, 1908-09-12

VI we llall loft, the hnal leap OF flame and
pail of smoke, the stockade down, the Iroquois
over lt-and then silence, broken only By
the wailipg death-chant of the Indians as,
hitting then dead on their shoulders, they
marched back to the wilderness, abandoning
the war-path, since such enemies as the. 9
they dared not face again.
The fifth pageant was of the Church
the reception of the arquis re Tracy and
ms suite by that first grout prelRte of New
France, the Archbishop Moutmorency &c
LAVAL. Again the stage needed no setting
Tor the Slow advance of the stately ecclesi-
astlcal procession. With choir boys and
ceDsels, acoly tes and canopy, to the solemn
music Of The Pilgrims Chorus, the Archbish.
op came to recei e the Kings representa-.
tive, as himself the vicegerent of the King
of kings. Standing forth alone, lii golden
inter and robes of cloth of gold, holding
the tall golden crosier, he was a CORA, GUS
and impressive figure rs Tracy in elm on
velvet, knclt before him on the greeuswarl
and received his blessing. Not less impress
i've, though grandIy simple, was the heroic
figure OF Pere Allouez, the missionary Of
the Northwest. il the next pageant, where
fourteen wild tribes knelt before him, around
tho wooden cross he had POINTED III tho
Wilderness, and made subn.s ION to tho
Church aud to France, while De Lusson and
his coutfi<rs de bots cbantod the To Deum
and the NoxiIla Regis. The defiance of that
fierce old soldier, Count Frontcnac, to tho
audaclaus envoy of Sir William hips fol-
lowed, and was n maryelously vivid and
brilliant scene-the only enc i'll which any
English was spoken, by the way. All the
lA'eI co.ony was mustered on the slope
men, women, children, Indians, the garrison,
the officials, on foot or il cal6ches, to see
the envoy, blindfo.ded, brought up from the
river. A. he came, the crowds pressed
about him, singing m~ocBing ballads. Dur
ing all this pageant the detail f the cen-
tnual movement, laughing, singing, maroh-
ing, cheering, WIS wonderful, and the old
chon$onS were delicious in their quaint bro
ken harmonies. BY this time the light was
fading, and it was in a sunset hush that the
last pageant began. 1t came up slowly,
silently, over the brow of the clif-Wo!fe's
own path, almost, up the Heights. FIRST
appeared the four leaders on horseback,
Wolfe and Montcalm in the center,
Lewis and Murray ut the sides and bohind
each his standard bearer, wi h flag to the
breeze. Behind them came, rank on rank,
the two armles-the grenad ers Of 1~EUgland,
the infantry of France. In company and
regiment, tens and hund, eds, they came, cir
cling the PUN in lho fading light, with flags
and banners, the armies Of n sunset dream,
as if risen in peace from this battlefield
where they had bled and died in that long
past day. In This pageant alone no word
was spoken, nothing but the silent march of
the long files on the grassy slope, until they
drew up in array, While behind them, filling
the background, poured III all the other per-
formers, massing in groups. Then suddenly
the band burst forth into the national an
them of Canada-"O Canada At the first
note all the vast audience rose, and then, as
one, in the sunset, al joined in the song
which links the days of Cartier and OF
Champaign, of Dollard and Of Wolfe, to tho
Canada of to, day:
90 Canada terre de nos aiaux,
Ton front est CENT de feurons glorieux."
1t was a finale that never lost its thrill
The Spectator saw it five times. and is only
sorry he could not see it oftener. But Que
bee was so full of a number of things that
the pageants could not be held every day by
any means. There was the grand military
review, for example. on the Plains, where.
twenty-three thousand soldiers and sailors
marched before the Prince-more thsn twice
as many as Wolfe and Montcalm together
had commanded on the same spot. There.
were a thousand sailors from each ship, and
two sorts of Highlanders, each more plaided
and killed. than the other with ba0rHDea