DULL TIMES.

Northern Advocate, 20 August 1887, Page 3

DULL TIMES.

&B,— What makes a town * city? Why population of course. Well * think thw little town of ours is not at pre/nxt growing as it ought, and yet we all/WOrider why. The reasons no doubt are various ; dull times eyerj where. When we look/back, say some twelve years ago, everything was bright, and prosperity seemed and really waa the rule; and since then up till.aay two years aaco, things began to wane pnd are stfll waning. Our population is d*sreasing, and^yefc we maynpl th&k thalperiaps it- cannot be helped. TheE who is it t&rfi catt help to improve matters n

might be asked? Why the very tlasa who helped to build them up viz., the storekeepers and business people of the place ; but we find that they are just the class who are at present not assisting as they might, for it is purely a matter of co-operation; "unity is strength." and small communities (if not large ones too) should pull together, for a house or town divided against itself (as the old saw hath it) cannot stand. But to come to the point I refer to our steam communication by land and water. You, Mr Editor, may remember the first steamer that ran here that ever did any good for our district was the s.s. Argyle, which, when she started, was thought to be a floating palace compared with the three cutters then rutmiug. Well from the date of that small steamer running we may date the beginning of our prosperity, and why? Because every, body m the place upheld and patronised her. Now follow the career of the place through later years. When the railway is made population flows in, eyeyboffy is doing well, 8 team communication increases, Iwhen at tli« - . summit of our glory, as it wore, thfnga J»pf '' to go back, and now we have * very sack. larger and" W*»- «tcauw -vhgs i^fe^rgyle rwpxxg twice a week, for wljuTtholJatter be^au running here it was only once »woek. ■Well Notwithstanding this fact' our- leading merchaUg seem eonutimes to fbrget/that sho ' is running for one would think th< they had forgotten Vhat made Jbgir town j*en the »■<*'-' it is, althoug^yet weTiSpe in ite/»f ancy, they wem unOinedfo g0 back Vo the'VKng vessels. «ow there is «ire\y sometkinir wanting whet thisN^s the^cas«L - 3JThy \hould not eveir b-usinesu matrin th«^)]Lace taVe sKares in th» company an.d encourage the continuance oi this fine steamer on the trade. They all know the convenience 'she is, ;when they telegraph\ to-day for an^rticle Vanted in a, hurry and'v which perhaps^ brought to them 1 and landed A at the Bailwa\ Station^for sixpence next' -\ morning by 10 tfclock; biit, notwithstanding' this convenienpe, order their heavy goods by, . some sailing vtssel.i This is very unfair, a»«l ! i shews a retrograde movement which will < i sooner or later b&jnorV felt if we, as acowi munity, do not bctaiiiri more united.'' Then ■ >■'•-■ ' look ogam aithe r&^a&its traffic is also ' - : ( diminishing. The pedpfc who could if-thay" i would give itnibra w? do,; give it tho lewt, con* t sequently retienchment . must c|>n*i^in there b too. Many of the:*mpl6yßeßar**aid ofPat^d I these, remove elseVheie, fc thay'reapyfttiere . is little wonder. that our popWafen decreases. . We have the^afWra our own lakds, and have s only ourselcs to blame. < I f : \ '.Obsebvbe.

B The e»eriehced orchardist ildom orders i more thw two or throe sorts of mean,' apples, * grapes, Jt raspberries to be plants largely for field cufore. , The novice feels as though /he r must jraiiit almost everything he ever heard-of . ' This tfaisastroas to the best financial zesaU** . . Takrffdr instance^ a listtrf ' twßSty' or ifcirty pea* and you will find few of them desirable j foriiarket. Many are too small, though oLr—^ fin/quality. Others are large land desirably frmumly, but not attractive fit appearance, j apl not appreciated in market. Others »ro coble growers requiring the highest cultivation " jfhdsoil peculiarly adapted vto them-, It is jjnsually the some with apples, grjpes and other fruits". My advice is, for the auinforra- . Ed, not to plant until he can find some' person in whom he has confidence, \ and who can advise wisely. Experimental orchards and vineyards areoften conducted at considerable expense, instead of profit, awfjret the novice would make his commercial oraiard On experimental orchard, embracing nm>y varietiss that the experienced would not thin* of planting.