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Igp-v:-V^ -. EXCITEMENT IN > r? 1 . ,1 vr?r? Vvr* TIoTTi ~"V^ariOOU uianu u? j-'h ? VA5T RICHE5 IN IT farmers"Getting More Dollars For All' in Better Condition Tban An] $ Washington, D. C. ? Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, who has just returned from a trip extending to the Pacific Coast, can see nothing but a continuance cf good times. ^ "The people of the West," he said, "are not fearful of a panic or of hard -Lj w nr.r Jo nrn?normis U111C&. 1UC > > COL IS |/4 vs^x. . ... | There is plenty of money. In fact, I have reason to believe that the West is loaning money to the East, instead of the East to the West. And this is being done at good rates of interest. The people of the West are not worrying over Wall Street and its troubles. They scarcely know that such troubles exist, save as they read of them in the newspapers. The rest of the country is no longer dependent on Wall Street. "Grain crops generally will be good, with the exception of oats. " There will be a good corn crop, not a bumper crop, but a good one, if frosts do not come too early. Prices for farm products and for ,stocks are high and the farmers are making money." ? Farmers are getting more money for their grains this year than in any former year, and the shortage of the yield in bushels is being made up by 3 the advance in prices. A banker from SouVh Dakota, who has been in that section for years, while in Chicago last week, made this statement: ' "Banks in South Dakota have larger "deposits than they have ever held, and farmers are getting more dollars for what they have to sell than in any year on record. Last year at this time they sold their wheat at sixty to \9 sixty-five cents, while now they are securing ninety-two cents. Oats sold at twenty-two cents last year, and are now bringing thirty-five cents. Barley that sold at thirty cents last year brings sixty-five cents; Live cattle sell for to $1.25 per 100 pounds more than last year, while v hogs are selling at the same prices as a year ago, and ' there are lots of them. Of corn, "we are not raising anv more than needed for home use. ?Wheat is of fine quality, although yields are not heavy. This also applies to all other grains." The above story represents the conditions in the West, despite the fact that prosperity stories are being overworked. There has been a conservative recession in business in nearly every line, which has been beneficial, ^ as things were going too fast. But there is a good, healthy business, which denotes steady consumption of goods at satisfactory prices. A majority of the people in the agricultural regions are in as good condition as last year for the purchasing of aroods. as the advance in prices makes them feel easy. In fact, they are in better condition than are any other ? class of consumers. Notwithstanding the fears in the "LACK or c if:*'-"-. '. I ' ' * imill ? \/li ' ___ * ',' ?Ca /> BSC*, *v? J^5s?' /O - V V-. - ;. - :..._ & WALL STREET! enport for the Xew York Evening Mail. il5 YLAR'5 CRORS rhey Have to Sell, and, Tbereiore, Are I Other Glass of Consumers. early summer that the long, cold spring would bring disaster to the crops, it is now assured that nature r,~.r\r-CL urill hlpQd this OOUUtrV UUV/C XXiViV Uiit w with abundant harvests. It is true that the phenomenal yield of co.n and wheat l^st year may not be quite equalled, but it is also true that the output will exceed the average of recent years, and at the same time the increase in the value of farm products is likely to far more than offset the decline in the aggregate yield. There may be a decrease in wheat of possibly 75,000,000 bushels, but with the price more than twenty cents, a bushel above the corresponding time last year there ought to be a net increase of $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 in the value of the wheat crop over that of 1906. With an increase in the price of corn and cotton, the falling off in these crops likewise doubtless will be offset by their higher values. Thus the farmers of the country are once more blessed with a i vast income?an income so great as ; compared with five or six years ago that it is difficult to comprehend tne magnitude of the gain. The value of farm products in different years has been as follows: V jl cat a* 1880 $2,212,000,000 1890 2.460.000.000 1900 4.717.COO.OOO 190 5 6.415.000,000 1906 6.794.000,000 1907 (estimated) 7,000,000,000 The increase in the last seven years of $2,283,000,000 is a gain of nearly fifty per cent, in that time. This gain in seven years is almost equal to the total value of the farm products of the country in 1890. In the latter year the per capita production of all engaged in agriculture was $287, almost exactly the same as in 1880, while at the present time the per capita of all engaged in agriculture is about $600. The prosperity of the farmers is seen not only in the paying off of hundreds of millions of farm mortgages and in the building of better homes, but also in the heavy deposits in the country banks throughout the West and South. Every banker in all the agricultural regions of the country has been impressed during the last few years -with the great increase in the deposits of farmers, and in many portions of the South a large proportion of the deposits in country banks is made up of surplus accumulations of the agricultural classes. With such fundamentally sound conditions it is scarcely possible for the country again to sink into the depths of panicky times such as we have had in the past. ? * ' j ix So far as the Soutn is concerned, u is quite safe to count that this section will receive for its cotton and cottonseed an aggregate of $SOO,OOO,O0O. lOINiPSDENCE." ^ si .NOW5 f tftmSf fit: * T //////] f /(f. ?m % ! id/it earth W/// i AOMiTtAnce FKJLS . fy'SS* CYOV PAY 7? 4cT OwT> wyy ^ ml!' >fr [??? ^"" . .J.J J . ....^ .rtoon by Tri^s. in the New Yor1 Pre?. . f HERITAGE OP CIVIL WAR. t Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Chronic Kidney Trouble While in the Service. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely, j of Co. E, 17th Ohio, now living at 500 j East Second St.. Newton, Kansas, j Swill interest the thou- i sands of veterans who j came back from the i Civil War suffering tor- ; tureswith kidney com- j plaints Capt. Ely says: j "I contracted kidney i troubleduringtheCivil j War, and the occasional i attacks finally devel- j oped into a chronic j case. At one time I had to use a j crutch and cane to get about. My j back was l^me and weak, and besides the aching, there was a distressing retention of the kidney secretions. I was in a bad way when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills in 1901, but the remedy cured me, and I have been j well ever since.*' Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, X. Y. PICTURE PAPER FOLK. Oh picture paper folk are strange; They have, such big, round eyes! Somehow, their ages never change As time so swiftly flies. They have peculiar twisty legs, And feet of monstrous shape, And fingers just like wooden pegs, And hair that hangs like tape! Or else the girls are weirdly fair, Of wondrous tiny girth, With flaunting, superabundant hair Like creatures not of earth, And men ot geometric styie For poses primly strive, Although they often make me smile, I'm glad they're not alive. ?Washington Star. THREE BOYS HAD ECZEMA. Were Treated at Dispensary?Did Not Improve?Suffered 5 Months ?Perfect Cure by Cuticura. "My three childrer had eczema for five months. A little sore would appear on the head and seemed very itchy, increasing day after day. The baby had had it about a week when the second boy took the disease and a few sores developed, then the third boy took it. For the first three months I took them to the N? Dispensary, but they did not seem to improve. Then used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and in a few weeks they had improved, and when their heads were well you could see nothing of the sores. Mrs. Kate Keim, 513 West 29th St.,'New York, N. Y., Nov. 1, 5, aud 7. 1906." Pl*r.insaurian P*hhf* Pat*r? The occurrence in connection with the remains of Plesiosaurian reptiles of Dolitic and Cretaceous age of peculiarly smoothed and polished pebbles led geologists to conclude that these ancient animals possessed gizzards, in which such hard bodies were utilized as they are in the gizzards of i gallinaceous birds. The smoothing and i polishing of these stones is distinct j from that produced by the action of i wind and running water, and reveals to the practiced eye the purpose for which they were used. The reptiles, j that is to say, had swallowed the i stones to assist in the grinding up of their probably hard food. More recently it has been found that the colossal brontosaurus and diplodocus had a similar habit. Pebbles with the characteristic polish above referred to have been found in America in connec- I si?UVi clrQTAnc nf . tV? och twn j HUU Willi iuc oncinuuo vii ^uvuv v I species of extinct reptiles.' It Is interesting to learn that these pebbles were mostly brightly-colored jaspers. ?London Globe. I HURTING EYES Are relieved of all pain and soreness without | pain in one day oy Geonardi's Golden Eye ! motion. Goois, heals and strengthens weak { eyes. Stops watering, cures inuainination I at once; i>e hrm in demanding "Leonar- j dis"-it makes strong eyes. Guaranteed j or money reiunded. uruggists sen it at 25 ; cts. or forwarded prepaid on reeeipt of ; price Dy is. .b. Geonardi & Co.; Tampa, fla. ' Had He? As a political meeting the chairman j asked at the end of the candidate's ; speech whether "any gintleman has ! anny question to ask?" Some one rose and propounded ar j inquiry mildly critical of the prevail- | ing political belief. A politician be- j ? nlnh orifl ctrimk him ; Hill CI I (11SCU a vtuw ? to the floor. The chairman lookari round and asked quietly: "Anny other gintleman a questior to ask?"?Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrnpfor Children teething,softens thegums,reducesinflammation. allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle THE STANDING CONTROVERSY, j "You don't even try to please the j public," said the indignant crftic of the railroads. "What's the use," rejoined Mr. Dus- ! tin Stax, "of trying to please people who ordinarily can't agree afnong themselves on so simple a question as whether a car window ought to be open or shut?"?Washington Star. REALISTIC. Mother?Gracious, but that wig is tremendously large. Actress?Yes, mother, you see in the third act I dive into a stream, and * tn nro*ect me in case I miss I 'HXlk? i O w x | the net and land in the coal bin.?New York Mail. I Because of th< V * '*? --" - v v. .-ta. *_v5<W Vti*-.;-' *. Careless. During the financial dog days of a Southern college a wealthy merchant called upon the president to say that he had provided in his will for a rather handsome bequest to the college, to j be paid after the death of himself and i his wife. The president was overjoyed, and asked permission to announce the gift in the city paper. This request was granted on condition that the doctor's name should not be mentioned. Accordingly the president wrote a eulogistic notice of the donation and j hurried to the newspaper office. In ! * * - -* - ~ rri r\ V? i o Uom I ills nasie ne icu mo a title. The editor, hurried and wor-1 ried, absently clapped on the first j item appeared the next morning with words that came to his mind; and the the following caption: "Two Pair of Shoes to Wait For."? Harper's Weekh*. THE TERRIBLE TRUSTS. Josh M. A. Long: "I tell you, trusts are getting to be terrible things in J this country." Goetz Dunn: "Sure thing. Why, there's that horrible trust that Skinnem has formed. 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