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r* WHY HOI OWN LAND? ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO MAKE MONEY IS TO INVEST IN WESTERN CANADA. "Deep down In the nature of every proper.y constituted man is the desire to own some land." A writer in the Iowa Stale Ilogister thus tersely ex presses a well-known truth. The ques tion Is where is the best land to be had at the lowest prices, and this the same writer points out in the same ar ticle. The fact is not disguised that the writer has a personal interest in the statement of his case, and there is no hidden meaning when he refers to Western Canada as presenting great er possibilities than any other part of the American Continent, to the man who is inclined to till the soil for a livelihood and possible competence. What interests one are the arguments advanced by this writer, and when ituriy analyzed tlso conclusion reached that no matter what personal interest the writer may had. his reasons appear to have the quality of great soundness. The climatic condi tions of Western Canada are fully as good aa those of Minnesota, the Dako tas or Iowa, the productiveness of the soil is as great, the social conditions are on a parity, the laws are as well established ana as carefuiiy uiiMtu ved. In addition to these the price of land is much less, easier to secure. So, with these advantages, why shouldn't this —the offer of Western Canada—be embraced. The hundreds or thousands of settlers now tlere, whose homes were originally in the United States, appear to be—are satisfied. Once in awhile complaints are heard, but the Canadians have never spoken of the country as an Eldorado no matter what they may have thought. The writer happened to have at hand a few letters, written by former residents of the United States, from which one or two extracts are submitted. These go to prove that-the writer in the Regis ter has a good basis of fact in support of his statements regarding the excel lency of the grain growing area of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. On the 29th of April of this year W. R. Conley, of Lougheed, Alberta, wrote a friend in Detroit. He says: "The weather has been Just fine ever since I came' here in March, and I believe one could find If he wanted to some •mall bunches of show around the edge of the lake. There is a frost near ly every morning: at sunrise it begins to fade away, then those blue flow ers open and look as fresh as If there had been no frost for a week. There is no reason why this country should not become a garden of Eden the wealth is in the ground and only needs a little encouragement from the government to in dace capital in here. There is everything here to build with: good clay for brick coal under neath, plenty of water in the spring lakes, and good springs coming out ol the banks." Mabel's Wish. thero it's too nervous." sell Small Mabel—Mamma, they cream at a creamery, don't they? Mamma—Yes, dear. Small Mabel—If I were to buy some tan at a tannery, mamma, do you think they would throw in a few freckles? Neurotic Jelly. Little Wilbur was eating luncheon with his mother. Presently she no ticed that he was eating his jelly With his spoon. "Wilbur, dear," she said to him, "you must not eat your Jelly with your spoon." "I have to, mother," he replied. "No, dear, you don't have to. Put ''your jelly on your bread." "I did put it on my bread, mother," said Wilbur, "but it wouldn't stay A Domesticaed Princess. The kaiser's new daughter-in-law, who is a sister of the duchess of Saxe-Coburg and a niece of the kai .. serin, is a very domesticated girl. She is not specially good looking nor is 'i she very smart, but she is exceed lngly amiable and capable. She has all her Imperial aunt's love of home Ur ,v" and has been carefully trained by her In all her views. Like her sister, the grand duchess of Saxe-Coburg, the Princess August is typically German. -f|-, and prefers German fashions, Ger man literature, music and food. As & a inatier of fact, she has never been out of her native land and cannot speak any English. It is the kaiser's 4,1 wish that all his sons should choose Gorman wives, and so far they have '.'redone so—Lady's' Pictorial. ROSY AND PLUMP elT&cf Good Health from Right Food. 'It's not a new food to me," re marked a Va. man. In speaking of Grape-Nuts. "About twelve months ago my wife was in very bad health, could not keep anything on her stomach. The Doctor recommended milk half water but it was not sufficiently nourishing. "A friend of mine told me one day to try Grape-Nuts and cream. The re sult was really marvelous. My wife soon regained her usual strength and to-day is as rosy and plump as when a girl of sixteen. "These are plain facts and nothing I could say in praise of Grape-Nuts would exaggerate in the least the value of this great food." Name given byr Postum. Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read ,'The Road to Well, vllle," in Pkgs- ."There's a'tteiumT jtsbs sutii rs£»A« M*.'_ 1 I. 1*W,.fmll,.* .Warn CHAPTER VIII. The Last Homecoming. Its dead master had been taken to the hall—the big, old place standing in its wide, wooded grounds on the outskirts of Wildfell, that had shel tered long generations of his name in the great, somhre dining room the laces of dead-and-gone Humes looked down from the broad gold frames on »h« pnn«l«d walls on a figure that might have hean carved out of mar ble, with features so calm and untrou bled that it was difficult to associate them with a violent death. In the darkened house the servants moved with hushed tread and spoke in whis pers, as though afraid of disturbing the dead man's last sleep. The police had been telegraphed for from Fellsgarth and Dr. Sprent sum moned, immediately on the discovery of the tragedy the little group stood talking in lowered voices in the room where the dead man lay. Bonholt Hume was not one of the group—the new master, as he now was, of the hall the ijlace was entailed, and he was the last of the family. No one had been surprised at Bon holt Hume's marked reluctance to en ter the chamber of death, or his re fusal when the tragic news came to identify the dead man. His strong affection for Philip was a matter of common knowledge in the village it seemed not unnatural that he should shrink from the ordeal of so painful a sight, even if to Dr. Sprent his dread to look upon the dead face of one confessedly so dear to him was somewhat inexplicable. "The face is quite calm and peace ful, Mr. Hume: there is no sugges tion there of his violent end to shock you. And although the poor fellow must have been lying there three weeks the snow has arrested the processes of Nature marvelously," said Dr. Sprent. who had looked upon the face of deaths too often for it to have any terrors. He could not understand or sympathize with the shrinking fear the poor hu man clay could inspire—least of all in any one to whom the dead had been dear. But Bonholt Hume drew back, white and trembling, with horror in his face. His nerve seemed to have utterly gone. 'No, no!" he cried. "I couldn't bear it—I want my last recollection of him to be as I saw him last, gay and so full of life—I couldn't bear to see him as he is now." And he had stopped Dr. Sprent when the latter was describing the nature of the wound that had caused Phil ip's death, as though he could not en dure to hear the details. His manner was. almost hysterical. 'I knew it—all along I feared some thing like this!" he broke out agi tatedly, addressing himself more to the superintendent of police, who had ridden over from Fellsgarth, than to the doctor. "His strange disappear ance so soon after his encounter with young Lathom—we know it was that night lie disappeared—it must have been that night he met his end, my poor Philip, who hadn't an enemy in the world—except Jack Lathom! And even If Philip did repeat to Lathom's father rumors that are said to have been mir taken, he was only doing what he conceived to be his duty— nothing to warrant young Lathom's almost tigerish attack on him that night. If only the constable who separated them in the road had wait ed, as he ought to have done, to have prevented any possibility of Lathom returning to finish his quarrel Dr. Sprent- interrupted the excited tirade. He had been listening with a deepening frown of impatience before he broke In: 'Hume, you are talking unwarrant ably." His eyes were bent sharply on the white-baited man. "One would think you wanted to fix the crime on young Lathom you are neither judge nor Jury, remember." It was not often that the doctor's genial voice was so stern. "The idea of the lad having had a hand in this Is preposterous. You imply an inference that is infa mous and without any foundation— at least, so far as anything is known. You ought to have more control over yourself." With the curt rebuke he turned on his heel. Without another word Bon holt Hume walked unsteadily away. Dr. Sprent's eyes followed him with contracted brows. Such needs of ru mors might do Incalculable injury and wrong to Lathom. He felt angry and a little perplexed. He told the police the result of his examination of the dead man. The wound from the bullet that had been the cause of death was such that it was Impossible It could have been self-inflicted. Suicide was out of the question. And further, he expressed his conviction that the position of, the body In whleh the dead man had been found was not that in .which Philip Through a Woman's Heart. By Sidney Warwick. .. -43/ Hume had fallen when the shot struck him. "To my mind it is conclusively clear that after he wns shot some one drag ged him to the drift where he was found to cancel the crime." The sensation caused in the village was intense. The news seemed to have spread like wildfire. A little crowd of village people had gathered outside the great gates of the hall grounds, exchanging speculations in eager, excited voices, as they stared curiously riown uie drive, there was nothing to be seen except the house with the drawn blinds, yet the mere knowledge that behind one of those darkened windows the dead man was lying seemed to stimulate the morbid fascination that the fact of a murder exercises over some minds. The crowd grew like a snowball. Repeatedly to newcomers the story was recounted afresh. "It was Jim the carrier as found him—saw a hand sticking up out of a drift of snow, Jim did. He said it made him feel fair creepy all over— that almost before he knew what he was doing he turned to see whether there weren't something or some one as the dead squire was trying to point out. to him—the way the murderer hail gone, maybe!" said one village gossip with a horribly morbid relish. "But lias ta heerd what they've found in t'dead squire's other hand?" broke in another eagerly. "It were gripping a playing card—three weeks under t'snow that card's been clutch ed in his hand, for it's three weeks since t'squire were last seen. I won der now if that card had aught to do wi' t'squire's death? Close by these gates, as you might say, all the while, as we've passed a score o' times, and none on us dreamed of what' was ly ing under t'snow!" "Aye, and who knows whether the chap as fired that shot isn't walking among us, laughing and joking and talking just like one of us, for all that he has blood on his hands?" And then a babel of eager speculat ion as to who could have committed the crime. But it was the strange incident of the playing card that excited Ui$ most comment among the village's to whom such a sensation as this was an event in the monotony of their lives. It fastened on their imagina tions—a playing card clutched in the dead man's hand. An ace of hearts. it. was the superintendent of police from Fellsgarth who maije a curious discovery about this card. As he took it up, limp and sudden with the snow, something seemed to strike him. He passed his fingers over the back of the card and exam ined it with a sudden look of surprise. "Did you notice anything curious about that card, doctor?" he asked, quietly. It had been Dr. Sprent who removed the card from the stiffened fingers. Dr. Sprent shook his head. His pro fession had made him more interested in the dead man than the card at which he had scarcely glanced. "Feel the back of It." The doctor passed his fingers over it as the superintendent had done. On the back, he noticed, were several ex crescences—tiny punctures, swollen by the moisture of the snow into warts. "That's been a marked card." said the superintendent. "-You know, sharp ers often mark the back of the cards by pin pricks, in precisely the way that this has been marked. It's a regular trick of the snide fraternity." A marked card*in the dead man's hand! How had it come there? The superintendent seemed to attach im portance to it ,as though he thought it might furnish a clue. He took offi cial possession of the strip of limp pasteboard. As Dr. Sprent was leaving he en countered the rector in the hall. "What a terrible affair! You've heard the details ,of course, from Bon holt Hume?" said the doctor, as he and Stephen Ruthen walked away from the house. "It's a plain case of murder. I understand that the police are searching all about the place where the poor chap was found, in the hope of finding some clue. Mind you, the body was dragged some distance after the crime I'm sure of that. The murder seems to have been abso lutely motiveless. Who could have done It? Surely no one in the vil lage." The docf&r paused for breath. The rector seemed to have nothing to say. "Bonholt Hume is tremendously up set—only natural, of course," went on Dr. Sprent, who was fond of hearing his own vplce. "Though, mind you, I was never disposed to swallow im plicitly alt I have beard about the almost fatherly affection of Bonholt towards Philip. Or, if so, I doubt if Philip returned It particularly deep ly. I've heard him say—but that's neither here nor there. Bonholt's a bundle of nerves. He refused, with a display of fear almost childish, to go into the room where the poor chap lay. There was a sort of cowardice about his attitude, as it seemed to me," the doctor added, impatiently. Dr .Sprent was »ne of the very few people with whom Bonholt H.me has never been a favorite. "Sprent, I want you to call in at the rectory as you pass," Stephen saiil. "Why, you don't mean Miss Yanstone was so much better this morning, though I wasn't sure it was quite wise of me to let her go down stairs so soon." "l.'nf'ii'tunatcly she heard of this— this terrible thing. Burrow blurted out the news in her hearing," said the rector, liis eves were troubled. "She fainted away. We got her up strlrs—but she hadn't came back to her e||' when 1 came out to find you." "That's bad. Any excitement's the very worst thing for her now." The two men walked to the rectory. The doctor eame downstairs, looking very grave. "I'm going to send over a sleeping draught. I'll look spoke. Throughout that afternoon Stephen diil not go near the sick room. Dr. Sprent sent over a sleeping draught for Olive the nurse told him that It had taken effect and that the patient was sleeping heavily. Dr. Sprent can again that night. "She's i:sking for you, Ruthen," he said, after leaving iiis paiieiii. "Only, it's better you didn't see her until the morning: it would only excite her. I've promised that she shall see you in the morning, if she's better. A great pity she heard about this case. She seems to take an excessive inter est in it—curious how people in an abnormal state of health will excite themselves unduly." He paused then added abruptly: "I'm afraM that nurse isn't, as dis creet as she might be. One would hardly have thought she could be such a fool, but she has actually been talk ing to the patient about the murdered man. I spoke to her pretty sharply— gave the woman to understand she should never nurse another case of mine. 1 feel I ought to tell you this that I'm going to say Rutheu. She told the patient that it was thought in the village your sister and poor Hume were likely to make a match of it. Miss Vanstone asked me quite excitedly if it were so. What a fool that nurse 1st" Stephen looked1 at the doctor with a startled face. What a terribly com plicated knot it wasr He ought to have stopped Burrow—and what in credible thoughtlessness had pos sessed him to leave unlocked that drawer where the revolver was? It had been open scarcely more than an inch the glint of the barrel must have attracted Olive's attention. Hearing Burrow's excited words she Had instinctively associated that weapon with the tragedy. And the nurse could hardly have been guilty of a more unfortunate in discretion in coupling Hilda's name with Hume's to Olive. But it was a relief to know, as he did know, that Hilda had never cared for Hume. His fear of such a possibility had impelled him more than a week ago to put the question to his sister. Hilda had laughed and told him that she had al ready refused Philip Hume, and would never marry him under any circum stances. MACHINE TO PICK COTTON. It is claimed by men who have had enough experience to know that the mechanical picking of cotton, without doubt one of the most important agri cultural problems of the day, is about to be solved by the newly patented machine described in this article. Modern machinery has reduced the labor required to produce a bushel of corn from four' hours to thirty-four minutes, and wheat from three and a half hours to ten minutes, but up to the present time cotton is being picked by hand as in the beginning, notwith standing the efforts of scores of in ventors to devise a practical cotton picking machine. The .great difficulty which has bar red success, and which it is claimed this machine has gained a victory over, is the fact that cotton, unlike ceroals, does not ripen uniformly, and therefore cannot be harvested indis criminately. Only the ripe cotton must be taken, and the plant with its leaves and green bolls must be left unharmed after the machine has passed through. Such a demand would seem, at first thought, to be a foolish appeal for al most human intelligence in a mechan ism of steel, yet all tests seem to posi tively prove that the machine can do this. In the demonstration rose bush es have been run through the machine without harm to full-blown roses or buds. Sticks of oak wood three and four feet high have been set in among plants and the strippers ran through the rigid sticks and the yielding, pli able, growing plants equally well. This Is possible because the movement of the pickers is perpendicular, and it ts because of this perpendicular move ment that the machine is expected to be a success- where other machines have failed. ongress Returns ef the Week", Proceeding'. Washington, Jan. 6.—The business 3f the senate yesterday consumed less than an hour, nearly half of which was devoted to the consideration of nominations in executive session, of which a large number were confirmed. A motion by Senator Gore of Okla homa to print the inaugural address es and the proclamation of emancipa tion by President Lincoln in the Con gressional Record in celebration of the centenary year of Lincoln's birth brought Senator Bailey of Texas to his feet with an objection to the print in again to-night, ing of the proclamation of emancipa- She seems very excited—unduly ex-j tlon. Further discussion was stopped cited. Do you know if she and the by a reference of the entire matter to dead man were acquainted?" he asked, the committee on printing. "I—I think it possible," said the Transacting business without even rector, turning his face away as he the semblance of a quorum, the house of representatives yesterday passed several bills of a miscellaneous char acter, but of little general public im portance. Washington, Jan, 8. The postal savings bank bill was before the sen ate yesterday and many amendments were proposed to It, some of them requiring the deposit of postal sav ings funds in state as well as nation al banks. It is expected that the vot ing on amendments a further His. cussion of the measure will be re newed today. The only incident, worthy of note in the house, and which caused a good deal of amusement, was a brief discussion of the forthcoming African hunting trip of the president. Inci dentally there was a reference to the famous so-called Anatiias club. The whole debate hinged upon a news paper story stating that Maj. Edgar O. Kearns of the army was to accom pany the president, and that in order to do .-o he had been put on the re tired list with increased rank. The matter was brought up by Mr. Mann of Illinois In connection witfh the con sideration of a bill authorizing the is suance of commissions to officers who retire with increased rank. The re mainder of the day was devoted to the consideration of a number of mis cellaneous bills and resolutions. Washington, Jan. 9.—Characterizing the action of the president in directing the attorney general not to prosecute the United Steel corporation for the absorption of the Tennessee Steel and Iron corporation aa another "arbitrary and lawless act of the chief magis trate." Senator Culberson of Texas in troduced a resolution in the senate yesterday instructing the committee on the judiciary to report at as early day as possible whether, in the opin ion of that committee, the president was authorized to permit such absorp tion. Mr. Culberson at considerable length discussed the president and insisted that congress had the right to give di rections to a head of an executive de partment under certain conditions. It had been on the tip of Hilda's Texas senator was not properly repre tongue to add her news about Jack Lathom and herself, only she had re frained. Jack was to prove himself before any one- knew of their engage ment. "You'd better go up and see our ex citable patient. Ruthen, for she'll only excite herself the more if you don't," Dr. Sprent told him the next morn ing. "I understand the abnormal in terest she seems to take in this affair, and I wish to goodness she'd never heard of it." (To Be Continued.) Senator Hopkins declared that the senting the president and said that Mr. Roosevelt had not approved the action of the steel corporation, but that he had merely "not felt if bis duty to oppose such action." Although technically under consid eration in the house of representa tives, the District of Columbia appro priation bill was sidetracked while the members indulged in general debate. This took a wide range, the proceed ings opening with a defense of the rules of the house by Mr. Olmstead of Pennsylvania. His remarks stirred up the subject and gave the insur the leadership of Mr. Gardner of Massachusetts, an- oppor tunity to air their grievances. Washington, .Tan. 10.—After having made him the target all day for criti cism, with here and there words of commendation, the house of represent atives last night, by a vote of 212 to i!5, rebuked the president by tabling so much of his messages as reflected on members of congress in connection with his recommendations regarding the secret service detectives, and also declaring it to be the sense of the house that, they shall decline to con sider any communications from any source which is not in its own judg ment respectful. Chamber Is Packed. In anticipation of the report, the effect of which was to administer a rebuke to the president, there was one of the largest attendances of members of this session while the galleries at all times were filled to their capacity. In a forceful speech, Representative Tawney of Minnesota, who was charge ed by the president with being mainly responsible tor the legislation limiting the operations of the secret service, replied to the allegations. He de clared that he had been unfairly rep resented in the president's message, and read extracts to show that, whether intentionally or not, he had been misquoted. In the 8enate. The senate yesterday passed a bill providing aondltions under which the thirteenth census will be taken. Senator Culberson's resolution in structing the committee on the judi ciary to report whether the president had authority to permit the absorp tion of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company by the United States Steel corporation was adopted. The senate at adjourned. PATIENT SUFFERING. Many Women Think They Are Doomed to Backache. It Is not right for women to be al ways ailing with backache, urinary ills, headache and other symptoms of kidney disease. There is a way to end these troubles quickly. Mrs. John H. Wrght, 606 East First St., Mitchell, S. D., says "I suffered ten years with kidney com plaint and a doctor told me 1 would never get more than temporary relief. A dragging pain and lameness in my back almost disabled me. Dizzy spells came and went and the kidney secre tions were irregular. Doan's Kidney Pills rid me of these troubles and I feel better than for years past." Sold by all dealers. 50c a box. Fos ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A Trust. Little William had planted some castor beans in the back yard, and as usual they grew very rapidly. Every day he would take note how much they grew. One day, while William, his father and mother were seated at the( dinner table, William became si lent and thoughtful, and after looking a long while at his mother, then at his father, turning to both in turn, he remarked: "Mamma, you're not growing only me and the castor beans." BREAKS A COLD PROMPTLY The following formula Is a never failing remedy for colds: One ounce of Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris Com pound and one-half pint of good whiskey, mix and shake thoroughly each time and use in doses of a table spoonful every four hours. This if followed up will cure an acute cold in 24 hours. The ingre dients can be gotten at any drug store. Those who feel their own pulBe often enough are bound to have a fever some day. Beauty may be "skin deep." but I've seen a lot of it that didn't strike- In that far. UML.Y ONE "BROMO QUININE" That is LAXATIVB BROMO QU1N1NH. Look ttm the signature of B. W. GROVE. Uaed the Worla oter to Cure a Cold in One Day. U6e. 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