AN ILLINOIS FARMER IN WESTERN CANADA. A recent issue of the Shelbyville, Illi nois, Democrat contains a long and in teresting letter from Mr. Elias Kost, formerly a prosperous farmer of that state, who recently emigrated to West ern Canada, taking up a claim for him- Bclf and for each of his three sons. From Mr. Host's letter, which was written Feb. 3, 1904, we publish tlio following, believing it will prove of great interest to those who have contemplated Bottling in the Canadian Northwest: "I had in August, 1902, secured a claim for myself, and filed on three quarter sections for my sons. Aly claim is one half mile south of the Edmonton and L.ake St. Anne trail. "Coining so late in the season we had little opportunity to break and to pre pare ground for a first year's crop, still we raised over 100 bushels of very fine potatoes, and sowed a few acres of barley, but the season was too far advanced for the barley. However, we soured good feed from it, and on rented ground 18 miles east of us, raised a fine c rop of oats, so that wo will have plenty of feed for horses. We cut about 60 tons of hay and thus will have an abundance. WQ i.ave, all told, about 240 acres of hay meadow, which would yield the past year over three tons to the acre, and in an ordinary season the meadow would furnish COO tons of hay. The grass is very nutritious, and cattle on the ranges become very fat without being fed a pound of grain. "On the upland the grass grows from eight to ten inches tall. This is called range grass, and is suitable for stock at any time, even in the winter when the ground is not covered too deep with snow. Horses subsist on it alone, at all times, provided they are native stock. The grass in the hay meadows here is called red-top. and grows from five to six feet in length, and when cut at the proper time yields an abundant crop of nutritious hay. "Our cattle have not cost us a cent since we came on our homestead, only the small outlay for salt and labor in putting up hay and shelter. All cattle have been doing well this winter, and Teeding up to the first of January wa3 unnecessary, as there was good range up to that time. "All the snows up to that date were followed by winds from the northwest that melts it very rapidly; these winds are called Chinook winds, and are al ways warm. In one night a Chinook wind may takeaway three or four inches of snow. "We have built on our claim a com fortable house of hewn logs, 20x26 feet, one and one-half stories in height, with a good cellar. During the latter part of June we rafted logs down the Sturgeon to a sawmill, about eight miles away, and thus secured 5,000 feet of good lum ber which was needed for the house. Later in the season a shingle mill lo cated six miles away. To this we hauled logs and had shingles cut for the roof. "We had an abundance of wild fruit the past season, consisting of gooseber ries, strawberries, raspberries, eyeber ries, blueberries, cherries and saska toons. The latter are a fine looking ber ry, red, and quite pleasant to the taste, but not much to be desired in cookery. The strawberries are the same as thoso that grow wild in Illinois. Raspberries are red in color, large and equal to any of the tame varieties, and so are the gooseberries. The cranberries consist of the high and trailing varieties. The latter are most sought and contiguous to the swamps. The ground is literally covered with thein as with a red carpet, but the best and most sought is the blue berry. so called by the Indians. This is the famous 'huckleberry' (whortle berry) of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Pennsylvania, and cannot be excelled for excellence by a%v fruit cultivated. It is found here both on the prairie and In the timber in immense quantities. "Game is very plentiful so far as prai rie chickens, pheasants, ducks of all kinds, and geese are concerned. We have taken nearly 500 chickens and pheas ants, also a great many ducks. "An occasional deer is seen, but are rot plentiful, only or.o having been taken during the season in this settle ment. "Fish sre very plentiful at a'-l seasons of the year. Fish wagons and sleds are parsing almost daily along the trail with heavy loads of fish, destined for St. Albert and Edmonton. From the latter point they are shipped south on tlie Calsary and Edmonton railroad tc points along the line, and also to Assini boia, on the Canadian Pacific railroad.' For further information apply to any authorized Canadian Government Agent whose address appears elsewhere. TSse FEEE ismssSead X.a«.xs. <3.cn of wmsgs iWESTERN Jbaiiadi-x. s,ar f Attractlcns ' 11" ' /""""l VilJJonsof a/*ren nmpnifV'ent '.rain and (.ra/.lnjf Land* to a* 112 -.ve The Great Attracts ' Oootl (Vaftß, drllßhtrnt rllmnle, l arbool ayatcm, porfrol " nocltil comlltlnn*, onrrpttoniil '*»• rail™ ay adviintuirm, awul wealth unrl ot, c Information ~r H MM! with 4 h. p. cuts 2,0u0 feet per day. All sj/e* anl price* u> tuft Shingle Mills, li'lgers, Trimmers, J'lannra. Corn aod lluh* Mil!*, Wnu-r Whe*.% Lath Mills, Wood Saw&ami Hay I'rctvca. tiui handsome new catalogue will interest you. D*L«wh Mill Mtf. CCi| Boa 837, Atlanta, Qy. Ul UU» b*-, Waa Xiak, W. V. bit liUxd at, ol u iw College Training and Business Life By PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. HARPER, of Chicago University. When a young man has reached 25 he ought to /laajjjtl&'-T. be thinking about going into business or he ought to ' ■P** lUsl rcaf] y to * a ' ce U P I have advised 20 nicn 111 le universit y to school during the past year and told them to get into their life work. Some Jmi students get into the habit of going to school and tjL' jjh/lpt'.-; keep at it year after year without any definite aim. College in itself is not a business, but a place to pre pare for business. The college student to-day is away ahead of the w®r*v xeef ' 1 ■ s t u dcnt of 20 years ago. His preparartory work to-day is as good as the college work that I got when I was in college. ITe is able to-day to finish his college work and be ready for life's work by 20. This gives the student four or five years for preparation for his especial business. A year of this spent in business where the young man can come in contact with the business world and then four spent in graduate work of some kind will bring the young man out ready for his life work at 25 better equipped than was possible when I was in college. There was no such a thing as a graduate school in the west at that time. In fact, I was the seventh person to receive the degree of doctor of philosophy from Yale. When the University of Chicago was founded we undertook graduate work, and as a result the university soon became known as a graduate school. It was never our intention to make the university a graduate school at the exclusion of the other colleges. We expect to develop all of the departments uniformly. The undergraduate department will receive as much attention as any other. Demands are high to-day on the yrnng man that is ready to take up his life work. He must have great if he can expect to suc ceed in the great competition that he must meet. Therefore his educa tional requirements are greater than they were a few years ago. Hence the growth of the graduate school and the greater requirements and stricter stipulations of the professional schools to-day. The man without the graduate training either in a profession or in business is as greatly handicapped to-day as the man without a college education was 20 years ago. Progress of the Negro By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President of Tuskegee Institute. ——n HAVE the most profound belief that no race in ancient or I modern history has ever equaled the American negro in devel -1 opment in all directions. Because of the negro's progress in ESS3S9V the present and my faith in his future I was never prouder Wl t ' iau lam to-dav of being a negro. One of the most important sources of protection that any Wmi race of people can have is their usefulness to the community ' n which the v dwell. Service is the secret of sovereignty. Nine-tenths of the intelligent members of our race will agree that the great body of our people are to reside in the south, and that they should be encouraged to do so. Since this is agreed on it naturally follows that the negro should in every praiseworthy man ner cultivate the friendship and the sympathy of the people by whose side he is to live. Any other course would be suicidal, unnatural and illogical. In saving this Ido not mean that we should submit to injustice. No one respects a strong, honest character, more than the southern white man does. At the present time the race needs every white friend it can command, whether he resides at the south or the north. The problems before 11s are not to be settled by emmigrational exter mination or amalgamation, but by sympathetic co-operation between the races. . The Ideal American Girl By REV. AUSTIN K. DeBLOIS, Pastor First Baptist Church, Chicago. rIE young women who move in our so-called "best society," I v 1 * | the society of "dollars and democracy," are a shining mark I | for the tongues and pens of European critics, who denounce them as artificial, superficial, unmotherly, ambitious, loud 1 fjfjrT I va * n - Many of the daughters of wealthy parents are I jffliPm I certainly of this type. Sllll? B 1C cr ' l ' c '' sm f l° cs not apply to the great host of American girls who occupy a humbler station, but are lovely WO indeed in the genlie grace and dignity of their loyal womanli ness. But in our ardent life, with its insidious temptations, even the souls must be on their guard, and we need to remind our girls now and then that the old-time virtues are not outworn. The literary woman, the business woman, the club woman, the so ciety woman, are all right in their way, but the man's woman, human ity's highest ideal, the world's best creation, is the sweet, tender, blessed, glorious little woman who teaches us the true meaning of the divine word "home," and so bewitches us that forever and forever we keep spelling that word with six letters and calling it "heaven." And the gorl who will make home heaven for some best beloved one bv and by is the one who is most intensely loyal now to the members of her own family circle, and especially thoughtful of her mother. Learn how a girl treats her mother and you will know what sort of a wife she will make. 7 he Rustic Vtrrsus By JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, Jr. I like to see the young men from the country, and I tc -l you why. The boy who is brought up iri the /r country is nearer nature, and that has a great deal to Wr do with the character and stamina of a young man. V Of course, I like the city young man, but those jj-rl from the country appeal to me most strongly, perhaps largely because 1 came from the country myself. I The city chap it ay know more of the world, but I 't Fit not the knowledge that benefits him, and he is 1 ® far better off both for business and private life with out it. And you will please take note of the fact that in the long run the country boy generally gets ahead of the city-bred fellow. CAMERON COUNTY PRBSS THURSDAY, MAY 19 1904 THE CARNEGIE DIALECT. When He Resorts to the "Brogue" Andrew Can Get the Best of Them Balled Up. Though Andrew Carnegie's English is singularly elegant and pure, he has at his command a woird Scotch dialect, says the Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Carnegie is a student of Scotch words and idioms. He likes to point out the oddities and freaks of his native tongue. Recently, at a dinner party iu New York, he said to a young woman: "So you think you can understand Scots, eh? Well, then, what do we mean in Scotland when we bay a person is just fish?" "1 don't know. What do we mean?" the young woman asked. "We mean he is a bit of a weed harum scarum," said Mr. Carnegie. "A weed harum-scarum? What is that?" "It is the same as wowf." "But what is wowf?" "Wowf is nook or sal. That is to say, a bit by the cast. Havers, lassie, ha'e ye no Scots at all?" Then Air. Carnegie laughed and ex plained that a weed harum-scarum, and filish, and wowf, and nook, and sal, and by the east all signified one tiling, "crazy." Still Another Case. Kirkland, 111., May 9.—Mr. Richard R. Greenhow, of this place, is another who has been cured of Rheumatism by Dodd's Kidney I'ills. 11c says: "1 had the Rheumatism in my left leg so bad th*t I could not walk over ten or fifteen rods at a time, and that by the use of two canes, and 1 would have to sit or lie down on the ground. The sweat would run down my face with so much pain. 1 could not sleep at night for the pain. 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