Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-15

rooms entirely of glass; lawn tennis
rooms for Indictment weather, green
houses filled with tropical plants and
fruit, the curling Kinks, skating ponds
and toboggan slides are all complete,
awaiting the winter sports when the
Colonial court is in full blast, as Ridean
Hall is the official center of the arctic
gaieties of Ottawa in winter.
A relative who is member of parlia
ment from Winnepeg, journalist by
profession and writer of note, whose
handsome and accomplished wife invari-
ably accompanies him thither to the
Dominion capital during the parliament
season, is greatly enamored with the
winter gaieties of this embryo court life
and enjoys to the utmost full dress &C.
casions, where her great love for the dis.
play of diamonds can be enjoyed to her
hearts content.
The log cabin and sketching box of
the Princess Louise were of interest.
They were cleaning house at Ridean
hall when we were there, so a servant
informed us, and we readily perceived
the fact by the general disorder and
great number of mattresses piled up
on the long verandas.
The Governor general and Lady Aber-
deem were away taking an outing, (pre-
sumably gone to Scotland), SO every
thing doubtless would be immaculate
about the premises on their return; but
in very short time they go back to
their vast estates in Scotland and give
place to the new encouragement, Lord
Mimic, who sails from England Nov.
LIST, 1898.
Guards patrol the grounds. They
are very courteous and we're perfectly
willing we should go anywhere. The
day, however, was very hot, and after
walking about for sometime we were
glad to get under the spreading branches
of balsam tree near the princess
sketching box, where rustic benches are
conveniently placed.
Since Louise comes no more, the
sketching box is used for croquet sets
and other sporting goods.
Engine house, gas house, dairy stables,
ETC., complete the appliances of we'll
ordered country gentleman's residence.
Fig hty acres are enclosed for park,
kitchen garden, tennis grounds, etc.
The establishment requires forty
servants in attendance
The city itself is up-to date in every
way. 1t has an electric railway SYSTEM
first-class hotels and stores.
Returning to Brockville, / visited a
cousin there, who is manager of the
Comstock Pill company at salary of
twenty thousand year, with force of
| fifty men and women under his control.
He Informed me that two-thirds of the
sales were over the line on the Ameri-
4 can side, From here 1 go to Athens,
the seat of learning in that locality,
where lived when child. revisit
old haunts and find, as memory takes
her backward flight, some familiar OBJ
jects''transformed by the ravages OF
time but yet bearing the impress Of
other days. Among the most interest
ing of landmarks was the unpretentious
Arnold cottage, lin good repair, once
owned by the nephew of Benedict
Arnold, the traitor. My father rented
this cottage for year from the widow
and'she had in her possession at that
time red broadcloth coat of Benedict't
soldiers coat, l had often beheld this
valuable relic, but naturally enquired
!, of its whereabouts and was informed Il
, had fallen in the hands of another rela
tive living some thirty miles distant
i felt like rushing off at once in quest
, of it, and said in my enthusiasm, land
was perfectly sincere) would give ont
, hundred dollars for the coat, but som.
one remarked much larger sum hat
been offered for the precious thing. 81
! relapsed into silence, feeling rattle
+ verdant for my foolish thought, but tn
story of the coat and house are veri
table facts, and number of the trait
or's relatives are living in this place re
! spected and honored. On the banks o
the beautiful st. Lawrence, my child
; hood home is situated there, and the re
, miniscence of each pleasure is brough
! with joys that cherish most fondly an,
: rare.
After bidding adieu to native heat
I and kindred buy my ticket at Brock
4 ville,the usual starting point for Boston
a taking the Grand Trunk railway
through Canada, as far as Montreal, W,
9 pass by Prescott, named after Genera
Prescott, just opposite the America
II city of Ogdensburg, the note worth
q places at Prescott we remember are Fol
Wellington, named after the iron Duk
q Tomb of Barbara Hick, one of tn
founders of Methodism in America
q the famous windmill with its mario,
q loop holes peeping from its sides, this
# the old windmill held by Patriot rebel
"a in 1887, now converted into splendi
!. lighthouse. Our next port of call
q Cornwall, an English manufacturing
- town with its extensive wooden ard col
! ton mills. We are now near the lin
:. which divides Canada from New Yorl
q and as our train speeds on we come il
. sight of the village of Cotean with it
n long wooden piers of Cotean Du La,
# whose struggling row of little Frencl
7 houses, looking still smaller in contras
A with the great stone church and CLEAN
+ ing spire which gives evidence that W
are now in French Canada. Other vii
lagos and scenes are passed by and W
. are rapidly whirled along over spac
until we approach the famed Victori