Evening star., 1898-03-05

corner of Canada, beginning at Windsor
md ending at Niagara, and vice versa, and
having had the additional experience of
Summer in Ontario, L ought Qf had the
same ability to be as competent to say
what they do and how they do 1t In the
dominion as the Partisan editor was to
write of the people and things of the
United States
1t seems to me that II the 'impression''
of traveller is ever of interest to the aver
age reader it must be his first impression,
for, in a little while, we become accus-
toned to strange tribes and their ways are
not impressed at all.
Il hasten" said the eminent Journalist
above referred to, Ito write down nv i'm
pressions, for in a fortnight-in a month
they will be gone.'
1 recall now the first thing that attracted
my attention upon entering Canada for the
nrst time was that the station employees in
Detroit were singing After the Ball. and
that the Canadian car hand who was tap
ping trucks for the Grand Trunk was hum
ming:
From Greeniand's icy mountains,
From India's coral strands
Coming back from New York 1 heard
them whistling the same tune in Buffalo
that i had heard in Detroit, and at ST.
Thomas man was singing softly, as he
Ny days are gliding swiftly by
And i, pilgrim stranger,
Would not detain them they fly
These hours Of toll and danger
He could not have had reference tn bis
Job. for he was taking no more chances
imam was. He simply sang what was in
his mind, and 1 could not help thinking
mat these songs were the result of en-
vironment.
Canadian, writing in a Canadian
magazine not long ago, said the people of
canada were more God-fearing Sabbath
observing-in short, they were "holier than
We L wish he had left that for me TO
say. 1t would look better here part of II
at least, than it looked ever the signature
OF Canadian. L dislike to see a man 50
cock sure of himself.
Sunday in the Country.
One Sunday morning, while out for the
little run that 1 always like to take before
sitting TO a sermon, / saw a woman and a
Roy seated by the roadside, minding their
COWS IN the grassy lane, and wondered that
thay should be there so early for the sun
was Just peeping over the hedge AS
passed, the woman. placing a finger on the
open page that she was reading looked I'D
and frownod on the Sabbath breaking bike
that was as good for me-, out there in the
glow and glory of Gods morning, as the
green grass was for her horned cows She
vas reading the Bible to her bow An hour
later, when 1 leaned my wheel against a
tree, my neighbor, who had b,en reading
nus BiDie under this same tree, rose.
suetched himself and remarked that he
would like also TO go out into the country.
but the cars didn't run Sundays Che work ID
hard all the week), and he could not afford
a wheel.
The men who make some of the Canadian
laws For example, they have "bread
bylaw in lot of Canadian towns that
says every loaf must weigh two hounds
ic hat ha b<.Ira
bread out of the oven when it is only half
cooked. for fear Of having IL too light: for
II II Is, the inspector will confiscate the
wagon. This law gives the people good
weight and indigestion. It's not nv bust
ness, Of course. and I'm not complaining
L Cont eat it-but I'm writing my impress
sions.
Some people argue that the value of a
piece Of money can't. be fixed by legisla-
ton These Canadians could do ii. They
can make bread by law. suppress the Sun
day paper and the poor mans carriage
the trolley-eLd more. They have made q
pint bottle hold nearly a quart You can
empty seven Kentucky half pints into 1t
WITHOUT makir it full. You can't do that
with Kertuckian.
They have a vast amount of respect for
the law. After their religion the Canadian
law seems to be the Canadians long suit
and am only giving the condensed testi-
nlony OF number OF the people of the do
minion when say they do not trust each
other, as a rule, in business way, but
want It ''in black and white"
High Regard for Law.
They have that high regard for law tina,
IS English. A man who respects the law is
"a reasonably safe citizen; but above him is
the man whose word is law. Away out In
the hoary hills of the wild, wild west-the
lawless west. as 1t Is sometimes called-if q
man said: Il will be here at dusk tomorrow
to nelp you open prayer meeting or holC
up the stage" he would be there. He re
spected mis- promise. which Is finer a thous
and times than to do q thing because the
law compels you to do 1t.
Among their best laws are the laws gov
erning their banking system. Their bank,
are as far ahead Of ours as their pint bot
ties are. This subject may be dismissea