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WELL PLEASED WITH WESTERN mm. GOOD CROPS, SPLENDID CLIMATE AND WELL ENFORCED LAWS. Mr. George K. Hunter is a Mald Btono, Saskatchewan' (Central Can ada), farmer, who writes to a Cana dian Government Agent as follows : "It was the- first week in November, 1907, w hen wo arrived here. Therowaa very little snow or cold weather until after the holidays, then tho snow and cold Increased, but to no great extent. 1 think the coldest I heard of was 30 degrees below zoro, but that decree of cold would not be felt hero any moro than 10 degrees below zero would bo back home in Michlsan, owing to tho beautiful dry atmosphere of this coun try. There came a good thaw every month that settled tho snow, tho fields 6oon became bare, and on the 12th of April 1 commenced ploughing. Tho biiow was then nil gone and Ftiinmer at hand. This last season was some thing more than an average year around here, with fino crops gathered from a largo acreage. In parts tho crops were less than average, but gen erally speaking they were above it. Tho price of wheat was quite good. Some fino yields old at f 1.10 per bush el, while some were marketed at much less, but hardly any went below about 60 cents a bushel. "Oats started on tho market at 35 cents a bushel, barley about 60 cents, and flax from 90 ceuts to J1.00 b bushel. "As this was my first year in this country, It was a hard year for my horses, owing to their being eastern horses, and nut used to the western climate, but thoy will soon get cll matized. "The soil on my farm is a black loam, about one foot In thickness, be low that we find about six feet of rlay, and below that again gravel and sand, with an abundance of excellent water. This was the condition of the ground as I found it when I dug a well. I can say that the water is as sweet and as free from alkali and im purities as I ever saw. "My opinion is that tho man who comes here with a little means can do no better than invest $300 or $1,000 in cattle, after locating a homestead ad Joining or near some hilly part of tho country where it will not be taken up as soon. There la plenty of grass and hay to bo found in the hilly country and small lakes and sloughs will afford sufficient water for any amount of cat tle. Tho bluffs with a few hay or straw sheds will make sufficient shel ter for them. There is no need to worry about the market for cattle, as there is already a great call for stock of all kinds to satisfy tho continued demands of the large packing houso at Edmonton, established by Swift nnd Company. "Tho dairy business should by no means be forgotten. It is one of the paying enterprises of this great west. The price of butter seldom goes below 25 cents and reaches as high as 40 cents a pound. Also tho new cream eries that are fast being erected along the lines of railroad are calling on the farmers for their cream. "These creameries are greatly wel comed in all communities, because sell ing cream Is better than making but ter, even at an average price of 23 cents a pound. For a new country the railroad transportation facilities are good; not yet, of course, what they are in older countries, but the new lines are swiftly gaining as tho coun try gets more settled and supplies them with produce to ship. It is hard to say too much in favor of this coun try. All one needs is a little money with grit and ambition. I have seen homesteads that were filed on a little over three years ago that the owners have refused $3,000 for. "There is much more that can be said In favor of Western Canada, but I think my letter has been long enough." Tenderness, It was In the hotel of a western min ing town that the New England guest, registering in the office, heard a suc cession of youd yells. "What in the world Is that a mur der going on upstairs?" ho demanded. "No," said the clerk, as ho slammed the book and lounged toward the stairs. "It is tho spring bed up in No. 5. That tenderfoot up there don't get the hang of It, and every few days he gets one o' the spiral springs screwed into him like a shirt stud. I guess I'll have to go up, if there ain't anything more I can do for you for a few min utes." Youth's Companion. GOVERNMENT LAND OPENING UNDER CAREY ACT. May 6, the Stato Land Commissioner of Wyoming will distribute 7,000 acres Irrigated land at Cooper Lake, near Laramie nnd Denver, on main lino of I'nlon Pacific; 50 cents per acre. Old est Reservoir and Direct Water Rights; $3 an acre cash and $3 an acre an nually for ten years. Free trip and .wo town lots to all who apply before May 1. Write for application and cir culars. Tallmadge nuntin Land Co., Agents, 2nd floor, Railway Exchange, Chicago. Agents wanted. To Save Time. A small machine glass with mark ings Indicating different numbers of drops will bo found a great saving of time to every mother, whllo the ac curacy of measurements by means of it Is well worth taking into considera tion. The Night of the Game. First Splflleated Person Doesh thlah student belong here? Landlady (coldly) No, all my stu dents were brought homo un Lour ao. Wisconsin Spkitu. I'VE BEEN THINKING About a Dream I Had By Charles Battell Loomis (Copyright by W. U.t'hauinun.) I had a dream last, nigiif. I dreamed that I had grown a pond deal stouter and a good dial better looking, and it was the New Year pretty well on in the New Year after the Fourth of March, but just exactly when I couldn't determine. Wherever I walked people waved tli'dr hats at iae, and I was more pop ular than I had ever thought of being before. I was not at all used to the action of my jaws which were more energet ic and strong and quick acting than any I had ever had, and I wondered who in the world I was, anyhow. All of a sudden a rough-looking chap In a blue flannel shirt and bearing a shovel on his shoulders passed me and looked kind of hard at me, and I recognized him at once as a fellow who had busted bronchus with mo years ago. With a smile broader than any I was ever able to compass before, I rushed up to him and said: "Don't you know me, Frank?" And he grabbed my hand and called mo "Teddy" and at that I said "Dee lighted:" and realized at once who I was. I wasn't tho least bit sorry that I "Twitching His had ceased to bo myself, because if I was Teddy I'd always be myself. I found I wns on my way to tho African steamer, which sailed from Hobokcn in an hour. Then the scene changed and a whole lot of people clustered around me and I was standing on tho back platform of a railroad train, saying pleasant things to the multitude, but all tho time thinking: "Dear ni' will they ever Ft art, or am I going to miss that boat?" At last tho whistle sounded, and I shook hands with five or six who clambered on the steps at the immi nent risk of their lives, and then just as the train pulled out a mother handed nie her baby to klr.s, and be fore I could hand it back wo were at least a quarter of a mile away and going at a rattling rate in tho wrong direction, and I had a strange baby in niy arms, nnd didn't know what on earth to do with it. Put the mother seized a megaphone from a Harvard boy ami shouted: "You may have It. I have nine more." That delighted me. I yelled back above tho roar of tho train: "What's the baby's name?" "Theodore Taft" I Instinctively put otft my har.J to shake the mother's, and there I was back at the station, handing her my photograph with my autograph on it and asking her the quickest way to the Afrlcun hlcamer. She said: "Three squares to the right nnd mind the baby doer.u't get lost in tho jungle." I told her I'd be careful, and grab bing tho child in my left arm, I sprang on a horse that happened to bo stand ing at hand and did what you might call a Teddy bareback ride at a pace that, would have killed nomo cavalry officers I've heard of. Just as I got to the dock I saw the African steamer pulling out, and there was a crowd of about a million people bidding me farewell and I nof, on the steamer! I was In such a state of mtr.d that I flung the baby at the captain, who was standing on the bridge, nnd be caught him and clapped a uniform on him so that he wouldn't cateh cold, and made them put back t-h- :mu plank and I was :i(V on boi'rd. It seemed as If v.e upwt would got to Africa, and in point of fact it wn.-i over an hour before the loimed for land appeated on the horizon. The ft 'iwMwfesw M NO B 1 b ll'V bad d''le;ie.l into qul'p a lilkkv young in. in ;id 1 made him my prUato secretary, s h wrote a !;iod hand. ,U last I was in Africa and was go ing after bU g.tme, and then I was goins to write it xrj ut a dollar a wind. At this point I didn't seem to bo Teddy Roosevelt so much na V. seemed to bo myself and that Is wh; a dellar ft word seemed bigger than f-iieoting a covey of hippopn ami. We w"ro In the middle of an Amer ican forest reservation in the heart of Africa and I r.aw a rhinoceros high up on the limb of a gi.mt redwood, twitching his bushy taH and scoldlux at me. 1 immediately leveled or rather raised my Krag-.Iorgensen at him and tired and the big fellow came tumbling at my feet, lie still showed signs of life when lie fell to tho ground, but with my big stick I clubbed the life out of him and called for a typewriter and an qcean cable. These Theodore Taft brought to me. "Do you understand tho Morse code?" 1 asked. lie did not answer, but taking out a telegraph key he began to click it, spelling tho name of my New York publisher. "Never mind the typewriter," said I, impetuously, hurling the machine from me. I struck a herd of Itengnl tigers and exploded, and when tho smoke hail cleared away I found that I had killed nine. I at once began to dictate my story at a dollar a weird, fust wiring that I wished tin1 money cabled to mo as soon as the words were counted. " 'I came, I saw, I conquered,' " I cabled, "which is plx dollars and rath er more than Caesar got for tho same words." Hero I realized that the mod ifying clause had brought mo in $11 and I was very happy. I proceeded, Theodore cabling It an I spoke. "I was limpy when I was a cow boy, but this brats It, I was happy when I was a student at Harvard un-( der Proxy Kliot, but tills big gamo Bushy Tall." hunting In Africa is tho happiest thing yet. I was happy when I was lighting in Cuba, but I am happier now. I was happy when I was police commission er, but thin has it beaten to a frazzle. I was happy when I was an assembly man, but this knocks it silly. I was happy when I was assistant secretary of the navy, but this gives it the gfi by. I was happy when I was governor of New York, but this is the bulliest thing I ever struck. 1 was happy when I was president, but none of these former things could hold a candlo to this hunting big game In Africa How many words is that, Theodore?" "One hundred and fifty-six at a dol lar a word." "flee, this Is slow work! Cable 'em to go hang. Tell 'em Theodore Roose velt doesn't want tho money, it's tho sport of the thing he's after." And at that moment I saw a Nu midlan lion climbing a redwood and just ahead of him a nature faker climbing for dear life. With a most chivalrous instinct I leveled my gun nt the lion there was a tremendous report, tho whole mid dle of Africa dropped out of the map, leaving an inland sea, into which I slipped and Immediately woke up. !'..;.' I was happy while it lasted, and I think I understand Roosevelt batter for the dream. THE WHITE f-LAGUE'S RAVAGE3. Surprise That Cams to One Whc Was Pasting cn Red Cross Stamps. "I never actually realized the extent of the white plague," said one who has been buying and using tho Red Cross t'hi'i.-tma'! stamps, "till I canio to do up my Chrlrtmas packages. "Then it struck mo all at once that I mustn't put the stamps on bundles sent to anybo.'y suffering from this mrdady or into any family with a member tl.ua alliieted or that perhaps had lost one. Ami do you know that when 1 curim to think I was surprised nt the nunilxr of those 1 could .--mil from rluht. nmong my owu clcno ac quaintance. and friends to whom these stamp'! would be a far from pleasant reminder. "S.i I withheld sta-:i3 from some p:icl::i",o:', but I put il uibie slumps on nil the re-it; ami I am io!;:g io luiy lucre .tamps to give what lnd' I ran to tho lit lit ;';ain:;t this dread Uls- this competitive age and when of ample character it places possessor in the front rank of The Well Informed of the World. A vast fund of personal knowledge U really essential to the achievement of the highest excellence in any field of human effort. A Knowledge of Forms, Knowledge of Functions and Knowl edge of Products are all of the utmost value nnd in questions of lif and health when a true; and wholesome remedy u desirt d it should he remembered that Syrup of Figs and Klixir of Senna, manufactured ly the California Fii? Syrup Co., is an , ..!.:.. I :,t. ,u. 1 .1 ,l. , : . 1 Clliuai iiuuut-t Mim 11 lias mil vwill uiu UiiUtll til 111C 111USI CIlllllClll mx- Ilmi',lc:i1 c itl.T li-';nn lrv.T1Ke it II Von,, wit, .if Ifrinwrl Oil n 1 , 1 7 Tarts and has won the valuable patronage of millions of the W ell Informed of the world, who know of their own personal knowledge and from actual use that it is the first and best or f jnury laxatives, Tliis valuable remedy has been long and favorably known under the name of Syrup of Figs anil has attained to world wide acceptance ns the most excellent family laxative. As ils pure laxative principles, obtained from Senna, are well known to physicians and the Well Informed ol the world to be the best we have ndontcd the more elaborate n.imo of Svrnr f Fie nml VVR l.l ..l.t... v . sy JA uui aouuucss 11 name ol Co. ADORESSCS LOUISVILLE, KY. No Heed Paid to Begging Letters. As nearly na can be ascertained, the' wealthy persons of New York city re celvo 25,000 begins letters a day from nt rangers, and tho wrltera Bland n better chunco of finding money than In petting from them, for even tho most liberal of philanthropists do not disprnsc their charity excepting nc cnrdlnR to careful plans and after In vestigation. Hlg First Practice. The old farmer stood In front of tho "Human Frog" In the museum. "How did yoou ever llnd out yeou were a contortionist?" he drawled, curiously. '"t'.h!" whispered the contortionist. "It's a secret, but I onco tried to dress In the, upper berth of u I'ullmau Bleoper." No liMimf.il iim in Cirlit'M Tim. Na t hit's laxittivr- it is composed wholly of i li;in, Mvrot, health -;ivini llnlis! I'or con Ktipation, liver nnd kidney troubles. Why doesn't some enterprising at torney write a book of unwritten laws? A (Viiicti, If ncu'li Tteil, nfti-n riffer-tn tlio laitif.'. "lirmvn'H Hronelilul Troches" uiv relief. 2,1 ernts a Imx. Samplis cent free by John I. Urown & Hon, lioston, Maps. When a man's heart is broken by a woman ho employs aome other wom an to mend It. T.ewin' Single Hinder ptniinht 5c cipnr. Miide of ricti.i oniliiy toUireo. Your dealer or Lcivis' lac'tory, lWia, 111. A woman probably feels blue when she Is green with envy. rn rs n nrn is n to 14 davs. PAT.il HIM'VKN I' li Kuanint'i'4 to cum any csm f'f Iti-hln. lUlml, lili'Hlinir or rromidlng l'llutln C tu 14 dajt or dhuii'J retunded, fiUc What you call temper In your wife you call temperament In yourself. Allen'a Foot-I'mp, ti I'owilee Forwoll,,ii.wi-imnu r.'i.t. i.ivi-siiiMain rellrf. Thu originul poHUnr fur IMo feet, idc ut all lirimgiits. Tho cf.mmon people believe without proof. Tacitus. rggrgsrgisyTir lteirltere'l V, 8. i ul. Lfl: 3 The genuine sold everywhere PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Cnlnr mnre gimrlt brighter and fattc ee.!ors thsn an cthnr dya. One 10c o.irkjo" c'nr all flbera. The dva in cold water better than ant other dv V- e.. d.. lor gjftnent millwul npuing apmL ttiila lor lrc beoUet-ntw to b,t, Uleat,h and Mu Ctlor. MONRO C ORUU OO . , Qu Iney, tillnoll li-ifci; VALUE x&x. Personal KNOwLEDGiil Personal knowledge is lite winning factor in the culminating I("nniun F,v-fll.-f nn,l IT villi uivi.l.,l.i; ILUll lliunil lor which no extravagant or unreasonable claims II I I ii if i .i i . win aiwnvs ue cat ca lor dv mo shorter name of Syrup of Figs and to get its beneficial effects, always note, when purchasing the full the Company California rig Syrup printed on the front of every package, whether you call for Syrup of r igs or by the full name Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. U.S.A. LONDON, ENGLAND. 45 to 50 Du. of Wheat Per Acre have Lcrn grown on (arm landi in WESTERN CANADA Miuh Irsi would he j latulucloiy. 1 he grn. eial nmiipc it above twenty huiiieli. "Allure Inud In their prattles ol the Rreiit crop unil that won del hit rnuntrv."- f.r- t.Kt fwrt cnrrrtmnlrn.r Uttloml tJllvrltl Ai3Kl.ilion vf August, It it now possible to lecure a Immrslead o 160 arret (rre and anollier 160 actei al $i.(K) per arte. I lundredt have paid the eosl rl their Urmi (if purcli.ivd) and then had a balance ol (rom $10.00 In $ 1 2.00 prr acre Irnm one crop. Wlirat, hailry, oots, llax all du well. Mixed Iniming it a great euccest and dairying it hii'hlv nmfitahle. Lurl. ; lent climate, splendid tthnols and churches, rail ivayt bring most ecry clislm l wilhin easy reach ol maikrt. Railway and land companies htvo lanui lor talc at low pneet and on eaty terms. "Laat nest West'p;imrhli'tii nnd maps aent free. Kor these nnd inlomicitlon as to how to secure lowest mllwiiy riitrn, npply to Superintendent of Immlirrntinn, Ottnwu, Canndn, or the authorized Canadian Govern ment Afent: W. V. Df NNETT, SOI New York Lite Bulldlnl. Ooitha. Nftrnclt, Omaha Directory RUBBER GOOD h" mnll nt pnt priced. fVrnl for frer rntnloi'iia. VlYEHS-OILLON flRUCl CO., OMAHA. NhtlH M. Splesberger & Son Co. 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Paxtine it a hartnlest vet powerful Berniicide.dijiiifeilant and deodorizer, f I 1 . 1 .1 . 1 . 1 v vjicu in uaining u ocurcy ouorsanu leaves the body autitepiically clean. FOR SALE AT DRUQ STORES, GOc. I I ' OR POSTPAID GV MAIL. i B H If THE PAXTON TOILET CO.. BOSTON, MASS. BSLLSONSOHASS ',C3CTB Cotti((k90c(tracrtfor&ted. KiZSSl HJ M'it tfiixlorfMlffraHRnf tlisrvntiirT.ylrltliriM' trin ym i 1 u mm nr uy n-r at ami iitn i.r p.fiu''i Ll Itimilv tT..wn.irrfiwi irrownt Cut mixta aJ nut in 4 kil t Itmkftfor the mnivfr aalu . ki'I to 011. iirownniij nonriPiitw tvttry rirrr tin rvrr; 'innln Amfrlm. I hr-aitnAillrt. Itiiiir.Miit am t n H.tt'tH Ifttirli of Krypu littr rmJ mtnl-tr frf or -diui 100 m KiAiMpB nn rrrrivo Hamiii fr thlr woiulorrii I rraMi .liHif Hprlu, t tin r-ril wnni-r. Mfcrirr .Utii,('iorr, (lrf, ft. , rt. ,nd (iitk 'ir rri. or !.1 4c nri will aM KRiiii.ii- 1 Briu eeu nnitjuj neTr Hfril vj you iMMortj. I SALZER SEED CO., Dot W La Crossff, Wli DErltHCE Cold Water Stnch nialiOH luuuUry work u plrusur j. 10 oz. vlit. luo. W. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 9, 1909. A flaTnrlnjr thnt Ih nseil tlie nme n lemon orvMiillln. Ily ilisMilvitii? irraiiuliiti il miimr In water nml iiil(!lii Maili-im, di-lli-iotia ynip It nuiiln aril n yrup bi lti r tlmn maple. Maplelna la Mild Iit,tikitv 1 1 m l n-mt .V.cfur tloi, tMit. aii'l n-ctpnhu,l(. I rrwrui It's- ., S.illU. w ymm. I Mi vll W IVil INCOBPOHATID it NEW YORK.N.YJi WFwajr tiw- for the Cocoa, this tro.de Don't be