THE SCBANTON TBIBUNEr SATtifeDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1896. 0 BONDERS OF THE QUEEN'S DOMAIN Stncthlng Abort the Wonderful Orala Fields of Maaitoba. WHERK MARVEL FOLLOWS MARVEL Wheat Yieldlni Fiay-lhree Bushels to th Acre and Weighing Sixty-four Fouadi to the Bushel Is No Eicep tioa ia This Fertile Bed Kiver Valley. fecial Correspondence of The Tribune. Brandon. N. W. T.. Sept. 15. Hegina. though the capital of the Northwest Territories, with a population of 2,500, Would hardly fret Justice done It by the general run of traveler, for it has no special beauty of situation to recom mend it. Its striking feature Is loneli ness and Immensity. The country sur rounding: it for about twenty-live miles is known as the "Kegina plain." and While It looks barren and desolate. It is Bald to contain some of the best soil to be found in the dominion for growing wheat. It Is a clay loam, often black In color, not less than two feet, and often fifteen feet deep. In wet weather it la very sticky, and Inclined to cake on the surface. This treeless pluln extends westward as far as the "Dirt Hills," which is the northward extension of the great Missouri coteau, as seen rising tin the horizon In a dark blue Hue. As we travel eastward we find our selves coursing over an apparently boundless tract of undulating, swelling, and flower-scented prairie, our vision, only limited by the horizon, which plays deceptive tricks. Despite the rate we are traveling, we Beeni to be no further advanced on our Journey today than wo were yesterday: the stations ure so similar, so uniform in distance and style, and each stretch of prairie Is so much like the one that follows It, It Is difficult to realize from the features of the landscape that the train is making any headwuy. Still, there Is a fascina tion rather than monotony In this re markable prairie ride. After leaving this capital town, in six teen miles we stop at Hnlgonic, where is another of the Canadian experimen tal farms devoted cliielly to grain grow inglor wo are soon to enter the great wheat-growing districts, Qu'Appelle, Indian Houd, und Urandon. Since leav ing lU'glnu. we have been traveling on an up grade, instead of a level pluln, rising 200 feet In twenty-five miles, and in. eight miles additional, we are 375 feet higher than when we left the great lU'glna plains. IN THE WHEAT BELT. Qu'Appelle is a vigorous new town of l.MW population situated amidst small bluffs of light timber. It is a supply end shipping point for a large section of country and the supply depot for the Qu'Appelle Indian agency. There ure several Indian reservations in tills vi cinity and an important Catholic Indian mission and school established by the Jesuits in the (I f tiff under the care of Father Laconibe. Here are two hun dred Indian children varying in age from ten to eighteen years. The boys are taught a trade and the girls sew ing, knitting and household work, and thoroughly fitted, many of them, for domes tie servants. It is said these In dian children show great excellence In Writing as compared with the whites. Two miles west of the town is St. John's college governed by the Itlshop of the Diocese. Here the pupils ure taught farming, the premium charged 'being from fifty to one hundred pounds n year. At the farm connected with the college, stock of every description is kept. Near at hand is the Edgerly estate of H.ooO acres. This is an old post of the Hudson Hay company. Fort Qu Appelle is situated a few miles distant on the "Pishing Lakes," six In number In all about twenty miles long, with an average width of one mile; - they extend along the valley for twen ty mlleg. Not only Is good fishing found here, but good "chicken" shoot ing all along the river and valley. The land during the next ten miles to Indian Herd is a rolling prairie, dotted with bluffs and the soil Is black loam and clay subsoil, the road tra versing several large wheat farms the Canadian Alliance farm, the Sunbeam farm, these being portions of Lord Itrassey's colony, also the great "Bell Farm" which embraces one hundred square miles of land or 61,000 acres. The town of Indian Head itself lies within the farm boundaries. This farm is a veritable manufactory of wheat. Here the work Is done with an almost military organization, ploughing by brigades and reaping by divisions. Here wheat is cultivated on the same stupendous scale as on the famous Dal vmple and other bonanza farms we visit il in North Dakota, along the line uf tin Northern Pacific railway. LARGE SCALE FARMING. Think of a farm where the furrows are ordinarily four miles long and also of a country where such a thing is possible. To plow one furrow outward and return la a half day's work for a man and a team. This farm was laid out in 18S2, by Major Bell, at which i he was 200 miles from the nearest rail, ad station. Here are 6,500 aires devoted to wheat which produce from thirty to thirty-four bushels of wheat to the acre. Major Bell claims that wheat can be raised here with profit at twenty-five to thirty cents per aushel, the yield varying in different seasons about ten per cent. The neat square stone cottages of the farm laborer, and the immense barns and collection of other buildings about the headquarters near the railroad station. make a respectable village, there being also a church, a hotel, a tlour mill, and uf course, a grain elevator. As we rode along, harvesting was being done by the regular staff of laborers, increased by, various Indians. At the Kxperl- ental farm here are numerous belts of young trees, which were planted and sown round the farm three years ago and are growing so rapidly as soon to afford complete shelter. The growth of the belts of timber throughout the prairie cannot be too much encourag ed. Beside taking away the bleak ap pearance of some parts, it helps ma terially to equalize the climate. A fifty mile run brings us to Broad View, a railroad divisional point sit uated at the head of "Weed Lake," with population of 600. Near here is a reservation of Cree Indians, who visit the station on the arrival of trains, the braves being under the care of the mounted police. Here the squaws sell polished buffalo horns, millions of which are said to be bleaching on the prairies. The Indians color these horns black by some secret process and pol ish them until they shine, and then mourtt them in various forms, an art yet undiscovered by the white man. GOOD GAME PRESERVES. In the next 131 mites to Brandon we ?ross a rolling or undulating prairie, lotted with fifteen stations and occu pied by prosperous farmers, of which these thriving villages at frequent In tervals bear evidence. Their prosperi ty Is particularly noticable as we ap proach the district of Manitoba, which we enter after leaving Fleming, 75 miles west of Brandon, joining the dis trict of Assinlboia which lies along the American border. The railway build ings at these stations are uniform, con sisting of an attractive station house for passengers and freight, a great round water tank, cottages for the sec tion men, and the never ending grain elevators: tall, solid structures always telling the same story. ' All the wayfrom Broadview to Bran don ponds and underbrush are fre quent, and afford excellent opportuni ties for sport. Here water fowl and prairie chicken are specially abundant iiu buiii(7 lunula neon, nnu nil occa sional prairie wolf. Every minute or two we see broods of, chickens rising from the grass startled by the passing train, while ducks, wild geese and cranes and also the great white pelican are seen. Sportsmen drop off at these various stations. All along during the day the alka line lakes glisten like Snow in the sun light. Alkali exists in the surface soli In places through the prairies and we see either dry beds of soda or ponds of water with broad white alkali borders. In reading over the game laws, we find that the Canadians are under similar- restrictions as are our American sportsmen. It is a closed season in Manitoba from January 1 to October 1 for elk, deer, moose, caribou, reindeer, antelopes or their fawns. From De cember 1 to September 16, for all kinds of grouse, including prairie chickens, pheasants and partridges, and from May 15 to October 1. the bear, sable, muskrat, and several other animals. No description of game can at any sea son be hunted or shot, or caught on Sunday. Every person not a resident of Manitoba must pay $25 for a license to hunt game, but the guest of any resident may have a three days' penult without charge. In the Northwest ter ritory, elk, moose, and caribou deer are restricted for six months and under no circumstances can any one person kill more than six head in one season. The building of the Canadian Pacific rail road has driven all big game into the Interior and hunters to have what they call a "sure thing" must penetrate the primeval forests northwards. BRANDON TOWN. Brandon is beautifully situated on high ground at the crossing of the As sinibolne liver, and Is the market town for an extensive country north and south. It Is only thirteen years old, but has a population of 6,000 and Is the sec ond city In Importance in Manitoba and between Vancouver and Winnipeg. It Is well laid out with excellent paved streets and has many handsome build ings. It Is the distributing market for an extensive and well settled grain country. In fact. It is the largest grain market in Manitoba. It has five grain elevators, besides flouring and saw mills. The grain elevators have a ca pacity of 310.000 bushels. It Is, too, a divisional point and also nn Itrrportant railroad center north and south. From here is a complete network of the Ca nadian Pacific branches, extending along the International boundary above Dakota, and leading to the fertile dis tricts -of the Sum Is river, and coal dis trict to Estevan. on the Soo Pacific line, which connects the Canadian Northwest with the Middle and Northwestern states of the I'nion. It Is also the west ern terminus of the Manitoba division of the Northern Pacific railway. At Brandon the standard time changes from Mountain to Central time, which is one hour earlier as we go east. Here is another experimental farm under the rare of Dominion offlcluls. The amount of good that these experi mental farms are doing throughout the Dominion Is Incalculable; not only at the present time, but in years to come, the results obtained from them will be seen and appreciated. In so extensive a domain, soils of different qualities are to be met with and the experiments made and results obtained enable the new settler to start In uiidorstamllng ly, selecting the variety if seed lust adapted for his particular soil as pre viously ascertained by experienced ag riculturalists. Here In this deep, black soil Is grown the "Hard Ued Fyfe" wheat, the most famous of all the vari eties of wheat. Every endeavor is made to obtain a wheat equal In quality to "Red Fyfe," which will ripen curlier. Many early varieties have been obtain ed, but they do not come up to the standard of Red Fyfe. Over two hun dred varieties of wheat alone ure being tested, besides, about as many of oats, barley, rye, and Indian corn. Think of this! Fodder corn was grown here last year yielding twenty-five tons to the acre. Aside from monstrous yields of oats, rye, barley and llax. gigantic pota toes, and almost everything that can be grown In a temperate climate are here produced in the greatest yields and perfection without an appreciable drain upon the soli. Fertilizers are not util ized on the great wheat fields of the northwest. From the Brandon experi mental farm this spring C0.000 young trees were distributed to farmers throughout the country In lots of one hundred. To the prospects of Bran don no one can set limits, for a vast and must extraordinary fertile country is tributary to It. ON THE WAY. Proceeding on our Journey eastward, the horizon only limits the view and as far as the eye can reach on either Bide the prairie is dotted with newly made farms, with great black squares, where the sod has Just been turned by the plough, or with fields of grain, grain stacks, and farm houses, or with the short, sweet prairie grass, studded with brilliant flowers which cover the land on both sides of the train as with a carpet ever changing In color, that has never been cropped. We passed several wheat fields where the cutting was finished and thresh ing was in progress, the click of the binder being heard on all sides. Some of this wheat was In perfect condition, well and handsomely stacked. In some fields the wheat was In a damp condi tion, owing to the stacks being badly built and unthatched, and in other fields the standing wheat was so lodged as to be impossible to cut it with the reaper, and it was thereupon suffering from over-ripeness nnd want of attention and help to gather it. An Interesting sjght, never before wit nessed by us, was for a hundred miles the thousands upon thousands of stacks, as far as the eye could see, of wheat in all condtions ready for threshing and shipment. Owing to the enormous Increase over last year's yield (say some thirty per cent.), there was a lack of help to gather It and the farmers were then sending calls for men. and according to the Winnipeg morning papers, some five thousand people passed through the city west ward, over the Central Pacific railway this autumn to gather the "waving grain." Well may Consul Taylor say, In speaking of the wheat fields of Manitoba. "The future wheat area of this continent lies north of the inter national boundary line between the United States and Canada." THE TOPOORAPHY. In describing the topography of this country the Dominion side of the "Continental Divide" we must say "tip south and down north." The read er should bear in mind that from this divide, or water shed, the waters How northward and downward Into the Hudson Bay ami Arctic Ocean. The drainage of the "Red River Valley" runs northward and downward. This valley, once a great ocean bed. com mences with Fargo In the ITnited States and extends northward to Win nipeg, and hundreds of miles further northward, growing broader and broader with each mile. The farther north we go, or lower down the Hud son's Bay valley we reach, the black noil, or mould, the organic vegetable deposit become n heavier and deeper as the area liecomes wider. It is safe to sny that were the population of this province of Manitoba as dense as is that of Dakota and Minnesota, in the production of cereals, Manitoba, with Its broadened area, would excel either of those states. Already with a popu lation of 200.000 souls, including only 24.000 individual farmers. Manitoba has this year raised sixty millions bushels of wheat, half of which is the noted Red Fyfe. AV'heat Is being raised a thousand miles north in Peace River county, a tributary of the great McKenzie river In Lat. 55 degrees, 5 minutes north. We were shown grain In the office of C. N. Bell, secretary of the Grain and Pro duce Exchange. Winnipeg, that was sown In Peace River county on May 2, and harvested on August 29. yielding thirty-four bushels an acre and weigh ing sixty-four pounds to the bushel or six pounds higher than the standard. According to the government report, Manitoba wheat will averase twenty seven bushels of hard wheat to the acre, practically free from smut. The seasons here are so short that the seed Is sown when frost is In the ground or only enough frost Is out to receive the kernel, which is often sowed through puddles of water and furrows soaked with it, consequently, the roots are kept moist all summer and little rain is needed, the hot sun bringing out the crop juiickly. One Bolssevaln far mer got 2,278 bushels of wheat from forty-three acres, or 53 bushels an acre and his oats yielded one hundred and thirteen bushels per acre. On the Man itoba penitentiary farm, the wheat averaged forty bushels and oats sixty bushels per acre. The reader can have but little concep tion of the beauty of the country through which we are passing with its fields of golden grain portions of it standing and ready for the sickle; others being cut and made ready for the binders; others again being placed in shocks for curing, preparatory to being stacked and housed; and others again leading In huge loads to the stock yards; the whole presenting a scene of rural animation which Is rarely seen, and must be seen to be appre ciated. The longer we roam among these seas of ripened grain, the more we are Impressed with the fact that this region, already a great wheat mart, is destined to become the chief granary of the world. But we are told "the half has not been told" and further discoveries may appear next week. J. E. Richmond. DRAMATIC GOSSIP. Coquilin Is a millionaire. Frank Punlels Is ati years old. The Vulloan contains a theater. Klaw and Erlanger employ 4U0 players. New York has three Jewish theaters. "The Second Mrs. Tanqueruy" ll in Rome. Not one of the Bostonlani is a Bos toniun. Sumlow is the happy father of a daugh ter. Bernhardt has been photographed 1,000 times. Comic opera Is the bill at seven New York theaters. Bernhardt will act Magdalen In Bovlo s "Christ." 'A Crown of Thorns" has not made a hit in London. O. W. Couldfock has Joined Wilton Lntkaye'H company. WIlKnon" has been given 1,100 perform ances in Lonilon. James H. Mackie will be seen in "Lit tle Jack Horner." An, Iran's new operetta is entitled "Mon. sler Lohcnsrln." Laurit Kurt claims that she employed a valet two years ago. i:!y n liympton will be seen In Keith's vaudeville theaters. Frederick Paiiliilng Is reciting In the houses of New York's "400." "Arizona Joe" 1ms been played by an English company eighteen years. Anthony Hope's "Heart of the Princess Osni" It to tie dramatized. Arthur Nikiscli is the best paid of all Eiiroean conductors l,Vto a year. Ada Hehun played Lady Gay Spanker In "Loudon Assurance" last week. Dr. N'eltzel declares that the Germans ire the most musical nation in the world. Jessie Honslelle, Joseph Dowling and Myi.i Davis will be seen in "The Grout Northwest." Louisville has never seen Duse, Tree, Willard, Nctlursole, Hare, Coquelln or Jlounet-Sully. In Italy there are more theaters in pro portion to population than in any other country. Aiiclina Pattl Is to sing at Nice the leail Ing part in Gaston Pollonais' new opera, "1 lolores." lie Kuvpn nnd Smith's "Mandarin" was given at I'Minbui'gh, Scotland, for copy right purposes. Victor Herbert has submitted an opera to the BostoniansT They illil the "Bohe mian Girl" in Xew York last week. Gustavo S.ilvlni, the second son of Toinass Salvini, has been Beting at Na ples with great success in "The Merchant of Venice." Mrs. Putter v.'lll be seen hero in "Jo seph of Canaan," a play that was turned down by England's play censor. Bellew will act the title role. "The Tiber's Refused" is a Rome at traction. The "refused" are the drowned which the river rejects and throws up on its shores. The cast of Klaw and Erlanger's pro duction of "Jack and the Beanstalk" em braces Donnelly and Girard, Hollins sis ters and Madge Lessing. The only theater In the country that has a tailor shop Is B. F. Keith's new theater In Boston. One hundred and fif teen attaches are employed here the year round, and three tailors are kept 'busy keeping their uniforms in perfect repair. The English Lord Chamberlain has de clined to lii-ense E. Vivian Edmonds' "For Faith and Freedom," or any other play about the Armenian troubles. In Stanislaus Stance's comedy Andrew Mack will play Dan of Hallyharu. Not an Englishman in the cast. Etange Is writing an opera for Jeff De Angelis. At the Neustadter theater, Dresden, and in many great Merman theaters, music between the acts will be discontinued with the beginning of thetjew season. .Maggie Mitchell appeared in publlo again last week at New York, but not on the theatrical stage. She was a wit ness ut Coroner Hoeber's inquest Into the cause of the death of John Connors. THE FOl'It KNIGHTS. The moon came up In the misty east, while the sky was red in the west. When out of the dusk, across the moor, four horsemen rode abreast; Rising before them remote and dim they saw the towers of the town. Over them, out of the peaceful sky, the solemn stars looked down. For many days they had traveled far to gether and traveled fast, Together eaten, together drank, through peril and danger passed: But now, beyond where the river flowed, they saw their paths divide. And each to his Journey's end alone through the lonesome night must ride. One was as fair as a woman, and sat with an easy grace. The long, bright locks of his yellow hair blowing across his face; The light laugh broke from his smiling lips and snatches of merry song, While he beside him complaining sighed that the way was dull and long. One had the ace of a soldier, bronzed by the wind and rain. And a moody manner that he had learned In battle and long campaign; His dark eyes under his helmet shone with a feverish, restless light, And his stern, fixed gaze as he onward rode turned neither to left nor right. One seemed silently bearing a burden of secret care, . His head was bowed and his eyes down cast and he muttered a broken prayer; The glory of sky was not for him, the light of the earth was gone, And he heeded not how the hours slipped by through the desolate night or iawn. But one looked up with a thoughtful glance and his eager pulses thrilled To the Joy. and the hope, and the sweet content with which his world was filled. He read the secrets the growing things to common ears withhold; The whispering leaves and the rustling grass to him were stories told; In the faintest voice from he wavside hedge, and the song of the soaring bird. In the murmuring river and babbling brook a magical music heard. One rode Into the silent East to meet the golden day, A faithful heart and a gentle hand were waiting him far away; The hand would serve und the heart te true. Though the tenderest friends grow cold No fenr of the future his fond faith marred, for love cannot grow old. And one rode into the West, where the sky the carnage of battle veiled. The hot blood leuped to his swarthy cheek and his stout heart never quailed. Though he in the gloom of another night should lie on the trampled sand. Dead on his shield, with a broken swoc.l clutched In his Icy hand. And one rode Into the barren North as a fuguttve flees from Fate. By a rocky path, up a mountuln side and into castle gate: No fagot blazed on the blackened hearth, and the air was damp and chill. The halls that his vassals, had crowded once were empty ami dark and still; Through the oriel window's painted panes he saw the dim Unfit fall O'er faded banners and armor old that covered the mold'rlnK wall; Lost were the treasures too lightly held, the honors of knightly fame. . The pomp and the splendor that com pass klnjf and the power of the an cient name. But one heard far In the sunlit south the murmur of surging seas. The low. faint sighing of perfumed winds through blossoming orange trees; So he rode nwny to the sinner land and rode In Its hourgeonlng bowers. And (he songs he sang to the sad earth's heart were as sweet as lt fadeless flowers. The Beautiful clad In shliilnc robes be side hlni stood with Trut I, And under the shadows of waving palms lie found the Fountain of Youth. -Mary H. Krout. CUTE TRICKS OF THE POLITICIANS Some of the Devices by Which They Win Votes, GOVERNOR BRADLEY'S OVERCOAT It It aa Old Creasy Garment Which Catches the PoorSenator Call's Faatoas Ripped TrousersTom Carter aad His High HatOther Tricks ia Campaiga. From the Philadelphia Times. A few years ago when D. R. Francis, leader of the gold forces In Missouri, was a candidate for governor of his state, the Republicans put forward "Nick" Ford, a long, lank backwoods man. I was on the floor of the Mer chants' Exchange in St. Louis, when Candidate Ford made a speech from the rostrum. His lank figure, his cada verous face and his general bucolic ap pearance aroused the brokers and mer chants to much quiet merriment. They nudged each other and chuckled under their breath and winked and In many other ways showed their contempt for Candidate Ford. Perhaps the fact that Candidate Francis had been a trader on the exchange for many years inllu enced the Judgment of the members. But the bucolic Ford came within a comparatively small vote of carrying Missouri, and the Republican manag ers of that campaign have said ever since that If the national committee had given them a little money and a few speakers, they could have carried the state for a Republican candidate for the first time since reconstruction days. Senator Cockrell, one of the leading figures of the Democratic convention, retains his popularity In Missouri largely through his simplicity and his genial manner to all who come to Washington from his state Tls sena tor is Just as plain and simple today as he was when he first came to Wash ington from Warrensburg. But cam paign simplicity is not all natural. Much of It Is assumed for the purpose of making votes among the farmers and laborers. That the plain people have no sympathy with wealth and dls pluy was Indicated plainly enough by the feeling aroused twelve years ago by the "Relshazzar feast" given to James O. Blaine, which many people still thluk cost him the election. At least it cost Mr. Blaine a great many votes alt over the country, and particularly In New York state. BRADLEY'S OVERCOAT. Many are the devices adopted by can didates and their friends to cajole the farmer or Inbnrer voters. The friends of Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, be lieve his success in the last election was due In a great measure" to an an cient overcoat which he wore when he was stumping the state. This over coat, which was hopelessly dilapidated. Mr. Bradley displayed ns an evidence that he wus not on aristocrat. The in genuous mountaineers saw In the grense-stalned garment proof positive that Bradley was one of "the people," and they voted for him In such num bers that he was elected the first Re publican governor ever chosen in Ken tucky. It Is hardly necessary to say that this overcoat is not the one which Mr. Bradley wears when he Is not cam paigning. It Is simply one of his politi cal "properties." He keeps it ut the executive mansion, however, for use in emergencies. Mr. Bradley's campaign device was by no means new. It Is practiced In some form In almost all the western states and in some of the southern ones. Few newspaper readers have forgotten the socklossness of Simpson, Jerry Simpson, of Kansas. It was ex aggerated In some of the newspaper stories about him, but there Is no doubt he made his best point when he made a point with the farmer Populists of his district of the fact that he wore no socks. I wonder how his constituents would have felt if they could have been with me not long after the meeting of con gress and seen their sockless represen tative returning from the launching of one of the vessels of the new navy at Philadelphia. The simple Kansan was sitting in one of the cars of a special train of the Pennsylvania railroad drinking champagne and eating sweet breads, all at the expense of the Cramp shipbuilding firm. It was not long after his Initiation Into Washington ways before Mr. Simpson was riding a bicycle. I believe he never aspired to belong to the "smart set," but he cer tainly learned to wear socks and a great many things less practical. SECRET OF CALL'S SUCCESS. Senator Call, of Florida, has been going to the senate steadily since 1879 and no one understands Just why. Per haps an incident of his campaigning explains It. Mr. Call goes out among the common people when he Is a candidate for re-election. He travels about the state, stopping over night nt the cabins of the natives. He wears a pair of trousers In which there is a large rent. Arriving at the cabin of the plan ter Mr. Call talks politics with tl owner, discusses crops and Inquires after the children. Presently he is In vited to stay to tea and to spend the night. The Senator always accepts, and as he Is about to go to bed he says to his host: "I've a bad rip in this pair of pants. Will your good wife put a few stitches in It for me?" Of course, the good wife is overcome with the honor of mending the trousers of a United States senator. She sits up for an hour darning the rent until it can hardly be seen. The Senator is profuse In his thanks when he comes down In the trousers next morning. Waiting till he Is at a safe distance from the cabin the Senator takes out his knife and rips open the trousers where they have been darned bo care fully. He is ready now for the next na tive with whom he will spend the night. And so the trousers are mended ail over the State of Florida. Mr. Call may not know so much about the Con stitution as he thinks he does, but he Is well Informed about the character istics of the people of his State. Mr. Rtnsom, now Minister to Mexico, kept his place In the affections of the people of North Carolina by Mattery, and so extended his term In the Senate to twenty-four years. I am inclined to believe his defeat finally was due less to the political revolution in his State than to a consciousness of his Insincer ity which had been growing with his people for many years. When I wus In North Carolina a few years ago I heard a cod many people speak of Mr. Ransom, not unkindly, as an "old fraud." But to the people In the back country Ills Insincerity wai not so ap parent. Whenever one of these went to Washington and received attentinns nt the Senator's hands he returned to his home a confirmed Ransom man. The Senator always showed everyone of his constituents the most marked consideration. Other Senntors, who knew the amiable weaknesses of Mr. Ransom, used to' stop good naturedly when they saw the Senator from Ncrth Carolina talking with a bnckwoods friend. Then the backwoodsman would be Introduced to the ether Senator (with .whose name no doubt he was familiar) as "one of our leadin' citizens," and his bosom would swell with pride at the distinction. A quiet smile lurking aboul Mr. Ransom's Hps left you always In doubt whether he was in earnest cr not. But sincere or Insincere, Mr. Ransom was liked by almost all who knew him In the Senate: and his appointment to the Mexican Mission was made at the request of Senators without regard to party. Mr. Ransom wore about Washington at all times a slouched hat of black felt the typical headgear of the South erner. He wore It because it was com fortable and he never felt the need of conforming to Eastern prejudice and wearing the high silk hat which was affected by moat of his colleagues. Most of the Western and Southern members of Congress are converts to the silk hat habit and some ludicrous results are to be seen about the streets of Washington and the hotel corri dors of New York. Senator Tom Carter, of Montana, lately the chairman af the Republican national committee, wears a silk hat in the East, but he returns to the black slouch when he Is among his own people. Montana wou'.d not like to believe that "Tom Carter bad be come a dude;" and to the frontier mind topper) is indexed by the silk hat. Some years ago a newspaper man met Marcus Turelius Smith, delegate to Congress from Arizona, wearing a silk hat and puffing away at a cigar ette. "Smith," said the correspondent, "I'm going to write a letter for a Western paper describing your ap pearance on Pennsylvania avenue, wearing a silk hat and smoking a cig arette. Do you think your constituents will take these things as an evidence of mental or moral perversion?" "My boy." said Delegate Smith, "you may say what you please about the cigarette. The Mexicans down my way smoke them all the time and no tine thinks anything of that. But as you love me ignore this high hat. If the people of Arizona thought I wore a thing like this In the East they would retire me to private life at the next election or sooner." He was not In Jest, either. It would be a pretty serious thing for some men to be caught by their constituents wearing silk hats. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, once postmaster general of the Confederacy, then a United States sen ator, and now railroad commissioner of the state of Texas, used to tell on him self how he wore a silk hat unthink ingly Into a Texas town. He always carried ins slouch hat with him and when he reached the borders of the state of Texas he put on the soft hat and consigned the silk hat to a box. On one occasion he forgot all about the soft hat and went sailing Into his homp town with the silk hat on his head. Mrs. Reagan saw the hat just as the senator climbed into his carriage. She snatched It from his head and thrust It under the carriage scut. So the sen ator drove homo without a hat. But he always thought Mrs. Reagan saved his political life by her presence of mind. . JERRY RUSK'S TRICK. The late Secretary Rusk was a great man to get out among the people, lie had been one of them and he could cooper u barrel as well an di lve u .t;ige coach. He told me once that he could foretell the result of an election with almost absolute accuracy because he made It a habit when he was in Wis consin to sit aroui'd country stores. whittling nnd swapping stories with the farmers. There was no bettor barom eter of public? feeling- Just before elec tion, lie snid, than the farmer. He told me after Harrison',-: defeat that lie had expected the result because he found the farmers wire n gainst the Republican party in that i c:l.n. Mr. Rusk always made a personal canvass when he was a candidate for oillce in Wisconsin. Baliy kissing was the specialty of the late Representative O'Neill, i f Ivnn sjlvanui; and Hint has l e.ii from tlmo immemorial a strong factor in election contests. Mr. O'Nt ill kept up a Con stant correspondence with his cuii stlluents. Ho knew rveiyone In his district by name and could address him on sight. Colonel Mc.rrl.'on, of Illinois, who wan considered at one time a likely candidate for the Democratic nomina tion this year, tol'l mo some time after he had been retired from Congress in favor of Jehu Baker tli.it he would not go back to Congress again unless he could have assurance of u longer teim. He said It wore him out to be cam paigning constantly nnd that if he wanted to be elected he hud to be doing campaign work all the time he was not attending to Congressional duties at Washington. What makes for popularity more than baby kissing or socklessne?s Is a good memory for faces. Mr. Blaine hud a remarkable memory. So has Mr. Har Irson. Major MeKlnley seldom forgets a face. One of his young fellow towns men told me at Canton not long ago that one cause of the Major's great popularity In that community was his unaffected cordiality toward all, and the fact that, however long his absence from his old home, he always seemed to remember even the most casual of his acquaintances there. Indications. Caller Is Mr. Swlgham at home, mad am? Madam I have a suspicion that he is. Caller A suspicion! Don't yu know? Madam Not definitely, but if you will go to the cafe: on the corner you can find out; that seems to be the only place where lie Is really at home. Boston Courier. Lucky Adam. Wraggles Well, Adam was a lucky man. , Barker In what particular way? Wraggles He didn't have to prance around the garden like a blamed Idiot holding Eve on a hundred-dollar blko. Cleveland Plain Dealer. adway's Pills Always Reliable, Purely Vegetable, MILD, BIT EFFECTIVE. Pnrely vegetable, act without pain, elc gautly coated, tasteless, small and easy to take. 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Tourist cars felly lifted wlt!i bedding, curtains and specially adapted to wants cf families may be had with sccon.l-rlass tickets. Rates always less than via other lir.es. For further information, time tables, elc on application to E. V. SKINNER, G. E. A.. 3S3 Broadway, New York. R Ibcre's Good j There is only one Cottolene that's the best, ( COTTOLEMEj best for your food best for your, ' JJ health best for your pocket book. ' -. nq tin. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY. UP TO irffTOWlTlHfWIrTTrTWnnWIfTWWrT 'i mining. fjmimuil Established I86S. THE (jEflUlNS rtl'cA 0 It PIANOS At a time when many manu facturers and dealers are making the most astounding statements regardingthe merits and durability of inferior Pianos, intending pur chasers should not fail to make critical examination of the above instruments. n 11 13 E. C. RICKER General Dealer in Northeast crn PciuiHylvtuiia. Now Telephone Exchange Building, 115 Adams Ave., JAMES MOIR, THE MERCHANT TAILOR tlaa Moved ( Hla Ntw Qoarter. 402 Lackawanna Avenue. Eatraao on (id nxt to Flirt National Bank. Ho nu now In a III Ml Comprising everything reqnliitc for fine Merchant Tailoring. And the mu cu bo ohown to Rflvuntnge In his apUn dlaly fitted up room A SPECIAL INVITATION la Extended to All Readers of The Trlb ne to Call on "OLD RELIABLE" In Hlf New Business Homo MT. PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL.. Coal of the beat quality for domestlo us and of all sizes. Including Buckwheat nni Blrdneyo. delivered la any part of the city at the lowc-at price. Ordors received at tho Of!le, first floor. Commonwealth building, room No. I; telephone No. 2u24 or at the mine, tele phono No. 372. will be promptly attended to.Dealirs supplied at the mine. WM. T.SMITH. WHEELS J) WHEELS GICYCLEG. ON jxp ivtva: si-tt. it, v-m, ytk wiJl i ft"tr nil of t!:r I'.'ic in wic-! wr iniiT IviVrt in -t t k r t .inM tr' i l i : WnV .MiirTH -ii u, r ili fi I vt ! i i,i:t in, Wiv.'Hy T Hth-rst if I i' -. Ti-i-i i un f pT-pnutiit v toi-i't :i i'i'ii vi; 1 U."i- V.'cBti.l luiv. t't' fuilinn ( r.'i V. It 1 li, "1 it T ll "1 t)!lX VMtlM iV. litrht ami hj-v aid w.- irs ;,i il t rr.y mueliiiK in 1. j Lt:..u niitl h.o wait1: wu cuu iXi l'i (-u i.i jui' Un.', E. L Pffi, 321 n SI. Health in it! DATE. ffrTmrrmrfl In. ..Hii lull Cv;r 26.CC0 in U;e. r r.-i Scranton, Pa. imniwrnimmmi ESTABLISHED thirty years. NGW IN OUR KEW STORE. 130 WYOMING AVENUE. Coal Exchange, Opp, Hotel Jenny n. Wo have the finest store an J most complete atock in all tills section, cf WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, STERLING SILVER WIRE, STERLING SILVER NOVELTIES, RICH CUT GLASS, CLOCKS, ETC. Our Prices arc always bottom. If yon have not seen us in our new store M will pay you to call. i The St. Denis Broadway and Eleventh St., New York, Opp. Grace Church. European Plan. Kooms Ji.oo Day and Upwards. Sn ft modest and nnobtrntire way thnre am fnw better roniluc-ted butela in the metropolis than thu St. Dmiis. Tim iireat popularity it has acquired can rp.nlily bo traced to lti unkilo loiatlon. it homelike atmorpiiero. the peculiar excellence uf its cnisiue and service, aui Ita very niodsr ata pricea. WILLIAM TAYLOR AND SOU THE li)KAL AiMRKICAN TRIP NOkTHI WN STF-.A.YISHII COMPANY. Tile bupiTuiy Apimuiti'd and Commodious Stcfi .t'nmhip. NOSTil'.Vi.'T AM) NORTHLAND, .i,i"ri'.' in ilin nli find Through 1onvf I!' ii! . Tin .'iv nin1 1 rulnvii 0.30 p.m. t i" ClL'.c.'ar-J, i-'-- -Tt. jMnckinoc, The Soo, (ulnt1i, tr! Vr lrn Point, pissing all i.i' 'i ii. ivi' r""t In iivli:rnt In connection Willi li::: ( TAT n; ;.1MI KM R Ml. 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