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* - • .:»• r.' " . "r"!.. . >* 'TV J. • .* L.TS-- -* 4- '>S; The McHenry Plalndealcr Published by F. 0. 8CHREINER. McHENRY, ILLINOIS It*s DO longer "grippe" In London. 'Flu." Nobody has been heard to eomplaia of lack of variety in the weather. Aviators are still making new world records, and yet the Bport is in its infancy. EXIRA SESSION IS DOT PROBABLE Wanted by Neither Republican Administration Nor Demo­ cratic Leaders. Everything comes to him who waits; another restaurant employe has fallen heir to a fortune. If the aeroplanes will abolish -war the peace commission should at once subsidize all it ess rsBch: Aviators as a class are going to be more careful this year. Natural se­ lection will eliminate the reckless ones. It took a postal card 36 years to go from Connecticut to Indiana. Bet a dollar he had it in his pocket all the time. In Cleveland an engineer has been made a present of a locomotive. This Is better than a white elephant, as it consumes no hay. In New York they are trying to rem «dy the evils of divorce by remedy­ ing the evils of marriage. That seems a thoughtful method! Medicine Hat wants its name changed. We would be better pleased tf it changed the brand of weather It sends down this way. NOT READY FOR TARIFF BILL Ohio 8eeks Appropriation to Bring Olympian Games to Cleveland-- Taft's Travels Will Begin Soon--Paring Navy ifttimftta. to •2C*T5i Mrc£ shirts make hens lay," but what gar­ ment would Influence them to cut their present prices on eg#? They eny that bad roads cost this country three million dollars a year. We cottld have a pretty food little war for that ion. Siccus fix the roads. Without questioning for one second the bravery of our own policemen, we would point out that the London bobby has to face all comers without,-a re­ volver. i * Puccini, when he started back to Italy, was kissed by 40/,ihen who sing In grand opera. AJter having gone through that, seasickness will have no terrors for hikn. * * "* ' fc.-.V* ' >• L It Is nd crime to steal an um­ brella on tA rainy day in New Jersey. Will b)X persons who indulge in that Suas^Tme please go to New Jersey to olflige the rest of us? A Canton (O.) man says that 60-cent hats are good enough for any woman, but the C&nton man will no doubt ex­ perience considerable difficulty get­ ting any woman to wear one. if/h 0 |l r fe->. in £' ;• ; |l An Ohio doctor who dissected 100 cats reports that he found tubercu­ losis germs in every one of them. He does not say what he did with the supply of germs thus secured. In trying to get rid of corrupt po­ licemen Gotham seems to have leaped out of the frying pan into the fire. They are more honest than they used to he, hat they now write poetry. / i- v L'$ -Jrl- y"\ k*w^. 'ml:* Following the hobble we are to have the bi-plane skirt. As it is to be a bifurcated garment man had bet­ ter look to his own. Plainly the trend of feminine fashions is toward the mannish; but the more manlike wom­ en becomes the less womanly she is. Now a medical expert has cut out a man's lungs to cure tuberculosis. The nnaraflnn J; clSilSSd tC bs u n£n Gu€, but If successful will be followed up by the theory of curing diseases gen­ erally by the simple process of re­ moving the organ affected so that a man with more than his average share of trouble in the shape of dis­ ease will find life but a hollow sort of affair. The vfife of a Pennsylvania farmer found a nugget of gold in the crop of a chicken she was dressing, and now there is great excitement, the community having resolved itself into a prospecting party. But the chances are that there is more gold in chlck- «ns killed and prepared for market at present prices than in mines or placers in the Keystone state. Official figures from annual reports show that the post office department has nearly reached the point where It is self-sustaining. And there are sev­ eral changes which might yet be effec­ ted in the interest of economy and the saving of public money. It is no function of the government to make a profit in carrying the people's mails, but everybody would share in the benefit should the cost be so reduced as to permit lower postage rates. And now it is discovered that an epidemic of tuberculosis prevails among the rabbits of New York state. Another result, no doubt, of leading a fast life and going the pace that kills. A Nantucket fisherman hooked a large codfish, from whose stomach, when cut open, flew out a good-sized duck, whose escaping flight was stopped by a sportman's bullet. Both Jonah and the champion fish story are fturpassed, while even the Ananiaa club is gasping with astonishment. Washington and Jefferson college has just declined a bequest of $40,- 000 on the ground that the widow needed it more than the institution. At last a college with a conscience has been discovered. Impressive as is the new world's record for continuous flight. 362 miles, it loses something of its value by having been made over an aviation course instead of straightway, with •J; " aD the uncertainties and difficulties jpf such a trip. Still, it presages such achievement sooner or later. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington.--There has been a good deal of gossip, some earnest and some merely flippant, about the proba­ bility of an extra session of congress. At this writing, it does not seem like­ ly that President Taft will call con­ gress together in extraordinary ses­ sion in the spring or in the fall, being content to wait, perhaps, until the reg­ ular session begins next December, but it should be said that there is al­ ways a chance for a change of mind. It is perfectly evident that neith­ er the Republican administration nor the Democratic leadership desires an extra session, and the reasons for the like wish are diametrically opposed to each other. The president is afraid that If he calls an extra session to put his reciprocity agreement into effect, if the Republicans fall to do it at the present session, the Democrats will at once begin the work of revising the tariff, ^nd thereby, as the president views ft, give the business concerns of the country some reason to be dis­ turbed. Mr. Taft seems to think that with a, rest from tariff legislation fort nine months, between March ^ndr December, the various industries 6f the country will be able to adjust themselves to the conditions Which they think may exist after the party which is coming into pow«|C' In the house has an oppor­ tunity^ treat the tariff according to ii»- inclination. The Democratic leaders do not want an extra session, in the spring at least, because they want to give the tenta­ tive ways and means committee of their party a full opportunity to study the tariff schedules from every angle and to be able to decide whether or not, at the regular session, revision shall be attempted schedule by sched­ ule, or by means of a general bill which will touch virtually all of the schedules. Hopes of the Democrats. Of course the senate In the next congress still will be Republican, but the Democratic house leaders seem to have implicit faith that if they revise downward only such schedules as the progressive Republican senators were in favor of revising a year and a half ago, a Democratic house bill can be put through a Republican senate. The Democratic leaders also think that if their bill is one which will appeal to Republican progressives and If the cuts in the duties are not too deep, the pres­ ident may be Inclined to affix his sig­ nature, and thus make their measure the law of the land. Representative Paul Howland of Ohio has Introduced a bill in congress asking for a federal appropriation of $250,000 to secure the holding of the great international Olympian games in this country. It is understood that the city of Cleveland, which is Mr. Howland's home, is willing to raise an­ other $250,000 for the same purpose, and this means of course that it is the hope of the Ohio city that the | games will be held within its borders. | Congress seems just now disinclined | to vote money for purposes of this ; kind, and frankness compels the state­ ment that the chances for the passage of the bill are not bright, although it is understood that a good many of the members believe that the money ; would be well expended. j Taft's Journeyings Begin Soon. ! President Taft soon will start on his spring and summer -journeyings. It , must be understood that spring begins early in Washington. It is nothing unusual here for the maples to bud j and for the forsythlas to put forth i their yellow blossoms as early as St | Valentine's day. I It is the intention of the president to go to Springfield, 111., to attend the Lincoln memorial celebration on the birthday of the martyred nresident, February 12. On the way to the cap­ ital of Illinois Mr. Taft will stop at Co­ lumbus, the capital of Ohio, for a few hours. He expects to be back In the White House on February 14. Four days after the adjournment of congress Mr. Taft will go to Atlanta, Ga., where be will speak before the southern commercial congress. From the Georgia city he will travel through Tennessee to Cincinnati, stopping on the way at Nashville and Chattanooga. It is the intention of Mr. Taft to re­ main in his home town several days, and to go from there* to Cleveland be­ fore returning to the White House. The president already has accepted The Art of Gesture. Nothing so amuses, and occasional­ ly astounds, foreigners, says Carmen Turia In The Strand, as the phleg­ matic manner in which an English­ woman converses. Of the art of ges­ ture she seems to know and care ab­ solutely nothing. Her talk lacks all the accompaniment of rhythmic appro­ priate movement, for Bhe talks only with her tongue. You cannot express yourself only with your tongue--that is to say, you cannot if you wish to convey your thoughts effectively; for the tongue, even of an Englishwoman, Is only one of the instruments of speech. And that is why the talk of an Englishwoman is so Ineffective. That is why her thoughts might just as well be conveyed by a printed book or a phonograph. 8he tells you that she loves "madly, passionately," In the same tone and with the same manner that she orders a leg of mut­ ton at the butcher's. On meeting you she protests that she is delighted to see you, with the same air that she announces that it is likely to rain. A dreadful calamity--someone has been Invitations to vialt New fork city and one or two New England cities be tween March and the lime that he leaves for his summer home at Bev­ erly, Mass, In the summer or early fall, he expects to go through the mid­ dle west, and one fixed appointment has been made, that of a speech-making visit to the Kansas state fair at Hutchinson toward the close of Sep­ tember. Hard to Cut Expenses. When President Taft asked the cabinet officers one year ago to cnt their estimates for the ap­ propriations for the next 12 months as close as they could, there was a re­ sponse from every department, but the appropriation bills were stagger­ ingly big nevertheless. This year a request was made that another econ­ omy trial be attempted, and response | again came, but the bills are still big | and they will continue to be because the expenses of the government ow­ ing to the country's rapid growth arc . constantly increasing. | Last week the house committee on ! naval affairs cut the estimate sub- j mitted by the navy department, an j estimate that was several million dol- I lars less than It had been in any i year for some time. Three years ago i it was declared that under the then present rate of ship-building and navy | improvement generally, $139,000,000 j could be considered a fair average for navy expenses for tho ensuing five years. The house bill this year falls below this estimated average by | about $14,000,000. May Reject Reciprocity Pact. It may be that the administration will have a hard time to secure the sanction of congress for its reciprocity pact with Canada. It is barely possi­ ble, too, that It maj^be a little harder to put it through because some of the congressmen say "It is 'altogether,- wholly and entirely' an»^rflministratlon measure." j What the complainants mean by this is that the president did not go out of, his way to consult them about what he was going to do. It Is prob­ able that some little resentiuent is felt because of this fact, but the adminis­ tration's defense is made readily enough; whether it be accepted in good part or not yet remains to be seen. In affairs which are largely diplo­ matic in their nature, secrecy always is enjoined for fear of giving offense to the parties to the proposed compact and also to prevent the starting of a campaign of opposition in advance to the completion of the agreement, in either of the countries which are par­ ties to it. President Taft, If. seems, thought that the injunction of secrecy imposed upon him the duty of keeping the preliminary proceedings even from the knowledge of congressmen. The treaty, for so It is "called, although it is not really a treaty, was negotiated under conditions of safeguarding sel­ dom known before. The only persons who knew definitely what was going on were the president, the Canadian and the American treaty'commission­ ers, the secretary and first assistant secretary of Btate, the premier of Can­ ada and the members of the tariff board. Kept Secret to the Last. Until the hour when the treaty was made public at the state department, nobody outside of the persons named knew anything about its provisions, but a good many shrewd guesses were made, and so It was that some of the Washington correspondents were en­ abled, by putting this and that to­ gether, to give their newspapers some light on the subject before the day of the public announcement. It can be said that the president knew, during all the hours of the negotiations, that provisions were going into the agree­ ment which would be certain to arouse hostility in congress. Recently the story has been told of the determination of the commission­ ers of the District of Columbia to lo­ cate a penal Institution aln^ost under the shadow of Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington and the scene of his death. Great opposition was aroused to the plan and protests came from all over the United States. The commissioners seemingly were immovable from their position in the matter, and the wonder was why they were not willing to accept some other site. An explanation has come for the de­ termination of the officials to erect the Institution near Mount Vernon. It seems now that the fine arts commis­ sion, which has in hand the work of making a greater and a more beauti­ ful Washington, recommended the Vir­ ginia location to the district commis­ sioners and to the president. The work thus far done by the'fine arts commission has been so commendable from every point of view that what It had to say was listened to with the greatest respect and with the belief that its Judgment probably was sound. It is now probable, however, that the district commissioners will reconsider their determination and that another site much nearer the city of Washing­ ton than the one originally chosen will be accepted. Dim TROOPS FLEE FEDERAL ARMY, WORSTED fN BATTLE, 8ENDS REINFORCE­ MENTS TO JUAREZ. MORE SOLDIERS EN ROUTE Rebel Leader's Delay May Preclude Taking of Border City--Reported Thai Regulars Los« 1/0 Killed at Banohe Fight. El Paso, Tex--Amid the joyful shouts of the populace. Colonel Raba- go uiiu his command of 300 federal troops entered the city of Juarez Sun­ day evening without molestation by the revolutionists who had threatened to take the town. The star of the insurrecto leader, Pasqual Orozco, who was to occupy the city of juarez by sunrise Sunday morning, appears to be on the wane. His policy of delay has enabled rein­ forcements to reach Juarez, and the probability of takipg that city is now considered much more remote than It was heretofore. Otber reinforcements, in the shape of General Navarro'3 column, are en route from Chihuahua, and it Is ex­ pected here that the federals will be able to hoid the city and that, know­ ing this, the insurrectos will retire. There !s a rumor that the insurrec­ tos are near Juarez, but this cannot he verified. The net result in killed and wound­ ed of a battle at Bauche between Oroz­ co and Rabago is not known. The fed­ eral los§ cannot be learned, but it was reported 170 had been killed. A Red Cross train returned with 20 men and children refugees, picked up near the scene of battle, and the offi­ cials reported they couia noi ie*cu the battleground because the federals refused to recognizs the Red Cross flag. The regular passenger train over the Juarez division of the Mexico Northwestern railway was ditched by Orozco's farce of insurgents in a small cut at Buache, ten miles south of Jua­ rez, Saturday night. The insurgents, who were stationed within 200 yards of the scene, imme diateiy made an examination, because the train had not been stopped when signaled, causing them to suspect that Rabago's federals were on the train. The examination proved that the train contained 18 cars and Orozco ordered h^s men to fire a volley into the air to develop what part of the train was occupied by soldiers, as he had been warned that many might be on the train. Men began to Jump off the train and Orozco, not being able to distinguish who were soldiers and who were not, ordered another harmless volley fired. The insurrectos immediately retired to watch the situation until daylight, thus giving all noncombatants and women and children time to get out Of the way. At 6:30 a. m. Orozco saw soldiers on the embankment getting their break fast with a guard and a skirmish line out in front and one machine gun mounted behind the embankment. He immediately ordered a charge to de­ velop the strength of the federals and the latter replied with vigor. There were no casualties on the Insurrecto side, but two of the federal skirmish line were seen to fall. Rabago had about 400 men in the trenches and the battle continued all day, which resulted in heavy losses on both sides. He escaped from the po­ sition in which he had been hemmed In by the Insurgents and began slowly to make his way toward Juarez, fol­ lowed by the insurrectos, harassing his rear guard. MISSOURI CAPITOL BURNED Wisdom From Franklin. A penny saved is two pence clear; a pin a day's a groat a year.--Franklin. run over; has failed on the stock ex­ change; her child has broken his leg; her new ball dress has been spattered with ink; her inamorata has just married somebody else--and she com­ municates the fact with a wealth of gesture that would be adequate if one's soup or coffee were cold or one's coiffure were deranged. Should Be Constant Progress. No one Is striving after th^ best things wtyo is not Intent on an up­ ward and a forward movement con­ tinually. The circular movement is "essential, too--the going around and around in the old grooves--routine work, daily tasks; yet even In this treadmill round there should be con­ stant progress. We ought to do the same things better every day.--J. R. Miller. The Trouble With Him: "Yes, sir," boasted the one, "I al­ ways say just what I think." "I've noticed," rejoined the other, "that you are much given to repeti­ tion." Fire, Set by Lightning, Levels State Structure at Jefferson City--Rec­ ords Are a Loss. Jefferson City.--The Missouri capl- tol building was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday. Many of the records of the governor's and other state offices are a complete loss. Lightning which struck the cupola of the dome spread the flames to the roof of the house of representatives on the north side of the structure, and In less than a half hour'it was appar­ ent that the entire building was doomed. Because of the inadequacy of the water no aid could be rendered for some time by the local fire company. Governor Hadley personally direct­ ed the fight against the flames which, because of the agd* of the building, rapidly gained headway. The total loss, including the struc­ ture, furnishings and many records and state papers, 1b estimated to be about $1,000,000. The records of the house of repre­ sentatives were destroyed, while those of the senate were saved. There was no insurance. The historic capitol was erected in 1S38 at a cost of $350,000 and in 1887 remodeled at a cost of $25,000. Troop Train Is Wrecked. Fremont, Neb.--In a blinding snow­ storm a train loaded with two troops of the Fourth cavalry en route to El Paso, Tex., was wrecked while pass­ ing through Fremont Sunday. Five men were Injured, but none seri­ ously. Votes for Woman Suffrage. Helena, Mont--By a vote of 33 to SO the house Saturday Indorsed the woman's suffrage bill. However, a two-thirds vote is required to make it effective. Crushed by Stone Weighing Ton. Chicago.--Many persons saw Thom­ as Raxworthy, a stonecutter, crushed {to death under a stone weighing more ,than a ton In front of a new building at Dearborn and Harrison streets [Thursday. The stone while being (hoisted with a derrick fell. Wills Half Million to Churches. Detroit, Mich.--By the will of the jfcate James Joy nearly half a million (dollars is to pass eventually under the icontrol of the Detroit Presbytery and [Port Street chnrd|. GARMENT STRIKE OFF, EXCELLENT GRAIN FIELDS IN WESTERN CANADA UNION OFFICIAL* ORDER WORK­ ERS TO SEEK fLACES. ^s Practically Unconditional der--HpifSes Will Yreit With Action . Surrender Employes'As Individuals. Chicago.--After twenty1 weeks of bitter struggle the garment Workers' strike is called off. * Realizing that it would be useless longer to continue the struggle the ex­ ecutive committee of the strike com­ mittee oi thirty-five took action or­ dering the long drawn out fight against the "association" clothing houses at an end. The action was taken quietly at a session of the committee and with the sanction of President Thomas A. Rick- ert of the United Garment Workers of Amei-lca. The action was tanta­ mount to a declaration of uncondi­ tional surrender. At the close of the meeting word was passed out among the strikers that the walkout was at an end and that all pickets were withdrawn from the'strlkebound shops. The announce­ ment was received without demonstra­ tions of any kind, and It was said to be practically certain that the re­ mainder of the strikers will apply for their old places as individuals. The effect of calling the strike oil will be that.: The strikers must return to work in the shops of the "associa­ tion" houses as individuals. The open shop policy of the employes will be maintained, and all grievances, if anjj, will be adjusted by the employers with each individual employe. Action of terminating the strike was taken without consulting with Presi­ dent John Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Mrs. Ray­ mond Robins, president of the Wom­ en's Trade v Union league, principal ««jl»« »•» «•» CJ the joint strike conference board. RUSSIAN ADMITS KILLING 40 Cholera Bacilli Used by Slayer and His Operations May Have Caused Epidemic. St. Petersburg.--By the confession of Doctor Pantchenko, the notorious poisoner, it was developed Thursday that aristocratic Russians had paid sums as high as $250,00-1 to rid them­ selves of creditors and other undesir­ able persons by the poison route. Pantchen&o was arrested with Count O'Brien De Lassy, some time ago charged with the murder of the count's brother-in-law, VaBsilli Boutur- lin, heir to estates valued at $3,500,000, in order that the property might be Inherited by Countess De Lassy. Pantchenko confessed his guilt, but set' up the defense that he committed the crime while under the hypnotic influence of the count. The whole empire is interested In the case because of the wholesale' con­ fession made by Pantchenko. Every mysterious death of recent years is recalled and there are rumors that the poisoner may have been engaged to cause the death of members of the royal family. He has admitted that he made a business of killing for hire, heirs, rivals in'love, insistent creditors and. In fact, any undesirable persons whose enemy was prepared to pay lib­ erally for their sudden taking off. The poison doctor, according to the police, has admitted causing about forty deaths, his fees running as high as $250,000 for a single assassination. His method was to Inoculate the pa­ tient with cholera bacilli after he had been called to the bedside in his pro­ fessional capacity. He is now cred­ ited by some with having originated the cholera epidemic of a few years ago. KING'S HONOR IS CLEARED Editor Mylius, Who Charged British Ruier With Morganatic Marriage, is Sent to Prison. London.--After brief proceedings a special jury before Lord Chief Jus­ tice Alveratone cleared King Qeorge of Imputations against his personal character by finding Edward F. My­ lius guilty of circulating a libel. The defendant was sentence ' to one year's Imprisonment. Mylius was charged with distribut­ ing In England copies of the Libera­ tor, a Paris publication edited by Ed­ ward H. James, in which it was al­ leged that hi8 majesty while prince of Wales contracted a morganatic mar­ riage with the elder daughter of Ad­ miral Sir Michael Seymour at Malta in 1890. The crown called the admiral as a witness and he testified that the daughter in question, now the wife of Captain Napier of the British navy, never had seen his majesty before 1898, when the king called on the wit­ ness at Portsmouth. Hits only otber daughter died In 1895 and for three years preceding her death had been with her father at Malta, w^ere he was commander-in-chief of the Med­ iterranean squadron. The king had not visited Malta while his daughters were there and the younger daughter never had spoken to him. "Boy Banker" Butler Is Missing. Peoria, 111.--E. W. Butler, the "Boy Banker" of Chicago, implicated in the crash of three Illinois banks, failed to appear to answer charges in the Uni­ ted States court here Friday. His whereabouts are unknown. McLean Election Cost $14,541. Hartford, Conn.--It cost Senator- elect George P. McLean $14,541.51 to be elected to the senate by the gen­ eral assembly on January 18, accord­ ing to a statement filed Friday with the secretary of state. Shoots Her Husband's Assailant. Kansas City, Mo.--While her hus­ band, Charles Ufford, was engaged In a desperate fight with Edward Hux- ford, who recently came here from Des Moines, la., Mrs. Meda Ufford shot and fatally wounded Huxford at her home here Thursday. Insurance Men Dies, plttsfield, Mass.--James W. Hull, vice-president of the Berkshire Life Insurance company, died at his home here Thursday after a long illness. Mr. Hull was «lxt/-nlne Tears old. YIELD* OF WHEAT *8 HIGH AS . 64 BU8HELS PER ACRE. 0 -- ' Now that we have entered upon the making of a new year, It is natural to look back over the past one, for the purpose of ascertaining what has been done. Tbe business man and the farmer have taken stock, and both, if they ttio keen in business de­ tail and interest, know exactly their financial position. The farmer of Western Canada Is generally a busi­ ness man, and ia his stock-taking he will have found that he has had a successful year. On looking over a number of reports sent from various quarters, the writer finds that in spire of the visitation drouth in a small portion of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, many farmers are able to report splendid crops. And these re­ ports come from different sections, covering aa area of about 25,000 square miles. As, for instance, at Laird, Saskatchewan, the crop returns showed that J. B. Peters had 12,800 bushels from 320 acres, or nearly 40 bushels to the acre. In the Blaine Lake district the fields ranged from 15 to 50 bushels per acre, Ben Crews having 1,150 bushels from 24 acres; Edmond Trotter 1,200 bushels off 30 acres, while fields of 30 bushels were common. On poorly cultivated fields but 15 bushels were reported. In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100 bushels of oats to the acre were se­ cured by Angus Robertson, D. McRae and C. H. Hart, while the average was 85. In wheat 30 bushels to the acre were quite common on the newer land, but off 15 acres of land culti­ vated for the past three years George Wnn/i -95 bucbclii. Mr. James Traynor, near Regina (Sask.) is still on the shady side of thirty. He had 50,000 bushels of grain last year, half of which was wheat. Its market value was $25,000. He says he is well satisfied. Arthur Somers of Strathclalr threshed 100 acres, averaging 25 bush­ els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of Milestone, threshed 11,000 bushels at wheat, and 3,000 bushels of flax off 600 acres of land. W. Weatherstone, of Strathclalr, threshed 5,000 bushels of oats from 96 acres. John Gon- zilla, of Gillies, about twenty-five miles west of Rosthern, Sask., had 180 bush­ els from 3 acres of wheat. Mr.'Gon- zilla's general average of crop was over 40 bushels lu th« acre. Beu Cruise, a neighbor, averaged 45 bush­ els to the acre from 23 acres. W. A. Rose, of the Walderheim district, threshed 6,000 bushels of wheat from 240 acres, an average of 25 bushels, 100 acres was on summer fallow and averaged 33 bushels. He had also an average of 60 bushels of oats to the acre on a 50-acre field. Wm. Lehman, who has a farm close to Rosthern, had an average of 27 bushels to the acre on 60 acres of Bummer fallow. Mr. Midsky, of Rapid City (Man.) threshed 1,000 bushels of oats from 7 acres. The yield of the different varieties of wheat per acre at the Experimental Farm, Brandon, was: Red Fife, 28 bushels; White Fife, 34 bushels; Pres­ ton, 32 bushels; early Red Fife, 27 bushels. The crops at the C. P. R. demonstra­ tion farms at Strathmore (Alberta) proved up to expectations, the Swedish variety oats yielding 110 bushels to the acre. At the farm two rowed bar­ ley went 48^ bushels to the acre. Yields of from 50 bushels to 100 bush­ els of oats to the acre were qpiite common Jn the Sturgeon River Settk- ment near Edmonton (Alberta). But last year was uncommonly good aim the hundred mark was passed. Wui Craig had a yield of oats from a meas­ ured plot, which gave 107 bushels and 20 lbs. per arre. Albert Teskey. of Olds (Alberta) threshed a 100-acre field which yielded 101 bushels of oats per acre, and Jo­ seph McCartney had a large field equally good. At Cupar (Sask.) oats threshed 80 bushels to the acre. On the Traquairs farm at Cupar, a live- acre plot of Marquis wheat yielded 54 bushels to the acre, while Laurence Barknel had 37 bushels of Red Fife to the acre. At Wordsworth, Reedor Bros.' wheat averaged 33*4 bushels to the acre, and W. McMillan's 32. Wil­ liam KrafTt of Alix (Alberta) threshed 1,042 bushels of winter wheat off 19% acres, or about 53 bushels to the acre. John Laycroft of Dinton, near High River, Alberta, had over 1,100 bush­ els of spring wheat from 60 acres. E. F. Knipe, near Lloydmlnster, Saskatchewan, had 800 bushels of wheat from 20 acres. W. Metcalf had over 31 bushels to the acre, while S. Henderson, who was hailed badly, had an average return of 32 bushels of wheat to the acre. McWhirter Bros, and John McBain, of Redvers, Saskatchewan, had 25 bushels of wheat to the acre. John Kennedy, east of the Horse Mills district near Edmonton, from 40 acres of spring wheat got 1,767 bush­ els, or 44 bushels to the acre. J. E. Vanderburgh, near Dayslow, Alberta, threshed four thousand bush­ els of wheat from 120 acres. Mr. D'Arcy, near there, threshed ten thou­ sand and fifty-eight bushels (machine measure) of wheat from five hundred acres, and out of this only sixty acres was new land. At Fleming^ Sask., A Winter's wheat averaged 39 bushels to the acre and several others report heavy yields. Mr. Winter's crop was not on summer fallow, but on a piece of land broken in 1882 and said to be the first broken in the Fleming district. The agent of the Canadian govern­ ment will be pleased to give informa­ tion regarding the various districts In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, where free homesteads of 160 acres fcre available. It is easier to borrow from a new friend than It is to pay back what you owe an old one. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti­ pation. Constipation is the cause of many diseases. Cure the cans* and you cure the disease. Easy to take. 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