Prosperous Regina

Imagino a section cut out of Ihe middleof the Atlantic Ocean, and set down a few scattered rows of wooJoii liousea npon it, and you will havo a pretty good idea of Regina as it looks upon tliis level prairie, stretching for miles in crery direction without a treo in sight. There are probably Ibree bundrcd buildings in the town, which oontnina one thousand people. and the most prominent object that looms up as it is approached over the prairie is the railway water tank. The city is laid out on a scalo of magnificencc rivaling even the usual spread malo by frontier towns, and the consequonec is that the public buildings, unablc to et room in the town, are all from a halfmilo to two miles away from the place. It bas threo hotels, n;imod from famous American hostelries, the Palmer, the Grand Pacific and the Windsor, but ihe threo put together would not cover a quarter of an acre. It has one newspaper in full opernlion wlth hopes of another. It is all loeftted on one side of the railway, willi ïothinat all apparently on the othor side, where the smooth prairie stretches away into indefinito spane. lts railway service, too, is most curious. one passenger train each way passing rvciv twenty-four hours, both of them in tho niiddle of tho night, the wesl-bound train passing at (ifteeu minutes beforc mldnlght, and the east-bouml truiri at fifty minutes after midnight. Tliis, to some extent, niay restrict travel, but it can not curtail the importance of tliU Northwestern capita', which may some day become the metropolis oí Assiniboia, asit is nowthe home of the Nortliwest Territory, the meeti ng place of his council, and the headqua rters of his standing army - the mounted pólice. The few streets of Regina aro brood, and borde red with woodeu sidewalks, the ox-carts which slowly nieaudor through them being varied by some highly-painted Indian, ciad in a esque Hurison Bay Compaiiy's blanket. who proudly rieles into town on bis Dony with his sauaw trudsinz after