The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-23
WHERE IT Is COLD.
LIFE IN WINNIPEG AND IN TIE
NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
\ Talk with "a Canadian-Winter in
Nfanitoba-How the Farmer Dresses
His Daily Iife-heeping
Warm In Winter.
New York SUM-

season Of tine year that the COWS give ice
cream when they are MIXED. | tell YOU
that there can he no triling with the cold M
there. Look at the way we dress In winter
we all wear furs, The policemen at Wmni-
peg have buffalo coats down 90 their heels,
and every man, rich or poor, in the north
west must Wear a fur cap ! have known
the cold TO penetrate the skull of man who
went ont one day with an ordinary felt hat,
and brain fever carried him off in
three days The streets Of Winnipeg
Just now are 1ull of men who move
about like animals in menagerie cages
You see nothing but beaver, and
otter and Persian lamb, an seal, and mink,
ana raccoon, and marion, and muskrat, and
all the furs that ever adorned the Goths o.
O5tr5 Goth5, who first brought the choice
fur~ Of thu north to southern and central
Europe. And the sleighs are covered with
black and brown bear and grizzly skin and
buffalo robes. while an asional AstrakEan
gives evidence Of luxury in costly furs
ithoGt fufs We could not live in winter up
in that country. We not only use them rs
articles If luxury, as the Chinese use the or
m;no, sable, or the fiery fox, bG5 we are
obliged u u g them rs articles OF necessity.
And every specie of skin is utilized The
Lardy voyaEaug5 and c0ureurs du hois dress
themselves in tuCkskin with headaresses Of
wolf, lynx, badger, or wildcat hides, while
silver AMI blu, fox furs may be seen on the
heads Of the ri d.
As for tie COLI" he continued, at is
severe, but we don)t feel il as much a. yau
nigh fancy. NeGre dras ell for it, and Cur
houses IRE built to resist it, All our houses
have ioIJi2 doors AMI double windows
Fr's ar>, ol codr,e, kept going night and
day. We are net much out Of doors in
Hiu5ar, AND yet nearly everybody gets frost
bitten at times. When we see Il man on the
street with a white spot on his cheek or nose
we stop and point TO the afflicted part. He
viii understand at once Ii The weather Is
very cold we can't speak to each other very
we'll, FOR cur mustache freeze to our boards
and form a crust Of ice over our mouths We
must h1w this Off before we can talk On
taa plains. sometimes a mau is frozen t,
4eeta, buJ this docs not often happen. Il
il no jOEa TO lie caught in q blizzard
GA lIe p.airir5. u haaDuad u me once q
| i.tiu por.4 ui "Medicme Hat" Il was il
JANUARY, and the Thermometer was about ;
e gre below zero, but the wind blew st the
r:t d. talvty miles an hOIg I was travel
ing "... q faif-breed gG;da and "a dog sleigh
@a UPS. 5he sleigh, goa tho dog and oar
selves HHleg it rs we'll - W. clull, #.aDnsl
'a. i.i-, around IL uli let it hlow away.
it, snow so,a piled over Us until we had al
Irregular sal Il quarter OF d mic long aEa
ten ier. hlshoa each side OF Us nest morning
! who e.. b. zsgI aaateI. TMs mev SUI.
| pr you, tG mound, oiX inches hjgh Is
enough to enable the snow to lDl-e ami pill.
| "a. uual it forms Il BLOCKADE miles long OF
tae rrairies.
'Ee5, IL l. cold; hut it Is not the cold w
| Il JET to so much as the length Of the WIN
/ ters. The snow Is on the ground for seym
/ uuEths in cur northwest. Fortunately Their
/ i- uo- much Of it. we mover have more thai
I "a loct af snow during the winter or jus
/ enough ta make good sleishing. At TIL
! -rs If lie Rocky mountains the ground i
/ clear Of snow Tor the greater part OF the sea
/ sou. The climate there is as temperate as i
! Is in Rev YORK. Ihi. is owing to the 'Chin01l
! whats. These winds come from the Pacia
! ocean through the Chinook pass. They af
/ feet the temperature of the adjOining couu
! Try. Out there ! have seen cattle feeding o.
/ tha plains IN January and February. Blu
! The region thus affected IS small, and "
/ have ne other modifying influences on CI
/ climate.
Cone Of the best proofs ! can give 20
/ Of the severity Of the climate IS fCun
1 ia the fact that you may travel for hundred
/ nE miles on the plains without seeing
| boulder or a stone The frost pulvsvize
/ gA-m. They burst asuuder as though blow
, apart with punpowle~, and solid material
( nave Jhus been converted into soil Til
+ wort of it j. the cJII comes 50 early All
( stays so late We can raise neither apple,
( pears nor peaches up there. Nor can ~
/ raise Indian corn, and fer that reason ou
/ Canadian northwest can never be grea
cork country. Small fruit, cherries, rasl
! berries, currents and strawberries, however
| viii ripeu but we cannot hoDo TO make fru
abundant The cold is too severe 20 enabl
us to raise anything but the hardest kinl
o. fruit and corG-those which ripon early
We who live in the cities do not su:Ta
/ from the cold half a. much as The farmer
/ Wood j. scar all over the country, and tn
farmer Is obliged to economics his fus
This IS one Of his greatest hardships Alon
| '-o i''i' VI 4'-'"''J 4'' Gun gu to"A' WIN
IS now found ]" great abundance on tl
Saskatchewan hut when tse farmer has
defanl on wood for fuel he has hard tim
of u in winter. lie sometimes makes fu
cut Of his manure heap IL the autumn
after thu manner of the Mennouit2s by mil
ing il with straw, and working it into tt
CON !s,erey C peat. This burns well but
the cHi it will be expensive. He must IL
Ia; fire 20 ayIt every night and light it nay