GRIM REAPER TAKES RULER OF BELGIUM KING LEOPOLD PASSES AWAY AS PHYSICIANS HOPED FOR HIS RECOVERY. PRINCE ALBERTIS NEW RULER Dead Monarch Will Always be Re membered for His Escapades and the Tragedies that Have Be fallen His Family. Brussells. —King Leopold is dead, his aged and wasted body be ing unable to stand the strain put up on it. The collapse occurred sudden ly and at a moment when the doctors seemingly had had the greatest hopes for his recovery. King Leopold's recent illness dated from about two weeks ago, when he was compelled to take to his bed, suf fering from rheumatism. It was thought at the time that he had a stroke of apoplexy, for he was par alyzed on one side and the paralysis seemingly spread over the entire body. His confinement brought about intestinal obstruction, for which an operation had been performed. Kit j!" iiEtv.Sw Leopold of Belgium. Prince Albert, son of the late Count I'hilip of Flanders, succeeds to the throne. The new king is 34 years of age. He married Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria in 1900. The royal pair have three children, two boys. Prince Leopold, aged eight: Prince Charles, aged six, and Princess Marie Jose, ayed three. It has been learned that the only person at the royal bedside when the king died besides the physicians was Baroness Vaughan, and it has just been announced by the chaplain at Laeken that the king was married secretly according to religious rites to the baroness by whom he had two children. The chaplain says it. is not true that the last sacraments were ad ministered to the king in the presence of the whole royal family as 'vas offi cially stated. The ceremony was per formed in the presence of the bar oness alone. Sketch of King's Career. Leopold 11. KlnK of the iie'Kinns. wan !><>rn April 9. IX3O. Mis fatbel was Prince 1,,-opold of Su\e-Col(uric. an uncle »if the late Queen Victoria. Hi* rn >ther was a daughter utch rule, and I.eopcld II succeed ed to the throne In 1565. At the a«e of IX lie was marrl.d t'i Marie Hmriettft, daughter ~f Hie Archduke lotteph of Aus tria. <»n his majority he entered the He|- Klan senate Muring thv following live \ ill's lie traveled in Spain, Morocco, Al giers. Egvpt. Palestine, India and China, earning tie distini Hon of Being the most traveled monarch In Kuropr when he be came ruler of Meigium. Leopold's son and he!.» died in lKfi'j nt the age of ten. Thus Prlncw Albert, of Leopold arid *»n < too »S tumor Wivs there A,MS in that ..f Ku • !i.|| Qu- -II Henrii'tte died s- vnul Sl it, -tie nd builder of empire, tlnan . ier and * Main of industry, ..ne of tin lit. i har.u ters In hl»tory. King l.eop^kl Si tt* CvWlalh Pocitr B inks. t' Hi IK I I > ) ii'i iB it fett'lkt ill It | Ml to Btt.fi I from that which the king showered on her. When the unhappy queen heard her husband had given to this woman her favorite string of pearls, she tried to com mit suicide by choking herself with a string not much larger than that on which the pearls were strung. Hut it was the Kongo that gave to Leo pold the bulk of his great fortune. On certain well established data it ha. c ' been reckoned that the king's personal profits were not less than $50,000,000 before the Belgian government anexed the Kongo Free State and paid him J10,000,000 for his private territory, the infamous crown domain. The Berlin congress of 1885 handed over the Kongo to Leopold to adminis ter. The world applauded his magna nimity, and forgot the Kongo for the next 20 years. in 1831 Leopold applied to the Belgian parliament for a loan of $5,000,000, with out interest, to be spent on the Kongo, producing at the same time the cele brated will by which he bequeathed the state to the Belgian people. The gov ernment readily granted the loan. For the next live years the country was be ing filled with arms, an army was being raised and drilled by European officers, stations and a railway were being built. Nothing in the way of preparation for the carrying of the great plot escaped Leopold's genius for organization He proceeded slowly and secretly, biufflntj I European statesmen, lioodwlnklnp his own people, lulling the conscience of Eu rope through his press bureau, isolating the Free State from inquisitive Euro peans, violating In the most brazen man ner the provisions of the Berlin act which provided for free trade in the state. He set aside for himself the great crown domain, a territory ten times as large as Belgium. Every human being and every scrap of wealth within that domain belonged to Leopold. The Kongo ou .side the crown domain was divided up among concessionaire companies, who were given an almost free hand and were accorded the protection of the native army to "stimulate" the natives in gath ering rubber. The king held the major ity of the shares in these companies, which brought to him many millions in dividends, actual blood money, wealth won at the cost of Innumerable lives and untold suffering on the part of the black slaves. And the king continued to draw profits from these companies until his death, although the profits lessened with the years through exhaustion and due to the bettering conditions through count less exposures by missionaries, consuls and travelers. ZELAYA RESIGNS PRESIDENCY Fearing Wrath of the People Nicara guan Retires Behind Armed Guard —Sends Message to Congress. Managua, Nicaragua. Jose Santos Zelaya has resigned from the presidency of Nicaragua. Apparently there was no other course for him to take. The people were at last aroused. The guns of the revolutionists threat ened. The warships of the United States lay in Nicaraguan ports. Managua lias been seething for ! days. The spirit of the revolt h,as | spread even to the gates of the palace. | Zelaya has surrounded himself with :an armed feu aril. Unchecked, the pop | ulace have marched through the ! streets, crying for the end of the old, | proclaiming the new regime. Accompanying his resignation, Ze | laya sent the following message to 1 congress: ' j "The painful circumstances in ; I which the country is plunged call for ! acts of abnegation and patriotism on i the part of gopd citizens, who are the J witnesses of the oppression of the re ' public by the heavy hand of fate. The 1 country Is staggering under a shame- Uss revolution, which threatens the nation's sovereignty, and a foreign na tion unjustly intervenes in our af | fairs, publicly providing the rebels j with arms, which has only resulted in i their being defeated everywhere I through the heroism of our troops. "To avoid further bloodshed, and ' I for the reason that the revolutionists j have declared that they would put | down their arms when I surrender the executive power, I hereby place in the i hands of the national assembly the abandonment of the remainder of my r term of office, which is to be tilled by ■ a substitute of their choosing, with the hope that this will result in good . to Nicaragua, the re-establishment of ! peace, and particularly the suspension j of the hostility of the United States. ; to which 1 do not wish to give a pre text for intervention." f 1 Hluellelds, Nicaragua. The Amer ican grip on Mlueflelds was tight ened when Commander Shipley of the i cruiser lbs .Moines, on the authority , of Rear Admiral Kimball, in command | of the American forces in Nicaragua, j issued a proclamation formally stating r j that no lighting would be allowed at ' lihxllflds Thorn;.* I' Moffat, tl,e J 1 American consul here, delivered the message to \dolfo liiaz, provisional | secretary of state, to be forwarded to 1 tien. Estrada at Kama. Washington, I). ('. Because Amer icans In Nicaragua are thought to In in grave danger (he state d<- hurtnienl. at the direct Instance of | President Tuft, has issued orders by | > .iblt to \diairal Kimball ut Panama 1 'or the Buffalo with 'on marines, to •in'' -d at iincc to Corintu. Tin action came as a result of a notllieatiou from the oftl< ial repr< I seutative of the t'nltcd States a' I Man., u.i the N'lcuruKuau capital, lha' Zelaya has issued daggers to his jrrieie! fur isi on American lit lain* i Tb« thri.a.-i against American citizens I *«' i• i-iiiuiiiunlcMted to Consul Leon | rd and \ .. Con ~| rulil. ru ut Man I i' mTi..'" c'dc,^'uncut' " s alter Fimiliti; L rtja. Children. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1909. SOUNDS LIKE A FAIRY TALE THE FARMERS OF CENTRAL CAN ADA REAP WHEAT AND RICHES. TTp in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the prov inces that compose Central Canada have such a quantity of land suitable | for the growth of small grains, which j grow so abundantly, and yield so hand somely that no fear need be feared of a wheat famine on this Continent. The story reproduced below is only one of the hundreds of proofs that could be produced to show the results that may be obtained from cultiva- j tion of the lands in these provinces, j Almost any section of the country will j do as well. With the country recently opened by the Grand Trunk Pacific, the latest of j the great transcontinental lines to en- J ter the field of the development of the 1 Canadian West, there is afforded added J ample opportunity to do as was done ' in the case cited below: To buy a section of land, break it up and crop it, make $17,550 out of | the yield and $lO,BBO out of the increase j of value all within the short period of two years, was the record estab- j lished by James Bailey, a well known farmer within a few miles of Regina. Mr. Bailey bought the G4O acres of : land near Grand Coulee two years ago. ! He immediately prepared the whole section for crop and this year has 600 acres of wheat and 40 acres of oats. The wheat yielded 19,875 bushels, and the oats yielded 4,750 bushels. The j ■whole of the grain has been market- ! ed and Mr. Bailey is now worth $17,550 from the grain alone. He bought the 1 land at SIS an acre, and the other J day refused an offer of $35 an acre, ! just a $l7 advance for the time of his j purchase. The land cost $11,320 in ! the first instance. Here are the fig- i ures of the case.—Land cost, 640 [ | acres, at $lB, $11,320. Wheat yielded | j 19J575 bushels, at 81 cents a bushel, ! $16,655. Oats yielded 4,750 bushels ' at 28 cents a bushel, $855. Offered J for land, 640 acres at $35 an acre, $22,40 C. Increase value of land, $lO,BBO. Total earnings of crop, $17,550, togeth er with increase in value of land a to tal of $28,540. | It is interesting to note the figures !of the yield per acre. The wheat yielded 33'/£ bushels to the acre, and oats 118.7 bushels to the acre. The fig ] ures are a fair indication of the aver age throughout the district. Agents of the Canadian Government in the different cities will be pleased to give you information as to rates, etc. Every Little Bit Helps. The lecturer raised his voice with ! emphatic confidence. "1 venture to as | sert," ho said, "that there isn't a man in this audience who has ever done anything to prevent the destructL our forests." A modest-loolting man in the back of | the hall stood up. "I —er —I've shot woodpeckers," he said. —Everybody's Magazine. Anti LaGrippe Remedy. It is now claimed by several west ern medical men that a whiskey mix ture obtainable at any drug store is j an absolute preventative and quick ! cure for had colds and lagrlppe. To j make this powerful system tonic add one ounce of compound fluid balmwort and two ounces of glycerine to a half pint of good whiskey. Dose, a table spoonful three to six times a day. Coming to Terms. Possible Boarder —Ah, that was a j ripping dinner, and if that was a fair j sample of your meals, I should like to 1 come to terms. 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Never did I spend 50c to bet- I ter advantage, for the first and sec ond days I noticed a remarkable 1 change, and now at the end of the i third week I have my pretty blue | j eyed, rosy cheeked, cooing baby well again. I am safe in saying he is perfectly cured and the cure was sure ly something remarkable. Your Soap and Ointment did in three weeks what ! everything else I tried failed to do in ; four months. My baby was positively disfigured, now his complexion Is all j ! right again. Mrs. H. F. Clemmer, Sunbury, Pa. Now and Then. 1 He Is a capitalist now in an Ohio ; town, but he was not always thus. He has progressed along various lines, and one mark of his progress is the open-back shirt, a comparatively mod ern Invention. To this he is yet new, and recently commented upon it to a friend who was in his room while he was dressing. "Look at me," he said, sticking his head through the shirt, "when I same to this town I hadn't a shirt to my back, and now—now, I haven't a back to my shirt." $lOO Reward, $lOO. The readers of this paper will bo pleased to learn that there Is (it least one dreaded disease that science Las been able to cure In all its stages. and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is th«- only positive 1 cur»* now known to iiio medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cora is taken in ternally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and agist ing nature In doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith In its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it tails to cure. Send for list of testimonials Address F. J. CHUNKY & CO.. Toledo. O. Bold by all Druggists. 75c. Itafce liuii'd Family Fills for constipation. Indorsing Shackleton's Claim. Grimm —I'm inclined to have con siderable confidence in Explorer Shackleton. Primm —Why? Grimm —He may be a little too posi tive in asserting that he didn't dis cover the south pole, but I'm ready to give him the benefit of the doubt. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tabbed and Filed. Mrs. Crawford —You must love your ; husband very deariy If you save all ; the letters he sends you while you're i in the country. Mrs. Crabshaw —I'm keeping them i for comparison, my dear. I'm sure to catch him in a lie. —Judge. A I.I.EM'S I.fSfi HA I.SAM Is the old r« liable cough remedy. Found In every drug st«.round in practically every home. For sale by all druggists, 2oc, 60c and 11.00 bottles. We help ourselves when we help , others. —W. J. Bryan. Mrs. Wlnslow's Koothlngr Kyrnp. For children teething, softeu* the gums, reduce* In flkmm»t!uu, ailay * pain, cure* wind colic. 23c a bottle. Better a poor man at large than a rich man In jail. PUTNAM C«4« more food. tinoM.f and taaUr color* tntii mi o ■W •armonf ■iljtoul rlpeing iMrt Writ* tor IrM MM Llxxw^Sewwa CWuwsts \Ue System EJfecXuaWy Dispe\s colds oxxd Heado&hes due\o CowsVxpaVxow; Ac\s Tvo\\xvo\\y, acte\v\xVy as a LaxoAwe. Best Jot MeixWowven. ax\d(M& rexi— axvd o\d. To get vVs bervfcJvcAoA eJJ©c\s, a\ways b\iv Xhe Gewuva&. manufactured by tKc CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS one size onlv. regular once 50* per bottle, j DR. J. D. KELLOGG'S' ASTHMA I Remedy for the prompt relief of Asthma and Hay Fever. Ask your druggist for it. Write lor FREE SAMPLE. NORTHROP & LYMAN CO. Ltd., BUFFALO, N. Y. 1 WANTED ISJIFDIATKLY— RAILnAY HAIL CI.KKkS. ITS TOM HOL'HK KMFLOYKEH. bpring examinations everywhere. MOO to tlflOO. Steady work. Short hour*. Annual vacation with full'pay. Salary twice monthly. Thousands to be appointed during 1910. Country and City residents equally eligible. 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GOSHEN, INDIANA and are of greater value than any $125,000 net from 1200 acres grapes. $15,000 from 22 acres peaches. $3,200 from 20 acres raisins, in the San Joaquin Valley, California A cow and an acre of alfalfa will earn 1120 a year in the San Joaquin Valley. Grapes will yield from sioo to 1 300 per acre; peaches and apricots, $l5O to $5005 while oranges will produce from $250 to $5OO. and in many instances more than $lOOO an acre. There are ten million arable and irrigable acres here. You still may buy unimproved land for $5O an acre. Ten acres are enough to comfortably support a small family. Twenty acres afford a fine living, with money in the bank. Forty acres should make you rich. You pay from one-fourth to ono-| third down, balance runny run be paid fur cmt of the crop*. Alnrnst anything can be raised In the Ban Joaquin country— orange* ami Wheat, tins and apples, delicate grapes and hardy potatoes. Products of the temperate and semi-tropic zones nour ish side by side. I'leul y of Miner for Irrigation drawn from the near-by Sierra snows. It IN mm} tor one to make it Hurt. I.and be - I tween the rows can tie used, while or ! chard Is young, for many proiltahle Crops. The point is to iiiuke every square font lienr ■ornellilnK. Wluil ■nine farmer* have iliinri Frank Thomas, of Pfiißo, Pal. bought twenty acre* of land live years ago He had but l.'loo to start on. To day his place is putd for and h* has an Income of over a year. William Hhrayer It. P. I>. 7. Fresno. Cal. bought bis tirst ten arris six years ago. Now owns xlxtv acres ull p ild for. and refuses JU.OOO for bis place. M K Tnrppy, of Fresno, owns'vlne yard of 1 200 aires from which lie takes an annual rirnlit of JILT, oiKi on the Harold estate twenty-two acres of peaches yielded a 115.00 a crop FADELESS DYES #• «• Ow. atwch tnt Mil C*lor«. MOHROr DRUG CO . Qulnar. ////no/a WESTERN CANADA What Governor Densest, off Illinois. Biout It: »n, of Illinolf*. owns a rm )nnd la Saskatchewan, Canada. Ho has said in tu interview: "An an American I am delightful to aee the re markable progroi* of Western Canada. Our people aro flocking acroas the boundary in thoa> sands. an.ll hare net ret met one who admitted ho had mn-te a raintake. They are all doing well. There in scarcely a com mnnity in tiio Middle or Wentern State* that haa reaentutivo in Manitoba, wan or Alborta." -hiw million Bushels of Wheat in 1909 Western Canada field crope fo-» TJQI MlWiitt 19U9 will easily yield to tho farm ' Ejpjßß *r 91 70.090.600.00 in rasli. I Free Homesteads of 1 GO acres, Jf'Vv ■rXSS BfMJ.P r e-emptlons of 100 acres f( UL fifi ?t $3.00 ait acre. Railway and | ZmiZ* fiX. J Companies have land for sale I? 1 Jl'i at reasonable prices. Many fnrm ft'-'/to era have paid for their land out ii'K mm °* proceeds of one crop. fit J?*SL . . Splendid climate, srood schools. ralhvny facilities, low '"t * freight rates, woml. water and tiiJrm/PJsSf/ftilv lumber easily obtained. 1 r pamphlet "Last Best West.** • SM Particulars as to nuitable location rlFljJSfxma * n( * f Puttiers' rate, apply to i'l'i Jm'l IV-nfl Nup't ImmiKration. Ottawa. /ft 11 \yH uu *' or Canudian Gov't Agent. Wm H - M - WILLIAMS m rm l fk\ Iril Law ® u,,din ° Toledo, Ohio BrW ' 'fllMLl (CTse address nearest yon.) fl) PILES "I have suffered with piles for thirty six years. One year ago last April I be gan taking Cascarets for constipation. In i the course of a week I noticed the piles began to disappear and at the end of;.'six | weeks they did not trouble me at all. Cascarets have done wonders for me. I am entirely cured and feel like a new man." George Kryder, Napoleon, O. Pleasant, Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. I 10c, 25c, 50c. Never sold in bulk. The fron tline tablet stamped CC C. Guaranteed to cure or your money back. 920 DEFIANCE Cold Wafer Starch makes laundry work a pleasure. 16 oz. pky. 10* ne aTFIITA W»uoiK.rolfman,W«A {PATENTS srs^^srisss W. N. U., CLEVELAND, NO. 51-1909. Carson Heed. Reedley. Cnl., from • twenty-acre crop or BulUna rulalna netted {3,200. I know tbl* Miller from end to end. I have seen crops planted and harvest ed in every one of its counties. I have Interviewed farmers, ranch) rs and mer chants. I have collated the testimony of orop experts. All this valuable Information Is con tained In the Sun Jo.uiuin Valley l\«d folder Imied by the Santa Ke Railway. Write for It. KlvinK full name and n.l - 1 will also send you our immi gration Journal, Thu Kartli, aix month* free. The Santa F" emplovs me to hel|» yettle up Its Southwest Hues. The pany has no land to sell, hut I will Kindly refer your Inquiry to rellabla land owners who liave. I.OIT fnrr* are offered by the Pantai IV dallv Comfort able tourist le. per* and chair car* The Journey also inajr he made «| other times for a r- nson nlde cost. Bantu Fe totirl*t »crvl<-o t» San Krunclseo is quickest. C. L. SEAGRAVFS, Crorral Coloniiiliao A(«a* A. T A S. F. Ry, Sitlem llSORiil«| ticluni* Ckut|*> 7