Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-02
Letter From Nova Scotia.
YARMOUTH N. s. July 20 1900

Letter From Nova Scotia.
YARMOUTH, N. s, July 80, 1900
My dear folks
Down in the states we are told that
up in Nova Scotia-or rather "way
down east"-as they say in Boston, one
would find nothing but wooden shoes,
red shirts and cod fish, but it is not So
Here in Yarmouth one meets with as
fine people Us could ever one hope to
meet in Berlin, Paris or New York,
and furthermore, here are the arts as
highly developed as they are in most
cities ten OF twenty times the size of
Yarmouth. That is one bad thing
about Boston people, they like to give
one the idea that as soon as they get a
few miles away from Boston they are
surely on the very shores Of Hs1cs.
They try to impress you, there in the
Athens of America, that there is only
one place on the face of the earth
where white man can live. They tell
you Paris is too fast, Berlin too slow,
New York too free, and Chicago too
wild, and in fact all the places, but
Boston, there is something wrong; but
l tnd that Boston 10 fine city and all
of that, yet there are others"
But, as my friend, Ward York, used
to say, Harris you stray from your
text" AS one sails into the Yarmouth
Harbor you see that you are in most
beautiful land, not unlike the shore of
Sweden, and although the docks don't
look quite as upto date as III many
other ports, yet | think the first i'm
preston anyone would get of the
place would certainly be a kindly one
The city lies back of the hills and is a
place of about 10000 population of as
good, honest and friendly people as
youlc )uld ever expectto meet. They
not only seem honest, but they are
honest, and the idea that that the poo
pie of our southern states have monop.
olzed all the hospitality of the world
is mistake, because finer, friendlier
and more sociable people could not
be found by looking the world over.
1t was my good fortune to be quart
cred with a goodly soul, Mrs Qulmg-
hare, and am told she is the typical
Yarmouthan and am sure if one ever
expected to get into a kindlier or more
friendly place they certainly would be
crank or fool.
One of the futs there go that strike
. stranger as remarkable is the way
the lawns are kept up. Not just a
few, but all, keep their lawns in re-
markable shape, and most ever yard in
Yarmouth is fenced in by hedge
fence and they do look beautiful. You
can form no idea of what beautiful
effect 1T makes for every man in the
city to take special pride in his place
and keep it up in shape.
They have street car system here,
but it doesn't amount to much, Just
runs from one end of the main street
to the other, but it seems to do quite q
business, so many of the tourists start
to ride OH it thinking that it will take
them into the country, but as it just
runs from one end of the city to the
other, we don't get much satisfaction
oy riding on it.
Another thing that seems quite
strange to us is to see so many OK
teams. They use the OK teams here
to do most of the farming work, and
use them altogether for the heavy
teaming.
Friday we went "up country" as
they say here, to Ohio. 1t is delight
full village about twenty miles from
here, and G more beautiful spot would
be hard to find. 1t is nothing but a
real small village, but it gave me some
idea of the farms. They don't raise
much wheat or corn, their crop is
barley and oats, aud they also raise a
q great many potatoes, but they don't
have much market for them. There is
such light traffic on potatoes that it
don't pay to send them to the states.
Saturday we went over to what is
called the "Churn," and q most won
derful place it is, out on the west
shore. 1t is nothing but rocks, some
sixty or seventy feet high, and the
ocean dashes against those rocks and
the effect it makes is something that
defies description. 1t was one of the
grandest sights have ever seen and
i, would pay anyone we'll to come all
he way from the Valley to see it.
Another custom they have here