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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA An Important Mission. The Seneca, the first boat ever built for the purpose of destroying derelicts, was recently commissioned by the Uni ted States revenue cutter service, and sent on its mission. The derelicts which the crew of the vessel is to de stroy are ships abandoned at sea. Such wrecks are one of the greatest perils that confront the navigator. They are usually so water-logged that they float even with the surface, can not be easily distinguished in the day light, and are unseen at night. A steamship colliding with such a wreck is always seriously injured, sometimes so badly that it sinks with all ofl board. The derelicts have been blown up front time to time by private ship-owners and by the government, but hereafter, says the Youth's Companion, the Sene ca will devote itself to this work in that part of the Atlantic between Port land. Me., and Charleston, S. C., and the Bermudas and Sable Island. Mas ters of vessels are asked to report to the Maritime Exchange in New York or Philadelphia, or to the Chamber of Commerce in Boston or Baltimore when they see any derelicts, giving the latitude and longitude and the di rection of the wind and sea. The com mander of the Seneca will receive these reports by wireless telegraph or otherwise, and search for the wreck. When it is found, it will be blown up with guncotton or some other explo sive. Masters of vessels may also call the Seneca by the wireless telegraph and notify it directly when a derelict is seen; or if they are in distress from any cause they may also summon the vessel, which is equipped with means for giving assistance to ships in need The whole matter of tipping is wrong. The man who is compelled to give is mulcted and the man who is asked to receive is insulted, whether he knows it or not. It may never be possible to correct the ev^ of tipping by legislative enactments, but it can be curtailed by individual habit. The sentiment against it is growing, says the Washington Post. People will con tinue to make small presents to faith ful servants as long as some men are born to serve and some to be served, but the time is coming when they will do so only through choice and not from compulsion. The porter, like the ■waiter and the barber and the hack man, has been led to look upon the tip as his right, and one to play or fight for. In the revulsion of feeling which has come over the public because of the growing demands for tips on the part of the serving classes, the porter must suffer with his fellows. The fur trade, once the principal in dustry of the great northwest, still holds an important place. And it is also up to date. In earlier times furs were brought to market mainly by hu man carriers and dog teams. Now modern improvements are utilized. The story from Winnipeg that a steam er of the Hudson Bay Company has been wrecked in the bay, and that a cargb of furs worth $1,500,000 has been lost, signifies the magnitude of the business done and the extent of the disaster, and also the methods now em ployed. The daring adventurers of the early part of last century never dreamed of running steamboats for such purposes. Recently the Youth's Companion published a story in which a surveyor wrote to a map-publisher that “Sugar creek has entirely disappeared and may be erased from the map.” The surveyor adds: “Should it appear at any time I will let you know.” A real prospector writes that this is no joke to the man who travels in the arid lands; for springs do disappear and reappear. He tells of two men who died in the Death valley region be cause they relied on a map that had not been corrected. “Sugar creek” had gone dry and had not been “erased from the map.” Prof. Ferrero, the Italian historian, who has been giving lectures on Rome in Boston, says that America is a truer heir to the Roman republic than any European nation; that Rome taught the world the principles of common wealth on a large scale, which only the United States is vast enough to realize. Dr. Ferrero is not pessimistic enough to press the parallel to un comfortable conclusions, remarks the Youth’s Companion, but he sees in our imperialism, our wealth and our pow erful women some resemblance to a grandeur that declined although it never died. A woman in Chicago, three times di * vorced, tells her sisters not to marry, as the idea is ridiculous of tying one self to the wretches, men being merely incidental. But this is a case in which each individual wants her own experi ence of the absurdity of the matter, and no: that of one who, for all her energetic denunciation, was not satis fied with one experience herself. France may yet be reduced to such straits that in self-defense it will have to adopt all the orphans in the world. They credited Roosevelt with the coining of “frazzle" and now they are attributing “bmpblepuppy” to Mr. Taft. And both were in circulation before Taft cr Roosevelt wore knee trousers. Where have these paragraphers been living? We are now informed that the cost of the fleet's world tour would pay the claries of 17,000 ministers. Any I reachers net getting ^their pay this jyca:. will please ccmmunicata with the J government. THE OLLIS MEASURE RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE. PATTERN OF WISCONSIN LAW How Mr. Taylor of York Would Fix Mortgages in Nebraska—Miscel laneous Legislative Matters. This measure, introduced by Ollis of Valley, who is chairman of the committee on railroads in the senate, embraces the best features of the Wis consin and other laws, and is con sidered to comply with the demands in3de by the democratic platform and is endorsed by prominent men who have the very best interests of the state in this matter in mind and purpose. The bill provides that in employing professional and expert as sistance in making the physical valu ation of public service corporations, the governor’s approval must be ob tained, thus placing a check on the number and kind of help that may be? used by the railway commission un der whose supervision the valuation is made. When a physical valuation is made, a time not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days from the date of notice, when any corpora tion by its representatives may ap pear and give reasons for lowering: or raising, or in any way modifying; the valuation of such property; and if the commission deems the evidence sufficient, it may modify its own valuation. In the senate attention was called to the house resolution asking for the appointment of a conference commit tee on the bill for the physical valua tion of railroads and other public ser vice corporations and saying that it had been sent to the desk. The sec retary then read the resolution pre sented by Senator Ollis of Valley, who, in making the motion for the ap pointment cf the committee, said there might be some question as to whether the constitution provided for the com mittee. but he believed it warranted and might be a means of economy of time and money and he moved its adoption. After some discussion the resolution carried and the committee on railways, of which he is chairman, was appointed as the conference com mittee. Taxation of Mortgages. This is a measure introduced by Mr. Taylor of York. It was recom mended to the judiciary committee, after it had been discussed in the committee of the whole, the author consenting to a further investigation of it by the committee. Wilson of Polk county led the fight against the bill, bas'ng his objections to it on his experience in California for four years as a banker. Cali fornia has such a law. Mr. Wilson in sisted that where the mortgages were taxed, invariably the rate of interest on leans was fixed suffiiciently high to cover what the holder of the mort gage would have to pay. No benefit therefore accrued to the person who cwned the equity in the real estate. In arguing for his bill Mr. Taylor gave illustrations of what occurs un der the present revenue law'. A per son had $2,000 previous tc the visit of the assessor and another party owned a $10,000 farm. The day the assessor is due the man with the $2,000 pays that amount on the farm and gives the owner a mortgage for S1S.000. The man then pays taxes on the $2,000 he has received and the $8,000 nor he received from the owner of the farm, while the man who bought the farm pays taxes on that at a valuation of $10,000. He insisted this is double taxation. Mr. Taylor assured the house that his bill was a copy of the California law, which, he said, had been held constitutional He went farther and said Governor Sheldon had looked into the matter carefully and his investigations were to the effect that Massachusetts and other states had practically the same lawr and the preposition had proven eminently satisfactory. Must Not Coerce Employes. Coercion and intimidating by em ployers of labor will be thing of the past in Nebraska elections if a bill by Bowrman of Nuckolls, introduced in the house is passed by the legislature. The bill is short and to the point. It forbids any employer, under pain of a $100 fine cr a forty day jail sentence, using any means to influence the ac tion of his employe either by threat ening dismissal or promising to close down the business. Early action on the bill is anticipated. Wants an Appropriation. The state board of agriculture de cided to ask the legislature for a specific appropriation of $150,000 for the state fair, of which $120,000 is for a new stock judging pavilon and $25, 000 ior a section of a new concrete and steel grandstand in contempla tion. Railroads Committee Meets. The railroads committee of the house considered two measures that had been referred to it for considera tion and reported that both be indefi nitely postponed. These bills were one by Evans of Hamilton, which required railroads to accept the weights of shippers when they have no railroad scales at the point of shipment, and further making them absolutely liable for any shrinkage shown. The other is Hadsell's bill to compel all rail roads where two or more run through the same city to maintain depots. Prison Reform. A measure introduced by King of Folk provides that in all cases where a person is convicted of a crime o it er than murder the d'strict court le fere whom the trial is had shall make inquiry as to the age, whether or not this is the first offense of a criminal nature and the moral turpitude con nected with the offense. If, after full investigation, the judge believes that the one for which the defendant has been convicted is the first pffense and that no other crime will be commit I tud, he may suspend proceedings. A NEW STATE HOuSE. Senator Tanner Has a Bill for the Same. Senator Tanner introduced a bill looking to the ultimate erection of a new state house, to cost when it is completed anywhere from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000, one that will stand up alongside any state capitol in the country when it is completed. His bill does not contemplate that all this will be done at once, but provides simply for the occasion as a starter of a single wing. The appropriation ofc this is placed at $75,000. Senator Bartos on the other hand offered a resolution asking for the appointment of a committee to investigate the feasibility of relocating the capitol at Kearney. He proposes Bartos, Buck, Ransom, Myers, Raymond and Bol in son as members of the committee. The bill recites the fact that the cen ter of population of the state is mov ing westward, and points out Kearney as the most central point. New Judges Appointed. Governor Shallenberger appointed the following supreme judges: John J. Sullivan of Omaha, late of Colum bus, and Jesse L. Root of Plattsmouth, for three-year terms, and Jacob Faw cett of Omaha and Silas A. Holcomb of Broken Bow, for the one-year terms. These appointments were made im mediately after the governor issued his proclamation declaring the con stitutional amendments voted on at the last election adopted \n accord ance with the canvass made by the state legislature in joint session. This 1 canvass was made upon a printed ab stract of the vote and certified by the secretary of state as being “practical ly" a copy of the original abstracts on file in his office. To Cure Treating. Groves of Lancaster takes a rigor ous view of the treating habit. There is a law now prohibiting the treating of persons in saloons, but it is not enforced. Graves would make pro vision to ensure the enforcement of the law. In part, the bill is fashioned after the Kansas law. It makes the person who gives the treat liable as well as the saloonkeeper, and it per mits the attorney who pushes the pro secution of the treater to secure $15 from the man prosecuted to pay him for his trobule. Under th# Groves bill, if ti were proven that a saloon keeper permitted treating in his place, the licensing board is compell ed to call a meeting and revoke the license. The bill was so drastic in its provisions that some of the mem bers who are looking out for the in terests of the brewers sat up and took note of the introduction. Legislative Notes. Wilson of Polii had adopted a mo tion to have printed 1,000 copies of his banking bill. The binder twine factory bill made its appearance with B.vgland ot Boone as sponsor. This bill appropri ates $50,000 to establish a binding twine factory at the state peniten tial anti $150,ooo to maintain it. “Neoraska needs a new capitol building that shall cost eventually be tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000,” said Senator Tanner in discussing the bill he introduced. "Iowa has a good building and there is no reason why Nebraska should not have a capitc! in keeping with her resources.” Want Emergency Fund. Brown of Lancaster, put in a bill providing an emergency appropria tion for the home of the friendless at Lincoln. He asked that $4,500 be ap propriated to run the institution un til April 1 is reached and the next biennium’s appropriation is made. Regulation of the Stock Farms. Senator King of Polk county is drafting a hill which will regulate the stock yards of South Oniaha. The bill will provide for a regulation of charges tc be made, amend the time for the delivery of the cars and pro vide for the charges of feed stuff. Appropriation Bills. The house on the 18th unanimously passed two appropriation bills. One of these appropriates $80,000 to pay the members and employes of the legislature and the other appropriates $20,000 for indicdental expenses of the session. County Assessors. Senator Ollis is in favor of abol ishing the office of county assessor in ell couuties with a population under 20,000. He would also change the salaries of these officials so that in counties with a population of 20,000 to 30.000 he may receive $700, in counties of 30,000 to 50,000 not more than $800, in counties of 50,000 to 100,000 not more than $1,800, and in counties of 100,000 or more not to ex ceed $2,400. One of the problems to be figured out is how the law, if passed will get rid of the county as sessor elected in 1907 for four-year terms. Woman Suffrage. Women’s suffrage will be one of the important matters of legislation to lie considered by the present legislature. At th request of the Women’s clubs of the state, Senator Miller of Lan caster introduced a constitutional amendment providing for equal suf frage. The senate gallery was packed with suffragettes to hear the introduc tion of the bill. The desk of Senator Randall, who introduced an equal suf frage bill, to apply to municipalities, was smothered in flowers and he came in for much attention. After Primary i.aw. Between them Senators Ollis and Donahoe have offered amendments to ;he primary law that may strengthen that statute, or at least will remedy some of the defects claimed. Donahoe would have the election of supreme judges, district judges, county judges, regents of the university, state super intendents and county superintend ents put outside the realm of party jjolitics. He would have them named only by petition, and then would place :hem on a separate ballot marked “non-partisan.” IN THE PUBLIC EYE REACHES FOUR-SCORE MARK President James Burrill Angell, tile grand old man of the University of Michigan, who cele brated his eightieth birthday a few days ago, has been at the head of Michigan’s state school of learning for the last 37 years. Although I)r. Angell has passed the allotted time for man to live, his ruddy complexion and his youthful sprightliness belie his advanced years. James B. Angell was born in Scituate, Rhode Island, January 7, 1829. He matriculated at Brown university in September, 1845, graduating four years later with the highest honors of his class. After graduating Dr. Angell taught for a year. Then his health began to fail, too close application to his studies began telling, and ho gave up his teaching, and his studies and lived an out of door life for a year, taking a horseback trip through the south. After the trip/Dr. Angell spent two years in France, Germany and Italy. From this foreign residence lie was recalled to the Utiited States to accept the chair in modern languages in Brown university. In 1S60 he resigned this professorship to become editor of the Providence Journal. After six years spent in charge of that publication, ho resigned to accept the presidency of the University of Vermont, with which college he was connected till he came to the University of Michigan as its president in 1871. The presidency of Michigan was offered to Dr. Angell two years before that time and refused by him. For the last 157 years. Dr. Angell's brilliant mind, great strength, indomit able courage, and boundless affection have been given freely to the institu tion of which he has been the head, the leader. Nor is Dr. Angell known only as the head of tile leading educational in stitution in the middle west. In 1SS0 he was appointed minister to China, at a time when the greatest diplomacy was needed, at a time when many an noying commercial questions arose and when the regulation of the Chinese immigration must he attempted. He was also the chairman of a special com mission charged with the negotiation of two treaties with China. In 1887 Dr. Angell was appointed minister plenipotentiary on the part of the United States on a commission which negotiated the North Atlantic ilsheries treaty with Great Britain. In 1895-1896 he was chairman of the United States com mission on deep waterways. He served one year, 1897, as minister to Turkey, at a time when the utmost delicacy and diplomacy were essential. LIGHTENED CENSUS WORK James Powell is the chief mechanical expert of the United States census bureau at Washing ton. And in the midst of the rush and hurry and confusion incidental to making preparations for the taking of the next census in a year or so, the bureau, from the chief down to the depart ment bosses, is enthusiastically grateful that Mr. Powell exists and that he happens to be holding his particular job. The taking of a nation's census is a gigantic operation at the best, particularly when the na tion to he numbered is as large and many-raced as our own. It involves a maddening amount of figuring and adding, indexing and assorting, until a host of expert employes live on mathe matical stunts for many months—eating figures. drinking numerals and breathing long, involved masses of torturing decimals and tht like. Now a good deal of this will be changed, for Mr. Powell lias invented a new machine. Just what this machine is, or what it will do, it not given out from the bureau. On the contrary, it is most carefully concealed and guarded bv armed men. But it will do a great deal, for it is to contrive more hereto fore impossible jobs with figures and indexes and registers and all that sort of thing than the mind of inventive man has ever before conceived in cold steel and tightened springs until now. And Mr. Powell is being given credit for doing one of the most marvelous things yet done, and halving the burden of the census work. REACHES AGE LIMIT Though Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich reached Jhe age limit for active service the other day lie will continue for some time as command ant of the New York navy yard, where he suc ceeded the late Rear Admiral Coghlan a year ago. Secretary of the Navy Newberry requested Rear Admiral Goodrich to remain at the navy yard long enough to complete the scheme of con solidation of the departments at the yard which is being worked out according to the admiral's own plans. Rear Admiral Goodrich is one of the best known officers in the navy. He has the distinc tion of being the officer who directed the last naval engagement in the war with Spain, the fight at Manzanillo, Cuba. He also commanded the expedition which first drew the fire of the batteries at Santiago. On that occasion he was in charge of the work of cut ting the cable connections with the besieged city. Rear Admiral Goodrich was appointed to the naval academy from Con necticut and was graduated as the first honor man of the class of 'G4. From 1865 to 1867 he was attached to the steam frigate Colorado, at that time the flagship of the European squadron. During the Tel-el-Kebir expedition he was the American attache on the staff of Viscount Wolseley. He was commanding the Pacific fleet at the time of the San Francisco earthquake and received his first news of the disaster and the awful results that followed when off the coast of southern California, nearly 800 mites away. The intimation of the horror came in an extraordinary manner. wireless telegraph operator caught a stray message sent out at random from a short station just north of San Francisco. Not hesitating for a moment and with out any verification of the message, Rear Admiral Goodrich with character istic decision, turned his ships toward San Francisco at full speed His worst fears were realized on arrival, and he was able to render notable services in the period that followed the catastrophe. FRIEND OF LABRADOR “Grenfell of Labrador,” who is declared by Lord Strathcona to bo “the most useful man in Iho North American continent,” has come to the United states to deliver a series of lectures, the proceeds of which he will devote to his philan thropic work in the chilly northland. He expects to raise $100,000 through his lectures, and the sum will f;o into the proposed fisherman’s insti tute in St. John's. Ur. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell is preacher, teacher, physician, surgeon, magistrate, police man, navigator, pilot, charity commissioner, or phans' guardian, grand almoner for the whole northern seaboard, wreck investigator, cartog rapher, rescuer of imperiled fishermen, salvager of stranded craft—in a word, he is a nerenrinat ing providence to the desolate region that claims his life and works. He has raised money and built it into hospitals, co-opera tive stores and sawmills, launches for the rapid transportation of the sick and Injured to the hospitals, and in various other excellent ways. Coming to Labrador first In 1892, Grenfell found 3,000 permanent resi dents and 30,000 flsher-folk who came from Newfoundland for eight months of the year, all without religious or medical aid and in the clutches of mercenary | traders who advanced them fishing outfits at enormous prices and took the season’s catcl) in return. Men and women were in hopeless bondage to the traders, children were barefooted and naked in zero temperature, parents had to borrow each other’s clothes and education was unknown. Single-handed Grenfell set out to change all this. He preaches, doctors, teaches, advises, comforts and cares for young and old. He has revolutionized the whole sec tion. He has been honored by President Roosevelt, King Edward. Oxford uni veraity and others. Relation of Body and Mind Assertion Made That No Healthy Per son Is Wholly Bad. The close relation of body and mind in the matter of physical health, of which so much is said by various re ligious and semi-religious organiza tions and by a class of professional '‘healers.” is considered from a fresh point of view by an English clergy man. His argument Is that no per son who is healthy can he wholly bad. The cleryman further expressed the conviction that there is a close con nection between health and morals, and that the man who has reached middle age in a sound bodily condition thereby proves that he has led a de cent life. In support of his position he advanced the assertion that a large proportion of the convicts in English prison are physical degener j THE CHILD’S SAVING INSTITUTE. Engaged In the Noble Mission of Protecting and Saving Desti tute and Helpless Children. The chief object of the work of the Child Saving Institute is to save and protect destitute and helpless chil dren. For the most part it is support ed by the free gifts of philanthropic men and women of Omaha. Such an institute could not long survive in a small community where the people are as a rule unable to make large contributions. Experience shows that charitable organizations of the magni tule and effectiveness of the Child Saving Institute can subsist only in large population centers, where, of course, there is the greatest need of its kind offices. In the absence of such organization in the small towns dependent children must be taken into the homes of benevolent men and women who thus assume the burden for the community and in some cases these good people can ill afford to do so. In every town and village there are examples of this work of humani ty, so that everybody has come to know and to realize the absolute necessity for providing some system atic means of caring for unfortunato children. This is why well-to-do I people in the country towns express a I willingness to contribute to the sup j port of the Child Saving Institute which hits from its origin received destitute children from many places 1 outside of Omaha. In every case of ; this kind the Institute not only re lieved the local community of the hurdon of caring for such children, but it brought to the relief of the children a systematic, efficient means of protection and care as the result of much study anl experience—an equip ment impossible to a small town. The officers of the Institute do not stop to inquire whether the people of OUJ uuiumiim; UUIlt* lU^ir lull 3uty by the dependent children re commended for admission to the in stitute; they are taken in and given the best possible care, and ’later placed into good homes; in this or tome other community. It is purely a work of humanity, deserving of the sympathy and support of every man and woman in the west. The board of trustees make an appeal to ben evolent-minded men in the towns and villages of Nebraska for contributions in support of the Institute and to help erect a new building now contemplat ed and which if a necessity to the in creasing demands of the work. BANK GUARANTY IN NEW JERSEY Bill Based on Bryan’s Idea Intro duced in Legislature. Trenton, N. J.—Following the lines of William J. Bryan’s bank guarantee deposit idea, a bil! was introduced in the New Jersey legislature. It is fathered by State Senator Gebhardt and provides for a tax on banks and I trust companies, to be held as an in solvency fund, by means of which losses of institutions which fail can be liquidated. STORK GAINS ON FATHER TIME. Vital Statistics in France Show Ex cess of Births Over Deaths. Paris.—The vital statistics for the first, six months of 1908 show a. gratifying decrease in the proportion of deaths in France, a condition aU tributed to the more stringent appli cation of laws of hygiene. During this period the birihs exceeded the deaths by 11.000, against an excess of 55,000 deaths for the corresponding period of 1907. TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN SEATTLE. W. L. Seeley Kills Wife and Daughter and Commits Suicide. Seattle, Wash.—W. L. Seeley, an at torney and former national bank ex aminer for Illinois under Comptroller of the Currency Eckles, his wife. Mrs. Kate M. Seeley, a member of the na tional society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and his daught er. Miss Rene Seeley, a student it the University of Washington and a mem ber of the Delta Gamma society, were found dead in a bath room of their home in the fashionable Capitol Hill district Sunday. The victims had been dead since the previous Thursday. The women, each of whom was clad in night robes, had been murdered by being struck on the head, evidently with a hammer. There was no mark of violence on Seeley. That Seeley killed his wife’s daughter while insane over financial worries and then committed suicide is the theory of the coroner and the police. Mr. Bryan Will not Attend. Tampa. Fla.—Word was received from W. J. Bryan, that he would not attend the inauguration of President Gomez in Cuba, but instead would exl tend his visit in Tampa until that time. Chicago.—The wool and fur ware house of Silberman Brothers, Michi gan street and Lasalle avenue, was burned today. The firm declared that the contents, including 2,500.000 pounds of wool were worth several thousand dollars. Iroquois Theater Cases. Chicago.—It was made public here that after five years of litigation set tlements had been made in the cases of thirty of the deaths caused by the Iroquois theater fire. It is s’ated that $750 a case is to be paid by one of the firms responsible for the fire in the theater, prosecutions against the company in these cases having been withdrawn from court. In one instance a man who lost his wife and three children in the fire, received $750 for each death. Many other su ts against firms are still pending. ates. From this it would seem that he does not confine his designation of “badness” to the vices involved ill in temperance and other forms of sensual dissipation, but, since convicts are guiitv of many things apart from these, as theft, burglary, forgery and the like, holds that they are led to the perpetration of even thi3 class of crimes by a defective bodily state. New York's Growth in Century. New York rity has added 4.100,000 to its population in the'last century. EVERYTHING WAS FAVORABLE SORRY HE DIDN’T MOVE TO WEST ERN CANADA BEFORE. Mr. Austin was a man who had never had any previous experience in farming, but Western Canada had al lurements, and he profited. He got a low-rate certificate from a Canadian Government agent, and then moved. What he says is interesting: “Ranfurly, Alberta, May 10- 08. “J. N. Grieve, Esqr., Spokane, Wash ington—Dear Sir: After a dozen or more years of unsuccessful effort in the mercantile business in Western Washington, in August, 1903, decided to come to Alberta with a gentleman who was shipping two cars live stock to Edmonton. I assisted this man with the stock over one hundred miles out in the Birch Lake Country, East of Edmonton. Indeed, how sur prised, how favorably everything com pared with my dream of what I want ed to see in a new country. “Had never had any experience in farming, but I was immediately con verted into a farmer. And from that moment I have prospered. Selecting a homestead near Birch Lake, 1 re turned for wife and three small chi - dren and freighted out from Edmonton in March following year we shoveled a spot clear of snow and pitched our tent and commenced operations, at that time we had no neighbors. Four years have passed, the locality is well settled, two miles from railway sta tion, with churches and schools, tele phone and good road accommodation-. "We are enjoying the privileges granted to any rural district in Washington. The Birch Lake Coun try is no exception, this great trans formation is rapidly going on in every district in Western Canada. "I estimate that every quarter sec tion in every direction is capable of producing a comfortable living for a family of ten forever. After paying for two horses and a cow had .'^st $10.00 to go on. Did my first plough ing in my life. I was very awkward in my work, but nature was glad and 1 was abundantly paid for my efforts. Our cattle has increased to about fifty head, which was very profitable on ac count of the abundance of forage. To farm was compelled to buy about four hundred dollars’ worth of farm ma chinery on time, and the payments fell due last .fall, and you may wonder how I expected to pay for them when we had such a bad year. ’Twas a little bad for Western Canada or for a Mis sourian. But is not 35 or 40 bushels oats a pretty good yield per acre in many States? Then the price of grain went out of sight, so when I had sold my crop I found I was able to make my payments nicely, besides we had lots of feed. No ore bar, r<iy busi ness raising cattje without growing grain, or vice versa. As to the winters, did not feed my cattle, excepting the calves, a fork of hay until in March. Have found the winters much more pleasant than we did in Western Wash ington. This is strange and hard to explain, but ’tis true, nevertheless, at 40 degrees below zero we h«ve more comfort than you would at 30 eegrees above, so still and dry—wit!, bright, sunny days. My wife says that the oniy regret she has is that we did not come here ten years ago, as we would now certainly have .been in a position to retire from hard w-ork. Most wom en soon become satisfied ai neigh bors begin to come round them. Have 9S acres in crop this year, besides two acres potatoes, which have always brought me a fair price. We find a ready market for everything we produce. To the Poor Man—Here is a chance to establish yourself. To the Rich Man—Here is a chance to buy land for $10.00 to $15.00 per acre which will produce more crops than a half dozen acres of your $50 0*» to $75.00 per acre land. And if not very much mistaken, this year will prove an eye opener to those who are a little sceptical. The trouble with me is that I have so much to say so favorable to Alberta ’tis hard to be brief. Respectfully, (Signed) “P. S. AUSTIN.” ONE THING AT A TIME, m ‘•Have you noticed tliat the baroness never talks about other women?” "How could she? She is all the time talking about, herself." Professor Munyon has just issued a most beautiful, useful and complete Al manac; it contains not only all thescien tific information concerning the moon's phases, in all the latitudes, but has il lustrated articles on how to rend char acter by phrenology, palmistry and birth month. It also tells all about card reading, birth stones and th< ir meaning, and gives the interpretation of dreams. It teaches beauty culture, manicuring, gives weights and »«en ures, and antidotes for poison In ra> it is a Magazine Almanac, that no: only gives valuable information t< will afford much amusement for cow member of the family. 'Ntpeeulty parties and evening entortai*s*ui^ . Farmers and people In the no at trlcts will find this Almanac atm, invaluable. It will bo sent to anyone absolute!* free on application to the Ml’N VON REMEDY COMPANY. PlUl-AtUU PHIA. Editorial Verdict. From a serious minded Jester the editor received this note, together with n consignment of humor that was heavy enough to go by freight ‘ Dear Sir: I read all these Jokes to my wife, and she-' laughed heartily. Now. I have tt on good authority that when a man's wife will laugh at his Jokes they are bound to be very good —or she Is. Yours, etc." The editor slipped them tuto the re turn envelope with the letter, after writing on the margin: "She is.” It Certainly Is. “You shouldn’t cast your pearls be fore swine.” ‘T know It; but it’d ha-d tolling who is nz *ha h»3 theca dajs."