text: K* I •/*.' ft£-' tt: '.' il' I \x.-i': -v:-. MK.\. !„4f.: \.- •:fm'&< /iii'iSisK: /Mt' ma\t»Aes,'xiUr.yr IMS' L.-»' :'.-U V3 Wm -V ~t"4 )W£r 1 ^*7 t/p, S t- iU C* 4 i, lf tr is1 fipj v* 8}?*.* IN A PRAIRIE LAND. [Editorial Correspondence.] Moose Jaw, AsBlnibola. ||vftan«ri' Review, Chicago, July 22, 1908. Most of the prairies in the United have ceased to exist. Man has them up, vttth orchards, fop •sts and farm buildings. But in t^JSntfWeateni Canada the prairies still •tretch grandly from horizon to horizon as yet unmarred by the hand of 'man, save where the iron road has been laid. To a city man there is something deliriously restful about the vast grassy solitudes. Numerous clumps of trees mark the course of the Assiniboine river, which keeps in sight of the railroad for some distance. Grass is one of the notable things about all the landscape of Western Canada. It is a remarkable fact that the entire length of the Canadian Pacific railway from its eastern terminus to the Rocky Mountains is over plains where grass grows. The sagebrush appears at some points, but never to the exclusion of grass. There is not a mile of this country that cannot be used for some agricultural purpose—either for tilling or ranching. Law is a town of over 2,000 inhabitants, and one of the most important places in Assiniboia, being the center of a very good farming country and a great grain and stock shipping point. Near Moose Jaw, agriculture and farming go hand in hand for near the town was seen a herd of beef cattle several hundred in number. On another side was seen a good sized herd of dairy cows, the property of the citizens in the town. In riding over the prairies, we saw many good fields of alfalfa. The great need of the country is timber, which grows readily where planted, as was demonstrated by the shelter belts on some of the farms, and the trees on the residence lots in the town. Stories were told the writer of men who last year cleared from their wheat crop more than the land in which it was grown originally cost them. This is easy to believe, in view of the large crop and high price for wheat last year. —Henry F. Thurston. By sending your address to any agent of the Canadian Government, you will have mailed, to you a copy of an atlas, railway rates, etc., giving fullest information regarding Western Canada. Decollete gowns are worn a great deal, though there is not a great deal of them. STRANGE CAT IN NATIONAL ZOO He is an African Serval, but Resembles Texas Wildcat. Lying peacefully in one corner of his cage in the National zoo in Washington, watching visitors with his little beady, rat-like eyes, is the newly imported African serval, a member of the cat family. He is one of the first seen in this country, and gets a lot of attention, both on this account and because of his grotesque appearance. He resembles the Texas wildcat in general contour and coloring, but his markings are more distinct and regular, and his long, pointed ears are not tufted as are those of his wildcat brother. The serval has a dog-like muzzle, which, combined with his long, drooping whiskers, gives him a decidedly Chinese cast of countenance. Although not personally beautiful, he seems to have a cheerful and philosophical disposition, and paces up and down or lies curled up near the bars all day without making a sound. There is some speculation among his keepers as to whether, if he chose, he could mew, or howl, or bark, for so far he hasn't uttered a single sound. —New York Times. TIMELY CALLING. How the Pastor Saved a Life. A man near Fort Gay, W. Va., made On the entire failure in getting strength from the kind of food he ate, and not knowing that the trouble was with the food kept on losing health until the doctors gave him up to die. It was supposed to be consumption because he was wasting away steadily and slowly dying. His minister called from time to time and one day brought along a package of Grape-Nuts, thinking from what he knew of the famous food that perhaps it might help him. The sick man took to it at once and from that day began to get well. In writing, he says: "I walked to town today, 3 miles. Have gained over 40 pounds in about 2 months and my neighbors don't know what to say. I frequently am told it was as if I am raised from the dead. Everybody here knows of my case you can tell people to write to the Postmaster or Rev. I. D. Bryan." I will make a sworn statement that Grape-Nuts saved my life." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. This is another illustration, that where all other foods fail, one can be brought back to health and strength on Grape-Nuts. "There's a great reason." Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." The Stallion, to Patronize. The time is at hand when the farm mares will be mated and more than ever before is it important to select a suitable sire. There is a pressing demand for heavy draft geldings of good quality, weight 1,600 pounds and up, and no reason to conclude that the demand will not continue for many years to come. In breeding this year, decide not only upon the breed most suitable in every way, but determine that this breed will be stuck to faithfully until at least five top crosses have been made. Where this is done, the resultant animals will be practically pure bred and after that standard has been attained no retrogressive step should be taken—no outcrossing to an alien breed be permitted. In examining the stallion to be used, do not look at his pedigree alone. That may look attractive by reason of the gaudy seals attached. Look at the horse first and the pedigree second. See that he is sound in all important essentials, especially that he is free from the following hereditary or transmissible unsoundnesses: Roaring heaves, grease, stringhalt, chorea, spavin, sidebone, ringbone, curb and eye troubles. See, too, that he is really a draft horse not merely a large horse made to weigh a ton by reason of the fat upon his ribs. Figure what he would, weigh if in ordinary condition and then decide that it comparatively thin he should tip the scales at not less than 1,800 pounds. Be sure that he has not only bulk, well rounded body, good heart, and attractive head and neck, but likewise grand quality, ample clean flat bone, well defined strong, sound, tough feet. Avoid flat, shelly, brittle feet, with evidences of side bone, convexity of sole, rings, or cracks. This is all important. The feet must be ample, of good shape and sound else we cannot expect to breed some stallion horses for hard work that will wear well for years even upon hard pavements in the city. Prefer too the horse that is well rounded in body, but at the same time possessed of readily defined, long, and strong muscles at shoulder, back, and hip. Then see to it that he is a free, brisk walker and trotter fully flexing his joints, carrying his legs straight forward in a right line and turning up his shoes both fore and aft so that the soles are shown to the observer. It is necessary, that he should be a brisk walker for heavy draft horses do their work at a walk and should get over the ground as rapidly as possible when drawing a heavy load. It is necessary that he should be able to trot freely and well for this ability indicates vim, vigor, activity, and soundness. If possible, select a sire that has great individuality of type and character as he will most probably prove more impressive or potent than a more ordinary stallion. Having selected such a sire, it is an insult to mate with him an old broken down, unsound mare. It is necessary that both parents should be sound if we are to obtain sound offspring. It is not always the sire's fault that the foals are poor in quality for the unsound mare will surely counteract the good qualities of her superior mate. It is time to stop expecting the impossible in horse breeding. We should only expect superiority in the progeny as the sure legacy of superiority. We should not look for figs from thistles or sound foals from unsound parents. Both parents should be sound at least and unless they are sound they should not be mated. We have already far too many nondescript, mongrel, misfit, unsound horses in the country. Why breed more of them?—A. S. Alexander in Farmers' Review. Cattle Feeding in Tennessee. Prof. Andrew M. Soule, director of the Tennessee Experiment Station, says: The feeding of cattle has not been engaged in as extensively in the middle south as the natural conditions would warrant owing to the frequent though ill-founded belief that the winter feeding of cattle could not be made a profitable industry because of the limited supply of corn available for feeding purposes. There is no reason why much more corn should not be grown without increasing the present area by improving the culture now given the land, though if the present corn crop were properly supplemented by the judicious use of cotton seed meal, it would already suffice to feed many thousand head of cattle that are now shipped out as store cattle. The soil and climate of the state are peculiarly well adapted to the production of winter cereals, such as barley, oats, wheat, and rye. Farmyard manure is a universal fer tilizer, suiting all crops, climates and soils. In the «ase of leguminous crops where great difficulty has been ex perienced in arranging satisfactory artificial mixtures, farmyard manure has always given excellent results: CATARRH I Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., reads as follows: Or & B. Hartnian, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sin—"The younggtrl wbo used tie Perana was suffering from laryngi' tls, mud loss ot voice. The result ofthe treatment was most satisfactory. She found great relief, and after farther use of the medicine we hope to he able to say she Is entirely cured.' '—Sisters of Charity* This young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna for catarrh of the throat, with good results as the above letter testifies. From a Catholic Institution In Cen tral Ohio comes the following recom mend from the Sister Superior: "Sonne years ago a friend of onr insti tution recommended to us Dr. Hart man's Parana as an excellent remedy for the influenza of which we then had several eases which threatened to be of a serious character. "We began to use It and experienced such wonderful results that since then The poorest church the one that has no poor. Btatb or Ohio, City or Toledo,I h, Lucas Couhty. Fbajtk Instead* stops .-.4^-^,1- --1 —1 -:. fU REPUBLICAN ma fbr coughs ,! Ids mchildrsir^ SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH Use Pe-ru-na for La Grippe and Winter Catarrh. In every country of the civilized world, the Sisters of Charity are known. Not only do they minister to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to their care, but they also minister to their bodily health. Whenever roughs or colds, la grippe or pneumonia make their appearance among the children, these Sisters are not disconcerted, but know exactly the remedies to apply. With so many children to take care of and to protect from elimate and disease, these wise and prudent Sisters have found Perana a never-failing safeguard. Sisters of St. Joseph, of the Deaf Mute Institute, 1849 Cass Ave., St. Louis, have found Perana a never-failing safeguard. We appreciate Perana very much. It certainly does good work with catarrh and also with colds and la grippe. We have faith in Perana and have inspired many others with the same. We do not like to be without it. It has certainly kept us from being very sick. It did a world of good last winter for our little ones. Thanking you for your kindness to us and our afflicted ones, we remain, yours gratefully, J. Cramer makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cukksy & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this the day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLBASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O. Bold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Manhood is the greatest magnet in any pulpit. Many School Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all druggists, 25c. Sample mailed free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. The true leader to ever ready to receive new light. Wife-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other bluing. If your grocer does not keep it send 10c for sample to The Laundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago. Woman is the extinct ancestress of the lady. Mrs. Winslow's Booth's Syrup for children teething, softens teething, reduces inflammation, allays pain, and cures colic. Keeps the perfect remedy for all ailments. A SOX HANDY GREGORY'S Warranted SEEDS Thompson's Eye Water BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. RELY ON PE-RU-NA TO SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH." Peruna has become our favorite medicine for influenza, catarrh, cold, cough, and bronchitis." Another recommendation from a Catholic written by the Sister Superior reads as follows: "A number of years ago our attention was called to Dr. Hartman's Peruna, and since then we have used it with wonderful results for grip, coughs, colds, and catarrhal diseases of the head and stomach. "For grip and winter catarrh especially it has been of great service to the inmates of this institution." SISTERS OF CHABITY All Over the United States Use Peruna for Catarrh. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institutionin the Southwest reads as follows: A Prominent Mother Superior Says: "I can testify from experience to the efficiency of Peruna as oneof the very best MEXICAN Mustang Liniment cures Sprains and Strains. CAPSICill VASELINE (TOT TP lir OOLLAPSIBLB TUBUS) A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster,, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and eurative qualities of.this article are wonderful. It will: stop the toothache at once, and relieve head: ache and sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will .prove what we claim for it, and it will be found tobe.invalu ablein the household. Many people say "it is the best' of all yohr preparations." Price IS cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send you a tube by m&il. No article should be accepted by the .public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHBSBBROUQH MFO. CO., IT State Street. Nkw York City. Wear better, look dressier arid hold their Shape longer .than any other shoes youa^n buy. Ask for May« ^hoes FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26.1904. me toN bottles proved. and look for the trade-mark on the sole. J. I1YEB BOOT S SHOE GO. Milwaukee, Wis. We can save'you middieman's pieflt by hkrtng our own warehouses and feeding yards, and secorlng oiS'K S3lSiSdLha ^"oS^ui NEW PENSION LAWS I S O S E O Beit •time. Sold by dr O N S I O N I V. S' 1 -. ... \f$ v"V 'hapeiserric. H. By a change of climate and while there, a friend advised try Peruna. After using two bottles, I found myself very much better. The remains of my old disease, Bine, now so slight, I consider myself cured, yet the best proof of Oats on earth. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, says: "Salier's Oats are the best out of four hundred barrels tested by us." This grand Oats yielded in Wisconsin in 1887 but did not yield in 1887. Oh, 1187 bu., Michigan 231 bu., Missouri 288 bu., and North Salcota 8 bu. per acre, and will positively do well by. Few S. I. T. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, says: "It is my pleasure to add my praise to those who have used it. For years I suffered with stomach and all kinds of stomach problems, including valueless for myself. Spring I went to the doctor, hoping to be benefited. A friend, I am now treating another patient with your medicine. She has been sick with malaria and troubled with leuchorrhea. I have no doubt that a cure will be speedily effected. These are samples of letters received by Dr. Hartman from the various orders of Catholic Sisters throughout the United States. The names and addresses to these letters have been withheld from respect to the Sisters, but will be furnished on request. One-half of the diseases which afflict mankind are due to some catarrhal derangement of the mucous membrane lining some organ or passage of the body. A remedy that would act immediately upon the congested mucous membrane, restoring it to its normal state, would consequently cure all these diseases. Catarrh is catarrh wherever located, whether it be in the head, throat, lungs, stomach, kidneys or pelvic organs. A remedy that will cure it in one location will cure it in all locations. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sartorial, Columbus, Ohio. Dollar Grat M. An extra quality of corn, oats, and all other grains, including corn, oats, and all other grains, are available for sale. SENT Apply to NATHAN BIOKFOBD, M4 8th Washington, D.C. When answering advertisements, kindly mention this paper. Si giiifll' •o Yields^ lalisr'aBMNI ., —r Barley, ttl ka. Saltrr's |MM«iUsr Otri.Mi Im.pi pr*.' KMiWtM's Wg tar Oats, «&•*•. fwl.. i»|SS!WSSS,i*?- il f- 1 f- WHi BiSil SilSSl 1.5" W J- if!,' I".:. u. —NO. 9— 1904. Mil®! mi -j K%~*' il ^WvWj(3. 