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western Canada’s
PHENOMENAL
DEVELOPMENT
permanency very little
QUESTIONED.
There have been booms In almost
civilized country and they were
upon as such, and in the course
J°L e the bubble was pricked and
* burst. But in no country has the
Eelopment been as great nor as
‘ id whether in city or in country,
fin'Western Canada. There may
’•-etinies be found one who will say
it last?" Winnipeg, today, stands
riere Chicago stands as far as be
■.“ the base of the great commercial ,
S agricultural country lying a
thousand miles back of it. It has an
idvantage that Chicago did not have,
’ 30 country in the world’s history
U attracted to its borders a larger
BBn]b e r of settlers in so short a time,
or has attracted so much wealth in a
period of equal len & th - as have the
Canadian prairies. Never before has
peering been accomplished under
conditions so favorable as those that
exist In Western Canada today.
The provinces of Manitoba, Sas*
iatcbewan, and Alberta have the
largest area of desirable lands op the
North American Continent, and their
cultivation has just begun.
Even with a two hundred million
bushel wheat crop less than eight per
cen t. of the land is under the plough,
four per cent, being in wheat. Less
than five years ago the wheat crop
was only seventy-one million bushels.
It is a simple calculation to estimate
that if four per cent, of the available
cultivable area produces something
over two hundred million bushels,
what will forty-four per cent, produce?
And then look at the immigration that
Is coming into the country. In 1901
It was 49,149; 17,000 being from the
United States. In 1906 It was 189,064,
of which 57,000 were Americans, and
In 1912 it was about 400,000, of which
about 200,000 are Americans. In the
three years prior to 1912, there were
355.559 persons who declared them
relves for Canada, who brought into
Canada in cash, bank drafts, stock,
Implements and effects over $350,000,-
MO. Why have they gone to Canada?
The American farmer is a man of
shrewd business instincts, and when
he finds that he can sell his own farm
it from SIOO to S2OO per acre and move
Into Canada and homestead 160 acres
for himself, and similarly for all his
tons who are adult and of age, upon
lands as rich and fertile as those he
had left, and producing, indeed, sev
eral bushels to the acre in excess of
anything he has ever known, It will
take more than an ordinary effort to
prevent him from making the change.
He can also purchase good lands at
from sl2 to $25 per acre.
And, then, too, there Is the Ameri
can capital following the capital of
brawn, muscle and sinew, following it
jo as to keep in touch with the indus
trious fanner with which he has had
dealings for years back. This capital
and the capital of farming experience
Is no small matter in the building up
of a country.
Will Western Canada’s development
continue? Why not? The total area
of land reported as available for cul
tivation is estimated as 218,000,000
acres; only fifteen per cent, of this is
under cultivation. Nothing is said of
the great mineral and forest w’ealth,
of which but little has yet been
touched—Advertisement.
Eccentricities of Musicians.
A scientist says that the bassoon
Player is always cranky and the drum
mer generally lacks humor.
It isn’t always the most attractive
*oman who attracts the most atten
tion,
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Many a slow man develops into a
sprinter when he has a chance to run
into debt.
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Backache Rheumatism
kidneys and Bladder
Contains No Habit Forming Drugs _
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BOYS’ HANDICRAFT
By A. NEELY HALL
Author of **Handicraft for Handy Boys" and'' The Boy Craftsman”
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FOR THE OUTDOOR GYMNASIUM.
A pair of jump standards is one of
the most important pieces of appa
ratus for a boy’s backyard or vacant
Sot gymnasium. Here is a good
ftcheme for making a pair; also the
working drawings for a jump board,
er slightly raised platform used to
"take off’’ from in jumping. Al
though primarily intended for indoor
t/ork, to supply the spring lacking in
the w ooden floor, the use of the jump
hoard out of doors will eliminate the
Wearing of hollow’s in the ground at
the point of “taking off."
The six-foot lengths of “furring
strips”—strips one inch thick and
two inches wide used in building con
struction, or two 2x2 obtained by rip
ping a piece of 2x4 in halves, will do
for the uprights of the jump stan
dards.
Cut four strips 10 inches long, 2
inches wide and 1 inch thick, and nail
two of these to each of two opposite
sides of each upright, at one end and
at right angles to the upright (A, Fig.
2); then, at right angles to these
strips, nail a pair of strips that are
Jong enough to extend across them,
placing them close against the sides
of the uprights (B, Fig. 3). This will
complete the base of the standards.
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The screw-eyes shown, on one side of
strips A are provided so the stan
dards can be pegged + o the ground as
in F’g. 1
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 show in detail how
to prepare the peg supports for the
cross-bar or rope. Cut the block C
(Fig. 6) equal to tho width and thick
ness of the standard uprights and 2
inches long, and cut the tin strip D
long enough so that when its ends
are tacked to the sides of block C it
will form a sleeve large enough for
the upright to slide through (Fig. 5).
Drive a nail into one side of the block
for the cross-bar or rope to rest on,
and screw a screw'-eye into the face
of the block for a set-screw. This
screw-eye must have a long enough
screw to extend through the block
and into the upright.
Mark off the length of each up
right, on one edge, into feet and
inches, as suggested in Figs. 1 and
4. The reading at the top edge of the
tin sleeve should show the correct
height of the top of the cross-bar or
rope above the ground; so the point
at which the nail pin is driven into
the block will be determined by the
thickness of the bar or the rope.
After laying off the measurements
with a rule and pencil, go over the
marks with a small brush and paint,
to make them permanent.
A piece of clothesline is more satis
factory than a cross-bar, for the rea
son that it can be weighted at the
ends and be kept taut. A stick is al
most certain to bend at its center,
making a correction necessary when
reading the heights on the uprights,
besides, it is too easily broken when
kicked off or jumped upon to be sat
isfactory, unless there is an unlimit
ed supply of long sticks near at hand.
The weights upon the ends of the
rope should only be heavy enough to
take up the slack; if too heavy, the
rope will not knock off easily and
mav trip the jumper. Fig. 7 shows a
most satisfactory weight. The size
of the block will depend, of course,
upon whether it is made of soft or
hard wood, and upon the length and
weight of the rope.
For the jump board (Fig. 8), get a
piece of 2x4 18 inches long (Fig. 9),
draw a diagonal line from end to end
as shown, and rip it along this line.
The two triangular pieces thus ob
tained will form the supports for the
platform. Cut the platform boards
16 inches long and nail them to the
supports. Then drive a nail part way
in, near each end of the supports, on
the under side, as in Fig. 10; these
nail ends will sink into the ground
and prevent the board from shifting
out of position. The regulation jump
boards are covered with heavy rub
ber. to prevent slipping If you can
find an old bicycle tire —a single tub
ing, or an outer tubing—you can cut
two pieces from it equal to the length
of the jump-board and tack them side
by side, as indicated in Fig. 8.
(Copyright, 1912, by A. Neely Hall.)
IS MOST HUMAN OF BIRDS
Not Only in Talking, But Eating, the
Parrot Imitates Man, in Its Cap
tive State.
It is not only in imitating human
speech that the parrot excels most of
the bird£. The parrot is alone among
birds in taking food in its claws. With
these two characteristics it makes more
or less use of that which distinguishes
humanity from the rest of the animal
kingdom—the hand and the larynx.
The monkey uses its hands and the
elephant its trunk in feeding. Various
animals have a habit of pawing their
food. Rodents nave serviceable toes.
Still, the parrot is pre-eminent among
birds in this regard. The secretary
bird is said to attack reptiles with its
claws, and some observers have said
that owls make partial use of their re
markably flexible perching toe some
what more than does a hen in scratch
ing for food. However, there is no other
bird which, when given a piece of food,
will accept it in its claws.
Parrots, of course, do not talk, as
we use the word, in their wild state,
and are not known to be imitative of
neighboring sounds nor to possess the
repertory of the mocking bird. It is,
therefore, a question whether or not
their use of the claws is largely imita
tive also. The shape of the parrot’s
weak would indicate that some assis
ance in eating has always been a pail
of the bird’s characteristics.
Like man, the parrot makes its ap
pearance in the world naked and help
less. —Harpers Weekly.
Squaring the Bill.
The bright little surgery at the rear
of the doctor’s house, was occupied by
two —the medical man and a patient,
who was being attended to for the
last time, seeing that he had got over
his illness.
“Yes, yes,” said the doctor, “you’re
all right now. You needn't come here
again.”
“But, sir,” remarked the patient,
“vot aboot der bill? I ain’t got mooch
money. Vill you dake der bill out in
trade?”
The sawbones looked the man up
and down.
“Well, I might do so,” he replied.
“What is your business?”
“I am der leader of der liddle Cher*
man band, sair. Ve will blay in front
of your house every evening for von
month.”
Origin of the Bloodhound.
The bloodhound is commonly be
lieved to be derived from the Talbot
(the ancestors of the true hounds),
and thus from the St. Hubert of the
Ardennes.
The latter dates from very early
times, certainly from those of the
Gauls. In the eighth century it was
called the Flemish hound, of which
there were two strains, known as
the black (black and tan) and the
white. St. Huberts were brought to
England at the conquest and again
in the time of James I. They were
deep-voiced dogs with great powers
of scent
Temperance is reason’s girdle and
passion’s bridle, the strength of the
soul, and the foundation of virtue.—
Jeremy Taylor.
Straighten That Lame Back!
Backache is one of Nature’s warnings of kidney weakness. Kidney disease
kills thousands every year. Safety is only certain if the early warnings are heeded
while help is possible. Doan’s Kidney Pills have helped many thousands to get
rid of backache, strengthen weak kidneys and regulate bladder and urinary disorders.
Don’t neglect a bad back. If your back is
lame in the morning, if it hurts to stoop or lift,
if the dull aching keeps up all day, making work
a burden and rest impossible —suspect the kid
neys. If the urine is off color and shows a sedi
ment; if passages are irregular, too frequent,
too scanty, or scalding, this is further proof.
There may be dizzy spells, headaches,
nervousness, dropsy swellings, rheumatic
attacks, and a general tired-out, run-down
condition.
Use Doan’s Kidney Pills, the remedy that is
publicly recommended by 100,C00 persons in
many different lands. Doan’s act quickly, con
tain no harmful nor habit-forming drugs and are
wholly harmless, though remarkably effective.
“When Your Back is Lame—Remember the Name”
DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS
At all Dealers or by Mail. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Too Well Known.
“Have you a speaking acquaintance
with the woman who lives next door
to you?” we asked an east end lady,
just to make a little conversation.
“A speaking acquaintance?” echoed
the lady, opening her eyes wide.
“Why, I know her so well that I don’t
speak to her at all!”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTO,RIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that it
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Daily Thought.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be
well descended, but the glory belongs
to our ancestor. —Plutarch.
A woman with bulging ankles seems
more afraia ■ f having them seen than
one without them is of a hole in her
stocking.
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"Every Picture
Tells a Story.”
MISANTHROPE.
(far ir
“Is Robinson a sociable sort of
chap?”
“Well, you can judge. I heard a
small boy ask him to help tie a tin
can to a dog’s tail, yesterday, and he
didn’t even stop to listen.”
She Married Him.
In a well-known colored school in
the south the lesson in general his
tory one day was on the life of Queen
Elizabeth.
“Thomas, did Queen Elizabeth ever
marry?” asked the teacher.
“Yes, ma’am, I thing she did,” re
plied Thomas.
“Are you quite sure?”
“Yes, ma’am, the book says she did.”
“It does? Will you please find it?”
Whereupon Thomas opened to the
lesson and to the great amusement of
the teacher read the statement that
“Queen Elizabeth was married to her
realm.”
“There,” said he, triumphantly,
“doesn’t it say she was married? I
don’t exactly know who the gentleman
was, but it certainly says she married
him.”
Its Negative Virtues.
“I wish you’d get rid of that abso
lutely worthless poodle.”
‘Absolutely worthless?”
“That’s what I said! Absolutely—
absolutely worthless! What does it
do that makes it good for anything?”
“I was thinking of what it doesn't
do.”
“Oh-h, what it doesn’t do!”
“Yes. It doesn’t chew tobacco,
smoke a pipe, fight booze or ute pro
fane language.”
Daily Thought.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness
makes error a fault, and truth discour
tesy.—George Herbert.
From Serious Dropsy To Perfect Health
George Davis, 524 S. 23rd St, Vincennes, Ind., says:
“My back ached day and night. I became nervous
and irritable and had such headaches, I thought my
head would burst. I could not work without terrible
dizzy feelings and was afraid to venture far alone for
fear of falling. For days at a time I could not urinate,
and, finally when the passage did take place, the odor
would be stifling. My feet and arms were swollen to
twice their natural size. When I touched the swollen
area, a dent would remain. I finally began using I
Doan’s Kidney Pills and soon noticed a change for the
better. The swelling in my limbs and arms went down,
the dizzy spells left, and ere long I was in as good
health as ever before in my life.”
When your back hurts, when your kidneys trouble you, when
you feel tired, Worn-out or depressed, don’t simply ask f° r a
kidney remedy—ask distinctly for Doan • Kidney Pills,
the same that cured Mr. Davis, and make sure the name
DOAN’S is on the box.
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