Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 November 1908 — Page 3

MRS. LOUGHEED’S CALL 2 By HELE;: SAXON

(Copyright, by Bobbs-Merrill Co.)

_ T had the honor of a call trom Mrs. Lougheed last week. Socially she is one of our representative ladies, and her -claims to distinction are varied and- unimpeachable. .Her uncle is a bishop, and her calling list most exclusive. She has an accent that never forsakes her, and a manner that can convey the finest gradations of feeling; from a chilly so-far-and-no-fartherness to a restrained warmth calculated to put the flattered recipient into excellent humor with himself. She has the

highest art of dressing, too—so unostentatiously that you know at once she must be somebody. Her husband. pursues the narrow way of the art critic, and, feeling the sacredness of his calling, keeps himself for the most part unspotted ffom the throng. His English is'faultless and he rarely permits himself to smile. You feel the seriousness of life in his presence more than in yvour clergyman’s, particularly of cultured life; and you go home with fresh resolve. It is really quite an esthetic treat to seé him on the platform, his voice and. gestures and bearing "are so full of conscious grace. He is the product of an older, more homogeneous society, accidentally lodged in our heterggeneous one—at least I fancy that is the way he Teels about it; certainly it is. the way he looks about it. His mother, when she came to this country, failing io transplant the many-generationed traditions she brought with her, to a soil ready for quicker growths, made him her involuntary protest. She groundéd him thoroughly in esthetics and art; in the sacred character of family inheritance, and the duties and responsibilities it involves, chief of which is to come out and be separate. 1 often think what a comfort he must be to her now—so polished, so poised, so refined! But indeed, how could a man be less than perfect under the inspiration of an adoring mother and wife ?—for -Mrs. Lougheed, the younger, is eminently fitted in her own right for the high position it has pleased -Heaven .to bestow upon her—besides the bishop.

So when she came to see me I naturally felt it to be:considerable of an occasion, and one of much educational value. Unfortunately, I hadn’t been expecting anyone (although it was my ‘“day”) because a good-sized blizzard was in course of progression outside; and feeling secure in its protection, I hadn’t given those intangible finishing touches to the appointments of the drawing-room and my own toilet which are necessary to make our social calling and election sure. Moreover, the boxtes of Sunday’s turkey were “on’ in the course of transition into soup, and Nora had naturally left the kitchen/door open so that the odors—in which onion predominated

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“Don’t You Think We Could Get.the National Council to Take It Up?”

—ascended the back stairs, and were being gently wafted down the front ones and into the parlor when I went in to greet my highly specialized guest. I airily ignored this, of course, as well as the absence of tea, and searched my mind for something that would stand me in good stead, and be appropriate to the occasion. As luck would have it we fell upon woman’s sphere. I don’t know why it is I always have such a guilty feeling when this topic is introduced. I invariably and conscientiously do my mending on Saturdays, and encase the family furs and other destructibles in bags—llabeled bags—before our departure in the spring. I explore the cellar periodically, and I don’t know a thing about politics or the new Hudson bay dispute. I never read a new book, though I do talk about them sometimes, of course. Yet, when Mrs. Lougheed fixed me with her gentle but observing eye and said with just the least bit of a questidh mark, “Home, of course, is the only proper place for women,” I distinctly quailed, I knew what was expected of me. Casting about for some way of deliverance, my eye fell upon my palms, and I suddenly realized to my further confusion, that I hadn’t washed them since last .mﬂng day—a thing I never forget to do! Still further humbled, I select: ed my. dulles® weapon, since weapon of some kind I saw to be inevitable, and said as sweetly as I could: “But there are so many women, unfortunately, whose lines haven't fallen to them in the Ppleasant places yours and mine have—who never knew the happiness of being T _their own

“Ah, yes, poor things!” said Mrs. Lougheed quite affably. “But it is a pity when a woman thinks herself called upon to take up anything to do —any sort of work, you know,—outside the home—she always loses some-

thing of her femininity; don’t you think?”

“l suppose so,” I faltered miserably. I knew 1 was expected ' to “have “views,” and to support them. Not to do so would be to make myself fatally uninteresting; to do so, would be ruinous to my chances for a place in Mrs. Lougheed's esteem. Of course, I could recant on the spot and be converted to her opinion, but I had conscientious secruples against attempting this, because I really had nothing to recant. But something had to be said, so I plunged desperately in.

“One doesn’t like to think that our femininity is of so superficial a quality that it can be rubbed off merely by acquaintance with the world. Surely those who lose it so easily mnust have lacked the genuine sort to begin with.” I knew this wasn't right, and my opinion was supported by a sort of perplexed coldness beginning to dawn on Mrs. Lougheed's expressive countenance, so I began again, lowering my voice to a more confidential key. “I have sometimes wondered what a woman should do who found herself possessed of some power or capacity really valuable to the world—some great artistic gift or intellectual insight; for nature is unfortunately so impartial, you know; she is just as apt to bestow her gifts upon a woman as upon a man. If there were no home ties to settle the question in such a case there would still be the injurious effect of the example upon other women, wouldn't there? Rosa Bonheur, for instance, and- Florence Nightingale, and—and Mme. Curie.”

Of course, I knew this was all wrong, too, but I saw with relief that Mrs. Lougheed only looked a little vague. ;

“Oh, I suppose there are exceptions,” she said dubiously. “When a thing is suitable it is different. here are the refined arts—music and ﬁterature—that women can pursue-if they have leisure.”

“But even then!” I exclaimed with a secret joy. “How often even ip these arts must we deplore the loss of that delicacy which is woman’s chief charm—Careno, for example, and Nordica, who has just been divorced, vou know, and what a disastrous effect the pursuit of literature had upon the character of poor George Eliot.” ‘Mrs. Lougheed looked vaguer still, and began feeling around in her mind for the thread of the argument which had somehow slipped out of her grasp. Failing to recover it, she ignored the point at issue, and—true to type—brought forth another, detached, but ‘whjeh had evidently done much faithﬁiﬂ service aforetime. ‘ ‘Besides it is such a mistake from an economic standpoint for women to compete with men as wage-earners. It is only taking the bread out of the mouths of other women and little children.” . :

“But I suppose those who don’t see it as we do, dear Mrs. Lougheed,” 1 said, with a delicious little emphasis on the “we,” “and especially those who fail to look at it in a large, impersonal way, might- say that the first duty of these women was to fill their own mouths. ]yiany of them may not only have no one to earn for them, but have others depending on wha‘t they can earn.” ;

“The men would have higher wages then, and there would be no need of women going out,” continued Mrs. Lougheed, who liked to feel the whole weight of the argument under her feet. - “Yes, if only it would be equally distributed,” I said. “If we could only persuade the men who earn to share with those who don’t, how it would simplify things; and if only we could persuade the manufacturers not to employ women at all! They are really to blame, you know, too, and they keep advertising for more all’ the time. Don’t you think we could get the National council to take it up?” Mrs. Lougheed began fastening up her furs. I rose with her, still preserving my deferential attitude. “The home is woman’s natural and divinely-appointed sphere,” she said, conclusively, and with a shade of injury in her tone, which I thought unjustifiable, considering that we were on the same side of the argument. “There are women who work just because they like to and want to. They don’'t know how unattractive they make themselves or they would not do it. Men do not like the kind of women who ignore the home.”

“They may not have been so happy in it as you and I, and so we can well afford to spare a little pity for them,” I said again, in my winningest way. “Ah, yes, poor things!” replied MrsLougheed, giving me the parting hand. I washed the palms after she had gone, and reflected. I felt in very good spirits. Of course, I knew it was really Mr. Lougheed I had been arguing with, and I felt avenged for more than one bad quarter of an hour he had given me, when he had called for, and I had unwittingly responded with, my utmost vacuity of mind. I used to wonder why I was so preternaturally idealess with him, but I saw now that I had been simply conforming to his standard of the feminine mind. But at last I was avenged. The attenuated spectacle that some men present when seen through their wives’ mental atmosphere is ample compensation for all the bad quarters of an hour they themselves are able to inflict. No Honest Work Disgraceful. After all, no necessary employment is commonplace and no honest work can be disgraceful. The_cobbler is as good as the king in his own place. Boots and shoes are as necessary as statesmanship, If you are a farmer, learn the rotation of your crops and the nature of your soil so that you may do it in the spirit of an artist €

THE VALUE OF GOOD ROADS TO AGRICULTURE Observations of Practical Results in New YorfL‘ State—By W.

~ One fact people are slow to learn is that the soilnature made for growing plants in, does not make a good road bed. Soil is decomposed, or pulverized rock with some humus or vegetable matter. When this is wet it is mud, when very dry, it is dust. . When soil is used for a road, the most of the time it is.in either one of these two conditions, but there are short periods when there is just the amount of moisture in the soil that makes it so compact, as to be a firm road. For many years rural roadmaking has been some process of getting more soil into the road, and the stones out. I can remember how, under the supervision of the path master” we used to work out the road tax by drawing soil in the road with a team -and scraper, and afterward throwing the stones from the road-bed into the ditch. The next year after the soil had been flattened out

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by travel, the same soil was scraped into the center of the road again, and the same stones thrown out. The last few years this work has beer more cheaply or easily done with the road worker. This plan of road making may give a fairly good country road, where heavy loads are seldom drawn, for two or three months in jsummer, but for the greater Ipart of the year there is no firm smooth road bed, but mud, ruts and dust. For the same reason that we need better school houses and rural schools, we need better country roads. Instituting stone or macadamized roads in agricultural localities is a most wise and farseeing policy, for it hastens the time of better agriculture and civilization, and adds to the value of every one’s real estate.

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reduce the draft on teams and wear on vehicles to a minimum; facilitate rural mai! delivery, as this could be done by autos; adds to the pleasure of carriage driving, and brings the fsolated farmer in closer contact with the centers of culture and civilization. They make possible better attendance at the meetings of farmers’ organizations and the children at schools, for in a few years the farmer’s family will use the auto as commonly as they now do the horse and carriage. Let us work for better rural roads and schools. : ek -Man ‘always finds nature has anticipated his needs, and is only waiting for him to work up to a point where he can use what she provides. He must learn to make his roads from the rock, before the glacier has ground them into soil, not afterwards. For many years, in many sections, the ag-

ORCHARD DON’TS FOR BEGINNERS

By A.H. gtewart. Kansas.

Don’t depend on the advice of the tree agent in making a selection of trees. Select only varieties that have been tested in your locality and proven hardy and productive. Don’t plant trees on alkali or hardpan patches. The, trees will be shortlived and the fruit small, tough and worthless. Plant only on soil that will produce a good crop of corn under ordinary weather conditions. o Don't set trees too close together. Leave room to drive in between with mower or wagon after the trees have attained their full growth. Thirty feet one way by 40 the other is about right. : » Don’t sow grass or small grain in the orchard. Plant it to corn or some other cultivated crop. Keep the weeds down near the trees, More young

riculturist have not known how to get rid of the s&tones on their fields, or what use to make of outcropping ledges of rock, that could be quarried. Now the modern machinery for making macadamized roads, and the need of them, and learning the uses of concrete will make these among his most valuable assets on the farm. The local interest and effort is needed, then they will get better roads at less cost. In many sections farmers are complaining abouty poor state roads.. In one road district in New York two miles of macadamized road was built at a cost of $1,300 per mile. One-half of this amount was subscribed by people living in the road district, and the state paid the other half. This, I understand, is a state law, and all money raised by private subscription, will be duplicated by the state. This road was built under the supervision of the town road commissioner,

and the steam road crusher and other machinery owned by the town was used. No large profit was paid to a contractor, nothing was paid for material, the only cost of the road was. the cost of labor. I would call attention to the fact that the process of scientific road building, as it was done in this instance, is the reverse of that so long practiced py farmers. The soil they try to keep in the road, is first all removed down to the bed rock or gravel, and when the grading is done the under strata of the road bed is made of the common field stones one or two feet thick, next quarry stone or refuse from the quarry was broken to make a layer of several inches thick) then finished with a layer of hard crushed stone from the stone crusher, and rolled with the steam roller. ;

1 drove over this two years from the time it was built, and can say it was

in better condition than some state roads I have seen built at the same time. I have taken pains to talk with people living on this road, and find them entirely satisfied with their investment, and planning to build more of this road. I think on one mile of this road four farmers live on the average. - The road cost them $650 per mile, or about $163 each. The interest on the investment is less than $lO, and I think all can see that no farmer can make a better investment. Here they have a road-bed that will last for many years, and the yearly road tax will keep it in repair. Farms have been cleaned of stone in providing material. Work was provided for home labor, a road has been made in the right of way, according to the principles of good road building, and the benefits that follow are beyond estimation.—Hoard’s Dairyman. .

trees are killed by weeds than by anything else. Don’t plant a windbreak on the north and east sides. It will only reflect the hot sun and burn out a row or two of the fruit trees. Place the windbreak on the south and west sides to break the summer winds that make the trees grow to the northeast. Don’t cut large branches from the trees after they come into full bearing. Remove only the watersprouts, which may be done in May and June without a knife. ,

Keep Fowls Clean.—Keep fowls clean and dry and you will have little sickness among them, If they are afflicted with some disease you do not understand, do not waste time doctoring them. Kill them.

Drain Your Clay Land—Clay land that is well drained is more affected by the frost than when not well drained. The effect of the frost is beneficial.

Keep Roosters from Hens.—ln shipping poultry to market the hens ‘should be separated from the roosters

World’s Temperance Sunday Sunday School Lesson for Nov. 29, 1908 ‘Specll.ll.y Arranged for This Paper

LESSON TEXT.—lsaiah 28:1-13. Memory verse, 11 . GOLDEN TEXT.—“I keep under my hody, and bring it into subjection.”—l Cor. 9:27. it

- Comment and Suggestive Thought. In order te understand this great prophecy of Isaiah, our lesson for today, we must first have a vivid realization of— . The Historical Situation.—Read 2 Kings 17:1-23; 18:1-10; Chron. 29, 30. It is about 725 B. C. Isaiah, the royal prophet, was in Jerusalem, the capital of Judah. The good-King Hezekiah, the rulers and leaders of the state were his audience. The nations were going ~ astray, they were worldly, drunken, selfish, cruel, luxurious, oppressing the poor, neglecting religion, forgetting God. : e From the northwest were coming great hordes of Assyrian soldiers devastating everything on their way. They had reached the northern kinzdom of which Samaria was the capital. Like an overwhelming scourge these semi-savage armies were overrunning the country with all wanton crimes and cruelties, destroying everything good. They were sweeping away cities and villages, farms, cattle, orchards—everything. The proj*het sees them drifting, as in the rapids of Niagara, swiftly toward destruction. He sees the storm-clouds on the horizon threatening tempests and lightning blasts and destruction.

Within three or four years Samaria, the capital, was captured, and the northern kingdom swept out of existence by the Assyrians. }

But the people of Jerusalem felt comparatively °safe, for their city was a mighty fortress, a very Gibraltar, rarely captured, and probably it never could be captured if the people within were brave, united and true.

The prophet, point}in’g to the northern kingdom, warns his own people that nothing could save them if they continued to sin. “Repent, or that overwhelming scourge will sweep over Judea and Jerusalem in its devastating course.” Y. 1. "Woe” « Not'a wish or a prayer for woe, but a warning that woe was coming. “To the crown of pride.” The capital, so called, because it erowned the hill, or because its battlemented walls resembled a crown. “To (better ‘of’) the drunkards of Ephraim,” put for the whole kingdom, because Ephraim was the leadingtribe. ‘“Whose glorious beauty.” The <‘glorious beauty” of Samaria was a beauty of magnificent luxury. “Summer” and “winter houses,” distinet each from the other (Amos 3:15); “ivory palaces” (1 Kings 22:39; Anf§s 3:15); a wealth of ‘“gardens, vineyards, fig-orchards and olive yards” (Amos 4:9); residences of .“hewn stone” (Amos 5:11); feasts enlivened with “the melody of viols” (Amos 5:23); “beds of ivory” (Amos 6:4); “wine in bowls” (Amos 6:6); ‘“chief ointments” (Amos 6:6) constituted a total of luxurious refinement beyond which few nations lgnd. proceeded at the time.—Rawlinson. “Is a fading flower.” It was a kind of beauty that was liable to fade. It had nothing of the riches that endure. . V. 2. “The Lord hath a' mighty and strong one.” The Lord would use the Assyrian power, ‘“as a tempest of hail, and a destroying storm” to punish the wickédness which was injuring the people far more than the Assyrian hordes could their outward prosperity. V. 4. "AS the hasty fruit.” R. V. “the first ripe fig,” swiftly decaying or destroyed by the birds. , V. 5. Turning from this “crown of pride” and “fading flower” and ‘“decaying fruit” of sin, the prophet points to the only true “crown of glory and . . . diadem of beauty, the Lord of hosts.” V. 6. For he would bring to them the “spirit of judgment,” justice, righteousness, and turn back “the battle at the gate,” defeating and scattering their enemies. : V. 7. Then he shows one source of their woes, “erred through wine . . . out of the way . . . through strong drink,” therefore ‘“they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.” The Jerusalem drinkers indignantly ask: V. 9. “Whom shall he teach knowledge?’ What right has Isaiah to talk to us thus? Are we babies just weaned from the milk? Are we mere school children to be ' chided and ‘warned in this way? V. 10. “For precept must be upon precept.” The R. V. gives the true meaning: “For it is precept upon precept.” The prophet is telling the same story all the time, continually repeating, everywhere, all the time, in season, out of season, the same old warhing. ‘The prophet answers: “This seems monotonous to you, but you will have another kind of monotony if you do not give heed to my words.” “For with stammering lips.” Better as R. V., “For by men of strange dips, and with another tongue,” (viz.,{ that 'of the Assyrian hordes) “will be speak to this people (11) to whom he\said, This is the rest . .. this is the\refreshing.” God had pointed out to' them how they might have rest a prosperity, “yet they would not hegr (12).”" 13. Therefore by the Assyrian invasion, they should find “pxégcept upon precept,” etc., a monotonous teaching by afflictions and sorrows, till “they . .. fall backward, and be broken,” as came to pass in after years. “The bad effect of alcohol on persons performing muscular work is well known. The evidence is overwhelming that alcohol in' small amounts has a most hdfinful effect on voluntary muscular work.”—Victor Horsley, M. D, F. R. 8. : ; “Every dose of alcohol, even the most moderate, diminishes strength. All that man asserts of the strengthening effects of alcohol is a delusion. The well-known poor man’s glass during working hours is beyond thnﬁ@j injurious. Every penny which the workman spends for alooimticar@ is not only wasted but employed - for a destructive purpose.”—Adolf Fick, N T e e S SR B e e T e D

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The territory of Alaska is of vast extent and possesses a varied climate, broad rivers, innumerable lakes, deep forests, and chains of lofty mountains —in short, many of the chief -attributes of a natural game resort. Its barren northern shores, frequented by the lumbering walrus and the formidable polar bear, are washed by iceladen currents, while its southern extensions support luxuriant forests inhabited by the graceful Sitka deer. Between these extremes are great interior forests, the home of the lordly moose, broad open tundras and rolling plateaus, traversed by herds of unsuspicious caribou, and snow-clad mountain ranges, the stronghold of sharp-eyed sheep and dull-witted goats.

Among Alaska'’s game animals are some of the largest<and finest in the world, as the giant moose and the huge brown bears. The game of the entire territory includes moose, caribou, deer, mountain sheep, mountain goat, walrus, and polar, brown, grizzly,

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Map Showing Distribution of Moose and Deer in Alaska.

black, and glacier bears, besides a variety of waterfowl, shore birds, and upland gamé birds. In game resources Alaska compares favorably with the western part of the United States in early days, and at the present time it is one of the most important game regions in the world. Without -entering into the general subject of the value of game to all countries possessing it, Alaska’s game may be considered chiefly with reference to the features making it especially valuable. . Alaska is of particular importance as a game region because, of all American possessions, it is the one in which frontier conditions promise to last . longest. Notwithstanding its wealth of mineral and other resources the territory is not likely to be thickly populated, at least not for decades to come. It is true railroads already are beginning to penetrate its wilds and no doubt cities of considerable stze will develop, but, even so, immense tracts far from populous cen?Ls?v;ill long remain in almost primeal condition. This is apparent from the great size of the territory and its climatic and physiographic conditions. Its area is almost one-fifth that of the entire United States,’ and although much of this is economically full of promise it must not be forgotten that nearly one-fourth lies -beyond the arctic circle and that a large proport tion of the remainder consists of high mountains and inhospitable wilds. In the states irrigation is reclaiming many arid tracts and drainage is making it possible to utilize swamps and waste areas which now furnish refuges for game. i From all parts of the country come reports of an increasing scarcity of game animals. Hence our remaining natural game pregerves in Alaska are

A Matter of Dress Mainly. Mrs. Phelps Stokes, in illustration of the really superficial and slight difference that exists between aristocratic and plebeian people, repeated, at a Socialist meeting in New York, a conversation between a little girl and her mother. “The little girl,” said Mrs. Phelps Stokes, ‘“belonged to one of New York’s rich patroon families, and one day she said to her mother, thoughtfully: : «vwill ‘1 wear my prettiest Paris frocks when I get to heaven? “‘Oh, no, my dear!’ the mother answered. ' “ ‘Why not? : “‘Because - Paris frocks are not worn in heaven.’ “The little girl frowned. “‘How, then, will they know up there,’ she said, ‘that I belong to the best society?'” ' Stand Up to Write. _ Standing before a high desk is the best position for brain work, especially writing. Try it. You will find that standing stimulates the brain and prevents drowsiness. i Ay

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the more to be prized and correspondingly to be guarded. Within the, United States certain kinds of game may be maintained for years .on their original range, but for other kinds the reserve is inevitable, .as no restriction of shooting can offset the constant diminution of the natural range they require. Thus most of the winter feeding grounds of the wapiti, or elk, already have been absorbed for agricultural purposes and the ani--mals bid fair to be reduced to senfi

domestication, being fed like cattle in winter or confined to inclosed or restricted ranges. The same experience probably would’' have come to the bison, but its fate was decided more peremptorily. Very different, however, are conditions in Alaska, and, so far as can be seen at present, ample room for wild game will be available for years to come. : o : Even if bison, elk, and antelope had remained abundant in the United States, still the game of Alaska would be of special interest because it includes many fine animals quite differ: ent from these in kind and in habits. The wholesome interest in = nature study ‘and outdoor life recently awakened in the United States is likely to be permanent, and future generations, whether hunters, naturalists, anu'nal; photographers, or simply lovers of na«{\ ture, will set a high value upon the' possession of an undespoiled territory furnishing primitive haunts for wild game. : :

To the permanent inhabitants of Alaska the value of game is obyious. Ifldeed, although much game was killed during the early rushes of gold seekers, Alaskans generally have not been slow to appreciate the necessity of game protection and the sentiment in favor of it is growing rapidly. Prospectors and travelers in the wilderness must depend Ilargely on game for food, and their necessities have -been fully recognized in = the game law. Considerable game also has been killed for consumption in small settlements where no regular supply of other fresh meat is available. However this be regarded, it is evident that restrictions must be placed upon the killing of game for sale in large towns where the demand is sufficient to endanger the very existence of the species. = .

Singer Hard to Follow.

At a Yorkshire inn there is a pianist who can render an accompaniment to any song that any singer wishes to sing. He cannot read a note of music, yet, in the local phrase, he “can play owt.” Recently, however, he met with an unexpected check. A new volunteer hummed over the .air, but the pianist failed to get the key. “Let’s try it again,” he said; and they tried it again. Still it was of no use. A third trial brought no better results. ‘Then the pianist turned on the singer in anger and said: “Sitha, Aw've tried tha on t’ white 'uns, Aw’ve tried tha on t’ black 'uns an’ Aw've tried tha on t’ black an’ White ’uns mixed. It's no use; th’'s singing between t’ cracks.” 2 : Gift Pearl in the Mouth. What luck some people have! ‘1 was eating oysters the other day next a man who suddenly made a face and uttered a cry of irritation, and then extracted a pearl from his mouth. “Confound the thing!” he said, “it nearly broke my tooth. I'm always finding them.”—V, V. Ve In Londom Spww 0 e

SOME REMARKS FROM MINNE- % SOTA EDITORS. What They Think of Western Canada. A party of editors from a number of cities and towns of Minnesota recently made a tour of Western Canada, and having returned to their homes they are now telling in their respective newspapers of what they saw on their Canadian trip. The West St. Paml Times recalls the excursion of the Minnesota editors from Winnipeg to the Pacific Coast ten years ago. Referring to what has happened in the interval the writer says: “Thousands of miles of new railway lines have been built, and the development of the country has made marvelous strides. Millions of acres, then lying in their wild and untouched state, have since been transferred into grain fields. . Towns have sprung up as it by the wand of a magician, and their development is now .in full progress. It is a revelation, a record of conguest by settlement that is remarkable™ _ . The Hutchinson Leader. characterIzes Western Canada as-“a great country undeveloped. The summer routing,” it says, “was an eyeopenel- to every member of the party, even thoss who weré on the excursion through Western Canada ten years ago, over considerable of the territory covered this year, being amazed at the progress and advancement méide in that short space of time. The time will come' when Western Canada will -be the bread-basket of the world. It was a delightful outing througsh a great country of wonderful possibilities: and resources.” Since the visit of these editors the Government has ‘revised its land regulations and it is now possible to secure 160 acres of wheat land at $3.08 an acre in addition to the 160 acres that may be homesteaded. - .

The crops of 1908 have been splendid,‘and reports from the various districts show good yields, which at present prices will give excellent profits to the farmers. : ; =

From Milestone, . Saskatchewan, there are reported yields of thirty bushels of spring wheat to.the acre, while the average is about 20 bushels. The quality of grain to be shipped from this point will be about 600,000 bushels. Information regarding free lands and transportation will be freely given by the Canadian Government Agents. A HINT. TO GOLFERS. v ; ‘l% =R , g : e ‘Mf- : pa ¥ 2 7V W 7 S e v' \‘:'- ’; 0 i#’ Zj { I {Ht .:'& el 2l Wille, ——— The Visitor—What on. earth does. that chap carry that phonograph round for. Is he dotty? - The Member—No! But he's dumb. So he has that talking machine to give instructions to his caddie or to ‘make a few well chosen remarks im case he fozzles his drive or does any- _ thing else annoying. : ; ' Like a Dream. o . A bubble of air in the blcod, & drop of water in the brain, and a man is put of gear, his machit;%n t;_gs w 0 pieces, -his thought vanishes, the -world disappears from & like =& dream at morhing. On what a spiderthread is hung our individual existence. Fragility, appearance, nothingness. If it were not for our powers of self-detraction and forgetfuiness, all the fairy world which surrounds and brands us would seem to us but a broken - spécter in the darkmess—am empty appearance, & fleeting hallucination. Appeared—disappeared—there is the whole history of a man, orof & world, or of an infusoria.—Amiel. The Only Use He Knew. The “head of the family” was reading the vivid account of the departure ‘of the Israelites from the land of Egypt, and the four-year-old sox listened with intense interest. * At length the reader came to the passage, ‘“‘And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him,” when the boy, whose limited experience had taught him only one use for. such articies, shocked his staid relatives by crying in excited amazement: “To make soup wiv?"—Harpers Monthly.

UPWARD START

After Changing from Coffee to Postum.

Many a talented person is kept back because of the interference of coffes with the nourishment of the body.

This is especially so with ' those whose nerves are very sensitive, as is often the case with talented persoms. There is a simple, easy way to getrid of ‘coffee evils and a Tenn. lady’s experience along these lines is worth considering. She says: “Almost from the beginning of the use of coffee it hurt my stomach. By the time I was fifteen I was almost & nervous wreck, nerves all unstrung, no strength to endure the most trivial thing, either work or fun. “There was scarcely anything I could eat that would agree with me. The little I did cat seemed to give me more trouble than it was worth. I finally quit coffee and drank bhot watér, but there was so little food I could digest, I was literally starving; was so weak I could not sit up long at a time. “It was then a friend brought me & hot cup of Postum. I drank partof it and after an hour I felt as though I had had something to eat — felt strengthened. That was about five years ago, and after continuing Postum in place of coffee and gradually ‘getting stronger, to-day I can eat =nd digest anything I want, walk as -uyh as 1 want. ‘'My nerves are steady. “I believe the first thing that did me any good and gave me an upward gether mm nstead of coffee.” “There's varapee SR O e e