The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-24

of Gallatin, Tenn; Mir. and Mrs Rog
 CTS of Dyersburg. Tenn, and others. w
 have people from the land of cotton, ana
 of coal and iron. wheat and oats, ha!
 and butter, and others from every sec
 tion. We have one editor from the larg
 est silk manufacturing town in tn, I United States, one from the place they make more linoleum than anything else i and another from the town which hal l the distinction of having the larges ! pretzel factory in existence, and he say: | that prohibition is not going to affec i the business of the production of pret l gels, which surprises me.
 ! In the home town of one of our edi l tors there is a large, very comfortable almost luxurious home for old maids
 handsomely endowed and fully occupied It was the gift of an eccentric but wealthy old maid, who was level-head. | ed, I'll say. There are no men allowed of the premises and everybody else .; happy.
 As we passed farm a few miles north of Minneapolis I saw a reminder of Ala bama in the form of a sweet potato patch, the only one I have seen since leaving Tennessee. I imagine. however that the potatoes were small and few in ] a hill, but Irish potatoes-my! but there ! is no end of them, and as Mrs. Hard . feelingly remarks, every now and then and there are no potato bugs" We arrived in Winnipeg promptly or scheduled time at about s o'clock, and quickly realized that we were in a DOT tion of the British empire and not in the United States, We stopped at one of the very handsome hotels of the Can aGian Pacific Railroad, the Royal Alex andria and it was royal in all of it's ap- pointments.
 The policemen in Winnipeg look like pictures of the London bobbys, and ve- hicles take the left-hand side in meet ing instead of the right. and the street cars are boarded from the left hand Gn- stead of the right-hand, as in the states. Winnipeg is situated on the Assiniboine river, which flows north into Lake Win nipeg, whose waters flow into Hudson bay. Hudson bay, Athabasca, Great Slave lake, Saskatchewan river and such names remind me of my school days, and the old geography, and of time when all these places seemed very remote.
 Winnipeg is on a prairie, as flat as a floor, and the soil is as black as Dick S hatband and as rich as cream. Lunch was served us at the Manitoba Agricul- tural college, where everything We ate was grown on the grounds, and served by rosy-cheeked Canadian co-eds, and it was most enjoyable. The buildings are extensive, solid and imposing looking, and the faculty are doing great work for the province of Manitoba.
 The city of Winnipeg is comparatively new, although old Fort Garry, the re- maining stone arch and gate of which is preserved by the city, was the successor of a Hudson bay company's trading post established two or three hundreds years ago. Being a new city the streets are wide, well laid out, the buildings hand some and modern. There is department store here which rivals the great Mar shall Fields outfit at Chicago.
 The city owns it's water works and electric power plant, and is making money furnishing it's citizens light and heat for something like 1 cent per kilo- wat, so that it is extensively used for heating and cooking Think of that, ye Birnlinghamers
 Winnipeg has just gotten through a very serious strike, the leaders of which. four foreign-born bolsheviks, are now heinz tried with excellent prospects for conviction and punishment, which will be well deserved, for as a result of the strike the water was cut off. cars stopped running, garbage was not removed for seven weeks, and there was little or no milk for babies.
 Ordinary citizens had to man the fire engines, false alarms were turned in, and then the ordinary citizen had to pa trol the streets to project property The strike culminated when the mayor read in the face of a mob the riot act and the Canadian northwest mounted police fired