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THE SCHOOLS OF WESTERN CANADA In Some of the Cities and Towns the School Buildings Cannot Accom modate the Increasing Num bers. " " " * One of the most important factors In the building of a new country Is the attention that is paid by the au thorities to the education of the rising generation. Fortunately for western Canada , the settlement of that new country began in such recent years that it was able to lay a foundation lor this work , gained by the experi ence of older countries. In this way rthe very best is the result. Through out the entire country are to be seen ft [ the most improved style of architec ture in school buildings. The cities and towns vie with each other In the 'efforts ' to secure the best of accom ' modation and at the same time get I'i I' architectural lines that would appeal. Sufficient to say that nowhere is there i- ' .the greater attention paid to elemen tary and advanced education than In western Canada. A report Just to hand shows that in Calgary , Alberta , there are eighty teachers employed , and the enrollment 4,228 pupils. In the Province of Alberta there was a total of 46,000 pupils attending schools Jin 1909. The total enrollment for the year in city , town and village schools was 22,883 , and the total in rural schools was 23,105. There are in the province 970 schools with 1,323 de partments. At the close of 1909 there , -was a total of 1,09 < > school districts in the province. Great attention is paid also to agricultural education. The best uses of the soil and such other matters as tend to make the agricul ture less of a drudge and more of a success are employed. When there is the combination of good soil , splen did climate and healthy and advanced Ideas in the methods employed In agriculture , we see accomplished the results that have placed western Can ada on its present high plane in the agricultural world. There Is to be 'found men of high standing In liter ary spheres as well as in financial circles who are carrying on farming , not alone for the pleasure they de rive but for the profit they secure. Mr. Adler , a wide-awake business man of New York , has a ranch near Strath- more , Alberta. He is highly pleased -with his success the past year. He says : "On July 25th wo estimated our crop at 6,000 bushels of wheat. A week later we increased our estimate to 12,000 bushels. A few days later we again increased our estimate , this time to 18,000 bushels , but after har vest in September we found we had 20,150 bushels. If that isn't a record , what is ? " he aslced. "This crop was made with practi cally no moisture , " he continued , "and we now have a hotter opinion of the fertility of Alberta lands than ever and value our lands higher than wa ever did before. " Mr. Adler , who has been on the rauch for about a week , leaves for New York Saturday. This gentleman is conducting a farm on a large scale , and has plenty of means to develop it , and his may not "be taken as a fair case. There are , though , instances of thousands who have begun life on small farms in western Canada with but brains and the determination over and above the couple of hundred dollars in ready money that they possessed , and today are owners of large farms and hand some incomes , all the result of their efforts on land that was responsive to the touch of the hand that held the jilow. Instances such as these can be quoted if you will communicate with the nearest Canadian government agent , who will also mail you free de scriptive literature. Praise is encouraging ; it brings out the best that is In a man and inspires him to do his duty cheerfully and faithfully. Henry Lee. Dr. "Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach , liver and bowels. Sttgar-coated , tiny granules. Easy to take as candy. ' Be a live wire , but don't burn your associates. Knees Became Stiff Flvo Years of Severe Rheumatism The euro .of Henry J. Goldstein , 14 Barton Street. Boston , Mass. . Is anoth er victory by Hood's Sarsaparilla. This great medicine has succeeded In many cases where others have utterly Tailed. Mr. Goldstein says : "I suf fered from rheumatism flve years. It kept me from business and caused ex cruciating : pain. My knees would be come as stiff as steel. I tried many medicines without relief , then took Hood's Sarsaparilla , soon felt much better , and now consider myself en tirely cured. I recommend Hood's. " Get it today in usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs. Constipation Vanishes Forever j Prompt Relief PennaBcafe Core CARTER'S LITTLE . LIVER PILLS never fail. Purely veget able cl surely " CARTERS but gently on ' the uver. IITTLG Stop after IV ER _ _ . _ PILLS. distrest cureindj- _ , . cwtioa improve the complexion bnghtea the eyes. Scull KID , Small DwcS allPriMj Genuine nntk Signature [ } Thtmpsi n's Eyt Wttir Sailors Had in Mind Tale of "The Ancient Mariner. " Baneful Spell That Fell Upon Sailing Ship Rhine Was Attributed t * Killing of Albatross That Had Taken Refuge. New York. Coleridge's tale of "The Ancient Mariner" may now be re peated as the record In many re spects of the strange voyage of the Rhine , a British sailing ship , which has reached this port from Trinidad , laden with asphalt. For forty days and forty nights the vessel struggled against adverse winds , or , like the craft in Coleridge's poem , hung in a glassy sea , "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. " Followed for a time , as men of the crew believe , by as mysterious an in fluence as that which held the styp of "The Ancient Mariner" in thrall , the Rhine fought its way through to the end of a trip that ordinarily would have occupied fourteen instead of forty days. To the killing of an albatross was attributed the baneful spell that fell upon the ship of "The Ancient Ma riner. " The question for supersti tious minds Is whether the spell that bound the Rhine for a time was brought about by a West Indian sailor who killed a sea bird which had ta ken refuge on board the ship's deck. Before the Rhine , which is a full rigged ship of 1,690 tons , was a day out of Port au Spain , Trinidad , it found itself in a calm. Day after day , with only an occasional puff of wind to bring hope of more favorable weather , the Rhine crawled along be neath a burning sun. The ship was a week and a half on its way when a strange thing hap pened , Captain Bergman and his first mate , Harry Wolth , were on the quar ter deck , and the sailors were idling about the deck forward when a huge dog , gaunt with hunger , appeared on deck. Captain Bergman and his mate are not superstitious , so they had the animal cared for by the steward and then let him roam the deck at will. It was not until the Rhine was well up the Atlantic coast that it ran into heavy weather. On Sunday night , No vember 13 , a hurricane rose. Th * first mate was caught in a heavy sea and was thrown to the deck , where hfr lay stunned. No one saw him fall-/l-no one but Bob , the stowaay dog. He ran howling to the skipper , and by Ms actions led him to Fend the third tfffl- cer to see what -was the matter. Wolth was found and carried to Ms cabin , where it was found that be had dislocated his left knee and in jured the leg generally. Wolth in sisted on remaining on duty. The Rhine was forty miles east by northeast of Cape Henry when it en countered the storm. It took the ship two weeks to fight its way to this port , a distance of only a few hun dred miles. Captain Bergman in 1905 received $1,000 and a gold watch from insur ance companies for bringing the Har- COSTLIEST HOUSE IN AMERICA GOiPLE' YORK William A. Clark , ex-senator from Montana , and Mrs. NEW are about to move into their new residence at Fifth avenue and Seventy-seventh street , which ha.3 Just been completed after nearly eight years of work. This extraordinary palace cost Mr. Clark more than $7,000,000 before a bit of furniture was put Into it and is the costliest resi dence in the country. The furnishings have required the expenditure of several additional millions. Mr. Clar \ planned the house himself and it It denounced by architects and artists as the worst freak ever erected in the United States. vard into the Delaware breakwater under jury masts after all his spars had been carried away except the foretopmost. Mrs. Bergman , the skipper's wife , also has won recognition for heroism at sea. She has an official letter of thanks from congress for aiding in the saving of life. She lives aboard the Rhine. The Rhine is a steel ship , 257 feet long and thirty-eight feet beam. FARM LABORER VERY SCARCE Missouri Farmers Buy Talking Ma chine and Reflectors in Attempt to Lure Him to Work. Mexico , Mo. Is the motion picture machine in small towns responsible for luring boys and young men away from the farm ? Will the phonograph and the post card reflector in the farmhouse keep him there ? Many farmers In central Missouri would say "yes" to both of those questions , and many of them are buying talking machines and reflectors In order to combat "the lure of the motion pic tures" and keep the boys and the hired men on the farm. Many of these men attribute the WOMAN ON A JUNKET Korean Party Breaks All Records by Crossing Sea. Expedition Planned by Japanese Mas ters as Little Journey of Enlighten ment for Fifty-Odd Yangbans They Believed Everything. New York. When a Korean woman 70 years old consents to take her first ride on a railroad train there is oppor tunity for marveling among HG ? coun try men and women. But when that Korean grandmother goes all the way to Tokyo , across the sea and in the land of the conquerors , the Korean conservatives may well shake his heads and prophesy that soon the stars will begin to fall , says a correspondent of the Sun. * Such a trip was taken recently by such a daring old lady of Chosen , and not only that , but there were many Korean ladies of younger years with her. The Japanese looked upon the excursion as a good augury of the breaking down of Korean prejudice and the acceptance by them of the new regime of Japanese suzerainty. The papers of Tokyo were filled with the most Intimate details of the doings aud sayings of this unusual band of pilgrims. The expedition was planned by the Japanese masters in Seoul as a little journey of enlightenment for fifty-odd Korean yangbans , or scholars of leis ure , who had recently been in receipt of new titles in the peerage of Korea and who were supposed to be thor oughly reconciled to the absorption of their land by the conquerors from the .eastern Island. The party was headed by the junior Prince O LI , the eldest son of the last "shadow emperor of Korea , and the 'Countess Yi Chyong , one of the ladies of the old court , set the fashion for ber more shrinking sisters by an nouncing herself as one of the party. The expedition eet out from Seoul on October 24 , so as to be present in ToKyo - Kyo when the celebration of the birth- jday of the emperor of Japan should oc cur , early in Ifovember. For nearly all of the women in the party a railroad journey and the crossIng - Ing of the seas In a steamship TV as a new and somewhat terrifying adven ture. The high caste women of Korea have hitherto been subjected to a se clusion even more rigorous than the women of China. They never ven tured in the streets in the daytime un less behind the closed curtains of a palanquin , and to make their appear ance in any public place was consider ed a thing so unseemly as to merit os tracism , even divorce. But acording to the statements made by several of the women in the Imperial junket and set forth glowing ly in the Japanese press , the world beyond the women's quarter of a house in Seoul was very marvelous. Why , the Korean ladies even heard it said in Tokyo that away off beyond the rim of the eastern ocean men with wings flew above the earth. That , of course , was a Japanese joke. The Tokyo papers did not neglect to say that among the party was Ming Chhong-sik , reformed "bandit. " A ban dit in Korea , according to Japanese un derstanding , is a man who resents the invasion of his country by taking his old muzzle-loading tiger gun , retiring to the mountains and sniping Japan ese whenever the opportunity offers. This Ming had been a leader in the Wipyon or the righteous army of the insurrection in 1906 , and before he had been caught and condemned to death he had killed many of his coun try's enemies. The death sentence had been commuted to banishment , and it was only after the general am nesty had been proclaimed upon the complete overthrow of Korean inde pendence that Ming had dared go back to his country. Ming is quoted as having pleaded with the Japanese governor-general of Chosen , the Japanese name of the new province , to be allowed to join the excursion in order that he "might see with his own eyes the civilization and progress of the empire of which Chosen has now become a part. " Water System for Vienna. Vienna. The Emperor Francis Jo seph has inaugurated at Vienna a new system of water supply , which has cost over $20,000,000 , and brings the water a distance of 102 miles in pipes from mountain lakes 7,000 feet above sea level. present high prices of many of the necessities of life to the scarcity of farm labor. In fact , every condition , except weather , that does not me t the approval of the tiller of the soil is being laid at the door of the ex isting famine in "hired hands. " In half the corn fields near here last fall there were women helping the men to gather the crop. They were women , for the most part , not accustomed to such labor , but they saw the necessity of getting the har vest completed before the snow fell. And if they did not help , no one would. Last summer many women living on farms near here left their duties in the household to drive a team and help the husband put the crop In. Many of these women were college graduates. A few years ago farm laborers re ceived from $15 to $18 a month with the occasional loan of a horse on which , to ride to town. Today "hands" are hard to find at $30 a month with every Saturday off and a ride to town in the family motor car. This condition is not peculiar to Missouri alone. It sounds ridiculous , but it is no laughing matter to the farmer with a crop to harvest. FIFTY DAYS' FAST FOR LOVE Charming Brunette of Los Angeles Cures Maiady-So That She Can Marry Man of Choice. Los Angeles , Cal. Miss Josephine Oilman , a charming brunette , ended a remarkable fast of 60 days that she undertook for love , and ate food for the first time. She fasted under the direction of the famous Doctor Tan ner , to overcome a malady that threat ened her life and had prevented her marriage. At the end of her fast , without any food but orange juice and water , she appeared sprightly , and declared that the last vestige of disease had left her. By her side was her flyace , happy over her recovery and helping her plan the temporary dishes she would eat , while Miss Oilman declared there no longer was any bar to the ringing of the wedding bells. With them was a sister , Miss Helen Oilman , who voluntarily fasted for 30 days so the family could see the effect of the treatment and judge whether the cure was too dangerous for her frail sister Josephine to attempt. . "I just lost all desire for food , " said Miss Josephine. "At first I was afraid that I might be awfully hungry , but as the days wore on I began to look on things to eat as something that was apart from me and in which I had no desire to share. At first I was weak and did want the good things I saw the others eating , but that desire passed. "I did not feel the pangs of hunger after the first three days , and I did not lose much strength. Every day I practiced at the piano and then I had my garden to look after , and between those duties and doing some cooking for the rest of the family , I put in my " time- Fish Tie Up Plant. Chicago. Thousands of fresh wa ter herring pouring into the hydraulic power intake of the rail mill of the Gary steel plant caused a tieup for some time the other day. Just what loss the company sustained is not known. Foreign workmen took the fish home for supper. Several months ago a rat was electrocuted in the power house and the current was shut off for several hours , thereby rendering 6,000 men idle. .RECORD OF PLUNDER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE TARIFF. Facts That Account for the Voters Turning to Party That Will Af ford Relief From Monopo listic Extortion. In view of the history of the last 28 years one can hardly wonder that the people has lost confidence In the Re publican party as an agent of tariff re vision. In his message to congress In December , 1881 , President Arthur said that there ought to be a revision of the tariff , and he recommended the ap pointment of a commission. The com mission bill was passed , and the com mission appointed. After an exhaust ive inquiry it made its report in which a reduction of about 25 per cent was recommended. Congress threw the re port Into the waste basket , and set about the work of revision In the old way. The new tariff , that of 1883 , did not meet the demands of the people. Certainly there was no reduction of 25 per cent or anything approaching it The senate passed one bill , and the house another. In conference a third bill was agreed to In which the duties were higher than In either of the two bills passed by the houses. This interesting tariff lasted Just seven years. There was , from the pro tectionist point of view , no need for any extensive changes , and yet in 1890 the whole subject was taken up again and as a result we got the McKinley bill , which was one of the most ex treme that the country had known. Perhaps It will be remembered that Mr. Elaine , then secretary of state , ap peared before one of the congressional committees and denounced the meas ure , saying that there was not one line In It that would open a single market to American products. And he was quite right Here , then , we see that the country was blessed with two ex treme tariffs In the short space of seven years. The people rebelled against the McKinley tariff and the re sulting high prices , and In 1890 and again In 1892 they struck a severe blow at the Republican party. The next tariff was the Wilson-Gorman tar iff , but as the Republican party had nothing to do with that , we pass it over with the remark that it was de fective chiefly in Its failure to redeem the Democratic pledge. In 1896 the campaign , as everyone remembers , turned almost wholly on the money question. Probably two million Democrats voted for the Re publican candidattes , and they did it on the money issue alone. They cer tainly had no sympathy with the tariff views of Mr. McKinley. Yet when the Republicans assumed power they turned their back on the money ques tion and took up the tariff , of which little had been said In the presiden tial campaign. The result was the Dlngley tariff , which was more of- fensiveeven _ than the McKinley tariff. It was an extreme application of "pro tection. " But there was a further breach of faith. Many of the Dingley duties were made higher than they otherwise would have been made in order to furnish a basis for trading with foreign nations through reciproc ity treaties. This was publicly admit- ' te'd by Mr. Dingley himself. But no reciprocity treaties were negotiated. All that were proposed were killed , yet the high duties were maintained. So for eleven years the country had to submit to these high taxes , though the intention and pledge was to trade them down. Indianapolis News. People Now In Power. With only a few weeks remaining of the present session of congress , which marks the end of Republican control for at least two years , it looks as if it were going to be , In effect , a do-noth ing congress , just as the political man agers predicted. With each day the chances grow less for the legislation that was demanded at the polls and for the program that the president submitted , for congressional considera tion. Thus personal selfishness and party policy absorb the attention of our statesmen , and they fail to "give the business of the state precedence over the ambitions of men. " This has always been more or less so , and prob ably always will be more or less so ; but it must be much less so in the near future or there will be subse quent effects which no statesmanlike explanatory eloquence can prevent Statesmen have been in the habit of running the country as they please. The demand now Is that the country be run as the people please. New York Times. Party's Opportunity and Danger. The Democratic party , as a party , 3 now being appealed to , both north and south , by all the special interests. If the tariff grip on the Republican party were definitely broken there would be far more attraction to powerful preda tory interests in the Democratic or ganization than in the Republican. One cannot tell what force is going 'to "get" the Democratic party. The story may be told , or pretty well foretold - j told , by the conventions and the gen eral political movement of 1912. That party has a great opportunity , as shown in the elections o ! this year , which registered the public dissatis faction with the Republican control. But the opportunity is accompanied by a great temptation the tempting of organized wealth and business power. There are inherent weaknesses in the Democracy will the temptation or the opportunity win ? Kansas City Star CHANGES IN THE SENATE Recent Happenings Seem to Promise Body More Responsive to Popular Opinion. The death of Senator Elklns further , reduces the Republican control of the I senate , not only in numbers but int Influence. The West Virginia senator , the unexpectedly sudden fatal termlna- * tlon of whoso illness shocked hia colleagues - ' leagues , had had a picturesque career , and during his service in the senate had been a powerful factor in the framing of legislation , especially that dealing with the railroads and the tariff. The landslide which restored ? the Mountain state to the Democratic column had already made certain the/ retirement of the other Republican senator , Nathan Bay Scott , and the % Republicans there now find themselves' doubly stricken by the assurance of the election of another Democrat in place of Senator Elldns. The long list of veterans who havef retired or have been retired by pollt-r ical reverses or death within the paat | year or two leaves few of the old , guard in the senate. Aldrlch , Hale , , Burrows , Carter , Dolllver , Flint , Kean , . Depew , Dick , Scott , and now Elklns , , on the Republican side , Daniels , Me- * Enery , Clay and McLaurln on the < Democratic. Their successors , so far * as Indicated , are as a rule men of * whom little Is known outside of their states , as Johnston in Maine and Pom- * erene In Ohio. The effect of" these : changes upon the senate and upon ther popular attitude toward that body- must be Interesting. The retirement ! of senators who held their places by' dominance of state organizations , and. , through that control , of state ieglsla- * tures , and the election of new men * without the authority and influence oC the old-timers , coming at a time when , the demand for popular election I3 sweeping to the front , should mean a senate more responsive to populajr * opinion. Then , too , the narrow bal ance of power in the chamber Itself must be an even more powerful factor to that end. Sugar Trust Disgorging * . Whether the ultimate limit of thw "refundings" of stolen money fcy th - sugar trust proves to be $3,000,000 or $3,500,000 is of comparatively smalt importance. The trust is too rich to feel the difference seriously , and the * government does business on eo vast a scale that the treasury will not ber much affected , one way or the other. The main thing to be kept in mind is the evidence which every dollar of plunder thus disgorged affords that the American Sugar Refining company confesses wide-reaching and shame less thieving. It is not a case of "dif ficulty in adapting established busi ness customs to new standards of pub lic ethics" or of "artificial criminality , , created to me < the demands of popu lar clamor. " There Is no room for question as to the nature of the trans actions from any point of view , ethical or legal. The whole case is plain , , vulgar stealing. There is no fraud older than cheat ing In weights and measures. There are few forms of thieving as mean and contemptible. The sugar trust has ben caught doing exactly that kind af stealing , on a wide scale and for many years in succession. The coun try will not forget this revelation of a. criminal trust's methods. No Reason to Be Alarmed. In a recent statement President Wil liam M. Wood of the American Woolen company said : "The situation as It occurs to me Is that a majority of the people of the United States have deemed it wise to change from the Republican party to the Democratic party. This being the wish of the majority of the people or the country , It is fair to assume that the transfer must be a safe one , as It is backed by the people. There are wealthy Democrats as well as Repub licans , men with large industrial Inter ests , who are not going to have their Interests sacrificed. "For the last five years under Re publican rule the furthering of the business interests in this country has been almost ignored , and there ap pears to have been almost constant In terruption of business by the party In power. No party that Is antagonistic * to thel ndustrlal interests of the coun- to the industrial Interests of the coun- the incoming political party continues the policy of the last five years It will not be long before the party will be out of power. The country cannot go wrong for a very long time , and I do not feel any apprehension about the change in politics , although I am f strong Republican. " Tariff League Discredited. The American Protective Tariff league has ceased to have any influ ence with the people if It ever did ! have any. Today it stands pat on all the enormities of the present tariff law , including the cruel wool and cot ton schedules. It is for taxation for the sake of taxation , and the heavier and more grinding the taxes the better It likes them. Of course. It opposea reciprocity , for its effect would lighten ) somewhat the burden of taxation. For the Farmer to Consider. For many years the American far mer has been heavily taxed to help- out such infant Industries as the cot ton , steel and woolen industries. Dur ing all those years he has had his "pro- testlon" on wheat , though It Is less ef fective even than it used to be and i - never was effective. Of the present high cost of food the farmer gets at very moderate share. Most of It gee * to the elevator men , packers , commlsy rion men and middlemen generally. t A.-
