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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-06-08
GET my PRICES
O. D. FOSTER
NATIONAL BOULEVARD.

IN SPITE OF the poor wheat crops the
l Deering Binders and Mowers have
broken eR records this season. Our sales
on these machines have been remarkable.
considering crop conditions, and not one
breath of complaint has been heard. They
are the best that money and brains can
build. Everybody in touch with Rreder-
icksburg knows the history of the Husker
and Shredder business last fall. The Deer
ing won the highest praise where others
failed. Deering Corn Harvesters gave
satisfaction last year, they are better now.
When you come to town call and see as
and let us talk Corn Harvesters and Husk-
ers and Shredders. Thanking the farmers
for their strong support. we are,
Yours truly,
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-06-08
GOING ON ATRIP?
SURELY YOU NEED \ SUITABLE
Hand Bag or Grip or Suit
Case, Telescope or Trunk

your visit will be extended Small Suitable Bags AT 5Oc, Co.,
ne each Rooy, Strong Telescopes with straps at 7jc sjc 81
each Substantial and Dey suit Gases Hat, with brass trimmings,
spring clasps, lock and key, 81, 1923 $3.50 81 - $3.50
Leather Suit Cases S. 81 j0 So $3.50 each Packing Trunks at
81 $7j Individual Trunks with tray $i25,
81 30 each Splendid Flat Top Trunks = So g. $3.50 s. each
Roller Tray Trunks $l2 Strong Iron Bottom brass Knockers
with heavy ppng worthy trunks for much travelling at
$3.50, s.. &c. $3.50 $500 so each.
OUR TRUNK DEPARTMENT supplied by the biggest factory
IN the country way they priced enables do big
trunk business
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-06-08
w. S. EMBREY

Successor to Embrey & Bergman ]
Dealer i'm Railroad Cross Ties, Cedar
Posts, Spokes and Hoops. Keeps
constantly on hand large supply OF
Baled Hay and Mill Feed. Office near
Railroad Depot. Fredericksburg, Va
Also Agent for Page Wire Fence Co
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-06-08
VIM. Livingston

Contractor and Builder Fredericks-
burg, Va. Fully equipped for all
kind of work in the building line
Business offlce-Room IA, Enterprise
Building.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-06-08
itching, SCabby Skin, Bone Pains, SweIIinqs

heals all Scabs, Scales, Eruptions, WAtery
Blisters, BY giving pure, healthy blood x
affected parts.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28
Burns Any |Fuel-Saves Half
Scientific Construction

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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28
THE ARREST IN POPULATION.

When the Iowa census this year
showed loss in population of $4,000 in
five years, from 1900 to 1905, it was
credited to the decrease in the farming
population. Every city over 5000 in
population had gained, the total being
$1,000. In ALL the towns under 5000
population each and the farming dis
tricts had lost in five years some $4,000
in population. Minnesota proves, by
its census, to have grown in five years
but 225,000, credited wholly to the
village and city population. In the last
decade Minnesota gained one-third, 1877
per cent, in ten years, or 1897 per cent
in year. In the past five years it has
gained only at the rate of SO per cent.
The farming population has ceased to
grow.
But it is not only the farming popula-
ton which suffers arrest. Massachu-
sets, which is more than half city or
town over 5000, has disappointing re-
turn in it's census for 1905. Taking the
increase in the previous decade, a
growth IN population was expected and
predicted of $4,000. The actual in
crease is barely half this, 1851.
The rate OF increase, SO per cent, is
half that for twenty years back. 1t was
about the same, 10 per cent, 1875 to
1880, and S.9 per cent, 1880 to 1885; but
this is the only time it has ever been as
low, and of the earlier decade, the first
five years, 1873 to 1880, were years of
great financial depression.
The past five years have been years
OF overlooking prosperity. Yet the in
crease in population in Massachusetts,
drops one-half. The addition to popu-
lation in five years is no larger than it
was thirty years ago in five years, when
the Inhabitants of the state numbered
only half as many as now.
This same arrest of population is in
progress all over the country. No state
is likely to show in this decade the in
crease of the past. Our national in
crease, which has been jogging along at
about % per cent in ten years, is about
to make drop to II or Is per cent in
ten years, little above the average of
thriving European countries like Ger
many and England.
Our birth rate is decreasing. The
size of families is smaller. The wedd-
ings are as numerous. The christenings
are fewer. Half the immigrants who
come over go back. Each year the pro-
portion of those who return grows a
little bigger.
Our population is fast coming to the
European rate of increase. But wealth
grows. The amount paid out in wages
increases. The average paid each work
or grows. There is more comfort, more
house, more meat, bread, more clothes
and more shoes per person.
If the increase of population shows
an arrest the increase of wealth and
it's distribution yearly advances. -Phila-
delphia Press.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28
MEXICAN VETERANS PENSIONS,

The appeal to be made by Missouri
veterans of the Mexican War for an in
crease of their pensions from eight
dollars month to twenty is meritorious
and deserves favorable action. That
war, by which we won the Empire
of the Southwest, was fought nearly
sixty years ago, and it has few sur
vivors. The youngest of them, those
who went in as boys, are now not far
from four score years of age. 1t is
hardly possible that one Of them is un-
der the scriptual limit of three score
years and ten.
| These old men are feeble and many of
them without adequate support. Their
Missouri reunion the other day brought
together about fifty of them, though
Missouri sent many soldiers to Mexico.
There are now on pension rolls the
names of only few more than five
thousand veterans of the Mexican War
and, in course of nature, the number
grows less every year. The annual ex-
pense of granting the increase would
be less than three-quartess of million
year.
Extravagant pension appropriations
have, at times, been too heavy burden
on the taxpayers. After all our wars
and undeserving persons and many who
have not needed public aid, have
swollen the pension lists to und,e pro-
portions, but no mistake can be made
in dealing literally with the survivors
of a war that ended sixty years ago.
The paucity of their numbers make
such a policy more matter of senti-
ment thanof money.
Men of the years to which the
veterans of the war with Mexico have
now attained are, most frequently, a
heavy burden to friends and and rela-
tives, even when there are such to
take care Of them. Many of them have
over lived family and children. Give
the Mexican veterans an old-age in
crease.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28
Advertising Rates.

Yearly advertisers cents per inch per issue.
Occasional advertisers 10 cents per inch per issue.
Locals S cents per line each insertion.
Locals set in black face type 10 per line each
insertion.
Legal advertising at legal rates.
Church and other notices where admission fee is
harged will be charged for at therate of per
inc.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28

By degrees the beef trust cases are
being postponed further and further,
and in time they will reach date when
they will come in handy as republican
campaign material during the congress
sional battle of 1906.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28

1t is earnestly hoped that Mr.. Rookie
feller's prediction of hard times in 1907
and 1908 is only one Of his first attempts
at joke making.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28

1t seems to be up to Colonel LATE
Young to return from the Orient and
fix up the strained relations between
Secretary Shaw and Governor Cummins.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28

The corn crop having won in the race
with Jack Frost, the farmers will now
applaud winning race with Yellow
Jack.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-28
Another Car Load--3O Days Special


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Evening star., 1905-10-12

when appointed minister of the interior at
me time the iberlals came into power in
1890, he determined upon an organized
movement to coax American farmers over
Inc pofder TO settle upon the Canadian
pralries. He established agencies in Mime
apolis, st. Paul, Des Moines, Omaha. kan
sas City, Chicago and other points in the
middle west. and sent out missionaries in
every direction. He prepared persuasive
literature, and distributed it among the
farmers throughout our northwestern
states, and finally succeeded in persuading
forty-slX solid, prosperous farmers from
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota TO
take free railway ride into Canada
Nearly every one of them purchased land
since that time local representatives of the
governments and railways have been busy
organizing excursions of home-seekers edi-
tors, Spectators and all kinds of people
who Will advertise Canadian lands If they
DO not actually buy them. One of the most
active agencies in promoting the invasion
or Canada has been the Western Canadian
immigration Association, with headquar-
ters at Minneapolis. 1t is responsible for
the emigration Of thousands of our best
citizens who are now located permanently
across the border.
The Canadian government advertises-has
regular advertisements in 5000 agricultural
and rural weekly papers IN the United
States.
There IS interesting political question
involved in this invasion. 1t takes only
three years for a newcomer to secure a
not less than 5000 American settlers will
have become naturalized and will be enti-
tied to suffrage next month, when the first
elections occur in the new provinces of
Alberta and Saskatchewan. 1t is also esti-
mated that next year 10000 more Ameri-
cans will be entitled to vote in Canada,
and within the next generation the Ameri-
can vote may control the politics of western
Canada Fortunately, however, politicians
do not emigrate, but every American is
apt to exercise his right of citizenship. 1t
is confidently expected that the larger part
of the American immigrants will vote the
liberal ticket. 1t would be perfectly nat
ural for them to do so, and in addition
to this almost irresistible inclination, the
conservative leaders have fooIishly opposed
the American invasion and have accused
Mr. Laurier and the liberal party of an in
tention to "Americanize" Canada; to sink
British interests and individuality under a
food of immigration; and 1t has even been
charged that this invasion Is the first step
toward the annexation of northwestern
Canada to the United States.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Carrying the Transatlantic Mails.

Postmaster General Cortelyou has enter
ed into contract with the international
Mercantile Marine Company to carry the
mails from New York, N. Y. to Southamp-
ton, England, calling at Plymouth, Eng
land and Cherbourg, France. The contract
is for period of ten years, with the privI-
lege of terminating 1t az the end of any
year after the lapse of five years. on ore
years notice This IS a continuation of the
important transatlantic ocean mail serv-
ice contracted for ten years ago with the
American line in accordance with the act or
Congress of March 3, 1901. The compensa-
ton lis fixed at the rate allowed by the
statute, four dollars q mile by the shortest
practicable route for each outward voyage.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
TRIAL OF THE GALVESTON.
Average Speed Under a Four-Hour
Run Was 1856 Knots.

According to the report of the naval board
on inspection and survey. the final 4S-hour
trial of the cruiser Galveston was satisfac-
tory in every way. The average speed for
four-hour run under forced draft was
1885 knots an hour, the speed which the
vessel was designed to make being 16.5
knots. She made an average of 14.3 knots
an hour for eight hours under natural draft,
and for the remainder of the fourty-eight
hours she made average of from 10 to
u knots an hour, with four boilers. The
Galveston was begun in private shipyard,
but was finished by the government She is
kattached TO Rear Admiral Slgsbee's squad
pn Of protected cruisers, and already has
en- considerable amount of service.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
MEDICAL.
DIR. SHADE,
DIR. Reed,

Specialist, 500 18TH Street.
25 YEARS sTcc}EssEUL,
Diseases If the Brain and Nervous system. SAin
Blood. Heart. Stomach. Liver, Kidneys BLADDER.
Nose. Throat and Lungs. Structure. varicocele ana
Hydrococele cured. No pain. No loss of time.
Blood Diseases and Disorders OF the Urinary Or
gans promptly relieved and permanently cured By
safe methods Charges low. Free consultation in
person or by letter Hours: 10 to and to Q;
Sundays 10 to l. no12-tf
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Police Boats Out of Commission.

The Maryland oyster police boats Gov. r.
M. McLane and Gov. Thomas are both out
ofvservice at Baltimore to have their ma
chinery and hulls overhauled and put in
condition for efficient service.
While the McLane la away the oyster
dredgers are taking advantage of her abb
sence and scraping the beds in the Potomac,
taking shells and everything and complete
ly stripping them. Reports coming from
the lower Potomac state that several ves-
sells were lying in the vicinity of Nomini
with hold and decks piled high with shells
and small oysters and awaiting favorable
breeze to sail for a northern river.
Evening star., 1905-10-12

And every other state EXCEPT Rhode Island
and Delaware, from one to ten each. There
was a considerable falling off In the emil
grafton from Iowa. Nebraska Wisconsin
and several other states during the past
year. They furnished twice as MANY inn
migrants in 1902 and 1903 as in 1901 but
from all the information l can get here
the movement from the Dakotas Mime
sofa, Iowa and other northwestern states
during the present year has been larger
than ever.
The immigration from Europe consists of
a much higher grade of families than come
TO the United States. They are rtSarly all
OF the farming class-sturdy English,
Scotch and Irish farmers with consider
able money. Most of the mare homestead
ers. During the year 1903 5,299 120 acres, ard
in 1904 4,242,GS0 acres were taken up in
homesteaeds of 16O acres each; and 1885,
ls4 acres were sold to cash buyers by the
government. AS 1 have already suggested.
this represents only about one-third of the
settlers.
Land Held for Speculation.
There is no official record of the land
sold or leased by the railroad companies.
However. Mr.. F. L. Griffin, land commits.
sioner of the Canadian Pacific railroad,
told me that they sold last year between
$4,000 and $1,000 farms, averaging 240
acres each, most of them being grazing and
wheat lands; and about one-third of them
were purchased by immigrants from the
United States Mr.. Griffin has no records
on this subject. but estimates that the
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company has
sold altogether about 10000 farms to
American families during the past five
years. In addition to the individual sales
they have sold a million acres In southeast
AssniUoia to the st. Paul CoIoniza ton
Company; 100000 acres to the Canadian
American Land Company. and other large
tracts to Other American syndicates, all of
which has been practically disposed OF III
the United States
The railway company sells Its agricultural
land from $4 to $40 an acre ten annual
installments, and range lands from 81 to SIS
an acre on the same conditions. The gov
ernment gives homcsteads on the same
nual residence and certain amount OF im-
provement 1t does not advance money to
settlers, but will permit them to mortgage
their homesteads to raise money to pay
Evening star., 1905-10-12

ton of buildings or for the purchase of
stock The government also maintains M
migration houses at different points, where
free lodgings are furnished and guides
may be found to show land-iookers over
the country but the latter are required to
furnish their own subsistence and pay their
own TRANSFORMATION.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Prohibition Party Ticket.

The prohibition party will have a full
ticket in the field in the neighboring county
of Charles. in Maryland.
At a convention held at La Plata Mr..
Joseph II. Penna. was nominated for the
state senate; Bruce NJ. Wilmer and Chas.
E Neave. for the house of delegates; J..
Wesley Penna and John E. Wetheraida, for
county commissioners; Samuel r. Neave
for county treasurer; Thomas p. Simmons,
sheriff and Albeek G. Jones. for county
surveyor.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Arrived at Baltimore.

The three-masted schooner Jennie N.
Huddel. which was reported hard and fast
ashore on Windmill Point In Chesapeake
bay. has arrived at Baltimore with her
cargo of lumber. The Huddel according to
the report of Capt. Martno, her master,
drifted ashore on the point and resisted all
the efforts of the large tugs to float her.
When the tugs abandoned their effort and
left the vessel good tide came and she re-
leased herself from the bar. The damage
to the vessel u slight.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
New Record With six-Inch Guns.

The statement is made at the Navy De-
partment that the armored cruiser Colora-
do, at her first target practice recently,
made record with her 6-inch guns which
has never before been equalled, and was
accomplished without arrangement Of her
sights. This is regarded as the more re-
markable because 1T was the first time the
Colorado had fired her guns In target prac-
tice. and because her gun crews are but
newly organized.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Resignation Of Lieut.. oliver.

The President has accepted the resigna-
tion of I'd Lieut.. Prince A. Oliver. 5th Cav
airy, stationed at Fort Apache. Arizona. as
an officer of the army. to take place at once.
Lieut. Oliver is native of Pennsylvania
and graduate of the military academy OF
the class Of 1901 He was appointed =
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Clifford sifton,s Work.

Clifford Sifton. Manitoba lawyer. was
the author and first promoter of the Amer
lean invasion. He is familiar with agricul-
tural conditions in the United States. and
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Revising Firing Regulations.

c. Hale and William. M. Wright all of the
general staff. have been appointed board
to meet in this city for the purpose of COM
pleting the revision of the firing regulations
for small arms. 1904.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Conviction.

Every advertisement in
The Star is pertinent testi-
mony, not OF faith, but of
conviction.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
To Exchange for Building Let's.
Stone & Fairfax.
l342 New York Ave. and 8O4-8O6-808 F St.

second lieutenant upon his graduation in
February of that year, and assigned to the
5th Cavalry, with which regiment he has
served ever since.
Evening star., 1905-10-12
Recent Immigration.

SO rapid has been the immigration during
the last four years that it is safe to saw
that there are now 100000 people west of
Manitoba province, in a land where there
were only 19,C00 twenty-five years ago. The
Following figures will show the Immigration
during the years named, and the sources
from which It came:
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-07-15
n Cowboy Miner ParaIyzcs
Los H16eTes People
$500 FOR SPECIAL TRAIN
To Chicago On a Guarantee e
That Rum VIII Be Made
In Us Hours-N0 Stops
VIII BE Made.

Io- Anecis-. Jniy = Water S-'oti,
the eoa 10, n.in.-r- II Death VALLEY sho
h a. f-.n astonishing ia. '-f;izen- 81 f0-
Angelo. AMI .sih.-r sifies Ia -'uihsrn
California Ter thu r2-i two weeks With
lsyi-h sxt-ndi;nr's 4 money, this att'-r-
noon con.lud.d . bargain with General
Passenger Agent Byrae. for special
train 20 convey him u Chicago in record
tine. scos, paid over $500 in cash for
the special T. Chicsgo on the guarantee
sssi the run will be made in fs hours
Tho train will e'.nsist Of the heaviest
m ,gul engine ia the Santa Re equip
men;. tsn.ier, h4egage car, diner and
Sleeper sixteen crews will handle tins
tr..i,. -.is..-n the two cities and no stop
will l.. IN .d. excepting TO change en-
gin'~ si.i cr~ss.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-07-15
ANOTHER MAN KILLED.
.Tohz pifnrer Killed By Street
Car at Boise.

On saturday morning lat. John PHI
sner. Dne Of Bois.'s hest known citizens.
~.z run over and killed 10y street car.
He h~n left hiz home in the north end
Of the eitv and uzs leading horse 10 a
blacksmith shop. The accident occurred
Just a. he Was crossing the car track at
Eighteenth street. The car approached
without being seen or heard by Mr. Pill
mer, who was blind in the eye toward
the car ard deaf in one car
he crossed the track, but the horse
pulled back drawing him between tbs
rails in front Of the car. He fell on th'
lender with such force as 10 bend th'
rods almost 70 the ground
He clung TO the halter rope, and wa
pulled from the fender By the frightenes
horse, and rolled beneath the wheels
He was dragged % feet before the ca
could be stopped.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-07-15
KILLED BY n TR7IH-
Fred SYeefassn Is HORRIBLY
HangTea 9esr H'ei>er.

w,-i-.,. la.y "A H'-n sna'7i fr-d
Sx.~,n.sn wss kiiic.i shis >Asning a
o'clock Ia train No sestbound, st-'u'
tbree-qn-rsr Of a mile west OF this city
when sern by the engineer he was iying
siouile4i up in the center Of the trs'c~-
The engineer could not tell whetiiei 1
.as man " lsssndle oi clothes hui se
spplisi The air and heEan NhistlinS =
soon A. lac obs rvei IL. The engine,
tender and forward truckS Of the nSl
c.,r psss,r over tnv mans i'osiy- IL ~ss
necessary 10 puli NJ the trnin IN ori'r
L. get tie wheels af his bcdv. Tie
l.-i, Nas brsught this city and an i.'-
anc-s held The jury eA"nerated 'he
r..iln.sI creA from h.aIne.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-07-15
Bent Her Double

Il knew no one, four weeks
when was sick with typhoid AMI
kidney trouble. writes Mrs All
nie Hunter. OF l'ittSburg, Pa,
and when Igot letter. although
l had one OF the best doctors
could get. was bent double a"'i
had to rest nay hands on my
knees when | walked. From this
terrible affiiction was rescued
hv Electric Bitrers. which ~
stored my health and strength,
aud Row can walk as straight
as ever. They age simply wonder
fal. Guaranteed 10 cure stona-
ach. liver aud kidney disorders tt
E. NJ. Kirkpatrick 4 Co., drug
gists, price 5Oc.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-07-15
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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-07-15

having had 70 much fun, jumped down
of his perch on 70 the floor, vent np 70
the dog aud yelled out again Seek 'en
Tigeg'
This time Tige did not seek EN-"
and the way the parrot was handled was
a caution. Had it not been that some
one heard the confusion and rescued
him, he would have been killed He
managed 70 get onto his perch, and, after
gazing at his feathers scattered all
around the floor, looked mournfully
back At one single feather standing ny
on MS tail. and in doleiul voice said
Il knox what's the matter with me.
talk too damn much. ch."-Exebange.