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jmfc'' ic- IM PRESSED WITH WESTERN CANADA. Bays Ou* Prairies Will Be Filled Tip in !£en Years. L. A. Stockwell, of Indianapolis, a United states land man who made an extensive tour of inspection in the west, wrote the following article, un der date of Jan. 8, for an Indiana pub lication: "States." In this letter I propose to show by extracts from my note book that thousands who have come up here from the "States" have succeeded far beyond their most sanguine "Expecta tions. Mr. N. E. Beaumunk, of Brazil, In diana, was Earning flOQ.OO per month with a coal company. At about Che age of 40 he had saved about $3,000. Four years ago he landefr near Hanley, Sask. He now owns 480 acres of land* Last fall (1905) he threshed 4,700 bush els of wheat and 3,100 bushels of oats. His wheat alone brought him over $4,000, which would have paid for the acres that it grew on. He is to-day 1 worth J15.000. This Is Making Honey Fast. In Feb., 1902, J. G. Smith & Bro. were weavers in a big cotton mill in Lancashire, England. Coming here, they arrived in Wapella, Sask., with only $750.00 between them. They were so "green" and inexperienced that all they could earn the first summer was 96.00 per month, and the first winter they had to w6rk for their board. The next year, 1903, they took homesteads, and by working for neighbors they feot a few acres broken out, upon which the next year they raised a few hundred bushels of wheat and oats. They also bought a team and broke out about sixty acres more. In 1905, they threshed 17,000 bushels of wheat from it, and 13,000 bushels of oats. Their success being then assured, they bor rowed some money, built a good house, barn and implement shed, and bought a cream separator, etc. They now have a dozen cows, some full blooded pigs and chickens, good teams and imple ments to match, and are on the high road to prosperity. Herb are three cases selected from my note book from among a score of others. One, a mine boss, one a farmer, and one a factory operator. With each of them I took tea and listened to their story. "I hoped to better my condition," said one. "I thought in time I might make a home," said another. "I had high expectations," said the other, and all said that "I never dreamed it possible to succeed as I hare." Like Arabian Nights. Everywhere- on the trains, at the hotels and in family I have been told successes that reminded me more of the stories in the Arabian Nights than of this matter-of-act workaday world. Yields of wheat from 35 to 53 bushels per acre, and of bats of from CO to 100 bushels, are numerous In every local ity and well authenticated. At Moose Jaw, Lethridge, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Brandon, Hanley and many in termediate places I saw cattle and young horses fat as our grain-fed ani mals of the "States" that had never tasted grain, and whose cost to their owners was almost nothing. At Moos omin I saw a trainload of 1,400 steers en route to England, that were shaky fat, raised as above stated. If the older generation of farmers in Indiana, who have spent their lives in a con test with logs and stumps as did their fathers before them, could see these broad prairies dotted with comfort able homes, large red barns, and straw piles innumerable, and the thriving towns with their towering elevator jammed to the roof with "No. 1 hard," and then remember that four or five years ago these plains were tenantless but for the badger and coyote, they would marvel at the transformation Then if they followed the crowds at they emerged from the trains and hur ried to the land offices, standing in line until their respective turns to be wait ed on came, and saw with what Rapid ity these lands are being taken,-they would certainly catch the "disease" and want some of it, too. If these lands are beautiful in midwinter, with their long stretches. of yellow stubble standing high above ttie snow, what must they be in summer 'time, when: covered with growing or ripening grains? Speaking of- winter, reniinds me that our Hoosier friends shrug their shoulders when they read in the Chicago and Minneapolis dailies of the temperature up here. For that very reason I am here this winter. The Canadian literature with its pictures, half-tones and statistics, gives a good 'idea of her resources, but thirty or forty degrees below* zero sounds dan gerous to a Hoosier, who nearly freezes in a temperature of ^ve above, especially when accompanied by a wind, as it., often but, the fact is. when it is very col^ here it is 8ttj| anci '.the air being dry.'the cold is not felt as it is in our lower latitudes, where there is more humidity in ti^^tjmo? "ph6re *'I 'am^ 56, and 'I "never, saw a finer winter than the one I am spend ing jap Ijere. I arrived in Winnipeg .rNov.' 9, and havfe not had the bottoms iot my overshoes wet sinde I''entered €^£d& ^Uttdgr a cloudless sky'I, pave every 4ajV. masons have not-lost a -week's tlma ae«f»i5: i@tii«rwinter. ^Build ing Of alii, klfidsogoes right -ahead In every city ah& htf nriet,! as though win* ter were flfc^er^e^ftf of. Infornratloii cbhcerning homestead lands ^^stei^6anada^ can be had from any authorized Canadian Govern ment Agent, whose advertisement ap pears elsewhere in this paper* From Inside the .INTERESTING LETTERS OF AN EX-WORLD'S CHAMPION HEAVYWEIGHT By BOB FITZSIMMONS (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) MY FIGHT WITH .. JACK DEMPSEY. Occasionally when some man who wants to jab me in the feelings gets around to the proper point, he hands me a jolt about'the brutality I used in my fight with Jack Dempsey in 1891. Now, I want to say right here that I was never deliberately brutal in all my life, and in the 365 times I've stepped into the ring, I never yet hurt a: man more than I could help. Any one who says I punished Jack Demp sey deliberately or more than was necessary, is wrong, and I'd want to use a stronger word, if it was man to man. Of all the fights I ever had I think lhat one with Dempsey hurt me worse than any other. I don't mean he actually damaged me, but I felt worse over it. You see, I was ste.ered wrong about Jack. It was a mis take all through, and if I hadn't been put in on the wrong play, Jack wouldn't have lasted two rounds. 1 could have dropped him' to the mat for the count at any time I felt like it, and it's one of the sore points I've got against Jimmy Carroll, that the fight went to 13 rounds. I'd always heard that Jack was a game man, and that he'd fight all the time there was an ounce of fight him, and as long as he could see any thing in front of him, and now know that my first opinion was all to the good. When I was training Carroll came to me—we were equal partners, you know, and whacked up everything on that basis—and told me that there was a disposition to make out that the fight was not going to be a long one, and that he had found ou that Dempsey had a yellow streak ia him as broad as a pine plank. He said: "You just tease him along, Fitz. Sting him good in the face and on the nose, and he'll quit you cold. If you go after him off the reel, he'll throw up his hands and leave you flat, and the fight won't last two rounds. The gang will get sore, and there's liable to be some trouble about the purse, and we can't afford to take any chances with that $12,000." I'd always found Jimmy on the square, and after he had told me '..he same story several times, I believed it, because I didn't think he'd try to steer me crooked. I eased down on t!ie training, and made up my mind to fol low his advice. Jimmy went off on a spree and for the last few days of the training he never came near me at all, and that's no way to treat a fighter, for when a man's getting down towards the finishing end of his work, he wants to have everything right with him, and worry is the worst thing you can put on h^m. Weii, as I say, Jimmy kept away from me, and I only heard of him ones in awhile. As soon' as we climbed into the ring he drew the share of the purse that he could lay his nands on, because he believed there was some thing wrong or would be something wrong with me, and, as he said, he didn't want to take any chances. Weli, Jack and I faced each other, and I tapped him a couple of tfmes. 1 looked him in the eyes, and! there wasn't a sign of yellow there. He was as straight and square that way as any man could be. I staggered him a couple of times in the first, and put him down, but he came back like a major, and there wasn't a sign of quit in him.. *,• I teased him again in the second, and cut him up a little, but he was there hitting at me every chance hs got, and then I took oiit a little fast er after him.. He was with me, and while he hadn't a chance on. earth, he was a sticker, and. commenced to think Jimmy Carroll's dope had gone to his head, and he .had hooked up wrong., somehow. After "that' I,kneiv could.put Jack to sleep any time 1 felt like it, but I jogged along with nim, closing an eye: here and putting a mouse, on his lip there. Once 1 opened _up the cut on his neck-that Parson Da vies gave him, but he never whimpered. I dropped him to the I mat, but he was back at me in a min lite and looking fOr more. -One round, I forget which now, 1 dropped him four times in succession. Be came back' every time, though, and 1 asked Him, why he didn't quit. I kept on sayiflg to! him: Jjf I "Go ahead and quit. Jack. You've got enough." But he wouldn't. ^His face was a eight by this time, and he hadn't enough strength to hit me -anywbferb. XT went back' at 'Carroll once when fweat to 'ihy Corner, arid called rhim about' itl' toW' ttim 'he was- a' Bar, jrad. that: Dempsey was the gaitiest little man that,ever stepped«in ariag, and wouldn't .quit if he got cut. to pieces, but Carrolldidn't say. anything. 1 got mad then, and told him J^ ^ras '^Koingitd finish tjiat. fcutchery up.' ^ou all: this time,I'd .been waiting.for ack to, lay down-. j^tekd wen look ing for that- yella^Mjgi^xi^d: e^ery now and thjpp I'd drop the jpbof Ifttte man and look over at the referee: ttniF say: "It's my fight, ain't it?" And he'd nod at me. Jack was counted out several times, and each time, I'd look over at .the. referee and say it again, and he.'d look: back and nod, but the fight went on. Well, after I got mad at Carroll's crooked steer, I went out after poor Jack and tnade up my mind that it was a shame to handle a white man that way, and I figured we'd both been put up against a wrong steer somehow, and I finally dropped him in the thirteenth, fend dropped him for good. It was the only thing I could do to put an end to such a farce. When I went looking for Carroll ha couldn't be found. I didn't see him all that night, and in the morning I found he had taken the purse, and taken it to the bank, Where5 he'd put $6,000 to my credit, and* the same amount to his own. Then he went oiff again. It was a queer game, everything had to come because out of my end of the pursfe, all the training ex|off penses, and so forth, while Carroll's was velvet, and he had it all to the good. Even then I didn't go back^on him, because I don't quit an old pal that way. An offer was made tb me to. go out under the management of Otto Flotow, and I was to get $1,000 a week lor myself. I staved it off, and insisted that I'd have to have Car roll along, and he'd have to get $300 for his bit, too, but they couldn't see it that way, and I found out afterwards that they Wanted .to split us apart. A lot of folks went to him and told him a bunch of lies about what I'd said about him, and then came bacls to mc and told me what he'd said about me, but I never pay any atten tion to that sort of thing, and 1 laughed at them. He believed them, though, and the next thing I heard from him was telegram one of the boys showed me from somewhere up near 'Frisco, in which he said he was on his way, was through with me, and was glad of it. That ended that, and I don't know that I was sorry, because that was surely a dirty trick he put up on posr Jack. I went round to see the little man afterwards, and I tell you he was a white one. I told him about how he'd been trimmed, and how I'd been steered that he was a quitter, and we talked it over. That's the real truth about Jack Dempsey, and the brutality that was used by yours truly in the fight. Jack never was a quitter, and wouldn't know how to try. I found out afterwards that it was all a plan. Some of the gang down there had the fight doped out to a turn, and the club figured it out that I'd probably knock Dempsey out in the first round, and the whole thing would fizzle out, be cause the men who had come from other cities would kick at the "short ness of it. 1* TVe hieard they took Car roll into the game,'and fixed it up with him to tell me that he was yel low, and would quit if 1 .hit him hard, and that the only way to make the thing go off right was for me to coa^c him along, and just sort of feel him out for eight or nine rounds, so the sports could have a run for their money. 11 was a low-down game all the way through, and it's about the one thing I regret. Ever since then I've been a little bit sore on New Orleans, because it wa3 just two years later "that I had it banded to me again in the same town by the same crowd, and this tima I got it for $40,000, which is something I'm going to tell about before long. I'd always been square with that New Orleans gang, and I thought there were nothing but friends in the town, but it only goes to show you that when a man^s pocket is in the cas^, there is mighty little friendship going around loose. Pooi old Jack Dempsey is dead and gone now, but he knew all about right after the fight, and we were good friends, for he knew that I'd been played for a sucker, and he'd been the victim. He was the middle weight champion, and was the best man in the business until I happened, along, and he knew in tha first rounl that I could put him away in a punch, but he never wilted for a minute, and while the blood' was running down hiis face he gritted his teeth and came back at me for more of the same, The last time I put him down before the knockout I didn't hit him.» I just put my" glove, against his chin and shoved him, and he went over in a heap, his head struck th$ dirt, and it was all up with him then. We fought on a dirt floor, or, rather, the bare ground* and he had. about as. much mud. qn him. as anything else whsr-a he'd roiled about in.it. Now, it's all. over,, and has been thhi 14, years, but I want to pay a tribute right ,here to the best little main 'tl*af ever wore a glove the gainest fighter that ever stepped in a ring, and with no more yellow about hiin than ther«j is about a blue peacock, and that's Jack Dempsey. Had No Pull. Mr. Makinbrakes (to chSince ac quaintance, whom he has met at a swell party)—If you have any influence wi^h Mrs. Upjphn I wish you would suggest to her, that she announce dinner. I'm frightfully hungry. Chance Acquaintance—Me I haveil't any influence .with Mrs. Upjohn- l^n Mr. Upjohn.—Chicago Tribunk rr* When One Has Money. Mrs. Reeder-rl wonder what this itk per meahs.hy.this: "Mr.Kadley's meth od of entertaining his guests was quite original and-unconventional?" Mr. Reeder—It means simply" that he is boorish, but has plenty of money.— Philadelphia Ledger. Prof. Koch Is said to have decided to apply the Nobel prize recently award ed to him to the publication of a com* plete edition of his scientific writings. Sir David Gill, who has been as tronomer royal at the Cape since 1879, is resigning his post and returning to England for the New Year. Many no table astronomical problems have been solved at the Cape observatory under Sir David Qill's direction, including the determination of the minor plan ets Victoria. Sappho and Iris. The -problem of the ascent of say In trees, an English botanist points out, Is yet unsolved. It appears that In the highest trees the total pressure would be nearly 100 atmospheres, and as we cannot suppose that leaves can exert so intense osmotic suction, the only theory at all probable Is that the living cells exert some sost of pump ing action In the wood. M. Martel, a French explorer who hsts devoted much time to the subject caves, is confident that the surface of the earth is fast wearing away by erosion and corrosion, In such a -man ner that the level at which water is found In the earth's crust Is being low ered. He thinks that there will be a disastrous scarcity of water avail able for drinking a few centuries hence. Gold has been easily distilled by Henri Moissan in the electric furnace, its boiling point being higher than that of copper, but lower than that of lime. In a cold tube, the vapor con densed partly in the form of mdss gold, partly as microscopic crystals, the general properties being those of finely divided gold. In alloys with copper and* tin, the gold distills over last. On distilling an allow of tin and gold, a purple of Casslus is obtained In the dry way. 1 TALES OF THE TOTS. "Dear! Dear! Willie, can't you be good for a quarter of an hour?" "I can for a quarter, of a dollar, ma. Fred (at the concert)—That man must have a taste for music, papa. Papa—Which man, Freddie?" "Why, the one who is trying to swallow the trombone." don't to be Mamma—Oh, dear! Margie, I believe you know what it is good. Little Margie—Yes, I do, mamma. It's not doing the things you want to do. Mamma—Why, Johnny, you have eaten more than your share of tae berries! Johnny—That's all right, mamma. Minnie ate most of the cake we stole yesterday. "Why do you want a light left in your room when you go to bed, dear?" asked Elsie's mother. "Are you afraid?" "No mamma," replied Elsie "I want It so I can see to go to sleep. Ceylon Rubber. According to information supplied by the Institute of Tropical Research, recently founded in connection with Liverpool university, Ceylon has, in the last season, shipped 100,000 pounds of rubber, all produced from the island plantations. A PERFECT HAND. How- Its Appearance Became miliar to the Public. There was a natural shrinking frbm the publicity* but with an agreement that no name would /accompany the picture, its use was, granted, The case was presented in the light of extending a welcoming hand to the friends of Postupi and Grape-Nuts, so the picture appeared on the back cov ers of many of the January and Feb ruaiy magazines and became known tc millions of people-. Many artists, have commented upon It as probably the most perfect hand in the world. The advertising dept. of the Postum Co did. not seem able, to resist the temptation to enlist the curiosity of the publfcv by refraining from giving .the name of the owner wheqsth$ picture appeared, ,but stated that the. name would given later in one of ttoiiewd paper announcements, thus seek^S to induce the readers, to look fQr.$nd i? the forthoomingAdvertisenta^ts tolearn the name of. the owner. .,.. MISTAKE ABOUT FATHER. Boys Thought He Was tb Be Pitied, But Found They Were Mis taken. At the Waldorf they are telling thia story of a Pittsburg millionaire who ia over 70, and the way he tooled his son and nephew on a recent visit to the, city of the Great Whiti Way. The two ybvuig men dined with ''father" every evening, and then, watched him take the elevator to his quarters, relates the New York Tribune. 'Too bad father has to go to bed at nine evety evening," said the son. "He doesn't have much fun, does he?" returned the nephew. "Wonder if he goes to sleep right away, or if he'd like ua to stay and t*lk to him?" from the son. 'Let's go up and see," said the nephew, feeling the full grip of compassion. They found his shoes outside the door waiting for the coming,of the bootblack, and there was no light in the transom. "Poor old man, he doesn't have a very good time over here," they chorused. Then they went out into tne night in a cab,' and toward midnight turned into one. of the gilded mirrored lobster places. When they were finally seated about a table and had given tne waiter his or der, they looked about the room. The first individual to meet their astonished gaze was "father," in full evening dress, pouring champagne into a glass which was held by an actress. "How about the shoes in front of your door?" they asked him afterward. 'It's a pity a man of my age and money can't have two pairs of shoes, my chil dren," he said, with a wink. "Those were my old shoes.- Rich, Juicy Badishes Free. Everybody loves juicy, tender radishes. Salzer Knows this, hence he offers to send you absolutely free sufficient radish seed to keep you in tender radishes alL, sum mer long and his great SALZjm'S BA1MUIX SEED BOOK. with its wonderful surprises and great bargains in seeds at bargain prices. .The ehormous crops on our seed farms the past season compel us to issue this special catalogue. SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAT. and receive the radishes and the wonder ful Bargain Book free. Remit 4c and we add a package of Cos mos. the most fashionable, serviceable, beautiful annual flower. John A. Salzer Seed Co., Lock Drawer K., La Crosse, Wis. Men who command the most have the least thought of self. Fa The story of how probably the most perfect feminine hand in America be came known to the people is rattier interesting. As the story goes the possessor of the hand was with some friends in photographer's one day and while talk ing, held up a piece of candy. The pose of the hand with its perfect con tour and faultless shape attracted the attention of the artist, who proposed to photograph it. The result was beautiful picture kept in the family until one day, after reading a letter from someone Inquiring as to who wroto the Postum and Grape-Nuts ad vertisements, Mr. Post said to his wife: "We receive so many in quiries of this kind, that it is evident some people are curious to know, suppose we let the advertising department have that picture of :your -hand to print and name it 'A Helping Hand.'" (Mrs. Post has assisted him in preparation of some of the most fa mous advertisements.) THE MODERN jC 't], This combination of. art 'and com merce and 'the multitude^of inquiries furnisheaan excellent illnstrat$on ofjthe intere&the public takes:In the personal and femily life of large mannfacti^rers whose namra become household words through .extensive and continuous ni" respect To Cnre a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quiniue Tablets, Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E-w. GUOVB'S signature is on each box. 23a A bigamist is a man convicted of matri mony in the second degree. There J» no satisfaction keener th»n being dry ond comfortAble when out in iht h&rdegt stornfc. rpuAHE sufcEorira tfryOUWEAtt WAtHMOOF ROILED CLOIHDI£ KACKOItYttlOvr •YTaYlilMrB*i JUT^^teST°l(.MASi.a&A. Towm CAHMAK COJtolttUOIONIO. out. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN, sciBcnnc EXTERNAL COUNTEiUUUUTANT Superior to mustard orany other plasien and will' not4' blister the most delicate skini. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of ,thia article are v.op4^rfu1 arid Popular line to the East Tfie splenduf pi^ri]^f lervi(re- Tftte A Certain Cora tor FeverlshneM, a a a Btaaach TrMblHi TA«ulic Disorder*, and Destroy Worms. They •OTHKK6BAT, Break up Colds ter A. N.K.-G 2116 It will 9.t?P Xhfi, toothache 9s7(inc$. relieve JJe^che ?nd|c|^ici^rAh,Anextjema) all Rheumatic, Neuralgic and Gout/ coinpwnts. 17 5TATB STREET dTORK CITY S5Cfi vof the Nickel Plate Road, thtf care and atten tion shown paisetrgera have made- jt favorite with the' inexperienced as well sa those accustomed to travel. Every feature necessary to the comfort and dbnveiiience of the passengers, especially ladies travel ing alone or accompanied by children, ia provided. Colored Porters in Uniform are in attendance to serve the wants, of all ahd to see that cars are kept scrupulous ly clean. Pullman Sleepers on all trains, and an excellent Pining service, serving Individual Club meals or a la Carte at moderate cost. When traveling East pur chase your tickets via the N ckel Plate Road. All trains depart from the La Salle St. Station, Chicago. For full in formation regarding tickets, rates, routes, sleeping car reservationsr etc.,. cail on or address J. Y. Calahan, General Agent. No. Ill Adams St., Chicago, HI. Be not blind to. the faults of you* friend, because an adequate understanding of them will give you a buoyant feeling of superiority.—Puck. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's' Foot» Ease. A: certain cure for swollen, sweating, hot, aching feet. At all Druggists, 25c, Ac cept no substitute. Trial'package FREE. -Aodress A.-S. Olmsted,- Le Rtqr,- ITITY. A bad man is naturally suspicious of every good asan he meets. DAZED WITH PAIN. The Suf eringa of a Citizen of Olympia, Wash. L. S. 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