WESTERN CANADA'S 1908 CROP
WILL GIVE TO THE FARMERS OF
WEST A SPLENDID RETURN.
The following interesting bit of in
formation appeared in a Montreal
paper:
‘'Last December, in reviewing the
year 1907, we had to record a wheat
harvest considerably smaller in vol
ume than in the previous year. Against
Jiinety millions in 1906 the wheat crop
of the West in 1907 only totaled some
seventy-one million bushels, and much
of this of inferior quality. But the
price averaged high, and the total re
sult to the farmers was not unprofit
able. This year we have to record by
far the largest wheat crop in the coun
try's history. Estimates vary as to
the exact figure, but it is certainly not
less than one hundred million bushels,
and in all probability it reaches one
hundred and ten million bushels. The
quality, moreover, is good, and the
price obtained very high, so that in
all respects the Western harvest of
1908 has been a memorable one. The
result upon the commerce and finance
of the country is already apparent
The railways are again reporting in
creases in traffic, the general trade of
the community has become active
after twelve months' quiet, and the
hanks are loosening their purse strings
to meet the demand for money. The
prospects for 1909 are excellent. The
credit of the country never stood as
high. The immigrants of 1907 and 1908
have now been absorbed into the in
dustrial and agricultural community,
and wise regulations are in force to
prevent too great an influx next year.
Large tracts of new country will be
opened up by the Grand Trunk Pacific
both in East and West. If the seasons
are favorable the Western wheat crop
should reach one hundred and twenty
million bushels. The prospects for
next year seem very fair.” An inter
esting letter is received from Cardston,
Alberta (Western Canada), written to
an agent of the Canadian Government,
any of whom will be pleased to advise
correspondents of the low rates that
may be allowed intending settlers.
vai uoiuu, Utri «isi, lilUO.
“Dear Sir: Now that my threshing
is done, and the question 'What Will
the Harvest Be,' has become a cer
tainty, I wish to report to you the re
sults thereof, believing it will be of in
terest to you. You know 1 am only
a novice in the agricultural line, and
do not wish you to think 1 am boasting
because of my success, for some of my
neighbors have done much better than
I have, and I expect to do much bet
ter next year myself. My winter wheat
•went 53 bushels per acre—and graded
No. 1. My spring wheat went 4S%
bushels per acre, and graded No. 1,
My oats went 97 bushels per acre, and
are fine as any oats I ever saw. My
stock is all nice and fat, and are out
in the field picking their own three
square meals a day. The weather is
nice and warm, no snow—and very
little frost. This, in short, is an ideal
•country for farmers and stockmen.
The stock requires no shelter or win
ter feeding, and cattle fatten on this
grass and make the finest kind of beef,
better than corn fed cattle in Ills.
Southwestern Alberta will soon be
.■known as the farmers' paradise: and ’
•.am only sorry 1 did not come here five
years ago. Should a famine ever
(strike North America, 1 will be among
the last to starve—and you can count
<on that.
f "I thank you for the personal assist
ance you rendered me while coming
in here, and 1 assure you I shall not
soon forget your kind offices.”
+\ -
Fersted Two Days and Nights.
‘ 'ttnunander Peary and his party, re
turning famished from their futile
dash for the pole in 190C, slaughtered
a herd of seven musk oxen on Hazen
island, off the extreme north of Green
land. For two days and nights there
- after they crouched inside their snow
huts, eating continuously, and when
they hai. finished, the pile of bones
outside was “as high as a tall man s
-chin.”
Woman—the Power.
Any publisher will tell you that it
Is the approval of the women of tl
country which makes the ‘big seh
ers;” that to be a paying business in
vestment the magazine must cater to
the women. It is the women of the
country who read. The men read the
newspapers and the articles in the
magazines which their wives recom
ment to them.—Appleton's.
Charms Used by Gamblers.
Gamblers have many charms to in
sure good luck when playing. Among
these are a fine catskin hung from the
neck, a human knee bone or toe bone,
an owl’s heart, a small red feather, a
mole's foot, a rabbit’s foot, the tail of
a lizard, the skin of a blacksnake
worn around the waist or a lizard with
two tails. The latter is irresistible.
Woman’s Remarkable Peat.
Though the compiling of a diction
ary is a task that even a corps of
trained editors undertake with no
slight, hesitation, a Washington wom
an, Mrs. George H. Gorham, finished
the remarkable feat of writing an
idiomatic French-English, Euglish
Freuch dictionary entirely unaided.
The Decorations.
The housekeeping bride was partic
ular to keep a flower or two in a vase
on the dining-room table. One after
noon she came in late and started
to arrange some roses when her col
ored maid exclaimed:
“Oh, you got some, did you? I was
afraid you'd forget, seeing it was so
late, and I knowed we had to have
something green; so I just fixed it.”
The bride went into the dining
room. In the center of the mahogany
table stood one of her handsomest
vases full of romaiue salad leaves.
WILL HAVE
TO WAIT
CHANCELLOR MARTINEAU WILL
NOT BE ASKED TO CITE THE
BOARD BEFORE MONDAY.
CONVICTS ARE CONFINED
In Filth and Grime, 141 Are Quartered
. In New Penitentiary—Hundred
and Fifty More in Old Walls.
Litiie Rock.—“Nothing will be done
until Monday. The restraining order
of the court has been disobeyed; but
we will not inform the court before
Monday. There is something under
way which I cannot talk about, now,
but I do not think there will be any
developments before Monday.”
In these words W. W. Lewis of the
firm of Murphy, Coleman & Lewis, at
torneys for the Arkansas Brick and
Manufacturing Company, stated the
position of W. VV. Dickerson and the
company in reference to the moving
of the convicts from the camps to the
penitentiary. He declined to state
whether the company would resort
to mandamus.
No action has been taken in the
courts by the company. Chancellor
Martineau, who issued the restrain
ing order against the commission and
the superintendent of the penitentiary,
enjoining them from moving the con
victs, had not been notified of the re
moval of the convicts at the time he
left the court house.
While the new Penitentiary Board is
waiting for the legislature to act, 141
idle men are huddled together in a
crowded, ill-smelling, close building on
the outskirts of town called the "new
penitentiary,” and in the old building
about 150 others are similarly idle.
Most of the men from the plant,
the rock crusher and the railroad
camps have been brought in and
quartered in the prisons and tne re
maining 150 will arrive soon from a
distance.
Inquiry among the wardens of the
penitentiaries threw no light on what
will be done with the convicts. They
have their instructions, they state,
to hold them in the walls until fur
ther orders. Further orders cannot
come until the board meets on Feb
ruary 1, unless there is a special meet,
ing of the Penitentiary Board before
that time and even then there is a
possibility that nothing will be done
with the convicts untill the legisla
tr;r* can decide what is best to do
with them.
A search for Superintendent Pitcock
Friday revealed the fact that he was
out of the city and no one at either
penitentiary could tell where he had
gone. It was stated at the old pen
that it was thought he was in Van
Buren.
Governor Donaghey was asked what
would be done with the convicts. He
replied that it was hard to say exactly
what could be done with them until
the legislature acts.
TO BE TRIED WEDNESDAY.
Col. Cooper, Son, and Former Sheriff
John D. Sharp Charged With E.
W. Carmack’s Death.
Nashville, Tenn.—With carpenters
working overtime to get the new
criminal court room completed, with
deputy sheriffs busy summoning wit
nesses, and with the attorneys on
both sides making their final prepara
tions, it is very probable that the
Cooper-Carmack murder trial will be
commenced here Wednesday morn
ing. True, there have been vague
rumors of an attempt on the part of
the defense to secure further delay.
But the missing witnesses, whose ab
sence secured the last postponement
are in the city.
The caee will be tried before Judge
W. M. Hart. The most eminent legal
counsel in the state have been en
gaged upon one side or the other.
All that man and brains and influ
ence can do will be done on one hand
to convict the defendants and on the
other to free them.
WILL BUILD RICE MILL.
Site Selected Just Outside of Carlisle
and Work Will Begin at Once.
Little Rock—The site for the $50,
000 mill of the Carlisle Rice Mill
Company, which was incorporated a
few days ago. has been selected.”
said D. D. Ayres of Carlisle, who was
in Little Rock Sunday. "The site
consists of about a city block of land
just outside the city limits of Car
lisle. and it was bought from E. S.
Savage. Work will be commenced
this week in building a switch to the
site. Work on the mill will begin
soon. The mill is to have a capacity
of 100 barrels per day. It will d) aw
on the Carlisle territory.
Escallcped Cabbage.
Cut half-boiled cabbage in pieces,
put in buttered baking dish, sprinkle
with salt and pepper and add one cup
white sauce. Lift cabbage with fork
that it may be well mixed with sauce,
cover with half-cup buttered crumbs,
bake until crumbs are brown. White
sauce is made of four tablespoons but
ter. four tablespoons flour, quarter tea
spoon salt, little pepper, one cup milk.
Melt butter, add flour and seasoning,
stir in milk slowly, cook until thick
and smooth.
COULD NOT SHAKE IT OFF.
Kidney Trouble Contracted by Thou
sands in the Civil War.
James W. Clay, 66C W. Fayette St.,
Baltimore, Md., says: “I was trou
bled with kidney
complaint from the
time of the Civil war.
There was constant
pain in the back and
head and the kid
ney secretions were
painful and showed
a sediment. The first
remedy to help me
was Doan's Kidney Pills. Three boxes
made a complete cure and during five
years past I have had no return of the
trouble.”
Sold by all dealers. 50c a box. Fos
ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
CAUGHT.
—i
I__1
"I'll give you a penny if you can
spell fish.”
“C-o-d.”
‘‘That ain’t fish.”
“What is it, then?”
TOLD TO USE CUTICURA,
After Specialist Failed to Cure Her In
tense Itching Eczema—Had Been
Tortured and Disfigured But
Was Soon Cured of Dread Humor.
contracted eczema and suffered
"a.ensely for about ten months. At
times 1 thought I would scratch my
self to pieces. My face and arms were
covered with large red patches, so
that I was ashamed to go out. I was
advised to go to a doctor who was
a specialist in skin diseases, but I
received very little relief. I tried
every known remedy, with the same
results. I thought I would never get bet
ter until a friend of mine told me to try
the Cuticura Remedies. So I tried them,
and after four or five applications of
Cuticura Ointment I was relieved of
my unbearable itching, i used two
sets of the Cuticura Remedies, and I
am completely cured. Miss Barbara
Krai, Highlandtown, Md.. .Tan. 0. ’OS.”
Potter Drug & Chcm. Corp., So’.o Props., Boston.
NO TEMPTATION.
Wag (referring to Miss Oldbird)—
TJm, I should think it would be more
suitable if she were standing under
“elderberries” instead of mistletoe
berries.
MIX FOR RHEUMATISM
The following is a never failing rem
edy for rheumatism, and if followed
up it will effect a complete cure of
the very worst cases: “Mix one-half
pint of good whiskey with one ounce
of Toris Compound and add one ounce
Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound. Take
in tablespoonful doses before each
meal and at bedtime.” The ingre
dients can be procured at any drug
store and easily mixed at home.
Teacher's Orders.
“H#re, ma!" requested the boy. hur
rying in from school before time;
"hang my jacket up behind the stove.”
"Is it wet?”
“No; but teacher sent me home to
tell you to warm my jacket for me!”—
Judge.
Would Sell His Chance.
Patriotic Gentleman—My lad. every
American boy has the chance of be
coming president, just as every Eng
lish boy has the opportunity of being
prime minister.
Small Hoy (thoughtfully)—Well, !'ll
sell my chance for a dollar.
A Giveaway.
“1 tell you my wife is hard to beat!”
“I thought you told me that you got
that black eye splitting wood?"—
Houston Post.
For Colds and Gripp—Capudine.
The best remedy for Gripp and Golds is
Hicks' Capudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness. Cures tHe old—Headaches
also, it’s Liquid—Effects immediately—10,
25 and 50c at Drug Stores.
If every man was compelled to act
as his own fool-killer there would be
an epidemic of suicides.
Pettit’s Eye Salve for Over 100 Years
has been used for congested and inflamed
eyes, removes film or scum over the eyes.
All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, X. Y.
It is not what we intend, but what
we do makes us useful.—More.
CURES COLDS QUICKLY
A never failing home remedy for
coughs and colds is made from the fol
lowing formula to be mixed at home.
"Two ounces of glycerine, one-half
ounce of Concentrated pine compound,
one-lialf pint of good whiskey; mix and
shake thoroughly; use in doses of a
teaspoonful to a tablespoonful every
four hours.”
Thus will cure any cough that is cur
able, or break up an acme cold in
twenty-four hours. The ingredients all
can be gotten at any drug store.
The Concentrated pine is a pine prod
uct refined for medical use and comes
only in half ounce bottles, each en
closed in a round case, which is air
tight, but be sure that it is labeled
"Concentrated.”
Mice on the Pillow.
“I’m not so much afraid of mice as
some women,” said she, "but I don't
like them in my hair. The other
night I finished a biscuit I was eating
after I went to bed and naturally left
some crumbs about, not meaning to,
never thinking of mice.
“Well, about the middle of the night
1 heard scampering, and there were
the mice all over my hair, trying to
get at those crumbs.
“I tell you, I gave one shriek, sprang
up, lighted all the gas in the room
and sat up the rest of the night watch
ing that pillow.”
There Is more Catarrh In this seetlon of the country
than all other diseases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great,
many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling
to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
| Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional dis
ease. and therefore requires constitutional treatment.
I Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F J. Cheney
! A- Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only Constitutional cure on
the market. It is taken internally In doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it, falls to cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY <fc CO.. Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Used Dolls to Set Fashions.
Long before women's newspapers
were started, and fashion plates in
their modern form were thought of,
women derived their knowledge of the
fashions from doils dressed in modern
costumes, which were sent from one
country to another, more especially
from Paris, which then, as now, was
the leading center of the mode.
important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of<
In Fse For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Folly.
Him—I don't see how you can bring
yourself to kiss that dog.
Her—And I suppose the dog don’t
see how I can bring myself to kiss you.
We're a foolish sex, aren't we?
For Headache Try Hicks’ Capudine.
Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
Nervous troubles, the aches are speedily
relieved by Capudine. It’s Liquid—pleas
ant to take—Effects immediately. 10, 25
and 50c at Drug Stores.
When a young man tells a girl that
he'll love her forever and ever no
doubt he beiieves he is telling the
truth all the time.
PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DATS.
FAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case
of Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Files in
li to 14 days or money refunded. 50c.
A man’s wife never thinks his ill
ness is serious ’iat.'l he quits using lan
guage that wouldn't look well in print.
The Best Laxative—Garfield Tea! Com
posed of Herbs, it exerts a beneficial effect
upon the entire system, regulating liver,
kidneys, stomach and bowels.
The average woman is fond of pets,
hut her husband is not in that class.
Such is the charity of some, that
they never owe any man ill-will, mak
ing present payment thereof.- -T. Ful
ler.
ONLY ONE "1IKOMO QI IN INK”
Tbttl IS l.A.XATIVK II HOMO olil.NINK. I.ink fnt
the sipnaturt* of K. W. GliOVK. llw'd tho World
over i•» Cure a Cold in One J»ay. 25c.
Even a fast man may not make a
rapid recovery when he’s ill.
If Your Feet Ache nr Horn
pt-t a 25c pa«-kapo of Allen s Knot-Ku.sc. It pivea
quick relief. Two million packapos sold yearly.
Smiles make a better salve for trou
ble than do frowns.
1 \ftx\>\\wa\
Cows^aKxow
MayVe^emaxvexv^y ov&rcova&
X>y \rropex v^wa\ e$cx\s xv&Vdxe as
s\stancecJ\\vGcn&Vx\\Yy Wt^vc\a\
VaxaVvve-icemeJiySyt^oill^stiitVvxvr
cj Sewvn.wXncV enaWs oneXoJsrmxefcuW
V\>\\s dd\\y so\W\ assistance to nature,
may be £radua\\y dispensed w\\K
when, wo \ow£ex needed, as the best. oj
remedies when required axe to assist
natux'e.andnot to suppVant the na\wa\
^uncVvovxs.wVvvcVmvisX defend udtv—
matety upon \wo\ier wourtshnvenX,
proper e$oxts,and xv$ht\iv\n§ ^enetaWy
Tu £etvb bcne$\cvaV <3jech.a\ ways buy Ibe $«vuwvii,
MANUFACTURED Dv the
CALIFORNIA
Fic Syrup Co.
SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS
ONESIZEONLY- REGULAR PRICE SO< PER BOTTLE
DEFIANCE STARCH—;L“ag°
—other starches only 12 ounces—same price and
“DEFIANCE” IS SUPERIOR QUALITY.
SEED OATS 6a\c,!:
| Pur Salzer’s catalog page 129.
J Largest growers of seed oats, wheat, barley, I
Ispeltz, corn, potatoes, grasses and clovers and
■ farm seeds in the world. Big catalog free : or,
■send IOc in stamps and receive sample of
1 Billion Dollar Grass, yielding 10 tons of hay I
I per acre, oats, speltz, barley, etc., easily worth
I SI 0.00 of any man’s money to get a start with,
land catalog free. Or, send 14c and we add a
■ sample farm seed novelty never seen before I
1 by you. SALZER SEED CO., Box W.LaCrossa, Wis.
1 and Sel1 More Men’s Si nn
& $3.50 Shoes Than Any Other Manufactnm
is because I give the wearer the benefit of *
complete organization of trained marts
shoemakers In the country *perts and skilled
The selection of the leathers for each nart ,
and every detaU of the making In eve£ d»,?0f lh® 8h<*.
looked after bv the best shoemakers in th« 14
If I could .iow you how c«.f3?y w L
ure muda, yon would then uaderBUnd whv thovl!^ “.i0**
ahupo. flt better, and wear longer than any Stfi m.?11*
My Method of Tanning the Soles makes t/io, m*
F,e*ib,e and Longe?Wearing than an^e^
Shorn tor Every Member of the P . 1
Men, B»yo, Women,Mlaaea and OhHdrrX’
nanvinii a.alS ,lloe driers everywhere
PAIITIDN t None Kpn«‘"e without \V. 1 I)nnec,.
UHUIIUn ! name and price stamped m 3
i r“‘ Oolor Eyalcta Wood Exclusively. Catalog mailed
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For
lameness
in Horses
Much of the chronic lameness in horses is due to neglect.
See that your horse is not allowed to go lame. Keep Sloan’s
Liniment on hand and apply at the first signs of stiffness.
It’s wonderfully penetrating—goes right to the spot—relieves
the soreness — limbers up the joints and makes the muscles
elastic and pliant.
Sloan’s Liniment
will kill a spavin, curb or splint, reduce wind puffs and swol
len joints, and is a sure and speedy remedy for fistula, sweeney,
founder and thrush. Price, 50c. and $1.00.
Dr. Earl S. Sloan, - - Boston, Mass.
Sloan’s book on horses, cattle, sheep and poultry sent free.
Worn Women
Women, worn and tired from overwork, need a
I tonic. That feeling of weakness or helplessness will
[not leave you of itself. You should take Wine of
Cardui, that effectual remedy for the ailments and
weaknesses of women. Thousands of women have
tried Cardui and write enthusiastically of the great
benefit it has been to them. Try it—don’t experiment |
'—use this reliable, oft-tried medicine.
The Woman’s Tonic
J 33
]\Irs. Rena Hare, of Pierce, Fla., tried Cardui and afterward
wrote: ‘‘I was a sufferer from all sorts of female trouble, had
pain in my side and legs, could not sleep, had shortness of breath.
“I suffered for years, until my husband insisted on my trying |
Cardui. The first bottle gave me relief and now I am almost well.
Try Cardui. ’Twill help you.
AT ALL DRUG STORES
les, Itching Humors, Rheumatism, Blood
Poison, Eczema, Bone Pains.
B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) i < the only Blood remedy that kills the poison in
the blood and then purifies it sending a Hood of pure, rich blood direct to the akin
surface, Bones, Joints and wherever the disease is located. In this way all 1 01* "s
Ulcers, Pimples, Eruptions are healed and cured, pains and aches of Rheumatism
cease, swellings subside. B. B. B. completely changes the body into clean, health}
condition, giving the skin the rich, red hue of perfect health. B. B. B. cures tne
worst old eases. Try it. $1.00 per large bottle at Drug Stores with directions
for home cure. SAMPLE FUKI! by writing BLOOI) BALM CO., Atlanta, «»a.
BAD COLDS
•re the fotentnners of dangerous diseases of the throat and lungs,
you have a cough, you cun stop it with Piso’s Cure. If you^sutler trom
hoarseness, sore throat, bronchitis or pains in the lungs, Pi*° > W1
soon restore the irritated throat and lungs to normal, healthy condition.
An ideal remedy lor children. Free from opiates and dangerous in
gredients. For half a century the sovereign remedy in thousands o
homes. Even chronic forms of lung diseases
RESPOND TO PISO’S CURE