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prince of good-fellows, l\lr. George llani, conveyed another section by thc Canad- ian Pacific Railway. The entire party united at llanff and thereafter journeyed together.

All North American tourists-and niaii_v

of Great llritain are aware now what de- lights there are in n Canadian trans- continental trip with the glistening splen- dors of the Rockies at the emi of il. In our case the enjoyment \vas hr-ightened by the plan of tour-it was sonicwliat of a semi-royal progress-and by the delight- ful reception prepared for us at the dif- ferent towns. No less pleasant was llie continual reception in our uwn car of in- teresting westl.-rn people, drawn from the other parlor-cars by the inagnetic .\Ir. Ham, whom we found to he crpially well- known and beloved west and cast,

There were always officials of govern-

ments of cities and railway corporations, newspaper inen, even a venerable Bishop once and a Governer. V Among other un- official people was Mr. Nolan, the Cal- gary barrister who is known ns the “wit- tiest man in the west," as George Ilani is in the East. Each day there was the usual afternoon tea served on hoard these transcontinentnl traius_or some refreshing beverage prepared hy our porter, a trca- sure of siniling and efficient service who is a credit to his own old Virginia. At the end of the day there was loo the daily C. P. R. ielegraphic neivs-bulletin circulated through the sleeping cars. Personally however, I found the glorious panorama of conntry unfolding before us vastly more interesting than a record of Russian disturbances and New Y ork markets.

For this at last was the real west, that

Oni be 'ns after you leave Winnipeg-

‘ y e1 the land of the cowboys and Indians that

used to thrill us in earlier days,-but now a reign of imperial potentinlities that the mind is unable to grasp its marvels with- out visiting it. \\'e did not find such ini- mense stretches of ev e n, unbroken prairie as we had looked for. Instead there was often a pleasing variety in the scattered poplar bluffs and thcrolling land cleft with green conlees. Those who travelled by the more northern route, on MacKenzie and l\Ianu's ron d. passed through a region more broken in surface and picturesquely wooded. Yet even be- fore one leaves Southern Saslratchcwan the purple Cypress Hills, the backbone of a cattle»couutry, give hint of the Rockies beautiful foothills which we are to meet in Alberta.

It isa real experience to ride all one

day through a district of growing grain, and the next to wal-:eu to a country np- parently as limitless-open, sunny, hori- zon- bounded, with immense herds of cattle ranging on the hills. Ily very force of contrast oiie’s mind flies hack to the wild beauty along the north shore of the Great Lakes, and the close forests or

fertile la_n ds of New Ontario. Back where they only need that long-promised Georgian Ilay and Ottawa Canal, with a little more llritish capital, to rival even the \Vest`s advance. No idle statement his, for it has been more conclusively borne out, by the rapid growth of Stur- geon Falls, where some millions of Eng- lish money invested in the heart of the spruce region ha s c\'ol\'ed in a few years an iinnicnsc pulp and paper plant, ami a prosperous town of the crtswhile village.

lint we first began to grasp thc idea of

what western wheat means to Canada when at Fort William we looked on the iuiniense grain-elevators, some of lliein the largest in the world, upon the great coal docks; upon the network of railway tracks and the shipping there. It is now as in the old days of fur-trading the gate- way of the west, and though industrial progress has fairly transformed the an- cient site, its environs are still so roman- tically beautiful that tourists flock to- wards this spot as the voyageours did long ago. It has grown so rapidly of late that it will draw into civic union the town of Port Arthur. They are now connected by electric railway and the three miles between the distinctive towns will soon he filled up with residences.

But if Sturgeon Fall and Fort \\'illiam

gave fine passage of western growth- Winnipeg, the great western Metropolis, was a revelation! I shall never forget how we were impressed with the scene in the rotnuda of the C. P, R. depot on our arrival there. Then one thrilled at thel knowledge of what it means to be a Can- adian, standing at the future centre of Canadian enterprise. People ofa dozen races and a multitude' of types svri`arme`d in the building. There were keen busi- ness people of Canadian and American type coming and going in the buoyant, confident fashion of Westerners; scores on pleasure bent evidently, and atways the masses of inirnigrauts, eager-faced British- ers and stolid Slav, bound for the new Immigration Halls where thousands of them are received and lodged for a time each month. No other railway depot had ever impressed me as this did, hut that sight in the niother-city of the em- pire-London Bridge station pouring out in an irresistible stream its thousands of suburbanites to the "City" every morn- ing. - » ‘

\Vinnipeg’s main streets carry out the,

promise of the railway station. One of , thcni, seven miles long over the old trail to Ft, Garry, is in the downtown parts, simply alive with people-strong, self-re- liaut Canadians with many Axuericans and more timid Europeans who will be Canadians. .

The city that 30 years ago was a mere

trading-post, though a historical one, and that five years ago had 45,000 residents, has now about roo,ooo. Paved streets. lined with new residences, many of them handsome are running out to what two

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years ago was open prairie; to what a few decades ago was the cainping ground of the ancient owners of the west.

The affairs of the Iiniiaiis in western

Canada are supervised still by a man whom they learned years ago tube a dis- interested friend, - Ilan. David Laird, Commissioner oflndian Affairs. There is no more interesting figure in all Winni- peg than this venerable statesman of the old school of Confederation da y s, pa- triotic, disinterested and spleudidly up- right. "_-\ sacrament of true imperial- ism," an English editor wrote of him last year. Ilis assistant, Mr. ]. A. J. Mac- Kenna. anative of the saine Island pro- vince, years ago, by sympathetic uiider- standing of our eastern Indians won their respect and confidence and now is busied with those in the west. To any one with a knowledge of Indian character and needs and our national responsibilities to- ward them, it is aniost refreshing cir- cumstance to meet two oliicials who have the correct attitude to tribes that are still cliild-nations in the search of civilimtion.

In \Vinnipeg the club was entertained

by Lieut. Governor and Lady MacMillan, the Hon. Robert Rogers, representing the provincial government and by the Civic council. This first experience of western hospitality, whilst on a scalehefitting the dignity of Winnipeg, was but the initia- tion to n series of liospitalities as varied as delightful. The western women radi- ant, cheery women, helpedat every poiutl in our entertainment, and in this way we were enabled to learn ot the west from woniaii’s view point. Long drives out on the prairie gave us an opportunity to meet the wives of farmers and ranchers, and we met none who iiere dissatisified.

If they have been in the country Io or

I2 years they are prosperous and content- ed; if they have but recentlyarrived they believe that in a few years more of worlr they will bein a comfortable way too. Hope is the keynote of the \Vest. .Near Reginia we met Miss Kilroy, the bachelor- iiiaid farmer of the west. She isa native of Australia, a capable self-reliant woman wiio six years ago invested $2.000 in her farm, niade quite a handsome suiu out of it yearly. and has now sold it for $i5.o00. When she began life here she knew prac- tically nothing about farming.

This is not an isolated instance. The

Pope farm nearby was bought eight years ago by Mr. J. C.I’ope, formerly of Prince Edward Island, for $8 an acre, and was mortgaged for the purchase money. But in eight years of western life niuch hap- pens. ltlr. Pope refused $100 an acre for his farm not long ago. His farm-` house is really a comfortable suburan villa, his grain crops each year have been very remunerative and his live stock cou- sists mostly of imported animals or their progeny. The mortgage is a thing of the past, of course.

Outside Calgary, ln di an Head and

prosperity. The man who bought rail- way_or improved lands-for a few dollars 4 an acre, io or rzyears ago, finds its value now to be from-$25 to iron per acre, if it was then at all nears town. Very little, hoinestead land remains unallotted now- within zo or sometimes 60 miles of rail-

ways. .Still many shrewd men'ur`e taking, `

up lands -iniindsveloped goqtiqas where they expect one of' the many projected' railways will pass. The ,Caner'li`an» Pacific Railway has planned seven new branches fait! n'iain.ln1e,whilethe.Camidian North ‘

ively on the field.

We were glad to observe that though l

the west may he very busy making money,

Brandon there were similar stories of l

em and thegnew transcoatinentnl are act-__

it certainly does not forget the children. ,` This army of radiant young Canadiaus` receive every attention apparently. Ai school ia one of the earliest buildings in

every village and people seem awake to

Now -ready I it A The New“lllgh School Prose Book” ' '

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chasers.

Now he is coming bank From his vacation,

With an enormous stack

Of inforrnntlonl

Anecdotes by the score

Into your ear he'|i pour.

Ile ls the greatest. bore

In all creation.

Quite half of what he says

I1 lterat lon,

Yet he can talk for days Without cessation!

Tell you of table d'hoLcs,

Driven, rides aurl sailing ho

Dotted with various notes

Of atlniirnlion!

Oh, the wild yarns he`li we

Of some flirtatlon,

Which you may well bcllev

With hesitation;

What he dlci, whore he wen What; lots of cash he spent.

Now hack without ri cent,

Same old collation!

Best not take too much hcer

Of his narration,

For his tales always need

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Obi botheratlon!

The girlisli iiiotl.\er's face was ra der her kerchief-cap; the znvkwa father beamed on the up-to-da and the world generally; toget meant to make a Canadian ou young personage and to start bin handicaps. lt was a little inci the truest indications lie usually things; howeyer.

llur froni babies to land again

land thatin its vastness is always ing attention. The southern s Alberta and Saskatchewan are n left to ranchers only. They hav to be excellently adapted to dai mixed _farming and winter wlie gation is supplied at runny points companies as well as by the C an almost norininal cost yearly.

With growing settlement of t

manufactories are being built in to meet the demands of the setti moiitoii with its good coal-beds a transcontinental lines to pass is pluuiing its wings for an aiiib dustrial flight. Lethbridge in

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A WESTERN LETTER ”“°"“°vi"° NATAL REEELLIQN

F_ W_ IL_ MQORWE- ,£9 I 'mifi“i~*w“‘w\`-iiidiiiimfi'

Victoria Club,

Several of my old friends at home have

as to the rebellion among the Natives in

eririg the rigid press consarship and the often misleading reports published in the _English and Colonial papers this is scar-

represcnt everything which has happened

capital, and have a slap at the South Af- rican Colonies, which according ro their

more savage and barbarian in their act- tions than the Natives themselves,

It struck me that a few lines from one

who had been five years doing police work among the South African Natives and who has had an intimate orlicinl knowledge of affairsin Natal in particular for the past two -years, might be of in- terest to your -readers, and give them n better idea of the real facts than the crude conclusions jumped to by Mr. Keir Hard-

ie and some other inenibers ofthe Imper-

Maritzburg. ial Coniinons, who may know sonn-thing ily a Rorke‘s Drift and Ulundi

]uly 25th, 1906.- of afiairsin tluir own parish hut certainly comnnrn knowledge that

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ire wufull) ignorant of the existing cir cnmstances in Bnial.

iniglil or might not have been

hole million Nativesin

only waiting to see how the

written nie asking for some information I notice an item in your issue of ist jump-'ind had they inflicted on u

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june last in winch von compare ilu- pre- dials er asl appenrd in |879, would }g\ '

against Getewayo and his iuipis in info,

well as regards the uiauner of ligiiling of

rior rushing in the excrlr-uient of the

and shield and his old rrcstnt slinped form or attack, as in the :lays -.u' `l`.~linka

ber of modern rifles, and a great lot of old muskets and elephant guns; but the spear was the ann on which they relied, and the overpowering rush of numbers upon a smaller force their only battli- tactics.

Had we employed similar tactics in

those used by the Imperial troops in D579, there cannot be a doubt but that similiar results would have followed: we should

have had another lsandiii\v:n\a, \\'l.ich`

Natal and Zululand; and indeed consid- sent conipaign with the one wc fought been up in arnis-`to a Inari and then th ‘

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unlucky 1t»o,o\»o whites would have h '

Whilst the comparison holds very fairly a uarin tinie indeed, ' `.

llut we facerl the-ni on different li||¢‘l`

_cely to be wandered at. Certain persons the Zulus it does not do so at all respect- Instead of English we sent out our Color in the present liberal government in ling- ing the way we are fighting them. The iail .\fi|i'.ia led bv Colonial Odicers w J ' land have made it their business to mis- 7.uiu is thc same brave and re<~l:lt~.<~ nur- iusica-l of waitinigin lnager for t.lieeiiel:1 `

to gather in tu-.»r\\l\eli|iiiig force and rus _

iince tha outbreak of the rebellion in charge to the vcr_v niu/th-~' of the guns tlu-ni_carrierltlu- warintothebushy rock£ February last, in order to make political and still clinging to his lleln-.-ell .r.-.-egai fanfic-sa-s<»f Zu1ni,m.1_ and bw! mg", 0,,_

of the very strongholds which t he; gr.unl-fathers and fathers had boasted t

ideas are inhabited by a lot of liuropeons and Dingaan. They had .r linnted i.nn~- lie i:nprr_»giial>lu to the whiteniau‘s attach

'.i`hi.- cuuld only have beg” done by me, _ who knew thc country they were fightin in and the foe they had to meet and a' his wiles. The result hasbeen so far tha i

wilh a loss of about a score killed w h:\\'c sivept the rebels up, never givin. th|.»ni time to recover after a defeat, bu l .~masliing them again wherever the sluiwell head. They havelost about 3 oo l

l»;ilh<<l :lull a siniiler number captured

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.-\lbcrta has cheap coal too; it stands at the gateway of the rich mineral district about Crow's Nest and Kootenay-and it is blessed with the balmy Chinook winds that never permit winter a real foothold

diant un- he,.e_

rd y0\1l\ll Calgary with a rich grain and cattle Le l~’“l’Y~ country about it, is rapidly becoming a hcl' mel' distributing and wholesale centre. Medi.- f °f “"5 eine Hat with its ltorel of' natural gas and "mb “U cheap coal to supply motive power ex- mitted to practice polygamy. They as- dent: but tends Open arm, to m,muf,,¢¢“|-¢r5_ 11 sert that they no longer believe it an es-, i"5\"*‘ll even so lies natural ng to ghem nr 5 sential practice of t-lieir faith which

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--to the Indian Head with its line of gl-ui". the ordinary teneulsof rierioiriimitiniial ‘l@“‘““‘l` elevators rising from the prairie is content Christian belief. ln fact one could E050" °f with its mime gg 3 genu-¢ of ghe hard easily believe that these .\lr>rnions 0 l0"l§¢f wheat belt, with if; superb ho;-ség mu] gn had run away to Caiinda to get ridof their B P\'0\'€\l 1-jxperilngnfgl Farm (Img is the boast of pclygaiiious relatives. Their large srigulr- fl' f“""5» aliSaskatchewan. On thisfarm we drove fSCl0f)' M5 3 ¢"‘P"¢`ll.V 0( 1°-\‘<‘<’-‘>l*<' at- Im' for miles through leafy avenues, where I5 PUUUJS PU flllllllllll -“Nl H1 -llllimllll ll\<’_\' and nnstv viillevs. .-ind we felt that thi byl2\\"g¢ years ago there was not evenashmiy Ag brought zoo bright, intelligent sclrurll- ;

'l`luu afternoon six of our party chose t-

. P. R. at mat time People Said trees couid noi be children to the station to greet ns with

' ` as-erui to the top of Sulphur Mountain as

grown successfuuy mfthe pmi,-ie5_ pu; flags and siiower-boiiquels of prairie.

he llmd- the seeds were sawn under the supervis- flowers. Cardston was first settled seven 1

the Cll~lCS ion of Angus MacKay' me Superiurcnd. years ago by Mr. and Mrs. Card, the lat- ers. Ed- ent; they nourished and now the fm-m ter bc-ing one of the sefcral dozen child

nd three Supplies thousands of seeds and Curlingg ren of the late "widely lamented" llrig- | ihmuglli free to farmers who have the good taste ll-'HH \'<‘“"lfI~ ell up and up to the more rarified air ol itious in- to desire trees about meh. |mme_ A great many people from thc Maritiine 1 `

Southernl _ _ _ , Provinces have settled about Calgary, i

hdxnonton that ten years ago nas A

the early summer that they

that a former Science Professor there, is now Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Alberta. Albertans say enthusiastically of -Mr. George Harcourt that he has done more for the agricultural development of

' the two new provinces than any otha'

' one man.

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In lndmonton and Regina our recep tions were elaborately planned and thor- oughly enjoyed. At Regina it included a civic luncheon, a reception at Govern- ineut House, another at the barracks of the Royal Northwest Mounted l”olice- the lieadquarters of one nf the most effi- cient and picturesque forces in the world. In Calgary we grew frivolously young again at a picnic on the banks of the l-2l- bow at Mr. Peterson‘s noted ranch. At Lethbridge one Saturday night the men--~ clever men-opened the doors of their leading club ,forthe first time to women

' 'ng the little -folks a good education- and ga” “gg chgtming glimse of gocm

prpvideg pluildiuga and they' life in theqvest. No frontier reception

we "3 ° “ Y' _ 1 this, but one in evening clothes and quite

"nm 11°F* ll* “W “Xi g°“°"“il°“ '"5 I V l as convenableha one could wish for.

muéhingly apparent in n gxlup met on li A At Cardaton, the frontier Mormon town Winnipeg street “em the fo ign quarters that in not many miles away from the

0ne..8nuday, A young Gallician couple . _ '_ \ _ --»--- S---- sen wen.. f.Z.t:;.°'I.”....°°:'::".?f..?;‘;f."';;.‘ 11:.; "M me European clothes that dis- O Gre int summer was re ted for us-

' the band, the civic holiday, the bronchu-

'; ,tiriguifireri tum” onircnrrs but nic _ 1 _ _ P”

& . , ly :-1-lill-le.wifevvnp.p\\ehlng along _A modem . .bmah um lu. The cowboys' among

baby; go-can from which Hia Mqenty ‘ 3 _ ‘ilte 'baby in A new Canadian calico frock - . ° IRON were the famous Aiisun brothers,- ‘ ' , were just u skilful horsemen just ul

' ~ 'f and ullor hat looked about with some __ , . . ~ ' _ i \

” .above at interest fn gh; Paging gh,-ang . __ _ kctureeqne and _ae nalvely entertain a 7

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Mas the pictures of western life have led

find houses or hotel accomodation at first Pmlnes'

8. but contented themselves with \tents, aslmt'll,"l)l|T_ tll‘r2'gl[m“l[‘l";T °’:° Of' NVQ;

was done at Saskatoon, the most ani- 'l ITT "5 “C U-1 Y L0 l\l'3Sl1 1 a

bitious young town in Saskatchewan. To they wo” ‘I “vc ""5" ‘“l°‘l““l° "ca °f

,mes m the what the Lone l and of the last century is (Continued on page 5)

those who benefitted by the cl _ ` ' ' ' ‘ -'r' old Prince of Wales, it will be of interest £_.l - I i e 3' . _

us to believe. They were not unc \\-hit disappointing-but we d e c i ti ed that hroncho breaking is not the glorious sport we expected, when we saw the rt-~ hroken “outcast” slip nutty at thc end quivering, dispirited, and-this is what hurt us-with telltale crimson stains on his gray sides.

The Mormons in Canada are not per-

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.lt-it-luping into: and they will assuredlj rt-turn liettcr L`anndiaus. The cuhnina

1\l>l_\' =\-'0. as we are told, more beautifu

first acquaintance Banff was enough; wi learn to know mountains as we malt-

fricndsliips-\'er_v slowly. The nj organized Alpine Club of Canada wil proceed in this way to explore and climl`

is by the way, composed mainly of

the Rockies' higher peaks. This snmme they met at Fic'-' nd spent over a weelf in arid about the beautiful \'oho Vllleyl

Swiss guides were with the party. Thai secretary of thc Club, by the way, is als( :rn islamic.-.\lr. David Laird a nephetll

of lion, llrivid I.airll and a successful _voung la\v_\ ei' cf Winuipr-g. \\'e awaken,

cd one morning tu step out into u worltl

of uiuiintains of glistening white peak

ilnne was worth a journey across Canadtr

ridc on cayiises, while the rest of tbll urrty wr-nt for a long carriage-drive. Ou

~ mounts picked their way along thil

iridle-trail as warily as foxes, and climbl,

he nioiintaiu-top, pas t streams ati0W_ an-rlercrl -up into the teeth ofa wind tha'

trading Post'and Eve years ago had ,css itledicine llat, lidrnontou ami Prince Al- chirp-.1 our hands ,md fee; and nwlvgd um" 3 ooo people has now over ml00o_ bert. Such nantes as lugs and Ilcshrisny,

' Poie and II ndrnan brin 1 n whiff of Is-

Settlers were coming in here so fast in l _Y _ f>

Could not land sea air with them even to the

itself into fluttering snow-storm as wi stood on the summit with the "eterna` snows" at our feet. ~ '

For the view of the sumlit Bow Valle)

below, with the enfolding monntaim

bout it-there are no words. We luimi

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SCHOLARS and TEACHERS are cordiall in-

vited to buy their BOOKS and SCHOOL SUP- PLIES at CARTER’S BOOKSTORE. We have

now -the largest and best _equipped BOOK and

STATLONERY STORE

in t e MARITIME

PROVINCES. Everything up-to-date. An im- mense stock of SCHOOL SUPPLIES of every dee-

cription on hand.

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We can give you better satisfaction than ever.

Send alonithe little ones for their supplles,they

will be well loo ed after. -

Special cash discount

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Booksellers md Stationers. ` “

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