The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-04

grains and vegetables are being made.
with a view to developing the province
The new State ha its weed inspectors
who go over the country and warn peo-
pie to cut down their weeds. If they
do not Obey. the government will destroy
them and the men refusing will be pros
ecuted and fined. Laws are already being
~ acted AS 70 clean seed. and the State
is protecting the farmers in every posi-
BILE way.
I talked with one OF the members OF
the Agricultural Department as to the
wheat yield of Saskatchewan. He said:
Many of the figures published are ex-
travagant We know through the thresh-
ers returns just what we got out of the
soil, and while We have many farms
which yield twenty bushels of wheat and
upwards per acre, there are very few
which yield more than thirty There
may be a patch now and then which Will
turn out forty bushels, but when it com 3
TO a hundred acres or thousand acres
giving any such yield, you must take the
statement with. considerable salt"
Independent Landlords.
arrived in Regina to find tho hotels
packed. This had been their condition for
the past two or three years. and in tho
spring and summer 1t Is not uncommon to
find the halls filled with cots. AS 1t Is,
have to sleep In a room with two beds,
and my companion shores SO that he
shakes the door open night after night.
The landlords are sometimes insolent. If
you complain. they will tell you to go
elsewhere, and they know very we'll there
Is no elsewhere. All the hotels arc full
This is so throughout the new Canada.
1t is necessary during the summer sea-
son to telegraph ahead to get quarters
and one must be content to rough it,
The hotel rates are about the same as In
the United States. or ii anything little
cheaper Outside Wnnepeg and Montreal.
the ordinary rates are from 50 to So
day for room and board. but the So
rate should include private bath. Very
few of the country hotels have baths.
and they arc not SO we'll managed as
our hotels.
Almost every hotel in Canada has a
saloon attached to 1t. According to the
law, liquor cannot be sold outside hotels,
and the result is the hotel and bar go
together This raises the standard of
the bar, but 1t lowers that of the hotel.
There is considerable drinking both be-
fore meals and between them.
Pretty Hotel Walters.
like the hotel walters. The swallow
tailed negro, with his hungry eye and
itching palm has not yet crossed tho In
ternational border, and the fee demand
| ing white waiter Is absent.
| The service of tho dlning-rooms Is
| through fresh young girls, who do their
! business rapidly and we'll. wish could
| Introduce you to the International Hotel
| force at the 500. Every waitress there
| is just under six feet In height, so stately
| that one almost fears to give extra or
| ders; and 1t does ones soul good to see
the Amazons stalk to the dlning-room
! door, throw 1t open with stately swing,
| while In dulcet tones they calculate:
| Soup and fish, twice, in a hurry!"
| Some of these girls are very sympa-
| thetic. blonde waitress. upon my not
touching the solft-boiled egg she had
| furnished this morning, plaintlvely said:
You don't care for your eggs?"
AS much as to say that ] was not In
love with them and had rejected them.
| which was Il pity
At most of the hotels the head waiter
I is ripe old maid. who dresses in black
silk, and whose lips look as though they
4 had been formed by saying plums prunes,
A prisms. The other walters are younger
They all dress in black for breakfast and
lunchean, wearing little bib-lil1e aprons
about as big as IL handkerchief pinned to
their waists. Al dinner the walters come
forth in gowns of immaculate white as
clean as new pins Here In the northwest
many OF the walter girls are Danes or
Icelanders They receive from S25 or $40
q month ana board.
Municipal Ownership.
find these new Canadian towns deed-
! eddy IN favor sof municipal ownership.
Regina owns it's electric light plant and
II has good system of street lighting.
Two years ago the light was furnished
by a private company, witch gave n poor
A service at high rates. The city has re-
duced the rates and II is already nlak