Loup City Northwestern
4. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . . NEBRASKA.
Sleep a* Much as You Can.
“How much sleep shall I take in the
24 hours?” This can be answered un
hesitatingly in five words, “As much
as you can." Here no competent au
thority would question the absolute
safety of instinct as a guide. As the
period of sleep represents the time
necessary to restore the oxygen bal
ance of the tissues, to recharge the
battery, then obviously it must last
until that process has been completed,
as attested by the familiar sense of
“restedness" and refreshment. “Goto
sleep when you’re tired, get up when
you wake feeling rested,” contains the
philosophy of the whole problem. As
a matter of fact, the average amount
of sleep taken by most individuals is
in the neighborhood of nine hours.
The proverbs are, as usual, at sea,
and have about the usual amount of
influence over actual practice. “Seven
hours for a man, eight for a woman,
and nine for a fool,” has been their
dictum for centuries, but the average
human being cheerfully plunks himself
into the “fool” class, much to his bene
fit. I believe, writes Woods Hutchin
son in American Magazine, that the
usual eight-hour average laid down in
the text books errs on the side of
brevity, and the majority of men in
active work taat more than this or
else suifer for it. The average labor
ing man goes to bed at between 8:30
and 9:30, or if he does not, often falls
asleep in his chair about 7:30 or eight
and sleeps until six. The average
business or professional man goes to
bed about ten and rises about seven,
each class getting on an average nine
and ten hours, respectively.
The Wrecked Frigate’s Bell.
Probably very few people are aware
that an old ship's bell which for many
years has lain under the sea is sus
pended in the underwriting room at
Lloyd's and is used to “announce" the
arrival or other news received in re
spect to overdue ships. This is the
bell of the frigate Lutine, wrecked
long ago off the Dutch coast. After
being under the water for years the
beli was saved and now, strangely*
enough, is employed to inform under
writers that something has been heard
of one of those ships which by their
protracted passages are causing un
easiness. Not every ship that is on the
overdue market is announced in this
manner. It is onl#- when an under
writer has expressed to the committee
his desire for immediate information
in respect to this or that overdue ves
sel that the note of the old black bell
rings through the rooms. At the pres
ent time, says the Scotsman, there are
11 ships down on the list for announce
ment by the Lutine bell, but some of
these are so hopelessly overdue that
it is practically certain nothing fur
ther will he heard of them. The big
steel bark Alsternixe, for instance,
heads the list. She was formerly the
British ship Lord Templemore and
was built at Belfast in 1892. This ship
has not been heard of since last No
vember, when she sailed from Callao
for Australia.
Possibly the color scheme of the
masculine individual in full dress
needs relief, but the New York tailors
who are going to have the clawham
mer coats come in brighter hue3 are
on the wrong track. Just let them try
it if they want to have the near-swells
rise up and institute a rebellion. Out
side of the favored few who put on
dress suits every evening, the mascu
line man buys only one of those har
nesses, which to him are instruments
of torture in a lifetime. About once
every four years, perhaps, he is invit
ed to some function where the full
dress agony is called for. Then he digs
up the old dress suit, and for all he
can see he looks as well as anyone
when he wears it. He could see his fin
ish if the fashions of one season called
for a blue, those of the next for a
green and those of the next for a ma
genta coat. If he raises his voice in a
popular clamor there is enough of him
to jar the haughty swallow tail on its
throne.
In spite of the endowments of the
Church of England, more than 5,000
benefices have less than $1,000 a year,
and of these 1,139 have under $500. In
order to assist the incumbents in
these livings, the Queen Victoria cler
gy fund was started, and, as Lord
Cross showed at its tenth anniversary
a few days ago' it has done something
—though of late the total has dwindled
—to giving a living wage to the poorer
clergy.
Count Boni de Castellane’s persever
ance in his attempts to effect a recon
ciliation with his wife and her family
is of about the same caliber as that of
a bill collector—and it is pretty likely
that the motive inspiring it is the
same—want of ready cash.
Men will learn after a while that
ocean steamships are not front gates
to parental mansions. One man went
on board a liner to say good-by to the
girl and he is there yet with the ship
in midocean.
Maine snowshoes are the ones that
will make the tracks to the North
Pole, if Peary ever finds it. Sixty
pairs have just been sent from the Nor
way factory to his island in Casco
bay, where they will remain till he
starts.
Word comes from Amsterdam, in the
annual report of Prank D. Hill, consul
at that Dutch port, that in a great dia
mond cutting factory three Women' Ate
• intrusted with the most delicate and
difficult part of the processes.
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State Plans to Resist.
Attorney General W. T. Thompson
will be assisted in the federal court
this week at Omaha by Halleck F.
Rose and Senator Aldrich of Butler
county when the railroad injunction
case against the state railway com
mission is heard by Judge T. C. Mun
g*r and Judge W. H. Munger. Attor
ney: General Thompson will endeavor
to show that the railroads qan no
more enjoin the railway commission
in this case than they can enjoin the
legislature from passing a bill regulat
ing or establishing qates. The rail
way commission proposed to hold a
healing for the purjxise of investigat
ing rates with a view to making new
rates on grain. The attorney general
believes the constitutional provision
creating the commission gives that
body power to make rates the same
as the constitution gives the legisla
ture power to make rates. This mat
ter may become of importance in the
hearing.
The attorney general still believes
the roads do not expect to obtain a
permanent injunction against the com
mission but that their sole object is
to gain time and sta^e off a change in
grain rates until the hew crop has
been moved to market.
“I do not believe there is anything
Hin the contention of the roads that
state nates are really an interference
with interstate rates on grain,” said
Atorney General Thompson. Surely
the state has a right to regulate rates
within its borders. The federal courts
hjave settled that, point. The state
will exhaust its remedies and enforce
rates made by the commission and if
that Is not sufficient to reach grain
shipments that go outside of the state
it would be simple enough to carry
the matter to the interstate commerce
commission, which commission can
supplement the work of the state. The
roads can hardly increase rates be
yond the borders o f the state with
out making the interstate charge un
reasonably high and the interstate
commission can be appealed to for re
lief.”
Want Lynchers Punished.
Governor Sheldon has received a
resolution adopted by the presbytery
of Nebraska City which recently met
at Alexandria, asking him to cleanse
the good name of the state from this
disgrace by bringing the Cummiug
county lynchers to justice. The gov
ernor has no information before him
upon which to act and it is believed
that no one who has knowledge of
the lynching will dare to tell what he
knows. The resolution adopted was
signed by Thomas L. Sexton, stated
clerk of the Nebraska presbytery,
was ordered sent to the governor and
to the press. It is as follows:
“Whereas, A prisoner accused of
murder was taken out of the hands of
the sheriff by a mob of about thirty
men near Bandcroft, Neb., recently
and put to death, the presbytery of
Nebraska City hereby expresses its
disapproval of the act of this mob in
taking the execution of the law out of
the hands of our courts and their
officers, and of lynch law in general,
and we hereby call upon the governor
of this state to use all possible means
to cleanse the good name of this Btate
from this disgrace by bringing the
perpetrators of this crime to justice,
and guarding against such occur
rences in the future.
Value of Live Stock.
According to the figures computed
by Secretary Bennett of the state
board of equalization live stock in the
state is valued at $3,119,000 more
than last year. Real estate has in
creased in vaule $2,850,000.
The valuations for 1907 follow:
REAL ESTATE.
Class. Acres. Value.
Improved land. . ..19,617.279 $129,366,225
Unimproved lands.14.242,650 16,651,443
Improved lots.... 292,511 42,801,834
Unimproved lots.. 203.498 4.114,389
LIVE STOCK.
Class. So. Value.
Horses . 792,705 $12,253,495
Mules . 52,974 1,152,000
Cattle .2,772,983 11.602,870
Sheep . 310,773 228,900
Hogs .2,407,750 3,738,680
Will Accept Without Contest.
P. A. Caldwell of Edgar, who is
apparently defeated for the nomi<
nation for railway commissioner on
the republican ticket, sent word to
Lincoln friends that he would accept
the official returns without a contest
If they show he is defeated. He is
somewhat inclined to view the Omaha
returns with suspicion for the reason
that the returns were reported dif
erently after it was discovered that
the race was uncomfortably close for
Railway Commissioner Clarke of Oma
ha. Mr. Caldwell also scolds over the
result in Cass county, the home of
Governor Sheldon.
Land Office Report
The monthly report of the district
United States land office at Lincoln
for August shows that the homestead
entries on 4,915 acres were filed. Most
of these were under the Kinkaid act,
although they were largely in scatter
ed patches. Only two full sections
were filed on. Practically all this
homestead land was found in Chase
and Dundy counties. On July 1 there
were about 15,000 acrett of goverment
land that was open to settlement in
the South Platte country. Since then
over 9,000 acres have been filed on.
They Want Pardons.'
C. D. Romero of Cheyenne county
has written Governor Sheldon asking
for a pardon. He was sent to prison
to serve a ten-year sentence, begin
ning In 1905. He war. convicted of
deceiving a banker. Ward W. Quig
ley of Red Willow county, has also
asked for a pardon. He was sent up
in 1906 for two years, tieing convict
ed of burglary. His friends have
written the governor in his behalf.
They say he was under the influence
of1 liquor when he committed the fel
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After the Creamery Men.
Food Commissioner Johnson threat
ens to arrest crqamery owners who
sell in Nebraska uunstampei pack
ages of butter or butter packages
upon which the exact weight is not
stamped. To give them one more
chance he bps sent out the following
circular, which applies also to the
retailers:
Your attention is called to the
branding requirement of the Nebraska
Pure Food Law, now in effect, which
provides that food packages shall
be labeled with a statement of the
weight of the food in the package.
In view of the fact that a large
amount of package butter is now,in
the market and being offered for sple
in this state, in an unbranded con
dition, and that manufacturers and
dealers are liable to arrest and pros
ecution for selling or offering to sell,
or for having on hand in their pos
session butter in this unlawful con
dition, in this state, whether it be a
pound or a car load, is subject to
seizure by this department, it is high
ly importpnt that all dealers in pack
age butter take notice of this require
ment to brand the packages with a
truthful statement of the weight of
the contents. Through Inspector
Barkhoff, who is now examining the
creameries of the state, I (am advised
that while some of the creameries are
complying with the law in this mat
ter, others are openly disregarding
the law sending out not .only un
branded packages but packages in
which the butter is short weight,
so that the consumer is deceived,
paying for more butter than there is
in the package. The pound package,
selling for. 32 cents, if f^hort one
ounce, cheats the consumer to the
amount of 2 cents. This is a small
item to the Nebraska consumer, indi
vidually, but to the creameries of . the
state it would amount to $500,000
per annum, if their annual output
was all sold in package form, with
each package one ounce short.
This department will hold that
the provision of the law, which ex
empts the retailer from responsibility
where he is guaranteed by the whole
salef does not apply to these butter
packages in the matter of branding,
for the retailer can see for himself
if the package is not branded, so that
the retailer who handles the unbrand
ed package is also liable, subject to
a prosecution; to arrest and to a tine
of from $10 to $100 for each offense.
Session of Federal Court.
Attorney A. W. Lane has returned
from Omaha where he has been en
gaged with his chief in formulating
the docket for the coming session of
federal court in the Oir,aha division
of the Nebraska district. A grand
jury will be called for the northern
district on September 24 and a petit
jury for the Monday, following, Sep
tember 30. This grand jury will con
sider only the cases that have orig
inated since the new law went into
effect dividing the district into the
northern and the southern divisions.
The law v?ent into effect February
27, 1907. It is not known yet when
a grand jury will be called to con
sider cases that have been found out
as having occurred before the di
vision took place.
Royalty May Attend University.
Royalty may be represented in the
State university this fall. Signor
Juan Aganca Tornquist, a nephew of
the president of the Argentine republic
an-d a distant relative of King Alphon
so of Spain, may enter the state
school of agriculture. W. T. Thurston
of Lincoln recently received a letter
from Tornquist making inquiries and
signifying a desire to attend the
State university.
New Point in Primary Law.
The name of H. G. Sawyer, candi
date for commissioner out in Web
ster county, was left off the ticket
by .accident. He had filed for the
office. He claims by. reason of the
fact that his name was not on the
ticket as it should have been he was
defeated. He wants to know what
he can do land the county attorney
of Webster county asked the attorney
general.
Scientists Reach Lincoln.
Four French scientists arrived in
the city and will make an extended
investigation of the Nebraska State
university. They are Prof. Raphael
Blanchjard, Baron Jules de Guerne,
Baron R. Duberton and Baron Louis
Duberton.
Insist on Nomination.
John O. Yeiser and Charles T. Dick
inson of Omaha desire that their
names be placed on the official ballot
as the nominees of the republican
and democratic parties for the judge
ship of the Fourth judicial district.
They have added the votes they se
cured on both tickets and this total
is greater than the total vote cast for
candidates. This is reason enough,
they say, for making them the candi
dates for both parties. Their request
will not be granted.
Senate Journals Ready.
Copies of the senate journal have
been received by the secretary of
state and are being freighted out to
the various county clerks for distrL
button. The volume contains 161'
pages. An interesting page in the
publication Is that devoted to the em
ployes of the senate. Of the forty
eight recorded, eleven are residents
of Lancaster county, three are from
Omaha and three from Beatrice.
These two, Omaha and Beatrice, come
nearer the Lansaster high mark than
any other community.
Children Off the Stage.
No more children will be permitted
to perform on the stages in Nebraska.
Colonel John J. Ryder, deputy com
missioner of labor who under the lavr
is empowered to enforce the child
labor law, notified the managment of
the local theaters that hereafter any
stunts with children in them would
have to be cut from the bill. He is
anxious that the managers of other
theaters take notice, for he intends to
enforce the law In the future, not
only In larger towns but In smaller as
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NEW WAYS OF SERVING EGG8.
When the Palate Becomes Tired of
the Old Preparations.
There are a good many articles of
food which are digested easily, but
which lack flavor and the palate eas
ily tires of them. One of these is
eggs, and the difficulty can be over
come by serving them with some de
cided flavor. Tomato sauce, an
chovy toast, stewed celery, and many
other things will suggest themselves
to the mind of the housekeeper who
is seeking to make this easily digest
ed nutritive food acceptable to some
member of her family. Sometimes it
can be flavored with a sprinkling of
cheese, sometimes worked into the
diet in some .other form as custards.
The principle in dealing with the sim
ple foods for Invalids or people who
have some difficulty in nutrition is to
use flavors in different forms with dis
cretion to avoid tiring the taste and
yet give the amount of nutrition
necessary under cover of different
flavors.
MAKES LAUNDRY WORK EASY.
Follow These Rirections and You Will
Lighten Labor.
You can do a morning’s work in
one hour and a half by following these
directions:
Put eight cents’ worth of borax, five
cents’ worth of salts tartar, five cents'
wofth of powdered ammonia, and one
package of potash into five quarts of
boiling water. Turn one quart of
water onto the potash first and let it
stand until cool, then add the rest.
Let the mixture stand 24 hours, and it
is ready to use. This makes enough
for 20 washes.
When ready to use, take one coffee
cupful of the “Quick and Easy,”
shave half a cake of soap, and add
them to your boilerful of clothes. Boil
half an hour. A good rinsing in your
bluing water is all that is necessary,
unless some collar or wristband is
very much soiled.—Harper’s Bazar.
Regenerate Salts.
Smelling salts can be made to last
for years if fresh spirits are poured
over the balls of salt, from time to
time, so as to keep up the original
strength of the mixture. Many peo
ple use spirits of ammonia in this
connection, but a still more powerful
specific may be found in a combina
tion of this spirit with oil of lavender,
in the proportion of two parts of the
former to one of the latter. In pro
curing the ammonia, however, care
must be taken to avoid choosing aro
matic spirits of ammonia in error,
the water which it contains prevent
ing it from amalgamating with the
oil.
The Baby’s Bib.
Danish angora cloth is splendid
material for infants’ bibs on account
of its weight, and it launders beauti
fully.
The embroidery should be done with
a fairly heavy cotton and the stitches
should be close and even.
If daisies are used in embroidering
the bib they should be worked in sat
in-stitched, the leaves voided, or, in
other words, worked from mid-vein to
edge on both sides. French knots may
be used to fill the centers.
lingerie button and a little loop
close the bib at the back.
Potato Fritters.
Take one pint of boiled and mash
ed potatoes, one-half cup of hot milk,
three tablespoonfuls of butter, three
tablespoonfuls of sugar, two eggs, a
little nutmeg, one teaspoonful salt.
Add the milk, butter, sugar and sea
soning to the mashed potatoes, then
add the eggs, well beaten. Stir until
smooth and light, spread about one
half inch deep on a buttered dish
and set aside to cool. When cold cut
into squares, dip into beaten eggs and
in bread crumbs, fry brown in boiling
fat and serve immediately.
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Boiled Salad Dressing.
Yolks of three eggs, one teaspoon
mustard, one teaspoon salt, two ta
blespoons sugar, dash of cayenne, two
tablespooqp melted butter or oil, one
and one-half cups rich milk, one
cup hot vinegar, one and one-half ta
blespoons cornstarch. Bring the
milk to a boil in double boiler; heat
the vinegar to the boiling point. Mix
dry ingredients thoroughly and moist
en with a little milk. Add yolks and
beat iito hot milk alternately with hot
vinegar. When cooked smooth and
thick stir in butter or oil.
Fig Jelly.
Pick over, wash and soak over night
in cold water one pound of cooking
figs. Cook in the water in which they
were soaked over a very slow fire un
til tender. Drain off the liquid and to
each pint of it add the juice of two
lemons, a half cup of sugar and a half
ounce of gelatine, soaked beforehand
in three tablespoonfuls of cold water.
Strain through a jelly bag into' molds
wet with cold water, and set aside un
til cold; then put in the ice chest until
firm. Eat with cream. The jelly
should be a rich amber color.
„ Boston Ginger Bread.
Place together one cup of molasses,
one-half cup of butter softened, one
half cup of sugar, two eggs, one cup
thick sour milk, one teaspoonful each
of ginger and cinnamon/one and one
half teaspoonfuls soda sifted with
three cups of flour; beat; bake in a
loaf; serve warm, garnished with
whipped cream. ,
Dainty Pudding.
Cut an angel food cake around the
vcenter; put on a thick layer of sweet
ened whipped cream, and on top of
this place marshmallows close togeth
er. Then put on a thin layer of
whipped cream; place on the other
half of angel cake, then whipped
cream, and last of all the marshmal
lows.
Chocolate Bread Pudding.
Prepare a cup of fine white bread
crumbs; melt two squares of chocolate
and mix with a quart of hot milk; add
the crumbs, a pinch of salt and sugar
to taste. Pour over the yolks of two
beaten eggs, and bake till set; cool,
spread with jam and cover with a
meringue.
“They Say."
A good many people think it isn't a
TRAGEDY OF A BROADWAY CAR. ]
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Truly It Is “Everybody for Himself’ in
New York.
There were six in the seat of the
Broadway surface car, which was too
many. However, everybody who board
ed the car seemed to take a fancy to
that particular seat, so some were also
standing. A very small man sat
crouched on the end seat, a pretty girl
next to him. The small man seemed
to be very restless, and no wonder,
for all the rest were pushing the pret
ty girl, who necessarily pushed him in
a way that seemed to infer that his
room was better than his company. At
length, unable to endure it any longer,
he all at once shoved his shoulder
under the rail and fell out, apparently.
.“Mercy!” screamed a nervous pas
senger, “has he committed suicide?”
“I don’t know,” answered the pretty
girl, “but, anyway, I’ve got the end
seat.”—N. Y. Press.
MEDICAL FAILURES.
An Authority Says Three-Fourths bf
Graduates Are Unfitted to Practice.
That 3,000 out of the 4,000 gradu
ates turned out by the Medical Col
leges each year are whollly unfitted to
practice medicine and are menaces to
the communities in which they set
tle was stated by Dr. Chester Mayer,
of the State Board of Medical Exam
iners of Kentucky at a meeting of the
American Medical Association’s Com
mittee on Medical Education, held in
Chicago not long ago. Dr. Mayer said
that only 25 to 28 per cent of the
graduates are qualified. Fifty-eight
per cent of the graduates examined in
28 states were refused licenses. With
few exceptions these failures took a
second examination in a few weeks
and only 50 per cent of them passed.
“This does not mean that deficien
cies in their training were corrected
in those few weeks,” Dr. Mayer said.
“It probably shows that experience
showed them what the test would
probably be ^nd they ‘crammed’ for
the examination. Dr. W. T. Gott,
Secretary of the Indiana Board said:
“The majority of our schools now^
teach their students how to pass ex
aminations, not how to be good phy
sicians.”
At the session of the American
Medical Association held in Atlantic
City in June, Dr. M. Clayton Thrush,
a professor in the Medico Chirurgical
College in Philadelphia said: “Many
doctors turned out of the Medical
Schools are so ignorant in matters
pertaining to pharmacy that they
know nothing about the properties
of the drugs they prescribe for their
patients!” Dr. Henry Beats, Jr., Pres
ident of the Pennsylvania State Board
of Medical Examiners, after scrutiniz
ing the papers of a class of candi
dates for licensure said: “About one
quarter of the papers show a degree
of illiteracy that renders the candi
dates for licensure incapable of un
derstanding medicine.”
A great many more physicians and
chemists might be quoted in support
of the astounding charge that 3,000 in
competents are being dumped onto
an unsuspecting public each year.
What the damage done amounts to
can never be estimated for these in
competents enjoy the privilege of di
agnosing, prescribing or dispensing
drugs regarding the properties of
which they know nothing and then
of signing death certificates that are
not passed upon by anyone unless the
coroner is called in. Probably there
is not a grave yard from one end of
the country to the other that does not
contain the buried evidences of the
mistakes or criminal carelessness of
incompetent physicians.
During the last year there have
been perhaps, half a dozen known
cases where surgeons, after perform
ing operations have sewed up the in
cisions without first removing the
gauze sponges used to absorb the
blood, and in some cases forceps and
even surgeon’s scissors have been
left in the wound. How many of
these cases there have been, where
the patient died, there is no means
of knowing and comparatively few
of the cases where the discovery is
made in time to save life become gen
erally public. Reports from Sanita
riums for the treatment of the Drug
Habit show that members of the medi
cal profession are more often treated
in these institutions than members
of any other profession, and that a
majority of the patients, excluding the
physicians themselves, can trace
their downfall directly to a careless
physician.
How many criminal operations are
performed by physicians is also a
matter of conjecture. Operations of
this class are, unfortunately, very
frequent in large cities. Some gradu
ated and licensed physicians, many
of them of supposed respectability,
make an exclusive practice of crim
inal medical and surgical treatment.
Dr. Henry G. W. Rheinhart, Coroner’s
physician of Chicago, estimates the
number of criminal operations, annu
allly, in Chicago alone at 38,000. How
many resulted fatally are unknown,
as when death results, the real cause
is disguised in the death certificate,
which the physician signs, and which
no one but himself and a clerk sees.
Probably not one case of malprac
tice in 1,000 ever becomes the subject
of a law suit but in the last year ap
proximately 150 cases wherein the
plaintiff has alleged malpractice have
been reported in the newspapers, and
owing to the social prominence and
the favored positions of many physi
cians not more than half the new
suits stated, probably, result in any
newspaper publicity, but it would
probably not be an exaggeration to
Btate that the total cases of malprac
tice, not involving criminal operations
or criminal medical practice, would
amount to 150,000 or more than one
case to each physician in the country.
This estimate is, of course, more or
less conjecture. Untimely deaths- and
permanent disabilities are frequent,
and occur within the knowledge of al
most every one, when life could have
been saved, or health restored had
the physician been Bkillful, careful
and competent.
Flno feathers may not make fine
birds, but they attract attention to
some birds that would otherwise go
WHAT FATHER AND
HARRY ACCOMPLISHED
AN ILLINOI8 MAN WRITES RE
GARDING HIS SUCCESS IN
WESTERN CANADA.
Change In Homestead Regulations
Makes Entry Easily
Accomplished.
"Nothing succeeds like success” is
an old and true saying having many
applications in Western Canada. The
following letter is an illustration. The
writer, Mr. Gerts, left Chicago a short
time ago and the success he has
achieved may well be gained by any
one having pluck and energy by locat
ing on the free homestead lands in
Western Canada. A change recently
made in the Canadian Land Regula
tions concerning homesteads makes it
possible for any member of a family to
make entry for any other member of
the family entitled to a homestead.
For instance, a man may now make
entry before the local agent for his
father or for his brother or brothers,
or for his son or sons, or for a sister
or daughter who may be the head of
the family* having minor children de
pending upon her for support. A sis
ter, daughter .or mother are also en
titled to make entry upon a home
stead. The only fee required is $10.00
for each entry. A great saving in rail
way expenses is thus made.
Read what Mr. Gerts has to say:
Battleford, Sask., Aug. 4, 1907.
Dear Sir: —
Thinking a letter from us Northwest
settlers might interest you, and 1 write
a few lines and let you know we are
progressing finely and well pleased
with our new home.
When I think of the many hard
working, industrious men east with
families who are struggling for a liv
ing and doing the strenuous, laying up
practically nothing for old age and the
thousands of acres of land here yet to
be plowed and cultivated capable of
raising sixty to eighty bushels of oats,
thirty to forty bushels of wheat, it cer
tainly seems a pity the two cannot be
brought together. But I will repeat,
this country is only for the industrious
and thrifty; also I might add, it re
quires some capital to start.
A man should have at least a team
of three good horses; better to have
mares so as to have some colts com
ing along each year. It is best to bring
them with him as work horses are
high. He should be able to purchase
plow, disc and drag, harrow, drill,
binder and hay rake. Of course sev
eral taking up claims or buying land
near together can divide up the pur
chasing of the above machinery and
exchange work. This plan will work
well for a few years or until crops will
warrant each individual to purchase a
full outfit.
We have 480 acres of as good farm
land as lies in the famous Cut Knife
district. Every foot can be plowed.
Last year our oats run 60 bushels per
acre. I sold them for 50c per bushel
on the place.
The indications are for a good crop
this year, though we were very late
in seeding owing to the late spring. !
Last winter was,the coldest known in
this country by the oldest settlers
(some who have been here 35 years),
but with a comfortable house and
plenty of firewood, which we hauled
four miles, we passed the winter quite
pleasantly. The air is clear and dry.
Some of the days I came from work I
was surprised to find the thermometer
registering 40° below zero. Though
we never keep fire at night, we had
nothing freeze in our cellar.
Our stock and chickens wintered
fine. I have a yearling heifer, who
Disillusion.
The American contractor stood at
the base of the great pyramid and
looked at the venerable monument in
disgust.
“It’s a big pile, all right,” he said;
“and it may do well enough for Egypt,
but if a man in the United States
should turn out a job of stone work
like that the papers would roast him
from Hoboken to Hegewisch.”
Turning away disappointed, he con
soled himself by taking a ride on a
camel, which animal he found fully up
to all the descriptions he had read of
it _
Laundry work at home would he
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric Is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much mere thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
No Grace.
Four-year-old Anna was invited to
take luncheon with the family of one
of her little friends. Before they par- j
took of their meal, the head of the j
house asked a blessing upon the food, j
during which time Anna chattered con- j
stantly. Not wishing to reprove the
child, her hostess said, “I suppose you
don't have grace at your house.”
"Oh, no,” the little girl replied, “we
have Bessie.”—Harper's Magazine.
Sheer white goods, la. fact, any One
wash goods when new, owe much of
their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered, this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau
ty. Home laundering would be equal
ly satisfactory if proper attention was*
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch, which has sufficient
strength to stiffen, without thickening
the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
It is quite easy to perform our dutieB
when they are pleasant and imply no
self-sacrifice; the test of principles is
.to perform them with equal readi
ness when 'they are onerous and dis
agreeable.—Langford.
Countries of One Crop.
Burmah is one of the world’s single
crop countries, basing her prosperity
on rice, as Hawaii does on sugar, and
the Philippines do on hemp.
would hold her own In any “fat stock
show." She has never had a drop of
milk since she was four months old
and has never had a mouthful of grain.
A gentleman who saw her made the
remark, “He bet that heifer had eaten
her head off with grain,” but would
hardly believe she had never had any
grain.
This is a great country for growing
all kinds of vegetables and we are
certainly enjoying our garden. The
flavor of the green peas is especial ly
fine. Last season Mrs. G. canned a lot
of them, and we have enjoyed them up
to the fresh crop.
I am sorry I did not have time this
past season to attend to transplanting
trees, but will keep the land I had pre
pared worked up for next season’s
planting. I received a number of small
trees (ash and maple) from the Gov
ernment Experimental Farm at Indian
Head. I put them around the edge of
the garden and they are doing fine. I
also received quite a lot of cthor seeds,
oats, wheat, potatoes and rhubarb
roots which were acceptable.
It is useless for us to bother with
garden flowers as wild ones grow in
profusion. We are located near a fine
creek, the water of which is soft and
fine for bathing and washing. We have
a well of water near the house, 32
feet deep and 21 feet of water all the
time, though it is harder than the
creek water.
Land which could be bought for five
dollars per acre three years ago is.
now worth $14 per acre and steadily
advancing each year.
All kinds of improvements are going
on. Steam plows and large threshing
outfits are already in. Roads are be
ing graded, bridges being built across
rivers and creeks. Last year I took
my family, also wagon, across the Sas
katchewan river in a row boat, swam t
my team across and now the contract
has been let for $200,000 bridge at that
Diace.
The C. N. R. have run their final
survey from Battleford to Calgary,
running west about one mile north of
us. The C. P. R. have run a survey,
which runs northwest passes about 500
feet from the northeast corner of our
farm. The country will soon be cov
ered with a net work of railroads and
it will keep them busy hauling the out
put of grain. It is certainly encourag
ing to us settlers.
Two years ago, Harry% my son, and
I as you know unloaded our car at.
Saskatoon and drove 130 miles to our
claim. Last fall we had only 18 miles
to haul our wheat to railroad and as
you see, the prospects are we will have
a railroad at our very door and a town
near-by. This district can support a.
good town and it will be well patron
ized.
Harry arrived home at 12 p. m. last
night after going fourteen miles to
blacksmith shop to get plowshares
beat out. The shop was full of work
and it was eight p. m. when Harry left
for home and parties still in line to
have work done. We will need stores
nearer and good mechanics.
We are all enjoying the best of
health which is a great blessing.
When we left Chicago over a year ago
my youngest son's (four years of age)
health was so poor that I almost de
spaired of raising him, but he is cer
tainly a hearty, healthy little fellow
now. The pure fresh air has done him
worlds of good.
So to sum up the whole. Why
should we not be glad we made the
break? A good farm, stock increasing,
health and an independent life. What
more can we expect?
Did we have to make an effort? You
can bet we did and hustle, too. Should
you pass this way with your shotgun
this fall, -we should be pleased to let
you shoot prairie chickens off our
grain stocks.
Respectfully yours,
CHAS. M. GERTS AND FAMILY.
What the Poet Says,,
After their honeymoon to Niagara
Falls they came back and settled on
the old farm.
“Gracious, Sile!” said Cynthia. “Why
are you in such a bad humor?”
“Making butter is blamed hard
work,” grumbled Sile, removing the
beads from his brow.
“Oh, cheer up, Sile. Don't the poet
say that it is ‘love that makes the
world go round’?”
“Yes, but, by gosh, it don’t make the
churn go round.”
Opening Lower Brule Indian Reserva
tion in South Dakota.
Parties wishing full information as
to the character of the land, how to
reach it and how to take part in the
drawing in October, also information
in relation to the opening of Tripp
county,in the Rosebud Reservation,can
secure same by sending One Dollar to
Chas. H. Burke, Pierre, South Dakota,
formerly Member of Congress and
author of the Lower Brule and Rose
bud legislation. ^
Dutch at Home and Abroad.
Holland has a population of only 5,
000,000, but there are 40,000,000 of peo
ple in the Dutch East and West In
dies. The Dutch are not at present
much addicted to emigration. In the
United States, at the time of the last
census, there were only 105,000 per
sons of .Dutch birth. The number of
Netherlanders in the Dutch East In
dies is barely 12,000.
Many Bullets Had Gone Wild.
Recently four tons and a half of bul
lets were dug out of a hill behind a
rifle range at Yarmouth, England, the
accumulation of two years’ shooting
by the local volunteers. They sold for
$122.50 a ton.
Give Defiance Starch a fair trial
try it for both hot and cold starching,
and if you don’t think you do better
work, in less time and at small sr cost,
return it and your grocer will give you
hack your mf'ney.
There is no debtor in the world so
honorable—so superbly honorable—as
love.—Henry Drummond.
Smokers have to call for Lewis' Single
Binder cigar to get .it. Your, dealer or
Lewis’ Factory, Peona, 111
A girl isn't necessarily a peach be
cause she has a stony heart.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sj-rtp.
Tot ebUilreti teething, soltens the
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Women see without looking; their
husbands often look without seeing.