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Lucknow Sentinel, 1893-07-28, Page 414 .0 • Allow naiad TER LIBERTY TO UTTER. AND ToARG tTE PPR ELF . CCORt)r— To' THE DICTATES OP .CONSCIENCE WE PRIZE ABOVE: ALL Ovum LIBERTIES:.• :~ . • = • oknow, 11 28t , .1303., UOW 1 HE POOR E FAZED: The:' Toronto News (Independent -Conservative) . gives : some : specimen taxes imposed by the -Canadian riff.. Manuf acturerg-and railway companies are takes nearly one million .on a little _ over four xnillions worth of bituminous P R. are putting upas at some other points in the west a first-class station: A feature of Regina is the bodrof mounted police e : stationed at. the bar- racks- =some:. `two miles out. -These troops as you .well know are scattered indetachments throughout the North West, and number, . I`think, 4000. There are some 400 at the . capial, but what they, find to do I can hardly tell= you unless it : be to keep themselves "natty - and spruce" ' in - appearance which" they certainly do extremely well. No doubt in a few. years to come, : they will with the other "red" man disappear from our North : West-: coat imported annually. Housekeepers were fined. Last year $985.: for buying . $I,558 worth.of clothes wringers. from .foreign. makers, they - were forced to _ -band: over $1,380 to customs officers before bringing in . $I,894 :worth of rice and saga flour,, and - $39,000 *Si paid. by_ them in • duty on : $70,000 worth of rice purchased in other-coun- trios.. That the poor are discriminated against is shown by a conparisson of the customs toms -dues - on ; - buggies .- and waggons._ .On a lot of= the '`former,; valued: at $100 and. upwards . each, the tax .,mounted to only $2,321 on it portations aggregating $6,634:.- in. yalxe,. On farm waggons 'costing Hess , o than e. 50 apiece the duty was: ..$2,338 on $4,941 worth imported. Thus: "the rich man's- -carriage- was taxed. only:. a -Tittle: over a third'of its value, while the :poor man's farm necessary :was - levied levied. upon: to the extent of almost one half the cost price. The 'farmer last._ year paid -.on -,corn, &: raw: material in much:. demand: for".: preparing animals for the English $.12.G,040' on .$892,000 • worth ' brought from : the States, The farmers: of = Ontario , on $542,000; worth: of tcortz:.pa d $82,000- . -0. 82,000:..of. rho tax; f ern towns. Taking Regina, in : all, though :it is a: marvellous- instance 'of Western en- terprise and pluck,; especially` when. one considers- its ; natural advantager:: For some reason or. :other the sur-: rounding country is not an attractive one: for settlers ; land thereseems to be- anything :but eagerly . sought: after.- A place that but. for . the _greedy and short sighted .policy of some of its. property holders, would; theysay, have been -chesen as the capital'is Qu Ap :pelle. This is the .old -,Hudson Bay post,: It lies in.a - most -.beautiful region . .ate 'the head-pl. Katepive..Lake one of : the ,expansions of the Qu'Appelle river, I drove: in there for the first time on the -13th inst. to' attend a celebration of some _kind, (i am yet wondering what it -.was . about, but 'since I- . got there, the "anniversary" .or "explo .sioii" or =whatever you like to call -it 'is. `immaterial.) The' - lake I have spoken of is one of a (_chain of four,` and is -about= ten :.miles in length by one or two: in width. .Along its mar- gin runs the - old Hudson Bay trail to —well .now,; I Am -stuck, -:but anyhow,• it goes On .and on and then proceeds a,ud then -,-I- think:I am right here— comes to. somewhere:- : I -wish Mr.:- Editor that mypowers of description were equal- to giving an account- of :the beauties: of the. Qu' Appelle Valley. Shut in --by hills d 300 feet iii heigth,° - hills-- beautifully rounded • and smoothed by the action= --of the. waters in ages: long _ since gone by .lien a low flat -plain, a mile :say, _in navidth, through= which lazily meanders the silver stream of. the river.. -From: the summit of the hills, away_ down to the water's edge are thickly scattered dense growths of poplar,. maple _ and ash,; . and . berry -bearing bushes, the fruit of which : you can ' pick as :you -travel along the-_ trail,. yourN sense of. smell being continually =re aled by fragrance of 'the rose -which" actually is ---as common here as the :thistle in Ontario._ Such a happy ::concord •..of sight and scent carries you away..and .you feel that. you. are: in a: -buckboard. At the -fort I saw an ',Indian ; pow- is wow, a spectacle, that . in. . all its -.hor- rid :horrid vividness -will I think be ever be- fore uie. As:. one looks on at.this Pagan revelry he dosn't know hich" feeling'. is. uppermost :in. his mind--- one -of ludiorousnoss at the attire -'and contortions of the..:mad, frenzied _ fig: tires-:. be f ore him' or :Of sadness for the depths to which our :poor: human nature can. sink. -Let- me- try-. to is tura the .scene: I`n the centre are squatted- somehalf dozen_medicine' amen.. and -squaws, who. vigorously -beat an:old drum placed: on the ';ground, ancLaccompany .the monotonous pound- ng with a half : croaking, half moan rug sound that fairly makes .your flesh creep.- = Around_ them leaping, stamp- ing, twisting�ellin$. in- the Mogi un-: y describable" Hien - Her move -t e ti grinnZn 8 bucks .their eyes fiercely_ glea ening, their veins standing ou.t:` like whip. cords ;• their bodies: _almost entirely naked and painted some dull -color their laces, spotted and . streaked. with red, : yellow, brown and; One ; their necks and- arms and legs decorated With *beads and jingling .bells,, and their heads: covered . with large bunches -of furs and.:feathers The:: fiendish looks and the.. increasing din of :the excited:. savages: suggests nothing: less than .-thoughts of: the' -abode of the -:in fernal itself. It::_ was horrible, _hor- r-ible:: There: is a " great work. for: the missionary here yet '' In closinglet me say a _word about the -.never failing topica of the weather and: the crops. Hitherto the sura - mei has h of been - gat all hot, ` Although u h .atho.g this week hav . aw we . _ - e -h d two or . three days when :the theemometer: stood . at - 107in:.the shade and. 125 in the sun. -Our-: nights- are delightfully cool.. The crops are :in excellent condition in: =our part at :least,: owing -Ito the - fine. altern atiwis of rain -and: sunshine a w hic h 'haveovercome thea -ta ffect of a late s rin Weare lookingforward to a good harvest:: rl. �tnce Yours t M. J MCKENZIE- Asea., July. 21st, 18:93. TnEUE are possibilities of a great war in the situation as it :new .exists in Sian France is bent on extending the sphere of her - influence in the east - and in carrying out this policy she has antagonized China on one side and Great Britain = on the other, ;while Russia, which considerers both Britain and China as _ natural- enemies,. sides with. the Republic. Som_ a of the !` greatest conflicts of history have -had their origin in just suchcauses as .are now at work in Asia and it will not be surprising' if the next few months witnes the outbreak of another. INDIAN Fo ffimarow. a. Spite_ letter from Begins by an OId. Lucknowite. E ED1ToR. - - Recently I had'. occasion to make e few -clays stay in - Regina,. the: capital far-famed, -shall I . ea..1 of the' Northwest Territories:. - A more uninteresting site for a 'capital cou•ld -hardly: -be imagine d. The town sim l ::met down on -the -pyre . un• — � i?3�� . P_ dulterated: - prairies if. you will allow the expression, a prairie, - unbroken almost -entirely by a bluff or :.raise . of .any kind and atetrcbmg away m they monotonous .-Ievelness� as far. as the eye. cans see..The few trees- that hive been coated- ow oa _ . d- t o 'grow of the most sickly kind, , -and seem rather to heighten the_ sense of bareness 'that Strike. one .accustomed to the beauutif til foliage -of an Ontario town at : thts season of .the ,year. .Regina: seems to ` l=ave -about as -many buildins. asyours' Lucknow, but they are scattered,x_ as if to be, ex �.ected - in` a town - of.. -sudden P growth,. over a much. wider area: and fins there .is :not-- at present such. an p appearance of solidity in: the..place as one would like . to- s=ee. However - .South Railway Street, the. remain' (thoroughfare has •a tolerably- compact look, and has °not . a ' few:, substantial =aid imposin Structures: Of the _ larger- -buildings, 'hotels. are: the {most -numerous: and as a..conse consequence .drink- ing - ing is a : 'leading industry. The principal: demoninations halve each. a .place. of Worship,: in. all. about six, I= think. . - The Union, ; High and Public:. schoolis a.good building, and -hes -an erosion t = staff :of teachers: This sum- mer building r Id o g peratioris:-: are being: .pushed vigorously; For: the .leading industry.- referred- .to an imposing 4'$ouie" is: bein erected,- and - the • C. - Saltoun Lines in • Ines in 1 Q1 • Lines- in Hese Ines n TS. 11as Miles in Mens' ines is PREPARED PAINTS 114 -r ails'` PAP oaks, Hinges, Pants; Oils and Glass Paints.Oil .... SCREEN --DOORS - STRA • FELT, TARRE SCREEN FET.; K. FELT INDOWS BEST CREW uar- .antee our e Lead: td be _PYer.N!'�i.14 wt p"iC �k-::.�•' ��-Me'f �'.:u�•- r"+aCi'+Yi.�t'yo' �A .'iY2' n•Man�4_A'.wy=. •. —THE' TRAVELLING ---- -FROM. THE -4= - GUELPH .A.GRICULTU COLLEGE -WILL' EXHIDIT DAIRY- trTENSILS, MAHE Butt : er, teat Milk and ._Cream, the., the ° feeding: of Cows,: churning,' working and packing:Butter, etc, etc., atthe following places. THE DATES Section ectioa No. . 9, . Z n d Con . Huron uron Township Friday- Aug� t1l, at�ZP.m. Township .Hall, Ainley, :Monday August 14 -4.2 p . Section N:H.42ani. 12th Con,HuTpday,'August15at2Pmereesday, Austat2ownnbip l, irmow, Thursday, August • 17,at2pm Tiverton, Friday._August 18, at 2 pp. Glammi$, Monday, August 21, at. 2 p_ im Laceys. Hall, Chepstow; Tuesday,. August 22. at 2-p m: Biversdale, Wednesday. August 23, at2,p m Chesley, Thursday, August 24. at 2 p m Township Hall, Gilles' Hill, Elderslie,: Fsi-. day Aagust 25, at 2. pm, 'Pais'ley, August 28, at 2 p m ur Tamil -are- cordially -Von" and : yo - . y . invited to attend.: The ladies especially are resathese- . . urged to be p _eat` , t meetings. Come and' bring samples of :the Trani. given byyour.Cows, say two cupfuls°of each, a cup - fl of the evening's mills, and the same amount. of the Morning's m added thereto. les willbe.tested to find out the These. samples _ of Butter: Fat in them:, andthe results quantity on can _ this. . In u.way y-. given pr4nteiy to Fo . learn whether your cows are worth keeping or : not. . C ESTER:U C©meandseethe BA.BC 'working ex- . iu -operation, and :have its qr0 • plamed.to_ you. Make a special effort to come.Fwill=get hints -on eaterer'`maidn.� that will be worth;ery-much to._you. • • ALL---1010-cordially waled. W. McBB DE, :: : W `BOWES Paisley, President. Pinkerton) Sec `r1..,.. me fntrimrned Jeu gths Si ingS,. . :thidkerchiefe t: end manyother-� thingso:.: o numerous to menton ut press S- , ecia, . orders for Books, orders for special ecial Boors .for import from til If o'u want sfirst-class set of tee , e chew p est tall on chew e � than.the , P.S PtterNanift F.G. S Dr: Teinant Q LUCKNOIF, OIVT -Itieh on *human and all :animals cured- in 30 minutes by Woolford's SanitaryLotion. - Warranted by A. B. Lo _ Congraui, Druggist. AT RITAIN 11 receive prompt 4I Care-. i atte la.r. of l RCHISON, Impo4ter. • •'FARM F0,11 SLE EAST LOT 1::: Car''.: -4,- WEST !VAST containing: •! t ;acres, fair. buildings, 35 apes es sof growl timothy hay and balance ander grass. Will be sold at a low figure.. - - - Apply to , I. GEO. MAI1 .(11 Co Bankers, Lucknow. CATTLE 'RAY• TRA.YED FROTHE PREMISES OF 3s d9 ton. . 37,. , the undersigned -7-14s tin 2 h ea� �Nfa 4t . onor about yearling •1 Minim, cattle, _3 of which were heifers and 1 steer. 2 ' . heiferbeing' er �o h h t_. e; e e o heife Wer Qr t f he _ t rs red and the steer being red with a -white spot on his forehead: A reward o:f.:$4 or 81 per such be..paid to a� arson vu�g e e head willany p nformation :as will lea to their recovery. - • ISON Z b20RR , �E SAM • Lucknow P. l) "r.. rye ._ • .,