Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — Page 2

AN AMERICAN GIRL ABROAD.

CHAPTER Vll.—(Continued.) Towards evening the weather improved considerably; the wind abating, the clouds banking themselves up into heavy masses overbend; while along the western skies there were silver rifts that seemed slowly nnd steadily widening. Indeed, the heavy darkness overhead made that white glory in the west all the more vivid and alluring; and when at length, through some sudden parting of the clouds, a flood of sunlight swept across the cornfields and the hedges and the daisied meadows, the effect was quite bewildering. The evening drew on apace, but momentarily it became more beautiful. It really seemed as if we had come out from under those lurid storm clouds into a region of mellow radiance and perpetual calm. The still surface of the canal was a golden pathway before us; overhead such spaces of the sky as were now dear were of a pale blue, just touched here and there with a flake of saffron doud. Of course, this brilliancy could not last. Slowly the wild fires in the west paled down. As we drew near to Radford Simele there was a wan twilight on the water, and as we stole through the outskirts of Leamington Prion the windows and lamps gleamed orange through the gathering gray dusk. Late that night Mrs. Threepenny-bit happened to bethink her of putting postage stamps on the letters that had occupied her in the afternoon; and while doing so she pushed one of the envelopes across the little table to Miss Peggy. “There, Peggy, do you see to whom I have been writing?” The young lady took up the letter and read the address: “To Colonel Sir Ewen Cameron, V. C., K. C. 8., Aldershot Camp, Hampshire.” But with regard to the contents of the letter the astute small person chose to hold her peace. CHAPTER VIII. “Your servant, colonel!” says a tall and slim young lady, as she appears at the door of the saloon and makes a very fair imitation of a military salute. But if Mrs. Threepenny-bit—or Colonel Anne, as she is supposed to be—has any wish to check the young person's impertinence, it so happens that she has just had the means placed %t her disposal. "Look here, Peggy,” she says, “Mr. Duncombe has been over to the town, and was kind enough to ask for letters. This ono is for you; and the postmark is Oxford.” “Oh, thank you,’* Miss Peggy s&ys to the young man; “I’m sure I never should have thought of asking for letters at .Warwick.” “But, Peggy,” says Mrs. Threepennybit, “the postmark is Oxford; what friends have you in Oxford?” “It may be a bill,” she says, carelessly, as she takes the envelope in her hand and proceeds to open it. “Oh, no, it’s from Mr. A'Becket.” She ran her eye over the two or three pages in a negligent fashion. “Oh, he can’t get away at present. Did I tell you he spoke of coming over to Warwick to see how we were getting along? And—and there are some inscriptions in a church in Bath that we are to look at. Then there are kind regards and remembrances to everybody. That’s all.” Now, Miss Peggy was in the highest of spirits, and as we walked along the pleasant country road toward the town, she appeared to have taken, leave of her senses altogether. Perhaps the unaccustomed sunlight had got into her brain; perhaps she was enjoying a fierce delight in her release from the strict surveillance that hemmed her in on board the "Nameless Barge;” at all events, a dafter lassie could not that morning have been found within the shores of these three islands. “I say,” she asks, just as if this suddenly confidential appeal wore the most natural thing in the world, “what is the matter with Mr. Duncombe?” “You, most likely.” “What do you mean?” *“Well, he may have been forming exalted ideas of the feminine character. Young men are soft-headed enough to do i that sometimes, you know. And then he may have seen n young lady unblushingly open a letter—yes, and read the contents aloud, too—a letter from a mid-dle-aged Oxford don whom she has bamboosled out of his senses. He may have been shocked by such a display of callousness.” “Oh, nothing of the sort. Don’t you make any mistake,” says Miss Peggy, with decision. “There is something troubling him—something serious. What do you think now about that letter last night?” she continues. “Do you think Queen Tita has asked Col. Cameron to come and sail with us for a bit?” “More likely she has written to tell him we shall be returning through the southern counties, and asking him if he would care to ride over from Aidershot, when we are at some near point, and lunch with us.” "What is Col. Cameron like?” “When you see him, you will probably call him a long, red-headed Scotchman.” "Rather blunt and overbearing, is he?” "Overbearing! He comes of the same stock as ‘the gentle LochieL* ” “And yet the Camerons are a fighting race, aren’t they?” “Oh, yes, they have done a little in that way, now and again, during the past century or two.” “I should like to see him,” she says, simply; and then her attention is claimed by the buildings of the town of Warwick, which lies before us. ' When we got back to the hotel the equanimity of our small party received an unexpected shock. We had discovered that the Avon is not navigable between Stratford and Tewkesbury; and so we had resolved to get around to the Bevern by the Warwick and Birmingham Canal. Meanwhile we could car'

BY WILLIAM BLACK.

tainly get by canal as far as Stratford; but as we should have to turn back there it was proposed, in order to avoid going over this part of the route twice, to send on the “Nameless Barge” under care of Captain Columbus, while we should run through to Stratford by rail. What was our astonishment to hear Jack Duncombe calmly say to his hostess: “I am afraid, if it comes to that, I must ask you to leave me out. I—l am very sorry, but I fear I shall have to go back to town. Of course, it isn’t like breaking up the party; you can easily get someone to take my place. I assure you I am sorry enough to go, for the trip so far has been most delightful; and you will soon be getting to even more interesting districts; but I think—yes, I think it will be safer if you count me out.” For a second there was an awkward silence; Mrs. Threepenny-bit seemed afraid to ask him the reason for this sudden resolve. “I hope It is nothing serious?” she ventured to say, however. “Oh, no, I think not,” he said, evasively; and then he added; “I should fancy you would find it all plain sailing now until you get to the Severn; and then you’ll want a steam tug or something of the kind to take you down to Bristol.” * He was talking in quite a m’atter offset fashion; but he seemed depressed a little. Then, when luncheon was over, he said he would walk along to the telegraph office, and join us subsequently at the castle, whither we were shortly bound. At the same moment Miss Peggy went away to her own room, to fetch her guide books; and the instant she had shut the door behind her Queen Tita was free to express her astonishment and her suspicions. “Now really do you think that wretch has been at her tricks again?” she demands. “What wretch? What tricks?” “Why, what should he be going away for so suddenly if he hadn't quarreled with her?” she says. “Surely he can’t be so hard hit that he must needs be mightily offended because she has been amusing herself a little with Mr. A’Bccket, and getting n letter or two?” “You don’t imagine he is such a fool? What could it matter to him her getting twenty dozen letters from Mr. A’Becket?” “Oh, you don't know. She is pretty clever at leading people on, even when she pretends to be most innocent. However, if he wishes to go, I suppose we must let him go. And it would be such a chance to get Col. Cameron to come alone." When we got back to our hotel after having rummaged through one or two bric-a-brac shops, that are well known to lovers of useless furniture and cracked plates, we found a telegram tying on the trble addressed to our young playwright. He took it up and opened the envelope. « “Yes,” he said, “it is as I feared. I must go back to town to-morrow.” That game night was to be the last that our little party, as hitherto constituted, was to assemble together; and at the modest banquet that was meant to console us for our lack of dinner the two women folk were unmistakably inclined to be complaisant to the young man. His hostess was very kind to him, and nut only renewed her expressions of regret at his going, but once more urged his return W'heh that might be practicable for him. “Oh, I shall be glad enough to get back if I can,” said he—which he hardly would have said had he been going away in resentment of Miss Peggy’s conduct; and now he was affecting to be more cheerful, though he was not in a very gay mood, we could see. “At all events, Mr. Duncombe,” Peggy says to him, “we shall hope to find you with us again soon and to have the benefit of your advice. I am sure we can’t • say how indebted we are to you for your help in getting us along as far as we have got.” Soon thereafter—for it had been a long and busy day—there was a general departure for our respective quarters; nnd the Warwick Arms subsided into the general silence that lay over the sleeping town. CHAPTER IX. There was a welcome bustle of prepar ation, for the boat had been successfully brought along to Stratford and had now to be provisioned for the resumption of our voyage; likewise we had to write our last letters before bidding good-by, to civilization and once more disappearing into the unknown. In the midst of al) this Miss Peggy appears, just a little breathless. “Say, now. what is your friend like?” she asks, with some eagerness. “What friend?” says Queen Tita. “Why. Col. Cameron, of course. Is he very tall, and thin, and sandy-haired; with a small mustache, that has a streak of gray in it; and blue-gray eyes that look at you—well, as if they hod seen you before?” “Yes, that is rather like him. But what do you meari; Peggy? He isn’t come already, is he?" “Well, it can’t be he, either,” she continues. “He wouldn’t think of going boating in a costume like that—a frockcoat, and a tall hat, yellow gloves, patent leather boots. Well, if it is your friend, he looks as if he had just stepped out of Pall Mall.” “But where did you see him?” “Whoever he is, he is down below, in the hall. “In this hotel?” “Yea; and—and he looked at me as I passed him as if he thought I might belong to your party.” "Of course it is Col. Cameron!” Mrs. Threepenny-bit exclaims at once. “Go away down and ask him to come up, Peggy.” “Me?” says the girl, in some alarm. “Oh, I couldn’t. I don't know him. There might be a mistake.” “Well, I suppose I must go myself,” she says, putting back her chair; and therewith she leaves the room and proceeds downstairs to receive her new Visitor. “I say," observes Miss Peggy, with

some disappointment, “if that Is CoL Cameron, he isn’t like a soldier at all. He is just like one of those icicled creatures you see walking in St. James’ street, stiff and starched and polished to the very finger tips and the toes, and looking at you with a cold, blank stars of indifference. “Do you know this. Miss Peggy, that if you only got a glimpse of him as you came by, you managed to bring away a pretty faithful portrait." There were voices without; the next moment Queen Tita appeared, followed by a tall, thin, sun-tanned person who carried his hat in one hand and his umbrella in the other. When he was introduced to Miss Peggy, his eyes rested on her for a second with a kindly look, as if there had already been some slight acquaintance between them; no doubt he had guessed that she was of our party when she had passed him below. Then he sat down and proceeded to explain that he had received our manageress’s telegram in London only the night before, and had come straight away down the first thing in the morning to see what was wanted of him. “You know, Sir Ewen,” said Mrs. Threepenny-bit, with much cheerfulness, “I cannot let you come with us unless you quite understand all the provisions you will have to put up with. Don’t you think you ought to go and see the boat; then you would know a little better What to expect.” “But I heard all about your project before you started,” said he, with a kind of gentle persuasiveness, “and I envied you. I never thought I was to be so fortunate as to be asked to join you; and now that I am here, I think your difficulty will be to get rid of me. If you don’t mind, I think, I will go out and see if I can pick up a few boating things. I suppose in a riverside place one may find what one wants. And which did you say was the next town you would come to?” “Worcester." “Then I will telegraph to Aidershot when I am out. I suppose I shall find you here when I come back.” The moment he had gone Mrs. Three-penny-bit turned to her young friend“Well?” she said, with a kind of pride. But Miss Peggy answered nothing. “Well?” she said again. “What do you think of him; Peggy?” “Of coutse I don’t know yet,” said the young lady, evasively. “I thought he would look more like a soldier; he is like —like any body else.” v “Did yon expect to find him wearing his Victoria Cross? Of course he came away just as he was. It is a soldier’s pride to be able to start at a moment’s notice.” It was near midday when we vjere ready to start; but when we did get away our departure was most auspicious. There was a kind of general elation in setting forth; and then everything looked cheerful in the welcome sunlight; nnd there were warm, sweet airs blowing about; all promised well. Our colonel had greatly pleased his hostess with his praises of the arrangements on board; he was delighted with everything, and especially surprised that he could stand upright in the saloon. Then Captain Columbus bad been duly complimented on big success in bringing the boat through; and Murdoch, who was at first rather overcome with awe on hearing the name of onr new guest, had been driven out <jf his senses with pride and gratification when Inverfask was considerate enough to address a few words to him in his native tongue; and finally, at the very last moment, a messenger had come running down to the canal side with a parcel, for which Miss Peggy had been anxiously inquiring ever since she came to Stratford. “And what is that, Peggy?” asks her hostess, looking at the long thing that has just been handed into the boat. “Guess.” “Some magical kind of Sunshade, is it?” “No; it’s a fishing-rod—an American one; 1 sent for it a long time ago, and have been wondering whether it was ever going to arrive. They say our American rods are very good; I hope this one will turn out all right.’’ // “And since when have you taken to fishing, Peggy?” she asks. “Oh, it isn't for myself; it’s for him,” the young lady answers, indicating a not uninterested bystander. “Oh, it’s for him, is it? Well, he can't wear that at his watch chain!” says Mrs. Spitfire; and therewith she withdraws into the saloon, to beg Col. Cameron not to bother any more with those Ordnance Survey maps. iTo be continued.)

First of Minnesota’s Books.

The interesting fact is brought to the attention of the Pioneer Press by Rev. S. W. Dickinson, agent for the American Bible society, that the first book ever printed In Minnesota was a bible, and that this was printed in 1836, some thirteen years before the issue of a newspaper In St Paul. The bible referred to was lu the Ojlbway language and was printed on the mission press at Lake Pakegaiua, Pine county, nnder the supervision of Rev. Mr. Ayers, who likewise had charge of the mission farm at that point There also was made the first attempt to establish a free school in Minnesota. The foundation of the old log church building In which this was held can still be traced. It is significant of the eagerness characterizing American Christianity that the educational, social and, commercial development of whit® Minnesotans are now so proud had its beginning in the effort to- put the bible in the hands of the red men. The society represented by Mr. Dickinson—which is undoubtedly the greatest organisation In the world for the distribution of the scriptures—has filled its eightyseven years of history with many such incidents as this of the sitting up of a bible press in the wilds of Minnesota. •It how proposes large undertakings In the new areas of the American republic, in which It will doubtless have the cordial support of all who believe in the lieneficeut Influence of the good book.— St. Paul Pioneer-Press.

A. letter addressed to “The Ornriesl Mdn In the United States," after a long journey through the malls, was very appropriately sent back to the writer in Denver. In Great Britain there are 7,340,096 houses of all kinds. As the population Is about 40,000,000, this given five per sons and, say. a baby, to each house.

WILL RUSH FOR GOLD

HUNDREDS BOOKED FOR PAB- - TO CAPE NOME. ■ < Metal la Abundant—Men with Rude Toole Realise Great Ruma—Market Quotations for Necessaries Are High and Renta “Out of Sight.” Abram E. Smith, formerly editor of the Rockford, 111., Gazette and now United States consul at Victoria. British Columbia, writes to the State Department qt Washington that there is great excitement over the Cape Nome gold fields, and that there will be a great emigration to that new Eldorado in the spring. Mr. Smith says: “The indications, are that there will be a great rush to Cape Nome next spring, something like that to the Klondike in the spring of 1893. It is evident that numbers wiH go there from Victoria and this province, in preference to either Atlin or the Northwest Territory. The transportation companies here and on the Sound are aU actively engaged in preparing steamers for the long trip. The distance from Victoria to Cape Nome is 2,500 miles, entirely by water. “But, notwithstanding that fact, the transportation companies have already booked all the passengers that can be carried on the first', trips, on every vessel that can be secured. At a recent meeting of representatives of the companies it was computed that 65,000 persons desired to go to Cape Nome as soon as possible. “The reports that had been circulating last season in regard to the gold discoveries at Cape Nome were generally disputed here, the opinion being that the Atlin and Klondike countries were more promising, and also easier of access, but the last two steamers from the North effectually dispelled all uncertainties, the passengers bringing with them indisputable evidence that all along the beach in the vicinity of Cape Nome gold in paying quantities can be had for the digging. “A number of these men have called at the consulate, exhibiting specimens of ■' the gold, saying they dug it on the beach, near the water’s edge; that men with only hand shovels and the simplest and rudest of pans cleared from fSO to >IOO, and even >3OO, per day, while sometimes a clean up of from >I,OOO to >1,500 has been reported. Nuggets worth from >3OO to >4OO were found near Anvil Creek, and it is l>elieved >300,000 to >400,000 were taken out of Snow gulch last summer; one man, it is said, took out' >190,000, while another claims still more. “Every one of the men who came down expressed his resolve to return in the spring—some even engaging return passage on the steamers on which they came down. According to their statements the gold does not extend to a great depth, five or six feet being as low as any have yet wound 'paying, dirt.’ Market Quotations High. “There are now between 5,000 and 6,(MX) people at Nome City, Anvil City, Cape York, Port Clarence and vicinity. The buildings are, of course, of the most temporary character. Two uewspapers are printed there, from which I take the following market quotations, current last fall: Articles— Price. Beef, per pound, 75 cents to $1 00 Wood, per eord, >35 to ... 50 00 Flour, per cwt....-. 10 00 Butter, per pound 1 00 Canned milk, per can 50 Canned meats and fruits, about 75 Maple syrup, per gallon 4 00 Potatoes, per cwt., J>lo to 15 00 Onions, per cwt., >lO to ■.'... 15 00 Tomatoes, per can. 3 00 Coal, per ton 75 00 Shingles, per bunch 7 50 Lumber, per 1,000 feet .250 00 Ruling restaurant prices: “ Steaks, >1.50 to 3 00 Reindeer steak 2 00 Pork chops 1 50 Mutton chops 1 50 Boiled mackerel 1 5o Coffee and doughnuts 5(1 Hot cakes and maple syrup 75 Corned beef hash a... 1 00 Pickled pig’s feet 1 00 Mush and milk/. 50 Oyster stew, lobsters, ete 1 50 Ham or salmon 1 00 Hamburger steak ] 50 Clam chowder '.......... 75 Sardines, per box 1 00 Chicken tamales 75 Pork and beans... 75 Cheese, with any order 25 Hum and eggs 2 00 Three eggs 2 00 Fruit and jams, all kinds, each 50 Coffee, tea or chocolate 25 Pies, each 50 One loaf of bread 25 Welsh rarebit .... 1 00 Coffee, with bread and butter., 1 00 Renta Are Enormous. ‘An ordinary two-story dwelling of eight rooms rents frequently for >2OO a month. Freight taken from the beach, where it is landed from steamers in barges, costs from 35 to 40 cents per hundred; for the delivery of heavy freight by horses, team and wagon, >lO an hour is charged. "The ruling price of a shave is >l, and for a hair cut $1.50. A bath costs >2. Fifty cents is charged for laundering a flannel shirt, 75 cents for washing a colored linen shirt, and >1 for the rehabilitation of the rare and luxurious garment known as the white shirt. Cigars and drinks cost 50 cents each. ‘Longshoremen have been paid >2 an hour for their labor. Carpenters receive >1.50 an hour.” The prevailing fare to Cape Nome, just now. from Seattle or Victoria, is >IOO for first-class and >BO for second-class passage; freight, >4O per ton. The earliest dqte at which any of the steamers are advertised to leave for Nome is May 1, 1900.

Notes of Current Event*.

San Antonio. Texas, lias subscribed >3,000 for the Boers. Firemen, trainmen and telegraphers may form a new federation. Springfield, Mo., Hibernians resolved to send no money to the Boers. Dispatches from Baltimore say the proposed oyster trust has fallen through. George Smiley was hanged at, Holbrook, Ariz., for killing Foreman Sweeney. Lamp exploded at Coal Run, Pa„ and Chas. Ti|omas and Allen Stott burned to death. Charles Woodring, Scranton, Pa., lost his wages at gambling and committed suicide. ' • J nines White. 16, Mercer, Pa., was killed by the bursting of an electric starter for a gas engine. President McKinley has named Lewis K. Winston of Mississippi collector of customs at Natchez. L. 8. & M. 8. Railroad will employ no firemen more than 25 years old and under 160 pounds in weight.

OPPOSES SEATING OF QUAY.

Majority Report Adverse to the Penn•ylranian’* Claim. ■ Reports in the Quay ease were.made in the Senate Tuesday by the committee on privileges and elections; the majority by Turley and the minority by Hoar. The first was feigned by Turley, Caffery, Pettus and Harris, and Burrows concurred. The views of the minority were expressed by Messrs. Hoar, Chandler, Pritchard and McComas, the committee standing five to four in favor of excluding Quay on the ground that the Governor of Pennsylvania had no constitutional right to appoint after the failure of the Legislature to elect. • ! After reviewing at great length all the cases and precedents and particularly those of Mantle, Beckwith, Allen and Corbett, the more recent ones, the majority report concludes: “The statement of these cases and precedents shows that

MATTHEW S. QUAY.

from the beginning of the Government dowq to the present time the Henatf has never recognized the right of a State executive to make a temporary appointment where the vacancy happened or occurred during a session of the Legislature. The result is fatal to the-claimp of Mr. Quay. No danger nor evil has resulted to the Government from the enforcement of this principle. We, therefore, submit that the Senate, for its otvn honor and dignity, should stand by its previous solemn and deliberate decisions, and recommend the adoption of the foMowing resolution: ‘Resolved, That the Hon. Matthew 8. Quay is not entitled to take his) seat In this body as a Senator from the State of Pennsylvania.’ ” • ' The minority in their report quote extensively from Madison, Webster and other eminent statesmen of the past to sustain their position.

WEBSTER STATUE UNVEILED.

Imposing Ceremonies Participated In by Nation’s Dignitaries. The statue of Daniel Webster, executed by the' Italian sculptor, Trentanove, and presented to the country by Stilson

Hutchins, was unveiled in Washington the other day in the presence of a distinguished gathering. The statue is raised in Scott circle. Before the unveiling the ceremonies of presentation and acceptance were held in the Lafayette Opera House. President McKinley occupied a scat at the front of the stage, surrounded by * the membefs of his cabinet; Gov. Crane of

Massachusetts and his staff. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Harlan, White and Gray, many representatives from the Senate and House, the army, the navy and the diplomatic corps. The Marina band played "Hail to the Chief” as the presidential party entered. After a prayer by Chaplain Milburn, Senator Chandler rVad Mr. Hutchins’ letter of presentation, and added an eloquent eulogy on Webster, as he accepted the gift on behalf of the two branches of Congress. Secretary Long then accepted the statue in behalf of the United States, referring to Webster as the "great expounder of the constitution and defender of the Union, and the foremost lawyer, orator «,nd -statesman, whose words, imbedded in the common -political literature of his. countrymen, come to the tongue like passages from the poets or the psalms.” Senator Lodge followed with the oration of the day. and the formal ceremonies closed with benediction by Chaplain Couden of the House.

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

The Spanish minister has one of the finest stables in Washington. T. P. O’Connor says that Mr. Balfour la growing old rapidly in appearance. The late Hylton was one of the few surviving officers of the Balaklava charge. Louis S. Colin, the new Lord Mayor of Liverpool, is the second Jew to hold that office. Arthur Shirley’s “Queen or Country” is the first Transvaal war play produced in London. Lord Beauchamp, governor of New South Wales, has taken a Bible class in the parish at Sydney. The Earl of Rosebery has been initiated as an honorary member of the Ancient Order of Foresters. The Marquis of Lome, whose wife is a daughter of Queen Victoria, in official documents is usually styled “John Campbell, commonly known as the Marquis of Lome.” According to the London Standard the betrothal of Queen Wilhelmina to Prince William of Wied is definitely settled. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Great Britain’s ambassador Spain, will resign his post on reaching his seventieth birthday. According to the London press, Lord Salisbury, since the death of his wife, is leading a life so retired as almost to be hermit like. The Shah of Persia reserves to himself the right of riding in a coach of barbaric splendor drawn by six horses, their long tails dyed crimson.

WEBSTER STATUE.

A Minnesota Farmer Does Well is Canada.

Virden, Man., Not. 18, I®**Bon. Clifford Sifton, Minister of the < Interior, Ottawa, Canada: Sir—Thinking that my experience in Manitoba might be both useful and interesting to my felow countrymen in the United States who may be looking to Manitoba and the Northwest with the Intention of settling there, 1 have much pleasure in stating that through information received from Mr. W. F. McCreary, Immigration Commissioner at Winnipeg, I was Induced to visit Manitoba in February, 1898. When 1 called upon Mr. McCreary he spared no pains' to give me all the information, etc., in his possession, the result of which was that I came here with a letter of introduction from him to the secretary of the Virden Board of Trade. That gentleman provided me with a. competent land guide, and although there was considerable snow on the < ground, I had no difficulty In selecting three homesteads for myself and sons. Having made the necessary homestead entries at the land office in Brandoo, 1 returned to my home in Lyon County, Minnesota, and came baek here in May following, accompanied by one of my boys, bringing with us two teams of horses, implements, etc. Our first work was to erect a temporary shauty and stable, after which we broke and leveled 75 acres and put up 30 tons of hay.. I went back to Minnesota about the 20th of July, leaving my son here. I returned in October, bringing my family with me. I found that the land we had acquired was of good quality, being a strong clay loam with elay subsoil. Last spring I sowed 100 acres in wheat, 50 acres in bats and barley (75 acres of this grain was sowed on “goback” plowed last spring). My crop was threshed In October, the result being over 2,700 bushels of grain in all. Wheat averaged 15 bushels per'acre and graded No. 1 hard, but that which was sown on land other than sod (“goback”) went 24(4 bushels per acre. To say that I am well pleased with the result of my first year’s farming operations in Manitoba does not adequately express my feelings, and 1 have no hesitation in advising those, who are living in districts where Mind is high in price to come out here, if they are willing to do a fair amount of work. I am ten miles from Virden, which Is a good market town, and nine miles from Hargrave, where there are two elevators. This summer I erected a dwelling house of native stone and bought a half-section of land adjoining our homestead, for which I paid a very moderate price. There are still some homesteads in this district, and laiyl of fine quality can be purchased from the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. at >3.50 per acre on liberal terms; Good water is generally found at a depth of from 15 to 20 feet. I have 175 acres ready for crop next year. . The cosvof living here Is about the same as in Southern Minnesota. Some commodities are higher and others lower In price, but the average Is about the same. I remain, your obedient servant.

JACOB REICHERT.

(Signed)

Tree Sap and the Tides.

A very curious theory lately revived is that the sap of a living tree ebbs and flows in some way In sympathy with the tides of the ocean. This idea comes from Italy, where a grower of vines and other fruit trees, who is also a chemist, has been experimenting in this direction. He says that no tree should be topped or pruned except during the hours of ebb tide.

Chronic Nasal Catarrh poisons every breath that is drawn into the lungs. There ia procurable from any druggist the remedy for its cure. A small quantity at Ely’s Cream Bahn placed into the nostrils spreads over an inflamed and angry outface, relieves immediately the painful inflammation, cleanses, heals and cures. Drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and straffs simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing afar more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, use Ely’s Cream Balm. It is reliable and will cure eatanfa, edd in the head and hay fever easily and pleasantly. AH druggists sell it at 50 cents or it will be mailed by Ely Brothers, 56 Warren BL.JN.Y. The lead pencil originated with the discovery of the graphite mines in England In 1664, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The Queen and Crescent only 24 hours to New Orleans.

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