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Show .. ." . K THE MIGRATIONS OF MEN. ' N Canadians are advertising their country these days. A little item from an Eastern paper tells how. It says : "Winnipeg is where they do things. This is really the place where the frontier was abolished. A kingdom king-dom is sold daily in Winnipeg, an army marched in by rail to occupy it overnight." The whole 130 miles of track in the yards of the Canadian Pacific railroad at Winnipeg are in use. The account says: "Immigrants come by battalions Englishmen in caps, Scotchmen in bonnets. Breton French in blue coats, Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, Austrians, Mennonites. Gallacians all manner of furtive folk and wild." There are fifteen known languages in the Winnipeg Winni-peg schools and a lot too late to classify. Emerson Hough writes to Outing as follows: "When you see a stranger you cannot tell whether or not he is within the range of human speech. You bitterly reflect only that he is one of those who have wiped out the old frontier, lost it forever to those who love the wilderness." We wonder if migration of men is not part of their nature. It is said that the rush to Canada is because of the cheap lands, but who knows but what it is the instinct that men cannot resist to once even- so often pet up and migrate. The (ioths. Huns and the Vs ridels su-ont v... southern and western Europe. Ever since 1620. in our country the disposition of man has been to jro West. It was that way with the Middle States, then the Prairie States were settled that way. Hack in the early years the Virginians bepan to push over the Allefrrhanies and the Blue Kidpe to settle on both banks of the Ohio, ami when California was taken in and gold was found, the great trek of the aee began be-gan to the West. With just as much zeal men of the extreme West started for Alaska, and now Canada is having her trek. It is said that the locusts have a migration every seventeen years, and the question is: "Do men immitate the locusts or do the locusts immitate man?" |