The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-12

nent corps of only 1000. These men
are paid soldiers, differed from the
military college at Kingston. They
are enlisted for three years. In adj
dition to this, there is the active mi
litia, consisting of 10000 men, who vol
unteer for three years, but who serve
only from eight to sixteen days ar
nually. They are paid when they are
called out. They comprise forty-fve
troops of cavalry, eighteen field and
forty-two garrison batteries with
mounted guns and ninety-five battal-
ions of infantry, with independent and
mounted rifle companies Every male
Canadian between eighteen and sixty
is liable to service in the militia. There
are, however, few exceptions:
Judges, clergymen, college professors
and the heads of lunatic aSylumS, and
the only sons of widows cannot be
drafted.
THE MOUNTED POLICE AND THE
KLONDIKE.
Just now the most interesting of the
Canadian troops are the mounted po-
lice who are on duty in the Northwest
territory The number of these is linn
tied to 1000, and 1 am told that large
number have been sent to the klon-
dixie The mounted police patrol the
country along the western frontier
miles. 1t is their business to keep
down cattle stealing and smuggling.
They watch the Indians and look out
for prairie fires, Furnishing those who
start them. They act as judges as
we'll as policemen, and can punish GER
tain classes of criminals. These po-
licemen receive from so cents to 81 per
day, with the exception of the officers,
who get salaries of from S1,00O to
$1,000 a year.
CANADIAN FRENCHMEN.
Speaking of a possible war with Great
Britain, l doubt whether the mother coun-
try could rely upon large part OF her
Canadian population in such case. am
surprised to find how many Frenchmen there
are here. Fully one-third of the citizens of
British America speak French and hundreds
of thousands of them cannot speak Engnsn.
The French are nearly all Roman Cathoncs.
They have little sympathy with Engnsn IN
situations, and the French in thought, habit
and language. They work together in poll
tics and they practically govern this province
of Quebec. i went 10 the government oullo
ings today to get some information, ana
every official | met Frenchman. You
hear little else than French talked upon the
streets here. The signs over many of the
in Montreal are printed in both French and
English. and many of the advertisements
are in both languages Quebec is more IKE
a French town than an Enghsn one. us
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toned houses come close out to the sidewalk.
The vehicles used are like none you nave
seen in England, or the United States. l
ride about this city in a kind OF cross
between a jinriksha and dog cart. 1t is
a high bow-shaped carriage with a seat LOT
the driver on the dashboard, and my driver
is invariably a Frenchman. There is little
enterprise among the French-Canaolans
They are good farmers, but with them every
thing seems to be on small scale Inc
fields are long and narrow. Some are not
fanf xvi6n
that a farmer spends half his time in walk
ing from one end of his farm to the other
in cultiYating his crops. The houses are
picturesque one-story cottages built close 10
the roadway, and not way out on the fields
like our farm houses. They are wonder
fully clean, and the people have, am told,
the thrift of the peasantry OF France.
The officials of Quebec are making Dig
bids for the return of the Canadians who
have gone to the United States. They offer
them farms and hold out many induce
ments The fact is that there is almost
constant emigration going on from Canada
TO the lands across the border. This occurs
whenever times are hard. and if our new
tariff materially affects business here the
emigration will increase. Canadians are to
be found in Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
New York Michigan and parts OF the
West There are numbers of them in But
falo New York city has something Ike
70 600 natives of Canada, Brooklyn has
( 600 and Boston has. it is estimated, some
what like $4,000 citizens of Canadian birth
Raw 4VrVVO
Canadians. and in ST. Claire county there
are 10000, while a number of other counties
have even more. The Canadians In our
country in fact number hundreds of thous-
ands, and their loss is matter OF great
bitterness to those who remain Many OF
the French Canadians go to New England
to work in the factories and mills; 1t is
this class which the ofnclals OF Quepec are
trying to bring back.
IN THE FRENCH MARKETS.
Montreal which is the New York of Can
ada, is practically French city. Its big
est market. that of Bonsecours. is as French
as any market of southern France When
I visited it the other day 1 found a patent
medicine man declaiming in French the viz
tues of certain pills, while he showed book
of horrible pictures describing the effects
before and after taking them. This market
takes up a wide street running from the
heart of Montreal down to the wharves. The
street is the overflow of the market proper,
which includes a church-like building cover
ing, l judge, about an acre of space. The
street was filed with French farmers who
had driven their carts into the city early in
the morning and were now selling all sorts
of vegetables and fruits to the citizens. Full