Evening star., 1898-03-05

with the simple but broad statement that
Canadian banks never fail. Two have gone
int" liquidation here within the past twen-
ty years, but The depositors We're paid in
full. A president or stockholder is respons-
ible for twice the amount of his stock.
With us d man wilifully wrecks bank and
gees driving in the park behind the best
team in town, while the depositors go to
the asylum, to Jail and to the mOrgue
You can buy anthracite coal here as cheap
as you can buy it i'll Pennsylvania. 1t costs
- cents ton less than it costs in the cap
itai Of the country that produces ii and the
costs the Canadian York shilling, 1912
cents, just Ealt much as it costs in a
rea! live town in the United States.
Two things l have observed in Canadian
towns that are very creditable to the Ca
radians. First. the coy, cheerful little
homes of poor men, with pretty gables and
grass lawns; second, the fine church build
ings, good schools and splendid public
libraries. | put the home first. for there
begins the education and religious training
of men and women. at a mothers knee,
and that brings me back to the Bible.
saw four boyS-young men they wCre-com-
ing out of bit of wood one Sunday after
noon, and somehow the sight reminded me
of the groups of negroes that l used 10
see pokinS round the Potomac, squatting
now and then for quiet game of craps,
and l wondered what these young fellows
had been about. The worst l had accused
them of in my mind was of having been
swimming in the Thames. but when they
passed me / saw that one of them carried
a morocco-bound Bible under his arm.
Yes, the Canadians a whole are good
Christian people. and they put a power
O. store by it," and yet l would not advise
the stranger 10 put all his chips on that
point.
The Servant Girl Question.
In England the servant girl asks how
much beer money you allow. Here the
first question is, How many nights outo"
If you say she can't always go to early
mass she crosses herself or if she be of
another faith she'll hang her head and
sigh, and say she can't miss Sunday school,
and, above all. she must go to church
Sunday evenings. And such long services!
Why, sometimes they won't get home till
almost midnight: But, with all their good
ness, many OF them do not scruple to OBJ
tain money under false pretenses. They
pretend to be servants when they are not
The willing ones ale often unable to boil
water without burning it, and the unwilling
ones won't They are as bad as ours.
WINTER Is stern reality here, but men
who have lived long in this cline say they
like it. In winter they have a Charity
woodpile, and free wood is delivered to
those who can't buy, and SO they know
they won't freeze, and that assurance
makes people careless about providing for
themselves. In one town an alderman de-
clared that the man who had the contract
10 furnish wood to the poor was giving
them rotten birch. The contractor sued the
alderman. When the case was tried the
alderman proved that the wood was not
only rotten, but that 1t was short measure
as we'll
After all, there Is very little povertv
mere Even the poorest scarcely know
Wnat II Is to be poor. Indeed, there is
little excuse for man or woman who
can work. If you want a man to chore
about your place you must nav 81 25
as pie in the Klondike. l know of no place
where capital is so oppressed by labor"
ought to explain that you are a capitalist
here, as in the United States. the moment
you hlre a tent and employ one Indian
Holidays are almost numerous here as in
England, where I have seen the banks
closed for four days at a stretch: and you
are nobody unless YOU "yacate', in s,m
mer. The banker and the barber. the taller
and the typewriter. the preacher and the
policeman, all have their two weeks' va
cation; 1 firmly believe that there are peo-
PIE VINO would out in summer at the
That's my impression
see great many pacing horses. and
narpers and bearded men in Canada. Cana
uiabs 90 not dress as ''styIishly' as men
In the same walks en- the other side do. A
modest American fits in this mart of Amar
lea without being either conspicuous or
Embarrassed. VI
On Market Day,
Every agricultural town has its marker
days-Iuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days. or course, Saturday is the big day.
When all the country folk who have any,
thing to sell come to town. During the
morning the market space is crowded. and
when they have sold out thcy swarm
through the streets, fill the shops and
carry carry nome what tiey need for the house.
Inc Canadians are sensitive Kipline
wrote beautiful poem, with a recurrine
reference to their beautiful snow. and
since that day half the poets and para
a srdpiers ~ tha dominion have taken a
Iull out OF the greatest Briton living
Then now shall fare, who am not great
not even British?
After all, the people of Canada are very
iihe tne people OF the United States. They
are vastly more like the people of New
England tnan the people of New England
Colorado. " Vi
,. Five years ago one heard great deal of
laik about annexation to the United
states There Is very little of that talk
now, and there should be less They have
as good government as there is on earth,
except the English. Then why should they
throw themselves into the open arms of
the willy politicians Of the big republic?
me Lord knows, We have all we can
fahdie. A few narrow-minded Canadians
whose knowledge OF the United States ends
AT Detroit, Cleveland or Buffalo affect to
despise us, and a few "rustlers' on our
side want to burn ''U 81 on the flank of
the dominion. but the great mass of mind
your-business men both sides want
things to go on as they are.
LOOK at this man Laurieri / want to
know II he would suffer by comparison if
stacked up with the President of the Unit
ed States. You may say he's French Brit
ish, what you will, he's full OF the stun
that makes a good American. But he's or
my beat. After all, premiers, lords and
other eminent personages don't make a
country. 1t is the man in the field, who
brings the wheat to the mill; the farmer
and his wife who stand all day in the
market place in the sun and rain CAN the
winds of Canada call the ploughing RAIN,
that make country great.
Honest and Unassuming.
Some Of thsse farmer people are as hon
est and quaint as Quakers, and as guileless
as children. II the farmer is poor, he
| seeks neither to parade or disguise his
poverty. wish could reproduce q scene
that took plaza in q shoe shop one day in
Canadian town. To make 1t plain YOU
should have picture OF the bent. gray
haired salesman, who went forward rub
bing his hands a. though they were cold.
bowling and beaminR on fhe hfr faysvvnns