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PUT DOWN “EDDICATION” IDEA. Farmers’s Plea Had Weight Among 4 Brother Agriculturists. <V — In the early forties, on a certain "town meetin' day” in one of the small farming communities of the Granite i state, there was more than the usual interest and excitement. Some auda cious Philistine had secured the inser tion in the warrant of an article “To see if the town will appropriate $500 for a new schoolhouse." The sturdy yeomanry were out in force to fight down this proposition. The sympathetic moderator didn’t “moderate” them worth a cent. The so-called “toney” advocates, conscious from the start of their numerical weakness, were conciliatory and per suasive, in the hope of thus winning to their standard sufficient of the op position to carry the day. These hopes were dashed, however, when a vet eran farmer, the Nestor of the guild4 got the floor, and shouted in foghorn tones: 'What do you want of skulehouses, anyway? This eddication talk is rais in’ the old Harry with the boys on the farm! There’s that Danny Web ster—'s likely a young man ’s ever raised in these 'ere parts! Got this eddication idee into his head—left the farm—never’s heard of afterward!” This was a settler. The "toneys” fled the scene, and the “noes” had it DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Profit by the Experience of One Who Has Found Relief. James R. Kee'er, retired farmer, of Fenner street, Cazenovia, N. Y., says: “About fifteen years ago I suffered with my back and kid neys. I doctored and used many remedies without getting re lief. Beginning with Doan's Kidney Pills, I found relief from the first box, and L n U UUAOO 1 voiutou me to good, sound condition. My wife and many of mv friends have used Doan’s Kidney Pills with good results and l can earnestly recommend them.” Sold by all dealers. 5tf cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sympathy Not Needed. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, Norway’s fa mous arctic explorer, now minister to Gerat Britain, makes light of the sympathy expressed by many persons anent the "hardships” of travelers. He says: "There never was such mis placed sympathy as commiserating a man who has lived in the wilds. Most men who travel in out-of-the-way parts •f the world do so because they like it. People who live in the center of what is called civilization do not un derstand, cannot realize, the spell that getting close to nature, battling with nature, has on the heart.” He does not believe in the use of alcoholic bev erages. holding that while liquor wilJ raise the temperature for a few min utes. after that it falls lower thaa before._ LIMB RAW AS PIECE OF BEEF. Suffered for Three Years with Itching Humor—Cruiser Newark U. S. N. t Man Cured by Cuticura. "I suffered with humor for about three years off and on. I finally saw a doctor and he gave me remedies that did me no good, so I tried Cuticura when my limb below the knee to the ankle was as raw as a piece of beef. Ail I used was the Cuticura Soap and the Ointment. 1 bathed with Cuticura Soap every day, and used about six or seven boxes of Cuticura Ointment. I was thoroughly cured of the humor in three weeks, and haven’t been af fected with it since. I use no other Soap than Cuticura now. H. J. Myers, TJ. S N.. U. S. S. Newark, New York, July 8. 1905.” Missed Chance for Fame. The astronomer, Lalande, narrowly - escaped being made famous by a dis covery. He accidentally struck Nep tune with his glass on May 8, 1785. but supposed it was a star. He put it down in his notebook as a star and recorded its exact situation. Two days later he struck it once more and made a record of it. But when he looked over his notes he found he had it down as being in two different places, and as a star cannot move in 48 hours he supposed he had made a mistake in one of his notes. If he bad used his mind a little less me chanically he easily might have been a Columbus. Thinks Clergy Ars Losing Ground. Mr. Charles Booth, the great social scientist, in his volume on "Religion in London” is convinced that the □ clergy are losing ground by becoming servers of tables and organizers of charity instead of spiritual guides to their flocks. __ On Par with Austrian Capital. The population of Chicago now al most exactly equals that of Vienna. THE CANADIAN WEST IS THE BEST WEST The testimony of thou sands durum the past i year is that the Canadian West is the best West. Year bv year tbe agri cultural returns have in creased In volume and in value, and still the Cana dian Government offers 1M seres FREE to every bona Ode settler. Some of the Advantages The phenomenal Increase in railway miles*#— main lines and brandies— has pat almottevery por tion of the country within cosy reach of churches, schools markets, cheap fnal and every modern convenience Tbe NINETY MILLION BUSHEL WHEAT CROP ef this year means •BU.OUU.ODO to the farmers of Western Canada, apart from the results of other •raineand cattle. For advice and information address the SUPER INTRNDKNT OF IMMIGRATION, Ottawa, Canada, or any authorised Government Agent. W. V. BENNETT, Ml New Yerk Life BmUm*, Omaha, Nebraska. ♦ II PFAPFPQ of paper de nbAi/Lnw Sirin* to buy any thin* advertised in I its columns should insist upon bavin* I what they ask for. refusin* all substi- I tides or imitations. - B II . — -- (Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) xn me tininess oi tneir lives mere comes to many an hour, a day or a week when the dead weight of black despair crashes the last hope and the thought of earthly existence fills them with a weariness unutterable. Then it is that certain natures walk to the Brink, and half-fascinated by its aw ful mystery, stand staring into the silent depths, while the icy sweat gathers on their brows and thfeir limbs shake like wind-thrummed reels. So it came about that Kent stood looking from the black doorway of the warehouse into the early night. It was a long time since Kent had , been happy, so long, in fact, that he sometimes doubted that he ever had been. Still, his experience was but the story of a man—bitterer than most men's, possibly—yet common place enough to make the details un necessary telling. Suffice to say, he had looked from sunset until dawn into the muzzle of his own gun, and now was telling himself that he had seen enough of this thing called Life, and that he would have no more of it. It was not. worth its suffering. He turned up his collar and looked from the doorway again. Coming down the empty street that led to the wharves he saw a woman who leaned far forward as she forced her slender form against the burly strength of the wind , “You are going to a boat?" he in quired. She looked at his face for the first time and answered him rapidly: “Yes, the Senator. It sails at nine and I must hurry.” She stepped to the pavement and Kent stood watching her fighting against the wind. A wild impulse surged within him. What better way to end it all than a plunge from the deck? A brief struggle with the waves, a dream of fields and music, and then the last great unconsciousness. No one would ever know what had become of him. Gossiping tongues could say no more than that he had disappeared. “I am going to the Senator also,” he shouted, hurrying to her side. ('Take my arm and hang on hard.” , She stopped short, shot him a quick upward glance and then he felt her fingers close upon his sleeve. Flushed and breathing heavily they crossed the gangway and stood before the office of the purser. “Yes, the ship is going to sail to night,” said that official in a matter of fact tone. “The cargo ha3 got to go, gale or no gale. But all our pas sengers have canceled their berths and you two will have the salon to yourselves. Of course, you under stand it is going to be pretty rough outside.” She nodded and both made their way to the salon. From out of the great northeast there swept that night a gale that whipped itself into a hurricane. Huger and more huge rose the steep hills before the laboring Senator, black, solid, battering her front with herculean blows, twisting her steel frame like a giant wrestler. From the depths of his big chair in the salon Kent watched the girl as she sat n?arly opposite him. She had listlessly thrown aside her hat and under the lights of the cabin the I dark masses of her hair shone with the luster of polished ebony. Then suddenly she arose and glanc ing neither to right or left went with in a stateroom, while the man, sinking lower in the chair, let his eyelids fall. Endlessly the huge rollers came thundering over the wallowing Sen ator, burying her beneath their black weight, crushing her down into the depths, but each time she arose like some half drowned thing and shudderingly shook herself frse. For an hour Kent’s eyes swept the length of the dim cabin listlessly— then suddenly he leaned forwaM. From her stateroom the girl came creeping and, with one hand against the wall to steady her, she slowly made her way towards where he sat. The man caught his breath and drew further into the shadow as she passed him in the half darkness. A moment later her fingers closed ujran the knob of the door leading to the deck as she twisted and tugged at It vainly. “Oh, oh!” she cried, as she turned away and covered her face with her hands. A sudden lurch of the ship threw her towards him and, springing to his feet, Kent caught her by the arm. Kent knew that one motive only could have actuated her to seek that surge-swept deck; and her motive had been his motive of the hour before. But for a woman like her! He grew cold at the thought. "Go back to your stateroom!” he began sternly, then caught her a sec ond time, for her knees hud grown limp and she was slipping to the floor. Then as he looked about the deck rose beneath his feet in a mighty upheaval and the dull crash of rent wood and iron filled his ears. Rendered awk ward by his burden Kent's feet tripped upon a threshold and he fell heavily forward dimly conscious that something had struck him violently upon the heaid. And the next roll of the ship banging the door shut left him and the one he had borne motion less upon the floor of the smoking room. . • • • <♦ • Capt. Peterson went about the deck giving his orders with cool precision. The lashings of the life boats were cut, tne rails manned and out.oi me bowels of the ship the half drowned stokers came swarming. Down to stateroom number 12 where the only woman passenger should have been the purser ran and threw open the door. Her hat and wraps lay upon the bed, but the girl was not there. Number 17, the stateroom as signed to the gentleman, was also va cant. “They must have go: out of the cabiu somehow and been swept over board,” said the captain, as last man of all he took his place in the stern sheets of a life boat. "Anyway, we have got to get out of this.” He gave the order to lower away and the small boats vanished into the night. Twenty miles east of Point On tonoggin the lake shoals to a depth ol 50 feet, and it so happened that it was at this point that the Senator made her final plunge. There she la;\ with her head upon the bottom andi stern afloat, submerged to the waist and with the seas broaching over her. An hour passed and the girl awoke. Half bewildered and merely seeking to get out of the dark den in which she found herself, she got upon hands and knees and crawled across the floor that slanted almost like a roof. A moment later she came across the prostrate form of a man, and after her first instinctive recoil approached him again and found that he breathed. Then she searched his vest pocket, found matches and struck one into a flame. She saw that his head was bleeding and without hesitation took it in her lap, and strove to staunch the red flow with her handkerchief. The gray dawn Jflltered through the windows and Kent opened his eye3 and stared blankly at her until re turning memory told him who she was. Next he- smiled a hit and got upon his feet with a good deal of trouble. The girl was sitting with hands clasped and face averted, and without addressing her he scrambled into the vestibule and from that out to the slant deck. The wind had dropped to haif a gale, and the seas, although still plenty high enough, ran smoothly and no longer broke over the floating stern. He called to her. telling her to get a rug. and when she had dore that he half dragged her up the steep incline, wrapped the rug about her and to gether they sat upon the deck in the lee of the cabin with their backs braced against it. Silently they watched the gray roll ers race into the west, and the low flights of the scurrying storm clouds; each knowing what the other thought. “We have stood hand in hand upon the Brink and gazed as deep as mor Caught Her a Second Time. tals can Into eternity,” he said, grave ly. “Are you glad we got no further?’ She turned her face towards his own looking steadily into his eyes. “Yes,” she replied, “I am glad.” Then after a moment’s pause: “Have you, too, changed your mind?” He looked across the waste. “Yes,’ he said at length. “When 1 saw you trying to gain jjjat deck and realized why you wished' to gain it—well, 1 lorgot about myself. I only wanted to reason you back to sanity.” “And except for that?” “Except for that I should have found a way to the deck.” He drew his coat closely about him, huddling in it to escape the chill. The planks beneath them heaved and sunk, the spume fell about them in spatters and above their heads the gulls wheeled and cried. A hoarse roar came across the waters and Kent springing to his feet scrambled to the rail and waved his arms frantically. A quarter of a mile away, the smoke whipping from hei funnels in black streamers, a lake liner was wallowing. “They are lowering a surf boat— they are coming,” said he with a laugh as he turned upon the girl “Together we have walked to the mouth of the Pit—and together we go back to new life, new work, new hope—yes, perhaps even to a new love.” He helped her to her feet and hand in hand they stood upon the deck, watching the life boat as It came steadily towards them over the crests of the heaving seas. ——-— — - Three to Sleep “Alone.” As was the custom in those days, soften their absence, Mrs. Stanwood my father was apprenticed to a Mr. told them they could all go to bed in Stanwood, of Ipswich, says a writer mother's room. Whereupon, Harriet, in the Boston Herald. While the afterward Mrs. James G. Biaine, said* children were quite young the family with tearful accents. “What, we three moved to Augusta, Me. All were very sleep all alone?*' homesick, especially the children, and —_ the first evening father and mother Requisite for Montana Railroads, were obliged to be away lotd were Montana requires its railroads to i the lamentations. maintain a station at platted townsites 1 J Among other inducements to help of 100 inhabitants pr more. > •-.? j./ ■ i. PILLING UP THE CANADIAN WEST. The American Settler Is Welcomed to Canada. number of the leading newspa pers on this side of the line have been noticing the growth of the Canadian West in recent years, and draw atten tion to the fact that there seems to be no abatement of the influx of settlers to that great grain-growing country. The Buffalo Express thus refers to the subject: . “Canada West continues to grow. There were 4,174 homesteads entries there in July of this year, as against 3,571 in July, 1905. Canada plumes herself over this fact, with becoming, pride. But what appears to make our neighbors happiest is the statement that of these 4,174 homesteaders, 1,212 were from this side of the line. Little is said about the 97 Canadians who recrossed the border to take up homes in Canada West, or of the 808 from Great Britain, or of the 1,236 from non-British countries. It ap pears that the item in this July report that makes Canada rejoice most is j this of the 1.212 American farmers I who decided to try their fortunes in 1 Canada West. “The compliment is deserved. The 1,212 were mostly from Dakota and other farming states, and go into Canada fitted better than any other class of immigrants for developing the new country. They take capital with them, too, say Canadian papers proud ly. In every way, they are welcome over there.’’ As the Express well says, the American is welcomed to Canada, and the reasons given are sufficient to in vite the welcome. The Ameriacn farmer knows thoroughly the farming conditions that prevail in the Cana dian prairie provinces, and is aware of every phase of agricultural devel opment in recent years. In practical knowledge of what is wanted to get the largest return for labor and investment he is by long odds superior to any European set tler. He knews what is required to bring success, and he is able and will ing to do it, and his future causes no apprehension to the successful Cana dian farmer. The agent of the Cana dian Government, whose address ap pears elsewhere, says that the differ ence between the manners and cus toms of the farmer from Dakota, Ore gon or Minnesota and the farmer from Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta is not nearly so marked as that be tween the farmer of the Maritime provinces and the Ontario tiller of the soil. Hence the welcome to the free homesteads of the Canadian West, and there arc hundreds of thousands of them left, that ifc extended to the settler from the Western States. Tea on the Down Grade. Tea drinkers are finding scant en couragement in a report recently made by a large tea exporting house in Yokohama to its American cus tomers. Incidentally it indicates that the United States is not alone in fac ing increased cost of living. The re port says: “Owing to the rapidly in creasing cost of living in Japan labor costs more, and in consequence cul tivation of the tea gardens is less generous and extensive'than formerly. ! and less care and skill are expended in picking and curing the leaf. Hence j the average quality of the teas now \ offered for sale is below that of sea sons prior to the war, and for the same reasons we are not likely in the future to see any reversion to the excellence of former years."—New York Sun. Care of Children's Teeth. 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