SOME WONDERFUL CROPS IN WESTERN CANADA. The Territorial Government Report* Show Krsiiits Beyond Belief. Retina, Assineboia, ranucla, January JOtli. —At the Agricultural Statistics Branch <>f the Department of Agricul ture for the Territories, reports are now being received from grain thresh ers throughout tlie Territories, for statistical purposes. The reports are somewhat delayed this year, owing to the extensive crop and the delay in getting it threshed. The Department of Agriculture is leading the way in a new departure, with regard to the collection of crop statistics. In the older provinces, crop estimates are based entirely on the opnion of per sons interested in the grain business who ought to be, and no doubt are, well posted upon the probable yields. Still the reports are simply a matter of opinion, in which a mistake may easily be made. The Territorial De partment, however, has adopted the system of returns of crops actually threshed, upon which to base their reports. The accuracy of the reports, cannot, therefore, be pninsaid, for, they represent a compilation of actual threshing results. In this connection, it. might be mentioned that the De partment is organizing a system of growing crop returns, which will be in operation next summer. The infor mation thus obtained, with estimated acreage, will be available for business men, banks, railway companies, and other interests which have to discount the future in making provision for the conduct of their business. The crop reports already to hand show sonie remarkable cases of ab normal development. In the Pegina district, many returns are given of crops of wheat running from -JO to 45 bushels to the acre. J. A. Snell, of Yorkton, threshed 2®.000 bushels of oats from 4fio acres, an average of 03 bushels >er acre for a large acreage. W. T{. Motherwell, of Abernethy, threshed 2,0"i0 bushels of wheat from a TiO acre field, an average of 53 bush els per acre. In the Edmonton district, T. T. TTntehings threshed 72S bushels of wheat from a ten-acre plot, an average of nearly 73 bushels per acre. P. Xorinan threshed G. 0.'0 bushels of oats from GO acres of land, an average of 116 bushels per acre. The publication of the actual yields of grain threshed will likely open the eyes of the people to the great capabil ities of the western Canadian prairies. PAIR OF GIANTS TO WED. Missouri WATERPROOF op P- CLOTHING ' ' ftLACR 03 YELLOW 'WIIL m? YCU DRY KOK ELSE WILL { •TAKE NO .'.UB3TITUTE3 • CATALOGUES FREE- I •SHOWiU'o PULL LINE OPGARMENTS AND HATS I A.d.TQWER CO.. BOSTON. MA3S. | lllenrs PJleerine B&Sv© tl »*s I lirnnlf I leers, IIHIIP I Iffrk. Mrrofiilun* rirrri. Varlm*? rrri. ln<«ol*nt I'crrt. Ilrm rlnl I'lcrr*. Whit* HwHllnp, MllW •m, F*»«rSorr». *ri4 all aorek of lonp "landing. Iu»ll|«rlv D 0 Bj mail, Ql« »uU tOe. J. i\ ALLEN. St. Paul, Mi»a. The nation has felt the blows struck in the United States senate the other day, and thoughts on fists and statesmanship are unpleas ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ antly forcing their way to public t EICTC 1/C + attention. Admitting that all con- I ♦ gressmen (senators especially) are ♦ C TI3 TP C 1111 MCU | P ♦ statesmen (a very reckless admis ♦Wl ill 1 LwJViniiWnlr x s ' on to ~IC "finds of some), the ♦ ■ * question arises as to when the £ By wiuiiis s. EDSON, ♦ statesman, by a STRIKING dis ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦•♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ play of his powers, entitles him self to classification among the KNIGHTS OF THE FIST. States men with the graceful wave of the hand emphasize their argument, and with the clinching of the points made, the fist reenforces the forc ibleness thereoi as it thunders 011 the desk before it. But let that same fist and sail". 1 energy be directed toward the physical identity of the opponent, with a little of Billingsgate thrown in as garnishment, and you have a scene which makes L'ncle Sam and fair Columbia blush with shame and the American eagle scream with indignation. My bull pup is a fine specimen of dogdom, for although he has but one eye, his square-set jaw and well-knit muscles, together with his dignified and pugnacious bearing, a heritage of pedigree, entitle him to high classification. My neighbor's cat is also an animal of which she is deservedly proud. Her silken hair and bushy tail care fully groomed make her a sure winner at any bench show. But it chanced one day that my neighbor's cat with the bushy tail and my bull pup with the square-set jaw got into the same room in the house, and after an exchange of a few preliminary pleasantries in the shape of vowlings and growlings they came together in the violence of ar gument, and when they had been separated and put out of doors where they belonged, with a high fence between, they were no longer the sleek and dignified looking animals they had been before their un fortunate meeting. Now, while the incident was to he deplored, the friendly rela tions existing between my neighbor and myself were not very se verely strained, for we realized that it was the nature of the beasts to fight, and 110 amount of grooming or associations of refinement could alter the inbred tendency, but we were taught a lesson and saw to it that thereafter the belligerents were kept out of doors and at a safe distance apart. But to apologize for the digression and return to the thread of our narrative, as the novelist says, which in this case is a matter of fists and statesmanship. However much we admire both in their proper place and sphere, in conjunctivitv there is dire calamity. Dry den says: "A knockdown argument; 'tis but a word and a blow." Ik is certainlv effective for the time being in eliminating the opponent as a contending factor, hut it is not convincing. It does not prove that the otic is not a liar and the other not a thief, but it does demonstrate that both arc not worthy the name of statesmen and have forfeited the respect of the country at large, if not of their own constituency. Such scenes have been enacted before in the halls of congress during the strain of intense political excitement when the country faced a national crisis, and in a measure was excusable, but this is the first time such direct personalities and individual animosities have chosen the senate as an arena in which to settle differences by means of brute force and unreasoning passion. Curtain and oblivion. TO MAKE A DOG COUNT. The Owner of u Scott*h Collie Ex pluiiiN lion ibo Tkiiitf May We ACC'OIII plisli etl. Noting the profound interest dis played in the trieks of u Scotch Col lie dog known as Jio/.y.ie 11., and the j interesting account of the demon ■ strations of her powers so honestly j set forth in the columns of tlie Trib [ une, 1 make bold to give my analysis : ! of the phenomenal cropping out of ! canine intelligence in this certain species, writes F. C. Keighter, of ( hi- I cago, to the editor of the Tribune. In August of last year I purchased a Collie puppy, then three months old, whose pedigree could not be compared with any of the baser met als, but was of the "pure gold" stripe, whose mother was Fanny ( la sou, and whose grandmother was 80/zie 1., and, thinking that perhaps the same degree of intelligence might be innate with this puppy as of its ancestors, I set about at once | to develop, if possible, whatever pow ers she possessed. The first thing 1 did was to secure lier strict atten tion by a kindly caress or pat upon the head and at the same time give the firm, sharp command of "tell me" and alyo "how many," coupling | with each of these I woul.l imitate the bark of a dog. holding her at tention all Ihis while, until at the end of perhaps two weeks of patient endeavor I succeeded in getting her to understand what I wanted. Finally, whenever I gave the com mand "tell me" or "how many," she would bark several times after either !of them, never in any instance re warding her with a morsel of food, : but made her understand that when I 1 made use of one of these phrases in Ihe tone of command I demanded t obedience, and it was her part to obey —namely, to "speak" several i times. You will readily appreciate that I ; did not make use of the command j "speak," as I could not with this j word ask her a question in arith metic, in order to show off her ac complishments before any one. 1 ; then began by holding her attention | fixedly with my eyes, having a stern J facial expression, asking her a sim '■ pie question, as "How many are two ; and two?" .lust, as soon as she j would hear the words "how many" ' she would start to bark, and, imme ; diately upon her barking four times, I t.lie correct answer, I would relax i the muscles of my face or brow, and | she would immediately stop. And likewise in asking any question in sTritlimetic I would compel her to | look at me, couple one of the key ! phrases with my question, and at the I same time frown, no matter how j slightly, and as soon as the correct number had been barked, the relaxa tion of my facial muscles would cause her to cease, and this would not. he noticed by any one looking on, no matter how shrewd or how keenly they may have watched, and CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20. 1902. this could lie repeated time and again without detection, astounding one and all alike. .Now you can readily see that a slight motion of the foot, a slight cough, a light tap of the finger, a i snee/c (forced), a wink of the eye, opening aud closing the hand, and many other unnoticeable signs could lie substituted and used to cause the | question and the manner of asking it I could lie varied innumerably, making it appear that the animal'actually does "read the mind" in many in stances. 15111 the key to it all is in the key words, "tell me" and "how many," or any other signal which starts the dog to barking, or a look will sometimes cause the animal to begin, and then use the "air brake" signal. Of course, I do not wish to be mis understood. I do not deny that this particular "trick" exemplifies a high order of canine intelligence, brought about by a long line of ancestors whose constant companion was man for century upon century: but 1 do deny that there is 1 lie slightest trs».-e of "mind reading," "mental tele pathy.or "thought transferrcnce." nor can it lie vaunted forth as a "psychological phenomenon." It is a "trick," plain, pure and simple. "I also taught my dog many other "tricks" too numerous to mention here. My main object is to state that I do not believe there is a "mind reading," "calculating" dog. It is a ease of obeying the signals of its master. IleiKlit <<> Which Bird* The aeronaut llergesall of Strass burg saw, in one of his ascensions, an eagle at a height of ::,()()() meters and in another, two storks and a buzzard at 900 meters. Larks have been seen at 1,000 meters, and crows at 1,400. Hut these are exceptional heights. ISirds are rarely seen above 1,000 meters and very few above 400. Ilirds have been released from balloons at heights varying from 900 to 3,000 meters. In a clear atmosphere they flew directly downward, remaining near the balloon, however, if the sky were cloudy. Pigeons were released from a balloon 30 miles away from home in cloudy weather. The first pigeon returned home in three hours, the second in four and the last took nearly a day. In clear weather they reached home from that distance in about 45 minutes.—Science. Merely Keeping Mi* I'rciaitae, Weary Walker No, ma'am; I ain't dirty from choice. I'm bound by hon or. I wrote a testimonial fer a soap maker onet an" promised "to use no udder." Mrs. Housetop—"Well, why do you not use 1 hat? "liecause. ma'am, dat firm failed jist after ile civil war."—Catholic Standard and Times. The New Ilrooiu, A new broom may sweep clean, but the trouble is that after the Aral round it loses its newness.— Chieag 3 Daily News. SOLDIERS LIKE HIM. Gen. Lloyd Wheaton Is Simply Idol ized bv His Men. All Sort* of I'lcnxnnt Little Slorlfi Are T'olil About Ills ( ournne ami Conniricrnt ion of l*ri\uteft' Comfort. Gen. Lloyd Wheaton, whose frank ness in expressing his opinions has stirred up a number of senatorial crit ics, will not ask for defenders. Prac tically without exception the men who | have served under him, whom they ; fondly call "Dad" Wheaton, would | fight for him to the last ditch against j any odds. Even among the general o'- | fleers of the United States army, in cluding so many men of dauntless cour | age and splendid character, there are j few who rank with Wheaton in person '■ al popularity among the enlisted men. In appearance he is the ideal soldier, j tall and straight as a pine tree. His | thick hair is jet black and the lower | part of his face is covered with a black I beard, set off by a pair of long and | fiercely-pointed black mustaches. On ■ horseback especially he looks the part i of a pirate king, and his voice is a deep ! bass of tremendous power that can | be heard at great distances. II is a favorite joke •with the soldiers in the islands that "Old Dad" 110 staff because lie can make himself J heard half a mile without straining ] himself. Most endearing of all, from ' the standpoint of the common soldier, Gen. Wheaton never spares himself, and many a little outpost, hard pressed by an overpowering force of the "nig gers," has been inspired by the roar ing command of "Old Dad"—"Go in, ! boys! (io in!"—while he himself, rid- I ing like a centaur, led the charge far j in advance of the advancing column. Even his presence is inspiring. In many a hot skirmish, when the men | have become tired and scattered, his i tremendous voice, bellowing in the dis tance, has had the effect of a trumpet call or the arrival of a regiment of re | enforcements. "Brace up, boys," the call will go across the scattered lines, "here comes f' X j GEN. LI.OVD WHEATON. (One of the Most Popular Commanders In the Army.) 'Old Dad,'" and then rushes into the fight the big bay horse, topped by the big, fierce man, with his black beard, and all is over but the shouting. Enlisted men returned from service in the islands tell all sorts of little stories of Gen. Wheaton. For instance, there was the night after the landing at San Fabian. Six gunboats, says the , Chicago Tribune, had gone down the | coast to cover the landing of a lot of men under (Jen. Wheaton, who were i loaded on a couple of army transports. While the gunboats shelled the town Wheaton got his men into launches and other small boats and waited for the first chance to get ashore. Once or twice his eagerness led him to push ahead within range of the gunboats' fire, and each (ime he had to face about and retire, much to the amusement of the men, bobbing about on the swell in ! their little boats. Finally the party landed, under a hot tire from the insur gents, and rushed (lie town. After pickets had been thrown out and all : arrangements made for guarding ! against a night, attack. Gen. Wheaton i started to turn in, with the idea of catching a few hours' sleep. He and his orderly went into a native house on the square and opened the door leading into the corner room. As they did so a couple of privates, who had I already lain down to sleep on the floor, | rose speedily, came to attention, sa ! luted and started to leave the room. "Here you!" roared "Old Dad," in his 1 terrifying voice, "you boys need sleep just as much as I do. Lie down again and goto sleep." So the commanding general and a i couple of privates went to sleep side by side on the floor, liut early in the morning, before any one else was awake. Gen. Wheaton got up and went ! out all alone 011 a reconnoitering tour. He closed the door, and it locked be hind him with a spring lock. Several times during the night stragglers had j come pounding on the door, and had been ordered away by the somewhat J sulphuric orderly. It happened that ; the orderly had .just got into a sound sleep when the general returned and knocked for admission. The orderly, who had no idea that Gen. Wheaton had gone out, woke up hot and angry. I With all the resources of his pie ; tures<|iie vocabulary he cursed the man who had disturbed him and or dered him to goe.way under awful pen alties. "Now, you clear out of here and let us sleep, or I'll come out and | kick your head off!" he roared. "All right, sfegeant," sounded the dee)) voice of "Old Dad," "all right, I'll clear out. Hut won't you please let | me have my field glasses first?" CONGRESSMAN HOWARD. Of National Reputation are the Men Whs Recommend Pe-ru-na to Fellow Sufferers. A Remarkable Case Reported From the State of New York. CONGRESSMAN' HOWARD. OF ALABAMA. Hour.e of Representatives. ) Washington, Feb. 4, 1H99. ( The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen "I have taken Peruna now for two weeks, and find I am very much relieved. / feel that my curs will he permanent. / have also taken It for la grippe, nnd I take pleasure in recommending Peruna as an excellent remedy to all fellow sufferers. " M. W. HOWARD. Congressman Howard's home ad dress is Port Payne, Ala. MOST people think that catarrh is n disease confined to the he;ul and nose. Nothing is farther from the truth. It may be that the nose and throat are the oftenest affected by cn tarrh, but if this is so it is so only be cause these parts are more exposed to the vicissitudes of the climate than the other parts of the body. Every organ, every duct, every cavity of the human body is liable to catarrh. A multitude of ailments depend on ca tarrh. This is true winter and summer. Catarrh causes many cases of chronic disease, where the victim lias not the slightest suspicion that catarrh has any thing to do with it. ■ The following letter which gives the experience of Mr. A. C. Lockhart is a case in point: Mr. A. C. Lockhart, corner Cottage St. nnd Thurston Road, Rochester, N. Y., in a letter written to I)r. Hart man says the following of Peruna : "About fifteen years ago I commenced to be mlllng. and consulted a physician. He pro nijinued my trouble a species of dyspepsia, and Conatunt. Alice—Oh, no! Cfiolly isn't engaged! lie is true to his first love. May—Who is that? "Ciiolly! Puck. Nothing ii so infectious as example.— | Charles Kingslcy. An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.—Johnson. Blobbs "I shall have to wear glasses.'' Slobbs "Areyoutroubled wtih your eyes?'' Bio I >bs "Wnat did you think I was j,oing t" wear liicin lor bunions?"- Philadelphia Record. Mistress-—"Do you know, Carter, that I can actually write my name in the dust on the table!" Carter "Faith, mum, that's more than I can do. Sure, thero's nothing like education, after all!" Punch. Two \ :ews.- "Mister," began the beggar, "it's pretty hard to lose all your relations ond —" "Hard!" snorted the crusty indi vidual. '"Why. man alive, if they're poor relations it's impossible!" Philadelphia Press. Mi-s Koy (in street ear) —"It's- really very kind of you, Mr. C'rabbe, to give me your seat." Mr. (.'rabbc "Not at all. We men are getting tired of being accused of never giving up our seats except to pretty girls." —Philadelphia Press. Too Late. —"When I was your age I didn't have the advantage* you have." said the father, sanely. "Well, father," replied the son, "it's too late to kick about it now. You should have thought about those things at >.he time."—Ohio State Journal. "Wlmt!" exclaimed the woman who had just started a boarding house, "twcntv-live for those string beans? ' "Them ain't string beans," said the huckster; "them's butter beans, an' —" "H'm —butter beans. Maybe 1 you've got some oleomargarine beans that'd come cheaper." Philadelphia Record. Knives Before Forks. —Mr. S; it: gum— "By the way, Sharpe says he saw you in the I'ongtong cafe yesterday." Mr. Nuritch (add —"Yes; but 1 cut him. Did he tell you that?" Mr. Stinguni 'No; Imt he did remark that he expected every minute to see you cut. yourself."—Philadelphia Press. 1,213 BUS. ONIONS PER AO3E. Salzer's New Method of onion culture makes It possible to grow 1,200 am) more bus. per acre. fcSj|||rji ; seizing same at Sue! ' r 18c. nod this John A. Salzer Seed fiyyißoW Co., I.aCrosse, Wis., will mall vou their mammoth cataloß. together With 150 kinds of flower and vegetable seeds. Market-gardeners' iist, So postage. K advised me, after he had treated me xbnzit six months, to get n leave of absence from mf \ business and go into tlw country. / did so mid got temporary relief. I went hack to work again, but was taken with very distressing paint \ la my stomach. ' "I seldom had n passage of the bowels natu rally, I consulted another physician with ao belter results. The disease kept growing cn me until / had exhausted the ability of sixteen of Rochester's best physicians. The last physician advised me to give up my work and go • 1 • J south, after he had t ~i*v , n * treated me for one 7 | ''/ was given a 112 "*i_ V r-i;" 112 thorough examlna- J gfiggaT l&r nii I tinli with the X-ray. T ijSSHBiMI ? They would not tfet® m a gi' "112 * even da'ermine (J ffr* ' .V-..» what my trouble t , V ft > was. Some of your 112 RSgtrg 4 testimonials lit the 112 |B|§y§l »JjgajHa 1 Rochester papers • ' > seemed to ntef i worthy of cons id- 112 fc'S* Ik > / i : 'l;' eratlon, and I made J wtmH * up my mnid to try * [•;*', I a bottle of f'eruna. ® V*' '' iff' Ol' *1 Before the bottle j Mr vv j.p eter Son, oil w ; as '"'" £ ooe ' I Morris, 111., suvs: i t'ced a change for • .., was n ,. ;irl y a-aOI the better. !am . W j l i l catarrhal dvspep-T no*'on the fifth bot- R j a an( j am now a well I tie, and have not an , msin better, in fact, I ache or pam any- r than I Iniyo been fori where. My bowels , lw , n (y years or more. I move regularly ev- . »Since 1 got cured by 1 ery day, and I have , y o „ r p ( . r una 1 have bc«-n J taken on eighteen . consll i tC Q hy u orcut J pounds of flesh. I raan y people. "—"W. P. I have recommended ? T, Peruna to a great * 1 clt ' _ ? many and they rec- • • • 1 * • ' * ■ * < ommend It very highly. I have told several people thai It they would take a bottle of Peruna, and could then candidly sav that II had not benefited them, t would pay tor the ™d,clne." c Rend for a free catarrh book. Address i The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, (X IBig* Four I ROUTE TO THB WORLD FAMED VIRGINIA Hot Springs Alagnificent Train Service, Dining Cars, Pullman Sieepers, Observation Cars. THE NEW Homestead Hotel Entirely rebuilt of lirlck, Stone and Iron, Fire-proof, will be opened on March ioth, 1902. Reduced Rate Tickets now on sale. For full information call 011 agents of the BIQ FOUR ROUTE. or address the undersigned WARRFN J. LYNCH, W. P. OtPPt, Gcn'l PUSH. & Ticket A fit. AHHI. Q. I*. & T.l CINCINNATI, O. WpAZARO Homo morn rodent re' |fll:cat In this pupcr. A. N. K.-C 1908 In time. Sold hy drncßintfl. SI ASNBEOKIAABGII^: 7