Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 July 1899 — Page 2

GROWTH OF CANADA, Its Rapid Development Has Attracted the Attention of Many. Settlement of the Yaennt l«aa<ia of Onr Neighbor Will Prove of Ad« vaatace to the (Satire Continent. What are the people of the United States going to do to escape the manifold evils they fear, not without reason, from the operations of the gigantic trusts which are being formed almost daily in every part of the country? This is a question that agitates not only the poor man, but the man of moderate capital. In years gone by, the man of energy out of employment or the man with small capita,Ujwas able to go farming in the United Sthtes •with every prospect of securing a competency for himself. But the day when : Uncle Sam was rich enough to give I every* man a farm has gone by. In ; discussing the question of the future ! jvelfare of the increasing population of the continent with 'Mr. J. A. Smart, deputy member of the interior for Canada, who was found busy with his superintendent of immigration in their

yield per acre ft prodigious. A late United States consul, in one of his reports from Winnipeg, wrote that when the harvest time cam# the entire labor to be found in the#%gion was wholly Inadequate fto the task of caring for the crop. The wheat had grown ao tall and stout and was bo heavily laden with grain that the work of threshing and stocking was exhausting ip the extreme. The strength and weight of the growing grain frequently broke the reaping machines, and the utmost exertion of strong men was needed to handle the great weight of the sheaves. In some years the average yield has been about 30 bushels per acre, in one or two years it fell to about 18 bushels, but even that production with present prices will yield a large profit, the cost of raising an acre being placed by experts at from five to seven dollars per acre. Wheat, however, is not the only cereal grown. The crops of oats, barley and peas are phenomenal. Oats were found by delegates visiting the country to yield from 60 to 90 bushels to the acre, while in some instances they have been known to exceed 100 bushels. One. delegate states: “The grain stood five feet six inches high, the heads were more than 12 inches long and each .chaff case is found to contain not one but three perfect ker

FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF PREMIER GREEN WAT’S PURE-RRED CATTLE RAISED IN WESTERN CANADA.

office at Ottawa, Canada, Mr. Smart made the statement that there'is now very little homestead land in the United States, and the man who seeks fortune in that way must now look elsewhere. It fortunately happens that we Uave right at our very door an opportunity for acquiring land or .getting into lucrative business of some kind that ip equal to any even offered in this country. _ Some years ago the people of the United States were accustomed to see Canada figure on the maps as a long narrow strip of land, with scattered villages and towns c.long the St. Lawrence and great lakes, it is hard, therefore, to realize that a rival nation, with a territory vastly larger than the whole United States, has risen upon our northern border and has set about making a great future for itself, building factories, leveling mountains, tilling up the valleys, bridging rivers, digging new and enlarging old canals, constructing thousands of miles of railways to bind together its territories and earry the fruit of th£ earth to ■distant market and make easy of access its enormous resources of timber, mines and agricultural lands. Since the accession to power of a vigorous, up-to-date, progressive government, determined that the world shall know wlmt a grand country Canada is and what unparalleled oppor

nels of oats.” What other country produces such oats? The yield of barley is enormous and the quality is so superior that it is sorfftht after by brewers everywhere at several cents per bushel more than that grown in other countries. l*eas, too, yield a -splendid crop. They are entirely from bugs and grubs, and being usva for hog fattening they give splendid results both in quality of meat and in the weight gained by the animals. To the fact that the hogs are fed on peas instead of corn experts attribute the entire absence from the country of hog cholera, so familiar in some of the western states. It must not be supposed that corn will not grow in Western Canada. It does grow there to a height of ten to twelve feet, and is used for ensilage and occasionally for fodder. With regard to the yield of cereals a few figures may not be out of place. There is an experimental farm in Manitoba and another in the northwest territories. In oats, in a three years’ continuous test at the Manitoba farm t lie average yield, with 12 different varieties sdwn, was 75 bushels 20 pounds to the acre; at the experimental farm in the northwest territories the average was S5 bushels 22 pounds per acre. In two-rowed barley, with six varieties, the average yield at the Manitoba

HOME OF A PROSPEROUS FARMER NEAR BRANDON, MANITOBA.

♦unities it otters, the ignorance that Heretofore existed regarding the country is rapidly diminishing. The area of Canada, all told, is ^3,450,382 square miles. The mind can scarcely comprehend the vastness of this area. JThe distance through Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific is roundly 3,000 miles. In Ontario and ■Quebec, the older provinces of the Dominion, there is not much farming land available, but westward of Ontario Jn the old Hudson Bay territory, now known as Western Canada, there are hundreds of millions of acres of the choicest land on the continent all ready for the plowman. There nre the provinces of Manitoba, com- ■ prising 7^,000 square miles; Assinaboia, about 90,000 square miles; Keewatin', 282.000 square miles; Saskatchewan, 107.000 square miles; Alberta, 1Q6.000 square miles; Athabaska, 104,000 square miles; Northwest territories, 900,000 square miles. Now that the United States has “filled up, no similar block of agricultural lands awaiting the settler is to be found anywhere else. Lord Selkirk in 1812 prophesied that these plains of Western Canada would yet maintain a population of 300,000,■OOO souls. And why not? Last year Manitoba alone had nearly 2,000,000 •acres under crop in wheat, oats, barley, flax and oflier grains, and potatoes and other roots. -This is undoubtedly the SsuVi cf the world. The

farm for three years was 42 bushels 31 pounds per acre; in the northwest territories' iarm the average was 50 bushels 20 pounds per acre. In spring' wheat 12 varieties, the average yield in Manitoba was 35 bushels 28 pounds per acre; in the territories, 41 bushels 41 pounds per acre. In potatoes, the average yield from 12 varieties during the three years was 313 bushels 50 pounds per acre in Manitoba; in the-territories, 300 bushels 15 pounds per acre* These averages for three years cnnhot be surpassed anywhere. Apropos of roots and vegetables, it is admitted by all who have any knowledge of the matter that in the growth of these products Western Canada has no competitor. Ip "the middle of September ripe tomatoes may be seen in great profusion, while they have been known to ripen as early ns the first of July. A gentleman from Ohio, visiting one of the agricultural fairs, said he had never seen anything in his state to equal the exhibit. Three cabbages weighed together 126 pounds, solid, sound and fine grained, as though they had weighed but six pounds each. Prize potatoes weighed 4*4 pounds each, while those weighing three pounds were so plentiful that they attracted no attention. Beets, carrots, turnips, etc., also grow to an exceptionally large size; watermelons reach 75 pounds and citron 25 pounds. In Canada there la no state church.

Every denomination is left to worship as it chooses. The government is federal. The Dominion parliament, corresponding to the house of representatives at Washington, has general supervision and iselected by direct vote of the people for a term of live years. Each province has a legislature corresponding to the legislatures of the different states in tl\e American union. It deala with matters that arc purely provincial. They are elected for fonr.years. Municipal or purely local matters are managed by municipal councils elected an-nually.-The franchise is so broad that the voting power is practically conferred upon almost every male person over the age of 21 years. In educational matters, Western Canada is up-to-date. The system is equal to any on the continent. Rural schools are about three miles apart in the settled districts, and they are free. The government makes an annual grant to each school, and all expenses, the salary of the teachers included, are paid out of this grant and the proceeds of a general tax on the land in the school district, whether occupied or not. Oneeighteenth part of the entire, “fertile belt,” from Pembina on the border south of .Winnipeg to the Saskatchewan, and beyond is set apart for the maintenance of schools—a very liberal provision Indeed.1 The schools are nonsectarian and national in character. In conniption with education experimental farms have been established in Manitoba and the territories, where all the different kinds of grain, seed, roots, vegetables, grasses, fruits, trees and shrubs that it is sought to grow in the country are sown on the.varied soils of the farm and the results published in the newspapers for the information and guidance of the farming communities, in ndditioh, traveling schools of dairy instructors are sent around. These give lectures, accompanied by practical operations in all the arts of raising cattle, butter and cheese making, etc., that the best methods known may be taught the settlers without the less of time and money that would be required were they left to their own resources in such important matters. Again, farmers* institutes arc held at regular intervals at important points. Those present make known their most successful methods of farming and interchange experi

euces. The climate is one of the best to be found anywhere. It was said at one Time that the cold weather prevented successful farming, but these allegations have been' completely falsified by the experiences of those who have lived there for years and by the success that farming has met with. On the point of climate it may be said that the town of Edmunton, in latitude 33 degrees *29 minutes north, much farther north than the city of Winnipeg, is 453 miles farther south than St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, farther south than any part of either Scotland, Denmark, Norway or Sweden, and as far south as Dublin, Ireland, Liverpool in England, or Hamburg in Germany, and yet these cities arc not considered as being by any means in the frozen regions of the north. In fact the climate of Western Canada is described by those who have lived there for years as very agreeable and preferred to that of the east. Disease is little known, epidemics are unheard of. Spring commences early in April. Sometimes the snow entirely disappears early in that month. Spring is soon followed by summer. Daylight at this latitude is two hours longer than anywhere below the boundary line. The result is a better quality of wheat, owing to the almost perpetual sunshine, than any place south. Autumn is aelelightful season. It extends into the month of December, the snow not falling until late in December, thus giving the farmer the opportunity to finish his threshing, complete the marketing of his thousands of bushels of wheat, and leaving plenty of time to put his land in condition for the crops of the following year. » ^ The district of Alberta, immediately east of Dritish Columbia and reaching the boundary lines pi/the south, has a total length of 430 miles from south to north, and 25ft miles from east to west. It contains an area of 106,000 square miles. The district is generally spoken of as “Northern Alberta” and “Southern Alberta” because of the different character 6f the two portions. Southern Alberta is preeminently a ranching and dairying country and offers opportunities in that direction that are unequaled. It is composed of high open plains broken by the valleys of numerous rivers. These valleys and the

uencn lunus prouuce most luxuriantly a most nutritious growth of native grasses, ih which the cattle feed up to their loii^s. Profits are large, steers selling on the ranches for $35 and $45, which had cost, their owner only the interest on the price of the land,,on the original investment in stocking the range, and in his share of the annual round-up. Northern Alberta comprises that great fertile valley stretching about 40 miles north of Calgary on for 200 miles or more. It is well wooded as well as well watered. For 25 cents, if he has no timber on his land, the settler can get a government permit to cut as much timber as he may require to put up his buildings, supply of firewood and fence rails. In addition to the agricultural and ranching possibilities of this district nature has been prodigal in her deposits of coal and other minerals. In mineral production Canada bids fair to beat the world. The entire region west of Alberta to the coast and north of the boundary line to the arctic circle appears to be one vast deposit of minerals—gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, coal, etc. British Columbia is making a record in the production of gold and silver that any country might be proud of. In short, in no other country in the world are the same chances open to the poor man, the man of moderate means or the capitalist, as present themsclveB on the Young Dominion of Canada.

HARMONY OP REPUBLICANS -— it Am It Exists la the State ot Ohio ^ j Aasag the Desses at the Preseat Time. The Chicago Times-Herald, the iead1s g administration organ in the middle west, has been keeping up a run* ning fire of attack upon republican Senator Foraker, of Ohio. Some quotations from the Times-Herald upon this subject, the Argus lias republished. ' .^Senator Foraker has replied,to certain of the attacks as follows: “My attention has just been called to the editorial in the Times-Herald of last Sunday, entitled: 'Now. Retire Foraker/ This article is made up of charges and Insinuations that are but a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end, without any basis of excuse whatever, and you knew that they were such when you published them. I respectfully ask that you print this as publicly as you did the editorial to which It has reference.” The Chicago Times-IIerald prints the above, and comxnepts upon it as follows: “Amonjt the charges and insinuations Senator Foraker characterizes as a tiscue of falsehoods from beginning to end was the statement of his connection with the ballot bex forgeries. This matter received official investigation In WashingtonJanuary, 1SS0. It was proved that this same Senator Foraker, then governor of Ohio, entered into a conspiracy with or.e Richard Q. Wood, of the Hall & Wood Ballot Box Co., for tho purpose of attaching the names of certain prominent Ohioans, including Gov. Campbell, Ben Butterworth. William McKinley and others, to acontraet which v.as to be used as a bluff against Campbell and also to discredit the others. “Foraker’s plot miscarried, because the forged signatures were accepted as genuine and the truth had to come out to save its author from more desperate consequences. — "Before being dismissed from the stand

————I ■ THE FLOP OF ALGER. \ -;- *; ( Be Has Glees Governor Plstrvt I* Throw-Down on the Senatorial Scheme. Alger has fooled Pingree. In the Inn • guogv of the race track, the unresigncil secretary has hedged. In hit last Unbosoming, which wn.s made to New York reporters, he assures the public that he never had aujr idea of forming an alliance with Gov. Pingree. The latter, he declares, to his surprise called upon him during a lucent visit to Michigan and persisted lin forcing upon him,* as it were, a senatorial boom. Alger admits the sciCt impeachment that he accepted the boom, but says that in doing so. he made no alliance either offensive or der fensive with Pingree. i This presentation of the case does not accord with Alger’s interview giver, to the Chicago reporters several days ago, just after he iPame from his conference with Pingree. Then he acknowledged that he had joined hands with the potato statesman for the purpose of defeating Mr. McMillan for the Michig in senatorship and securing the toga :!or his own shoulders^, He eveu admitted that he would make his tight on a platform declaring hostility to the trusts and favoring the election of senators by direct popu ar vote. He did not deny Pingree on that occasion, or mention that he had e' er opposed his potatoship for governor. But he did deny that he was ever a member of the Diamond Match*trust, which denial has since been refuted by j Alger's own testimony taken from he records of a court in which that trust was a litigant. Alger’s New York interview will

CAN’T LOSE ALGY.

ALGER—No, Pingree, them can be no alliance between us after all. lesert the administration. , - . “ And the blow almost killed fether.” 1 can't

Wood said: ‘Gov, Foraker doesn’t Care ask me any questions. I have not told half what I know yet. I am holding back my best points for cross-examination, and ho knows it.’ “If there is a single prominent man in Ohio who does not cherish a painful memory of faith betrayed and friendship abused by Joseph B. Foraker, from Jcihn Sherman down to Mayor McKisson, the Times-Herald would like to print his name in capitals.'* i Concurrently with the above contributions to republican harmony in' Ohio, are published interviews with Mark Hanna, attacking- republi can Mayor Jones, of Toledo, and intervi ews with Jones, attacking Hanna, i Says Hanna of Jones: “Ho is simply a crank;” “a disappointed candidate for governor;” “the real workingman are not with him;” “he is Backet by the riff-raff .and the idle fellows you meet in every city—the liquor dealers and bums were for him.” • Says Jones of. Hanna: “He is a n intolerant tyrant and insufferable buss;” “his reference to me and my a^nbition respecting the governorship unc, my connection with the labor convention in Columbus is a tissue of lies, which I charitably charge to his leading characteristic, his colossal ignorance. If. we have reached a period of the hi story

of the great state of Ohio when a boss like this can subvert the will of the people, as he did at the Columbus convention, then indeed majr the people despair, for their cause is desperate.” Itepublican harmony in Ohio, which lately was able to sit up, take nourishment and recognize folks, has evidently had a relapse, and the worst is to be feared.—Albany Argus. -Dr. McQueston, late of Gen. Otis’ staff, and health officer at Manila, says that the western volunteers are “the finest soldiers in the world,” but “they all want to return home.” And the reason he gives is this: “The men enlisted to fight for their country, and they are not the kind of men who want to stay and fight ah insurrection for money or the fun of fighting.” Nobody knows better than the volunteers that they are not “fighting for their country” or to liberate an oppressed people, but are engaged in a conflict to correct Mr. McKinley’s colossal blunder.—N. Y. World. ——Jn the opinion of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, “the democrats of the country are no more opposed to the really obnoxious phases of what are erroneously called trusts than republicans are.” Will the next republican platform contain a plank denouncing “the really obnoxious phases of what are erroneously called trusts?”— Albany Argus.

hardly impress the public as being tilt whole truth. He has got himself into a fix trying to carry water on. both shoulders and is trying to prevaricate out of it. There are fat pickings in th* two years’ lease that remain to him of the war department control. He does not care to lose them. He has concluded that the secretaryship bird in the hand is worth more than the Michigan senatorship in the bush. Filigree's thoughts must be interesting just now. —St. Tnuis Republic. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. -President McKinley may heed most of'those army commissions to secure harmony in Ohio this fall.— Chicago* Record (Ind.)‘. -"Alger, Alger, four years more of Alger" ought to prove an inspiring slogan for the McKinley second-term campaign.—Albany Argus. -Mark Hanna says: "There is not a man in the United States to-day out of work who wants to work." The man who makes a statement like that is either a fool or a liar, and no one has ever accused Mark of being a fool.— Memphis Commercial-Appeal.

-A person by the name of Hobart —Garret A. Hobart—is announced to make a speech at Princeton, N. J. We seem to recall this man Hobart, but can’t exactly place him. Wasn’t he at one time a National league umpire, or is he the man who fought Dooney Harris for the lightweight belt in. 1857?— Chicago Chronicle. -The report is current that President McKinley has commenced to “freeze” Secretary Alger out of the cabinet. If he hopes for success he will have to resort to seme method whereby he can reach a colder temperature than scientists have yet wot of. Mr. Alger is one species of the ice worm, and he thrives in. a cold climate, while the soldiers die in a hot one,—Pittsburgh Post. -It is encouraging to see so many leading republican newspapers coming out with an open.confession 1 hat the trusts must go, and the only way to kill them off is to destroy that which makes them possible—namely, high protection. But the eastern Leaders of the republican party will never permit the national convention to declare for a tariff for revenue only, and in that they will be seconded by Henna and nearly all the western leaders. Then, what will the anti-high protection republican organs do? At this time it looks like a Lot of trouble for the HannaMcKinley combine next year,—Kansas City Times.

Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crovm £'vt such ^re net the enfy uneasy heads* Oticrnvorked. harassed, anxious recrie of adages and both sexes are uneasy mhth aches, pains, impure bicod,'disordered stomachs, deranged kidneys and ther. Foe alt such. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the effective and faultless cure, ft in/uses fresh life through purified blood. SHAPE OF AN ANAEST A« Described by an Eminent tst Who Had I'sed One t an Operation. • It is a Bath physician who tells the fc ‘borne time ago I happened to spetn night in a country town not far frbm and it happened that there was stof at the same hotel an itinerant eye spi ut. : * We'-drifted into a conversation, a during the course of the evening jSiP me some of the marvelous operations had performed on the eye. One case ? particular he spoke of that caus * considerable astonishment, for I rt know, I confess, that the operation , l»een successfully performed. He sald;| had recently taken out a patient's i scraped the back of it, and returned if its proper place. The patient, he said, never troubled by bad eyesight after “ ‘That was a difficult operation, do said I. '^1181 - “ ‘Yes,’ “said he, ‘it was.’ >(, “ ‘1 suppose you found it neeessaxv' jt employ an anaesthetic?’ “ ‘\ es, I did.’ he admitted. : “ 4W hat anaesthetic did you tise, tor?’ I persisted. • " ’ “ ‘Oh, well, unless you are familiar ^ such operations" you probably w< " understand if I were, to tell you. well, it was shaped something like explained the eminent specialist. ♦on (Me.) Journal. '1% A MAN OF PRUDENCBjlIf He Tbonaht a Cyclone Celiac Come In Handy When Ue|» Was .Married. - . ' -vSgggl

At in “Speaking of wives and their disj and tendencies,” said Mr, Biskbff§j evening crowd in front of his cross .r st.ore, "there was John Brunt, tlia§t for.ten year* in the cyclone belt in trying to raise corn and mortga„ things like that, until he was able? row money enough to get back to land again without walking more th way; John come right to me, and I have a job on my farm at $20 a i for he was a hard worker and tht the end 6f the first year he had ; Widow Allen’s promise to marry l October, and he rented a uiee lilt to do business again on his • own John was a widower himself, jvnd ; practical sort of a man, he went light away putting the fartn ami * into shape. One day I happened r way, aud found him digging a hohf' back yard. ‘‘‘What’s that for?’ says I, w around and looking over things.* “‘That’s a cyclone cellar, Mr. says he. " ‘A cyclone cellar?’ says I, eobkjf: astonished. ‘What do you wantl^ cellar for? ‘This ain’t Kansas.’ “ ‘I know it ain’t,’ says he;know, Mr. Biskum,’ and he got fidential, 'I’m going to git marri cyclone cellar may come in mighty 1 casionaily.’ ”—Washington Star, ----.—— - ; , Justice In the West. “Heard couple of good ones bn this trip," announced one of Detroit's-tlfsyeling men. “At a little town in Oklahonfrt court was in session, and I dropped in wfiwbvait-, ing for the train. The prostcuifob had taken the testimony of a statiomjry engineer, and the attorney for the defense took hold. “Where were you this thing happened?’ he inquired. - “ ‘Kunnin’ a iniun.’ “ ‘What tribe did he belong to?* “The day before a case had bee which a man had climbed to the freight car laid up on a sidin no business there, but loosened The car started down grade, g«. rapidly for five miles, and then somersault over an embankment^ lar bone was broken and he got a; verdict for $500 because a smart lawyeKframvinced the jury that the railroad was gui&jsbf contributory negligence.”—Detroit.Pl^Press. Makes That a BdsIbi Pilson—Are you going to take guessing congest? Dilson—Oh, no; they’d Tule professional.’* “Professional?” “Yes; you know I am eonr weather bureau.”—Ohio StaJ

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