The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-03
Ancient Stronghold on st.
Lawrence Brave With Flags
and Martial Airs
WAR SPIRIT RUNNING HIGH
Racial and Political Allegiance
Bind People to Cause of the
Allies; Everywhere Bands
Play "G0d Save the King;
Everywhere Flags, Flags,
Thrills for Tourists

Quebec. Oct. 31-Quebec is red with
flags. And OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
bands are playing God Save the
King" England has called across
seas to her colonial sons and
answer is-"forward march,"
A descent from cannon-crOwHed
citadel to the town below may be a
choice between trolley, motor or
caleche: "A breathless slide in a lock-
box OF n peg down "break-neck"
stairs. which have literally felt the
tread of passing centuries, but
At every turn you are face to fac
with the standard which Britain has
planted over all creation, and at each
corner the vista will include soldiers
marching from ramparts to transport
-left-right. left-right. Redcoats with
rakish caps and chin-straps; putties,
topped with khaki; bare legged High
landers-so many Harry Ladders in
so many rows, step, step
And always bands playing. And
everywhere flags, flags, flags!
Along the streets are more soldiers
on waiting orders, many of them
youngsters from the other side of
canada's great divide-and contrast
cd with the pulSing life Of today are
crown-shaven monks, with arms fold
ed across rope-girdled breasts; nuns
passing in cloistered blacks and grays;
priests in cossacks and quaint hats
and-at one side street-a line Of
seminary lads in the blue coats and
green sashes of those hundreds Of
Gibraltar was the Quebec of Cham
plain-the cradle of new France
&C. Doubles Moneys WORTH.
are tourists, and yet more tourists,
getting double their moneys worth
of thrills. Being one IF them, you
ask an oldish man next some trif1ins
question-merely his privatest Opini.
or as to the war and Canada's part in
it-but the only answer you get is g
polite shak eff othe head. When q
woman and another man have con
tributed two more polite shakes o.
non-comprehension you begin to have
something more than a guide bool
realization that while Quebec's body
polite is English. her soul is French
In Montreal, a few days back, you,
Irish driver halts at one point of tn
road that ribbons up Noun Royal t.
give you a view Of the city below. II
a brogue favored with road Eng
lish and parley-vouish French-an'
which no outsider could ever hope t
acquire because to get it you have t
be born in the middle Of the thre
pronunciations-he tells you that @
WV w "
third are French and The third tina
is English is half Irish.
And the same percentage seems t
hold good in Quebec.
To go back to the driver-WhO
worth h journey-he, too, is expec'
ing to be called to the war. Here
how he put 1t, leaving out the imits
tons:
Now that we have home ru'
every 1rishman the world over will
glad to fight whenever Mother Britar
MIA gives the word. CNot stepmothe
mind). But there's a closer reasC
than that for me. You see. my br,
Their is a family man, SO the 9th,
day when the war Office summOne
him for his name and address he p
down mine instead. And q good trio
too. for / have only my father ar
my HORSE
Then he ficked. a gentle whip
his old bay and logged on, witho
The slightest idea that he was of Il
stuff that saints are made of-al
soldiers.
Knows Trials of War.
The Canadian VINO joins the arm
is no braggadOcious chap who Sc
himself coming home diked out
the slOries OF war. He knows tn
every inch Of soil in his province
drenched with fighting blood-India
french. British. Am~erican-and tn
while churches, converts, hospits
and parks are so many reminders
warriors who have made history
Quebec, there is but Scant sculptur
recognition OF the dust that lies de
under every battlefield in the coun
Ranches ranks and files that blaz
the way to fame for a handful of e.
erals and hen fiared out. like dc
matches.
One splendid exception a sh
crowded with a statue Of Bellona. z,
dess Of war-stands on the Avenue
Braves. once the battle-ground of
FOye. and commentaries alike
French and British soldiers; oppos