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our diplomatic corps in Chile broke into an enthusiastic 

 outburst of gladness at the sight of the great harvest. 

 He said : 



" I wouldn't have missed this glorious vision, for 

 vision it is, for a great deal. Oh, what a country we 

 have to boast of. Just see how nice and snug the sky 

 fits down over everything on this prairie. I can't blame 

 a settler here if he should become a confirmed egotist, 

 because wherever he stands or wherever he looks he is 

 the ' centre of the universe.' Look at all of this wealth 

 of wheat and of oats and just think of our fool United 

 States Senate which says you shan't take a bushel of 

 this wheat over into God's country without paying 

 twenty-five cents' duty upon it, or a bushel of those 

 white oats without paying fifteen cents, or a bushel of 

 potatoes without paying more than their cost. I'm a 

 Republican and always have been, but I'll be gol- 

 darned if I don't vote for a Democrat for congressman 

 at the next election. Now, folks, you just watch me 

 and see how I'll shout for the Democratic candidate ? 

 no matter who he is." 



Let us say a word more about the crops. On the 

 train was a gentleman from Philadelphia who is one of 

 a company of Quaker City capitalists now engaged in 

 farming a tract of land forty-five miles back of Moose 

 Jaw. This company is called "The Overbrook Wheat 

 Farms Co." They purchased 3,040 acres at less than 

 twenty dollars per acre, and then purchased the latest 



