IETHBRIDGE , ALBERTA ,
SECURES DRY FARM
ING CONGRESS
FORJ912. .
The term , "dry farming" does not
Indicate all that might be implied. It
toes not mean a system of irrigation ,
but one where all the rain fall and
precipitation is stored up and con-
erved in the soil , to be drawn upon.
by scientific and sane processes when
it may be required to forward and in
crease the growth of grain.
In certain sections of the Canadian
West as well as in the American
West , there is a portion of the coun
try in which the soil is the very best
for the growing of cereals , but the
ceocraphical locations and relative
position to the rain avenues , do not
giv the advantage that other parts
possess in the matter of precipitation.
Agricultural science , however , has
been making rapid progress during
the past few years , and it is now as
certained that it is not altogether thf
number of inches of rain that is es
sential to the growing of crops , but
Its conservation , and that is the
meaning of "Dry fanning. " "Dry
Farming" may well be applied to dis
tricts where there is a heavy rain fall
nd better results will follow. The
education of the public into these new
saetkods , not new exactly , but such
as have had satisfactory demonstra
tion , Is not alone the purpose of these
dry-farming Congresses. One idea is
to bring into life and into operation
the great aieas of splendid land lying
within what might he termed semiarid -
arid , without placing them under the
restrictive -expansive process of
irrigation.
The Congresses are attended by
thousands and they bring representa
tives from all parts of the world. The
Province of Alberta , and also of Sas
katchewan , has taken a vital interest
In the Congresses which have been
held in the past two or three years.
The Province of Alberta has made
provincial exhibits , districts have
shown their products , and last year ,
several hundred dollars were taken in
prizes ; this year the Province of Al
berta took prizes ten to one in excess
of any state in the Union. Alberta
has won eight out of twenty special
cups , that province taking one , Leth-
brldge one , Arthur Perry six , and
John Baxter , Edmonton , carrying off
one sweepstakes. When it came tea
a matter of location for the Congress
for 1912 , the City of Lethbridge ,
which had put up'a splendid fight for
it , secured the Congress by a unani
nous vote. It is expected that the
Xjethbridge Congress will be the larg
est yet held and will be the biggest
convention in the history of Western
Canada. In emphasizing his invita
tlon to Lethbridge , one of "the speak
ers said he had Just received a tele-
xram from. Magrath ( near Lethbridge )
stating that of one thousand acres of
wheat Just thrashed Hethershaw and
Bradshaw had thrashed 47,000 bush
els.
els.Literature
Literature sent out recently by the
Canadian Government Agents , which
will be sent postage free on applica
tion , tells of hundreds of splendid
yields in all parts of Western Canada.
Pantomime Code.
James T. Fields of the firm of Tick-
nor & Fields wore a flowing beard
as many men of his time did. He was
scrupulous In the care of it , and in
the main managed it at the table
with skill.
His wife was always on watch for
him , too , when they went out to din
ner together. They had a pantomime
code and a few expressive spoken sig
nals. Should a bread crumb catch in
the floss Mrs. Fields -would say :
"My dear , there's a gazelle in the
.garden. "
Unwritten Law.
According to the Standard Diction
ary , the unwritten law is a rule or
custom established by general usage ,
etc. " The unwritten law , as the term
recently has come Into use , is the as
sumed or supposed right of a person
: to punish even with death the author
of a gross wrong committed against a
member of his family. Courts do not
countenance It , but Justices frequently
act upon it , and several Instances
have occurred within recent years in
which persons accused of homicide
hare * been acquitted.
To Be Sure.
T wonder why it is that show girls
look down on ordinary'chorus girls. "
"Well , perhaps one reason why they
do so is that they are nearly always
taller. "
The Chicago Fire could have been pre
vented with one pail of water , but the
Brater was not handy. Keep a bottle of
Himlins Wizard Oil handy and prevent
ihe fiery pains of inflammation.
Ancients Used Lightning Rods.
As early as 400 B. C. the ancients
bad observed that iron rods had the
power to avert lightning.
The miserablest day we live there's
soaBy a better thing to do than dying.
Darley.
Soothing : Syrup for Children
, softens the guas , reduces Inflamma-
all ays pain , cures wind colic , 25c a bottle.
A mouse is afraid of a man , a man
is afraid of a woman , a woman is
: afraid of a mouse and there you are.
! Dr. Pferce's Pellets , small , sugar-coated
wusy to take as candy , regujate and invigor
ate stomach , liver and bowels. Do not gripe.
Irrigation projects are receiving the
serious attention of the government j
o Brazil. ' i
17
SYNOPSIS.
"
t
Jack Keith , a Virginian , now a bor
der plainsman , Is looking for roaming war
parties of savages. He sees a wagon team
at full gallop pursued by men on ponies.
When Keith reaches the wagon the raid
ers have massacred two men and de
parted. He searches the victims finding
papers and a locket with a woman's portrait
trait Keith is arrested at Carson City ,
charged with the murder , his .accuser be
ing a ruffian named Black Bart. A negro
companion in his cell named Neb tells him
that he knew the Keiths In Virginia. Neb
says one of the murdered men was John
Sibley.the other Gen. Willis Walte , former
ly a Confederate officer. The plainsman
and Neb escape , and later the fugitives
come upon a cabin and find Its occupant
to be a young girl , whom Keith thinks
he saw at Carson City. The girl explains
that she is In search of a brother , who
had deserted from the army , and that a
Mr. Hawley induced her to come to the
cabin while he sought her brother. Haw
ley appears , and Keith In hiding recog
nizes him as Black Bart. There is a ter
rific battle in the darkened room in which
Keith Is victor. Horses are appropriated ,
and the girl who says that her name is
Hope. Joins in the escape. Keith explains
his situation and the fugitives make for
Fort Larned. where the girl is left with
the hotel landlady. Miss Hope tells that
she is the daughter of General Walte.
Keith and Neb drift into Sheridan , where
Keith meets an old friend. Dr. Falrbain.
Keith meets the brother of. Hope Waite.
under the assumed name of Fred Wil-
loughby. and becomes convinced that
Black Bart has some plot Involving the
two.
"
CHAPTER XIX. ( Continued. )
The dead silence which ensued was
broken only by heavy breathing. Then
Scott swore , bringing his fist down
with a crash'on the washstand.
"That rather stumps yer , don't It ,
Bart ? Well , it don't me. I tell yer
it's just as I said from the first. It
was Keith an'that , , nigger what
jumped ye in the -cabin. They was
hidin' there when we rode In. He
just nat'rly pumped the gal , an' now
he's up here trallin' you. Blame it all.
it makes me laugh. "
"I don't see what you see to laugh
at. This Keith isn't an easy man to
play with , let me tell you. He may
have got on to our game. "
"Oh , hell , Bart , don't lose your
nerve. He can't do anything , because
we've got the under holt. He's a fugi
tive ; all we got to do is locate him ,
an' have him flung back inter jail
there's murder an' boss-stealing agin
him. "
Hawley seemed to be thinking
swiftly , while his companion took an
other drink.
"Well , pard , ain't that so ? "
"No , that trick won't work , Scott.
We could do It easily enough if we
were down in Carson , where the boys
would help us out. The trouble up
here is that 'Wild Bill' Hickock Is
Marshal of Sheridan , and he and 1
never did hitch. Besides , Keith was
one of his deputies down" at Dodge two
years ago you remember when Dutch
Charlie's place was cleaned out ? Well ,
Hickock and Keith did that job all
alone , and 'Wild Bill' isn't going back
on that kind of a pal , is he ? I te'll
you we've got to fight this affair
alone , and on the quiet. Maybe the
fellow don't know much yet , but he's
sure on the trail , or else he wouldn't
have been in here talking to Willough-
by. We've got to get him , Scott , some-
iiow. Lord , man , there's a clean mil
lion dollars waiting for us in this deal ,
md I'm ready to fight for it. But I'm
lamned sleepy , and I'm going to bed.
STou locate Keith tomorrow , and then ,
when you're sober , we'll figure out
iow we can get to him best ; I've got
jo set Christie right Good-nigbt ,
Bill. "
He went out into the hall and
lown the creaking stairs , the man he
ivanted so badly listening to his de
scending footsteps , half tempted to
'ollow. Scott did not move , perhaps
lad already fallen drunkenly asleep
m his ctyair , and finally Keith crossed
lis own room and lay down. The din
mtside continued unabated , but -the
nan's intense weariness overcame It
ill , and he fell asleep , his last con-
; cious thought a memory of Hope.
CHAPTER XX.
Hope Goes to Sheridan.
The discovery of the locket which had
alien from about Keith's neck made it
mpossible for Hope to remain quietly
or long in the hotel at Fort Lamed.
? he more carefully she thought over
he story of that murder at the Cim-
naron Crossing , andKeith's tale of
iow he had discovered and buried the
nutllated bodies , the more assured
he became that that was where this
acket came from , and that the slain
reighter must have been her own fa
der. She never once questioned the
ruth of Keith's report ; there was that
bout the man which would riot per-
lit of her doubting him. He had
( mply failed to mention what he re-
loved from the bodies , supposing this
rould be of no special interest.
Mrs. Murphy , hoping thus to quiet
tie apprehensions of her charge , set
erself diligently at work to discover
be facts. As her house was filled
rlth transients , including occasional
isitors from Carson City , and was
Iso lounging headquarters for many
f the officers from the near-by fort ,
tie experienced no difficulty in pick-
ig up all the floating rumors. Out of
icse. with Irish shrewdness , she soon
lauased i , * patch together a consist-
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'It's My Notion That Hawley's Got Hold av Thlm Papers'av Yer Father's. "
'Shure , honey , It's not so bad the
way they tell it now , " she explained ,
consolingly. "Nobody belaves now it
was yer father that got kilt. It was
two fellers what stole his outfit ,
clothes an1 all , an' was drivln' off wid
'em inter the sand hills. Divil a wan
does know who kilt 'em , but there's
some ugly stories ( ravelin ! about
Some says Injuns ; some says the
posse run 'em down ; an' Black Bart
an1 his dirthy outfit , they swear it was
Keith. Oi've got me own notion. An-
nyhow , there's 'bout three hundred
dollars , some mules , an' a lot o' val-
yble papers missin' . "
"But if it wasn't father , where is he
now ? "
"That's what Oi've been tryin' ter
foind out. First off he went out to the
Cimmaron Crossing , gyarded by a
squad o' cavalry from the fort here.
Tommy Caine wlnt along , an' told
me all about it They dug up the
bodies , but niver a thing did they find
on 'em not a paper , nor a dollar.
They'd bin robbed all roight The
owld Gineral swore loike a wild mon
all the way back , Tommy said , an'
the first thing he did at Carson City
was to start huntin' fer 'Black Bart'
He was two days gittin' on the trail
av him ; then he heard the feller was
gone away trapsing after a singin' or
dancin' gyurl called Christie Maclaire.
She was supposed to be ayther at
Topeky or Sheridan. A freighter told
the owld man she was at Sheridan , an'
so he started there overland , hopin'
ter head off 'Black Bart. ' Oi reckon
we could a towld mor'n that"
"What do you mean ? "
"Why shure , honey , what's the use
tryin' ter decave me ? Didn't Jack
Keith , wid his own lips , tell me ye
was Christie Maclaire ? "
"But I'm not ! I'm not , Mrs. Mur
phy. I don't even know the woman.
It is such a strange thing ; I cannot
account for it both those men mis
took me for her , and and I let them ,
t didn't care who the man Hawley sup
posed me to be , but I intended to have
told Mr. Keith he was mistaken. I
lon't know why I didn't , only I sup
posed he finally understood. But 1
want you to believe , Mrs. Murphy
[ am Hope Waite , and not Christie
Maclaire. "
"It's little the loss to ye not ter be
ler , an' Oi'm thinkin' loikely Jack
Keith will be moighty well plased ter
enow the truth. What's 'Black Bart *
> o ayger ter git hold av this Maclaire
jyurl fer ? "
"I do not in the least know. He
nust have induced me to go to that
place in the desert believing me to be
lie other woman. Yet he said noth-
ng of any purpose ; Indeed , he found
10 opportunity. "
Mrs. Murphy shook her head dis-
jaragingly.
"It was shure some divilment , " she
isserted , stoutly. "He'll be up to
iome trick wid the poor gyurl ; Oi
enow the loikes av him. Shure , the
wo av yez must look as much aloiko
LS two payes in a pod. Loikely now.
t's a twin sister ye've got ? "
Hope smiled , although her eyes
vere misty.
I
"Oh , no ; Fred and I were the only
children ; but what shall I do ? What
ought I to do ? "
The Irish mouth of Kate Murphy
set firmly , her blue eyes burning.
"It's not sthrong Oi am on advisin' , "
she said , shortly , "but if it was me
Oi'd be fer foindin' out what all this
mix-up was about There's somethln'
moighty quare in it It's my notion
that Hawley's got hold av thim papers
av yer father's. The owld gint thinks
so , too , an' that's why he's , so hot
afther catchin' him. May the divil
admoire me av Oi know where this
Maclaire gyurl comes in , but Oi'll bet
the black divil has get her marked
fer some part in the play. What
would OI do ? Be goory , Oi'd go to
Sheridan , an' foind the Gineral , an'
till him all I knew. Maybe he could
piece It together , and' guess what
Hawley was up ter. "
Hope was already upon her feet ,
her puzzled face brightening.
"Oh , that is what I wanted to do ,
but I was not sure it would be best
How can I get there from here ? "
"Ye'd have ter take the stage back
to Topeky ; loikely they'd be runnln'
thrains out from there on the new
road. It'll be aisy fer me ter foind
out from some av the lads down be
low. "
The only equipment operating into
Sheridan was a construction train ,
with an old battered passenger coach
coupled to the rear. A squad of
heavily armed Infantry rode along , as
protection against possible Indian
raiders , but there was no crowd
aboard on this special trip , as all
construction work had been suspended
on the line indefinitely , and most of
the travel , therefore , had , changed to
Declined to Swap an Old Vest for a
Worn-Out Farm Full of
Diamonds.
In this day of great fortune It Is
not unusual to read In the dally news
columns of great fortunes being lost
and won In a day , and the following-
anecdote is quoted to illustrate how
one man cast aside an opportunity to
become many times a millionaire.
Years ago a man named Saltzmann
owned an estate in Griqualand , and
adjoining his property was an old
worn down farm that had not been
worked on account of its poor soil and
the lack of necessary water. The
owner of this farm met Herr Saltz
mann one day and offered to trade the
farm for an old waistcoat be had seen
him wearing.
As Saltzmann did not wish to bur j
den himself with a piece of worthies * }
the eastward. The coach used had
a partition run through it , and , as
soon as the busy trainmen discovered
ladles on board , they unceremoniously
drove the more bibulous passengers ,
protesting , into the forward compart
ment This left Hope in comparative
peace , her remaining neighbors quiet ,
taciturn men , whom she looked at
through the folds of her veil during
the long , slow , exasperating Journey ,
mentally guessing at their various oc
cupations. It was an exceedingly tedi
ous , monotonous trip , the train slack
ening up , and Jerking forward , appar
ently without slightest reason ; then
occasionally achieving a full stop ,
while men , always under guard , went
ahead to fix up some bit of damaged
track , across which the engineer
dared not advance. At each bridge
spanning the numerous small streams ,
trainmen examined the structure be
fore venturing forward , and at each
stop the wearied passengers grew
more Impatient and sarcastic , a per
fect stream of fluent profanity being
wafted back whenever the door be
tween the two sections chanced to be
left ajar.
Hope was not the only woman on
board , yet a glance at the others was
sufficient to decide their status , even
had their freedom of manner and loud
talking not made it equally obvious.
Fearful lest she might be mistaken
for one of the same class , she re
mained in silence , her veil merely
lifted enough to enable her to peer
out through the grimy window at the ,
barren view slipping slowly past This
consisted of the bare prairie , brown
and desolate , occasionally Intersected
by some small watercourse , the low
hills rising and falling like waves to
the far horizon. Few incidents broke
the dead monotony ; occasionally a
herd of antelope appeared in the dis
tance , silhouetted against the sky
line , and once they fairly crept for an
hour through a mass of buffalo , graz
ing so close that a fusillade of guns
sounded from the front end of the
train. A little farther along she caught
a glimpse of a troop of wild horses
dashing recklessly down Into a shel
tering ravine. Yet principally all
that met her straining eyes was ster
ile desofetlon. Here and there a great
ugly water tank reared Its hideous
shape beside the track , the engine al
ways pausing for a fresh supply. Be
side it was Invariably a pile of coal ,
a few 'construction cars , a hut half
burled under earth , loop-holed and
barricaded , with several rough men
loafing about , heavily armed and In
quisitive. A few of these points had
once been- terminal , the surrounding
scenery evidencing past glories by
piles of tin cans , and all manner of
debris , with occasionally a vacant
shack , left deserted and forlorn.
Wearied and heartsick , Hope turned
away from this outside dreariness to
contemplate more closely her neigh
bors on board , but found them scarce
ly more Interesting. Several were
playing cards , others moodily staring
aut of the windows , while a few were
laughing and talking with the girls ,
their conversation Inane and punctu-
*
ited with prof anity. One man was
Sguring on a scratch pad , and Hope
lecided he must be an engineer em
ployed on the line ; others she classed J
is small merchants , saloon-keepers , \
'
ind frontier riff-raff. They would
; lance curiously at her as they
marched up and down the narrow
lisle , but her veil , and averted face ,
> revented even the boldest from
speaking. Once she addressed the
: onductor , and the man who was flg-
iring turned and looked back at her , j
jvidently attracted by the soft note j
> f her voice. But he made no effort
it advances , returning immediately tc
lis pad , oblivious to all else.
( TO BE CONTINUED. )
Casting Aside a Fortune
land he kindly refused the offer. A
few years later big clear diamonds
were found on this waste stretch , and
now millions of dollars could not pur
chase it
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In 1841 arrived in London a Russian
boy. called Antolne Rubinstein , not
twelve years old. whose performances
on the piano had excited wonder
and delight among the musical ama
teurs. He was equally skilled in the
ancient as well as modern style or
playing and gave with wonderful ef
fect the most difficult passages of Bach
or Thalburg All this. too. was done
with the utmost apparent ease. , and
In the most difficult passages de rre-
quently Indulged himself in grotesque
imitations of the peculiar tnckeru-a or
the composer upon n-dose music lie
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