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EDITORIAL, CORRESPONDENCE.
From Winnipeg to Moosomin.
er
low the Country Looks
SOME SPLENDID RETURNS.
Moosomin Exhibition.
The
More Suecessful Islanders.
Winnipeg is too vast to be described in a letter. It has been called the Magic City. \ few years ago the people numbered three four handred ; now it has a population twenty-five or thirty thousand.
Its pr one hundred and thirty-five feet wide—following the curved course Of the Indian trail to the Red River
throughout from end to end ;
und many other streets are paved. Some irches and public buildings and a of its stores and private dwell-
i adorn any city on this continent.
are yet but its evidently nd chat the Spaces sh all be tilled up rhev are fuil of confidence in the future f energy and pluck.
principal st reet
is paved
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\t the kind invitation of the Hon. Dr. Hession, Proviacial Minister of Agriculture, the representative of the Patriot and the Montreal Gazette, with the writer, were lriven a short distance into the country
npanied by Mr. Jvohoston, a genia ticial of the Land Department. The ap pearance of the soil and the fruits of the soil fully bear out the glowing accounts which have been written respecting it.
Black, deep and friable, its fertility is won- derful. We saw in celery, and never saw better or finer —even in our most highly cultivated gardens. Many of the residences on the further bank of the Assinnaboine are elegant as well as large and comfortable. One of the most tasteful was pointed out to us as the resi- dence of Mort. Aldous, formerly of Char- lottetown. Another very fine residence, pointed out, was that of Mr. Hugh Suther- land, once a resident of Summerside —now of the leading men of this great coun- upon Mr. W. W. McLeod at his office in the new Dominion Building one of the finest public edifices in Canada und, with Mr. Warburton, spent several pleasant hours in his company and at his lam indebted to Mr Stronach for in introduction tothe wonders of railway in which from four hundred and fifty to six hundred men receive em- ployment well as fur a meeting with Mr. James McKechnie, at one time Super- intendent of the P. E. Island Railway. Chere are eight or nine railways running and yet she is not entirely
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into Winnipeg happy
But we must leave Winnipeg—nor stay er her hopes and ambitions, or her trials and ditticulties
The wide Western prairie is before us. impression conveyed by the fringe or we have passed through in coming tu Moosomin is much more favorable than [ antici The prairie, to this extent, no means flat—by no means treeless;
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pated is DY thousands, millions, of wcres of beautiful level, fertile fields, such ss our would rejvice to have as a result of years of careful cultivation.
Of the character of the great prairie, as a
are
farmers
whole, | will not speak until I have seen more Ot it
We drove several miles imto the prairie this ( Wednesd ty, Sept. 23) forenoon. The
party consisted of representatives of the Hal fax Heral a Halifax Chronicle, Freder
ton Reporter, Chiznecto Post, Montreal! Gazette, Farmers’ Advocate, Charlottetown Patriot, Mr. Bedford, member of the Northwest Council, Mr. Perley, M. P.,
Professor Saunders, of the Government Experimental Farms, several of the leading farmers of the neighborhood, and your owu correspondent. The weather was like that of a July day in Prince Edward Island—a not d ‘Vy
We followed a prairie road on which a Lnever been used, and jogged smo ithly and easily along unimpeded by rut or any such thing. We found the country undulating like our own Island
more undulating than the Island is in in one of the hollows there is
ha
ry ’ SiUVe:s
or stom
meuy parts.
induubted evidence of the presence ol itkali, and in the others there grew a coarse grass not unlike that which appears on our
marshes Che sides and tops of the eleva-
tions (they could not properly be called hills) are covered thickly with short hay of different kinds, upon which, we are told,
cattle feed until late in December-— they of course, housed upon cold nights,
Che autumn weather is so dry in this region that the wild grasses of the country are cured without being cut; and so cured makes excellent hay for horses cattle and sheep. This hay can be cut and stacked at any time before the snow comes; or left standing, the Indian ponies feed upon it throughout the entire winter and, (1 was assured) grow fat for the spring’s work. The soil upon which it grows wild is a fine dark fertile grayish loam.
We called at the homestead of Mr. Thos. Bobier, who came hither from Ontario four years ago with very little means. He has now, I think, 360 acres; a comfortable house, with cellar walls of stone four feet thick, a granary, a large stable for his stock, some small outbuildings and a very large and fine garden.
| was greatly interested in the stable, the |
the
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thirty-nine stalks from the single seed. Professor Saunders plucked up another root, and we counted upon it no less thas fifty-six stalks. Afterwards, when we went to the granary we counted the wheat a two heads and found in one thirty- seven grains and in the other thirty-nine. .
Mr. Bobier said he felt ashamed to say that the turkeys had iv some way obtained entrance into the garden and destroyed some of the experimental wheat ; but he had, nevertheless, obtained from three pounds some one hundred pounds of clean wheat! The main point, however, was that it had grown and ripened in about fourteen days less time than the red fyfe wheat which formed the bulk of his crop.
With the assistance of two men and two boys Mr. Bobier had, he said, obtained this vear about five thousand bushels of grain and one hundred and ten tons of hay.
In his garden tomatoes had, he informed us, ripened on the ground. He took us to his dining room and distributed to the party a crock o: wild black currant jam. It was delicious. The trees which produced the fruit had been transplanted from the prairie and yielded prodigiously. —
After partaking of a glass of milk from the dairy of this enthusiastic and successful pioneer of the Northwest, the party pro- ceeded to the farm of Mr. Neff.
Mr. Neff had threshed the grain which wrew upon seventy-seven acres—measured by the surveyor—and had obtained 2,800 bushels, or about 374 bushels per acre. He showed us the barn in which the wheat was stored. It was splendid wheat
Mr. Neff informed us that he expected
to thresh 20,000 bushels of wheat this year. As an example of success in the North- west, 1 may cite the evidence of a Mr. Me- Kinnon whom I met near here. His father had been a crofter on eight acres in Uist and, with two sons and his wife he came out to the Northwest three years ago —penniless—and took up 960 acres, This year the family harvested (Mr. McKinnon said) about two thousand bushels of wheat, besides several hundreds of bushels of oats, and they expected to dig upwards of tour hundred bushels of potatoes.
Islanders are continually appearing all along the ling. At Cartier Junction I had . few minutes conversation with a son of Mr. McTazue, the station master at Tig- nish; but did not meet Mr. Gaudet who is stationed at Sudbury, or Richard White, who hasa C. P. R. office at Biscotasing. Nor was I fortunate enough to meet either Mr. D. A. McDonald or Mr. Albert Me-
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Lellan, who are practising the profession of the law at Portage La Prairie. I was delighted, how- ever, when Mr. J. J. Arsenault, lately of Tignish, walked into the car in which we
were riding—a picture of good health, and an equally unexpected pleasure awaited me at Moosomin when the familiar face of Mr. J. K. Melnnis appeared, and when he grasped me by the hand. Mr. Mclnnis is now the principal of the school here—a nighly popular and respected member of this community. THE MOOSOMIN EXHIBITION.
Moosomin is the Gateway City of the great Northwest, the first town in the ter- ritories. Three years ago it was nowhere, but it has now three hotels, several churches, a local newspaper, a grain ele- vator, a new flouring mill (patent process) a railway station and a people full of the idea of the greatness of the country.
Moosomin is en fete to-day, for it is the day of the annual exhibition, and people of ill sorts and descriptions crowd its streets. A Hungarian Count, several English swells, a large number of farmers from England, Ire- land, Scotland, Ontario and the Mari- time Provinces with their sisters, and their cousins and their aunts make up the motley multitude.
For a tour years’ old community the show is wonderfully large and fine. On entering the Exhibition Building the visitor is at once attracted by the pictures, maps, ete., which adorn the walls. The pictures are by local wmateurs—all ladies, Iam told—and ex- hibit good artistic taste, if not great urtis- tic skill. The exhibitor of the best pic- tures is Mrs. F. J. Carman, the wife of one who was, sometime ago, a clerk in Des- Brisay’s Drugstore. The educational ex- hibit by the pupils of Mr. J. K. Mclanis is creditable in the highest degree. Examples of book-keeping, drawing, etc., are just as good as one sees at the exhibitions in the older [Provinces. Mr. Melnnis_ brings to ear upon intelligent boys and girls of the pioneers the skill he acquired in his Island home ; and the. results are in the highest degree satisfactory. As an evidence at once of the estimation in which his services are held, and the importance attached to education by the people of Moosomin, it may be mentioned that a new schoolhouse was erected only last year, and that an ad- ditional schoolhouse four times as large is in course of erection now. In order that all the children may have educational ad- vantages, Mr. Melunis is to ,jhave two assistants as soon as the new schoolhouse— a large and well-proportioned building—is erected.
Some very nice fancy work by the ladies was shown, and a most interesting collec- tion of nature’s products, viz, thirty-three distinct varieties of grasg plucked frum the prairie—all of which, with one exception, are said to be eaten by the cattle and good for food.
A pot of beautifully clear honey was one of the exhibits of this four year-old com- munity ; and there were thirty-two exhibits of butter—all well put up. The quality of the butter was pronounced by Professor Saunders to be very superior.
The quality of the wheat shown was, without doubt, splendid ; and there were excellent samples of barley, oats, peas, flax, ete. A sample of Russian wheat was shown, of which it was stated that three pounds had been sown onthe 26th April and 143 pounds reaped on the 16th August.
As to potatoes: an exhibit of seventeen were said to weigh twenty-two pounds; and another exhibit of eighty-five potatoes,
walls ot which, five or six feet thick, are of lng, frora neig! boring swamp—
j with pn dows to let im the air and light y Acros} ‘fae tops of the walls are roug! beam? of, poplar wood (which can easily
be ob airled) and on these are placed a stack:
of straw. This stable was erected by Mr Bobier himself, and cost nothing but the labor he put upon it. Practically it is as
for horses and cattle as the most costly that could have been erected. Professor S:anders was interested in the results obtained from some seed wheat which Mr. Bobier had obtained in the spring from the experimental farm, This wheat had. been planted in rows in Mr, Bobier’s garden. I pulled,at a venture,the ruut di une sed, and cUiunted thereun
comfortable
eighty-tive pounds. A good many varieties were shown.
The vegetables were, on the whole, very fine, and an enormous mushr om wes shown as u specimen of the spontaacous produc- tions of the country.
The exhibit of cattle was small ; but the writer never (well hardly ever) saw finer Durhams than those of the herd of Mr. Finn.
Considering the age of Moosomin, its ex- hibition was (in my opinion), on the whole, wonderfully good.
DINNER TO THE VISITING PRESSMEN.
DAILY EXAMINER,
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the evening. About a hundred gentlemen sat down. It may be mentioned that among those who were present was Mr. lennyson—a nephew of the poet laureate. Che toast to the guests of the evening was very heartily honored, and the following address was read by our Mr. J. K. Me- Innis :
To THE Press REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EASTERN ft’ KOVINCES :
GENTLEMEN.~—The Agricultural Society of the Gateway City of the Northwest, extends to you a aearty welcome to the “ lone land.”
You behold around this festive board represen- tatives of your different provinces and of the transatiantic mother countries; who, while they cherish fond memories of the lands they left, are proud of the land they live in, and of the heritage that is theirs. Through you we will bid all who are seeking homes, and are endowed with energy and perseverance, come and assist us to reclaim * These, the gardens of the desert,
Tae unsborn fields, boundless and beautiful,
For which the speech of England hasno name--
The Prairies "
We fully recognise the importance of your honorable profession and the part you fill in our education, and in directing the attention of the world to the natural advantages of our common country. May you ever “The peoples’ rights maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain.”
We are proud to honor you as you have honor- ed us by this visit. We trust your sojourn in the land of our adoption will be plossing and agree- able to you, and beneficial to all, including the revders of the vatuabie journals of which you are the distinguished representatives.
Signed in behalf of Moosomen Agricultural Society,
J. HEwGILL, Sacretary. Some of the speeches delivered during the evening were excellent. Professor Saunders gave a capital address on the agricultural interests of the Northwest ; and as an evidence of the development cf those interests, Mr. Scarth, M. P. (of Winnipeg) stated that in 1881 the export of wheat amounted to only 100,000 bushels, while they would this year be about 6,000, - 000 bushels ; and Mr. Neff, (a leading man in the locality) said that Moosomin had marketed about 90,000 bushels in 1886,and this year would export upwards of 250,000
bushels. 7. -o.
The Teachers Provincial Associa- tion.
Tue eighth annual meeting of the Teach- ers’ Provincial Association commenced yes- terday morning at 10 o’clock. Mr., J. D. Seaman, President, in the chair.
After afew opening remarks from the chair and the appointment of the usual committees, Mr. Cain was called upon to read his paper on *‘ Elementary Arithme- tic.” He said the taste of the child for arithmetic is often spoiled in the primary grades through his not being taught to do work mentally. The child uses his fingers or counts strokes in addition and subtrac- tion. A great deal of time is spent in learning the multiplication table, and justly so. But there should be an equally long time spent on the addition and the subtraction tables. Children should be taught to add and subtract expertly. A great deal of time would be saved in after work if those simple operations could be performed quickly.
Pupils are fit to be advanced from the third grade to ~ the fourth in all subjects mitch soong
than in Arithmetic, and the reason of this is that mental arithmetic is neglected.
Although Arithmetic is one of the most important subjects on the school curricu- lum, twenty-five per cent. of farmers sons leave school without having mastered the Rule of Three, to be explained chiefly by the want of suitable text-books.
A great deal of unnecessary time is spent on Reduction and Compound Rules, many of the tables never being in actual business vperations. There are not enough of prac- tical questions asked.
We have now anew Arithmetic, ‘* The Prince Edward Island Arithmetic.” It is just what is wanted. No rules ; all prac- tice.
These practical times demand practical work, and as a large number of pupils leave school very early, special attention should be paid to this part of our work.
The paper was an interesting one, and elicited a lively discussion.
Miss McPhail, of Summerside, ten read a paper on her methuds vf conducting a Primary Department. Discussion on the same was postponed till the afternoon ses- sion. The paper will probably be pub- lifhed.
At the afternoon session, the matter of the Educational Review was taken up. The convention passed a vote approving of itas their organ, and subscriptions were called for amoung the teachers.
Mr. LePage then gave a short lesson in English to some pupils of Miss Snaddon’s department.
The desirability of holding an inter-pro- vincial convention next year, and not hold- ing a regular session of this convention, was then discussed. The majority of the toachers seemed unwilling to give up their own convention, but all approved of the inter-provincial one. The matter was allowed to stand thus.
Meeting then adjourned.
A crowded audience assembled in the hall of the Upper Prince Street School last evening on the occasion of the public meet- ing of the Teachers’ Convention. Mr. W. E. Dawson occupied the chair. About three hundred pupils of the school filled the raised seats, and under Miss Barr’s leader- ship, sang anumber of choruses. A solo sung by Miss Scott, of the Model School, showed a good voice well trained. Mr. Domitian Gallant roused the audience with a French song, to which the Marseillaise was appended as anencore. Mr. Gabriel McDougall delighted everybody with his violin playing.
Remarks were made by Prof. Anderson on the desirability of increased knowledge of the geography of places of current his- torical and commercial interest.
Mr. Domitian Gallant spoke on the moral bearings of Education. Rev. Mr. Whit- man spoke words of appreciation and- encouragement... Mr. Montgomery, Super- intendent o} EJucation. gave an accoant of the beginn’ig of our school syste'n.
Mr. Lépeive \jea'l a ps per on ‘* The school as « Centr: of Culture,” and Mr. L. H. Davies, at tse close of the meeting, spoke of the need of ihe reading of good bouks on the part of teachers, and would like to see short-hand taught to the higher grades.
Readings weve given by Miss Gunn, Miss Wade and Miss Nellie Lawson, and were perhaps the best exhibition of local reading ever given in Charlottetown.
The Chairman, in bringing the meeting to a close, pronounced it the best of the, kind he had yet attended in thechistury of |
A public dinner-in honor of. ‘the visiting pressmun was hefd at the Queen’s Bbtel in
the Institute,
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Exhibition Notes. | The following stock from the Govern: , ment Stock Farm, was sold at auction by
Mr. A MeNeill :
Shorthorn Calf—Geo Mutch, East River, $20. Shorthorn Buil-calf—Jas G@ McCalluin, Brack-
ley Point, $46. Shorthora Bull-calf—John
Line, $31.50. Ayrshire Bull-calf—Jes McKinnon, Long Creek, | Leicester Ram Lamb- A Boswal!, Lot 49, $8.
Leicester Ewe Lamb—F L Hagzard, cit ' Leicester Ram Lomb —Juhna Scewart,
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Hughes, \|County
Ror ies
BS WW. Oxford Shopshire Ram Lamb—James Duffy, |
County Line, $5. Oxford Sborpshire Ram Lamb—Murdock Ross,
North Bedeque, $5. Oxford Shopshire Ewe ,Lamb--Jas Doyle, Lot
48, $5. Among the stock exhibited yesterday was a very fine mare and foal owned by
Mr. Henry M. McLeod, Dunstatfnage. The foal, which wasa Barrister, weighed 710 ibs., and was a splendid specimen. He was purchased by Mr. John Horne,
Winsloe Road, for $105, said to be the largest sum ever paid on the Island for a foal of his age. We congratulate Mr. McLeod on his success as a stock- raiser and Mr. Horne upon his excellent judgment in purchasing.
We are informed that H. Longworth, Esq., Glenwood, took more prizes in cattle and sheep together than any other exhibi- tor showing 12 head of cattle, for which he was awarded 11 prizes: 8 first, 2 second and 1 third. “
For the best graded shorthorn cow in milk, any age, the Ist prize was taken by J. Henry, Royalty; 2nd, Charles Palmer, city ; 3rd, Henry Rackem, do ; instead of by Messrs. Hurry Palmer and Hurry as stated yesterday.
The following was omitted from the prize list yesterday: Pure bred Shorthora Heifer Calf, calved in 1887, 1st prize, H.
- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7.
LS87.
EXWEIBITION WEEK
—— AT THE
LONDON HOUSE.
Our Exhibition of Fall and Winter Goods
this year is large and attractive.
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HAREKIS & STEWART
GEO, DAVIES & CO.
Ch'town, Qct. 3, 1887.—wky
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Longworth; 2nd do, F. G. Bovyer ; 3rd do, none.
Mr. C. A. Hyndman took Ist prize for white grapes grown under glass, showing a splendid collection. was among those present at our exhibi- tion.
We are indebted to Mr. MeNeill and his assistants for courtesies extended.
The Women’s Missionary Society
THE second annual convention of the New Brunswick and P. E. Island Branch of the Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church began on Wednesday morning last in the school room of the Cen- tenary Methodist Church, St. John, N. B.
Job Shenton and Mrs Johnson of Char- lottetown, and Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Nickerson, of Bedeque.
Mrs. Johnson replied to the address of welcome, and Mrs. Shenton read a paper on the subject of Missionary work and women’s increasing interest and activity in it.
The general report showed that in nearly all the localities where auxiliaries were
encouraging.
The Charlottetown auxiliary, through the report, expressed regret at not being able to report greater progress during the past year, the membership not having increased, except in the addition of life members. | Their monthly meetings were well attended. | The auxiliary feels a special interest in the | Japanese field work as they support a girl | at Tokio. The funds come chiefly from | membership fees, but $20 was collected at | entertainments. The mite boxes given to members had not been opened in time to be reported. The mission band was doing admirably.
The report of tbe Bedeque auxiliary showed that both in a financial sense,and in the growth of interest and earnestness, the prospects were very encouragiig. Mission- ary literature was being more widely circul-
ated. The receipts this year by the so- ciety were $63 in excess of those of last year.
After the presentation and adoption of the different reports a very pleasant enter- tainment of a varied order was proceeded with. A very interesting feature of this portion of the session was the missionary debate which was written by Mrs. Shenton, the subject being a resolution, offered by ene young lady, to the effect that mission- ary work was a mistake and should be dis- continued. The young ladies acquitted themselves vigorously and well, throwing much spirit into the discussion, and all de- ciding against the resolution.
St Joseph's Bazaar.
Tue Bazaar which opened in St. Joseph’s Convent, Pownal Street, on Tuesday aiter- noon, closes with the usual auction sale on Saturday evening next. at the Bazaars held by the ladies of St. Joseph's Sudality, no pains are spared to cater to the tastes of the large number of people who attend each day and evening. There are fancy tables upon which can be seen every description of ladies’ handiwork ; tea and refreshment tables loaded down with the good things of this life, and also all the other attractions to be found at such affairs. The proceedings throughout are enlivened with choice selections by the Artillery Brigade Band.
There are the usual number of lotteries of useful and fancy articles. Some of these lotteries came off last nizht with the follow- ing result :-—
Silver Butter Cooler—Richard Moran.
Fire Screen— Hannah Mullin.
Picture of Sir J. A. Macdonald—Mrs. Trainor.
Album— Thomas Donahoe.
Illuminated Cracifix—-Mary Lannon.
Painted Plaque—Rev. D. F. McDonald.
PROFESSOR BUELL
Grand Spectacular Katertalam-at
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St. Dunstan’s Cathedral.
TUESBAY, Lith OCTOBER,
in aid of the Funds of St. Vincent de Paul’s Society.
Tickets:--Body of Cathedral (seats numbered) 25 cents; Gallery, 20 cents. To be hai at Reddin’s Drug Store.
Doars open at 7; riuinment commences at 8. . * Uh’vown, Ucr. 7, ey? .
Police-Marshall Thibideau, of Moncton, |
The delegates from the Island were Mrs. |
established the outlook was gratifying and | wy 4 MEES
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THE BC8TT ACT,
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The Star” Tailoring Estab
Cannot be defeated in turning out the nobbiest fitting Suits, Overcoats, Reefers. Ulsters, &., and at prices away down below competitors. Remember this isnot a mere blow, but eter facts that cannot be got over by our competitors. Try us and you will be convinced.
Our Fall Stock is now complete. By calling and examining it you w'll see that we keep as fine a range of goods as any house in the trade.
We also keep a good and select stock of GENTS’ FU RNISHINGS, which will be sold at prices that for cheapness cannat be beaten,
VISITORS TO THE EXHIBITION,
And all who are in need of Suits, Overcoats, Reefers, Ulsters, &c., you ¥ ill] Save Money by leaving your order #t our Establishment. Work done when promised.
4a We are now prepared to make up, in the Latest Style, Ladies’ Newmarkets, Rag: lans, Dolmens, Wraps, Sacks, Tailor-made Suits, Riding Habits and all Tailor made gar- ments worn by the Gentle Sex.
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