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Icflenry Plaiaiealer. *ksisssjuiy-:* ILLINOIS. Joy is gold picked up in the path of lelpfulness. inhere might seems to m&ke right fi is but making ruin. In the museum of the Louvre, Paris, is a pearl necklace belonging to the Thiers family. The necklace was once worth $1,250,000, but the pearls are dying, and in a few years they will t» worthless. Headers who remember that the au­ thor of "The Count of Monte Cristo" 4bad a son as distinguished in litera­ ture as he was will appreciate the joke ofc a French journalist. He puts the whimsical question whether there is , to be a younger Duma in Russia to Inherit the genius of the elder Duma. One of th<e troubles of the hard­ wood buyer in Dominique Is that some­ times he has to'wait three years for a freshet to float his logs. Another is that when a disturbance is going on in the district his laborers are likely to leave him till it is over, to avoid being Impressed, either in the'govern- Wnt or revolutionists' ranks. % J. Plerpont Morgan's intimate friends declare that he does not look a day older than he did ten years ago. He believes that the annual trips he takes have a wonderfully re­ juvenating effect on his physical and mental being. "I find," he said, re­ cently, "that I can do a year's work in nine months, but that I can't 11 months' work in a year.** PRESIDENT OF SOUTHERN RAIL­ WAY VICTIM OF COLLISION. PRIVATE CAR SMASHED Samuel Spenser and 8ix Others Meet Qeath in Accident Near Lymfc* burg, "Va, Two Being Prom­ inent Baltimore Men. Lynchburg, Va.--Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway company, and recognised as one of the foremost men in the development of the southern states, and six other persons were killed Thursday morn­ ing at 6:10 o'clock in a rear end cob lision between two fast passenger trains ten miles south of Lynchburg and a mile north of Lawyer's depot. Philip Schuyler, a retired capitalist, of New York, ^as among the killed, together with Other guests >of Mr. Spencer. Only Mr. Spencer's private secretary, E. A. Merrill, of New York city, and one of three porters sur­ vived the accident. Following is a list of those killed: Samuel Spencer, New York, president of the Southern Railway company; D. W. Davis, Alexandria, Va., private dis­ patcher to President Spencer;Charles D. Fisher, Baltimore, Md., member of the grain exporting firm of Gill ft Fisher, a guest of President Spencer; PRESIDENT BACK kl WORK KOMEVSLT RESUMES BUTI«» AFTER PANMA TRIP. Special Message Covering Obeerva- ' ,'tN»« While on Canal Ship ami la Porto Rico for Congress. $&. , I; • During a conference with the chiefs and 3,000 tribesmen of Sekukuniland, Sir Godfrey Lagden, the chief native commissioner of the Transvaal, cited as evidence of the government's good intentions toward the black popula­ tion the fact that whereas formerly a native paid ten dollars for each wife, the cost was now only $3.25. The chiefs expressed their loyalty to King Edward. * |f yon want to get on, go in with the people in your line of business, or in your profession. Try to make your­ self popular with them. If a business man, associate with the best men in your business; if a lawyer, keep in with lawyers. Join the lawyers' clubs or associations. The very reputation of standing well in your craft or pro­ fession, says Success Magazine, will '1(1 of great value to you. t t : ' V ' . : Certain Chinese who led the boy­ cott on American goods in Canton last year, and were punished by im­ prisonment, were released the other toy. A crowd of enthusiastic Chi­ nese gathered and applauded the men, and a magistrate gave a luncheon in their honor. Indeed, the boycott lead­ ers were treated very much as the leaders of the anti-Chinese agitation used to be treated in the sand-lot days '.*f San Francisco. "1 : < Diligent seekers may now 11b# fife boundary-line between the United States and Canada somewhere along the middle of Lake Erie. Two war vessels, one belonging to Canada and the other to the United States, began Ift October the woek of setting buoys along the boundary at intervals of five miles. Hereafter Lake Erie fisher­ men will be able to learn whether they are at home or in a foreign coun­ try when they bait their hooks for Wlales or minnows. Although the population of the United Kingdom increased by 2,000,000 during the last six years, there has been a decline of nearly 2,500,000 bar­ rels in the consumption of beer. There to also a steady decline in the use of spirits. On the other hand, the 1S5,767,710 pounds of tea Imported for home consumption during the first seven months of 1906 mark an in­ crease of 10,000,000 over the same pe­ riod in 1905. • ': fHiv Rifle shooting will hereafter b» In­ cluded in the curriculum of the ele­ mentary schools of Great Britain. Mr. Birrell, the president of the board of education, who made the announce­ ment in the house of commons, said that the educational authorities had been given permission, under certain restrictions, to allow children of cer-. tain ages to be taught to shoot at miniature ranges, the instruction to paid out of the public funds. Australia has the largest duck farm ""iffld the largest Incubator in the world. The Incubator has a capacity of 11,440 ducks' eggs or 14,080 hens' eggs. The machine is, in fact, a hothouse. It stands in open ground and is con­ structed of ordinary pine boards, with corrugated iron roof. The egg trays each hold 130 ducks' or 160 hens' «ggs, and there are four of these trays end to end in 11 tiers, one above the other on each side of the room, ir : *naking a total of 88. not of your~faults; still SMs of others' faults; in every person > Who comes near you look for/what is good and strong; honor that; re­ joice in it! and as you caiif try to v ,11, and your faults/wlll drop v off like leaves when their time comes «... v ---Home Notes. Samuel Spencer. T. Redwood, Baltimore, Md., member of the brokerage firm of Lownes & Redwood, a guest of Presi­ dent Spencer; Gen. Philip Schuyler, New York, director of the Southern railway and trustee of New York Life Insurance company, a guest of Presi­ dent Spencer; Willilam Pollard, negro porter in President Spencer's car; J. W. Shaw, negro fireman. Mr. Merrill's head and arms were badly Injured, but he will recover. • number of others were injured. Blame for the wreck in which Mr. Spencer and his party were killed is placed wholly onC. D. Mattoax, the operator at Rangoon, who has dis­ appeared. The collision was between the Jack­ sonville express and the Washington A Southwestern vestibule limited, both south-bound. President Spencer and his entire party, so far as is known, were sleeping when the col­ lision occurred, and the probabilities are that all of them, exceplng Dis­ patcher Davis were killed instantly. It is certain that life was extinct be­ fore the flames touched them. Presi­ dent Spencer's body was burned al­ most beyond recognition, as was that of Mr. Fisher. The body of Mr. Schuyler was taken from under the train before It was burned very much. Mr. Spencer's car was attached to the rear of the Jacksonville train, which was standing still when struck. Mr. Spencer was lying directly under the big locomotive of the rear train. So great was the force of the Impact that the forward train was Bent at least 150 feet ahead, the locomotive going over and upon the body of Mr. Spencer. Until after the debris burned itself out and the engine cooled off the bodies could not be removed. President Spencer earned his first laurels In railroading on the section of road on which he lost his life Thursday. That portion of the South- 1 era system was formerly known as the Virginia Midland, of which Mr. Spencer was superintendent in 1877. This was the highest position he had held up to that time, and he left it Within a year for a promotion. ' Washington. -- After many months of dullness the wheels of gov­ ernment business started Tuesday with dizzy acceleration. Perhaps the ginger noticeable was due to Presi­ dent Roosevelt's return. He was at his desk early, bronzed and invigora­ ted hi health from his long sea trip to Panama and Porto Rico. Secretary Loeb took to him a large amount of correspondence which had accumula­ ted since tho president's departure and was with him up to the time of the cabinet meeting. Much of the time of the cabinet session was taken up by the presi­ dent's account of his trip to feanam* and Porto Rico. His special message on the Panama canal, it is expected, will be sent to congress probably about a week after it convenes Mon­ day. The document will give a graphic and detailed description of conditions on the isthmus as the pres­ ident found them. There will be re­ commendations for the betterment of conditions which suggested themselves during his visit. All tho members were present at the meeting for the first time since the be­ ginning of the political campaign. Washington. -- The president be­ lieves the people of Porto Rico are en­ titled to American citizenship and will recommend that this be granted to' them, in a special message to con; gress. The president has expressed the opinion that it is lamentable that they do not now enjoy this right. In this connection he noted that, al­ though Porto Rico had sent a delegate to the Pan-American congress at Rio Janeiro, that delegate could not even say he< was an American citizen, and this is also the case if he visits Eu­ rope or any other foreign country. The president was very much pleased With his-.visit to Porto Rico, which he says is. a fine country, is prosperous and her government an excellent one. T#e people, he says, are prosperous. With but two exceptions, the presi­ dent Tuesday expressed his complete satisfaction with the condition of af­ fairs on the Isthmus of Panama as dis­ closed during his three days' inspec­ tion of the work in progress there. One of the exceptions, the president told his callers, related to the Banitary feature of the quarters for bachelor negro laborers, and this, he pointed out, under ordinary circumstances, will have been adjusted within a very short time. The president expressed himself as impressed with the magni­ tude of the undertaking at Panama and of the way in which it Is being carried out. JENNIE YEAMAN8 IS DEAflt, Popular Singer and Aetres|. Succumbs to Tuberculosis. > New York.--Jennie Yeamans, popu­ lar as a singer and actress a decade ago, died after a long illness at the Hotel Gerard from tuberculosis. For a week the physicians Jiad held out no hope of recovery. Miss Yeamans lived with her mother, Annie Yeamans, at the hotel, where they have both been familiar figures for years. Mrs. Yea­ mans was with her daughter when the end came. Miss Yeamans, who came of theatric cal lineage on both her father's and mother's side, was born in Australia. -Worry kills more quickly than any- flung else. It is insidious, and the poison works slowly, but it reaches. There Isn't much use in repairing a broken bridge until you get to it Therefore, pick a few wildflowers on the way, and take it easy. %' ; A fashionable woman of Pnutn • >, Penh, Cambodia, has her toothstalner S come to the house two or three times a week, just as her Parisian sister is Visited by the manicure, it is the i1*81 refinement of Cambodia elegance SImV 'j have teeth so black that nobody W" f»' would suspect that they were ever White. y ; In New York city is the greatest public school street in the world, fUvtfgton Btreet. It is only 22 blocks loaf and has in it four schools with * registration of 2,4*5 scholars. - / ? Ik--- J Lady Elgin 8urvlvor Is Dead. Milwaukee. -- Edward Mellon, 67 years old, one of the survivors of the ill-fated Lady Elgin, who saved himself when the vessel went down v/ith hundreds of excursionists aboard, died Friday. Ten Prisoners Break Jail. - New York--Ten of the most des­ perate prisoners in the county jail at Long Island City escaped from that institution Friday by sawing out the bars of their cells, and are still at large. Stanley Washburn Married. Washington.--At St. John's church Tuesday Miss Alice Langhorae was married to Stanley Washburn, of Min­ neapolis, son of former Senator W. D. Washburn. The bride is a cousin at Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. French Warships Go to Tangiers. Toulon.--The French squadron com­ manded by Admiral Touchard left here at 12:30 o'clock Wednesday morning tor Tangier, Morocco, upon the receipt of instroctionp from the ministry of marine. BRIBERY 8CANDAL IN PITTSBURG Made in Al leged Fipn* chise Deal; -9^"'" Pa.--City douncflman W. A. Martin, charged with bribery in connection with the alleged tube city railroad franchise scandal, was arrest­ ed at his home Tuesday and locked up at Central police station, together with C. 8. Cameron, president of the Tube City Railroad company. Later th«y were released on »J0JW0. bail each. A number of members of both branches of councils are reported to be under surveillance by detectives, and any attempt to leave the city will, it is said, be followed by immediate arrest It was alleged that 140,000 of the $70,000 which went astray and caused all the trouble was to have been dis­ tributed among 69 councilmen. SENATOR WARREN IN DENIAL. Calls Special Agent MyendorfTa Charges Pipe Droams. Washington.--Senator Warren, who arrived In the city Friday, made a statement in contradiction of the affi­ davit of Special Agent Myendorff,' of the general land office, made at Salt Lake City, in which Mr. Warren and his colleague, Senator Clark, were charged with conspiring with others to put a stop to investigations into the charges made in connection with the entry of coal lands owned by the Union Pacific Railway company. Sen­ ator Warren said: "If Myendorff made such an affida­ vit he must have been indulging in pipe dreams. I am informed that Senator Clark never saw the man and never bad any communication with him oral or written." Ruef and Chief Dinan Indicted. San Francisco. -- Abraham Ruef and Chief of Police Jeremiah Din­ an were jointly Indicted by the grand jury Friday afternoon on the charge of conspiracy in connection with the alleged protection of a house of ill fame. Chief Dinan was also separately Indicted on a charge of per­ jury in his testimony before the jury. Man snd Child Frseze to Death. New Rockford, N. D.--Vincent Spll- ner and wife and two children, of Eastern Well# county, lost their way while driving hbme from a neighbor's, and Mr. Spilner and one child-were frozen to death. Miners to Get More Pay. Bait Lake City.--Announcement was made Thursday that the operators of 13 mines In the Bingham district, em­ ploying about 2,000 men, would ad­ vance the w^ps of their employes on December 1. wJwry & owesttwtvMfc .•>4. M'. J* P0NT icr IT' COML- * TO ̂ Eugene Debs' Father Dies. * Terre Haute, Ind. -- Jean Daniel Debs, father of Eugene V. Debs, former Socialist candidate for pres­ ident, died here Tuesday night Mr. Debs was a native of Alsace, and was 85 years old. THREE lANKS CLOSE UP INSTITUTIONS If* M'DONOCJGH COUNTY, ILL., SUSPEND. All Conducted by C. V. Chandler-- Notices Posted Say They Art ' . Short of Ready Cash. Peoria, IU.--Three banking institu­ tions in McDoneugh county, conducted by C. V. Chandler, of Macomb, closed their doors Friday. Notices to the effect that the banks were short of ready cash were, posted on the doors of all the banks Friday morning. The decision to close was reached Thurs­ day upon an examination of the books by Mr. Chandler himself. The banks are: The bank of Ma­ comb, conducted by C. V. Chandler & Co., having a deposit of $450,000, and capitalized at $50,000; the Chan­ dler & Imes bank at Colchester, capi­ talized at $25,000, having a deposit of $200,000, and the Chandler & Smith bank at Bardolph, capitalized at $25,000 with $50,000 in deposltB. The money of the depositors in all three banks has been invested through Mr. Chandler, the senior member of the private banking firm in McDon- ough county real estate, and the im­ mediate cause of suspension of the three institutions is given as a lack of ready cash. The Macomb bank stood good for the payment of the bonds of the Macomb and Western Illinois Electric railway, and when the bond­ holders made a demand for their money they absorbed all the ready cash of the three institutions. C. V. Chandler has been in the banking business in Macomb for a quarter of a century, and in addition to his private holdings is treasurer of the Western Illinois State Normal School of Macomb and treasurer of the city of Macomb, it Is not thought either the school or the city will lose by the failure of the banks. The state is protected by a trust company bond and the city's deposits in the bank are small at this time of the year. Mr. Chandler made a statement Fri­ day, setting forth in effect what was stated in the notices posted on the doors of the banks. The liabilities are upwards of $700,000, with unincum­ bered real estate worth oter $400,000. The mortgages are mostly on central Illinois farm* and are considered gilt edge. There was little show of excitement over the closing of the banks. The depositors have faith in the word of Mr. Chandler and expect the fulfill­ ment of his promise. In Colchester the major part of the depositors are miners who made no demonstration when they read the notice on the doors of the bank. SIX DIE IN 8T. LOUIS FIR«. Blase Destroys Barracks Of the Sal­ vation Army. St Louls, Mo. -- The Ltghthduse hotel, a three-story structure at Ninth and Market streets, utilized as a salvation 'army barracks, was dam­ aged by fire early Wednesday, when probably 500 homeless men were lodged within It. Six lost their lives and probably 35 ̂ were injured, about half that number being seriously in­ jured, some not being expected to llve% Four were burned to death and two died from injuries received In jump­ ing from upper windows. Six others of those who jumped are lying uncon­ scious at the city hospital and are not expected to recover. .. r Blaze In Girls' Academy. ^ Jefferson, S. D.--Fire which started in St. Catherine's Young Women's academy destroyed one of the halls and threatened to destroy the main building. One hundred pupils la the main building escaped. 8TEAMER SINKS; MANY DROWN. Forty Victims Estimated In Disaster , veil Georgian Bajj. Wiarton, Ont. -- flie ooasting steamer J. H. Jones, owned by the Crawford Tug company, of Wiarton, It is now conceded, foundered off Cape Cocker Thursday afternoon and all oo board were lost. At least 25 persons sailed on the steamer on its last trip--a crew of 12 and 13 passengers who are known. Other estimates place the number of lost ait 40. The Jones, which piled between Owen Sound, Wiarton and Manitoulin island ports, was one of the staunch- est steamers on the Georgian bay, and was commanded by Capt. Crawford, a fresh water navigator of large experi­ ence. Part of the cabin, a lifeboat and two unidentified bodies have been found by Indians on the north shore of the Christian islands. Boats are now out from here, Owen Sound and Penetan- guishene and Parry Sound looking for survivors and wreckage. While estimates received here as to the number of lives lost in the wreck of the Jones are, as a rule, 25 or 26, one report says the list of dead may reach the appalling total of 50. The Jones was a wooden vessel built in 1888. She was 107 feet long and of 152 tons burden. OTTO YOUNG 18 DEAD. One ef Chicago's Leading Capitalists Passes Away. Chicago. -- Otto Young, 62 years old, one of Chicago's leading capital­ ists and landowners, died at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at his coun­ try home at Lake Geneva. Not since the death of Marshall Field almost a year ago has there come such a shock to the Chicago business and financial world as this unexpected news caused. It now de­ velops, however, that Mr. Young had suffered with tuberculosis of the lungs for five years. .He was obliged to re­ lease his active hol<^ on affairs five weeks ago, but it was not thought the attack would prove fatal. He was afflicted with diabetes also. Mr. Young's fortune is estimated at $17,000,000. His holdings of central business property in Chicago were ex- ceeded only by those of Marshall Field and the Levi Z. Letter estates. Up to the time of his death he had been planning the erection of a $10,000,000 hotel in Michigan avenue. The idea had become his hobby and he intend­ ed it to be the finest hot^l in the world. It is believed he left some provision in his will for the, carrying out of the project < '« 4 BITTER WORDS BV A^tlQitQ. Minister Denounces President for DIs- .;^:5:||arglng Colored Troops.-,f" ,1 • • 1 ' , V >4^ New York.--At a union Tharilsgfv- ing service, in which the members of four negro churcheB of this city par­ ticipated Thursday, President Roose­ velt was denounced for his action in dismissing three companies of negro soldiers from the United States army. At the conclusion of the service, which was held in the Mt. Olivet Bap­ tist church, nearly everyone present made a contribution to a fund which is being raised for the relief of tho dismissed soldiers. The sermon of the day was preached by the Rev. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St Mark's Afri­ can Methodist Episcopal church. His language against President Roosevelt was exceedingly bitter. Girl 8tudent Goes to Prison. Peoria, 111.--Elsie Jacobs, the IS year-old college student of Mount Pleasant, la., who attempted to swin­ dle the-Flrst National bank of Gales- burg out of ILOSf, was sentenced Is the penitentiary. > Gives $100,000 to Wrecked Butte, Mont.--Receiver Wilson, of the wrecked Aetna bank of Butte, Fri­ day announced that he had received a check from Augustus Heinze for $100,000. Mr. Heinze fogjxterly w&a president of the bank. ij.» im- -- Sweet Marie 8el1s for $14,000. ^ New York.--Sweet Marie, the fam­ ous trotting mare, with the record of 2:02, was sold at the Old Glory horse sale at Madison Square gar­ den. The price she brought was $14,000. Big Plre In Gsllltzln, A Altoona, Pa.--The opera house, Shil­ ling ft Dawson's hardware store, and the Mountain Supply company's gen­ eral store, together with nine dwellings, were buraed la Galltt- Fatsl Wreck on Wabash. St Louis.--A Wabash passenger train for Kansas City ran into a freight train near Ferguson, 12 miles from here, killing the fireman of the freight train and seriously Injuring the freight conductor. V ' Carnegie Gives University $30,000. Fayette, la. -- Announcement was made Friday by President W. A. Shanklin. of Upper Jowa university, that Andrew Carnegfe has given the university $30,000 umtiQ£esxit upon $120,000 being raised. S ' William Fisher, Inventbr, Defdf Marshalltown, Ia.--William Fisher, an inventor of steam contrivances in use In every civilized country on the globe, is dead, aged 68. Death result­ ed from pneumonia. He was proml* nent tn state manufacturing, circles. Russia Loses Prise Case. Libau, Courland.--Hie prise court has concluded its examination Into the confiscation of the British steamer Oldhamia during the Russo-Japanese war, and has found in favor of the oonsignors of the eaip. EMINENT MEN AT FUNERAL OP RAILWAY MAGNATE. REPRE8ENT VAST WEALTH Statesmen* Financiers and Railroad Officials Crowd Washington W * Church--Every »Wheel 4 on Road 8tope< * Washington.--All that is mortal of Samuel Spencer, late president of the. Southern railway, whose tragic death on his own railroad on the morning of Thanksgiving day shocked the peo­ ple of two hemispheres, was laid to rest Sunday afternoon in the receiv­ ing vault at the Oak Hill cemetery, there to await final disposition. ^ VA notable tribute was paid ,to the memory of the distinguisned railroad magnate by his associates^ by states­ men and by men eminent in all the walks of public life. The funeral ser­ vices, held in historic St. John's Protestant Episcopal churchj were at­ tended by railroad officials, financiers and public men from all parts of the country. Many of them were life­ long associates. Hundreds of friends came from the south. Among the distinguished people who attended the church services, were Vice President Fairbanks, Justice White of the supreme court of th^ United States, Senator and Mrs. For* alter of Ohio, Senator Bacon of Geor­ gia, Gov." Swanson and Senator Mary- tin of Virginia, Senator Kean of New Jersey, Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island, and former Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. ( Just at 2 o'clock the strains of Chopin's beautiful funeral march pealed through the church from the organ. It was rendered by Prof. H. H. Freeman, the organist of St. John's. At the same instant, throughout the system of railroads lately presided over by Mr. Spencer, every train came to a dead stop, every wheel ceased to turn, every employe put aside his work. For five minutes over thou­ sands of miles of railway every em­ ploye paid silent respect to the dead president The honorary pallbearers all Were personal and official friends of Mr. Spencer. They were principally^pres­ idents or high officials of the railroads of America and it'was noted that, either personally nor' by proxy, they represented quite one-third of the vast wealth of the United States. By direction of Mrs. Spencer, all the floral offerings were distributed among hospitals and charitable iostitutions. OPENING THE "BIG PASTURE." Bids Being Received for Half Mltllon Oklahoma Acres. v JLawton, Okla.--The government land office here has begun receiving bids for half a million acres of land in thq Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservations in Oklahoma, carrying out an adt of congress opening the land to settlement. The land is spoken of as the "big pasture." Most of it is good for farming purposes. Under the law no bids of less than five dollars an acre will be considered and each bidder may put in as many proposals as he desires'. The maxi* mum amount of land to be sold to any bidder, however, will be limited to a single quarter section. It is believed that there will be 30,000 bidders. Bids will be received only between the hours of 9 a. m. on Monday, De­ cember 3, and 4 p. m. on Saturday* December s. I - r TO PROBE CAR SHORtAGl* Commerce Commieeion Will Inquire Into the Trouble. Washington. -- The car shortage throughout the United States will be Investigated by the Interstate com­ merce commission. Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, who has been look­ ing Into this, subject, said Sunday that the commission will take up the situa­ tion In the northwest first. Agents are now In that section Investigating complaints against the wheat carrying roads. Farmers In many states have reported that the railroads are prefer­ ring other traffic, and that they are unable to get their grain to market In time to share In the high prices now being paid in Minneapolis and Chi* cago. John Hsy's Memory Honored. Philadelphia.--The late John Hay, was honored by the Jewish people of this city Sunday when a handsome me­ morial window to- the dead secretary of state was unveiled at Keneseth Israel temple. F. E. Hyde, Noted Lawyer, Dies. Paris.--Frank E. Hyde, formerly of Hertford, Conn., died here Sunday. Mr. Hyde was one of the most promi­ nent American lawyers in Paris. He was a member of the firm of Hyde 4 Harper. * , Coal Trsin Is Raided. North 'Yakima, Wash.--As a .result of the coal famine here a raid was made on a coal train as it passed through the town. Trainmen who made' an effort to stop the seisure were threatened with bodily harm. Guggenheims Take Big Lose. New York.--The Guggenheim broth­ ers^ copper magnates, have pocketed a loss of $1,500,000 rather than com­ plete the purchase of 100,000 shares in the Nlpissing mines, on which they, obtained an option on October 8L Alleged Murderer Is Caught. El Paso, Tex.--After a desperate fight with officers, during which he was shot several times and wounded several of his pursuers, A. R. Sibley, the, sheep buyer who is accuse^ „$l three murders, was captured. Blow for Public Ownership. ^ ^ • New York.--The public ownership commission of the National- Civic Fed­ eration, after an exhaustive investiga­ tion, both In Europe and America, Is understood to be unanimously op­ posed to pvbUe ownership."'* ?f. \ THEFARMER IN WESTERN CANADA* N* 1 Hard Wheat BeBeaten. in the past five a set back to t|» theory that fege cities are the bsckbo^e of a oomatry and a nation's •bfcel MMQt. . Here we have a country wliere no city efreeeds 100,000, and where only one jcomes within easy distance of that figure aoconttt^Ho the oenans Just taken and where no other city reaches a population ex­ ceeding 4s,000. The places with a population over 5,000 can be counted upon the fingers of one hand, and yet the prosperity that prevails Is some­ thing unprecedented jn the history Of all countries past or present The reason for this marvelous prosperity is not hard to seek. The large majority of the 810,000 people who inhabit Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, have gone on to the farm, and have betaken themselves to the task of not only feeding and clothing themselves, but of raising food for' others less happily circumstanced. The crop of 1906, although not ab­ normal, is an eye-opener to many who previously hjd given little thought to the subject Ninety million bushels of wheat at 70 cents per bushel--$83,000,- 000 ; 76,000,000 bushels of oats at 80 cents per bushel--$22,800,000; 17,000,- 000 bushels of barley at 40 cents per bushel--$6,800,000; makes a total of $92,600,000. This Is altogether outside the root products; dairy produce, and the returns from the cattle trade; the beet Bugar Industry and the various other by-products of mixed farming. When such returns are obtainable from the soil It is not to be wondered at that many are leaving (he congest­ ed districts of the eayst, to take upon themselves the life of the prairie farm and the labor of the housbandman. With the construction of additional railroads new avenues, for agricultur­ al enterprise are opening upf and im­ proved opportunities are offered to the settler who understands prairie farm­ ing, and'is willing to do his part in building up the new county. This is the theme that Mr. J. J. Hill, the veteran railroad builder in the West, has laid before the people In a series of addresses which he has felven at various points during the past few months, and, having been for so long identified with the devel­ opment of the West, there are' few men better qualified than he to ex­ press an opinion upon it. Take care of the country, says he, and the cities will take care of themselves. The farmers of the Western States and the Canadian West, are more prosperous than ever before, and when it comes to measuring up re­ sults, the Canadian appears to have somewhat the better of it. His land is cheaper in fact, the government continues to give free homesteads to settlers, and the returns per acre are heavier when the crop is harvested. Farming land in the Western States runs from $60 to $150 an acre and up, whereas equally good soil may be pur* phased in Canada for $8 to $15 per acre, within easy reach of a shipping point, and much of this Is available for free homesteading. The quality of the Canadian No. 1 hard wheat can­ not be beaten, and the returns to the acre are several bushels better than on this side of the line; the soil and climate Qf that country being peculiar­ ly adapted to wheat growing. The fact is evidently appreciated by the large number of American farmers who have In the past two or three years settled In the - Canadian West The agents of the Canadian Government, whose address' will be found elsewhere, advise us that for the fiscal year 1904-5, the records show that 43,543 Americans settled in Canada, and in 1905-6 the number reached 57,796. From all of which, It appears that at present there Is a good thing in farming In Western Canada, and that the American farm­ er is not slow to avail himself of it. A ' V v S"' mm? s,y. * Japan's Empress Popular. R is doubtful if any royal consolrt la more loved by her people than is the empress of Japan. Educated accord­ ing to feudal ideas and skilled in all the accomplishments befitting one of her social eminence, her majesty strongly favors the broadness of the new education for women and from her private purse gives large sums toward the maintenance of women's schools and universities. During the war with Russia the empress visited the hospitals many times and every day passed hours making bandages. The effeet of these bandages upon the wounded soldiers has been of deep In­ terest to. medical and scientific men, for the soldiers honored by them seemed to rally under a peculiar men­ tal influence. All other bandages were destroyed after their first use; those made by the empress were sterilized and used again for the simple reason of their effect on the recovery of the soldiers. . ... .. . . .. TEN YEARS OF PAUNL Unable to Do Even Housework eauee of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton street, Napoleon, O., says: "For fif­ teen years I was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. My back pained me ter­ ribly. Every turn or move caused s h a r p s h o o t i n g pains. My eyesight w a s p o o r , d a r k spots appeared be­ fore me, and I had dizzy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. 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