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LOUP CITY. - - NEBRASKA
ENCOURAGING BRIGHT PUP! LS.
Parents and Haeron everywhere
WO! be tarcrested In the experiment
now being triad ta tbe Cincinnati
fab' ic schools of establishing a clasa
RM9 Cur espur lolly bright pupil*,
wtlch would appear ta be tbe logical
ucratDpuuMnout cf tbe classroom for
hurkward pupils. Tbe proposition
that It Is as unfair to bold back tbe
ape or drt< r child In tbe ranks of
the msdjorre as It Is to speed tbe dull
pupB (a a pare he cannot maintain
appeals a* reasonable and tonaoB
aeusr It will be argued with much
force that tbe system wbiefa makes
prveteto.i for raring for tbe backward
pupil council be justified without pro
nto on Is asade fur arram pan ring tbe
needs of those who ran advance more
rapidly than ;be average, says tbe SC
Fowl Hutert free* Tbe proposition
■haply provides for tbe application
to arboobag of tbs plan, that is gen
mil? adopted aad followed In the
business world, where wage scales,
rbnaers of jrasnotlon and all tbe ad
van-age. are based as tbe ability of
tbooe employed to advance rapidly in
one Bee or another This has not
been tbe rule ta tbe arhoo! a here the
ay stem has been adjust d to meet :be
reoairemenis erf tbe average pupil,
with spuria! irevision trade for those
below tbe average The net result of
this i - sieve has been retardation, for
which tbe pupils are sot to Wise
Tbe Clnrtaaali educators have decid
ed that tbe old * sates of tryisf to
stake mil thirfm fit the same edu
rafimai pattern Is unsatisfactory la
general and parnr-uiarly unfair to tbe
tngfct puptls. who are to lie given spe
dal attention under a more sets!tie
and equitable method.
It pvtttag tta baa on the 'common
snaking cap." the Nr* Turk Beard
of Health U d«ltg a good thing The
tekik drinking cap U a carrier cf in
feetM> and the habit of using an in
ditdtal drinking *aa: under all cir
mitfri n-ignt be good to acquire.
There are folding caps of metal, rub
her and even of paper, which one ran
keep snout the person utthout dis
comfort and can get at trt3:ng ex
lease Scarlet f«-*«r. diphtheria, influ
«naa aad eves tuberculosis are Irens
fstaaable. aad are frequently trans
mitted through promiscuously used
water glasses at d teacup*.
m
The famous auto expert a ho broke
ha neck :n aa effort to establish new
speed records might hare given his
Ufe is a better cause A man. It is
true, caa easily find out If human
manufacture caa stand the terrific
•train put apoa It by th'-se speed ex
penmen is. hut if he finds to the con
trary the knowledge is seldom of any
tie* ta him. tor does its acquisition
ser*e erea the miner purpose of being
a warning to cthrrs The need of the
age la te learn more how to enjoy hie.
rather than taster ways of rushing
through th
KttUU is worrWi over the fTS.OM.- j
WS annual destruction inflicted by
rata. Most thir Itec people. arc. and
•hat name* moat Is that the meas
ures for wtptnp oat the pests are ra
ce* t~c by the rodents alth chetrtnl in
diflerencr
A New Yorker named Jones has
ashed persttatM t of the raont to
chance his name it behooves the
ljMt.Md.Md bearers of that honored
mciatrhcr to arise la protest.
A Teaas man sold ItT.Md snakes
last year lor prices rsnpicc from 2J
rents to S2£d each. Nobody can Jastiy
waplaii that the price of snakes U
hich
A French physician Injected radium
Into a non out old horse asd made It
frisky as a colt There Is hope for
oar and* at racehorses and baseball
piayera
A scientist says that a normal man
has Ur*t feet and a normal woman
szsaB feet. This le-tas to settle the
pnosflon cu-s.de «rf Chirac©
An lows professor claims that cold
weather in sprtsp is pood for the fruit
crop Evidently the waif cry from
CtoOU was a false alarm.
A Harvard professor has solved tbs
riddle of (to itdlsi. but It U oafs to
ooosn that ha dorset kaow shy tba
haiec Stan to
Wealthy aM eat tot always do as
(her please A Judss uoulda't allow
Cocweftow.V aaderl»Ut to cross hla toco
Let us set abolish the rat just yet.
Deriar Toasac teils as that the rat to
the ertjiaai aad buy cjSTrjor of
See Tort reports the theft of 111.
PM worth of hair That s shat comes
•f toasias > arouad ow the dresser
A Tarfc cdhrfal makes the state
mtT. that cabs to that city are beins
^ p, crltniaala It a n he he
haa juet tahea hto fcat rtde is oee
•yhe leal who rocks the boat is
, , |a-_tata print a*kin Let us
the looi toiler wfU deist hi* job
chase*tears s «■*»• »«rd*
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NEW SECRETARY OF WAR
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HENRY I_ STIMSON. Who has been appointed secretary of war to suc
•oed Jacob M Dickinson, resigned, was the Republican candidate for
governor of New Y'ork last fail and was defeated by Mr. Dix. Mr. Stimson
was bom in New York city in 1SC7. was graduated from Philips Academy
and from Yale. Took the law course a*. Harvard and was admitted to the
ir in 1891. In 1893 fce joined the law firm of which Elihu Root was a
ember He seried as I'nited Stat-s attorney for the southern district
f New York under President. Roosevelt and figured conspicuously in the
, rosecutkns of the sugar trust. Charles W. Moore and railroad rebaters.
MUSHROOr
Crops Grown Cheaply and Suc
cessfully in Coal Regions.
Seme Bright Person Who Knew Some
thing About Plant Discovered That
Dark Underground Chambers
Were as Good as Cellars.
New York.—"Do you see these?"
remarked a man who raises mush
rooms. as he pointed to a pile ol
mushrooms. "Well. I happen to know
that ’hose mushrooms came out of a
coal mine in Pennsylvania.
Seems funny, doesn't it. that mush
rtoms and coal should come from the
same place, but the fact is that quite
a few mushrooms are taken out of the
mine* now. Occasionally thev help
to glut the market, too.
Of course, as everybody knows,
mushrooms are raised in cellars, and
two essentials are a proper fertiliser
arefully applied and an even tern
. • rature. Some bright person who
new something about mushrooms
liscovered that when it came to grow
ls them artificially the dark cham
■ • rs of a mine were as good as the
rdinary cellar, and that you could
-uise mushrooms at less cost in them.
In the first place, the mules fur
nished just the right kind of manure
for not!.lag. and then the temperature
f a mine is always even, so that it
-t nothing to supply beat. There
-re lots of places in the Pennsylvania
■oal mines which can be used for
rowing mushrooms, and before long j
lilne mushrooms are certain to be I
tuite a factor is the market, I be- j
ileve.
"The largest part of New York’6 !
supply of mushrooms comes from j
Pennsylvania anyway and some of the ,
arge growers are located in the coal
rtgions. hence it Is not strange that
the Idea of growing them in mines
should be taken up there.
"Nowadays the profit in raising
mushrooms for the market is not
what It uaed to be. Formerly the
mushroom grower could easily get $1
a pound for them and was always
' sure of getting his crop taken as fast
as it matured. Four thousands pounds
of mushrooms might be called a fair
crop for the man who makes a busi
ness of growing them and as you can
<;et a crop every six weeks with care
| tul planning, you can see how prcfit
j able It was then.
"The number of mushroom raisers
has Increased tremendously in the last
few years, with the result that last
seek, for example, you could buy the
best mushrooms for 25 cents a pound.
The mushroom market is uncertain,
because It isn't regulated at all. There
are no seasons for mushrooms and no
combination of growers. Hence at
limes the market is glutted with
them, while st other times the amount
brought in is small and the price goes
! op.
"A tot of people have gone into
mushroom farming with a view of Bup
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SECURE STRENGTH IN SUGAR
Doctors Prescribe Saccharine Pood as
Heart Tonic, Wasting Disorders
and Nervousness.
Near York —Ever see a “randy girl
with a weak heart or a candy kid that
did not caper nimbly?” For the rea
son why see the grave discussion in
the medical periodicals summarized
in the New York Medical Journal.
The British Medical Journal began
* the Inquiry In artl-les by Sir James
Sawyer, who advocates the use of 1
sugar as a heart tonic. He prescribes
it also in wasting disorders, some
forms of anaemia, adynamic rheuma
tism and nervous diseases. He finds
patients increase in weight, power,
strength and vigor, and in those of
neurasthenic tendencies he finds that j
the results are especially good.
The patient Is advised to carry with
him about half a pound of lump sugar
and to eat it from time to time, ex
cept just before a meal.
Pure cane sugar should be used.
The purity of the product is assured j
if two lumps become luminous when j
rubbed together in the dark.
The carrying of half a pound of
sugar may be useful to those who
have difficulty in finding keyholes at
night.
Letter Sold for $25,000.
Leipsic. Saxony.—At an autograph
sale the other day a letter -written by
Martin Luther to Emperor Charles V.
was bought by a Florence dealer for
$25,500.
JS IN MINE
f
plying a few Eelect customers, such
as the large restatrrants. I know a
French waiter who today is making
$5,000 a year out of what might be
called a small mushroom farm.
"AH the work in mushroom farming
comes in starting your bed. and that
isn't real hard work. After that all
jou've got to do is see that it is kept
at the proper temperature by means
of the fertilixer. In six weeks you get
your crop.
"The mushroom market to some ex
tent has been hurt by the plan adopt
ed by some farmers of giving away
mushrooms as a bonus to their cus
tomers with the other produce. A lot
I of truck farmers are raising mush
! rooms in their cellars just for this pur
pose.
"The Long Island farmers haven't
taken up mushroom farming as a com
mercial venture to any extent and
most of the mushrooms brought here
trom Long Island are natural ones.
They are In a class by themselves and
don't bring anything like as much as
the artificial mushrooms. Most people
are cfraid of the natural mushroom—
the old fear of confounding it with a
toadstool. I suppose. Anyway, you
can't sell them like the others.”
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FLIPPED COIN FOR MILLIONS
Men Buy Land Where Little Silver
Piece Falls and Are Rewarded
by Fortune in Oil.
San Francisco.—Four thousand Bar
rels of oil a day are gushing from an
old oil field in the Bakersfield coun
try that wss discovered through the
flipping of a silver coin. The owners
of the gusher are Clarence Berry.
John D. Spreckles. Jr.; William Ma
guire and Charles Holbrook, said to
be worth millions. Recently offered
an option on oil lands they were
dubious about the prospect.
"Which bit of land to buy we don’t
know,” said Spreckles. "so let us to6s
a coin and see where it falls. We’ll
buy there.”
The other agreed. A coin was spun
high in the air. The place where it
fell was marked out The property
was acquired. Engineers were put to
work. The first boring made was at
the spot where the coin fe'L In less
than a week oil began to spurt. Now
the chief concern of the investors in
the land is to supply enough barrels
to take care of the gushing oil.
Dog Has Gold Tooth.
New York.—Dr. Fred Seibert, den
tist. 135 Sherman avenue, is looking
j for his first patient now missing from
I home.
The habits of this patient were not
always of the best He drank beer
and smoked cigarettes.
The patient consented to allow the
doctor to put in a front gold tooth
while the doctor was a student. It was
a long gold crown and made the pa
tient the most aristocratic dog in its
neighborhood.
Pill THROUGH BOOT
Removed From Calf of Man Af
ter Nine Years’ Wandering.
Californian Who Swallowed Tiny
Piece of Steel Thought He Was
Suffering From Liver Trouble,
Rheumatism and Tuberculosis.
Los Angeles, Cal.—The wanderings
of Ulysses seem as nothing when com
pared with those of a biack-headed
steel pin which for nine years traveled
erratically through the body of Fran
cis McMann, constantly keeping his
life in jeopardy, and which was re
moved from the calf of his left leg at
the county hospital.
McMann, who is thirty-two years
old, a native of Philadelphia, for some
time thought he was bewitched by the
vagaries of the pin.
Nearly nine years ago. while in the
Quaker city, he was asked to pin the
back of a dress for his four-year-oUl
j niece. He was handed several black
! headed pins for the purpose. As he
was not an expert at the task Mc
Mann put the pins in his mouth for
safekeeping and in his eagerness to
do well swallowed one of them.
More than a year after swallowing
the pin he was troubled with sharp
pains in his back and, as poultices and
plaster gave no relief, he consulted a
physician, who told him he had liver
trouble. As time elapsed the pains be
came more erratic and McMann decld
ed that he had rheumatism. Four
years ago he became troubled with a
sharp cough which caused his health j
to decline rapidly. •
He left Philadelphia and came to
| Los Angeles, where he worked for the
Maier Brewing company for a few
months. The California air did not
seem to benefit his cough and he ap
plied for admission to the county hos
pital. He was diagnosed as tubercu
! lar and admitted to the institution.
Three years ago an X-ray was applied :
to test the condition of his lungs. The 1
examination disclosed that the pin. j
which McMann readily remembered to
have swallowed, was lodged in his left
lung and was causing serious trouble
with that organ.
It was found that an operation would
be impossible and treatments were ap- |
plied to alter the course of the pin, the I
patient being kept continually In a re
dining position upon his left side.
About a year ago X-ray examina- !
tions showed that the pointed little In
truder had altered Its course and was !
headed for the patient's heart. At one
time it was located within half an inch
of the heart's left ventricle and the
life of McMann was despaired of.
i ne pin. however, changed Us
‘‘schedule" and started in a downward
direction. Its progress was anxiously
watched and the physicians decided
that when the traveler got below the
diaphragm an operation could be per
formed successfully.
Three months ago it penetrated the
diaphragm and lodged in the muscles
of McMann's back, where the action of
the muscles forced it rapidly down
ward. It was observed that each day
the pin was becoming farther removed
from the vital organs and the all-im
portant operation was delayed until
conditions were most favorable.
An examination recently disclosed
the wanderer close to the surface in
the muscles of the calf of the pa
tient's left leg. whence it had traveled,
closely following the bones of the
limb. A simple operation was per
formed and the pin. locking little the
worse for wear, removed.
HUNNEWELL’S WOMAN MAYOR
MRS. ELLA WILSON, the mayor of
the little town of Hunnewell,
Kan., has started In to “clean up" the
place. She has filed several of the
most important offices with tgomen,
and the experiment is being watched
with Interest—Exchange.
Girl in Pajamas on Car.
Omaha. Neb.—Dressed in a suit of
blue silk pajamas and wearing the
thoughtful air of a somnambulist. Miss
Sadie Allen, a pretty twenty-one-year
eld Omaha girl, boarded a Harney
street car at midnight the other night,
car-te down to the business part of the
city and was finally awakened by phy
sicians. who took her in charge. When
with the aid of a glass of ice water
she was brought to consciousness she
went into hysterics. She was wrapped
in tablecloths from a nearby cafe and
taken home in an automobile.
creel. —The Talmud.
WAYS OF SERVING MEATS.
A Hungarian stew is a dish that is
good enough for company. Put two
tablespoonfuls of butter into a kettle
with a sliced onion; let it brown; then
put in three pounds of good round
steak cut in half-inch pieces, season
with salt, pepper and a pinch of cay
enne; dredge well with flour. When
brown, add a little boiling water, add
ing more from time to time until the
meat is tender. This is nice served
with dumplings.
French Stew.—Put a tablespoonful
each of butter and flour in a kettle,
ccok until brown; add a small minced
onion and three pounds of veal, cut
in pieces. Cover with a quart of
water; add salt and pepper and cook
slowly for two hours.
Spiced Beef.—Season chapped steak
with salt, pepper and spices; add two
eggs, half a pint of crumbs, five ta
blespconfuls of cream and a small
piece of butter. Mix and bake into
a roll with flour enough to bind to
gether the ingredients. Bake in a but
tered pan. Slice when cold.
For a choice dinner dish, try Fillet
a la Jardiniere. Lard a good-sized fillet
with strips of salt pork on both sides
of the fillet. In a roasting pan melt a
large piece of butter and brown the
fillet well on both sides; then add
very slowly a cup of sour cream, and
if needed, a little boiling water. Baste
often; roast one hour. Serve on a
large platter, garnished with different
cooked vegetables in groups arranged
around the fillet. *
A most delicious ham Is prepared
by some butchers, using the tender
loin of the pork, salting, curing and
smoking it as they do hams and
shoulders
Mock Duck.—Take a round of beef
steak. season both sides with salt and
pepper, spread seasoned breadcrumbs
prepared as for stuffing on the meat;
roll up and tie. Roast slowly until
tender.
Veal Leaf.—Take three pounds of
raw veal, chopped fine, add a pound of
salt pork, chopped as fine, season with
salt, pepper and onion juice: a cup
ful of breadcrumbs and three eggs
well beaten. Mix well and pack in a
buttered dish to bake. Bake at least
an hour.
HKRE is no scorn like that ut
tered In silence. The shears
give the most effective cut when they
shut up.”
NEW CAKE FILLINGS.
One of the most delicious desserts
Imaginable is prepared by using a lay
er cake of angel food mixture about
an inch thick and put together with
a filling of sweetened whipped cream
into which has been stirred a few
chopped strawberries. Cover the top
■with the cream and a few berries cut
in halves.
Sweet Cream and Chocolate Filling.
—Boil together a cup of sugar, a half
cup of cream and a square of choco
late. When a little dropped in water
makes a ball, remove from the heat
and beat until cool enough to spread.
Raisin Filling.—Boll together a cup
of sugar and five tablespoonfuls of hot
water until thick, then pour It over
a half cup of chopped raisins and a
half cup of nuts. When cool spread
between the layers.
Prince Bickler.—Put a cup of sugar
into a sauce pan and when melted
pour over a cup of peanuts that have
been slightly crushed with a rolling
pin. When cold put this candy
through a meat chopper, and stir it
into a cup of whipped cream that has
been flavored with vanilla.
Delicious Cake Filling.—Chop and
mix together a pound of seeded rais
ins. three-fourths of a pound of figs
and a pound of blanched almonds.
Stir this mixture into boiled frosting,
and spread thickly between two layers
of cake baked in a long or square pan.
Caramel Filling.—Take a cupful
each of brown and white sugar, one
egg and two teaspoonfuls of melted
butter and a half cup of sweet cream.
Cook together until thick enough to
spread. Flavor with vanilla and
spread on the cake when coo!.
Apple Filling.—Grate a sour apple,
beat the white of an egg until stiff,
add a half cup of powdered sugar and
the grated apple very slowly.
O FORTH and bless
The world that needs the
hand and heart
Of Martha's helpful carefulness
No less than Mary's better part.
—Whittier.
IDEAS FOR PICNICS.
For picnic parties there is nothing
that adds to the pleasure and lessens
the labor like a tireless cooker. The
coffee may be made at home and kept
hot; the creamed chicken, baked.
beans or chowder may be ready to
serve with a little heating, and the
Ices or frozen dishes are* all ready to
serve without the fear that they may
be melted.
Almond Salad.—Stone and chop a
dozen olives, add a cup of blanched
and shredded almonds and a cup of
celery, cut fine. Serve on lettuce
leaves with mayonnaise.
Temperance Punch.—This is a nice
cold drink which will be welcome to
picnicers. Upon a tablespoonful of
good tea pour two quarts of water,
boiling hot. In the meantime have
ready the juice and peelings of three
lemons and one orange in a pitcher.
When the tea has steeped five min
utes. strain into the pitcher. Add a
cup of sugar and at serving time put
plenty of ice in the glasses.
Save the wafer boxes to pack the
sandwiches in, wrap them in the
waxed paper that may be saved from
the same boxes. Little paper dishes
| are now in the market that may be
I used for salads and berries. The pa
per plates make the baskets much
more convenient to carry.
When lemonade is liked the juice
of the lemcns and a little water and(
sugar may be boiled together, and
this carried in a quart fruit jar. When
wanted add tablespoonful or two to a
glass of water.
A delicious sandwich is made by
using chopped cold cooked chicken
and a fourth of the quantity of
blanched chopped almonds, mixed to a
> paste with cream.
I
the world that is equal to perfect health.
The surest road to health.
Say what the*- will.
Is never to suppose we shall be ill;
Most of the evils we poor mortals know.
From doctors and imagination How.
NEW WAYS WITH VEGETABLES.
The English serve the cucumber
whole, and each one peels, slices and
dresses it to suit himself. The advan
tage is that the vegetable is crisp
and fresh.
Did you ever slice the cucumber
lengthwise instead of crosswise? The
cook who served the vegetable so.
said it avoided the hard seeds.
Another nice way is to peel the cu
cumber and slice it and lay the slices
together in the original shape. Ar
range on lettuce and serve chopped
parsley in the dressing. This makes
an attractive arrangement of a com
monplace vegetable.
The vegetable slicer is used by
some to slice cucumbers, giving them
the same form as latticed potatoes.
A layer of sliced tomatoes overlap
ping each other, with a cucumber ar
ranged in the same way on a salad
plate lined with lettuce Is a pretty
way of serving those two vegetables
; together.
Summery Dishes.
A cabbage salad may be taken from
! the commonplace to the unusual by
! the addition of a shredded green pep
per. a handful of almonds and a diced
apple.
Green Peppers and Tomato Sauce.—
Cut up two quarts of fresh tomatoes,
add a teaspocnful of salt, and cook
for half an hour; strain. There should
be a pint or more. In a casserole (a
stone covered dishl put half a cup of
olive oil. adding, when smoking hot.
two cloves of garlic, finely minced.
Fry these until brown. Now add the
| strained tomatoes, a tablespoonful of
■ minced parsley and a bay leaf. Boil
ten minutes. Cut in strips ten green
peppers, removing the seeds, and add
to the sauce. Cook slowly half an
hour. Serve hot.
Salmon salad Is improved by the ad
dition of a chopped pickle ani a few
tablespoonfuls of freshly-grated cocoa
nut.
Stuffed green peppers are a most
ap»»etizing dish. The stuffing may be
any mixture, chicken, ham or other
meats and seasoning.
A Scriptural Injunction.
“Yes, sir," said Dobbleigh. “horses
are ruining my brother Tom. He's
crazy about them. Just paid J3.000
for a span of trotters."
"Well. 1 don't know,” said Billups
“How about yourself? What did you
pay for that touring car of yours?”
“Five thousand dollars.” said Dobb
leigh. “But what—”
"Well, you'd better not criticize the
team in your brother's eye until you
have cast out the motor that is in
your own eye.” retorted Billups.—Har
per’s Weekly.
Progress of Cremation.
Cremation is making steady pro
gress in Europe, in some countries
faster than in others. Germany has
20 crematories. Over 23,000 bodies
have been cremated there, as com
pared with 8.121 in England and
Scotland. In Switrerland, where there
are five crematories, the number of
cremations is proportionally several
times as many as in Great Britain.
Over 94.000 bodies have been cremat
ed in Paris during the last 20 years.
Effect of Imagination.
A man condemned to death was
promised that if he would spend the
night in bed in which a cholera patient
had died and survived the experiment,
his freedom would be given him. He
■pent the night In the bed and died
,tbe next day. But no patient, had ever
died In the bed. and the effect on the
Imagination and nerves of the con
demned man really caused his death.
Old Beliefs Rudely Disturbed.
. The old teachings of China and In
dia established the belief in Japan
that it was best that women be not no
ticed by others, that their duties were
wholly domestic, and that appearing
out of doors was unbecoming a faith
ful wife or dutiful daughter. Garden
parties, dinner parties, balls and so
cial calls are new importations from
the west.
Dally Thought.
There Is nothing so easy but that it
difficult when you do it with
reluctance.—Terence.
WESTERN CANADA
BEYOND THE
PIONEER STAGE
Liberty-Loving People Have All the
„ Liberty the Heart Can Desire
Under Canadian Laws.
The New York Commercial of April
19th contained an interesting article
on conditions in Western Canada. The
following extracts will prove instruc
tive reading to those who contem
plate moving to Canada. The writer
speaks of land at $8 to $18 an acre.
As a matter of fact, there is very
little land that can be had now at
less, than $18 per acre, but when one
considers the productive quali'-les of
this land it is safe to say that in two
years’ time there will be little avail
able land to be had at less than $30
an acre. Already the free grant
lands in the open prairie districts
| are becoming exhausted and the
: homesteader has to go farther back
I to the partially wooded areas. This
' is no drawback, however. Some pre
fer this land to the open prairie. A
recent publication, issued by the De
partment of the Interior, Ottawa,
1 Canada, and which is forwarded free
| to applicants by mail by any of
j the Canadian government agents
! throughout the United States, says
• ot the newly-opened districts:
Water is always abundant, wood and
fuel are plentiful and the soil that
can grow the poplar and the willow
as well as the rich grasses that are
i to be found there can be relied upon
j to produce all the small varieties of
| grain with equal success. The New
| York Commercial article referred to
( deals more particularly with condi
tions along the line of the Grand
Trunk Pacific, but what is said of
one line of railway may with truth
be -said of the land and the conditions
along both the Canadian Northern
and the Canadian Pacific. The article
! says:
“It would be no exaggeration to
say that practically all the land along
j the entire distance traversed by the
| Grand Trunk Pacific system is capa
ble of furnishing homes to those who
engage in farming. The lands are of
three classes. They may be desig
! nated, first, as having special adap
i tation to the production of grain;
! second, as having such adaptation to
, mixed farming, of which live stock
| will form an important feature, and
third, as being mainly adapted to the
production of live stock only. On
the third class of lands the area is
not very large, '<t the second it is
much larger anu of the first it is
by far the largest.
As soon as mixed farming shall
j be generally adopted, land that may
now be obtained for from $S to $18
per acre, and even lands open now
to free homesteads, will sell for $50
to $100 per acre. This is not an ex
j travagant statement. In natural fer
tility these lands fully equal thbse
of the American corn belt. In vari
ety of production they excel them,
and yet the latter sell for $100 to
$200 per acre. In addition to the
grain crops now grown of wheat, oats,
barley and rye, much of the land will
grow winter wheat when properly
prepared. Eighty per cent, of the
j land will grow clover and alfalfa. A
j still larger percentage will grow field
I peas, and the entire tillable area will
| grow good crops of the cultivated
1 grasses, timothy, brome grass and
western rye grass. With these ele
| ments what can prevent this region
i from becoming the main source of
! food supply of the Empire and Im
j pc rial dominions?”
Special stress is laid upon the edu
j cational conditions. The writer says:
“The foundation of the social fabric
of the agricultural country may be
i said to rest on the efficiency of its
j school system. Liberty-loving peo
ple have all the liberty the heart can
desire under Canadian laws. In this
regard Western Canada has a system
of education based upon the best that
can be obtained from the United
States or Eastern Canada. Its school
system and regulations are second to
none. Every boy or girl has a school
house brought to his or her doorway.
The government is most liberal in its
support of higher education. In Win
; nipcg. Saskatoon and Edmonton are
to bo found excellent colleges and uni
versities, so that the problem of
higher education is solved. The pro
vincial agricultural schools, located
at Winnipeg and Saskatoon, give
practical courses in scientific farm
ing, preparing graduates to take up
the responsibilities of farm life.
"The newcomer settling in this
favored section will find the social
conditions )ar beyond a pioneer stage.
He will find helps on every hand. In
stead of his going to the ‘jumping-ofl
place,' as is often supposed when
thinking of Western Canada, he will
find himself surrounded by wonderful
opportunities for social advancement
in a new country fraught with prom
ise.” _
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