RTHAT A FORMER AMERICAN SAYS. Doubled Thetr Cultivated Lands and Mure Thuu Doubled Their Stock. The following- letter written by Mr. John Cuminings of Wetaskiwin, Al berta, Canada, formerly of Washing ton, to a friend in the United States is only one of a hundred similar eases, and what was done by Mr. Cummings can more easily be done to-day by any good, sober and industrious farmer who chooses to make his home in the Do minion. Dear Sir: You want to know how I got along since I came into Northern Alberta. I am happy to inform you that I am not ashamed to tell. We located five mi'les northeast- of Wetaskiwin; left Farmington, Wash ington, on the 29th of May, driving all the way. We had time to build our log house the first fall and to make us comfort able for the family and stock. We then built four stables 18x20 inside, so that we could put everything inside them when the cold got down to the fifties, and worked hard getting up the stable and got through dubbing on the Ist December, but to our surprise we had no use for the stables only for the milk cow and two span of horses. The bal ance of the horses lived on the prai rie all winter and took care of them selves. The doors of two stables were left open for them togo into in a cold time, but they would not do it, but stayed out on the prairie the coldest night we had, and looked as spry as crickets. I can go ten rods back of my house and count ten residents. 1 know all of their circumstances. Every one of them have doubled their cultivated land and doubled their animals, and a gre.it deal more. All of us are comparative ly out of debt and an unusually big crop to thresh and prospects of a fair price, and I expect we are as ■well con tented lot of people as there are from, Florida to the Klondike. My son bought two pounds of twine to the acre, and when we started to bind some barley, we found that instead of taking two pounds to the acre, it was taking nearly five pounds. Then you ought to have seen him hitch up a team and make for town for 100 lbs. more. I cannot say how it will thresh. All I can say is that it is well headed, and takes an enormous amount of twine. WIT AVERTED A STORM. The Cnpltnl Dcvioe of n Congrrii. mail to Cool 111 a Wife's A inter. In the seclusion of the house cloakroom. a story is being told on a western member. There are 357 men in the house. Three hun dred and fifty-six are hereby released from any connection with the storv. The other man —and the other man's wife—will recog nize the truth of what is here recorded. The western member went home at a very early hour in the morning. He had made a night of it with some friends. He knew that his conduct would Ik> considered reprehensi ble by his hptter half, and so as he ascended the steps of his modest home he racked his brain for some plan to avert the lady's ■wrath. AH he entered the hall he saw an umbrella. Instantly it occurred to him that the umbrella might be his salvation. He carried the umbrella upstairs. Seating himself on a chair in the corner of the bed room. he raised the rain guard over his head and then coughed loudly. His wife awoke and saw in the dim gaslight her liege lord sitting solemnly under the raised umbrella. "What are you doing?" she asked in nat ural surprise. "It is three o'clock, my dear." said he, "and 1 am waiting for the storm." The congressman's ready wit saved him from a Caudle lecture. He is worrying now, however, to find an equally effective act for the next time he stays out late. —Washing- ton Post. C'nlled It Down. "You want a decollete shave, I presume," remarked the funny barber, as the dudelet climbed into the chair. "Aw—beg pardon," said the youth, "but weally, I aw—fail to compwehend." "That's French for cutting down," an swered the knight of the razor, with a grin on his mug.—Chicago Evening News. llovr's Tills 112 We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, ard believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Waiding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot tle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials fre». Hall's Family Pills are the best. A Side fl»ow. The gentlemen engaged in spreading a knowledge of the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo in the year 1901 have certainly a sufficient idea of its importance. They speak of the cataract of Niagara falls as an "acces sory a-ttraction." —Western Klectrician. From Ilnby In the High Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain-0 is good for the whole family. It is the long-desired sub stitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves or injures the digestion. Made from pure grains it is a food in itself. Has the taste and appearance of the best coffee at i the price. It is a genuine and scientific article »nd is come to stay. It makes for health •Jid strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. I'nrndoxlenl. "Bridget," said the mistress to her sick lervant, "would you take a little medicine?" "Faith, ma'am," said she, "I'd take aiiy fling to make me well, aven if I knew Xwould kill ine."—Philadelphia Record. NOVELTIES FOR SMOKERS. A handsome pipe of meerschaum is mounted in gold and set with small precious stones. The stem is of ivory and the tip of amber. An appropriate gift for a gentleman Is a combination totiacco box and match safe. It is of silver, gilt, and the lid is enameled and set with semiprecious ■ tones. A handsome cigar case of silver gilt has a finish which resembles pigskin. The case is slightly aurved so as to fit i the pocket snugly. Rubies are freely I used in ornamenting the case. ' VEST WILL RETIRE. Senior Senator from Missouri Not a Candidate for Reelection. lie Nrk Served the Nation Faithfully und Well, mid lliim Mude .llnny Friend* AinunK His I'olit feu 1 Opponents. [Special Washington Letter.] It is better to give flowers to the living than to strew them upon the graves of the dead. It is bet ter to build monuments of love and appreciation in the hearts of the living than to erect monuments to the dead. Therefore it is not improp er, while Senator George Graham \ est cl Missouri still lives, to say that con templation of his life brings to mem ory the words of Longfellow: "Lives of preat men all remind ua We can make our lives sublime." Senator Yost is now in his seventieth year, and has publicly announced that he will retire from public life at the conclusion of his present term in the senate, which will expire on March 1903. His career has been wonderful, and fully warrants the use of the lines of Longfellow just quoted. He has been a great lawyer, a great orator, a great legislator, a brilliant debater, and will leave upon the congressional records the impress of genius and wonderful intellectual acquirements. When Senator Ingalls of Kansas v\as regarded as the most capable de bater and orator on the republican side of the senate, he said to the nar rator: "1 have perfect self-confidence and am ready to meet any senator in debate, believing that I can hold my own. Hut I do not intend to seek my controversy with Vest. There is a man who is so fully equipped upon all subjects that he would keep any antagonist busy keeping track of his interrogation points " Senator Vest is a small man, physic ally, being only five feet four inches in height. His neck is short, and his head is so close to his shoulders fhat he always had the appearance of be ing slightly stoop shouldered. His health has failed during the past year, and hence he is rather slender, al though formerly he was rather heavy for a man of his weight. His voice is pitched in the upper register, and if he had been a singer tenor would have been his part. In uttering vehement ly his views on national affairs his voice is sometimes exceedingly shrill, and jet not unpleasant. The friendships of public men would surprise the plain people of the land who seldom have opportunity to see j their distinguished representatives and senators gathered together in the national capital. Although Senator Vest has been one of the most sarcas tic and drastic orators on the demo cratic side of the senate chamber for well-nigh a quarter of a century, some of his warmest personal friends have been republicans. Senators Conkling of New York, Blaine of Maine, Muhone of Virginia, Quay of Pennsylvania, Al lison of lowa, Spconer of Wisconsin, Davis of Minnesota, and Hanna of Ohio, have enjoyed social intimacy with Senator Vest, and all of them hold him in affectionate regard. During the spring of 1892. just be fore the national conventions were held, it was the good fortune of the writer to hear an extemporaneous speech from Senator Yost on a pend ing pension bill, in which he attacked SENATOR GEORGE G. VEST. the republican party and its individ ual leaders in ;i vehement manner. After his speech was concluded he was in the senate restaurant with Sen ator Davis of Minnesota, who said: "Vest, you spoke so earnestly that 1 rather expected yoii to bring on a regi ment of confederate veterans and whip all the Yankees on earth." Senator Vest smiled, and replied: "I think at all the Yankees on earth ought have been whipped, but jou 'vere o many for us." In the course of his speech, Senator Vest said: "Because 1 was a member of the confederate congress I have held my tongue during all these years while extravagant pension appropria tions have been made, and I can hold my peace 110 longer. Von are taking money out of the treasury to catch the soldier vote, and it is not right. I am ready to vote pensions to all union soldiers who were wounded or who suffer from disease because of their ser ee for their country, but I am rpposed to indiscriminate pension leg islation for the purpose of politically catching the soldier vote, and I shail vote against this bill." Senator Ingalls of Kansas, referred to abov<, originaliy came to congress with credentials v.-hich were regarded es questionable. Considerable money had been used i:i the Kansas legisla ture to promote the reelection of Sen ator I'omeroy, who was defeated, and Ingalls elected to his place. Seimtcr Vest knew this, and he used the fact with telling effect one day. Senator Vest knew facts covering so many in cidents, and w as so ready to use them, that other debaters were chary of wrangling with him. On one occa CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1900. sion Senator Tngnlls sarcastically al hilled to tin- former servioe of Senator Vest in tlie confederate congress, and tne little Missourian instantly retort ■ ed: "Hut it never happened to me to have my credentials questioned in this or any other body." In the senate corridor one day last week the senator said to the corre spondent: "I am the sole surviving member of the confederate senate. All of the others have died, one after an other. There are only eight members of the United States senate who served in this body when I came here, who are now living. Death works with en ergy and pertinacity. The grim reap er will soon claim me also; and 1 am ready to meet him at any moment." During the past 20 years .mmerous corporations have insistently endeav ored to secure rights of way for rail roads in the Yellowstone national park, and Senator Vest has been the most faithful guardian of that won derful reservation. On one occasion, when urged to permit an electric line to be run across the northeastern cor ner of the park, Senator Vest said: "While 1 live not a single mile of rails shall be laid in that park, because a precedent would be formed, and the park would be destroyed in a genera tion. People goto Europe to see the well advertised beauties of nature there. Hut the Yellowstone national park is the greatest and most wonder ful creation on the face of this earth. lip '■ 1J VEST RETORTING TO INGALL3. Tt must and shall be preserved in all its beauty, just as it was placed there by the hand of God; and one day it will be a health resort where valuable lives | may be prolonged. ,\o vandal hands j shall mar it for commercial purposes." The great congressional library building had in Senator Vest one of its 1 original and unswerving champions. | Senators Voorhees, of Indiana, and j Morrill, of Vermont, also championed the congressional library bill. Both of them have gone before, and Senator- Vest gave them credit for their work in this regard in delivering eulogies upon them in the senate chamber. Sen ator Morrill lived to be 85 years old. and i 1 alluding to that fact Senator Vest quoted these lines of Shakespeare: "Let me not live After my Ham.- lacks oil, to he the snuff Of younger spirits whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain." lie will have his wish unless his health shall mend, and when his time shall come there will pass from the po litical arena and from the forum of leg islation one of the ablest and noblest of them all. Although gifted with superior talents, Senator Vest pos sessed eminently the genius of labor. During his entire career, even in young manhood, he was a student, a close in quirer into details of law and fact. He possessed concentration, or oneness of aim. lie always believed that the tal ent of success consisted in doing well whatever was undertaken, without thought of fame, lie never believed in good or bad luck, but said: "The lucky dog is the one that hunts for the bones; and hunts till he gets them." Personally honest. Senator Vest al ways believed in honesty by the gov ernment in all of its dealings. He once said: "Our people take pride in the fact that the national debt was paid after the civil war. As a matter of fact the national debt has never been paid, and never will be. The rich men who loaned money to the government have received their money back again, and with interest. But the poor peo ple who have claims against the govern ment cannot get justice. Year after year they come to the congress begging that bills may be passed, giving them their just But their bills are never passed. They hope on and hope ever until they die in poverty because the governmenf will not be honest with them. If all of the just claims against the government were paid, it would take $500,000,000, and maybe $1,000,* 000.000." Patience is a virtue possessed by few public men after they have once firm ly secured exalted position. But until this day, while he is aging and some what feeble, Senator Vest has the pa tience to listen to the cause of every man who requires his attention or be lieves that he can give him aid. He has always claimed that a public serv ant should be .a willing servant of the public, and lliat every citizen has a right to expect willing- service from every senator, representative or other officer of the government. Senator Vest has been a superior leg islator, a typical senator and a typical American citizen. SMITH D. FRY. Had IIHPII There Ilefore. Mrs. Gillian—Now, Mrs. Wyckoff, we really must say good-by. Dear, while you put your overcoat on J. want to tell Mrs. Wyckoff a secret. Mr. Gillian —All right. I'll just go and get my hair cut and meet you at the corner.—X. Y. Press. !li« Veil llny'n A\ imlom. At the fork of the road, before choosing his track, fir- will question and dally and wonder; Hut when once in the wrong way, beyond going back, Hf chafes to have made such a blunder. At mt hour of decision his cleverness flies, But his next days wisdom is always so wise. —vTuriea. THE OLDEST lifi IN A9EBIGA Tells How He Escaped the Terrors of Many Winters by Using Peruna. Mr. Isaac Brock, Born in Buncombe Co., North Carolina, March 1, 1788, Says: " I attribute my extreme old age to the use of Peruna." VIX+XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX* y Horn before United Stales •Sj was formed. j. ; Ijj Saw 22 Presidents elected. j£ Pe-ru-na has protected him £ *j from all sudden changes. rt- M ' •fj Veteran of four wars. \tr *•' >f j Shod a horse when 99 years (- | old. 11 A CAREFUL BRIDE. She Didn't Give lluliliy n Chunce to Muke Any Declaration of Devotion. The happy pair had survived the con gratulations ot friends and relatives, and were being whirled rapidly towards the ! railway station, before the bridegroom be gan fairly to realize that the vision of love* j ill!?ss at his side was indeed his own. ; A dawning sense of what he had gone and I done and of the sacred charge that was I now committed to his care began to creep ujion his benumbed faculties, driving tlie rose of health from his downy cheek and substituting therefor the pallor of haunt ing responsibilities. "Darling," he whispered, softly, "it will ever be my sacred care in life to—" She in terrupted him somewhat brusquely. "Now," said she, "don't sit on your coat tails that way and get them all wrinkled up, and for goodness' sake don't lay vour elbow right in that dust! Heaven only knows how ■ long it will be before vou get another suit, BO that you better take care of this one. 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"How do you get along?" "Walk. You don t suppose some one carried me, did you?"—'lown Topics. Bill—Did you notice all the broken win dows in (Jill's house filled up with old clothes?"_ Jill —" Yesj sort of plugged quar ters, ain t they?"—\onkers Statesman. Mra Smith—O! Is that you? I'm so giad to see you here." Mrs. Smytbe—"Real ly, you ' Mrs. Smith—"Yes; 1 wasafraid at lirst tha*. would be more fash ionable tkan I." —Philadelphia Press. Jaggies—"l met okl Driggs to-diay. He was wild clean through." Waggles—"No wonder. After paying double car faie every day for six months, lie has just discovered that he could have got a transfer."—Town 1 opics. "Those tags on your goods are disgrace- said a customer in a clothing store. "\es; you see we've marked down our goods so many times that the tags are all marked up," said the proprietor, lighting another cigar.—Yonkers Statesman. "I was married on Friday, the 13th," she Baad. 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I had always supposed these affections to be different diseases, but in reading Dr Hart man's books / have found out that these affections are the same and that they are properly called ca tarrh, '•I had several long sieges with the grip. At first I did not know that Peruna was a remedy for this disease. When / heard that la grippe was epidemic catarrh. / tried Peruna for la grippe and found it to be just the thing. "As for Dr. Hartman's remedy, Peruna, / have found it to be the best, if not the only, reliable rem edy for these affections. It has been my standby tor many years, and i attribute my good health and extreme old agj to this remedy. " Very truly yours, * For a free hook on catarrh, nddrea* The I'eruna Medicine Co., Coiumbut, Ohio. HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS 1 In Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia. ! 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