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,• ' ; . r ' Hi k < > J V * * t •<•* ^ mi f PL MEBOEOFHELO COMBINATION OF UNION AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROADS DECIDED TO BE LEGAL. Now a doctor has produced a heart stimulant from toads. While swatting the fly, let us re­ member that the horse needs a drink. Now Is a good time for the man who Invented all wool underwear to keep mum. Good hot weather advice is to drink plenty of water, but not out of a pub­ lic drinking cup. With hay at $27 a ton in Chicago, the Western farmer buys an automo­ bile and pays cash for it An explosive golf ball is something new to us, although we have often heard of explosive golfers. Chicago women advocate shirtwaists for policemen in summer, but who is going to button them nj> the back? Evanston has a rooster that sings bass. Instead of being nursed into celebrity he is classed as a nuisance. A Chicago professor advocates a school for scientific spooning, but it strikes us that spooners are born, not made. * The house fly may be of some use in the world, but thus far he has been un­ able to prove an alibL Therefore, •watt An eastern clergyman tells us to inarry only our ideals, but he over­ looks the fact that ideals change with years. A sea serpent has already appeared at Atlantic City. It is 15 feet long and all regular patrcos of that resort are seeing things. Aeroplane races are bringing the va­ rious nationalities together more ef­ fectively than any other thins since the dispersion at Babel. Two million trees have been plant­ ed in Kansas this year, and yet Kan- gas is a long way from being a cool and shady spot It would not be quite fair to charge all the puttering of last week to the account of humidity. The heat had something to do with It. Lightning is keeping up its reputa­ tion for speed. It knocked an Ohio telephone girl insensible before she could give It the busy signal If the fly swatters attend strictly to business, some day we may be able to sing: "There are no flies on us." Sug­ gestion for a national anthem. The man who invented the lawn mower died the other day. Why can't something like this happen to the man who pushes one next door 7 Boston Is to have a hospital for none but rich people, and a new set of atrictly aristocratic diseases are to be thought out to meet the wants of its patients. If, while looking over your winter garments on suspicion that some of them may be all wool, you happen to see a moth, the proper course of ac­ tion will occur to you. Eggs criticised by Buffalo people hatched out chickens while left in the health commissioner's care over muv4 TI 4A pect? Hummingbirds? nw A/VWpSV VA- A European artist has arrived In New York for the purpose of painting the city. That's entirely unnecessary. New York is full of men who devots their nights to the job. The son of the Begum of Bhopal, caught in an escapade in Paris, ie sent home, ^he cable says the begum is a woman. Will somebody give ua the word for a male begum? A report comes from India of how four ferocious lions were captured ilive and unharmed by means of fly paper. Plainly, the nature fakers have not been discouraged, but are in fine fettle for the season. A London society Journal prints ac advertisement in which "a peer and peeress with quiet tastes" offer to as­ sociate during the summer with some married couple, visiting in England for a consideration. Here is a new scheme whereby impoverished nobil­ ity may get along without working and also, of course, a fine opportunity for Americans with money to Bpend it foolishly. A New York bachelor killed him self after he had lost $2,000,000 specu lating in Wall street. A man who has $2,000,000 and tries to get more by speculating in Wall street doesn't leave the world much poorer when he takes himself out of it. JUDGE HOOK FAILS TO AGREE la Dissenting Opinion Jurist Declare* the Government's Petition to Be Well Founded and It 8hould Have Been Granted, St. Louis.--The United States cir­ cuit court of the eighth district hand­ ed down an opinion that the purchase of the Southern Pacific railroad by the Union Pacific "did not amount to a direct and substantial restraint of either interstate or international com­ merce." The recent decision of the United States Supreme court in the Standard Oil case was cited among others by Judge Elmer B. Adams, who wrote the majority opinion. Supreme Court Justice Willis Van De Vanter, while a circuit judge of the eighth district, participated in the hearing, deliberation and decision in the case and concurred in the opinion. Judge William C. Hook filed a dissenting opinion. "Our conclusion," said Judge Adams, "Is that, all the facts of the case, con­ sidered in their natural, reasonable and practical aspect, and given their appropriate relative signification, do not make the Union Pacific a substan­ tial competitor for transcontinental business with the Southern Pacific in or prior to the year 1901. "Certainly the desire to appropriate the trifling business done by the Southern Pacific on the minor lines or to suppress competition of traffic wKUK t&C of finch small proportions could not have been the inspiration of the vast outlay in­ volved in the purchase of the Hunt­ ington stock. It did not amount to a direct and substantial restraint of either interstate or international com­ merce. This is not sufficient to bring It within the condemnation of the anti­ trust law." The court held also that the Invest­ ment of the Harrlman lines in the Santa Pe was not for acquiring con­ trol, ahd that if It was for obtaining inside information concerning the op­ eration of a great competitor they chose a lawful way for doing It. "The conclusions of fact dispose of this case," the conclusion concluded, "without the necessity of determining the question much debated in brief and argument whether securing con­ trol of the Southern Pacific company by purchasing stock of individual own­ ers could in any view of the case have contravened the anti-trust law. "On the facts of this case, with all their reasonable and fair Inferences, we conclude that the government has failed to substantiate the averments of its bill. "The bill must be dismissed and a decree will be entered to that effect." FOR PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIAL MESSAGK ASK* LEGIS­ LATION TO STOP FRAUDS. K0HLSAAT GIVES NEW NAMES Chicagoan Mentions Prominent Men In Connection With Alleged Lori- mer Corruption Fund. Washington.--Roger C. Sullivan, na­ tional committeeman from Illinois; E. S. Conway, president of the W. W. Kimball Piano company; one of the Weyerhaeussers, and an unnamed man now dead were named by Herman H Kohlsaat, editor of the Chicago Rec ord-Herald, as possible contributors to a $100,000 Lorlmer corruption fund of 1909 before the senate investigating committee. The names were divulged only after Chairman Dillingham had ordered them given. Mr. Kohlsaat declared that former President Roosevelt's refusal to at­ tend the Hamilton club dinner last year if Senator Lorlmer was to be present was the outcome of the dis­ closure to him by the witness of the alleged request for contributions to reimburse those who raised the Lor­ lmer election fund. Mr. Kohlsaat said that until he gave the names of Hlnes and Tilden to the Helm committee in Springfield and the others he had given them to only three persons--Victor F. Lawson, Mr. Roosevelt and Mrs. Kohlsaat. How­ ever, he had told the story without names to half a hundred persons, in­ cluding Senators Root and La Fol- lette. Mr. Kohlsaat had previously stated In his testimony that in the conversa­ tion with Clarence S. Funk, in which Edward Hines was mentioned as col­ lector of the famous $100,000 fund and Edward Tilden as treasurer, other men were named by Mr. Funk as pos­ sible contributors. "I have opposed Lorlmer since 1891," said Mr. Kohlsaat. "I admire his private life, but am opposed to Lorimerlsm. It Is affiliation, co-opera­ tion and cohesion of Democrats and Republicans for party and private pelf. Lorimerlsm Is a cohesion of spoils, the worst elements of the Dem­ ocratic and Republican parties." A sculptor asserts that It is impos sible to "show the majesty of the human form in trousers and skirts." Yet we venture to assert that he would reject in toto the proposition to display the majesty of hiB form by appearing without his trousers. Dies of Joy at Seeing Husband. New York.--A few hours after her husband had returned from the Mexi­ can frontier, where he went four months ago with the coast artillery, Mrs. Ida Hardy died of heart trouble, which, according to the family phy­ sician, was brought on by Joy at see­ ing her husband. Urges Action to Prevent Delusion of Sick Be Taken by Amendment of Food Law. WaahlngUHftii) Death dealing drugs of the cure-all variety and their mak­ ers are several? condemned by Pres­ ident Taft ^ In a message to congress the presi dent scathingly arraigned the manu­ facturers of what he denounced as "dangerous drug frauds" and urged congress to amend at this session the pure food and drug law to strengthen that act in vital points of weakness recently pointed out by decisions of the United States Supreme court. President Taft believes that unless the law is amended forthwith the country will again be flooded by "in­ jurious nostrums" and "cure-alls" which were common before the pure- food law first was enacted. The message was transmitted to both Jie senate and the house, and it waa said that the latter body probably would take up the matter at an early date. Rep? tucky alrea bearlr,r or: The vj attei ; a food an designed and shipm Shsrley of Ken- roduced a bill message, calls fens of the pure of June 30, 1806, the manufacture worthless nostrums labeled with misstatements of fact as to their physiological action--misstate­ ments false and misleading even in the knowledge of those who make them," and ^asserts that the law was received with general satisfaction and "has been vigorously enforced," more th?.2 2,000 C®5?3 hovinir hoAn r>r*- pared for criminal prosecution under its terms. He continues: "The Supreme court has held In a recent decision that the act does not cover the knowingly false labeling of nostrums as to curati-e effect or physiological action, and that inquiry under this salutary statute does not by its terms extend in any case to the inelBcicacy of medicine to work the cures claimed for them on the labels. "Fraudulent misrepresentations of the curative value of nostrums not only operate to delude purchasers, but are a distinct menace to the public health. There are none so credulous as sufferers from disease. The need is urgent for legislation which will prevent the raising of false hopes of s'peedy cures of serious ailments by misstatements of fact as to worthless mixtures on which the sick will rely while their diseases progress un­ checked." RECIPROCITY HAS A CHANCE Situation In Senate 8hlfts When Farm­ ers' Free' List and Wool Bills Are Reported. Washington.--Reciprocity will prob­ ably win. Another quick shift of the situation in the senate put the Demo­ crats firmly back in their original at­ titude of favoring the commercial pact with Canada free of all amend­ ments. The necessities which brought about the coalition of Democrats and Republican Insurgents ceased to ex­ ist when Senator Penrose, chairman of the finance committee, though giv­ en 20 days in which to consider the farmers' free list and wool bills, re­ ported them out with an unfavorable recommendation, and they took their place in the senate calendar. Now with the house bills in a posi­ tion where the senate may call them up for consideration at will, there is no longer any necessity to offer them as amendments to reciprocity in order to get a record vote. ILLINOIS POWER BILL LOST House Members by Vote of 75 to 51 Defeat the Pet Measure of Governor. Springfield, M.--Lacking two votes of the necessary 77, the Deneen-John- son waterway-water power bill was defeated in the house. The vote was 75 to 51, two short of a constitutional majority. The taking of the vote on the bill was attended by exciting scenes. When the opponents of the measure discovered the bill lacked two votes, they took advantage of their control of the house organization. Speaker Adkins refused to recog­ nize any deep waterway leaders, and amid Bcenes bordering on riot, he ad­ journed the session under the gaveL New York's $10,000,000 library has been completed after nine years' work. Young men who go from Pitts burg to New York will find it difficult to believe that the money, the time and the work were well spent. Ten Negro Children Drown. Pensacola, Fla.--While bathing in a bayou, ten small negroes were caught by the tide, carried beyond their depth and drowned. The vice-president of the Philadel phla National League ball team be­ came so excited during a recent gam« between the Phlladelphians and Cin clnnatis that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, from the effects of whict he has died. Caution; Don't take your baseball too seriously. Bill Forbids Seven-Day Toll. Hartford, Conn.--The committee on labor of the Connecticut general as­ sembly reported favorably on a bill which makes it unlawful to employ any person for seven days a week The bill exempts farm laborers. Trolley Wreck Hurts Five. Kokomo, Ind.--A passenger car on the Indiana Union Traction line, from Logansport, Jumped the track in this city, turning completely over on Its Bide and Injured five of the eight pas­ sengers, two probably fatally. Probates Mrs. Eddy Will. Boston.--Tho will of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Chris­ tian Science church, was admit­ ted to probate In the Suffolk county probate court. Attorney General James M. Swift of Massachusetts Im­ mediately took an appeal to the su­ preme court on the question of domi­ cile. Auto Kills a College Boy. Milford. Conn.--Walter Scott Jervis of Brooklyn, N. Y„ a junior at Trinity college, Hartford, was killed when hia automobile was thrown through a fence by the bursting of a rear tire. Gaynor Favors 'Pensions. New York.--Mayor Gaynor has given his approval to a bill providing for pensions for employes generally. The men are required to contribute three per cent of their wages to a fund. Bernhardt Off for France. New York.--Sarah Bernhardt sailed for France on the Lorraine, after a lour of the country which might well tax the vitality of a younger woman-- she is sixty-seven years old--but not Bernhardt. She was as full of spirits and life as ever. Bill to Amend Act. Goes In. Washington.--Senator McCumber Introduced a bill amending the pure food and drugs act to conform with the recommendation made to congress by President Taf IN FRANCEolTOW FEDERAL GRAND JURY INOICT8 FOURTEEN SECRETARIES OF STATE ASSOCIATIONS. THREE GET IMMUNITY BATH Officials of Organizations Are Charged With Violating the Sherman Law and Accused of Conspiracy and Maintaining a Blacklist. Chicago.--The special grand Jury In the United States district court re­ turned before Judge Landis indict­ ments against 14 secretaries and for­ mer secretaries of wholesale and re­ tail iumber dealers' associations in the western territory, charging a con­ spiracy to restrain interstate trade in violation of the criminal provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law. Those Indicted are: Arthur S. Holmes, Detroit, Mich., secretary of the Michigan Retail Lum­ ber Dealers' association and editor of the Scout, a trade paper owned and controlled by lumber dealers. George P. Sweet, also secretary of the Michigan association. Wlllard C. Hollls, Minneapolis, sec­ retary of the Northwestern Lumber­ men's association. Henry A. Gorsuch, Kansas City, Mo., secretary of the Southwestern Lumbermen's association. Bird Critchfleld, Lincoln, Neb., sec­ retary of the Nebraska Lumber Deal­ ers' association. E. E. Hail, also secretary of the Ne­ braska association. Harry C. Scearce, Mooresville, Ind., secretary of the Retail Lumber Deal­ ers' association of Indfana. H. H. Hemenway, Denver, Colo., secretary of the Colorado and Wyo­ ming Lumber Dealers' association. Louis I. Heilman, also secretary of the Colorado and Wyoming associa­ tion. H. S. Adams, Chlllicothe, O., secre­ tary of the Union Association of Lum­ ber Dealers, and also of the Ohio As­ sociation of Retail Lumber Dealers. B. N. Hayward, Columbus, O., also secretary of the Ohio association. A. L. Porter, Spokane, Wash., secre­ tary cf the Western Rsi&i! Lumber­ men's association. R. P. Bransford, Jnlon City, Tenn., secretary of the Retail Lumber Deal­ ers' association of West Tennessee. A. C. Rightor, Pittsburg, Pa., secre­ tary of the Retail Lumbe Dealers' as­ sociation of Pennsylvania. Three men escaped Indictment by giving testimony before the grand Jury, thereby wrapping themselves In the cloak of Immunity prescribed by law. They are Paul Lachmund, Mil­ waukee, secretary of the Wisconsin Retail Lumber Dealers' association; George W. Hotchkiss, Chicago, secre­ tary of the Illinois Lumber and Builders' Supply Dealers' association, and at present secretary of the secre­ taries' bureau, and George WllBon Jones, also secretary of the Illinois association and assistant secretary of the secretaries bureau. Each individual is indicted on two counts, the first alleging a conspiracy among the retail dealers to restrain interstate trade and commerce be­ tween the manufacturer and whole­ saler and the consumer, and the sec­ ond charging a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition which or- darlly should exist between whole­ saler and manufacturer and the re­ tailer in supplying the consumer. LAUDS ALDRICH PLAN TAFT INDORSES THE NATIONAL RESERVE ASSOCIATION PLAN. Asserts Reform In Currency System Wouid Benefit Wage Marner and Farmer. New York.--President Taft, address­ ing the members of the New York State Bankers' association, at a ban­ quet given by them in his honor at Manhattan Beach, made an extended argument for a central bank and gave his indorsement to the National Re­ serve association plan proposed by ex-Senator AJdrich, chairman of the monetary commission. He pointed out that It was the unanimous opinion of authorities that the existing banking and currency system of the United States was ab­ solutely inadequate to the needs of a great and growing commercial nation and that drastic reforms were neces­ sary. * One of the great difficulties of the present system, he said, was making the money In circulation correspond to the actual and conservative needs of trade. These difficulties and others, the president said, would be minimized and done away with were a central bank established. In all well-regulated banking and currency systems of the old world, he said, the power to control cash reserves and the issue of notes to be used as cur­ rency is to be placed under the con­ trol of a central bank, recognized by the government. "The wage earner," said the presi­ dent, "is quite as much interested in the proper operation of a sound cur­ rency and banking system as are the bankers themselves, and that any plan which will lead to the adjust­ ment of the cash reserves to avoid the stringencies and exigencies of a threatened panic will inure chiefly to the benefit of those Interested in the continuation of our industries, manu­ facturing, etc., and especially in the maintenance, use and distribution of large wage funds upon which the workingmen and their families are dependent "Similarly, the farmers have a most intimate interest in the plan which shall secure for the middleman at a reasonable rate of interest, funds with which to move the crops and with which to pay adequate prices for that which the farmer has to sell. The demand for money which arises every season for crop moving causes frequent embarrassment and a rais­ ing of the rates of interest which such a plan as this would avoid. "in no other way can the expense of the disposition of the farmers' crops, which in times past has been so heavy, be so materially reduced. BONDS BRING GOOD PRICES None of Government's Issue of Panama Canal Three Per Cents. 8ell for Less Than 102.21. Release Stokes' Assailants. New York.--Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, the two young women who since June 7 have been in jail on a charge of shooting W. E. D. Stokes with intent to kill hlu, have been given their liberty on ball. Yankee Tars Defeat Germans. Kiel.--The boat race between crews of the four American battleships now here and crews from four German Bhlps, for the kaiser's prize, was won by the Americans, the men of the Kan­ sas finishing first. Sws Lightning; Loses 8lght. Atlantic City, N. J.--Harry Adams, son of,a well-to-do bath house owner, lost his sight by seeing a nearby bolt of lightning reflected into a mirror. Specialists hold but little hope of his recovering It. Amateur Wins Big Shoot. Columbus, O.--An amateur won the grand American hadicap shoot. The lucky marksman is Harvey Dixon of Orenogo, Mo., who stood at twenty yards. He made one mi** in a hun­ dred shots. Washington. -- The high price brought by the sale at popular subscription of the government's issue of three per cent., flfty-year, Pfanama canal bonds was further indicated when the treasury department pre­ pared a list of accepted bids, subject to revision for clerical errors. The list shows approximately 1,190 accepted bids. Of the $60,000,000 is­ sue, bonds to the amount of $2,330,500 will go at 103 and upwards, $18,698,500 at 102.76 to 102.99; $11,019,500 at 102.50 to 102.74; $16,568,800 at 102.25 to 102.49, and $1,382,700 at 102.21 to 102.24. Forty-Eight Hurt by Cars. San Francisco.--Forty-eight per­ sons, all delegates to the International Sunday School convention, now in ses­ sion here, were injured In a series of street car accidents. Many of the In­ jured were from Texas. It Is believed none of the number was seriously in­ jured. Horseman Dies at Bement. Bement, 111--Col. A. S. Burr, owner of Thornton stock farm, one of the best known horsemen of the middle west, Is dead. 42 Inches Tall; Weighs 58. Knoxsville, Tenn.--Joseph A. Carter, smallest adult in Tennessee, is dead at his home in Jefferson county. He was 73 years old, 42 Inches tall and weighed 58 pounds. He was a college graduate and bachelor. French Cabinet to Resign. Paris, France.--The government was defeated in the chamber of depu­ ties on a question relative to the su­ preme command of the army in case of war. The ministry of Premier Mo- nls baa decided to resign. FUNK IS SHOWED *ELL8 LORIMER COMMUTE* THAT SLEUTHS FOLLOW HIM EVERYWHERE. HARASSED OVER TELEPHONE ^Harvester Company Manager Inslni*- ?- ates That Edward Hlnes Hires Detectives to Dog His Stepa --He Absolves 8enatora. Washington.--A senational turn in the Lorimer Investigation was taken when Clarence S. Funk of Chicago, general manager of the International harvester company, declared on the itness stand that he has been fol­ lowed for months by detectives, and charged Edward Hinet, president of the Edward Hlnes Lumber company, with putting the "shadowers" on his trail. Funk also said he had received znany threats over the telephone and in anonymous letters, sand It there­ upon developed that the committee of the United States which is con­ ducting the investigation has been annoyed by similar sinister warnings. Consternation was caused among the members of the committee when Mr. Funk declared, upon cross-exam­ ination, that the detectives who had been haunting his footsteps had fol­ lowed him to the committee room and had taken their places among the spectators. Mr. Funk admitted that he knew the name of one of the detectives and could produce him before the com­ mittee. The investigation was brought to a temporary halt while the commit­ tee retired and had a consultation v/ith the v.'itucss. This ccnfbrcaco lasted an hour, during which time Mr. Funk made an effort to find the de­ tective. Failing in this, the hearing adjourned, and it is expected that the detective will be summoned before the committee. Mr. Funk's interesting disclosure came after a long and rather dull ses­ sion in which he repeated the testi­ mony he gav£ the Helm committee at Springfield and told again the story of how Edwar<l Hines approached him and asked him to contribute $10,000 to help make up the fund of $100,000 spent in getting Lorimer elected by the Illinois as3embly. Mr. Funk did not remember men­ tioning the names of Roger Sullivan and one of the Weyerhaugers to H, H. Kohlsaat, to whom he related hia conversation with Hlnes. ALASKA COAL CLAIMS VOID Cunningham Filings Are Disallowed by Land Commissioner Sanctioned by Secretary of Interior Fisher. Washington.--The famous Cunning­ ham Alaskan coal land claims, through ^hich it has been alleged that the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate planned to extend its vast'interests in Alaska and to control one of the most valu­ able coal fields in the world, were finally disallowed by the department of the interior. Wj Walter L. Fisher, secretary of the interior, having approved the depart­ ment's decision, as handed down by Fred Dennett, commissioner of the land office, the last door is believed to have been closed to the Cunning­ ham claimants. Their attorneys ha#e threatened an appeal to the United States Supreme court, but such an appeal can be based only on some point of law Involved and not on the findings of fact as announced by the department. The Cunningham claims have been in the public eye longer than two yeara. They brought about the Bal- linger-Pinchot investigation by con­ gress and the dismissal from the pub­ lic service of Chief Forester Qifford Pinchot, Louis R. Glavis, a cnier of field division In the land office, and several minor officials. Both Pinchot and Glavis were dismissed for insub­ ordination incident to their attacks on former Secretary Ballinger. ROOT AMENDMENT IS LOST Provision Proposing to Change Paper Section in Reciprocity BUI Defeated in Senate. Washington.--Without even the for­ mality of a record vote the Root amendment to the reciprocity bill passed into oblivion. In the first test of strength on reci­ procity the senate defeated the paper trust proposal by a viva voce vote. A few scattering ayes, followed by a roar of noes, told the story. President Taft expressed great sat­ isfaction over the result. The. friends of reciprocity accept the result as a plain argury of what is to follow when the vote is taken. Scores of amend­ ments await to be disposed of yet, and there are still more to be Intro­ duced. They run the entire gamut of tariff revision. But all amendments will be resolutely voted down. Indict 190 In Poll Frauds. Waukegan, 111.--Overseer Wilbur Glen Voliva and 189 other officers and members of the Christian church in Zion were indicted at Zion City, charged with perpetrating election frauds at the Zion City elections April 5 and 18, imrolving,ln part control of the church rounded by the late John Alexander Dowie. Two hundred wit­ nesses were heard. It is alleged that Voliva and his co-workers In the elec­ tion brought members of the church from all parts of the United States to vote. 5,000 Cattle Are Drowned. Grand Junction, Colo.--Bursting of a reservoir containing 5,000 acres ifeet of water caused damage of $100,( p0. Five thousand cattle were drow|^d and several bridges were swept a* y. Thomas Dwyer telephoned warniiiga to ranchers below. Arrested, Kills Herself. Wheeling, W. Va.--Placed under ar­ rest at her home, Mrs. Minnie Mc- Bride swallowed carbolic acid, hurled the bottle at a policeman's head, and died within a few minutes. WESTERN CANADA'S GOOD CROP PROSPECTS YIELD8 OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY BE 26 TO 30 BU8HEL8 PER ACRE. In an interview with Mr. W. J. White, who has charge of the Cana­ dian government immigration offices In the United States, and who has re­ cently made an extended trip through the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche­ wan and Alberta in Western Canada. He said that every point he visited he was met with the one report, uni­ versally good crops of wheat, oats and barley. There will this year be a much increased acreage over last year. Many farmers, who had but one hundred acres last year, have In­ creased their cultivated and seeded acreage as much as fifty per cent. With the prospects as they are at present, this will mean from $12 to $15 additional wealth to each. He saw many large fiAds running from 300 to 1,000 acres in extent and It ap­ peared to him that there was not an acre of this but would yield from 20 to 25 or 30 bushels of wheat per acre, while the oat prospects might safely be estimated at from 40 to 70 bushels per acre. In all parts of the west, whether it be Manitoba, Saskatche­ wan or Alberta, north and south,'east and west, and in the districts where last year there was a partial failure of crops, the condition of all grain la universally good and claimed by most of the farmers to be from one to two weeks in advance of any year for the past ten or twelve years. It does not seem that there was a single foot of the ground that was properly seeded that would not produce. There are those throughout western CSSuua "'uO prOuict uwt uicid will 200,000,000 bushels of wheat raised there this year, and if the present favorable conditions continue, there does not seem any reason why these prophesies should not come true. There Is yet a possibility of hot winds reducing the quantity In some parts, but with the strongly rooted crops and the sufficiency of precipita­ tion that the country has already been favored with, this probability la reduced to a minimum. The prices of farm lands at 'the present time are holding steady and lands can probably still be purchased at the price set this spring, ranging from $15 to $20 per acre, but with a harvested crop, such as is expected, there, is no reason why these same lands should not be worth from $20 to $25 per acre, with an almost abso­ lute assurance that by next spring there will still be a further advance In prices. Mr. White says that these lands are as cheap at today's figures with the country's proven worth as they were a few years ago at half the price when the general public had but a vague idea of the producing quality of western Canada lands. The land agents at the different towns along the line of railway are very active. A large number of acres ire turned over weekly to buyers •rom the different states in the south, where lands that produce no better ire sold at from $150 to $200 per icre. The homestead lands are becoming scarcer day by day and those who are unable to purchase, preferring to homestead, are directing their atten­ tion to the park acres lying In the aortherly part of the central dis­ tricts. It has been found that while these are somewhat more difficult to bring under the subjugation of the plow, the soil is fully as productive as in the districts farther south. They possess the advantage that the more open prairie areas do not possess; that there is on these lands an open acreage of from fifty to seventy per aent of the wholfe and the balance is made up of groves of poplar of fair size, which offer shelter for cattle, while the grasses are of splendid strength and plentiful, bringing about a more active stage of mixed farming than can be carried on in the more open districts to the south. The emigration for the past year has been the greatest in the history of Canada and it is keeping up in record shape. The larger number of those, who will go this year will be those who will buy landB nearer the line of railways, preferring to pay a little higher price for good location than to go back from the line of rall- rways some 40 or 60 miles to home­ stead. Mr. White has visited the different agencies throughout the United States and he found that the correspondence at the various offices has largely in­ creased, the number of callers la greater than ever. Any one desiring Information re- gardlng western Canada should apply at once to the Canadian Government Agent nearest him for a copy of ths •"Last Best West" Declining With Thanks. A young woman prominent in the social set of an Ohio town tells of a young man there who had not famil­ iarized himself with the forms of po­ lite correspondence to the fullest ex­ tent. When, on one occasion, he found it necessary to decline an Invitation, he did so in the following terms: Mr. Henry Blank declines with pleasure Mrs. Wood's Invitation fox the nineteenth, and thanks her ex tremely for having given him the op­ portunity of doing so.--Lippincott'B Magazine. Just Then the Tea Bell Rang. One of the best repartees ever credited to a habitual maker of happy phrases was that made by the beloved "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" on a certain social occasion. Going to dine with a Boston neigh bor, Dr. Holmes was met by her with an apology: "I could not get another man. Wt are four women, and you will have to take us all in." "Forewarned is four-armed," h« said, with a bow.--Youth's Companion, Smoke Volumes Only. Architect (showing plans)--This room will be your library. Mr. Newrich--My lib'ry? Oh, yes, of course. I must have a place to smoke. --Exchange.