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0L LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES. Inducements Held -Out by Western Canada Are Powerful. 'A recent number of the Winnipeg '[(Manitoba) Free Press contains an excellent article on the prospects in Western Canai^a, a portion of which Wre are pleased to reproduce. The agents of the Canadian Gov* ernmect, located at different centres in the States, -will be pleased to give any further information, as to rates, and how to reach these lands. "Just now there is a keener inter est than ever before on the part of the outside world, in regard to the claims of the Canadian West as a field of settlement. At no previous time Jias there been such a rush of immi gration, and the amount of informa tion distributed broadcast is unprece dentedly great. "In the majority of the States of the Union and in Great Britain the opportunities for home-making and achieving of even a modest compe tence are at the best limited. More over, according to the social and in dustrial conditions prevalent in those communities, the future holds out no promise of better things. It is not etrange, then, that energetic young men should turn their eyes to Can ada's great wheat belt, where every man can pursue fortune without the hindrance of any discouraging handi cap. "The inducements held out by West ern Canada are powerful and made manifest by the great movement now Jn progress. That the prospects are considerably more than reasonably certain is borne out by the history of the country and its residents. The promise of gain is powerful, but w^en added to it there is the prospect VI a corresponding social and civil eleva tion, it should prove irresistibly to young men of a particularly desir&ble class for any new country. "The Canadian West is alive tfith opportunities for the young man who aims at becoming more than a mere atom in the civil and national fabric. Some of the eager young fellows who arrive on the prairies daily artf des tined to become more than ftivsrely prosperous farmers. In the near fu ture great municipal and provincial development will be in the hanils of *he people. The stepping stono to t)oth financial prosperity and civil prominence is, and will be, the farm. iFor every professional opening there are hundreds of agricultural openings. KThe Canadian prairies are teeming fwith opportunities for the honest and industrious of all classes, but they are specially inviting to the ambitious young man who seeks a field for the «nergy and ability which he feels in Sberent within him. The familiar cry of "Back to the soil!" is more than a vain soundng phrase when applied to Western Canada." Merciless. He—I go to bed at night with gloves On to keep my hands soft. She—And do you wear your hat, too?—Illustrated Bits. Garfield Tea, the herb laxative, is better than drugs and strong cathartics it cures. ONE UNVIOLATED RULE. Club Servitor Had Seen Them All I Broken Into Bits, Save That One. A certain club, the name of which EGe.d not be mentioned., h&s strict reg» •latiwis against gambling, relates the lAmerican Spectator. A quartette of club members decid ed to break the rule by a game of poker for small stakes, so they ad journed to one of the small rooms and •old an old servant to bring a pack of cards. When he brought them one of the members asked: "John, I suppose It •would be something utterly new In this club if we were to do such a thing as play for money with these cards?" The negro scratched his head and deliberated, finally answering: "Boss, I'se been wiv dis club a long time, and I'se seen many things." "Yes, but what have you seen?" "I've seen ebry rule of dis club Vi'lated 'ceptin' one." "What is that one?" "De rule 'gainst gibbin' tips to de servants." Locating the Blame. "My dear," said the trusting wife, **I don't think your rules of economy are any good." "You don't?" asked the fond hus band. "No," she replied, bending anew over the column of figures In her beautifully bound expense book. "You told me the way to save money mas not to buy things—that thus w« Would save the amount the goods would have cost us. So I have been careful to set down the exact price of .everything I have wanted to buy lrat felt I could not afford. I find, in adding it up, it amounts to $535, but 1 only have $4.37 in cash on hand. There must be something wrong with your theory.—Stray Sto\ies. 3 THE DECIDING VOTE By D. J. LAYTON (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowie#,) The green presented an unwonted ap pearance of activity. The bar at the ancient hotel near the state house was rapidly reducing the mortgage on the property. It was the last day of the legislative session. For four years the state had been unrepresented in the United States senate. The factional quarrel in the Republican party, unimportant at first, had become a national question. The whole country was divided into Allison and anti-Allison adherents. Allison had begun the present session with a solid array of 25 votes. He crawled slowly up to ?9, and there he stopped. Arguments, threats, persua sion availed nothing. EVery scheme known to political science had been tried. Dickers and deals had been met with counter deals. The Democrats and the anti-Allison men could not combine and Allison could not land another sin gle supporter. Another deadlock seemed imminent. Each day for over a week the clerk had announced: "For John Allison, 29 for Randolph Keener, 26 for Henry Thomas, 4. Necessary to a choice, 30," and the speaker, a bitter "Anti," had drawled out, with his nasal twang and with an increasing satisfaction as the prospect for an elec tion lessened, "and no one having a ma jority of the votes of those present and voting, I declare no election." It was 11 o'clock the final ballot would be taken at noon. Allison was sitting in the governor's private room, talking with the governor and the secretary of state. Allison was a tall, heavy man, who dressed well, but quietly. In his lapel he wor-e & plain Grand Army button. His was a strong, kindly face, though careworn. "If I thought that crowd were sin cere in their principles," said he, "if their methods were cleaner than mine, I would respect them at least, and I would have stepped aside long ago. But it's not reform they're after. They want to lick me. Thomas ran up against me in a financial deal some years ago, arid he's been after me ever since. "Four men oppose our 29. Speaker Henry, owned body and soul by Thomas Snyder and Hall, two unmiti gated rascals if there ever were any, aad old Wood, the only member they have from the country, and the only honest- one they have. Why, he really thinks Thomas never spent a dollar in this fight. I had some hopes that he might be with us, but he's as stubborn as a mule. I had a talk with him last night "We're stronger now that we ever were, but it seems that Thomas holds the winning card. He has powerful friends and powerful interests, and some way he has the press of the country back of him. He seems certain to de feat me now, but there's a reckoning!" The auditor's office was the headquar ters of the '"Antis." It was unoccupied save for two men. They were talking together in low tones. One was tall and thin, with a peculiar cast in his eye. His eyes never met you squarely they were over you, beside you, beyond you, but never at you. He was Snyder, a member of the house and a leader of the Thomas forces. He was nervously chewing the end of a cigar, jerking his sentences out rapidly. "I tell you, Hall," he said to his compan ion, a dark, heavy man with a cold, im passive countenance, "I tell you, it had to be done. I saw Allison have him in tow yesterday, and you know what that means. I knew something was up. I thought of those mortgages the first thing. Wood's all right, but he's cranky, and he's a shark for money. He's got a couple of mortgages on that place of his, a»d he'd turn a corner quick as greased lightning to save that precious farm. You bet Allison had something to say about them. I tell you It was what saved us this time. We've got 'em sure now, and with Allison safe at home and not mussin' up things down at Washington, we'll see who gets the offices." "Snyder," said Hall, rousing him self "you've made a mistake approach ing Wood about those mortgages. I know Wood, used to court one of his daughters, and he's as straight as a string. He's one man that ll stand without hitching. He'd kick the traces pretty quick if he knew some of the tricks we've been working. He may have changed, though," he went on, musingly "people do. I did. There was a time when I would have knocked a man down if he had tried *to influ ence my vote, and now these lobbyists come to me the first one. I'm inclined to take your judgment, for you've got a long head and a sharp eye, when there's rascality going on. Let's get up." The rasping voice of the speaker called the assembly to order. Some one moved in a perfunctory manner "that the joint assembly do proceed to ballot for the_election of a United States senator." The hum in the galleries increased. Slowly the roll-call proceeded. Down the list the clerk went, and no change. The end was not to be exciting after all. Here and there a member was keeping tally as the roll-call wenf on.' "Jeremiah Wood," sang out the clerk. There was an instant's pause, and Wood rose slowly from his seat, bis hand half raised, as if In protest He was an old man,* with a flowing white beard stained yellow around the mouth from the constant Use of to bacco. From behind his heavy steel spectacles shrewd, kindly eyes looked out. His hands, trembling with ago and excitement, showed wrinkled and blue-veined as he stood gripping his desk. "Mr. Speaker," said he, "before I cast my vote I'd like to say a little somethin', If I have permission," and he peered around over his spectacles. "I won't take long, couldn't speak very long if I tried I wasn't cut out fer a legislaterman. "My deestrict, as you all know, is pretty much agin Allison. Some of us thought he wasn't runnin' this lit tle political game right, and we fit him pretty strong. Sence I've ben here, I've tried to vote an' act right, an' none of them lobby fellers have got a-hold of me yit. I thought my princ'ples was too well known fer any one ter try ter bribe me, 'cause I've alius tried to fight agin bribery and c'rruption. But it seems that a man's princ'ples dont make no diffrunce. What's his price?—that's all. Mr. Al lison came to see me yesterday"—an audible titter ran around the hall, this was Allison methods with a ven geance—"an' he ast me fer my vote. I told him he couldn't have It, his ways of doin' bizness wasn't quite my way. Th't I was 'posed to bribery and c'rruption anyways. 'If that's all in the ways,' says he. 'you kin vote for me with a clear conscience. Our princ'ples ain't so diff'runt.' "Well, he argyed 'long fer quite a spell, an' finally, seein' I was still 'posed to him, he says: 'Well, Mr. HIS HAND HALF RAISED AS IF IN PROTEST. Wood, I won't argy any further, you seem to be standin' up to your princ' ples, even if you are mistaken in your, party,' and he left me. "No, it wan't Allison that tried to bribe me," said he, looking around "I s'posed you all thought so. I was. lookin' out fer that myself. Didn't 'spect no better out'en him, but I did think my own party'd know better'n to try that on me. "I don't know as I've done any thing to be insulted like that," he went on, complainingly. "I've been a Thomas man right 'long, but seems as if some of our crowd thought as I was old, that I was weak'nin', an' that I'd have to be spliced up. Ho was a cute feller, too, slicked me all up with my val'yble services, an' that it'd be a pleasure to help me out'en my f'nancial troubles if I'd stand straight thru' to-day. He never fooled me a mite. You kin gene'ally tell a skunk if you git clost enough to one. I s'pose he thought I was considerin' the offer," said the old man with fine scorn, "but I was just a-thinkin' what Allison told me, that our princ'ples wasn't so diff'runt after all, an' I was kinder openin' my eyes. I says: 'Would you mind puttin' that in writin'?' and he kinder hes'tated at fust. 'Cain't you trust me?' says he. 'Yes,' I says, 'I kin, but I'm not goin' to, 'cause promises don't' worry some people much after they've got what they want,' an' he wrote it out an' signed his name. "I've got morgidges on my place," went on the old man. "Put 'em there to send my two boysi 'way to school, an' I'm not ashamed of it. They're fine boys, too, an' both of 'em a-doin' well, an', they'll take care of any morgidges I got. "Now, I'll likely as not upset some body's cal'clations by th' way I vote, an' I hadn't 'tended to vote this way till this mornin'. But I've kinder had my eyes opened, an' I've cum to th' c'nclusion that if they's any diff'runce 'tween our crowd an' Allison's its just 'bout th' same, an' that bein' so we might jest as well let m'jorlty rule agin. Now, I don't Want nobody chargin' me with sellin' out, an' I don't want no newspapers sech as you an' I knows of, to be a-jumpin' on me, neither. I got most o' my informa tion from them papers, an' it seems they lied. I didn't want to come to this legislater, but two year from now, if I'm alive, I'll want to be a candy date agin, and I'm 'nclined to think I'll'be 'lected too. "Mr. Speaker, my vote is fer John Allison. He may be rotten, but there's others that's wuss." Amid the pandemonium broken loose, Hall sat with a sarcastic smile on his face. Blind Inventor. A blind man named Noask, of Wlt tenfcerg, has invented an automatic disconnecter for electric, currents which can be made to break the con nection according to will at any time fjpm one to fifteen minutes and can be fitted to afiy apparatus. Th« cost Of the 'invention is 60 cents. Noack is 47 and has been, blind since the day following his birtbt, SCHOOLGIRL'S DRESS SHOULD NOT THINK TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS VEXATIOUS MATTER. Most Schoolgirls Too Young and Too Pretty to Require Much Ornament in Their Dress—Don't Worry About Your Figure If Your Dress Is Com fortable—Health Is the Great Beau tifier. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. "Jessie has reached the age when, she fusses and fidgets about her dress looks at herself in the glass, worries because her clg^k or her hat or her jacket or something else, is last year's style, and altogether be haves like a vain and silly girl," ex claimed Jessie's aunt -Marion, who had no patience with such frivolous con duct. "If Jessie had been the fourth daughter in a large family," said Mary Elizabeth, looking up with a smile, "she would have learned to be thank ful for small favors. Until I had passed my thirteenth birthday I never once went out of the house with a costume every bit of which had been made for me. I usually wore Susan's last, year's frocks and Mildred's last year's hats, retrimmed and freshened up, and when I had a jacket it had been worn before me by Ethel. Moth er always bought good things that would last and they lasted until sev eral children wore them out I was cured of fussiness before so much as a wee leaf of it cropped up in my character. Generally speaking I had new shoes and that was a comfort" Jessie had listened to both speak ers with an air of serious attention. "I love pretty things," said she, "and I hate ugly ones. Why shall sis ter Louise, who is a young lady, wear a corset that gives her a good figure while I who have no figure at all am obliged to wear a corded waist and button my skirts to it?" By this time I was so stirred up that I was compelled to intrude my views on the girls. "What on earth can you be thinking of, Jessie? A school girl's first duty to herself is to wear healthful dress and although corsets are excellent and suitable in their place for grown up young women, they are not parts of hygienic dress for you. I hope that you spend a good many hours every day out of doors, and that your director of physical culture superin tends your calisthenics and your ex ercises in the gymnasium. The gym is as much an educational place for you as the Latin class or the recitation room where you study and present aliy other abstruse subject in the school. For daily use a school girl needs well-made loosely fitting blouses and skirts, and the weight of her clothing should hang not from the hips but from the shoulder. "Deep breathing is your great ne cessity your lungs should be filled daily and often with the purest air and your chest have abundant room to expand. As for shoes, you must have common sense lasts broad enough in the sole and low enough in the heel to enable you to walk with ease and grace. A school girl must not wear a tight shoe nor a high heel. You are too young and too pretty to require much ornament in your dress, and there is no sense in your fussing over shirt-waists and simple stocks, hair ribbons and belts. "Once your wardrobe is supplied with what is comfortable and you have equipped yourself with a golf cape, a rain-coat and a sailer hat, you are ready for every occasion." "For receptions and commence ments and Sunday evenings at home?" queried Jessie, her dimples playing hide and seek as she archly glanced at me. "I beg your pardon," I answered. "A girl does need one or two dainty frocks for evening wear and they should preferably be white. The simpler they are the more suitable they are sure to be. A great many tucks, puffs, ruffles and lace inser tions are misplaced in a girl's dress while she is yet in her teens. There may be, of course, some unobtrusive decorations, but not very much is needed for she herself sets off her gown. I like to think/too, that a girl who is growing up takes a little time now and then to bestow attention on the laundress who has to wash and iron the dainty muslins that are so elaborate and so beautifully finished with lace .edges and delicate em broideries. "A girl who has once or twice done her own laundry work, washed and ironed a white muslin gown, or a duck skirt, will know by experience that it is far from easy work, and she will be somewhat more careful about fre quently sending it to the tub, than her friend who has had no such per sonal knowledge of the. labor in volved." No young girl has the slightest oc casion to. worry about her figure if only she has a. dress that fits her comfortably, if she stands up straight throwing back her shoulders and hold ing up her head. The figure will take care of itself. Health is the great beautifier and sensible dress is for young people its best ally. Fortunately for young girls, there is no question about the length of their skirts, if or everyday wear frocks that reach the ankle, are comfortable and injure ease in walking, and im munity from contact with mud and dirt. For functions such as Jessie re ferred to in her naive question about receptions and Sunday erenings, a girl's best gown while she is in her teens may be instep length Girls never wear trailing skirts in these i. An excellent adjunct to clean liness, comfort and health is a whisk broom or a clothes-brush scrupulous ly used every time a dress is taken off. If we would carefully brush our clothes and shake them out of an open window before hanging them in clos ets or wardrobes, we should rid our selves of the danger of germs that may have lurked in outside dust Girls should be grateful that their lot is cast in the twentieth century. An eighteenth century girl, or one born in the early nineteenth, wore a short waisted frock with the skirt beginning under the arm-pits. It was of cling ing stuff and swept the floor as 1906j she walked. Her shoes were thin slip pers without heels held on by strings crossed over the instep and around the ankles. On her head she often wore a construction of muslin and wire that was half turban and half cap. Her sleeves were short and her dresses half low at the neck, as a rule. Do you not think that you are much better dressed than she was, both for health and beauty? (Copyright, by Joseph E. Bowles.) ADVICE ABOUT THE TEETH Select the $rush with Care, Consult a Dentist Whenever Certain Symptoms Appear. So many people show little discrim ination in the choice of tooth brushes. It is equally wrong to have them too soft or too hard. This ought to be as certainable by the touch, and they should not be used for any length of time, but at once discarded. Cheap brushes with which the market is now flooded are an abomination, for the hairs are sure to come out and lodge between the teeth, causing much dis comfort, and, moreover, the bristles are often secured in such a way with wire that it becomes dislodged, and pricks the gums. Teeth should always be closely watched, and if the gums recede or any decay is perceived, re course should be had fit once to a dentist, for in dentistry a strtch in time does not save nine but ninety. Once let decay get any deep hold little can be done, but Tt is easy to arrest it at the beginning. Parents cannot be too careful in in stilling into their children early the necessity of care and attention tq the teeth. It seems quite a weakness in the young to shirk tooth .cleaning, and, moreover, mothers should watch the growth of the second teeth, that there is no overcrowding. In early youth many defects can be cured by proper treatment. Teeth that are growing far apart can be brought together easily it would be a far more difficult matter later on when the gums are harder and the teeth have attained their full growth, but care should begin before the first teeth have been exchanged. It indicates something wrong if they deeay, and it is a state of things that would be likely, to repeat itself. The writer remembers how -as a child an old nurse who .had been in the same post for two generations took infinite pains to teach her charges exactly how they should clean their teeth. She always said that pastes and liquid dentifrices were all very well in their way, but that powder should be used once a week at least, and that there was a great art -in using a proper brush, which Should be small and soft, and not too big for the mouth. It should be not only passed from one side to the other, but up and down, and great care taken to clean the back teeth as well as the front finally it was essential to wash out the mouth with water, to which a few drops of fragrant dentifrice liquid should be added. FROM FOREIGN LANDS. One Can Put Great Deal of Money In to Tiny Turn-Overs of Ex quisite Make. It is strange what a little extra thrill of delight one has in possessing a dainty article of wearing apparel that came from a long, long distance, writes a lady in the Ohio Farmer. The upper one of these three col lars shown in the cut came from Ar- mmm THREE EXQUISITE TURN-OVERS. menia. It is made of the tiny thread wheels for which Armenians are so celebrated. The second, or Hardanger, is from Sweden, and the third, or drawn work, from Mexico. But any of them could be imitated by a skilful needle woman. Virginia Beauties. In Virginia the beauties sleep upon herb pillows. They begin at this time of the year to gather the garden herbs and to dry them. They never bury the face in a feather pillow for they believe it makes wrinkles. But they sleep on herbs, powdered and Softened with rose leaves and the buds of spring flowers. For the Hands." A few drops of cider vinegar rubbed into the hands after washing clothes will keep them" smooth and take away the spongy feeling they always have after being in the water a good while. CLOTHES AND GOBBVOfe Addison could not write his best toss ho waa well dressed. Every man and every wonna feels the influence of clothes and appearance upon conduct. Indeed, in a millennium free clothes of the latest fashion we all be archangels. You have heard cf the lonely man in the Australian hush who always put on evening dress for dinner, so that he might remember he was a gentle man. Put a naughty girl Into her best Sunday clothes, and she will behave quite nicely. Put a blackguard into khaki and he will he a hero. Put an omnibus conductor into uniform and he will live up to his clothes. You have to understand human na ture mighty well to know that other people aren't any bigger fools you are.—N. Y., Press. HE WENT ON CRUTCHES All Medicines Failed Until Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills Cured His Rheumatism. "Some years ago." says Mr. W. H. Clark, a printer, living at 612 Buchanan street, Topeka, Kans., "I had a bad at tack of rheumatism and could not seem Set over it. All sorts of medicines foiled to do me auv good and my trouble kept getting worse. My feet were so swollen that I could not wear shoes and I had to go on crutches. The pain was terrible. One day I was setting the type of an article for the paper telling what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had done for a man afflicted as I was and I was so impressed with it that I determined to give the medicine a trial. For a year my rheu matism had been growing worse, but after taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I began to improve. The pain and swell ing all disappeared and 1 can truthfully say that I haven't felt better in the past twenty years than I do right now. I could name, off hand, a half-dozen peo ple who have used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at my suggestion and who have re ceived good results from them." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are guaran teed to be safe and harmless to the most delicate constitution. They contain no morphine, opiate, narcotic, nor any thing to cause a drug habit. They do not act on the bowels but they actually make new blood and strengthen the nerves. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure rheuma tism because they make rich, red blood and no man or woman can have healthy blood aud rheumatism at the same time. They have also cured many cases of anaemia, neuralgia, sciatica, partial pa ralysis, locomotor ataxia and other dis eases that have not yielded to ordinary treatment. 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Douglas $4.00 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. *.vB0UCM« CSTABUSHED 4UIY |ST* Capital *%5040m REWARD to anyone who can ViV|WV disprove this statement If I could take yon Into my three targe factories at Brockton, Miss., and ahow yon the Infinite care with which avery pair of shoe* la made, yon would realize why W. L. Douglas $3.80 shoes east von to nuke, why they bold their shape, Bt batter, wear loafer, and are of greater Intrinsic value than any other $3.S0 shoe. It upon having W^cSopg. no substitute. Hone genua* AUtlQN. •noes. Tike without Ma name and price stamped on bottom. fut Qolor Eatleti usod ttey will no( wear braam. Write for Illustrated Catalog. w.i»por