The morning call., 1893-04-09

Canada Is 2 country of which we know
almost nOtbing-a boundless land of ire
mendOus possibilities. There are those of
us who might learn a whole lot from Can
ada in a practical way by taking n look at
her, besides the satisfaction there Is in see
ing something outside of ourselves. | de-
Spair Of teaching the average spread-eage
American anything about any other country
than his own, and you cannot tell this born
blower anything to speak of about his own
cOuntUy-he knows too much already; but
to the few not SO afflicted with the big head
| venture to say cross the continent by way
of Canada il you conveniently can. Please
10 do this either one way or the other,
and you will find that we, the Fourth
of July, don't own even one-half the
verdant fields Of this continent, and
don't manage very well what we lave.
For example, you will find agricultural
colleges dotted all over Canada, from Que
bee 10 San Juan. l have addressed the
farmer students in at least four of these
colleges, and learned lot in each one of
them. The colleges stand in the midst Of
great Government larms. The farms are,
as a rule, self-sustaining. -Four years com
plete course, at the end of which time the
graduate is capable, practically and seien-
tihcally to manage q like big farm i'm the
broad new wheatfields in the far west of
Canada. He is an educated, religious, re-
fined farmer. And that is why Canada is
raising better wheat and getting bigger
prices than we to-day, and why, l dare
the rest of us Americans will either go TO
| keeping store or running for Office or will
set up as lawyers.
Now, l would not say, as Hon. Ben
| Morgan said lately in Oakland, that the
average American lawyers should all be
wearing stripes, but l will say it is infa-
nous that these innumerable spTigS of law
yeTS who have not sense enough 10 do their
own business should be licensed 10 attend
to mine. a person who has not sense
oYtsslt or aHn aat inn IN MA n !,
of potatoes has the brass and audacity TO
draw my will and settle ~ my estate.
An, you begin to see we can learn some
thing from Canada, county, great,
stout-heaTted land of which we really know
less than of the lands beyond the Alps. In
these great nome made" colleges you
learn not only how 10 plant and sow and
prepare soil, you learn to know soil by the
very touch. smell and taste OF it. How
many of Us in California to day have 10
SOW n field, waste a whole year of time
and some money before we know whether
it is hot or cold, adobe or alkali. Out upon
our ignorance! And yet If there is one aG-
ricultura college on the coast | have not
heard of it. But cereals, soil, these are not
all cattle, all kinds of creeping things even
dogs. these are the books 10 read from.
Don't laugh. 1t would pay New jersey to
open and maintain such a college, if for
nothing more than to save lis from the terri
bic hydrophobia cases with which she fills
the papers year after year. No, they have
no hydrophobia in Canada. When they be-
gan to classify and cultivate the dog in these
colleges they decided that the time had ar
rived 90 put the average dog among the eX-
tinet animals, where all average dogs, the
world over, ought TO be put. And 1t has
paid. Do you hear. my stOrekeeper. my
snide lawyer, my otlice-hnnter? 1t has
paid! When a man in New York wants
healthy, useful dog of blood and breeding,
he gets it of Canada-a college-bred dog.
And while on this line OF travel, having
gone to Chicago through the marvellous
wheatfelds of Canada, not yet plowed in
one-hundredth part,wh not make your W ay
down the Saint Lawrence, still through
Canada to Europe if going SO far? True
you will miss that other big store town.
New York, but what will you miss If you
do? As for nature the mighty surglng St.
Lawrence is a hundred Hudsons rolled into
one.
Historic ami storm-stained and battle
torn old Quebec literally hangs in the air
from her gray granite battlements. To see
her with the white mists rising from the
river rolling. surging, sweeping about her
feet, 1t is not easy to associate her with the
earth, she hangs SO high in the heavens. The
great walls are kept in perfect repair, the
red-coated sentinels, the galloping orderlies.
the drums and the bugle call. the Changing
of the great gate when the sun goes down
you hear and you see n century of the past,
and you smile at all this mimic show of war
and are glad 10 see the thousands of swal-
lows flying in iand out of the mouths of the
thousand mute and useless canton that
mount the battlements of Quebec.
Indians on the streets and some attending
| the Laval University. The famous Ursuline
| convent here had some of its nuns carried
| away and killed by savages; but after CEN
| turtles of perseyeTing Christian work the
| convent has carried women away from the
| savaces, having gained more nuns from the
| Indians than they lost during that first
| bitter year. The mother superior here will
| show you the head of Montcalm, but it Is
| toothless now, some brutes In the uniform
| of British officers having borrowed it one
| night and taken the teeth out as trophies
| for their watchchains.
A pretty sentiment is shown here in the
| shaft 10 Montcam and Wolf Surely 'the
| lion and the lamb shall lie down together"
| for here the one monument celebrates tho
| two opposing soldiers shot to death as they
| fought, and language is exhausted in trying
| to say good of each great general on the
same shaft. Our general MONTGOMERY, who
| fell in attempting 10 storm Quebec along
| with Benedi Arnold. was with Wolf when
lie led up tine heights to meet Montcalm oil
| the plains and die; but his memory is not
| in high favor here. for the same reason that
! Arnold is despsed with MS,
! Quebec is very religious city. 4 few
| miles down the ST. Lawrence, at st. AIMS
| YOU are shcwn two pyramids OF crutches
each as high as tree. Thnse crutches
| were all thrown away or left behind by
| thaSe " ho claimed 10 have been cured by
tfe nerciIul inlerposition Of the mother OF
the Virgin.
All this is too well and widely known 10
say more about; but will testify that with
| my own eyes saw very old man who was