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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1906)
' ' " I . ' . , I' . , ' . " . . . . . . . f . . _ , , ' . . - , . . . - J . . . . . 1 , FLEET WHiCH THE SEA SWALLOWS YEARLY. r' ' , . . . . . , : , " , , ' . . , , . \ , , f , ' . . ' , ' " , : . . ; : " At the news of some terrible shipwreck in which hundreds are dro wned-lIke the reccnt wreck 0 , " the Sirlo-the whole world stnnds aghast , lamenting the loss of so many hum an lives in a slnglo accident. In fact , such catastrophes as attract pUblic n ttontlon are happily rare. Others les s striking hapl1en , however , from day to day. The above cut from "L'lllust ration , " suggests in n pictorial way w hat a navy the sea devours in n year. Statistics of maritime losses and acc idents publls11ed by the Bureau Veri tas ( the French Lloyds ) sllow that in 1905 389 steamships and 649 satUn S vess ls , a total f l , 38 , were lost. So each day "blind ocean" swallows on an average three ships , a barge , a schooner and a steamer. . , I AMERICA THE OLDEST. I NEW WORLD IN REALITY MOST ANCI ENT OF EARTH. Scientists So Conclude After FInding Skull of Broad.Faced Ox In Alas. ka-Precursor of the Buf. falo. Seattle , Wash.-From the discovery in the valley of the Yukon of the giant skull of a broad.faced ox , known to science as 'Bos Latlfrons , " the geolo. glste and others versed In the mystic 101'0 of the time when the old earth was in her baby duys read the startling - ling fact that the western hemisphere should be termed the "old country" and that Mother Asia after 0.11 is much the junior of the American continent. E. S. StraIt , of Dawson , has sent the skull of the prehistoric monster to the Alaslm club , of Seattle. Secretary Sheffield proudly shows it to all comers - ers ae one of the treasures of the club. The skull of the great creature was dug out of n gold mlno on ono of the creels entering the Klondllco near Dawson. From tip to tip the horns measure 36 inches. ' 1'he slmll is supposed - posed to have been pushed about to. gether with rock and gold nuggets by the action of the glaciers of the past. Scientists claim that the Bos Latifrone is the precursor of the great American - - ican buffalo. They also state that there Is reason to bellove that the western half of the world lenew noth. Ing whatever of the horse and camel and that these were products of a later age and long following the time when humanity and animal life throve on this continent. Prof. E. S. Meany , of the University of Washington , examined the skull with great Interest. Ho said , regard. ing It : "The fosll ! skull sent to the Aaska ] club br E. S. Strait is undoubtedly a \ specimen of the broad.faced ox. A' ) few 'ears ago a similar specimen was found underground on claim IS above , on Bonanza creek , near Da w50n , and was presented to the University of' Washington by Judge Arthur E. Grif. fin , of Seattlo. "The same creature formed part of the life in Oregon during paet geologic - logic ages. ' 1'he greatest authority on such things in this region is the ven. crable Thomas Condon. proCessor of Ieolo < ; ) ' at the Unl\'ersitr of Oregon. r : = : : : : : : : : : : : : : w : : : l : v : : : : . , : "iJ'11t1"'Vf'VVl14IV'Y'1T"C , 1V"9\111' ' . . . . 1 AN OLD MOR - - - - FIRST CHURCH BUILT BY JOSEPH SMITH. Is Stili Standln ! ] at 1 < lrtiantl , 0. , a When Erected by the Prophet- Now Used by Latter.Day Saints. " Kirtland , O.-Tho first shrine of Mormonism Is stilI standln at Klrt. ' land. O. If the occupants of the Jlt e cemetery near It could rise , , : the ' woull ] telI how man ) ' a fevered zealot gave his lands. his homo and his all to provide funds for the build. ing of the temple. It was in 1B30 that Smith allpeared in Kirtland , and with his coming there was a liJocl111 revolution , the like of which Ohto hnd nm'or wltn ssed. lIus. Mnds left tileir wh'e and children , mothers deserted tllOlr homes and babes were placed in the 1100rhouse. The end came when Joseph Smith was comi1elIed to flee the state of Ohio. 'fhe temple was nIl that was left behind - hind , "A storehouse of the Lord , " as Smith ca1Jed it , was begun in 1831 , nnd br 1834 was coml1lotcd. Its found. nUon was laid on seven small ridges Dr hills in Imitation of the nome of DId. The dimensions was about 50 by 12 feet. The stone wa1Js are two feet In thickness. The temple stnnds to.da ) ' about 36 Islands" is found this paragraph about Bos I.aUfrons : " 'Tho precursor of the buffalo in Oregon was tlde broal.faced ox. His horns were longer and stouter and his bony forehead was wider than that of the buffalo , measuring 19 inches across the 'line of the eres. HI ! : : skull was not only very wide , but unusual. ly thlce ] , being two and a half inches in mid forehead. ' "The book contains the picture of a skull that wae found five or six miles e st of the Dallas , Ore. "Elsewhere in the book Prof. Con. don speaks of the probable age of this creature as follows : I " 'The field intended by the term surface beds includes all slight de. presslons of the surface producing ponds with eedlment enough to pre. serve bones and teeth washed into them , and also swamps and bogs into which large mammals often sink to their death , leaving their bones to such preserving agencies as might occur there. And inasmuch as the latest great surCace.lovellng agency of the north temperate zone wa ! : ' that of the glacial ice , most of these surface depressions wO\.l.ld date from glacial times , and would , therefore , be prop. erly designated as Pleistocene. Furthermore - thermore , up to the glacial period the horse and the camel wore abundant , here , and the question of their contln. uance in Oregon through glacial times is still in doubt , so that our group of surface sediment : ; must provide the settling testimony on this question. " 'If the bogs , swamps and minor surface depressions Curnlsh no horse or camel bones , then must it bo ac. cepted that the glacial cold drove . _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . - . . ' ' ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' ! 7. f' ; 7'J'J'.F07..r. . . , " , " , " . , " . . . , " . . " . . . . . CRIPPLE CURED BY DREAM. Nightmare Results In Restoration of Dislocated Hip. 1\Iarlon , Ind.-A dream terminated with unusual reality In the case of George Gilpin. who has been a crlpplo for many years. Gilpin suffered a dislocation - location of the hip joint a number of rears ago. Surgeons were unable to join the dislocated parts properly and he has b en compelled to walk with crutches since the accident. The In. jured leg became shortened as the re- suit of the uccldent and he could not walk with aut the aid of crutches. Wedno ay night Gilpin had a f . .illolfh'Il'I'iI ' ' 1. . , ; ; . " . . ' > 'S"H i/.I\.h'l'E/ IIflI'7lU , ' \l'G'f'VY1l' , 'V'1'Jl' ! , , II1.1y1"I' ' 'V1V' ' ' lV' MON SHRINE. It was when built. On the first floor is the main audience room , filled with waluut benches surrounded by a high railing. The doors to the pews have locl.s or catches. so that when closed whoever Is spealng ] Is reasonably sure of holding his audience. At each end of the room a series of \ elevated throncs. one rising above the other , marks the ] losltlon during worship used by the dignitaries of Joseph Smlth's reign. news of hooks In the ceiling show how the curtains which wore once used were arranged to divide the fioor into foul' apart. monts. ' 1'110 floor above Is bare and desolate - late looking , About 60 chairs placed . . . . , , _ .A.n . . . . . _ .l'JA _ _ .n A. v. . . . . . u.-.u--vu-- . . , CRIME ALARMS N GRO LEADER Booker Washington Says Lawlessnel.ls of Black Is Pronounced. Atlanta , Galaking all allow. ances for mistakes , Injustice and the Influence of racial pride , I have no hesitation in saying that 011 a of the elements In our present eltuatlon that glvos me most concern is the large numbm' of crimes that are be. Ing committed hy memllera of our \'nce. The negn I i8 committing too much crime. no.th and south , " said Hooker T. WarJhlngton In an address to too Na ona ] Negro Duslness league. I these mammals away or deetro . them. It is 111aln that the mammot1\ : elephant got him u. coat of ftrr anI ! Hved through the cold spell df the times. The fossils of this group 01 surface beds , such as the mastodon , the mammoth , the broad.faced ox anll myloden , though deeply interesting , bring added historical attraction from the fact that a largo part of tIll" geological period overll1ps that or. . historic man. ' "While It must be largely a mattm of conjecture oven with the moet skilled geooglsts ] , it is interesting to note that Frederick A. Lucas , of the Smithsonian Institution , published in McCiure's Magazine for October 1900 , an article on the "Ancestry of the Horse. ' Illustrating the article was u. diagram giving the times of geologic ages as computed by Henry F. Os. born , the paleontologist of the American - ican Mueeum of Natural History , of New York. In that dln.gram the.Plels- , tocene which Prof. Condon gives as the age of the broad-Caced ox , is put down as extending from about the 600,000 yeara of the Upper Miocene to the present time. 'Such sl1eclmens as this new arrival at the Alasca ] club start interesting trains of thought. It is only necessarr here to suggelt one. The so-called new world of America Is in reaUtr a ver ) ' old world. and It ma. } ' be that it is the oldest land on earth. ' 1'he an. clent inhabitants of America were strangers to the modern horse , camel and ox. These creatur s were evolved on the eastern hemisphere and were brought to the western hemisphere since Its discovery by Columbus. Yet geology dlscloees the indlsputahle evi. dence that the progenltOl's of these useful creatures did exist here In the pas t. . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . . . . . . .r.r..r..r..r..r..r..r.r..r.r..r. dream. He Imagined that a number of men attlcked : him and In self.de. fense he struck with both hands and kicked with both feet. When ho awolee he was greatly surprised to learn that he was ulng ! his right leg , Then he attempted to walk and was delighted to learn that he could. He was about the streets during the day and his' friends could hardly b made toe. . lIeve his stor. } ' of the dream. Surgeons say the only explanation of the queer recovery is that while 1\11' . I Gilpin was asleep the muscles and tendons became relaxed and when the violent exercise brought about by the dream occurred the dislocated hip joint dropped bac ] , Into place. i'fiIlIl'OOI7 irina'\j ; HtJ : Iibf'J''him ' ' M , ; ' { ! m vv 'V' ' ! 'i' " " " ' 9 'tit " 'V9IV1 'V. . , ' ' ' " ' 'v''I' here Indicate thnt It is used as a sort of lecture hall , but in the days of Smith curtains divided this apartment - ment just as belo\\ ' . Rollcrs Castened to the ceiling of the sccond 11001' , together with a sys. tem of I1UIleys , enabled the operator to raise 01' lower the curtains Df hoth first and second floors at the sarno time. In the third story seveml 1mI" tltlons running north und south malce a' number of sellarate chambers. The Heorganlzed Church of Jesus Christ oC Lattel' Day Saints , the body which \Vol'ships In this temple. now tries to follow lIteraIly the Dook of Mormon , which. bo it lmown , prohlb. Ils pol'E amy. 'fho doetrlno of ) )1111'111 wlvcs was one of SmlLh's " 1'evell1. tlons , " Yet this sect defies Joseph Smith , polrgamy and all. . . . . --.f ? ! " " " . . . . --It .1\ " ---.n " " _ _ _ _ " ' " _ . A - U1--.fJJ.---tJl. . . . " ' - "We cannot bo too fmnk or too strong In dlscusling the harm that the committing of crime is doing to our race , " he continued. "Let us stand Ul straight and speak out and act In no uncertain terms in this direction. Let us do our pal't and then let us caIl on the whites to do t.helr part. " 1\11' . Washington condemned lynch. Ing as one of the greatest ntndrances to the progress ot the black race. AI ! llJustrating the progress which the negro Is making he said the blacks In Ueorgla owned at least $20,000,000 wOI'th of taxable proport ) . . The south , he said , olTered the best opportunities as the permanent abiding place of the maSSI ! of the race. - . . ' , . ' _ . - 'f ' - The Age of Machinery , Wo Jive in the age of machlnory. The thlnklnc , dIrectinG mind becomes dall ) ' of more account , while mere bmwn falIs correspondlngl ) ' In value from da ) ' to day. That eccontrlc Ilhll. osophcr , Blbert I1ubbard , S ) 'S In Dno of his e9Sa's , "whoro a machlno will do better worle than the human hand , We prefer to ] et the machine do the work. " It has lie en lIut ( \ few ycars since the cotton gin , the "spinning Jenny" and the power loom displaced the hand plclcer , the Blllnning wheel and the hand loom : since the reaper and binder , the rake mul teddm' , the mow. Ing machine took the Illnco of the old cradle , sc.tho , pltchCork aUlI hand rake : since the friction match su. llorseded the IIInt and UlIller : since the modern paint factor ) ' rel1laccd the slab and mUl1er , the llUlnt llot and paddle. In ever ' case where machinery has been Introduced to replace hand labor , the lallorers have resisted the change : and as the weavers , the sompstresses and the farm laborers protested against new.fangled leoms , sewin ! ; ma. chines and agricultural Itnl11emcnts , so In recent times compositors have protested against tnq.settlns ma. chines , glass blower. . against bottle blowing machines , and painters against read ) ' mixed paints. Ami as . in the case of thelle short.slghted ! classes of an earlier day , so with their imitators of to.day , the protest will be in vain. It is a pretest against clv. IlIzatlon , against the common weal , against their own ' . .alfare. The history Df all mechanical 1m. provements shows that worlmen are the first to be beneiltediy them. The Invention of the sewing machlno , Instead of throwing thousands of wom. en out of employment , increased the demand to such an ox tent that thou. sands of women have been employed , at better wages , for shorter hours and easier worle where hundreds before worked in laborious misery to eleo out a pltlablo existence. It was so with spinning and weaving machln. ery , with agricultural implements-In fact , It is so with over ) ' notalilo im. provement. The multiplication of bools in the last decade is a ( Hrect result of the Invention of IInotYlle machinery and fast presses. The mixed paint industry , in which carefully designed paints for house painting are prepared on a large acale by special machinery , Is another im. provement of the same type. ' 1'he cheapness and general excellence Df these products has so stimulated the consumption of paint that the de. mand for the services of llnlnters has correspondingly multlpllel. Before the advent of these goods II. well-paint. cd house was noticeable from Its rarit ) . , whereas to.da ' an Ill.palnted house Is conspicuous. Nevertheless , the painters , ns 0. rue , following tIle example set lIy the weavers , the semllstresses and the farm laborers of old , almost to a man , oppose the improvement. It is r real Improvement , however , and simply be. : : ause of that fact the sale of such prod ucts has incrcased until during the present year It will fall not far short of 90,000,000 or 100.000,000 gal. ons. ons.Hindsight Hindsight is always better than Coresight , and most of us who deplore the short-sightedness of our ancestors would do weII to see that we do not in turn furnish "terrible examples" to :1111' posterity. Cure for Whooping Cough. Irwin , Pa.-Tho "mine cure" for whooping cough among smaII children Is attracting attention in this section , where the dlseaso is almost epidemic. [ n one case a Jeannette father dally takes his ten.months-od ] baby girl down into the Penn mine. He remains - mains half an bour , comes to the sur. face for the same space of time , and again goea down and remains another half hour. This will be rel1eated dally fDr two weell : ! . The child haa a se. vere case , and from II. fit of cough. { ng goes into spasms. A Pitts burg physician recommended the "mlno cure" as the only profitable relief , From Clyde Fitch's Scrapbook. Clrde v'ltch , at a dinner that ho a\'e In honor of a noted dramatic critic , read from his library of scrap. buoks II. western criticism on Hamlet. The criticism , which was dated 1873 , ran : " ' 1'hel'e Is too much chinning in this IIlece. ' 1'he author is bohlnd the times , and seems to forget that what wo wl'nt nowadays is hall' raising sltua. tlons und detectives. "In the hands of a skillful play. wright II. detective would have been put upon the track of lIal11et's ] uncle , and the old man would have heen hunted down in a manner that would ha\'e lifted the au.I1ence out Df their cowhides. " 'I'he moral of the picco Is not good. rhe scene where Hamlet sasses his mother Is a bad example to the rising generation. "Our advice to the author is more action , more love.maltlng. and plenty of specialties. The crazy girl scene should lie cut out altogether and a rat. tlIng good song and dance substltut. ed. " Pension Head Works Saving. Washington.-Comm.ssloner of Pen. slons Warner has worked economics In the service which have saved the government $201,346 during the last fiscal year. He has re\1uced the ex. pensel : ! of tIle bureau $92,1i52 , has cui the eXIJenses of special examiners $6 , . 398 , of examining surgeons $30,000 , has made r ' 3avlng in salaries and clerk hlro 11. agencies of $7,242 , in rents and c\lntln ent expenS06 of agencies , $8,654 , and In the exaininll. . ' tlon of pension agents has saved $2,500. ' " " ' v - _ " . . . _ _ 4 - . . . - - Wheat in Western Call ad a A Good Crop of Excellent Quality Has Been Raised This Year. The grain crops ostlmates from the Canadian West male II. range of from 87,000,000 to 115,000,000 bushels , and nn aceurato statement will lIe some. whore between these figures-proll. ablY not far from 90,000,000 bushols. This ) 'oar II. larger acreage was , sown , cstlmntod at an Increase of trom 18 ! . to 20 per cent. , and hnd the average. yield of last ) 'car lIeen malntnnell ! , the aggregate would assurCllly ha\'e gene considerably bO'OIul the 100,000 , . 000 bushel mark. The excoptlonal ! ) ' largo Infiux of settlers was l'OSpol1slble to a considerable extent for much of the Increase(1 area , amI , there can lIe no doullt , Is also responslblo for a part of the decreased nverago ) 'Ield. ' 1'ho first crop raised by the new sot. tler-often unacquainted with the conUtions of western agrlculturo-Is not usuall ) ' prollflc , ami 1906.00 plncell n very large numllor ot amnteur fnrm. ers behind the stilts of the 1110w : bllt they will learn , amI learn fast , and with another season or two will h011 to ralso the ave rage Instead of de. pressing it. Of the ostlmates to hand , that ot the Northwest Grnln Dealers' asso. clatlon Is the lowest : Wheat , 87J03 : , ' 000 bushels : oats , 75,725,600 lIushos ] , and barley , 16,980,600 bushels. The Winnipeg Free Press sent out five special correspondents , who roturnad . tI tt t t I . . , II I \ I -Wheat and Oat Farms , Elbow Valley , Twelve Miles West of Cnlgary. II after 20 dnys with n somewhat better report and gave reasons tor the faith I that was In them. ' 1'hey had traveled 11.11 through the spring wheat district : had driven 1,400 miles through the grain country , besides travollng thou. sands of miles lIy ran : and they had visited 93 10calltles and Imew whero. of they spol\O. They reported : Wheat , 90,250,000 lIushols , on 4,7 O,000 acres , with an average yield of 19 bushels per acre. 'fho western division of the Bane ] of Commerce also Investl. gated with the following result : Alberta. Yield. cres. per ncro. Dushols. Who:1.t . . . . . . . . . . . 141.421 20 2.828,4:0 : : Dnrley . . . . . . . . . . 7ii.C7S 30 2.270.340 OntB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322.923 40 12.91G,920 - - - 610.022 18.016GSO Saskatchewan , Whcat . . . . . . . . . .1.331.GI ! ) 22 2l1.296.27R Bnrley . . . . . . . . . . 41.273 SO ] ,238.190 OatB . . . . . . . . . . . . 612,483 40 21G9l1.320 - - - - 1.H6.405 ! 62.233,788 Manitoba. Wheat . . . . . . . . . .3,141,637 ] 9 6l1CS9.203 Darley. . . . . . . . . 47-1,212 : :0 : H,227,2GO Onts . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.155,961 40 46.238.440 - - - - - - - - - 4,7il,740 ] 20.1 t)03 ! Total. . Dus leIs. 'Vhoat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111,813.900 Onts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SO.854GSO Darloy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17,735,71)0 ) . All of which goes to show that n. wheat crop of nearly If not Cully 90"1 000,000 bushels may be safely counted - - ' ' - - - - - . . . . . . . . . - . . . I A Stili Better Outfit sev MII W ; ; or c . il upon. This Is less than was loolwd for by some onthuslastlc western peo. pIe , who maintained that increased acreage necessarily meant an In. creased aggregate. StlJI , DOOOOOOO . bushels of wheat Is 6,000,000 better than what was 100\Od ] UJlon last year as a good crop , and we do not thlnlc ' \Vestel'U Canada has much cause to feel down in the mouth because the acme of Its anticipations on the wheat crop ma ) ' not have been realized. Taking one year with another , that country has demonstrated that It can be depended upon as a great wheat growing territory , and lias to be recle. oned with In the marlcets of the world. The yield In oats has been In. creased this 'ear by nearly 1liOO,000 bushels , the aggregate estimate being 75,725.600 , with the average at 41.2 bushels to the acre. The estimated crop of barley Is placed at 16,980,600 bushels , which Is a slight Increase over the total of last year. or flax the estimate given Is 6DO,184 bushels , which Is II. material Increase upon last yoar's figures. Following are the figures in detail for wheat , oats , and barley In West. ern Canada for the three years last past : 1903. Wbell.t. Oats. Darley. Manitoba . . . . . .40WS78 33,035,774 2,707,252 BaBkatcbewdn .15,1.1,015 9,164,007 & 65.693 .Alberta. . . . . . . . . . 1,118.180 6m,611 1 , 77,274 . I - - - - - t6 ; , 6,07:1 : 47,357,292 10,460.119 1904. : \tnnlto\l1 . . . . . . .39.1&2.458 30.289,2'19 11,177.970 Sl\skntchownn .15lII.nO 10.7 O.3rO 598.336 Albcrta . . . . . . . . . 7&3,075 5cro,4DG 1GOS,2U . - - ' - - - - - 5IiS93,263 62,655,125 13,381,647 1905 , l\tnnltohn . . . . . . .6.7&1.,116 : ; 45.48M25 14,061.0l SI\R1U1tchownn .20.107,280 19,213,055 893.396 Alberla . . . . . . . . . 2.297,524 9.614.1S0 1,773,9H . - - - - - - - - - - 81ICG,220 74,2U.2GO 10,731,335 This year , the lowest returns , as We ha\'e stated , are esthnatell at : Wheat , 87,203,000 lIushels : oats , 76,725,600 , and 11\rlo : ) ' at IG,980,600 bushels , which Is'er ' aatlsfactor ' if not \'er ) , absolutely satlsr 'lns. To better approclnto this fact , all that Is necessar ) ' to do Is to go bacl , 2ti 'ears In the history of Westel'll Cannda. At that time the agricultural product of the whole country was confinell to l\1llnlloba , aml consisted of 1,000,000 buhels : : at wheat , on an acreage of [ jl,300 and 1,270,268 lIushels of oats. The ontlro crOll was at that time roqulrell for local purposes , and the export trade was nn unlmown quantity. To-day , allowing nearly 20,000,000 lIushels of wheat for local consumption anll soed. ing , there will bo about 70,000,000 lIushels for export , which at 70 cents , l1er lIlIsllel will bring in outsldo money to the extent of nearly $60,000,000. . The barley anll oats exported are good for an additional $25,000,000 , and . the conlblnOlI amounts , together with that received from dar 'lng and oth. er sources. are bOllnd to male finnn' clal conditions , "ery easy In the Cana' dlan West until the next harvest mB. turos. In the last weel , of August It. . tour of Inspection was made along the Uno of railway In the wheat area by the Northwest Grain Dealel's' association and a numllor of Amorlcan grain ex. perts. What they saw convinced them that not only was the crop a gOOlI average one , but the quaUly of the grain grown was admittedly of the best quality , and mal'O than one of the visitors stated that although the 'Ied ] might have been larger , the quality could liardlY have lIeon im. proved. 81eadng ] ] on this point , Mr. J. F. WhalIer , the welI.lenown wheat mllll of 1\1lnneallolls , said : "The quality of the crop is oxcel. lent , and I thln1c the average wlll be No. 1 Northern. I was UII with the grain men two years ago , and I am very much struclc with the Iml1rovo- ment that has tllen ] place In these two years. The growth is certainly marvelous : there is not a better coun. try in the world than the Canadian Northwest. " The past few years , In which agrf. culture Ims lIeen carried on to any great extent , have brought the prob. . lem of transportation very prominent.- i ly to the front , and there Is a rallwa.y development In Manitoba , Saslmtche. : wan , Aberta ] and Brltluh Columbia , I Such as has never been seen I anywhere. There are at present o..er 6,000 miles of railway in oporatlon In that country , and a conservatlvo calcuilltioa of the lines now In course of construction plllces the extent at IiOOO additional miles : a largo portion of which wlll be completed during the 11rcReilt year. 'fhls means the oponlng Ull of a con. slderabl ) ' increased agricultural area , and there Is e..ery reason to bellevo that In a "er ) ' few yeara the agrlcul. tuml wealth of the country wl1l be doveoped ] to such an extcnt that In. stead of "A Hundred Million Bushel Crop" It wlII not be out of place to refer to the crop as " 500,000,000 bush. els of whent tor export. " This may ] 001 , lIlee drawing the long lIow at the present time , but , In the light of what has been done by Western Canada in the past five or ton years , there is no limit that can be pla.ced upon what may be done in the five or ten 'cars immediately In front of that lusty young giant of the West. An Odious ComparIson , "Doesn't Scrubbly look eheap beside that magnlficont , welI.drossod wife of his ? " "I should 8ay sol Uo looks Uke & bar.tender's shlrt.stud beside the Koh. I.noor.-Judge.