The Wister News (Wister, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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COUNTRY WHOSE SOIL SPELLS
WHEAT AND OUT OF WHOSE
FARMS THOUSANDS ARE
GROWING RICH.
WHAT PRESIDENT TAFT AND
OTHERS THINK OF CANADA.
have not done badly since our ar-
rival,"
Prof. Thomas Shaw of St. Paul, Min-
nesota, with a number of other well
known editors of American farm Jour-
nals, toured Western Canada recently,
and In an Interview at Winnipeg said
In part:—■
"With regard to the settlement of
the West I should say that It Is only
well begun. 1 have estimated that In
Manitoba one-tenth of the land has
been broken, In Saskatchewan one-
thirtieth and in Alberta, one-hundred
and seventy-fifth. I ain satisfied that
Another Fat Year for the Canadian ln aU ,hre* Pr°vlnces grain can be
: grown successfully up to the sixtieth
e# * ! parallel and ln the years to come your
j vacant land will be taken at a rate
Our Canadian neighbors to the north ! y°u h„ave Rt pre8,eDt "VT
are again rejoicing over an abundant1 Z TInt J s, T"* T°P ?
harvest, and reports from reliable I hom « 11 .h^ I1"^* *
sources go to show that the tntnl vl M I "'• t0 take up thl" lan<1
of 1909 Will be far above that of'any! aT*? yo" mUBt do'n We t#rn Can'
other vear l ada is to ralse niore live stock. When
other year.
It is estimated that 1100 000 000 I ,y°" f dolnf what you ought t0 do
111 this year en inm ih« ln thla r«'ear<i. the land which is now
will this year go into the pockets of
the Western farmers from wheat T . a"e WlU "e .WOrth
alone, another $60,000,000 from oats ! ' t0 ' pr® acre- rt ls aa
and barley, while returns frnm Bood land aa 'hat whfch ls 8ellin8 ,or
more than $100 per acre in the corn
belt.
"1 would rather raise cattle ln West-
ern Canada than In the corn belt of
the United States. You can get your
and barley, while returns from other
crops and from stock will add $40,-
000,000 more. Is it any wonder then
that the farmers of the Canadian
West are happy?
- - - vv. 1UU UOU BrL JUUI
i nousands of American farmers i food cheaper and the climate is bet
1 vq cattlnil in 4t.„ .1 . ■ . . ,.
Stamps of German Domestics.
Each week there is pasted in the
little blank book that every servant
girl ln Germany must possess a post-
age stamp to the value of about five
cents.
This stamp is a donation, compul-
sory under the German law, which the
mistress must afford the servant.
Should the girl fall ill, the stamps are
redeemed by the government, or the
servant may retain the stamps indefi-
nitely until, when she has attained a
ripe old age, the government pays her
a premium for them.—The Sunday
Magazine.
A Rare Good Thing.
"Am using Allen's Foot-Ease, and ran
truly say I would not have been without
It so long, had I known the relief It would
give my aching feet. I think It a rare Rood
thing for anyone having sore or tired feet.
fian l,?t'rt' Providence, R.
L Sold by all Druggist*, 25c. Ask to-day.
— The Noisy One.
Bacon—Every man in the concern
belongs to the Anti-Noise society but
one.
Egbert—And who is that one?
"The silent partner."
Keeping pace with wheat produc-
n, the growth of railways has been
A
CHRISTMAS
ACROSTIC.
j HRISTMAS is not only a mile mark of
^ another year, moving ua to thoughts of
self-examination; it is a season, from all
Its associations, whether domestic or religious,
•uggesting thoughts of joy. A man dissatisfied
with his endeavors is a man tempted to sadness.
And in the midst of winter, when his life runs
lowest and he is reminded of the empty chairs
of his beloved, it is well he should be condemned
lo the fashion of the smiling face.—Robert
Louis Stevenson.
+ * *
J OW many old recollections and how
many dormant sympathies does the
• Christmas time awaken! Happy, happy
Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions
of our childish days; that can recall to the old
wan the pleasures of his youth; that can trans-
port the sailor and the traveler thousands of miles
•way, back to his own fireside and his quiet
liome. Fill your glass again, with a merry face
and contented heart. Our life on it, but your
Christmas shall be merry and your New Year a
fcappy one.—Charles Dickens.
H'
1 ry^EMEMBER that as surely as in that
I roT baby life at Bethlehem there lay the
Al VI power which has run through all the
World; the power which makes Judea burn like
• star forever; the power which has transfigured
history; the power which hat made millions
of men its joyous servants; the power of the
millennium! yet to be, so surely in the humblest
aoul s humble certainty that it does love Christ,
there lies enfolded all the possibility of the most I
perfect sainthood.—Phillips Brooks.
* * *
DT IS a good thing to observe Christmas Day.
The mere marking of times and seasons,
when men agree to Hop work and make
merry together, is a wise and wholesome custom.
It helps one to feel the supremacy of the common
life over the individual life. It reminds a man
o set his own little watch, now and then, by the
great clock of humanity, which runs on sun
lime.—Henry Van Dyke.
uppose a note came on Christmas Day
saying not, "1 send my love and best
wishes with this spool-box," but, "I want
you to know that your patience, or courage, or
tenderness, during this last year, will help me
to live more bravely and courageously this year."
What a Christmas present the receipt of such a
letter would be to any one of us. What a gift
for any one of us to tend to the human heart
that has given us courage for the burden and
■ heat of the day.-—Margaret Deland.
+ + *
The season of regenerated feeling—the
season of kindling, not merely the fire of
hospitality in the hall, but the genial
flame of charity in the heart. He who can turn
churlishly away from contemplating the felicity
of his fellow beings, and can sit down darkling
and repining in his loneliness when all around
is joyful, may have his moments of selfish grati-
fication, but he wants the genial and social
sympathies which constitute the charm of a
Merry Christmas.—Washington Irving.
* * *
Y CHRISTMAS wish for all is thai
they may taste the sweetness of love,
I"'*-* enter into the joys of friendship, and
| know the divine beneficence of helping someone
at present less fortunate than themselves. In
i these words are we to fird the living spirit of
j the human and eternal Christmas. The uni-
| versal gladness of Christmas is proportioned to
the extent of its unselfishness. People are happy,
not in what they get so much as ia what they
give.—Minot J. Savage.
+ * *
ND there were in the same country shep>
herds abiding in the field, keeping watch
over their flock by night. And lo, the
angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory
of the Lord shone around about them, and they
were sore afraid. And the aagel said unto them:
"Fear not, for behold 1 bring you good tidings of
great joy which shall be to all people. For unto
you is born this day in the city of David, a
Savior, which is Christ the Lord."—From the
Gospel of St. Luke.
have settled in the above mentioned
provinces during the past year; men
who know the West and its possibili-
ties, and who also know perhaps bet-
ter than any other people, the best
methods for profitable farming.
President Taft said recently in
speaking of Canada:
"We have been going ahead so rap-
Idly in our own country that our heads
have been somewhat swelled wftli the
Idea that we are carrying on our shoul-
ders all the progress there is in the
world. We have not been conscious
that there is on the north a young
country and a young nation that is trunk and branch lines. Three great
looking forward, as it well may, to a transcontinental lines are pushing
great national future. They have construction in every direction, and
7,000,000 people, but the country is { a* each siding the grain elevator is
still hardly scratched." j to be found. Manitoba being the
Jas. J. Hill speaking before the flrst settled province, has now an ele-
Canadian Club of Winnipeg a few days 1 vator capacity of upwards of 25,000,000
ago said: i bushels, Saskatchewan 20,000,00, and
"I go back for 53 years, when I ! Alberta about 7,000,000, while the ca-
came West from Canada. At that time j paclty of elevators at Fort William
Canada had no North-West A young and Port Arthur, on the Great Lakes,
boy or man who desired to carve his ,s upwards of 20,000,000 more,
own Way had to cross the line, and ' within th« **
to-day It may surprise you—one out
ter for the purpose. We have a bet-
ter market, but your market will im-
prove faster than your farmers will
produce the supplies. Winter wheat
can be grown in one-half of the coun-
try through which I have passed, and
alfalfa and one of the varieties of
clover In three-fourths of it. The
farmers do not believe this, but it Is
true."
Kee
tion
quite as wonderful, and the whole
country from Winnipeg to the Rocky
: Mountains will soon be a net-work of
Worth Its Weight In Gold.
PETTIT'S EYE SALVE strengthens old
ayes, tonic for eye ntruin, weak, watery eyes.
Druggistb or Howard Urou., Buffalo, N- Y.
Of course it was an old bachelor
who said that love was hatched ln an
incubator and raised in an insane asy-
lum.
"How's your digestion?"
"Better, thank you. I'm chewing
WRIGLEYS SPEARMINT after
meals."
The man who can maintain a repu-
tation for wisdom in the presence of a
youth just out of college is a wonder.
AIXEN'SLUNO BALSAM
has b« on used successfully for yours fnr«l«'f p-spnt<*4
rougliH. colds antl bronchi t.s. MrrryhnUjr bliould
know about it. It Is simple, sufu and sure.
A good ffueeser always boasta of
his Intuition.
ABE YOUR CI OTIIES F(!)KDI
U*e Red Crows Ball Blue and make them
white again. Large 2 01. package, 5 cent.
Don't worry, and you'll have nothing
to worry you.
of every five children born In Canada
lives ln the United States. Now you
' Within the provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta there are
flour and oatmeal mills with a com-
bined capacity of 25.000 barrels per
uves in cue uniiea states, inow you 1 in «o,uuu Darreis per
are playing the return match, and the day an(* situated along some famous
Nnrfh.Woof to iroHlm. l „ r n U'flfpr nnuoru in Mom Dntni-ln
North-West Is getting people from the
United States very rapidly. We
water powers ln New Ontario, there
are larger mills than will be found
M
uuueu aiaies very rapidly, we 111' "tiger mini man win De 10
brought 100 land-seekers, mainly from ®n>'where In the Prairie Provinces
Iowa and Southern Minnesota, last! ^ast yei"' 'he wheat crop totaled
night out of St. Paul, going to the over 100.000,000 bushels. This year
North-West. Now. these people have the croP wl" 30,000,000 more. A
all the way from five, ten to twenty re<"ent summary shows that on the 1st
thousand dollars each, and they will of January, 1909, the surveyed lands
make as much progress on the land In of three western provinces, totaled
one year as any one man coming from 134,000,000 acres, of which about 32,-
the Continent of Europe can make, do- 000,000 have been given as subsidies to
itlP" Ihn hpet Via / n« In (nn Aftn/,n - railWSVS. 11.000 000 HienncDit nf In nlk.
Ing the best he can, ln ten, fifteen, or
twenty years."
railways, 11.000,000 disposed of ln oth-
er ways and 38,000,00' given by the
/care. auu oo,vvv,uv given Dy ine
It Is evident from the welcome Canadian Government as free home-
given American settlers in Canada i stea<is, being 236,000 homesteads of
that the Canadian people appreciate *"0 acres each. Of this enormous ter-
them. Writing from Southern Alberta rlt0T, there is probably under crop
recently an American farmer says:— at ,lle present time less than 11.000,-
"Wft nrn crl vln v thom omna nn«- 000 acres! what thp rnsnltu will ho
At the Birthplace of Christ
At last I am come to the market
place, at one end of which stands the
church of the Nativity, marking the
holy, lowly birthplace. There Is only
one entrance from the street, and It
ls so low that in entering one is forced
to bow the head, and assume a pos-
ture of reverence.
Down the dark and winding stairs,
•llppery with the drippings of count*
less candles, 1 make my way to that
lowly place into which flrst came the
JJght of the World. The Orotto of the
Nativity Is a cavern beneath the
church, long, narrow, and low-celled,
with pendant lamps of precious metal
and rare workmanship lighting the
gloom. The floor is marble, and won-
derful old tapestries, pictures and silk
hangings cover the walls. A marble
rradle In one corner commemorates
the manger; and in a recess on one
fcide a dozen or more hanging lamps
ANTA CLAUS remains, by virtue of
a common understanding that childhood
shall not be despoiled of one of its
mo«t cherished beliefs, either by the mythologist,
with his sun myth theory, or the scientist, with
his heartless diatribe against superstitions. He
j who does not see in the legend of Santa Claus a
j beautiful faith on the one side, and the native
I embodiment of a divine fact on the other, is not
fit to have a place at the Christmas board.—
| Hamilton Wright Mabie.
are ranged around in a half circle.
Before the altar there, all men bend
low and kiss the ground for Christ's
sake; for It is here a silver star is
set to mark the birthplace of Him
whom His mother called 'Jesus." The
center of the star is glass and through
ft one may see the original rocky
floor of the stable.
I close my eyes for a moment, while
mind and heart rebel against the
present, until it vanishes; and the
atmosphere of the past, in all Its
deep and wondrous mystery, returns
to envelop ray soul. "I am here—In
Bethlehem"—I whisper to myself—
and beyond closed lids I see the Vir-
gin mother, with her gentle face as
the old masters loved to picture her,
and a "light that never was on land
or sea" in her beautiful mother-eyes;
while the glory from one low-hanging
star touches a baby's hair.—Letter in
Army and Navy Life.
000 acres; what the results will be
when wide awake settlers have taken
advantage of Canada's offer and are
cultivating the fertile prairie lands,
one can scarcely imagine.
Diet of the Old.
A sane diet for a person of 70 or 75
should be made up largely of vege-
tables and fruit, some fish, some eggs,
a little meat and simple cereals, if
there is no inclination toward obesity,
•rin k7" V Drinking with one's meals is not
On Saturday n ght every bar-room considered advisable, especially ns II
Th ? ' OC,°A™y I '1U"|S "e1 "> down the food
I ecause it ls the law, and It s the before it Is proper!y masticated. Two
same with every other law. There j qunrU of water, or m„re, should „e
n tn,i man ln tho ,,holc district, ittken between meals, however during
and a woman can come home from the day. Hot water ls especially good
town to the farm at midnight if she for one who does not exercise much
"We are giving them some new
ideas about being good farmers, and
they are giving us some new ideas
about being good citizens. They have
a law against taking liquor into th«
Indian Reservation. One of our fel-
lows was caught on a reservation with
a bottle on him, and it cost him $50.
One of the Canadian Mounted Police
found him, and let me tell you, they
find everyone who tries to go up
against the laws of the country.
Lewis' Single Binder cipnr. Original in Tin
Foil Smoker Package. Take no substitute.
Did anybody ever ask the weeping
willow why it does it?
as It flushes out the entire system.
Stimulants, such as tea and coffee,
should not be very strong.—Harper's
Bazar.
A dealer sold imitation Spearmint.
His customer gave it to a friend. The
dealer lost his customer. The cus-
tomer lost his friend.
Wanted to Know.
Father—Well?
Tommy—Will I be a monoplane or
biplane angel?
wants to, alone. That's Canada's idea
how to run a frontier; they have cer-
tainly taught us a lot.
"On the other hand, we are running
their farms for them better than any
other class of farmers. I guess I
can say this without boasting, and the
Caandians appreciate us. We turn
out to celebrate Dominion Day; they
are glad to have us help to farm the
country; they know how to govern;
we know how to work."
Another farmer, from Minnesota,
who settled in Central Saskatchewan
some years ago, has the following to
ay about the country:—
"My wife and I have done well enough
since we came from the States; we can
live anyway. We came in the spring of
1901 with the first carload of settlers'
effects unloaded in these parts and
built the first shanty between Sas-
katoon and Lumsden. We brought
with our car of settlers' effects the
sum of |1800 in cash, to-day we are
worth $10,000. We 'proved up' one
of the finest farms in Western Canada
and bought 320 acres at $3 per acre.
We took good crops off the land for i There is a place for everything, and
four years, at the end of which we the Place for slippers is very often on
had $8000 worth of improvements in ' sea* °r * small boy's trousers.
.W!V bUUdlng8' etC" ttBd hadl Dr. rieroe'w Plpaiaal Pellet, ny&t.
planted three acres of trees. Two ; "mto womucti, iiv.m nn<t h«.w. fi . auirui-touua
years ago we got such a good offer UUT gmnU*
that we sold our land at $45 per acre. J don't blame a man for growling
From the above you will gee that we i *lia w^e treats him like a dog.
DODD'S
p Kl DIM EY§f
fcILLW
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome by
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS.
Purely vegetable J
—art surely and
gently on the
fiver. Cure
Biliousness,^
Head-
ache,
Dizzi- _
ncs , and Indigestion. They do their duty.
Small Pill. Small Do.*, Sraa!! Price.
GENUINE must bear signature:
W A NTED !
To buy 300 to 5 ooo acres in one
body of timber, coal or agricultural
lands in Oklahoma. Give full de-
scription and prices. Quick sale.
Address, J. H.ELTON, Muskogee,Okla.
Carters
ITTLE
PILLS.
Some people suffer continually with
tued, achinp and swollen feet. Little do
they know how soothing is Handing Wiz-
ard Oil. Rub it in at night and have
thankful, happy feet in the morning.
You can't blame the man who has
got his winter's coal in for feeling
just a little better than the rest of
the neighborhood.
1 prescribed whiskey."
I took it. You can't smell it be-
cause I chewed WRIGLEY'S SPEAR-
MINT after."
PARKER'S-""
, HAIR BALSAM
Clear."pj and beautifies tlm hair.
1'ronii-tKi a laxuriant growth.
Novor Falls to R<-stnro oiraar
Hair to jis Youihf.il ColorV
Our-.i voalp d „ « •« & hair laliluz.
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Christmas Bargains i::-,'X'Vr:;." "
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