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River Falls Journal
S. R. MORSE, Editor.
RIVER PAI l.q WIS
ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES.
It is quite generally assumed that
English collegiate education lags
behind American. A knowledge of
the exact facts about the matter is
of some practical value, therefore, es
pecially because Oxford and Cam
bridge are not the only centers of
learning in England. Years ago a
movement began to found in the prin
cipal cities institutions having a char
acter leading to vocational efficiency;
and today London, Liverpool, Man
chester, Burmingham, Leeds, Sheffield
and Bristol all possess such centers
of modern equipment. In each case
the founders and heads of the move
ment have aimed to give the estab
lishment a special quality of attrac
tion in the eyes of the locality; and
so the colleges and universities have
been developed vith the aid of the
small givers. As the expense of at
tendance is small, a provision sought
from the first, the cities and their
surrounding towns are able to offer
a college education to almost anybody
who wishes It Thus the situation is
apparently more favorable to students
than the college system in this coun
try, says the Providence Journal.
When a young man or young woman
wishes an education, he or she does
not have to contemplate attending an
institution whose courses are design
ed especially for the whole length and
breadth of the country. Such a cur
riculum offers itself, but only along
with the more practical one which
the life of the local community sug
gests.
"He shot down the stairs like a
flying squ.rrel,” says a recent story.
This is the kind of metaphor that
Prof. Barrett Wendell, who has writ
ten a very good book on English com
position, would condemn. A flying
squirrel does not shoot down the
stairs. The purpose was to give on«
a vivid Idea of how the man looked
when he was falling. But as no one
ever saw a flying squirrel falling
down stall's, and as few have seen
a flying squirrel in any other enforced
or voluntary exercise, the figure did
not help. Now, if one wishes to de
scribe a flying squirrel and should
eay that it looked like a person fall
ing” down stairs, the description might
not be accurate, but the literary style
would be good. For many person!
have seen a child fall down stairs.
Admittedly, the smile "like a flying
squirrel ’ has a bizarre, “up-and-at
’em” manner that is rather taking in
modern story writing. Yet its use
affords a good example of "how not
to Jo IL”
There is a division of labor In mod
ern astronomy. Some astronomers
are devoted to astro-physical research,
some are mathematicians, others, to
borrow the phrase of Keats, are watch
ers of the skies. Lewis Swift, who is
dead at Marathon, N. Y., at the age of
ninety-two, belonged to the latter
class. He was made director of the
Warner observatory at Rochester,
now the Lowe observatory, in
1882. Long before that time he had
discovered many comets, ateroids and
nebulae. In IS7B, during a total solar
eclipse, he thought ho caught a
glimpse of two intra-Mercurial plan
ets. The list of his discoveries of
comets, asteroids and nebulae would
be long, as may be judged from the
fact that nine hundred of the latter
are recorded to his credit.
'A woman in New York applying for
& divorce from a consumptive hus
band was badly queered when the
"consumptive” husband appeared, of
fering undoubted evidence of weigh
ing over two hundred pounds. This
appearance put the court, instead of
the defendant, ’a a declining condi
tion.
Those who discover “tyranny” In
the Chinese prescription of derby hats
for business wear —concerning which
it might be conclusive to produce the
official documents —should at least
bear in mind that the Chinese gov
ernment could as easily have imposed
on its subjects the cylindrical and
funereal stove-pipe.
The ginning in Alabama to January
1 was 1,289,576 bales. To this must
be added about 8 per cent to cover
subsequent ginnings and also about
60,000 bales of linters. A state crop
of about 1,450,000 bales is expected,
as against a crop of 1,730,000 bales
last year.
General Wood complains that we are
spending more money for automobile
tires than for war. But a lot more fun
can bfc got out of automobile tires.
A boy soprano in Philadelphia has
been arrested for cracking a safe.
Perhaps he did it because the sama
ithing had happened to his voice.
The best men are not in public life,
says a New York woman. And not
a few men will agree with her.
A western woman has lost two hub
bands by lightning. And still they
•say -hat lightning never strikes twice
•in the same place.
Loose-leaf diaries make pleasanter
reading for the children In after years
if one feels that one simply must writs
down everything.
"Paris is adopting the American
dances,” says a dispatch. Worse and
■worse.
MMES ARE REM’I
TO BE STATIONED IN CUBA FOR
POSSIBLE MEXICAN
SERVICE.
CAVALRY ALSO TO BE READY
Ft. Houston Men Get Orders —Gen-
erals Experienced inR evolution
ary Warfare to Command
Forces.
Washington, Feb. 18. —Two thou
sand United States marines from van
ious barracks along the Atlantic coast
have been ordered to Cuba, there to
be held in readiness for possible use
in Mexico. Half of them will leave
tonight from Philadelphia on the army
transport Meade, already on its way
from Newport News for the purpose.
Second Thousand from Norfolk.
The second thousand will start from
Norfolk on the naval transport Prairie.
The marines will be drawn from the
barracks at Norfolk, Washington,
Philadelphia, New York, Portsmouth,
Bostona nd Charleston.
Guantanamo is the present objective
point of the marines, who will be es
tablished in camp in connection with
the fleet under the command of Rear
Admiral Badger. Whether these men
will get further than Guantanamo will
depend upon Mexican developments.
Army Transports Also.
Besides the movement of the mar
ines, two army transports have been
ordered top roceed at once from New
port News to Galveston, Texas,
where they might be ready for the
movement of troops from the border
should any unexpected emergency
arise.
The Third cavalry at Fort Sam
Houston has been directed to hold
itself in readiness to entrain for Gal
veston for foreign service.
The government has no transports
available in gulf waters and investi
gation disclosed that to engage com
mercial vessels in time for emergency
would entail enormous expense and
delay. It was therefore determined to
send two of the transports at Newport
News to the Texas port to await or
ders. It was not announced which
transports would be sent, but the Mc-
Clellan, Sumner and Kilpatrick are
prepared for service.
Command of Marines.
The marine brigade will be in com
mand of Lincoln Kannany; the first
regiment, which leaves from Philadel
phia, being in charge of Col. George
Barnett of Philadelphia, with Lieut.
Col. John A. La Jeune of New York
second in command. The Second regi
ment, sailing from Norfolk, will be un
der Col. John H. Pendleton, who was
active in the recent activity of Amer
ican marines in Nicaragua, and Lieut.
Charles G. Long, who was also in
Nivaragua, will be second in com
mand.
The withdrawal of this large num
ber of marines, means, it is said, that
that branch of the defensive service of
the country will probably be obliged to
go entirely unrepresented in the in
augural parade. It had been planned
to have about 1,000 marines in the long
line on that occasion.
The Marines.
At the various Atlantic coast bar
racks there are 3,830 marines, th®
number at the places to be drawn on
in the present movement being:
Norfolk, 785; Philadelphia, 769;
New York, 573; Portsmouth, N. H.,
364; Washington, 356; Boston, 347;
Charleston, 148.
In addition there are with the At
lantic fleet 1,462 marines.
President Taft is plainly worried by
the fact that although he has only 15
more days to serve in the White
House, the situation in Mexico shows
little signs of becoming less trouble
some. The president has no desire
to leave over for Mr. Wilson the set
tlement of this country’s relations
with Mexico, but he is decidedly op
posed to taking any measures himself
unless extreme provocation and whole
sale murder of Americans drive him
to it.
DAILY MARKET REPORT.
Twin City Markets.
Minneapolis, Feb. 18.—Wheat, May,
87 %c; July, 89%c; No. 1 northern,
87%c; No. 2 northern, 85%c; No. 1
durum, 88%c: No. 3 corn, 44%c; No. 3
white oats. 31 %c; barley, malting, 57c;
No. 2 rye, 58c; No. 1 flax. $1.33%.
Duluth. Feb. 18.—Wheat, May, 88%c;
July, 89%c.
South St. Paul, Feb. 18.—Cattle—■
Steers, $6.25@7.40; cows, $4.25@7.00;
calves, $5.00@9.00: hogs. $7.90@8.85;
sheep and lambs, $5.15 y 8.60.
Chieu xo Live Stock.
Chicago, Feb. 18.—Cattle—Receipts,
23,000; steady; beeves, $6.65 @9.15;
Texas steers, $5.00 @ 5.90; western
steers, $5.75 @7.45.; Stockers and feeders,
$4.75 @7.65; cows and heifers, $3.10 @
7.50; calves, $6.75@10.25.
Hogs—Receipts, 48,000: market firm;
light. $5.05@8.35: mixed. $8.00@8.35;
heavy, $7.55@8.32%; rough, $7.85@8.00;
pigs/$6.50@8.10; bulk of sales. $8.20@
8.30.
Sheep—Receipts, 30,000; market easy;
uative. $4.80@6.30; western, $4.90@6.50;
yearlings. $6.60@7.90; lambs, native,
$7.00 @9.00; western, $7.00 @9.60.
Three Warships at Vera Cruz.
Vera Cruz, Feb. 18. —Three Ameri
can battleships, the Georgia, Vermont
and Nebraska are novr here. Great
alarm was occasioned Sunday night,
the military and police officials mistak
ing 30 laborers from an electric plant
for disguised marines. Two hundred
American refugees have reached Vera
Cruz and many others are on the way.
The American consul, W. W. Canada,
has collected funds and supplies for
their maintenance. The federal gar
rison has been increased to 1,600.
Rubber Plants Picketed.
Akron, Ohio, Feb. 18. —Every rubber
manufacturing plant in this city is
being picketed by strikers, and police
and private guards were placed on
watch by the manufacturers. State
troops still are being held under arms,
while the members of the state board
of arbitration are attempting to effect
a compromise between the employers
and the 2,000 or more rubber work
ers who are demanding higher wages
and changed conditions. The strike
thus far has been confined to the Fira-
Stone Rubber company.
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Washington Is getting ready to entertain the great crowds that are expected there for the inauguration of
Woodrow Wilson. The picture shows grandstands in process of erection in front of the White House grounds.
The inserts are two views of leaders of the suffragists in their specially designed costumes for the women’s parade.
They are Mrs. C. T. Owens, wife of Lieutenant Commander Owens, U. S. N., and Airs. Caro G. Moore, wife of Com
mander Moore, U. S. N.
WOULD END THE WAR
TURKISH GOVERNMENT APPEALS
TO EUROPEAN POWERS.
Ottoman Troops Assemble Christian
Population in Village Schoolhouse
and Massacre Them.
London, Feb. 14.—Eir Edward Grey
was formally requested Wednesday by
the Turkish government to invite the
European powers to intervene to stop
the Balkan war.
The request was communicated to
the ambassadors here, who transmit
ted it to their respective governments.
The Constantinople correspondent
of the Daily News asserts that Enver
Bey made a successful landing at
Chaakeui, compelling the Bulgars,
who opposed him, to retire. He in
tends to cross the Rhodope mountains
and attack the Bulgarians in the rear
of Kavak.
Another body of Turks, according
to the same correspondent, landed at
Silivri trader the cover of the fire of
the warships. The Bulgars intrenched
near the shore inflicted losses on the
Turks, but were- eventually driven
into the interior by the guns of the
ships.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb. 14. —Accord-
ing to dispatches given out here, the
Turkish troops assembled the whole
male Christian population of the sea
port of Buyak Chekmadje in the vil
lage schoolhouse and massacred them
Wednesday. Subsequently they killed
all the Christian woben and children
except the young girls, whom they
carried off on board ship.
BATHTUB DEFENDANTS GUILTY
Charged With Violation of the Sher
man Law—ll Individuals and 11
Companies Involved.
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 17.—A1l defend
ants in the bathtub trust case were
found guilty by the jury in the United
States district court here Friday.
The charge was violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law’, in that
through an agreement between a ma
jority of the manufacturers of bath
tubs and nearly all of the four hun
dred jobbers, they absolutely fixed
prices in all parts of the country.
They are liable to a penalty of $5,000
fine or one year in jail, or both.
Among the defendants are a num
ber of the most prominent men of
Pittsburg, Louisville, Baltimore, New
York and Chicago. In their behalf
Attorney Henry Hodman attempted to
move the jury by picturing the dis
grace that would be brought upon
their families by their conviction,
while the government counsel con
fined themselves strictly to facts.
There are eleven individual defend
ants and eleven companies. The in
dividuals are: Herman L. Hoelscher,
Chicago; J. F. Duryea, New York;
Lloyd G. McCrum, New York; H. T.
Gates. New York; A. Borden, Salem,
O. Theodore Ahrens, Louisville, Ky.;
P. J. Torrens, Pittsburg; E. L. Dawes,
Pittsburg; T. R. Barnes, Mansfield,
O.; A. Weiskittel, Baltimore; J. E.
Wright, Wheeling, W. Va.
Police Take Auto Bandit Crew.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 17.—Their
faces singed with powder and their
uniforms perforated by revolver bul
lets, two policemen managed to arrest
three members of a band of five al
leged automobile bandits Friday.
Drops 19 Stories to Death.
Chicago, Feb. 15. —Falling 19 stories
down the elevator shaft of the McCor
mick building here Thursday, M. Ed
win Rubel, member of the firm of N.
W. Rubel, public accountants on that
floor, met instant death.
Troops Capture Strikers’ Camp.
Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 15. —A com
pany of militia, commanded by Major
Davis, surrounded the strikers’ camp
at Holley Grove on Paint creek and
aptured 69 men, every man in the
camp, Thursday.
$50,000 Eire at Rockford.
Rockford, 111., Feb. 14—Fifty men
are out of employment as result of
destructive fire of America Milk
Producers’ factory at Capron, Wed
nesday night. The loss will reach ?50,-
000.
Prestons Begin Honeymoon.
Princeton, N. J., Feb. 14. —Prof,
and Mrs. Thomas J. Preston left here
Wednesday morning on their honey
moon trip to Florida. Mrs. Preston
was formerly Mrs. Grover Cleve
land.
“HIKE" IN ICY WIND
SUFFRAGISTS’ “ARMY” ON WAY
TO WASHINGTON ARE GUESTS
OF COLLEGE TOWNS.
PRINCETON, N. J., IS REACHED
Unmindful of the Presence of Presi
dent-Elect Wilson They Demand
Food, Hot Baths and Beds—Given
Royal Welcome.
Princeton. N. J., Feb. 15. —Gen.
Rosalie Jones and a weary band of
suffragists, unmindful of the wild
demonstration, caring less about
the presence of President-elect Wil
son and desiring nothing but food,
hot baths and beds, limped into this
town on the verge of physical and
mental exhaustion Thursday night.
The hike was over 27 miles of very
bad roads in the face of a bitter cold
wind.
The troops left Metuchen at 9 a. m.
They strolled into New Brunswick
long enough to lunch, afford an hour
of hilarity for the Rutgers* college stu
dents and distribute reams of suffrage
literature to the curious crowds.
There were 13 of them when General
Jones called the roll. Miss Lavinia
Dock of Harrisburg, the surgeon gen
eral of the army, was not only ill, but
she found it impossible to get her
walking boots on. They sent her back
to New York in felt slippers. Mrs.
Hetty W’right Graham, who had to be
assisted into Metuchen, was no better
and she was sent back with Miss
Dock. Percy Passmore deserted at
Metuchen.
Shortly before 6 p. m. the vanguard
of Princeton students appeared and
tried to kidnap Mrs. John Boldt, but
were headed off by the college proc
tor, who rescued her, and by some
strategy got her safely to a room in
the Princeton inn.
Then General Jones and Colonel
Craft, followed by four others, limped
into town. The general said she
cared nothing about the presence of
Governor Wilson nor the student
demonstration. What she demanded
and what she obtained within a min
ute after arrival was dinner, bath and
bed.
One by one the other thirteen
limped into town. Elizabeth AJdrich,
still bearing her banner proclaiming
her a voter in California, added to the
general exitement after dinner by
leading in a series of college yells.
Nothing like the demonstration has
been seen here sine the news of Gov
ernor Wilson’s election.
HONOR “UNCLE JOE” CANNON
President Taft and Other Notables
Attend Banquet Given to the
Veteran Ex-Speaker.
W’ashington, Feb. 17.—" Uncle Joe”
Cannon of Illinois, former speaker of
the house, was the guest of honor at
a big farewell banquet Saturday night,
given by members of the senate and
house and others in public life. After
nearly forty years of service in the
house, Mr. Cannon goes out In March.
President Taft attended the ban
quet, and delivered a speech. Other
men high in public life spoke also,
and a feature of the evening was a
“stunt” by the newspaper correspond
ents who have "covered” the veteran
member from Illinois for years.
Gets New Trial.
San Francisco, Feb. 15. —A new trial
for Leonard Olsson of Seattle, de
prived of citizenship by former Judge
Cornelius Hanford, was ordered here
Thursday by the United States circuit
court of appeals.
Train Severely Mangles Man.
Winchester, Ky., Feb. 15.—After
falling from an L. & N. train and hav
ing his left arm mashed off and his
leg crushed, Green Million saved him
self from freezing by flagging a freight
train Thursday.
Strong for Income Tax.
Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 14. —The
house passed without a dissenting vote
the joint resolutions ratifying the in
come tax amendment to the federal
constitution. The resolution now goes
to the senate.
Bryan Returns From Cuba.
Key West, Fla., Feb. 14.—W. J.
Bryan returned to the United States
from a trip to Cuba and the Isle of
Pines Wednesday. Mr. Bryan was giv
en much attention in Cuba by the au
thorities.
PATTEN FINED $4,000
SPECULATOR ENTERS PLEA OF
GUILTY OF COTTON CORNER.
Attorney for Operator Declares Pool
Was Not Formed With Any
Thought of Doing Wrong.
New York, Feb. 13. —A plea cf
guilty was made in the federal
court Tuesday by James A. Patten,
the Chicago cotton and grain specu
lator, to the sixth count in an indict
ment charging him with restraint of
trade in running a cotton “corner.”
The sixth count charges that Pat
ten and his associates, Col. Robert M.
Thompson, Wilson P. Brown, F. B.
Hayne and Eugene Scales, agreed,
under a contract, to buy practically
the entire raw cotton crop of 1909
in order to hold it out of the market
until November 1, 1910. To the
reven other counts in the indictment
Patten pleaded not guilty, and they
were nolle-prossed by the court.
Judge Mayer fined Mr. Patten
$4,000, which was paid immediately.
The government charged that their
acts constituted restraint of trade.
The defendants demurred and carried
their case to the supreme court,
which recently ruled against them
George W. Merrick. Patten’s attor
ney, issued a statement saying that
his client had entered his plea “with
out any consciousness of being guilty
of any moral turpitude or of offend
ing in the slightest degree against
any law or proper rule of conduct.”
“Although the Sherman law has
been in force for more than twenty
years, it was never before supposed
that a contract of the kind in ques
tion offended against it.
“This long litigation has been a
source of great expense and care to
my client, and he is now, while un
afraid, unwilling further to litigate,
and so he makes this plea for the pur
pose of concluding a litigation, that,
if continued, would entail still great
er expense, trouble and annoyance
both to himself and the government.”
NOTORIOUS BANDIT IS TAKEN
Robert Webb, Who Slew a Sleuth and
Caused Reign of Terror to Chi
cagoans, Is Arrrested.
Chicago, Feb. 17. —Robert Webb, out
law and murderer, of whom Chicago
has said for nearly a month: “He’ll
never be taken alive,” is a prisoner in
a cell at the detective bureau.
With six shots from his revolver, all
it contained, he tried on Friday to re
tain his liberty at the price of the
life of another detective. This man,
William O’Connor of Captain Halpin’s
headquarters’ staff, fired shot for shot
in a street duel with the cornered ban
dit, and when neither had another bul
let left, O’Connor grappled with Webb
and snapped a pair of manacles on his
wrists.
STANDARD OUSTER STANDS
Missouri High Court Refuses to Mod
ify Its Judgment of Four
Years Ago.
Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 13. The
Missouri supreme court refused to
modify the judgment of ouster
against the Standard Oil company,
and the original order ousting the
company from the state stands. The
original order was Issued more than
four years ago.
SIOO,OOO Fire at Mexico, Mo.
Mexico, Mo., Feb. 15. —Almost an en
tire block In the business district here
was destroyed by fire Thursday after
noon, causing a loss estimated at
SIOO,OOO. Several large stores w r ere
burned.
$2,000,000 to Art Museum.
New York, Feb. 15. —The will of
James B. Hammond, bequeathing his
$2,000,000 estate to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, was filed in the surro
gate’s court here on Thrusday after
noon.
Detective Shot; Killed.
East St. Louis, 111., Feb. 14.—James
J. Arnold, twenty-five years old, su
perintendent of a private detective
agency, was shot and killed when he
went to the home of Otto Schaumberg
to arrest him Wednesday.
Charles R. Heike Seeks Pardon.
Washington, Feb. 14.—An applica
tion for pardon was made Wednesday
by Charles R. Heike, convicted of com
plicity in the sugar weighing frauds in
New York and sentenced to six
months’ imprisonment.
SCOIT lastjo DIE
POSITIONS OF DODIES OF DEAD
EXPLORERS SHOW CAPTAIN
WAS ALIVE AT END.
WERE DELAYED BY ILLNESS
Leader of Expedition Found With
Head Resting on Diary—Food Sup
ply Exhausted Long Before Death
Came.
London, Feb. 17.—According to the
Daily Mail’s Christchurch dispatch,
the position of the bodies when found
proved that Captain Scott was the last
o/ the three comrades to die in the
antarctic disaster. Wilson and Bow
ers were lying dead in their sleeping
bags, but the leader was seated with
his head leaning back against the
tent pole. In that position he had
breathed his last, and between his
head and the tent pole, with his last
feeble gesture, he had placed his diary
with the records of his journey and
his last message to the public.
Every ounce of food was exhausted
long before death came to Scott’s par
ty. Only a small quantity of tea was
found with the bodies. Possibly an
expedition will be sent for the bodies
next summer. A memorial cross to
Scott, Wilson and Bowers was erected
on Observation Hill. It was construct
ed of Jarrah wood and will last for
ages.
Members of the expedition indicate
the possibility of disappointment at
Amundsen forestalling them took the
nerve out of Scott’s party for the re
turn journey
“First, the party was delayed by the
illness of Seaman Evans,” Commander
Evans states, “and Captain Scott date
the beginning of the failure of Evant;
from the time of reaching the pole.
For a month after the pole was left
behind Evans delayed the party. In
the descent of a glacier he fell and
suffered a concussion, making the
anxiety regarding him even greater.
His final collapse came on Feb. 17.
After Evans’ death the party pushed
on. but once again the condition of
one member of the party (Oates)
caused delay.”
Commander Evans again states that
this failure to maintain a higher speed
was due to the failing condition of
poor Captain Oates, who was a con
stant tax on the energies of the party
and was rapidly weakening them. Dr.
Atkinson, one of the search party,
found traces of scurvy on the three
dead men.
The puzzling problem In connection
with the disaster is the strange phrase
in Captain Scott’s dramatic message
reading: “There has been a shortage
of fuel, for which I cannot account.”
New light is thrown on the mystery
by Commander Evans, the successor
In command of the expedition, in a
long cable message from New Zealand
to the Dally Express. He describes
in detail the final dash to the south
pole and explains that the shortage of
fuel was due to the failure of the par
ty to keep up the average speed ex,
pected on the return journey.
“Nine miles a day was the average
speed prepared for,” he says, “but the
records left by the dead heroes show
the average was much below this, fall
ing at times to so low as three miles
a day.”
None of the Information contained
in the diaries of the dead heroes will
be forthcoming for some time
NEWS FROM FAR
AND NEAR
Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 15. —Col.
William Seymour Edwards, candidate
for United States senator, was arrest
ed here Thursday on a warrant issued
—by Justice Marion Gilchrist, charged
with bribing Delegate S. U. G.
Rhodes, one of the five men arrested
February 12. Edwards furnished
bonds.
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 13. —Joseph
Speilman was killed and a number of
buildings damaged when the gas
tanks of the Fremont Gas company
exploded. The plant was totally
wrecked. Three detonations were
heard, the crash being audible for a
distance of ten miles. The cause of
the accident has not been determined.
Washington, Feb. 13. —President
Taft began Tuesday to make the
White House ready for the occupancy
of Woodrow Wilson. Scores of arti
cles belonging to the president, Mrs.
Taft and their children, were moved.
Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 14. —Sensa-
tional charges are contained in an
anti-trust suit for the dissolution of
the Cleveland Stone company and its
subsidiaries filed here Wednesday by
order of Attorney General Wicker
sham. To acquire monopoly in the
building paving, curbing and grind
stone business, the “stone trust” Is
charged with influencing architects
“by a money consideration or by con
ferring favors” to specify its stone in
their building plans.
O’Rourke Wins Damage Suit.
London, Feb. 17.—The king s branch
division of the high court Friday
awarded Thomas O’Rourke, the box
ing promoter, $250 in his suit for dam
ages against the proprietors of Box
ing, a sporting publication.
Nat Goodwin Loses Auto Suit.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 17. —A. C.
Harrington, a Santa Monica grocer,
who sued Nat Goodwin, the actor, for
SIO,OOO, was awarded SI,OOO Friday.
Goodwin’s automobile ran the grocer
down some time ago.
Gen. S. L. Woodford Dead.
New "Xork, Feb. 17.—Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford, veteran publicist and
former United States minister to
Spain, died at his home in New York
Friday. He had been ill longer than
t-wo weeks.
Nun Perishes In Ontario Fire.
Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 17.—Fire destroy
ed the annex of the Scholasticate of
the Oblat Father, Ottawa East, Friday.
Sister Ste. Simone, a nun, fainted in
trying to escape, and perished in the
flames.
TRUCK GARDENING
AND POULTRY RAISING
THESE, AS WELL AS OTHER
MIXED FARMING BRANCHES,
PAY IN WESTERN CANADA.
Truck gardening and poultry grow
ing are two branches of agriculture
In which the farmers near the main
lines of the three transcontinental
lines traversing Western Canada are
much concerned. The nbundanoe of
sunshine during the long days from
May to September, and adequate mois
ture in the spring and early summer
permit of a wide variety of crops. The
soil is rich and warm and is easily
W’orked Close attention to cultiva
tion has resulted in record yields of
all sorts of vegetable and small fruits
which bring good prices in the cities
pnd at the numerous railway construc
tion camps.
Mr. Harris Oium, an Alberta farmer,
came from South Dakota eleven years
ago and homesteaded the first 160
acres in his township in 1902, which
was divided between grain and pas
ture. He earned sufficient money to
buy a quarter section of railway land
at sll an acre. The half section netted
proportionate profits and he gradually
increased his holdings to 1,920 acres,
which was devoted to mixed farming
last year. He values his land at sst>
au acre.
Mr. Oium markets from 100 to 125
hogs and a similar number of beef
cattle each year. He has 200 hogs,
mostly pure bred Poland China. 25
head draft horses and 35 head of pure
bred Hereford cattle. By feeding bar
ley to hogs he estimates that the grain
nets him 80 cents a bushel, as com
pared with 40 cents, the average mar
ket price when delivered to the ware
house. His average crop of barley is
l' 1 bushels to the acre, while oats
age 80 bushels.
By writing any Canadian Govern
m«nt Agent, full particulars as to best,
districts on which to secure home
steads will be cheerfully given.—Ad-
vertisement.
HOT RETORT.
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W nil —
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The Pompous Man —Why, sir, I’m a
er-er-self-made man.
The Lean Chap—When are you go
ing to call the strike off and com
plete the job.
Ceylon Tea.
Tea plantations in Ceylo i have been
in existence only 30 years, yet the an
nual exports of black tea amount to
nearly $20,000,000 in value. Formerly
coiTeo constituted Ceylon’s main in
dustry, but after a disease of the plant
in 1880 its cultivation was discontin
ued. Many planters, however, re
couped themselves by tea and rubber.
Thanks chiefly to the former article,
the island’s old prosperity revived.
Today Ceylon boasts 1,500 planta
tions.
Plant necessary to tea cultivation Is
costly but very labor-saving. The
work itself is not hard; only the cli
mate makes it Irksome. What is
wanted mainly of employes is to
watch machinery and feed it from the
stock of tea leaves awaiting treat
ment. The workers are not Sing
halese, but natives of southern India.
A laborer’s wages vary from eight to
sixteen cents a day, while a foreman’s
salary averages S2OO a month. Har
per’s Weekly.
AS TO FLAVOUR.
Found Her Favorite Again.
A bright young lady tells how she
came to be acutely sensitive as to the
taste of coffee:
“My health had been very poor for
several years,” she says. "I loved
coffee and drank it for breakfast, but
only learned by accident, as it were,
that it was the cause of the constant,
dreadful headaches from which I suf
fered every day, and of the nervous
ness that drove sleep from my pillow
and so deranged my stomach that
everything I ate gave me acute pain.
(Tea is just as injurious, because it
contains caffeine, the same drug found
in coffee.)
“My condition finally got so serious
that I was advised by my doctor to go
to a hospital. There they gave me
what I supposed was coffee, and I
thought it was the best I ever drank,
but I have since learned it was
Postum. I gained rapidly and came
home in four weeks.
“Somehow the coffee we used at
home didn’t taste right when I got
back. I tried various kinds, but none
tasted as good as that I drank in the
hospital, and all brought back the
dreadful headaches and the ‘sick-all
over’ feeling.
“One day I got a package of Postum,
and the first taste of it I took, I
said ‘that’s the good coffee we had in
the hospital.’ I have drank it ever
since, and eat Grape-Nuts for my
breakfast. I have no more headaches,
and feel better than I have for years.”
Name given upon request. Read the
famous little book, “The Road to Well
ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason.”
Postum now comes in concentrated,
powder form, called Instant Postum.
It is prepared by stirring a level tea,
spoonful in a cup of hot water, adding
sugar to taste, and enough cream tq
bring the color to golden brown.
Instant Postum is convenient;
there’s no waste; and the flavour is at
ways uniform. Sold by grocers 45
to 50-cent tin 30 cts., 90 to 100-cup tin
50 cts.
A 5-cup trial tin mailed for grocer’s
name and 2-cent stamp for postage.
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek,
Mich.—Adv.