The Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . • NEBRASKA
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densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
CONGRESS.
The senate passed the military
academy appropriation bill carrying
$1,125,000.
Senate passed over president's veto
Webb bill to prohibit shipment of
liquor to dry states.
Senator Sheppard introduced a bill
to forbid change of size and color of
present paper money.
Senate pased naval appropriation
bill, with an amendment to authorize
the construction of two battleships.
Reliable information says William J.
Bryan of Nebraska has been named as
the secretary of state in the new Wil
son cabinet.
Senator Owen introduced resolution
Pilling on secretary of interior for all
Yorrespondeuce on proposed Osage In
dian oil land leases.
A bill to reduce the number of of
ficers for each regiment of infantry',
cavairv and field artillery was intro
duced in the House by Chairman Hay
of the house military affairs commit
tee.
The senate passed a resolution call
ing on the secretary of the treasury
for all correspondence relating to
treasury' order No. 5, requiring cus
toms receipts to be deposited in na
tional banks.
The senate will take no action at
this session on the treaty recently ne
gotiated with the republic of Nicar
agua, by which the United States
would secure, for the sum of $ ’.,000,000,
a perpetual and exclusive right to
build an inter-oceanic canal through
that country.
The postoffice appropriation bill, car
rying approximately $283,000,000, an
Increase of nearly $3,000,000 over the
house bill, was passed by the senate.
The largest single item in the bill is
for the transportation of mails on rail
routes. $51,500,000 being authorized by
the senate for this purpose.
That a man cannot live on $720 a
year and “keep up appearances" was
the decision of the senate when it
overturned its postoffice committee,
voted out $720 salaries for postal
clerks and mail carriers and accept
ed the $800 minimum salary previous
ly fixed by the house.
The effort that Senator Gamble of
South Dakota has been making to se
cure the location of a new land office
at Carter, S. D., met with success
when President Taft signed an order
which abolishes the two land offices at
Chamberlain and Gregory in that state
and established a new' one at Carter.
House and senate gave the annual
appropriation bills a vigorous push to
wards completion and made marked
inroads upon a mass of legislative mat
ter that has crowded the calendars of
the congress. The last appropriation
measure, the general deficiency bill,
passed the house and that body has
only conference reports to act upon
from now until adjournment. The gen
eral deficiency appropriation bill carry
ing $24,658,245 passed the house with
practically no opposition.
GENERAL.
A memorial to congress suggesting
the annexation of Senora and Lower
California to the United States was
Introduced in the Arizona state sen
ate recently.
Police Captain Walsh of New York,
implicated by Policeman Fox, self
confessed collector of protection
money, who later confessed to having
received graft money front Fox, has
pleaded guilty.
With a stethoscope applied to his
ears, Karl W. Schneider, a manufac
turer of surgical instruments at Phil
adelphia, listened to his heart record
its dying beats after he had pierced
that organ with a steel lance.
Carved marble is to perpetuate
the fame of “Uncle Joe" Cannon in
congress. Superintendent of the cap
itol, E. Woods, stated that a marble
bust is to be presented to conress by
the "Sage of Danville,” and placed in
the mam rotunda of the house office
building.
Rev. H. Miller Scott, former pastor
of the Butler Avenue Congregational
church at Lincoln, Neb., who has
been attending Columbia university,
in New York, has accepted a call to
Flushing, Long Island.
While bathing at her home at Des
Moines, la., Mrs. E. B. Austin was
electrocuted by a "massage vibrator.”
James I. Gillespie, a fireman, was
killed and a dozen others narrowly es
caped death when a building collapsed
at Atlanta, Ga.
Joe Rivers, the lightweight boxer,
and Miss Pauline Slirt, daughter of a
Santa Monica contractor, will' be mar
ried in Los Angeles soon.
Salt Lake City has been chosen by
the executive committee as the meet
ing place for the convention of the
National Education association to be
held July 5 to 10.
The third member of the board of
arbitration to settle the differences
between the eastern railroads and
their firemen will have to be chosen
by the United States commissioner of
labor and the chairman of the Inter
state Commerce commission.
Ten thousand American soldiers
have assembled in Galveston, ready
for service in Mexico.
At Paris, France, four of Bonnot's
"auto bandits” have been condemned
to die by the guillotine, four were
freed, eleven were sentenced to from
one to ten years’ imprisonment and
exile, and two to life imprisonment.
The government has awarded the
contract for building the battleship
Pennsylvania.
United States civil service examina
tions for different positions will be
held throughout the country during
the spring.
Moving picture men, testifying for
the government in New York, de-,
scribed operations of the “moving
picture trust” in opposing the busi
ness of an independent company.
The department of state at Wash
ington has authorized Ambassador
Herrick to lease new offices for the
American embassy at Rue Chaillot,
France.
An engagement of fifty-two years
will be culminated at La Crosse, Wis.,
with the marriage of John Knight, 70,
and Lydia Reed. CO, of Elberta, Mich.
The couple became engaged in 1861.
Emperor William of Germany lo.-t
a lawsuit brought against him by a
tenant farmer named Sohst, whom he
boasted during a recent speech that
he had "thrown out because he was
no good.”
Arrested for a series of small for
geries, A. J. Heinn, founder and for
mer president of a loose leaf book
manufacturing company of Milwaukee,
gouged out. both of his eyes in self
punishment.
Representatives of the bathtub trust
convicted of criminal conspiracy in re
straint of trade have given notice that
they will pay the fines imposed on
them if the government will cancel a
second criminal indictment.
By a vote of 244 to 95 the house
repassed over President Taft's veto,
the Webb bill, prohibiting shipments
of intoxicating liquors into “dry
states." The senate passed it over
the veto and the bill now becomes
law.
The recent storm put a crimp in
car loading on Nebraska railroads.
Beginning with the start of the storm
grain and stock loading dropped off
and the record for two or three days
bears a close resemblance to Sunday
loading records.
Joseph Ellison, aged 73 years, a vet
eran of the civil war from Fredericks
burg. la., and a member of the sol
diers' home, wandered away from
Marshalltown, la., and froze to death
on the Missouri &. St. Louis right
of-way.
Dr. B. Clark Hyde’s purchase of
cyanide shortly before the death of
Colonel Thomas H. Swope, with the
explanation that he wanted the drug
“to kill dogs with” was the point
which the state attempted to bring
out at the Hyde murder trial in Kan
sas City.
Thomas and Robert Holmes who
are believed to be the oldest twins in
the west, celebrated their eighty-first
birthday at Long Beach, Calif. Both
are in good health and spirits. The
twins jointly held the office of post
master at Albion, Wis., for thirty-one
years.
The University of Iowa will send
the first psychologist to be a member
of a polar expedition north this spring
with Vilhjul Stefansson. Luther E. Wi
den of Iowa will accompany the ex
pedition with a complete labaratory
outfit of psychological apparatus to
measure the efficiency of the Eskimo
mind.
The United States, it is stated in a
Washington dispatch, has begun an
action before the interstate commerce
commission to prevent what is called
an attempt by the Union Pacific Rail
way company to monopolize all the
traffic bound for the Pacific northwest
from points in the middle west and
great lake points.
On orders from the Department ot
Justice at Washington indictments
brought at Dallas, Tex., for alleged
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law by officials of the Standard Oil
company of New York, the Standard
Oil company of New Jersey and the
Magnolia Petroleum company of Tex
as have been noile-prossed.
The Indiana senate has passed the
house corrupt practices act bill,
which makes it a crime in Indiana for
a newspaper to publish “any article
or cartoon” tending “to expose to ridi
cule. hatred or contempt" any person
at any election, and providing a tine
of from $500 to $1,000 and imprison
ment for not more than a year for
each offense.
Thomas R. Marshall, vice president
elect, refused $4,800, that amount
being carried in the regular appropria
tion bill to reimburse Mr. Marshall for
money spent for house rent, light,
heat and water during his four years
as governor of Indiana. The former
governor said he did not believe the
appropriation constitutional, and sent
word to the conference committee to
strike out the $4,800.
For half an hour after he had killed
George E. Marsh, an aged manufac
turer of Lynn, Mass., William A. Dorr
drove up and down the Lynn boule
vard with the body propped up beside
him in the single seat of his runabout.
The Department of Justice has re
sumed its investigation of the Amer
ican Smelting and Refining company,
to determine whether it is a “smelt
ing trust” in violation of the Sheri
man anti-trust law.
SPORT.
The Chicago Nationals, in training
at Tampa, Fla., played their first ex
hibition game of the season, defeating
the Havana (Cuba) Athletics, 4 to 2.
Four men will represent the Uni
versity of Nebraska in the indoor
meet which is to be held in Kansas
City.
So widespread has become the in
terest in golf and so many its devo
tees that courses have been buik in
nearly every part of the civilized
world within the last few years. ,
As the beginning of the spring
draws near base ball interest increas
es among the amateurs.
The Sidney High school basket ball
five is now the undisputed champion
of western Nebraska in the Nebraska
High School Basket Ball league.
March 7 is the latest date that has
been named for the proposed bout be
tween Packey McFarland and Jack
Britton.
Will A. Ziegler, Rhodes scholar from
Iowa, won the weight putting event
with a put of forty-one feet nine
inches on the concluding day of the
Oxford, England, university sports.
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON.
Many thousands Witness His in
duction Into Office.
CEREMONIES ARE IMPRESSIVE
New Executive of Nation Takes Oath
on East Portico of Capitol After
Marshall Beccmes Vice
President.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington, March 4.—Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey is president of
the United States and Thomas Riley
Marshall of Indiana is vice-president.
The instant that the oath-taking cere
monies at noon today in front of the
capitol were completed, the Democrat
ic party of this country "came into its
own” again after an absence of six
teen years from the precincts of ex
ecutive power.
A throng of many thousands of
people witnessed the newly elected
president’s induction into office. Nine
tenths of the members of the crowd
were enthusiastically joyful, the other
tenth cheered with them, as becoming
good American citizens watching a
governmental change ordered in ac
cordance with the law and the Con
stitution
The Bible which during each suc
cessive four years is kept as one of
the treasures of the Supreme court,
was the immediate instrument of the
oath taking of Woodrow Wilson. Ed
ward Douglass White, chief justice of
the United States, held the Book for
Mr. Wilson to rest his hands upon
while he made solemn covenant to
support the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, and to fulfill the
duties of his office as well and as
faithfully as it lay within his power
to do.
Thomas Riley Marshall swore feal
ty to the Constitution and to the
people in the senate chamber, where
for four years it will be his duty to
’ preside over the deliberations of the
members of the upper house of con
gress.
Ceremonies Simple and Impressive.
Both of the ceremonies proper were
conducted in a severely simple but
most impressive manner. The sur
roundings of the scene of the presi
dent’s induction into office, however,
were not so simple, for it was an out
of-door event and the great gathering
of military, naval and uniformed civil
organizations gave much more than a
touch of splendor to the scene.
President Taft and President-elect
Wilson rode together from the White
House to the capitol, accompanied by
two members of the congressional
committee of arrangements. The vice
president-elect also rode from the
White House to the capitol and in the
carriage with him were the senate’s
president pro tempore, Senator Bacon
of Georgia, and three members of the
congressional committee of arrange
ments.
Ceremony In Senate Chamber.
The admission to the senate cham
ber to witness the oath-taking of the
vice-president was by ticket, and it
is needless to say every seat was
occupied. On the floor of the cham
ber were many former members of
the senate who, because of the fact
that they once held membership in
that body, were given the privileges
of the floor. After the hall was filled
and all the minor officials of govern
1 ment and those privileged to witness
the ceremonies were seated, William
H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson, preced
ed by the sergeant-at-arms and the
committee of arrangements, entered
the senate chamber. They were fol
lowed immediately by Vice-President
elect Thomas R. Marshall, leaning
upon the arm of the president pro
tempore of the senate.
The president and the president
elect sat in the first row of seats di
rectly in front and almost under the
desk of the presiding officer. In the
same row, but to their left, were the
vice-president-elect and two former
vice-presidents of the United States,
Levi P. Morton of New York and Ad
lai A. Stevenson of Illinois.
When the distinguished company en
tered the chamber the senate was
still under its old organization. The
oath of office was immediately admin
istered to Vice-President-elect Mar
shall, who thereupon became Vice
President Marshall. The prayer of the
day was given by the chaplain of the
senate, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, pas
tor of All Souls’ Unitarian church, of
which President Taft has been a mem
ber. After the prayer the vice-presi
dent administered the oath of office
to all the newly chosen senators, and
therewith the senate of the United
States passed for the first time in
years into the control of the Demo
cratic party.
Procession to East Portico.
Immediately after the senate cere
monies a procession was formed to
march to the platform of the east por
tico of the capitol, where Woodrow
Wilson was to take the oath. The pro
cession included the president and the
president-elect, members of the Su
preme court, both houses of congress,
all of the foreign ambassadors, all of
the heads of the executive depart
ments, many governors of states and
territories. Admiral Dewey of the navy
and several high officers of the sea
service, the chief of staff of the army
and many distinguished persons from
civil life. They were followed by the
members of the press and by those
persons who had succeeded in secur
ing seats in the senate galleries to
witness the day’s proceedings.
VV hen President Taft and the presi
dent-elect emerged from the capitol
on to the portico they saw in front
of them, reaching far back into the
park to the east, an immense con
course of citizens. In the narrow line
between the onlookers and the plat
form on which Mr. Wilson was to take
the oath, were drawn up the cadets
of the two greatest government
schools, West Point and Annapolis,
and flanking them were bodies of reg
ulars and of national guardsmen. The
whole scene was charged with color
and with life.
On reaching the platform the presi
dent and president-elect took the
seats reserved for them, seats which
were flanked by many rows of benches
rising tier on tier for the accommoda
tion of the friends and families of the
officers of the government and of the
press.
Mr. Wilson Takes the Oath.
The instant that Mr. Taft and Mr.
Wilson came within sight of the crowd
there was a great outburst of ap
plause, and the military bands struck
quickly into "The Star Spangled Ban
ner.” Only a few bars of the music
were played and then soldiers and ci
vilians became silent to witness re
spectfully the oath taking and to
listen to the address which followed.
The chief justice of the Supreme
court delivered the oath to the presi
dent-elect, who, uttering the words,
"I will,” became president of the
United States. As soon as this cere
mony was completed Woodrow Wilson
delivered his inaugural address, his
first speech to his fellow countrymen
in the capacity of their chief execu
tive.
At the conclusion of the speech the
bands played once more, and William
Howard Taft, now ex-president of the
United States, entered a carriage with
the new president and, reversing the
order of an hour before, sat on the
left hand side of the carriage, while
Mr. Wilson took ‘‘the seat of honor”
on the right. The crowds cheered as
they drove away to the White House,
which Woodrow Wilson entered as the
occupant and which William H. Taft
immediately left as one whose lease
had expired.
TO THE NATION
Inaugural Address Delivered by
the New President.
SEES WORK OF RESTORATION
Task of Victorious Democracy Is to
Square Every Process of National
Life With Standards Set Up
at the Beginning.
Washington, March 4.—President
Wilson's inaugural address, remark
able for its brevity, was listened to
with the greatest interest by the vast
throng which was gathered in front
of the capitol's east portico, and at its
close there was heard nothing but
praise for its eloquence and high
moral tone. The address in full was
as follows:
There has been a change of govern
ment. It began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by a decisive majority.
It has now been completed. The sen
ate about to assemble will also be
Democratic. The offices of president
and vice-president have been put into
the hands of Democrats. What does
the change mean? That is the ques
tion that is uppermost in our minds
today. That is the question I am go
ing to try to answer, in order, if 1
may, to interpiet the occasion.
Purpose of the Nation.
It means much more than the mere
success of a party The success of a
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for a large
and definite purpose. No one can
mistake the purpose for which the
nation now seeks to use the Demo
cratic party. It seeks to use it to in
terpret a change in its own plans and
point of view. Some old things with
which we had grown familiar, and
which had begun to creep into the
very habit of our thought and of our
lives, have altered their aspect as we
have latterly looked critically upon
them, with fresh, awakened eyes;
have dropped their disguises and
shown themselves alien and sinister.
Some new things, as we look frankly
upon them, willing to comprehend
their real character, have come to as
sume the aspect of things long believ
ed in and familiar, stuff of our own
convictions. We have been refreshed
by a new insight into our own life.
We see that in many things that
life is very great. It is incomparably
great In its material aspects, in its
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of its energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius of individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. It is great, also, very great,
in its moral force. Nowhere else in
the world have noble men and women
exhibited in more striking form the
beauty and energy of sympathy and
helpfulness and counsel in their efforts
to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
and set the weak in the way of
strength and hope. We have built up.
moreover, a great system of govern
ment, which has stood through a long
age as in many respects a model for
those who seek to set liberty upon
foundations that will endure against
fortuitous change, against storm and
accident. Our life contains every I
great thing, and contains it in rich
abundance.
Evil* That Have Come.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been
corroded. With riches has come in
excusable waste. We have squan
dered a great part of what we might
have used, and have not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of na
ture. without which our genius for en
terprise would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful,
shamefully prodigal as well as admir
ably efficient. We have been proud of
our industrial achievements, but we
have not hitherto stopped thought
fully enough to count the human cost,
the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener
gies overtaxed and broken, the fear
ful physical and spiritual cost to the
men and women and children upon
whom the dead weight and burden of
it all has fallen pitilessly the years
through. The groans and agony of it
all had not yet reached our ears, the
solemn, moving undertone of our life,
coming up out of the mines and fac
tories and out of every home where
the struggle had Its intimate and fa
miliar seat. With the great govern
ment went many deep secret things
which we too long delayed to look
into and scrutinize with candid, fear
less eyes. The great government we
loved has too often been made use of
for private and selfish purposes, and
those who used it had forgotten the
people.
At last a vision has been vouch
safed us of our life as a whole. We
see the bad with the good, the de
based and decadent with the sound
and vital. With this vision we ap
proach new affairs. Our duty is to
cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to
correct the evil without impairing the
good, to purify and humanize every
process of our common life without
weakening or sentimentalizing it.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste to
succeed and be great. Our thought has
been ‘Let every man look out for him
self. let every generation lock out for
itself,’ while we reared giant machin
ery which made it impossible that any
but those who stood at the levers of
control should have a chance to look
out for themselves. We had not for
gottefi our morals. We remembered
well enough that we had set up a
policy which was meant to serve the
humblest as well as the most power
ful, with an eye single to the stand
ards of justice and fair play, and re
membered it with pride. But we were
very heedless and in a hurry to be
great..
Things to Be Altered.
We have come now to the sober
second thought. The scales of heed
lessness have fallen from our eyes.
We have made up our minds to square
every process of our national life
again with the standards we so proud
ly set up at the beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work is a work of restoration.
We have itemized with some degree
of particularity the things that ought
to be altered and here are some of
the chief items: A tariff which cuts
us off from our proper part in the
commerce of the world, violates the
just principles of taxation, and makes
the government a facile instrument in
the hands of private interests; a bank
ing and currency system based upon
the necessity of the government to
sell its bonds fifty years ago and per
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an industrial
system which, take it on all its sides,
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital in leading strings, re
stricts the liberties and limits the op
portunities of labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the nat
ural resources of the country; a body
of agricultural activities never yet
given the efficiency of great business
undertakings or served as it should be
through the instrumentality of science
taken directly to the farm, or afforded
the facilities of credit best suited to
its practical needs; water courses un
developed. waste places unreclaimed,
forests untended, fast disappearing
without plan or prospect of renewal,
i unregarded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of production, but we have not studied
cost or economy as we should either
as organizers Of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
Govsrnment for Humanity.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service of humanity, in
! safeguarding the health of the nation,
[ the health of its men and its women
and its children, as well as their rights
| in the struggle for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis
| of government is justice, not pity.
These are matters of justice. There
can be no equality or opportunity, the
first essential of justice in the body
politic, if men and women and chil
; dren be not shielded in their lives,
i their very vitality, from the conse
I quences of great industrial and social
processes which they cannot alter,
control, or singly cope with. Society
must see to it that it does not itself
| crush or weaken or damage its own
! constituent parts. The first duty of
law is to keep sound the society it
I serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
! and laws determining conditions of
labor which individuals are powerless
j to determine for themselves are inti
i mate parts of the very business of jus
tice and legal efficiency.
These are some of the things we
ought to do, and not leave the others
undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be
neglected, fundamental safeguarding
of property and of individual right.
This is the high enterprise of the new
day; to lift everything that concerns
our life as a nation to the light that
shines from the hearthfire of every
man's conscience and vision of the
right. It is inconceivable that we
should do this as partisans; it is in
conceivable we should do it in ignor
ance of the facts as they are or in
blind haste. We shall restore, not de
stroy. We shall deal with our econ
omic system as it is and as it may
be modified, not as it might be if we
had a clean sheet of paper to write
upon: and step by step we shall make
it what it should be, in the spirit of
those who question their own wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge, not
shallow self-satisfaction or the excite
ment of excursions whither they can
not tell. Justice, and only justice,
shall always be our motto.
Nation Deeply Stirred.
And yet it will be no cool process
of mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn
passion, stirred by the knowledge of
wrong, of ideals lost, of government
too often debauched and made an in
strument of evil. The feelings with
which we face this new age of right
and opportunity sweep across our
heart-strings like some air out of
God's own presence, where justice and
mercy are reconciled and the judge
and the brother are one. We know
our task to be no mere task of politics
but a task which shall search us
through and through, whether we be
able to understand our time and the
need of our people, whether we be in
deed their spokesmen and interpr.
ters, whether we have the pure heart
to comprehend and the rectified will
to choose our high course of action.
This is not a day of triumph; it is
a day of dedication. Here muster, not
the forces of party, but the forces of
humanity. Men s hearts wait upon us;
men's lives hang in the balance; men's
hopes call upon us to say what we
will do. Who shall live up to the
great trust? Who dares fail to try?
I summon all honest men, all patriotic,
all forward-looking men, to my side.
God helping me, I will not fail them,
if they will but counsel and sustain
me!
The Wheelbarrow.
If you have occasion to use a wheel- I
barrow, leave it, when you are through
with it, in iront oi the house with the i
handles towards the door. A wheel
barrow is the most complicated thing
to fall over on the face of the earth.
A man will fall over one when he
would never think of falling over any
thing else. He never knows when he
has got through falling over it, either;
for it will tangle his legs and his arms,
turn over with him and rear up in
front of him, and just as he pauses in
his profanity to congratulate himself,
it takes a new turn, and scoops more
skin off of him, and he commences to
evolute anew, and bump himself on
fresh places. A man never ceases to
fall over a wheelbarrow until it turns
completely on its back, or brings up
against something it cannot upset. It
is the most inoffensive looking object
there is, but it is more dangerous
than a locomotive, and no man is se
cure with one unless he has a tight
hold on its handles, and is sitting
down on something. A wheelbarrow
has its uses, wltlaout doubt, but in its
leisure moments it is the gppat blight
ing curse on truw dignity.—James
Montgomery Bailey.
Removing the Rust From Steel.
Rust can be removed from steel by
covering it with sweet oil for a dav,
then rub it with a lump of fresh lime
1 and polish in the ordinary way.
WESTERN CANADA’S
PHENOMENAL
DEVELOPMENT
ITS PERMANENCY VERY LITTLE
QUESTIONED.
There have been booms in almost
every civilized country and they were
looked upon as such, and in the course
of time the bubble was pricked and
they burst. But in no country has the
development been as great nor as
rapid, whether :n city or in country,
as in Western Canada. There may
sometimes be found one who will say
"Can it last?’’ Winnipeg, today, stands
where Chicago stands as far as be
ing the base of the great commercial
and agricultural country lying a
thousand miles back of it. It has an
advantage that Chicago did not have,
for no country in the world's history
has attracted to its borders a larger
number of settlers in so short a time,
or has attracted so much wealth in a
period of equal length, as have the
Canadian prairies. Never before has
pioneering been accomplished under
conditions so favorable as those that
exist in Western Canada today.
The provinces of Manitoba, Sas
katchewan, and Alberta have the
largest area of desirable lands on the
North American Continent, and their
cultivation has just begun.
Even with a two hundred million
bushel wheat crop less than eight per
cent, of the land Is under the plough,
four per cent, being in wheat. Less
than five years ago the wheat crop
was only seventy-one million bushels.
It is a simple calculation to estimate
that if four per cent, of the available
cultivable area produces something
over two hundred million bushels,
what will forty-four per cent, produce?
And then look at the immigration that
iB coming into the country. In 1901
i it was 49.149; 17,000 being from the
, United States. In 1906 it was 189.064.
! of which 57,000 were Americans, and
in 1912 it was about 400,000, of which
about 200,000 are Americans. In the
I three years prior to 1912, there were
! 358,859 persons who declared them
selves for Canada, who brought into
! Canada in cash, bank drafts, stock,
implements and effects over $350,000.
j 000. Why have they gone to Canada?
The American farmer is a man of
shrewd business instincts, and when
he finds that he can sell his own farm
at from $100 to $200 per acre and move
into Canada and homestead 1'60 acres
for himself, and similarly for all his
sons who are adult and of age. upon
lands as rich and fertile as those he
had left, and producing, indeed, sev
eral bushels to the acre in excess of
anything he has ever known, it will
take more than an ordinary effort to
prevent him from making the change.
He can also purchase good lands at
from $12 to $25 per acre.
And, then, too, there is the Ameri
can capital following the capital of
brawn, muscle and sinew, following it
so as to keep in touch with the indus
trious farmer with which he has had
dealings for years back. This capital
and the capital of farming experience
is no small matter in the building up
of a country.
Will Western Canada’s development
continue? Why not? The total area
of land reported as available for cul
tivation is estimated as 218,000,000
acres; only fifteen per cent, of this is
under cultivation. Nothing is said of
the great mineral and forest wealth,
of which but little has yet been
touched.—Advertisement
Its Negative Virtues.
“I wish you'd get rid of that abso
lutely worthless poodle.”
' Absolutely worthless?”
"That's what I said! Absolutely—
absolutely worthless! What does it
do that makes it good for anything?”
"I was thinking of what it doesn't i
do.”
“Oh-h. what it doesn’t do”
"Yes. It doesn’t chew tobacco,
smoke a pipe, fight booze or use pro
fane language.”
Taking a Lesser Chance.
A government inspector was con
ducting an oral examination for ma
rine engineers. Said one:
"If you had tested your gauge cocks,
had looked at your water glass and
had found no water in the boiler, what
would you do?”
Came the answer, swift and true:
"I would jump overboard.”
Onto It.
Blobbs—Skinnum is trying to pro
mote a new mining company. Did you
fall for it?
Slobbs—No; I tumbled.
Liquid blue is a weak solution. Avoid It.
buy Red Cross ball Blue, the blue that's all
blue. Ask your grocer. Adv.
When a pretty widow begins to
hand baby talk to a bachelor he
might as well surrender.
Happy?
It’s really only
another word for per
fect digestion_active
liver—bowel regularity.
Sickness always
brings discontent
and “the blues” but
why remain so? Get
a bottle of
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