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HE Anglo-Saxon notion of the German
Christmas is drawn from childhood hours
spent over Hans Andersen and Grimm, and
the sight of a Christmas tree brings to
mind the woodcutter tramping home
through tbe snow-laden forest, trailing be
hind him the fir tree for his family Christ
mas celebration, while, in the towns, the
black quadrangle of the venerable market
place is picked out in lights blazing on tbe
trees in the windows of the gabled houses.
Some 50 years ago, before tbe German giant had
awakened from the sleep of centuries, this idea of the
peaceful German Christmas was correct. But Of one of the
burghers of old Berlin, returning from making his Christ
mas purchases on Christmas eve, were to be transplanted
into the roaring hub of empire which his Haupstadt has
become, the good man would probably expire on the spot.
Fifty years ago, when Berlin was a dirty, unpre
tentious, provincial town, with ill-lighted, ill-paved
‘streets, with a population renowned even in those days
for its surly manners and uncouthness, and with the iron
hand of militarism unchecked over it all, the Christmas
festival was the tranquil celebration of which one has
read. In the Gustgarten, before the castle, a Christmas
fair was annually ■ established which the king and royal
family used to visit to buy jumping jacks and ginger
bread for the palace Christmas trees, like any other Ger
man family. The Lustgarten fair has passed away, the
king of Prussia has become German emperor, Berlin has
developed into a fair and beautiful city, and all that re
mains of the Christmas of once upon a time is the spirit
—indeed, a precious inheritance. That still holds su
preme sway, and rests concealed in the branches of the
myriads of Christmas trees which rich and poor alike set
up in their homes on the eve of the feast.
Otherwise the old German simplicity has vanished.
In the house of the rich merchant electric lights take the
place ui mo i unsi canaies,
and the motor car or the
steam yacht which he gives
his son as a Christmas pres
ent can find no place under
the Christmas tree, as did the
woolen comforter, the hand
ful of gingerbread, or the
new skates in the day of his
father. Caruso or Destiun on
the gramophone take the
place of the Christmas hymns
which used to be sung as an
act of pious reverence to the
"Tannenbaiim." or perhaps
even, horribile dietu. the tree
will be fastened to a clock
work contrivance which, on
being wound up. revolves to
a tune jangled out by a
musical box. The bulging
one-storied shops with ginger
bread and gilt, angels stuck
in their diamond-paned win
dow fronts have vanished,
and their places are taken by
stores built on the same style
of palataial magnificence as
across the Atlantic. From the
Christmas
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OH. never falling splendor.
Oil. never silent song!
Still keep the green earth I
tender,
Still keep the gray earth
strong.
Still keep the brave earth
dreaming
Of deeds that shall be done, i
While children’s lives come
streaming
Like sunbeams from the sun!
Oh. angels, sweet and splendid.
Throng in our hearts and sing
The wonders which attended
The coming of the King.
beginning or December till the feast they devote a con
siderable portion of their space to Christmas bazars,
where one imagines one’s self transported to Toyland.
There are tremendous set pieces with electric trams, air
ships and railway trains careering about amid wonderful
papier mache mountain scenery ravishing visions; of fair
doll-women and army corps on army corps of the most
gallant tin soldiers that ever manned a fort. The air is
rent with an ear-splitting cacophony of noise emitted by
mechanical toys, and the atmosphere reeks with the smell
of shavings and glue, that peculiar pungent odor of the
toy shop which brings back to the old fogies the mysteri
ous delights of the birthday table.
On Christmas eve every German must have hit
Christmas tree. When one passes through the streets
on a wet Christmas eve—the sparkling frost and snowy
mantle of the feuilletonist rarely put in an appearance
before January—one has the curious feeling of being In
the midst of 60,000,000 of people all engaged in doing the
same thing. One can imagine the traveler, looking on the
thousands of Mohammedans laboriously threading their
way across the desert of Mecca to win the title of Hadji,
regarding the scene with similar emotions. Ftor when l
say every German, it is literally true. The streets of
Berlin are deserted, save for the cars and omnibuses and
cabs, and an occasional policeman, and from behind the
• blinds of the windows the candles on the Christmas trees,
throwing out their little beams into the darkness of the
night, as did the star to the shepherds nearly two thou
sand years ago In fair Bethlehem.
For weeks before the festival thou
sands and thousands of trees are
brought oy rail and water from the
forests of Thuringia and Mecklen
burg to the capital where tkey are
sold by dealers on the public squares
and places. In the last fortnight be
fore Christmas the trim grass plots
vanish beneath a'forest of Christmas
trees ranged up ia Endless lines,
each resting on a rowghlv tacked-to
gether, deal wood stand. And here
from eight in the morning till eight
at night, according to paragraph so
and so of the police regulations, the
millionaire captain of industry, the
uniformed official, the bespectacled
professor, and the miserably paid,
hungry looking school teacher rub
shoulders, haggling and bargaining
over their Christmas tree. The lat
ter can be had at all prices, from 60
marks for a forest king to 60 pfen
nigs for a stunted dwarf. The one
may be destined to be hung with cor
uscating electric lights and decked
with diamonds for the banker’s wife,
the other feebly illuminated with
farthing dips and miserably tricked
out with a handful of nuts for the
workingman’s family. The men on
duty at the electric plant stations on
Christmas eve have their tree, as do
the engine drivers as they sit in their
quarters at the railway yards waiting
for the night shifts.
The soldiers in the barracks, the
sailors at sea. the patients in the
hospitals, the convicts in the prisons,
even the poor, miserable wretches,
the submerged tenth, cowering about
the fires in the refuges for the home
less—they all have their Tannen
baum at this holy season ot Uie year, in me ucruuui
colonies, under a tropical sun. where the cactus must
perforce replace the native fir, Christmas celebrations are
held and the same songs sung as at home im lieben Vater
land.
Naturally, when all Germany's children are celebrat
ing. her model family leads the way. At the imperial
court Christmas is celebrated in exactly the same way
as in every other household throughout the empire. Two
especially fine specimens of fir are selected by the royal
foresters for the emperor and empress, and other trees
in diminishing sizs for the numerous other members of
the emperor's immediate family, that is, his six sons and
one daughter, the wives of his three married sons, and his
two grandsons, the latter being favored with proportion
ally tiny trees. The whole number are set up in the shell
hall of the new palace at Potsdam, where the kaiser al
ways spends Christmas, and the various gifts, about
which the same secrecy is observed as in the families of
the bourgeois, are disposed at the foot of each separate
tree. But before the imperial family celebrates the feast,
the emperor and empress attend the “Bescherung," or
presentation of gifts to the members of the imperial
household, valets-de-eharabre, personal attendants, lack
eys, and footmen.
On the afternoon of Christmas eve the emperor, ac
companied by an adjutant whose pockets are stuffed with
newly-minted live, three, and two mark pieces, takes the
traditional walk through the park of the new palace and
distributes money to the beggars who rally in great force.
He has a kind word or a cordial greeting for them all, nor
does he forget the guard at the gates of the palace.
HELPING SANTA CLAUS.
Within a few years there have been organized several
associations whose purpose it is to assist parents, especi
ally mothers, in the proper development of their children.
borne or tnese associations
look to physical development,
others to mental and moral,
and still others to both. In
a little book prepared by an
association of the last named
class, the writer recently
found this statement: “Par
ents are as much responsible
for the selfishness of their
children as they are for their
existence." This rather em
phatic statement led to quite
a discussion of the matter
with the mother of several
children, who told the writer
that she had been engaged
ever since her first born in
combatting selfishness and
developing generous impulses
in her children. In relating
her experiences she told this
little story:
“At this season of the year
my children got into the habit
of expressing their desires
for particular Christmas gifts.
I did not tell them that if
they would be good boys and
gins tney would receive these gifts, rather tried to im
press upon them the idea that if they did not ask for
more than they should receive, that is. were not selfish,
they might get them. With this admonition 1 coupled
the idea that Santa Claus needed help, especially in reach
ing the poor, the sick and the unfortunate. I told my
children to help Santa Claus all they could, and every
year they have managed to discover some poor child or
some sick or unfortunate boy or girl for whom they have
provided gifts. In thus helping Santa Claus they have
found so much pleasure that they have quite forgotten
their own desires beyond the mere expression 9f them.
They have at least curbed their selfishness, and I think
that I have led them to be generous to some extent.”
In this woman's experience lies more of practical
value than can be found in all the books that can be pub
lished by all the associations in Christendom. She got at
the root of the whole matter, and she applied the proper
remedy—a remedy that did not directly curb, that did
not punish, but effected by Indirection the very result
that she wished to bring about. How many parents are
today treating the selfishness of their children in the
same way? How many need to treat their children in the
same way? And how many can easily begin even now by
encouraging their children to help Santa Claus?
My ideal Christmas: Home, the country, snow, holly,
a Christmas tree, carols and kind faces and fond hearts
about you.—Mrs. Brown-Potter.
COULDN’T STAND THE OUTLAY
Wombat’s Personal Appearance Did
Not Count Under the Existing
. Circumstances.
“Excuse me, Wombat," said the
well-dressed one, “but personal friend
ship prompts me to speak.”
“What is it, old chap?”
"I fear that, unless you improve
your personal appearance, you may
lose your job.”
“I hope not.”
“You need a new hat."
“Dm."
"You need a new suit."
“Dm.”
“You need shoes. Man alive, your
feet are on the ground!"
“Quite true,” admitted Wombat,
with a sigh.
“Then take this week's salary and
spruce up."
“Can’t squander any money on my
self, old man. My wife is worse off
than I am."
"Dear me! How is that?"
"She needs a new feather in her
hat."—Judge.
Milk for Gloves.
A simple and effective wav to clean
kid gloves is to draw them on the
hands and go over them with a ciean
cloth dipped in skim milk. Wear them
until quite dry. Or moiscen a small
sponge or piece of cloth in skim milk
rub it on a cake castile soap and
with this sponge the gloves until they
are quite clean. Wear until they ara
dry.
Reform Costume for Women. ]
A conservative correspondent of the \
Sun suggests this costume as a proper j
one for women who wish to signify j
their disapproval of the extravagant j
and immoral modes of the day: Plain i
drab costume disguising the figure; j
black, sober hat with white spots; no;
jewelry; Pair of spectacles, a Mother
Gamp umbrella, warm woolen stock-1
I ings, thick shoes with very low heels.
It would certainly be well worth
while to watch the effect of the ap
pearance of ibis costume on Fifth ave
nue—or better, on Broadway, between
Twenty-eighth street and Forty-eighth
street, at 8 p. m. The wearer would
receive a real ovation.—From “The
Office Window” in the New York Mall.
Philanthropy.
"I feel pretty good today,” said
Jones to his wife. ”1 saved a man
from lifelong misery.”
“How was that?”
“My assistant wants to get married
and asked for a raise. But I wouldn’t
give it to him.”
Getting at the Facts.
A witness in a particular case had
been examined by the lawyer for the
plaintiff and was turned over to the
lawyer for cross-examination.
“Nsw. then, Mr. Smith,” began the
legal one, “what did 1 understand you
to say that your occupation is?”
"I am a piano finisher.” answered
the witness.
"Yes. I see," persisted the lawyer,
“but you must be more definite. Do
you polish them, or do you move
them?"
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GOTCH, ILL, DEFEATED TWICE
Another Example of the Strangle Hold.
Among the bitter disappointments
experienced by Gotch during the
period when the champion was in the
making were his fourth and fifth en
counters with Tom Jenkins. March 15
and May 19, 1905, respectively.
New York fans were eager to see
the new mat sensation from Iowa, and
Gotch agreed to the fourth meeting
with Jenkins to be staged in the
metropolis. Unfortunately he con
tracted a severe cold making night
jumps en route eastward. He de
cided, however, to keep the engage
ment. The match was at Greco
Roman style and Gotch, unfitted for
a rough and tumble encounter with a
mat tiger like Jenkins, went dowmto
an honorable defeat after taking one
fail.
George Hackenschmidt. the Russian
Lion, then in the heyday of his fame
as a wrestler, was on his way to
America to meet the Yankee champ
ion.
Hackenschmidt met and defeated
Jenkins at catch-as-catch-can, but
turned a deaf ear to challenges hurled
at him by Gotch. This was a bitter
disappointmet to the Iowa boy. who
had dreamed of winning the world’s
championship. Hackenschmidt re
turned *o Europe, claiming that honor.
Gotch was eager to regain his lost
prestige and remained in the east un
til Jenkins agreed to a return match.
The encounter took place at Madi
son Square garden May 19, and proved
to be one of the most savage in wrest
ling history. Gotch was still suffering
slightly from his cold, and Jenkins
was in prime condition.
The outcome of this match was a
bitter dose for Gotch, and the citizens
of Humboldt never have forgiven the
metropolis for its treatment of their
hero on this occasion. Speak to any
' old resident of Humboldt about it and
he will tell you that Gotch was robbed
and beaten by the most outlandish ex
hibition of thievery ever perpetrated in
American sports. They contend that
the referee winked at Jenkins' rough
tactics and permitted him to grasp the
ropes every time Gotch had him near
a fall. Gotch, however, took his de
feat in a sportsmanlike manner and
began a campaign of training to re
gain his lost trophy.
The referee was Tim Hurst, famous
for his eccentricities as a baseball
umpire. It was a grudge match and
the winner took all the receipts.
At the call of time Jenkins rushed
in but was stopped by Gotch, who put
the veteran down on the mat. Gotch
held Jenkins down for nearly half an
hour. Jenkins finally broke away and
landed a heavy blow on Gotch's mouth.
Gotch protested but Hurst told him to
go on and wrestle. Jenkins grabbed
Gotch aronnd the neck for a strangle
hold and after several minutes of pro
testing by Gotch in which ho received
a good choking, tire grip wasdoosened.
When they clinched Jenkins took an
other strangle hold „nd held it until
Gotch went down, despite the warning
of the referee.
Gotch wriggled out and caught Jen:
kins by the feet, turning him into a
double thigh and crotch hold. Jenkins’
head was forced down until his shoul
ders touched the mat, but he grabbed
the ropes. Gotch protested, but'the
referee ordered the men to the center
of the mat, where they began to
wrestle anew.
Jenkins kicked and strangled Gotch.
He fouled him deliberately. Gotch re
taliated with rough work. Six times
Jenkins caught the ropes to avoid a
fall. Each time Hurst ordered the
men to the center to begin anew.
Jenkins caught Gotch with a head hold
which Tim Hurst called a “mug hold’’
and Gotch went down to defeat in
1:30:00.
Moth wrestlers were thrown from
the ring in the second bout, Gotch re
ceiving a bad fall. Gotch won the sec
ond fall but he was clearly weakened,
while Jenkins seemed stronger.
Jenkins rushed Gotch hard in the
third fall and crushed him tj the mat.
Gotch struggled to his feet, tottered,
looked about in a dazed manner,
lurched forward and fell full length on
his face. It was nearly twenty min
utes before he could be carried to his
dressing room.
(Copyright, 1913. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
BOYD WINS A BIG RACE
The illustration given herewith
shows R. St. B. Boyd of Harvard Uni
versity winning the Intercollegiate
Cross Country run over the Van
Courtlandt Park course. More than
two hundred athletes from the vari
R. St. B. Boyd of Harvard.
ous colleges from all parts of the
country took part.
Mr. Boyd won this race of six miles
in 34 minutes and 37 seconds, which
Is one minute and seven secouds un
der the record.
Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.
Lord Ashby St. Ledgers is the
wealthy Englishman who is organiz
ing a polo team In his country, and
with it next year will attempt to re
cover the international polo cup, now
held by the United States. Four of
the men tentatively selected for the
tea\n are Capt. Ritson, Capt. Lockett,
Capt. Palmer and Capt. Barrett, the
latter the sensation of the English
polo season this year.
Newark Club in Air.
It appears there Is a difference of
opinion among Newark people as to
the value of the International league
franchise, and while those who took
up the proposition with the Brooklyn
owners dropped it because they
thought too much money was asked,
others have interested themselves and
a deal may yet be made that will land
the club in the hands of home owners.
World Champions Could
Furnish Football Team
How baseball does hang around
in the spotlight! The world's
champions, alias the Athletics, pre
sent these good reasons; Eddie
Collins was a quarter back at Holy
Cross; Jack Coombs was a fullback
at Colby; Chief Bender was a tac
kle at Carlisle, one of the best, too;
Jack Mclnnis played on the Glouces
ter (Mass.) eleven, and Eddie Mur
phy was a pigskin knight at Villa
nova.
CONNIE MACK DENIES STORY
Brands as Absolute Falsehood Report
That He Picked Greatest Baseball
Team in the World.
Connie Mack, manager of the Ath
letics, brands as absolutely false the
line-up of an all-star baseball team
alleged to have been picked by him as
the greatest, baseball aggregation in
the world.
"I did not pick an all-star team,
neither did I give my consent for any
one to do it for me,” said Mack. "Fur
thermore, I would not pick such a
team for publication, as I do not be
lieve in stirring up trouble among
players, and I think picking an all-star
team is foolish business.
"If 1 picked such a team Ty Cobb
most certainly would have been my
first choice for outfield. 1 never allow
my personal feelings to interfere with
business, nor do I allow them to pre
vent me from giving a player his jUBt
due.
“I do not consider the New- Yorkers
treated me fairly when they credited
me with picking an all-star team."
INTERNATIONAL GOLF MATCH
Plan Proposed to Have Annual Tour
nament Somewhat Slmilarto Davis
Cup Games in Tennis.
The idea of an annual international
golf match, somewhat along the line
of the Davis enp tournament in tennis,
has been condoned by Harold H. Hil
ton, the British champion. He is
quoted as saying Viat the abandon
ment of the team match between
Scotland and England, which has been
an annual event for many years in
Great Britain, may be succeeded by an
amateur international match, in which
England and Scotland will meet as
allies. Instead of rivals, with "their
opponents hailing from the other side
of the Atlantic.”
Would Force Boxers to Train.
Boxing Promoter Delaney, of Den
ver, believes he has hi: on a plan that
will show the nugllistic supporters
and the promoters, ae well, that the
boxers who are to appear at his club
do road work In their training. He
is going to build a 14-lap track on the
top of the clubhouse on which the
boxers will do their /tinning. To get
the hill advantage the track will be
built In chutes over skylights.
Much to everyone's surprise. Fred
Clarke is going to manage the Pirates
again.
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Governor Tener may demand that
his headquarters be located la Phila
delphia.
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Joe Tinker, the deposed manager of
the Keds, states he will never wear a
Cincinnati uniform again.
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Ed Konetchy, the big first baseman
of the Cardinals, may manage a Fed
eral league club in 1!M4.
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Joe Graves, a Chippewa Indian of
Walker, Minn., has sign*-' with the
Philadelphia Athletics for next sea
son.
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Johnny Kilbane is willing to box
Joe Mandot, but this would not indi
cate he Is willing to take any chances
of a beating.
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Frankie liurns of Oakland, won a
decision over Johnnie McCarthy of
San Francisco in a £0-round light
weight fight at San Francisco.
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That Australia will soon be the
world's feeder in pugilistic stars is
the belief of those who watch the
straws that tell which way the wind
blows in tistiana. Every Australian
town and village has stadiums devot
ed to the sport and competent govern
ment instruction.
DE ORO RETAINS HIS TITLE
At Fifty Years of Age Noted Cuban
Expert Is Still Stacking His Skill
Against Ail Comers.
That the cue is mightier than either
the pen or the sword is the opinion of
Alfredo De Oro, t,he world's famous
pool and billiard expert, who recently
successfully defended his title of
champion at three-cushion billiards by
defeating Joseph Carney of Denver.
De Oro is the champion of all cham
pions. as he has been the king of hiF
Alfredo De Oro.
favorite sport longer than anybody tn
any other line.
Over a generation ago De Oro was
known the length and breadth of the
country as the foremost pool player,
and he has been going along, trim
ming all comers up to the present
time, at the age of fifty yearn De Oro
has won over $100,000 in purses and
side bets at pool (now styled pocket
billiards) and three-cushion billiards.
He is the possessor of all the emblems
ever offered in competition at pool
except the one Benny Allen recently
captured from him, but before long he
hopes to reannex that.
De Oro never plays unless he has
a bet on himself. He has such great
confidence 1A his ability to outplay all
comers that he is willing to back him
self for any reasonable amount, but
never for the big sums he wagered on
himself years ago when his eyesight
was keener and his arm steadier.
De Oro held a pool title for eighteen
years at a stretch, the longest period
that anybody ever held a champion
ship in any division of sport.
De Oro was once worth a tremen
dous fortune, and he really was
obliged to follow the game of pool,
which he at first took up as a pastime,
because he$ needed the money. At
the time of the Spanish-American
war, in 1898, he was wealthy, hut the
ravages of conflict and stock market
upset caused him to lose every cent
he had in the world.
De Oro was born at Manzanillo,
Cuba, two score and ten years ago.
Gives Rickey Ten Years.
Rrauch Rickey, the n&w manager
of the Browns, has been assured by
Owner Robert Lee Hedges that he
-will have a chance seldom offered to
a manager to show what he can make
out of the Browns. In other words.
Hedges will give Rickey ten years In
which to develop a team. Whether
the Browns run last or first during the
next ten years, Rickey will be re
tained. and with the remarkable show
of confidence that he has already been
shown by the players, the fans are
beginning for the first time in years
to believe that St. t^ouis may really
have a good team.
Stove League Stuff.
Clark Griffith foresees a tight race
in the American league for next sea
son. He thinks that at least five
teams have a look in for the pepnant.
He does not come out very strong for
his “climbers" to beat out the Ath
letics. Cleveland, Boston and Chicago
are other teams in the flag hunt, ac
cording to Griffith.
“WHY I EMIGRATED”
THE NOTES OF A PROMINENT
JOURNALIST WHO MADE A
TRIP THROUGH WESTERN
CANADA.
A prominent journalist from Chi
cago, some time ago, made a journey
through Canada obtaining a thorough
knowledge of the land and people and
of the “boundless possibilities” that
Canada, the virgin land. afTords. In
an American Sunday newspaper he
published after his return the interest
ing account which we print as fol
lows. He writes:
“Why did you emigrate from the
United States?” I asked a farmer in
WestPm ranaHa
JaV ’I believe that for a poor man West
on Panada is the most favorable
Poor^h” was the reply, “and I have now
The^i that ft is the Paradise of the
Had fivt
Canada £vfarmer. a pioneer of the west,
^.fter travk, years earlier left Iowa' for
•j1Ile jjR sta;> secure a new home there.
i^airie and \sins ,be 00untr>' for sonu’
voted him»etXted his home on tl,e open
virgin soil xXilb 8teat*y industry de
owner of that ekt0 the 'vorking of tbp
wheat ears thatgff he is the well"H"’
tore mv eyes. Ili-X11®*8 sea of wa™g
figure finds the best C?K on for mlles br
farm itself, which isN?tr0bg’ 8«“b«rned
his ceaseless activity-Xckground in bis
storied dwelling house, \be outcome °r
stable, in the midst of a? pretty ?wo'
barns, sheds and outbuildiK clean
ful garden overflowing withy bamlet °
horses, cattle, sheep and swill?8’ a use’
rich pastures, and around to th^oduc ’
zon wheat, golden wheat. ®°?~?
“In Iowa?" the farmer continued orl"
farmed on rented land, for at the pX
of $100 per acre I did not posses^
money enough to buy. I might farm??®
I might farm as I could, more than the '
living for myself and family. I could \
not attain. Sometimes the harvest \
turned out good, sometimes bad. but \
the grand total was a bitter combat to
keep want from the door. It was im
possible to lay by for bad times and
in spite of all trouble and work an old
age free of care was not to be
thought of. My death would have
brought bitter poverty to my wife and
children.
“I decided to break-up and go to
Canada, where at least I could fight
out the struggle for existence on my
owrn land. I started out with a mule
team, all my earthly possessions were
in the prairie-schooner with my wife
and children. Then I took up a home
stead of 160 acres to which I added
fty purchase gradually; now as a
wljole I count about 3.000 acres as my
own. The whole property is free of
debt. I do not owe a cent to anyone.
I bought my land for $2-$10 per acre,
now I would not give it up for $50.”
“Do you mean to say that you paid
for the whole land in th)e five years?”
I interrupted.
“In a much shorter time,” replied
the farmer. “The land paid for itself,
some already by the first harvest, and
at longest in 3 years each field had
brought in its purchase price. If you
doubt that land in Western Canada
pays for itself within 3 years you can
easily convince yourself of the truth
of my assertion. Let us assume that
a farmer buys a farm of 160 A. at $15
per A. for $2,400. Farm machines,
seed, ploughs, mowing and threshing
might bring up the outlay to about
$10 per acre. If the farmer sows the
160 A. for 3 years in succession with
wheat and harvests 20 bus. per acre,
then the product of an A. at the aver
age price of 75c per bu. is exactly $15
per acre. If you deduct the $10 out
lay, you will retain a clear return of
$5.00. For 160 A. the annual excess
amounts to $800, consequently the
farm has after the third harvest
brought in the purchase price of
$2,400.
"Sometimes—ami not rarely—the
land pays for itself by the first harvest
of 35 bus. of wheat bring in more than
the purchase price of $15 per acre.
As in some years I harvested more
than 35 bus., you can reckon for your
self how quickly I paid for my farm."
"Would you not prefer your own
farm in Iowa?” I asked.
“No,” replied the farmer, “never
will I go back, in general very few
American settlers return to the old
home. In Iowa a 160 A. farm coats
$100 per A., $16,000; in Western Can
ada $15, only $2,400. For the same
money that you require to buy a 160
A. farm in Iowa, you can buy here in
Western Canada a farm of 1,000 acres.
I have money enough to buy a farm in
Iowa, if I wished. But there my year
ly income would be a small one.
whereas here I work for a great gain.
There I would only be a small farmer,
here I am a large landed proprietor.”
In a corner of the farmyard I had
during our conversation noticed a
mound of earth overgrown with
grasses and wild flowers. To my in
quiry sb to what It was, I received the
reply: "That is the ruin of the wooden
shack covered with sods, which I call
ed my home when 1 settled here five
years ago.”
I gathered a wild aster from the
ruin and flung it into the air. In a pur
plish-glittering line the wind drove the
flower towards the fine, modern-equip
ped farmhouse. What a contrast be
tween the lowly earthy hut of yester
day and charming palace of today!
This contrast says enough to the un
bounded possibilities, which this new
land offers to the willing worker. How
the poor emigrant on the open prairie,
through energy and activity, within 5
years worked his way up to being h
well-to-do farmer and esteemed citi
zen! Jlore, the farmer did not re
quire to say. Why did he emigrate?
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