THE = ASAZING ARGENTLAE| si scott tsa an ° ra | his oadias travelling over the; "Sohe NT pampas. Hs - is wo looks after) DESCRIPTION OF THE Won- DERFUL REPUBLIC. 'Within the last ten seage writes Mr. Foster Fraser, "the e pore value of livestock pr nereased from £23,000,000 to £36,- 090, 000, and agricultural products from £21,000,000 to £53,000,000. Since 1896 the. area under cultiva- tion has grown from 13 million acres 16 nearly 50 million acres. There are 30 million cattle in the republic and. 80 million sheep. ame breeding of sheep is not w was, because the Argentine finds he ean get a better return from cattle and cereals. exported mutton remains very much ' what it was ten years ago--about £1,250,000--the value of the export- ed chilled and frozen beef has risen from £1,500,000 to over £6,000,000 Millions of Cattle and Sheep and Room fer Millions More. | ' Every now and then we ~ come across" acconnts of the wonderful wealth and. resources of the South American | republics. metimes, too,' we nr of revolutions and bloodshed, vo that in the-minds of many of us there still. lingers the idea that the man who goes adven- turing in Latip America takes his life in his hands, says London An- swers, Even the Argentine frequently comes under thie head, but that this is an injustice to.one of the most] year." wonderful countries in the world} ~ ery Much Up-to-Date. may be realized 'by all who _ read y 1e P ures, but it ese are should be remembered that, so far,' the great plains of the Argentine} have been but scratched--she has room for thousands upon thousands! of men and-cattle still. "The Amazing Argentine," by John Foster Fraser. . To British Enterprise. For every year, principally frem Spain and Italy, but also from Rus- out! 1 Ameticn.?? tia, Syria, France, Germany, and/pracer "ig not the land en ithe "fe England, over three hundred thou-/ture 'It is the laid at-to-d | e } sand fresh arrivals land in the Ar- | a gentine. Of these, many thousands cams from Italy for the harvest only, returning 'when the harvest. is over to their native land for the rest of the year. But even allowing for this ebb and flow, the annual increase in the population of the Argentine is somethoing like two hundred and fifty thousand, and there are no as- sisted passages, nor does the Gov- ernment make any grants of free land. The fact that there is no po- verty, as we know it, is a tribute to the prosperity of this amazing country To the railways, whose existence ig due principally to British enter- prise. the Argentine owes its won- derful development. Twenty thou- sand miles of railroad winds its way through the richest parts of the re- public, bringing down to the busy ports millicns of tons of produce every year, mach of which finds its way into the noorest homes cf Eu- rope. Argentina is a queer mixture of old-world customs and modern Jux- ury, a fact which is typified by the of life long gone by. railways. This fact struck Mr. '93, A gay Young Fellow soon Fraser forcibly, for he writes: got the better of 2-7 of his fortune; Phe Light and Shade. he then gave £1,500 for a Commis- 'ANCIENT ARITHMETIC. Some * Examples That a Haye | Puzzled the Ancients Ina eg oe roll that was dis- covere Egypt, and that bears the title, "Directions how to attain there are equations and arithmeti- the Egyptian schoolboys of 1700 io] ° "There are seven men," one of; them reads. "Each one has seven cats; each cat has eaten seven mice; each mouse has eaten seven grains of barley ; each grain of bar- ley would have yielded seven meas- ures of barley. How much barley has been lost?' + . This would scarcely seem out of place in a modern arithmetic. Odd- ly enough, the examples given in the first arithmetic published often read much more quaintly. xam- ples number thirteen and fourteen both belong to a day and a mode io r. John Mooney, So, whilst the value of | 'FROM ERIS EN LAND'S 'SHORES, oducts ia Happenings in the Emerald Isle or : interest 'to Irish- men. | county Derry, has bee has occurred at Car- rick-on-Suir of Robin Connors, who for forty-five yéars was émployed at'the local butter market. y n grove, of Clonfed, was fatally in- ij jured in a bicycle accident near Ballinlough. hall, which is in the course of erec- tion in Irvinestown, has collapsed. the knowledge of all dark things,' ier éa]l examples that may have puzzled | © re sion, and his Profusion continued ' ¥ I recall one night, when at 4) ¢j1) ee had but £450 left, which h . Siding the. engine dee 'wel nd to be just 6-16 of hi * Vantly lit with electricity, and the fi restaurant car, with the usual little redshaped lamps on the tables, was busy; crowds of passengers were dining, and the usual waiters were scurrying, and there was the usual Continental fare, and champagne and Moselle wines, and the usual mineral waters you get on the Nord wee ES : 14, A Se nchant begins the Sorta with £1,500 and finds that by his Distillery he clears £1,500 in seven years; by his Navigation £1,500 in nine years, and that he spends Gaming £1,500 in 3}4 yea How long will his Estate last 1" jy nity 31% years. EXPTESS. That gleaming train in| Hete is a question of dowry: entral South America was the 'A Gentleman making his ad- eymb of what railway enterprize | dresses in & Lady's family, who had ° ie are Gna.' life i five daughters, she told him that B 1e werenes ao D ife , in their father had mide a will, which } rndred Lae an al ony * ohn imported that the first four of the uindred miles up-country 1s, prob- Girls' Fortunes were, together, to ably, far greater than the difference make £50,000; the last four £66,- ee -- ares te Fe ne 000, the three last with the first eg 6) EES Cabs ed £60,000, the three first with the last | find luxury on an exaggerated] ¢56'o99) and the two first with the scale ae ST in aati two last £64,000: which, if he ar cars ¥ ) 8 a ae '2 ? 1 = cent restaurants, and all the other would unravel, and make-it ap pear what each was to have, as he accu ents olden civili- sate accompaniments of a & appeared to have a partiality for zation. But a few miles out you : : J ;ome upon the gaucho, who prac-| 4 2T™et her third daughter, he ae yo" £ : Abe should be welcome to her. Pay, tically lives on his horse, and whose . Laat he "le r 'what was Miss Harriet's fortune? One 1412 a of comfort is a "blow out' on meat ruasted in the open air. Since the fortunate Harriet was Mr. Fraser has many interesting heiress to £10,000, the aspiring suit- things to sav of the gauchos, though | OF Mav ieee Bare thought the mat- here sume who have lived amongst | fT Worth unraveling, FR ae WHEAT IN STACK 40 YEARS. them will not agree with all that he says. He describes the gaucho thus: Concerning the Gauchos. "He still wears his old, pictur-| Free From Rats, But Spiders Were esque costume, the broad sombrero, Numerous, the shirt, and wide Turkish trou- | ---- ; . sers, which may be any color in the} '49 English paper gives an in- stance of a stack of wheat that had spectrum, tucked into his boots. In ¢ e ot cold weather he wears' over iis | ems unthreshed for 40 years. shoulders the poncho--a blanket! +%€ Wheat was grown in 1855 and elonged to two brothers, farmers 'at Harrogate. In March, 1854, the Crimean war | broke out and the price of wheat | se by leaps and bounds to 97 'shillings per quarter. One brother sold his share, but the other deter- | mined to wait for a price of £ |Next vear the price fell, but the 1 which has as many varieties of hue} as histtrousers, His saddle is orna- mented with silver, and he hin | fancy stirrups and jingling spurs. But the chief part of his equipment is the big knifo--often a fect long, and usually of fancy pattern--st: 1ek | in his belt. This is used freeky for defensive purposes or to avenge * 'i Nationalist volunteers, w - | revolvers and searched him. EF ie won ny if owner of the stack was obstinate also serves when eating his lunch." 'and refused to sell. In 1895 his! Mr. Fraser might have addcd that ober took over the farm and) o. the knife is also used for skinning | ' hreshed the stack. deal animals, chopping firewood, | During this record period of 40 cutting up raw hide when making | Sears, it had enjoyed perfect im- lasses or harness. and also-for the | munity from rats, but was infested! ! confined to a tooth- |by spiders. It yielded 'eighteen quarters suitable ur chicken feed. some real or imaginary insult; it: se usally pick. The cowide Turkish troeusers"' are mn ed. bombachos. --" pe In the account of an up-couniry , ; Fcceacts ace, Mr. Fraser has not the Other Woman. mentioned one of tha mest curious} 'I don't see how wat woman can gad about the y she does and neglect her little onildeea 2 "How do you know that she gads about ?" "'We get the same girl to 'take care of ey babies when we're away from home, and. she's kept busy over there fully half the time. It provokes me so to have to be put off 80, often when I want 'to get away.' facts. That is, that when waiting for the signal to start the compet- ing couple stand with their -horses' heads facing away from the win- ni ingspost. When the signal is given the horses rear up, wheel round on their hind- legs, and race off. This ts the guacha' s way of avoiding false staris "His saddic--which is net a saddle 7 and since 1851 there have bcen-ever arg my: | no obe was inju arge flax scutching mill owned by A C. Patterson, midway be- tween Omagh and Fintona, has been completely destroyed by fire. 4 Damage estimated at about $1,000 va caused by a fire at the granary Mr, James Bates, Garrison Hill, Tellyabrden, County Donegal. Dr. Michael Kenng, ,coroner for South Kildare, while 'driving to at-- tend a patient, met- with a severe accident, two of his ribs being bro- Lismore R.D. Council have pass- "d a resolution denying the Duke of Devonshire's statement that, foot and mouth disease has been preva- -lent in Cork and Waterford for a long time. woman of the farming class named Julia Melvin, has just died at her residence, Boherholla, near Foxford, at the remarkable age of 113 years. The Tipperary Urban Council, which has built 59 houses for the working classes, another scheme. While a party of five were return- | ing from Cashel they were fired at ¥ by ambushed moonlighters. Fortu- nately no one was hurt, A large portion of an Orange} @musing account of the way which 'And its surrounding gardens, and let contracts /¥ for 47 others, has decided to start}, but the |}, | 'the Archduke Latest Royal Victims of the Assassin's Bullet. Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his mo formerly the Countess Sophie Chotek, who were- ae ce sd June 28, at Saravejo, by a Servian fanatic. assassinated on Sun- | THE PRINCESS OF EUROPE. Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope Was Very Eccentric. i In an old book published in Paris Hf cal the title of "Le Journal d'un oOyage au Levant," there is an in Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, eccentric English traveler, took Possession of the house at Djoun, 'where Eyrniuatly she made her per- foanent hom She was a with the house and ceepted an invitation to dinner. As she sat seem dinner, with the ld stay the night.. When aid that she liked it so much that would stay there the rest of her moonlighters escaped. A remarkable incident is report- ed from Derry, where a Unionist workman was held up. by -- Hays he took it as a polite figure of '1 ; but a fortnight later, as he still prolonged her visit, he sug- reeted that. Europe might be ex- her return, intend lowed up by the pension fund. This 8 what the directors of the com- panies call disciplining their com- manders, who, in turn, describe the action as treating them _ like naughty nena, instead of men who hold, w ey are afloat, one of the most seaports positions in the world. ----Fr______ ONE MORE DUTY FOR POLICE. Another 'Queen About to Take Up Residence in England. Scotland Yard, London, has heard with concern that the Dowager Queen Emma of Holland contemplates going to England to make her home with her sister, the Duchess of Albany, at Claremont. Every additional royalty in the country means an extra burden a ao police responsible for their safe The two sisters have been much together of recent years, and Queen Emma = lately ended a long visit in Engla: Clatsmibnt is one of the finest of the royal country places in Great Britain. It is too large for the Duchess of Al- occupy alone, as she has done BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRE _ » TISH COLUMBIA, ' = pesos {tems From 'Praviiees Where Man) -- . Ontario Boys and Girls Are "Making Geed." GTR. steel - entered Weyburn,' -- on June 21. Calgary Poultry Show had ' more entries this year than wei In the Province of Alberta, thie ae "the Calgary Light Department has 2,046 more Scarce this year than it had | Building aerate in Winnipeg, for the first six months of 1914, totalled over $10,000,000. Regina will have a company of the rmy Service Corps, 109 strong, with Major Laird"in command. 'Work has been started on a new wing of the Provincial Hospital for the Insane at Battleford, Sask. For stealing from cars in the C.N.R. yards at Winnipeg, a for- eigner was sent to jail for three months. John C. Ponsford has been ap- pointed the new: warden of Alberta Penitentiary, vice Matthew McCul- logh, retired. A petition for clemency for Kraf- chenko, eondemned murderer, waa sent from Winnipeg to Ottawa with 20,000 signaturcs. monton police are determined to put down opium smoking in that city, and lately offenders have been fined $50 = ae The body of W. B .Crawford, a well-known citizde of Wainwright, Alberta, was found in a well, an foul play is suspected. ; In a $40,000 fire at Cason, Al- berta, seven whole blocks were de- stroyed and the town practically wiped out. The means to fight fire were almost wholly lacking. President Wheddon, of Brandon College, said the West was not pro- ducing the number of theologians it should, There has been a notice- able decrease in the last year. In Regina a daring thief entered a suite oceupied by the wife of a newspaper man, picked a Yale lock and got away with $24.80 in cash and two purses without being dis- covered, There was considerable estat ment on an Edmonton street car when a baby was born; re. Tho baby was 10 pounds in weight, and has been christened Moses Dudn 3,119,830 acres are under & seriou = Boe out of contro a steep. Dundalk, and scatnined a fractured: skull. : The death has Occurred at Lou se rea of Mr. ae Mitchell at an} advanced Deceased: was one of the oldest rides in the town, where he was engaged in business |. for many years. Brigadier- General chen commander of the 15th Infan- try Brigade, has stated that the military authorities intend to move the two battallions stationed Holywood to the County Antrim side of Belfast Lough. A serious accident occurred at the famous "Bloody Newcastle, motor car driven by Mr. mond, of Newry, collided with a van. The driver, McManus, was severely injured. ; The Portadown Town Council have decided on an experiment 'to adopt a s¢ cheme of domestic scaven- ging whereby residents will be charged 8 cents and 10 cents, ac- cording to the street, for each occa- sion their ashpits are cleaned. _---- Bucket Cause of War. A bucket was once the innocent cause of a terrible war. Nihe cen- turies ago some soldiers of Modena stole a bucket as a joke from a pub- lic well at Bolonga. When they re- fused to restore it, scrimmaging commenced between the soldiers of the rival states, and a war issued, which spread until it involved the greater part of Europe. In more recent times a debt of a few shil- lings of which the Bey of. Algiers demanded payment through the French consul led to a war whic lasted 20 years, cost over half a million lives, and made Algeria a French province. Beauty of Character. G aeiy is a sweetness of the child, a sweetness of the old. T ml tn of the child is largely in- dependent of his personality. It is in his ways and in his looks, and the same thing is true, though not faust so much, of the young -wo- an ut when sweetness comes at sixty it is the impression of the very nature of the soul. J. somewhere, we believe, that no woman is realiy beautiful until she is fifty-three. The eauty that is worth most is the beauty that is connected wit the charac- ter itself. "ee Nearly 15,000 women immigrated from Ireland during the last year, Count Gbs-f 2,000,000 who have left the Emerald Isle for other places. eo, this. house suits me very yell.' Bat, I cannot let it or sell 4 eT *s not wish to hire it or buy is, but I intend to keep it,"' was rtling reply. In this dilemma the merchant dis- ™ & messenger posthaste to ir Beshyr, who sent word to ly Hester that she must give up house. Lady Hester, however, ste wrote to Constantinople, whence a order, '"'Obey the Princess of rope in everything.' | So the disgusted merchant fled, cre her ladyship in possession. the order, came to the Emir, bearing e ere for twenty -ears she lived life of a recluse, growing more and more withdrawn from the world, and more accustomed to dwell in a mental] and spiritual realm of her own creation, until she died, and was buried in the gar- den of the house that she had usurped. v 4 ° a CAPTAINS NOT HIGHLY PAID. pyeraze Salary ef Communier of Liner Is $4,000. Shipbuilders are endeavoring to mstruct vessels for the passenger- 'arrying trade in the Atlantic that ate-as near as unsinkable as human skill cah devise, and it is suggested by captains of experience that the amship companies shoul --, vor to get the highest grade of young men obtainable to train as Officers, and eventually to be com- anders of those vessels, which re- quire brains to navigate them in time of need. The various compan- have realized this recently and raised the pay of their officers all mnd and given them between- arters in the new ships. At the present time the average y of the captain of an Atlantic ér is not over $4,000 a year, a ére is only one commander who aws $6,000. } Certain companies give their com- nders $1,000 a year for what is led conditional money. is amount goes into the pension fand and the remaining $500 is given to the captain in cash. That uuniess he meets with any slight ident, such as knocking a small ; an ving of damage, tduching the mud, even without in- jiring the ship's lull, or getting two or three § ventilators ~ washed oferboard by a big wea. In this ent, the captain really loses his bonus for two yeare, as the whole amount the following year is swal- it, }that sum 1906 to 1907. It was this which ena- bled me, in 1902, to predict the 'rainy period. which has persisted within easy in Windsor, was built by Lor¢ e; "one of'the founders of the Indian Bmpr, at a cost of $500,000, which would re- present to-day considerably more than . The English Government bought it for young Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV., then the heir. ess to the Crown, but who died * = ing birth to her first child. : In 1848 it was lent to the exiled King Foal Philippe of France, and he died ther Perhaps the English "peline would view the permanent residence of an- other foreign royalty in England with more unconcern if they were not hav- ing 'their annual summer grievance with the presence in England of the Dowager Czarina of Russia. She is in Eo to stay until the end of July a ria and cotnter- -plots 'against the r Czarina's life by the Russian nihilists, several thousand of whom are domiciled in England, come to the knowledge of Scotland Yard every summer. An extra force has to be put on to guard against anything so disastrous as the assassination of the! he Czarina upon English soil. Weeks be- fore she arrives the police have to : iaipg cramps, and irutiredh 6 f peo- search the London slums and watch the incoming steamers to keep track | of nihilists, and every moment of her | peg te J is full of anxiety to the guardians | o neler as a 'home for exiled or raticet royalty becomes increasingly | popular, and although none causes as! much anxiety as the Dowager Czarina, each one brings a heavy responsibil. | ity upon Scotland Yard } A speeial force of detectives has to, look after ex-Queen Amelia of Por-} tugal and ex-King Manuel. Empress | j Bugenie, in spite of her long resi. | dence in England, is still under spe- cial police guard. The Czar's ami.| " able brother, Grand Duke Michae}, | who despises the pomp of kiigs and! courts, is under constant survelliance. | The nihilists have more than once at-i tempted to kill him for revenge upon the Russian Imperial family. ng Czar's exiled uncle, Grand Duke } chael Alexandrovitch, who is eae | ically a British citizen, so long has he} liyed- in England, is none the less a! factor in the plots of = nihilfsts, and has to be guarded al Seventeen Dry Years Promised. Abbe Moreaux, director of the observatory at Bourges, ~ France, predicts a dry cycle of 17 years from 1918 to 1935. '"'Seventeen years of dryness," he says, "followed by as many years of humidity, such is the consequence of our being directly dependent on the sun. The last great maximum was to occur,. ac- cording to my calculations, toward over almost the whole surface of the globe, ante ee Brena us the great floods of 19 ple saw him drown. At Prince Albert, wget a by-law to grant $3,000 to. the Young Wo man's Christian - Association was carried by 157 majority. At the same time a daylight saving bill was "| defeated. At Dauphin,. Man., social service orators occupied church pulpite to; -- about political conditions. el congregations resented it, an the! churches had Jess than half their usual congregations. Baptists of Alberta, in conven- tion, condemned the present meth- ods of assessment in that Province,| as, in their opinion, it discou the use of the land for produc tion, = and encourages the holding of it for specutation. a. A farm near Rockwood, The farmer said the man had left work without notice. The farm hand then said he had quit because was asked to eat eggs which had! been three days in an incubator, and failed to show signs of bringing forth chickens. Magistrate Sanders, of Calgary, before whom sterekeepers were icharged with selling ice cream on Sunday. said: 'I will net fine one single person unless hotels and others are dealt with alike. can- jnot see why the C.P.R. or any other hotels can sell cigars on Sunday and ; these people cannot."' Miss Florence M. Hudgen, a clerk in the department of nie ural re- sources of the C.P.R. at 'Calgary, bought an oil lease a year ago for | 8165. The other day che sold it for 851,000 in cash, and a suijease full of s tock. on which she expects te realize handsomely some day. She | meantt o keep her sitnation in tho }C.P.R. offices. -- _ Had Experienec. "T want @& pai ir of button shoes for my wife." "This way, sir. kind d: you wish. gir | "Doesn't matter. just don't butten in the back.' _ A Prophetess Disappointed. The Seeress--You will soon marry #man with loads of money who wil} give you a princely allowance, Two dollars, please. The. Customer--I'l! 'pay you aut of the allowance. Good- bye abs SEN What they §0 "Every time [ see grandfather'! aword I want to go to war. 'Well?' "But every time I notice ag cna wooden leg I cod dow