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T H E G I H A L F A T T H E Y H O U S E S T O R Y o r B Y K . H O i l i H , A l ' T H O R ( > K T - H K T H_ JC 1" O K V P L A I N S O F 1 I I K C O W B O Y Cot y 111 d. I y 1) . .1 t tic : <> « A' e w • r i CHAPTER XXIII.--Continued. Now there camo upon the face of the country faint soars where wheels had cut into the hard soil, these va­ grant indices of travel not pointing all one way, and not cut deep, as was the royal highway of the cattle, but cross­ ing, tangling, sometimes blending into main-traveled roads, though more of­ ten straying aimlessly off over the prairie to end at the homestead of some farmer. These new houses were dark and low -and brown, with the ex­ ception that each few miles the travel­ er might Bee a small frame house painted white. Here and there over the country were broken rows of little yellow, faded trees struggling up out of the hard earth. The untiring wheels of windmills could be ssen everywhere at their work. In the town of Ellisville the great heap of buffalo bones was gone from the tide of the railroad track. There were many wagons now, but none brought in bones to pile up the rail­ way; for even the bones of the buffalo vrere now gone forever. The Land Office was yet at Ellis­ ville, and the rush of settlers was con­ tinuous. Ellisville had thirty business houses and two thousand inhabitants. It had large railway shops and the di­ vision offices of the road. It had two schoolhouses (always the schoolhouse grew quickly on the Western soil), six buildings of two stories, two build­ ings of three stories and built of brick. The stranger who asked for the old, wild days of Ellisville the Red was told that no such days had ever been. Yet stay; perhaps there were half a dozen men who had lived at Ellisville from the first who could, perhaps, take one to the boarding house of Mrs. Daly; who could, perhaps, tell something of the forgotten days of the past, the days of two years ago. before the pres­ ent population of Ellisville came West. There was, perhaps, a graveyard, but the headstones had been so few that i when I saw ye last. I'm younger than I ye ivver saw me in all your life be­ fore." "And what and where was the foun­ tain?" said Franklin, as he seated him­ self at his desk. "The one fountain of all on earth, me boy--Succiss--succiss! The two dearest things of life are Succiss and Revinge. I've found thim both. Shure, pfwhat is that gives one man the lofty air an' the overlookin' eye, where another full his ekil in inches fears to draw the same breath o life with him? Succiss. succiss. me boy!" "Well, I suppose you don't mind my congratulating you on your success, whatever it may be." said Franklin, as he began to busy himself about his work at the desk. "You're just a trifle mysterious, you know." "There's none I'd liever have shake me by the hand than yoursilf, Ned, ' said Battersleigh. "the more especial­ ly by this rayson. that ye've nivver believed in ould Batty at all, but thought him a visionary schainer, an' no more. Didn't ye, now, Ned; on yfSur honor?" "No," said Franklin stoutly. "I'|e always known you to be the best fellow in the world." "Tut, tut!" said Battersleigh. "Ye're dodgin' the issue, boy. But pfwhat wud ye say now, Ned. if I should till ye I'd made over tin thousand pounds of good English money since I came to this little town?" "I should say," said Franklin calmly as he opened an envelope, "that you had been dreaming again." "That's it! That's it!" cried Bat­ tersleigh. "Shure ye wud, an' I knew it! But come with me to bank this mornin' an" I'll prove it all to ye." Something in his voice made Frank­ lin wheel around and look at him. "Oh, do be serious, Battersleigh," said he. "I'll till ye a secret, which hereto­ fore I've always neglicted to mintion to anybody. Here I'm Henry Batter- L "And what and where was the fountain?' bne could tell but little of it now. Much of this, no doubt, was exaggera­ tion, this talk of a graveyard, of a doubled street, of murders, of the legal killings which served as arrests, of the lynchings which once passed as justice. There was a crude story of the first court ever held in Ellisville, but of course it was mere libel to say that it was held in the livery barn. Rumor said that the trial was over the case of a negro, or Mexican, or Indian, who had been charged with murder, and who was himself killed in an attempt at lynching, by whose hand it was never known. These things were remembered or talked about by but very few, these the old- timers, the settlers of two years ago. Somewhere to the north of the town, and in the center of what was de­ clared by some persons to be the old cattle trail, there was reputed to be •ivible a granite boulder, or perhaps it was a granite shaft, supposed to have been erecten. with money contributed by cattlemen at the request of Mrs. Daly, who. kept the boarding house on a back street. Some one had seen this moiument, and brought back word that it had <ut upon its face a singular inscription, namely : JUAN THE LOCO, The End of the Trail. Tils matter was, of course, not un­ derstood by all, nor did many con­ cern themselves therewith, men being now too busy working eightN hours a day. It was generally siipfJesed to re­ fer to something that had happened in the <2ays when Ellisville was wrong­ fully alleged to have been a cow town --ft day far back in the past, in the ttue of Two Yea re ago. CHAPTER XXIV. % & s Is The Success of Battersleigh. One morning when Franklin entered his office he found his friend Batter­ sleigh there before him, in full pos­ session, and apparently at peace with all the world. He did not hear Frank­ lin as he apprached the door, and the latter stood looking in for a moment, ntnused at Battersleigh and his atti­ tude and his song. When quite happy Battersleigh always sang, and very Often his song was the one he was ringing now, done in a low irasal, each •er»e ending, after the vocal fashion of his race, with a sudden uplift of a tfieer octave, as thus; <J dance li-l-l-ke a fa-a-a-lree-ee-ee, see ould Dunlear-e-e-e-e-e! d think twl-i-l-lce e-e-e-r-r I-I-I-'d lave It, ,f«r to be-e-e-e-e a drag-o-o-n." Franklin stepped In and said good •lorning. "You Beem in fine fettle tt»is morning, friend," said he. "Very line, for an old man." Battersleigh squared around and looked at him soberly. "Ned," said %e, "ye 're a dethractor of innycince. Batty ould! Listen to me, boy! It's Bfty years younger I am Unlay than fel% ivver lay out of dures. an' y» may have it for the trifle o' fifty uollars the acre< OJTer it to the Leddy Wig- git,' says I to him; 'she's a philan­ thropist,-an' is fer Bettherin* the Pore' ('savin' pore nephews,' says I to mo- pilf). 'The Lady Wiggit,' says I, 'I'll be sendin' a ship load o' pore tinnints over here.' says I, 'an' she'll buy this landi OfFer-ft-tcriKT^ -ssys i.--So Tie did. So she dfd. She tuk it. 111 be away before thim pisints o' hers comes over to settle here, glory be! Now, wasn't it aisy? There's no fools like the English over land, me boy. An' 'twas a simple judgment on me rev­ ered Aunt, the Leddy Wiggit." "But, Battersleigh, look here," said Franklin, "you talk of fifty dollars an acre. That's all nonsense--why, that's robbery. Land is dear here at live dollars an acre." "Shure it is Ned," said Battersleigh calmly. ' But it's chape in England at fifty dollars." "Well, but " "An' that's not all. I wrote to thim to send me a mere matter of tin dol­ lars an acre, as evidence p' good faith. They did so' an' "it was most convay- nient for settlin' the little bill o' three dollars an acre which the railroad had against me. Batty the Fool." "It's robbery!" reiterated Franklin. "It wud 'ave been robbery," said Battersleigh, "had they sint 110 more than that, for I'd 'av' beent defrauded of me just jues. But wb^ co you think? The murdherin' ould fool, me revered Aunt, the I^eddy Wiggit, she grows feared there is some intint to rob her of her bargain, so what does she do but sind the entire amount at wance--not knowin', bless me heart an' soul, that she's thus doin' a distin­ guished kindness to the missin' rela­ tive she's long ago forgot! Man, would ye call that robbery? It's Di­ vine Providence, no less! It's justice. Man. man. it's happy I am to-day!" "It looks a good deal like taking advantage of another's ignorance," said Franklin argumentatively. "Sir." said Battersleigh, "it's takln" advantage o' their Wisdom. The land's worth it. as you'll see yoursilf in time. Anyhow, the money's in the bank, an' it's proper dhrunk'll be Batty the Fool this night, an' likewise the Hon. Cub- berd Allen Wiggit-Galt, Etcetera. There's two of me row, an' it's twice the amount I must be dhrinkin". I swear, I feel a thirst risin' that minds me o' Ingy in the hills, an' the mess o' the Rile Irish wance again." "You'll be going away," said Frank­ lin, sadly, as he rose and took Batter­ sleigh by the hand. "You'll be go­ ing away and leaving me here alone--* awfully alone." (To be continued.) m BE WARNED! Heed Nature's w a r n i n g s ! P a i n tells of lurking dis­ ease. Backache is kidney pain -- a warning of kidney ills. Urinary trou­ bles, too, come to tell you the kidneys are sick. Constant weariness, h e a d- aches, dizzy spells, days of pain, nights of unrest are dan­ ger signals warn­ ing you. to cure the kidneys. UseDoan's Kidney Pills, which have made thou­ sands of permanent cures. Frank D. Overbaugh, cattle-buyer and farmer, Catskill, N. Y., says: "Doctors told me ten years ago that I bad Bright's Disease, and said they could do nothing to save me. My back ached so I could not stand It to -even drive about, and passages of the kidney secretions were so frequent as to annoy toe greatly,- I was growing worse all the time, 6ut Doan's Kid­ ney Pills cured me, ana^I have been well ever since." A FREE TRIAL of this great^tidney medicine which cured Mr. Overbaugh" will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale* by all dealers; price 50 cents per IW'N'W,' DEBUT OF ENGLISH BEAUTY A GREAT SOCIAL EVENT box. Queer Epitaphs on Tombstones. Some congressmen were talking of queer things seen on tombstones. Mr. Johnson of South Carolina saw this in a village graveyard in his state; "Erected to the memory of John Daw­ son, who was accidentally shot as a mark of affection by his brother." This reminded Mr. Gregg of Texas of an inscription he saw in an Arkansas graveyard: "This stone is sakred to the memry of William Hardy who comes to his death by fooling with Colt revolver, one of the old kind brass mounted, and of such is the Kingdom of heaven." HOW INDIANS ARE NAMED. sleigh, agent of the British-American Colonization Society. On t'other side I might be Cuthbert Allen Wingate- Galt.\ An' Etcetera, man; etcetera, to God l^nows what. Don't mintion it, Ned, till I've gone away, fer I've loved the life heVe so--I've so enjoyed bein' just^Battyi; agent, and so forth! Beiave me\Ned, it's much comfortabler to be merely a' And-so-forth thin it is to be an' Etcetera. An' I've loved ye so, Ned! Ye're the noblest nobleman I ivver knew or iver expict to Know." Franklin sat gazing at him without speech, and presently Battersleigh went on. "It's a bit of a story, lad," said he kindly. "Ye see, I've been a poor man all me life, ye may say, though the nephew of one of the richest women in the United Kingdom--an' the stin­ giest. Itastid of doin' her obvayus juty an' supportin' her nephew in becomin' station, she marries a poor little lord- let boy, forsakes me entirely. Wasn't it hijjus of her? There may have been raysons satisfyin' to her own mind, but she nivver convinced me that it was Christian conduct on her part. So I wint with the Rile Irish, and fought fer the Widdy. I've been in the Rile Irish ivver since--whin not some­ where ilse; though mostly, Ned me boy, stone broke, an' ownin' no more than me bed an' me arms. Ye know this, Ned." After his fashion Franklin sat silent, waiting for the other's speech. "Ned," said Battersleigh at length, "till me, who's the people of the intire worrld that has the most serane be­ lief in their own shupayriorrty?" "New-Yorkers," said Franklin calmly. "Wrong. .Ye mustn't joke, me boy No. It's the English. Shure, they're the consatedest people in the whole worrld. An' now, thin, who's the wisest people in the worrld?" "The Americans," said Franklin promptly again. "Wrong agin. It's thim same d--d domineerin' idjits. the yally-headed subjecks o' the Widdy. An' pfwhy are they wise?" "You'll have to tell," said Frank­ lin. "Then I'll till ye. It's because they have a sacra fames fer all the land on earth " "I infer, Battersleigh," said Frank­ lin, "that you have made a sale. "Well, yis. A small matter." "A quarter-section or so?" "A quarter township or so wud be much nearer," said Battersleigh dryly "You don't mean it?" "Shure I do. It's a fool for luck allowin' Batty's a fool, as ye've always thought, though I've denied it. 1 Now ye know the railroad's crazy for pop- pylation, an' it can't wait. The rail­ road offers Batty the Fool fifteen hun dred acres o' land at three dollars the acre, If Batty the Fool'll bring settlers to it. So I sinds over to me ould Aunt's country--not, ye may suppose over the 6ignayture o' Cubberd Allen Wiggit-Galt, but as Henry Battersleigh agent o' the British American Colc^i zatlon Society--an' I says to the prop­ er party there, says I, 'I've fifteen hun dred acres o' the lovelies; land th*t Have Various Cognomens at Various Periods of Life. Major Frank Terry, wHo is in charge of the Indian school on the Puyallup Reservation, is thus quoted by the Tacoma (Washington) Ledger: "Translations of Indian names, as a rule, have been unsatisfactory, though there are exceptions. The case is re­ ported from the Pawnee Reservation, Oklahoma, of an Indian named Coo- rux-ruh-rah-ruk-koo. The literal in­ terpretation of his name as given to me is 'Fearing-a-bear-that-is-wild.' With this interpretation the agent amed him 'Fearing B. Wilde.' As the Indian grows he commits acts from time to time, each of which gives him a new name. For example, he may see a bear and run screaming to a tepee. The folks laugh at him and call him 'Afraid-of-a-bear.' If he braids in his hair a yellow feather which he has plucked from the tail of an eagle, he may be called 'Eagle-tail,' Eagle-feather,' 'Yellow-tail,' 'Yellow- feather.' If tie gives it to his friend he will be known as 'Gives-feather,' but it he keeps it, when asked for it, he becomes 'Keep-the-yellow-feather,' if he has more than one feather. The plan resorted to in some quarters of discarding the Indian names and fit­ ting the Indians out with names that are purely English has not worked well, for those selected in many cases, are names illustrious in American his­ tory, and this has caused the Indians to becorfie the butt of many a joke. William Penn, Fitzhugh Lee, David B. Hill and William Shakespeare are the names of Indian policemen at the Shoshone Agency, Wyoming. I my­ self have seen George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Franklin pierce, Rip Van Winkle, Allen G. Thurman and Hilary A. Herbert engaged togeth­ er in a game." Malaria. Have you a slow and intermittent fever; chills creeping up the spinal column, espe­ cially in the middle of the day; aching back and limbs; cold hands and feet; flushed faco with burning sensation? These are malaria symptoms. Do npt delay, but begin a course of treatment to head off the disease. Pure blood will withstand the attack of poison botter than impure blood; and as pure blood is the result of a healthy condition of the stomach, you should get the stomach in order first. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a perfect stomach remedy, a gentlo laxative and strengthens all of the organs of assimilation. Sold by druggists and dealers in medicines. Hefty Missouri Youth. Twelve years old and weighing 215 pounds, Early Payne of Fulton, Mo., claims to be the heftiest young gentle­ man of his age in all the state. Two years ago he weighed 140 and twelve months later he gained forty-five pounds. His height is now 5 feet 6 Inches. Some of his measurements will convey some idea of his size: Chest, normal, 45 inches; chest, ex­ panded, 47 inches; waist, 42 inches; right calf, 18 inches; left calf, 17 Inches. Early sleeps well and has an excellent appetite. Exercise soon fatigues him.--Exchange. Perfect Harmony. Mr. Martin was fond of pets, and was somewhat inclined to boast of the friendly feeling existing among his dogs, guinea pigs, owls and fancy pigeons. One day a neighbor, who had reason to suspect that all was not going well on the Martin side of the fence, asked if the latest acquisition, a fine Angora cat, was living in harmony with the other animals. "How," asked the neighbor, "do your young rabbits and your new cat agree?" "Beautifully," replied Mr. Martin, "The cat eats the rabbits and the rab­ bits agree with the cat."--famart Set. LOOKED FOR FIERCE FIGHT. THE HERO AND THE TOOTHACHE Remarks Thereon by a Disillusioned Girl with a Sable Muff. "I used to be given to hero wor­ ship," said the girl with the Russian sable muff to her companion of the long, dark eyelashes. "But, dear, we change, do we not? Do you recall how I spent the last of my pin money to attend a reception that the club arranged for a certain hero? "Well, the week before last I was coming up from Palm Beach. On the train was a hero who had withstood a dozen hostile fires at Santiago. He had a tooth acre, a simple little tooth­ ache, and he bellowed like a calf. I thought of the five teeth that I had pulled out in one afternoon without gas and asked myself if the man was really brave. I decided that a hero must have a toothache such as the ordinary mortal 'never dreamed of. "One of the train hands who sym­ pathized with the hero said: 'The best thing for a toothache is whisky. If I had one I'd fill up'--and he did. I mean the hero, that was, did- Don't talk to me in future of hero worship. Facing death may be one thing, but I'd rather face death than be afraid of a toothache. Have a bon bon?" Bystanders Fooled by Charley Mitchell and "Bat" Masterson. Charley Mitchell, the English prize­ fighter, and "Bat" Masterson, once the greatest bad man tamer west of the Missouri river, had a joke on their friends in a New York cafe the other night. The men are friends, but Just for fun they engaged in a mock quar­ rel which seemed every moment to bo on the verge of open physical hostili­ ties. The fifty other men in the spa­ cious cafe were wrought up to a high point of expectancy, and not a few were looking for cover when words ran high. Suddenly Mitchell drew back his terrible right and then--and then--"Bat" reached over and, touch­ ing a small white spot on the Eng­ lishman's pate, said: "Charlie, you're gettin' bald." IN AN OLD TRUNK. Where Gun Barrels -Are Made. The Damascus gun barrel Is mafiu* factured only at Nessovaux, near Liege, Belgium, while the steel barrel is made in Liege. Every barrel must, under the law, successfully withstand the government test before It Is ad­ mitted for sale. The gun barrels are made by the workmen In their own homes, and are delivered to the mer* cants, who combine the parts for the markets. It is the universal under standing that the United States is the best market for the cheap grade of guns. The two towns sold $273,000 worth to the United States last year. Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolio Add and Drinks It. While the mother was unpacking an old trunk a little 18 months' old baby got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid while playing on the floor and his stomach was so badly burned it was feared he would not live for he could not eat ordinary foods. Tho mother says in telling of the case: "It was all two doctors1 could do to save him as it burnt his throat and stomach so bad that for two months after he took the poison nothing would lay on his stomach. Finally ( took him into the country and tried new milk and that was no better for him. His Grandma finally suggested Grape Nuts and 1 am thankful I adopt­ ed the food for he commenced to get better right away and would hot eat anything else. He commenced to get fleshy and his cheeks like red roses and now he is entirely well. "I took him to Matamoraa on a visit and every place we went to stay to eat he called for Grape-Nuts and I would have to explain how he came to call for it as it was his main food. "The names of the physicians who attended the baby are Dr. Eddy of this town and Dr. Geo. Gale of New­ port, O., and any one can write to me or to them and learn what Grape- Nuts food will do for children and grown-ups too." Name gives by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famova little book, "The &m4 te WeavfUe^" m Lady Olga Osborne was launched In English society by her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, with her presentation at the Easter court of King Edward. She is their second daughter, and with her beauty and distinguished ancestry promise^ to be a great belle. Dark and handsome, she is like her mother, the Duchess of Leeds, known for her grace of manner, unfailing tact and literary tastes. She has writ­ ten two books, "A Lover of the Beau­ tiful" ^nd "Caprice." ..TRIVIAL MATTER IN DISPUTE. English Chancellor and Irish Magis­ trate Crpss Swords. Some amusing "correspondence be­ tween the lord chancellor of Ireland and Thomas McDonagh Mahony, J. P., since Sept. 3, 1903," has been is­ sued as a British parliamentary paper. Mr. Mahony insisted upon signing his name to warrants and other docu­ ments "in characters which are al­ leged to be those of the Irish lan­ guage," and persists in the practice, although he has been authoritatively informed that it Is illegal. The jus­ tice of Caherciveen insists that his signature is his usual one and disputes the lord chancellor's law, and there the matter rests, except that he is enjoined from sitting on the magister­ ial bench until he gives assurance that he will "sign magisterial documents in English." Rich Man Pumps Hand Car. Superintendent Albert S. ,Ingalls of the Cleveland and Indianapolis divis­ ion of the Big Four road went over a lengthy section of his line the other day in a handcar, taking his turn at the pump with the crew. His father is president of the system and the young man could have gone over the road in his own private car, but pre­ ferred the less pretentious mode. In this way he got close to things, occa­ sionally walking the ties for a mile during his tour of inspection. When he arrived in Anderson, Ind., and stopped for tho night he bore small sign of being the son of a millionaire, his clothing incrusted with the mud of many a mile's hard work and travel. Lady Olga is one of a family of four daughters and one son, the young Marquis of Carmarthen. Hornby Cas­ tle in Yorkshire is the large estate of the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, but a great part of their time is spent at their London home in Grosvenor Crescent. A debut ball In honorLady Olga Osborne will be one of the social events of the year, as thqpduke and duchess are celebrated for their bril­ liant hospitality. HOW CAST 'RON GROWS. Gas in the Material Is Cause of Sup* posed Phenomenon. The fact that iron does grow has been investigated by a writer in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, who has known iron to grow as much as 35 per cent in the course of repeated heatings. In explaining this growth, he as­ sumes that cast-iron has many minute cavities which are filled with a mix­ ture of gases. When the iron is highly heated these gases naturally expand and cause the iron, which is then com­ paratively soft, to stretch: in cooling, the Iron hardens again, but the very high pressure of the enclosed gases prevents the iron from contracting to its former dimensions. With every renewed heating the process is repeat­ ed and at each cooling the pressure of the enclosed gases becomes less and less as the cavities increase in size. But there is a limit to this action of the gases, and this is reached when the cavities become so large that the pressure of the enclosed gases is not sufficient to overcome the resistance offered by the softened iron; when this point is arrived at the iron ceases to grow. Original of "Uncle Tom.", Sam S. Sanford, the old-time min­ strel, and credited with having cre­ ated the part of Uncle Tom in the dramatized version of Mrs. Stowe's famous book, has suffered a stroke of paralysis and is spending his declin­ ing days in the home of his daughter in Brooklyn. Mr. Sanford is 85 years old. Although he has lost the use of his legs temporarily, he believes, his mind is still very active and he de­ lights to relate the reminiscences of the years immediately following the civil war, when sectional feeling was still strong in the border states along Mason and Dixon's line, where he played Uncle Tom. DISLIKE SOLDIERS' NEW CAP. Colored Man U. S. Consul. The United States consular repre­ sentative at Vladivostok, eastern Si­ beria, one of the storm centers of the war in the far east, for six years past has been Richard T. Greener, the first colored graduate of Harvard col­ lege and one of the most conspicuous and successful members of his race in the walks of learning, law and poli­ tics. Greener was admitted to the bar In Washington in 1877. He was dean of the law faculty at Harvard university for five year. He removed to New York in 1883 and then he was for several years an examiner in the municipal civil service board. Stocking Stretcher. An Ingenious fellow who resides in the city of Rochester, and who knows how to handle a delicate subject dip­ lomatically, has invented a stocking stretcher that should find favor with-- well, with all whom it may concern. Two wooden, stocking-shaped boards, hinged at the top, are inserted in the stockings that happen to be too small, and are worked on the same principle as a glove stretcher. The inventor of that article denies that It was intended altogether for Commanding Officers Not Pleased with Its Effect. Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffee and several other members of the gen­ eral staff are not pleased with the rakish effect of the new garrison cap. when worn on the side of the head, as soldiers at Fort Myer persist in wearing it. The cap is a collapsable affair, without any visor, fashioned af­ ter a cap used by the British soldier. In wearing the cap on one side of the head the troopers imitate the British. But General Chaffee and some of his associates on the general staff believe hats and caps were made to wear straight on the head--English or no English--and think the new fashion gives a decidedly unmilitary effect The new cap is on trial at Fort Myer, the only post where soldiers are using it. Its adoption by the army is doubt­ ful. Robin's Search for Last Year's Nest. Last year a robin made her nest in the rafters of the Smith dancing pa­ vilion on North Fourth street. Since then an addition of about thirty feet has been put on the building. Yes­ terday a robin--no doubt the same that built there last year--made re­ peated attempts to get at the cor­ responding window of the new build­ ing. The window had a pane of glass in it and she could not gain entrance. The action of the bird shows quite conclusively that migrating birds re­ turn to the same neighborhood and often to the same nest. Since last summer this ^>lrd has, no doubt, been in the Gulf States. The instinct that enables her to return to her old nest is remarkable.--Columbus Evening Dispatch. Practical Economy. A man whose impecunious condi­ tion is chronic, and who borrows with the airy grace of a beau in an old comedy, recently approached an ac­ quaintance all smiles and geniality. "You're Just the fellow I wanted to see," he said. "Could yon lend ma $5 for a minute?" "I could," said tho acquaintance, dryly, "but let mo tell yon how to save that |i. Wait a minute and you won't need U."--The Y«mtk s Oompan- Wlll Live in Ohio Home. James E. Campbell, formerly govei* nor of Ohio, but Tor five years a prac­ ticing lawyer in New York city, will return next fall to his home town, Hamilton, O. His life in the eastern metropolis has been tempestuous at times and he will be glad to exchange It for the quiet of his old home. In 1888 Mr. Campbell achieved the dis­ tinction of being the first Democrat to be elected in Ohio for many years, and thiq triumph gave him much prominence in his party. Sunday Golf Raises Rumpus. The English premier's Sunday golf has finally aroused such bitter con­ troversy that appeal has been made to the Archbishop of Canterbury. His grace, however, like the wary teacher who evades a difficult question by telling the pupil to look it up for him­ self, "bo he will remember," diplo­ matically says the question of Sunday golf, as all Sunday pastimes, is one for "individual conscience." Thus the question is still open and the debate goes on. AN ILLINOI8 FARMER IN WEST* ERN CANADA. A recent issue of the Shelbyville, Illinois, Democrat contains a long and Interesting letter from Mr. Elias Kost, formerly a prosperous farmer of that state, who recently emigrated to West­ ern Canada, taking up a claim for / himself and for each of his three sons. From Mr. Kost's letter, which was written Feb. 3, 1904, we publish the following, believing it will prove of great interest to those who have con­ templated settling in tho Canadian Northwest: "I had in August, 1902, secured a claim for myself, and filed on three quarter sections for my sons. My claim is one-half mile south of the Edmonton and Lake St. Anne trail. "Coming so late in the season we had little opportunity to break and to prepare ground for a first year's crop, still we raised over 100 bushels of very fine potatoes, and sowed a few acres of barley, but the season was too far advanced for the barley. How­ ever, we secured good feed from it, and on rented ground 18 miles east of us, raised tk fine crop of oats, so that we will have plenty of feed for horses. We cut about 60 tons of hay and thus will have an abundance. We have, all told, about 240 acres of hay meadow, which would yield the past year over three tons to the acre, and in an or­ dinary season the meadow would fur­ nish 600 tons of hay. The grass is very nutritious, and cattle on the ranges become Very fat without be­ ing fed a pound of grain. "On the upland the grass grows from eight to ten inches tall. This is called range grass, and is suitable for stock at any time, even in the winter when the ground Is not covered too deep with snow. Horses subsist on It alone, at all times, provided they are native stock. The grass in the hay meadows here is called red-top, and grows from five to six feet in length, and when cut at the proper time yields an abundant crop of nutritious hay. "Our cattle have not cost us a cent since we came on our homestead, only the small outlay for salt and labor in putting up hay* and shelter. All cattle have been doing well this winter, and feeding up to the first of January was unnecessary, as there was good range up to that time. "All the snows up to that date were followed by winds from the north­ west that melts it very rapidly; these winds are called Chinook winds, and are always warm. In one night a Chinook wind may take away three or four inches of snow. "We have built on our claim a com­ fortable house of hewn logs, 20x28 feet, one and one-half stories in height, with a good cellar. During the latter part of June we rafted logs down the Sturgeon to a sawmill, about eight miles away, and thus secured 5,000 feet of good lumber which was needed for the house. Later in the season a shingle mill located six miles away. To this we hauled logs and had shingles cut for the roof. "We had an abundance of wild fruit the past season, consisting of goose­ berries, strawberries, raspberries, eye- berries, blueberries, cherries and sas­ katoons. The latter are a fine looking berry, red, and quite pleasant to the taste, but not much to be desired in cookery. The strawberries are the same as those that grow wild In Illi­ nois. Raspberries are red in color, large and equal to any of the tame varieties, and so are the gooseberries. The cranberries consist of the high and trailing varieties. The latter are most sought and contiguous to the swamps. The ground is literally cov­ ered with them as with a red carpet, but the best and most sought is the blueberry, so called by the Indians. This is the famous 'huckleberry' (whortleberry) of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Pennsylvania, and can­ not be excelled for excellence by any fruit cultivated. It is found here both on the prairie and in the timber inim- mense quantities. "Game is very plentiful so far as prairie chickens, pheasants, ducks of all kinds, and geese are concerned. We have taken nearly 500 chickens and pheasants, also a great many ducks. "An occasional deer is seen, but are not plentiful, only one having been taken during the season in this settle­ ment. "Fish are very plentiful at all sea­ sons of the year. Fish wagons and sleds are passing almost daily along the trail with heavy loads of fish, des­ tined for St. Albert and Edmonton. From the latter point they are Bhipped south on the Calgary and Edmonton railroad to points along the line, and also to Assiniboia, on the Canadian Pacific railroad." For further information apply to any authorized Canadian Government Agent whose address appears else­ where in this paper. 8ure Thing. Little Willie (figuring)--"Say, pa, what comes after a million?*' Pa--"Some broken-down foreign sport with a title, my son.** Defiance Starch Is guaranteed big­ gest and best or money refunded. 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