Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-05
An Empire Ruled by Railroad.

An Empire Ruled by Railroad.
Not even the Canadian Pacific rail-
way, biggest and shrewdest monopoly
since the Hudson's Bay company,
knew what it was getting twenty years
ago. 1t looked only at the map, and
the map placed the apex of the Great
American Desert about where Battle
ford. is today. They raise as good
wheat as ever grew from two hundred
miles north of Battleford as far south
as the high plains of Texas. The Ca
madam Pacific railway got from an
ignorant and sceptical government
twenty-five millions in cash, twenty
| five million acres of land, certain com
pleted railway lines in the east and
others upon the Pacific slope. Now
said the imperial and the colonial gov.
eminent to the company Of adventur.
ers of the Canadian Pacific railway.
"let us see you! do it"
The company of adventures did it,
but they did it in ignorance. They
built their first line through some of
the poorest farming country, and, re.
belling at this, asked for the privilege
of selecting lands outside of the GOV.
enanted belt of twenty miles from the
railway track. They got choice lands
all over the northwest for, nothing.
They have sold it in rivers and seas at
two, three, five, six, seven dollars an
acre, take it or leave it and would
rather you left 1t, for next year it will
go UP and up again in price. Today
the Canadian Pacific railway is build
ing nineteen new branches, spending
six million dollars for rails, seven and
one-half millions for rolling stock.
Once more the country has outgrown
all prophecy. The crops threaten to
swamp all transportation Emerson
Hough in 'tThe Last Stampede for
Cheap Homes" in The Outing Maya
zine for January. "a.
The American Magazine.
Ida M. Tarbell, who wrote Lincoln
and the famous STORY OF Rockefel-
ler";; William Allen White, the we'll
known Kansas editor; q. p. Dunno,
creator of "Mr. Dooley";; Ray Stan.
7nard Baker, author of Railroads on
Trial." and Lincoln Steffens, of ".The
Shame of the Cities fame, are under
the leadership of John S. Phillips, now
editing the American Magazine of New
York. Never. before has such a bril-
liant group been gathered together,
and they are not only contributing
themselves, but are filling the maya
zine with the very best novels and
short stories and great timely articles
by other famous writer's and beautiful
pictures by great artists. The Ameri-
can is 81 "a year
Teaching the Japanese Children.
In the midst of the excitement OF
what ITO do with the Japanese children
in the schools on the Pacific coast,
an article by Marian Bonsall, associate
editor of The Hous ekeeper, appearing
in that magazine for January, upon the
training Of the japanese children in
their own land, is particularly enlight-
ening. d. }..s U, III
8 IT was In a Japanese kindergarten
that received my first vivid impress
sions of what the training of Japanese
women means. Twenty or thirty but;
terfy babies sat about the kindergar-
ten table Studying silk worms. The
ugly gray worms were nibbling indus
triously In their boxes of green leaves.
and the tiny tots were chattering
about them excitedly. The teacher i'm
posed upon them a hard task moving
the silkWorms into other boxes Of
fresh leaves; and In order that the
stale leaves should not be put In the
fresh boxes, 1t was necessary for the
children to remove the worms indiyid.
.aally, and by the aid Of their own.
small hands. 4
The little students understood their
order, and knew but TO obey; but the