9CVVER FROM NIAGARA FALLS.
Three New Companies on the Cana
dian Side Are Arranging to Gener
ate Electricity with Turbines.
Three companies are now working
hard on tho Canadian side of the Ni
agara to prepare for generating elec
trical power from tlie falls. Two of
theso companies are controlled by
American capital, the third exclusive
ly by Canadian and English capital.
All expect to sell their product on the
Canadian side and to distribute pow
er to points as much as 200 miles dis
tant from the falls.
Each company has encountered
some interesting engineering prob
lems in the course of the work. One
company, for example, has had to
plan for a roof of unusual strength
over its power house, because it is
expected that the spray from the falls
in winter will thatch the roof with
five feet nf solid ice.
No part of the work is more inter
esting than that undertaken by the
Canadian company. The penstock, or
fjreat trench, of this company, at the
bottom of which will be placed the
turbines that are to generate the
power, is 1,900 feet from the center of
the Horseshoe falls.
This great trench is to be 150 feet
deep by 400 feet long and 30 feet wide.
The problem presented was to dis
charge the water front the bottom of
this trench after it had passed through
the turbines and done its work.
The engineers decided that in order
to accomplish this a tunnel should be
extended from the bottom of the pen
stock to the center of the Horseshoe
falls. For this purpose a shaft about
tun feet square was sr.nk on the Cana
dian side a little above the falls to a
depth of about 150 feet.
WASH-DAY NOW A PLEASURE.
Virginia Man Connects His Bicycle
with Rotary Washing Machine and
Saves Labor.
H. G. Hitner, a resident of Edinburg,
Va., has been exsreising his inventive
Kenius and the result of his efforts is
that the weekly family wash day, in
stead of being a burden as it is to
most people, is the day he most enjoys
of any of the six whereon man is per
mitted to labor. He is the owner of a
rotary washing machine which he
Beared to his bicycle after the latter
had been suspended in a frame. After
the clothing has been placed in the
machine, with the usual supply of
■water and soap, Harry lights a cigar,
mounts his bicycle and wheels away.
By the time he has pedaled enough
to take him to New Market, if the
wheels were on the ground, the cloth
ing has been washed, he has had an
enjoyable ride, and he and his wife are
correspondingly happy. This is only
one of the many new things that have'
been inaugurated in Edinburg during
the past few months, and it helps to
prove what everybody says about us,
viz.: "The old town is surely on a
boom."
Recently the weather has gotten too
hot for Harry to pedal, so he has at
tached a motorcycle to the machine,
and he now swings in his hammock
and basks in the early morning sun
shine while the motorcycle does the
v. ashing.
Dog Fires Gunpowder.
By the light of a tallow candle, Wil
liam Wolf was engaged in unloading
gun shells at his home in Philadel
phia. Beside him a pointer dog lay
v/atching the operation, occasionally
thumping his tail against the chair
on which rested the candle. Finally
the dog's tail came in contact with the
candle, overturning it and sending it
Into the can in which Wolf had placed
the powder. An explosion followed,
and Wolf was probably fatally burned.
JUST ONE DAY
Free frcm the Slugger Brought Out
a Fa *.
"During tho time I was a coffee
drinker," says an lowa woman, "I was
nervous, had sp«l!s with my heart,
smothering spells, headache, stomach
trouble, liver and kidney trouble, i
did not know for years what made me
have those spells. I would frequently
sink away as though my last hour had
come.
"For 27 years I suffered thus and
used bottles of medicines enough t >
set up n drug store—capsules and pills
and rverything I heard of. Spent lots
of money but I was sick nearly all
the time. Sometimes I was so nervous
1 could not hold a plate in my hands;
and other times 1 thought I would
surely die sitting at the table.
"This went on until about two years
ago when one day I did not use any
coffee and 1 noticed I was not so nerv
ous and told my husband about it. Ho
had been tailing me that it might be
the coffee but 1 said: 'No, I have been
drinking colfee all my life and it can
not be.' But after this I thought I
would try and do without it and drink
hot water. I did tills for several days
but got tired of tho hot water and
went to drinking coffee and as soon
as I began coffee again I was nervous
again. This proved that it was the
coffee that caused my troubles.
"We had tried Postum but had not
made it right and did not like it, but
now I decided to give it another trial
so I read the directions on the package
carefully and made it after these di
rections and it was simply delicious,
so we quit coffee for good and the re
sults are wonderful. Before, 1 could
not sleep, but now I goto bed and
sleep sound, am not a bit nervous now
but work hard and can walk miles.
Nervous headaches are gone, my heart
does not bother me any more like it
did and I don't have any of the smoth
ering spells and would you believe it?
I am getting fat. We drink Postum
now and nothing else, and even my
husband's headaches have disap
peared; we both sleep sound and
healthy now and that's a blessing."
Name given by Postum Co., Barttlc
Creek, Mich.
Look for :he book, "The Road tit
Wellvllle," in each pkg.
!» WESTERN CANADA
THREE DIVISIONS AFFORDING
CHANCE FOR SETTLEMENT.
They Are Specially Adapted to Ranch
ing, Wheat Growing and Mixed
Farming—Many Americans
' Settling There.
Tli? old Romans used to say that Gaul
was divided Into three parts. So is the
Canadian northwest Gaul's divisions
were political; those of western Cana
da's prairies are created by the unerring
hand of nature.
The First Division.
Chiefly because of the elevation of the
country, the absence of large lakes and
rivers, and the operations of the
"Chinook" or Pacific ocean winds,
which readily cross the Rocky moun
tains in southern Alberta through gaps
and passes, the southwestern portion
of the Canadian provinces is regarded as
somewhat arid, and less fertile than
other portions of the country. Al
though this has been a prevailing idea
in the east, it has been left for American
Bottlers who have invaded this district
within the past two or three years to
prove that splendid crops of grain can
be grown on the land which had hitherto
been the feeding ground for the herds of
cattle and bands of horses that ranged
here.
That ranching is carried on most suc
cessfully in other port ions of the prairies
west, just as agriculture is to a limited
extent conducted successfully within
this boundary, is fully established, but
taken as a whole it constitutes a terri
')
A HERD OF CANADIAN SHORTHORNS.
Tory above all others most admirably
adapted to this particular industry.
The buffalo, bunch and other grasses
that grow in profusion in this district
and retain their nutritive properties thft
year round, and the moderate climate of
mid-winter rendered such by the
Chinook winds preventing any consid
erable depth of snow at any time, espe
cially fit the district for the peculiar
methods of the rancher —raising his
herds the year round in the open coun
try.
While there are no large lakes or
rivers in this whole country there are
numerous fast-running streams fed the
year round by melting snows in the
mountains furnishing an abundance of
the coolest and purest water, tlie best
for beast as well as man. The country
has at once an abundance of the best
of food and drink the year round, a clear
sky but little wet or stormy weather and
a favorable climate the year through.
Englishmen and Americans in the
western territories are bringing in their
herds as fast as they can and leasing or
purchasing land in lots from 1,000 to 20,-
000 acres from the Dominion govern
ment. An idea of the growth of the
industry will be gathered from the fact
that in 1899 there were but 41,471 head
of cattle shipped and sold from the
ranches, these figures ran to 05,129 in
1900, and to ICO,OOO in 1903, averaging
?40 per head for the owners. But it
takes a great many ranchers and a large
number of cattle to cover an area of
200,000,000 acres, the area available for
ranching in the Canadian northwest.
It is not at all necessary that large in
vestments should be made at the outset.
Many men commenced with sruall cap
ital and small herds, and have worked
themselves into large herds and great
wealth. There is still in the country
plenty of room for those who desire to
go and do likewise.
Second Part.
The second part of the Canadian
prairies embraces the great wheat grow
ing belt of the country which is easily a
half larger than any other in the world.
It includes about 150.000,000 acres. As
It is comparatively free of broken land,
large lakes and rivers, about 125,000.000
acres of it can be brought under the
plow. Placing a farmer on every half
section 0520 acres), it can comfortably
locate 800,000 farmers or 4,000,000 of an
agricultural community. A glance now
at what the farmers of the territories
are doing will give a better idea of what
can be done in this great wheat-growing
zone. The territorial government re
ports show tha* in 1903 there were raised
10,029.149 bushels of spring wheat off
of 837.234 acres, an average of 19.04
bushels per acre; off 440,062 acres of
oats there were grown 14,179.705 bush
els. an average of 32.17 bushels per acre:
09,067 acres produced 1.741,209 bushels
of barley—24.6s to the acre, and 32,431
acres produced 292,855 bushels of fiax
seed, 9.03 to the acre. As but 1,383,434
acres or a little better than one percent,
of the entire wheat-growing area of the
territories was under crop, a little fig
uring shows 13 per cont. of the entire
country under wheat will raise the 200,-
000,000 that Great Britain annually re
quires from outside countries.
It must not be supposed for a moment
that while this part of the country is
outlined as the especially favorable dis
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904.
trlct for wheat growing, It 1B not good
for mixed operations as well. It is be
cause it is level, has a sufficient rain
fall every year, plenty of snow in the
winter for moisture in the early spring
and favorable climatic conditions the
year round t hat it is specially marked for
this branch of husbandry.
In this part of the country wheat is
king, and lure it is raised in the great
est possible perfection by a combination
of soil and climate in its favor, and the
tendency has been to neglect the more
laborious branches of husbandry for
which the country is equally well
adapted.
As if to cope with the offerings of na
ture, the railway companies are ready
with their railways to haul the grain as
soon as it is relieved from the straw in
the fields by the threshers. Throughout
this entire belt there is an enormous
length of railway mileage, branches are
radiating in every direction from the
trunks until they scarcely leave a grain
field more than six or seven miles from
a road, and they are all required, for in
the fall and early winter the sight of the
trains passing to and from the elevators
at the railway depots makes the entire
country look like one hive of industry.
Free Homestead Lands.
There is yet a large quantity of
government land lor homesteading in
this country, and as in everything
else "the early bird catches the
worm." Those who come first are
first served. When it is preferred to
purchase railway or other company
lands they can be got at from five
dollars per acre up. This section can
not bo better closed than by show
ing practically whit is made by wheat
growing in this district. The average
from the first of operations is 20
bushels per acre. Breaking the
prairie, as first plowed is cailed, is
of course an exceptional expenditure, i
as when it is once done it is
for all time. This costs about s:'.so ;
per acre. After the breaking, plow- |
ins and seeding, harvesting, threshing j
and marketing, all expenses combined J
amount to about $'.25 per acre; that j
is, if a man has everything done it
will cost him $5.25 per acre. If he ;
does the work himself he is earning
wages while producing at that fig- j
ure. Now as the average yield is 20 '
bushels, and the average price 60 cents j
—sl2 per acre—the difference between
the result and cost, $G.75, is the prolit
of grain growing year in and year
out in the great wheat belt of the j
Canadian prairie country. If a man
has a half section of land and puts
half of it, 160 acres, under wheat, '
which is a very common occurrence,
he makes SI,OBO on wheat alone and
should make if he is a capable farm
er enough out of ether crops, sale of
cattle, dairy and other products
keep himself and family the year j
round besides.
The Third Division.
The third division of this great ;
country lies to the north of the wheat j
belt, between it and what is known j
as the forest country. As wheat j
growing Implies the raising of all
cereals, that can profitably be raised j
in the country, the remaining
branches of mixed farming are dairy- ,
ing and the raising of farm stock. ;
It must not be supposed that dividing ■
the prairies in this way is saying that
any one portion of the country pos- ,
Besses better soil than another, for
such is not the case—all districts aro
equally fertile, but the topography j
and climatic influences differ, as well ;
as the conditions for production, j
Ranching and grain growing are car
ried on quite successfully in thin
northern zone; but it is found more
profitable to combine all the features
of the industry. On account of the
land being more broken than in the
southern district, though the soil is
equally fertile, there are not the same
opportunities for extensive operations; ]
and while cattle raising is as profitable
here as elsewhere, different methods :
have to be adopted for their protec
tion, especially in the winter season. |
An authority on the subject ha<
stated that agriculture in any coum- j
try never reaches the minimum of j
development until the farmers
at least proportionately in dairying, !
though the surroundings must always !
determine the extent to which any
feature of the industry may be prose
cuted. It is certainly thea that if
the agricultural possibilities of this
portion of the prairie country I* esti
mated by its adaptability to dairy j
farming even the most skeptical must I
acknowledge they aie unsurpassed in
any country in the world. As inti
mated above, even dairying may b«
successfully carried on in any corner
of the territories, but this zone has
everything to recommend it as the
ideal spot for this branch of the busi
ness.
The mining districts of British
Columbia, whicn consume an immense
lot of dairy products, are close at
hand and always afiord a good mar
ket for buttei, cheese, iwrli, poultry
and eggs.
SAVED FOR THE FISH TRADE
Ha Had Too Much Intellect to Be
"Hove Away" on a
Doctor.
The fixh-man drove into the yard a few
uajs after tiie new .summer residents had"
taken possession of their home, and seeing
an open door lm stepped in anu confronteu
itie unstress ot the house, relates Vouiu's
Companion,
i i Mi' 11 settled, 1 s'pose,'' ho said, agree
ably, allowing his gaze to wander from two
n.ili unpacked trunks to a table loaded with
miscellaneous articles. "Well, take vour
time, take your time; there's plenty of it up
here! 1 understand your husband's a doc
tor ma am!
" ■ e e . i he is," said the summer resident,
who in spite of warnings from city neigh
bors that she had better display no haughti
ness of spirit under questioning, was unable
to put much cordiality into her tone.
Well, now, 1 come near bein'a doctor,"
said tiie fish-man, still with a wandering
gaze. My folks wanted 1 should be one, all
exceptin of au aunt that had money, and
was looked to to help me out financially ff L
took up with a profession. She spent one
summer here, and she made a reg'iar study
of my character an' parts, and at the end of
the season she up an' told my folks tnat
tw'ouldn't do, J must go into business.
" "J hat boy has got too much intellect to
be hove away on a doctor," she said; those
were her very words. Now how would you
like a couple o' good mack'rel all slit up an'
ready for the br'iler?"
UP-TO-DATE DEFINITIONS. |
Selections Which Are Indicative of
the Progress of Modern
Thought.
i From the proof sheets of the new die- j
• tionary the Pittsburg Dispatch quotes the 1
i lollowing:
I'each—A small, domestic fruit, pink in I
I early spring, tied up with a blue ribbon aud
a dimple.
j liore One who talks about his own af- !
; fairs instead ol letting you talk about yours. ]
I ppers- An article of wearing apparel i
much ii use among independent thinkers,
t lint >pher Columbus—A bad medicine
j man, ic :h cursed on Mulberry street.
Symposium—A collection of wise plati- I
> tudes by the same old offenders.
Womanly Woman—One who thinks it is
! very good of men to furnish her with her |
I opinions ready made.
A Conservative—A person possessed of a j
! noble and continuous solicitude for the
| foundations of Society and The Home.
Modern Drama—An obscure form of lit- I
I erature recklessly indifferent to Mother, j
j Home and Heaven.
Latchkey- A curious talisman employed
late in the nineteenth century as a symbol
of female independence; research seems to
indicate that it passed out of use because
of theabsence of pockets in which to carry it.
Voice from Arkansas.
Cleveland, Ark., Augu-t 13 (Special). ■
Nearly every newspaper tells of some won
! Dei tul cure of some form of Kidney Disease
by the Great American Remedy, Dodd s
' Kidney 1 'ills, and this part t.t Arkansas is
I not without its share of evidence that no
I a«e i> too deeply rooted for Dodd * Kidney
I'ills to cute. .
Mr. A. I"., f'arlile, well known and highly
respected here, tells of his cure after nearly
a quarter of a century's suffering. Mr.
('affile says:
"I want to let the public know what 1
think of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I think thej
are the best remedy for sick kidneys ever
made. ,
"I had Kidney Trouble for 23 years and
never found anvtliing that did me so much
good as Dodd's Kidney Pills. I recommend
them to all sufferers." _
There is no uncertain sound about Mr.
C'ariilc's statement, lie knows that Dodd's
Kidney Pills rescued him from a life ot suf
fering and he wants the public to know it.
Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney ills
from Backache to Bright s Disease.
Rasping- Retort.
"My ancestors came over iu ta* Mayflow
er. ».lid the young w oman who boasts.
"Yes," answered Mrs. Paekinhatn. of Chi
cago; "1 understand that travel was very
cheap on that boat." Washington Star.
New Tourist Sleeping Car Service to
California.
On August 15th the Missouri Pacific Hail
way will establish a daily through Tourist
Sleeping Car Line, St. Louis to San Fran
cisco. t rain will leave St. Louis daily 11;S9
p. in. The route will be via Missouri Pacitic
Railway to Pueblo, Colorado, thence via
Denver and Rio Grande to Salt Lake City
and Ogden aud Southern Pacitic to San
Francisco aud Los Angeles. This is the la
mous scenic line of the world—through the
picturesque liocky Mountains. The service
ami accommodations will be up to date and
will be personally conducted.
Very low rates will be in effect from Au
pii«t 15th to September loth via Missouri Pa
cific Railway to the principal Pacitic Coast
points nd return. Also Low Rate Colonist
one way tickets will be sold from September
15th to October 15th For rates, information
and reservation of berths, apply to nearest
representative of the Missouri Pacific Rail
way, or address H. C. Townsend, (j. P. &
T. A., St. Louis. Mo.
A Paris newspaper Roosevelt, Par
ker, Cleveland and Bryan have all been
nominated for president. No wonder France
is alarmed about the increased consumption
of absinthe. —N. Y. World.
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At the.St. Louis Exposition, which is ven
severe upon tiiofeet, remeniberto take ulouj,
a box of Alton's Foot- Kase. a powder tor Hot
Tired, Aching, Swollen Feet. Sold by ali
druggists, Sic. Don't accept a substitute.
A man who has run for office is never very
much afraid of what is Kning to happen to
him when he dies. —N. Y. Press.
Fits stopped free and permanently cured
No iits after first day's use of Dr. Kline'*
Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle &
treatise. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch st., Piiila., Pa.
Occasionally a girl marries * man just to
keep him from hanging around t:ie house
evenings.—Chicago Daily News.
1 am sure Piso's Cure for Consump: i<\
saved n~.y life three years ago.- Mrs. T. i ,
Kobbiiu, Norwich, N. Y*. Feb. 17• 11100.
It's easy for au editor to drop into poetry;
ail he has to do is sit down in his waste
basket. —Chicago Daily News.
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Apparently trifling incidents in womrn's daily life frequently produce
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