The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-10

guide books that on this account the dweIlers on Prince Edward Island are
 called "Redfeet," as the Nova Scotians are called "Bluenoses," and the people of New Brunswick "Buckwheats' II must confess that in my travels heard only the term "Bluenose," and that was applied, indiscriminately, to the Provin- cials. as the term Yankee" is used of any New Englander from Maine to | Connecticut. Adam means red, in the
 Hebrew language, and any one walking
 through Prince Edward Island might
 as well be called an Atlantic as a Red foot. The climate is too cold and wet
 for corn, wheat and barley, but oats
 and potatoes grow finely, and the crops of hay are enormous. Hence the island
 is a good place for stock raising. and
 one sees some fine horses and many ex-
 cellent cows and sheep, and the milk,
 cream, butter and wool produced by 1 these animals. Excellent oysters and
 Holsters, and every variety of fish from
 brook trout and bass to the monsters of the deep abound. These are taken in the gulf of St. Lawrence or the straits of Northumberland.
 There is some business in mackerel fishing and lobster canning, but farm ing is the chief occupation of the peo- pie, and most of the farmers are in comfortable circumstances; some are
 wealthy, and there are very few poor people. I saw none, except occasional
 Indians. Cooperative dairying is car
 ried on to great extent, and creamer-
 ies, cheese factories and milk separat-
 ing stations exist at every settlement.
 Of course the tourist is sure of good
 food in such a region, and if he be a
 sportsman he can get all sorts of wild
 birds, like snipe, woodcock, geese,
 brant, duck, blower, partridge, with
 hares, rabbits, etc. If he is 8 fisherman there is no better place along the coast
 for him to throw or sink his line.
 was disappointed to find so large a DOT tion of the island still wooded, and the
 desolation caused by the fires which ragged during the drouth of last spring was sad to see. But where there is such rich soil and so much moisture nature repairs these rayages rapidly land few years will obliterate all traces . of the extensive configrations of this year in the provinces.
 had been to the southern and south , eastern parts of the island, where Georgetown and its fisheries and Souris . and its boating and bathing facilities , attract the tourist, and as I had deter
 mined to see the whole island before
 turning my face homeward, one morn , ing found me in the railway carriage
 lat tafp kr, side and Tignish. .'5,
 The northern and western part of tho , island is more wooded than the eastern end, but all of it gives evidence of hay ing been long inhabited. It is said tc . have been visited by Cabot, the Eng , fish navigator in 1497, but champlair , landed on it in 1908, and called it Islt \ St. Jean. Early in the next century , some Arcadians settled here, ant a when it became an English possession s in 175s there were more than 40o0 Ar f cadians. Tn 1903 It's name was changed F to the present one, given in honor O i the duke of Kent, the father of the lat, i Queen Victoria. Three years later tht - earl of selkirk sent out 800 Scotch Higi < flanders, and the population rapidly in s creased during theSla century.
 a Many people came to Prince Edwart ! Island for rest and recreation in tn,
 afar by business or marriage return il
 summer. Natives who have been let . great numbers at this season; and thu low prices at which one can live com fortabiy in delicious air and amonl
 pleasant scenes far from the noise, wor : ry, crime, beggary and disease of great
 cities, attract large number of re spectable and intelligent people from tn, . United States to this island in the gulf The early Indian inhabitants gave i the name "Abegweit," which means Resting on the wave," and it fulfill, the title as reposeful retreat. greer y and healthful, soothing to weariet brain or tired nerves. The raiiwa, ' which traverses the island, at a leisure ly rate, publishes a folder for tourists T with a useful map, and some induce : ments for tired workers to come her, for rest, saying that many a yictin
 of insomnia from an overloaded inland V or southern city has here found sIeel - and rest."-Augustus in New York ob @ server.
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