commandeering all unworked platinum In this country, setting therefore a price of $105 an ounce, as compared with $22.85 10 years ago. Even th's action, however, has not obtained suf ficient of the metal for war purposes. Officials who failed to heed the warn ings of platinum experts at the begin ning of the war arc wondering how they cun retrieve their error in not vigorously meeting the national ne cessity by using every legitimate means to obtain platinum. The total amount of known platinum throughout the world is only 4,000,000 ounces, of which about one-fourth is In the United States. Much of that Is virtually Irre claimable through use in dental work and personal Jewelry, and (lie output, since the Russian debacle, has fallen to a fraction of what It was In times of peace. It is the last reason which is giving officials so much concern. Russia has been the source of most of the world’s platinum and, in 1913, was credited with a production of 250.000 Troy ounces, Clumbla with 15,000; New South Wales and Tasmania, United States (California and Oregon being almost the only producing states) only 483; Borneo and Sumatra. 200, and Canada, 50. The German invasion of Russia gave the enemy the opportunity of replenish ing his stocks of platinum, to the detri ment of the allies. Mining in Russia virtually has ceased now, even if the metal could be shipped out of the country, and the whole world looks to Columbia for platinum. Suggestions for a government monopoly of platinum have been advanced in the Columbian congress. Whatever action is taken, the fortunes of war will mean wealth for the southern republic. One of the most spectacular feats of the wnr was the concentration of 20,000 ounces of platinum in Russia by a young American mining engineer, at tached to the embassy there, who re cognized the importance of obtaining tho metal. Each precious brick, wrapped in a leather cover, was brought half way across the world to the United States and turned over to tile govern ment for use in the manufacture ot sulphuric acid, a constituent of ex plosives, for the manufacture of con tact points in electrical apparatus and other uses necessary to war. An inter esting history of platinum is given by the Eatln-Amerlcan division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic com merce. Platinum was uncovered in what is now Columbia in 1735, by a Spaniard named Don Antonio de Ulloa, who ac companied a French scientific ex pedition, and his account of it was the first information regarding tho metal to be brought to the attention of Europeans. Its resistabllity to acids and the difficulty of working it were re marked upon, hut it was not considered to be nearly as precious as gold, and was used at times by counterfeiters as a basis for coins. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that tho demand for platinum for use in chemi cal laboratories and for electrical uses brought its value up to the point where it ranked ns one of the most precious metals. In the placer mining of gold in Columbia it was formerly thrown away as waste, and when the rise in price made it more valuable than gold the ground on which the waste had- been thrown became in Its turn a field for mining operations, and even the streets of the principal center of gold refining in Columbia, Quibdo, were torn up and the soil washed for particles of the new treasure. One man tore down his Store In order to get at the ground beneath, and found so much platinum that he was enabled to rebuild and make an extra *4,000 for his trouble. Platinum Is recovered principally from the beds of streams, the particles hav ing been deposited there through ero sion of large rocks, classified geologi cally as “tertiary conglomerates.'' Tho platinum grains are found with gold, the proportion varying from 5 to 60 per cent of platinum. The two metals are recovered by washing the sand and gravel of streams. The marked rise in the price of platinum in the last two or three years has considerably stimu lated mining activities in Columbia, es pecially on the part of the native min ers. Present imports of Columbian ph-timim by the United States repre sents almost the total visible exports of that country. Paper Bullets Paralyzed. Villa, the bandit, was much surprised. The rich old man had fallen as the guns o£ the firing squad roared. On almost any other occasion of Ihe kind Villa would have oxoected ids victim to fall, but this lime— "Por Dios'.” Had his men forgotten, or bad they disobeyed? Puzzled, the chief walked up to tlie crumpled figure and bent over. There were no wound marks. Yet the man neither spoke nor moved. Nevertheless, he was alive. Dnablo to understand. Villa and lit* men left the prostrate, motionless form. A little iater came rescuers. They found that the man had not been touched by a bullet. In fact the bullets were made of paper—at Villa's order. For some mys terious reason, be did not wish to harm the man but merely to frighten him Into giving him money, hut the suspense and worry brought on the shock. The man has not spoken or moved a limb since. This story Is told by the nephew of the man. Count J. M. l-lsc'hevarrla do Itlgis, of Mexico City, who is visiting In Seattle, Wash., according to the Seattle Post-In lelligencor. ‘‘Vacuum Hard to Get.” From the Christian Register. Among the answers to questions at a school examination appeared the follow ing: "Gross ignorance is 144 times as bad as Just ordinary Ignorance.” "Anchorite is an old fashioned hermit Bort of a fellow who has anchored himself to one place.’ ’ "The liver is an infernal organ." “Vacuum is nothing with the air sucked out of It put up in a pickle bottle—it Is very hard to get/’ Electric light companies in Germany require their lamji trimmers to save scraps of old carbons, which are cemented together twi further use ENDED SHOW FOR THAT NIGHT Midget Pertirrmers Scented Danger When They Heard the Ringing of Police Patrol Gong. Two little colored bards from News alley were giving a concert a In carte before a Washington hotel. The crowd which gathered was larger Ilian any that ever regarded a soapbox ora tor. The hoys sang, the dimes flew, they paused, and sang and danced some more. The two kids wove In witty lines ns they went, and really made tile tiling a vaudeville act. But Anally they decided it was about Unto for an Intermission. “XVe'ro firin' away,” announced tlio larger, who was perhaps eight vonrs old. “Aw. don't do that,” admonished the crowd. “You didn't treat us right ; that’s Idl.” Dimes flew again. The lioys started to sing. They saw Unit their audience was growing to n capacity crowd. But they started up on the Inst tune. Somewhere out on the Kitst side Come one line! had an argument, or f!se an automobile bud tipped over, for an ambulance was hurrying back to tlte city hospital, clanging its belt. Tlie performers heard it. Up looked the youngest. “Uni, police!” be yelled to bis little partner, and the two of them scurried is quick as lightning down the nearest alley. The crowd went on to its mo vies.—Indianapolis News. The Worm Turned. A Richmond (Yn.) man who nio :ored down to the resort where Ills wife and baby were spending the sum mer was called on to help prepare the morning meal of ids son and heir. He proved a little unskilled in removing the top of the can that was handed aim, and his wife became scornful and impatient. "I do wish I had married a man 1” she said, with line sarcasm. The unfortunute continued 1o strug gle vainly with the stubborn tin. “And 1 do wisli 1 lmd married a woman,” lie grunted. "Then 1 would not have had to bother with these ar t’flclal breakfast foods." Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that It In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria When the Soul Is Hur*. The most terrific thing in the world Is sin. A man Is never hurt until his soul is hurt, and the only tiling that can hurt Ids soul is sin.—l’lmner. For genuine comfort and lasting pleas ure use Red Cro' 'all Blue on wash day. All good grocers .j^Adv. Birmingham brass factories are get ting ready for post war business. Many a man who thinks lie Is a mar tyr Is only a chump. DOCTOR URGED AN OPERATION Instead I took Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and Was Cured. Baltimore, Md.—“Nearly four years I suffered from organic troubles, ner vousness and head aches and every month would have td stay in bed most of the time. Treat ments would relieve me for a time but my doctor was al ways urging me to have an operation. My sister asked m« .to try Lydia E. Pink fa a m’s Vegetable Compound before consenting to ao operation. I took five bottles of it and it has completely cured me and my work is a pleasure. I tell all my friend* who have any trouble of this kind what Lydia E. Pinkham’a Vegetable Com g>und has done for me. —Nellie B.1 rittingham, 609 Calverton Rd., Balti more, Md. « It is only natural for any woman to dread the thought of an operation. So many women have been restored to health by this famous remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, after an operation has been advised that if will pay any woman who suffers from such ailments to consider trying it be fore submitting to such a trying ordeal "ciflarYourSkta Save Your Hair Vyith.i#utjcu£i Soap. Oint., Talcum 2T>o. each. Sample oai-h of "Outlcwre, Dept. I. 8oaten," daisyfly^ller ornuaenUl, oonveotonl m •• : \ ||g anton<l eUoctivo. Bold b\ 1 " • prs-i. propilil, for tl 00. HAROLD (OMKRB, 1(0 Dl KALB AVI., BROOKLYN, H. V. --^N^WANTKD Old False TEETH, crowns and bridges. We pay (2 to fnSfeyeeWU SiO per net, ecnillrg you check by re al I F V l Le turn mull eubjcct to your approval. r JACKSONS' DKNTAb DSPOf. Dn.apcrl, la SIOUX CITY PTG. CO., NO. 29 -1918. mmi .....Ii.......■"■B3 Conscripting Cub Bears. In response to appeals received from men of various units of the army, throughout the West, United States forest rangers under the local office at Livingston, Mont., have been requested (o obtain cub bears for use as com pany mascots. There Is considerable rivalry among rangers to see who will be the first to conscript a young bear. Beyond Their Understanding. It is worst? than useless to attempt to create in the minds of the young unnatural Ideals in which self-sacrifice and self-repression are the chief at tributes of goodness.—:EUa Flagg Young. Cold Drinks Bad ^ for Your Stomacl How to Avoid the Digestive Miseries That Hot Weather Brings Gold drinks in hot weather are bad enough for any stomach but doublyso, in fact, dangerous—when the stomach is out of fix and you suffer from indi gestion, acidity, food-repeating, heart burn, sour stomach, and that awful puffed-up, bloated condition after eat ing. In fact, all stomach and bowel mfaerieo are greatly aggravated in hot weather. You can’t be too careful. Sunstroke can be traced in many cases to pour digestion. Everyone should watch their stomach in hot weather. Keep it Bweet and cool. Here is an easy and pleasant way to correct stom ach ills. A compound has been dis covered which surely takes up the harm fuljui res and gases from the stom mach, leaving it sweet, clean, cool and comfortable. You won’t know you have a stomach if you take one or two EATONIC tablets after your meal, so light and pain-free you will feel, There is not a harmful thine in EATONIC tablets. They taste tinel Just like eating candy. Druggists will tell you that EATONIC users say they never dreamed anything could give such quick and wonderful results; you can insure yourself a good, cool, sweet stomach, you can eat what you like, and always have the appetite to eat it. EATONIC is absolutely guaranteed. Get a box from your druggist today. Use it to get rid of and prevent the stomach and bowel troubles that are bound to come in hot weather. If EATONIC fails, return to your drug gist and get your fifty cents back. If you cannot obtain EATONIC where you live drop a card to Eatonic Remedy Co., Chicago, 111. They will mail you a box at once. Where in Western Canada you can buy at from ■ $15 to $30 per acre good farm land that will raise I 20 to 45 bushels to the acre of $2 wheat — its ■ easy to figure the profits. Many Western Canadian ■ fanners (scores of them from the U. S.) have paid for their land from a ■ single crop. Such an opportunity fee 100% profit on labor and investment ■ is worth investigation. !■ I Canada extends to you a hearty invitation to settle on her « Free Homestead Lands of 160 Acres Each I or secure some of the low priced lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or ■ Alberta, think what yon can make with wheat at $2 a bushel and land so ■ easy to get Wonderful yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed farming and cattle raising. Tbe climate is healthful and agreeable; railway fa cilities excellent; good schools and churches convenient Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Supt Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to n. J. JoKulwt. Drawer 1*7, Welertewm. S. D., W. V. Bennett, Reera 4, Bee BaiUinf.. Omehe. Nek., and R. A. Garrett. 311 jntkeea Street. St Feol, Him. Canadian Government Agents