Show SPORT IN westeen CANADA the farmer G ain I 1 ripening Ripen nd HI stock growing fat plenty of shooting there Is probably no country on the american continent where the life of the farmer carries with it that assur ance of comfort and success as does western canada Is or Is there to be found anywhere else such a pleasant combination game abounds every ft here and nowhere does it afford such perfect amusement A noted sports man writing of the favorite pastime bays there Is one particular spot where I 1 aaa a man drop seventy mal lards one morning and bring them all to bag too tor they dropped in open water or on flat prairie at the right season of the year you can see black lines and triangles cut sharply out against the sky all ro ind you moving very swiftly and you begin to wonder whether you have enough cartridges to hold ou you can hear the brair e chicken crowing like barn door fowls and a little to the northeast Is a bit of marshy ground cattle poached and dappled with gleaming pools where the snipe are nearly ns thick as mos A thin column of blue smoke curling up in the distance slows you where a few wandering indians nave pitched their camp but there Is no other indication of civilization in sight still the neighborhood Is well battled and a short drive will brin you to a farm hoje where you can buy the finest butter and the eggs tor uncivilized prices A very short railway journey will bring you to a country ti 11 of ateer and the lordly wapiti the king of the deer tribe the world oer and down on the flat boggy land by the lake shores the moose will stand knee deep in water on the summer evenings ready to lie down when the flies get bothering all day you breathe the wild tree air of the prairie and at night you are lulled to sleep by the surge and ripple and splash of the waves on the beach broken now and then by the wierd banshee cry of strange water fowl particulars regarding settlement of the lands of western canada can be had from any agent of the canadian gov eminent whose advertisement appears elsewhere in your columns OLD READER it is a touch ug tale as well as an amusing one that josephine daskam tells with considerable vivacity in the opening pages of st Is bicholas for june the prod gal imp is a boy who runs away from home because he has noth ing more exciting than kittens to keep and the front picturing his return will strike a responsive chord in every mother s heart as well as in many children |