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.
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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. I
was in a terrible condition.
"I tried different doctors' medicines but
got worse, till 1 saw an advertisement of
Dodd's Kidney Pills and bought some.
After I had used a few, the pain began
to leave me, so 1 kept right on taking
them and gradually getting better till I
had used in all fourteen boxes and my
Rheumatism was all gone, not a pain or
ache left.
"I can truly say I haven't felt better in
twenty-five years than I do to-day. Dodd's
Kidney I'ills have made a new man of
me."
Unlucky.
Publisher-—Your book is fine up to tho
seventeenth chapter. After that it is
.iiere drivel.
Author—Sir, it is my misfortune, not
•ny fault. Just as X was beginning the
seventeenth chapter, 1 discovered, quite
accidentally, what 1 was driving at.—Puck.
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A Russian newspaper announces that
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We hate pome persons because we do
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An optimist is a person who, if he were
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The slow approach of spring is particu
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The growing popularity of American
"quick lunch" in England should shoot a
gleam of joy over old Kruger's declining
days.— Milwaukee Sentinel.
The importunate lover had just pro
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"Why do men never gossip?" asked the
woman who regards her husband as a
great and good man. "Because," answered
Miss Cayenne, "they are too indolent.
They insist on sending their wives out to
get the news for them."—Washington
Star.
Prof. Brooks, of Hobart college, has dis
covered in all 25 comets. From an astro
nomical point of view this is regarded as
success, but the average business man
would probably ask sneeringly: "How
much did he get for them?"— Boston
CJlobe.
King Edward's wife thinks that the
fourpenee halfpenny meals served to the
workmen in a London factory are lit for
a queen. She ate one recently, and said
that she was delighted with it. The pie
containing four and twenty blackbirds, of
which a famous poet once sang, was not a
part of the banquet, but all the waiters
said, as they tilled her plate: "There is p.
dainty_ dish to set beiore the queen."—
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A preacher who went to a Kentucky
parish where the parishioners bred horses
was asked to invite the prayers of the con
gregation for Lucy Grey. He did so. They
prayed three Sundays for Lucy Grey. On
the fourth he was told he need not do it
any more. "Why," said the preacher, "is
she dead?" "No," answered the man.
"she won the Derby."—Washington Post.
K. C. S. Almanac for 1004.
The Kansas City Southern Railway
Company's Annual Almanac is now ready
for distribution. It contains the usual
monthly calendars, many useful household
hints and information concerning the
Country in Missouri, Arkansas, The Indian
Territory, Texas and Louisiana. Write
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Mo.
War Strategy.
Some one was showing the visitor
around the great navy yard.
"But where is the bottling department?"
asked the visitor.
"The bottling department?" echoed the
escort in surprise.
"Yes, the modern navies arc always bot
tling up something."—Chicago Daily News.
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