The Plattsmoulti Journa
G. B. MAN N, TT. K. FOX, Publishers.
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA
Tie Western Australia Budget estT-
xates that the revenue of the current
year will be the highest on record
3.417.000.
AH association must be a compro
mise, and. what is worse, the very
Jlower and aroma of the flower of each
t the beautiful natures disappears as
ihey approach each other.
Mirth is like a flash of lightning that
breaks through a gloom of clouds and
Slitters for a moment. Cheerfulness
Keeps up a kind of daylight in the
mind, and fills it with a steady and
perpetual serenity.
Onr bodies ar our gardens, to the
which our wills are gardeners; so that
If we will plant nettles or sow lettuce.
et hyssop, or weed up thyme, supply
It with one gender of herbs or dis
tract it with many, either to have it
sterile with idleness or manured with
industry why the power and corrigl
tie authority of this lies in our own
A new recoru-uas been established in
distance; traveling yeleetric car with
out recharging the accumulators. To
Mr. Krleer. the well-known manufac
turer, belongs the credit of covering 9-
miles with one charge of electricity, a
feat he accomplished recently, when he
nro? a machine of his own construc
tion from Paris nearly to Chatellerault.
The previous best record was ICC
miles.
Germany is making its first experi
ment with a state-subventioned peo
ple's theater. The thickly populated
Industrial district of Upper Silesia has
been chosen for the purpose, and in
Koenig-shutte. a hall capable of hold
ing 1.500 persons, has been hired. The
theatrical company will, however,
travel frequently through the province.
and It is from thi3 part of the scheme
that most success i3 anticipated.
A former employe of the Selby
smelter confessed that he robbed the
company's vault at Vallejo of ?2S3.-
00 in gold bar3 and bullion recently
and revealed the hiding place of the
gold in the bay and $141,000 was re
covered from the mud. High tide
stopped the Eearch for the remainder.
It is claimed that Winters, the em
ploye, was promised Immunity from
runishment and a reward if he con
fessed. He led the search for the
gold-
Miss Sadie Benjamin of Toma Vista.
Tex., is the heroine of perhaps the
most remarkable elopement on record.
The daughter of a wealthy merchant,
she fell in love with a youth named
Garland, and. visiting a circus, they
mounted a huge Asiatic elephant and
suborned the beast's trainer to urge
the elephant to top speed. The long
strides of their strange steed soon car
ried them beyond pursuit, and to the
spot where a clergyman could be
found.
The death of J. Andrew Cullum of
Ridge Spring. S. C, from a stroke of
lightning, received two months ago, is
remarkable. Mr. Cullum was struck
by lightning the latter part of July.
His shoes were torn off and there wad
a burned place on his left side. He
was picked up unconscious, but soon
rallied, and in a few days was out
again. But the spot burned by light
ning would not heal. Carbuncles
formed on the burns and sapped his
strength and life.
The acclimatizaton of the Scotch
grouse in Silesia, on the East Prussian
crown moors, and on the Eiffel, has
proved so successful that in the last
mentioned district a thousand birds
are now reen, where thirteen months
ago there was not a single one. The
experiment is to be repeated in other
Prussian provinces. By the emperor's
orders the moors near Schmcln, in
West Prussia, have Just been stocked
with' fourteen brace, which hare just
arrived from Scotland.
The beauty of procrastination and
the advantage of the sluggard are not
ethical phrases, but they appear as a
sort of a subtitle to one comic episode
In a terrible tragedy. When the
steamer Islander was going down In
Alaskan waters last summer, hurried
warning was sent to the staterooms.
One man, half-awakened, laughed at
what he thought a false alarm, and
turned over for another nap. An in
stant later occurred the explosion,
which hurled him Into the air upon
his mattress, which came down right
side up upon the water. The disaster
occurred near shore, the mattress was
eventually hooked In, and the passen
ger was rescued unhurt. This tale
may be believed only by those who
have escaped marvelously the dangers
of a tornado, but It is absolutely true.
That the Russian government Is pro
Tiding for eventualities in regard to
the building of railway carriages for
the Manchurian railway is shown by
the notification as to the manufacture
of twenty carriages for which an order
has been given. The carriages will
differ from the present type in that
the sides of the carriages will consist
of two plates with a thick layer of
compressed cork between the inner
ind outer plates, the latter being 3-4
Inch thick. The Russian government
svidently fear some sniping along the
route.
About one hundred human skeletons
bave just been discovered in a space
four yards square in a quarry in the
Olivet quarter of Cannes, France. They
ire supposed to be the silent witnesses
to as many hitherto mysterious mur
Jers committed by brigands, who for
merly haunted the roads around the
town.
Every day Is a little life, and our
whole life Is but a day repeated. Those,
therefore, that dare lose a day are dan
gerously prodigal; those that dare
misspend it, desperate.
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Miss Abbie Downing of Metcalfe,
Edgar county, 111., is the only known
blind telephone operator in the coun
try. She is a prodigy. Not only can
she attend to the multifarious duties
of the telephone exchange with a skill
and rapidity rarely excelled by an op
erator blessed with sight, but is singu
larly versatile in accomplishments. Al
though blind since an infant of two
years, she does all the, things that a
brighr girl wijjj two good eyes can do,
and can do them well. All those lit
tle household duties that seemingly
require sight above all other senses
her deft hand3 can perform.
She ha3 done the household cook
ing in her parents home for years.
With unerring instinct she enters any
apartment in her home, dusts and
cleans it with precision equaled by
few. Her housekeeping capabilities
have long been the admiration of
housewives for miles around. These,
however, are but the commoner of her
wonderful abilities, as she sews by
hand and on a machine. Miss Down
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Sent out to examine the native races
of the North Pacific and Arctic coasts.
the Jessup North Pacific expedition
has just made a valuable anthropolog
ical report in the shape of a series of
striking photographs of Eskimo tribes
rarely, possibly never before, visited
by whites.
A full set of illustrations and meas
urements were made of the inhabitants
of two small villages. They show
many peculiar characteristics pos
sessed by these people which are to
tally different from those of neighbor
ing tribes.
Three tribes which have almost been
Isolated from outside communication
RUSSIAN GOLD FIELDS.
The Russian government, anxious to
develop the gold mining industry for
Russia is in need of money has tem
porarily remitted all duty on gold-mining
machinery sent into the country.
All over Siberia just now is the intrud
ing Kayoshnik, gold hunter an Eng
lish, French or American engineer,
sent out usually by a syndicate to in
spect places where gold is said to ex
ist. A Siberian prospecting party con
sists of a leader, an overseer, eight
workmen, ten horses, eighteen saddle
bags, provisions and tools, the outlay
costing about 500. When a likely
valley is found, the gold hunter seeks
in the river-bed for pyrites, iron, slate,
clay or quartz coated with crystals. If
the verdict on these is favorable, trees
are felled and a hut built. The thick
ness of the earth covering the gold va
ries from two to twenty feet, and In
regard to this I should point out that,
owing to the almost continuously
frozen state of the soil and the dense
Way to Leci-Ve
The drawing tells a story that will
be interesting to many women, espec
ially to those women and their name
is legion who always descend from a
street car or other vehicle with their
backs turned toward the motorman or
driver. The result is shown in the
illustration on the right. The slight-
ing does fancy work that presents the
smoothness and beauty of design so
painstakingly sought for in vain by
more fortunate women. Another re
markable trait is her penchant for
music. Not only has she appeared In
public and won enconiums as a mu
sician, but has taught her skill to
others. Her work as a telephone op
erator Is her most wonderful accom
plishment. Through the persuasion
of George W. Fair, who is interested
in a number of Edgar county ex
changes. Miss Downing was given a
position in the Metcalfe central of
fice. It was a doubtful experiment and
many of the other stockholders were
dubious whether she could perform
the complex duties of the position,
however gifted she was in other pur
suits. Four weeks ago Miss Down
ing began learning the switchboard.
Her success was almost instantaneous.
At the end of the first day she was
able to operate the exchange without
the aid of her friend and Instructor,
Mrs. A. R. Wetz At the end of the
are here shown. The habitable area
of these people is far inland in Arctic
Alaska, east of the mouth of the Mac
kenzie river. They belong to two
tribes, called the Koukpagmiut and
Nanatagmiut. Their physical charac
teristics are so different that it almost
warrants the supposition that they are
the remnants of some lost tribe that
originally emigrated from Asia.
Their head measurements are partic
ularly remarkable on account of the
low value of the length and the re
sultant high value of the breadth. The
contrast between them and other Es
kimo and Indian tribes was found to
be very striking.
forests, the gold deposits are protected
against the denuding action of the
water. If the tests yield ounce of
gold to 1 tons of earth, the result is
good. If there is less than an eighth
of an ounce it is poor. Sometimes as
much as half a pound weight of gold
is found in a ton and a half of earth.
If it is worth while to mine, two posts
are stuck up, one at each end of the
ground, and the place is registered by
the commissioner of police, or under
authority from the director of mines.
A government surveyor next Inspects
the ground and prepares a map. After
that the finder can borrow money on
the security of his mine at a rate of
from 20 to 30 per cent. A claim is
usually about three miles long. The
breadth is determined by the distance
between the two mountains in which
the gold seam lies, but it is generally
from 500 to 1,000 feet- No one 13 per
mitted to hold claims of more than
three consecutive miles, but if you
want to hold more the claims can be
cl Street Car
est movement of the car while the
fair passenger is leaving it in the
position indicated almost always
causes a fall that, if it does not re
sult in injuries, will at least give the
victim much mortification. Besides,
there is a gracefulness and sense of
security in the manner of leaving a
PRODIGY, g
third day her success was so pro
nounced that she was placed on duty
permanently and assigned to the day
shift. Officials of the company say
they never had a better operator and
patrons in other cities, who have oc
casion to use the Metcalfe toll lines,
declare that no operator along the
whole system makes connections more
promptly or more pleasantly than the
"blind girl at Metcalfe."
The Metcalfe exchange operates
over sixty telephones besides the work
at the toll board. Two operators han
dle the work, Miss Downing being
wholly in charge certain hours. She
locates a call instantly by the sound
of the "drop," or, if busy and she
falls to hear the warning click, by
hastily passing her nimble, sensitive
tipped fingers over the board. The
plug for connection she thrusts Into
the proper aperture with instantaneous
precision. No matter how speedily
the. calls follow each other, she never
becomes discomposed, and her mellow
voice pleases the ear of the patrons
invoking her services. Her chirography
is as beautiful as that of a teacher
in penmanship. She keeps a record
of the toll charges, and her method is
simple and accurate. The telephone
officials exhibit her neatly kept books
with pride to every visitor. Miss
Downing was born April 23, 1870.
When two years old an affliction of the
eyes bereft her of sight. When she
was three years old her parents re
moved from Edgar county. Illinois, to
Park county, Indiana. She was edu
cated at the Industrial School for the
Blind at Indianapolis, graduating
June 14, 1S92. Her course included
scientific studies. In addition, she
took special courses in music, elocution
and fancy work. Miss Downing says
her student day3 were the most pleas
ant of her life. Mrs. Wetz, who in
structed Miss Downing in the mys
teries of the telephone exchange, says
she has taught several persons to
operate the system, but none proved
as apt as the blind girl.
One of the facial peculiarities is
the wearing of huge round ornaments
sunk deep into the chin. These are
made of walrus tusks hollowed out
and stuck on by means of a composi
tion of grease and deer's blood.
Many of their household objects
were collected. They are all of the
most primitive sort. Heat for their
underground quarters is furnished by
a lamp composed of stone slabs, the
fuel being supplied by the drippings
of a piece of blubber suspended above,
which fall into a wick of moss. They
live entirely on animal food, a great
deal being eaten raw.
entered in the names of your wife
partner or friends. When a mine is
once registered it must be worked. IJ
the finder has not the mean3 he may
sell his claim, or transfer it. But ii
it is not worked it is, after an inter
val, forfeited to the crown.
Robbers Drug Victim.
Adolph Carlson, an ArmourdaW
(Mo.) saloonkeeper; Louis Arlinger
his night bartender; Tom Schwaber, a
packing house employe, and the sa
loon porter were drugged in Carlson's
place of business by two robbers, whe
administered "knock-out" drops. The
robbers secured 200 in cash and $150
in checks and then set fire to the build
ing and escaped. The fire was extin
guished before much damage was done.
In consequence of the enormous pro
duction of coffee in Brazil, the quan
tity raised In India was In 1900 only
about one-half of what it had been in
1890.
car as shown in the picture on the
left. Even the attitude of the con
ductor makes it manifest, that he feels
assured the passenger will reach the
street in safety, and that there will
be no need of holding her by the arm,
the shoulders, or any portion of her
dress. Of course, it need not be said
that if the car be perfectly motionless
one can leave it safely while in either
position, but horses are restless, and
motormen are sometimes impatient
or careless, with the result that the
vehicle moves, and, then, if the pas
senger be facing backward, disaster
follows. The best and safest way Is
always to descend from a car in the
position shown on the right. Then,
even if the car should move, the natur
al position and inclination of the body
will prevent humiliating disaster and
possibly injury.
The late Governor Pingree of Michi
gan subscribed to. a clipping bureau,
and kept all the printed comment
about himself. This was kept in a set
of scrapbooks, which are said to con
tain 45,000 columns of newspaper comment.
THE LADY AND THE TIGER.
fair Klmrod Who Howled Over Jungle
Monarch In India,
A record performance lor n woman
a described by a correspondent, says
;ho London Field. "Miss Pole, niece
it Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Luck, was
:ho lady, end, as the object of the shoot
A-as solely to get her a tiger, the party
issembled was a small one namely.Sir
George Luck. Lieut.-Col. Ellis, R. E.
Captain Cook, A. D. C, and two Indian
triends. The shoot was to last four
lays, from a camp about ten miles
aorth of Puranpur, on the Rohikhand
fc Kumaon railway. Thirty-six ele
phants were collected to form the line.
ind it was evident on out arrival in
.amp that our hosts had left nothing
jndone to insure success. First Day
Dn approaching the River Sardah we
jpied an alligator basking on the sands
m the opposite bank. Miss Pole killed
it with the first shot. Arriving at the
Deat, and 'khubber being vague, we
formed line for swamp deer, and before
;ong one fell, like the alligator, to the
lady's rille. Second Day Toward 1 p.
3i. out came a topping tiger, making
straight for Miss Pole. Bang went her
303. and 'stripes was a corpse. One
mot, no more, as he never budged
Almost at the same time another came
jut to Sir George, which shared the
same fate; and yet another, but this
was too cunning and got off unharmed
heedless to say the excitement and re-
Ioicings were great. Mahouts shrieked
Shabask!' and clapped their hands;
;oolies stared in blank astonishment.
All seemed mad with delight. Luneh-
?on followed, and then a start for No. 3,
che wily one. The first heat proved
too much for him; with all his craft
ae could not escape Miss Pole, who
oowled him over when going at full
?peed at 130 yards. This was not the
first experience of tiger shooting, but
( can safely affirm that it was the
prettiest piece of shooting I have ever
witnessed. Third Day Sir George
Luck killed the first tiger of the day.
Then came a grand beast, who crossed
Miss Pole to her left and plunged into
i small stream in the hope of escape,
but this was not to be permitted. On
reaching the farthest bank he received
a bullet which struck him full in the
aody. He thereupon threw himsell
into the stream again and endeavored
;o regain the beat, but only just man
iged to scramble up the bank, when he
collapsed and was stone dead before
any of us could get up to him."
WRITTEN BY HAND.
rhe Moaning of "Manuscript" and the
Abbreviation l'sei.
The singular and plural forms of
:he abbreviated word "manuscript"
iMS. and MSS.) are the initials of the
:wo Latin words manii scriptum,
w hence our word is derived. Of course,
says St. Nicholas, it means, literally,
written by hand. After the introduc
:ion of printing, certain books were
spoken of as codices (or libri impres
:i), printed books, to distinguish them
'rom codices manu script!. Most ot
:he old and important records found
n manuscript and preserved in libra
ries have been copied and reproduced
ji print, so that we need not trouble
ourselves to decipher crooked charac
;ers or half-faded writing. It is. how
:ver, interesting as well as very curi
ous to hold in one's hands the parch
ment or half-decayed paper on which
the hand of some great scholar, long
since dead, traced the story of his day,
3r wrote a poem which lives even now.
Would you not like to own, for in
stance, the manuscript of Virgil's
Aeneid. or of Dante's "Divine Com
2dy," written by their own hands? You
would be a very rich young person if
vou did; but, of course, the real orig
inals of tne long-ago writers are very
difficult, in fact impossible, to find.
Probably they do not exist, and cer
tainly if they exist, no one knows
where they are.
Emperor and Ilarber.
Emperor William of Germany has
taught his barber a lesson. Very punc
tual himself, the emperor Insists that
his servants shall also be punctual,
and as he noticed some time ago that
his barber was almost always a few
minutes late when the time came for
shaving him, he presented him with a
gold chronometer and urged him to
make use of it. Much to his surprise,
the barber continued to be a few min
utes late almost every morning, and,
after waiting In vain for some signs of
improvement, the emperor said to him
the other day: "Have you still the
chronometer which I gave you?" "Yes,
your majesty; here It is," replied the
barber, taking it from his pocket.
"Give it to me," said the emperor. "It
is evidently of no use to you and you
can have this one instead." With these
words he placed the handsome gold
chronometer on his dressing table and
handed to the amazed barber a nickel
plated watch worth about a dollar.
New York Herald.
Japanese Firemen.
Japanese dwellings, being of the
flimsiest kind, are particularly liable to
destruction by fire, and the fire depart
ments might therefore be supposed to
have been well developed. But they
are not, being the one thing In which
Japan has not advanced. They are,
indeed, woefully inefficient. Hand en
gines that can be carried by two men
and buckets comprise the whole outfit.
Valuables are not kept in the dwell
fngs. In e-ery village there is a mas
sive tower, with iron doors and win
dow shutters, and in this building the
Inhabitants store whatever they pos
sess of value to save it from loss by
fire.
Obvious Reason.
. "Now, then," exclaimed the candi
date, in a voice of thunder, "I have
told you the principles and policies my
opponent stands for! You have a
right now to know the other side!
What do I stand for?" "Because no
body's told you to go way back and
sit down!" yelled a hundred voices in
the audience. Chicago Tribune.
Too Many for Them.
"I wonder why the young men are
so shy about calling on Miss Bunn
Combe. Is it because she is such a
singular kind of girl?" "Not at alL
It's because her younger brothers are
so formidably plural." Chicago Tribune.
SEX IN POPULATION.
U. S. CENSUS FIGURES SHOW THAT
MALES PREDOMINATE.
Since 1850 There Has Ileen a Distinct
Numerical Superiority of the Mule Over
the Female Klcnieut iu This Country
The Causes.
Whatever differences Dame Nature
may have intended between the
spheres of influence of men and wom
en, she evidently intended that numer
ically at least the two sexes should
Stand on nearly the same footing. The
world over, except where recognizable
and what might be called artificial
causes interfere, the male and female
elements of the population are about
equal. At first sight, perhaps, this
may not seem at all remarkable. But
it is to be remembered that in many
families large ones, too the great
niajority of the children are of one sex
or the other. And one should not be
surprised if the aggregate effect of this
opsidednes3 were to produce a con
sideratle excess of men or women in a
nation. The fact that such 13 not the
case, then, shows that there is some
potent and mysterious law of com
pensation at work upon the race as a
whole. And this law operates upon
many of the animals as well as men.
On the farm it is found convenient to
preserve a great predominance of one
sex over the other in cattle and chick
ens. The bull calf is predestined from
his birth to conversion into veal, and
a similarly stern fate consigns the su
perfluous cockerel to the gridiron or
chicken pie at a tender age. But, so
far as the natural increase is concerned
among cattle and poultry, an approxi
mately even balance is preserved
Curiosity, not to siy astonishment, is
excited, therefore, by a recent an
nouncement of the United States
Census Bureau. The enumeration
cf 1900 shows that there are
more men and boys than women
and girls in the United States, and that
the difference exceeds 1,800,000 In a
population of 70.303,387. The excess
appears more distinctly, perhaps, when
it is said that there are 512 males and
only 4SS females in every thousand
people in the United States. What is
more, this sort of thing has been going
on, with come little fluctuation in the
percentage, for over half a century. As
long ago as 1830 there was a distinct
numerical superiority of the male over
the female element. By 18G0, the pre
ponderance was even more conspicu
ous, but m ISiO less than for several
decides. 1 he returns for lbbO show a
slight gain once more, though the dis
parity of 1800 was not quite reached,
and those for 1890 a still further in
crease. The situation has scarcely
changed in the last ten years. Indeed,
the Census Bureau figures out a
microscopic falling off in the growth
of the male population as compared
with the female. To be sure, the ex
cess was only 1,500,097 in 1890, and
has since been enlarged by 234,727;
but the bureau finds that the percent
ages of gain are not quite alike, and
that there are faint indications of a fu
ture reaction. The state of things here
evcaled i3 the more striking when
compared with that existing in Eu
rope. Both in the United Kingdom
and on the continent the women are
more numerous than the men. It i?
possible to detect forces that disturb
the balance in some of these countries.
But Mr. Porter, superintendent of the
ensus of 1890, was inclined to think
that these influences did not operate
perceptibly in Austria and the Nether
lands, and hence that normally the fe
male sex outnumbers the male in near
ly the proportion of 51 to 49. Compari
son with that standard, then, makes
the excess of males in America strang
er than if Nature exhibited strict im
partiality. The two forces which ap
pear to be chiefly concerned in upset
ling the equilibrium are war and immi
gration. And cf the two the former is
much the less effective. Still, it was
powerful enough to influence the re-,
turns in Germany and France after the
famous struggle of 1870-71. And in the
United States it pulled down the male
proportion of 5,112 in every 10,000 In
1860 to 5,056 in 1870. As might be ex
pected, the greatest excess of men is
to be found in the far west, in the
great agricultural and mining districts.
In Minnesota and Nebraska there were
at least 54 men out of every 100 people
for a long time, from 55 to 58 In the
Dakotas and from 60 to 68 in most of
the regions to the west and south
west. The ratio in Montana was once
as great as 81 out of 100. and even in
1890 was 66 to 33.
The Frightened Friar of Pisa.
Edith King Swain, who has ascended
more famous heights than any other
woman in the world, perhaps, tells a
most amusing incident in an article
about "Seme Famous Ascents I Have
Made," in The Ladies' Home Journal.
She was far up in the famous Leaning
Tower at Pisa, and bending over a bal
cony she let fall a toy torpedo, to test
her ability to estimate the exact
height of the structure by Gallileo's
method. "Choosing a time when I
was alone on the tower," she writes,
"and no one was in sight' below, I
dropped the torpedo, watch in hand.
At this instant a friar came hurrying
around a corner, and, by direst chance,
his shaven crown passed directly be
low me just in time to be 6truck by
the falling torpedo, which exploded
with appalling effect I do not know
what the poor man thought perhaps
that is was the crack of doom. He
was fearfully upset,' and so was I. The
torpedo was too small to do more than
frighten him, but his amazement on
looking up and seeing me peering
down at him in open mouthed horror,
like a gargoyle come to life, was exr
cruclatingly ludicrous. i rorgoi io
time the report."
Statue of Verclngretorix.
Bartholdi, the sculptor of the statue
of Liberty, has made a colossal statue
of Vercingetorix, the hero of Gaul,
which is to be set up at Clermont-Fer
rand, 250 miles from Paris. The statue
Is fourteen feet high and sixteen feet
long and weighs four tons. As it can
not be conveyed by railroad, the ex
periment will be -made of carrying it
In one block by an automobile wagon
from Paris. I
WHAT A LEADING AGRICULTURIST
SAYS OF WESTERN CANADA.
Prof. Thomas Shaw of Mlnneiota m.
versify Gives an I'nblased Opinion.
In a letter to "The Farmer." St. Paul,
dated Sept. 1st, 1901. Prof. Thomas
Shaw of the Minnesota State Univer
sity has the following to say, after
having made a trip through Western
Canada:
"The capabilities of the Immense
area known a3 Western Canada are but
little understood on this side of the
line. Our people are apt to look upon
it a3 a region of frost and snow, a
country in whieh but a small portion
of the land relatively will ever be till
able, because of the rigors of the cli
mate. True, the climate is cold in win
ter, but Western Canada has, neverthe
less, Just that sort of climate whlcb
makes it the most reliable wheat pro
duciig country in all the continent.
An immense Area.
Western Canada is not only an im
mense area, but the same description
will apply to those portions of the
country that are capable of being suc
cessfully tilled or grazed. Nearly all
ef the prairie Province of Manitoba
can be brought under cultivation, al
though probably not one-third of Its
surface has been laid open by the plow.
Assiniboia to the west Is a grain and
stock country. Saskatchewan to the
north of Assiniboia has high adapta
tion for the same. This also may be
6aid of Alberta to the west. Here lies
what may be termed a grain-growing
and stock producing empire, the re
sources of which have been but little
drawn upon comparatively, viewed
from the standpoint of the agricultur
alist. When it is called to mind that
even In the Peace River country in
Athabasca, and several hundreds of
miles north of the Canadian boundary,
wheat was grown which won a pre
mium at the World's Fair in 1S93, the
capabilities of this country in wheat
production loom up more brightly than
even the brilliant northern lights of
the land that lies toward the pole.
Adapted to Stock and Grain Production.
The region under consideration is,
however, mainly adapted to growing
grain and grazing stock. Much of it ia
adapted to growing both grain and
stock, but certain areas, especially to
wards the mountains, are only adapted
to ranching, except where irrigation
will yet be introduced. This, of course,
can be done successfully along the
many streams that flow down from the
Rockies and water the country towards
the east and north. The adaptation of
the country for wheat production is of
a high character. The cool night3
that usually characterize the ripening
season are eminently favorable to the
filling of the grain, and to the secur
ing of a plump berry, and consequently
large yields. The crop this year is a
magnificent one. In Manitoba and the
territories it should certainly give an
average of more than 20 bushels per
acre. But should the yield be not more
than 20 bushels, the crop will be a
most handsome one, owing to the large
area sown to wheat. Many farmers
onlv rrnw prnin Tint thncn wbr An
succeed as well in growing oats
barley as in growing wheat
these foods for stock should a
Buuuuaui. oume grow eume
and others combine the two.
named, of course, is doubtlessj
est of the three during a long course
of years, that is to say, where much
farming is practicable.
Quality of the Live Stock.
It was a p'easurable surprise to
note the high quality of the stock.
The average of quality in cattle is
higher than the average of cattle in our
state, unless In the dairy classes. This
opinion is not reached rashly or with
out ample opportunity for investiga
tion. I spent three long days in the
chow ring at Winnipeg making the
awards In the beef classes. I question
if any of our states, single handed,
could make such a showing in cattle.
It was my privilege to make the
awards at several shows and at all of
their fairs were evidences that much
attention is given to the improvement
of the stock. I noted carefully the
character of the herds that grazed
along the railroad and everywhere the
high average of the quality of the stock
was in evidence.
Reasons for Quality in Stock.
The quality of the crass is good.
Many of the settlers came from On
tario and had been schooled as to the
value of good stock before going west.
The railroads and the government
have taken a deep interest In making
it less difficult and costly to tne farm
ers to secure good males. .
Those who are anxious of changing
their residence should bear in mind
that the lands in Western Canada are
many of them free and others reason
ably cheap.
Information will gladly be given by
any agent of the Canadian government,
whose advertisement appears else
where. Our First "A,--less President.
TrPsiHpnt Roosevelt Is the first OCCU-
pant of the White House, says sonie
hndv xehn has looked it up. in whose
name the letter "a" does not appear.
Not only has tnat letter appeared in
the names of all previous presidents
hut aiRn in the names of nearly everr
one of the sixty-one Americans who
have received votes for presidents in
the electoral college down to William
J. Bryan. There are only eight excep
tions to this rule.
Clothes Gat Sick
And cannot be Ironed into shape
again without the introduction of a
starch with medicinal properties. Defi
ance starch contains the solution that
hrlnirs all washable goods back to
health or newness. It makes any wash
able arcticle of apparel look like new.
Anv srocer will sell you a 16-oz. pacu-
age for 10 cents. Use it once and you
will never buy any other. Made by
fciagnetic Starch Co.. Omaha. Neb.
May Still He Had at an Advance.
Chartreuse is not to go as a result of
the abandonment of the famous old
monastery where it has always beeD
made. One of the brethren has be
come a secular priest for the express
purpose of looking after the liqueur
The price is to be advanced.
Rub a little butter on the nngeri
and on.ine -.nife when seeding raislni
to avoid the stickiness.
A wise man enjoys the little he ha
while the fool ia looking for more.