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Show he Giber yews STANDING WIXOM, Proprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, in adraaes Six Wombs Tares Mouths 36 Entered at the Post Office st Brigham City as secoud oias matter. liVHCM STANDING, Editor. INSTRUCTIONS TO CORRhSPON DENTS. Items of news are solicited from all parts of the country nte upon oce side of the paper only. rlie proper Duoiei p.mniy. In oriirr to proteot tu pijblisher from from Irrenpoosiblo persons, tbe full name of tee author should he to all cm- municution. 'i ue idem tv of corrc&poudents wj.i be wlibbod whenever desired. EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS. The house has passed the bill making Salt Lake City a port of delivery. The Salt Lake route is now extended to a point fifty two and a half miles eouth of Calientes. In a debate at Marysvale the other night it was decided that Russia is in the right against Japan. Director-Genera- l Whitaker has gone to St. Louis to superintend the installation of Utahs exhibit at the fair. The Iron County Farmers Institute, held at Cedar City, was well attend-- , ed and much interest was manifested. The city council of Coalville has r been aBked for a franchise to install in the city an electric light fifty-yea- plant. The Japanese in Utah will contribto the war fund state is to contrib- ute about $10,000 Each Jap In the ute $20. Plans have been completed and ground will be broken in a short time ' for the Y. M, C. A. bolding to be erected at Helper. A shipment of trees ami Bhrubbery for the southern Utah experiment farm near St. George was received Jast week from Fresno, Cal. The report comes from Sunnyslde that at present there are 603 men em- ployed in the various branches of coal mining and the coke industry. Christopher Aadnesson, who died at last week at the age of 90, tame to Utah In I860, and bad lived in Ogden about a third of a century. 1 A movement lh on foot to install an immense electric light and power plant at Richfield, it being tbe intention to supply electricity for all the towns of the valley. Ail Interstate track meet for high school athletes has been proposed, and from present Indications such a meet will be held in Salt Lake City sqme time in May. ' The supreme court has denied the petition for rehearing in the case of the State vs. Charles Botha, under death sentence for murder In the first Ogden degree. The town of Lewiston, In Cache The county. Is to be incorporated. town will embrace what Is now known as the Lewiston school district, and is about three by six miles In extent. ' The Salt Lake road was opened to . Riverside, Qal., on the 12th with a special excursion and ft local celebration. The Salt Lake route now has 104 miles of track In operation in California. 'i A wholesale drug corporation with a capital stock of $)(), D00 or $250,000 Is one of the new business propositions in Immediate prospect for Salt Lake. The Commercial club of Salt Lake is making an effort to get a permanent home for the National Mining con- gress established In Zion. A committee Is at work on the matter. John Jones of Salt Lake City, who was recently severely Injured while employed as a conductor on a street car, has been awarded $6,000 damages in his suit against the street car company. ; i . Information has Just reached Salt .Lake friends of the death of Captain James E. Brett, U. S. A., retired, formerly an officer of the Twenty-fourtstationed at Fort Douglas, and well .known In Utah. The city officials of American Fork made a visit to Ogden one day last week In order to view the parks of that city for the purpose of securing pointers for perfecting plans for the city park at American Fork. An unknown man, about 65 years of age, was killed by a Rio Grande pas- eenger train near Springville on the night of the 12th, the body being found wedged on the cowcatcher when the train arrived at Springville. . eliminatThe Ogden-Luciing 145 miles of the main line of the Pacific over Promontory Southern mountain and shortening the road by 43 miles, was opened to regular traf- fie on the 8th. The first train to cross the lake was composed of 33 cars of Asiatic freight. Frank Rose, who on Christmas day shot and killed his wife and left his boy for two days without food and alone in the room with his murdered mother, has been sentenced to be shot to death on April 22. Ogden millers report a scarcity of wheat and as a result the output of the mills is materially reduced. It does not appear to be a shortage In the supply of wheat, but the terrible condition of the roads leading into the city preventing the marketing of the grain. There is a strong probability that the Uintah reservation will not be opened until October, 1905. The lard office has awarded eighteen contracts for surveying, which it will be impossible to complete until the summer of ' - " . h - cut-off- n - 1905. - . MARTIAL LAW ENDED Arkansas Father Burned to Death While Trying to Save His Babes. , Fernando Walters and his three 14: Gertie, Claude, aged aged 12, and Melvin, aged 10, were burned lo death in the destruction of thoir home, tonrti on miles north of Rogers, Ark. A brother of Mrs. Walters, aged 15, was so seriously burned that death is expected hourly. The fire was started liy a spark from an open fireplace. The father, mother and four children slept downstairs. Upstairs were four boys. Waiters got those downstairs out in safety and then rushed hack to warn the boys. Unknown to him Gertie followed Waiters upstairs through the smoke and flames, and went to a room where she kept her dolls. The hoys attempted to descend the stairs but the flames drove them back. Two jumped from the windows and were unhurt. The last thing they heard was Melvin, the youngest boy, begging his father to jump first. Just then the roof fell in, killing Walters, Melvin, Claude and Gertie. AUTHORITIES AGAIN CIVIL CHARGE OF TELLURIDE. IN chii-iren- fi.tt86 .. PUBLISHED DIED WITH HIS CHILDREN. KILLED FIVE MEN. Car Bandit Confesses to Long List of Crimes. Gustav Marx, one of the three Chicago car barn bandits now under sentence of death, declared in a confession made Sunday that he was one of the three men who held up the Chicago & Northwestern express train near Dekalb four years ago. The crime, which has passed into history as one of the most desperate ever committed in or about Chicago, has never been fastened upon anyone. Marx says both his confederates in the robbery are dead and he refuses to give their names. One of them, he died with his boots on. declares, The railway authorities admitted a loss of $102,000 by the robbery. Marx says the robbers secured only $8,000, the redt of the money having been destroyed by the explosion of dynamite used to crack the safe. In a sort of footnote to this startling confession Marx admits the killing of five men in his career. Chicago Union Miners Who Have Bern Deported Will Be Allowed to Return to the District. Captain Bulkeley Wells, In command of the military in the Telluriue, Colo., district, read an order on the street Friday night, signed by Governor Peabody, declaring martial law here at an end. At a banquet given to the militiamen in camp, which followed the reading of the order, another order from Adjutant General Sherman M. Bell was read directing the men to quit camp and return to their homes. All the men in camp at this time are residents of the district The effect of the order abolishing martial law will be the doing away with the press censor, who has passed on all news sent out by correspondents for some time past, and the return of the civil authorities to power. It will also enable the union miners, numbering over 100, who have been deported, to re'urn to the district. While there is no change in strike conditions as far as the members of the Western Federation of Miners are concerned, it is claimed by the operators that the mines of the district are working the same as when conditions were normal. BATTLE OF TORPEDO BOATS. In Fight Off Port Arthur Both Sides Lose a Boat. - captures Russo-Amertca- n e Nied-ermei- Chinaman Attempts to Murder Woman A Chinese named Ah Sick, employed at the Palace hotel at Benicia, Cal., met Mrs. Johnson, a nurse, on the street and fired four shots at her. She was wounded, but will recover. The Chinese was arrested, taken to Jail and placed in a cell. He was not watched and soon afterwards when a jail attendant visited the cell the Chinese was found dead. He had strangled himself. It Is said that Mrs Johnson had aroused the anger of the Chinese and he shot her in revenge. Follow- Kaffirs Succumb to Ailments of the White Races. The Kaffirs of South Africa, like Advices have been received in American Indians, do not appear frtm Chefoo, op- your Washington by ca'-lto thrive under the relining influences posite Port Arthur, to ti.e effect that Of civilization, said Hubert George of Tapanese land toms have appeared Johannesburg to a Washington Post at Fling Wang ( hang and at Tashan. Before the civilization of reporter. the Kaffir No detail:1 are furni Ji 1. The first this generation named place is about forty-fivmiles knew nothing of consumption, typhus, ailnorth of An Tung in Manchuria, and measles, scarlet lever and other in the wake of the ments followed the latter is a few miles inland from man. the mouth of the Yalu river. Accord- white "The savage Kaffir was a robust inofto of the calculations the naval ing dividual, witli no knowledge of orficers here they believe that this dinary sickniss. He rubbed himself movement has placed the Japanese cn all over with grease and red clay and he Russian flank a iJ perhaps in the the shirt he put on remained until he -ear and cn their line of communicawore it into raes. He never bathed, tion. It is believed that the recent if exposed to ram he stripped off tis attack upon Port Arthur and Taken kaross, folded it very tightly, strapped Wan was a diversion perhaps to cover went on his way, ihe expeditious land movement!! of it up and blit lily never a bit (he Japanese, who were probably naked as he was born, landed from transports at some point the worse for such exposure. Nowawest of the Yalu river. days, thanks to copying after the the Kaffir wears clothes, SOLDIERS GUARD TOWN. but hasnt sense enough when he gets wet through to change his garments, Every Precaution Taken to Prevent suffering for his lack of wisdom later. Race Riot at Springfield, O. As a result of their changed habits maladies that were unknown to them A dispatch from Springfield, O., s the information that while Gov- fifty years ago are nowwillcommon with speedily deernor Herrick has not proclaimed ft the natives and they cline in numbers just as your red men state of martial law. such a condition have. practically exists in the downtown districts and the burned portions of the HE SOLD A BOTTLE. town formerly occupied by the negro resorts. Ten companies of the Ohio Truthful Man's Story Secured Him a national guard are on picket duty, and Customer. seven more companies are expected. I'd like to show you my new elasThe saloons without exception have tic cement, said the man been closed, and many other lines of In the I make it shiny black suit. business have practically ceased. myself, and Ill warrant it to inend Mayor Bowlug has not only closed the that ever remaining negro saloons, hotels and anything I dont need any, interrupted the lodging houses which are under the ban of the mob, but has ordered the man at the desk, but if you will tell proprietors in every instance to move me the biggest lie about your cement out all the intoxicating drinks, and In I ever J. I'll buy a bottle of It, some instan-c- s even the fixtures, inmereiy to encourage you. I wouldn't lie to sell 1,000 bottles cluding gambling apparatus. of it, protested the other. But Ill READY TO TRANSFER. tell you one thing I really did with it. You have heard, I presume, of the Uncle Sam Can Get Possession of frog that tried to swell Itself up to Panama Canal by April 15. the size of an ox. The skin of that A Paris dispatch says: Owing to frog, as you remember, was not equal the reports of a hitch in the Panama to the strain, and it burst all to canal negotiations, Ambassador Por- pieces. Sir, I happened to be on the ter invited President Bo to call at the spot, and I gathered them up carefully together with my cement and made embassy, where they held a confer-ancthe creature as good as new better, M. Eo maintained that there in fact, for it is a wiser frog. To prove Is pot the slightest obstacle to the to you that I am telling the absolute completion of the transfer of the caand exact truth, I will show you the nal companys prflperty to the United frog, which I have here in my vaStates. M. Bo particularly emphasized lise the need for concluding the transfet You neednt show it to me," said heforp April 25, savin? that evov for- the at the desk, gloomily. I'll na,lt WR fml otherwise, would be take man a bottle of your cement.- Heres effected hefufd that date. Government lhiiuence is decidedly favorable te your money. Never mind the change. winding up the transfer, and will not Good day." Chicago Tribune. encourage any obstacles. Old Blackjacks. Blotted Out Whole Family. Leather bottles, or blackjacks, Another family tragedy similar to were common in Europe two centhe Beseke case has occurred at Pan-ko- turies ago. The bottles were often a suburb of Berlin. Theodore made of one skin doubled up and closely stitched together, leaving an Brambach, a commercial traveler, for. the neck. The thick look his wife and son to the circus on aperture piece between was inserted for the Thursday evening, and after returning slip; it was meant to be slung at home the family sat down to a supper. the back, a leather thong passed After his son and wife had gone to through two loops .placed on either bed Brambach turned on the gas, but side of the neck, and it was sufthe rooms were too well ventHated, ficiently flat at the base to stand and his plan of death failed. In the when put down. The stopper was morning Brambach shot his son and made of wood, horn or old leather. bis wife and then himself, having pre& good deal of care was required in viously sent a servant to a friend with a letter explaining his act Brambach, the preparation of the leather, which like Lieutenant Beseke, had lived far had to be oiled and worked with hammers to ffiakh it supple and then beyond his means and had become involved in financial difficulties. waahfid with a lye, so that all the impurity was entirely removed, leaving RUSSIA OUT OF IT. tne leather clean and dry. No moisture or air had any effect on it. WIII Not Exhibit at tha Louis Blackjacks were in various sizes. They were sometimes pitched Inside, J'inanee Minister Koltovzoff of Russia makes Many Sunday School Pupils. announcement that the The fact brought out by the Educaresponse to his efforts to get Intendtional Review that over 13,000,000 pering axtiibitors to reconsider their decision not to participate in the St. sons are enrolled In the Sunday Louis exposition had been insufficient schools of this country. In the public lo warrant the government to recon- schools the enrollment is of nearly sider its determination, and that conor only 3,000,000 more. The accusation that the religious educasequently Russia would not participate in the exposition. tion of children is neglected in America, with the consequences of inRUSSIANS OPTIMISTIC. evitable moral degeneration in our as alleged by the Rev. Mr. Do Not Expect an Outbreak In the society, Greer, is not sustained by these statisBalkan Country. tics. More attention seems to be Careful Inquiry In SL Petersburg given to the religious training of childloncerning the outlook In the Balkans ren in this country, by churches and develops that the prevailing opinion in schools and by home instruction, In government, as well as In than in any other country in Christendiplomatic circles, fs against an outbreak dom. of war in the spring, although the danger is not considered passed. A The Life That Counts. perfect understanding exists between The life that counts must toll and fight; Russia and Austria, and besides, the Must hate the wrong and love the right; Must stand for truth, by day, by night Russian authorities appear to be comAnd this the life that counts. pletely satisfied regarding the attitude of Bulgaria. The life that counts must aim to rise Above the earth, to sunlit skies; Must fix Its gaze on Paradise FIFTY LIVES LOST. And this the life that counts. French Steamer Wrecked Off Coast of The life that counts must hopeful be; In darkest night make melooy; Cochin China. Must wait the dawn on bended knee And this the life that counts. A special dispatch received in Lon-JoThe that counts must helpful bs; from Paris announces The life Wednesday cares and needs of others see. tlyit the French steamer Cambodge Must seek the slave of sin to free And this the life that counts. (of 2,335 tons), which left Rangoon on The life that counts is linked with God. 17 for Cochin China and February And turns not from cross, the rod; European ports, has been wrecked In But walks with joy the where Jesus trod a storm off the coast of Cochin China And this ths life that counts. The Cambodge carried 100 passengers, mostly Annamese. About fifty of them Little Eddies Revenge. were drowned. Little Eddie and his father had been transacting certain disagreeable Army Bill Passes Senate. business in the nursery. When the During consideration of the army young man emerged there were tear appropriation bill in the senate Wed- stains on his cheeks and a lingering nesday, Mr. Bacon protested against look of resentment in his eyes. His the acceptance of the statute of Fred- Aunt Ella, in the tenderness of her erick the Great of Germany, tendered heart, thought to divert his mind from his troubles, so she asked him: by Emperor William, on the ground What are you going to be when that the former German king was not you grow up? In sympathy with the American instiAn expression of set determination tutions. Mr. Stewart defended Fredface and he Jerked his erick against what he characterized came to his head menacingly as he answered: as Mr. Bacons gross misrepresentaI am going to be a father." tions. The army apropriation bill was passed. Vast Work on the Coast Survey. Trains in Montana Snowdrift. Supt Tittman of the coast survey, The blockade on the Montana rail- In a recent description of his work, road still continues. Since February stated that he had since its inception made about 30,000 square miles four 24, when snowplows managed to of topographic surveys, soundad minshove a mixed train through, neither utely nearly 300,000 square miles of nor at have arrived passengers freight water and made deep-sesoundings Lewiston, Mont. The Chinook that set over little less than a million square in Monday, however, is expected to miles, according to Scribners Magamelt the heavy snows in the moun-.ain- zine. The coast survey has comby Sunday. If not, Lewiston will a first survey of the Atlantic, be in serious need, for provisions and pletedand Pacific coasts of the United Gulf fuel are low. There are a score of and its triangulation cover deep cuts from Lombard to Lewistoj. States, between 300,000 and 400,000 square all filled with snow and at present miles. 'sps Said to Have Outwitted ers of Czar. app.-are- A cable from St. Petersburg says: The Russian torpedo boat flotilla left Port Arthur at broad daylight Friday morning and attacked the Japanese fleet. One Japanese torpedo boat was Bunk and one Russian torpedo boat destroyer, the Bezposhtchoonl, was sunk. The fate of the latters crew Is not known. Admiral Makaroff Inaugurated his assumption of the command of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur by a complete change of tactics. As soon as he appeared on the scene he ordered the removal of the battleship Retvlzan. which was stranded at the moulh Of tbe harbor and barred the channel at certain stages of the tide, JAPANESE FIRE making the egress of battleships impossible. Friday morning he directed Twenty Soldiers and Three Civilians ll sortie of the torpedo boat flotiilfi, Killed at Bombardment of Port supported by a part of the Russian squadron againrt the Japanese squadArthur. ron. The details are not yet known A Russian refugee, who has arrived except that the encounter resulted In at Tien Tain, throws valuable addi- the loss of one Japanese torpedo of boat and one Russian torpedo boat detional light on the bombardment stroyer. Port Arthur last Thursday. lie says that the attack was Intended for- the Fred From Russia to Escape War Service. forts, but the Japanese fire overreached. There was small destrucOf the 2,065 steerage passengers tion, and the casualties were not nu- brought to the New York port Friday merous. Twenty soldiers and two by the Graf Waldersee and landed at civilians were killed and three civ- Ellis island, 1,800 are Russians, many Colonel Vershinin, of them. It Is said, ilians injured. being refugees governor of Port Arthur, was slightly who fled to escape possible army wounded. The Japanese used 300 or service against Japan. An Imperial 400 Russian shells, which they found edict issued several weeks ago suson the captured transport Manchuria. pended the Issuing of passports to any male between the ages of 14 and 15. and prescribed the period for army morales city. service, the result being, according to InIn War those on the Graf Waldersee, an exProgress of th Rebellion odus from all the villages within reach flicted Santo Domingo. of the frontier. Every possible ruse, After severe fighting which lasted It is said. Is resorted to in order to has Macorls two days, San Pedro de get across the frontier. been recaptured by government forces, Dietrich Case Begun, says ft Santo Domingo dispatch. PresThe senatorial inquiry Into the ident Morales has returned to Santo charges against Senator Deitrlch oi Domingo from San Pedro, leaving Luis Nebraska began Friday before the of the town. as to act governor Tejura special committee iq Senator hoar's The rebel leader Rodriguez escaped. committee room, The Inquiry, Which Many men were killed or wounded on was instituted upon the demand of Senator Dietrich, is for the purpose of both sides during the fighting. The disproving the charges bn which the is quiet. city senator was indicted last fall In Nebraska, and which were dismissed on Still Filling Bull Pen. demurrer. The committee consists of ' Although martial law was suspended Senators Hoar, Platt of Connecticut, ia the Cripple Creek, Colo., district Spooner, Cockrell and Pettus. over a month ago, the military is still PLEASES RUSSIA. exercising Its powers, as Is evidenced In the arrest of Peter Calderwood and President's Proclamation Commended his Incarceration In the bull pen. The by Count Cassini. incident arises from an alleged violaCount Cassini called on Secretary tion of the law concerning the dese- Hay Friday, and in a long conversacration of the American flag. The tion on relations perWestern Federation of Miners, on a sonally and officially thanked the secposter discussing the present strike, retary and through him the governprinted a picture of the American flag. ment of the United States for the Across this appeared certain inscripproclamation Issued by the president tions, which It Is claimed violated Thrusday, enjoining prudence and caution on officials In speech and acFrench Steamer Missing. tion relative to the far eastern war. A Halifax, N. S., special says: No Nerve of Rioters Failed. news having been received from the A mob of seventy-fivmen from French steamer Pro Patria since she Carbondale, Ills., made an attempt to for Halifax, take Thomas Vaughn, a negro, from left St. Prelre, Miquelon, fourteen days ago, fears are now en- the county jail, Intending to lynch tertained that she has met with dis- him. Sheriff Thorp had been aptheir coming and he and aster. She should have reached this prised ofWoodruff Deputy lay in wait When 2. carried The Patria Pro March port the mob reached the Jail the officers a crew of twenty men, under command trained their riot guns on it. The of Captain La Fonreade, and on hoard mob quickly dispersed, but not until of its members had been capwere forty passengers, an unusually three tured. Deputy Woodruffs gun was large complement for this season of discharged prematurely, tearing his the year. arm so that amputation was neces- Rope for Chicago Car Bandits. Hanging for all was the verdict of the jury at Chicago in the first murder car barn case against the bandits, Harvey Van Dine. Peter and Gustav Marx. The trio attained notoriety by a desperate allday battle that started in a dugout near Liverpool. Ind., where they had taken refuge after a series of remarkable crimes. Including the murder of two employes of the Chicago City railway at one of the companys car barns in Chicago, the motive in each Instance being robbery. CHiN WHISKERS HID SCARS. CANT STAND CIVILIZATION. FLANKED THE RUSSIANS. sary. Paymaster Biscoe Censured. Complete exoneration on all the charges presented against him save that of neglect of duty is the verdict In the erse of Paymaster Harry Earl Biscoe of the battleship Oregon, recently tried by courtmartial on numerous charges, including falsehood and shortage of supplies to the value of $2,800. The court sentenced him to a loss of fifteen numbers in grade, which in the case or a line officer would amount to 170 numbers. The case will be reviewed at Washington before the sentence is executed. Contradictory War Reports. As an Illustration of the curiously contradictory character of reports from the far east received in London, a correspondent of the Daily Chronicle at Kinchau mentions Fung Wang miles Chang (which Is about forty-fivnorthwest of Antung, in Manchuria), as one of the several points of Russian concentration, while other correspondents have reported that the Japanese have captured Fung Wang Chang. Other correspondents report that the Russians have mined all points where it is possible to cross th Yalu river. e Anglo-- Saxon, con-cain- d hj. . -- r- t n a s RESTORED TO HeXlth Many Explanation for Capt. Gibbons' Luxuriant Hirsute Growth. Capt. Gibbons had a habit of wearing chin whiskers. I had always thought this was due to the fact that they were more becoming, but I learneIt d- the reason to be otherwise. seems that his chin and throat were scarred and these scars are thus explained: On one of the ships which he commanded there was a mutiny of the crew one morning on the high seas, which he promptly started to quell. The sailors were too many for him, however, as he was unarmed, and they soon had him down on the deck, bound and gagged with a long knife across his mouth. It was this knife that produced the wounds whose scars the captain carried the remainder of his life concealed beneath the beard. While thus bound and gagged a lady passenger came to him and cutting the bonds handed him a loaded revolver. With this weapon he soon had the crew at bis feet and the ringleaders were placed in irons. Lewiston Journal. w fermS wotne- - , not know that kidneys are Backache tells sick kidneys . Sick neys mako blood, and blood makes digestion, he btt palpitation headaches, neC ness, sleepless sciatica, rheum pains and co depression. Cant be restored to health until kidneys are cured. Read ho woman was restored by using tv?'1 Kidney Pills: Mrs. H. A. Var Sickle, SU 6th S. W. Roanoke, Va., says: Kldn. trouble was hereditary m our I and had been so continually afflict with the .disease that I began to i ' pair of even temporary relief. times 1 sulfered so severely ;hat I confind to my bed. The aching fo J back was intents and the kidney il Circular Barns. order caused an excess of uric A remarkable novelty in in my blood which Impaired my fluj is reported from Lapel. Indiana. tion. I was compelled to deny The walls, or rather wall, of the of many of the little delicacies o1ne di in 65 25 feet barn are feet, high and The doctors diagnosed my case u cone. diameter, the roof running to a i congestion of the kidneys. There is no such thing as a post or about given up hope when I ty Wj, pillar in the barn. In order to pre- using Doan's Kidney Pills, but vent the weight of the roof from only a few doses when their enrathj spreading, three heavy steel hoops powers were proven to my satistss, encircle the building. The barn Is tion. I have never been without tke cyclone proof, for wind has no chance in the house since. to get a hold on the structure. The Doans Kidtey Pills are sold by stalls for horses and cattle are ar- dealers ; price 60 cents ; or mailed ij ranged in a circle, there is a big receipt of price by , feeding room in the center and a silo Co., Buffalo, N, Y. Write for extends from the ground to the roof's triaL cone. The storage capacity is stated to be far greater than would be the Well Fitted for the Work. case in a building of the ordinary When he was a small boy .the lati type. Sir Henry Keppel, the Little Ad. miral of the British fleet, and fcir This Is Miraculous. brother Tom were asked by their Manhattan, Kans., March 14. One father what professions they oud f the strangest cases that has ever and both decided for the naiy been heard of in Riley Co. is that of select, Father thought," Sir Henry wrote ia the daughter of Mr. his memoirs, we should have e Jonas Brubaker of this place. As we disagreed I hit Some time ago the little girl took Tomprofessions. in the eye, which he, bi whooping cough, which was followed ger, returned with interest. being When h by pneumonia. When the pneumonia had had father derided left her, sb? was taken down with should bothenough, be sailors." Buffalo Qyfi malaria fever with at times symptoms ynercial. of Spinal Meningitis. The family doctor brought her safe- - j AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN ly through these troubles, but after CANADA. ' the fever Bright's Disease set in and Its Grain Fields. . the doctors gave her up. Her father Ranching Lands. ' 't j, tells the rest of the story: Dairying Resource? We began to give her Dodds KidThe of the Editor Wisconsin AgPills and after she Tiad taken ney about three and a half boxes, she was riculturist, who was one of a party U entirely cured. Now she 13 well as editors of agricultural papers whe any child, running and playing as if took a trip through Canada during the nothing had ever been the matter past spring, writes to his paper in the with her. The doctors said she was following strain. The reason of his visiting Canada beyond the reach of medicine. Dodds Kidney Pills certainly saved our lit- was to satisfy himself that the report! tle girls life, when she was so far coming to his paper regarding the into the chronic stage of Brights wonderful resources of that country Disease that we thought nothing could were accurate. In view of the wondersave her. ful settlement that was going on thera many from this country crossing the WOMEN COLD 8Y AUCTION. line in search of permanent homes How Damcela of Babylon Were Once and in view of what he had heard ia regard to conditions of soil, water, cly Disposed of. An auction '6 finmarried ladies used imate, topography, fuel, grasses, rainto take place. annually In Babylon. In fall, markets, etc., and also the influence which' these have had on the every district' present and future of agriculture, he certain (Jay of every 4ff he of marriageable age. TJje most deemed it necessary to make an extended trip through all of the above remarkable was first pVt up' and ihali WSo bid the largest siim tgi of territory. In speaking of the Province of Man! money gained possession of her. The second In personal gpfdarafice fob toba, he says: The province of Manitoba comlowed, and tije bjddbrs gratified them-elve- s with handsome wives accord- prises within its limits the valleys of the Assinb ing to the depth of their purses. But alas! It seems that there were In boine and Red rivers. Although called Babylon some ladles for whom no the Prairie Province of Canada, Manmoney was likely to be offered, yet itoba has large areas of forests, numethese also were disposed of so provi- rous rivers and vast water expansion! The soil is a rich, deep, mould, or dent were the Babylonians. When an the beautiful virgins were sold, the loam, resting on a deep clay subsoil. , crier ordered the most deformed who It is well adapted to would marry her with a small sum, giving a bountiful yield of the finest she was at length adjudged to the quality, known the world over as No. man who would be satisfied with the 1 hard wheat. During the past ten least, and in this manner the money years the growth of wheat and other arising from the sale of the handsome grains has steadily increased, until served as a portion to those who were now the production, by 35,000 farmers, either of disagreeable looks, or that reaches over 100,000,000 bushels. Of had any other Imperfection. This cus- the 23,000,000 arable acres In Mantom prevailed about 500 years before itoba, probably not one-haof it is ocChrist. cupied. Cultivated grasses yield about two i . ns per acre and native grasses Dividing the Sexes. ton and a half. While worshiping In a little a There can be no question but that a few miles from Ruthin, England, on the Wrexham road, the sexes dairying will become a great industry are so strictly divided that they can- throughout the Northwest, and espeas the climate is not even see each other. The build- cially ing forms a right angle, In one arm favorable and similar to that of Oof which the men sit. and the women ntario. in the other. It was built and enCrops grown are wheat, barley, dowed by a misogynist of the Stuart oats, flax, rye, peas, corn for fodder, period, who objected to having his brome, potatoes, roots, etc. The soil devotion distorted by the hated sex. is very fertile and moisture ample. and, sympathizing with male pos- The climate is good and the growing terity, stipulated expressly for this season, while not quite so long as in division in his deed of endowment. Wisconsin, matures crops as the sun shines much longer, rising about 4 THIN DIET. oclock and shines until about 9 at night. One can easily read a newNo Nourishment in It. spaper at 10 p. m. The long days make It s not easy to keep up when cof- growth fast and push crops to maturfee has so ruined the stomach that ity ahead of frost. food wont digest. The ranching, the A Mo. woman says: I had been and the mixed farming belts all cross an invalid for two years from stomach over Assiniboia. The yield and the trouble caused by coffee, got so bad 1 quality of wheat raised along the main couldnt digest food and for quite a line of the Canadian Pacific railway, while I lived on milk and lime water at such places as Indian Head and Its nothing but that a glass of milk allied districts, have become famous. and lime water six times a day. In Its possibilities are shown by the this way I managed to live, but of averages of tests made at the expercourse did not gain. imental farm In 1902, when eleven var It was about 5 months rleties of the most suitable wheat, I beago gan using Postum Food Coffee; I did sown on April the 19th, were cut In of not need the milk and lime water 130 days and yiolded 4,314 pounds after that, for I gained rapidly and I straw and 43 bushels and 2 pounds of can now eat a good meal and drink grain per acre. Its mixed fanning from 1 to 3 cups of Postum each meal area is excellent, its range cattle, and feel fine. horses and sheep are the equals of any I would not go back to coffee for seen in the Northwest, and its treeless any reasonable pay. I like Fostom portion is underlaid with coal. The better than coffee now and make Pos- town of Medicine Hat is heated and tum by directions on box and it is illuminated with natural gas. There jus fine: never found a bettor way to are abundant deposits of brick, pottery make it than on box. Now this is all and fire clays. true and you can Agents of the Canadian Government easily prove It. any P'"Um C Battl9 will be pleased to mail an Atlas to Creek, Micfo one interested and also all other etc. frm fleM graias regarding railway rates, wHhSllm,h8 8 nourishment left in. It Button sewing Machine. re'!.bloo1 antl tobutols partic-ular- l The sewing of buttons on shoos and well where ,caue has don0 JHS tu nearIy a11 'bo on garments is no longer done ty drink8t hand in modern factories. There a machine that sews 5.300 buttons on of Poslum In ArniLdaya' t,rlal place of or more in nine hour 3 W0Dller8 There's a garments reasom than eight expert sewer could po sibly do in the same time. This tna tQ chine requires no expert operator. WellviUe to etbpkg. boy or xlrl run it barn-buildin- i Foster-Milbur- three-year-ol- separ-at- I 4 tl yr Vjr-fi- grain-growin- wheat-growing- lf chapel-of-eas- cheese-makin- wheat-growin- g 1 ' |