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Your deposit of $1 same careful attention as if it were 1 shall be pleased to see you as often a add a dollar to your account. You c deposit by mail. Interest at 3% per is added twice a'year. il‘ikém‘Viéi'dfiai Loan and Savings to. LINDSAY. ONT $1 are not aware that a Deposit ac- ened with this Corporation with Your deposit of $1 will receive the Jtion as if it were thousands. We 0 see you as often as you wish to our account. You can conveniently Interest at 31/2 per cent. per annum Gold Medal Binder Twine. (13 3-40 Per Pound.) BEST SCRANTON COAL, ($6.75 Per Ton.) You will likely save more money ' Coal is s ame- times hard to get the day you med it. Liberal stocks, highest quality Stove. Nut and Steam 008'. Farmers want- ing Sofp Cool for Threshing pan get it smwn PEOPLE LAYING m can. no w. H066 mus. 1-CLEANBD w’cxwasn and FEED com For Sale. mces mam". MOE MM LINDSAY, ONT» THURSDAY. JULY 14th, 1904 --â€"-..V “The land of the Northwest is heavily mortgaged. The storekoepors give the farmers all they \vanttwith- out money. ‘We have to get after them once a year,’ said one mer- chant to me. ‘That is whemthcy are “The remark of Mr. SteWnrt. 11.13., of Lisgar, quoted in your last issue that there is a much larger acreage under crop this year than last does not hold good with regard to the part of Assini‘boia I visited. The wet spring prevented sowing a good deal of land that was under crop last year; and on the wayjhome I notic- ed along the railway a very large acreage killed out by wet. Of course the railway runs through the low sections." selling their wheat.‘ The credit SFS‘. tem results in the farmers buying more than they would for cash, and in their paying about a. third higher price for it.'3 IMPLEMEN'I‘S STAND OUT "Besides what men pay for land.: they have Very heavy outlays for implements. They get these on time : too, at high prices. Hence the heavy debts that most of them one! And worse than that, they take no. care of their implements. I saw only one driving shed. Every heusc has a yard of about two acres and there you will find the implements out all the year roundâ€"it they halr‘ ii is pgsaiblc to drain a good many of them into creeks. When they are drying up they must. be vor) unwholesome." __ ‘ An Oakwood Haiku-rind 10 Days Attempts Suicide "How these depressions in the prairie got there nobodi.r seems to know. Some men there think it is a. good job they are than: to take the water of! the land; others say they bake disappeared in Manitoba. and will in the Territories. I think A despamch {noâ€"m Port Huron dated July 8th, saysA: flohn H. Cameron, dilly can, w-y- . v...._. 7 a. recent arrival from Canada, yesâ€" terday attempted suicide at, the Ar- thur House by taking morphine. Timely discovery of his condition and the administration of an'emctic saved his. life. Cameron is a crip- ple and a pensioner of his father, a. wealthy citizen of Oakwood, Ont. 'Ten days ago he married Miss Maud Harnden of North Port Huron great- ly against the' wishes of the young woman’s mother. “While these sluys are useful deal has been made by getting land to supply hay, they are a great nui- and holding it for higher prices. sauce. especially in a wet spring like That can be done I guess this was: They are thick in Assiniâ€" .in some places yet; but that very boia, and this spring mostly full of , thing is going to burst the boom water. They are shallow ponds, and Ithat is now‘on. Everybody is into often 2 or 8 of them are in n Slit. anathere are thousands 0! acres or 6-acre field. One man had one.being held that wayâ€"a geod deal between his house and burn..und two 'more then there will likely be de- more not far away. In a. dry spring :inend for; and when the time comes most of the sluys can be driven l.for settling up there is going to be through with implements but this a lot of it sacriiced under forcedxsele spring they blocked the way entire-'nnd then you'll see the scramble to ly and were a guest inconvenience. get out. and the burst of the boom. They are one of the biggest draw- as it has been seen before. Then backs of theJcountry.” will be the time to buy land there. "How these depressions in the Alreed'y farmers realize that the top prairie got there nobody seems toihas been reached, and everyone of know. Some men there think it is them wants to sell. 0! course. as a. good job they are there to take yet, big prices are being asked." the water of! the land; others say FEW STEAM PIDWS they hate disappeared in Manitoba. “There is very little plowing done and will in the Territories. I think 'w steam They-ca . . '. . - . y they don t like it is possible to drain a good men) .n M we" as that done with horses. of them. into creeks. Who" ”1‘35 '1 saw one field that had been plow- nre drying up they must be \u.‘ ’ed by steam! poWer, and could see no unwholesome. diflerence. The popular way to ”T.“ remark of hir. SteWnrt wa 'break sod is with (our horses on a of Llsgar, quoted in your last ’SS‘wIIG-inch plow. The plow runs only that there is a much larger acreage ‘ahout two inches deep, and the work under crop this 3'98" than last does {does not look well when done. The ”M hold good thh 3’3”“ L" ‘hc frost heaves the earth and cracks part Of Assini'boia I Y’Sltca' Th“ wet the sod. Then when it is plowed spring prevented sowmg a. good deal it is in broken pieces that buckle: up or land that was under crop lest in the furrow and give the finished year; and on the way JhOllle I notic- iwork a very rough appearance. It ed along the railway 8’ very large .is not tough like our sod, but when acreage killed out by wet: Of course ' dry, is Quite brittle." Al_.~ 1AM. The new pastor of the uema cuit, Rev. Dr. W. preachc‘ first sermon on. the' circuit in Franklin church'on Sunday mo .... ‘ “MM Mr. Gillis went up on a visit tol his son and daughter, Mr. Roy Gil-I lie, and Mrs. ‘ English, who livel near Carieve.le,J Assiniboia. “I had heard a good deal about the coun-‘ try and I went up with the idea of seeing for myself what it \1 as like.’ said Mr. Gillis. “I got there on the 18th of June, and there “as some sowing of barley and oats going on then. We were th1 ough here a month before that; but u') tlurc {they have so much to out in that ‘they keep at it .15 long as the! 1 3' any chance at all of getting a crop. Of course a lot: of the late stuff is not expected to mature, but to be ‘ cut gree and stacked for feed. There 1 are no meadows; they trust to the, sluss for hay; I saw only one field: of timothy, but it looked first-class, and I think it will do well in thei West, although it is usually suppos- ed it will not.” ‘ “If a man has a. good farm inOn-9 tario I would not advise him to go} to the Northwest," said Mr. W. A.’ Gillie of Powles’ Corners who was" in town on Friday last on his _ way home from a. month’s trip to the] Northwest. Land Values Have Risen Rapidly; but Much ishold on Spc- ' ulation Says It WA. Gillis of Penelon THERE IS A BOOM on em WEST; A BREAK IS LIKELY TO FOLLOW JACK Cannon mas or um ‘ “Another waste they they will have to cut 01! there is in their fertilizer. Trusting to the richness of the soil, ithey draw the manures out of the {stable on a stonoboat. and pile it Jon the.prairie any place out of the ’.way. The land will not stand that sort of thing very long.' LITTLE MONEY IN WHEAT l “Some Americans come in and hire their breaking and seeding done. It costs $2.50 an acre for the former, and as much for the latter. One man I met, put in 320 acres that way. There you have an outlay of $1600 to start with. Then there is ’the seed, and the cutting and stock- ing. Next comes the threshing. which costs 7 cents a bushel. That takes it from the stock and finds lull the help, but is twice what it costs here. By the time you get 'that grain to the elevator it has cost you something; IN FACT. I mo NOT THINK THERE IS MUCH ‘MONEY TO BE MADE IN (mow- ING GRAIN IN THE WEST. 6A good deal has been made by getting land and holding it for higher prices. That can be done I guess 'in some places yet ; but that very .thing is going to burst the boom 'that is now‘on. Everybody is into it, andthere are thousands of acres {being held that wayâ€"a good deal imore than there will likely be de- 'mnnd for ; and when the time comes 'fm- sottlllm‘ un there is going to be “The next ploughing is what they call back-setting. That goes a few inches deeper, and the brittle sod above gives hardly any bother. Some fields that there has not been time to plow are sowed right on the stub- ble with a shoe drill. Often half a crop is got that way, but often less than that. The binders are 7 and 8 feet cut, and the seeders have 20 to 23 drills." “Among those who went from Fen- elpn, besides my son and dau- ghter. are Jos. and Lewis Robe. Marshall and David Day and Robt. Dancy. Mr. Dancy went west six years ago. He got his land at $3.50 per acre. and now it is worth $13 or $14. He has made money in that way. but not in grainâ€"growing. The others have been there a shorter time. but are getting along very well. There is no doubt, though. that a bad crop or two would five the West a. bad shaking." Gal. Hughes Asked Ir. hurior to so Declare it On Friday Col. Hughes reminded the premier that Tuesday would be the 12th of July. an anniversary honored by a great. many peopie throughout Canada, and by many members of parlimnent. He recom- mandad the government. to give the Hon-o o holiday on that day. Ipcn'to have been moved from where ,they were last used. Three wagons, [as mnybinden and seed drills.hay rakes. mom. Cultivators, barrows. carriagesâ€"they all stand out. As 9. Mt an implement is no use after Sir Wilfrid Lauricrâ€"I have no doubt my honorable friend will have to divide his attention on that 00- cuion. There is no precedent. how- ‘over. for tho-request he makes. 00!. Hugh: advised the premier to 3 or 4 you-s, and the minute it won't work they throw it. away, and get. a new one. There is e'noug-h waste in that line to put drive farmers to the wall anywhere." COUNCIL crâ€"I have no friend will have Mr. Chris. Cornell who is home from the Yukon after 15 years resi- dence there, says he has manic no money out of his gold-seeking opera- tions, but has done very well in oth- er companions.- and likes the. countm well enough, and has enough faith in it to go back after a short visit at homo. Mr. Cornell looks well after undergoing the hardships of tho prospector and pioneer in a. new min- ing countryâ€"and one that is in tho Arctics at that. “There has been a good deal of gold taken out of the Yukon -'-' said Mr. Cornell. "For a tow years 20 millions a year was cleaned up. but that got down to 10 millions last year. The known valuable claims have been pretty well ox- hausbod. and now old ground is be- ing re-worlgod. 1! nothing new is A J .._.-â€"- urn:n¢ uuuo _ . struck. or if some good quartz Veins are not found, the Yukon is not go- ing to be a. record-breaker as a gold- producer. But in lots of the gravel- bcds. we find nuggets in fragments of quartz. Now these must have been broken on from a ledge of quantz somewhere, and if that is found there will be lots of mining and gold too_._’ ' â€" - _-‘AL ‘1‘“ “Would you mind just indicating the lines the article will be on ?" was asked. “Take for. instance the peat cold winter. How do you ac- count .for that ?" “Well," said Elias, “that is easy enough. According to my theory the heat from the sun comes from its equatorial region. Lately the earth has been getting nearer the sun‘s pole and doesn't get as much heat from the sun. That’s where radium comes in. Now gold is rsâ€" dium with. silex mixed with it. Silex is on the quartz ; I have worked among quartz; I have quartz at home. (The suggestion that he mounts (warts. brought an emphatic denial from Elias.) There is a brown stun that washes of! the rocks. on! it's from that they get the radium." , ”The earth has a. wobble-3' wen-t on Elias. That was the same theomt MI the sporting editor nf our oowm advanced when we met him going home late one night, and is way likely true, although we have never v.“ 'v' - Mr. Corneil wears a. watch fob; which is two spheres of glass as big 3 as coppers. These are set face to; face in a. gold band. Between them is a half-a-thimbleful of gold dust; of the com-set sortâ€"about like sawâ€" dust. He also has a. number of nug- gets of diflerent shapes, and mi si'zes (tom that of at small pea to a' white been. A few of those are the mixture of gold and quartz 0“ which he spoke. He had seen a dish-puma of these after a season's washâ€"up. ,, L-‘ A--.g z“ "No. it's the weather we’ve bad I’m ' going to talk ebou ,’-’ said Eli- as. To the remark that anybody could tell that weather, the man of Perpetual Motion replied, ‘-‘Yes, but I'm going to give the causes., and everybody can't do that. It's a scientific job. I’ll write on that for you." Mr Chris. Corneil Talks of the Land on Which the Sun at Times Refuses to Shine -â€"-He will go Back To the suggestion that he tell a- bout the weather we wens going to hnve. Elias said "No." He didn’t take any stock in that sort of thing. Elias is wise. He wants an my thing. He’s up against one hard proposition in that Perpet- ual Motion scheme of his, and hav- two vimpossibilities on hand at once don't give a man much chance to distinguish himself. Elias will stick to the weather we've had. Not like- ly what’s coming will be any worse, but it's more apt to make a man- key of a man that'talks on it just now. Anyway prophesy'uig the weath. or is'n’t a. big enough job for both Elias and Irl Hicks. WWII “F. “We have some very hot days in the Yukon,” said Mr. Corneil, “but the .nights are always cool. Then in winter of Course. we have the severe Arctic cold. We grow garden truck but the season is not, long enough to mature grains, unless some oats." "In the winter amen never sets out on a journey alone. It is not safe; a, chief danger is that of get- ting into a. water hole. It is o, ~“I’ve got my invention pretty near completed now." anid Elias Powell, of Perpetual Motion tame, the other dair. breaking a. long silence that stands for a. lot of strenuous work. “But I don't want to any anything about. it. for publication just, now." "I'll write you an articlron the weather we' ve been having, and the cause or it. " went on Elias. “mama mm Wit iATTLE LIVED OUT IN WOODS THROUGH THE YUKON WINTER mmmzn WE’VE HAD all dam and at. night went. ashore, built a brush shackâ€"a. common u- bodo {or over nightâ€"and slopt wryI well. Not everybody whosu provi- sions run short. has been so fortun- ate as to 130 near the river. And even if we had got to the river later on it would have boomot no use to us for the ice was forming rapidly." “One time I Went, with a little party on a trip. We did not get. along as we expected, and saw that our provisions wen: not going to last; to ‘get back. We mad-e for the Stew- art river that flows through Dawson City. When we reached it we found the slush ioo running pretty thick, but we made a raft. and got into the stream. By that. means we reached Dawson 3 or 4 days earlier than we'clae could have,- and before our supplies grow out. It was in November. We floated All door. and at night. Wont uslmro. built a brush shackâ€"a. common :1- -‘-‘That too {arms peculiarly. You II'VII‘. no ice on a river. smooth like you have it here. The ice forms in a sort. of slush like the anchor ice you are accustomed to. This flows along in the water [rotting thicker all the time in the intense cold. At last. it begins to block here and there and then a war forms, and the slush floating down against this pileS up, and by the time the river is frozen over solidly its surâ€" face is all “hummocky” so that tra- vel on it is very difficult." “Until recently there has been no attempt to winter any cattle. but I‘-A.‘I_ ..nnA On A trucknmn named George Miller. agoh about. 26 years was struck by a Grapd Trunk cxproso opposite his home two miles west. of 'Mallm‘xtown below Kingston. on Thursday. He was driving tram Kulorytown with modicine (or Ms sick and only child. and in attempting to cross in front. of the express was hurled into 1110 ditch, and died he." an hout later. The wife 0! the deceased witnessed the accident from her doorway. Some of our young- people thought they would rather spend the first of July in fishing than go to Lind- say. but they seemed quite disap- point/ed with the numfler of fish they brought home. happens or they get lost and tired out or starve. I has slept. out in the wilds on bad nights, but. nevex without companions.” a load of cattle on board was wreck- ed on the river. The catti-o got to shore. Some of them could not be mind. These were given up for lost; but next spring they were found in the woods. and in good condition. They had actually sur- vived the winter. That gave the people the idea of wintering stock there." Our teacher, Miss Franklin has left‘ us to spend her holidays with friends_ in the far West. She will be greatly, missed as she took an active part, in Sunday school work. “Until recently there has been no attempt to winter any cattle. but a fgw milch cows. Cattle used to be Brought in every spring and kill- ed when fall came on. One fall, though, not long ago, a scow with a load of cattle on board was wreck- “ m. «M river- The catti-e got to Quite a number from around here took advantage of the cheap fares to Lindsay on July lst, and report. a very good time. On Honda; Jul} 4th theaoodpeo- photBexlqvgavautea lnconnec- tion with our church opening. Tea. was served on Mr. Hoskin's lawn,- where ample justice was done to the good things. The proceeds amount- ed to $31, which goes toward erect- ing a new church shed that is badlx needed. Our church has been reopened and we hope to see a. goodly number at- tend our week-night services. BEXL‘EY Some of the farms here started haymg. Owing to tho fine maths: of late they report this a good yen: for hay. Sunday scuoot work. Miss Viola Staples, accpmpanied by her brother Fletcher, has gone to spend some time in Dorset. much to make 11!? sauce. There are extensive displays but these do not A ';.:‘J’,. . .: "0h gee no, mine knocks the tan out of all of them. I’ll have it' ready about. Monday, and then I'll tell you about it.” "Robinson mud. a. machine mt. run three MW“ Emu. revert- ing t6 his hoary. "and then itsbop- ped. It was the earth’s wobble stopped it. ~For that long it was kept going by centrifugal motion and central force, and it the earth had been running true, the machine would have kept going.” "I hope your invention won ’t 3315 up against anythibg of that sort." was remarked. “Yes the earth doesn’t run tray and that's the reason it can't get past. the northwest point. It gets up a. cerbaindistame and then 3370er back again.”- noticod it. ‘m some brilliant. and lays‘ of Northern ugh“! not occur mm W Number 28 but, by a bright y. The moon, . the snow don if the sun's .b"