The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 1, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 May 1911 — Page 7

- ? 1/2 STORY £\J MissSelinaLue | AND THE | Soap-Box Babies By Maria Thompson Daviess A* ’ \3 Illustrations by Magnus G. KeCtner I TT I Copyright 1909, The Bobbs-Merrill Company. ’ SYNOPSIS. Miss Selina Lue, spinster grocery-store keeper of River Bluff and guardian angel of the community, presides over an Impromptu day nursery for the babies of the neighborhood In the rear of the place. Her charges are kept In soap boxes and are known as the "Soap-Box Babies." The fact that she Is single makes her somewhat of an object of sympathy to the mothers, although possessed of stronger maternal Instinct than manv of them. One of her Intimate friends Is Miss Cynthia Page, daughter of Widow Page, who lives In the whlteplllared house on the hill. Cynthia visits Miss Selina and learns that she has taken another "Soap-boxer” in. Alan Kent, a young artist who wishes to establish a studio in her barn. CHAPTER ll.—Continued. "What’s your—friend like?” asked Miss Cynthia interestedly. “He’s a kinder forlorn-like young man that paints pictures what are plumb/uplifting fer other folks to see. ■ They are jest out and out surprising. | When I seen, his heart was so sot on the barn to work in—l jest ain’t one to hold out against other folks hankering fer what’s mine, and so —lands alive, there he comes now!” Up from the river over the Bluff came .the forlorn one, and the two or three minutes he consumed in striding across the lot to the grocery door Miss Cynthia spent in a paralyzed regard of him. He was tall and broad and had a square chin and laughing, dark eyes. So much she could see, but further details were obscured, for perched on his right shoulder was the Blossom, nodding like a flower in the breeze, and on his left arm bobbed Carrots of the flaming hair. To one knickerbockered leg clung Bennie Dobbs, while the pocket on his other side sagged with the wounded hand of Ethel Maud, who ran to keep up with the procession. In due time they arrived at the foot of the steps on which stood Miss Cynthia, still hypnotized with surprise, and Miss Selina Lue, anxious To do’ the honors in the way of an introduction. The swaying of the Blossom and her dutch of his hair had hid Miss Cynthia from the sight of the artist, and his surprised eyes took in the radiant vision in white linen and large rosegarden hat with such a start that there threatened a rain of babies on ' Miss Selina Lue’s devoted head. “Make you ’quainted with Miss Cynthie, Mr. Alan—not as that’s his last name, as is Kent, but we feel so friendly with him now we compliment him with his first Miss Cynthie, please take Blossom so he can put Carrots in his box; he is most droze off and I am afraid he will drop often his arm. I’ve got to git a bucket of lard and some starch fer Mis’ Dobbs fer she is in sich a hurry.” Miss Selina Lue’s energetic treatment of the situation released Miss Cynthia’s motor nerves and she became once more herself, a very sweet, cool, formal self that acknowledged the introduction with graceful aloofness. This most appropriate attitude toward the strange young man was somewhat modified by .having to descend to the step above that upon which he stood in order that she might get possession of Blossom who was drooping toward her with an enchanted gurgle. As Miss Cynthia raised her arms she also raised her long lashes a fraction, and inadvertently let forth a gleam of mischievous amusement that sent little tongues of flaming embarrassment all over the still dumb Mr. Kent. It was enough to floor any man to find suddenly that a girl was laughing at him—and such a girl in such a hat! Os course he realized that he looked like a new style perambulator, but what—The arm that steadied Blossom trembled and she was about to be lowered into the embrace of her waiting friend, when with a little squeal and a scornful kick of one pink foot she clutched determinedly a shock of his black hair and absolutely refused to leave her perch. In vain Miss Cynthia wooed with outstretched hands; Blossom held to her coign of vantage. A mean little feeling of gratification cooled the embarrassment in Mr. Kent’s veins, and he said gently, too meekly perhaps: “Try lower down. Carrots will, I am sure, be more amenable to the —th —charm.” And he rolled that very sleepy young gentleman into her outstretched arms. A gleam of vexation w all the return he got for the trick he had played on her, and with a shrug of dismissal for both Blossom and him. Miss Cynthia turned and mounted the steps ‘and made her way to the back of the store. , Rage, yes, actual rage was boiling

within her as she laid the heavy baby on the pillow and threw the mosquito netting over him. The man’s calm assumption of an intimate friendship with Miss Selina Lue and the babies and the grocery, and she had almost included herself, was unendurable. And Blossom, who had always been overjoyed at her attentions, refusing to leave him for herself was the last straw. But, even worse, could the man have meant to insinuate that she was consciously exerting a charm, for him, over Blossom’s shoulder? The mere suspicion of such a thing settled matters! With her head in the air she walked to the front of the store and demanded a paper of tacks, which j Miss Selina Lue hastened to wrap up ' for her, all unmindful of the proximiity of the volcano. “I do wish you didn’t have to go, Miss Cynthie, honey. I was jest counting on your setting with us awhile to git ’quainted with Mr. Alan. He do talk so interesting about pictures and things we don’t know nothing about. I You can learn a heap from him. Why, Mr. Dobbs was a-saying jest last night j that the things he tells us about are j plumb educating. You must come j down often to see him.” And within a yard of Miss Selina Lue stood the helpless victim of her enthusiasm, Blossom in his arms swaying with sleep. The color of his face and ears and the set of his square jaw told the tale of his embarrassment which flared up into rage Surpassing that which burned in the bosom of his adversary as she answered gently, very gently: “Thank you, Miss Selina Lue; I am sadly in need of instruction in many things.” And with her cbin in the air and the suspicion of a tilt to her very classic little nose, Miss Cynthia swept out of the door without so much as a glance either to the right or the left. “Now ain’t she the sweetest thing!” exclaimed Miss Selina Lue as she ' leaned out of the door and watched I the retreating figure with admiring i eyes, all unconscious of {the snub and the feelings of the snubbed. “She’s j | jest that good and kind and loving J that you couldn’t hardly believe it, , could you?” “No, it’s hard to belipve that any- i body could be—like tbit! Does she ! happen often in these ■' parts? * an- ' swered Mr. Alan in a weak voice. | “Why, she’S our Miss) Cynthie from ; up op the hill —you know the big house with the white pillars and the long walks with box shrubs on each I side. Her ma, Mis’ Jackson Page, RgFt 111 . 03-5 — “What’s Your—Friend Like?” Asked Miss Cynthia Interestedly. owns all this Bluff and most of the land ’twixt here and the edge of town, and she Is one of the first families i though we all do come here from . Adam and Eve. They ain’t rich, be- I cause the city took a (notion to grow i out west of the University, and here I we are left jest high and dry except for the car line which runs cars only . when it can’t get outeh it Mr. Jim Peters is conductor on one of ’em and Mr. Flarity is motorman on the other, and they don’t make but six trips a day. We are all a-hang-ing on here on ’count of the ( boat landing and some of the men arunning on the river, j Looks like prosperity’s kinder shying at us, fer Mis’ Jackson Page can’t sell a foot of her land fer a decent price, and she’s jest downright land-poor, as the laying is.” i “Is Mr. Flarity the, Flarity who is , the owner of Carrots and his brother?” asked Mr. Alan. He had deposited Blossom on the counter and she had Immediately curled up in a little bunch and plunged into the depths of sleep. He seated himself on the steps as he questioned Miss Selina Lue about the parental history of the twins—anything to get his mind off the scornful lady of the Hill mansion and give his ears a chance to cool down. “Yes, and he is the most misfortunate man I ever did know about some things. His wife have had twins twice, and a. tapeworm, and now she’s gone to the’hospital to stay three months to get cured of it The poor thing wouldn’t go until I promised to invite the babies fer a visit while she ' were away. All the others are dead is what makes her nervous about these.” Miss Selina Lue was so busy dusting the, row of bluing bottles that she failed to see the effect of her naive i revelations of the domestic situation in the Flarity household. “Flarity’s • a mothering sort of a man and he i comes by and gits the twins after ■ eight o’clock and takes them home fer the night and leaves them on the back . steps with the cat when he has to go [ on the very early morning runs. Igo I out and git them right away as soon . as I can slip on some clothes.” i “Does Miss Clemmie spend the »; night?" “Oh, no —Mis' Simmons don’t bring ! her over till after ten. She takes the

ten-forty car into where she washes dishes fer the Women’s Exchange lunch. She has to stay until almost sundown, and comes home dead-beat. I don’t want to say anything hard of Mr. Simmons, but it do seem he uses his family keerless like on a good salary.” “What,” inquired Mr. Alan from the doorstep, ‘does the brute do?” “Well, I wouldn’t skeercely call him a brute, I think,” said Miss Selina Lue, as she shook out her duster and began on the shelf of canned tongue. “He runs a laundry wagon and he says it is a advertisement fer the house fer him to be a stylish dresser; but I can’t see why the house has to have his ! pants pressed every morning and have . him wear purple socks and tau shoes, when his wife is all drug out with trying to piece along and keep going. Sometimes I think it must be vanity in Mr. Simmons, and vanity in a man is like a turkey gobbler a-strutting in November.” “What about vanity in the ladies, Miss Selina Lue? You surely don’t approve of that” “Now, Mr. Alan, you’re mad, at ; what I said about the men and are trying to git even with me.” And Miss Selina Lue smiled over her shoulder at him. Miss Selina Lue’s smile was like a broad beam of sunshine on a summer morning. “Don’t you know the Lord wouldn’t have gave women folks shiny curls, cheeks pink like a peach, Aggers plump beautiful and eyes blue as the wild violets on the creek, like Miss Cynthie there, lessen he intended to excuse them some fei being proud?” “I don’t believe he would quits stand for that amount of pride and grudge Mr. Simmons the purple socks,” murmured Mr. Alan over! his cigar in careful sotto voce, and immediately steered Miss Selina Lue off the dis turbing topic of her friend’s perfec tions. ;! “Anything interesting in the family histories of the other two soap boxes, | Miss Selina Lue? It seems the thing I on the Bluff Xo know all about youi ; neighbors, and my intimacy with youi ! kiddies grows apace.” There was a I winning wholesomeness in Mr. Alan’i ! voice that struck a kindred note in tht soul of Miss Selina Lue,; and she rev i eled in the unbosoming (of herself tc j him. His dark eyes shone with inter I est and his straight mouth had an unexpected quirk in the left corner, easily interpreted as indicative of a sense of humor. “Well, Pattie Tyne, the little one that can’t hardly set up good yet, is jest so to speak a transient, as her ma have gone on a visit to her sister ovei to Union City. After she had got ths other five ready to go, there jest wasn’t nothing to fix Pattie up in fitten for a visit, so she left her with me. 1 wash the blue gingham out of nights and piece out with a dress of Blossom’s when it’s needed bad. Looks like Mis’ Tyne dreads the sewing ma chine and a bolt of caliker like they was typhoid smallpox.” “And last, but not least, tell me ths tale of Blossom, the lady of my heart, the only person who really appreciates me for my true worth, which is pep permint candy in limited quantities and a shoulder cushioned In brawn and exalted in height Blossom Is t lady of discernment and has the cour age of her predilections” “Mr. Alan,” said Miss Selina Lue as she sat down on the step by him and picking up ‘the little white calico bonnet he had let drop off the nodding head of the lady in question, began tc plait the ruffle with caressing fingers, “they ain’t many people I would tell the story of her to. One way or an 1 other, I have shet up every soul on i the Bluff as has asked me. Os course I Miss Cynthie knews, fer people can’t ‘ help talking pitifulness (to her, but the I rest jest found her here, and that if all they need to know. “It was a year ago last Christmas ■ it happened to me and Charity to find i her. About dark when I was busy tc {death doing up supper truck—as you see, that’s my busiest time of day—a girl come in here I never saw be 1 fore and she looked wild and white, 1 She carried a bundle in her arms, but ■ I never susplcioned anything, so 1 ! jest sold her a box of crackers and she went on out. Then I plumb forgot ' her, as I oughteh to have done, for , she wasn’t happy-seeming, and sich as she oughter be on my mind.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) A Restroom. A room the woman of the house calls the “restroom” is papered in soft gray and has green hangings. The furniture is light oak with green sofa pillows here and there, and the big sofa is upholstered in green. The window shades are dark enough to subdue the light Thus the room is In the most admirable taste and soothes the nerves. When the woman of the house is tired she runs to the rest room for a few minutes and gets her mental balance. The Real Mourners. 4 The Bull Pup —“How did you lose your tail, old man?” The Yellow Cui —“ln a trolley accident” The Bull Pup—“Do you miss it much?” The Yellow Cur —“Not as much as the boys do who used to tie tin cans to it” : » If Abe Martin Has No Objection. Link Gillenwater says no man kin be religious when he’s breakin’ in a pair o’ new shoes. More’n half o’ the cocoanuts ain’t wot they’re cracked up to be. Mysterious Woman. When a woman declares she’s go Ing to bring her husband up with a round turn can she possibly have mind the hangman’s noose?

INTERESTING WEDDING SOON TO BE CELEBRATED Hlll | BH |IIK Bal In r I W 11 Kill/J I 1 ) .<? I v Kwlf IM |J MM Mil lllsß BwwßF ' ' \lp IM B' • ' 'BBSBSmMffBI Bbfc IM * - BkPi I B|| v ** - bHbiII \ IBS IMB wk--'' ~ '/ HB Mb IF I Kill Washington.—Society folk of Washington and of the east generally are interested in the coming wedding of Mrs. Albert Clifford Barney and Mr. C. D. Hemmick, both residents of this city. The event will take place in Paris in the near future. Mrs. Barney is one of the wealthiest social leaders in the national capital and has been very prominent in amateur dramatic affairs. She owns a magnificent residence in Washington which she has willed to the District of Columbia.

FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE .« —

Preparations for the Coronation * Already Under Way. London to Be “At Home” to the People of the British Realm—Carnival Parade From Hyde Park to Crystal Palace. London.—One of the most spectacular events open to tourists in London during the coronation season will be the “Festival of Empire” at the Crystal palace. King George and Queen Mary will attend the festival on May 12 to hear the great empire concert, In which Mme. Clara Butt will take a prominent part, and in which there will be 5,000 voices in the chorus, under the conductorship of Dr. Charles Harris of Canada. The famous Queen’s hall orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry Wood, will also take part. Arrangements are completed for a series of grand empire carnivals. The city of London has voted a car symbolical of the life of the capital of the empire, while a number of other cities in Great Britain are sending cars. There wiil also be emblematic care for each of 'the oversea dominions and others to represent great Industries. In all there will be •fifty huge cars. The festivities will be held periodically on the grand terrace of the Crystal palace. During the coronation period there will be a carnival parade from Hyde Park to the Crystal palace. In addition to the fifty carnival cars—Nice I has but fifteen —there will be mountI ed calvacades and thousands of peoI pie in fancy dress, the men wearing grotesque heads. Rapid progress is being made with the construction of the "All Red Route," the mile and a half of eteci trio railway which will give visitors a comprehensive review of the British empire at work and play. This work, together with the oversea dominion parliament buildings, which the line links together, is costing £176,000 (>880,000). The chief six spectacles will be the wheat fields of • Canada, the tea plantations of India, j the vineyards of Australia, the gey- | sere of New Zealand and the gold i and diamond mines of South Africa. The exhibits in the various government buildings will include thirty tableaux of “The Romance of Empire.” These will illustrate what the British settlers had to contend with in the early days and how the history of the e oversea dominions has been made. The all-Brltish exhibition of arts and industries, to be held in the Crystal palace itself, which is being rearranged and decorated for the purpose, will make a special feature of machinery in motion. The duke of Marlborough is sending from Blenheim palace a priceless gallery of paintings which relate to the history of the empire and portraits of men who have helped to* make that history. The photographic clubs of Great Britain and the oversea dominions will hold a competition. Mr. Frank Lascelles, the master of the festival; explained th-c on this occasion “a great at-home will be given by the people of London, the mother city of the empire, to her sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters. “A sum of more than £250,000 ($1,250,000) is being spent,” Mr. Lascelles continued, “in order that tbs palace and grounds may be made worthy of the occasion. In the 230 acres of ground will be seen exact replicas, two-thirds the actual size, of the parliament buildings of Canada,

IT— ■ ■— Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland and India. Inside these buildings in each instance will be shown the progress and development of the country to which they belong —their scenery, their resources, their interests and their industries. The government of Canada alone is spending more than £70,000 ($350,000) in a representation of the parliament buildings at Ottawa. There will also be camps for boy scouts from all parts of the empire; empire sports, under the presidency of Lord Desborough; a play, ’Hiawatha,’ by Iroquois Indians from Canada; battles of flowers and carnivals; and, lastly, a series of scenes in the great amphitheater, which Sir Aston Webb has designed, of the history of London. Under the presidency of Princess Louise, the performers already enrolled throughout London to take part in the representations of the city’s history number 12,000." Kaiser Makes Bricks. Berlin. —The emperor’s brick factory at Cadinen is so successful that an extension of the premises is necessary to cope with the growing business. The prosperity of the establishment is due primarily to the emperor’s own keen interest and activities. $200,000 Horse Is Dead. New York.—From Paris comes the news that Flying Fox, the great race horse which Edmond Blanc purchased some years ago for $200,000, is dead. He won $130,000 in purses on the French turf alone.

IRON MINES ARE UNEARTHED ...

■? Site of Old Junk Yard Yields Wealth to Ail Those Who Are WHling to Work Hard. Chicago.—There is a mining camp in the heart of the West side. It Is a real camp, that grew in the same sporadic way as the old western Ekforados. It began with a discovery of valuable metal and a rush to uncover mineral wealth. There was claim jumping and anarchy, followed by the establishment of a crude government to protect the ctaimholders. The camp is located in a large vacant lot at West Taylor and Jefferson streets. It all began a week ago, when a young citizen of the neighborhood uncovered a quantity or old scrap iron while digging on the lot. This he took to a junk dealer and was soon exhibiting a bright silver quarter among his playmates. The story of wealth spread and within a few minutes the lot was covered .with children of all ages, Industriously panning out the iron. The pennies, nickels and dimes brought home at the end of the first day’s work caused the older relatives of the children to take notice, and the next day there were scores of adults on the ground, with pickaxes and wheelbarrows. The "pay dirt” is on a lot which was covered for years with gigantic piles of Junk, which was recently removed. The weight of the piles forced smaller pieces down into the soil, and these are now being recovered by the hundredweight. When the first mines were opened the discovery of quantities of copper and large pieces of iron which netted the finder $7 for a day’s work caused the news of the underground wealth to spread over a wider circle, and soon there were more claimants than claims. A‘few fights followed, and the original discoverers saw that something

HIGH PRICE FOR RARE BYRON First Edition of His “Poems on Several Occasions” Sold for $425, Setting Record. New York.—A copy of a Lord Byron rarity, the first edition of his “Poems on Several Occasions,” published j at Newark, England, in 1807, brought $425 at Anderson’s auction rooms in I the sale of the library of Judge Jacob | Klein, of St. Louis. It is said to be the first copy ever offered at public ; auction in this country. It was owned ; by Col. E. G. Hibbert of England, and brought $250 in 1902 at the sale of his library at Sotheby’s. The highest price for the book is $645 for a copy sold in London in December, 1901, but that contained a presentation Inscription from Lord Byron and three autograph stanzas on the fly leaf. Only 105 copies of this first edition were printed, being for distribution by Lord Byron among his friends. For the Klein copy of the first edition of Byron’s “Hours of Idleness,” published at Newark, England, in 1807 S, s6l was paid. Other items of interest were: Inrst edition of Gilbert A! “Comic History of Enghind,” in the original parts, SSO; a presentation copy from the author of a first edition of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's “Out of His Head; a Romance,” sls; first edition of Matthew Arnold’s “Empedocles on Etna,” author’s presentation copy, $2.7.50; the original autograph manuscript of Walter Besant’s novel, “Andromeda,” 401 pages, signed and in binding, $87.50; John Major’s edition of Walton and Cotton’s “Compleat Angler, London, 1824, $l4O, and the “Private Journals of Aaron Burr," S7O.

must be done or they would lose the I fruits of their finds. Their remedy was the effective one j of the primitive western camps. When I the next claim jumper tried to drive j out a holder he was beaten down by | a score of neighbor miners. That end- i ed all trouble, and now the camp is a scene of peaceful Industry for twelve hours every day. Entire families are at work digging out nickels, which mean the necessities of life to them. The mothers and older boys and girls are digging up the ground with picks and shovels, while the younger ones are carrying the recovered metal in baskets and cans to carts and wheelbarrows on the sidewalk. PLAN ALL TO WEAR KILTIES New York Organization Formed to Encourage Use of Scots' Costume and Bagpipe Music. New York. —An organization just Incorporated here urges the wearing in America of the highland costume and proposes to perpetuate and 'encourage the wearing in America of the Highland, costume, to foster recob lections of Scottish pipe music, literature and traditions and to unite Scotsman end their descendants. The members promise, in a preliminary statement, to do everything they can to see that the highland costume is in mor* general use on the streets of New . York this summer than it was a year ago. Giris No Longer Blush. Boston. —Another phase of “Thing* aren't like they used to ba.” is deveb oped hy Rev. Dr. Herbert S. Johnson in his assertion that the girls don’t blush any more. Self-possession is blamed by the pastor for the disappearance of this Interesting feminine attribute. I

WILL LOOK TO CANADA FOR WHEAT ONE REASON WHY AMERICAN? GO TO CANADA. In the Chicago Inter-Ocean of a few days since reference was made to the fact that in 1909 the United States raised 737,189,000 bushels of wheat, and last year grew only 695,443,000, a decrease of 41,746,000 bushels. The article went on to say: “True we raised last year more than enough wheat for our own needs, but it is apparent that if production continues to decrease in that ratio we will soon be obliged to look to other countries for wheat to supply our rapidly increasing population.” The purpose of the article was to show that reciprocity was to be desired. This Is a question that I do not propose to deal with, preferring to leave it to others who have made a greater study of that economic question than I have. The point to be considered is, with the high price of lands in the United States, and with the much lower priced lands of Canada, and their ability to produce probably more abundantly, Is it not well for the United States farmer to take advantage of the opportunity Canada affords with its lower-priced lands and take a part in supplying the needs of the United States, which it is quite zlfplJarent must come sooner or later? It is probable there are now about 300,00b> American farmers in Western \£an>da, cultivating large farms, and ■ becoming rich, in the growing of 25j and 30-bushel-to-the-acre-wheat, in pro- ; ducing large yields of oats barley, ; and in raising horses and cattle I cheaply on the wild prairie grasses ; that are there, both succulent and • abundant. All these find a ready market at good prices. Amongst the Americans who have made their homes in Canada are to be found colonies of Scandinavians, and all are doing well. I have before me a letter from an American Scandinavian, now a Canaj dian, an extract from which is inter- ! esting. Writing from Turtle Lake, Saskatchewan, he says: “I came up here from Fergus Falls, Minn., October 24th, 1910, and thought I would let you know how I have been getting along. We had a very mild . winter up to New Year’s, but since ! then it has been quite cold and lots of ! snow, but not worse than that we l could be out every day working, even { though we had 05 below zero a few times, but we do not feel the cold here the same as we did in Minnesota, as it is very still and the air is high and dry. This is a splendid place for cattle raising and mixed farming. | There is some willow brush and small poplars on part of the land, which is | rolling and covered with splendid grass in the summer. Not far from here there is timber for building material. There are only 8 Norwegians here, 6 Scotchmen, 2 Germans. The lake is 20 miles long and full of very fine fish. "There is a lot of land yet that has not been taken and room for many settlers, and we wish you would send some settlers up here, as there are fine prospects for them, especially for those who have a little money to start with. Send them here to Turtle Lake, and we “will show them the land, if they have secured plats, showing the vacant lands, at the Dominion Lands office in Battleford. Send us up some good Scandinavians this spring.” The Canadian government agents will try to meet his wishes. Willing to Make an Effort On a large estate in the Scottish highlands it was the custom for a piper to play in front of the house every week day morning to awaken the residents. After an ovqrconviv.-, ial Saturday night, however, the forgot the day and began his reveille (can it be played on the pipes?) on Sunday morning. The angry master shouted to him from the bedroom window: “Here, do you not know the fourth commandment?" And the piper sturdily replied: “Nae, sir, but ye’ll—hie —whustle it I’ll —hie—try it, sir." What We Are Coming To. Jack — I thought your landlord didn’t allow children. Henry—’Sh! We call it Fido.—Har Per’s Bazar. Nature’s laxative, Garfield Tea, overcomes constipation and is ideally suited to tone up the system in the Spring. It’s a waste of the other fellow’i tlme-when you talk foolish. Splendid Crops In Saskatchewan (Western Canada) Bushels from 20. acres of wheat was the thresher’s return from a Lloydminster farm in the I season of 1910. Many 0 TIT?! il I fields in that as well as Sgl R I I other districts yield- ■ A l ed from 25 to 35 bushels of wheat to the ft* * R yiHMW acre. Other grains in I Ul IT. proportion. dASnSI large profits are thus derived from the FREE HO M E STEAD LANDS f’a of Western Canada. This excellent showing’ causes f JMF yw. » I prices to advance. Land values should double In two years’ time. | < YJAAIIMfi Grain growing,mixed fartnV| ing, cattle raising and datry||ML.V * Jtegß.J Ing are all profitable. Free R Yja* Homesteads of 160 acres are L3Z E 2x # 1 to be had In the very best districts; 160 acre pre-emp-I♦/A WV J tions at 53.00 per acre wlthIn certain areas. Schools and churches In every settle--B*merit, climate unexcelled, I 4? soli the richest; wood, water I and building material ,-vJB plentiful. For particulars as to location, f TP!°w settlers’ railway rates and L st j descriptive Illustrated pamphlet. BtepraSSSvw I “Last Best West," and other InSv ySjrhT formation, write to Supl of ImmiIKfflftSi gration, Ottawa, Canada, or to A J Canadian Government Agent. I - * * H Rogers, 3rd floor Tncttoo Terntal IK. Indbupolis, IndiiM, or CawtHin GoreruKnt RM? M Aaaai QhIUIm Taledn l)M> a g MIR ■ AfICRLo UalWrci I VKlFro vUlw, Mb. >\o. (Use address nearest you.) 89