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DECEMBER 27,

L897.

NORTU-WEST FARMERS. (Montreal Witness.)

A ccosiderable numberof farmers, with their wives and fam lies, who, some years ago, lef’ the lower provinces for the North West, have been, tor the past few days, coming east, on their way to revisit famiar scenes during the Christmas holidays. Of these there were several this morning waiting tor ewst bound trains this evening, atthe Windsor Street Station. Spoken to about their present circum— stances and prospects, the reply was unanimovs that they bad nothiog to regret in leaving their old bomes. There was every opportunity for prosperity and development in the region of Alberta, for instance where they have settled. The past year had been ex- ceptionally successful. The crop had been bonotifal and the prices for wheat unpre - cedentiy high. Farmers had been, in consequence, able—thotre of them who need«d to do so—to pay off old debts, while others, independent, contemplated the purchasing of more land or the erection of more permanent buildings. Ae for the winter, the te-timony Was corro- horative of that which is heard on all bands--that while the cold is an- doubted, it is an aggreeable cold—iftucb a paradox can be allowed—that is to say, the air is dry and orsciog: there is an ex- hilerating brightness of the atmosphere and the dampness and ‘ mugginess’ which are too frequently felt in the east are quiet absent. Cattle can stop out most of

doors without hurt. ‘ On the whole;’ said Mr. James Anderson, ‘while we are glad to revisit old scenes, we have every rea- son to be thankful that we left the east for the great wheat-growing district in the Northwest.’

LOCAL OPTION IN NEW SOUTH

WALES.

Ia connection with local self-govern- ment, by means of the municipel system, occurs the only instance in which the principle of what is known as local option has been put into operation in New South Wales. For many years (says Mr. T. A. Coghlan, ir his “Wealth and Progress of New South Wales’) there was a strong agitation in favor of local option, or tLe right of the inhab:tants of any district ‘0 contro! the liquor traffic in that district, and on several occasion unsuccessful attempta were made to legislate upon the subject. Inthe year 1882, however, an insta'ment of the principle was included in a Licensing Act then passed, which, with an amendment meade in the following year, is still in force. These measures provide that in every municipality, or ward ofa municipality, a local option vote shall be taken every three years, at the election for aldermen, in which the rate. payers are permitted to vote either “ Yes”or “No” on twoqnesi ons: (1) Whether any new publican’ /iceuses shall be granted during the coming three years in the municipality or ward in questior; and (2) whether any removalsof publicans’ licenses shal! be allowed within the same period. Over eleven-twentieths of the votes polled are required to make the vote operative in the negative. The advocates of local optiou are not content with thie partial adojton of the principle; they urge its extension to every electorate in the colony, all persons ov the electoral roll to have the right to vote. They further propose to place it in the power ofa majority of the electors to say whether licensed public- houses shall be suffered to exist at ail. The extreme advocates of local option aleo contend that women should bave the right to vote upon this question as well as men and that public-houses should be abolished without com pensation to the occupants by owners Although the local option vote. is taken Once in three years in every municipality, or ward of a municipality, the year when it is taken is not the same in all. During three years 1894, 1895 and 1296, only 29,573 electors voted on the first, and 28,940 onthe second question. There were 9,570 votes in favor of, and

20,008 sgainst new licenses; and 1),672 in favor of, and 17,268 against removals. The total number

of electors on the municipal roils in Feb- raary, 1896, was 177,634; and allowing for the fact that aconsiderable number of these were for various reasons disqualified from voting. The small number of votes recorded on the local option question shows, neverthless, a remarkable spathy on the part ot persons entitied to vote. The result of the latest voting in 37 sub- urben municipalities, including 31 where the vote wae taken in February, 1897, was that ont of a total of 67,676 electors on tbe roll, only 9,595 voted on the ques- tioa of new licenses, viz ,3,117 for, and 6,478 against; and 9,115 on the question ot removals, viz., 3,630 for, and 5,405 against. It would therefore appear that very little interest is taken in the matter except by the extreme advocates of tem- perance on the une hand, aud those inter- ested in the drink traffic on the other, while the general public is apathetic on the evbject.

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KELP GATHERERS.

THE IRISH PEOPLE WHO DWELL ON THE ISLAND OF MYNISH.

Rude Cabins Which a Rade and Untutor- ed Folk Call Home—Their Vocation Not a Very Remunerative One, bat They Are

Strong and Healthy Men.

Right on the western borders of the land, and upon the numerous islands and peninsulas whith are the common natural features of this broken part of the Lrish coast, the kelp gatherers live. In a certain sense they seem to be an sanphibious sort of folk and draw their

gus*enance, apparertly always more or iess d precarious, from sea and land alive. Let us picture their exist-

ence for a moment, such as we may see it on the island of Mynish, not far from Roundstcee bay, off the Galway coast. Imagine an island, about 12 miles in circumference, connected with the main- land by a kind of viaduct recently con- structed by government, low lying and wind swept by the numerous gales cf ocean, but crowded with a popula tion of several hundred human beings. Every little cove or bay will have its cluster of cottages, with their fishing boats anchored close by, ready to rup @own the bay for mackerel or to fetch a load of kelp from the neighboring rocks when wind and weather permit

The surface of the island itself, which is strewn with huge granite stones and bowlders, is parceled out with the most exact and scrutinizing jealousy, and if you attempt a short cut across country from one point to anoth er your way is blocked by a continual succession of loosely constructed stone walls serving as partitions between an innumerable series of diminutive plots. So intricate and puzzling is the arrange- ment of these plots that you are not at all surprised to hear that they are a source of litigation between the owners of the cottages, who are very fond of inyokiug the law in spite of their pov- erty stricken coudition.

**Cottages’’ we call them, for the sake of courtesy, but whereas the word ‘‘cot- tage’’ calls up in the English sense some bright and picturesque surroundings and some appearance of comfort these cot- tages or cabins of the kelp gatherers suggest every kind of discomfort. The walls are built of the undressed granite blocks picked up from the surface of the island and loosely put together ac- cording to the rules of a very primitive masonry. But the roof is sometimes of sod, and more often of reed. The absurd contrast between the strength and sta- bility of the walls and the feeble char- acter of the roof strikes the eye immedi- ately. The floors are of very unsatisfac- tory character, as they ure simply un- even pavements with muddy interstices and calculated to retain every kind of fiith and abomination. It would be al- most impossible to sweep these floors clean even if there existed the will to do it.

If there is any glass, it is simply mor- tised into some little chink, and win- dow frames are unknown—partly be- cause wood is scarce and expensive and partly because the fisher folk do not de- sire a window that will open.

As far as accommodation is concerned, there are only two rooms on the ground floor—one to be used as a kitchen and sitting room, the other to sleep in, no matter the number of the family party. Sometimes there is a kind of loft over- head on the kitchen, where some of the occupants can sleep. Outside there is no pigsty or cowshed or any other ‘‘office”’ which we are accustomed to connect with the ideas of comfort and decency. In cold and rough weather the pig and even the cow are admitted to the hospi- tality of the hearth, and this accounts for their very friendly and sociable character. As far as ‘‘rint’’ is con- cerned, the kelper cannot complain greatly, as it is a judicial ‘‘rint’’ and ke cannot be ejected, no matter how he lives, as long as the rent is paid.

Sometimes a kelper has a right to @ common adjoining and can run a few black faced sheep and some of the black cattle of the country, and whenever he is in a position to save money he prefers to put it in stock rather than to commit it to the keeping of a savings bank. Here and there on the island you may chance across a little circle of stene in a retired nook. You need not puzzle long over it as if it were some archeological find, for it is simply the foundation of a kelp stack that has been piled up inside it, and the calcined appearance of the stones. together with the ashes around them, will immediately reveal its use to you. Far away along the windings of some distant cove you will often see the emoke of these kelp fires rolling heavily out to sea, and the kelp stacks them- selves are among the common objects of the seashore, with the long trailing kelp weed drooping down their sides. These have been won with much labor from |

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Kelp is, indeed, the main source of their wealth, and many a voyage has to be taken before a ton of kelp is procured. The weed burns down to a viscous, ge- latinous mass under the action of the fire and then cools down to hard and rugged

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meal Persons in Fictiem,

Remarking upon Mr. Meredith’s offi- cial correction of the story that his ‘‘Diana of the Crossways’’ was a study of Hon. Mrs. Norton, the St. James Gazette says:

‘‘Unfortunately these subsequent ex- planations of the novelists are apt to be but an ineffectual amend for the injury

blocks. The kelpers live on fish, milk,

tea, bread and eggs chiefly, but seldom | on butchers’ meat and bacon, for the | pig is really the ‘‘jintleman that pays |

the rint.’’ Still, in spite of hardships, the kelpers are strong and healthy men. They would make splendid recruits for the navy, but if they leave their native rocks they find their way to the United States or our colonies. —St. James Ga- zette.

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Susie— Yon needn't have been alarm- ed. dear. Papa tied the knot for me.— Pack Me Up.

SIZES.

The average cigar is from 4 to 6 inches in length.

A cable, in nautical parlance, means 120 fathoms.

The middle finger is from 31g to4 inches in length.

The average height of the horse is about 14 hands.

The average ear is from 2 to 2% inches in length.

A demy 24mo. page is 5 inches long by 23%, inches wide.

A box 23 by 15 and 24 inches deep contains a barrel of three heaped bush- els.

‘The lion. thovgh he stands no higher than a large mastiff, is from 6 to 8 feet in length.

The regulation length for lead pencils is 7 inches and three-eighths of an inch in thickness.

A size in shoes is one-third of an inch. A No. 12 shoe, made on an F last, is 1414 inches long.

The hand of the man of average ‘size is from 6 to 8 inches in length; that of the woman from 1 to 134 inches smaller.

The finest needles are about an inch in length. A needle for sewing with coarse thread is from 1}¢ to 2 inches in length.

The Bengal tiger, though only 4 feet high, is from 8 to 9 feet in length. A specimen of this size will weigh 8096 pounds.

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When a Newfoundland dog plunges into the water and saves a drowning child, every one has a word of a for the no- yle animal. There is agraver danger > thanthat of drown- ing that menaces childhood. It is a danger from which every pro- spective mother 2 may save her babe va if she will onl take the right care of the health of the deli- cate organs that bear the burdens of ma- ternity, during the period auguring moth- erhood.

The threatening danger is that baby will be weak, puny and sickly, and come into the world with the seeds of disease and death already implanted in its little body. Health cannot be born of ill-health. The child born of a mother who is suffering from weakness and disease of the feminine or- gans is condemned upon the very thresh- old of life to suffering, disease and death. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription fits a wo- wan for motherhood and insures a healthy baby. Thousands of women who were either childless or whose children had all died in babyhood, bless the ‘‘ Favorite Pre- scription ’’ for the fact that they are now the happy mothers of healthy children. The medicine dealer who says he has some- = ‘just as good”’ knows that he falsi-

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