The Red Cloud chief., 1902-06-20

Across q land that promised fair,
And, upturned to the smiling sky,
Its bosom lie laid bare"
A three months residence In Al.
berta, N. w. r., makes me think I have
found the country that suits me. and
the country where . poor man can
mako . living. especially II no has
plenty VI money.
Nowhere Ia tho wide world Is the
grass more l~uxriant. the trees grscnsr,
or the promise Of crops better. than in
central and northern Alberta, 100 miles
north Of the Montana line. The cir 10
redolent with the perfume Of the balm
Of Gilead trees, spruce trees. the fro.
grant possy willows and saskatoon
bushes, besides thousands OF wild How.
ers OF a score of different varieties
the most beautiful and fragrant Of
which is the wild rose, which blooms
and thrives here in all It's pristine
glory, doubled and many hued, as
James Whitcomb Riley says:
Like 'em cause they kind o.
Sort o. make q Teller like EN-,
An I tell you where I find
Bunch out where the sun kin strike
" EN-
1t allus sets me thinkin'
u the ones that used to grow,
An peepin' .hro' the chinkin'
u the cabin, don't you Know
The weather here Is mostly Of the
the delightful kind. The wind listeth
rot. consequently 1t blowcth not;a man
from Nebraska feels like he might be
in q new world. A man can actually
light . pipe here ut any time without .
bit Of Irish blood in him; neither does
he have 10 have q cover on the pipe
lay q stone on top Of the tobacco to
keep 1t in the bowl.
Rain! Yes, it rains; not only whom
you want it to. but oftimes whom you
don't want 1t to; in fact It rains here
like some Of the doctors In Nebraska
take life-easy. However, We have no
cyclones. no blizzards, no hot winds
and no volcanic eruptions. but I cant
say NO mud; but mud ean crops,
aud, as the little boy said about the
preacher, "that's what No are After"
The roads are bad-iust now they
are "bsdder"-but the time will como
soon whom this feature Of Alberta will
be done away with considerably. a. on
the thousands OF miles OF roads run.
ming in every direction scarcely . dol
lar has been expended TO make them
better. However the government Is
thinking strongly Of appropriating .
very large sun sum, probably q million
dollars, to be expended on roads and
bridges in central and northern ALDER
Ia, which, together with the road tax
on land, ought to put US in pretty fair
shape.
The m%osquitos' Yes, they r here,
as Bret Harte said, "of which ! am free
to admit" but so far they don't seem
to be OF the cross kind, and I have had
only n or two bites this spring. They
are not nearly as large, nor as vicious,
nor as numerous as l have seen them
in the lake country Of northwestern
Nebraska or on the Cimarron river in
Oklahoma. In fact We used to know
what they were liSe in Nebraska in the
early days. l haven't Q Q any here
that we're over eight inches long, and
the stories Alec Phillips and ID. b.
Spsnogle told me before I came up
about their carrying Of children or
taking pieces out Of people and sitting
on the fence to eat them seem to be
purely mythical.
Speaking Of crops here, I will tell
you Of a neighbor of mine, a worthy
Briton named Trilfail, who raised last
year II good loads of green oats of Of
10 acres of land, the oats sowed in
June, Not so bad, IS it?
The British government recently
bought of an elevator firm on this
road, to be loaded here and at two
other points NORTH of here, 800 cars OF
oats to be shipped to England aud
South Africa for cavalry horses. and
every bushel must test AZ pounds or
better. They wanted more, but the
country was unable to furnish them,
having exhausted the supply. Alberta
oats bring the highest price Of any on
the eastern markets.
We have an abundance of sunshine
this month and next when it does
shine), as in this latitude the sun rises
on the 2lst Of June at twenty minutes
pas. 4 and sets at 8 o'clock, giving us
nearly seventeen hours of sunshine.
At present we a see to read any kind
of print easy enough by daylight after
10 o'clock at night, and just how early
in the morning l am unable to state
| understand at half past 2 in the
mnrniuU It mill In d;Ho,o~. Z. A.