The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 10, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 July 1911 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. NOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE. . - INDIANA.

“SCIENCE” NOT WORK Scarcely Applicable, Mrs. Homeworker Thinks, in the Genejal Field >», °f Housework. “No," said iJrs. Homeworker, “I don’t believe the new scientific agement could be applied with benefit in housework. f . . “In factories, or any sort of work that waC. the same it might bring Economies, don’t see how uld apply it to housework. \ “In the ht'x'itoKfe every housewife would because it would seem to be r , 4l < e jrert to get more work out knows very well that is doing all she can now. And it imply that she didn’t (know how to do things the best way and she would resent that; for while there may be many different ways of doing the same thing every housewife thinks hers is the best, and it would 'be impossible to persuade her otherwise; and in fact the probability is that her way, whatever it may be, is the best way for her; she knows by experience. “Another objection to the application of thje so-called scientific management here would lie in the fact that household work is so varied. You can set a tool to cut a certain amount of metal and when you’ve got it adjusted you can let it cut away as day Icing; but the housewife in the course of a day’s work does not one thing alone, she does forty; she is jumping from one task to another all the time. She is readjusting the strain on her muscles, her outlay of strength almost continuously, and it is doubtful if by scientific or any other manner of doing you could improve on the wqiy she now does these various things automatically. “So, however it might be in other fields, I see how the modern scientific management could be employed in housework advantageously; for the average housewife works now day after day from the time she gets up until she goes to bed at night, and day after? day to the limit of her capacity.’! Many Memories of English Writers. At Rose Cottage, formerly occupying the site of the Southwalk town hall, lived Thomas Binney, the hymn writer, and there he entertained Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe during her stay in London. At Rowbotham’s academy, hard by Rose Cottage, John Ruskin attended school. In other side streets .Oft the Walworth road were corn Michael Faraday ana Emily Andrews, afterward Mrs. Coventry Patmore and the inspirer of “The Angel In the House.” Within a stone’s throw of Camberwell Green are the birthplaces of Robert Browning and Professor Jowett, while Denmark hill must always be remembered as the lifelong home of Ruskin. ’ Dulwich, too, as every one knows, is full of famous Byron is said to have attended a school in the neighborhood and Dub wich Woods were the favorite haunt of the Mouthful Browning.—Pall Mall Gazette, Hurrying In London. All Nature loves a lover—and all London loves a Londoner in a hurry. If in Ljondon you tell a cabman that you have only seven minutes in which to catch a train—two miles off, he will say, “Yes, sir,” and whip up his horse, gallop through a square, taking his chance of a fine if -a bobby sees him; he will put his hand to the trapdoor and say: “I think we shall do it, sir,” —and he does do it. He enters, In fact, into the spirit of the thing— It is a sporting matter for him. And It is tjie same with messenger boys, railway porters, or fellow passengers. I have even made a South Eastern train Come in “on time,” and catch an almost impossible connection by telling the guard that I was in a hurry.—Ford Madox Huetter In The lantic.I i Care of the Icebox. Most makes of standard ice boxes have Instructions for cleaning, pasted on the inside of the lid. For those who have not such an Ice box, only one direction is necessary to insure perfect cleanliness. At least once a week scrub your ice box out thoroughly with boiling soapsuds in which two or three ounces of washing soda have been dissolved. Be sure that your Ice box drain pipe does not run straight Into the sewer outlet unless It is provided with a U-shaped safety valve, the water in which protects your ice from contamination by air which might,be blown back into the chest from the sewer. Napoleon’s Birthplace. The Empress Eugenie, a French contemporary says, intends to set up a small museum in the house at Ajaccio where Napoleon was born. At present in spite of the fact that there is little enough to attract no visitor to the town falls to make a pious pilgrimage to the house. With its green window shutters and yellow painted front there is nothing to distinguish it from the neighboring houses except a marble slab announcing the birth on August 15, 1769, of the man who afterward became Napopeon I. The best preserved room In the building is that which Napoleon, then a young and unknown officer, used to occupy when he visited |iie family at holiday time.

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omoker Couldn’t Be Tempted

Secretary, of Navy Thompson Accepted All the Cigars Offered Him, but.-Such Gifts Never Helped to Extract Favors. When President Hayes, following his inauguration, sent to the United States seriate his nominations for cabinet officers, the list of names included rhat of Richard W. Thompson of Indiana for secretary of the navy. At once there was a great scratching of memories on the part of public men and the public generally. “ThompBon?” was the universal query, “who’s Thompson?” And straightway the personal friends and political acquaintances and associates of Daniel W. Voorhees, “the tall sycamore of the Wabash,” who from 1877 until his death in 1897 represented Indiana in the senate, fell upon him with the question. “Oh, that’s Dick Thompson,” Voortiees replied characteristically, “I know him well. I don’t like his politics, but he is a splendid man.” And then, when pressed for further details, he would add: “Well, we heard of him iin Indiana years ago. He first went to congress in 1840, when you and I were boys. And now he’s dragged back into public life, because, I ■ suppose, the president thought it best to have as secretary of the navy a man who had never traveled by water except upon a Wabash river canal boat or an Ohio river stern-wheeler.” In sooth, when “Uncle Dick” Thompson, as he shortly became known, entered the cabinet he was unknown to the new generation, and completely forgotten by the old, despite his career in congress and his record as a federal judge in the late sixties. He was a little dried up wisp of a man. His personality: was somewhat eccentric, nevertheless, he was blessed with abundant common sense. And he had an infinite capacity for tobacco, edany stories of his marvelous consumption of cigars came to be told of him, and It was said of him that, like Seward in Lincoln’s cabinet, he had been granttd the privilege of smoking cigars at cabinet meetings. Certain it was that he was a great ►over of the weed, and therefore, in order to gain his favor, or to persuade It to lean their way, those who had

Grant As a Maker of Jokes

How, When -President, He Hoaxed His Family Concerning His Choice of a Nominee for the Position of Chief Justice. General Frederick T. Dent, father-in-law of General U. S. Grant, was a guest at the White House for several months in 1874. During his visit Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the United States, died, and General Dent had personal experience of the embarrassment and difficulties which President Grant met with in attempting to name a successor to Chief Justice Chase, whose nomination the senate would confirm. “General Grant first offered the post to Senator Roscoe Conkling,” ■aid General Dent some years later to a company of friends, “and I know that he was very anxious that Conkling should accept it. He told us one day when we were gathered at dinner—only members of the family were pxesent—that he had been much disappointed because he had that day received a letter from Senator Conkling in which he had declined the offer of chief justice. “I knew from General Grant’s manner that he began then to turn over in his mind one or two other names, but I did not know until the nomination was made that he had offered the appointment to General Caleb Cushing. General Cushing was pot in good favor with the senate, and that nomination was withdrawn. I never heard General Grant express any opinion which would Indicate that he was disappointed at the failure of Cushing’s nomination. But I feel certain that he was considerably chagrined when he discovered that the senate would not confirm the nomination of George H. Williams of Oregon, who was attorney general in the cabinet. “When this happened all of the family began to get quite excited over the situation. My daughter, Mrs. Grant, became very much more interested in this matter than she had ever been in respect to any appointment excepting those of cabinet officers; I Suppose that was because she looked upon the cabinet as almost a part of the White House family. “Well, one evening, when there was no one at dinner but the family and the guests at the White House, we thought that General Grant seemed a little preoccupied. We were certain that he was thinking over the chief justiceship, wondering whose name he should next send to the senate. At last Mrs. Grant asked him if he had made up his mind whom to nominate, and in reply he said that he had about made up his mind. ‘“Who is it? Tell us. won’t youT.

something to ask of him as secretary of the navy frequently presented him with cigars, sometimes offering him not a cigar or two from a case or waistcoat pocket, but a box of choice Havanas. He was never known to reject such an offering, and it was equally observed by the donor that his cigars were consumed with great gusto; yet, however, they never helped to produce the desired results. These attempts to reach Uncle Dick on his weak side had been going on for some time when one of Senator Voorhees’ constituents, having some business with the navy department, asked the senator to accompany him thither and introduce him to Secretary Thompson. “I will on one condition/’ replied Senator Voorhees. “You are not to take any cigars with you, or,'if you have any in your pocket, you are not to offer any to Dick. I’ll explain later.” The friend agreeing, he was speedily introduced to Secretary Thompson, who listened carefully to the statement that the caller had to make. Then, as the latter was preparing to leave, Uncle Dick wrinkled up his

Enmity Made Political History

General Arthur’s Dislike of Reuben E. Fenton Kept Latter From Being Vice-President, but Put Him in United States Senate. A delegate to the first national convention of the Republican party, and a vice-president of that assembly, chairman of the national committee of that party during the first three campaigns it conducted, war governor of New York, then from 1863 to 1869 a United States senator, and in 1872 chairman once more of the Republican national committee, Edwin D. Morgan was a noted national figure of yesterday. Yet, long as was his career in high public positions, it would have been lengthened by six years but for the unexpected triumph of another exgovernor of the Empire state, Reuben E. Fenton, who succeeded Governor Morgan in the United States senate. “I knew Fenton very well,” said the

We are getting greatly interested,’ Mrs. Grant said. " ‘Don’t you think you can wait until I have made the appointment?’ General Grant asked. "‘I really wish you would tell us tonight,’ Mrs. Grant persisted. “ ‘Oh, wait,’ said the general. ‘Wait until tomorrow.’ “The next day General Grant sent to the senate the nomination of Morrison R. Waite of Ohio, having been assured that it would be confirmed unanimously. That evening, at dinner, Mrs. Grant said to him: “ ‘Why didn’t you tell us yesterday that you were going to make this nomination?’ “ ‘Why, I did tell you,’ General Grant replied. “‘You surely are mistaken; we asked you, and you wouldn’t tell us,’ my daughter answered. “ ‘I certainly did tell you,’ the general insisted. ‘I said “Waite.” It wasn’t my fault If you did not understand me.’ “Then, of course, wre all had a hearty laugh, none enjoying the joke that he had made more than General Grant himself.” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Smoking in the Wrong Place. Smoking in railway carriages where that indulgence is forbidden can be dealt with in summary fashion by Russian law. The Journal de St. Petersburg reports that a train arriving at Tashkent was boarded by a traveler who insisted on smoking in a non-smoking compartment, despite the repeated protests of his fellow passengers. The guard rose to the emergency by fetching in a judge who happened to. be on the train. This official passed hi- chain of office round his neck and, after hearing the evidence of three witnesses, ordered the smoker to pay a fine of 50 rubles ($25). As he had not this amount in his possession he was detained at the next station until it was dispatched to him. Resourceful Young Man. Caller —Mr. Scadlong, I have come' to ask for your daughter’s Banker —Sir! Caller —Indorsement ,of a little charity scheme the young people of our club are getting. We should like to have her as one of the patronesses. Unnelghborly People. "How is it that our neighbors’ children get along better at school than our children dot” “Because our neighbors are a mean lot They won’t tell me what brand brain food they use.”—Exchange.

forehead and requested: "Just tell me over again, In ns few words as possible. what It Is that you want." The caller complied, and hardly had he finished when the secretary ex- i claimed: "Tliat Is n perfectly propfir request. I will give the necessary Instructions, so that it will be curried out. When you are In Washington again, I shall bo glad to so you.” When they were on their way from the department, Senator Voorhees explained to his constituent. “I was right,” he said. “You got what you wanted, and got It at once. He was not suspicious of you, but fond as he is of cigars, bo Is instantly suspicious of a visitor who comes to ask some favor and In the course of the conversation offers' cigars. He will take the cigars, but 1 have noticed that the chances are that he will not grant the favor sought. So I asked you not to offer cigars to Dick. I am sure that if you had done so your request would have been held up, and likely denied In the end.” Uncle Dick Thompson remained as the head of the navy department until a few weeks before the expiration of President Hayes’ term, when he resigned voluntarily to take a remunerative civil position. He died in 1900, when 91 years of age. (.Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.)

late Colonel George Bliss of New York, my authority for this anecdote. “I first made his acquaintance when I was upon the staff of Governor Morgan in the early days of the Civil war. Chester A. Arthur served on the same staff with me. I never knew what it was that caused Arthur to dislike Fenton, who was then in congress from a western New’ York district and a staunch supporter of Lincoln and his policies, but I do know that had it not been for that dislike Fenton w’ould probably have been a vicepresident of the United States and Governor Morgan would have been elected to the United States senate for a second term. “After it was apparent to one and all that General Grant would be nominated by the Republicans for the presidency in 1868,” continued Colonel Bliss, “it came to General Arthur’s knowledge that Fenton, who was finishing his second term as governor of the state, was very anxious to be nominated as vice-president. I am sure it was not generally known that this was Governor Fenton’s ambition. But it was, and, of course, if New York stood united in the support of a candidate for vice-president, the probabilities were that the candidate would he Accepted by the impending~c6nven ? tion, for Grant was to be accredited to Illinois, and it is tradition for the Republican party, when selecting a presidential candidate from the west to look to New York for his running mate. But when Arthur heard of Fenton’s ambition, he got busy and persuaded myself and two or three others that it would never do to let Fenton secure the plum he so coveted. Tom Murphy was one of the men so persuaded; Murphy, at that time, had a good deal of political power—Grant subsequently appointed him collector of the port of New York. We had a good deal of influence with the party organization up state, Arthur controlled the organization in New York city, and so, to make a long story short, we were able to prevent a majority of ‘the New York delegation to the national convention recommending Fenton for the vice-presidential nomination. And thus Schuyler Colfax of*lndiana was nominated for and became vice-president “When Fenton saw that he was beaten he showed no signs of disappointment. Indeed, to us who were on the other side it seemed that be took his defeat very philosophically, and we were glad, for we<w*nted no rumpus within the party. Had we been a few years older we probably should not have viewed the situation so complacently and looked forward so confidently to the re-election a few months hence of Morgan to the senate. “But when the legislature met we discovered to our mingled astonishment and dismay that Fenton, in the short time that had elapsed since the wrecking of his vice-presidential aspirations, had been quietly at work and secured a majority of the legislature in favor of his election as senator to succeed Morgan. And so he gained the caucus nomination and was elected, and thereby got even with us for blocking his plans to run with Grant” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) All He Knew. “Tell me about Spain, romantic Spain.” “Well,” said the motorist, “there are a few bad places as you come down the mountains, but in the main the roads are pretty good.” His Friendly Act “I think we can unload the rotten stock on Jones.” ”1 thought he was an intimate friend of yours?” counting on that!”—Ufa-

r I c~i “ Advertising “ |]| Talks ||p

MODERN ADVERTISING It doesn’t seem fifty years ago—a golden anniversary—since John Wanamaker started his commercial venture In Philadelphia. But the time named has passed and cannot now be shortened. The event of this merchant’s beginning was, it seems, somewhat brave, although it began quite small, with a dream of great development later. The story, however, is worth telling, in part, and is told with much appropriate detail in a little book just issued by the Wanamaker stores. I have not seen the little monograph itself, but it is recorded in it that it “was just ninety-four hours before the first shot was fired on Fort Sumter that Wanamaker and his partner, Nathan Brown, opened, in Philadelphia, in April. 1861, “Oak Hall as a men’s and boys’ clothing store.” It occupied thirty by eighty feet in a sixstory building—a building then and there consideyed extravagant in size. And Wanamaker’s venture, too, was thought no less of a folly. “You are making a great mistake,” said George H. Stuart to the boy merchant of twenty-two, “in starting business at such a time as this. The country is entering upon a great war and there will be no business. Before long grass will be growing in the streets of Philadelphia.” The first day’s receipts of the little store were $24.67. Wanamaker kept the sixty-seven cents to make change with and spent the $24 the next day in advertising. The Springfield Republican says, “He has kept on advertising ever since and there has been enough left over for change the next day.” He is not inaptly called the “apostle of honest and original advertising.” What he has done to stimulate advertising cannot be briefly told, for to him we owe the freshest and best forms of our modern appeals to business publicity. It was through his advertisements that he taught the public how to buy. “He attracted people to his stores, and then, by show windows and attractive counter displays, educated his customers to a sense of comparative values, and showed them how their money could be wisely spent.” It was one of bis sayings that “a bargain is not a bargain unless both parties to it are benefited by the transaction." I remember well when I first read his small pica, leaded, talks, put in natural staccato phrases in the leading newspapers and periodicals. No one, indeed, could fail to notice them, for they fairly took you by the buttonhole and almost drew you to one side by their gentle frankness and urgency. It was something entirely new. It was advertising that talked, as the German said of John B. Gough and his coattails, “Why, be talks mit his coattails.” All previous advertising was. In comparison with it, as sepulchral and silent as a tomb of ancient Egypt with its still hieroglyphics. The messages it bore and brought went at once home to their coveted mark. The store consequently grew, aggregating to itself vastly more than mere masculine clothing, and becoming a mercantile wonder. It was really the new note in publicity that was to set the pace for others, who in various ways talked up for themselves “the store” and “the goods” of the day. As Tennyson said cf his poetic flowers, he put them out new, but all possess the blossoms now. for “all have got the seed ” It only needs some Columbus to set the egg on end. and then all can do it. It was all advertising artifice of a high order, and got instant appreciation. No matter whose original idea it was, it became Wanamaker’s practically, for he saw its value and possibility. and embraced them at once. For this thing alone he made the public his debtor as well as for his helpful ways in trade. Taking both together. he has made “shopping." particularly oh its feminine side, almost a fine art. For no mechanism runs more smoothly than his stores and his daily account of what they offdr. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• • A little advertising is a dan- • a gerous thing; the largest adver- « ® tisers are, almost without excep- • * tion, the,most successful ones. o e o The Mouern Method. That the larger advertisers were beginning to see the advantage of newspaper advertising as against magazine advertising was the contention of L. H. Brown of the Catholic Citizen in a j lecture. “The Newspaper as afl Advertising Medium,” before the college o’ journalism. Marquette university, at Milwaukee recently. “If a merchant can sell summer underwear in winter by advertising, it shows the power of advertising,’’ he said, and referred to the comparative cost of newspaper advertising md of mailing circulars, saying that he newspaper carries the message to he fireside, where the whole family j fill see it “The method of going arofind to buy drink or a cigar in order to adver- 1 se cre’s business is obsolete." he ; •'* "The modern method is to adrise in the newspapers."

| POURING MONEY | | INTO A HOLE « s — i § By GEORGE 8. BANTA. £ g ' g ” “Just like pouring so much § St money in a hole,” a merchant g § often says when approached on § t g the subject of advertising his St ! business. I will agree with him £ I ♦♦ in that statement, but I want to ❖ »j explain just how I understand it. IS *.? I want to remind that man ♦♦ how, down in Texas a year ago, ~ there was a company which put nearly a million dollars” “into a 5 2* hole.” Finally, a vein cf oil was struck, so rich and so generous •* v in its flow, that the money the £ It. company put into the hole has <£• already come out again and V there is every indication that it £ will keep on coming until it has £1 ♦♦ been paid back scores of times. «& § That is the kind of hole into which you put your money for it a advertising. But you don’t need «j 9 to go to Texas to find it. With v you, it is just around the corner £ g at the newspaper office. If you « do not advertise, advertising will •• § never give your business a tonic, g U move those shelf-worn goods, «.• A and put a swell in your ledger V <a> balance. »• I will admit that no merchant can advertise without spending g money. Furthermore, real ad*e> vertising takes lots of time and « a thought and work. It is also jj It true that those fellows down in w 22 Texas might still be wondering “ ❖ whether there was really any oil •? <s, down below them if they had been so attached to their cur- g ♦♦ rency as to have been unwilling <£> £ to pin it to their faith and send ♦.« it down into the hole. ff V Which are you going to be—it a wise-acre pessimist clinging <s» I § to the one talent you have, or will you spend a part of it in advertising that will bring you back ten talents in the place of <?> 22 one. OLD PROCESS IS TOO SLOW Articles of Merit Will Eventually Sell Themselves but Advertising Speeds Good Results. “This looks like a good shirt,” remarked the buyer. “The best I have ever seen for the money,” replied the haberdasher. “But I never heard of it,” added the customer. “No one ever hears of it,” said the dealer. “The manufacturer has the idea that a good shirt will advertise itself.” “How does this theory work out?” “Well, we sell five A-B-C shirts, and three of the E-F-G make to one of the unadvertised kind; and, besides, the advertised shirts are known and asked for, the sale being virtually made without effort on our part, while to sell one of the unknown brand it is necessary to change a customer’s favorable 1 opinioh of an advertised article, and that is neither easy nor worth while ” This experience is not uncommon, it cannot be denied that a good article will advertise itself, but the process recalls the thoughtful man who. on being told that coffee was a slow poison, remarked, “Is it not very, very slow?” Moral: Good advertising speeds up good results. Begin each advertisement with the sparkle of life; then bring it to an end before the sparkle fades. Success for the Sticker. William H. Hudson, contributing to Judicious Advertising, asserts that repetition of advertising is a doublebarreled selling weapon. “How much and how often do I need to advertise? This is the first question the new advertiser asks of his agency. “It is a telltale question, for the man who asks it hae never really mastered the first rudiments of advertising. “The muchness and the frequency of advertising are taken for granted by every experienced advertiser. It is only the novice who imagines that an economical limit can be set in advance to advertising. ... If you would merely keep pace with the spirit of change, the spirit of restlessness, the constant movement of the fiesh and blood procession that lines your street, you must advertise freely, advertise consistently, advertise persistently. There is no room for the tailender in advertising. He is constantly dropping out of sight. “But if there Were no changes in the human stream that passes your store you would still need to" advertise and advertise frequently.” •••••••••••••••••••••••••» • ' • • Advertising is not a gamb'e; • 0 it is no more difficult or myste- « o rious than any other legitimate « o business activity. • s> • •••«•••••••••••••••••••••• Enthusiasm. Out of self-confidence grows enthusiasm and earnestness. For the man in earnest nothing is impossible. Enthusiasm keeps men young and strong. It is the steam in the boiler, the "juice” on the trolley wire. Earnestness in a young man will make him a hundred friends. Enthusiasm will help him over a thousand obstacles.Henry M. Hyde.

WESTERN CANADA’S GOOD CROP PROSPECTS .YIELDS OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY BE 25 TO 30 BUSHELS PER ACRE. In an interview with Mr. W. J. White, who has charge of the Canadian government immigration offices in the United States, and who has recently made an extended trip through the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Western Canada, He said that every point he visited he was met with the one report, universally good crops of wheat, cats and barley. There will this year be a much increased acreage over last year. Many farmers, who had but one hundred acres last year, have increased their cultivated and seeded acreage as much as fifty per cent. With the prospects as they are at present, this will mean from sl2 to sls additional wealth to each. He saw many large fields running from 300 to 1,000 acres in extent and it appeared to him that there was not an acre of this but would yield from 20 to 25 or 30 bushels of wheat per acre, while the oat prospects might safely be estimated at from 40 to 70 bushels per acre. In all parts of the west, whether it be Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta, north and south, east and west, and in the districts where last year there was a partial failure of crops, the condition of all grain ie . universally good and claimed by most of the farmers to be from one to two weeks in advance of any year for the past ten or twelve years. It does not seem that there was a single foot of the ground that was properly seeded that would not produce. i There a¥e thoTe throughout western Canada who predict that there will be 200,000,000 bushels of wheat raised there this year, and if the present favorable conditions continue, there does not seem any reason why these prophesies should not come true. There is yet a possibility of hot tvinds reducing the quantity in some parts, but with the strongly rooted crops and the sufficiency of precipitation that the country 'has already beep favored with, this probability is reduced to a minimum. The prices of farm lands at the present time are holding steady and lands can probably still be purchased at the price set this spring, ranging from sls to S2O per acre, but with a harvested crop, such as is expected, there is no reason why these Same lands should not be worth from S2O to $25 per acre, with an almost absolute assurance that by next spring there will still be a further advance in prices. Mr. White says that these lands are as cheltSp at today’s figures with the country’s proven worth as they were a few years ago at half the price when the general public had but a vague idea of the producing quality of western Canada lands. The land agents at the different towns along the line of railway are very active. A large number of acres are turned over weekly to buyers from the different states in the south, where lands that produce no better are sold, at from $l5O to S2OO per acre. O The homestead lands are becoming acarce’r day by day and those who are unable to purchase, preferring to homestead, are directing their attention to the park acres lying in the northerly part of the central districts. It has been found that while these are somewhat more difficult to bring under the subjugation of the plow, the soil is fully as productive as in the districts farther south. They possess the advantage that the more open prairie areas do not possess; that there is on these lands an open acreage of from fifty to seventy per cent of the whole and the balance is made up of groves of poplar of fair size, which offer shelter for cattle, while the grasses are of splendid strength and plentiful, bringing about a more active stlage of mixed farming than can be carried on in the mor®open districts to the south. The emigration for the past year has been the greatest in the history of Canada and it is keeping up in record shape. The larger number of those, who will go this year will be those who will buy lands nearer the line of railways, preferring to pay a little higher price for good location than to go back from the line of railways some 40 or 50 miles to homestead. Mr. White has visited the different agencies throughout the United States and he found that the correspondence at the various offices has largely increased, the number of callers is greater than ever. Any one desiring information regarding western Canada should apply at once to the Canadian Government Agent nearest him for a copy of the “Last Best West.” ’Lize Was “Otherwise at Present.” Sam Jones found Eliza Williams animatedly talking with Jim Lewis at a colored baptism. Now, Eliza was Sam’s “best girl," or he reckoned her that way; so walking up he sought to monopolize her attention. But Eliza, considering the interruption unwarranted, wheeled upon Sam with, “Yo’ will have to ’scuse me, 1 am otherwise at present.” —Frank P. Fogg, National Magazine. i _____ A half truth always seems more Impregnable than a many-sided view; I liberal is always at a disadvantage !»• contention with a dogmatist. ▲ lot of the money people marry flor Is counterfeit