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Japan has only one orphanage, yet in
no other land are fatherless children
better cared for. Every family cares
I'or the sick, destitute or orphans near
est to it. There is a superstition that
a childless house is accursed, and peo
ple who are not blessed with children
of their own never rest till they have
adopted some waif.
A French general has inaugurated
a plan of permitting and even encour
aging soldiers to sing when on the
march, a privilege which has been
strictly denied until recently. It has
also been arranged that any soldier
•who can play on any of the smaller
musical instruments shall be provided
with such instrument at the expense
of the state.
There is one country in the world
■where it is considered a crime to
smoke. Abyssinia is the region, and
the law forbidding tobacco dates from
the year 1642. It was at first merely
intended to prevent priests from
smoking in the churches, bur it was
taken too literally, and nowadays even
foreigners have to be careful not to
be seen smoking.
A great "slide" is threatened in the
mountains near Annecy, in France,
where the entire district of Ayse i 9
threatened with destruction by a great
mass of earth many thousands of cu
bic meters in volume, which is slowly
slipping down the slojies and must
surely overwhelm the valley. The
population looks forward with dread
to the autumnal rains.
When horses sleep many of them
point one ear lorward. Why this is
done is not known, but it is thought
to be a habit that has been brought
down from the time when they ran
wild over the plains and when they
were compelled to be on their guard
against enemies. Cattle seems to sleep
without any cares, both ears are al
ways in the same position.
Through the generosity of a Boston
man and a Harvard graduate, whose
name is witheld from the public for
the present, Harvard is soon to have
another building added to its collec
tion. The new structure will be built
on the land now occupied by Foxcroft
House. The original amount intend
ed to be given was $50,000, but this
sum has been nearly doubled.
A very curious custom in Seoul,
Korea, is the law which makes it ol>-
ligatory for every man to retire to his
liome when the huge bronze bell of
the city has proclaimed it to be the
hour of sunset and the time for closing
the gates. No man is allowed in the
streets after that hour, under pain of
flogging, but the women are allowed
togo about and visit their friends.
The United States is bound by treaty
with Colombia to protect the Isthmus
of Panama from foreign invasion. This
treaty was made in 1846 and by its
terms Uncle Sam promises to guaran
tee the "perfect neutrality" of the isth
mus. This of course applies only to
outside interference and has no bear
ing on domestic troubles of tne type
of the present liberal insurrection.
Eight large rases in which are con
taied the sarcophagus of an Egyptian
princess who lived as early as 4700 B.
C., household utensils of a still earlier
date and other antiquities of the ut
most scientific interest, are now in the
basement of the Carnegie Institute.
Pittsburg. They came from Egypt, by
way of London, and constitute some
of the choicest finds made during the
last year at Abydos, in the desert sev
eral hundred miles above Cairo.
It is a singular fact, recently demon
strated by experiments made by
French scientists, that you can not
drown an ant. The purpose of the ex
periments was to determine how long
insects would be able to resist
asphyxiation after they had been sub
merged in water. An ant immersed in
water doubles itsell up and becomes
absolutely inert, but upon being re
stored to the air comes to life in a pe
riod varying with tne length of its im
mersion.
About a year ago there lived in the
north of London a retired clergyman
who handsomely aided an otherwise
slender income by writing sermons
for other men of the cloth. The ser
mon writer died rather suddenly, but
left a good supply of pulpit material.
This was about all he did leave, how
ever, so his widow, a clever woman of
education, took up his work. She has
been "carrying on the business" ever
since, and the fact was discovered on
ly a month ago.
RECIPROCITY-PROTECTION.
No I'nll for 1)1*t url»n nee «>f tlie P«»ll«!>-
Tliut Ha* Made the Nation
/f*r-»K|ierou».
It is not fit all surprising- that, pub
lic interest has been aroused in the
subject of reciprocity. This interest
has been made very apparent in the
proceedings of the reciprocity conven
tion at- Washington. There is 110
doubt that the general principle of
trade reciprocity with other nations,
as favored by James G. Blaine, Wil
liam McKinley and other great repub
lican leaders and as embodied in re
publican platforms, is full of the most
beneficent possibilities to American
interests. But any attempt to em
ploy reciprocity as a means to uproot
protection, as some overzealous per
sons are trying to do, will certainly
be resisted by all who realize what i
protection lias done for the country.
The abandonment of protection was
the last thing that James <i. Blaine I
or William McKinley would have !
counseled, and those who are using j
those great names with which to
further causes the reverse of what !
the dead statesmen stood for !
throughout their lives are doing the
country poor service, says the Troy '
Times.
There is ample room for reciproc- j
ity alongside of protection, but the i
latter cannot, and must not be sup- i
planted. The American producer j
needs markets for his surplus prod-|
nets, but he is not ready to surrender i
the matchless home field in order to
gt them. Nor need he. The United
States, with its industries developed
under the fostering care of protec
tion, has so much to sell and is in a
position to buy in such large quan
tities that it can command favorable
terms without sacrificing domestic in
terests. It was Lord Salisbury, the
British premier, who once lamented
the fact that free trade had left Eng
land economically defenseless. He
said in substance that his country
could exact nothing from other na
tions in return for trade concessions
because it hail already given tip
everything and there was no oppor
tunity for a quid pro quo. The United
States, on the other hand, is eco
nomically impregnable. Protection
has aided it in perfecting a wonder
ful industrial system, and it is in a
position to sell to all the world. It
has almost illimitable resources in
the form of products which the world
needs. It is able to buy vast amounts
of goods which other parts of the
world supply, it holds a masterful
place, and can make reciprocity min
ister to its own interests as well as
to those of its customers.
This is the principle contemplated
by the statesmen who have favored
reciprocity. The benefits are not to
be one-sided. If the United States
yields something in the way of trade
advantages, the reciprocating nations
must be equally obliging. Reciproc
ity will not be used to destroy what
protection has built up. The two
must go hand in hand. When we have
reciprocity it must be with protec
tion. That is sound Americanism and
the true republican policy.
And this is precisely what the reci
procity convention agreed to, for just
before its final adjournment it adopt
ed a resolution declaring that "this
convention recommends to congress
the maintenance of the principle of
protection for the home market, and
to open by reciprocity opportunities
for increased foreign trade by special
modifications of the tariff, in special
cases, only where it can be done
without injury to any of our home
interests of manufacturing, com
merce or farming." The convention
was a non-partisan body, its mem
bership included republicans, demo
crats and those not actively identified
with any party. Every branch of
American industry and commerce was
represented in the gathering.
The convention adopted the resolu
tions unanimously and enthusiastic
ally. It was typically American in
standing for reciprocity with protec
tion and against reciprocity without
protection.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
ICTTn a word, republican supremacy
means stability and prosperity. That
seems to size it up about right.—Troy
Times.
CTSenator Wellington is looking for
ward to the coming session of congress
with considerable anxiety. If the sen
ale remembers what he said about the
niatyred McKinley, and surely no man
could forget that, lie will be expelled
from that body and givtn a stinging
rebuke that will follow him to his dying
day.—lowa State Register,
ICStatisties prewired by the treas
ury bureau of statistics show that the
United States stands first of all the
nations of the earth this year in the
matter of exports, displacing Great
Britain, which up to the present year
had held first place. Last year Great
Britain's average monthly exports
were about $6,000,000 in excess of the
average monthly exports of this coun
try. This year we lead Great Britain
by about $750,000 a mouth. —Albany
Journal.
Sam has been one of the
most fortunate of real estate in
vestors. llis Louisiana purchase has
proved to be a splendid piece of prop
erty. One per cent, of its annual
agricultural products alone pays the
total cost of that little piece of prop
erty, And that is saying nothing of
them the timber and the manu
facturing industries that have been
developed since Jefferson, the original
expansionist, bought the tract mar
ly 100 years ago. The United States
holds several other plats, including
Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, that are also giving a
good account of themselves.—Troy
Times.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1901.
TRUSTS AND REPUBLICANS.
Position of the I'urty frori llie Oat
set Will He Maintained
Throughout.
Nobody will be in any doubt as !o the
attitude which President Roosevelt will
take on the question of the trusts. In
one of his messages to the New Vork
legislature while he was governor of
that state he said, iu speaking of the
trusts, that "the first essential is
knowledge of the facts—publicity." In
a speech at Minneapolis just before the
assassination of President McKinley,
Col. Roosevelt said that "more and
more it is evident that the state,
and, if necessary, the nation, has got
to possess the right of supervision and
control as regards the great corpora
tions which are its creatures, partic
ularly as regards the great business
combinations whi All derive a portion
of their importance from the existence
of some monopolistic tendency."
Nor is there the faintest reason to
doubt, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat. that this doctrine of President
Boosevelt, which will undoubtedly be
emphasized in his forthcoming mes
sage to congress, will be heartily sup
ported by the republican party. In
the platform of the first republican na
tional convention, that of 1888, held
after the formation of the first trust in
the United States, was this expression:
"We declare our opposition to all com
binations <if capital, organized in trusts
or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the
condition of trade among our citizens,
and we recotnend to congress and the
state legislatures, in their respective
jurisdictions, such legislation as will
prevent the execution of all schemes to
oppress the people by undue charges on
their supplies, or by unjust rates for
the transportation of their products'to
market." This was just a year after
the formation of the sugar trust, the
pioneer in this line of industrial com
bination.
The position which the republican
party took at the outset in the career
of the trusts it will maintain to the
end. The party passed an anti-trust
act in the congress chosen in the year
that this expression was formulated,
and it was signed by the president
chosen in that year, Gen. Harrison.
All the legislation framed anywhere
in the country which has been at all ef
fective against the trusts has been
framed by the republican party. The
republican is the only party which has
both the courage and the brains to
frame any laws against the trusts
which stand any chance of accom
plishing- their object. As the trust
managers throughout the country
know and will concede, the republican
is the only party which they fear.
SUCCESS OF REPUBLICANS.
1 lleniurknhle Strength of the I'urty
Shown In the Recent
iClecti oiim.
' A national party in power always
has reason to expect a revulsion of
| popular sentiment in the years be
tween presidential elections. It has
not come this year in any state where
national issues have been made promi
| nent. The loss of a republican sena-
I tor in Maryland—if he is a republic
! an—is but an incident in the eam-
I paign for the suppression of the
! negro vote in the former slave states.
• The "white man" issue simply over
| shadowed the bread-and-butter issue,
j Elsewhere the determination to stand
! by and strengthen the republican par
!ty is plainly evident. There is no
; doubt of the reason for it. People
| are prosperous and wish to remain
i so, says the San Francisco Chronicle.
They do not wish, even when no na
j tional issue is at stake, to encourage
I the advocates of commercial chaos
j by showing the slightest disposition
i to desert the party of protection and
j prosperity. In Pennsylvania this was
I almost painfully evident. The repub
! lican "machine" in that state is dis
gracefully corrupt. The masses of
| the people of Pennsylvania are as
| honest as we are or as any other peo
i pie. Indue time they will reform
their state g-overnment. But not now.
The one thing most desired by the
people of Pennsylvania is a continu
ance of the present era of prosperity.
They believe that to be bound up in
the success of the republican party
and in adherence to its national prin
ciples and traditions. They want no
disturbance of the tariff situation in
any form or under any pretense.
With them this is the "paramount is
sue," and so long as tariff tinkers and
reciprocity mongers are abroad in the
land so long will they vote the repub
lican ticket on all occasions, regard
less of local issues.
In Ohio national issues are always
to the front. It is the home of na
tional issues and a breeding place for
national statesmen. With a governor
and legislature to elect and most
cities free from confusing local is
sues, the Ohio republicans beat all
previous "off-year" records with the
magnificent majority of 80,000. New
Jersey, Nebraska, Massachusetts, the
Dakotas—all the eastern states show
the remarkable strength in the repub
lican party. The lesson of this is that
republican principles have brought
national prosperity and the people
have faith that the full-dinner pail
will not again be kicked over as it
was in 1K92. They want no tariff
tinkering, no fake "reciprocity."
They want the business of the coun
try let alone.
cr'l'he president wants congress- lr
do whatever is reasonable and practic
able to help the development of great
regions in the west which have more
lack of water than of any other essen
tial factor in their growth. Inallsucl
matters the New Yorker, born and
bred, who is at the head of the nation,
understands the needs of the west as il
he were a native and resident of that
part of the country.—Cleveland Leader
PERILS OF THE. SEA.
A British Sl«l|> N«rr«wlf I'sonjx-s
DUmler, While a Fr»iU'h VfMelton
Ashore During a lurral (>ule on th»
Pacific ('ou»t>
Portland, Ore., Dec. C. —The British
ship Nelson, which was reported lost
off the Columbia river, was towed into
I'll get Sound yesterday by the steam
er Walla Walla, bound from San
Francisco to Seattle. The hull of
the Nelson is practically intact, but
her bulwarks are smashed, life boats
and fore rigg-ing carried away and
cabins damaged. There are only
three inches of water in her hold, but
the extent of the damage to her
cargo is not known.
The Nelson had a marvelous escape
from destruction, according to Capt.
Perriam, ot that craft. She crossed
the Columbia river bar a week ago
last night, and before she had gone a
great, distance she encountered a
severe storin and was roughly han
dled. Her cargo of wheat shifted,
causing' her to list to starboard and
almost on her beam ends. In this
condition she was picked up by the
tug' Wallulu and an effort was made
to tow her to Astoria, but the tug- had
to abandon her. Later the powerful
tug 1 Tatoosh took hold of her, but
found it impossible to tow her in, ow
ing to the fury of the gale and the
heavy seas.
The captain of the Tatoosh decided
to tow her to Puget Sound, but had
not proceeded far when the gale in
creased in fury and on Tuesday night
the hawser parted and the Tatoosh
was unable to find the vessel when
daylight came. The Nelson fired rock
ets and burned flash lights all night,
but failed to attract attention. On
Wednesday the steamer Walla
Walla picked her up north of Grey's
Harbor. A high sea was on at that
time and it was with difficulty that a
hawser was taken on board.
Aberdeen, Wash., Dec. 6.—Early
Wednesday morning, while the ter
rible storm was raging along the
roast, the French bark Ernest Reyer
went ashore off the month of Quin
ault river, about 30 miles north of
Grey's Harbor. She struck heavily
on the beach and the full force of the
■waves pounded her further up the
shore, every incoming sea washing
over her. In the darkness and storm
it was impossible to see how far away
the land lay, but the officers and men
cleared away the boats and made for
the shore, all reaching land in safety.
The shipwrecked men are being cared
for on the beach by the Indians, but
they have no hopes of saving their
ship, as she now lies hard aground
with the breakers pounding her to
pieces. Masts, rigging and sails are
gone and she will be a total loss. The
Ernest Reyer is a steel-built bark of
3,500 tons.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
A lOeud-ICiid ( olllKlon Ori iiri Rrdvern
Two Trains In Arkansas Three
Men Are Killed and People In
jured.
Malvern, Ark., Dec. 6. —Three per
sons killed and 38 injured is the re
sult of a head-end collision between
two passeng-er trains on the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain & Southern railroad
one and one-half miles somh of here
last evening. The two trains were
the St. Louis fast mail southbound,
leaving St. Louis at 3a. in., and the
Little Ilock and Eldorado passenger,
northbound. The killed:
.lerry Di Arson, colored, Saginaw,
Ark.
Unknown man, colored.
Unknown man, colored.
The southbound train was to meet
the other at Malvern, but the latter
train was late and the former moved
ahead, expecting to meet the other
train at the next station. A mile
and a half south of Malvern the two
trains met inn terrific collision. En
gineer Robert Herriot, »112 the north
hound train, jumped in time to save
his life, while Engineer McCampbell,
of the Little flock train, did likewise.
The two engines were wrecked and
the colored coach next to the bag'g-age
car on the southbound train was bad
ly smashed. It was crowded with col
ored emigrants en route from North
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama to
Texas.
The smoking car of the northbound
train was badly damaged and most
of its occupants were injured, but the
rear coaches on this train did not suf
fer. The dead and injured were
broug-ht here as soon as possible.
A COMBINE OF SHEEPMEN.
Floek Master* in U'fonilng; Plan to
Control Thousand* of Acres of Pas
ture l.itndo.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 6,—A gigantic
combine is being formed at Rawlins
by the sheepmen of what is known
as the "Sweetwater country," for
the. purpose of excluding Utah flock
masters and local cattlemen from
encroaching upon t.he Red Desert win
ter ranges in Sweetwater. It is
proposed to lease and buy from the
Union Pacific Railway Co. every al
ternate section owned by the com
pany and thereby control approxi
mately 1,500,000 acres of the finest
winter feeding ground in the west.
By leasing all the land, which will
give them control of alternate gov
ernment sections, the sheepmen will
hold full control and range conflicts,
which have been frequent, will come
to an end.
The sheepmen who purpose to lease
the land have offered the railroad
company a rental of one cent per
acre, or $5,800 per year, for the land.
The proposition has been sent to the
Union Pacific general land office at
Omaha, and it is expected that the
deal will be closed in a few days.
A Reciprocity Bill.
Washington, Dec. o.—The Cuban
commissioners now In this city have
prepared the draft of a bill designed
to carry out their vipws for remedial
tariff legislation for the island. This
provides for the admission to the Uni
ted States free of duty, after Janu
ary 1, of Cuban molasses and raw
sugar, and the admission of all other
Uubaii products to the United States
on payment of half the prevailing
duty. In return for this favor the
bill provides that the Cubans must
agree to admit to the island for half
the duty charged all other nations,
the products of the United States.
MET IN SCRANTON.
Federation of Labor Holds Itfl
Annual Convention.
A Growth or 364,0U0 .Tlember* and HIS
Local i'nlon* Is Iteported lor the
Fast Vear—Total Membership
Aggregates 1,500,000
<»onipers' Keport.
Scranton, Pa., Dec. 6.—Two hun
dred and eighty-five delegates, repre
senting: more than 1,500,000 workmen,
responded to the roll call at the open
ing session of the twenty-first annual
convention of the American Federa
tion of Labor, which was called to
order by President Gompers in St.
Thomas college hall yesterday. The
convention is said to be the largest
congress of workmen ever held in this
country. Organization, settlement
of questions involving contested
seats and the reading' of the annual
report of the president, secretary and
treasurer took up the entire time of
the convention.
During- t.he day there was one sur
prise sprung on the delegates and
one important decision was also
made. The surprise came in the form
of an objection to the seating of the
United Mine Workers' delegates be
cause of an alleged arrearage in their
per capita tax. The objection was
overruled by an almost unanimous
vote of the delegates. The important
question decided related to the con
tested seat of the delegates from the
Central Labor union of Richmond,
\'a., which body refused to admit ne
gro workmen to the organization.
The dispute was adjusted by seating
the Central Labor union representa
tive and instructing the executive
board o>f the American Federation of
Labor to form a separate Central
union for colored men.
Mr. Gompers' report showed a net
increase of 313 local unions for the
year and a gain of 304,410 members.
From national and international
unions and the federation direct,
there were issued 4,056 charters for
newly formed unions, and charter sur
renders or unions disbanded num
bered 1,150. On October 3t there
were affiliated with the federation:
National and international unions 87,
city central labor unions 327, state
federations of labor 20, local traxle
unions, having no national or inter
national bodies 750, federal labor
unions 3!li). There wert three strikes
of a general character during the
year. About these the report says:
That of the river and dock workers
of San Francisco was a distinctive
victory.
The purpose for which the strike
of the Amalgamated association was
inaugurated was not achieved and it
was terminated upon conditions less
advantageous than perhaps could
have been obtained. Owing to the
widespread interest whis-h this strike
aroused, a large number of iron and
steel workers employed by other com
panies than the corporation against
which the strike was inaugurated,
have been organized under the juris
diction of the Amalgamated associa
tion.
Officers of the International Associ
ation of Machinists report that their
strike has very largely succeeded in
establishing the nine-hour rule in the
trade. They claim the settlements
reached have g-iven 60,000 machinists
a shorter work day, 15,000 others are
affected by compromises reached and
75,000 machinists will receive an aver
age of 25 cents a day increase in
wages.
Treasurer Lennon's report showed
receipts $120,522, expenses $118,708,
total funds tin hand $8,814. Secretary
Morrison's report shows that the
total number of strikes of all kinds
reported aggregated 1.056, in which
153.503 members were benefited and
12,707 were not benefited. Their total
cost was $545,008.
BUf NT STARCH.
A Fire In the Trust's Plant at Dei
.Tlolnes, la., Causes 9400,000 Lost.
Des Moines, la., Dec. 6.—Fire was
discovered last evening in the plant
of the National Starch Manufactur
ing Co. ill the southeastern part of
the city. The city fire department
was summoned, but a lack of water
prevented it from accomplishing
much, beyond keeping the fire from
spreading to adjoining property. The
fire bur.ied for several hours and the
plant was entirely destroyed, ex
cepting the grain elevator and the
engine house.
The loss on building- and contents
is estimated at $200,000. The amount
of insurance is unknown as such
records are kept in New York. Sev
eral hundred employes, who were
about to quit work for the day, es
caped in safety. The plant belonged
to the starch manufacturing trust,
which has its headquarters in New
York City.
Arrest of a Counterfeiter.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 6.—Jacob
Brill, of Louisville, Ivy., was arrested
here Thursday charged with counter
feiting. He was trying to pass coun
terfeit $5 gold pieces and silver dol
lars when arrested. At his room a
complete outfit of counterfeiters'
tools was found. According to Brill's
story, he recently was released from
the Kentucky penitentiary, where he
served a six-year sentence for coun
terfeiting. The police here say his
work is unusually good and that he
is an expert counterfeiter. Brill
says he has no confederates and that
•lie' has passed much spurious money
here.
Is Prepared to Flsrht a !»lob.
Andalusia, Ala., Dec. 6. —Sheriff
Bradshaw returned to Andalusia yes
terday with 22 negroes, who are ac
cused of complicity in the killing of
,1. W. Dorsey, a merchant, and Fale
Arkinson, city marshal, at Opp, Wed
nesday evening. The negroes were
pursued with bloodhounds and cap
tured by the sheriff and his posse.
There is jjreat excitement and there
are fears that the friends of the dead
white men will attempt a wholesale
lynching. The sheriff landed the
negroes safely in jail here and has
taken precautions to resist the mob
in east one shall be formed.
WHAT A LEADING AGRICULT
URIST SAYS OF WEST
ERN CANADA.
•■rof. Thoinna Sttnrr of MlnntaotA
I'nlrrrallr Given itn tubiiurd
Opinion.
In a letter to"The Farmer,"St. I'aul,
dated Sept. Ist, 1901, Prof. Thomas
Shaw, of the Minnesota State Univer
sity, has the following to say, after
having made a trip through Wester*
Canada:
"The capabilities of the immense!
nrea known as Western Canada arej
but little understood on this side of the]
line. Our people are apt to look upom
it as a region of frost and snow,a coun
try in which but small portion of the
land relatively will ever be tillable'
because of the rigors of the climate.
True, the climate is cold in winter,;
but Western Canada has, nevertheless,;
just that sort of climate which makes
it the most reliable wheat producing,
country in all the continent.
AN IMMENSE AREA.
Western Canada is not only an im
mense area, but the same description
will apply to those portions of the
country that are capable of being suc
cessfully tilled or grazed. Nearly all
of the prairie Province of Manitoba rati;
be brought under cultivation, although'
probably not one-lhird of its sur
face has been laid open by the plough.
Assiniboia to the west is a gruin and
stock country. Saskatchewan to the
north of Assiniboia has high adapta
tion for the same. This also may be
said of Alberta to the west. Here lies
what may be termed a grain growing
and stock producing empire, the re
sources of which have been'but little
I drawn upon comparatively, viewed ,
; from the standpoint of the agricultur
ist. When it is called to mind that
even in the Peace River Country, sev
eral hundreds of miles north of the
Canadian boundary, wheat was grown
which won a premium at the World'a
Pair in 1593, the capabilities of this
country in wheat production loom up
more brightly than even the brilliant
Northern lights of the land that lies
toward the pole.
ADAPTED TO STOCK AND GRAIN;
PRODUCTION.
The region under consideration is,
however, mainly adapted to growing
grain and grazing stock. Much of it
is adapted to growing both grain and
stock, but certain areas, especially
towards the mountain, are only adapt
ed to ranching, except where irriga
tion will yet be introduced. This, of
course, can be done successfully along
the many streams that flow down from
the Kockies, and water the country
towards the east and north. The
adaptation of the country for wheat
production is oft high character.
The cool nights that usually charac
terize the ripening season are em
inently favorable to the tilling of the
grain, and to the securing of a plump
berry, and consequently large yields.
The crop this year is a magnificent
one. In Manitoba and the Territories
it should certainly give an average of
more than 20 bushels per acre. But
should the yield be not more than 20
bushels, the crop will be a most hand
some one, owing to the large area
sown to wheat. Many farmers only
grow grain. But those who do suc
ceed as well in growing oats and barley
as in growing wheat ,hence these foods
for live stock should always be
abundant. Some grow cattle main
ly and others combine the two.
The last named, of course, is
doubtless the safest of the three
during a long course of years, that
is to say, where such farming is prac
ticable.
QUALITY OP LIVE STOCK.
It was a pleasurable surprise to
note the high quality of the stock. The
average of quality in cattle is higher
than the average of cattle in our State,
unless in the dairy classes. This opin
ion is not reached rashly or without
ample opportunity for investigation..
1 spent three long days in the show
ring at Winnipeg making the awards
in the beef classes. I question if any
of our states, single handed, could
make such a showing fn cattle. It was
my privilege to make the awards at
several shows, and at all of thein
were evidences that much attention is
given to the improvement of the stock..
I noted carefully the character of the
herds that grazed along the railroad
and everywhere the high average of
the quality of the stock was in evi
dence.
REASONS FOR QUALITY IN STOCK.
The quality of the grass is
good. Many of the settlers came
from Ontario, and had been schooled
as to the value of good stock before
going west. The railroaos and the
Government have taken a deep in
terest in making it less difficult and.
costly to the farmers t«> secure good
males.
Those who are anxious of changing
their residence should bear in mind
that the lands in Western Canada are
many of them free and others reason
ably cheap.
Information will gladly be given by
any agent of the Canadian Govern
ment, whose advertisement appears
elsewhere.
To Lfurr Bicycle for llorae.
According to the New York World,.
Jimmy 'Michael, king of pace follow
ers on the bicycle, has once more
made up his mind to become a crack
jockey. Michael forsook the bicycle
for the thoroughbred several years
ago, with indifferent success. Final
ly he disposed of his horses as best
he could, and again interested him
self in bicycle riding. But it now
appears that the jockey fever did not
entirely leave him, and he is at pres
ent in France, working hard on the
French course* with Tod Sloane as a.
tutor.