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a pena —— LOVES THE PRAIRIES. ae Miss Anna Gray Is Delighted (With ‘Her Western Canada Home. Anna C. Gray is a young lady form- erly of Michigan. She is now a resi- dent of Western Canada, and the fol- — "main weak and sick. owing, published in the Brown City Mich.) Banner are extracts from a friendship letter written about M_2ch 15 to one of her lady friends in ‘that vicinity. In this letter is given some idea of the climate, social, educa- tional and religious conditions of Al- berta, the beautiful land of sunshine and happy homes. Over one hundred thousand Americans have made West- ern Canada their home within the past five years, and in this year up- wards of 50,000 will take up homes there. Miss Gray took her leave for Dids- bury, Alberta, the home of her sister and other relatives and friends on Jan. 10 last, and after a two months’ so- Journ in her western prairie home, she writes of it as follows: “I Know I shall grow to love the prairies. We have a beautiful view of the moun- tains and it seems wonderful to me to see home after home for miles, and it is becoming thickly settled all around us. With the exception of the last few days which have been cold and stormy, we have had beautiful spring weather ever since I came. The days are beautiful. I call this the “land of the sun,” as it seems to be always shining; the nights are cold and frosty. On arriving here, I was, so greatly surprised in every way. Dids- bury is quite a business little town. All the people I meet are so pleasant ‘and hospitable. They have four churches in Didsbury—the Baptist, Presbyterian, Evangelical and Men- nonite. The Evangelicals have just completed a handsome church, very large and finely furnished, costing $2,500. They have a nice literary society here, meets every two weeks, They haye fine musical talent here. Your friend, Anna ©, Gray. He Is Everywhere. Mrs. Stubb—I declare, John, there is one man who must be the worst in the country. Mr. Stubb—What is his name, Ma- tia? Mrs. Stubb—Why, John Doe. I have Seen where he was fined as often as ten times in one day.—Chicago News. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. William Baker, Minneapolis, Minn., manufacturing coffee; Harry Cole- stock, assignor to Malleable Iron Truck company, St. Paul, Minn., truck; William Hausserman, Crookston, Minn., beer filter; Frederick Heinrich, Rush City, Minn., potato digger; Hans Hjermstad and M. E. Shon, Hader, Minn., rotary engine; John Rosebush, Minneapolis, Minn., combined mop wringer and scrubbing pail. Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul. All Traitors Have a Show. It was only a year ago that an ambi- tious American author wrote a novel the object of which was to vindicate Aaron Burr, and now it is seriously proposed to erect a monument in the city of New York in honor of Benedict Arnold. If things go on in this way Judas Iscariot may have a show after all——Army and Navy Journal. The Three Causes. “Congratulate me, old chap. the happiest man on earth to-day.” “Engaged, married or divorced?”— Life. 'm The woman who thinks all men are angels had better remain single and | nurse the delusion. Mrs. Tupman, a prominent lady of Richmond, Va., a great sufferer with woman’s troubles, tells how she was cured. “For some years I suffered with backache, severe bearing-down pains, Jeucorrheea, and falling of the womb. I tried many remedies, but nothing gave any positive relief. **T commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound in June, 1901. When I had taken the first half bottle, I felt a vast improve- ment, and have now taken ten bottles | which on more level track need only a with the result that I feel like a new woman. When I commenced taking ‘the Vegetable Compound I felt all worn out and was fast approachin; complete nervous collapse. I weighs only 98 pounds. Now I weigh 109/¢ junds and am improving avery day. P° gladly testify to the benefits re- ceived.” — Mrs. R. C. Turman, 423 West g0th St., Richmond, Va.— $5000 forfelt if original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. When a medicine has been suc- cessful in more than a million cases, is it justice to yourself to say, Without g it, “I do not believe it would help me?” Surely you cannot wish to re- Pi poninee siliress jynn, Mass., answer cheer- fully and alee Ue ape ai letters to her sick women. oebieocapt has just the knowl- t+ will help your case— to-day — it costs nothing. THE INDUSTRIAL AGITATION LIA: BLE TO AFFECT THE HAR- VEST FIELDS. CRISIS IS AN IMPENDING THE FARMER POWERLESS AND MORE HELPLESS THAN ANY OTHER EMPLOYER. e e BUSINESS MATERIALLY INJURED STRIKE ON GREAT RAILROAD SYS- TEM LIKE GREAT NORTHERN AFFECTS ALL BUSINESS. If, perchance, a strike should be ordered on the Great Northern railread, its in- fluence might be much more far-reaching than is generally supposed. There is al- ready a movement on foot to inaugurate a plan to apply to farm labor the sys- tem of organization which is now in force among the trades and other classes of labor, i Heretofore the farmer has been exempt from labor agitation, but if this raflroa strike should permeate the Northwest it is very likely its influence would extend to the agricultural districts as well. Hitherto the farmer has looked on labor agitation with great complacency, but his own experience is evidently near at hand. ‘The farmer, too, is in a more helpless condition than almost any other class of the community. In the average strike the man, or company, can temporarily | suspend business and resume it again’ when “the cruel war is over,” but with the farmer, when his grain is ready to cut, the work must be done at once or he loses a large percentage of his crop, and if long delayed loses it entirely. The con-: sequence is when crganization reaches the farm, as it has in the Eastern states, and demands higher wages and shorter ours, the farmer will be powerless and more helpless than any line of business which has been confronted with a strike. There is not, in fact, any branch of business in the Northwest which would: not be materially injured by a strike on a great railroad system like the Great’ Northern, and when the farmer is reached and gathered into the voracious maw of labor agitation there will be little left which organization has not reached.~ Globe. DOUBLE-HEADERS. The Attitude of the Trainmen Re viewed. & As a rule, of late, railway employes, trainmen especially, have been pretty rea- sonable in thelr demands upon the em-. ploying companies. The railways have been enjoying a period of unusual pros- perity, and it was not inappropriate that the employes should ask a reasonable in-, crease in wages as their share of the prosperity. For the most part, railway managers recognized the justice of the demand, and wage scales have been raised quite generally without anything serious in the way of a strike. A strike is now threatened on the Great Northern railway, which was one of the first roads to grant a liberal increase in wages. The strike is now threatened, not as a result of wage disputes, but over a matter of economy in the running of trains. As the gravamen of the dispute has been pre- sented in the Minneapolis newspapers, the Great Northern trainmen are wholly wrong in their contention and should be able to count on little popular sympathy if they make the refusal of their demands the pretext for a strike. The dispute is over the use of ‘‘double- A ‘“double-header,” in railway is a train to which two loco- sare attached. The Great North- ern company desires to use two locomo- tives to pull over the heavy grades trains single locomotive. The trainmen contend that when two locomotives are used two complete train crews must be employed, or that the single crew shall receive double pay for the service. The com- pany, reasonably enough, it would seem, argues that it has use for but a single train crew and has no desire to employ more men than are really needed. It argues, moreover, that as the use of the extra engine requires no extra work on the part of the crew employed, the com- pany is not disposed to pay double wages to that crew. It is not difficult to see what the train- men have in mind. If they can prevent the company from using “double-headers” | the company must run two trains instead of one to get the same number of cars over a heavy grade. Thus two train crews instead of one will be given employment. The trainmen insist that if the ‘double- header” be used the crew employed shall be paid double wages, so the railway may not to be able to find any economy in the use of the ‘‘double-header.”” This is clearly a case in which the labor organization is contending against the logical economy of things. It is the same old protest against labor-saving methods which has so often brought organized labor into disrepute. The trainmen: are insisting that the railways shall handle their transportation of freight in a more expensive way than modern ingenuity has been able to devise. In so doing, the trainmen are arguing against the interest of the railway and that of the public as well. It is the right of the railway to transact its business on the most eco- nomical methods. It is to the interest of the public that the railways shall be al- lowed to do this. It is the obligation of MAY REACH FARMERS} the company to pay all its employes a fair wage for the service performed. It is not the right of the employe to ask that he shall be paid for more work than he actually ‘performs, or that the railway shall employ more men than are actually needed in the running of trains. The Great Northern trainmen are funda- mentally wrong in demanding what they do. Even if their demands should be granted, nobody—not even themselves tn the long run—would be benefited. What is best for the many must be best for the individual. Looking back over the long record of futile protest against labor- saving methods, we find that what at first looked like a calamity to some eventually proved to be a blessing in disguise. Fa- cilitating production has made worx easier, wages higher and in the long run has helped to make opportunities for la- bor. The Great Northern trainmen should ponder a long while before they strike against a principle the soundness of which has been proved by the record of centurfes.—Sioux City Journal. - COMING STRIKES. is- not only the strike upon th Great Northern railway system which is scheduled to occur soon, but of oth- ers, also, that are to occur from time to time, to accomplish the ends sought by the high strike authorities, and by the walking delegates who do the open work, that we would speak. To the multitude of common people who judge by what they see and hear, it is a cause of wonder and surprise that an immense body of employes of the Great Northern Railway company who are being paid all they ask, and with their families happily lo- cated, and with the most agreeable re~ lations existing with the company’s offi- cials, should permit themselves to be drawn or voted into a serious’ strike over @ question or point that don’t amount to shucks to them; into a contest likely to cost the employes their positions, and consequently the loss of their homes, which they cannot afford, and on the cth- er hand may cost the company many mil- Uons of dollars which it can afford, be- cause all such losses or burdens will be figured into the company’s expense ac- count to be paid by the future shippers on the line—the ultimate end of all charges, and in making which payments, the farmer has the lion’s share. But in blisstyul ignorance of his burden- some connection with the exciting game, very many of the farmers are constantly sympathizing with the strikers, mainly because one of the parties is a corpora- tion. ii But passing by this threatened strike upon the Great Northern company with its probable bad results upon@the coun- try, it would be well for the farmers and especially the large farmers of West- ern Minnesota and the two Dakotas, to understand that in the epidemic of strikes which is upon the country, those farm- ers may be hit directly as well as in- directly. As a prelude to the game that will interest them, quite a number vf them during last wheat harvest season | Were confronted with the ‘‘walking dele- gate” among their harvesting crews who Teadily acceded to demanding an extra dollar or half dollar per day—a demand there was no resisting. When such or- ganized movements cover the country, and the demands are so exorbitant as to absorb all profit in the crop, then the striking business will not be amusing to farmers nor to those who depend upon trade with farmers. It makes a difference whose ox is being gored. As the epidemic Spreads, the employers of smaller num- bers of men will be threatened. That is not all. When there is adopted a system under which those who have nothing combine against those who have excessive wealth, the popularity of the thing Spreads, and the ground between those making the raid to grab what they have not earned, and those who are com- pelled to resist and fight to keep what they have earned will become very nar- row, and in a short time people of or- dinary means may have a struggle to Save themselves from organized plunder. Old-fashtoned law will be found in end safer than the combinations of to-day.— Sauk Rapids Sentinel. YOUNG AMERICANS ABROAD. No Longer Find It Wise to Get Educa- tion in European Schools. If we knew little about the older generations of American men, we cer- tainly know less about the young American man; it almost seems to us as if he did not exist, for he but rarely comes to England. He occasionally goes to Eton, or perhaps for a short time to one of the universities, but Americans are beginning to realize that a man not only gains little but loses much by being educated out of) his country, among traditions and cus- toms which he does not ‘understand, for which he has no sentiment and from whose influence the whole of his future life must separate him. There is no advantage to an American boy, who is to go back to his country and remain an American, to come over here to school, while the implied su- periority of an English over an Amer- ican school is a slight on his country. There seemed a possibility a few years | ago of American boys being sent to England to be educated at some of our public schools, but the fashion has changed, probably because the patriot- ism of America could not tolerate its young men being brought up under foreign traditions and associations. The American young man is mostly seen, so far as foreigners are con- cerned, at German watering places, and no one would admit more readily than his compatriots that he is not seen there at his best. The life of a German watering place does not de- velop the finest qualities of either men or women, 1nd where there is nothing to do but “loaf about” a young man does not shine——Lady Jeune in Col- lier’s Weekly. Knew What He Wanted. “Well, Moses,” began the senator, as a grinning African was ushered into his presence in Washington, “what brings you here?” “Mars Joe,” replied Mose, “I’se got ‘portant business, sah. I wants er of- fice.” “You want an office! Why, what can you do?” “Do, Mars Joe? What des every- body do that’s got er office? Bless yer heart, Mars Joe, yer don’t un’stand ole Mose. I ain’t look’n fo’ work, sah; I only wants er office.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger. His Revenge. “I made that rural editor feel like kicking himself,” chuckled the strug- gling poet. How did you do it?” asked his garret chum. “Why, after he put me out I told him I was no poet at all, but had come up with a $100 advertisement.”—Chicago News. Reflections for a Rejected MS. It’s no use crying over spilt milk. Too many books spoil the market. A roving MS. gathers no dross Spare the style and spoil the paper. Put a minor poet on Pegasus—he’'ll write like the devil. Fine “puffs” do not make fine books. It’s an ill eritie which blows no au- thor any good. (For the magazine editor)—Bread I win—tales you lose. (For Sir Conan)—A botched plot never Doyle’s——Arthur Layard, in the Author, Illustration of the Social Manners “Of the Day. That the advice, “Watch how others do and then do likewise,” is not al- ways d to social aspirants was illustrated the other evening at a din- ner given bya young matron in hon- or of a guest of acknowledged social standing. 5 When coffee was served, and with it the indispensable chocoiate mints, the guest was seen to take one of the sweets and toy with it gracefully over her coffee cup. Instantly every woman at the table did likewise. Evidently some new wrinkle of fashion was about to be exhibited. Every eye was on the guest and on the mint drop. De- termination to follow the leader and give no sign that they were not in the habit of doing this new trick every day was written on every face. The sudden calm caused the guest to look up, and as she did so she inadver- tently dropped her mint into the tiny cup. To her surprise a_ series of clinks ran around ‘the table as each of the rural ones followed her mig- take. Appreciating the situation, the guest hastily gulped down her coffee to hide her mirth, Later in the evening she heard one woman remark to another: “I don’t care if it is swell, I don’t like mint in my coffee.” “Oh, dear,” replied the other loftily, “it is really delicious. I never think of taking my demi-tasse without it.” —Chicago Tribune. NOT WHAT THEY WANTED. How Mayor Low Incurred Enmity of Newspaper Men. On the dark and stormy election night there were a dozen newspaper men ordered to the house of the may- or-elect to inform him of his victory and get a few salutatory wise saws from his lips, says the New York Trib- une. The elated mayor met them in the hallway, saw their bedraggled and drenched condition, and took pity on them. “Gentlemen,” he said, “I am particularly beholden to you for com- ing up here through the awful storm to inform me of the victory, and now that I have spoken my little say, al- low me to invite you all’—and here the thirst of the twelve men good and true waxed truly ponderous—“to the dining room below”’—six men _ with chattering teeth and visions of rare old Scotch bulging their eyes— “where, if you are so inclined”—no need to say that; they were all des- perately inclined—‘“we will have a lit- tle’—three men broke ranks in sheer avidity—“ice cream!” “Ice cream!” shrieked out one of the Park Row gorillas, in an, agony of despair. “Waow!” And forthwith vanished into the bleak and bitter night. The eleven followed sadly and filed to the nearest Dutch hostelry to predict ‘direful things for the new administra- tion, . MOSQUITOES WERE ALL RIGHT. One Satisfactory Explanation of Their Action. George Rutledge Gibson, the banker, as the story goes, at his country home in Tuxedo Park, spent a night a few years ago at the Country club at West- chester with two members of the Stock exchange. They met at break- fast in the morning and the conversa- tion naturally turned to the subject of mosquitoes, which had been the prin- cipal circulating medium the night before. The large and tall member of the exchange remarked that they had not molested him, but the little man protested that he had been devoured by them and he energtically question- ed the judgment of Long Island mos- ‘quitos who would thus attack a small man when a large one was under the same roof, and he demanded an ex- planation. This was Mr. Gibson’s op- portunity, and he coolly and exasper- atingly said: “That’s easy; I suppose they were not very hungry and only wanted half a portion!”—New York Times. An Emperor’s Whims, Emperor Frederick William of Prus- sia sometimes would signify his re- jection of what he considered an absurd petition by drawing on the margin an ass’ head and ears. One day, a baron of ancient patent having complained of another baron taking precedence of him, the king wrote on the petition: “Mere folly; whether a man sits above me or below me, my birth remains the same.” Oftentimes he would ask people in the streets who they were, a peculiarity which made nervous people evade the royal presence. One day when a man saw the king approaching he took to his heels and ran, but Frederick William pursued him in hot haste and when he overtook him asked: ‘“‘Why did you run away from me?” “From fear,” answered the man, whereupon his majesty gave him a thwack with his cane and said that he “wished him- self to be loved and not to be feared.” The Desire. Give me no mansions ivory white, Nor palaces of pearl and gold; Give me a child for all delight Just four years old. Give me no wings of rosy shine, \ Nor showy raiment, fold on fold, Give me a little boy all mine Just four years old. Give me no gold and starry crown, Nor harps, nor palm-branches unrolled, Give me a nestling head of brown Just four years old. Give me a cheek that’s like the peach, Two arms to clasp me from the cold, And all my heaven's within my reach Just four years old. Dear God, you give me from your skies A little paradise to hold, As Mary once her paradise, Just four years old. —Katharine Tynan. in The Spectator. DOCTOR ENSOR “Ste insniurion™ Bndorses the Catarrhal Tonic ‘Pe-ru-na— ; Congressman’s better. Dr. J. F. Ensor, Postmaster of Columbia, = S.C., late Superintendent and Physician Z Columbia, S. C., writes: used and are now using the same wi ‘Washington, D, C., says: have been benefited by it. highly express my lence."=—C. W. Buits. r. R, Robbins, Muskogee, ‘*Peruna is the best med: and to give appetite. Beside patient but said it helped him. cellent medicine and it fits so many cases. “IT have a large practice and have a chance to prescribe your Peruna. I hope you may live long to do good to the sick and suffering."’ Only the weak need a tonic. never weak except from some good cause. One of the obscure causes of weakness and the one oftenest overlooked is catarrh, Catarrh inflames the mucous membrane and causes the blood plasma to escape through the mucous :nembrane in the form of mucous. This discharge of mucous is the It produces same as the loss of blood. weakness, Peruna stops the catarrh and prevents People are in charge of State Insane Asylum at «After using your Peruna myself for a short period, and my family — good results, and upon the information of others who have been benefited by it as a cure for catarrh and an invigor- ating tonic, Ican cheerfully recommend it to all persons requiring so effective a remedy.’’—Dr. J. F. Ensor. . Hon. C, W. 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