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HAPPY HARVEST TIME
Era of Prosperity in the Far
Northwest.
FORTUNES IN WHEAT
STORIES OF MEN WHO HAVE
RISKED AND GAINED.
A Years Work Depending on a Single
Crop-Where the Warm
Chinook Blows.

Q, the warm chinook is blowing in the west.
And the emerald Is glowing on the breast
OF the broad and beloved prairie
Where the warm chinook will tarry
While the birds are making merry in the west.
Now the fields growing golden in the west,
And baby bird is holding to his nest,
But tomorrow he'll be trying
And the next day he'll be flying
Where the warm chinook is signing in the west
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PRINCE ALBERT, N. W. T.,
August 81, 1904.
To lay ones crowned head on a pillow,
praying God that the fort may not fall be-
fore another day has dawned, to wait in
the White House for the click of the key
that shall bring glad or sad news-these be
anxious hours for the king, crowned and
uncrowned, but not more than the sum-
merlong vigil the northwest farmer keeps
over his crop.
They are vertable gamblers-these north
west farmers. They risk a whole years
work on wheat alone. The wheat land is
all prepared in the autumn, and in the
spring the farmer has only to harrow it
over and drill in his seed. That done, he
begins ploughing his fallow and watching
the while. the growing grain If he is on
new land he will plough shallow early in
the summer then back-set deeper in the
fall BY the following spring this sod will
have rotted, and from these new lands they
get thirty and forty, and sometimes as high
as fifty, bushels of wheat to the acre-if
the frost and hail hold off
insurance companies now insure crops
against hail, and by and by we shall see
men insurng against frost as well. for
that would be a good risk. Each years
cultivation lessons the danger from frost
and when land has been under cultivation
for seven years the danger disappears al
most entirely.
But the hail may fall at any time on
the just and unjust
one night | was leaving Brandon. Mani
toba, on late train. The cars were crowded
full of farmer folk and village people going
home from the farmers fair
Fury of the Storm.
The day had been extremely hot and
when We We're half an hour out great
black cloud came out of the south The
approaching storm was f1anking us and as
it rolled northward the women watched it
anXiously. One spoke of the children
wondering how Jim could manage to stay
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hour for ten hours every day. to carry the
crop to the lakes.
These roads are building branch lines con.
stantly and along these lines great grain
elevators rise as if sDrnging, like the
wheat, from the earth.
Will Keep Things Lively.
So fast rs the Grand Trunk engineers set
their stakes men measure off farms where
homesteads are to be had and where the
land has been sold they buy. and by the
time that the first freight train passes over
the road they will be ready to ship wheat,
and the wheat grown from the new fields,
made possible, or rather profitable by the
building of the new lire. will keep the
Grand Trunk busy for years to come.
No mar can look upon these broad fields
and doubt the wisdom OF this enterprise and
the sagacity of the government that have
stood by the promoters. Mics upon miles
OF waving grain grow Eere--Sreat oceans OF
gold that viii go to swell the food supply
OF the world and make the poor mans loaf
larger ana cheaper.
And while there is lanentation and as
sassinat ton in Russia, and red blood reddens
the eastern seas. here in North America is
peace and plenty-the happy harvest time.
''Reapers reaping in the shocks
OF gold and girls in purple frocks."
CY WARMAN.
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with the little ones and meet her at the
station at the same time.
Just my luck" said the middle aged
woman; lived here in thirty mile O Bran
don seventeen year and this is the first
time l ever see Brandon.
For quarter of an hour the lightning
played constantly upon the black blanket
that curtained the southern sky. The I'M
perial Limited. that had lost time in the
forest fires in British Columbia, raced with
the storm as if trying to slip by. Sud-
denly the deluge came. Windows were
slammed down; the lightning crashed
Women covered their faces, weeping for
their little ones left alOne-many of them
for the first time in their lives. Bearded
men pressed their eager faces against the
wet windows listening for the wind that
would lay the heavy grain fiat, or the pat
ter of the hail that would beat into
the ground. An awful flash that seemed to
hang and hover over the flying train for
half a second was followed by a thunder
clap and telegraph pole beside my win
dow was Splintered. Old storm-scared
pioneers glanced at one another shaking
their heads. One man walked out in the
vestibule, came back, and as he strolled
down the aisle reported to the eager pas
sengers the progress of the storm GOOD
rain" he commented; Not much wind,
but"-he stopped short gripping the back
of a seat, for at that moment shower of
hail began to rattle on the roof.
Five minutes later the fury of the storm
was past The men were chatting, women
laughing and children sneezing, for the
rain and hail had cooled the air greatly.
How many times in a summer these peo-
ple pass through such anxious hours!
The Danger Past.
And now at last the days of dread are
over The harvest time is here. The
golden grain is being gathered in a thou
sand fields. and month from now mill
lions of bushels Of wheat worth millions
OF dollars will be pouring into the gran
aries and elevators, and new -made money.
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EngIish-Made Silverware.

The Secretary of State has been informed
that the British parliament has passed an
act prohibiting the further use of the
English hall mark ON American made sill
verware. Agitation for the passage of a
measure of this kind has been carried on
for several years. 1t was alleged in favor
of the enactment of the law that an enor-
nous quantity of American-made silver
ware was sent to England for hall ma liking
with the English lion so that it could be
passed off elsewhere as English made. The
use of the English hall mark on silverware
made elsewhere is now made illegal.
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It Seems a Pity.

s e. Kiser in Chicago Record Herald.
l.
It's such a very little while
That any stays,
1t seems pity not to smile
Through all the days.
At best our joys are all so brief,
1t seems too bad
That any one will borrow grief
Who might be glad.
III.
So many with small aid, o friend.
Might rise and stand,
1t seems q pity not to lend
A helping hand.
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Devotion to Realism.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Mortified Parent-"Tommy. what is the
matter with your face? What on earth has
happened to your"
Tommy-"Nothin', nav, only me an
Dicks been playin' Jim Jeffries an Jack
Munroe, an'-an / was Jack
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A Marked Resemblance.

From Life.
Rural Visitor Din dime museum): Gosh
all torment!"
Living Skeleton-"Well, what's the matter
with you?"
"Nothin', that l know Of but yew look as
If yew'd summer boarded all yewr lifer'
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Strings OF chSh.
In addition to these colleges, normal and
preparatory schools and academies have
been established at nearly all of the CAPT
tails of the procedures, which will bring
modern education, formerly left entirely to
the missionaries, officially within the reach
of three-fourths of the population of China
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
Modern Educational Movement

From these questions you may derive an
idea of the drift of the examinations as they
are now held, and realize the extent and the
significance of the departure from the tradi
tional practices. In oder to answer them
foreign education is necessary, and there
fore candidates for cifice have been COM
PEELED to seek tutors among the mission-
aries. Aristocratic young men of mandarin
families, and among the literati, who have
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Opportunities will occur as IL they
were ordered, and everything-time,
place. space-will conform itself, just
as if they had been expressly arranged.
The main thing is to become in accord
with these influences. That once ac-
complished, ones aspirations will work
themselves out.
'I have tried to give expression to
this theory in the Romance of Two
Worlds but that book was written
when was extremely young-just out
Of the convent-and I realize its crud-
tiles.
I'm fact, I am not at all satisfied
with any Of my work up to this point,
and hope some day to give expression
to my thoughts in works that I shall
have reason to be content with. That
is one OF the objects of my life. One
of my favorite books on this subject
is Trine's In Tune With the Infinite
There is scarcely a day passes that I
do not read something from it.
The Souls Immortality.
"The subject Of the souls immortal
fly has long settled itself in my mind. 7
cannot say I believe it-I know IL.
Death to me is nothing. do not even
admit it. The fact that I am is suffi-
cient proof for me that always was
and always shall be. Even here and
now we can begin-we have begun
immortal life. Our duty here is to place
ourselves, as Trine says, in tune with
the Infinite.
Il even go so far as to believe that
people could keep themselves in perfect
bodily health by following out the die
tates Of such influences as they feel
bring them into accord with the uni
verse.
Death is a mere putting off OF one
garment to put on another Whether
the garment taken up after death be a
better or worse one than that worn
here depends entirely upon how the
present life is spent.
These thoughts, so briefly outlined
here, have been constant companions
Of mine for years; and, il the health.
strength and time be given me, 1 GER
tainly intend to elaborate them fully
some day.
II might tell you that so far as my
psychic theories are concerned, put
them into practical workings every day
of my life. All my business transac-
tions are shaped more or less by their
dictates, and, when have carried any
undertaking up to a certain point,
leave it to take care of itself ] always
find that it is taken up just where
leave 1t and carried to successful con-
clusion. Something distinctly tells me.
You have done sufficient; leave the
rest to us and so do"
Altogether, Miss CoreIlfs lines have
fallen In pleasant places. Though she
has had one or two great sorrows in
her life which have left their mark she
is uniformly cheerful. She is still In
the thirties, is full of energy. and en-
Joys enormous contemporary fame
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peare's time; rare books of great
value; paintings, prints and engravings
satisfy both the eye and the mind.
In Miss Corelli's drawing room-an
extremely cheerful apartments a
large photograph of King Edward, pre-
sented to Miss Corelli by the King him
self and bearing his Majestys auto
graph.
The King, by the way, is great ad-
mirer of her works, and takes the
trouble to sound her praises Cl all oc-
casions. When "Barrabas" was pub
lished in 1893, the King-then Prince
Of Wales-went about asking his
friends: Have you read Miss Co
relli's 'Barrabas?'" q" which, doubtless,
did not do the book any harm.
In the Corelli home taste, luxury and
wealth are combined very happily, ev-
erything being in perfect keeping. AS
you see all this goodly gear gathered
together you wonder that so much
could have been accomplished by a
mere woman" alone and unassisted,
solely by intellectual output.
Quite a Busy Woman.
Miss Corelli's personality is difficult
TO describe. She is not tall, yet con-
veys the idea Of height. Somehow, you
expect to find her sort of new woman
ish. AS a fact, she is a very womanly
woman. Her love of flowers amounts
to a passion, and her drawing
opens into a winter garden where roses
and lilies and even lilac and .aburnum
bloom all the year around. She is a
skilled musician, playing the piano and
mandolin with equal ease, and she is
quite renowned among her intimate
friends for her voice and the way she
renders the national ballads and folk
songs" of various peoples.
She is not, as has been often re-
ported of her, irritated or seriously
put out by the various attacks made
upon her.
Il have too much to do" she says
''to mind them"
The repulsive caricature which was
circulated broadcast by her enemies
after her action for libel at Birming.
ham law courts, amused and surprised
more than it distressed her. The often
sive latter press which in more thar
one instance accompanied the cartoon
in its career through some of the
American papers she admitted to be
rather trying.
Miss Corelli displays good taste ir
dress, combined with simplicity and
economy. In her own house she wears
very simple gowns, made after the
Greek models, in various pale colors
such as suit her fair complexion. She
does not care for jewels and seldom
wears any. Her hair is of the true
light golden, so rarely seen and mos
difficult to photograph; she dresses il
simply. its natural waves being drawr
loosely back from the temples and
fastened in thick twist at the napt
of the neck. Her eyes are deep blue
for. There are beautiful pieces of an
Her Talk on Fame.
When conversing she has an ami
mated, cheerful expression, but tn,
countenance in repose is almost sad
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You would say that despite her mar
velous-and one might say easy-suc-
cess, there was something behind or
within her life that had deeply wound
ed it, or that the struggle had wearied
her.
Though Miss Coreln stated she had
an aversion to being interviewed. still
once entered on the task she answered
every question quite freely:
1T must be very nice to be so famous
tell us how it feels"
She laughed. well, I suppose it has
its few advantages. But there are a
good many drawbacks as we'll Do you
know, sometimes here in Stratford there
viii be ever so many groups of people
standing out in the street merely gaz-
ing up at the house. They must find
some pleasure in it or they wouldn't t
do it: but it seems so funny.
Now and then a venturesome ad-
mirer will ring the bell and offer my
butler half a crown GO cents) to stand
inside the hall for a minute. l wouldn't
say he has always refused the bribe,
but he often has. One cannot help be-
ing amused at such form of hero-or
shall l say heroine-worship. Though l
am sure it is all meant kindly"
Drawbacks of Glory.
But" she continued, rather sadly.
among the drawbacks is the grudge
some people seem to bear me for hav-
ing earned the right to live Constant
misrepresentation and downright call
umny are so often my portion that
have ceased to care about it now.
But what I regret is that in Amer
lea especially they accept their infor-
nation about me in the press from
their London correspondents, not one
Of whom has ever seen me, except just
now yourself. These gentlemen take all
their impressions from hearsay, which
they never attempt to verify
You bear no very good feeling
toward the press, perhaps?"
"Ah, the old story, cropping UP
again" she said laughing. please
don't make such a mistake as to re-
port that 1 dislike journalists.
Il have ever so many good friends
on the press, men Of sterling worth
and ability, and I have no grudge
whatever against my enemies there.
when 1 first began my career as
quite young girl, 1 did feel it hard to
contend with so much abuse and vitu-
perative language-and a kind word
would have helped me more than !
can say. But don't care now. l have
too big public TO care"
Letters From America.
You have many correspondents, ]
believe? Strangers write to you from
all parts of the world?"
"Oh, yes-such kind and cheering let
ters, too, especially from America and
India. Two or three of my books have
been translated into Hindustani-'Bar-
rabas' for instance-and 1 get many
letters from native persons who ap-
pear to read them. Temporal Power,
my last novel, has been translated into
Japanese-that seems very odd! But
hear It is quite a favorite book with
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little Shetland ponies, whose names
are respectively Puck and Ariel. /
have all ] can do to hold them. and
a spin behind them is most exhilarat-
ing"
How is it you happened to come to
Stratford- on Avon to liver
1T arose out of mere sentimental
association. My stepfather. DR.. Mac
kay, had always promised to take me
to Shakespeare's town, but his death
occurred before we did the promised
pilgrimage. He died in 1890. l visited
Stratford then. while mourning for his
loss-and wished even at that time to
live there. 1 had only written four
books then. But circumstances rem
dered this impossible.
The Shakcspearean Fight.
after my serious illness in 1897, and
my slow recovery during 1898. 1 again
thought of the old town, and came
back to it. 1 loved it very much-I
love it still, though there are a sec
tion of persons connected with the
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust who
have done their level best to make me
hate it. But they have not succeeded.
anu Jney nave themselves III
trying to injure me-"
THE old houses you have saved in
Henley street are genuine Of Shakes
peare's period?"
Certainly. The deeds exist that
prove them so. They are at the birth
place, and the trustees are aware OF
them. Nothing but the most willful
obstinacy and ignorance could have
planned such wholesale transforma
ton of Henley street as was intended
Even as it is, future generations will
execrate the men who have altered the
old street, just as we execrate the
memory of Francis Gastrell, who cut
down Shakespeares mulberry tree"
How Attack Was Waged.
''The interest of Stratford is to pre-
serve it's Shakespearean associations
religiously. AT present it is destroying
them as fast as it can and there will
soon be nothing left for any reverent
lovers of Shakespeare to see. Mr.. Sid
ney Lee tells US that there is nothine
left genuinely of Shakespeare time ir
the birthplace itself but the cellar and
that is not shown to visitors So that
enthusiastic Americans are only rever-
ing a sham after all, according to Mr.
Lee"
Did Mr.. Lee help you in your ef-
forts to save the old cottages?"
Mr.. Lee helped very much to spread
the libelous assertions of his friend Mr.
Flower against me-. replied the novel
list quietly-"and he had no excuse fol
doing so, as I wrote him a friendly anC
courteous letter, telling him that th'
story of my wish to purchase land il
Henley street was not true, and asking
him as scholar and gentleman not t.
credit such rumors. He never answered
the letter, but he continued to spreaC
the calumny in q circular letter abou
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Henley street to the English ana
American press"
Suffered for Shakespeare.
You have had good deal to endure
for shakespeare
We'll, it has interested me deeply,
and l do not grudge the money 1 have
spent or the trouble 1 have taken in
doing what l believed to be a national
duty. OF course, 1 have been panied at
the willful Misrepresentation that has
been made through the work of Mr..
Flower and Mr. Sidney Lee to the
press, but the whole town of Stratford
knows now what the conspiracy was
against me, and that knowledge is
rapidly spreading The truth of it is
sure to come out.
1T has surprised and shocked me to
know that a man of Mr.. Flowers re-
spectacle position has stopped TO use
such despicable means as he confessed
he had, to do me injury, because per-
sonally speaking 1 have never had the
slightest animus against Mr.. Flower.
Faith in the Psychic.
II presume you have a grudge
against Mr.. Flower, who worked all the
mischief"
Not the least in the worldl He has
injured himself far more than he has
injured me. And 1 believe in compen-
sation."
'In what way?"
There we touch on the psychic" said
Miss Corelli, smiling, "and If we begin
on that subject it will lead US rather
far. But what mean just now is that
1 think a wrong is always righted in
due season, and that people who play
a Iow-down game and play bad tricks
behind the scenes get punished openly.
I am a thorough psychologist in these
things, believing that we are helped by
influences beyond ourselves.
while we have broached the psychic.
however, 1 would like to make it
clearly understood that I am not a
believer in modern spiritualism. As
the Americans say, take no stock
whatever in spirit rappings, and all
that sort of thing.
II have not the slightest doubt, how
ever, that we are aided by things
which are far above and beyond us.
For instance, if person make up his
mind to accomplish a certain thing
provided, of course, it is salutarv in
itself-all he has to do is to place him
self in accord with the universe. so
to speak. and everything in the world
will tend toward the accomplishment
of that object.
Power of the Mind.
II myself have tested this time and
again, and 1 know positively what a
great thing 1t is. When the human
mind concentrates upon accomplishing
a certain object and places itself in
tune with these unseen powers, de-
voutly wishing and working for the
chosen end, events will shape them
selves in accordance with that desire.
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Hall, Lonoon.)
- n ARIE CORELLI. the most
NN famous woman author of the
day, is practically un-
known, so far as her person
. slity is concerned. With exception Of
enc or two faxed interviews and the
circulation of a preposterous cartoon
by an avowed enemy Of hers, so little
is known in America about Marie Cor
eli that she may as well have dwelt
in a safe deposit vault in Lassa, the
forbidden city Of the East.
For years she has Stunned the
svowed interviewer. The camera has
been an abomination in her sight. Up
10 this time a few tiny photographs
taken bv a friend with a kodak years
ago were the only photographs of Miss
Coreln in existence. With the excep-
ton Of very fine portrait, painted by
the well known artist, Ellis Roberts,
for himself, and in the artists own pos
session, and a full-length painting by
Miss Donald Smith. which hangs on
the wall Of the fine old Tudor oak
staircase in Miss CoreIlis home at
Stratford-on-AvOn, the pictures which
accompany this article are the only
photographs for which the authoress
has ever sat She has been persuaded
TO have these taken rather than allow
the libelous caricature which has re-
Gently been circulated in America
Through her opponents Of the Shakes
peare Birthplace Trust'D, to go uncon-
tradicted.
She Is Not PersuadabIe.
So many erroneous and damaging
things have appeared recently with
reference TO the distinguished author
ess that the writer Of this article has
at last persuaded Miss Corelli 70 grant
an interview which would afford the
public a correct idea of one who, up
20 this time, has been known only
through her books.
Miss Corelli is not a very persuada-
bic person, when it comes to inter
views.
She is a rapid and easy taIker on
every topic but one-herself Extract
fng information from her on that point
is like drawing out leviathan with an
hook
A few words about Miss CoreIlfs
surroundings and personality. She
lives in an old manor house-Mason
Croft-at Stratford-on-Avon. 1t is a
sixteenth century house and retains it's
Elizabethsn gables at the back. It's
antiquity may be imagined from the
fact that manor fee" of eight shil-
lings-or $2-imposed in the time of
Charles II upon the house has still
10 be paid to the present King.
The King Admires Her.
The interior Of Mason Croft is fur
nished in exquisite taste. Miss Corelli
has surrounded herself with all that
the artistic temperament could wish
tique furniture dating back to Shakes
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BY W. B. NoRTHRoP.

photographs and Letter Press Copy
right 1904 by Central News and Press
Exchange. Entered at Stationers'
Hall, London.)
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ARIE CORELLI, the most
famous woman author of the
day, is practically un-
known, so far as her person