Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-07-23

Tracy with an escort OF the Carignan
Silieres regiment; Montcalm AM
Lewis at the head of their troops;
Wolfe and Murray with their men
and Salaberry and his 300 voltigeurs
Each Of the dominion's provinces
will be typiied by its allegoricai float
the last car Of all, manned by score
OF the good people of Dawson City
represen( ng Yukon territory.
When King Toured Canada.
Engiand's monorch, speeding his
heir on his tour, cannot but remem-
Der the lime, now nearly half a cen
fury ago, when he toured Canada,
steamed up the St. Lawrence, racea
with Indian canoes on the Ottowa,
witnessed snake and scalp dances,
and crouched in oilskIns under
Niagara. Prince George himself will
be on ground far from unfamiliar.
Eighteen years ago, in command OF
the gunbOat Trush, he paid a visit to
the dominion, and, more recently in
his world-tour with the Princess, re-
neWned his friendship with "our lady
Of the SHOWS" Their royal highnesses
then saw every phase of Canadian
life, traversed the ocean-felds Of
wheat inspected lumber camps, rode
on the cOWcatcher of an engine
some OF the finest scenery in
the world and shared the humble re-
pasts of the miners. Yet what
changes since in Canada!
Her IA provinces, with their 81
745,575 square miles, aggregate an
area larger than our United States by
the II southern states and something
more. If her people compare to ours
as but one to Is, if her greatest cities
parallel only Newark, Louisville and
Lynn, yet her relative growth far ex-
ceeds that which has of late been go
ing on south of the border-and be
it recorded to the dominion's high
praise that she shows but one divorce
to our g.
That she is at the food tide of COM
and Industrial development
one will readil. believe as he reads
her report figures for the nine months,
ending with April 1st Iast-exports
that totaled at $205,277,197, of which
We brought in nearly $98,000,OOO In
the same period We sold Canada about
100000, Of her $3.50, 786,007 of
imports.
Stone Eyrie of Venerable Quebec.
Quebec, the center of all this SPLEEN
did festival, is engrossingly Interesting
from whatever point of view The
quantity un-American streets, so like
those Of Bruges or Rouen, which climb
the steep hill to the stone nest of the
Chateau FrOntenac and the citadel on
the lofty crest, suggest some bit Of
the old world set down in the new.
The grandeur of it's situation has
again and again set a traveller to re-
calling Athens or Edinburgh, while its
picturesqueness, SO far from being
confined to its scenic setting, is car
ried out through every note it strikes
the city itself, its people, their life
and customs, all tho associations OF
the place, everything is alluringly I'M
usual
More Catholic Than Rome.
What right-hearted visitor cares
that this is the third city OF the do
minion, with a population of 68,84O,
when he takes an odd, two-wheeled,
high-hung, boblety caleche to drive
out through the beautiful Ste. Anne
de Beaupre country to the MontmOr-
enCi falls? Is he particularly inter-
ested in the dry fact that here is the
seat of government of province five
times as large as the New England
States, with 1,649,0OO souls living hap,
PLY within its wide extended borders,
as he passes in the narrow streets
sOutanes and sandals, white serge
gowns and faring caps, all bearing
out the statement that Quebec is
more Catholic than Rome herself?
Many town belle, too, still shows
the peaChblow complexion, fine feat
ures, and dancing eyes, of that old
time little lady whose charms so won
the heart of the youthful Nelson, dur
ing a visit here in his midshipman
days that he seriously considered the
ACCESSIBILITY (eyen the necessity!) of
not reporting back to his ship when
she cleared to sail. What then would
have become of Copenhagen and the
Nile and Trafalgar?
RecIaimi g Fields of Glory.
The 100000 which it is estimated
the tercentenary fetes are to cost in
Cludes the plan to turn the city's two
famous battlef1elds into a great ma
tional park, to bear the name of the
mother cOuntrys present king. The
plains of Abraham-so named from
their onetime owner, Abraham Martin.
a pilot-and the field Of Ste. FOye,
are now SCARED by hideous buildings
given over to mean uses. A black
ened Jail, and an ugly factory are not
fit burdens to be borne by areas his
toric for a century and a half The
whole world knows the story Of the
conflict on the plains of Abraham, and
if the battle of Ste. Foye the year
following. when the Englishman Muir
ray was worsted by the French under
Lewis, is unfamiliar, it is only because
it is overshadowed by the more IL
tanic struggle, double starred on his
tory's page through the deaths of the
rival generals.
A commission has been appointed
to clear these grounds for the perpet-