Didn't Knovr the Game.
'Chauncey Olcott tells a funny story ,
which happened some years ago when
he was living at home with his par
.enta. no became imbued with th
5dea that he was quite a sport , so ear-
3y one morning , as he softly turned ths
.latch-key and stole into the paternal
Jhnll , he was surprised to find his fa
ther awaiting him. "What is this 1
licar ? " asked the father , sternly , "j
am told you are playing poker. "
"Why , father , I haven't the leasl
Jdca of how to play the game. "
"I know that , " replied the reverend
gentleman , grimly. "At least , so I am
told by one of the fellows who was
playing with you. "
Entirely Satisfactory.
The Eskimo had eatca his first bowl of
i
"kerosene. '
"It has a delicious flavor , " he said ;
* * but it isn't quite as rich and satisfying
jts a tallow candle. "
Keep in Good Health.
There are many thousands of people ah
over the world who can attribute their j ;
00 : ! health to taking one or two Brandt t
.reth's Pills every night. These pills
idealise the stomach and bowels , stimulate
Jic kidneys and liver and purify the blood.
They are the same fine laxative tonic pill
; your grandparents used , and being purely
.rentable they are adapted to children and
told people , as well as to those in the vigor
of manhood anl womanhood.
Brandreth's Pills have been in use forever
over a century and are for sale evcry-
< . either plain or sugar-coated .
* " Side Liisrhtn on History.
The army in Flanders had begun t < j
icwear dreadfully.
; 'We don't like to do it , " explained one
iof the officers , "but , of course , we've got
6.0 back up Gen. Sherman. * '
This Will Interest Mothers.
"Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chil
dren , used by Mother Gray , a nurse In Chll-
.dren's Home , New York , cure Constipation ,
jFeverlshness , Teething Disorders , Stomach
Troubles and Destroy Worms ; 30,000 testl-
, monlals of cures. All druggists , 25c. Sam-
nle FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted , Le
; Iioy. N. Y.
Had the Symptoms.
McGinnis was a man of somewhat
, ; lju.sty temper. A long siege of sickness
'
"Jiad made him exceedingly irritable ,
rfind taking care of and waiting on him
'liad ' proved a great trial to Mrs. McG. ,
winder which she had borne up with
i
commendable patience and fortitude ,
Kiicver complaining , no matter in what
-form her husband's crankiness mani-
-fasted itself.
One day , when the doctor called as
tusual , he cheerfully remarked :
"Well , Mrs. McGinnis , how is our pa
tient getting along this morning ? "
"Sure , doctor , ye're too late , " she
inioaned , disconsolately. "It's after bein'
-dead he is , I'm thinkin' . "
"Why , It can't be possible your hus
band has dropped off like that ! " ' ex-
.claimed the doctor in tones of surprise
-"He was worth a dozen dead men when
1 saw him last. You certainly musl
* liive : made a mistake , Mrs. McGinnis ,
.Arc you positive that he is really
.dead ? "
"Well , doctor , " said Mrs. McG. , chok
ing back her sob , "if the poor mon isn'J
.dead he has all the symptoms of it. 1
went into the room jist now , an' he ,
< didn't find fault n'r t'row annything at .
Hai ) er's Magazine.
In the Opera Box.
Miss Peachley What funny sleeves
jjcours are !
Miss Capsicum Yes ; I have been
laughing in them at that gown of yours.
NEW YEAR'S CALLS.
_ A NC-VT Drink to Replace the OU
Time "Apple-Jack. "
Twenty-five years ago the custom of
snaking New Year's calls was a delightful
*
ful one for all concerned , until some
of the boys got more 'egg-nog' or 'apple-
Jack' than they could successfully
-carry.
Then the ladies tried to be charita
ble and the gentlemen tried to be aa
-chivalrous as ever and stand up at tha
.same time.
If anyone thinks there has not been
-considerable improvement made in the
Jast quarter of a century In the use'of
alcoholic beverages , let him stop to con
sider , among other things , the fact that |
the old custom of New Year's calls and
the gente.el tippling is nearly obsb-
Jete.
Jete.The
The custom of calling on one's
friends , however , at the beginning of
-the new year , is a good habit , a nd another
'
other good habit to start at that time
is the use of well-made Posturn instead
of coffee or spirits.
A Staten Island doctor has a sensi
ble daughter who has set Postum be
fore her guests as a go'od thing to 'drink
.at Yule Tide , and a good way to begin
-the New Year. Her father writes :
"My daughter arid I have used Pos-
-tnin for some time -past and we feel
ure It contains wholesome food mate
rial.
rial."I
"I shall not only recommend it to m
patients , but my daughter will be most
pleased to give a demonstration of Pos-
-tura to our Christmas arid. New "Year's
. .tilers. " Read "The Road to Well-
In pkgs. "There's a reason. "
| THE WASTE OF APF'LES.
Good Fruit Lot to the Market
Through Bad Shipping : Sy tem.
Though one would not know it from
market conditions , a Chicago correspond
ent says , it is a fact that the apple crop
of the United States this year is 12,625-
000 barrels greater than List year or
30,120,000 barrels , all told. Where two
apples were available to delight the apple
lover last year there are three now. Rath-
i er , there should be three , but so great
has been the waste of- apples which could
i not find markets that the consumer will
not be able to benefit in anything like
the proportion he should.
Early in the season , when the fall
apples began to ripen , the woe of the
man with the big orchard was pitiable.
He would see his trees breaking down
under the weight of fruit , and know that
even if he hauled the apples miles to a
market town he oould not get better than
20 cents a bushel for them , with a pos
sibility that the local dealers would re
fuse to take them at any price. The
hogs were the main beneficiaries of the
crop.
crop.When
When the winter apples riiened the sit
uation was no better. An observer at a
small town in central Illinois , from
which the apple product of about a
third of a county was shipped , has re
ported that there was a waste of 40,000
barrels in that territory alone , or about
a quarter of the crop.
Consumers in the cities 1m e benefited
despite the waste by being able to get
the poorer grades of apples at very low
prices , but strange to say , the better
grades have sold at retail for almost as
high prices as they have brought in re
cent years of short crops. The quality
of the apples is a little bettor , and the
price a little lower , but the improvement
in both factors combined does not begin
to equal what would be expected from
the huge production.
The causes of the waste have been the
high freight rates and a car service which
* is not adequate for the emergency. With
out the cold storage warehouses and the
development of fruit transportation lines ,
the situation would be worse than It is ,
and the country would have even less
benefits from the bounty of nature. The
problem of organization to enable the
country to get the best use of its re
sources is an enormous one and will re
main such so long as the population con
tinues to grow. It is one in which ev
ery citizen has an interest. To make
two apples grow where one grew before
is hardly more important than to make
the two apples , when : > nce they are
grown , reach the mouths which wan'
them.
WATERWAY IMPROVEMENTS.
Congress to Be Asked to Appropri
ate $50OOOOOO a Year.
In a few years the United States will
have the finest waterway system in the
world if Congress should vote its ap
proval of the movement which looks for
an annual appropriation of $50,000,000
for waterway improvement.
The United States has within its boun
daries , exclusive of seaboard , more than
43,000 miles of waters which , with proper
attention , should be navigable. On these
she has spent up to date $470,000,000. On
the other hand , the tiny kingdom of Hol
land , with only 2,000 miles of navigable
waterways , has already spent on them
more than $1,500,000,000. France , with
4,000 miles , has spent $1,120,000,00 ,
while Belgium , with less than 1,300 miles ,
has since 1875 spent in excess of $80-
000,000. These large expenditures abroad
have made rates there very low , whereby
shippers in general have benefited.
The average appropriation in this coun
try for each of the last ten years for all
the rivers and harbors has been about
$19,000,000. Germany , it is pointed out ,
has spent about four times this sum on
the harbor of Hamburg alone. On the
harbor at Liverpool , England , $200,000-
000 has been spent. In fact , many a
harbor in foreign lands has been improv
ed and made more useful to both pro
ducer and shipper at a cost exceeding
the whole annual appropriation of the
United States.
The average cost of shipping one ton
of goods one mile by rail in the United
States is 7.79 cents. On the other hand ,
the average ton mile cost in the Great
Lakes is only .92 of a cent ; on the lower
Mississippi , one mill ; on the Ohio river
to Cincinnati , one-third of one mill , and
on the Erie canal , as estimated for its
12-foot depth when completed , about half
a mill.
The most accurate returns obtainable
until the official count is made indicate
that Charles E. Hughes' plurality for
Governor of New York is 61,500 the
largest obtained in an "off year" since
Morton was elected in 1S94.
The National Petroleum Association ,
with headquarters at Cleveland , Ohio ,
has received written promises from the
Governors o Indiana , Illinois , Minnesota ,
Missouri and others , that they will do
all they can to obtain the enactment of
an anti-rebate law , similar to those rc-
cently enacted in Iowa and Kansas. i
Secretary of Navy Bonaparte has been
advocating a scheme for improving the
quality of candidates for public office.
It is to have each party authorize an
individual to choose all candidates with
in a designated territory , thus doing de
liberately and intelligently the work
which is now done so hastily and unsat
isfactorily by nominating conventions.
Such a legalized boss he would have elect
ed annually by the voters of his party ,
and should be himself disqualified to liold
office.
United States Senator Dick of Ohio
remarked at Cleveland that he had be
come convinced that the income tax was
the nearest we could come to an eqnit-
able and impartial system of taxation.
The report of Treasurer Sheldon of the
New York Republican State committee
shows that $332,011.36 was spent in the
campaign which resulted in the election
of Hughes as Governor. Of the total re
ceipts , $313,923 were personal contribu
tions. The largest contributors were J.
P. Morgan & Co. and ex-Gov ! Morton ,
each of whom gave $20,000. There were
< ? ,300 contributors.
BTTSDCSS OF THE COUNTRY FOP. A YEAS ,
Interesting- Statistics Showing the Results of Twelve Months In Agricul
ture , Manufacture and General Trade.
Bradstreet's Commercial Agency has prepared an interesting table showIng -
Ing the status of the leading lines of American agriculture , manufacture and
general trade for the year. The figures are giveu below , although many are
estimates and subject to final revision :
Per cent ,
1000. 1905. gain or loss.
Corn , bushels 2,881,080,000 2,707,993.540 Increase 6.4
Wheat , bushels 739,883,000 092,979,489 Increase 6.7
Oats , bushels 863,352,000 953,216,197 Decrease 9.4
Barley , bushels 144,528,000 136,651,020 Increase 5.7
Rye , bushels 30,000,000 28,485,952 Increase 5.3
Buckwheat , bushels 13,688,000 14,585,082 Decrease 6.1
Total , six leading cereals 4,672,547,000. 4,533,911,280 Increase 3.1
Potatoes , bnshels 303,207,500 260,741,294 Increase 16.5
Sugar ( Louisiana ) , pounds 593,600,000 739,200,000 Decrease 19.6
Sugar ( Porto Rico ) , pounds. . . 573,200,000 477,120,000 Increase 19.7
Sugar ( Hawaii ) , pounds 884,800,000 862,400,000 Increase 2.6
Sugar , beet ( United States )
pounds 772,800,000 636,160,000 Increase 21.4
Sugar , total pounds 2,882,400,000 2,714.880,000 Increase 3.9
Apples , barrels 36,000,000 24,000,000 Increase 50.0
Cranberries , barrels 250,000 136,800 Increase 82.7
Cotton , bales 12,500,000 11,345,988 Increase 10.2
Tobacco , pounds 628,814,800 633,033,719 Decrease .6
Shoe shipments , eastern ( ten
months ) , cases 2,361,569 4,248,057 Increase 2.6
Iron ore shipments ( lake ) , tons 37,000.000 34,100,000 Increase 8.5
Pig iron production , tons 25,000,000 23,000,000 Increase 8.6
Goal , anthracite shipments ( ten
months ) , tons 45,680,414 50,593,504 Decrease 9.7
Building expenditure ( ten mos. )
32 cities $400,934,988 $380,516,192 Increase 5.2
Bank clearings , ten months $131,097,795,346 $115,678.335,231 Increase 13.2
Railway earnings , gross , 9 rnos. $1,439,457,962 $1,267,297,075 Increase 13.5
Exports of merchandise ( ten
months ) $1,425,172,707 $1,250,924,354 Increase 13.4
Imports of merchandise ( ten
months ) $1,046,392,809 $979,717,437 Increase 6.7
Total foreign trade (10 ( months ) $2,471,565,516 $2,236,641,791 Increase 10.5
Business failures , number ( ten
months 7,609 8,233 Decrease 0.8
Business failures , liabilities ( ten
months ) $101,276,480 $100,742,108 Increase .4
Money in circulation Nov. 1 $2,866,882,786 $2,653,131,578 Increase 8.0
Money in circulation per capita $33.68 $31.69 Increase 6.2
Explanatory of the above figures , it might be said that the large barley ,
< orn and wheat crops more than made up for smaller yield of oats , the net
result began an aggregate yield of all cereals combined 3 per cent larger than
in 1905 , and larger even than the combined record yield of past years. A
next to record yield of potatoes , a record sugar crop , a fair sized apple crop ,
and a next to record cotton crop are among the features indicated. The yield
of tobacco will , however , be light. Larger yields of most crops indicate a
heavier total money value to the farmer than a year ago.
In industry , it is to be noted that nearly all lines of endeavor show larger
outputs than a year ago. Shoe shipments show : i gain of 2.6 per cent on last
year ; iron ore shipments and pig iron production break all records , gaining 8.5
Jper cent in each case over the hitherto record year 1905. Building construc
tion was never so active. Anthracite coal shipments , however , are a conspic
uous exception , showing a decrease of 9.7 per cent from 1905.
Prices of all staples have shown great strength , and the general level of
all values , as indicated by Bradstreet's approximate index number , is 6 per
cent above a year ago and 53 per cent above the low water mark set in
July , 1896.
Large crops , high prices and active industry naturally find reflection in
large financial and trade totals. Foreign and domestic trade has reached un
precedented heights , as indicated by gains of 6.7 per cent in imports and of
13.4 per cent in exports , and in a total foreign trade 10.5 per cent ahead of
1905. Railway earnings and bank clearings show nearly similar gains over
a year ago , 13.5 and 13.3 per cent respectively. Business failures are 6.8 per
cent fewer while liabilities are only four-tenths of 1 per cent larger than in
1905. The volume of money in circulation is the largest ever recorded.
TILLMAN IN FIERY TALK.
Senator in Chicago ! Lccture Predicts
Race War.
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman passed
unscathed through an exciting meeting in
Orchestra Hall , Chicago , the other night.
There , for the ben-
efit of the Chicago
Union hospital , the
statesman and lec
turer from South
Carolina delved into
the heart of the
race question. In
dramatic answers
to interrupting -
ing questions he
predicted war be
tween the black and
white races within
ten years. Two dis
turbers , one a col
ored man and the
other a Russian
sympathizer , were
B. B. TILLIIAK- . arrested and taken
from the gallery. The colored people of
Chicago had attempted to have the lec
ture called off because of the race preju
dice it might arouse.
The speaker argued that the fifteenth
amendment had not conferred suffrage on
the colored man , because it did not confer
it on the white man , declaring that it
simply prohibited any Sta'te from enact
ing a law discriminating on account of
color. "So the southern people are con
fronted with a prohibition which says ,
'Make any rule you please , provided it
applies to both races alike. '
"Now , how many of you know that
there are 30,000 more colored than white
people in the States of North Carolina ,
Georgia , Florida , Alabama and Missis
sippi ? How many of you know that in
South Carolina there are 230,000 moie
blacks than there are whites ? South Car
olina and Mississippi are swimming for
their lives.
"You make up your minds that equality
before the law is right and should be en
forced , notwithstanding it would result
in two States at least being absolutely
dominated by the negroes. " He declared
the North was face to face with the prop
osition "in the near future , if not at this
time. I have been charged with advo
cating lynch law. I have justified lynch
law -for one crime ; that is all. I don't
believe in lynch law. "
Radium. Is a Compound.
Frederick Soddy , one o the principal
English authorities on the subject of
radium , has made the important admis
sion t"hat radium may be considered , at
least for the present , as a compound , but
not as a chemical compound. Heretofore
it has been regarded as a chemical ele
ment.
Damp "Winds Aid Consumption.
In the current number of the British
Medical Journal , Drs. Gordon and Har
per present statistics of consumption in
North Devonshire for forty-four years.
From these it appears that the important
consideration in the relative distribution
of the disease is the presence or absence
of strong , persistent , rain-laden winds.
The deaths from phthisis in the districts
where the damp winds blew most fre
quently were .999 per 1,000. as against
1'39 elsewhere.
FIRE IN ST. LOUIS.
Flames Cause Death and Panic in
Salvation Army Hotel.
The Lighthouse hotel , a three-story
structure at Ninth and Market streets ,
St. Louis , utilized as a Salvation Army
barracks , was damaged by fire early
Wednesday , when probably 500 homeless
men were lodged within it. Six lost
their lives and probably thirty-five were
injured , about half that number being
seriously injured , some not being expect
ed to live.
The fire started on the third floor and
swept through the old building rapidly.
Men fought at the Windows to secure the
life-lines and slide to the street , but so
great was the frenzy with which the
ropes were seized and held that they
were of little avail and those who could
not escape by the stairway leaped from
the windows. A large number of those
who jumped were caught in nets , but
many jumped before the nets were
stretched and were injured. There was
only one stairway and the panic stricken
men surged down this stairway to the
street , only to find the door locked. A
jam resulted and probably a great loss of
life would have occurrd had not firemen
promptly burst the door open , permit
ting the frenzied men to pour out Into
the street. The cause of the fire has not
been ascertained.
The building was a three-story struc
ture and the majority of the lodgers were
on the upper floors. At every window
could be seen the forms of half-naked
men , calling to firemen in terror , and a
few moments later leaping from the
burning building to be crushed on the
sidewalk below. Life lines , fastened at
windows , provided means of escape for
scores of the 500 lodgers.
Mystery of a "Woman's Voice.
The remarkable instance of a woman
possessing a man's baritone voice , with
all the masculine qualities is just now
attracting attention among psychological
and medical experts at New York. Mis3
Edna Murray , whose home iormerly was
Fort Worth , Texas , has come under the
observation of Prof. Hyslop , the psychic
expert ; Dr. G. W. Colby , a throat spe
cialist , and Albert Gerard-Thiers , a voice
culturist. Miss Murray says that saa
never sang a note up to the -time she was
20 and there was nothing peculiar or
nothing about her voice different from
ordinary girls. She had Iparned , how
ever , to play the piano and was accom
panying a young man with a baritone
voice one day when the idea occurred to
her that she could sing the song in a
lower voice than he could , and she did ,
to the astonishment of both. At the same
time she says that her handwriting chang
ed from a fine feminine hand to that of
a man. She still has a feminine talking
voice.
Telegraphic Brevities.
Fire which broke out in the Newtonian
hotel at Somerset , Ky. , destroyed the
hotel and two stores. The loss was from
$70,000 to $100,000.
Arrangements have been made by the
Niles-Bement-I'ond Company of New-
York for the acquisition of the Ridgway
Machine Tool Company of Ridgway , Pa.
The seventh biennial convention of the
Luther League of America held a three
days' session in Canton , Ohio , with 500
delegates from all sections of the United .
States I
SEA'S HEAVY DEATH TOLL.
Over Fifty Liven L-ost Thin Seas03
on St. Lavrrenee Heef.i.
Over fifty lives were lost and nearlj
a score of vessels were sxvept to de
struction on treacherous reefs ant
sandbars of the gulf and River St
Lawrence during the season of naviga
tion now closed. Of sixty persons who
perished in these waters within the
last year nearly fifty met death during
November , the most disastrous to ship
ping in the St. Lawrencfe a dozen
years. The financial losses aggregated
$250,000.
The majority of those who perished
were lost from square-rigged vessels
of foreign register. The most thrilling
wreck during the month was that of
the Russian full-rigged iron ship Sovln-
to of Helsingfors , winch struck on a
bar off Priests Pond , P. E. I. , during
a furious northeast gale , while on a
voyage from Dalhousie , N. B. , for Mel
bourne. Australia , with a cargo of
lumber. Several of the crew were
killed by the falling spars. The big
ship broke in two soon afterward and
ten of the Sovinto's men perished.
Another disastrous wreck was that
of the Norwegian bark Adeona of Aren
dal , which was driven ashore by the
same storm at Richibucto. Cayt. Jolmn-
sen and crew of ten men , one of them
a German student , after remaining on
board two days , evidently feared that
the great seas which were constantly
dashing over the vessel would smash
her to pieces , and during the height
of the gale they launched a boat and
attempted to reach land. The boat
was capsized by a comber and the en
tire crew was drowned. The masts of
the vessel went by the board and ev
erything movable was swept into the
sea. The crew would have been saved
had they remained aboard ship , as the
hull withstood the tremendous seas for
ten days. When it was possible for n
life-saving crew to reach the derelict
the ship's cat was found alive in the
forecastle. The Adeona was bound
from Sexton for Preston , England ,
with lumber.
Another Norwegian bark , supposed te
be the Magda , bound from Riviere Du
Loup , Quebec , for Buenos Ayres , was
lost with all on board. The vessel
struck on Red Island reef and found
ered. It is thought that the captain ,
his pilot and" twelve men were lost
Half a dozen lives have been lost in
the wrecks of schooners during the
fall , but only four on board the dozen
steamers stranded wers drowned.
MAY REPLACE FRISCO.
Thousand * Have Fiockcd from
Stricken City to Seattle.
Seattle is beginning to believe that it
is her destiny to become the greatest city
of the Pacific coast. After the destruc
tion of San Francisco an invitation was
extended to the stricken people to coma
and make their homes here until the de
stroyed city could be rebuilt. Transpor *
tation and temporary homes were furnish
ed for those who desired to rome. The
result is entirely unexpected. Instead
of 'making a temporary abiding place of
Seattle , the California people have be
come enamored of that city and there
are hundreds of them who will never re
turn to San Francisco.
This has resulted in a great boom for
Seattle. The population is growing with
wonderful strides and the commercial
development is unprecedented. Many of
the great shipping interests of San Fran
cisco have transferred their headquarters
to Seattle and it is an actual fact that
the railroads , many of them , are quite
unable to handle the great volume of
business that has come to them.
The railroads are realizing that Se
attle has a great future and an evidence
of their faith is the big extensions that
are being made and the heavy purchases
in the open market of the necessary land
for terminal facilities.
Seattle people have had tbeir troubles
with this unexpected boom. Hundreds
of the wealthy people of San Francisco ,
who came to Seattle after the earthquake
and fire , immediately set about procuring
homes for themselves and they .have
bought houses that were always used for
renting purposes and have practically
forced tfle natives to make extraordinary
efforts to shift for themselves. Rents
have almost doubled and it is next to
impossible to secure a house at all.
Homes for Millions.
Farming opportunities are still open
to millions in the Southwest. For in
stance , Texas has 172,000,000 acres , while
only 14,000,000 acres are under cultiva
tion. Of 20,000,000 acres of available
farming land in the Indian Territory ,
only 2,000,000 are under cultivation.
Arkansas has 34,500,000 acres of farm
ing land , while only 5,000,000 acres are
under cultivation.
Missouri , which was admitted to the
Union nearly a century ago , still has
10,000,000 acres of land in the south
western part of the Sta'te which is not
in cultivation , and which can. be pur *
chased at a moderate price.
H. Clay Pierce Indicted.
The grand jury of the District Court
at Austin , Texas , returned an indictment
against H. Clay Pierce of St. Louis and
New York , president of the Wateis-
Pierce Oil Company , on the charge that
ho swore falsely when he made affidavit
in 1900 that none of the Waters-Pierce
stock was owned or controlled by the
Standard Oil Company. An effort will
be made to have him extradited Trom Mis
souri.
"Wilson's Body Disinterred.
The body of James Wilson , , a signer
of the Declaration of Independence and
one of the framers of the federal consti
tution , after lying for ? 08 years in a
cemetery at Edenton , N. C. , has been
placed opposite those ol his wife in the
graveyard of Old Christ church , Phila
delphia. A wreath on the coffin was sent
fey President Roosevelt. Among the speak
ers in connectior with the ceremony were
Messrs. Andrer Carnegie , Dr. S. Weir
Mitchell , Alton B. Parker and Attorney
General Moodj
Explained.
Sapleigh Why do you 'dislike cigar
ettes ?
Miss Knox Because they are dan *
gerous.
Sapleigh But I have emokert them
for ten years and they havsn't killed
me yet.
Miss Knor Yea , I know and that's
one reason why I object to them.
TVehster's Dictionary.
It Is the conservatism backed by the
scholarship of the editor-in-chief , Will-
lam T. Harris , Ph. D. , LL. D. , late
United States Commissioner of Edu
cation , and hundreds of others of the
greatest educators of this and other
nations which has made the Webster
International Dictionary the standard
In the United States Supreme Court
and aH the State Supreme Courts , also
the standard of the Government PrintIng
Ing Office , and the basis of nearly all
the schoolbooks in the country.
Our readers should write for "The
Story of a Book. " Department C , G. &
C. Merriam , Springfield. Mass.
TVhat "Papa Said.
Him What did your father say
when you told him I had asked you
to marry me ?
Her Shall I leave out the swear
words ?
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Her Then I don't believe he sal < 3
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Side Lilerht on ShakJipcave.
Othello had smothered Desdemona.
"I wanted to sec , " he explained to thvj
coroner , "if the audience would insist on
both of ns coming before the curtain after
such a scene as that. "
It appearing on investigation that the
audience had insisted , the disgusted coroner
ner let him go. Chicago Tribune.
Mr * . Wlixalwa Boonmra Sravr tor ClUldrm
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Hopeless Cane.
"Here's a letter from a woman , " said
the answers-to-correspondents editor ,
"who wants to know how to make a
lemon tart"
"That's just like a woman , " rejoined
the snake editor. "Tell her if the lem
on isn't tart to begin with she'd better
consign It to the dump asd let It go at
that"
_ _
Local Color.
Mrs. Goodsole What odd contrasts ona
finds in society !
Mrs. Redpep O , yes ; in the bluebook
you find the names of ever so many people
ple that are hopelessly green.
FILLING UP THE CANADIAN WEST
The American Settler Is "Welcomed
to Canada.
A number of the leading newspapers
on this side of the line have been no
ticing the growth of the Canadian
West in recent years , and draw atten
tion to the fact that there seems to be
no abatement of the influx of settlers
to that great grain-growing country.
The Buffalo Express thus refers to the
subject :
"Canada West continues to grow.
There were 4,174 homesteads entries
there in July of this year , as against
3,571 in July , lOOo. Canada plumes
herself over this fact with becomins
pride. But what appears to make our
neighbors happiest is the statement
that of these 4,174 homesteaders , 1,212
were from this side of the line. Little
Is said about the 97 Canadians who re-
crcssed the border to take up homes
In Canada West , of of the 808 from
Great Britain , or of the 1,236 from.
non-British countries. It appears that
the item In this July report that makes
Canada rejeice most is this of the 1,212
American farmers who decided to try
their fortunes in Canada West.
"The compliment is deserved. The
1,212were mostly from Dakota and.
other farming States , and go Into Can
ada fitted better than any other class ,
of immigrants for developing the new
country. They take capital with them ,
too , say Canadian papers proudly. la
every way they are welcome over
there. "
As the Express well says , the Amer
ican is welcomed to Canada , and the
reasons given are sufficient to Invite
the welcome. The American fanner
knows thoroughly the farming condi
tions that prevail in the Canadian prai
rie provinces , and is aware of every
phase of agricultural development in
recent years. In practical knowledge
of what Is wanted to get the largest
return for labor and Investment be is
by long odds superior to any European-
settler. He knows what Is required to
bring success , and he Is able and. will
ing to do it , and his future causes no
apprehension to the successful Cana
dian farmer.
The agent of the Canadian Govern
ment , whose address appears else
where , says that the difference be
tween the manners and customs of thai
farmer from Dakota , Oregon or Min
nesota and the farmer from Manitoba ,
Saskatchewan or Alberta Is not nearly ;
so marked as that between the farmer1
of the Maritime provinces and the un-
tario tiller of the soil. Hence the wel
come to the free homesteads of Ithe ,
Canadian West ( and there are hnon-
"
dreds of 'thousands of them left ) teat
Is extended to the settler from tha
Western 'States.