Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 22, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 November 1908 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT W. A. ENDLEY. Publisher WALKERTON. - INDIANA Prague has forbidden the trailing skirt because it scatters germ-laden dust. The East Indian banana has begun to compete with the West Indian fruit In English markets. Not everybody laments because the days are growing shorter, for meanwhile the nights increase in length and fascination. The human heart weighs from eight to twelve ounces and through it passes 22>/„ pounds of blood every minute or 11,680,000 pounds in one year. It has come at last—the women's aero club is in its genesis, and bridge whist will have to join the rest of the busted excitements in the discard. One drawback about a balloon and an airship is that when they get out of order the balloonist or aeronaut cannot get out and crawl underneath to see what the matter is. Though it’s not absolutely certain, to the best of knowledge and belief the barn dance of to-day is modeled in its maiw- p-- 1 - —rvgT^ ace as it wa- ' afatrce^ nom ..oifur 1750 to 1835. In some of the cities where they have “pay-as-you-enter” street cars, the vehicles are more often known as “freeze-as-you-find-change" trolleys, especially by women carrying infants and bundles in their arms. French admirers~of Wilbur Wright want him to fly across the English channel, but if he does he will not be welcome on the other side. That sort of thing would suggest opening up the “tight little Isle" to aerial foes. There is a new boom in diamonds and it sweeps clean. Soon women will be shopping for jewels and having their last year's diamond ornaments reset in the latest design. Business has begun to move when diamonds are lively. — If Japan has our civilization so thoroughly assimilated and tucked away In pigeonholes where it can instantly lay its hand on each item, pray why isn’t it up in the air and leading .the world in the perfecting of the flying machine? A Brooklyn minister astonished his congregation by declaring that selfish people ought to commit suicide. But he suggests an anomaly when he expects selfish people publicly to declare themselves such, even if they recognize it themselves. A novel method of pumping liquids from bore holes is by means of an endless rope, somewhat after the sash- 1 ion of the chain pump, only in this : case the liquid to be raised is ab- ■ sorbed by the rope and squeezed out between rollers at the surface. Some of the weather experts in the rural districts announce that we are . going to have a hard winter because the squirrels are laying in unusually large supplies of nuts this fall. Optimists will be inclined, however, to conclude that this is merely a sign of a good nut crop. “Tim" Healy, the Irish member of parliament, is quick at repartee. A voter once informed him that he would “sooner vote for the devil than for ' Healy.” “But possibly your friend may not turn up," said “Tim,” adding in a tone of mild inquiry: “Perhaps you would support me, then?" A novel experiment to demonstrate I the practicability of a pneumatic car- ! rier was recently tried in Chicago. The “parcel" shot through a short length of sample tube was a 13-year- i old boy. He traveled at the rate of 16 miles an hour, and was in no way the worse for the journey. New York’s state board of equalization has tabulated the "equalized j value” of real estate and personal ' property in the Empire state at SB,553,298,178; the total with personal property added in is $9,173,566,- ' 245. My, my! New York is almost as rich as some of her wealthiest citizens! When W. W. Astor found that English law sustained the people of Hever in their right to travel on the foot- ; path across the beautiful park of He- : ver castle which he has lately bought, ( he built a high brick wall along each side of the footpath, surely for once j justifying the ancient jest of calling him William Walled-Off Astor. Wizard Burbank of California declares that it. is quite within the range of possibility that Massachusetts farmers will soon lay out banana groves, as before long he will have perfected a species of hardy but luscious plantain that will come to perfect fruition anywhere in New England. Pa Elkins says there has never been [ an engagement between his daughter j and the Italian duke. This being the i case, it would seem to be up to Pa । Elkins to ask the duke, the next time । he remains after ten o’clock, whether | he means business or not. = An enlightening commentary on the | present state of affairs in Morocco is | contained in a recent dispatch of the I London Times correspondent in Tan ! gler, who writes: “Abd-eLAziz in- 1 herited a throne; he has left his sue-j cessor a footstool with the stuffing i taken out." The return to the United States ! treasury of the sum of $1,172 paid out to a pensioner of the civil war, I with the explanation that the recipi- ' ent's conscience would not permit him to keep the money, is said to be something without piecedent in the history of the administration of our pension system. This should not be interpreted, however, as a reflection | on pensioners in general. There are unworthy pensioners as there are unworthy persons who draw public i money, in other forms, but they are j the exception, not the rule.

REPUBLICANSyiCTORIOUS Taft and Sherman the Choice of the Voters in the National Election.

By a tremendous vote in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, though with reduced pluralities in the rest of the country, William Howard Taft was elected the twenty-seventh president of the United States. Mr. Taft has In the electoral college 321 votes, while William Jennings Bryan received 162. This gives the Republican nominee a majority over his Democratic opponent of 159. Twenty-nine states cast their electoral votes for Taft, leaving 16 states for Bryan. The Republican party controls the next national house of representatives by a majority of 40. The figures received show the election of 216 Repubf / I 1 / WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. licans and 176 Democrats, a gain for the latter party of nine. The following table shows the number of representatives elected from all the states: State. Dem. Rep. State. Dem. Ren Alabama .... 9 .. Nevada . 1 Arkansas ... 7 ..N. Hiunm” .. ‘i California .. .. BN. Jersey. . j 7 Colorado .... 3 .. New York” I’l 26 I Connecticut. .. SN. Carolina 7 3 I Delaware IN. Dakota.. .. Florida 3 .. Ohio 8 13 Georgia ..... 11 .. Oklahoma . 2 3 I Oregon 2 Illinois 6 19 p ( .| U1 5 07 Indiana 11 2 Rhode is/” .'. *2 Jpwa 1 10 s. Carolina. 7 Kansas Bg. Dakota.. .. 2 Kentucky ..8 3 Tennessee .B’2 Louisiana .. 7 .. Texas . 16 Maine 4 Utah '1 Maryland .. 3 3 Vermont 2 M? 88, II Virginia ... 9 1 Michigan 12 Wash 3 Minnesota .. 1 8 w Virginia Mississippi .8 .. Wisconsin . i 10 Missouri .... 10 6 Wyoming.. .. 1 Montana 1 Nebraska ... 4 2 Totals .... 173 218 Pennsylvania. Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, and Indiana greatly reduced the Republican total of four years ago, so that while the party has succeeded in giving its candidate a comfortable majority in the electoral college, the popular vote was considerably whittled down. Mixup in Indiana. In Indiana the Democrats succeeded in holding the Republican margin down to 8,000. At the same time the Democrats elected the state ticket, Thomas R. Marshall being chosen governor. New' York and Ohio swept into the Republican column by pluralities that were surprising, the latter showing its loyalty to its native son by giving him a plurality of 75,000 votes. Outside of Massachusetts, the smallest changes in net results came in the New England states, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut contributing pluralities to Taft which do not differ materially from those given Roosevelt and Fairbanks in 1904. The greatest slump in the Republican column came with the returns from Pennsylvania, which gave Taft a plurality of 350,000, as compared with 505,000 cast for the Republican ticket in the last presidential campaign. Illinois Vote Cut Down. Illinois cut her vote down from 300,000 to 180,000, Michigan from 217,000 to 118,000, Ohio from 255,000 to 75,000, Minnesota from 161,000 to 98,000, Indiana from 93,000 to 8,000, lowa from 115,000 to 65,000, Kansas from 126,000 to 35,000, Colorado from 34,000 to 5,000 and California from 115,000 to 75,000. IN CONTROL OF CONGRESS. Republicans Have Both Branches of National Legislature. William Howard Taft will have a safe Republican majority in the house of representatives, now given as 43. The majority will be slightly increased, unless some unexpected Recipe for Good Coffee. “A woman does not make as good coffee as a man,” said the bachelor the other day who delights in his own cup, cooked in his own way, “because women are not exact enough and will not watch the mixture until it arrives at exactly the boiling point. Coffee must not boil, but it must just reach the boiling point, be taken off the fire, allowed to reach the boiling point, again and the process repeated for the third time. This is much better than drip coffee, but. attention must be concentrated upon the pot, and this utensil will be better if it is exchanged for a new one about, once a month.” The Power of Money. Howell —Do you believe that money transmits disease? Powell —I know that I'd have a fit if Jones paid me that five dollars he owes me. — Harper’s Weekly. Costly Woik of Improvement. Massachusetts has been spending at the rate of about $400,000 a year in removing grade crossings during the last 18 years.

changes are made by later returns from districts supposed to be safely Republican. In the last congress the Republicans had a majority of 57. The Democrats lost the Eleventh Pennsylvania district to the Republican nominee, Henry W. Palmer, who defeated John Bigelow and thus becomes the successor of Mr. Lenahan, the present Democratic member. The Republicans also regained the Third Wisconsin district, which was lost to Joseph W. Babcock two years ago. The senate shows practically no change, the Republicans retaining a large majority. The membership of the senate is 92, the hold-over members number 61 (43 Republicans and 18 Liemocrats). IN THE STATE ELECTIONS. Some Surprises Furnished — Govs. Hughes and Deneen Re-Elected. ja u«..,.40Ttt me KepnbnPßhS won a sweeping victory for national and state tickets. Taft carried the Democratic stronghold of Greater New York by a plurality of about 6,500. He also carried Erie county, another normally Democratic territory, by 7,000, but this is 5,000 less than the Roosevelt plurality there. Taft's plurality in the whole state is 195,000, end that for Hughes is 75,000, The legislature is again overwhelmingly Republicn. Illinois. Charles S. Deneen was elected governor of Illinois for a second time, despite widespread "cutting." His plurality over Adlai E. Stevenson was 24,000, while Taft carried the state by about 180,000 plurality. The entire Republican ticket was elected by a normal vote. Illinois Republicans elected 19 members of the national house of representatives, the Democrats being successful in only six districts. The state legislature is safely Republican. with 41 Republican senators to 10 Democrats, and in the lower house 88 Republicans, 63 Democrats and two Prohibitionists. This gives the Republicans a majority of 54 on joint ballot. Nebraska. A C. Shallenberger and the entire Democratic ticket were elected by a small majority. Mr. Bryan carried the state by about 3,000 votes. Bryan's greatest gain was in Lincoln, which he carried, overcoming a normal Repub lican plurality of 1.600. Bryan carried his home precinct by 111 to 54. lowa. B. F. Carroll and the entire Repub lican state ticket was elected by a plurality approximately 65,000. as against Roosevelt’s plurality of 155.000 four years ago. Ten Republican con gressmen were elected and one Democrat. Wisconsin. Gov. J. O. Davidson, (Rep.) was reelected, but his vote was far behind that of the head of the ticket. Taft carrying the state by 75,000. Ten Republican congressmen have been elected and one Democrat Indiana. Thomas R. Marshall was elected governor, with the entire state ticket. The Democrats have secured control

ELECTORAL AND POPULAR VOTE ON PRESIDENT. PLURALITIES. 1908. 1904. 1908. 1904. ^5?? g ? s’? sT/n> P 3 c j P ; o j :P2I? : P 2 S • • ’ ft I • • C* • • • r*. Alabama li 11 60,000 67,383 Arkansas 9 .. 9 22,0ut) 17,674 California 10 .. 10 .. 60.C00 115,522 Colorado 5 5 .. 2,000 34.582 Connecticut 77 20,000 ...... 38,150 Delaware 3 .. 3 .. 2,000 4,358 Florida 6 .. 5 20,000 18.733 Georgia 13 .. 13 25,000 59,469 Idaho 3 3 14,324 29,309 Illinois 27 .. 27 ~ 170,000 305,039 Indiana 15 .. 15 .. 10,(W 93 944 lowa 13 .. 13 .. 50,000 158,766 Kansas 10 .. 10 .. 30,000 126.093 Kentucky 13 .. 13 15,000 11,893 Louisiana 9 .. 9 40,000 42,503 Maine 6 6 31.500 36.807 •Maryland 17 3.000 51 Massachusetts 16 .. 16 '.. 100,000 92 076 Michigan 14 .. 14 .. 105,000 227,715 ””” Minnesota 11 .. 11 .. 100,309 161,464 Mississippi 10 .. 10 50,000 50,119 Missouri 18 .. 18 .. 500 25.137 Montana 3 8 .. 2,000 13,159 Nebraska 8 8 .. 5,500 86,682 ...... Nevada 3 3 .. 2,000 2,085 New Hampshire 4 .. 4 ... 18,000 20,089 New Jersey 12 .. 12 .. 75,000 80,588 New York 39 .. 39 .. 175,000 175,622 North Carolina 12 .. 12 20,000 41 679 North Dakota 4 4 30,000 38,322 Ohio 23 .. 23 .. 90,000 255,421 Oklahoma 7 .. .. 30,000 Oregon 4 •• 4 .. 20,000 42,934 Pennsylvania 34 .. 34 .. 350,000 502,951 Rhode Island 4 4 16,000 16,766 ””” South Carolina 9 .. 9 55,000 50,009 South Dakota .’. 4 .. 4 25,000 50,114 Tennessee 12 .. 12 20,000 26,284 Texas 18 .. 18 >105,000 116,893 Utah 3 3 25.000 ( 29,031 Vermont 4 4 27,904 ‘ 30,682 Virginia 12 .. 12 f 20,000 84,188 Washington 5 .. 5 .. 50,000 9 73,442 West Virginia 77 2,000 31,758 Wisconsin 13 .. 13 .. 100,000 155,834 Wyoming 3 3 10,000 11,559 ””” Total 319 156 336 140 1,646,728 539,000 3.067482 526 719 •Maryland, 8 votes, probably split.

Exciting Elephant Hunt. An elephant hunt with motor cars occurred in Berlin the other night, when six elephants belonging to a menagerie escaped from a railway truck after being frightened by the shriek of a locomotive. Four of them wore captured before they had gone far, but the others led their pursuers a mad chase through the surrounding countryside, lasting altogether 20 hours. The fugitives were finally “rounded up” in a forest, and Herr Hagenbeck succeeded in calming them with familiar calls. After they had been fed with generous quantities of oatcakes they were recaptured. Had Heard of It. “He got first prize at the county fair for the finest laro, he best head cheese, the best bacon and the best pickled pigs’ feet." “Yes. I heard he hogged all the honors " —Houston Post. Defining a Pessimist. A pessimist is a man who will spend more time trying to discover whose fault it is than he will to find a remedy.—Birmingham Age-HenUd.

of the legislature on joint ballot, thus insuring the election of a Democratic United States senator to succeed James A. Hemenway. Eleven Democratic and two Republican congressmen were chosen. Montana. Advices from throughout Montana indicate that Taft has carried the state by a majority close to 3,000. Charles N. Pray of Fort Benton is re-elected to congress by about 4,000. Maryland. Maryland on the official count gives Taft a plurality of 561, yet elects six Bryan electors out of the eight. The total vote cast in the state was: Taft, 116,471; Bryan, 115,910. These figures WIPII aA lilw ■ 1 ■w/ JAMES S. SHERMAN, represent the votes of the electors receiving the most votes. They lead their respective tickets M isscuri. Returns give Taft the electoral vote of Missouri by a plurality of 419 over Bryan. The legislature is Democratic on joint ballot by four votes. Ohio. Though Taft carried Ohio by 50,000, Harris, Republican candidate for governor. was defeated by Harmon t Dem >. by something like 220.000 plurality. The state elected 13 Republl"an and eight Democratic congressmen. Minnesota. Gov, Johnson was re elm ted governor of Minnesota by a majority of 10,000 to 15,000. Taffs plurality is 98.612. Eight Republican and one Democratic congressmen were elected Michigan. A fight for tile governorship is indicated by the statement given out by State Chairman Winship of the Democratic J ty. An effort likely will be made to .-how that Gov. Warner, who has a plurality of a few thou sand, was elected by fraud in the up per peninsula. Lawton T. IL mans, the Democratic nominee, made a close run. holding Gov. Warner down to a plurality of about 7,000, while Taft carried the state by 118,000. The 12 congressional districts all chose Re publican representatives.

Women Here and There. Suffragette demonstrations in New York and London are not at. all alike. In Now York the ladies undertake to call on the mayor; they are informed that he is not at home; they attempt to make a few speeches and are ! howled down by the hoodlums, after which they drive away under the most amiable and courtly of police escorts. 1 On the same day in London the ladies “called” on the house of commons and made such a disturbance that a big police detail removed them bodily, the performance causing so much noise and disorder that the members of parliament lost their nerve and ordered the galleries closed. Probably there would have been less trouble in London if the authorities there had been able to meet the movement in the first place with more politeness and patience. In other things as well as in love hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.—New York Evening World. Maori Race Dying Out. The Maoris of New Zealand number 42,000.

MR. ROOSEVELT’S PLANS FOR QUIET RETIREMENT. (According to the Dispatches.) I By McCutcheon, in Chicago Daily Tribune.) ft" I? I TTitw -Ok /s "km 0 * 5 \

MAY WEAR PLATT’S TOGA TALK OF ROOSEVELT’S ELECTION TO THE SENATE. President Said to Have Intimated That He Would Accept If Taft Were in White House. Washington. — President Roosevelt may lie the successor of Senator Platt in the senate after he returns from his hunting trip in Africa. Those who regard this as possible declare that they have assurance from the president himself that he would not be averse to the acceptance of the senatorial office under conditions as they will be after March 4. So far as is known he has not expressed himself on the subject recently, but he has said within a year that, with Mr. Taft as president, he would not feel the same hesitancy about entering the senate as he would feel with some one in the White House with whom his relations were not as intimate as they are with Mr. Taft His general attitude has been adverse to entering the senate because he Ims felt that as a member of that body he would be called upon to criticise his successor in the presidency, and tills he would feel a delicacy about doing. He has said, however, that, knowing Mr. Taft as he does know’ him. and agreeing with him in all essentials as he does, he is confident I that there would not be any occasion ■ for antagonism. He has not gone to the extent at any time of Indicating that he would desire the office even with Taft as president, but merely has said that with him in that position his chief reason for not desiring the senatorial position would disappear. Even this much has not been said since there has been any certainty of Mr. Taft's entering the White House, but the president's outline of his attitude is now recalled as offering a possible solution of the senatorial entanglement in New York and as making an opening for the continuance of Mr. Roosevelt's public career. It Is even suggested, that the absence of the president on his proposed African hunting expedition need not necessarily stand in the way of his election, but rather that such absence might relieve the situation of embarrassment to him in case his friends should desire to press his name. SWINDLERS ARE SENTENCED. Nicollet Creamery Company Men Convicted at Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Minn. —James T. Mulhall was sentenced to 15 months at the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan.; Edgar McConkey to one year and one day at Leavenworth, and j Felix Nathanson to six months in the ' county jail by Judge Milton Purdy Friday. After nearly six hours’ deliberation, the federal jury Thursday night returned a verdict of guilty against the three men, charged with conspiracy to defraud by the use of the mails. Alleged fraudulent operation of the Nicollet. Creamery Company in Minneapolis last fall was the specific charge in the indictment upon which the men were convicted. Farmers throughout the northwest are said to have lost heavily by shipping produce which was never paid for. Escaped Convict Is Caught. Kalamazoo, Mich—Charles Kelly, who escaped tw’o years ago from the penitentiary at Columbus, 0.. was arrested here Sunday night. It is said that Kelly had served 14 years of a 25-year term for manslaughter when he was made a trusty and escaped. Fatally Shoots His Sister. Alliance, Neb. —As the result of a shooting affray near here Lizzie Braner is in the hospital fatally wounded and her brother, Charles Braner, who did the shooting, and her sweetheart, Frank Augustine, are in the county jail. Braner objected to the attentions of Augustine to his sister and when the couple went riding Saturday night the brother followed them. Miss Braner was wearing the overcoat of the escort and mis I taking her for the man, Braner shot her. Augustine was slightly wounded. Foreign Missions to Get $1,060,578. St. Louis. —The general committee of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, at its session here Friday afternoon, began tin' work of itemizing the appropriations for the year 1909, after voting to appropriate a total of $1,060,578. Kentucky Town Is in Danger. Mayfield, Ky.—Miles of creek bottom lands near Boaz, north of here, are on fire and a large posse of citizens is fighting to keep the flames from entering that town.

SARDOU IS NO MORE. — French Dramatist Dies at the Age of 77 Years. Paris.—Victorien Sardou, who had been ill for a long time, died Sunday i from pulmonary congestion. He was ; the dean of French dramatists and a . member of the French Academy. The man whose first play was hissed and who then wanted to go to America to seek his fortune, died rich and honored, with the proud title of ! France’s greatest and most prolific contemporary dramatist. Victorien Sardou was a man pos- i sessed of singular charm and was greatly beloved, and there is universal regret that he left no memoirs. He was born in Paris. September 7, 1831, the son of Leandre Sardou, an educationalist and compiler of several publications. M Sardou realized a princely for- ' turn by his writings and built a splen- i did chateau at Marlyle-Roy. He mar- | tied, on June 17. 1872, Mlle. Soulier, j daughter of the conservateur of the I Must um of Versailles. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1863 and was elected a member of the ; French Academy in 1877. PHONE COMPANY IN TROUBLE. — Receivers for Concern at Rock Island, Moline and Davenport. j Rock Island. 111. —The Union Tele- t phone & Telegraph Company, having a telephone system in Rock Island and Moline, 111., and Davenport, Ia„ and capitalized at $550,000, went into the hands of a receiver Thursday on an application filed by the American Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago. ; H. 11. Bratt, general manager of the company, and Leroy J. Wolfe of Davenport were named as joint receivers, i The bill filed in the circuit court alleges that the company has not kept ; up interest on SIOO,OOO of bonds and has otherwise failed to meet its obligations. W. H. TAPPAN A SUICIDE. Well-Known Steel Man of Louisville Kills Himself. New York.—Walworth H. Tappan, well-known in the iron and steel trade of the south and middle west, who lived in Louisville, Ky., blew his brains out Sunday night in the washroom of the Hotel Savoy, a Fifth avenue hostelry. The report of the shot was heard throughout the lower part of the hotel and created great excitement. Despondency over a nervous affliction, which was constantly growing woise, is given by his wife as the cause of Tappan’s act, Life Sentence for Slayer. Laporte, Ind.—Albert Roubick, who testified Saturday that he had murdered Emil Kvasnicka, a Chicago jeweler, because of infatuation for his victim's wife, whom he expected to marry, was given a sentence for life imprisonment by the jury, which reported Sunday. Roubick, when informed of the verdict of the jury, was manifestly disappointed. He said he made a confession of his crime, hoping the jury would sentence him to death on the gallows. Seven Die in Burning House. Swan Lake, Man.—The home of E. W. Carey, a farmer living a few miles south of here, was destroyed by fire and Mrs. Carey, five children and a Miss Gillespie, a young school teacher who was staying over night with the family, perished in the flames. Mr. Carey was so badly injured that he cannot recover. Great Dynamite Explosion. Montreal, Que.—Half a ton of dynamite stored on a scow belonging to the Montreal harbor commission exploded Sunday afternoon with a roar that was heard and a shock that was felt all over the city. Many buildings suf- | sered more or less damage. Former Bank Cashier Arrested. Trenton. N. J. —Charles H. Jones, i who was cashier of the First National . I bank of Seabright, N. J., is under ar- : rest on a charge of misapplying $16,-i 000 of the funds of the bank. Mills Long Closed to Reopen. New Hartford. Conn. —It was staled here Friday that the cotton mills of j the Mount Vernon and Woodbury cot- i ion duck syndicate, located here, i would be started again as soon as I new machineri is installed. These mills were closed a decade ago. Many Women Hunters in New York. Albany. N. 5 . —Scores of women throughout the state have taken out applications for himiiag licenses, ae cording to reports made to the state । forest and game commission.

EXCELLENT WEATHER AND MAGNIFICENT CROPS REPORTS FROM WESTERN CAN ADA ARE VERY ENCOURAGING. A correspondent writes the Winnipeg (Man.) Free Press; "The Fincher Creek district, (Southern Alberta), the original home of fall wheat, where it has been grown without failure, dry seasons and wet, for about 25 years, is excelling itself this year. The yield and quality are both phenomenal, as has been the weather for its harvesting. Forty bushels is a common yield, and many fields go up to 50, 60 and over, and most of it No. 1 Northern. Even last year, which was less favorable, similar yields were in some cases obtained, but owing to the season the quality was not so gocd. It is probably safe to say that the average yield from the Old Man's River to the boundary will be 47 or 18 bushels per acre, and mostly No. 1 Northern. One man has just made a net profit from his crop of $19.55 per acre, or little less than the selling price of land. Land here is too cheap at present, when a crop or two will pay for it, and a failure almost unknown. Nor is the district dependent on wheat, all other crops do well, also stock and dairying, and there is a large market at the doors in the mining towns up the Crows Nest Pass, and in British Columbia, for the abundant hay of the I district, and den truck. al is near und cheap Jim Hill has an eye on its ’»<)v ar * tages, and has invested here, and is bringing the Great Northern Ranruci soon, when other lines will follow." The wheat, oat and barley crop in o'her parts of Western Canada show | splendid yields and will make the farmers of that country (and many of them are Americans) rich. The Canadian Government Agent for this disI trict advises us that he will be pleased I to give information to all who desire i it about the new land regulations by ’ which a settler may now secure 160 acres in addition to his 160 homestead acres, at $3.00 an acre, and also how to reach these lands into which railways are being extended. It might be interesting to read what is said of that country by the Editor of the Marshall (Minn.) News-Messenger, I who made a trip through portions of it !in July, 1908. "Passing through more than three thousand miles of Western : Canada’s agricultural lands, touring ' the northern and southern farming ’ belts of the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, with numerous drives through the great grain ' fields, we were made to realize not j only the magnificence of the crops, but i the magnitude, in measures, of the vast territory opening, and to be opened to farming immigration. There j are hundreds of thousands of farmers there, and millions of acres under cultivation, but there is room for millions more, and other millions of acreage available. We could see in Western Canada in soil, product, topography or climate, little that is different from Minnesota, and with meeting’ at every point many business men and farmers who went there from this ’ state, it was difficult to real’ze one was beyond the boundary of country.” | The Little Girl and the Donkey. The four-year-old daughter of a Washington man not long ago saw a v donkey for the first time. She talked 8 to her father a good deal touching the • unusual sight. It was a "dear donkey,” it was a "lovely donkey,” etc., etc. ; Soon the child exhausted her stock of adjectives. "And so you liked the donkey, did ; you?” asked the fond parent. “Oh, so much, daddy!" returned the youngster. "That is, I liked him pretty well. But I didn’t like to hear him donk." —Lippincott's. A Piercing Motive. “That farmer’s wife certainly does stick her boarders.” “Very likely; it’s her pin money."— Baltimore American. Savings Investments SAFER THAN A SAVINGS BANK AND PAYING BETTER INTEREST Seven per cent, city improvement bonds, payable one to ten years. A gilt edga investment. Write at once. T. H. PHILLIPS & COMPANY 20S Equitable Bidti., Tacoma. Wash. Shorthand Writers K»rn from Two to One Hundred Dollars a da> MOLONY SHORTHAND is positively the best system to take up by mail. You can learn it at your home by devoting a short time each day to study. Write for particulars. MOLONY SHORTHAND SCHOOL, Dept. Nine. BLMHL’HST, ILL Sportsmen's Supplies WE SAVE YOU MONEY Kaulog for 3c. stamp POWELLACLEMENTCO. 4!d Si, Ciaciatau, 0. | mTT For famous and delicious ■ f Candies and chocolates, ■ write tothe makerforcatI aiog, wholesale or retail. I Gunther’s Confectionery X 212 Stale Slreet. Chicago, HL VIRGINIA IVHEAT. corn and cattle fa-no Karo opport uni tic- along line of Virgin an it "1wav. Elvo to Fifty Hollars per acre. Book!. • in , I Kenbridge Development Company, Kenbridge, la. IpIFTY Rex peanut ma hloes earn $: i yi arly; * lit machines in good locations earn we< ; breath perfume machine for saloons, etc.: invest* flielit required. Kr\ VtHnuravturlng Co.a Indianapolis. Ind. MAKING GEfiiENTTILE With our machine pays big profits. Write for full information. THE CEMENT TILE MACHINERY CO. J. S. Bldg., WATERLOO, IOWA.