Morris tribune., 1889-10-30

half what It Is In Brooklyn twhere sstayn at
presently, the chief saving being in rent, fuel.
Ash potatoes and small fruits So must
asy that Nova Scotia would be a nice place
to educate boy or place family for a long
vacation.
There are communities "a Gaelic as any
part of Invernesshire In the last cen.
tury, and Others more Calvinistio than
John Knox; there are little interior val
leys where one may breathe the very air
and live the very homely home life of Scot
lands midland shircs; there are mining vii
lagos where one may meet Hugh Miller's
characters at every turn, and dairy farms
with every charm which poets have attrib-
uted to pastoral Life. No part of the mari
time provinces win better repay the tourist
for furtnights visit than Cape Breton
island
On the mainland tif one may so call the
PENINSULA a disappointment awaited me-
The great Pctou coal mine cannot now be in
spected It Is the largest coal seam in the
world--a seam thirty feet thick; but many
years ago there was an explosion and q fire.
The mine was therefore flooded, and the res
toration is not yet completed. At Stellarton,
where halted day, is the great twelve foot
seam, on which work Is actively prosecuted
All the big coal seams of this section have
considerable slope, some as much as 40 degs.,
and rooted in the ssfloorn of tho mine are
often found fossil stumps of the sigillaria
from six to eighteen inches thick. It Is
claimed that the coal measures of Nova SEQ
tia cover 1000 square miles, but of course
less than half of this area contains profitably
workable coal. l need not recite the local
arguments seeing that they are much the
same in all coal regions, but Nova Scotia is
certainly good place to Investigate coal
seams for science and pleasure
The conclusion Of the whole matter may be
thus set down: One-third of Nova Scotia con-
sists of very fertile valleys, in which are
produced in great abundance nearly all the
fruits, roots and grains of the temperate zone;
another third is Of some value for grazing,
and the remainder is rocky wilderness. An
important result is that from any valley one
may turn aside and in an hours walking be
in a primeval wilderness where moose and
black bears are still found, and out of the
hills flow many streams in which trout are
still abundant.
Government in Nova Scotia, as in all the do
minion, is "responsible'-tha is, the cabinet
officers, tbs executive and directing depart
ment, must be Of the same politics with the
majority in the house of commons. If a
government measure" is defeated they re-
sign This will hardly be believed in some
parts of the United States, but it is solemn
fact. 1t seems to me that such a system
would work badly in the United States and
make havoc in France but the British Tin
GLIDING Canadians, Australians etc., secure
conservatism by habit and precedents in
stead of rigid rules. The governor-called
lieutenant governor because he is regarded as
the lieutenant" of the governor general of
Canada-is not "a part of the government,
is appointed and does not resign.
Lieutenant Governor Mcclellan, with whom
bad long and interesting talk, is most
courtly and digniied gentleman, we'll In
formed on the affairs of Canada and the
United States, and pleasantly enthusiastic as
to the future of Canada Premier Fielding,