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I il- »l|l>"'"l|l'" '"I|M""'I|I"""'1JH"'"I|1' |[|li'm|||li'Mt||li"M|||H''ll|||ii"i[||)in'Ht[|tM|||(lH\^iiM|||li*H|P'|M|l**ri!l"'''^^ '''llr."'IK*"*iil''""'HI^ ''illi'""',!,'"'"!!* ^^. ^ .-.al^^Pi^. ^ .§b.l . ■ ■ ■ ' i i •Anfliversarv Narriben f r 1 r I I i, I 1 I- f 1. ¥ r C..' <■ •> ■> ♦ ♦ ♦ ■> Ctnb -J- ■:• •:• •^ + + Borb«rer. •'• .;. .J. ,■■■3 (T-EE-r -r^KS SACKVILLE, N. B., SEPTEMBER. 1895. asth YEAR OF THE POST i870»95* 39th YEAR OF BORDERER i856~95' ^liiks;r:iiii;M;,ii...,,iiiu»Hrii;^^ \ i 1 . I u \ .,11 ■* ;i ■'. ; r: 111 ' A i\ r '» ty ^ J^obcrts' Poetry of tl^c daiitramar. - ^ t' X ^^ . -'a' "A pue*^ is born, imt iiiiule."' S<» said a 'oorn jioet. lint surely liis life on a Sahine farm added much to the heauty of the )toetry of Htirace, even though he was not so much an interpreter of Nature as of Human Nature. There are places, even in tliis world of sony, where a horn poet will lie rolthed of liis Itirth- riglit Ijy surroundings which i|uencli the i»oetie tires that, at his birth, were enkindled in Iiis bosom. There are other places where every breeze that blows fans into tlame the inborn fires of a born poet. The Lake Country of PIngland helped the poets who dwelt along its shores; the beauties of the Scotti.«'- lowlands potetitly affected the songs of IJurns. A poet is ))orn — and made. Tlie spell of Poetry was laid on the broad marshes undance of dross, I might have better ple;.setl the soulless ex- aminer, but T shoidd not have been original. It is altogether too much the fashion in schools and colleges to study critiipies of poems, ruther tliau the poems themselves. Those who have read thus far, do not wait to "come in at the death of the blatant beast," but take the poems f superior talent; and Carman as a man of genius. But in reading these comparisons it is evident that the critics do not feel in their hearts — for true critics have hearts — that the gennis of Carman is superior to the talent of Roberts. Carlyle defines genius ;is "an infinite capacity for tak- ing pains," but sMrely what is called genius in poetry is an infinite capacity for nut taking pains, and ff marsh-uwls wander and w ander. Now to the broad, lit marsli, now tiitlu; lUisk of the dyke. Soon, thro' their dew-wet frames, in the live keen freshness of morning. Out of the teeth of the dawn blows back tlie awakening winds. Then, as the blue day mounts, autl the luw- shot .shafts of the sunlight (ilance from the tide to the shore, go.ssamers jewelled with dew Sparkle and wave, where late soa-spi tiling fathoms of drift-net Myriad-meshed, uploonied sumitrely over the land. " One of the several wonilerful lines in tlu' above, "Winnowing soft grey wings uf marsii- owls wander and wander," isas j)erfeLt anature- |)icture as the famous line in "In Memoriam, ° — "The rooks are blown about the skies '" "VVinnowing" has been useil in poetry many times, often under the niistaken idea that it means "garnering," often as the most jioetie word for what it reallydoes mean. Here it is used in metaphor; and it is a s|)eech-tigure thai alone entitles Roberts to a place in the front rank of poets. The beautiful alii ''ratioii and repetition in the line, and above all the truth to nature of its poetic language, make it efed, the gray hawk wheels on high; I drink again the wild [lerfumes. .\nd roll, and crufsh the grassy blooms. Hlown back to olden days, I fain Would (|uart'the olden joys again; Hut all the olden sweetness not The old unmindful peace hath i>roughl. Wind of this suunuer afternoon, Tliou hast recalled my ehililhoiKl's .lune; My heart .still is it satisfied liy all the golden sinumer-tide? Hast thou one eager yearning tillcil. Or any restless throbl>ing stilled. Or hast thou any power to bear Kven a little of ni}- care? — Kver so little of this weight Of weariness canst thou abate.' Ah, poor thy gift indeed, unless Tiiou bring the old child-heartedncss, — And such a gift to l)rijig is given, .Vlas, to no wind under heaven! Wind of the summer afternoon. He .still; my heart is not in tune. Sweet is thy voice; but yet, but yet — ( ►f all 'twere sweetest to forget! Tile impression given to the reader is that this is very' good poetry to lie written by one who.».e heart is out of tune. But the fact is that the I loet knows not his own heart; it is in tune, but its notes are in one of the saddest of keys— that which proves that I ROIiERTS^ POF/'RY OF THE TJKTR/IAUR. "It IN tnitli tliu pDft siiigH, That II hoitow'n crown (if hmituw is louitiiiihur- ing liaftpiur tilings " Li)ngfellM\v'N lieiiit is novur nioru in tune than when hu sings of his lost youtli "with II joy tlmt is ahnost puin" in that swout s!mI juteni wlierein ho tells of "the l)l,ick wharves and the ships, and the sea-tides toss- ing free," in the beautiful town where lie lived while a hoy. And it is this recolleetion that innpires the restless song, and though, in the words of him whose uiouiory of happier days the winds woke, "'twere something sweeter to forget," "he listens, and needs must ol)ey, when the Angel says 'Write!' " "There are tilings of which 1 may not speak. There are dreams that cannot die I There are t.,>.aghts that make tlie strong man weak. And bring a pallor into the ciieek. And a mist before tlie eye. And the words of tliat fatal song Come over me like a chill: "A boy's will is the wind's will. And the tlvmghts of youth are long long thoughts." But as the poems of him who was a l)oy in "the beautiful town that is seated by tiie sea,' and him who was a boy on "tlie green plains of Tantrainar," strongly sho.v, the thouglits of manhood, while recalling tiie scenes of the days of youth, are longer, and longer. There is but one break in the melody of Roberts' poem. It is this coU[)lut: "And blue vetch, and convolvulus. And matted roses glorious." There is somewhat of sing-song in these lines, which does not chord with the fullness and strength of the other verses. The part inwhich "glorious" is introduce;! in a cramped-metre line apparently for no other reason than that it rhymes, however illy, with "convoloulus," is but a inoinentary flaw in a well-balanced and simply- strong poem. And there may be .some com- mentation — for there seems to be a vast difter- ence between the critic known as a "comnien- tfttor" and the critic kn(jwn as a "critic" — who will make the needless apology foi- the break liiat it was introduced into the poem in order to bear out the j)oet's assertion — on which a doubt is cjvst by the other lines — that his heart Is out of tune. That Professor lloberts s not almve making alterations in his own poetry is evident from the dirt'ereiiue between "The Dykes of Tantra- mar," wiiicii originnlly appeared in a (.'hristmas numl)er of the Montreal Srar, and "The Tides oil Taiitrauiar," which is one of his "Songs of the I'oiiimon Day." Those poems are largely tlie same, liut in the latter there is a change for tlie better in several phrases, and there is also the a(hlition of three verses at the last, telling how to the aged ecjuple, whose daughter perish- ed liy the breaking of the dyke, the plains of Taiitiamar "laugh not their ancient way." These tit as well in their less pretentious sphere as the introduction of the "weird seizures" into the sec«md edition of "The Princess." There is in "The Tide on Tantramar" an echo of Mattiiew Arnohl's "The Forsaken Mer- man," although Arnold's poem is in a different measure. There is the same flavor of "the salt tides;" the same sad, sad strain; and the "Margery, Margery" of "The Tides on Tantra- mar" Hnds atHiiity in the cry of the merman, "Margaret! Margaret I" * Ro))ert's most remarkable poem dealing with the Tantramar is "Ave!" an ode for the centenary of Shelley's birth, first published in 1H!>2. It shows the impression that Shelley, as well as tile Tantramar, made on the mind of the Cana- dian siiijier. The introduction to this true |)oem is as follows: i "() tranquil meadows, gras.sy Tantramar, Wide marshes ever washed in clearest air. Whether beneatii the .sole and spectral star The dear severity of dawn you wear, ( )r whether in the joy of ample day And speechless ecstacy of growing June You lie and dre.am the h)ng blue hours away Till night-fall comes too soon, Or whether naked to the unstarred night, Y(ju strike with wondering eye my inward sight,— You know how I have loved you, how my dreams Go forth to you with longing, though the years That turn not back like your returning streams And fain would inist the nienu)ry with tears, Though the inexorable years'^deny Thy feet the fellowship of your deep grass, O'er which, as o'er another, tenderer sky, T I f I 1 CHIGXRcro POST SPECIAL NVMHER. I f, 1 1 Cluiul pliiintoiiis drift ;iu(l imiss, — You know iiiy coiitideiit love, hIiioo lirst, ii chilli. Amid your WHstus of greoii 1 wiindorod wild. ' "Tile pounce of mottled lUHrsh-liawk on his prey; T'lo flicker of .siind-pipeiN in from Hen In gusty flocks that puffed and fled; the play Of field-mice in the vetches; tliese tome Were memoral)le events. Hut most availed Your strange un(|uiet waters to engage My kindred heart's comi)anionship; nor failed To grant tliis heritage, — That in my veins for ever must abide The urge and fluctuation of the tide." * Tlie next verse l»egins: "The mystic river wiience you take your name, lliver of hul))>ul), raucous Tantramar, Untamable and changeable as flame, It called me and compelled nie from afar." Professor Roberts seems to have indulged in a little pard(mable fanciful etymology. The general acceptation of the name "Tantramar" is that it is a latter-day corru})tion of the French word lintauiiinr, meaning "a confu.sed noistt," a form of which name was applied to the pliice of the marshes in the old French days on account of the confused noise made by the geese that, more numerous than they are now, Hew over the marshes. In his scmnet "The Flight of the Gee.se," the poet alludes to the "confused and solenni voices" of these "strong hosts prophesying as they go." The above account of the derivation of the name is much more probable than the one put forth in his pcjetry— though probably not in his English class- -]}y Profes.sor Roberts. * The following ver.se of this ])oem is the one nutst approvingly (| noted by that clever critic, "The Reviewer," who, He birth One hundred yeai's ago With Hery succor to the ranks of song Defied the ancient gates of wrath and wrong. Like yours, O marshes, his compassionate breast, Wherein abode all dreams of love and peace. Was tortured .vith perpetual unrest. Now h>ud with Hood, now languid with re. lease. Now poignant with the lonely ebb, the strife ( )f tides from the .salt sea of human pain That hiss along the perilous coasts of life Beat in his eager brain ; liut all about the tumilt of his heart Stretched the great calm f)f his celestial art." The poem, which has many of the met its of the sublime lament vi Shelley for Keats, lacks its obscurity. Shelley is a master of ob.scurity; Roberts would probably not be: and he wisely never attemi)ts it. The comparison in "Avol" which nrnny a skillful hand would hesitate to attempt, is strongly and beautifully wrought. * In only a few of the sonnets in the new vol - ume is the Tantramar particularly mentioned ; but it is evident that all, or nearly all, of these, owe the e,ssence of their being to Roberts' boy- life at Westcock and Sackville. He undoubted- y. ROBERTS' P()£7R) ON THh: rAXTRAMAk, ly here got tlie piiiiiHl iDHpinitioii for liin iiioNt- i|unt.e(l Nonnot, "The Pntiitu HarveHt:" "A liiuli Imre field, brown from the phmgli, tiiul l)oriie Anlmit from simnet.; Hml)er WHStes of sky WiiHliiny the ridge; h chiiuor of crown that Hy In from tlie wide Huts where the spent tides mourn hibition hoime, lilirm-y. Cornice, trellih, piliister, h.ilcouy. window*. nhutterH, turret, porcli. Hoe, rnke, pitchfork, pencil, waggon, statl'. Haw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rointcc, Chair, tub, hoop, table, wicket, vane, sash, floor." There is not half the poetry in tlii« that there torn ; A line of gray Hnakti-fence, that zigzags i)y A ]K)nd, and cattle; from the homestead nigh The hmg deep Hinumoningn of the supper hurii. To yi>\l liiifhoii ijreir Lunjer ijirii' mij rirhfs Imt'." TluH personal trait is not btmi of sellishness. but of sympathy. It is not only in Roberts' poems on the Tan- tramar that t>ne niay trace the influence that the marshes had on his growing mind. When he sings of (irecian fields, he still has uiion him the spell of the meadows he best knew. And in his "Canada"— the most j)atriotic poem ever written by a Canadian— verses which, to use their own words, "storm like clarion-bursts our ears," it is more than probable that the bugle- blast with which it ends— one in which is felt the perscmal sym])athy of the nuisicians youth. wmrtii. From these broad moadow-lands the lioboiink. Warmed with the sunshine, pL;n may drink The pi'omisi' of the ehildlioi d of the day. This is our country's niorn*iig; at the dawn The light of (lod the darkness drove aw.iy; .And all the land knows that the night is gone. .\nd feels the promise of the perfect day. The poets of the morn are ghul with song: Into their hearts (Jod's smile has won its way; The ho)ie-inspiring chorus sweeps along. And Canada rejoices in the day I H. A. W. ALEXANDKU MONRO KSg. In The Morning. (WITH At'KNOWLElHJKMKNTS To «HARI,l.s »;. ROBERTS The stin is rising over Tantramar; At his connnand the darkness fletl away: The marshes cateh his smile, and joyful are At the bright presage of a jierfect day. i». It is with pleasure we present a picture of the pstiinable Alexander .Monro of P«»rt Filgiii, for few of our public nien'so deserve to l)e held in renienibriinee. He was ft>r many years one of our leading writers and publicists and Ids publications, esj)eoially on educational and iiistorical subjects were at one time widely current and excited an im- portant inriuence in moulding publie thought and clearing the way for our pre- sent pul)lic school system. Some of his works were adopted and u.sed in our schwils for which they were admirably adapteeing his specialty. Undei- his inspiration, Mi-. Monro, studied in the winter evenings, geometry, algebi-a and land surveying. Mi'. King j)ossessed a surveying compass and gav(^ him practical instruction in the business leading Mr. Munro to decide to follow that business. He ol)tained a recom- mendation from Di'. Smith of Fort Cumber- land and <»thers and in the year lS."i7, he went to Fredericton to ol)tain an appoint- ment from the Sui'veyoi- (ieneral, who then was the Hon. Thomas IJaillie. Mr. Baillie while complimenting him on his etKcency declined to ajipoint him, r>wing to a hostile influence that was being exerted from Westmorland. He then started to re- turn to Westmorland, after spending nearly all the money he had. W^hen he arrived at St. John, he had only two shillings in his pocket, with which he started on foot for home. Out on the Westmorland Road, he did fifteen shillings worth of mason work, with which he returned to the city and pur- chased "(Jibstm's Land Surveying" and some in cakes, when he made another start. On the ntad, he worked a day digging potatoes, for which he obtained two shill- ings. He built a chinniey, for which he i-eceived two pounds. He arrived back at the parental roof, defeated but not dis- heartened. The next year he returned to Fredericton, when owing to the efforts (tf the late Senator Botsford, he received his appointment as Deputy Crown Land Sur- veyer. Mr. Monro was married twice. The first time in 1844 to Mary Chaj>pell, daughter of \ i <#* * t M i CHIGNECTO POST EXTRA NUMBER. ^ 4 the late William Raworth of Rotsfortl, by issu«'(l on Ist Jan. 1858. Its platform is whom he had three children, Marj^aret, one that is worthy of note: Isabel and Cyrus. She die a work entitle- lished in lS8.'i in the CllKiXKCTO P( ST. Jlc w.is e'tcted an honorary meml)er of the Natural History Society of New lirunswick, I'nr which he wrote aniirticleon the physical fe. tiires and geology of the Chignecto Jsth- uuis; ;;nd was also elected a member of the Chi^rieeto llistoricai Society. \\ hen !i call wiis made in 18(55 to show Maiitinie productions at the ^Voll(ls Exhihi tion at London, under the presidency of TriiHe Alhert, Mr. M. collected samples of the native woods of these Pro\ inces and ar- r.ing»'d them in book form, including an in- dex written on Itirch bark, showing the local and botanical names of each kind of In 1848, he was apj-ointed a Justice of wimhI anr character superior to environment. 10 CH/GXECVO POST EXTRJ \ UMBER. 4- 4- Sachrille l^oot Cv Sboc ,^actoru. + *>• Tlic t.iii'HTv Jjsfil l>y .l.-iiiK's Sniitli is nut without liistniif iiilcifst. It was cit'ctcd ulMHit lit'ly years au'<> '•> ^N .('. Jlaiii- ilton wliM with Kilwaitl I'miwmi- did luisi iiess in it for a tinn' un\"'>'i ft. and tWM ste- liis son AFr. James Smith wlio now eonthtcts I hi' laisiness. AlM»ut ■{•"• hands are employ- ed, all u;oimI trusty in<'n who have heen in theemjil<>\ a loiiu' lime, out the failure of the husiness whith now ret urns onh moderate dividends. }lamiltoii iV: Tiosvser were l)«Hii;ht «»ut l»y I>a\id Purrin^ton who afti-r carrying; on the husiness there aitout two years sold out in lcS.");( to .\l»ner Smith. .V year or so later Mr Smitli imilt the new huilding wliieh stands in size (i.')\:U! and two story and a half, near the road ami he gun the uianufaeture of hoots and slioes. Mr. Ahner Smith was iMtUL^ht out in I!*"!*! l»v leathers used are tanned on the premises in colli iiijUois which are calculated to give iu'tter satisfaction than steam tanned gooils. liineii threads are made expressly for use hy Parry Prothers. Siirewshury, England, and can only get tin' i|uality i-eipiired hy getting it made to order. He also manufactures oil- tanned inoccassins whicli are tpiite an im- portant part of the husiness. This class ttf goods he oiilycounnenciil making a few years ago and the sailes of them increased every year from •")<• to 100 jK-r cent wliich shows the value the puhlic put upon them. The dealings of tlie linn witli their customers «.i CHIGXECrO POS'I SPhCl.n. XVMBER. are always fair and llicv an* sti 1 ically \iiicc who have |uiivlias(»y manual lahoron the farm, a practical expeiience in merchantile life, and a capital as staled .d)out of SSOO, some stIOl) of vhich was borrowed and tlu^ rest saved from his wages. The bu.siness carried on ditl'ered materially from that of merchants now. Modes of * I his present establishment. In the Inst tlat lie had .^SOO worth of general goods, a tine assort ir'iit for those days anil u]tstairs he kept bichelors hill in a mo h'st way in two r'»oni-;, on • his bi^dro >m the other his kitclieii, dining room, and p irlor. 'I'he old building still exists. Fifteen feet have been added atone end miking it l'l'x b") and it h,is been move I acro-is the roil beside the new stoie and is used for an iron and stei'l warehouse but its ichMitity remains pi-rfect. It bears mute testimony to the primitive excellence of Mr. Blacks first attempt at h(aisek.'ep~ Mr. Black brought to his first business ven- •lohn, and in pork, homespun, and knit goods whi'li found a market in Kichibiicto and the towns on the Miramichi. Clerks bo.iriled with t heir employers, did whatever they weie told and received !?SOorf?IOO per year. F.irm laborers received 7") cents per day largely in merchandise whereas now .1 liood mm connnands ii^l.'io in cash. The most exjiensive set of furs sold in Sackville ii|) to that tim,' was an eight dollar grey s piii-rel set worn by the mother of \)r. H. II. Coleman, who cieated much talk in tlu; village by adorning herself with such finery and was (»f course the envy of all the fair sex. Yet Mr. Black fissured the Post CHIGNECTO POST SPECIAL NUMBER. it man that the girls in those days were as Cape Tornientine the fish value this year •rood-looking, as happy and withal as attrac- will be )?5000. The merchantile business tive and charming as any now. Business has increased every year and is still increas- came with a rush in May, early in June, iiig. The average farm family purchases five and November and was rather quiet during times as nnich now as in the fifties. Much the rest of the year,— there was no steady more enjoyment is now taken of life. The trade as now. The entire stock of all the drudgery of the farm is done by the woolen stores in Sackville was probably not as mills and butter factories, much as Mr. Black finds necessary in his The country has advanced vastly in own business now. material wealth. Forty-five years ago Mr. The new store that in which business is Crane and Mr. Purrington were the only now carried on was built in ll^G5. It is ones from whom money could be had. The 34x72 ft in size and two and one half g»eat difficulty now is to get safe investment storieF in height. About five years ago a for money, and capital is always waiting for one story addition, or lean to, 2Gx7l', was the young man of character and ability, built on. This is used as a fiour ware- No comparison can be made, in the opinion house. The business has grown steadily <»f ^I»"- Bhvck, between the opportunities for and lines have been added as demand was }<'ung men in those days and now, so vastly created until the sales of a single day fre- superior are they to-day. Merchants too quently exceed the total stock with which liave many advantages. Then no paper the business was begun. The stock kept could V)e discounted at the banks and no I ] • .1 ^.,- noo c-'iA noA u- drafts negotiated without a city endorser, on hand is worth .^^y.OOO or !!r.50,UUU. »Six „ ^, " ^ i . i .1 1 Now the countrv merchant has the advant- men are employed m the store. .^^^^ „f j,;^ ^.j^^. competitor in taxes and rent, Mr. Black first extended his business out- and equal chances with him in everything side of conmiercial lines by the purchase of else. For the last few years Mr. Black has lumber lands. In Aboushagan he has purchased his tea direct in China and it . I . , r ^ xi 1 11 has never entered a warehouse this side of thirteen or fourteen thousand acres wooded . , ^-i -^ i 1 -x 1 .• le water until it reached its destination. and two water pow?- mills, equipi.ed %v. 1^,. Black's copimercial career has been a gangs for lumber and lath ami sliiugle steadily successful one, and his extensive machines. Nine cargo<'S of lumber in all business, wealth, and credit, exemplify what will be shipped t(» Britain tliis yeai-. In can be done in this country by a young the same place he has a Hour mill of modern man possessing pluck, energy and foresig.it. e(piipment. The agricultural branch began Sackville has had tliree merchants, pre- twenty years ago and has recently been en- eminently successful. The first was Htm. larged. Mr. Black l)egan life on a farm William Crane, the se<;ond Mariner Worn), and has always Ijeen more or less a fai-mer and the third Joseph L. Black. It is note- at heart. He has 90 acres of land in one worthy that they were all self made men, block under the best cultivation and 1ry at repaired. t I \ n « ! CHIGNECTO POST EXTRA MJMBER. ^ '^ ^ ^CiVOZ^ii's •: ^'^^^'^^^'y- *^ *>• *>• A It is nearly thirty years sinco Mr. Chas. Fawcett had inun at work at tho foundation IFawcett Hrst entered tlie foundry l)usiness in a and by tlie first of Septeudier moulders were at comparatively small way . From the tirst the work in new huildings well lij^hted, well venti- business prospered and incre:ised Every year lated, and well e the of 2,;U4 sipiaro yards They consists of two force. This prosperity wc.s uninterrupted un- long luiildings, a moulding shop 102x55 feet til the night of Dec. 2'4th 18!KJ when tire swei)t single story, and a workshop 192x45 two story. 4. away the greater part ;>f tlu; works, entailing Tliese run parallel .'iK feet apart and are con- a loss of 850,000. The burned building compris nected for a distance of 45 feet from the west ed a moulding shop 275x55;milling and dressing end by anotiier building which is therefore 45 rooms 45x55; fitting and Hnishing shop .S(K<50; x 8*5 feet. The moulding shop is all one room, grinding and polishing shop 24x.'W; carpenter The moulder's tloors are 25x12 feet each The shop 30x00; nickel plating rooms 30x()0; boiler other buildings contains down stnirs ciml room, and engine rooms 12x25 each; and also sheds boiler room, engine room, polishing room, and for hard and .soft coal. Everything in these tinishing room. I' pstairs are the carpenter and building machinery, shafting, belting, nickel })attern shops, hollowware tinishing room, and plant, and 2(X) stoves completed or in course of nickel plating room The connecting building completion were burnt ; also a great lunnber of contains milling, coal room, and in the second patterns and all the material whicli had l)een story tiie faning mill room. The machinery put ♦ laid in for a winter's work 150 tons hard coal, in is all of the latest and most iinpoved make. , 50 tons soft coal and 20 cords wood went \\\> in Between the new buildings and Foundry Street the Hames as well. Some of the workmen lost is the great warehouse, 100x80 feet, and three in tools and inicompleted work amounts vary- story, on the south side are two other ware- ing from fifteen to one lunuhed dollars. Ffty houses one three story 80x40, one a story and men were thrown out of employment and many a half 25x.SO. At the west end is a blacksmith left the place. This was [irobably the most dis- simp 40x.'{0. a warehouse for sand and a new astrous tire that ever occurred in Sack ville. waiehou.se just completed one .st• ->• In 1872 the Dominion Foundry Company be- Edward Ander.son and (Jeo. T. Bowser. The gan operations in Sackville, the works being late Edward Cogswell was also one of the tirst situated so near the! C. U. Station as to ren- stockholders li M Dixon died in 1874 and a der truckage unnece.s.sary for railshi|tments also year later the company .sold out to a syndicate within a short distance of the wharves. The composed of Sir A. J. Smith, Senator Botsford, business was under the management of the late and Messrs Edward Cogswell and Harmon R. M Dixon who held one half tiie stock, the Humphrey, all since deceased, who took e(iual resc being taken up by leading farmers of Sack- shares of stock and c the KiiterpriM- Fimmlry sold out to \V. B. Dixon who had Iteon iiiaimger Co., coiniMised <>f Kdwanl ('ojjjswfll. K. 15. since January 1874. four iiioiiths liffori' R. M. Einurson, W. S FisluT. T. S Kirkpntrick, L Dixon died, and to wh«««e jiersistent efforts the EuHtacu lianies. and W. 11. Di.\<>ii. In Fehru- continuance of the busine9>t> with so many re- -iry 18'.>2 Mr. Cogswell fi<>ld out his .stock amldur- urganizations was due. In May 1888 E. Cogs- iiig the same year Mr. Kirki«trick alsosoldout. A CHIGXEcro POST EXTRA NUMBER. hoth til inemln'is «>f the coinpiiiiy. Aliou*^ a your a^o Mr. .lolm >rf.Mei-kiii, fitieiiiaii of the works, |nircli!ist'il a tiuaiitit}- of stock so tlmt the present Enterprise Foundry Co. is as formed in !H88 exeept tliat Messrs. Coirswell and Kirk- patriek have solil ont an whiili contains on tlie first floor titting shop, and engine liouscand on tlie second ticor carpenter sliops, nickel rooms, iund)er rooms, etc; one three story warehouse 60x40; coal sheds, siind sheds and other buildings. Thirty men are employed. Hetween $JJO,- (MK) and .*:{r»,(KM) worth of luisiness is done eiich year. Shipments are pretty well distributed over the Maritime Provinces. The business is in a higldy prosperous condition under the ef- ficient management of Mr Dixon and substantial impiovemeiits are made from time to time. liast year a caiiacioiis warehouse was built and a complete nickel plating outfit jmt in. A new engine and cupohi are among the improvements in view for tlie immediate future. ♦>• IWwsk V Xxill V IMock. iru- lur- .ut. The first meeting of suljscriliers to Sackville Music Hall ( 'oiiipaiiys stock was held on Dei". 'Jdtli, ISM'i. The liiiiiiliiig was opened for ren- tal the last of .Inly ISS:'. .tiid the first perform- ance was "The Spaiiisli .■^tiideiits'" by a troupe from the old country. Stock was distrilnited in shares as follows: .losiali \\ o, now : Miss Francis .lane IJowser, 2; Chappel Fawceit, 4: 11. A. I'ouili, 2; ('apt. Kvaiider Kvaiis. ."i: |{. A Tnieiiiaii. ."!: Michael (i. ("ole, 2: Ah-x For.!, :\: ("apt. t Iras. Moore, .'). llo.V <>: \N . Wesley Fawcett, o. Timothy Hicks, .'», L'has Scott. 4 now (I; ('. A. Bowst!!' 2, now 0. The first occujiants of the block downstairs were ('. WariiiuiuK', jewellery store: (J ( >. Fulton of Truro, branch bookstore:!.'. A. Bowser, fancy dry goods .store: w. VV armunde moved and was succeeded by M. List, a (Jerman of eccentric character about whom in the eye of his associates hung a myst- ery that was never fathomed. None c:in .say whence he came or whither he has gone but his habit of whispeiing, his hermit life and his ac- complished phiyingon the pi.iiio are yet remem- bered liy a coterie of friends and his strong iroti chest still remains in the box office of Music Flail. His successors were several until in daiiiiaiy 1H!U. the C. P. II. Tel Co. took p(»s. sissioii and still hold sway," their jiopular agent Mr. (J. 15. Chandler, with his engaging manner, be.'itilie smile and jirompt attention to business constantly winning new favor for the company. .Mr. Fulton soon .soltl out to Capt, Chas. .Miiore who continued a trade in books and '•Motions'" to the general satisfaction of the peo- ple of S.ickville until the end of 1894 when he s'lld out to Mr. 'v\'. I. (loodwin who now occu- pies tint appirtmeiit Mr <«oodw in carries a full stock of such books as find a ready sale in STukviile and also deals largely in stationery, taii.-y goods, window shades, drapery poles and loom pajjers. .\ line of the business is picture- framing and a large and hands(jme stock of picture frames are kept constantly on hand. Mr. (loodwin is showing his faith in the future of his luisiness and in Sackville by the erection of a substantial residence on Weldon street, which when completed will be one of the most beautiful .and comfortable dwellings of moder- ate size in the town. Mr. C. Pickard succeeded C. A. Bowser in September 1885 entering in busine-ss with a sitock of boots and shoes and silverware as well as dry goo- •*>'"•> v./" ir " TT^r 7»i-* i^^-^-^TSI .../' CHJGNECTO POST EXTRA NUMBER. i6 section, h s jiiiii lioing iKjt to wull clieap il^oikIs hut to "five iiest possilile v.iliio at a fair price lie pays spot cosh ami takes advantage of all CJish discounts and is tlius enabled to maintain lowest ])rices. Mr. Piekai'd imports his dress goods direct, linens, silks and sateens from England, and Canadian staples direct fiom the mills in hale lots. Mr. Pickard carries a heavy line of hoy's and men's ready made clothing and one of his principal specialties is the millin- ery department always under the direction of a competent milliner. Mr. Pickard is also largely interested in lumhering and farming He is one of the solid men of the place and is always ready and fre(|uently the first to advo- cate any new measure for the henetlt of the place. After the death of Mr (J J Trueman his ])lace of husiness was disposed of in Decend)er 181HJ to Mr. H F. Pickard. Mr. INckard Al- tered the grocery Inisiness intending in the course t>f a ye ;r or two to sell out, the stock hc- ing worth face at any time III^ li.is not heen without otl'eis to that eil'cct hut has found the occupation so pmtitahle and pleasant that he is still unwilling to give it up. Mr Pickard car- ries a largi; stock of gi'oci'ries, canned goods and fruit, always fresh and his shop is a model of cleanliness and older. He attends strictly to husiness and in conseipumce always has his l)usiness well in hand and prosperous. Mr R. M. Fulton who opened a hardware husiness in Music Hall Block, — the stand first occupied hy J F. Alli.son, — in March 1891 is deservedly one of the most jxtpular merchants in Hackville liy his courteous and pleasing manner and strict attention to husiness he has huilt up a tine tiade in hardware to which he limits his attention. The thoroughly reliahle character of his goods have given him a strong hold on the peo|)le and the succe.ss uf his husi- ness is well assured. I CHIGXEC'/O POST EXTRr! SVMBEH. ^-vvC^co. v£. ,^or^'f- €f"tablif>bmont.v:-^ Thf sTKANiiKlJ pas.siii;^ tlirini<;li Sickvillc will have liis attcntiim Jittraott'il tn tlu' \n\\. (iiiKi-rifs, F'luit and I'luv isions. Tiu' two iMul stores are each ^L'x.'tS. the mid ille one ;iOx'.M(. Commenciiv' with No. i, the t'urnilini- made nowadays has passed into u piiiveili. andil Fellows .lud other socie- ties, with two ante-rtioins and a separate front entrance. The rear of this room contains fur- nituii' .dso .\n elevator connects this with the low er tlools. A cellar the whole size of the huildini; con- !)US1- lirst tl.it is a srdes room containing a very largy stocU of mens i^ear of all kindK: the second Hat contains u wareroom for the tailors couiiected with this department ami also ,i wareroom for uphoktered furniture. No. 2 C(Mit:iins on its shelves and coiniteis all the ninnerous articles in the dry , (III hriiL'n St., with 11 fow yrocerius not ,. , . , , ^^ .• ^ i ■ ., *i,wi ii; 1 . ;. t I i i< • suit, of irroiit eiieri'y «nd closo .■ittoiitioii to Imisi- wortli a IpKM). His hiisinoss to-day at t raiiu s *» ''•' Cornor in liaiulsonudy a|ipoiiitud stoiu and with nt'H extending ovit a judiod of IW year». -^ icik bow. \ i. 21Toorc. •>• Tiiu C-oiinty of Wustiiiorhuid has product-d many al)lo politicians iiion wlio liavo oxuitcd a marked iiiHiit-uoo in piil)iic matters in their day and general io ' . Tiie eldi'r speidver l>ots- foid. Speaker Crane, \A. (ioveinor Chandler, and Sir All)urt Smith, are .iiiiunyst those who were potentialities in their day and whose names will always occupy a |>aL,'e in provincial liistory. Tlu' Hon. .loseph l-ytle Moore coinnu-iiced a lii^hly promising careei' which was too soon terminated liy death, or his name also might have grown to occupy a jolt-most place iii our local annals. ,\lr. Moore w.ts till' ti'iitli and youngest son <»f Itoliert ami Catiicriii • .Moore (nee Oslturn) who resided m-ar l>erry, Ireland ThiMi' son, •loliii Mo.iie, .vlieii little more than a youth c.'ime lo .viiu-noii and speiil some time travelling Ml tile S.at.'S ol I'eiiMsyhaiiia and < Hiio, aiul he Was yieatl,) luipi e.-^si-d »»ilii the v;ist slretclies of pruductue lauds winch v liicd at a nominiil rite III oi'iii|Mi i.s.iii \villi tlie farms ;it home, oi- ftfred ad.aiitages t.- iii.sown family who liy iiiimi- giMliiig J ml I .Mas m.ilily expert indeptMideiict> a. Ill III- MiijHitiMcy. Med.'iiii-d t » St. .Inhii N Ii., Mlieif Ii ■ ciiieied tlie service of William Haiii- m.-hd, I lien a leading merchant, and after clerk- ing for t \no _)i'ais, ill iicaltli cmpeiled him to give 11,1 wni.v and return to his family. _ Ilis ue;il Ii occuiiiil in l or 7 yi-ais, left berry, foi' New ^'oik. Hi' had alreaily made husiness con- nections lliere iiiil inducements were made him to go into husiness there, hut he had started with < >hio as his olijeutive point, and Im pushed on to tiiat state He was not satisfied with the political institutions under which he found himself; he was a IJiieton at heart and he had such an inborn dread of repiihlican instiiii- tions, that he decided to l)ringu[) his family under the old tiag, and he turned his face tow.irds St. .John. In this he was .somewhat influenced l»y another son, Mr. William K. Moore wlio had been induced by Mr. Hammoned to take a position in his establi.shment. Arriving there, he decided to settle in Westmorland and obtaining passage up the Bay, he located him- self at Dorchester Cape, where he opened a general store. Here Joseph L. attended a conunon school and afterwards, when the Male Academy at Sackville was ojiened, he was ime of the first of the "old boy.s." He was a favorite with the boys and especially with the principal — Dr. Pickard, who used t ntcall ami |ioi |>"fnati; tlio nn'iimiy i>t his hnsinoss transactii.ns; he was sensitive as ,,j„, ,,f the must hi^'ii niimled mhI -.'iieiMiiN ..f to his reputation and proud to t-any and pre- mn' |Mililii' men one of whom it coiild hu naid:. sorvortgtxxl naiiie, •'lie was on e of irttures' iioh'i'meii." ■ ,1 ,, — .4 — The Int." Mr. |{(.wes as (.ne of the pionecs jieniai iiiul to liis tiisles. He was 11 j,'r«'a( jounmlisis of tlin KasU-rn Provinces, and ur reader and possessed a fund of knowledf^e one who pursued a liij,'lily successful and accpiired liy study and ol)servalion. honorable canier is entitled to a niche in Kdueation was not so easily obtained in the pantheon of provincial worthies. thone day as at thepresenttinie aiuLMr I'.owes ll(! was horn in 1H13 at Tryon, P. E. 1., beiuj,' superior in that respect to his sur- 1,0 which place his father enu^rated from ^-oundings was much in demand. Many a (Jieat Britain. His father afterwards re- lawsuit and trouble- were avoided through moved to Windsor, N. S., and still later his efforts. Times with(.ut number, farmers as attached to the Imperial service at und otliers in dispute would submit their (.It Cumberland, when that wan an occu- grievances to Mr. Howes' arbitration and d(v pied post. His father, William Jiowes not cide to abide by his judgment, and very few ..Illy educated his sons well, but gave them if any of his decisious were disregarded, all cultivated tastes. Two of them founded Tt was always matter for congiatulation to the (.1(1 established printing Hrm ..f B(.wes him that he was the instrument whereby Bros, at Halifax. vexations, lawsuits and substxiuciit ill will His son Edward came to Sackville over were prevented, half a century ago. Though but a young man he opened a school near the present store of .Joseph L. Black and later taught in a building near Morice's lake near or at tlitj store of the late William McConnell. Mr. Howes continued teacliing for prob- ably' a decade and then (.pened a .^mall job printing office. Shortly after he established the Sackville Borderer (so named because its lu.me bordered on the counties of West- morland and Cumberland) and continued as editor and proprietor up to the time of his death in 1868. Except the Westmor- l(.nd Times, which had been started at Monctoii and Jiftsrwards dincontinued, the liorderer was then the only newspaper be- tween the cities of St. John and Halifax. The first edition of the paper was about KhwMU) Tvki.nIHowks. (juartier the siae of the Post, but had been Mr. Bowes did much through his journal enlarged until at the time Mr. B. was called in moulding public opinion in those days, away it had grown to be one of the largest as newspapers were indeed few. The and best conducted country weeklies then Borderer too was practically a history of the published in the provinces. progress of events 20 to 40 years ago and Mr. Bowes married a daughter (.f the some of the files, valuable documents, are late Frederick Sears, th« couple being mar- preserved in the provincial library of Nova ried by Rev. William Sears, the lady's Scotia at Halifax having been obtained from uncle. the family of Mr. Bowes by Jc.hnT. Bulmer Mr. Bowes was a successful teacher but when the latter was provincial libriu'ian «)f .his work as a writer was much more con- the sister province. . A Tho HuliJHct »»f our skcifli wa.s a yrriit roiuln' iiiul was never .s)ili,sHtMl \vli»'ii a new work of iiiipoi'tHiiiM' caiiK' out iititil lie liati Necui'<;(l Hiwl I'crusi'd it. |[*' was Iwld in such rt'Hp't't for his liom-sty, strai;ihtfoi' wanlnnss of purpost' and personal charms that very many of the provincial news pajMirs at liis d(Nith which occurred in iSCiS went into full or partial mourninjL;. |)urin^ his lifetime Mr. ISowes occupied many positions of im|M)riance and trust in the place where the "greater portion of his life was sp«Mit. Among others he filled the poHt of secretary of the hoard of school trustees (this was l)efore the (hiys of free sclMMtls) and was the custfMlian of school h(M»hs before their delivery. He left 4 suns and '2 daughters — one son is at hoi'chester, one di«>d in Providenee last year (where he had hecn many years,) one is at Halifax and one at San Krancisco. ( )ne of the dau^^hters lives in C'lUifornia and one in Sacksille, Mis widow lives in Hali- fax. She is now 71 ycais old. His death occured on I'Dth .\u;.'., IfSfiS. His funeral services were conducted hv |{ev. Thomas Todd. Kev. I )r. I'ickard, and |{e\. (i. F. .Miles took part in the e.xercises. The services were held at the Wesleyan CMiapel. A \ery lai'^fc ;,Mtherin;,' of peoj)le met at his house to testify their respect for the deceased. In IS7!>, the UoltDKHKK, after jtassing tkrou,i,'h the hands of a number of owners, was purcha.sed by Mr. AV. C. .Milner and amalj^amated with the ClIKiNKCTo Post. + l^Iooincrs V or •:• l1o\. *>- 1 have not said nuythin>; aljout the nll-pi'cval- eut Hoonier.s so Inr! lu fact I )»av« ratlicr avoided the su'ijoct than otiierwise, not by nuy meaus becau.so my native luodoHty led nie to shrink Irom thts luoutiou of such a >;arni"ut ; but partly because I could not >jot worked up to the pitch of e.Koiteineut which is always ni^cessary to nie before I can write with my customary brilliancy, over a danfifer which I do uut cousidor immlueut, and partly because everybody else seemed to be wiitiujf about them and lash- iu>? themselves up to the verge of frenzy over the matter: and a yearning for origir.allty that maybe morbid, prevented mc* from using n theme which seemed to be getting threadbare, and frayed around the edges from con- stant discussion, before It had ri chauce of beiug worn out iu the legitimate way. I know quite well that those alarmists amougs both sexes who are always so ready to look up- on the dark side, that they refuse to (fontemj)- late the sua itself except through smoked glasses; arc ready to predict the decline of the petticoat, and the universal adoption of the bloomer within the next ten years. But I have the most substantial reasons for believing that it will be many decades before the use of the bloomer becomes at all general. Never, in fact, until the Delsartlan school, and the prophet of physical culture have so left their impression upon the woman of the day, that her form has reached the degree of perfection necessary be- fore a separate garment for each leg (!an be worn with any licgrcc ol conilort or tranquility by a self rcsix'cting woman, will the Idoomer win g(Mieral recognition. I read a very inler- esting article in an American paper not long agoont.lio sulijccl of mascuiiuc dress reform. The writer said that the agitatioM in favor of ' knee breetclies, wilh stockings ami low cut buckled shoes n> a national coslunie for men, was not making mucii headway; and tiicii he proceed- ed to give a few statistics, which he thought might soi ve to account for t he slow progress of the movcmept. The lesiilt of liis researches was most interesting, and liis arginnents were convincing l)eyund all (iis|)\it(>. because jir must have .studied his subject (;aretully, in order to hav<' nc(iuired such a mass of information. cI never had much of a h(>ad for ligures, so I cannot remember exactly thti lu'oportious he gavt>, but I know 1 hat starting with a male popu- lati(m of between 2-") and 30 millitms he procecd- t>d to couscienciously <>xpunge those whom hn considered unlU to shine in tiie proposed cos- tume, and assist in making it popular. Be- ginning with the hopelessly bow legged men, and desciMiding regularly in a sort of chromatic scal<% he ran down the garmut of knock-kneed men, bandy-legged men, and men with spindle shanks, imtil there r|iiiiHi- llPH', ami Ihu'oiih'm Hit; i-viTyilny fln's- of tin- av-!i-Htf«> Amkkican fiti/.i'ii. It isaiMtld niU', that la l>inls ot pnrnilisc, hav(» iii'ith*T lt'«s. iii>r htoiiuulu.. arid lh<' VIS DK SI writer would lain, pii'st'ivc that jiloawiiil lift ion w.-n- it not that I lu' lu'W woman ht'raoil sci'iiis diK|H(s«'d lo throw nHi«i»' ihf vi'il of iiiystfry whifli Mii>iiioiidi'd h<'i lowt-i (■xtrt'iiiilifn for a«»'s past, ami .is^inf an .-nKi'i world that. Hho not only poi^Ht-Hsi-?* Ii'k^. Iml th(»rini>jrhly (*iibstantial and prtHi!ntal>l<' on.-s, at that! Iscaio'ly likf to say tlial .>li'- sisuiis anxious to display thi.-ni, Imt if not why dorH Idoonior costunic play such an inip«>itant pail in tbn teuots of tho«niau».ipat<'d woman? I liavi' iH'Vor y;arments of every dlsi-riptiou asshofkin>,'ly immo(h'sl and bold in thfoxtrenie, aud it is a ifinarkalile fact that the apostle of progress who believes in tlic emancipation of woman "from the jfnmml ui). " nnil who openly preaches the iloctrine of a hkirt for each letf, is invariably a well deveopcd specimeu of the female form divim- with thi- torso of a Venus, aud lower limbs to match. Whili! the willowy female whose charm consists chielly in the uudulatinj,' «racc of her motions, prefers the woman's rights, bram-b of the movement, takes up the higher Education of Woman iu preference to athletics and physical culture, aud is more at home updest as a woman with thin Ipgs. and 1 think this speech of hers i-ontaius the most unanswerable argument against any undue excitement over the bknimer (piestion. If there aic so many hundreds of thousands of jTieqouttjis fair continent whose lower limbs Would tail lo stand the crucial t»'»4t I'f the ld clfar light of day, how many tlioiisand»of wo- men are there hi our glorious Dominion who are ill the same position, and who will iftntinufl to op|iose the approach of the insidioiiH bjiNtnHV witlipeii and voice, as long as broath and titt length remain to them'/ It seems imIiI that so important an issue as the chtthing of future gHiierations of women should depend u|K>n t«uch a I rifle as I he si/.e and shape of a log. but it \n im> nevertheless. "'I'llifi is the era of legs" a« Kolterl Hiirdette says, and "l»*gs ai«' what the cause of emaiicipaleil woman standsu|M»n' there- fore she has no need to be ashanip thick at the ankle, of course it would be imi>ossible to form an estimate of the exact danger iu which we stand from the threatened bliHtuier l>y adopt- ing t he course pursued by our .\mericau statlH- ticinii. and reducing the matter to li)(ur«>>i. lie- cause Miat would Involve taking a -m »rt of ••eueus oftlic ("aiiadian ladies' inwler.standing which would lie impracticaide to say the jea.st. Hut there is another way in which we could set our minds at rest. I understaud from a re- liable authority that theatrical niauagers no longer find it necessary to s«dect the ladies ol the choidus pc-rsonaliy; they adopt the more simple pli' II ot writing to the candidate for theatical fame, and asking her opiniou of the l)l(X)mer, as a regulative bicycle costume. Should her decision lie against the festive little garment she is not eugag«'d, but if it is favor- al)le, the manager knows that she is eligible for a position iu the front row, and secures her ser- vices at once. lV'rhap.s the be.st and shortest way of ascer- taining the condition of public opiniou on the subject of the bUiomer would be be l»orri)w the theatical managers' idea, open a ballot and by putting the matter to vote, settle the disputed question at once aud forevei I A8TKA. ^hr Ft^ ^)m^^ s>1^-^)\ S-^ J CI Skctcl? of tl^ (Sarly ^tstory of ^ SacUinllc, 21 B. -^ ( h'l'il'l f)r/nr>- till' llisliiririll Suc'li'tll <>/' C/l KJU'rfn liif Ij . < '. MUlH'r.) I. FUKN'CII nCCUI'AllDN. The firstEui'opoaii si'ttlers !itSiU'k\ ille wcic Frrnch. Tlio date < it' settlement here is uii- cpi'tain, Itut it was some years after Uftiir jjef»is a suryeoii, (l)rou<;ht ti» Port Hoyal l)y D'Auhuiy settled at lieauhassin, Fort Law- rence) with Thomas Cormier, .laciiues Helon, Peter Sire, and (Jerinaiii (iirouard. This settlement had l>een made in 1(171, so it was at't(!r this date that clearings were made near the four Corneis, (Tantramar), alon;? tlu! ridge from the Town Hall to the farm of the late Philip Palmers |ilai-iM'allei! in the old maps Pre des iSoiirg and at Westcock (Veska). These localities were connected l)y a trail through the woods and Westcock is described as a "Port de niei, " seaport, from which intimate connection was made with Port Royal. Tantramai' was also con nectod by a trail across the marshes with the settlements at La Coupe, La Lac, Peausejoui', and Heauljassin, which latter place was described as one of the live principal settlements of the French in Acadia, the others being Port Koyal, i^es Mines, Pisequit and Cobe(|uit. Tantramai- like four of the other settlements was an off-shoot of the parent settlenient at Port Royal. It grev by degrees to be a jxipulous settlement and in time became the station of a missionary. A chapel was built .ni the site of Beulah. The records of the mis sitmaries here have not coinc to light and are probably destroyed and with them all trace is h»st of the family and local history of the former dwellers in this parish. For a period of (;ighty years or more they lived here in tran()uility ])rotected by their seciu sion and rem<»teiiess from the theatre of conflict and con(|uest, and during that time they became a prosj)erous and pofuilous com- nmnity. But so completely has the fortune of war blotted out the memorials of them, that even the graveyard, where generations of them were buried has bei;ome a matter of tradition. A feature of an Fnglish churchyard: — ■• riii-ir iiaiiii', llii'ii- ycjiis, spelt liy tlif uiilctlt-rt'il iiiii.se Tlif jilai'i' eausejour, then dotted with farm buildings. 1 11 pursuance of the above policy, the Freiicli under La iiOiitie had by threats and pur suasions induced the French population living in the villages that remained under Ihitish rule to abandon their homes and .settle on the French side of the Missiipiash, in order to deprive the Fnglish of an in- dustrious class of people as to form a bul- wark against i'ritish aggression. Fn 17")0 when Lawrance apjieared at the French village at P>c;iub«ssin now Fort Ijawrence the {'"rench people hastily burned Iheii- dwellings and left. (ien. .loshua Winslow, * thi'ii a vouii"' Commissariat olhcer attached to the com- mand wiites ill his journal on Sfh Sept. IS.'iU. "The iiuliaimset lirt! to the villaoc llebei't and another village opposite us and burnt a great many houses." It must have been with sore hearts that these Acadian farmers turned awav from (he homesteads made fruitful by the sweat and toil of theni.selves aixl their forefathers, and that they set (mt to make new dwellin" < Si'i' loot iKitu next pajje IXJlVJitXJVyJV i \^l.t M ^ — i I LJ i rr^r^rr^r tnl ntlirir i:. 1.". M \r, til Mill. tin* jU'tijtlf ('II- (iiialK ill 1 7^>^>. jiluct's, tiustiiiji tlieiiiselves, their wi%rs and their cliiMren tosl on the Isthmus was deemed a menace to Knglish dominancy in Acadia. The Isthmus was made the liase of attack hy Indians and (jfiis 'fii litiif!. leil hy Bois Hehert, on the Kurdish jiosts: the newly formed settln- nient at Halifa.x, as well as the fort at poll Hoyal were kept in more or less con- stant alaini, hy hostiles who ran^red the wort «uiiil>*Tlainl in 1770 til p> til scIhmiI at l!<»t on. Slit* k«*|it a iliarv w'licli has Ix'i-ii fititi'il liy a siii'i-eMlirliiMt la^t xt-ar l'nllk^ aniiinp.«t ttu" iiiii!ki< >>f tli«- st-abiiii. liciu'ial Winsliiu s«>cni» l<> liaxt- left Fort < iinih<-i'lan( Uh- iirary l>ii>i- ne! hail <>n mie nf hit- tripH to lliMton pirkeit nil a waif, in the |ieri>iiii of the alter- uai'ils I'elelirateil KriMiku Wathon, ami liroii^rlit him to Nova Seiitia. HriHik Watson ownl ininh ur hiii kiiow- ieil^e iif linsinesii ami liin loniineriial niiri-eiiK in after life til the trainiiiti he reeeiveit at thehamlMif (Jeiienil Winslow who is ilesirilieil a* a ••iniwt ioni|ilete aei'oiint- ant." lie watt a Lieutenant iiniler *'a|it. I.it;iit in Ciil. .Moore's reKinient at the taking of l.oiii(i|iiir^ iu 1741J. He was afterwarilfi «iininiiiisiary «;eiieral of the Kiij:- lish Troops in Nova Si-otia. ami aiiliiit; with KUKlanil in the rexoliitionary stniKt;'*' wase.xeiteil ami eoutinneil in tliu royal serviee' till his iteatli. V against the attack of Lawrence. Their wives and children from thei r house \ stoops at TMitraniar watched with the keenest interest and anxiety the course arrest ail the men. Their cattle anil corn were forfeited and must lie applieii to wards the expense of removal. They were to ; be allowed to cany away only their ready j money and household furniture. l»y a second letter dispatched by t'a})t (Joreham. he or- dered the destruction of the French \illages at Shediacand Ibimsech (Pugwash). A third letter written on Sth of August, Lawttnce oiders the destruction of the \illagi's north and iioith west of iJeausejour and to try and save the cattle and crops. < >ii -JUtli of .\ugust a man of war under ci-iiiniand of t'apt. Proby and eight trans- ports arrived from Halifax and cast anchor at Five Fathom Hole, anil four tiays later two more \essels sailed in. ( >n iMlth August [..awrence writes another letter to Moncton, giving further instruc tions and informing him as to the umve- ineiits of Winslow at Mines A'c. He is to lav hold of the priest .Miiiiac, and send him with the rest. All the cattle that can be brought in from Petitcoudiac, Meniramcook and C'liii>oudy are to be distributed amongst the peks Watson with a (letachn»ent to scour the country aljout liaie Verte. The scenes at eniharkation were very pain- ful. Even at this lapse of time one cannot hut reelves in the vessels, where there hushands had U-cn ft>rcer. Marsh and Lieut IJilling and six pri- vates were killed and ten were wounded. The whole force narrowly escjij cdheing ex- terniinate»;lisii skttlkmkxt. The second part of the design of L.iw rence and his Council at Halifax was now in Kiilei-. namely to i-eplace the French liv Kni:Iish innnigrants to strengthen Kng- lish rule and power in Acadia. There were En-rlish garrisons at Beausejour, V*tvX I^iw- rence and Fort .Moncton and the only Kng- lish settlers were disbanded soldiers and tradesmen who had i-onnnenced to l<»cate themselves aiouiid these posts and within the range of their- j)rotectioii. 'J'lie French iidiabit.ints had Iteen sti comph'telv ilriven off that nirn* years later (17(i4) thev onlv numliere*! .'{.SS, men, women and children in this |MirtioM of Acadia, when instructions come from the English government to al- low them to become settlers on taking tin- oath of allegiance. Special inducements w«'re held out to the irregulai's of New Eng land to In'come s«'ttlers, if they would re- main in duty six months longer. To a col onel was offered I'OOO acres of choice land Major 7-'»0 acres; Captain 500: ensign 450: private soMiers 200. A irturn in the archives at Halifax shews that in 17<)"?, Sackville's inhabitants iiinsistefl of liO families only and that onlv 200 acres of upland had then been cleared up. They had 12,000 acres of marsh land. Atthesiime time Cumberland, (now the }t00 acres <»f cleai-ed land and 1S,SOO acres of marsh land. The X. S. liCgislature wax constitutei innent in IT'i") lejiresenting that there were then SO fami- lies in this place. Mr. .\. F(;ster was the Hrst nienilier. His name ocoui's tor the fii'st time in 1774, in the proceedings of the House In 177"), Sannu'l liogers succeeded Mi'. Foster, Messrs. (Jay and Scurr at the same time representing the county (Cundterland.) 175S, on 12th October, a jtroclamation was adopted in council in Halifa.x oH'eiing the vacant lands to settlers, which '"consist of one hundred thousand acres of intervale plough lands, cultivated for more than 100 years past and never fail of crops noi- need manuring; also a hundred thousand acres cleared and stocked with Knglish grass, planted with orchards, \ ineyards, itc. All these are situated about the jSay of Fundy upon rivers navigable for ships of burden." Aj)plications were to be made to Thomas Hancock, IJoston, ])rosince agent at lloston, who being applied to by persons desiring to know the kind of goveriunent in No\a Scotia and whether tolei'ation in religion was allowed, a second proclamation was issued on 11th .January, guaranteering I'e- pre.sentative institutions and full liberty of conscience, except U\ papi.sts. 17-")9, on 19th July, Messrs Liss Willough- by, Benjamin Kimball, Edward Mott and Samuel Starr, junr, a committee of agents from Connecticut appeared at Halifax pro- po.sing to make a settlement at Chignecto and they were given a vessel to visit the locality. In Sejitember they returned and proposed some alterations in the grant, which were agreed to. While there were three gairisons on the Isthmus, settlement was very much hinder- ed by the absence (if any security to life or property. The Indians and French scoured the woods, ready to pick of! any straggleis. They would even shew themselves ostenta- tiously before the walls of the forts; any settlement out of the reach of guns was not ordy hazardous but iujpracticable. The French and Indians exhibiteil in their raids a skill, and a bravado amount- ing to recklessness. In April of this year, (17")9,) two vessels, were at anchor at (Jrind- stduc Island, oiic llic .irini'd schooner "Moncton," Ijclonging to the Province, the lit hci- a transport loaded with beef, jiork, lloui-. br 'ad, rice, p(Ms, rum, win(>, sugar, lemons, beer, shoes, shirts, stockings and other gdcids laden at Halifax for the shop- keepers at the Fort. During the night of 4th., the transport was captured by canoes nijinned by Acatlians and French from the shore, and in the morning, they made a most determined effort to capture the "Moncton," chasing her down the Hay for Hve hours. The "Moncton liad a boy kill- ed and two men wounded in the fight. The schuoner w;is afterwards ransomed for •"irl.lOO the French taking the cargo. A more ti'agic affair occured earlier in the year when a seigeant and three men of the Pidvincial l»angers and seven soklier.s of the 4(ith Regiment then at the Fort went out to cut wood. They were ambuscaded at a jilace called Bloody Bridge, and five of them were scalped and stripped. It was twd years before this (20th July, 1757) that laeut. Hickson when following l>ois Hebert with a small troop, was Rnd)ushed where the LaCoup stieam enters the Aulac and wiis taken prisoner and conveyed to Quebec. His (unnnand was sh<»t and scalped. The capture of Quebec this year ended the hopes (if the Acadians of re[>os.sessing their Ian, a grant of 50,000 acres at Chignecto nuide in 17.i6, was rescinded, none (if the conditions having been perform- ed and the land remaining unoccupied. In 17()0, the New England soldiers at the Forts nearly all left, their term of en- listment having probably expired, but they could not be induced to remain kmger in 'he country. The first actual settlement in this pari.sh after the deportation of the French may be placed at 1761 — six years after their depor- tation and two years after the fall of Que- bec. The invitations extended in the above })'oclamations met with a ready response and a movement took place in Rhode Island to send a contin ^ here. Some tweii i families settled here that summer an, lers came lo seek loca- tions and erect habitations to bring their fannlies the next sununer. No record is ik S-^-,!^.— "-^"Vl**!"^':' lX./> 26 CHIGNECTO POST EXTRA NUMBER. f known to have been preserved stating their names, but in the Archives at Halifax there is a "list of subscribers for the township Ij-ing on the Tantramar river, represented by Benjamin Thurber, Cyprian Sterry and Edward Jinks from Providence in Rhodis- land." It is not dated but it probably be- longs to the year 1760 or 1761. The names attached are as follows: "The List of the Siibscrilwrs for the Township hvintr "'on Tantiinar Uiver, Representeilby Benjamin Thnrber, Cyprian Sterry and Kthnund Jinks, from rrovidence in Hhode Island." Taken from records in the I'rovince ^library at Halifax. The date is proba'ily IVi'l. but pos- Daniel IiikoIs, >• .lohn Wilson, '* Nath'l Hrowii, " Abiel Fry, .Simon Kry, Kemslev Stevens, " Uoliert Davis, .liM-. I>exter lerased) ^ibly 176(». Jos. fUney John Jenckes Solo. Wheat Benj'n Thurber < 'yprian Sterry Kdnnind .lenc'kes David Burr Jos. Tower Seth Luther " J no. YouHfr Sam Thurl»er Jacob Whitman Kdnnind Tripp David AVaters William Sheldon Dan'l Wear Rich'd Brown Volintine Esterbrooks Charles < Hnev Thos. Field Thos. Bowen Jona. Jenckes Step. Jenckes James Olney Wm. Brown' Sam'l Lethredfre h. i'arpenter Levi I'otter Nedebiali Anu;el John Brown James Foster Klislia Hopkins Wni. WaU-ot David Alltersoii Rob't Potter Dan'l Wilcocks John Wullin Kob't Woodward I'eter Bateiiian Sam'l Toon'ood .los Olney, ir. Wm. Whipple David Wilbur Oliver <'asey Elisha .Smith Nathan c'aae jr. Charles Andrei .los. Tayh»r Oliver Man Moses Man W. Whipple, jr. >\ m. i'hillips lienj. Robinson Jona. I'ike exter William Jenckes Henry Finch Sam'l Shearman Wui Olney ■lohn Olney jr. James Olney Francis Swan, of Massachns's These sin;;le shares each l.v 47 107 7(» I-.' 177 1--' 4."> first settlei-s W, •_• do (H! :> do 177 Cogjjshal Olney John I'ower Aaron Mamm Nathan Jent^kes Freelove Tucker Benja. Cousins Rowland Sprague Nathan < iiles Benja. Medberry Natiianael Wood'war I Zeph'r Woodward James Jenc^kes William Emerson (;has. Spauldinj; John Downer Nath'l Packer Thos Sterry Amasa Kil'buru Nathan Sterry Samuel .Mott' James Day of .Massachusetts. .\sa Foster '• John I'eabody " I'eter Furker' " Isaac Blunt " <'aleby Swan " Some ot" these iiaiiie.'^, as Tower, Youiij,', Estaljrook.s, Jinks, Foster, Curry, liateman, Calioun, Ih'owii, Smith, Cole. Kiiij;, Fin- ney, Carpenter, Brigg.s, Sprague, Robinson, Seaman, Power, Tucker, Parker, Emerson, Davis, etc, represent well known families in our community. Many of the others probablv never came to the country at all and others coming here were not satisfied with the prospect and returned again to the other colonies. The first town meeting -(»r meeting of the committee for Sackville township took place on 'JOth July 1762. It was held at the house of Mrs. Charity Bishop, who kept an inn at Cumlwrland. There was present C.-ipt. John Huston, Doctor John Jencks, J(».shua Sprague, Valentine Estabrooks, William Maxwell and .l«>s!iua Winshtw. Capt Huston was made cliairm;in and lohalM»d Comstock, clerk. The conditions and l(»cations of the prt)- posed new grant of Sackville were of the first interest to the newly arrived settler* and the proceei lings were largely taken up with settling such matters. It was re.soh- ed that a family of six, and .seven head of cattle should have one and a half shares or 750 acres. At the next meeting held on "Jlst Au- gust, Mr. Elijah Avers' name appears as a committeeman. At a town meeting held on 18th A[»ril, 1770, R«»l>ert Scott was ap{M)inted nuKlera- t«»r and Rol)ert Foster clerk. They with John Thomas were appointed a committee to settle with the old committee for the surxev of the lands. The next immigration appears to have been in 176."l, when a baptist church at 1 I CHIGNECTO POST EXTRA NUMBER »7 Au- 4 have li Jit 8wiiiisofi, Mass, left in a InKly witli tlie pas- t(»r and settled here. It was a small ImkJv consisting of \'^ members only. Their names were, Nathan Mason and wife, Tho- mas liewis and wife, Oliver Mason and wife, Experieno'* IJaker, Benjamin Mason and wife, Chai-les Seamans and wife and ( Jilhert Seamans and wife. Nathan Masftn was their pa.stor. The names Nathan Mas(»n, Thomas Lewis, (irilhert Seaman, Henjaniin Mason occur in a document in the archives at Hali- fax .seven years later (1770) reciting the names of the residents here. The others are said to have returned to Massachussets in 1771. The first actual grant of Sackville a{»- }iears to have been made on 12th f)ctol)er 17()"). Previous to that date, settlers liud no title to lands they occupied beyond order.s-in-council, issued at Halifax and which the grant confirmed. This grant was for .■?r),2.jO acres. The consideration was a quit rent of one shilling sterling for ten years foi- every fifty acres. If no lent be paid for three years and no distress be found, or if the granters sell the same with- in ten years the grant is void. The township was t(» consist k place and the new owners took no interest or charge of them the ownership of many became obscured When the timber on them commenced to In* valuable, there sudddenly grew up a small class of land jumpers, who ran <»ut vacant lots and exercised acts of ownership. These acts led to a great deal of litigation and, for many years the Supreme Court was kept more or less bu.sy over ''Sackville rights." Many of the orijiinal grants of lots were voided for want of settlement and other grunts issued over the same lands. The niwnes of the original grantees and memliers (el>orah Kililv Natlial. Mason Natlial. Mason .Ir Isaiah Mason •I no. I>av HtMiJ. Mason .Vatel. Lewis l.'liarles Seamans l.irn T.it r. I'hinias I'otter Thomas Lewis .lames KsrHliriHik-> Nathel. .laeolis .lacoli Whitmonil .Ino. Thomas Val'tine Kstalirooks .losiah Tin;iley ISenj. Kmersoii Kpli'rni Knierson Isaiah Horton iKiniel Kiltiv INIdst of these are s,ii(l to have represent etl actual settlers at the time, \mX when the war of Iiulepemlence broke out sixteen years later, many of the.se settlers actively sympathized with the revolting colonies and returned to United States. Some of tlieni joined t'ol Eddy in his attack on Fort Cumberland and tied at his de- feat to Machi.is. For these and the reasons this grant seems to have been superseded hy other and later grants over the same lands. The Ivldy war as it was called was <»iie of the most stirrin^i epi.s(Kles in onr earl}' instory and is the subject of .mother .irticle read lie- fore t!ie t'higiiecto Historical Society. In 17»>7. Sackville had already made con- siderable progress. A return made by Lieut. Governor Fiankliii. emhracinif a census of the .*iO town.ships into which the Province was then divided, shews Sackville had then a ])opulation of .'M!* persons, '.\\'.\ of whom were Americ.ins. It possessetl also the following: Horses ... •in Oxen .... i:i:t Cows . i'lO Y; haviil Alvason »•« 1'.". El»en'r Salishnry 1'^ 1 Isniel Thornton 1'.. 1'.- Kl>en'r Salishnry .Ir 1 1'.. .laliish Salishnry ■2 1 " Kicharil Salislmry 1., 1 Iteuhen Salishnry •i I'i Knenier < Uvay », 1 Kleazer Martin *a Samuel Lewis l>a 1'., .lohn Thomas .Ir ', I'i Xichi>las Thomas '2 1 .lolin .Manley 11.. Klijah Aver.lr v.. Henry Clin I'i I'i Joseph Kmerson 1'.. •> Setli Hervey \ .lohn WihhI '^, 1'.. Alex'r Huston 1 * l>avi(l l.atimor 1 1 Thomas Hunt 'roduce in ITtxi— Wlie-at Iius.— KO.-. Kye V.TK Pease '• TM Barley " Wi Oats " . . . :h Hemp see'il . !(»% Flax seed .-« Klax .... . 9 Horn durini; the vear 'JU Died . \vii>hi|> of Aiiilit-ist litul a li(i{>ulati>. and the to\viishi|i of Cmii- lierhiiul Wi:*: H..|H-wtll (all Aliieit C'oinity) ITtU; Monctoji •»•►. A thinl iuiinignitioii t, cdiiiiiR'iK'ing ill 177-'. Oil ir.ih May. 177--'. a hody ..f York- shire .st'ttleis laiuUtI at Fort ("uiiiherlaiul, hav- ing arrivttl at Halifax the ]treviou.s iiimths. from Kiiglaiiil. They eiiiltiacod the lllacks, I'owseis. Dix<>n>. Cliapiiiaiis, Freezes, liul- mers, Li>\veris4»ns. and other well known fami- lies, t )ther jBirties followeitant from a commercial as from a |M>litic:il Nt.-tiid|Hiint. Tiie loyalty of these men was a tower of >trength. when the attempt was made \t\ (-"ol. Eddy, aided hy the New Fln^l.-iml settlers. t»> rush this country into union with the rev«ilte«l colonies. Another grant datey L<>nl William ram|»l)ell, styled Ciip- tain general and gi»veri5or in chief in Acadia. Hy this diK.-iimeiit ."»1 shares or rights of 500 acres each are gmnie*! . It is recited that the township consistetl ••! '3^S rights, being in all 1(M(,(HH) acres. Tlie grantees with the iiumln-rs of their lots are a.s follows: IKfTKU r. Nathan S-aiiians 4 Kciilien Laltiiiiore • Saiiiiiel Luttiiiinre 10 liiihert Ijtttiiiiore IK .liise)ili Tower >jof •-'(I lU-iijainiii Tiiuer >jOf Jll .loll Scaniaiis :» Kliplialct Head •,of :r> .lonatliaii .links ." anal ' .. of r.; SaniUfI Mirks »«of .Vt William I'owrr 'iof f4 The terms of this gmnt were a <|iiit rent of one shilling for every ."»<> acres gmnte*! payable every Michaelmas, the gi~tnt to l>e void in case no jiayment he made for three years and no distress he found mi the premises; also the grantees hound themselves to cultivate or en- close one third in a year, one in eleven years and one third in twenty one years; al.so each grantee is to plant aiiniiaily two acres in hemp: also actual settlement shall l>e made before the last day of January 1H7."». or the gnmt is void. The next grant is dated '2'2n|ili itweiis ■SI .lolm Tlinrlier S* < ieor;ri' Slieuniuiii :t2 .la|iliet AIven->n '..of :;: .lercniiah Alverr-m ijof a: William Alverx'ii 4:: ami i. of 4K ( liarles* • »lney r.aml >.. of 4'.i •lolin .lenks ',.if 44 Samuel rurr> >; of 4*. Kenjaiiiin Thurlier ',..f4« Sauniel Saumlen' 'iof47 .lolin ilarns ';.»f 4H Nil-Ill lias «"e»ik 1 J of .Ml Ttiomu'i K;inis > . of .Vt I.KTTKK It. Kenoni Williani" 4 Timothy Williams 4; .tps.se .l.-n * •^ .loseph 4'k in .Ipsse t'ook 11 .lose|ih IVnnett l■^ (onier Smith Vt .lolin tiawkins ',of 1: Rii-hart->>^auia:i:» .I'-reiiiian Kniwiirll < >eor^e Sheaniuui Joshua sii-'^niiaii Henjauiin Tower .lonei h Towfr .AmIin'M' llii-ks Saiiiitpl Kilil} ' .lohn Kihly Ahraliaiii i'liM*} :i(» ;:i 411 ' ..of * !, 4J * 4:! ; 44 V> 4<; '„of 47 C of 47 '.> of (ill '- of •^'l i^of (u; The terms are the same xk in the former grant except the «|uit rent Is iiuule one farthing per acre and actual settlement Iuls to be m:ide within two years. About 17H<>, the inhal>itaiits tif Sackville made a return of the state of the settlement to the government to shew that if a proposed escheat was niiide it would be attended with great confusion hh but few of the grants had not been iin)iroved. Tlie actual settlers at that i.r. 1 ir.it A ■ >i\ ir»n».A. ..» Ht^irs of Tiiomas Kanie^. Ij .t No. !.■.. "f Will Maxwell IJamI '..of.V!. «':of .,4. .liLseph OwiMi •a of 47. (iiileoii Voiiii;; No l:i. i.K'rrKK 11 luv ismx. Kcliiiuiiil .links :e Hfiijaiiiin Thurlier 7.-! ami 74. Lewis Kilily >.,of 4;t. lleliorali Kihly '.;of4«.t. .losiah Tiii;:le*y >«of (;i;. .lonatliaii 1 ole t» ' WiJliaiii Kstalirooks '.of (ill. Kdwanl < ole '"of 7". .\nilirosp role 1 J of 70. Samiipl .lones '... of .-*. .loxeiih HiMiils' lleirs ' '„ of ."iX. (iiileon Yoiui}; 'iof .- Samuel Kojrers ~«- of 10. Holiert Filter 23 .lohn Fo>ter 34 CHIGNECIO POS'I i>PECUL NUMBER. 29 diite as set forth in the return appear to have of •_•« of -."(I of .Rt III >.. of<->:t of .V.t of ('4 uit rent of L-<1 payable •iiitl in case irs anil n<> ;; also the ate or en- tfVen years also each s in hemp; lief ore the nt is void. ay of July ;e. Captain I or rijjhts. ill.l '... .. of ."iX. 2 of .'ill. , of .VI. , of 10. the former one farthing to lie mjwle of Sackville ettlenient to a proposed ended with grants had t tiers at thtit been as follows:— Samuel I!cllew ,io»u|)li Hrown Saimii'l Ko^rtTs Saiiiiu;! Saunders Valmitine Estabrook*' Anilrcw Kiiiucar JaiiK's .lini-ks ElfiiziT Oliiey Natliuii Ma^ion CharU'8 Uixon John Uich;»ril.son John Fawcutt Geori^e i.uluier Thomas Bowser IXTTER A. LETTER B. John I'l'ck Jiilin Burns Ebenezer Burnham ^•in^on Biiislev Wm. < anilorth Aliiul lV.:k Nathaniel Sheliliu;;' Job Aruhernaril Juuaihuu buruham Gilbert Seaman JoseiJi UiM'l Will 1 ariiloiili John W O' Moses lU'lesilernier Joseph Dales.laraler .Michael Bnrk Sanniel Seanians Jiisejih fDvver Joseph Thompson .Mark I'atton Neheniiah .\yer •lames ( ole }iezekiuh King Win. Estabr>ok3 liaiiiel MoiH' .\elieiiiiah Ward rickeriiii; Siiowdon Nelieniiali Ward lohii Kill more .lolin (jiiue .\iitiiis Mcl'hce Win 1-awui'tc Jonathan EJdy LETTER < Daniel Tinylev Wm Laurenc*' B<'!i Town Elijah .Vyef John TlioiiipsOti Elii halct Head Joaiah Tiugley .hmathan > oie Valentine Estabrooki- (iideon Smith I'attoii Estabrooks Thomas Toiler John Welilon .los (' Lamb Jos'ali llieks .io,s( I h Sears wi-n^iiniin Eiiimerson Titus Thornton CHIGNECTO POST AND BORDERER. SACKVILLE, X. B. I>EC., 1895. after 25 years. I Whatever merit exists iu the law of tbe sur- vival of tbe fittest, may be elaiineJ wit Lout i.'f,'o. tiem by a newspaper that like the Cuki.nkctu^ Post has lived over a quarter of a century While it ljas.'.\isted and prospered Lo some lie- gree, which is a matter of personal euu^fiatula- tiou, it mu.-5t be confebsed that iu luokiu;^ bacU over the years, there are niauy tuiugs it lias done, it could have done better, and many fe'ooJ things it has tailed to accomplish at all It is doubtless true that a jourualitt who works ac- cording to lixed standards ol excellence gains iu the moral approbation of the coiiimuuity aud thereby best secures a permauent foothold aud enjovs a virtutius, if a monotonous existeuce but it is none the less true that the higher ideals which the honest journalist cherishes as a faitli, when put in practice are attended by so many difficulties, that tht^ ideal newspaper is yet to be published. However lofty a journalists' aspira- tions are winged for flight, at best they liave their feet in the co nmon clay. Personal frii^nd- shipt,, party til s. I'-yalty to party leadeis, and obligations for favors are only one class of claims on a newspaper that weaken its indepen- dent action, aud di'striiy its u.-rdiiluess. Friends who flaini a quid pro quo; allegiance to a party that has becouie shady and whose methods have to bedoilgcd like a shablty genteel acquaintance; party leaders who are on the make and prostituting their public trusteeship for their own enils- these are all rank jioisou to the work of a journalist who disdains to become a dealer in literary truck eager to secure the quickest leturn for his garbage. The Post took an acMvc part in the free schiiol movement of 1873-74; it started and carried on a systematic agitation for the construction of a Railway from Sackville 10 Cape Tormeutine from 1874 to 1881 and while our local politicians and capitalists opposed the views it put forth that it had to be built by a local company holdiugr outtheexpectathin the government would con- atruet it;the logicof events justified the activity we exerted 'u making it a public question aud the ftouuduess of our views as to the manner it would 'je couotrui.ted. The Bay Vertc C'"ual fol- lowed by its t.ub.-iLitu'e the Chignecto Ship liail- way, engaged year alter year our earnest alteu- tioii and wliile some of its political supporters wlio helped ti) make it a charge on Canadian credit and honor have abandoned it, we liave no (lonbt. tlnn'e is euough liouor left in the i'arlia- nu'Ut, and G-ivernmeut of Cauaila to sustain the good faith ol the couutr y. The Po.vr has also been an earnest and st'iad. ffist supporter of incidental protection and of the iiiu'iiug t igethor by iron links this Dom- inion ol Cau.ul i. While the veteran chieftain tlie old SirJohn was alive and at the head of af- fairs, while Sir Charles Tiipper the most forceful and majterful puldic man Canada ever produced aud Sir Leonard Tilley-the Nestor of our Dom- iuiou-wvre iu public life, they compelled sup- port by the force of overshadowing personality alone. To day, the P0-.T like many others of the old Conservative faith, stands waiting to judge their su<;cessors, not by wliat they are, but by what they do. The allegiance of the rank and file to the great party created by Sir John A. ilacdonahl w>;s very largely a personal one and is not inheritai.'lo Men today do not sttnd for what they did ten years ago; and it is more by the principles they advocate aud the measures they carry, they will in t he future be judged. The Conservative party of Canada is the tra- ditional party of progress and reform; the in- dustrial development aud growth of the country and her political constilidatiou into a nationality, is the result of its enlightened and tiatriotic policy. Hut there is mucli yet to be accom- plisheil, which destiuy seems to have left to the Conservative party, as witness the strong and tearless stand tlie party has taken in de- fence of Constitution il Itightson the Manitoba school question. So long as our leaders shew a willingni;8sto abandon place aud power in the defence of principles, .'iu long may the people of. Canada feel contident tlieir rights aud interests' are ifuarded and pi uteuted .