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Afg. • ,• . GEYSER JUDITH BASIN TIMES 41W14.1.11WWW AN INDIANA MAN TELLS OF VIESTOIN CANADA He Is Perfectly Satisfied, and Tells of His Neighbors Who Have Done Well. Walter Harris, formerly lived near Julletta In Warren township, Indiana. He now lives at Hussar, Alberta. In writing to his home paper in Indiana, he says that the - friflure is the man who always blames the country. He tails to see his own mistakes, has 'missed his calling and le not fitted for farming. The two seasons just past have been entirely different In 1913 plenty of rain came in June and a good crop followed, but the fall was dry and but little snow In the winter followed by a very dry summer, and a short crop. Only those that had farmed their land properly were able to meet expenses. For example, last year the Crow- foot Farming Company, south of here, threshed from 1,250 acres 38; 000 bushels of wheat. One-half section made 26 'bushels, the poorest of all. This year on 1,350 acres they threshed nearly 26,000 bushels. Last year's crop sold at 75 cents from their own elevator. What they have sold of this year's crop brought $1.00 at threshing time. Eight thousand bush- els unsold would bring now around $1.26. The manager and part owner was raised in Ohio and farmed in Washington several years He and his wife spent last winter In Ohio. She told me a few days ago that the climate here was much better than Ohio. A man by the name of George Clark threshed 75 bushels of oats, 45 bush- els of barley and 35 bushels of wheat to the acre He had 15,000 bushels of old oats as well as wheat and barley in his granaries that have almost doubled in price, lie came from Washington, where he sold a large body of land around $200 that he bought around $3.00 per acre. He then refers to a failure. A large company In the eastern states, owning a large farm near Hussar pays its manager $3,000 a year. The farm has not been a success. Probably the man- ager's fault. Mr. Harris says condi- tions are not as good as could be wished for, but on the ending of the war good crops, with war prices, will certainly change conditions, and it seems to me that the one who owns land that will raise 100 bushels of oats, 75 bushels of barley or 40 bush- els of wheat is the one who \laughs last.\ Tpe above yields may seem exag- gerellons to many, and are far above the average, but you should remember that the man who fails Is counted In to make the average, and there are instances on record here that would far exceed the above figures. Nor is grain the only profitable thing that can be raised here. There are many fine horse ranches, some of them stocked with cayuses and bred to thoroughbreds, and others import- ed from the old countries. They run on the range nearly all the year. The owners put up wild hay to feed them if the snow should get too deep for them to get the dead grass. There are several hundred In sight of here most of the time. There are several cattle ranches north of here that have from 600 to 7,000 head of cattle. One man I know sold $45,000 worth of fat cattle this fall. He winters his cat- tle on farms where they have lots of straw and water, paying 76 cents a month per head, or if there is enough straw tb winter 400 or 500 head they buy the straw and water and have a man to look after the cattle.—Adver- tisement. His Opposite. - \They say people of opposite char- acteristics make the happiest mar- riages.\ ‘\Yes; that's why I'm looking for a girl with money.\ Drink Denison's Coffee. Always pure and delicious. It's woman'e imagination that keeps her young—if she imagines people can't see through a coat of paint. Why send your money away for \bargain roofing\ when you can get the best roofing at a rea- sonable price of your own local dealer whom you know? Buy materials that last Certain -tee Roofing Is guaranteed in writing 5 years for 1 -ply, 10 years for 2 -ply, and 15 years for 3 -ply, and the responsibility of our big mills stands behind this guar- antee. Its quality is the highest and its price the most reasonable, General Roofing Manufacturing Co. wori44s lar9eet sews e s t oete rers of Roqftrig owl isetkit'ap Papers new i l b eaq k teas Clksse rittsimrsh Kawiraly Semis beam Ihmisrv ihn T= tilittiIrIaTITA,TCH'eAftal sys .1 \A bit of land on ram Ma,\ Splendid Stenery E ivalled o inset& otorista' Paradise. Squats Ise Wel\ War MI Mase•••• I. k rowliaa iltkoaa romoorblo. Write T.64/0* oposhiod000r fp tmollrtslarl. 01k5ft!w 6 irliN0P1',1 IN[CINIE ry The STAMBOUL\ \the place over there,\ as this modern perversion of the Greek phrase \in the city\ is often translated, has been sung by poets and painted by artists and been the theme of almost intemperate eulogy since its early days when, as the picturesque little Greek city of Byzantium, it stood for the east- ernmost settlement of Greek culture in Europe, a tower of light shining over the barbaric Orient that lay within its sight across the way. From these early days of Alexander the Great. of Xerxes. of Darius. the jump of centuries to that most celebrated of Phl milestones, the inauguration of the city as the capi- tal of the eastern empire by Constantine on the eleventh of May, 330, was not uneventful, though nothing like the story told by the eleven hundred and twenty-three years of imperial splendor before it fell into the hands of Mohammed II, on May 29, 1453, on that most fateful of all days e hen the cross, under Constantine Xl. went down before the ere, cent and the green flag of Islam desecrated the holy places as the conqueror rode Into the city through the gate of St. Romanus And, as he entered the palace the new ruler -was heard to recite, so truth lion has it, some lines of Persian poetry running as follows: \The spider has spun her web in the palace of the Caesars, \The owl has sung her watch song on the towers of Afrasiab •• Supersaturate with his- tory as is the city, its present-day aspect, as th. long revenge of time hastens to its final satis- faction, and the crosses that will replace the cres- cent are already in the making, is one that is more redolent and reflec- tive of the immediate down -at -the-heels Orient than of the earlier cen. turies. It is a medley of mosques and minarets, of magnificence and squalor. of kiosks eind cafes Pal- aces jostle miserable huts, and enchanting kiosks, In Saracenic style, gay in color of stone, stucco or tile, and with superb metal work. are seen side by side with the cheapest of frame houses and meal: cafes. Broad open squares. like unkempt back lots where tin cans and goats most do congregate, hoe - ever, are contrasted also with the narrowest of ill smelling alleys doing duty as streets, and yet above all this meatiness, all this huddlement of cheap and unpretentious buildings, the Use made by the Moslem conquerors of seven hills, more or less dominated by splendid seraglios and mosques, including the metamor- phosed Santa Sophia itself, gives Constantinople _today Its, peculiar character above all other ,cities, and makes the near or distant view under vary- ing aspects of sun and season one of unrivaled - magnificence, so that it is today the chief picture city of the world. The mosques seem to be part of as well as ris- ing out of a sort of curious mushroom growth developing out of roofed refuse of stone and stuc- co that spreads all over the two sides of the Golden Horn, that famous arm of the bay on which the city is situated with Stamboul. the old city on the west, and Galata and l'era. where the foreigners live, on the east, stretching along the shores of the Boeporiis toward th. Black sea. And the mosques are wonderful. here they rise, huge masses of clustered rectangular structures with all sorts of subsidiary buildings, as it were, tied up to and plastered against them And then out of this squat mass appear the soaring, slender minarets, cutting the blue sky in lovely tapering outline, broken only by the balconies, from four to six in number, the latter grouping only allowed In one case. however. while above the central section, fortlike in char- acter, the domes and semidomes are uplifted, all to be crowned by the great dome which balances the entire mass in a manner that seems pure chance, but makes all indescrible effect of beauty and proportion, as Is in evidence in the great mosque Jeni-Jani near the Galata bridge. Dolce far niente days will soon be over if it again yields to the new invaders, and a new era of enlightenment sets in. Then the street and public life will take on a new aspect and the city will be once more a place of pilgrimage. Moreover, when the capital is once more in Christian hands, what a chance for the antiquar- ians and archeologists and classical scholars and specialists! Every ruin should yield treasures, and of all the promising places the most prom- ising are the mysterious vaults under the great Agfa Sophia niosque, formerly the Church of St. Sophia, 07.401 - ally built by Constantine in 326 op- posite his palace and dedicated to the Divine Wisdom (Sophia). The church as it exists to- day, one of the greatest buildings In the world. was erected in 532-537 by the Emperor Justinian. Anthemios of Tralleis and !siderite! of Miletos were the architects. Foseati, an Italian archi- tect, undertook a thorough restoration of the exterior of the building in 1847, when it was painted yellow with red stripes. It is in what may lie under St. Sophia that the interest of archeologists will center. These vaults have always been jealously guarded by the Turks, and few indeed have been the out - Mors allowed n peep at them. One of those who Flaw the not was the late Moberly Bell, manager a GALA TA LIR/OCE CONNECT/AV ,E7//e0ACAN AM) AJ/4770 7Z/RXEY the oi the iminktin 1 dues, ti Ii lor a period It as CHI ployed by the Turkish Tobacco Regie, Mn. Bell sonte years ago described the great piles of ma- terial, covered with the accumulated dust of four and a half centuries, which tantalized him with their possibilities. He could not get at what they really were since the gloom made it impossible to distinguish any of the objects, and the Turks would not permit a close examination. Fascinating possibilities exist In the thought of what the dust that has been accumulating since the year of the conquest by Mohammed II may conceal, It is doubtful if many treasures in gold and silver and gems will be found, though even this is possible. But the chances that pre- cious manuscripts of the classics may be dis- covered are greater. Splendid libraries, contain- ing, probably, practically all the lost classics, are undoubtedly hidden in ruins. There are known to be 2,000 manuscripts in the sultan's library, which have been seen, and that only hastily, by few foreigners. But the chief hope of scholars lies in their trust in one of time least objectionable traits of the Moslem, his dislike of destroying anything with writing on it. Even if he does sacrifice pictures and sculpture, he usually leaves books alone, In case the name of God should be written on them. Ilad it not been for this superstition the world would be very much poorer in the old learning than It is today. As for :ts strategic and political value it must be remembered that Constantinople is to the Russian church and to its adherents what Rome is to the Roman Catholics, and for the last 200 years in particular it has constituted the prin- cipal object of all Muscovite religious and po- litical aspirations. Without attaching any credence whatsoever to the purely mythical tes- tament of Peter the Great about Constantinople. a document which was never heard of until the beginning of the nineteenth century, nearly a hundred years after his death, and which is a forgery concocted by the Pole Sokoiniki and the Frenchman Lesueur, at the instance of the first Emperor Napoleon, there is no doubt that Czar Peter had set his heart upon the acquisition of Constantinople aud had 'impressed this idea upon his people as a national ideal. However, u !tether the will he authentic or genuine or not the fact is it does embody na- tional aspirations, and has had a great effect on Russian imagination. Catherine the Great was equally bent upon transferring the capital of her empire from Petrograd, and from Moscow, to Stamboul. and when Napoleon I and Alexander I' planned to- gether their sharing the dominion of the world, the Muscovite ruler insisted upon the possession of Constantinople on political and religious grounds, declaring it to be \the key to the door of Russia.\ Napoleon would not and could not e5C.E/Ye ON 77/E COL DE/Y NORA' 00/Y,57)44/77/YOPZ,C Ct consent to this, giving utterance to his celebrated and historic phrase. \No the possession of Con- stantinople by Russia would mean the mastery of the world.\ It was this question about Constantinople that caused the break of the friendship of the emper- ors and an enmity which resulted in Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia, with his grande armee, in the destruction of Moscow 1):: fire, in the coalition of Russia with Great Britain, Prus- sia, Sweden and Austria against France, in the invasion of the latter country by the allies, In the disastrous defeat of Napoleon at Lelpsic and at Waterloo, in the loss of his throne and in his exile, first to Elba, and then to St. Helena. The \will\ is probably less authentic than that famous mot of the Czar Nicholas, who just be- fore the Crimean war in 1853 said to the British ambassador, apropos of Turkey, that \we have on our hands a sick man—a very sick man. It will be, I tell you frankly, a great misfortune if one of these days he should slip away from us; especially before all the neces- sary arrangements have been made,\ The English ambas- sador was strictly noncommittal even ('s,fter the czar had pointed out the hor- rors of a general European war which might ensue if the great powers were not careful, so the Russian auto- crat repeated his re- mark about the \sick man\ to Prince Metternich, the cel- ebrated wit, who was the Austrian ambassador, and it was Nietternich who cynically turned the tide against any Eu- ropean co-operation with Russia in han- dling the Turkish situation, by re- marking curtly. Allem, the sick man, the sick man; is your majes- ty speaking as the doctor in the case or as the heir.\ With that the other powers turned against Russian pretensions, and on all subsequent oc- casions in various combinations, both in 1852 and in 1877, backed the - \sick man\ against any doe. bring by which Russia ivould be the residuary legatee. , And so events moved on for 60 years. till the day of reckoning came, and Austria fired the Serbian powder barrel and Armageddon was on! While it Is an exaggeration, at any rate in these modern times, to ascribe the mastery of world to the possession of Constantinople. it not be denied that the city occupies from a po- litical, from a strategic and from an economic point of view, one of the most valuable and im- portant sites in the world. It Is a natural fortress of great strength, protected as it is in the rear by mountain and swamp, which make it difficult to attack by land, by those wonderful straits, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, which furnish matchless a defense against any onslaught from the sea. It lies at the very point where Europe and Asia meet and which connects the Black sea with the Mediterranean, and even with the Indian ocean, by way of the Suez canal and the Red sea. When the railroad now in course of construc- tion from Ismid to the head of the Persian gulf. via Konia and Bagdad, is completed, which will constitute far and away the shortest and quick- est route from Europe to India, Constantinople will ly rome perhaps the most important station along the line both as regards freight and pas- senger traffic. Even the existing trade route to India via the Suez canal would be endangered by Russia's pos- session of Constantinople, and it is for this rea- son that Earl Grey, in admitting in parliament that England had abandoned its traditional policy of centuries and would not oppose its free access to the Mediterranean from the Black sea through the Bosporus and Dardanelles, was very careful not to say Russia should be given Constantinople at once! HARD TIMES. \What's become of the old-fashioned loker who used to ankwer, when asked If he was mar: sled: 'No, I'm in business for myself!\' \The last time 1 heard of him he was still at it, but his salary had been reduced.'' CLOSE QUARTERS. \Yes for the last two months I've item, posi- tively living within my income.\ \Don't you feel rather cramped?\ \Cramped? Say, lend me $10, will you? I want to stretch myself.\ If you, too, are embarrassed by a pimply, blotchy, unsightly corn. plexion, nine chances out of ten Resinol will clear it Just try Resinol Soap and Res. inol Ointment regularly for a week and see if they do not make aimless ed difference in your skin. They also help make red, rough hands and arms soft and white. Sold by all druggists. For trial free, write to DeSt.b-P, kesinol, Baltimore, hid --- - Nature leaves a lot of work for the dressmaker to finish. DR. J. H. RINDLAUB (Specialist). Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Fargo, N. D. Ah! lie—Is she a good dancer? She—Not scrupulously.—California Pelican. WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC? The science of Chiropractie is based up- on a correct knowledge of the brain. spine, spinal cord and nerves emanating therefrom. Pressure on a nerve at the opening where it leaves the spine, will eause disease in that organ or tissue In which the nerve ends. The Chiropractor, after locating the place of the pressure (by vertebral palpation and the tracing of the tender nerves) adjusts, by hand. the subluxated (displaced) vertebrae whielt removes the pressure and enables \Na- ture\ to restore normal conditions — Ill.:M.TH. Geo. A. Newsalt, D. C., Fargo's Pioneer Chiropractor, Fargo, N. D. Adv. Satan and the eerulean ie a quandary.'' \What about?\ \I have two invitations to dinner. and I cati't decide—\ - Which one to accept?\ \No which one to refuse. One is to a home where a young lady has just come hotne from a piano conserva- tory, and the other is where a five- year -old boy knows a lot of recita- tions.\—Farin Life. As Seeing the Invisible. No great purpose has ever been achieved by any individual until his spirit has first gone out into some wilderness solitude and there discov- ered its native strength. its • absolute in when it relies upon no help but that of God. This is the experience of all the greatest among men. They go apart front their fel lows for awhile, like Moses, into the land of Mitliatt, or like our Lord him- self into the wilderness, or like St_ Paul into ttie Arabian desert, and there, in solitary communion with God, front that highest of all compan- ionships. they drink in stsength to fit them for the work of our lives. Alone with God, they see visions which fill their souls, visions which never fade afterward even in the _light of common, day, but which serve as beacon lights to guide . them, Alirolign, storm and darkness, till the purpose of their lives is fulfilled.— Edwin IC %land IN A.SHADOW Tea Drinker Feared Paralysis. Steady use of either tea or cogee often produces alarming symptoms, as the poison (caffeine) contained in these beverages acts with more; po- tency in some persons than in others. \I was never a coffee drinker.\ writes an III. woman. \but a tea drink- er. I was very nervous, had frequent spells of sick headache and heart trouble. and was subject at times to severe attacks of bilious colic. \No end of sleepless nights—would have spells at night when my right side would get numb and tingle like a thousand needles were .pricking my flesh. At times I could hardly put my tongue out of my mouth and my right eye and ear were affected. \The doctors told me to quit using tea, but I thought I could not live with- out it—that it was my only stay. I had been a tea drinker for twenty-five years; was under the doctor's care for fifteen. \About six months ago, I finally quit tea and commenced to drink Postum. \I have never had one spell of sick' headaches since and only one light attack of bilious colic. Have quit hav- ing those numb spells at night, sleep well and my ,heart is getting stronger all the time.\ Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich. Read \The Road to Weilville,\ in pkgs. Postum comes in two forme: Postum Cereal—the original form— must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack- ages Instant Postum—a soluble powder— dissolves quickly In a cu.p of hot wa- ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly, 30c and 50e tins. Both kinds are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. \There's a Reason\ for Postum. —sold by Grocers. -...Y•••••••
