^s^. ^ # / r- U y y V IMAOE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) !■■ 1.0 ru»iu US' Uft ,*t- :/^ •iLij^^tsii ^ -^ ;\ V iiwiniMannHr WI M II H M.V. 14SI0 ^ r \ CIHM Microfiche ' Series (IMonog raphe) » ICMH Coiiection de microfiches (monographies) A ♦ Canadian Inatituta for HIatorical Mkroraproductlona / InatHut Canadian da microraproductlona tiiatorkiuaa •' \ < Mi '' J^-' ifeMtafrapMMNy •ItfMllMtMin i««Mt X. ■' wV WM^Nwi^^ OTw " ». «M'N •M ^Ht pawiiH salfw imw est: C«««r« TIlc«»«« □ • D CoHMrad Ml (i.«. olNr thin Mm or MMh)/ (U. antra ««• Mmm on notot) C oloMra < ptotM aiwl/br Wi mr at l o m / PiMialiM tt/oy MiMtrMii|M an aoutaw La raUitra Mrrte patrt #twnloii la lonf 4a la □ Wank laawaa aMatf Airkif i wMiin Mm iaKt< WMnawar I iliarfowi or dfttortioii lar« Niiariattfa I rattoratiMi nay i baan omitiav Irani fiMiM(|f H M pain ^iM aanaNiti pa(H niananat aioiiiaai -7%- ton d'ima rattafwratiofi appa ra i m nt dam la taxii. 1^ mah. lor n na aala Malt poMlMa. eat pa^ n'ent pai aia fiiiiiaaa* .iv- . ■ f'-~.- 3^ ArfdiWonal nsr: 0^ Mipta fattorad oM/of at/M •takiarf or foaad/ ' • 'D Fyr thoi|Nliroii|li/ rrVOnaMty LjllQiialM of print variat/ inafaia oa I iniprafvion □ ContiiHMiM paftnation/ Nfinatlon eontinua D Comprand un/dM) indaM Indudn indaii(at)/ Titia on haadar takan from:/ La titra da I'an-ttta proviant: TitIa pata of totua/ Pafla da titra da la livraiion □ I I Caption of ittua/ a \; % Titra da depart da la livraiton Mattnaad/ G4ntriqua (p^iodiquai) da la liyraiton Th«r« ar« aoflM croasps In the mlddla of pages. ■ — -■ - . -t 1 This itam la fNmad at tha radnation ratio clMNkad balow/ , Ca doB i Hwa n t art filwi» aw taoH da rJdiiction indlqui ci da M Oi w . PWM HH / ' ■ ' . nx :22X^ ^2tXr TDir 12X ItX aox 24X 28X 32;» / ,; TiM totfka fMMWMty 0f * L'MMnptok* fNm4 f ut rtpro i uH friM A !• UfitMriNv •( T< Tlw IwM H — ■pp»«H m hm9 f th* bMt •f th« orlflfial e«^ and In I m plnf fHmlnf oontraet tiM^loatlOfMi. Lm ImafM MilvantM ont 4|A raprodultM «m0 !• pHvm flrand toln. oom|H« t«nu d« la oofMlMofi at da la nattat4 da fawa m pl a l<4 fNm4. at ait oanf armllA avao laa oandHiofW du eomrat da fNmafa. . .fj« , Orlflnal c' eplaa In printad paftar oovara ara fNmad baglnning with tha front c«var and anding on tha laat pa«a, with a printad or Nhiatratad Impraa- •Ion. or tho book eovar whan approprlata. AN < othar original ooplaa ara fNmad bagl n rting on tho f kat paga whh a printad or Muatratad Impraa- •lon. and anding on tho laat paga wii^ a pHnlad ~dr Muatratad ImpraaakNi. " . 0: Tho laat raoordod frama on aaoh miorofloho ^' ■haN contain tNo aymbol — ^ (moaning "COM* >r TINUED"). or tho aymbol y (moaning "END"). wtNOhoyor appNaa* Mapf. ptotaa, oharts. ato.. may ba fNmad at dHfarant raductlon ratioa. Thoaa too largo to b« antlraly includad In ono oxpoaura ara fNmad botfinning In tho uppor loft hand oomor, loft to p,« right and top to bottom, aa many framaa aa S'^' raqulrad. Tha foH9wlng diagrama Wiiatrata tha "^ - t^ mathod: \ *.,• Laa awampl a lraa orlglrtaMx dont la oouvorturo on poplar aat NnprlmAa aont fNmda m% oommon^ant phr la pramlor plat at ti tarmlnam aoit par la damMra pogo qui oompoffta uf«a ampralnta d'Impraaalon ou dlNuotratlon. aoH par la aaoond plat, aalon lo caa. Toua laa autraa aaam p ialraa oHglfMNM aont fNmda an aommon^ant par la p ramlAra paga qui aomporto un« ampraln t a d'Impraaalon ou dlNuotratlon oc on tormlnont par la damMra paga qui aomporto uno taNa ampralnta. '^ r' "' , Un daa aymboloa auh^anta apparaltra aur la domMro Imaga da ehaqua miorofloho. aakm lo cm-, la aymbolo -^ algnHta "A •Uivm*'. W •ymbola ▼ algmfli "FIN". Laa oartaa. planehaa. taMaaux. ate., pauvant Atra fHmto A daa tauK da rMuotlon dHfAronta. ' Loraquo lo documont oat trop grand pour Atra roproduK on un aoul oNehA. II oat fNmA A partk da I'angla aupArlaur gaucha. da gauoha A dro)ta. at d4-haut an baa. an pranant la nombro d'Imagaa nA c aaaalra. Laa dtagrainmaa auhranta INuatrant la mAthodo- 1 ' ^ 3 .\ -v^- 6 \ A y \ if .-■-■■ "^ ^ — v c : ~ "WW ** *#, ., . • .*f • .• CANADIAN NOTES. \ OlIAPTKR I. • An oiBoOT of tho county govtrnmtnt, from Brook' (y«, N. Y., wb© It A Ull, liMdioraa ftllow, WMrlof §f^ glMMi aiul An air that oorobinet Jollity with dlgnttj, lwpp«n«Mii^ fPli^piPlf ,-^^^pi^M«v ^^^^[^ ■H,,^%|., m ^^m^-^y^ •* tl^« «l Mill DfvH.* mmAI jrf«t < iwi wili t totil gtit tiM^, f«r fM mim tiflil of tlM MubkiM 9i mf^%j, ttvm ikt Imm jm IIm DMilaloii «iill| ftii IfAft III TlMird1i,UM talk, iIm^«m and tiMte«l«af<» all l« If wtoli iIm mmmt oI Um 4mM oM MMtrj. MpMMM af H*^ baM{ imNKl, Mg t u yt rt fiy if Willi «l«i Utialm^ vMflaf a h ti lto^ p«M»lMn% aaaft, tabby imtIii^ iMl wMi a bawataldMr ai4 Ijr la offdar UuA ao Maltar Ww draak ba Mif ba ka laai p«l ll an bla baai vvaaf an4 fofaoMai. aa gaaiay ■ ■ w i yapiWb >» 'i^tt tllttk tkft *^A^^i| 'kl^A shMtV 4^ ttUBfli HAS lit MM IkHif In tMi vlwit i«^ It I* §f^t m0m§ ^ ^m t m t ^m Ml MiiMlf tiM ■■» ^'"f ^P*. #•*' M«*lll^ i% W il»r ilnww ••yiWiif ■^•Mr ■« \ fPf^ %fH. OHArmit 9 ^ * ^k m •>• flan tnwH tiaim m li i ifii t U — h f— y, ■• i pp i rtiiNlw Iw iln ii m tm Im4 If Mi- to illll, k*w*ftr, lit ••f 4fif# >>«• !•••»•*••• I •* It iMli A g«iil M • Ml ht Mf ff4ir iifaitoi to Ut iMM. OMUm M*ii llM 4wr to M ImWMm. V^AtMntt a«fMifktoiitoall*««4toto«fi>b OBlytMiittffii %ii^ TIm pwl 9Mm 4Mft tii lu l t i d. iW* pmrnm M» MM M llM lll*^ fMt|>% te filiV to tt fitM flm«li. o« iHiiiir A OMMiiM «iif tpr^M ii H i <^ '*^ ^1**** "^^^^^ ■» i«9;l» tiito fiUMmiiHl, OmmhIi jtmi Ii« ft IHmmI ff ntolif^ toi ttngr MMHb to ilMH la jrovr fMa tolliiiily lufltofe .lta«« ifMlHMi^ r (_ ' « .'a^kiia^Ai. » » lilMUt^^ ••* bl««k-bolllt dr««k«»Mipi SZTlill^ hi «•• Tork. whh two ■into* "^ • 4""'^J~r*T* ssrrX -n-" - *"^ '~*„'' *vs: ^ yS iTSw- win b» ";••* "Mo- •» ••— • AMM ftkottliMi ^MMt kOMM to IM my* rr.-^ I o skf M . m AW mmm. ilntl kUklM la 1Vifl#iilo» ili.«li«f«hti tokaUUMi. to UMfiiy* ving • iMM iUto ■•• "- - ■ 4 ' Mrttf tii0M rto. Ik If Ml II U v«ff dttll Md moMX Hull to ftL" - WhAl it %km mmm of aiMOt ft tUU of ihlngt?** ft kM4lng * dMtr vftft irfuia. Hit roply wii ; "Tliftrft «» fftr too wumw pooplo in urftdft, ftad with oompotliion kmn mA prolu out 4o«n m fln«, it U wiUi diflouUy ihftt Umj ^ onl * livlMf. JttftI look ftl ibo nanUr of tmftU fttorot Tho nftjorilj of thoai udly nftlift MMKifth to pftj rm^. Wky, Wttft yoM, ^ look fti BmttAo ftnd DfttroH. Hftltkor of thorn, ftod both ftro Iftrgor ibfto Toronto, hftvo ft third of tho Anaibor of ttorM Ihaftijrf hftvft, Wft mo » aftlloa ol^ MMll fthof^kooptrft.** i Jo Toronto Ihoro ftrt Ikoasftodt of thftio lUUo 8 x 10 ■boiM. Thoro ftfo hftrbftr thopa, eigftr ttorM, oftod/ ftnd | pMnm hmimmm, t»d tbouaftnd* of Httlo thops wbM« «to^ t blfMklng, ihoo stringi, fiupendoni ftnd nutmeg graton ^ , hope for tilft. Thfty oxtond for mile* ftnd milcft. Tkft pr»- j pvioton of ihcM pIftOM bftvo rtiiMHl thorn for long tonsi, Iho luMi boiag mftdo oat for itn ftnd If te«n yeftn in Thorn U nn ImnionM nnmbtr of thoM siiiftll ■hop«, Iho piopfintorf of whieh •oarooly mftko Mongh to )M«p boay ftnd tonl tognthor. Thoy •imply oko out ftn ejtUt«»oi. No othor oUy on tbo AmnriMui ouoannnk has anything liko th« nnoihtr of aniftll thopa thftt ftra found in Toronto. , fili pnyptiaton of nioit of thtM plfto«i hftVf ftrrif ad at thn hft^ of tMr Mnbition. If thoy Uava Dot ft i^nai f«MwrW*i«thai>,thayhftvafttlefttt,ftlongUa«e. Mftny aiaaalkiM t<> f^^ 'nm bosinoM jf thay ara aTar |frl»i>^ account to aOiioa«t«Bt, ^ortka UmnaiiM iMMftber of tmall •hops. JiM&«da of thcaa aaMll ahopa do not maka in doftr ff^tft aMlV tha» IS-OO c»r |4.00 a week in a l«gitimat« 'h,.i-:,.:. Um bMiiif«Hiii4. Ill » l*rg« »«»^ o* *^''i^***^ *^ ioMoa Ml* ily. or ili«ir«i«ft*'«|«l^fM»« «»••'«• . A w«ll know* t«ro|j«nMK» IwUiror I* Toronto hM !>•- MM q«it« wwtlAy out of • •ma" «ig«f •»»«? ^* "•^*' MMMd of»r |».00 ft w«di from Uw ■»»• «f «5tg*"- ^fl» Iwl *»!•» •• »»«*y btt«la«t« men oni dokig^iomM^ t)il«f oAllw tly in*y •ooooni In •oAo d«gf««, for ito wm- nifllMi wkieh pMvsila on avflry hand. ^14 npiMnri m If nimott tv^ry ont U doing •onwiliniij wliiei fit wWms to oonoMl. '^ . ,< Tlmr* nr« thonMndi of ba^ncMM n litiU off the old, ^ „l^ l„M»k, timt •!• ovriod on in iho Sutai. bnt that •M nltcftiliar nnknown in Canaan. To mn a bn^nam tlMT* of thb kind ona would Uka tho ohanoaa of being «NMidat«d a Innatio who doaa not do thinga lik* otk^ '^Tlioaa Caaadlana who hava gone to tha Slataa to da» Wlop Uiair anarglaa (tha towar of tha population) ara not, aa a mla, waotly tha eama elaM who hava f«nain«l ai ^MM. Tha itataiBant ia of tan made in Canada that thoaa wi»h«fagwiatotha Stataato ioek amploymant aw prt-, j,riw4 to Amarloaiii. wd, with wg^ to oartain amplor »Mili thla la. parhapa. oorwot For axampla. tha airataga fym f tift««« would maka a irttpolam iharlff, dataotiva» or HA hii » \MX oi paltlfogglng that oaviaa him to ooMuma 1 whola weak ov#f on* day** work. AOaimdIvi who oould » to (ha StMOft mA angaga in trada, qfag^* ■">• matboda that •»• » bwigaly In ▼ogna In Tmnmt9, wonW nmalif to IMMa b«t a tofy •hort ti»e, to any tim lo-t.^ Thaiw wolhottiMtof BngUihman llvbitln CMmda who aiiiM Mimaka « lIviMg In Iht 8u^ owing to thairpM»i- liar BttgiUk ttitoni of dwaya making th«maalT«a dlMg^ 4h|% KiM^iii of tham have tried it and failad, jMtttmi«g agidii|#0biMi4ato iiva Tbb^^ » tM kW of popolfliwi l"*.-'. ^ 'JJS1m£.Ji ^W^'l OAVADiAw myns aimI 9otAtA CshaJa is tiiMUMWMful la m «o«iB«ruiftl MUM, for vArioua roMona. A gfwUjf immlKi^f f»rm«r«, ftna !«•• rMlfloU««« on ihoM holding •nd lliowj hImhiI to mko ap Uiid U m diiid#* Too auwy piopl« to* « Um la»i«r of «HlMir% g»viMf notliliif In r«t«ni for It ^ ' Tlio* •migration of tho botlor claM of CMia.ll«w i«- oauMd partly by the battoMa man not giving tUom nuffi- oloBl MMouragamant, nor thowlng a propar appraolatlon of thatr abilitiaa. ' . Than, too, Canadians are ptaga«d with prUatoraft and with a falaa loyalty to tha "Mothar Conatry," to tha dairlmant of Canada. Canada U in a bad plight. I mow tha maw of vorkara or thoM who ar« willing to work. " Tha ramady that would ralieva Canada of lU Uli» from a oommarcial point of view, woald ba oommaroial union with tlia Untlad SutOa. In many oaaot one load of farm produoa is worth from %M to $100 IsM in Onurio than In Miohigan or Ohio. If wa impoverish tha natural induMriaa abova-namad, all olasaes of buslneM dependant w^ tham must baooma im- |M>veriahad as well. Tliose Industries are tha life-blood of tha nation, and when that blood beoomes poor the body whieh it anstaisi mosl Utionm weak. In ahteoat every partioalar tha natural iadustrias of the Sutas ava muoh hellthiar than in Canada. ConsequeaUy tha aotiva and ambltlova young man go io tha Btataa and laave t^a oroakart and old fpglaa At homo to subsbt on tha •*old f|.ig,»» whioh will 910^. f*^ no' olo**** • workingman or anyoM alaa bat «a\»iiiiii«i(ii^ilmmf^ilmWtmkfmmmm itlUfli iummta ii wl»i mm mkm tot» i Hfcl lill ilM ikt ntih^li^jm XMBf Owaitaa l«;^f«^ : i''.j|taAiiil«i^**Mli<>^ *> g'*'^ "*^^ # ""■(..f,.z. i- ilMi«Mto«flllnjr 4agrt f«r pttaluiiif Ms r\r^^" •s M^^Mik ^^iaaiA anW^ MX M ^k^^ ^|p* ^^^^^P ^n^^NI^P W^V VHI^P mHIM^^p ii«if)r C0Im% ft iirfUr, iTM ■f- iTimiiit 111! mMmI V «1M llHdMraH Mid Otiiii IimI 4 '** ^.yV'^MppV «Ml^ dbMi iImm ma4mf ob. yd MM ihtwiionyt ■ipN M pHl M .'■.■»A4 , ii * liMljM iri^, Mn it k 4im4M^ L -iMj^ iMi^ Wma Md^ ^L^^^^ ^1^^ '^ ^^ . ' ^^Wi ,.^^^^*'^^"^ ,^W» ^■^■mpp^ HMM Mi . ■Slv ' ^'^' tit|«V«l Is I * Wf«ll» tal Ml M l l ii M lM Hbft !• tlOsk. OMMi»iti** * jUi^T^ *« Om fM i^ |4i«iy •! il«l ^^r •PilMk In tii» MMI, oI tlMtM Of !«• •Wing to iM* •'•f^ •* 4wiii 4e fiift n. to .; , *» tiM wwUm w* • •'•^ inwiflvit* «i^or»glMi«< m •• ^^ •«. «• tkMuk wHi 9«iir MM 7^„ MMMMMi ifcW^y lot fW«t f«^ ^ ^%iHMf4liirft«i iiiyiiii;iiwi,. r^ •»% .^■«f eAfAMAII or pUAM» wi4 Uw br«td w« iWi^ •? »" • "»" r*^ cjujr.** ^ . ^ ^,_, UnM III* Iwni WM o« aiilat o»«l«A »« !*• "^^^^^ff ;3^ lay, !• w3.l.f IMI. im .jjlj^ hidi mA BMMini wlw* UMit li*M wi* Ikfwm ••• f^tP lit l»lli »• •••v-f »^«^ •«> *^ •*•*_ , . ••^^ for ikto—*rf«l-it •»**»"«"« H m W" % It CAII4BMV ■Mt «»f «>»» j4Mll«»f In Um Urn iMtiWIings tti«ni irltiik 4ii^ M*«t In iIm Hf III 4iri«iiit«f UkAi «til MMinMljr lifMii tm «nUI Iw" «f^f^r«« ii'aimill in th« afUirfioon. P^* V anil on will n«Ui art tiol tllrrvU up to anjriliing liii« an AnMrU}^ il«grwi uf aatwrpriM In aaylhtng, an4 Ui« iot« ambUion i« Ut oliang* nol. If jroa ■uggtMl improVa* wtal In aajr way, yott wUl b« aiMwra^ at, antl l(iok««l upna Wilti •ttaplc^ion M«n having nffimia iti ll)||.at|j g«t down to biiiiit«NHi al ninci aii<>^ ^^*f ^*^ ('^^ tbert. ^ '^s^y 'mI y"W •Ironld ■uco0«4 in looating ona of tlMmi yon may « in a hurry in Canada. Yon may ba willing and eagar to work or Iraifa, but, raally, you are tied up In a doublu bow knot. Indoalry appeara to be diaoouraged by aomo aa a criminal offeno«. It |»t §114 !« f«M iiwl mw ft l •••• f ifiUi*ipii»fe * ^#1* h,ir • a.H^«, t.«i »»». tM^fiif or iii«iii 4ki »«'* •'»»^' *!jL| iij^ 4,^ |,««|4 iM tail Wirtd. lU nK|«iii«l«4 Hi* I Li • f^ -^-y -^ *« f* •^•»«« ^^i'»» •• '"1^, T worklvg or not. ^ -^ Mai <>'H«a ••/• t— "Tlwft •»• ^ •kU.lmw in IM ▲ f«W ylir^ nMiia#H«!i ill C*w*«U Um •ii«»l««l »«• ^ imd-«Uii4 wlifti h« m«»iil by llmU ' . ¥^^ *^ Jli I Mid \miof^, m«iirt>iopU In Cwii4* li»v« A gfMI iMibit of p«»i««.Uttr*»»*t '»»-y "^ ****'y ^***" ^***J^ •^ ^''•1^ ai««ng«g«ed. Hi wh«ii Uwy l.*v« iwlhlng wli«Ui%«r W d». They will ^Byir'»«iir ^ , ; • "- { ^ ^ ^.A Tbit to » h^bit m mwamtn with lii« •m|»loy«r •• wiw If you m»k« iay renuirln lll^y wilt gl¥HN»«l »bOt«« look, And Ull you ill their churH.li way th.t th«y aw liu.y. Although my o«o« wm within two hhiokt of tli« I mi Of M, Ui« flnit m»il in th« .l»y wm not a«,liv«re«l until tdm 0»clo«k during tl.« w«ik. No mail mMUr b tUowea lo \m uk«n out or 019 r«4 oft^r •^;« ^' «•"•** '*"• "" "*• BiUibiiUi 4«y. ' ' * ^ 5 1 ".^ Al A «•!•» wiy ©iiwfg*'^*^ new-«x»nu'r who wiBUm H> •iig»g« in »ny Uvt btt«in«M oth«r than » oandy «tor« or ' ^«iiL.i # « MM m- "■■^J '.#' '!* Il' A- la OAKADfAN NOTRfl. biprlNir iliop nifty bu «aid to 1m) "funovtliii" ami dtmiiicMl ill advance. ■. . V In many {tlacoA of buMiiioMfl, iHit^ruon tliu hours of ' twelve and ono o'oltMik there is no one in charge to attend to you. The proprietor and his employees are all away and the establishment is deserted. The Post Office closes at seven o'eleok K m. 6ii week days, aj^d altogether oil Sundays. No postage stamps are allowed to l>e sold at drug ■tores or other plaoeafor the aooomniodation of the public, tio tpt at certain hours during the week. Only a limited number of jtersons are authorixed by the Government to sell them. It takes the, stranger in Toronto all of Monday and Tuesday to get over the effects of the gloomy Sabbath. On Monday morning one feels somewhat drowsy, as if ono were just getting over the effects of a prolonged' drunk. Ironclad rules are laid down for the observance of the Sabbath in Toronto. To pass a Sunday there is like crawling into one's grave for the space of a day. But while the ordinary citizen has to keep qui^tand orderly all through that long day', the religious crank is allowed to howl and bellow along the streets, poun^ drums, blow horns, and, in fact, kick up ai^y kind of rdtv^ he likes, in the name of religion. \ Bill Nye, the philosopher, speaking of the Salyittion Army and its efforts to down Satan, says : "When they know the great adversary of souls as well as I do, they will not try to scare hiittwith a cross-eyed woman or drive him and' his host by beating a, tambourine, and the land- lord. Humanity, charity, soft soap, and unselfishness will do" more toward giving Satan 'that tired feeling' than all the loud and onion-flavored hosannas of misguided men and bleating women who seek to harass the hosts of hell with a bass drum, while their own children with empty stoiiiachs and tmlaundried noses, weep at home.*' The TorofttQ jtoftircfeiy jyi^A< ytys ; mid (ItNiiiivd c J^ M. bn w««k CANADUM MOTIC8. M . ■ . ., ■ . ■ , . ■ • « As it iK,«mii to a by -tandor, w It mniil rfo«m to cvtry „«U.aer ; .o our policy mu«t imprc«. overyo.u, who m.ght noMibly b« inducea to beoomo an iinmigf ant. Where i. tlierc anything but our rich public land* that l>eckon« the Kt. anger to mike hia homo with u.? It in true we ihut up our uverna a] i.even o'clock on Saturday, permit no 8uii. aay street caW or nowspapem or ungodly thinga until the Monday morning mn ianctiftea a renewal of licensed ungodliness, but^is this attracting population or gathering business or promoting goodness ? We may very reasonably ask if anything is being accomplished by this sort of thing except the exclusion of people who want to mind their own business and are unprepared to have their busineas minded for them by the ohurdies." „ «- • • "George Brown is dead; Alexander McKenwe is dead ; Edward Blake has forsworn his country and become an Irishman; Sir Richard Cartright has forsworn his country and beco«ie a Yankee; Monsieur Laurier has iden- tified himself with Monsieur Mercier, and jomtly they have rented roomn in the realm of Nowhere J P'-^™*^' Abbott is an invalid who doesn't know whether he should remain in power or not ; Sir John Tliompson is the apostle of goodness who appears not tO;know whether it really pays to be good or bad ; Sir Caron is rustioaUng while his political small-pox peels off ; Mr. Chapleau is getting h» hair curled and his voice rested after campaigns which mean disruption to Canada if they mean anything. So we might go through the whole list of political personages, political things, political nobodies. In this way we might enumerate with tiresome iteration the miserable factioir- ists, the petty personages who occupy th« public mind as far as it is occupied. But let me ask again, who is the man? Who is TffJS Canadian? Who is likely to lej^ us U) something better? Who is likely to "fte m hb grand personality the ambitions of this people? Onr rulers have succeeded in nothing except increasing the pablio debt We have not the editor or publicist who w lijll' I ("J I II ,"!' mWn OaMadian Hom. making the gro«raAtnor for principlo that George Brown onco did ; wo lack Sir John, the man who led us even though we kiyow not whither ; wo have nothing but a i>otty Oppofition and quite an potty a Govoniment whioh wayii, « We are here to draw a salary ;' wb iiavi no impulsks ; we belong to every iieotion and subHoribo to every rcligioibj and oar only object h to oonciliate the country, provb^^ by ^ province, so that wo may maintain a govern li^iililf' whioh was left to us by Sir John and whioh has no meanJ**' log to us except as a source of honor an emolument. *' " '^n proportion to population it costs Canadians more a a • • ^ • to keep themselves govemod'tlian any other people in the world. It must be confessed, however, that they get a great deal of governing for the money they spend. That Canadians are not at all stingy in the matter of the establishment of their Goyemor-General, which is kept up at the public expense, is shown bo the expendi- tures for this purpose the past year, [1892]. The salary of the GovLrnor-Goneral is $50,000 per year. Besides this is the dispense of his living; Last yearns items included $2,600 for new dishes j tlioj payment of fifteen persons .regularly employed to keep the official residence and grounds, ahd the payment of $2,000 to other persons for the same pbrpode ; $8,000 for fuel and lights and $834 fpr repairing stove^. Therti are liars and thieves, aiid traitors; there are cowards ahd ba^biters, and scandal -mongers ; but the! wcflrst proluct of flesh and blood jis the lazy man. Uisi case is ho]>ele8s. Let him albnd and he will rust away.| Other men may reform, but the lazV roan is of as little ue iii the world as a fifth wheel on a ta^ly-ho. What Canada needs most is tneh and women witl better hearts and broader sympathies for mankind. Th^il mtelleotoal growth may be all right But it is a growl in deceno]! and humanity that is needed. CllAlTKU IV. I U one of the neoewary iljanot. t. •»"r^'^• Tthing unknown in .C.n.d». « LUce of .nooe..." '«'\^^'^^: \,„y on. U under h. f J Th. Innocent .ro Iorc«d W^^^^ ^ ^^^ Isa-pioionUintho"'- »^» U oorri.. not only th. i„to botl. public .nd Pn«^j^'«- j, i„„ of di.h«n«-ty. .„.p«c.cd. but ^^ir::':^JLnt." Plu«k .nd g^b «» ^'"^rr ■ ^« c" ntSian. b.vo . lo« of p.tt.fog«.ng. It i. in th. Norman W»^- „j , „,„ i„ C.n«l. it «"» y®*'^^- \ iw.„«ht all you require in a shop, you ^ When you have bought »^^ ^ J r^^^ shopkeeper ..Yootookmetorarogu.. Itri^oy" .requit.. ^ '"'P'" ^°"„te„ of education the sl.opkwp- • Under the present «y»tem oi e ^ aoUar bill. , , , , „.ii men and .mall thing". Canada U the land of -mall men » ^^^^.^^ -Mi-take, in Toronto, a» a ^^^^.^^^ „U-con. ^^Xi:r:»':tigo'^^»»^»'-'^-'""^^ H >/ CANADIAN NQTRfl. • rw ■ ^f'*' (Atiftilimii. TliiH In cupwiftliy tni« fili„ii|,| the man with whom y<,u aro dualing hapjum to Im, « .Vro^cA- f/an«- atan. _ Thi. in wh» •. to get any kind of work done in Canada peruining to any > busmess that is a little oflf the old beaten track. ^ 1 don't know that the average Canadian would liter- »llr rather take you up on the roof to swindle you out of five cents than to make i^ dollar honestly on the ground floor, but It 18 a good deal tliat way. . They may have had co^isiderable of this sort of thinir AnT S^J«- twenty five or thirty years ago when Mr Anthony i rollope paid us a visit, but it is certainly not so jUthe present day. Perhaps, however, the^ tremendous influx of Germans to our shores has had something to do .with altering this state of affairs. At any rate il is fair to say that representatives oJf that nationality, in some respects, are the^bimkbone of America. ^ Most lazy p^ple are dishonest. Liberality and enter- pnse go hand in hand with fair dealing. Men in Canada do not take that interest in their busi- ness that is so necessary in order to win success and to enab^ them to turn out first-class and artistic work. Life Ihl K^ ^^^T '^«y *»te almost a. little interest in ^n^busme-s as they do in Ifeir fellow men. Noone.p- I^ w.Hh^!^-!!!^— ? ^^*^ tl^eir whole heart and .oil ,^ti A\ "'f ""^ «°«W •nd eamestness eo chwaoter. litio of the people of the United States /^T^ wh J^!!^^ .f^Ty .^'gffl°g > hole for othem into Wh ic h they mvanabl v fall themselYei. — ^^^~ re," aa I shall >r othera into 1 I. I CANADIAN NOTES. «•• They iH!t mafea an apffeemant to do a o«rtain thing lor A itlpulatod Hum, and after you have «le|MniitcMl % part of the amount an a guarantee of goo>ii< .11 ^J \, 96 .CANADIAN NUTM. ■*-***riv,j,^_„» i^r- - ''FimlHarity hreoilii contempt.** No«rhor«» «k« oan thU old Myin^bo iiioro truthfully applied. , KindUmiM in Canada in rewardud ana wjeaknomi to bv Hvoidod. If you engage in buiineM there yuu niuai abide by the ouatonm of the oountry. - '• ^ J* Who it that melancholy man who never tmilee? IIv looks dnll. Ho will not join you in oonvenation. You would think he had on hiii thouldem the roeponNibility of - the management tff y more than an hour's time, you will be fortunate, indeed, if you are not obliged to consume an entire day. Whenever you make an effort to do any kind of legitimat,e business you will always find a thousand draw- backs ; something to block the way and consume all of your -.,,^ time.- ■ -/ '[:■ .-■,■ 'y^ . .■■■; ^^ ' ' I relate the follonring, as one instance among thou- sands in which mistakes are never rectified or losses of any kiii4, largo or small, mr.de good J A stranger ^n Toronto purchased six new white un- laundried shirts during my slay there, and took them to a laundry^ Although they werfe entirely new, having never ' been washed, they were, when taken out, torn to shreds. The laundry people, judging from their actions, evi- . deiitly were highly pleased. They a|>i)eared to ohiicklu ^ith d elight at w hat, no i ^H eenietl. HoeniotI, appe a red to them as a hu^ Joke. They expressed the greatest Joy at tl|e ra «liH) can thtM iK6»kno«ii to bo r' Ho d<)o« iiot v crashed in the OANAMAN myrwi. . ill ^Jou baving H«cc««aed in giving everybody ouncrncHl an much trouble an p««»iiibl«. . ♦ i i.„ w*- ' When the owner of tbe «birl« re.nonHtrat«<1, be wa« ordered to leave the laundry. ' XUthii waH truly KngliBb. I, myself, have had innumerable ijxperlenee- of » "'"''?^t« have on* placed confidence in the«e |.ople .„d they have you fully in their ,»ower, and at a fearfu aillvantagc; and when you are in the mo.t painful rUon! they will dance with glee ov,r the misery U.ey ave cai^cd you. You will find, ala,, that you are dealing wUhthe-amocharacteriBtic, low-lived blackguard, with which Great Britain abound.. If you receive . paek.g. throogh the C«.tom Hoo« i„ ..me C»nadi.n townv on which the .lu.y "-'X »«. "^ », 00 you are fn.q..ently charged »1.10, and m that owe * e official will elr »l.00 o„ the hooK and put the ten J^m» in hi. ,K«ket. Sometime, it i. ««, .ometnne. .en. ''°"' I have noticed inetanoe, of Ihi. pluck and grabp^^ty larceny syrtem, timcB without number. 'oVe'n^'not'^ .Wd of bei^gtroubled much with Huch men in the United State.. If an American w«hc. to windleyou. he will make the amount large enough to be worth *i. ^hile. A ten-oent deal i. no more m h« l.»o than a Bmall anything elM. x, tt is not buHinesB. ^. i ♦ r^m An American would be honeet or diBhonest from policy. Ab I said before -.-"Liberality and enterpriBe go hand iii hahd with fair dealing, y . _ ^ -^^ ^ ^ There are many Bwindler. in the United Statea, but t hey will not t ry V> imyo^ upon one ^[^^^ZT^T^^fl # ■ for the iHstty sum of five or t6n cents. They are after :i I m OANAMAH notwu |«f«,,r ff«.n« ; »na It U w«ll that it U m, U U » atH,ia,.\ IniiirovnntjHt ovor tlw (JftinMlirtu |KJttlf«»g«Hig. TiKim) who Xnmiow Uw much appllcatluii i« trifling thlngN »Kto«,in« g«n«rally incapable <,f great «no. All Iho mental a«,tivity with which they have Uen endowe^l beoomea i,aralyr.ea by a lifelong attention tonmall thing-. Th.y l«-e their intellectual n.u.cle. j.«t an a giant would lo«e hia •itrength by continually han«Uing a baby'- playthmga and doing nothing elm.. Tluy are -imply gn.wn-up infanta, with no mother to keep them out of imall miachief.. ^ Thoro in nothing more deliglitful and faiiclnating in All nature than a little Iwy. unlcua it if » little girl. But a iwrwn who remainn a little iH.'y after he l>eoomeii a legal- iw5d voter an.l a oitiEcn in very pitiful, an all canea of arreMted development are. , / r 1 I. ' r \ OUAITKR V. IIo !.»« • "'B"'" •"""■" "u «,, Ud »nd douMWI „gg, for mUing with g-Knl m^ ^_^^_^.^.^, „, ,g^. „ Ho doc., big trade. ^- « ^^^ ^„ ,„vo ...«1« » through hi. hand., ..id he .. ropv, "'""Th!.TnuS.-.ng c-.U«« h.. . g-at jutur, l-eforo. "■""•, ...ould not ho -urvri^Kl to lo.m ih.t h. w« » .onto .nd other citie. "^^^^^"XropubUo to dem.nd o,..y the b«.ine.. "'«" ^''"^^^ ^a". ^npictable .alary. The«,.nenarc.«ap^.m™wh_^^ arl gWo" » "'"^ liandling money .nd ^*'"r' ,,,4 „„i| together. Hoaroely .uffiCont to keep ^^"'^^Jeiir^r^ th.n the They pay Lbo™" ""ore for <''8^"'B .„ „„t t^t ,„.t»e„yt th. «r.fiveyea«^^^^^^ three yearn i^^' ^^^ _ a,^ th cv gAt c"ra p»y» *" work over eight hour, . '^[J^^^l^ ^i t^. «>i Canada, for the »mo work. . po-t^n^ - U .*. 'II I i I 'i i % 80 ^ OAMAmAN N(»TniL il UkiM lilm iiliMfMn lo rvimU |mNi, aiuI Ittof thii|l(if|it Ihm'Ii. ir yott oiilor mi miubliMli«iiui> IMnNitta ftnt ont ployed, and waul to mm Anyoi<^ ;t)ittri> privAUily on a inAttor of bu^in«Mi, on«t will ■urnly ull 4li« (Hlior; and tliis will gimonUljr ■Urt tlionrall to running In' ▼•rloiii dlrtfotlon«, ftll aIIv« with ouHodty, and in a mln. ut« or two you aro ramiund^d by th« wlioU orowd, «ag«r io aiio«rUln y«Mir l»iMin«Kii, and to H«^ •tt«titi?«ly %h •raryihlng yon liavo lo wiy. After yon Jtvw tobi the p«r Hon IndioattMl your mhoig lt4*4ttts», yon ara ooijiy informed that h« la not tho man you onquiriMl for. Vou are th«n 2iforroJU»li your qry nil over again, if your Indignation do«M noUhoko yqn- Evorything muMt Imj put In writing. A. bill l« imado out for wvory twonly-flvo cent tran«aotion. The office buildinga in Toronto contain Imnionie vaulu, lb large ai ordinary mnflll bedroomii, in which thoae ploceM of |>a|Mjr are all Htoreil up nnd filed away for yearn. T^iere are more billlioadN UMed there, five— if not ten— tinion ov«r than in any United Stalea oity of double the aiae and {wpulation. \ I paid a bill to a buHinoHH man in that city amounting to $10.00 a Bccond time by Homo miNtako, and after con- vincing him that it had been paid once the wo««k before, I asked for the return of the amount overpaid, but a« the man was a Scotchman it in unneceHiinry to state that the money was not refunded. / Some men are so greedy that they do not aee how, in many OAseii, they hit themctelvea in the face. It would teem aa if aome of those |>eople were not on the lookout a groat deal for permanent trade, but far more anxious to catch • "rocker." At leoMt there is not that effort made to please that woul'l be likely to induoe one to oome again. In low cunning let no man hope to co|)e successfully Willi iIm Sootoh-Canadian on his own dunghilU ■f, lot «oe how, -in OAVADiAM WOna St Kv«rylhlnif \» » twliiAU on » v«ry -mtll •«>iil«. „r .ompUlntt ft«l.ln^ lhl« uf«i'« In r-gir.! to tU« m«ll«l«u« .U.i.4ruotio« c>r proiKirty. • Houimhi oannoi Uh Ufl vi0i«l ft •hy wllboui ill* glMn »«lng broktn. iU h« •»<»«»• ..nmlh tU a«or- ar« •m-hml I... Im.U»# <>f *U •«7,\»;-^»'* .Ul» UgiH to movo off : Md lh« owner of iho hulUUng l- ,„ |,.4 If •vtn'lho WAlU »r« iUndlng nl th« .tid of a ^**'Kvoryl1.ing U » •yUbo! oMlilion^ty tna m«»u.Km-. (io alH»*r.l of » ■tro«t x which • .tr«p|H,a arouna hi. nook, you >^ill n.ul a -lot into whioh you place If you havo » .hin. ni«ao to order for which the price a-irooa upon i» fl«ed »t| $2, yo.i will bo ohargod when you cftll for it, .K> much o)ctra for Ihroud, m much oUr. or huttonH ana Hometimoi half a dozen other iUm» for which oxtra ohargoii arc maao. .. , . „ in. The mon ana their work may bo imiall. but the bill- will be large. # 1 1 i t- a* If you oraer a pair of nhoon, the prioo of which la IS, you will be ohargea ftfo cent* extra for the «h«H> utrlngp, oto. If you oraer u t^n-aollar pair of button gaiter., yci will bo ohaigoa live contii extra for a button hook. If you buy » areM for your wife, the prioo of which in fully agreea upon ft the itart, you are a.kea to pay for extra items that may amount to more than aouble the original agreement. And furthermore the plans ana speci- Hcation. are generally, in point of morality, prociiwly on a par with the plans »na speciHoations which men might p r opa i o in vi e w of committing a burgbiry. The poroeptions of the Cauaaians arc n<»t keen enough to see £ word or deea from »u impariial point ofAtew, ^1 f» X '^ St '*4i ^e^^ QMM^mAW TiMy M« •<> tmay with llMilr tmm «ffAinH m wi«|I|M(I ip In (h#lr own IUll« ilMtlnx, lh«l tli«]r lnv«rl*liiy go iIouk rottgbaluNl ov9ir anything or arty iMinkm Ihil oli«ok« llMiir pioc, AlwAytottraiMMof tnoth«r'a ihAr* in tii«i laa, that you have paid out in the mean- li> *l iJw iUrl. . J I. il„f man with « numUlion f«»r •lir«iw«ln««i, lh« iol* niMUr „r wiKNMi thought h»blU, »na nwtlimU it Miir-lllMni^ ll« |,M «H,M«'a ^o f««4 «in lUtwlofit or iii4ittg« In r^nlft-iio ,ir.'tm., »« b •Iw^yt oAtillouiH dlwrwil, r««orttd, plwlng Moii^tf to llM utolU •! M to li i wpilw i Fiil.l# •» .iAl«in«nU of Irutli and «llilnl«re«t«iio«ivc« U» \m ■uoh. N.ft only do*** Much m mmn uaually U\\ i viotliii lo ft iort of dry rot, but when ho dmwi't iorttido to MorlA«o, If V^-^ Ih«, •nyVMMly or anything ibfti •tandii In t^t w%y of ».lv«nt»g«— priding hlmiolf on th« adroUntti with wl |.« do«« It— ho U almoafc oorUln to overlook iomii •Implo faoU and to oommlt •omo ilgnal mr||i1io that iihallt«ifob him that in hii •ubtle wi«dom in uubtle folly. Sttoh a man ta tbo »vorag« ('ana •» ' . - *■ % » A -*J. .' A -', 11; '. « " ■ •■•" "'>*. m. Mill ■ ■ ■ ' • t* ■eldom make a rosoanding buooosi in tho finmnoUl world, but, to their eooentrio minds there »ro things of more in- lereit'and value than large money— good as it is. It is not what a man has, or oven what he does, or the position he holds in society, but what he i«, that makes him inter- esting to them. Wo raigjit well hope that each generation may be blest with a oontingent of these impraoticable fools. _1 The Philaddphia ^me* has the following s . ** When the printers dropped the u in honoar for the sake of the bTisineas office, I wonder if for the sake of business* the sentiment of honoar wasn't lost also? I had always had an innocent beliuf in the honour of business ; but within the last few months I have come to the con- clusion that the word isn't on the ledger. I have heard all my life that certain business relations were supposed to be confidential. To my regi:et, I find that I am mistaken. Now, I had an idea that if any one had extensive dealings with a bank, that they were by tho bank considered more or less confidential. Didn't you ? Kot long ago a woman went into a telegraph office, and tho manager said to her : * I hope you were as fortunate as your sister in having $10,000 deposited to your^ credit to-day.' The womaii looked at him in amazement and said : ' Are you sure of this? ' ' Yes,' he said ; *I heard it from one of the men in the bank.' Now, that money had been put in by a father to help out a daughter who had made a poor marriage ; he didn't want any of tho rest of the family to know about it, and yet hero it was public property, told to thi^m, an^, of course, it caused a family row. Do ^ou call that honor in business?. ' / ri'-:^^,- -,..':.' :...:.\ : You go to your lawyer with something that you don't care to discuss before everybody^ome troublesome piece of businc^^s, something that you want righted— and you tell him just what the trouble is. lie urges you to be con- iidcntial. Being a woman you are, and you make him thoroughly understand tfll the little ins and outs, all the '■•■ / CANADIAN N0TV8, 85 moAnncMUWii that hftvu been oommitod against you, and jiiHt how you Rtand ; you toll him of your inoiioy affairs, what you ^ . At a fa8hioniH>le wedding in a Toronto church the groom^ was so happy that he presented the sexton, who spent several hours in ifitting up the chulroh, with an envelope containing ^|2. The sexton was equal to the oocmtiop. Securing paper and envelope, he enclosed the '^ $2, with the request that. tho happy groom would di^nk his health, and handed the Jvtter to the groom as he was 89 CANADIAN NOnS. w >ffl I ! iiittroliiiig u\t the iuhIo after llio wedaing oeremony lio^ Imhjii iMjrfoniuHl. The gprooin wa« a Scotchman. It has b«cii u\*\ that a beggar will never lUr/e to iftath In Scotland. If iw it ii certainly not on accent of the liberality of the Scotch, but 4»> account of the irapoiiMi. bilUy of sUrving a Scotchman. \ J ■■ ' Scotland U said to bo iho ^nly country w^iere a Jew "ciipnot live. Tliero are Kngliuh Jews, Gohnan Jo.wn, French Jews, Yanke'''V \ / •-'^^i' . "■'. One can never fully apprfcciato the ooA86ienoe.leM cnn- . ningof the Scotch In Car^L until 0116 has had' money dealings with them, or until dno meets/them on their own dunghill. In an unguarded/ momcnlt they will steal the elotheff t>if your back, to say'nothintf about redrhot stoves. * This sutement may appear harthi, but it is baaed. on facts.' They are the most artistic and eloquent liars I have evet met. Tlieir lies are as intricate and elaborate as the most marvelous embroidery, and the gfound- work, upon which they are based is of so flimsy a nature as to be almost imperceptibl&_J have never yet heard of, an AmcrioftR or 'European writer who has dared or cared (o portray them as they really are, and especially their objection to straight- forward dealing, or their incapability of making f thor- oughly truthful or luonest sUtement, which makes one. . nnoertaii^ whether or ndt it is safe to even believe the con- , trary of what they say. A man must meet them in C^iid a in order to know them. •- ' '':'^"'- :■'■-':■} ^^■'''^'-.l Tli^y will* borrow, Iwt ©ever lend. . V * "i ^ If I had a family of young folks to give advice 0, my Admonition would be : , Beware of the Scotch-Canadian. It is quite impossible. for nien in Canada to be oon- scientious under the presfht system of businesa and social intercou r se. — Snr r oundinga ar e not sueh BcrupulousneM and faimesi. Coru OMMB^ gfOW on • «><>*^^^^^^^_ 1 I . ■ - ■ ^. **. oAKADIAN NOTBf}. A man in Canilda has quite »n gn to bcoonio a farmer. Nothing would surpriM the average Cana long as it ia not found out. ^ , After living ih Canada for a while the cold realism of your situation wiH come. When the limil of hnman patience is reached yon niust rave like a maitiao tit'the whole pack of persecutors, or you can say : "My good fellow I " and " There's a man !** and other friendly things, and pay over more money. (It Ui always demanded in advance.)' ' Ifijoa expect to close a certain transaction in a.weekV time, yon may rest assured that it will be accomplished in abont^eighteen months. \>^ .-- IF yon address them injinmistsjcable language tUby will be surprised, angry, indignant, at your extraoricUBary con- di^Qt, or tbey will play the _"[ injured innocence " dodge ; or^^else they will light up^ with jqy.at the piisery they alone can €lai|se^oa, and th^n they will drop you hard. ' '■It, i:tJU^J::?SiJS^ .^^i" I'l I VV « •■■■ .1 > .* . 1 n'i.!:! S5!i:;:^3jr- K,*' / OlfAlTKR VI The Toronlft ikUurday Night of ^aroh 19, 1809, mu\ : " It U the habit to bemoan tho noarcity of capital in thii "oounlry and to grumblo becauae American money does liot come ill here, and becauiio English money goea by thi« ioyal colony and swolU the golden stream* that fertiKiM trade throughout thtf Republic. Well, if wi would ceano our grumbling and think a minute, if wb would spare ccn- •uring fate and examine our own conduct, we would diir cover the whore trouble, and it is this : We" do not welcome ' foreign oapiul when it comes knocking at our door— the business men of the country refuse it admittance unless it Is offered as a present. . __J ' V u "niig ig true, and it is the real sectet of dormant re- aources. In Canada we have no capiUlisU ; we have some rich tradesmen who profess that^ame, but it ill fits them- •The difference between the two is our crushing disad- vantage. A capitalist is ready any day at a round profit to fcell out any enterprise which he owns, to, his next-door neighbor or to .a South Sea Islander who offer* the cash, and then turn his money to some other prompt^se. The tradesman understands making money only in one busi- ness, and unless he can sell ijit an' enormous profit that wi)' effectually glut his ambition to be rich, ho will growl a/id iiangon tohis bone. The millers and brewers and/dis- tillers and agricultural implement makers and otheiyhanu- factuTcrs of Canada have all rejected profitable «J^e« ^'» ^sell out to English and American capitalists. They will not sill. They will negotiate with a vengcaiicc^dt if the that tlioy aBk/th(Mi tin-: I^ngl i Bhmcii tigrco to the price rcHoct on the big monopoly tluy are Kiirreiule/ing and fret ttlHMit^how they will eiuploy their liberated capital, and ■■y 1/ i^t - \6r\ns !*"*l ^'*<*^ ^\ 1 CANADIAN NOTBfl. 41 yytiid nphy demftndiiig iBky ihouiaiul dollarn nidrts aiul »<» iho deal falU through. TIms iiewi|>a|»*jr imui of thin city could toll, if thoy would, of ten iiiiUion dolUrt of Eugli .li mon«y thathaa beon ropuUod from Ontario in thia way ' (hiring the past half dosen yearf. Thia ia a big atatcmcnt, l»ut I am pomuadod it ia within tho figure. Some deaU have fallen through booaute, when the Engliahmen had agreed to tho exocaaivo price demanded, our tradeamcn, liombling for their future welfare, itipulated that they HliQuld be retained to conduct tho busiricM at iialaries largo enough to maintain so many king*. If they aell out they want the eaHh aa an offaeU Th«y can't get It, and that ia why they grumble. * * \ ' "Tlieiame spirit has penetrated to the amalleat mat- tern. If a modest Englishman with a few thousand dollara rvachea one of ,o^r townships with tho purpose of farming, every farmer cocks his eye, and land can bo seen to double in value as the stranger drives down the road. He is con- ' Hpired against without a word being spoken, and when h» does buy a farm for an excessive sum, the job of fleecing him is but fairly commenced. Shorthorn calves that won't rlBgistiar in the herd-book are unloaded upon him at fairy prices, and otl^er such tricks played, lor the community regards it aa a signal of divine f ayor that the Englishman has been seiit to that particular locality to collect all the runt and breechy cattle, all theapavi'ned and vicious horses, all the lazy and dishonest laborers. The expectant but patient bailiff usually closes the chapter, aiijl so inuch English capital haa.been absorbed in.that community. I have seen this whole thing enacted under my nose a couple of tiqies^ ahd know of other cases, so am not talking at random. This has no tendency to encourage the invedtment of for- eign capital in fanning here. The ruined stranger gen- erally writes home for money 'and returns ta England^ whore he doef not fail to depict us aa a lot of inoney- grubbing sharks,, among whom no man dare venture with tf dollar;. , , V' \ -M\ ■ '-j- I 41 ^ CANADIAN MOTM. |MHi' V-. V K\. , OHAI»TKH VIT. , ■ \'. If you wiah to ront «ii offiiw in Toroifi6|^ you will b« lioiiibftrded with quontioiiH and looittMl uimn wlfli ■uspioioii. You may bo aiikocl,io lign a leaM for fourteon yoam, mora iir loiiis and to givo to tlio lanf which, the English law takes cognisance. ^ , •: — — Th a t is a peculi a rly Engl i ah tra i t . A JItranger in Toronto gav^ me the following aM his experience while in search of employment : ': 1 1- ' il • •• eAKADIAM MUTKII. ** You «r» It •irftngttr In tli«} dltyt Ywk • Wli«r« »nt yon from f Kiigland. What part of KiikIaii^ did yoa oome frumf tcame from Ixiiidoit, Can you ipeak any other UnguAg« 7 Yili loan N)MNik French, 8|i«niiih and IialiaA. Can you f nlhnUh good rvfervncMti f ,Y««.. ^ ' .* Why b il that you could not find employ meni wUtt. out coming here f Did you get into any trouble in the old country? No, iir. Were you ever arreated f ■ ' ' ■ ^ No, air. Were you ever a convict t ' No, air. " Wore you ever in priaon f No, air. Have you not done aomethlng that haa never been found ontf • No, .ir.^ ' ' ' ' ' ^ 'flio above appears to be in the order of things. In sliort, it is taken for granted that you are a rogue and you arc treated accordingly. * ;'" ~^~^ y^- ■ ■ So great ia this groteaque suspicion that prevails among men of ewry olaia that you cannot oven ask the* average man to do you even the most trifling favor with- out, at onoe arousing this mountain of auspioion to such an extent that he will invariably jump to the oonolnsion that there mast be some dynamite about it that ia liable to blow up and damag* aom^ one, and after deliberating over it for a day or two, ho will refuse to grant your re- ( i j k i qiieat. . " - He ia oonvinoed that ypu are intending to lead him into a trap. ^--:-,^^-y.-^,,-..-^^^-^i:.^-^^^^j.-^ w never beon CANADUlf won*. •• I ■■• What ilinflyi »i»4 eiMptralSilltti for«l|rn«r tn Can**]* In lh« m«'«Ull«'«M»mo •n«l oon*t»nl liil««rf«i:eM«« of hi§ Migb l.oin with hi« i.rivatu nfriiini. l'Aiiiai«iie •roniore bqulaitive tli»n In Uio l»tt»!kwo your nlbow. 1^ Attabl«, no ono offcr» to help you to anything. If you ordwr any Work done, you can rent aaxured tbal it will b« oxccutod in the moat approved fifteenth oji^tyry ulyle. When you loavo the order, be ii for never ao umall or trifling a thing fif you are a/itrangor In the oily), yo« will Ihj bombarded with oorIy ^ done ai to b« worthle«ii, lit IhU ibould n^t be the oaae, you will bi« a lucky man. \ You enter a alorc*, or aaloon, an,/ \^ CaiiAilimti ar* vory You hand « m«ii » doWufof two m AvMnn^o of goo4 fnlth, It tint «amii timti romtfrking : "8hiill I |Miy jrou Wiwf** He will iMiver aliow hi* confld^tino in you hy ItAiitling it back «nd ujriog.; ** Yott mh |Mi>/ wbtn ^^ work !• oom|>l«t«d." jf • :' M; ItookfttmAll «leotro||^^ IhrM InokM long by oiio lilcli wide, to a printing alioe to gc*t omi rougk proof of It (not A proM proof)^ and «ltliouglt 1 liAd Itot-n a good out- t<»mer and had previooaly IiimI oonnMiderable work dono, I wan fliiargud flfte«ta oenta/for » pTocMT. > % \ If the work you mdvr tMt up In typ4i RfioHtd happ«n to tmmant to, aay, (,hre« dntlam, and you ■lH)uld liappn to give another ord^r hall tm hour lateV, even though it anionnted to only i«v«njtyflv« oontii or a UU prtnnptly, lb* oJuitcwi ,M« Un lo o«« lliAl U wo«W nol tpoftk lo you cUUly if you thouM hii|»|N^n l« mt«l him »f urwirdt on lli« ttrwt. Tli« mijorliy «f tl.r«j wtw aino vty MUfiwdiy, w f wnittgly c«ia, r«a* »««i aiiiH»»«*W«ln btttTnltSrwIi^Brtver ywi i©, b# you rtoli or •MK>r, thit it it tlmott lm|MMMii»»lo lo Uotcribc iL U you m«k«i » purchaiM' at ft ttoro, whtwi yott hAV« iH^n A rrgiiUr ana go<,d cuattMaer for yoart, amounting to only Inn cent., and if ^ ntort^kmi^r .liouia hapijcn to have no change, a* If ft^qwenUy ibo c*^. »"*! J** ihould ttuder on« aoH»r In p*y«lIen^ Iki will not offer lo Ifuil you for the un c««U. M in lh« United 8talw, but yott wIM ba <.ip«ot«a to lokv« tha dollar aa .ecurity f#f t^ |» An ^liOwnan, i atrangtr in the city, took braakfant at a King •trwt rcataurant in Toronto, and after he had, ,,ni ■f 1 ^^ CANADIAK NOTES. ' , • ■ ■ t '-' * •'^ . ■ >*€■''■'. ' ' '. ■ •' * ■ ' ■ ■ Somctimoi, In a liarbor iliop, your face will \m luilmiv,! with »»o«p, and tliuti tho artUt will leave off in tliu midiit of tbe o|>eralion, walk away; and liogiu an argument wiih ■pmo one utanding about, and appear to forget all about yon. When an artistic and costly btiildjng in erected tlicv are obliged to Mond to the United 8tateH for an aroliitect. All the finest businesa blooka in Toronto were doai^ned by American artists. . « •. - Toronto is one of tho finest sites for a city in America. The streets arc spacious, well laid out, and regularlyvbuilt, bat when you walk or drive about there m nothing to re- lieve the monotony. From one end of tho city to the Other the houses are built almost alike, with scarcely •ny change in tho architectural design. There is, there- fore, not much change of scene, not much to relieve the eye. If John Jones builds aliouse his next-door neighbor's house, as a rule, will be an exact copy of it. ^ Tarn which way you will, you will find this sameness , in everything— romote the growth of a bashful inoustache. To judge from this illustration one would Kiipposo that the remedy iadvortised by the Canadian doctor was as effective for the moustache as for the rheumatism. In every act or fact about these Canadians there is iho same hopeless shiftlossness, and prying curiosity, and that everlasting BUspl<^on that follows you wherever you go. They are morbtd][y inquisitive, so much so that it amounts to a 8i)ecies of insanity. If you order a small job of work done to the amount of $1, or thereabouts, you may be Iiounded for six months with questions such as, " what is it for ? " and " what is your business ? " and " where do you live ?" If you object to this kind of treatment you may Xto called names. Th6y are like the bad old witches of the storybooks. , ' Their reasons for being suspiciomi of each other may be sound enough, but why should they suspect persons whom they do not know as vwell as they know each other? Careful study reveals the fact that all tbis prying is caused, in many cases, by an insatiable desire or itching to injure someone without any provocation. They are the most morbidly inquisitive people on earth. They are dis- eased and eaten up with idle curiosity. If they should get m idea that they could possibly find out something about your affairs that they could in any way use to your disad- vantage or injury, their efforts to annoy you and pry into your affairs would be redoubled. In this pafticuhir there is tremendous enterprise, and much talent is wasted. Theirs are wolfish natures, whose only instinct Is to: sneak, and clutch, and devour. To such men mercy is a mnokery, and humanity another name for folly. An appeal to thei r h icher iiatu re is too much for them» • I -H.r.»#f. $• cnAPTKR vm. -^41 Naturallfcwi rwogpiw the.right of a man to atUjml to hU own bmineM tnd let other peoolo's buiine«« . alone*--'-- ■- ' - ' - - -— ' ■ ^ -- '-- - '■ ■- -^:'-:-.-^ :-._- -. ' ^ - 1 am more and more convinced, the longer I live, that the very best advice that was ever given from friend to friend if oonuined in those four words : " Mind your own businew." The following of it would save many a heart- ache. Its obeervance would insure against every sort o^ wrangling. j / The man who Has no business of his own to attend to iJIwmys goes to bed tired, * When we mind our own busmess wo are sure of suc- ■■' cess in what we undertake. We may count upon a glorious immunity from failure. When a husbandman harvesU a crop by hanging over the fence and watching his neighbor hoe weeds, it will be time for you and me to achieve 'ro- nown in any undertaking in whicli^we mind our neighbor'n business. If .1 had a family of young folks to give advice to, my early, late and constant admonition would bo, always and everywhere: "Mind your own business." Thus should they woo harmony and peace, and live to en- ioy something like the completeness of life. , In the United States, when a man ^sks you questiona he does not mean to be impudent. As a rule, he has no intention to offend you. It is the interest he takes in you that urges him to put questions to you. It U good- feUowship, ' III Canada it ia the reverse. It is mcddlosomeness. ^ There is a class of jKM-sons >Vjio find t'aeir happiness iii meddlinsVith other iHK>plc's , busincj^p, and tyrauiiiiiiig over other jicpple. - ° ,^ _^A,_ nir .^ • J . V ■ r r, IklJ !*■•»' ''■ .(I ■ - ,f •* .-»• ■.• ,■ 1^- '>. 1 \y ..■.■']'■ ■:f ... / ,V;1 OAHADIAN NOTU. 61 Hlne-tenUw of all the trouble in th« world la cauiea t»y each perwn not minding his own buiinew. In Canftdft thi« evil liM reached a wonder/ul develop- ment. Things that in another country— and I speak from «xi>erienoe— would be looked upon as perfectly harmless, are attributed to the most evil motives in Canada. If, for example, you meet a friend's wife on the street, it is very unsafe to allojr^our features to relax into a smile art4 Hpeak ploasaiJHI her. If you do, ten to one you Will have ll- , ipW" f the whole town aroused forthe in- jured husband, and before you know it you will.be involved in a pretty little scandal. v Everyone knows that it is wrong to talk evilly abot^t other people, and when the other people happen on the seene, it is wonderful how quickly sudi conversation drops. There are two good rules to follow in resect to this evil. The first is to never say anytbi6g behind' a person's back that you would not say to his face. The other is to pay strict attention to your own business, and let others do the same. Society can never be at peace with itrolf tilthes^two rules are followed by every one, and the ner it is done the better. j. I once attempted to evade these morbid Canadian curiosity seekers when I had a job of printing to be done, by attempting tojiave the work put in type in my own ofBce. ■' ■■"-■■.' '-'-^r ^"-[:. ■■^-:"' .-:": -'-'■■■:-■■■ \ '■-' ;/'-_i^U''- I purchased a font of type and other printing material, etc., and employed a man to se| up the type and to get. each page of the job electrotyped as soon as it was set up, and that was, to use a slang phrase, "just where I lost my cash and got badly left," forthey took the trouble to take a proof to read of all the pages which were to be electro- typed • iirid, furthermore, I was followed about and ques- tioned for months afterwards, and also requested to send them a copy or proof taken from the forms which had escap e d their netic o . They re ma rked that they thought "it might be interesting reading," tftc. i 1- w^, CANADIAN NOTSI. Buitie iii(*n tiAvo paintod heaven om a pla^c wUh goldon KtrveU, and' pearly gatua ; aa a plaoo^ whert) biaok-eyoil lioariR turn Ufu jntb blisa ; m a placo ^hore .every .desW-c will b« flat iafied. My iilea of heaven \» a place or time wherein pvery one will mind hia own buMineiui. .Remtnuber Kineraon'M words : . *'Mind thy affnir, aays t^ie apirit. Coxoonlbl Would you meddle with the akjen, or yt^ith other peoplet*'' -■■■'• '; '.'•■ tf- -^^ ? ,• •';•»•..■ ' ' <>^ nuM wlio hM been aoouatomed to the ways of modern QivlllBation will And hiibrts, Customs and opinions in Canada quita foreign to |iim, &iid society not pleasatri lo contemplate,^ / .: - You find no grmt prtaektiri phUo^^Ker, ieiintuf] teanomut nor phUanthr^Ut in the ranks o/^CanaiUans. 'There is notliing amiable^ wif.ty or attractive in the ejct^ririor aapeoi'of men and of things ; nothing in particular to live for, no amenities of life, no iiitin^acy, no opehncKH of heart, no ease, no joy, no ainoisrity, no candor of f rieiid- shipi,. no sympathy, ifo sentiment, no generosity in the Jifu of meiu 'Their philosophy in Ufo is to look out foi' number one. • It iastraoge with how little ^notice, good, bad or indif- ferenty apart from prurient ouriosilm a man may live and die in that community, be awakens no sympathy in tlic breast of .any single person ; his existence is a matter of interest to no one save himj^If ; he cannot be said to be forgotten wl^n' he dies, for no' on^ remembered him when h« waa alive. There seem to be tens of thousands of people here who do not possess a single friend, and whom ' nobody appifara to care for. There are thousands of mien in Toronto who appear to be tftterly abandoned and. friendless. On the atreet, or elaewhere, of an evening or on Sundays they are alone, forlorn. At any^ rate I never saw them surrounded b^ irienda or others who appeared to take the slightest inter- est in them or each other. \ — ;'- ' - \ • — - Hiere is nothing here bat mere aQifoalifexistence. Tlie iroprcittiidn t!>4t ihU •oolologtoml p^anomotia'inakcH urHJ» one it whoHy and CQi.ttantly that of '^coanw and Uf ulal ,naleriaii«m. • Th^sotial fcfling of Canadiani parukei^of the nature of an ioeburg, ehiUiiitf thow who oorao|in con/ tact wi A \L They have bccomo nooustomed to thU kip»l .•f treatment of eaoh other eo ftmcb that it pawet wn- iioticed., they arc uncon^ciout of it. They are rej^owiwjd for all of those petty rnlcH which make life mineBablo. By their treatment of each other they make thom«4ilve« thor- -oughly hated among themMlveii. They^ 4P tj»« meanett jtort of man'a nature, leaving the nobler_^ua^ie« to langttUh. They could, perhaj)8, work and be friendly amoijg themselvea and treat each othpr morfj kindly, but that would Jie to run cfoun^er to theif whole, bein^gf. ' ^ Refinement to them 6dn»i8te in' tilie d<*orepit Vioei of coMervatJim. They are «jt»araotVi»ed by the .pbpery- . anoe' of M itiow peity.ruliyi which taake tbe lives of, the English upper cjasses ridiculottft jl^the eyfes of the w*t of thew^rldjbttt witbout which ^rae people fervently be^ lieve tbe iia*ion woul^ not be safe Tnor the ^rown seour^. To an unmarried pr single man in Canada wd to i^tandina long row in ^ing^e file,V » nd here they drink» push, crowd and elbow each otW like a drove of cattle. ■ ■!■* i • '. ^■» V. r ' OAltADIAll ]i( *i> You oaN'for* glaM of li««r./ A CanadUn oomea In, pttthft you Mulie with both e^^iowN ; and although lie ^^^ i iitr1k«i your arm frequently, MUding' the glaaa flying out of your hand, there is maniTe«t(}d no inoli nation to apologise. The barkee|>er is never iu a hufry^to wait on you. H*' 'Will often stand and look at you for a long timo before he guts ready to serve you. l^iis is not altogether on aooount of lasiness, bat partly tlvh)ugh f<»ar of showing you too much honor. He fears 0iat if he were to "hustle** todis play any eagerness to f^rve you, you might think he had some respect for you, aud 1ie wishes you to understand that he has non«. ... / '.■..■■■'■■■■•:■.• • '•"),.■'■ This is peouliitrly English. ^ « In most of the bar-rooms a customer whd oftlla for a glass of whisky is not allowed to pour it out for himself. This fear of tr^ting a customer with the bottle causes n good deal of fHerriment among visitonJ^frora the Stat^ They ar^ « terribly atingy lot, too, as you will find out after associfiting with them for a short time. They iN^ill drink all day at another man*^ expense, but will themaelveH seldom treat one another^ let ailone an outsider, unloiS they are working "a soft mark," br wish to "pull your leg," U 'i^ey will sponge, and itponge, i^nd sponge U if unnecessary to say ti counter^ in Canada. It would nol oustomi^r would buy a glass of Vorth^f lunch. > V 5^^:^,^ The more general use of the \^ German or American lager beer, in place^of the villainous, \brain- wrecking drugs everywhere sold and drank in OanMf, would do much to l^elp the cause of temperance. On Sundaj'S high-toned citixens\ congregate it the dhtg atores and sonie other places whei^ drinks arS* often U) be had in the reai', on the sly, where i^ey get glorionsl}' /drunk and amuse themselves by silting dowh on each otb9r*8 shiny-top hats. ^~ ~'~ That ia their idea of fun. ' «f- t there are no free lunch be safe. The Canadian r and eat a dollar'H CANADIAN NOm. •# To Judge from the oohvorwlion »t theiMJ tlmeii and placeione would Imagine that many pf tiie.« fellowi wero ulKittt three degreee above a gorilla. , - • ^ * . On* meeU at lea«t tifrehty to thirty drunfcin men, ana women too, In Toronto to ouo .Ingle Inebriated pnwi. m .„r United Sutes city, and yet they are always boanting of their .uperior moral- and claiming that Ol^Are the •♦ motit perfeot people in the worHf." ' y^^ Sunday i* a day of terror. Oui-of-door Ufe on^L_ ,lay is «ad and gfroomy. * ' V .^ ^ _ ^^ . On holidays pleaaure is turned into a funeral "'Vice One ckn see more drunkenneas here on a single hoU- day than in any United States city in a lifetime.^ It is undeniable that the Cai^adians are a cold people. Considering hijw little t,hoy know of , pleasure, it is ex- tremely comical to hear them utter t|» imstoma|ry^^^pe, lidoyed myself immensely." ; ; , ^^- '^ The Canadian lives for broad and beef and beer. All his little thoughts arc centred in his little aelf,^his little ^ destiny. He wonders how mnch money Ire can make, by any hook or cri>ok. He figures carefully upon everytWng he says or does as to what will be its effect upon his ptos: pccts in :the world. , ' ^* ^Z , , , u» Suph a m»n will desert Mn f rlenls and abandon what- ever principles he may Irtippen to hayeior ameaa of loavea and fishes at any time.^ M \ Self -oeiitered men ; Uttle men ; anU ; we«bercock« ; 4irty howlert ; religious devotees who maky use of Gu.l because he can give them a lift in the political or business world. They would worship thti devil just as devotedly Tfihe devil WM a. popular a. God la. They lift their eyes to heaven in ostentatious piety, because the man who lifts his eyes to heaven has the best chance to be promoted in this world. Who. could ever hope to be advanced in the employ of some pious corporation, ' M^t^'.^ -it v> AiA nni. liffc hif) eves tc M. I or become an Alderman if J> did not Hft »»" «yf^ ^o heaven? . ' . ','■ -]. ::■ ■■-:.:^/'/l . , - •■"'•■. .■'^ -'--'y - "•^ " ■ if' ' ^j^-wTt-?'!iy ^-"p^-a ■f^Tf-r* M OANADlAlf NOTM. I admin* lliu }wriHMi wliu fliid* hin liiglithit |tl(>aMMru m NfioAking what hu iMiibviH i« t(|y truth morw thaiihiin whoM« liigh««t filuMuro i« In (llliiig lili ■toiuMh and ooY«r ing hU b«ok. Tlio Uttt-r [» m poor, oowardljr way lo li¥«, and I have no admir.itiun for him who mAopU it, howovi r mnoh I may recrognino hia ahrowdnoMs. ' . Home men think of nothing but ^hthing, ami foot}, nnd sKelter. In their eyea all el atja " nonaenae, don't you know.** It ia unneoeatary to i^l« that aoroe of •uih |)eoplti are English. The atreeta are linvd with auoh men. In Toronto you Joatle httndroda of them every day. Mep who would lit^ for a dollar and a half ; men who would aell their mother*H oofln if they oould make anything by it ; men whotfu philosophy in life is to look out for number one ; men who never riae o|Ut of ttusir personal affairs, op beoom« one in whom the interentaof, other people find a voice, a hand •bdahtiftfl. I'* ' ♦ ■. < 1 . ■ ■.-.■ ». ■ * • , ■■ ■ . V .■>■ '- ■:■/■;:$ i ' ■-^/frrrt-- ^ . ' . ■ -i . ■" » 1 ■ -^" .. . i , A" , ; ; .* ■ . • •l tt ' ^....^ ." - ;^.t ^■%.- i ♦ - » \y .■>■.., I /: « ^•" •-.V- , . :■' « 1 - «- 1 . , ,^" N-'-, '" ^^"V'.: ' 1 ■■' '■'' ■ "" > '■■■ * { 0|UFT*»I^ nil Toronto U Oanaaa and Canada iii Toronto.. ; ^^ Toronto in the Kmartwiit city in Canada; but «.itraager n.^ght go there 4nd U¥« a long tlmo wljiiout oatohlug sight of any of the thoowknd and one^thinga that go towilda making life worth living. Canada i«^ot at* all in accord with the nin«te«nt century. The broad, beaming light of huii^nlty doet ho Hhiiie In that gloomy land. There iHttagnaUon, apath and indifference. Men there, I think, are sunk in a nioi hopcleM element of jieml-ctYirwed laYagery than thoae^ I have met U any other alavirii or •uperatitlon-iooarged pMrt of this world of idol-womhlpp'ing Phariwjea. Old obnventional waya predominate, burying out /of night fiut the gim^st[ pre- mium erer set upon bnitalHy, hypocrisy, deceit and fraud, and if you are guided by these notions aa to what ia *' good form/' you will never }>e ashamed to do anything howeTer ba«riioulttr, nor d^>tw it niAltor bow you mako th< money, so long m it's mad« in a "legitimate,** *'r««pcci ,aM«** buaincaa, and you ar« not found out, and yoo bo li«vo that U*a yoar duty Co giv« mtme of it to tbf oburuli Tbat*a bow it la In Toronto ; and if yoo do not approve of tbia tori of tbhig, and dare to my ao, you will b« olaaaod Matbeiallo ; and |i«opl«, tbat ia, ** good" people, will think you too Tile to oome into their bomaii The obnroh will eniah yoo. People in Toronto do not aaaoolate with a man be oanaa be ia frank, kind and boneat, but beoanae he goM in • oartain aet. Men are eatimated wholly by anrfacu maaaarea ; never by tboir real worth. They evade all un pleaaant facta in their own nature by oovfring them from the eyoa of olhera, not at all by oorreoting tlia faultN. They do not object to a man beoauaellM ia a liar, a tbii'f, or a black -I' g generally, but becauae he doea not talk or act in tlio way the (leople act or talk, or acted or talked (for they art* uaually dead long ago) whom they have been trained to uopy. Their valuation of character, acta, and people are made on ihia ba(da. Tbia blind, brutal worahi|> of convent ionalitiea and forma, without the anbatance, i^ one of the oharaoteriati<» of bygone daya, and it mouldH boneat men and women into criminala. » {If you anggeat improvement in any way, you wiA be looked upon' with anapicion, and regarded aa an emiMary of the devil. An effort on the part of anyone to bring about a happier condition of thinga would be followed by the vileat abuae. In that dijecti<>n ono meeta a hoptjeatt itoiie wall of atttbbomneaa. ' It ia auoh thinga aa theee that delight the haftrta of the anpcratitioUH, mak e th e philo e oph e r amil e , and cauwc him who pitiea toiling, Buffering humanity to weep. as, t t y mm im^.- foUowt tlWit •••• wW* •!» 1^^ hAppinew M. othoni. B«t C«ii»dUn« h«v« not ^«t founa oul thai ib«if own h»ppln«iMi it promol«a by »oU of klndnoM, and tl.«ir own comfort onliMoed by making thing, m agrwmble and pleMsnt for each other m poMtble. That i» a bit of g,MMl philorophy tbat the average inhabitant of Toronto could profit by ImmeoMjly, if ha valiwd^U own happl- iieMia ' Speaking fai general lermg, the ielflnhneM of human beingt may be said to be «f two kind. ; the wlftibneM of th<»M who eeek their happlnew reepective of the bnppineM of othem, and the eeltiehneei of thowj who seek thrfr hap- piiieiM irreepoctive of the happineea of other*. And they are forever dUtinot. Thw ■elflibneM which ie hurtful, U an error of judgment. If all^meii arc Helfiah, that nelftah- iieHH which findi pUaeure in thoiie acta which ar« helpful^ to otiiere U surely of the higher type. * ^ What followf act! of •elflibnew, whether pain or pleasure to othem, is a mere inciden^ which does not in the least change the character of the act. Sympathetic actH ara •• selfish as any other. And this is f beautiful fact, for by it we learn that we may be helpful to others without any hateful self-righteousness. The maxim :—** My experience is, that when those •bout me are happy, 1 am happier than I otherwise could be. It is to my interest, therefore, to contribute toward the happint-ss of others," ii the grandest maxina ever penned. It cl«*rly shows that all our act* originate fn.m wilHuU motives to attain the greatest happiness ; but lh|t M we advance intellectually, we find that the greatest »• »»'«■«'■ •TV •<»^«Mn g«fiil««ni«n, """•t. .1 --BP 7T ■ji». ■ - ^ ■ ^ -fe. :^- ^ . ^», ' . . - "i ''' - .- V "' .■■..■ «^v.- -..- ^■ :.-':t^ '■ './. 1' : t m '4*.' CIIA!»Tieft X Mas OCIImII wiyt i Wlitii John Bull «nt«r« ift «• „^* oe^Mlr^wiUtty earrUjpj, If Iw do«i uol weogniwi iHf- urif, h« •yiHi liiii follww-iraveWw Mkftn|ilo can't walk Itora*, and Ka a man liava lli«i irri«if« ooinfortahly lo hlm««lf.*^ ila !• abiiolut« ma«tor In hki own hmm, w»il«!i U« . enlb liU oMtlo. W you |.re«e«l yaum»lf to liim wiUm.ui; an intr«Mluotion, lia will put |ia >>^ uy and aootiabow y«tt t« lh« iljMir a« an intruder. , * * On the other han.l, If prop#r»y armfwl with a '**||fcg^ intriMluotlon, you may powibly find him ho«|.^P', alYahlt, and ©van uniiui|i«fltlng, and yon Way |Ki^ibl)« b«ooni« tha fri«n«I of lh« family. , An EnRliiihman in «lth«r vlrtaoua or an uttar wprft- batij ; 90ti^tinui9 virtuous. Tliffa li no middlo oo^vm \ tlio ountrant ii Mtriklng. In Knglinh family lifo tbaro !• no tfitlmaoy, nd open- ncM of Iwart ; utiffnew and rowrvo ; affoctioii, but Httle |„ve. In h«r dignity, Uw Eiigliiih woman refraini from making advanoen toward* **b«r lord and maatarl* for fear %i England, the young married woman is no longer It horaft in ber fatbor'i houM ; •bo goe« there on a viiil, ami $X\ aw glad to Me her, but ihe ia no more one of tba inner circle. VUUt art counted. v •There are very few old baolielors in England, all tha mi»w marry ; aoroe for affection, noma for money, and aome from a eenHC of duty. It in a debt ibey owe society . It is not that they are fond of women, for, like Solomon, they gen- erally abuse them. They avoid -their mother when they ; ,4 M CAKADIAN KOTKH. u- :. il :!if" ■'^ nru iiitoxioftted ; they droad ber reproaolitts, iikuii her HorutiiiiKiitg gazo. In Englaiul llioy beat women, or turn them out of the hOuHe, • I^et those who may doubt tlio exact truth of thcBt* Htatcmcnts open any English newnpaper and read for themselves. A society for the protection of women has yet to hv f^ormed. The following-is extracted from the police couH reports of the daily new8pai>ers, wh«re you m»y mo umi- lar ones every day : Thames Police Court. —John 11. is charged with hav- ing beaten bis wife, and threatened to kill her. On Friday night he returned homo drunk, seieed his wife by the hair, and throw her out of the window. Ho then sent his five children to join her in the street, whether by the window or not, the report does not state. The woman managed to get into the house again, but the ma|i, seizing a knife, thi'eatened to setHe her. She succeeded in escaping, but not before he had injured her so brutally about the head that bL6od flowed in profusion from her nose and mouth. JoImi H. is condemned to one mouth^s impriHonitacnt. If ho had done as much i!o a horse, he would have got six mo/ths at least. But a woman ! His wi/c, especially I In Manchester, and all parts of Lancashire, the men wear iron soled shoes with jpointild toes. Wim these kicking, can be very successfully performed, i ^ The English woman will bear, with scarcely a mur- mur, the gravest of indignities and wrongs. You rtiay read of any number of such cases every day in Eqglish nQVlf$- papers. What are the people taught? you will ask. Cer- tainly, it is not religious lessons that are wanting in ^at country of Churches and Chapels, of Sunday Schoolgi an J Bible Classes, of Christian Associations, Salvation Armies, and what not I Neither can drunkenness alone entirely account for this savage brutality so vepy common in Eng- land that it passes unnoticed. Th e law does h ot protect passes pr( Wjomen. These savages have also, several other favorite ■/■i - «■ , " '■■■..■' ..oMthneH When they are not oooupiiil in kicking tlicir ,, ^v : t* ti.« met ./n-itive parts of thoir boaicn. th«v fi.Ma among themsclve-, and bite off each other. nodiS.. The olfactory organ would .com to be a damty to tueir taKte Thi« i« aUo a very common occurrence. The EngliH^an hits a blow that would knock > mr, . hoad off your BhoulderH. « w Thin is a curiqus thing ; even when thene navagcn flglit i„ earnest, they never kick cadi otbor ; it is co..tr»ry ^to the national spirit. The kick itJr«Horved strictly for Iho weakflr sex, who enjoy the whole and sole monopoly "^ ' Ant hero, I may say that in this matter Uncle Jona- than^ets John Bull an example which the latter would do well io profit by. , Whilst English justtce gives merely one or two^ months' imprisonment to^the man who is found guilty of havini almost kicked his wife to death, an Aniericuii town iH in arms at the.merc rumor of a nian having maltreated a woman.* ' - _ .^ , bn^ of the favonte pastimes of John Bull, the pro- lector of animals, is pigcoh-shooting. He does not always coMtent himself with shooting at the unfortunate lil^e bird ; be sometimes puts out one of its eye^^^that it majr only fly in a certain direction, and tbat he may shoot it , more eJisily. This kind of sport, however, begins to be a ^ littld less popular, thanVs to the charmii,,g Princess of Wales, who formally intimated to the public the Int^iest she felt in these poor little innOcent birds. . . ^ ^ Not long ago, the men of the lower classes used to find great pleasure in flaying cats alive. .,„ ; : * Adulteiy is frequent in the higher classes, among the rich and idl e ; very rare among tl^e middle and working " .Why toltastai-omeolie, that when « man te seut toprl«>n ^r>'«»J"K> ^ womar^ti ^win you have to lock up the wo^an t«^-P ^l^J^U^^^^^^^^^ Um «owe«r Becau,e,when ^^^ i^wedd^ t o^»^^a^,J»;p^g^„ ler favorite ill,uae8 her about Uiree-fourthB of tho titn o . a h e j H a!^k^ huAwuta are «ddom "in It " with the wlfe-bettt«« '-J?. T4 ^/, >'■ V . . . ■ V ffANADIAK ihrKR, i* »^ '\ ■n ♦•<: -I* .• li^ II, olwMfi. I do not iiien(|t)ii (ho fowor populaoo of Loiulon ; UnHjrllfo if that %t dogN. V^ohnJSuU only HftM hin Iiat on {^v.'t:id ocoaHionii ; for hiat»nco, whvn^ie heara ' are terrible on Sundays ; woo til^to the children whsu fall into their ciptches on the Sabbath. Prince Bismarck* who, it appearj^ I. ai $ remarkable talent for whistlings landed at Hllll oi.3 Sunday. " I had just set foot fortl^e lirst time on English soil," be related. " I began to whistle as I went along the street. JAnEng- lisbman stopped mo and said : *Sir, be good enough to atop whiatlirtg.* *Stop whistling? What for?* — * Doctuac it is fp|>bidden. It is Sunday!' 'I luatdu up ii^y ^"'^Q^; I CANADIAN NOTES. w 6« # - . f six and eight in Iho evening, 6,6^0 persons entered t^, places of worship, ^ and 6,601 thocpublio houses."— i>at7y JSTews. " A Public Worship and PubJ^c House Census at Kill>urn." It is, as M. Taino says, " Paradise or Hell ; no Purga- t(»ry in England." . . • j,, Ay. terrible, indeed! One look at "the faces of the women and men who' frequent the^ound^d natfonal pride^Sj^dney Smith once exclaimed ; «k "What a pity it is we, have no amusements in Eng-,, land except vice and wligion." * ^^ ® ' , - 5; t The same exclamation might be aittdVed to-day, and * i tl^ cause laid s^t the Anglo-Saxon "unoo' guid's" doon ^^ ttisho who is responsible ,ior the degradation of the " IJritiflh lower classes, by refusiiW, to enable them tOelevato \ their minds on Sundays at the light of the inaster^ie^s of ^ \art which are contained in the ikuseums, or at the sd^und of the symphonies of Beethoven Vnd Mcvsart, which might be given to the people at" reduced prices oh that day. ^ The poor people must choose between vice and reli^ ion, and as the wretches know they are notfwant^in^ "the chufchfes, they go to the tavern^.^ It To a certain extent, says a l^rench wr^r, I am a believer in climatie induence, and am inclin^l to ^hink / ■■ *i /. ■.K -■*i^ CANADIAN "Norm "VI" Pi ■•J that Sabbath roformori reckon without the BritUh olimat« when they hope to soo a Britain fttU of oKe^rful Ch|i«- tiani. M, Taine, in hia " History of Kngliih Literature," aaoribos the unlovable morality of Puritaniim to the influ- ence of British climate. " Pleasure bfeing out of question,'** he aaysy " under iuoh a sky, the Briton gave himself up to this forbidding • virtuouanesS^' In other words, being unable to be cheer- * ful, he became moral. This is not iiltogetber true. |f»ny Britons are cheerf u'l who don't look it ; many Britons are . not moral who loot it. ,*; But how would M. Taine explain the existence of this iMMJPnriUnio "moiPality " which can be found under the lovely, clear, bright aky of America? All over Canada, and, indeed, in most parts of America, the same kill joy, the same gloomy, frowning Sabbath-keeper is flourishing, doing his utmost to blot the Bunshiue out of every rocuj:- ring seventh day. In England, wheii you hear of any great crime having been committed, sift the matter, and you will fliid a chapeL There are fe^ bankrupts, really worthy of the name, that have not built a Churph or Chapel to win the confidence of investoria, and, maybe, also to offer to God a little of that which they had taken from men. > We all remember the sickening professiona^of religion that Ouiteau« the vile and cowardly asaassin of poor President Garfield, made day after day for months. * In England, religion is the idea that absorbs and dominates all others. The priaow and mad-houiies are full of ' religious maniacs. 4: '»->»- '••'«• .V f- ••?'«•.- .' -» ■;,w-- ■ 4 ; ■^1 /C , CIIAPTKR Xll. V A V<^ l«igthy article by Cardinal Manning, entitled " The Child of the. Engli«h Savage," which appeared in print several year* agOj ia interesting, #nd calls-particular attention tg^the fact that theworst cales of cruelty and hrntality praotlc^ upon children and ^others are perpe- trated by persons of Tapplirent respecUbility— clergymen, barristers and others* ' ^ i, j ; Writing on the subject 6f cruiltj^ to children and the work of Mr. Benjamin Waugh's society, the editor of The Modem JRevieto declares It to be an erroneous popular impression that the offenders belong exclusively to what are called the "lower" classes. The-two main kinds of cruelty, violence and neglect and famine, have gen- early occurred in houses wli^lJ^Q there has been plenty for everybody but the children; and.' three of. the most evolting cases occurred in families of>gpo4 social position, ' •one being In a long-esteemed county taf^y, oneiii that of-« a well-connected legal aspirant to political fame, an Afipb' in the family of ag^ntleiOan occupying an importont^b- lio position. In this class of cases, we are told, the difR- culties of prosecuting are algiost insurmountable. In one instange when .Mr. Waugh wM applying for a summons against the head of a county^ fi>mily lor cruelty to his children, all the magistrates ^and even the very court officials were related to, or connected by marriage with, each other. After considerable trouble and elcpense one clerical personage, who had charge 6f a** home*' sup* I>orted by voluntary contributions, was convicted of cruelty to children, the details of which are sickening to rea^, and"- a fine «of £400, was thought a sufficient ptt'nishihent. ^^ !:;'! :1 ^ iiiii*siljj|f th« So«lty for wo r^ruol |{lir f|ioiil^' woifare, and who fihally tiio i^(^h df ber thrc6-yoar*<^Id d(iui|tor, 'Wexofep^ion'al* - . ' \ ^'-m ' pareDts w inflicted QfUn the' faelpleilw children are ^njn^ntioiied, pun^ishjikg a ! ; ^^ ohjld by putting^\pins into -ilnt ii^ostrils ; ^putting {filial >.' \ matdbes in a child's nostrilfli''; bi^ng a child's wi ' burning' the woundVwMjjyghtedniatches ; bit of t\ jieven-mohths-oUHBpy till ihey bled ; kec ' ^ in a crad,!^ for wcoks\ till toadstooli; grew aroui ^ ' as a resub^frottennCBs; abutting up for houi closet a ty^^ryear-old child; tying a rope firouh^ ' . six years'old, dipping him hi a canal, bringing biinl , , wh^ he has recovered dipping him in agai^, and repeating the operation time after\time y keeping a child always in • * a .cool cellar till its flesh became green ; tying cords tightly round a child's little thun^bs, then tying the exT^ to the foot of thorn bush. a bedstead and beating"°lho /. darjms itb i ir' .'■■•'1 :k IV' , OANADIAll NOTBB. \ IP • iikti Mnk Montagu, lome of the oiitprits pleaded t^^^ir high fitiiiiie of Moral dlNciiiliiio and tluir regard for ^'IJI^viotim'o iioul. One individual whom the Mooioty inter- ^* fored with urged that ho oould not do hiii duty an not forth in the Bible without mutilating the face of his child. H The report of the Hocioty has oauaed ooniiiderable dia cuBiion, and it in hoped that the law will be invoked to ItM^ utmost to puniith hcartleM parents. - It. is thought that one effect of the repmrf wilt Im put a stop to the mawkJHJhk sentimentality tliat- seeks %o procure the release of Mrs. Montagu from I^ndondeny jail. ^ ' ■• / r The, Duke of Fife was present at the meeting^ and made a strong comment on the shameful disclosures made. The most subtle oases of cruelty, «^»o said, seemed to be porj>etratod by persons of apparent respectability. / j Mr. Fowler, M. .i*.,^^»iggeRted that legislation was needed to pipot< ct children. The most revolting recent inHtanoes of cruelty, he said, had occurred in families of afHuetice, and iho creation of public opinion was wanted to fight the evil." . , / ' /, THS Totho^ditor i cussion Sir,— Ilipema to n^e |hat a useful todfrofita^l^ dlf- ion might take place in the oolumpsdl yotw Ihe sd^jecrof child ditfbipli^e. It is |r Teked qiitestion and^ for riw part I should like to hear froni virions ^^nts on.v^' the subject. In England birch m ohe' boudmr la a com- ,^ mon thing/ and H IS invariably applied t#*hait part of the body which is-j|pj|i|^d in 4.fai8 couhtiy "^#1^^ «< spanking;* lll ^HB> wn English mother tdipfi^it •. to their daughters n^SRie age of se]^enteen and c'ghteep. During my residence in this countrV I have found a great m % niiBiny mothers avifrse to this fori)^ of pu^hment, their child^n al^^l^re pert and insolent to ap ezteiii which children of t^^ast generation would tiot Jiavelng fU^oe" i th«y »re go j.___ ■"d"?"*'"'*' i t^^^ h«r ohiUl reproof* nithment I have are good CM exUU oMton la lly Una it M Unght ihaire that I country idiciou«ly ) faniil;f » »i««rvit0' lYeniootly 9r bowed, r paper to •y woman. ■ li,' •■ ■. J.-- ■-_ . ... ^, _.^. * ■! 4 ^ CHAPTER Xin. Wlien we take into consideration tliu fact tliat ih« writer ol the foIlowing—Rudyard Kipling— ia an Engiiali- man, it may bo laid to Imj decidedly rofroiihing under the oiroumitanoea, and in the light of well-eitabli«hed facta. i)h I Ml f -conceit, thou art a whole oanktyt full of rareet jeweU : " ■ . . •• / V " The mow I itudled New York," iiayi Kipling, " tbe more grotoiiquety bad it grew. It wan bad in the pave-' nient of its stroelR, batl in ita police management, and bad in its sanitary arrangements. No one has approach«iti the managemont of New York in a proper spirit, regarding it an a Mhiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless uxtravagaiice. I^o oii« is likely to do so, because reflec- tions oasf^on the |ong, nsrrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacl^ against the spirit and the majesty of the great Amerioa^i people and lead to angry comparisons. One of these days, jyou are told, everything will bo taken in jiand and put straLht, and the un virtuous rulers cf the city will be awepW w hv by a cyclone of popular, itidigni- tion'. At the saiHpRne the lawlessness ingrained by the gofflliliors among Ihe governed during forty years ^f brutal levity "of Jublio conscience in regard to public duty., the tough^|Jpg and suppling of public morals, the reckless disregarH^or human life, bred hy ftapotent laws aijid fostered by familiarity with needl4« J^^oidwit* a"»A^ Criminal neglect. Will miraotlously disappevn i Ing^heathen land three things are BuiUd^^jJ^ST^' ^^ ,pill a r » CT a moder a t d y decent government 'flify ftP# a t e ^^ d regard for human ."■ , •■■ ■>■ ■ ,.''' n OAWADIAN m ^^w* '^V^ ^ -f.- > li, w nolioim |>r»« juRt like Kipling to awyLhat ^nerica* olnba ^nght to do Ihoir black-balling at n||lo a(Hl not l#tho n«wipapcra. IIu ■ava auoh mean Ihinga about Iho Ampricanii, Kipling doca. I h^c no liking U^Uffi profcaaiwial politj^an who Ukca to ^public life aa a trade, and, l# a n»tunil oortje- ^ qilQttee, regarda every nal intereat. But he ia infli^^ly Wi of a public ptil andvaatly mororaodeat in hia >Vp'lA thaft the type of IcgiBtatora IWdyard Kipling ad mip. 'Iboclaaaof English legigptoni Who do not |fok to polltica for a living, that ia, "ilifie who are wealthy, would acorn the notiona of boodling to 111 their own pookcta ; but they have filled the atatuc 'booki with the moat viUainoua, unjuat claaa Jegialation for the creation and maintenance of apeoial privelegea. It kowing to the^cendancy of men who do "not look to ^itica for aiiving because they and their anccstora have plundered tl|i people for tientupea, that needleaa, blijody and destnioiivo wara are continually waged for the profit and glory of the upper claaaes, and that a atanding army, -M a greedy atato church and a boat of legal abuueH and Bine ,. oureaaro maintained to make poaitionH for the nobility and gentry. This high-minded, patriotic, honcft Englinli land- lord, or capttftliU M. P., who doe« pot go into politica (or ^ OANADiAM norm. # ft Uflfif I M c»)m|»«r««l Willi Aiiitriotii |)oUticUnf, U ft V»«- pinrboiido moniiuiUHMi, Tli« only dlffi'rrno* U that tli« ftmvmlimMl Kngliah loKi*l*^<>n»iMia jjoauig aa men of bonor auU j»ri"'*-***' * ♦ 1 - : L_ ^ % I -* t n,f\\ OirAPTBB XIV. Th* MiMra !!•¥• »«wMiy tiiii Ut AiMwer for, myn N«w <»f ibal V^, «*tttlen» »•«'» Hyittfio conotll, Rudyard Kipling. lit •m«rg«a from ll.« gloom ol Iti.lU ibout ihriHi vMrt Ago. Il« wroUi two •hort •toriflt whioh wrro unoun VnfitioiiAl biio«uii« th«y w.ro th« <.nly •*»art itori«- wrill«« In ft a«o»a« which h»yii not \mm iiua« to (It lh« cft«t-lron rwtriotiont of ft niftKft«iii« editor. «<» tho |.ft|»«ri di«^ui-«»d him. Th«n li« grew ftimon. Hlft ver«« n«wHl«d lh« |Mr««ft. It wft* rot. including th« " l>ftniiy Docvcr" Ji"K\«- ,/ »»*^'; Mr. Kiiding wrot« ft notel, "Th« Light th»t l«ftd«d, ftnd it remftinn ft noggy. dcnw ftrtd in(lnil«ly wcftry mc.num..nt of the mcntfti llmitfttionf of ih^ mfto. Hut the -yndicato mftnftgcni got ftfter him, ftnd the |jiii>eni bandied hm name about until it l>ecftmo m familinr to nowii|.a|wr roftileni m the nftmea of Fftrkhumt, Hpiko llonnewy, Mother -Mandel-' bftum «nd Col. Ahe Blup-ky. The effect u,K>n Kipling Swftft prcMJigioui. Ho had notoriety ftnd he needed money. Bo he wrote. In ftimiUr conditlona Annie Wftlden ftUo wrote. Ilftttie Adftma i« only ft question of ft few dftyn more, and no the liat of contemporary oelobritiw in letters 'gooi on. *;■ -v ' '' ♦• . . ^^ 1 When Kipling began to wrlfe for the p«p«ra, he lifttnrally wrote critioUmn of people who di a» I-HlAMI JS«tll«pli^r»«H.nal«g ibal N.w York U a pig trough, «|Hiaka of tb« oltlMn. •• a |;iwlMt br««a of oattU, announw* ibal wo buy and mtt itriminal and olvH.Ju.tioe op«nly W. lh« court h«uMs and that ibU purobaa« and •*!« of judgui ia ooiiduoUia wiUiOul tlio aligbtaRi trao« of ahame. It may utrika iuo.t Now Yorkera that thoro ar« ola- „w„U of Inaccuracy in bit aUt^monta, but that /«•*•*«;•<>; il »ll i. not io aatounding aa tho placidity with wklob Mr. KipUng inatituloa coinp«riiion batwoon Now York ^nd Loudon. ' ■•'. ' * „ . ',' . One thing tliat wwin* to cauw him an ondloaa amoiim of annoyanoo ia what h« oalU tho rooklaaa dl.rogard for human lifo in Now York atroata. Conaidcring tho wholo- aato aluughtorof human boin« kf tlla WhitechaiKri diatriot In I.c»i,aon, tho manner in wli^h lifijkloaa |Mjdoatrian| §n alaughtorod by hordoa of aban.tonod woman m Ufegj>nt atroot at tiigbt, tho murdoroua aaaaulta of tho Eaat End i» r.ottdon, ami tho abaoluto and coutinuod rbk which a man runa after aigh^fall in that city, Mr. Kipling would aoom to bo auff^rioB again from inaccuracy of obaorvation. Thoro ia not a alreot in all Now York where a man may not Walk with abaolUte safety at any hour of tho night or d*y, Tho record of aajiaiUta i« »o brief here that th« atatistlca of the police l«ve attracted the attention of tht French and German municipal authoritiea, and the town la free from the horrible and ini«iuitou» forma of vice which have made tome of the. atreota of I^ndon-Cleveland »t*oet, ^or example— famoua the world «1^_lThe mott .SI 76 OAlfAmAl^ NOTB8. V 1>. -'. m . W'-.. ^1, ■ilii life lii?ii^ . '*'v ''\~ g'tirriiig jukI »tcrt<»ri»ii choruM of Lord Tcuhywin^ iato»4 play 18 . . ' ' ; 1 •* There ar« ii<> moji liko Kng!inliJiien.' . ^ivHiKation iiiiRht wuU utter a oongratulatory ". 1'h«»ik\ Go«l ! " for this 8t>utiinviit. While moinory of tho liprriblo M• .Yet cars of precisely similar pattern are to bo found eveiy-' , 'where in Europe. It' is only in England that vomeii 'skxf ' forced to jump from the trains at the risk of their lives tO ■ escape assaults. - A'notl^er English critic announced, a short time ago, that England was and always would be ihe homo of tru« tand loviftg mothers. Mr. Gladstone referred to this j^aii, eloqueiit^way in Parliament, and praise is going rimod. Less than si;y^eks ago Mrs. Montagu was arrest^, and ^ is now sorvii^m sefltenco for the inhuman brutality witli which she punished hel" child ; and the child had ilbt^^eeir dead a Week before a woman ift^Liverpool was .8fV,rfefil^dA on a similar charge. This second British raiolt ' ti|d her child up by the ihumbs for s^ven hours/ ,room. . • " The glory of English motherhood " seems trifle frayed at the edges. On one hand we have tJiio; ecrtatic laudati^of theniselyes by Etiglish critics, and oil. the other 'we have the criminal records, particularly the r^- .;'*. V ;n^ n Ik ll«»o.n;y tl.4 Soolo'ly '<" the P*«vc...tu.« of .Cr|.« yl .'L CliiUren in K»gl«n.I. ThW roport ha. ..to«n.l«a U«. 7 ' ilvilUod worM. Tlitro i« uotliuiB tV»t cquaU the orufcHy ^ .or KnglLh women Ww.ra their ohild«n in .nycouiHry on il„{«e ot the o»rth/c.mp«r.t\vo *4ti«t>c. Wo be.«. ««bli.hod by other naiioni, but one au.t go to »-"B'»";' '!*' ti,ul mother, who infliet ,mni»hment..of mjwncc.-jable br^ tality «po» -tlioir o««i offopring. A« m the oa«) ot Mn^ . •MonWn, the p..r«t. ploadea their high .««"« ot «.«ral .ILebline and thoiv regard tor their v.ctuji'* .o.il. It «^ hoped' that, one effeet oftho report w.U 1* to .lop the ■V-nt movement t<.l.«eMrvM™tag«_~.nov^^ ^1 ■M: .umloudcrry jail. Mej^nwliile tlierp . ii . ^Ot l|n EnghaK crUloou earth who will not o w^or on KipUng, bat "ii'ilSAUsp ho Fpproseijts his nation in egcitisto and cant, l loilhQB Ne^r York, but he hafi a Wnd «id gentlo word . to say for Vermont. Recently he. inarrled an. '^^' *M. m owns r^ farm in Vermont, Kiplmgifl willing to .soil Bomo of it if-hc^can MTorknp a booni. And b« detestB ^ »ur lamp.po*t« an* cbuld nott^v^k oiir streets, wh^rn^: anil in its yf&S suggestiVl, -^'^ " « v . i " r.; ' ' ..\tf«ti8 th«infa«t yowlin' itorrWa Bobby-on-Parade; - .^rBritoi%f an i^^^ knowing 8erg^nt.„ ' said* "* ■■' -■ 'V;! • <■- '■'',■■' " " .^Wot*seatin'ofth^^#«^?^^^W^ ^ "He's tried to dri)fik aVbrf^^rj^?' vfch^.kn9>^mg^8e^^^ " .'"'■saidj"' ■■?■■ /■■; ■-■-"■ ■■'■''^V•■'>\^•;'|^_^^ '•• Mr. kiplii^, heVl^ntii#ingi h^:iS very f0wdx dow^ ^ Tlfewfen is multiplied by three; aiad tlutigs are anjrl^w. >., oi^Wamp-posts how i«iey>c^l»erhow i«^^ -'^-dknsbowj..-./ ■ ^- *-^^ /■■•.. *;:':^ ,>■''■ / ,' he'll wish he hadn't done it ifi the mo|nin . ■I'hose who hjive been in the habit of .reading English criticisms pf ot& nations will observe that wherever ho may go everything is a b(^e to tlie Englishman. Accord-; UP -% r r. A'- 78 CANADIAN N0TB8. :% 11' t»% iiig to hit own oonfesnioii nothing pIcaMCH him, and acconi- ing to hi» own account nothing intcreBta him. He has not a good word to, say for anything or anyone. The EngliHh neWupap^rs diiweminate more falM reports about njen and mattev* than any other new8|M||K)rH the world. The English are too proud to learn, while. in instinct is denied (l^eiii* / >\r ^T * ^ ' » - ■ -: ^*'' ■ *. 1. -" • ■ ■* , . ■ ^' . . ♦'•/' ■■"''"■'■'u : ■ ' '^'^ :. \ - ..■ .:- ' ' .' ■ . ■ •vf :-,,,: i'\l % * »s. The dlffcronoo in the -trcMmont of men, women amt. iWldien and in the mofal tone of ««iety, bet*e«n tmS »d Kurooe i.- greatly in favor of Amenean , """STll^Vhe «p„:ur«of the naetine.. of the Kngli^. »J^r one U not »«rpri«d to learn- that the- Br.l..h 'sSeS^forthe Prevenuon of Cruelty to Children ba. , SdL. novel mode. 6f . P-"*»V"toZ:S. among Britain', higher cla««...: fhe four Montogu oh.h d«n were confined tor' long period? without food .„.a«K ■ cllt.. They were tied to . t.^ J they '^'W ^"8f * . , along head downward, their bodte. looking a. %»B^ H "? . p^tad been «=ourged ; they were kicked «>ro«.lfce^lo „. ^.iheir hands were put on hot pipes. 'j.iCJP'.„^' >5 Wife-hSating and thumping a poUpem.A^ayc. long ^lleon «.cogniied;, ««puni.hable orlm« in " rferr,. Kngj 'riind." b»! even the moat devoted 41<')^o*raniaoW.U feel hUblo^ boil at the outrage. pr«,tirija ^"^ •«*»^?".^y . the "gentry," It look. a. thoi.gh Mr. Budyatd E.pl.ng . could find enougl. that needs correottng "t:''"""--^^ ^ ■ American, and men of all nations, who ^»vB Ae milk .f hu«ft« kindne^ in their hearts, will .t«>d aghast ".nd appalled at the condition of things revealed amon^the h^her aaMes of KnglW. brutes. There « -^ f ""^J . X e-t«.t than *he torture of helper A.ldrtn If .the law .hould refu«, to puni.h such .nhnman act. m Amertca, the people would quickly tak^' the admm>strat,o;^ ' bftstic* in tUr own hands. »The voice of every dec^t man of every clime and natSinality will cry shame at the -British nobility, who bo*sU of their flag «"■'»■"?»?«" Tvery qnarter of the globe, and yet who tortus babe, and ■J» 80 1'/ ..1^ OAlTAOUir^KOTIS, ■4f ,(. )itUo ohlldren. Qod help iho iiitu« of the '^getttrj^** ""h^, iieodH another Dickens to Mhow thorn up and call puMic attentlbii to thei^ atrrjeuMiRiicHN. ,. , In Knglisli oitios it U a ooranioft ocwttrremce to see n littlo girl o-f Hovon or eight yoar« in front of a saloon ■iV aolioiting ahnn whilo tho father in Hpen4ing the procwdK : , iniiido for drink, and I have frequently seen the father in such a oAne, oomo out and strike tbb child with olenohed fist full in tho face virhen the money was not fortheoiniiig with whioh to buy another drink. —. A" Max O'RoII says, tho English hare n6-^ courage. ^ ^ ., One can see more kindlincKH and more rospect shoVrr for the feelings of others in one hour'H walk in Holland of Germany than in a whole lifetime in England. It is on this account that I have heard Englishu|en say:, "The Oermans are soft." ' ■' ■ \/ In other words/ kindlii}ess, in the estimation of Eng- lishmen, is a- weakiiess to he avoided. It is consideration for tlio feelings of other people that makes a lady or a gentleman. This is the main lihi^ig, ,no matter what an Englishman may say to thcf contrdjry. One finds much to complain of as regards English ways In Canada, but the Canadians, in their treatment of women and clpldrctl, are far in advance of brutal old England. I have often heard Englishioen say that to pot a child too much is to matte it effeminate, and they certainly j»ra<'- tice what they preach. ; ^ir.. J. u-t-j.i'i'ii;- If blantncs$ of Sp6ech, at times, has ltd advantagcH, it is equally true t'lAt there are occasions wjien it may Hot *only be well diispensed with, but when It is a proof of the Ihe best taste to do so. Were, there nothing .in tlie way,itt Vhich a thing is put it would mean instant death to inan'y of the refineij^^ntft of litcrattrrc, for thost*^ conHidcreil in thfeir| es^nce, mei;el|^ repf^sent tact or skilj^ii,! avoidiiig dii^etnesil '' c^l^xpression, wh^re at lua»t injagllfi^ry goodi, is ^q«Q|nifli8«^eaiBty pained by going the loiigor way rfl>ttnd. V , ■ .' ' ■f-.t. : -- ■::.\\J^'t;-^ -e» " ■ ''(• * . i^K ■*- ■ ■ ',: . .,;.^'^> ,1 . i«| ^ . ... V , h' n , All ^nia&Um AeuVI 1>« avoid**. TRU every one aS\own. Tliat iiwe«|wng tMMi«rtion« Hhoald bo jimt an oare- l.illy Hliunned is not mi gwierally rooogni»cMi, tluMigh a „„mient'i« rttflootioii will show UM that iiotiiiiig i» «»ord apt lo ( uuiw) prejudiocH. yiauy p«oplcj have a hahit of sumtning up> in a fow ,.:inMtio wordu, every one belonging to sorao c«rtain profoi- ' M..i) or trade. In not a few cane* they are guilty of down- rijrlit slander, though >yero they told no their faces would .^^"ubtlcHS express the greatest surprise, -r- ,, ^ „:.« Slander indeed 1" suck an one wquldi eicolaim wiw_^ tkeliveliest indignation. " I wouldn't be guilty of snph ft thing for worlds; I merely said all wore dishonest.** ^ Some men, too, have a way of speaking of women en Miusc. "Women are never punctual," is an. expression otlKii heaifd ; b«t nothing more fallacious was ever uttered. Other examples might be adduced in plenty. A cer* t*iu kdy sums up dogs as, "Nasty snapping brutes." loftily this IS a grave inault to our canine friends. Perhaps the most .absurd instances are regarding riiUionaliti€Js and countries. It is no uncommon thing to Iwm people »ay : "All^ ^shire people are dull," or, "Ah, ^ no wonder he in eiever; he comes if rom my county, X. " riiis. habit of hasty generalization is .one which grows, bttt it should be severely restrained' within limits with the ^iruning-knife of common sense. .v,r ^' Tlie Englisl; are the most brutal nation on earth 1 *' ejtcluimed Count tyof Tolstoi, iU Russian master. **The Kiiglish Worship their muscle ; thoy think of it, talk. of it. if 1 had time 1 should likd to write a book on their ways. ' Ami then their executions, which tMy go to see ap a pli'aHuroJ ' . ^ " Defective ^^« l«" Itussian civilization in many re.- ;ft{fcdls," he sayH, "you will n%vcr„^nda Ku)j^iaj:i jjoasjjut, Jikb that. IJe abhor* deliberate nuir^^^bUcf an exmutMbU, Hut an Engiishrrian ! If jio wlSte tolttV^ liuttb^llrOil of liis own father aiidtiat Him, he would^do it." 1, " ;f ^y *. T 1 . 'li^ ... ..;.4.L U' '■ ;••: f^ OHAPTKR XVL — »- il ::. The Bngliiilimiln in tho ffypoorite of virtao. Rng1nti<1 til' the home of ghoddy. For oxaraplf: T|(o follow inj» iiniquo advortiseraent Hi^ appearod in The TSnuSf and ' aluQf with a.trifling variation, in The Morning Poet : ' Ifr. H> W. Diyoyi of London, haa arrived at NeW Tofk on hia Mtam (fip from Central Ainerrca, and \h at , preHont the guest of Mr. Vanderbilt, the millionaire. Ntirer before having heard of Mr. R. W. Davey, of London, 1 am bttrnin^'f<)r more information ooncerntng thii* individual. Who i« R. W. Dave^? What haH ,lic been. doing in Amfirioa ? Why is the fact of his being tlie guest of Mr. Vanderbilt doen^ed of HUtficient publiJ inter- est for publioation as an advertisement in the London .papers? Who wants to Igiow where R. W. Davey liaa been? Who cares where bin 14 now? Evidently R W. Davey has a large cirole of acquaintances who are deeply / concerned about his moyementu, and I shall be glad .if any of them will enli^btcni me on the above points* ,,- V The Toronto pape^ contain taany such advertisemonto as the foregoing. ^, < "' Toronto is intensely English, and if yon go there tn lil^e^ and are inclined to be industrious,, honest, frank and generous, you will get the cold shoulder, and you will find that the unconventional are at the bottom, fleeced, trampled " upon, discouraged, and too often d^paiiing. There is no individuality in Canada. Canadians are all built on the same last. -V; If you go ia Toronto to live, and are capable of think-* , ing of things^ other than business, brooms, dusters, dishes .i^ttdl kettles, you will be like a bear that walks from end '«■ 1; (.,.■ ^. OANAPIAN HOTK8, 83 to «n(l of hill cage, back ami fortli, JiwinK cvofy Wftliltig hour. If yott remain thoro long enougli you may loarn to ooiitrol your fcolingH, you may not diiiplay your ycarniliga^ you may not reveal liow hungry, bow reHtlewiiyou are ; and hy niid by you may fiottlc down into a pitiable quiolnoMi, iho HadnoHN of which is nnspealcable, I have often gone out in the morning with aJioart io dejircHued and saddened that a pj|ll aeomod to upread over- all the world. But on meeting aomq one who apoke - fihoorily for a minufq or two, even upon indtUfcrrei^t mattenijp have felt myself wonderfully lightened* It ia well to always ^pcak a cheerful word when wi can. "Every heart knoweth its own bitternesi" the WQridl over, and thoHc who live in palaces are hot exempt. <3ood words to Buoh hearts are like ** apples ol gold in pioture9 of silver.'* .■ ,• ■.."•' , '.i '■<■■' ' It is hard isometimes to speak ^ pleasant word when the shadows rest on onr hearts ; but nothing will tend more to lighten our spirits than doing^t.' ' When you have no opportunity td speftlc A cheering word, you can o|ten send a full beam of sunshine into the heart of some sorrowing iriand by writing a |pQ warm- hearted letter. ' , " * If you have a friend worth loving, Love him. Yes, and let him know That you love him, ere life's evening - Fringe his brow with sunset glow.. *)* .1^ i . /•'■>«;■,<„' N" ? . . i s ' ft- « f ■ ' fr ^ Ai • > IT > -,*• ' ^^S^ .J3K. / 'i %. ■ 1 ^ "k ?. f >j . .r ■:■ / ,"»; . l".'" ■ i4«' ■ ■; 7 /•„ ?• "* 1 ' -J .*-':^, 11 ii ,, j' J I I, . '# ^ :<■ • CITAPTKn X^ Ubora) and onterprinlng nion ah outiif place In ^ro- ■ UjHquo (.'anada. They are like Hitli whol« Mititatiud h idlotto to them. 'I out of wator.^ Tm-i int t^laMfi, to tho iiiiu' id two inlllion, Imtt lefLlor the 8tltt«» atid the oouutrj hail kept the iietttingi, and 18 now, In otio iieniMv onjovlrig] jwrffiot harmony, Oooaiiionrtlly tUo crLm will iHjukinuiu" off hy ©nirgration. Canada- in nowl a wavoloHH p.tn.l, ooyered with a thick orthodox Houm.Vithoiittldo or cur- rent The majority are as nuporgtitioife m they won- in the: State* one hundred year* ago, and they worsUip the Hanie kin^of a God. ' The ■Ganadian'God in a great big , Puritan, booted and ■purred, \vith fire rushing out of his nose and oars, ami armed with a blunderbuss ; a God who feeds on the flosh and drinks the blood of his enemies; a God who hates heretics. The €ana:dian God is no gentleman. I have been in fully pne thousand towns and oiticH in the United States, Caiiada and Europe, but learned some- thing new while in Canada. '' What a contrast is there to . those wlio have Incii accu^omed to the big-hearted, whole-souled people of llic far West, ^heir enjoyment of the moment, their unaffccf od heartiness of manner, and their unselfish kindoBss and sympathy. Of course, the avofag^ of humanity in tho West is more uncouth than in iblie ]|f st. In the hotels and dining-^ cars you see more men, a«d women too, eating with tlioir^ knives, or with napkins tucked under their chins. - West of Chicago you will hear three times as many persons Buukiiig soup out of their spoons as east of that point. Lut CANADIAN NOTM. a inkiiMllinoaA, triio, iiiiccnt |>oUU)nofH, *l>N«noo of ftffuoUliun aiiooplo. Vou havo no diftlculiy ih mailing their acquaintance. Con- fidence is all-pervading. One dooB-not ftnd no much of it anywhere eluo, not even in honcHt old Oermanjr, Where oIho on thix earth can one find h>j|A oponnoMM of lieart f ^^ On tho cars, cRpccially, iiitroduotions ind all other formalities are waived, and every man Iiaii the right to go to talking to his neighbor juMt as if ho had known him a dozen years. It in the breezy way of tho \Ve»t. They are' frank sppkcn, Jovial and communicative. T6«y are tho moHt liberal people in the world. Greater TioartM never kai in human breaHt. They are good to others more than to themselves. There is no English frigiditttt^iore ; no luriiiiig pleasure into a funeral service. ^^. Tho western people havo wai*m l)vairtH, full of emotion. There is no danger of being tortured mucli .with "bored" people there. What a joy" it is to meet peoplsdBjbjfdo not spoil friendHhip by mean', personal intei>eHt.'{a|P\ There is less pidiis caat, less social l^Jjridy in tho West tban in the East. V .*!''• J&f Many western people are poor,, but ^io_wj| West are ambitiow %0 better themselves, jf'fl Canada and England are satisfied, sodden bruteifl^g/. • In the Western States of America thei^o is less r^^- ious p e rsecution, l e ss use of violence in robbing the indi I .» in the o(H> in 86 OANADUN NOTli. % f I ■:}* vUlual of bU opiniont, of bUi lnuai«otu*l «oiivUjr» of U tiro|N»rty righta in hbown mind, than in alnuuit mnj othtr |Mirl of this world. , And it In well th*t It In io. Iiifu iN v(*ry pli^aiiant to the W«Nt«rncir«. Thoro ii| *• Liburty, K«mttlity, FnUcrnity." Thoru in onorgy* earnoit' HUM and houfNty. Tlmy are " roogb dlamondN." "" , Tbo dismal life Ux Cauada In almuNt Ntifling in ouin' pariMOn. bo bavo mora poliab tban prlnolplo umu lil n, bonuHt men Nparlngly, or not at all. Th«] I Hooioty, in, aft«r all, goodnoNN of buart H Haiti and donu/' aaya Robert G. IngurHoll, I J*tboro IN only ono virtue — gonorosity." It WON a tundor-bcarted Californian wbo «aved th« murdered Sevora CiNnuroN from burial In a pauper'i gravt, saya a San FranoiHoo pajHtr. Wbon be viHited tbe un^Hf- taker's, wberb lay tbo bodies of murderer and jnirlrdertxl, be was perceptibly undei;, tbo influence of JUqtJibr. "Say, pard," said lil to Carl ScbtiNNel, "tbat gal (]ic"M"«i '''•^"M»«'^ ««"i"''«. , '■ -..-,-•■-. --.^- -■ .-.-;-. «■-*■ ---._•;■-;-;'—: ■ ■ ■ ■ . ' '. ■ ■• ''^ f** •' '"m. --A ,- J* -w - ,;.'*: *■ - -'^ -^^'' -' ". ■ i •■ ■ - ■ / ■ i . ,- m 1 • II. -»» / 1., ' •.- 1 ^ - k , , h- . \ / 1 < ,^ J -: ■ ■ . /» , . . z-^.. ' ^'mr jV_ CHAPTRR Xmit ^^y w- Dottghtfnl lilpyond doioription k jflev. Samuol lUnnU'it ohnraoteritation bf the politoncM of tho Japaneio. ** h\» particularly rofrelBhing to Americans," he sayi, '* who are ftoouHtoined to our roHtless, lipURhing, crowding, blunt .iiitt tk^mpt ways. In Japan the traveler learns the„ leHMon ttm all may be polite ; Cabmen and prisoners may be gon- tlemen." Think 6f a polite cabman ; what an idea it in ! Mr. Bameit remarks further : " I never saw more grace than that aliown in the oourtosy which paHsd between the governor^of the prison at Kioto and a female prisoner." Fancy an exchange of drawing«r6om courti'«y between the keepemof one of our police stations and tlio prisoners confined tliere ! It would -seem as if the world were cpming to an end. If, moreover, an American should see the driver of a hiige truck wagon waiting courteouHly for a street car or carriage to pass^ instead of tearing through ahead proach to I^^radise to 1)e found upon this globe. No wonder Sir ^£dwin Arnold 'ioves ' Japan. , ■; :--a ■ ; ■.^. CANADIAN NOnS. 80 « . 'Hicro »ro no mort •ffoctWe me«n« of aWlng our felloworeaturoi and licl|.lng on tluJ work of tli« world iliai. HiteneM »nd civility. Kind word. «houUn>o uwd 10 all Thoy arc Iho oil which enables the whotU of daily llfo to run nmoothly and kwp In gear, at wltnew the following little incident : Several winters ago a woilmn Waa oomhig from some ,,ul,r,o building, where the heavy doom swung back and ,„ft,lo egress diiBoult. A street urchin sprang to the rescue, »„,l, as he held o|.en the ddor, she said: «« Thank jou, and passed on. "Orlokyl d'ye hvtit that?" said the boy to a com- pamon standing near. "No, what?" ^ . . "Why, the lady in sealskin said * Thank jr^ to the likcKo'me." II V "Amused at the conversation, whic^ she could not I h«li. overhearing, the lady turned around^ said to hnn : "It always pays lo bo polite, my bdy ; remerabe^ * Years passed away and on one 6ocasion, when doing lur Christmas ^hopping, this same woman received an ex- optional courtesy from a clerk, which oauped her to riniark to a friend who was with her : , "What a comfort to be cyilly treated onoe in a while ;--^hougli I don't blame the assistants for being rude during the holiday trade." j , The/oung man's quick ear caught the words, and he said : : -- « ^ i « Patdon me, madam, but you: gave me my first lesson in politeness." , », i * i i She^ooked at him with amazement, while he related the little forgo^toti incident, and told her that her simple >'lli;ink you" had awakened his first ambition to Ik; hoiir- thing in the world. He went the next morning and applied for a situalibn as errand-boy in the estal»li8hment where he was now honored and trusted; ^ 90 OAKADIAlf MOTM. Only two words dropped into the troMory of ■Wfl«t oonToraation, but they yielded returns of » certain kind more Mtiafaotory than investments in houses and landii. Mr. R. Kipling curses the philanthropical interest which the average Amorioan takes in his fellow men. Mr. Kipling is the author of a book called ** American Notua." He should have died before he wrote it. What an Kng- lishman Considers a fault, as a rule, is a virtus. It is not pleasant to have one*s virtues cursed as faulu. The highest test of a true gentleman is gentlenesH to servants and courtesy to the unfortunate. The man who can address a beggar with the same tones of voice wliioh he would use toward a prinoe^pne of nature's noblemun— ' yea, a species of -demigod, j9HI to be worshipped by com* mon humanity. *>k^ ** There is no reformiilg power," says Oolonel Ingor- soil, 'Mn brutality. A cross man is meaner than a tliiof. A cross man I ha|» above^lrij other things. What right has he to murder the sunshine of the day ? What right has he to assassinate the joy of life ? I have great reRi)eot for every n^an who has tri^ to civilize my race. I divide /'this w<]ti44 Into two classes — the cruel and the kind ; and I think a thoullMid times more of a kind man than I do of an intelligent man. I think more of kindness than I do of genius. I think more of real good haman nature in that way — of one who is willing to lend a helping hand, and who goes through the world with a face that looks liko ita owner was willing to answer a decent question — I think a thousand times more of that than I do of being theologi< cally right ; because I do not care whether I am theologi* oally right or not. I^et us preach thati^religion hero until man will have more ambition to beoofiie wise and good than to become rich and powerful. Let us preach that religion here among ourselves until there are no abused or beaten wives. Let us preach that religion until chMdren are nojonger afraid of their own parents, and until tjiero is no hvydfjft a child bearing the scars of a father's laslu'* ^ t ^^ . . i .1- CHAPTER XIX. *( M»ny of the women of Toronto »ro remarkable for tiieir freth oomplexiona. Many of them are pretty.* But Canadian women do not enjoy aa much freedom of iotion a« own inclination, and aa a result the United States has produced some of the most famous vomon the world has ever seen. And it is under such con- ditions only that women can ever hope to become famous. If, like the Canadian, she is forced to live all her life in a straight-jacket, called conventionality, but which may be termod slavery, it can not be expected that she will override sbove the narrow sphere to which she is so firmly bound. The Canadian girl does not require any moA looking after than other girls, and the sooner this grandmamma- nsed-to-do-so code is thrown asidfe the better. -%; • " Kncliah-lookiDg, too, •« Uw roay tmetm of the Toronto ImUm wljom OM wfllpMBtnn drive. How oluMinli« they •!» nrlth the pwwh like btoom that tkair outdoor ezarviMglTm them I It oMinot be deeoribed m It deeenree. the iMit of theMpratt/CluuMllan women. In her ilelgh, the ooMhmMi lo hk ouriy \l^ y, dofikta and huge buebj on hie heed, mullled up to the ehbi, lita the mdltnt lovelr CIbimmU«imm, the milk and roeee of her oomptexkm eohMioed by tteprojchnttyof thedarkfuri. As they iktm past over the white «iow, under a CloriooimUt Mue sky, one can call to mhid no prettier eicht, no mora beautiful pleture, to be aeen on this huge continent. One oannut help being struck, on coming here, (Owiada) from the United./ Ststes. at the number of lady pedestrians In the street erery Saturday afternoon. They an not merely riwpplng, nor golqrstralght from one point to anothsr / of Uie town, bat taktag their oonstltutkmal walks In the true BngUsh faahipa./ llMclear, healthy oomptarioii of ttie OuwdiaD women Is Mwy to "MKiunt foff, when one seea bow deap«oot«d, even aftw transplaatalion, is the good Brttls^ llMe of eseMsine in the opiBB air. TheChoadtaahMlTtaasdeiiglitfullnmannflrBaslnappeanuKse: Cnglishln hMrcokNTtagaad in her simplicity of drMi, American hi her natural bearing apid is her fnuSness of speech.'' Max O'Rmj.. / 4»w' OIIAPTKR XX. In (.*anA<1a men ignore oach other, or mutter through their oluioil teeth a "llow d'you do?" which is oquivalviit to. ^< Leave mo alone; I have no time to talk to yOii." Tli^re i» the bored look and the Engliih ooolneta of nmn- neM' morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dreail of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. If y.m s)|Ottld venture to yoluntper any remarks you would receive no reply. Puritanism is carried oven as far as to the kitchen. It would seem in Canada that man ha(][ Im'i'ii \}\m6ed in this world to deny himself the good things that tKe Creator put in it. In Bcotland things are still worse. Walter Scott relates that, when a child, he one day took the liberty of exclaiming before his father: "Oh! how nice thf ,aoup is I " The Puritan parent forthwith ordered a pint of c<.hl water to be added to it. I know a Hootch Presbyterian ministei: who teachos the lord's Prayer to his children, cane in hand. You arc given plainly to understand in Canada that you are not to enjoy yourself, and you soon find out that they are right. In the eyes of these gloomy people, gaiety iH to bo regarded with suspicion ; a joke is a sin ; for \h it not an act of frivolity, and musttiot every idle word 1x5 given an account of one day ? It seems probable that there are yet many days of peace and plenty in store for tlie dervishes, the fakirs, and others who live in indolence upon the superstition and simplicity of the world. But then, perhaps iho Scotch Presbyterians, and the Digger Indians are right after all. mit^' OANADIAN HOTM. frho teaclii'H le word Iw Tf yon ■liouMevcr h«|)|Mui to Imj invit«4l hy A nimi her« lo tliiio At liUh, ^J- i% CANADtAN Mcyrat. m^my Wraith, Mid thai U rP«iulriKl a .urgloal o|K»r«tloii u. ttuku m Hflotohman uii«l«}niUii. P""'""''' '•^■' l:: ,!!:n .h«t. h. ,.m.rUod .n.io„.ly ' "I «y. •••.» .h. kl.««. did l)«l«* ro.»n ..y tl.«t fr«>gl.' <•<»'" ' , , , ^. 8«i du„H Ilk. to .« twiiwd ..K.«t th g » ..p.™"?:. «d th. loV.. ...r. U «'••';<«§;,•-'""'" "' Ih^t hftDDfined at » Scotch diniior In New ^frit . •'"« silking at . 8U AndroW. 8ool.ty 'dinner «• m.rkrf th.t if my J»k« wer. not .Iw.y. «l.pr««.»l«d im- :^«..ybytl..8iotohn.cn. hy th. ll.n. th. n.xt y«r.y t«r Jm.'.ro.ndth.y..... »!-.y -"„»^« ^^l d„..'t think th.f. . ».ry funny thing to "X- «"* ~ * h..,J«>m. old Soot who WM -Itting b«..do mo. "h. ^it'iC'nla right. YouMl «. tha fu.. in it . y»r from now.*** / M I ■■. OilAITKR XXI. Oii9 of tho |)r<^Ju«opl|HirN. In iha evmiing, mi an hour whon wc — r«Nttme thoM) choriiihed gnrmenU, floni«<)rftti»o ftll rory woU whon r«o«iving guoMin, ' Myi ft French writ«r, **bul no, Moniiiour hM no one wiili him but MfttUmu, or |Mrhap« he ia dining almolutely Alone, »nd yt^i he will put on erenlng drew before «luing down to Able. You will not believe m«, but I NWfar that I ll»v« eeenlt..*' In no oity In the ITnltod fitatoa of tho Mine iilxo m Toronto Oftn there Ihj found «o nmoh uffort made for out- ■ide Hhow In proportion to one'« niuanii, eo much brilliaiit ralMry. There it no other place where poverty in mo cunningly concealed. If a man han not credit enough to purohaao a woodon ^thpiok, you may depend upon it he will aport a gyo u|i A|*|MurttiiQcMi tlmb d«*«ttrQJf iho ««{uilibrium botwoon uutgu Mi«l iuoooMi ftii«l iiuikuA Uf« ft m'i)mb«r thai *UhoM who ara •oiit o« »u AlUn •i.^m-r, from }^onif^ l« Llvjr|HH,l, ima M lh« inmjoriiy ©f lh« |MUMM,i.|«jrt wtw yo«iig UrUi.l. «wH,g, tWr UlU« Uklil of IMkiiig lh«m«#W«» db^grujh ftbU oam« o(it mow .trofiRly on *ta|.lKmr«l; Tb«y wo.iW look upon ihtlr f.Uow i«y«l«ni wUli » Jaunaiood •)•, .» IhAt .ttlky, •u«,»lolotti, »n^l provoking KnglUh w»y. \ Tll«y woaia not walk uti %UA m»k« frUoda uod«r any otroumaianfloa. A atrangar wottl.1 approach me an«l aak ft quaalioo Aa t n.l«, ha would pui ih.,u.u»l lUt;«rf thtH aWraolyi-l q^uMtiona U) you, vla.1 "Whstlayo^rK^maT'* "Yottr Bualnaaaf** •« Whar«do you UvaT** ' and M I woold r^ly to him ha would, M ft rota, tnrfi liU bftok to mft, or aia» ragar.^ ma with cynical Indlfforoi.. « ; iad If I ahoultFftftirwarda venture to make ft ramftrk, llw chanoaa are that he would not make any reply, or would . not open hla mouth to ma during the raat of the voyago. The love of dreaa— that great KngUah oharaoUnatio- waa eapeoiftlly notloeftble on ihipboard ftmong theac EnglUh anoba. In their eifoita to Improaa their fellow paaacngorj with tha aiae of tlM?ir wardrobe aome of theae fellowa did little elae aftve to change their olothea two and three tiifio. ft day, ftnd tftlk In^i affected tone of voice. Tliey hftdliothlng to aff but »baurd commonplace. ^^ ' One ftlWftya fwlla uncomfbrtable with them. You li«ar no man «p«out. Two-thirdi of them are ■om^whftt ow on theaubject of their ofm Importa..^^ TiMy ir« liHmllnAiitjr •4lfl«li» ••If wmfl.lwl, ft^ifk, •«• ,;r«Miiv», lmliirf > \Hhr\09% Tbdr rtfl«iUl«b mn |Mirv«rUKl. Tlw woH4 iM.ultl w«ll do .wUlioiil Ui«iL * A immm wl|l hr^r lUlb ffwn lh«m but •natring r*. mtrlia. Tti«m is tm rrioiMahip, iiu gowk will or rlgkl rmthiig.. ITwro !• miU«« Uwinli til. " • I hATO of Ion tmkvd tli nn Uow U wm thai lli«y ooidd fwl to YinUlotlvo towArdJ ^|MM|)U wliom thfijr novor mol • bifoff% iad of jjriiom llitj' know nothing, ^ul who no^«r «ok to each Ahor, aluwly And oAutloualy, oAhBfully niuaaurlng eaoh word aa If to aludy iho offuoi In advanoo, au«l aa If ftfrald to movo for foar of "^Ing ane^nxl at or^ oritlolaed. Many would not e»gag« in oonvematlon at all, but wotald only venture to mako • few oonventlonil remarka, abeurd oommonplacoa, faoUfltiding romarkt, and, aa uaual, the ouatomary anvera puid aourrtloua reiuarkk regarding their follow paniionger^ eto. Thia In intenaely Kngliah. Abuae do«a not bring oonviotion, and they have ytt ip \^un tbU I ** Thero la no reforming power In bru« Ulity." That la more an evidence of ignoranoo aiwlr narrowneaa of mind than anything ela«,\ Prejudice alwaya ooata one mono than he oao get ottt of it, and the man who advooatea it jhowa a deplorable wal^it of aenae. \Qo where yoa will among the Engliah and you mcAt with little elae aave malioo and apleen, and^at brutal indlfferenoo In their attitude towardaatrfQgera that keup^ oQo At ft a«fe diataaoe^ ^ / ' ■'4.. CMMAmAK Nona. Th«r« U no 1ib«riUity under %ny droiimttanowi. H^Hgoqadoftl fti C»r«lteal Manirmg nay* :-^'«Th« wont men among ihem, and iomo of lh« niowt bniUl, will b* found ^m'ong tHo no-callod botUr claw— clorgymwi, barriiit«ni and others." Thoy j|iU lw)k upon «vory •tranger with the moMt Oynioal indifference. Ocoaalonally one of them will oonio along and itare at you in a oontemptuoun wny, and If you return the stare you will olmorvo a triumphant •aroa«tio. ■neer. ^ This in intcnucly RngHih. Your walk and ovon tho tone of your voice will he oare(ully noted and criticised, thy latter sometimea at great length. •« You may Ret through the world, hut 'twill be very slow. If you listen t<> all that Ut naid lui you go. YouMI 1)6 worriwl and f rotted and k«pt ui a «tow— For meddlwonu) tongucn must have something to do, And people will talk. * It's Englbh, quite Bngllnh, you know.* If quiet and inod«Ht, you'll have It presumed ^^"^ That your humble position III only awiumed— You're a wplf In sheep's clothing, or oIho you're a fool s But dOto't get excited— keep perfectly cool— For people will talk. « It's English, quite English, you know.' And then If you show the least boldness of heart, Or a slight IncllnaUon to take your own part, They will call you an upstart, conceited and vain ; ^ But keep straight ahead— don't stop^to explain— Fpr people will talk,^' ' * It's English, quite EnglMt^tsem know.* If threadbare y«)ur dress, or old fashioned your hat, Someone will Surely take notice of that. And hint rather strong that ydii can*t pay your Way ; But don't get excited, whatever they say— . . For people will talk. „5. • Ifi EhigUih, quite English, yoo know.* "^Ts^^^^^SZ X OAVADtAir NOTES. If yoiir tlrrm in thn fMhUuC^lon't think to raoape, For %iwy rrilk'iiH' tlwn in a (liff«re&l iihafin ; You'm alu*«il of yotir hijAuM, or jour tnilor'ii unpAld But miiMl yuur own bu«in«Ma, th«r«'a naught U> bo For pr>opl« will Ulk. IM y y \ ' It's English , o every seMon wliun tlicy should be at homo attvidin^ to their business, are uliuftlly not the kind of persons to rescnu ' you if you should happen to fall into deep watcir: They Aru not much good at stopping a runaway horse or pulling a woman or ohild out of a burning house. B,ut their collars are immaculate. • The fashionables in America do not s^em to bo making a 4loep impression upon their countrymen. This is much to be regretted, as several very well-dressed people have asMtirted tnore than once that an aristocracy is indiMpen- •ablo to a high state of civilization ; and when a statement of this kind is made by a person who has attained promi- nunco in fashionable society, one wants to believe it if it in a possible thing. Fashionable people are better dressed than the literary or scientific classes, and their utterances should have weight, but the ridicule which has so rele|it- h^Hsly attached itself to them in their diminutive past hIiows healthy signs of maintaining its grip for an indefi- nite period to <}ome. Once in?li. while some sober-minded person disoonrsev seriously upon them and prevents our forgetting what a ki^^^^^^i^it" I .,fc* .. 101 jpAH ADIAW WOTia. ■s^ Roliil mortlfloatlon th«y %rv to tlio bptltr oI«m of AmeH Mils. Mr. ThomM Dftvl«l««»n, for iiitiaiioe, in Tfit I'brum, "Thonmnda of AmcHotn yowtig nion, of f*!r wluort- tlon »nd flio«lI«nt p>imibilitlo»/c«ptiv*to i«»rning lo tleninne the limple, rational, uwful life of tlu* worthy Ain«'rio»n oltlien, ind to court oonBideration an*] ' ^«g»r popularity by adopting the liabiU, and leading th.« uieleM lives, of Engliah lords. As it usual in suoli oas«^ the copy is a caricature of the original. The untitlc.l American lord proves usually to be a vulgar creaturo, having to assert his self -con ferr«d JordHhip by all that in most unattractive, raost inhumane, and most un-Amer- ican—and it is a good deal— in t>e English aristocrat In England, aristocracy has no ne<^d to display or to obtrude itself ; in America it can e^ist only by display and obtru- sion. For this reason the American would-be noWema«» roust necessarily court attention and try to strike the vulgar imagination by the more accidentals of aristocracy,, such as any boorish Dives can oommand— houses, horscH, turnouts, yachts, opera boxes, and the like. And the vul- ^ gar are impressed by such things, bow down in servile ' reverence before them, and do their bwt to mak^ a siroiUr display. T ' . "If all the sacrifices which degenerate American fathers and mothers have made to buy titled husbands for their daughters were recorded, they would form a revela tion so ignominious that it would not be believed ; and, after such a revelation, patriotic Americans would hardly dare to look foreigners in the face. But even without such a revelation the conduct of many of our country- women abroad, and especially in England, is enough to make every self-respecting American hide his head for shame.** .^, It is interesting to watch an average party of English boffooDi at the tftble at meal time on shipboard. There is •v% OANADlAir IfOiW. 108 tho fellow with Uio oUw-li*rain»r'Ooai who •aU'liU aoup wl^AfOfflU W "The Wg Ike.." ** Tho shoddy gentoel.** ** Tho onoo WM, but now haitod.** And then there are tho luoa and womon who diaoard thoir own pronuncifttion and endeavor to talk in an an- flumod tone of voioe — the artioulation of tho oookney — but who ■ometiraet i>o far forget theinaelvei aa lo oonvone jin thoir natural tone. It la ape like. . Aa in all great gathering! there are many good, ao ii \^ould bo abHurd.to ignore here the pruaeiioo of many hon- est-minded, olover-headed, true-hearted gentlemen, but they are largely relegatod to the rear. The brainlesH fops, (IreMod like guyH, mannered like a|>ei, BouUeas, aimlens, are the favorites of the hour. I hare aeon groups of tlies« |)eople that would put oaged monkeys to the blush. The man would take his life in his hands who woald go so far as to express his feelings among such people in an earnest manner on any subject, aa this would be the worst possible breaoh of " good form," but among thtm- Helves this never troubles anyone, for^ there are no ''feelings** to. express. . ' There is no aristocracy in Canada in the Buroptan Hense, though there is a self -constituted " upper ten.'* There are people who think ^^ey were born into this world just one degree higher than th^ir follows, and before they admit you iiito any faioilia>rity whatever with them, they inquire after tk^'htandiug of yokr grandfather, according to which you aWifter)^ards rated\ If your grandfather happened to be a ool^tfr, you are, in their estimation, a cobbler, eyen thongh jrou may be a banker, a lawyer, or oven a minister of the Crown. With them merits count as nothing. If they discover that you are associating with any person who does not exactly meet with their approval, or .>w 104 OAHAPIAM NOTSH. h • l:^ ';'^ ' . 1 - ^ ;li ^' ' 1 n \ t 1 •] ■ttottld yott riitnt llw Miomption th*l on« thottld m% li« Ailowoa to UM hw hwrt or broin* Iwyoml tlio liinlu ■el for thtir eierolikj by oonvcntloiml tlioory, or, if you ■lioul.l, ill «n ungiiftr<,bul momoni, bappoii to act or C«lk, or ni«k«' a iiiovo ill any way tliat ii lot prucliMjIy aoovJi'ig ^ *«"« «mtabl.itliu( ' (TAIfAniAN If OTIS. hm (4eM of gooii«4 (i> A groAtfir or Iom iutoiit tlit) iioxt tinio you mool. If you rofuM to proNtituUi your bmiim to evwy Tom, Diok, ami lUrry, and aro one who flneftk^ in)( what you Imliovo to lie the truth, th(«y will make lif« M iiiiflomfortable for you m poMible. You inuitt not thov any fueling in %ny matter, it ia not" go04l form." If the average (/anadian iihould hear the moit trifling tliingii aaid againtt you, true or untrue, the h)a«t whiMper of Noanilai, it will invariably travel* all over town like wildfire, and ho will run around among thoiio who know you, and approach even the Htrangom whom he may have ha|)i>flned to lee you apeak to on the ntreot, and adviae tlrama^ to the impropriuty of lM)ing aoun in your company, or OH to the injury that will be done to hinooelf in oaae li« iiHoen aaaooiating with you. Thia ia p€(ouliarly an Knglinh trait. The above ia not exaggerated in the loaat. Many lit Canada will vouch for ita truth. And, furlhormoro, in many oaHoa thia applioa to the' very lacluiy at the door, the bootblack, or any manner of _ lerving man, and aa many Oanadiana have much apare tlWo which can bo devoted to annoying ono another, they wHI generally leave no atone unturned that will aerve to mako everyone aa much troublu aa |>oaaiblc. Such a man might well bo placed in a thimble filled with earth and manure 'aoii aet out in tUo rain to grow no . and enlarge. v Shakoapearo haa well aaid : . " Who ateals my purse steals trash ; > * Tis something, nothing ; T was mine, ' ' Tis his and has been a slave to thousands ; But he who filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.** , *' A good nunio i.> lx)tlcr tlum a golden girdle.** " Qood nanio in man or woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls.** 106 CAN AOIAM ItUTttk ':* ■< If B nuiii in Cwwitu ■hoaM hiti»t»«m t«» W ttl»»»HtHrt»|4^ Mlly iiinliiitiil liiwunl lib UWow iiimi, aimI uliawl.l li« •««»i or known to li«l|» aiiuilior ilong wlio Ii«|hmih«hI lo Ihb in Iroubb, lt« wouUI guiMiraPy b«» «lli»ouariig««l from «loing li by iHjIiig toM tli»t tho p»rty in « ftiihamt!red ao. What agony they mutt be in, to be sure. Thoy muHt . iuffer greatly. ' ' You moot men in Canada with whom you have bo- oome aoquainted, who will atop you on the ttroet and ank 7/ you for information about aoraothing that may porhapH ^ concern themselvea only, and while you are attempting t<» explain to them what you know about the matter, they will look up at the sky, and then begin to talk aboui BOmething^lse. A man is always more cheerful when be knows that some one is taking an interest in him. The hired man hates to work for an employei^ who does not know when a good day's work has been done. He feels that ho geU no credit for it, and is just as liable to be blamed as if he shirked all he could. Usually, in auoh a oaae, ho shirks. If you know what a day's work ih OiJIADIAM MOTM. m H^non ot Mnd fAttll when ho hM not. AlmcMl efrry miin likM to \m \>i\IUh\ on the hftok and ca1I(«4 a gov«-htingry hearie, who«« every beat hM A throbbing, eager doairo to b« liked, tojiI«ii«e, to A0<|ui4fiio«y to M6«p« blame, and who love to aail on the iimooth and pleauint tea of general praiM and Approval, my advice U to kMp away from the Kngli«h*Bootoh*€anadiaii« and their waya, whatever elue you do, for to bi with thorn In being roaated at a hIow flr«* ; it'a being atnng to death by iiinglu \tvon i it'a being drowned by drope ) it*a going mad by grains. There la a practice common in Kngland, known a« Mmding a peraon to Coventry. To " aand one to Coventry ** is a term in very common uwj in Great Rritain, meaning to take ii<^ notice of a pemon, never to Rpcak to him ; in fact, to ignore hla exlatcnce entirely, though he may be a mem- ber of the Mmo family. It la a common method «^opted by young men in Eugliah ichoola to puniab an unpopuluc companion. Tbii puta me in mind of tho practice so common In Toronto with men who patronize a certain ahop (a olgar store, for instance), and meet there another person wliom they do not like, to warn the proprietor as to the great in- jury that will be done to his trade in case the unpopular {tarty is allowed to frequent hia place of buainess. S«lf -assurance, self-conceit la everything in Toronto. Without it you are nowhere, no tnatter who or what you are. They have too many " smart ** men there. They are a drug in the market. This reminds me of a story I heard of a well-known London banker, who, when asked why it was that his bank always made money during certain seasons of great busi- nosa depression when other banka had a hard time to make •fiiration« mu«t b« vary o«r«f ul inila««o|>l«i aro unugly tuokad t>«twwn tho •ho«tii, lui may play draw^ |M>k«r willi onllnmry p«o|»I« . All of thwuo thing* «l«trat5t not fi^unhiii right to baoonaiU erml ono of the rot|M!otahlM. Hut ho muit not iimolto oigara on the itr««t in daylight— that would bo Iwyon*! forgiveneaa.. If ho riak^ii^tho diiiplflaaura of the beat pvoplu he takea hia lifu into liia handa, ao to apeak, and then thn oarda will aoon ueaae comiu}^ to him. And then the ohanoent a few monlha in Canada. Several timoH I have min utrangeia in town at the re!4taurantK ; per8mamt« wo«l4 t^f tip ftadMy, "Mr, b* gcM •tiattfh to ulk KngUali.'* « KnttrpriM^ or idmlrttion of il, in OmaiU kl vtlftr. Il li AOl ^Mi fMlilonabU to p*/ dtihiM, for In Kngl«itit U liM h«fln Mid onljr vulgnr, mintmon |MKipl« pay llMiir ear ti graat langth of timo, But then titltd Knglish |i«o|ilo thrift on d«l>l* Mill and w^Iraii art toaroely oountixl fashionablo who pay as they go { and as all of onnV aoquaintanoos and friends are in the same oondition, there la nothing to l»e ashamed of or to worry over in 'owing twioe the valiieof one's entire pruiMriy, ., « ' ' ' '• i > V, * \ f \^ •* t ;> ( (V, % • ■"■»■ 'Hf-'i -."• '--t' • # m CIIAITKH XXin. As Amt\mm, wUf^^r hm t^mti, fmrrim wUH him lli« ho-plumy, rrtnkn««i iknd ttiUiriin** of Urn oottinrjr, •lul ..,,*«u u. «ml 41 in oUmi« l bul lo th« m«ii of V»*»»*** „,»,|,ly »na lib«rtUly ir. unknown, oomfofl U utth««a*.a, i„„o^*lUm b ln««on, in«l dyn^mlu lurka in til .ngict-Uon* „r lmpror«m«nl. Thtlr motlo Ui : If • fri.na «»»*«lf^ |,„ mind h« is A irmllor. If • •lrMg«r (lo«« nol iblnk m v.. 11 n Iharo. I would nol h»v« miMcd il for world*. U »• th« KrnftUMt iohcKJl I have «ver l>««m in. Ono osn gftin wi^loM hy m.ming in oonlaot wUli sll kiiidn of |M!0|.lt. A m»ir« cduoallon in not oorai»I«U who baa nol llirod i Uw montha, at laaal. In Canada. It haa boon liW that whan a poraon la ao altuaU.d that hfl it not allowod to think for himwlf an.l do what ho lik»ii ao long aa h« do«« not physically atlaiik .nother, he ia h.M th»n a man. And when a y^mm voluntarily «uhj«oU liiN brain and will to another, ho makoa hU di*gr»o« deopor hy regarding it aa If it were a virtue. Wo hoar of the atone age, the iron age, the bronae «««. the ago of chivalry, etc. Tlila ia the age of oowarUa. The prevailing oharaoUri»tio of the oiviliaed portion oC the human family ia oov/ardio<^ ' We are afraid to Bay what wo think, to do aa w«i •hooldliko, to take what we want. We are afraid to^bo |MK)r, to lone caate, to go to priton. to die. And «o wo ar« dumb, driven cattle. Iii the IlurMnan MUedlany, the|traveler who haa diHoovered Macaria, informn Iuh HUuHtiouu*' Uiat tlie law* n^ainat new opinion* in that country aw vary atrict. 1 1 I i. ', *#■■ •igi ' i f nl m .... . • . ■«UlMMM.i«» ^ ^^,. U« otMHiiKtti |i«»|iiii. h« til*!) N tMO«ini»«l «* III* ituMio |i««iw, Antl •HaII Mff^r i9%\k tm,$. Whal ft joy woiiia Mttii n ki«g,|.M« W lo tlM mmUui. miniU of lli« oltl fiM^b of t«n«t It iMcMimM •»!, || b v«ry lbl»l« !« II jron leinhom attjrihing in CN^I* thni llwy imn not iUn4, yon Will ohmrwrn ihnl It ki rvMlvtd wltli n trfaniph«nt, Mir»««ti|iI<^ Tlwy look Upon il wiih ■tt«|)ifliott nnopl^ of the kiad^f nr — ^ \ ^ % .1 A- ^SE^M^ ji.a£L^MSr^~SKj^aa^3€Ks til 'tlttmi lltN>f||« Klioll aAltl tlMI MMlM Mlpl^,il|l|ht Ottn«fi, which l»«ri«lM »l««il»rml ilt« nt»bl«rl»ap« oatnumb«r«il in (Janada hy thuaa who Uo n give it to them, as thoy would order a servant to bring them their boots. SELFISH MAN ! j i *'Men are abominably selfish," said a/riend of mine' the otheT day. She wjis ^ woman, of course, and, more- overj a yonng, olcjver, and 'wrgnderfuUy attractive example of her sel. " Are they ? " 1 asked. "In what particular aspect ? " " In every aspect. Consciously or unconsciously, it matters not. I have a — ^let us say a beau. It hasn't quite come to sweethearting yet. I know! he believes him- self the kindest, mbst ^nerous, most attentive of men. Me vows he thinks the world of me and would do anything imder the sun for itoe. But does he ever, do you imagine, does he ever attempt to carry out any part of this rash vow ? Does he ever put himself out to perform the slight- est act that would give me happiness ? Kever ! He likes to share all sorts of pleasures wi^me. He will escort me to I, U6 u \.4 hi dJ '1. OAKADIAN NOTR8. tlio theatre, and in dollglitwd to have mo to Hiip with lilm afterwards, lie will Bpend extravagant Bums for a bwcII VioWia that wo may drive in the park on a pleasant Sun- day afternoon. lie appears provoked unless I permit liim to buy me flowers when wo walk out togeth^K^In .nil these ways lie is good—very good, indeed. Ik|i.j^|ppt from those ho is as selfish as a stone. Does he o\4^i^M|Vrd nw a flower on a day when ho does not expect to call f Or can- dy ? Or books, or gloves, or any of the little ^okont that a woman may properly accept from a man to whom she Ih not as yet definitely engaged ? boos he over try to mako me happy except when it is something he himself can sham in ? Oh, no ! And the average man is just the same. It is a rare kind of a masculine being who is unselfisji enough to think * How ^hall I give her happiness * inste.ul of 'How can I enjoj myself and, en paaaant^ allow her to partake of my pleasure ? * Is it any wonder that women as tliey grow older grow more prosaic in contemplation of this sort of thing, and that many of them school them- selves to a belief] that, * Well, men are only good for just what one can get out of them anyway? Awful pigs.'" When my pretty young friend had ceased speaking I f ejl into a meditative spell. Was she right or wrong ? I tried to call up all my own few exj)erionce8. Alas I Tlio altruism of mankind, and even of the most ardent woocr», was very faint upon my recollection. The proposition, "Men are abominably selfish," glared at me defiantly. I felt unable to refute it. As my pretty , friend had sai«l, they are willing enough to share their own pleasures with another, but to give pleasure in which they themselves arc riot participants, that is quite beyond them. I had not thought of it before, but men are selfish. The young onc« from thoughtlessness, the old ones from love of " ego^' I would like to know onn man, would be glad to discovorl him by an advertisement even, who is capable of consider^ ing how to give happiness to the woman he professes to _ .._ _ _^_. . -^ ^_^ — ^ . ^ — isa * inste.'ul >£ consi■■ t i . in ■1. if ii CIIAITER XXIV. ....... ■/' '. ^ Thoro are somo rioli people in Canada, but they aro iity as a rule, the " faiihionablei." Those to wboni I ~7jfur, when I say fashionables, aro such as copy Engl'iHlt ■ tylea and ape English manners, without^ither the incoino ur the breeding to succeed as English swells. They waiit lu be " English, don't yer know," but through ^omo mis- take or other they wore born m Canada. To inaku up for ihifl misfortune— «a misfortune, by the way, whicli they never cease to deplore^ — they copy everything Eng- lish so closely that one has only to consult the bottoms uf their trousers to ascertain what kind of weather they aru having in the English metropolis. Half-masted trouseiH on a Canadian dude are as sure a sign of rain in London as a low barometer iis of a wet spell at home. My readers niaV think this statement a weak attempt at poking fun at the dudes, but it is not ; there are hun- dreds of obsiervant Canadians who -will bear me out in it. And not only do the Canadian dudes roll up or lower their trousers in acoordaikce with the cable reports of the En^^- lish weather, but tfaeir collars, their canes and their eye- glasses are purchasjed in accord with the prevailing stylen of England. Evei^ the speech that God gave them — the Canadian pronuno^tion — is discarded for the murderous articulation of thei cockney. When Zimmerman, the bicycle rider, visited Toronto he almost unvariably carried an unlighted cigar between his teeth, although heldoes not smoke. He brought the fad with him from Englaiid, and now two*thirds of the Toronto bioyclers antl many other people ape the d r y-smoking liabi l . One need n<>^ be afraid of hurting a man's feelings in Canada. Vhe pe ople there are aa atu bbom as a bull do< 'f nl CANADIAN NOTlfl. Ill M <.biitln»lo M a mulo. If you wUh to mako .n impri.Mioii von inunt go armca with a club or »hptgun, Mr. Andrew Carnogio wan right wh«ii h« naiJ : ** 1 h«y do not appear in the eycn of the worhl ono-half m fornu- -^ dahlo as th«y ai>poar to each other. It matters not liow good an opinion they may liave of thomnclvca, the point m how others regard thom. ,r . i a. . "The annexation of Canada to the United Staten woiftd double the value of everything mC^n^d ^ i nc luding the mm of Canada" The average Canadian finds in your every act somer thing to sneer at or find fault with. To the close observer there is always visible a triumphant, sarcastic sneer. A continual, never-ending, ince«8ant sneer. There is no let up to it. They are continually scoffing, jeering, back- hiting and villifying any and every one, and covering each other with odium. It is their inborn disposition It is a Bccond nature to them. It is in the Norman blood. Kmd words among them would produce a strange and startling sensation. It would sap the foundation of their whole '"The talent for turning evetything into ridicule, and Bneering at any and everything, is the qualification of little minds and ungenerous tempers. Men and women with this cast of mind cut themselves off from all manner of iinpr(weraent. ^^ ^^^ ^ g^ord, but it takes other than brute courage to face a sneer. Canadians are forever on the alert for some pretext to find fault with you, or to inveigle you into a quarrel, or to discover something in your talk or actions to sneer at or criticise. .„ , * j /-.i^t* When rto excuse is possible, you wiU b^ found fault with for being alive, by a lot of conceited buffoons and sneering coxcombs whose brains would not soil the finest fabric. ^ This is a peculiarly English trait. W-^»».t i(7«»^ *-'^*",'^ -• f, ■ "-^-IrirsH^ > 130 ^ OAKADIAIf N0TI8. -t Tiiat thuru ara oxoo[itroiiir to tliv gonoral nilo go< ^ witJKjtut^Aying. ^Am it in, Olio oaniiot i>iinftio liiii Winocent and harmUtHs way without running into nanus bariH!'arnogie, biM rti»oendent of another nation. He was nothing l>etter than a Canadian ; a man without a country, and, therefore, but very little of a man." To this Mr. Kdgiir, M. P., wrote a reply, boiling over with admiration .<.f Canada and Canadian institutions, knd reminding Mr. Carnegie that tho Canadian of to-day is i very dlffortnt being from tho American of a century ago. This reply was very nice and loyal as a mere mattor of sentiment, but a correspondent of a Toronto paper, sign- ing himself "Canadian-born," knocked all the catcliy sentiment out of it by treating the statement in a mattor- of-fact light, lie pointed out that Mr. Carnegie was not so very far wrong ; that Canadians do not appear in the eyes of the world one-half as formidable fts they Appear to each other. " It Is all very well for us to boast of our self- government " said he, "yet, who cares for the Canadians of to-day, or who heeds them with all, their self-govern ment ? They are dependents of anothifer nation, without a country, without a history, and, therefore,' without rank or station in the world. What standing has the Canadian abroad ? He is nobody, ami is treated with half the reHpei i of a Turk or an Arab, ^ipatters not how good an opin ion we have of ourselves, the point ishovr others regard us— and in the eye of the world we are de|)endent8. Does any one believe that an independentCanada would be ignore«l hy the nations as dependent Canada is ? Our j>e8t men w nyell as our country must continue unknown as lonof as tin; OAMAinAN NOTta. acuninion of Knglmul «vor u« liuU. 'Hiwro U no grbvii>y making MourrilouK ' romarkN, that will giv« you to undemtand tli»t hu haa b«un Untuning to «ll that you liavo aaid. ("""^ If you ihould ha|>|K)n to bo A Gorman; you will \ns tkc- ooNtttd flfty timoa A day with : *' H«ilo, Dutohy,** by p<)<»plo whom you happen to know and aJNo by itrangom. In enter- ing A plAC6 of buNinoNH you will 1m) met by the proprietor or Iiin olerkN, AN well am by the hoo to any locality, especially around the I trie saloon districts in tlie cities named, where this element is wont to congregate, and watch them souflne-, and roll (•aeh other about on the floor in the dirt and filth. \ lU Om will n«ivt«r fliul i\w tiAllyO Aiiwtrlc*n like tli*l Aft«r' hol.im r«»«5h«a lili* «lgliUw}nUi y«*r, bttl In crAii«^l% i« In Ki.KUnil, * man U m>l oontlOuwKl ft nwin unlll ho liftt n^Uml tliu Mir« ftn«l yoUow Uftf./ Any oo« who will ftiUn lo tht oonyvnifttlon ftml wll- !„.M iholwiMilly ofgiirtiof thtNM p«<>pl«, will f««l o«Pt«in ilifti Huvo I»ro«li« oan «lv« ihwrn Inntniotlon an far an tlie |»ur- tiiitH «if art, of ^flltuiM aiul |Hilllioal economy aro oono«ni««l. Homo of Iheni ar« m^Mlett, however, in their attire, and n.'vwr iwrmit their face* to amiume the •lighted nign of liiiiiian Intelligeniwi ; hut then, of oourti«,U la In the natnro of Ihlngii timt every Kiigllnhmtin or Sootohman «houltl try U. a|f)>«ar Htu|aa and uninterentliig. In Knglana when a nuMi iMi«« hli ^eighhor Imngeil, he it glml, a* a rule, an.l it U no woi^ikr that it U io. In it ft««y wonder that every iimii deii|)iiieii hiM nelglihor? The eitiitenn of one of the prinoipal town» of (!ana«I v w<«ro lately «ngaged in a war of wonln over the quo«tioii wlitfther the Htreeti of the city uliould he designated by nanioM or numbem. The matter haH gone •© far at thin writing that a vote i« to ho taken to wittio it. Next they will quarrel over which utreet ihall ho No. 1. I believe it wan Helen Oarauer who Haid : '* Quar- reling ought to be a i>enitentlary offence." 8he refernd particularly to the bickcringn and nagglngH whloh mont jK-oplo dignify by the name of quarreling. ^ No well-meaning jjernonii can h«lp having, a Huproine contempt for men (or women either) who disregard always ttiul everywhere, at any and 9,\\ times, and on all occasions, the rights and feelings of others. It is this brutal indifference for the feelings of others that makes one hoiHjlcssly discouraged and causes one to lose all energy and ambition and also presence of mind and self-control. Under such circumstances a man loses the use of his faouliics. You cannot api>cal to the sympathies of average Can- adtftna. You cannot iniolt them^ ior^ou cannot mako f -^ 4 W WS"'""'^^^ TWfSJft " tfi OAltAOUll NOttM. ".** ' V * * miy tmiirwHiloti on them, untoM you iln It with * c\^h or nUtHifttit, Yon Mutnol hurt Ui«ir fiwliiigt. You cwnn«>i Mtttkt tli«ttt MhaitMNl. You (Mutnal mtktt Mt/ ittt|ir«Mioii. T1i«1k «(»tia«U U MufftMAtlnf.' If jrov •?• Attniiilvo |Kir»«m you iili9«t4 it«vtr •ip(N»i io m«k« jrouraolf At homn In Canldii. Yah might i* well li« down tnil tJU, \^ In ft omwd in Cttiadft thaj will elbow tftiih oihir Ami Wftlh All ovor your tmi. Th«tr ftttUu(b« ftfa rtHb lia |ilaoi thu Unittxl Htattiii. A (/anadian will come up to you and atand before yon with hia back to your faclit4meNM iK almurd, dJHgiiating, bxaaperating. . I have noticed on iieveral occasrona men with horiM' and buggy driving rapidly along thu atroota and amuaiii^; -ibemaolvea by hitting iiedeatriana a^ blow over the bead ■ai.' * . t4-- Q4JIAllf AH ItOTM. 117 «|Uh Ui« wlil|. M lh«y tmmmA thrtn tloitg ilm wm«l. Ywi nt««i wUb lilll« m\tm mvh Im«iiIu .lay In an.! «lay «ttt frtmi urn ytAf't «»»! U> •notlirr. Kv»« when you inak« * •m»ll |Hir«liM« ami Undrr a fa <»r w who him W«H walchittg ),M» very iiiloiilly »n4.w^o Um* few roniArlM/lo wikt f gmnllng yoor ahAttg«» . * , m*ntittrt Ihin th« btlUtr «r m him oxerbiao It. Bom« of theiO |>«o|tl« have ootno to look u|>on ihemaelvoa aa inynov- ablo fliturca to luoh an «it«nHliikt thoy)\hink It la ihelra to bully, brag and bluatcr likt» I ma«t^ among fMMKlUm, but ihoy will have to b« taken in hand Jl^d Uugbt their place and good mannora. ^' m 't %■ '*-,■■ OIIAPrKU XXVT. • , ♦* Kaln is a groat clamper upon a young inan'H npiril^," •ayi a Toronto pttpor, " and HO U the Htroiig arm and n«;ii baton of a Toronto policeman. Therefore, whon tliese two wore eonll^ineU laHt niglit the UHual anticH of tlie HtutleiilH were somewhat loHS largely participated in, and were nrogramB and \niM on the heads of unoffending people in the pit who had given) up thisir dollars. . Tliis is not Manager Sheppard's first experience with tho students, nor is Mr. Willard a stranger to them. Many an audieXice at the Grand has been annoyed, and WillardV former encounters have been wiitten up and used by thr AMtute actor as advertising matter to show what a wonder- ful command he has over an audience." Jllany actors and others who visit Toronto complain of this kind of treifttment, and tlie man who ventures to rebuke these blackguards is promptly and invariably set down as ^ a"cae passing the factory of Firstbroot Bros., King atreet east, S WW gro^^^^ ^y » g»"« «^ hoodlum employees CANADIAN NOTEfl. y \%\ wliu liap|K)iiiHl to be Ntnii«liiif( in iho aruhway of the builil- iii^, who iiMtd ovury iiiHiiTting vptthut thoy could potwihiy Icvef At me. TIiih, I may aay, in aoommon ooourrdtioe in tliu city to those wearing Her Majesty's uniform, and it iH high time some notice was taken of it by the civil au- tliorities. Yours, etc., A Soldikb. Toronto, April 2eth. This is one 'of the most encouraging indications of this growth of a healthy public sentiment on the subject of militarism that wo have noticed for a long time. The niiiHses are beginning to recognize instinctively that the red* 'coated loafer, wliv>, in order to get an easy living, under- takes to do any dirty work in the way of butchering his fellow men that a corrupt and rascally government may have on htind is only deserving of contempt and insult. Tlio ' hoodlums' know that they are taxed to keep up a set ofiswaggering dudes and conceited popinijays, whose uni- form is the symbol of their readiness to become murderers at the w^rd of command. They know too that in the case of any civil disturbance they themselves might as likely as not be the victims. Why should they not let these lazy Bwash-buokling bullies know what they think of ' them ? We admit that it would perhaps show a little better taste ,to refrain. from epithets, and treat the passing soldier to a philoso)>hical\disquisition on the wickedness and absurdity of the nAuitary system, but there are obvious difficulties in the way, and possibly the 'hoodlum's' rough and ready fashion of giving utterance to his opinions is. the only one adapted to the barraQk-room stage of intellectual, deyel<]y|' nient*- ■' '-A. ■■'■ -^ ' ■■■' ■.*■-■-.;,■ . .-^s-;- .- -■ in the JEmited States it is notoriousthat with the rarest exceptions, none but foreigners enter the ranks of the army^ It is well that )t is bpin jiny f " fi^ I m OAK ADTAN myraft. I «* The idea lia« got abroad," Hay« Uio Toronto .^kiturda;/ NiglUt " that a voluntcor in uiiiforirt is a public character, •uporior to the polio«, who cannot lugally bo arrcBted whai- over provocation he may give. Uaually the molt atupid and the moat recklcBH among the soldiers are the ones who haVbor this idea, and UHually this prevailing idea inductn young men of reokleiis disposition to seek admittance t(» the militia for the fancied exemption they will enjoy." But I was speaking of the 8<\otoh. The Scotch-Can. ^ian citizen has the very unpleasant and uninviting habiu of picking his nose and freely making wind in the presences of company. * V • , Jfoni $oU qui mat y pense, .^ The Scotchman and his little ways are so well known ftili understood by some decent people in Canada that they -will oftenttmes go out of thei^r way to avoid mepting Imn when they see one of that nationality coming. I once heard a coloured man ask another what a jackaKH was, and the reply came that it war-just like a mule, "only more so." Well, a Scotchman is just like the average Englishman "only more so.". Worse and m«\ro of it. JTicotciiman once invited mo to dine at his home, and a week later sent me a bill for the Uttle ehtertainmeint. Gall counts in these days. " ** There is just one thing itf the latteir part of tMs nineteenth century that never fails to bring success, apd that is assurance," says Amb^r. "If you desire-to make yourself known,- don't go to. the trouble of doing good ^ork ; just buy a trumpet and blow a blast to shake, the stars. ITie time has gone by for quiet, unpre^ntious ad- herence to duty to make any show,. The louder you are, the more blatant and vociferous, the sooner you attain the goi|l of ^achievement, if it is notoriety you ar6 after. But if you still have a hunger in your soul for the approval of ■your own conscience arid the commendation of that high and holy Oiie, who,- some future day, shall bid yon, entei: into the reward liud Ky for the faithful and' i^e pure an< OAWAmAK Konn. tlio ieiidor-hcaruid, go on in thoear to'be listened to and enjoyed more than anything else as a regular topic of conversation in Canada. ' I have never yet noticed that any consideration was over shown there for the feelings or rights of otlters. . As I have said before, Torqnto is intensely Eng^li. You, may be the most perfect gentleman or the lowest and most foul-mouthed blackguard. There is generally no distinction made if ydu are a stranger to them.' In either case yptt will receive the same kind of a reception. It ii*,^ as Max O'Rell s&ys, a man is, in their eyes, either virtuous or Ml niter Te^prohtAe'f sometimes virtuotu. 4*. J ^X *\ 'T^'p^n I: m. CIIAin'RR XXVII. *« God and my right 1 " Thli ii the motto of the jEnglUbman, to whatuvur claim ho may befoug, and "my right" comes tb-it ; God afterward \ A nation that defiucK 4t»elf by a coarae expression of care for personal interest, and for nothing else, how can it be anything but sel Hsh and brutal ? An Englishman wHl never inconvenioncu himself in order not to inconvenience his neighbor. Many of them com|)lain of this, and some, of them appear to realize it keenly, but foreigners. are the gijeaiest suffereiH from it. Yet it is wrong to ^ay that all Englishmen are coarse and rude. A few well-educated Englishmen arc - coldly and pdnotiliously polite in an undemonstrative, calm way. One of the worst impressions of Englishmen is given by their utter indifference .to one another, and to every ono whom they do not know, as well af among those with I whom they are intimately apquainted. Those people who hever have a good word for their feljoj creatures are most unhappy mortals, . It is DO wonder that Btaglishmen and Scotchmen avoid tMr own countrymen when they can do so, and seek the dompanionship of other mfen more .agreeable, their own peb|>le are disagreeable even to them^ and it frequently happens that there Is not much of an eiort jnade to dis- guise the fact I have heard therti confess this m^ny times. .'■■--■ ■■'■ '^m.. " ■ '.■• ■ ': - ■-"- ,■"%■£'• ■• '' , « • Alphonse Datidet told an ihterviewier recently that he had a great admiration for the English people as well an a great antipatKj to them. "When I find myself in a " said be. ««! feel railway carnage witb an Englishman,^ as if I ooul*— like this" (here the author struck out vio- lontly with boiii iiiti, w if pitoimelUiiga body). "Tes, 1 CANADIAN NOTRA. 18d I feci th»t I doiiia giv« him thin, aiul ihin," Maid tho»uthor, M he Htruok imaginary blows in th« sir. ««U« raapa my norvea,** . ^ Oeorgo Otifllhin, tho onoo famonii prvaohor, looturer and critic of tlio H|)aiimo..:., ■ ■. ', ;. ; ;. , . / :;■_.:■' Jf yga Venture. to tril the average Qanadian'a little ' ! II' ■f ] It m It ' I' tsn A iii»n win Mimotimoii tolorftt« k\ttuwi AiiyihitiK. no duubl, if Uo \m brought up to it. It i»M llurlwrt Hpvnovr •iyii 7 . • ** BduoAtion AnAountM to nothing, ttftohlng dm^ii tittUs the diNoiplino of life \» «v6rything." Owing to tho defuotivu national edut)»tion of Oanadl nnn.thora i« v«ry gr«»t ignorance, not of what in to \w l»anitHl from iMJokM, for thoroin thoy aro fairly Wull informeil, but Ignoranoo of »tho ordinary afTaim of lifo, of the thingN learneU no one knoWa how. Tho lower ordeni of Fr«noh- men, Gormanii, «to., art) a thouHaiul tiinoii more iutulligo^t than tho aanie olajii(«« in England or Canada. It i« tko oiiuoatlon that oomoa from thinga around uh, from tho outer worhi, from travel, and from general idea*t, that given the polish to converHation among RuHiiianH, Fronoh, (ier* mann, anplu haw a foii(lii«mi for the tredti of liangmaii, ri«on IholnmatoMof our Iniiaiioaiiylumi, which oooaiiionally creep into priiil, ftre practimxl l»y ititm of Kngliiih and Scotch origin. While traveling in Kngland I had many opportnnlttea to witnen* the Hhiftloim and Mttipid way in which thoito ** Iwred" people traiiHaol any legitimate buHinemi, and the. way in which they invariably go about their work. Whenever I had ocoanidn to patron ir.e a lainidry over there, I could recover apportion of my "waMli" only about one time in ten, and then it would lie delivered to mo one and two pieooH at a time. They always claimed that they did not know which piecoH )>elongod to me. SometimoH I would bo anked to ''Huh" it out of a large pile of clothcM that Were lying about Uie place belonging to other people. The nhirt* when washed and ironed wore of a brownish color, frayed at the edges and streaked with dirt, if not torn almost to shreds. After they have passed through ^ one of these laundries a few times they arV^infi^r further use. Some of the collars were starched and others not. It is much the same with other native English work- manship in otherdines of business requiring the least par- ticle of tact or skirl. Q|m will never see such performancen . in America, For oooi impudence commend mo to the English. > ^ In England, as in Canada, losses are not made good, there is no disposition, notwiUingness shown, to rectify mis- Jakes, Ther wil l not offer to pay you for pay you for the mis s ing g^r - i raents, or to replace them with others, or to recompense you in any way for any losses which youlnay subtain at their handa,, . .% -y. ^ ^..■^»w^. ■r~fwif tM OANADIAII NOTM. i If you ouLflt Ut thii you will Im lnrorni«Unling ihfltn in ^ngUiiil, ohi«My Imn IMUIM th«y are mom inteltigfint mid moro felUble. yh% Kiigliah workingman will oonaumo a wholo we«k ov«r 9n« (Ujr'i work, And in |>ro|M)rtiun to aoIuaI Ubor |M>rr«rm«v« until I had viiiited England. I waa Moraew^at aurpriaod to And }ieo|>l« there much Ion* intelligent than- in- other Kurq|)ean oountrien. There ia aaorl of animal itupidity among the majia of the people, 'riiey do not oven undemtand the Engliiih langnagia in worda of over otae ay liable. ; Thia ia partioyiarly notioeablo at reatauranta and other plaeea, and among every mannar' of aerving men and women, wherever yoa go. Max O'Rell aaya : " How ia it' that the Eugliah are Krf rude, overbearing and inoonaiderate. It ia a queatjon that I have often aakod myaelf/aa I looked at certaut Britona taking their holiday rainbiea on my na,tiv« ,ihore.*V,'V^ " # i . M. Taine wj^ certainly wrong when ho aaoribod Britiatt nieanneaa to the influence of the Britiah climate. T he Eugliah were naked aavagea for hundreds_^ years when other Europeana wore a civilized and enlight- uned people. The Italians had had the benefit of centariea of clyiligation whfin the Knglioh were barbariana, the low,eat i I 'i\ and moat brutal tribo of aavagea. Right well did Diaraeli repty to the charge in the llouae of Cummona tb«t he was a Jew : " Yea. I am » 110 OAiriAinAir Jtwt Wh«in lh«.AnfMHiU>ni of IIm howttr In tr«iii|>lirig it un(kr (hti tmt of mon than Diokuni, but lid often mUtmik what in vulgar and unrual far what ii noblu »ud truQ. Thia in what dii Knglinhmen almoet invariably dooN, to whatAVur ultuM h« may be^ng. If tbe world had Any oiti|en at apt t** Ij« right as th« average Englishman U Apt to b« wrong oa any mattera outside of lKM>k learning lipott whieh b« Ibinka fit to air bia opiniom, nothing would Im too good far bin* , |P' <»m y oiiArTBR xxvrn. " Whott Kn({HMHnuo iubiitaniial. I ipv JPiding on a tram (^mt 0I1C day when m mott ludiorouii Igtil iprang up, and one worth relating In London, you know, only one track b permitted at a street oromiing, no (ranohiaei for doublft ^ tmekti being allowed. Thin maknii eaoh oroaiiing virtuall]f ' a awitoh, and one car liaN to wait until another orosseii tht iireet before b^ing able to proceed. Well, on this oeoa* ^ lion, our car roflfchod the iiwitch at the Bame time aa another " ooming in the opponito direction. Both claimed the right of way and drove on to the awitch, stopping in the middle. ' The driverg theh got into an argument, and presently got out and fought. The conductors soon followed suit, and presently the pafsengem got down and took atdtfi until ft^ veritable riot was the r^ault. In the meantime a targe crowd had gathared, and a number of policemen were at- vtractad. Thnwc made no affort to ntop th» fight, but rathor iV'god the combatants on. When a man would cry ' enough/ lice would haul him out of -the mass i^nd aid in clean* tngl^fiSlB up. Eventually our ^ waa liokad|-and all set to « 1 :#■-• m OAWADIAN VOTVR. work and with tiro utmont gpo Snobbery, vulgarity, pretension— these hideous Eng- - Ush tKB^n will$o«5i be of the past. Our grandchildren, I . - : /'*■*:■ ^ ■ * . ' . ' ' ■ ■ . ' .'' OAMAPIAM IfOTIt. ■■■•'•■ ■^. ■■ . ■ . . ■ .-v ^ "'I i ri-uc>4 from thu abNunl idoati, tho abHurd rostriotiotiH of ^ Hitini-Havago incoptioii, will bu larger, more goiioroUH, more , tolorant — bottef, in Mhort, than ourBolv«H. Froiih and vigoroos blood will inturmix with thu worn-out doHOond- nnts of groat men, and in duo time greater men from the Htook will bo bom tq tho future. Every Huooeeding age Hoes the abandonment of °Homo Huperstition which has ohooked the progreSB and development of the race in the j>a8t. - " ■ , ■ — ■ ' ■ '.' ■ — - — -r^ '— — ^ ^ — — -. The world is distinctively barbarous, not ho barbarous as it once yfiM^ but barbarous still. We are becoming • ' ^* " The age of savagery Is gone, 'mkt 1 And now npiMMirti Ute diHiiml dawn Hlj Of earth'H iMirlMirio tigu.. ■ji 1 ' ' Not flo? Behold the drama played t 1 M ' 1 • Man versug man ta yet arraye::':;''/:;'':-, ■r-'::-/^^:'::'^:-:.^^^^ 'I't^ I- jjigf^^s ■w'lawiB- '■'"■ BF«^ ■a-i^^g" y y gy^T^ '■"^g^"^ a s^^psrzs::; .A\ /' CUAPTEll XXIX. France," says Max O'Rell, " what is requlrotl of \yentleman is liigh education aad refined^ manners. vg A ' aeasant's son possessing these is received in any society. In England, boys begin swaggering about their so- cial position as soon as they leave th^ nursery, and if you would have some fun, you should follow groups of public sohool-boys in the play-ground or oil their way home. Of course, in public school, the occupation of parunts cannot be an objection to their sons' admission, and in your class-room you may have dukes' and soloon-keepcrs' sons sitting on the same form. These are treated on an equal footing ; although I believe the head master of a worki*)g public school would prefer the hangman's son, if. a clever lad, to the son of a duke, if he were a fool. Tea, those groups will afford ypu a great deal of /amuscfnent. Here are the BOns of professional men, of ofKcers, olci^gymen, barristers. See them pointing out other boys> passing : * Sons of merchants, don't you know.' - "* . -j These are not without their revenge, as they look at ft group close by : * Sons of clerks, you know.' But yon should see the contemptuous glance tk tlie latter as they pass the sons of .shopkeepers : ' * Trades- people's sons, I believe.* ' Here' is a little sample conversation I caught as I passed two boys watching a game of cricketin the playground: ' Clever chap^^ So-^and-So !' said one. ' Ai)d a nice fellow tdo, isn't he?' said the Other. ' By-the-bye, did you know his fathfir wfts a chemist ?' ' 'A chemist ! No !' exclaimed the dear boy in a sub^ dtied toiie, as if the news had tal^en his breath away. -lit A n ■. •■• ill ■ H. OUtAMAM iotM.. .•\ F l^i' •t '.. ' ohomist ! yQu don't tiwi^n to nay 'to. What niii|ta1(ui;w^ aro liahlo to inako, to bo Huro t I alwayM thought ho wan A Kuutlaman/ • '■ . '; . . , ^ Am Btrll at M., teaching a littlo: Fronijh and loarning a goodMoal of Kngliflh.* . ♦ Mr. H. proposoA that I should t«aoh two bt three now BuhJiJatH. I am j-eady:Jto comply with his #ishek ^'1^|^ ^ •terflily rofuKO to toach la vahe d troU temps* . ' ^ : *I|o advisea mo to oano th^ boys. Thifi aAao I tuiuw^ to do: .JA. ' ' ' ' " -»•'.'--.. "^ Jojin Hull, Jr.^U the k(nd of boy who, in the anm-, W<>uld be Buro to render groat «ervioe to hiB oountlry ; (lar. whetht^r lio killed. Eiigland*ji enemy or Kngland*i*iiieihy^ killed him« it would iJfvontuaUy be for tlio good of Eirgli^nd.. UlTB JULY, 18tS. ' .:■'■■' ':h\. W- J: Iiaye taken apartmentBjn tbe neigh boirhood of Bakor street. My landlady, fjut /rise eee oheveux 4i tacmquaf}, taine, dti joys the naYiJ^ ot Tribble. Bhe » a plunnrp, tidy, and active looking littlo^froman* i v - . *■■ Oil thij door there is a plate with the jnge^jptipff, ,* ' '"1 " * J. Tribble, General Agent.f : . „■' Mn Tribble,' it seemsi is nQ% very nmch engaged in lAiBinoBf. -' At home he makes himself uaefuL*. ; ; It was thi^ gentleman^ more or less typical in London, wbom I had i» my unind's eye as t once wrote : ^ . „ ITie English social failure of the male sex not un- frequently entitlen himself Oenefal Agent. ThJH is the last straw ho tilut^bes at. K it should break, he sinks, and is heard of no more, unless his wife comes to the reiEfcue, by setting up a lodgingliouse or a boarding-school for ja^ung ladies. There, once more in smooth water, he .wi4Mdslh^ blacking brush, makes acquaintance with the knife-board, fit, gets in the provisions. In allowing himself to be kept •Mr. 0'B«U WW for ten yearn a teacher of Freodi ia EngiiKh Kliooia^— -- ^ ft: "CANAniAN NOTK8. ■ \ by lijn wjfo, hd fo(jii4 ho hmt'B Moino llgiiil/; Vnt if irti^* vliuiild adopt any airH of MU|M)riority over Hliiii liu pan »l- Ifiiyi brhig hmr to aveniio of duty by bvating her. . • ', ■■;■ ; s ;*^;.„. at■^, • IOtii.july, 1872f . ** /' * I aik !^frii. Tribblo for Iny bill,. . v '^ ^ \[, I received it immudiately ; Jt i» a.Nhort and pouiuri)- , jii;ii8We one: • - . • — J • Board ami f^wlging) *., ... .. 5 * 5 ' 'llundriea ,.i; ^»;,..., ' 1 13., (i Total., ^.. '. V.' .♦♦#;. t;y^. 0,\ IS- «..;' t^ lAako a ffew oBeery^tiona : to'' Mjnr Trlljble op; Iho w«ek*8 l>iH. , THis lady eTcpl^na :t6 Wo that^ she has liad great iniflfortiune8,tfiat^4rri,bblo hardly doc« lany work, and r does notoomtributo a penny, tp ward the hoQschdU) cxpdnRCH. •v^yh^n he has done a Jitile strokjp of busiqe^, fip takes a holiday,; and only rpa])pcars when liis purse is empty. ' "1 realjy cannot uHdenXke to keep Tribble in doke /dr. nient€y and- 1 ^iye Mrs^ Tribble notice to leave. '^ ' (Jl-'i-^, SOMERSKT.) Sd AUGUST, .187a' .> x V Arrived Kere yesterday. iFind I am tlrti only master^. ^and expect to make myself generattkiuseful. My object is to practice my English,, and I am prepai'ed to overlook ^jmany apnpyances. r « ; . ' » i_i ,, ■' ■ " ■ . Woke up this (Sunday) mPrhing feelfng pains all over. Compared to this, my bed at Mrs..>Tri'bble's was one of roses. I look round. In the corner I s.eo a'sn^tU wash- stand. A chatr, a.lookiiig-gl»»s six iuohes square hung on] "the wall, and my trunk, make. up the furniture. Breakfast is ready* It pousisti^tea and brpad and butter, the whole 1it>no]!'e4t by the presence of Mr. and Mrs. B. I am toM that 1 am to take the* boys to church. I should have muctf pVef erred to go alone. •■ ■t-" \ ' » } " On the way to phurch we met three young ladips— ^thlfr . .'Squjire's daughters, the boys, tell me. They look at me with a.kind of astonUhmentttiat seems (o me mixpd with • w jl^P CAKAmiCK na^A. * f «<5orii. Tlilji IN j)n)l»ahly luy f Jinny.' K very hotly I iiiutt •e«im tu bf) laugliiiig at mo. " .' Some old {riipiU approaoh mo witli a patroiiizinLr /KoHrdodor ^ Whoii askod by a frioiid who it wa« thoy had %\w\m to, they replied: ^^ *Oh ! that'H Wlittt-d'yo-oaU-him,' th« French niAMtcr __~-ft rathor mco follow, you know/ This woH an oxcuso for oondeaooiiding to Bpcak to inc. Thoy wore under him for ton 'yearH only, and tlii'y oould hardly be oxpooted to remcmbor his namo. I do not know that a long residence in England has greatly improved mo (though my English yVicnd:* pay it Ilw), but what I do knof^is, that I coul,(l not now kiHs a man, ovon if ho wore a bequeathing uriolo ready W*R?ivi» mo all his money. The French boaster is noisy and talkative. , As you listen to him you are almost tempted to believe, wiili Thackeray, * that the poor fellow has a lurking doulit in his own mind that he is not the wonder ho professes to Ik-.' But allow me to say that the British 8i)coimen is far taore provoking. Ho is so sure that all his geeso arc swans; so thoroughly persuaded of his superiority over the rest of the human race ; it is, in his eyes, such an in- contested and incontestable fact that he does' not think it worth his while to raise his voice in assertir^g it, and tlwt is what makes him so awfully irritating, ' ^xi\ you know ?' He has not a doubt that the whole world was made for him ; not only this one, but the next. In the meantime— f<^ ho is in no hurry to put on the angel plumage that airaits him— he congratulates himself on his position hero below. Everything is done to add to his comfort and Mappiness : the Italians give him xioncerts, the French dig the Sueg Canal for him, the Genaans sweep out Inn nffl«w^ and do his errands in the City of London for $200 a year, 5^^«^'««Jt8 grow the principal ingredient in his plum pud- »-^ Xhe Americana supply his ^rlsWcraoy with rich ^AK^niAN NOTia 140 5 for honelt, Tho world owoi h^r liiirowM^n, no that Dwy may got tlii-ir ooatM of arnw^.ut of pawn. IliH faot» iH.anii with ffrailtucl« and c«mi,I»««„«y, Mht, <|uietly ii.bH hiH haii.l* togaht-r, and calmly thanks Hiavon that ho i« not aa other mon are. And it ii true onvii^h ; ho id not. i , England wqrka fo thing. -♦Duwr brother reader,'' Hay«-»Tl.aokpn^,*imiwcrfl« a v man of- honor. Do you think a FroMchman your oqual? * You don't, yoq gallant Hritbh anob, you know you don't •-*,A ^•» n»y country I if I won) a Frenohnian, how I whuld nato you.* ;An EngUnhman only 'colls his follow - countrymen 'Hritons' whm, ho h half laughing |it thorn. Whton ho wys, 'We Britons; ho in not quite bcHouh ; on the con*, traryj when he says, ' We- EiigliHhmcn,' his faoio reflects liio feeling of respect >itU whipli the liound of his name inspires him. y^ . , ' The 'English public' is gopd society ^tho ' British* - puUio means the common run 6f mortis in ii»e United Kingdom. * ' • " 3rifish phMosophy f that philosophy that makes ui^l hke what we USve when we cannot have what we like • i that philosophy taugljt by thUt good Aother,^ and inoim- parable teacher, whose name is Nece^ityJ ' ^ i ^i- -. Alas, we French people do not possess tiiliilcirid of philosophy. I wish we did* The Anglophobist of the purest -water that Franco ever produced was the late Marquis de Boissy, senator of the Second Empire. This witty, eloquent, spirited old ' ' Gaul was the soul of the august assembly, the only meni. ^ ber of It who was not either stuffed or embalmed, and his^^ memory alone will save it from oblivion. His phiUippics will long ring in the ears of the Fren ch. Whether he was in the tribune treating the Subject of home or foreign politics, or wl^ether he was making a •t^ech at the agrioultiiral committee meetiiifflof his bor- i » •«. ;^- . r^ V J •» U- m CANAmAN Ncmn. ,K ough, hu lm• ^'Hio WorlU U mA8tteh wm ^N Ju|tlio |>liillMir, ulib himiKlf, liowevor, wm iidithar a kiiAvo nor a ru«l,"»«y«Mtti 0'||«,||. «*Thi« writ«r, who |)mm><1 hi* Hfe 4n Inattltinff lii* aoiintrymon onti «ri*r tnotht^r, who cumhl niakd luvo ti> liu |rlf« by oorr«i|>on(loni)« when who wow fmr AWAjj bi»l w)m ^ivir fpnai an Amimbl* wori to Mjr to k«r wImk iiIm irai ii«ar, this iani« ThoroM Cftrlylu hoji oalunniatod (h« world. Where should we be without the few dbtntereiit^tl heroM who have devoted thetiiMelve«to the amelioration of thwr fellow oreaturcd, and who, in return, have rooeivocl but poverty and priiion, torture and death ? The men who have Buffered for country, rvligion, jusionoo, mi«rfcy.| t^ thcioCarlylo'ifoolaf" ^ a, #oii ■ i lo 4u itai' kiiuw Uwiy aiu tu«au, but oU«rl«U •- JiKMirooonv lotion that i\wy ara the loul of i^nuroiity. Yoti Mitt llesr them iiivuighing loudly igaitiit a neighbor who •iui't not oome up to tke MUuHlnrd of ft gtmeroui man, and •Iforyiog the tin of ^loarding and withholding, wilhd who dines sumptuously at his club while his family ■it down to spare diet ; sometimes it is the landlord who obliges hii tenants to make their own repairs or go shabby | Kometimes it is the neighbor who borrows, but never IciidM; the step-mother who feeds the children on nkimnii'd milk ; the mother who grudges her sonV wife the fallal* ^llo lias not been used to ; or the daughter-in-law who iiiukes her husband's mother feel like a stranger in her iioine. Indeed, fheantiflgt ii -nonder we ftU disown iU H^no ^ y V-. f- I |||fe Ring, of HuffAlo, «ing ohM«d by horned IniMtii, or into % «t«l)l(> aiitl •How one'* Milf to bo kiokod to dtiAth by Ntalind donktiyn. Ono would ftImo«t imagino thure wan a law against both j^lit«n«M and common honnaty among mtsn, and women t4N). In buNineaa th« Canadiana %t% iAvagoa. Tb«y itniirl and atrugglo, and bite uaoh other, like doga in a pit. William Wilfred Campbell, the Canadian f»oet, in ti reeont article, aay^^ «4l WM aurpriae4l the other day to come upon a passage which oonvinoed me that we C*aiia- diana as a |)eoplo had passed into literature, in at least oii« instance, as a rough and rude nation. The reader of Kir R. F. Burton's * Ultima Tliule ' will find in his seclioii devoted to Society in Iceland these words, ♦ Yet tlie Iie- landor, fraklin or pauper, has none of the roughness or radeness which Wi remark in the manners of the Cana- dians and of the Ix>wland Scotch.* *^ This is pretty rough on Canadians, and, conwidorin) / that it was written less than twenty years ago, CanadiuiiH of to-day cannot comfort themselves with the. thouglit thai they have improved much since then. - v mh rv4| Tti*> fiillowittn \%mm» %mm%*» »UUy iHiW#|i«|H tnilona vf lb« r«l« «^ ««• r«iatl€>iM of llf«, both tutekm y M* ¥«ry kikmI ttln*- , Mid of lb« tr«t«tm«iil lo rM«iv9 ill all llt« / 'ji^.wfr iMl'^roiito dnigKi*t« «fi M iw»tirt«wiw •* in^tHNM m tb* on* I •iMwuiiUrea thla morning B«wr Ibt^^ KoMln Iloimo, y«»ur city i« not to im miviwi I •« » - ini!«liclii«i in»iiuf»«tur«r from Ht, John, N. H., »nil In th« onhiitry coiirwi of buMin««« nmWmi mMin Ihw g«fitlemMi (T) r«f«rr«d to. I had uo wHwit^r «ij»|jiinwl iiiy mi««lon tb»n b« ord«rttd mo In Uiiolcnt lonw to '•got out" »«d not to iiiu^r bb ■tor« my^^in undtr ft virt«tf of |»»lni and |i«n- ftlti««. If bi did not dwnirfi to talk btiiilnt^M h« certainly ^lilinht b»v|>o«« that that firm knowa it haa In Ita fine eaUbliab- nu!nt Ruch an ungentlomanly floor-walker, but be ahould j ■»' bo expoaed. YlBlTOB. TmOfTBLm ABIUD. On* of ottf wealthy oitiaena, t oadat of our oldeat family, and formerly a big operator In wood, akw a prom- inent ofllcial of the city entering Leade r Lano, and wbiatl e d to htm to hold on. He did not atop, and the big oittaen followed biro to Colbome atreet and wbiatled agaiii| S . .: -X': ,i > ( hi OAIVADIAK NOTM. I } 1. - -^ v., whoroupon tho offloial turned around and naid : '« Ih it you that ig whiiitltug after mo? I'm not a dog. I'll break your head if you siwak to mo, you d. f." The citizen was thunderstruok at thin treatment, and rushed to Police Headquarters to get out a warrant: Tho magistrate had gone, but an application will bo made to him to-day. A man from tho States, who has resided in Canada for the past two or throe years, and who has oanvaHHcd the city in search of ^tusiness, told mo recently that ho had mot with similar oxperienoos to the above fifty timcH in a single day. If you should complain of this kind of treatment to the average citizen of Canada^ you would be told that "you imagine it," or you Would bo boycotted or accuHcd of ♦♦running down tho country." A late issue of the W&tlmimter Review vwy trwih- fully piotiires everything about Canada as dark, dreary and hopeless. ' n I Ijave never yet heard a word of prais^e or admiratior oxpros.^ed by a Canadian, oven for an exceptionally agree- able man or wmnan, or for an exceptionally bright and interesting child. Why do theso^poople make it so h|rd, so alnioHt im|>o8sible for men and woihon to bcT^ind to ea(!li .other? ' * # How can those hard hearts be softened? ' • "It is very seldom," says a Now Y.oVk pamper, "that a Canadian judge has to ropriniAnd ^ jury f46i»' leniency, but such a case happened at Brampton, Oi|t., last week, where James P: Lundy was tried for- the murdei*of his wifo in April last. While his wife was entertaining joiffto visitors at the Lundy residence, ,the Brampton House, Lundy called her to the kitchen and fired three shots from a revolver at bBr, all the bullets taking eflPo{fct, death being almost in- stantaneous. The evidenco was conclusive of murder, but the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter,' and t)i( judge sharply rdprimandedl them for their leniency. , . > ' ' ' " . " i- • ' • *. CAKADIAV HOTW. m hnndy wan iiontonowl to twenty yearn in Kin|»»ton I»«ni- tentiary. lie in forty-Hvo yearM of age." To tlioMo who have lived a few yearH in Canada the above gooH without Haying. U w not UHually nooeHiiary to' rupriniafid any one there for leniency. A commercial traveler writes to the Toronto WbrUt pointing mit that in every imaller city and town ho vUitH in Canada he frequently obBcrves handcuffed men being led down the principal streets manacled like no many wild animals, and he has been constrained to wonder whotlwr %ho was in civilized Ontario or in Irkutsk, Russia. Whether tl)c prisoners are tried or untried this system t»f making n public exhibition of them is barbarous. I| they are un- tried they are perhaps innocent, and in that case tholr treatment is utterly indefensible. Anyhow the'^an of transporting parties under arrest to the lookups or jails i i these places is painful and (scarcely decent. Arg thvi authorities so short of funds that they cannot aflford to ^ purchase patrol wagons or to hire a hack? When a man is arrested in Canada for Hjome very trifling offence and sent to jail for only a d^y or two, ftu effort is made to degrade him as much as possible, by coi»- pelling him to wear a prison suit for a jail sentenee of, ope ' or two days. * In order to live in a Sootch-Englisb-Canadian CQin- munity such as iToronto, pne must be a ma|i of courage to brave rebuffs, and to submit to every kind of irapositioi^. providing, of course, one has not beena^istowea to it If grave atid sympathetic, one musts be a philosopher to pocket abuse and brutality cheerfuHjfs. , ;^ ' ; v ' There are few acts of hospitality b^St^een^Oahadrans. If there is any effort ma^^ to please^ tbfe effort , will cot^o^^ through form and custom, with col^hear^ed catentation of' pro^t behind. You can not knoW a Canadian fully, .pntil you have had money dealings witU hiniif •" »'* 'I • ■ ^ !i r •fi ' ■'■ *i n W^ ! ir • ,M *"■ , If you go to Toronto to live you;mru8t go Wit^ a largQ provisibn of philosophy, and be quite determined to aV — ^)r»«.j ^- ;*i- i> ' t^\ QAXfAPlAXf K0T1& TT, " '•■'& ■"' «^• 1«Mt«ppfAP to etojoy tho onUblwhod order of UungR, or |lii« you will b« aoousod of "running down tho country." 'iflm HhiftluHH way in whioli everything in done in Canada is a torture to the active and progressive mind. They are .suffering from the boredom df life. Ono muit not patronieo the 8«me store or barber shop too often «-^i( torments the employees. If you frequent oniyestan- rant ma»y days in succession you will annoy the waitci h. JL^oa patron ijEe the same place too ofteni theHc menials will soon give you unmistakable evidence of tho *8pite they have against you, and <«? their unwillingness to secjja you. You are not wanted, l&ij* patronage is a *)^Po <* her " or " him," as tlie case nii^'^be, and if there should happen to be anything about your looks o^ actions that does not give full satisfaction, and should the waittr be a f^Ie,bhe is likely to turn her back to you while taking your order agd give you other evidence that will impress you much stronger than Words with the fact that she m greatly "bored ;" and if you should liappeat^ have a wart on your n<|e, or other similar defect in personal appearance, ' it m^y be made still more uncomfortable for you. It would bo wrong to say that all Canadian girls of this class are coarse and rude, but it is nevertheless a fact that be such persons men or women they are almost certain to think ill of every one whom they do not know. This peculiariy English trait strikes the stranger al^out as forci-. ably in a restauranrls at almost any other place. If they do not like %e customer's appeamnce, or 8houlplk8 over the whole corj)s de hote, from the bahl huadtd proprietor to the boot black, while the other is the mvik ftiu) mil4-oyo(l man, doomed to sit at the table and bewail the flight of time and the horrors of starvation While wait- ing for tne relief party to come with his food. . I belong to the latter class. « The patrons of some Toronto restaurints derive great amusement from throwing articles of food at on? anothoi-'n Jioads. Rowdyivm, with its obscene and filthy langua/,',., poisons the sense of hearing with its fluent viilgarisniH of speech, but no one appears to offer any protest. All a|»- peiy to take it as a matter of course, [f Jhey do not really enjoy it. /* Drunkenness in Canada is such a vice that it ceasiJHr to be regarded fus such, and is looked upon (except by a few) as a matter pf course. ^ Whether the annexation of Canada td the United States would work to the advantage of the United States is problematical. It coufd not fail to bcfne^fit Canada. ^ as8es hiw life jn the worship, of the * almighty dollar.* It Ih an error. . • . ,, ', •^ I believei,Rat at heart he dares but little for money. *^If a millionaire ih^pires respect, 1^ is ad maoh for the nc- \ \ 1 ' %'%r I .<%>■' ■^ \ V^ :w ^\ ■»'■ i\ p'had nothin^bul hlf ^oUal^ to MjB all Eiiglish dertoan gontjc- Man who i^puldfii^t. look' upon her f6]rtt^fi^|^iier dot m a, I -M a'jjNiblio. djviner the ^lylljionaire does not find i, place of «hoil(t>t reserved^ for him 4<| be would in En'gll^. 'Fhe aeata of honor lare reified for men of ' ', Kv^ In politioa nnioniey doee hot lead jto hondr. No, i^efiued •Amei*|oan8 do not worship thci Golden Calf, as Eurdpeans are often pleased to intagine. If the American thirata alter money, it is not €or tho'love 6( money, as a rale, but fpr the love pt xthat vWhich ra other .words, avario^tlPMP> wealth to improve V can buyA In n the Udited ipleasaro of ^^^ .i^.^ .-v.v-.t-^^- He pt||pPi wealth to improve MHHP^'^ ^" ^^^^ ^"^ to surround those dependent upoi^fHkwith advahjtages luxuries. He spends his money IHflHlk as he pockets 3tr^cfl|>vife. or daughters, who ate the objecti of mPmoiyb assiduous attention. He is the first to^^admit that their love for diamonds is as absurd as it is costly, but he is good- ' humored, and says : |^inoe they like • thjBm, wfiy should th e y not h a ve them?*" — — — ^ American men die of IS^in away. If they saw that' they must s that wa^, the^ would reflect that rive: ■..,■■•» ■ ■ • .■ but ileldom^ruHt their ^Y^ 1"' tre nunieroae m ^ OAJIADUN NOTIB. |0j AmtficM, M they would go and Uko a plongo into on« oif thtfiu. \ TW American is tho bott hnmored f6lIo# In th« worid. II you are in liit employ, and are faithful, he may uiko yon into partnerahip or set you up in buaineM. A xmall iquablilo ii no moro in hit line than aamall anything olno. It U not worth hi while. The Woiterner may out- ^ piitol and shoot you if you annoy liim, but neither h« oor the Kastorn man will wrangle for mastery. r * fr ,. CfHAPTER XXXIIL ..^ In thirty jretri* time, leM than half the Bibfic^l al* lowftnoe of man't life, the United State* hM multipliutl lit wealth six timeii, and haii nearly trebled It per capita. What energy, what work, what iinoeaaing effort ha« l)een fioodoU i to bring Ikbout thii marvelous result. What can wu do to retard this development of the brain and nerve at the oxr pense of the body ? Obviously; it is imposslblu to change* '. our surroundings, to change our lood, to leslbii the diivo of our modern life, to relieve theWtrain ou the ihind, to make the competition less fierce. • '^ < ; It is apparent, then, thinks a writer in the North American lUvieto, that as we can not lessen the strain, wo mast increase the ability to undergo it. Wo muHt,ia8 a I people, learn to understand this : that while we driveVihc brain we must build the body. The methods of doing thia are so simple that they are apt to be overlooked; tlicy may be summed up in two words— exercise and fresh air. ■ ■' Aa we teach our children to wash their hands l^tid places in tlie morning, and continue our teachings until! ablutions become a habit so fixed as to produce poHitive di8Gomp)rt ; if they are emitted, so we must teach them i^ exercise until this, too, becomes a habit, a second nature, a Qonu- ' thing that when omitted causes real physical distrewf, afi*I . we must choose a fomi of exercise which is adapted to\{)cr- -^7: 7" sons of middle age, as well as to children. Build up the body, build up the body ! In our mod- ern life this should be dinned into the ears of all until |t is SS I ®heyed, for, verily, unless we build up the body, the strain \$3^ on the brain will ruin the American people. The ^ery :;—— A elements in ourselves that have made us great, the^pui^li, the driv^ the industry, the mental keenness, the ability'and 1 ,/f.<^' OAMADtAti MOTil. 'in 16S th« wUIingneM t«> Ulmr— tlioMt conUin in tlicm tlio avmU of OAtiuiial dti«ili. No nuio iii»y oiKliiru that bM iidt tliu ■tAmhift and |K)w«r of tlio ^loalthy animal. TImj Aniorioan raoa haa too niunuh brain. Wo novtT fii I ly appreciate t thing nntu it li takan from Qi, and AmorioanN never thinlc half lo much oi their country «intll they go away from it for a while. I noti iliat while our touri»tt are willing to take a ilow out-going^: Rtoamer, there is always a desire to sel(>nce8, ex- inelined' but hfa. piUiuy-«l«M»hoUo though It b»— •p|»«^M to •MrelMi n «4t«ninic i»rtu#iic« on ihuM wiih whom b« hi|.|H.M l« U jUfought Into contiwt. On th« «Uv«t.d rmilroiuU .nd .ur. 4% lace oMt IpNtw York City I h»v« ocowionally had ih« -^ " OuiK)rtqn!ty of wlln««ilng thU p««u!Unty, and no grcator i^ .eontrU oottld b« Imagined than that whioh «ii»U bfitwwn ^^th# fHi«9ly manlfMfd di»gu.i which thtprg ^ng^o^ *" ▼ Inloiloated p«nion in a publl« •••¥•>•••• •^ ^^^^'^' .^ cltet Iry^ngland and on the continent among tfioat who "^ are aob^r, and the kind of eympathetlc indulgent and " ifttf . •- a.good-tliM-old fellow " imile with which a man iimllarly weighted ii'reg*fded i^ the United Sutee. ^ In Canada no «anVe«->»»»K\«»^»"y*''*"^- ^•'* '" _^ a 0On.Unt|Ee«r lor evelryMy »nd everything In general in that pffcklrtg^ c«>ol «ngli«h-icotoh way, but they neither laugh nor imile under any olroumaUnoei, It li nojiP|TieA XXXIV. ^ Tkmfm [§ noiliing itwy vindioiiv« about tho Av«nig« AhmHimui. lie will ofUtii nutke fri«nda in tli« r«»ditil^ ^IKHMibiu viy with limn who liav« b««n moai unMrupnloiM II their %tUkok» ufxin him. Nino tinita out of i«H lli«ro b ill snottgli rumintmont. #^**An intiioAlioii of tho f»«t th*i New York in not qnlt« MO runyMtUn m the K«v. l>r. pArkhurMt would liav« un btilieve^ to |e found in the relative pauoity of the num- ber of iBtoxio«t«d poople that are lo be eeen in the atretita. One meeta at leaai ten to twenty drunken peraona in Lon- , don to otie aingle inebriated man here, and the Nejr York munioipality haa never yet, aa f ar m I know, bo« upon, like that of Glasgow, to vote funda for the of half a hundred large whevlbarrowa ^eatined foir"^ of the police for conveying to the atation-houae at membofo^of the fair mx whoie enjoy*ient of the Sooich Sabbath haa been of a too apiritual oharkoter. In the dty of Glaagow over ten thouaand men rWuiarly go to bed drank every Saturday night all the yeartround^ It leema to be the proper thing nowadays for evory literary- inclined viaitor to America to nsoord hia or k«r impresaiona on the country. Many of liheae artiolea are monela of intereating reading — interestihg partly on ac- count of their individual coloring, but more becauao pe<^le, like individaala, desire to know what is sliid and thought of thsin. In a recent number of the Arttui, J. F. Muir- Iiead, a Briton, didcnsaes in admirable tone his experiences in the great rej^iblic. Mr, Muirliead, at the time be wrote, had resided in the Uni|ed Slates a year and a half and had traveled over some 30,000 niileH of the public domain, so Ihat bat impressions are by no means local. In Uiia tliey !?■' *» .1 r. MMntbll/ «»««' f^w **»<»•• •' **•»•" •***• •'**'' iii»kte|f lltW York iiM\r horn* tof » wimiIi or a inonlli. h«v« rttt»K«l InUi l»rlnl wUh « glUt«rlng »rf«y of g«n«rmUiAl4oiw, •! Ui« MtiHi tlm« ImuHmmUi •tul Ulrttfl«ml. ^ "Oii« oC th« flrtl irlviiJ H"** ^*'*^ ' «oU«i« Hi Am«irlom"t.yi Mr. Muirh-iMl, " WM ihil H l»'« «|«H,r of ,»«^ly •«ry oflat «f fSiWU llli|to«aMlJl|a ihi^ i^^^ '«««". whtt« « Pull ' might •una for the iiiitoi*! •avkiiUgw which IW noocwiary for |H)Utio«liuoo«ti. . Th« i«|H»rfloUl obnorver In Uio United 8ut«« mlglit imftgino th* oharaotarUtlo national trait to »>« wlf •umoldnoy or vMlty, but a-other obnervor might qulto a« .^anily com.. U, tho oonolu«ion that .limdonoo and iflfdiatruat aro true JAi«rioan charaoUjriiitioa. Thtre aro Am«ricana who-.' ▼•ry attUudo ii an ap^logy-^^olly unnwocufary-for thin groat ropublio, and who worn to dtjupiw any native product until it ha* roc«irod tho hall-mark of I^ndon or of Pari*. In thia country I have aeon tho devotion of Sir Walter Baloigb to hi* Queen eioeedwl again and again by tho iirdinary American man to tho ordinary Amorioan woman >-ll there bo any ordinary Amerioaa woman. ' - " To convey a true idea of tho g^oral ium of my !m- preaaiont In America I must end with a note in which eriticiam it loat in admiration. In England, on tho pnnci pU that • ♦ere'i a atrangor, lot»i *eave Vf a brick at »im,' it ^ fi iomowhat usual to aaaume that tho unaccredited unknown Ii a « cad ' until ho provoa tho oott|rary. In America (at leaat outildo tho aomewhat frigid grovoa of the OharlcH Bivor) tho gcn^l aasumption nccma to bo that a man U |i '/4ood follow «n«l ho ahowilit liB^- I" England I am -apt to feel painfully what a lamo dog^ t am ; in America I^ Ittl— well, if I am a lame dog, I »m being helped mort I f ♦„^w* !• iii* AMAN MCITM. 4l|Nlfflilfttll? «rr«y lltir iimiwrMitMfiftl utilt, Wvtm tHt At*- Miit{Htv railnwil (i<>it«lii(ii«>r, of wli Ollvtr Wf ndtll llolm««. 'Vhh fMltnf of Ut« g«n«rftl iliffo*. •ion of in*fi*f hitituinity (o nuin will MrUinljr b« t^'k of m|f MMl vivid Midi dMNMHMlltd faWMMlliai Iftf AMMtlitk t M^ i It (i ft g«n«r«1Tiitron tli ftt T ftm pr«pftr^ to fl gh 1 7or» tooQl^ ind iiftil.** p. An RngliNhtiiftfi It tfioofi^t ft thotiMtKl tiMMr moMT of In tlio Unitml Hui^» than in Ktiglftiidy fttifl b« U U«|UkI # fn<o all right. You will not have gained an insigKt into the situation »f • 1-' ' \ 't 1 •. 4- i * V'H v * \i.it T fl ^ » **( in )» • tn n v.^v: « 1T0 CANADIAN NOTES. ^':. .a In MHiakiiiK of Canftdtt 1 hft\« omitted all iiicnltoii «.f MunitoK but I utMlcrHtana that in that I>viiu,o ther« ik ft vaBt improvomont. ^, \- -^ Ix)t ui hope w>. ' . ' The Amorioan in Canadi ii oortatn to rocoivo much l,etter trcatihont at th« haiuU of the public than th». average native, for the .imple'^ea-on that he.i8 certain to keep at a respectful distance after he has liv^ there long enough to comprehend or realize the exact WjJ^tion of things. . * " r , , 1 y " Canada is a country Wiere there Is neither \o^e nor !*• hate ; they simply despise. Society^ there is not i^lei^ttt. Kmorson says : , • * k "The worthless and oflfensive members of society, Jfc^ \,hose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves ,/ the most ill used people alive, and never get over their- astonishment at the ingratitude M selfishness. <>f their oontemp5rai!ies." ' v; v ; j ^v** i* • Mr. Emerson's declaration is tme, but it is dottbtful whether the average Canadian experiences tje astonish- ment of which the Concord sage speaks. He does not ,. think anything about it. He has been accust<^iiied to in- gratitude and selfishness all his life. . ^^^^ ^ , Many American men and women haviTilifentlytulti-, vifed courtesy of manner and kindly deference to each ^, linder the impreswon that sucfe was the behavior suitable to persons of refinement ^* ^-^t ^ li '.. ; • : ^ow bUy, fron^a^ Canadian et^^p^y »f^« waited effort, is i» these pages illu8trii|a|^ g. X>f course, a really eorrefcf Portugal. l*ortttf/^ gueie pdlilM^esa haa not the llippanoj. of th,p French nor ihe.unmcaning pretence of the"Spani«h. It is more re- ' , dnndant and opulent than with either of the former, but itV "^'*^ joosBossos genuine aincerity. The, effort to pleano 'cornea ; from right feeling iratlier than through form and dvBtomy^ i aa^lKth the Canadiam^^^ben ill^^aH, w-ith oold-tieaitM^bal»^r~4'r onlattion ojf profit be^indv jTMa exti^ndsttb, and iaeveti niost marlted, amonglthe lQ^#lyiVW|to, iieem to be the most sunny-faoed and kinl3-n«KaAed .^^ople' <^ . Among very manner oi city serving nienarQd woWn tbore i* ». ^; iphivalry and apparent earnestness I'i'inter^haiige Of greel*.' '' ing and commonest civility which often reaches the.Iuidic- ' reus to more brusque foreigners. Their gravity and dig* nity in this //regard are reaHy wonderful, Evett th<$.«b^^- ' gars speakfto each other in coUrtly terms, and iif yoii / , should; refuse tli^m urns with the customary phrasiif^ ' . - ^ ^'Pardon : ih the name of God I" they will follow you ^f^ id hleim and showiSr benedictions upon yt>u« The Hi' Portuguese or Mexican beggair is lesa^^a barbarian than the Canadian millionaire. (*^ , . If you speak to the averageman,; in Toronto yon will ; find'him a mute. One would almoRt ini^ginu ^tliat ^ocla- ; ; Mto and kii^dness were prohibited by the Statute Uook, l^)^ishable by fine and imprisonment. % * Wheifi the day was oviear, | was ^aocui^tomed to return my room, and, like 4i culprit, creeplto bed. Cana^is just the gantry to check the development of iiMiyidaalify, to kill an honest man's ambition, and to make him worthleHs ilindg(iK>d. for nothing. After a few years ,\__ there, a mair^is apt tC| become torpid and stopid. ■'iii^i c , ^m^y- ': H Ii . ifK I 11 '-'! • \- # \ 17jj| CANADIAN NbTTO. V ' It i« Jiffiottll to ao basinw* in Oiat •Ufipicnon-blighte^ - ^coiintry, uuIcbh «i.o happen, to l.ave \mn brought up to il. Conftaoncc ih dcHtroyed. The ayorago flimticial man then, could Btoal tho shirt off of the»mart«i»t thief in Wall «treiM, and with the stolen garment in his hat»d, wouUr.ta.i.l^ Hypocritically deprecating the sharp practices oT Ins Amer-i;.: . ican cousins. They have been that waya long time, rheyarn - suffering from tho effects of their own bad ideas. It w mi to b« wonderf^ at that the country is poverty stricken, an.l that the young Canadian of the present generatipn who has any ambition prefers the States, where he can at leant "have -an opportunity to develop hia energies a nd e ny>y ^:;;V ^*ome of the comforts and luxuries of lif*. « Aniericans are kinder to us," said one of these ■ OTeh. "(Life is too short to live in Canada.^' , ; ^ It is weH to live where human 'beings liy«- The "'native-born Canadian has no especial loyo England. The mother country has a wonderful ■ ^or aliefiating the affections of her own Koosehold neglect. " . . .vj Young men look in vain for that .recognition wh«fi their talents call for, Canada bas nev'eir freed itself from \ \he early idea inculcated by Englishmen of the conferva- tive type which .imagines no good can possibly^flow from 4;]^yottng^m^, simpl3r because fie lacks the chaptetof sterc ■ kind yellow leaves. * , ' • . ° i ' • Bnubbing is the reward foi^" posh " quite too of ten m . thd Land of the Maple Leaf. .. Meanness is not always an inhe rited vice, men are often glad to get aMcay from it. Th^re" is onp good rule to follow ill ?:e8jpeot to these evils, and that Is to keej),away firpm^anada. ^ That country will continue to keep the settlings, aihl the cream will coi\tinue to be skimmed off. The remark 6$ the Englishman that a man is con. I^mt^ being reminded in England what **"a lame dog"^c is is » remark that i^eans a thousand times .more .th^ a M' CANADfllN NOTIbS. ait lit up to il. tnitn thcro ^ftUntrot^t, )uUl ttaii*l luH Amt'i- , TbeyjiX' • . Itiaiiot rick«n,anil ratipn who m at lea^t and en J!i>y hesetouiij' al lovG (Icrful BBeliold itiou ^ffhkm itself froiir e con$erva- y flow froMi plfefof Bterc too often in oe, men arts ■ ■".■■■ • ■ V jeot to these jttUngs, anerHon happens to be gazing into a window .% other place at some obje6t of interest, and a- minu|e later they will "beg' pM'n" for dropping the stab end of ^ match on your boots* A queer idea o| piolitenessj tffl§. \ Oiie/4annot lielp getting up in the moitiing ^feeling like 9^'A " lame dog " and at night gomg ^<* ^©^ ^^^^ a " 1*™« dog." in this atmosphere of sylcfophancy, intrigue, and in- .^ ^riested self-seeking l^vi^ch prevails, one needs near hira'^' lome old and trusted friends, .'^ „ / I . * f ■ [ I i: * V- ■ 'i "TT- V ■ '■• V. ■,i M IJITAPTER XXXV. it ^y ■p> ■*-■■, " . . • « liie pobfiofttloh 0f tti« o«fiiWi «t»tliit1orhftii produce*} ft Minnation In thd maritim*^ provinoeH," «ay« a Halifax (Canada) diRpatob, "and has oaaiied univerHal di«appoint- mont, it being generally imagined that the iitoroase of the laat decade ^ould be equal to that of the former decade.'V ^ The Chronicle (Liberal organ) aaya : «»T^ riwiiwi- oal results of the oengus of 180 1 given to Parli«|uent $,m the most appalling that could be imagined. We are siir^ there is no person in this Dominion who was not startled, disappointed and disturbed by the amazing trtory whieh these figures tell. It has been asserted again and agnin that there are pessimists in the country— men who are ac- customed to take a dark view of the situfttion. We hate to incur the censure of those cheerful peopk' who would praise the soup if their grandritother'rt head was in the tureen, rather than appear pessimistio. This would be the dullest of dull places, however, if only the ttruth were heard. . • , ' The *ld fetishes must b© pre«#rve «traNglo |M>|>iilar iiii|>erHtitions and feUshe^ or yWU Slid a big fellow underneath Uio ibeet wlioMi Mtrangle you. A peraon who oftnnot tell a Ho, and oaimot help you to live a lie, and live liiH own lie without ^uirra ing, in out of plaop in Ihii workaday world. ^mqU a man In friend lew, for fri«nd«bipa are built upon prettily oon- atmoted ftbii m intricate and innumerable as the pilea be- iiHiilh Rotterdam. An habitually truthful man is the most detestable creature on earth. But we feel confident there is no pessimist in (.'anada who will not regard the results of the census as far worse than anything ho imagiif^d or itntioii In Nova Scotia the result is btimiHatiitg^beyond meas- ure. Every one believed that 1891 would give us a popu- lation of at least 600,000. The aqtual result is a beggarly increase of 9,9ftl people — about two per cent, increase, or less than one-fifth of one per cent, per annum. This is extraordinary, and will come like a thunderbolt upon every citizen. ' -^----^.^v-;,-.-----^--,^-^^ ..- New Brunswick is worse oflf. She has no increase at ill. Sixty-one more persons are i-otumed than in 18^1. Fr(nce Edward Island, that flourishing and fertile islft, with a most thrifty aod industrious population, stands still. ; The total increase is 197 souls. t^ The maritime province8,ma#e an increase of thirtiden. per cent, between 1871 ftfid 1881, This -was considered small And unsatisfactory. Th« Tory press declared that Ihis was due to the jcovemraent's free trade policy, which lasted until 1879. ^bw, ^ter another ten-years, the total increase in the tnari|ime provinces' i| about one per cent. Wlho will not be startled at the result ? The natural in- oreade of a young country like i^ovA Scotia i8 ab6i\t two y0|«fl|ry^p twenty ^|>^ is th^i;ii^#ay^ left b^ |l#t^P^" 1*^*^ cetie. by ertiigra^jon. Th^ eitodiil l«fc tJ|i^j|f^p^ ^i^m t^»« past tep lyeaiW has ■M ^nr jjjliiail .,". i;; «! ' * 'I 17#"' ■ .J.-v':*^' OANAniA^ NOTES. ': • ■■ ;• V boon ,1 ^ . ' . r - •« . i ,.1 1 4fl ■ -ill ' I ./•*• .• V „ f 3, rV ■T ' \ '■. t * *A " ^►•' t , . *, y . "4. y ' n J •',) '* .. ■.' ^ J' rf *,*<; '* n' / I ' V \'''»-"- '?' '*„'"'," '. f <.- •», / / . /■ pruvih(M>. |M)|)lllAtioi\ I •• Novn avcly •«« )Mp«rlty <)i' I it meaim ••' f' §::-,■/ • '^i'. ^'1IA1*TER XXXVl^ ** Canada 1« oi'io of tho HtrangoMt ooilntrtod In the ^ i world,** MiiyM a Oanadiani^corrcHpondontof thoUtida Globe. V'Liko'ji jaok-of-trH(l««.Oanae, oni^ thing Im certain, j^ Canada has Ibtr of scheQies to work on. Canadimif politics i«i, a.greiftt d«)ll like religion — whoever Ntarts , '0m0jb|ji|ig i]|<»W' (1) that Un« will ifnd foo.lB to follow ' \ Mim.'" *rhoro* %eVfer yet wf« iubmitted to CanadlatM ■a 8<3hema*vf or'^tlMjir .iu|,u»f. \W Outrag«ou« — and th«r^ :,Jj^iy^\)«en 0ohoat«s Will oQt^^ and unreasonablcN-r I iHit: iqjio ' gang of politicians ifcaik it up a^ sworo ly i| JM tlio mcHit bciailtlf ul ideal of ft future Canada th^t states-, iniifijBhip CQiild'.Bugjgest or patril|tiitin uphold. Every new^ iichemp is pvaised, its atjtbor potted, IMI<} its advocates vy?ohder at How short-sighted tliey were not to have seen it . '' Y^foi«» ^lHjobrillMantoriginator is invited to travd tbroiigh the eonntry and explain his plan for its future to the people. lie aciuepts the invitation, makes a holiday tour •\ "of the provmoesj; is banqueted in all the largi^ cl gsoes away con viitioe^ that he has had a good time. And he doesn^t r^uilre to be a very clever iellowolther to '^Iw.ve all' iliifii h(m^ bestowed upon him. All tjiiat i« neces- ' sary is ^ llttia i>it|J onpapteV,t«nd three or four stereotyped "i»p<»ecbeB that he riittles offuftef the, lasbion of a sebooi- tioy reciting that clstsStd * JMiary had a. little la^V^ Ooe of the oldest schemes is that which pTopo«e#''4iii-'* N uexation. to^ tfafr-Umted SItates. i'rom the pout rouK (liNadyaiitaguM. Wbat- uvur may Im) tho liair-brainuU ■ohoines thioy |>ro|M>«(*, I flrmly bvliovo ii b the tinoore dviiiru of ovory tnio Canadiaii to ono day §ee hm country take an honorera<)tioablo to over amount to anything. , jffflperial federation \» ono of the propoAod doHtinloa of C*anada th^t hafi a largo number of advocates in the Domin- ioil, ^fb^Mbeme is ono that oan never bo realised. At :]^!«lMN|||[i it exists in name only, and tho |)ublio have but a Vifery toeagfe idea of what it moanH ; even Premier Abbott mrimitted near the oloHO of the last soHNion of Parliament ^hat be did not know what imperial federation was, as he li»4*M>ver hoard any definition for it. • And this is actually the case ; the soherae has never iicMiti defined. Tet there are Canadians who can talk for hours on ft, and write whole volumeH in defense of itit principles. Tboy tell us that the idea Ih to form the empire into something more compact than it Ih at present, that is, to bring the colonics into closer relations witlr tho' Qiotlicr country and give them representation in the Par- liament /at London. But how this is to be done they do not know. It is a great scheme, they say, arid will work / itself out sometime ; but they admit that they can't work it out. Tho sohemo is only useful in as far as it furnishcH ambit^us orators with a subject to spout on, and dreamer« with a lovely ideal for their drowsy speculations. Xliess radical schemes itro those which relate to the trade ^nd i^atcri&l progress of Canada as slie is. These schemes are ii^^ulgcd \n by men of real patriotism, and most of them the vii'tuo of ^Hjiqu sonstblc' But the dreamer has in- OAIIADIAN NOTKA. in (Iviuitagi* . WbAl- {>r(»|H)it(% irory tru" honoreit iMOoining AM indti* truo wu I alroady. uanonablu (9 too llll- }fitinio« of 10 Domin- ixexl. At lAVti but a or Abbott 'arliamunt wMf as ho iias never n talk for riHO of itii I form the t present, I with the' I the Par- 10 they, do will work 3an't work I furnisheH dreamevM 9 thetrado. 86 schemes" >8t of them ncr hart iii- triulod here aJno, and |irtio that will regulate itnelf. The stream of eonimercc, like aitreamof water, has a natural channel to fttf^w iti, and it will eventually t'egulato itself to thii deft{>ite all that legiilation^mi' da to prevei»i4ti lirWOttW^ be alKiut as sensible to pass an Hot pj^ohibiting the flowing of water down a hill as to (>a8s one ¥|ik^li<3 purpose of pre^ venting trade from following its na^ojpl lient. 4 Whatever maybe the ultimate #Drmination of all'theM H|>eeulations, they are at least an evidence that the spirit of unrest is hovering over Canada. The pcfople are not satisfied with their present lot ; if Uiey wore, they would not be planning for a change. Thb change will oome, sooner or later, and, when it does, ttt us hope it will bo for the better. There are those who desire an independent Canada — a nation, that, relying entitely' on its own ro- sonrcos, will work out its own destiirjNifter its own man- ner, and their following is groat. / Canada seems bound develop some day into a great nation that will rule ov half a continent." ..Jy. . ! 4: Ktalu. CHAPTER XXXVIt Mont of the toarning in CftniUla la hatik VnomVf^^e < thdt i.«i» Himply thu things that nion loam from hookH. Hut o do tiolhiiig Imtiitorti their mliidii with faulN aimI of oihura are «|)l to h«v« very fow idvai of thuir thowj that thejr do ovolvo aro gonnrajly flat nnrt Uoading makva a full man,^* Uiatriio, but there 1« •uoh a thing an btiing too full. Thoro in no room loft for tlio imagination, no timo loft for thinking, that procwaii of digoation which proparoa tho mind'a foo thu minil haM obtained much too strong a hold, and a habit of individual and ,^(idependent thinking ia too murli negluoted. l*«oplo who do their own thinking, and fretly aay what thtty think, whether with touguo or pen, are tho really valuable membera of aooiety after all. Too mueli book learning ia very often the cauae of much poverty. Tho Engliah colony of New York ia largely made up of younger aona of good education and no calling or pro- foaaion. They are, for the moat part, young men of cult- ure, leiauroly habita, with champagne appotitea and beer inoomca. In almost every case incpiiry elicits the fact that they aro ponaionera on homo bounty. They are living on limited alLpwanoca — juat enough to encourage respecta- bility— audi allowancca being apparently doled oiit witli tho view to sustaining life without leaving margin enough for dissipation or a return ticket In fact, in man^in- Vtances, tho allowance is made conditional on remaffing •broad. If they should violate this condition, it is work or starve. Under the circumstances, it would seom that a Continental life would be preferiible in view of its cheap- neia, but these y oung feHowa prefer America. e$MmiAi m I h»vo hoard U lUHfid that tli«y Hipil^flUtly k«t«|Nirl h*v« Inwii known to iuru tkoir liAuka on (jitim antl «vi«ii r«fu»o th«tr |>»tronitgc<, TImi Knglinhman le. I Iblnk U WM ll(«inrloh living whoitid ihikX He thought A bTai|themlng Franchiuan WM a mora pleaaing objoot to God than a praying KngUihman. ''Anitiricana ar« kinUvr to Kngli»hmeii,**'.Mlitl one of thoMTybiihg inun, ** than (Tonlinontat Kurope. Wo have worked that section of the earth a trifle thrt*Adhare. They don*t lika uk When it oomea to India, Anstratia, Canada, or any of the KngliNh Colon ii^l |M)NMeMi»ton«, wo prefer tlio United Htatei. It coiita more to live there, but the life i« worth living. Hooiety reoeivei un whether we have money or not. In I^ondon IM be an ofHue drudgf, and be limited to boarding-hotme Moeiety. In the United HlAten a well-tuluoatod, agreoabto Kngliiih gentleman im wuli thoiiglil of, and uan dine at the expense of somebody else a good deal of the time.'* What a joy it must be for tliom to got away from gloomy, diHmal Canada, and touch the warm heart*of emo- tion. Then, and nut till then, do they realize the situation. No one oan appreciate tluH delicious change for the l>ottor more keenly than the young EHglish-Canadian. '' They are well treated in the United Htaies. The spirit of restless aspiration, the " yearning," if you please, for bettor life is encouraged there. 0extcrity, individually and enorgy find congenial con- ditions in a country where men are untrammeled by old* fashioned fetters and their development has produced t)ie wonders of scieutiflc mechanism. _ - L Bigotry is begotten of conceit and mental laziness. _ The American jieoplo have influenced aiul are influenc- ing and liberalizing the institutions of every nation of, the world. — .•33 ^ # ; 1 a ^^■^ f , -. ■". '* ^^^^^^^^^^^ * «■*• ' "tf' T^fBTr^ ■ "> '*■ " ^ j . js ' ■ . . ^' " ^ . , ^^ .,* ^^^^^^^ ... .•.■■*. ',■ , ^ .' . ■ ■■•• • , •" '" . , I. ■ '■ ■ .' '--f ' . \'t^4. • : ■ ■'"" ' . " ■ i ' ■ ' ■ ■^. .-.- ' . i .<•"■/ ■'^'' '■"■' '-':'' A- ^% ' . ■ • ■:., : ■ ■ -- .-. ..»•'■ ■ .. 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'■ - .., . . * J" ■'■' , ■ 1 ■ ... < ■■ - 1 N • • » • 4 ' r * t ^ >. ■ 182 OANADIAN NOTM. r I Kvon tCe African oolonteii are outdiiianoing OanatU in th^ growth of population. The recent cenius of the Vtxyw S of. Good Hope ihowi a population in round Qumbem ax \^foiiowi.: White*, a77,'00O ; native blacki, 848,000 ; otlu-r colored racei, 200,000 ; toUl, l,fta4,000. The ceiiBUi of \ 1875 showed a total population of 790,000, and the increase Hince4hat time is 804,000. The Canadian Oovernment has expended mllUont to attract new-comers. The iiewly ar- rived emigrant remains in the country a short lime and soon discovers the cold realisip of the situation, and there is a stampede to the States. Canada isi an immense country; it is richeV than the United States in natural resources, and there ure millions of acres of land that have never been plowed, Canada is jone of the finest countries in the world, that is, as' far as the country itself is concerned, but things are likely to continue as they are until some unusual and external force breaks in upon the present state of affairs. Certain lines of conduct are_followed by certain re- salts, and only the higher varieties of men are capable of conceiving the ways in which good or bad institutions will eventually affect their spheres of action ; and only among these is there excited that sympathetic sentiment of justice which prompts defence 'of fellow men.^ IngersoU once said: ^ " Those who feel are the only ones who think.*' Many a man is a criminal because society has made him one. No one tries to find the good that may be sleep- ing down in his heart, and hardened and Embittered by such treatment on the part of those whose duty it is to aid and save the poor, erring brother, they eventually become care- less and sink lower and lower in the sea of , sin, an outlaw from necessity, not from choice. It makes one sad to study the daily papers of Toronto. The trouble lies in the tone of the productions. The edi- torial matter consists largely of scurrilous abuse. These papers devote considerable space to abuse of those on tbe. I [7ftna4lA in illO ('ll|H> imbuni an )0 ; otlinr cungiis of e inoreano imont ban ifeWly ar- ) andioon Jiere ii a oamadiah hotm. 188 other aide of the bonier and their goven.men^^e.ldena^^^ the id itampede. with tho'idl of chcoWing the daily exose on Um / V t / \ CnAPTKR XXXVflT. '■^IJ, , Ijlli eitimatoil that thoro aro many thoutandi of por< ■oniin Toronto who aro supportiMl largely by money tent from tho Sutoi. It ii alio a fact, that' the Dominion of Canada derivoa a,va«t portion of iti wealth from the ntroani of embeuiem that escape from the States year after year with vast sums of the |)edplo*s money. The public is constiU||H|u¥arno(l by the press of Cana* da against the iToliy of 'lj|Kiitirioanfi. The following is OJili'aoied from the editorial column of one of the Toronto daily papers, where one may see similar items every day j^ " Aid. Les^ia did notimlulge In any fool talk when, dur- ing the recent campaign in East York, he oharaoteriaed the United States as ' the meanest nation on the face of tho earth.* It is not nocessaV-y to go back to ancient history and rake up the story of the forged map, by which Canada was done out of a large slice of territory, or to refer to the denial of compensation for damages sustained by thiH country during the Fenian raid, in order to prove the truth of Mr. Leslie's assertion. Instances whiph illustrate tho national meanness occur almost daily. Tumbling a score o\ French-Cfmadians from a train^ as it crossed the border lietween Quebec and the States was one ; driving throe Imndred of our fellow citizens, employed, at Buffalo, back to Ontario was another ; in the refusal to allow any but United States ottizens to serve on lake vessels flying tho American flag is found still another evidence of Yankee pettiness, and the national oharacteristio was even more strikingly exemplified in the action taken to prevent a lot of poor seamstresses living in Samia from earning their live- lihood in Port Huron. CANADIAN NOTM. 186 If Aia. Tionliu erml At all, it wm in that tho oJtprimnion hfl mailw uw) of WM not ■trong qnougli. Individually il"' Amorioan* may Im) all right ; ooUeotivdy thojr arc tho meanest pcoplo on the face of the earth.'* CanadianB look uiwn tho great republic of the United , Hutea with their aoventy milliona of pr(ftii>erou« and froo people a« a conglomerate of oontemptiino lufmanity, com- monly called Yankees, loveral degree* below tho average Canadian, who, an a colonist, U of courto a very superior _ i type of citiwnaJHf . The whole civiliwd world is abso- lutoW paralysed at the unrivalled development and progresa of the great American Republic But what is that great country compared to Canada ? Ask Canadians, and they will tell you in their blindf^d prejudice that Canada and iU marvelous colonial constitution are far ahead of anything American. The Prime Minister himself, Sir John Thompson, re- ferring to the United States, particularly declared that he wouM condescend that they should bo "our neighbors,' but, thank God, nothing else 1 , 'i I do not believe that these papers educate tho poopjo , but then, perhaps, the public educate tho papei^ •J^^ Tl>o low grade of intelligence and ability ofJ^Pfpcn elected at tho dictation of party caucusses to represent To- ronto in the House of Commons is notorious, and frequently the subject of disparaging comment. It is nht, of course, to be expected that under, the party system they can send men of the highest class, but there is really no need that they should be chumps or nonentities. Tho reflection so often made on the calibre of Toronto city representatives is naturally directed against the Tory mnohinp/masmuch as it is responsible for them ; but how much ^tter are the Grits likely to do, judging from the last domination (im) ? Aid. J. K. IxjhU^ in addressing Ih/nominating convention, diaractcrizcd tho United States „„ the meanest nation on the face of tho earth. What sort "of a represenUtivo of the intelligent people of Toronto arc ' *- *"_£:-^j, __ -i^^*' y i H % Its , OAJf AOIAM 1HW th« men who ooald ooniUnily malie um of moll tiprw- •iontt ^ y \ Th« fMt of th« mfttt«r U thftt Ciinad* exiiU by raaaon of fftvora granted to her by tho moel enterprUing and lib- eral p«>ple in the world. The United Stalee could by a denial of th«M ftvori strike » blow at Canada'a very fxiatenoe, > \ It It not worth while to lUte thatonr neighbors have been ungrateful in their appreciation of theaefavore. ThoM) who'know the Engliih Scotch-Canadian W*y will be able Wcoiftprehend this without being told. JJi^ men are tho iaifle in this reepeoi the world over. Y One ban only upeak of Canada and the ^Miadlans an a •on^ of poor neighbor, a ahiftleM loafer ann American lndu«try, yet keeping aloof from and even affecting to deepine American inatitutlona. It ia well, therefore, to point out that in oorameroial transactions the ordinary American buaineM man, com- pared with the average CanadUu in the earae line of life, ie, lo far a« purity of mind and buaineae Integrity are con- cerned, lilie a ■ucklng babe compared to a vjry old Conrt- can brigand, danadlane who pitch into % Gould in their newnpapere, and IncidenUlly into American institu- tions, should never oteriook the fact that, even if Amer- icans, in the langtiago of the great (Inanoicrs, do «' make monkeys of them " when wc start out to get thiB better of them, and thereby hurt their feelings, we are, n«|vertheless, as a class, compared to them, innocent and pure. / When the Can^diane have fully exhibited theiij capacity for self government by building up their bank, rupt fortunes, and paying off their huge public debt, H will be time enough to talk about annexatioo to the United States. This ii the line of argument which appeals to Cai^»- dlan manhood. Americans desire to eee Canada prosperous, ttnd io far aa their views can be ascertained, have no desire .to annex a bankrupt country with a heavy debt and a crop of political jealousies, vindictiveness, and antagonitms that the better part of a century would scarcely clear away. But still Canada hangs on to the United StwUSs . like a monkey to a tree. j In Canada,^at is in the province of Ontario, th^re is practically but one nationality who all, more or less, think, talk, walk and act alike, and judge all new cc^mers by their own surroundings. There is nothing much save animosity, hatred and spleen, v ^1 ..^ In the United States there is diversity, harmonV and Uffei mnUml lov^ ^mong meii and wom e n who ar e not indiffer e nt ~.„ 'ii.' ■ 'ieiw'lw'^ f II oaiIadun Nom. to ono another*! iih»ro in tlio world* doinga; ili*l !«, uii«i i" willing Aiid aiiiiiOMN to learn from the other. In (^MiAtU tliejr Art not. Never attempt to o(f«r a Cantdliui a *• polntar** under any olroumitancoii, or yoM will have **|mt you foot tu it." You will bo liHtehed to with oalm dindain. ^ Tha averaga Canadian cannot even Nay **yea** do- oently, and there la no one among liiii acquaintancea whom h« haa not iniulteeo|Ue run into roedioore sameneaa. Men art all ftllkt^ Mid their oonvenia- tion all the.iame. v, •' ' Kvery ■uggoation that yon make, «very idea that you advance, iit mot with innulta, looni and contempt. It ia not ploaaant to liv^^liere every man deHptaeahia nipighbor, and where there iWeither love nor hate. ThU i» the very woret and moet deepkabU feature of C It raepe the nerves. It ia a torture. It haa driven away the lietter olaan of workera by the tena of thouHanda. v It ia no wonder that they are oonatantly thinking of andi talking of their muacle. I If I were to live forever in Canada my chief ambition in life would he to beoomo ^ pugiliat. tf . 4 w •?«^*^^B^pj j_^B.-F,s»n„--^' CTIArTKIl XXXIX. " A ooniumiiiftl'uHi .lovoutly to Iw wUhod " wm the failiiro of the (Jaimaimi Cabln«t Mlniit«rt' conference wUh .Secretary Blaine, ^_ Bir John Thompwni, the Hon. George K. Fotter, %m\ the Hon. MoKenr.io Ikiwell JourneyeU to WMhlngton wUh the avowca puriiows of coniii UiU JuK.|iin»»IM Arr«ng«tn«nl llw ^nmyt Canfttla %tn ooiitiiittftlly re|H.»ii»ig lli« Mmfrtl.m ibAlihe AmerloAiii ar« lli« m«»ii««t imtlon on ib« t^m of the oArih. li liiaW th»t Sir Jullin l*auncefol», iho Urili»li Mlfi- UUr. f.Itmuch eraUrrM««a ftl lh« ^% li« Wii oomp«lleil to uikt in iho iUr»ir. J^MImO. l)Uin% hit th« nfti) on tho hoa^l wh«n ho onco ■iwko of tho boad of tho C»n»dUn Govonimonl m an Tho honormblo dolegatci tacked on A ff w roaftufMtnrfd artioloa which tho United 8ut«i «lo<«« iroi maki', and in order to blind their own countrymen ^mado thomaelvon ridiculoas in tho oyoa of tho Waahinglon authoritiea. And y«t to all apiMjarances tho uJoctori of Canada like that aorf of thing. Tho more raacality there li In Government offioea tho more aecuro ia the (lovcrnmcnt, la there ap intelligent voter in Canada whoae eyea art ao blinded by political preference that he camiot see the duplicity of tho dclegatea to Waahington? Tho rcoi- prooity plan, aa propoicd by Sir John Thompaon and hii fellows, Van, Instead of a wedge to open tho preliminarieit of a conference, an absolute barrier. On the other hand, tho unroitriotcd reciprocity plan, aa projected by tho Lib- oral party, ia ao much wider and liberal that it would, doubtleaa, receive the favorable attention of the Govern- meni of the United Statea. The Liberals of Canada are desirous of effecting cloeer and more friendly trade rela- tions with the United SUtes. The Abbott Administration olv^^anada pina iU faith to the Union Jack, and one might as a6on expect the heavens to fall as the Tory Government of Canada to enter into any contract with this or any other nation which might discriminate against England, or be oppoaed in any way to British interests. Therefore, this ' last and greatest bluff of the Canadian Tories can only be fitly deacribcd aa a aucocHsf ul failure. Aa a matter of fact, the United States has always been :;j,S. CAMADIAN MOTIA. Ill willing U» grmiii Cwi^U M UronhU Urntt •• H wouW ifrAiit to iny {••ilrtti, liul will nol grant ntolproclty In Mi- tir«l prtKloot. hLmus wliirh U lli« imi»o«lbU thing Ui« Con- ■ervatlve party of C»n»«U Ulki abouU The United 8uUa hM little or no mArktl for nitttnU |.rowor them to do miythlng. Sinoe the pronid«nlial proclamation In purauanco of the act of July afl, 18951, empowering the Preeident to Im- ,„„M3 t^for Ihe u«e of St. Mary'e Falla canal upon vo«m?U carryiPrelght and panwHigora to Canada, we have a fair example of what roUliation with Canada can lie like. Every Canadian bottom will have to pay twenty oenta per ton for toll upon such freight aa iho oarrioa through the oanal at the Sault. Thie exactly mecU the tolU imppeod by Canada for the uio of her 8t. Lawrence canala, an4 it is in th9 further province of the Preeldont to Increase theee tolla until they equal $9 per ton and $5 pe^: pawwnger, which would bo prohibitive of Canadian-lwund traffic. There is only one course open to the Canadians, and that is not continued retaliation. It is the removal of the existing obnoxious tolls. Their ministers say that the toll* ^ cannot be removed this year, because their naarinera have made contracU based upon the payment of such tolls by the Americans. In the event of these tolls being removed they can be no worse off than they are in having to con^ « front a 20-ccnt loll at the Sault which they will have to pay in case they want to pass into Lake Superior. If Canadian mariners are to lose money by the removal of the lolls they can look to their govemment for recompense. It hM waated ao much already that a little more expense, J \m OAWAOUM vorm. ■ 44r4- 1,1 ! moIUmmI. tttm iUm to Um« qi»«iiio«i of ▼••* lm|M»ftAm* to l»i»" Dominion aro coming u|i in wliioh 1»mi \my^U »l' l«rf» vm UMply inl«rwl«i. Hnch * qu^tllon \%m \>mn muoh dis- •ttiMd of Ut« in tiM) F«n th« growth of Ita popttlatlon. Thcra la not • In tha world to-day a larger |leld for cntorprlat and tli« In- vaatnient of oapiul to greater ad vanUga than la to b« found in tha Dominion. Tli«y have in the reaouroea of th« eoontry everything that an indulgent Providence could givu to make them great ^nd protperoua ; but they latik th" population to turn them toaooount. The immigranta whom the government aaaiaU to come to Canada from the aluniH of Great llriuin are hot alwaya of the moat deairable olaai, while the Canadlana who leave the Dominion to aeek their fortunea In other landa are the pick of the young men. It iaeatimatod that there are between two and throe million Canadiana in the United Sutoi. A man who eight or nino yeara ago wia a poatmaater at Hull, Que., —within gunahot of the Dominion Parliament buildinga— It to-day Governor of one of tlie Sutea of the Union. Two pthert ar9 Unitekl of lilt* rftUoft •ii«l aiul miioli -ought oat. Aiitl onljr « lijrMi thttii fiii^ lh« «ly, If not Itrrc U not ftn M«k .Ui«lr ig men. It iroe million ight or ninu lin gun«hot y Governor ar« Unite with hit own handa. Ha Mp«rint«nd« th« worh of hirvd Uborani ) b« la half a gantlaman and hia wifo ia bmlf Alatly. Thojr do not oat with lh« laborara. No t&rmttr ahotild #1/ |MKit to do ntttoh in Canada whodoca not work bard witb'^ -» own bAnda. "^ .^" •'■'^•.;. It— Hiny onu ^ / A" j_l L -.1 OH^PTBR XL. The Toronto (?/o*rfvte«ri with alarm the increase of emigration from Canada to the United Sutei, especially from the provinces below Quebec. AtSorel in one day 260 tickeU were sold to emigrants, and at Levis about MOO persons per week depart for the same destination. The majority are old farmers, whose children had preceded them. If the movement go^s on much longer half the pop- ulation of the Dominion will before many years be in the Union. Whether this will work to the advantage of the United States is problematical. B^t it certainly will do great damage to Canada. The clergy and the Tory poli- ticians have done all they could to check the outflow, but without effect. The people are getting weafy of life m Canada, and they are Uking refuge in their nearest neighbor States. . *^ The exodus of French-Canadians from portions of the province of Quebec is growing to alarming proportions. So far the Federal Government has shut its eyes to this migration of Canadians, who are swelling the census rolls of the United Stotes. Fhen attention was drawn to the ••matter the invariable reply was that the thing was exag- gerated, that only a few were leaving. But now (1892) comes the news that two churches in the province have been dosed because the exodus was so great that the parishes have been depopulated. Reports received from those who have gone to the. New England States— the favorite location of the French-Canadians in the States- give glowing Ules of their prosperity/ there, and others follow. But still the press of Canada goes on sUting that immigrants from the States are making theb way to Cftoada in large numbers^— ■; -.- ;: J.}; \ :■ . ; .-./'": " j^t -- -•-^3 o CHAPTER XTX sroase of speoially I day 260 >ttt 1,600 , m. The preceded the pop- ye in the ;e of the Y will do L^ory poli- tflow, but >f life in , neighbor )n8 of the Qportions. es to this mnxu rolls urn to the was exag- 9W (1892) rince have that the ived from tates — the e States— ind otherfl ating that ir way to A Canadian oorrespondent of the irtioa(N. Y.) Olobf says; / " > '''In the conferences held in Washington between rep^ resentatives of th« Canadian and American Qovemments, in the matter of trade relations, the Canadians refi||8ed to enter into any arrangement with the American CR)vem- ment, claiming as an excuse for not doing so that they could not grant preferential treatment to American goods, as that would be a discrimination against the British empire, of which Canada is apart. This is the old, old story that lias been told and retold by Canadian ministers, and offered to the people as an excuse for keeping them out of their natural market and continually in hot water with their neighbors. The state of affairs existing between the United States and Canada has not and never had a parallel in the world. The thing bears the stamp of ridiculousness on the face of it. The Toronto Olob^ says : * Then* position of the two countries is a sight for gods and men. Here are two branches of the Anglo-Saxon family glaring at each other across an imaginary line, refusing jto trade freely with one another, and from time to time threatening to establish a state of complete non-intercourse. Is it credit- able to tbeir common Christianity or good sense ? ' This state of ikffairs has grown out of the protective system, : which shuts the country within itself and teaches its in- habitants to do all the injury possible to its neighbor. There is not |m intelligent Canadian but admits that it. would be of tl^e greatest advantage to the Pominion to enter into closer trade relations with the United States, but they are frightened oat of oasting their votes in that be- \ Ii M' i liHt ! OAltADIAM NOTM. hOX bytl.« „v.rl«ting howl of loylly to the mother country that !• kept up .round the pohtic.1 ommp Bre^ r.ry much in the «m..w.y M . p«k of hungry wol,.« howl »o»nd . woOdm.i'. «ro »t night. Tl.e only differ- en^U th.t thowpoliao.1 howler, rcprewnt the Amencn, tot^ the woWe. th.t prowl .round Ju.t without the o.ree of light, with thilr hungry J.W. wide open .nd re.dy to bolt u. whole, if once .Uowed to .pprowh u. c o« enough. Of «our« when thl. picture i. enl.rged upon .t m.k.. . . exc^lent election h«.ngue.nd fill. th. elector with .uch . d^ th.t he goe. tremblingly to the poH- "■» »<"•• '"' the keeping op of th. wM, .nd then, when .H 1. over^ he • p^kTw ^^ "•!« the W.11, .nd i. forever let to C.n- S31 Th , , . . ' M ta ^ lie moment th. a«,r oP»M?*/" ^^ ^^oU.lu .o Umid . t o y: h: ;iVnowW^^pU , PeWoU. In to timta » t o n. »... . . — -; • ; . : .. ,^ ! th. omrlor m»id'« ri-ter who hu rung t^e vuitor s bell by mta^ tfmy »^y l» within,! foflowP«ker to the _MJ 6Al«AmAie !tOtM. 1W ■lioky f your e Can- 10, like ih con- 8 good eiiber »litio to ! aselveti. ^ friend* to say : th m«/' 8. Kate iah Ex- English English ibe app**" Ing awe- larly one Wolfe, I i: 'You >red as a ir, simply lemeanor, >r hope to his eye ; oitixen ! * for Lady thinha me p»8 bell by er to the teproipeot of oomniilting moihu HolouiHm in his niglit. JoAy DoWoIfi'ri huMband haii Ixioii iioblu only four montjis, and Parker of course knows it, and, porlmpH, affoots even f^reater hauteur to divert the uttontion of the vulgar commoner from the newness of the title. Dawson, oul- butler at Smith's private hotel, wields the same blighting influence on our republican spirits, ac- customed to the soft solicitations «of the negro waiter or the comfortable indifference of the free-born American* We never indulge in ordinary frivolous conservation when Dawson is serving us at dinner. We * tolk up * to him so far as we are able, and before we utter any remark' we in- quire mentally ^whether Dawson is likely to think it good form. IJut the other afternoon I had taken tea four times between five and seven o'clock, and went to the dinner table well stimulated and with something of my usual national nonchalance. Accordingly, I maintained through- out dinner a lofty height of aristocratic elegance that im- pressed even the impassive Dawson, towards wliom it was solely directed. To the amazement and amusement of Salemina (who always takes my cheerful inanities at their face value), I gave an hypothetical account of my after- noon engagements, interlarding it so thickly with coun- tesses and marchionesses and lords ahd honorables that though Dawson has passed soup to duchefeses, and scarcely ever handed a plate to anything less than a baroness, he diluted the customary poorn of his glance, and made it two parts condensoending approval as it rested on me, Penelojio Hamilton, of the great American working class (un- limited).'* I have been frequently accosted in Canada by those in the humbler walks of life (strangers to me), and when \ have replied to them with civility they would regard me with a suspicious air that seemed to say plainer than irprds: " You are no good or yon would not be seen talking to me." They are puzzled, as a rule, to have met (for the first time) witl^^ person who does not despise even the meanest of - ll /\ 200 . Ciflf ADIAN WOfW. • \ • . Ood't ortiaturoi, and they will wonder who you »r«. They liavo not mot your kind Ufow. Tkey do not undemt^nd yotf. . ^ , Th«y hare frequently remarked to me In m many word% after telling me who they were and the nature of I their boiineaa. etc, that they .uppoeed that I would not •Mooiate with them if I knew before who thoy were. Thi« li Intensely Engliih. They them«»lves dciipi«>, but they do ' not hate. It ia no email wonder that people with Kngliah waya have no particular personal love for each other. It would ieem that thoy have become io accustomed to deaplee, and so aoouatomed to being despised among themselves, that if yon do not despise them they will despise you. One need never be afraid of meeting many of this kind of men or women outside of Canada or Great Britain. Max O'Rell haa well said : " The English despise, but they do not hate, a fact which is irriUting to the last degree to the ob jecU of th^ attention. When a man feels that ho has some worth he likes to b^ loved or hated ; to be trfjated with indiiferenoe iagalling." ^ ^ ;_, If the Canadians discover anything abpnt you (gooa or bad) which can be used to your injury, even the bar- tender, barber, or boot-black will give you the cold shoulder, and look upon you with an air of calm disdain which can be compared to the contempt of the planUUon ^arkey for «de po' w'ite trash w»at wii*t.nebber own no ' nig^rs." . They will make your private affairs their common - concern, and they will inform you that "they know ril »boat you,** etc. The one leading idea of meil seems to be • to abuse some other man. This is a bugbear and incubus — that on< cmnot phake o f f. It m o et a the out s ider a t every ::. ._■ How wbiild you, kind reader, fare, in the estimation of the unprejudiMd bmui Uk lh« moon/let uasay.ifyw ..f I OAMADIAM MOm; m W«r« Jii''« Dominion and ita people than of any other country in the world, in apite of the fact that Caiiada ia a next-door neighbor, and that in both of tlieae counlrica the Englmh language pravaila. The average Aro^fican can talk to you intelligently about the inhabitanta of China and Mexico, and the waya of the world, but he knowa nothing about Canada and the waya of iU people. It ia not until they go there aa reaidenta that their «yea are opened to a new life. It ia not until then that they gain wiadom and experience auch aa will laat them for a long time. When I firat went to Canada I met a man from Ifen- ver» Col., whoao buaineaa required him to remain there. When I inquired for him one day, aoon^kfterward, I waa not Burpriaed to hear that he^Ju^ died of a broken heart." There are varioua kinda of unfortunate and humiliating ■iirroundingy but none perhapa harder to endure for ; highly organised and aelf-reapecting people than the com* panipnahip of the china vaae and the braaen jwt, which, aa you will remember, iEaop tella ua undertook to float down the atream in company. ! W ell, thftHH p aople are a aort of bragen pot — not always tlie quiet, maaatve thinga that in men we call brutal. Some ofjM better educated are jiiat little Benareacupa, or letua ao. •t CAKAMAII NOm. JMM Mf wJi wilUns M iMHMo of lh«m m*y »houinl In »Ul« wU- clom, bMt tlH. Ihi-i—t •lid pr«Ui«.t bit of bniM, If «««• ■Unily kncHjked up »g*lw«t tlw •^rot «^ • «W^ o«f, wlH fr«l And chip »nd ■foil If It do«« not »b«ohit«ly oru«U it. And whloh li Iho woMt »ft«r ftll, tall m«, oh, ohinii cupi ? The two or three hlowt that jibwlntiily d««trojr and effMc, or th« littlo J»rrlng« and ■cratohw and nioka antl nip* that deface a picc« of china and cover a peraon'a face wHh wrlnklea and worry llnoa befort Itf time? For my part I Incline to think the latter torment the more unen- durable. I One of the torturea of the InqnUltlon wai to ahare the top of a man'« head and then place him under a tank of water whloh fell one Blow drop after another ujion the d«- fenoeleaa walp. It la aald that prisonera who laughed at tha rack and jeered at the fl«mei auccyfjabed under thl* torture, the effect of which wan to ao IfrlUte the whole nervouB ayitem tfaal It thrilled with agoniea not to be pro- duced by violence. j . i v Juat like thia ia the agony many a aenaltlve and high Btrung peraon endurea by enforced companionship with thoaa whowj almost every- word and action \n an offence and an annoyance and who never make allowances for any- body but thomselves, and who never understand nor caro when they are hurting anyone*8 feelinga until they are told BO, and then cannot in the very leaat undersUnd how they do BO ; people who look at everything from A coarse and material point of view ; who interrupt one's most heartfelt .utterance mth a poor joke, which at once ailenoes and dis- gusU U»«| who, on tl»#qther band, if one tries to be cheerful and t^ll them some little story or make some little jest, out it short with a yawn and :" By Jove I only ten ^ o'olook ! What an endless evening \^^ -^^~- --_^-^— " The English," it has been said, ♦* keep the marks of 'the mold their childhood is formed in, and with difficulty take on other impressions." \ The simple truth is that prejudice of the English- . -m^ 0411 HOtBi. CVin»«opl« are ■p«cially Ijing-Hved and may alpioal b« naid to ijwyar dla ou*. Am«rica*i rao«t gIftiKl orator' wrote wlwly when h« Mdd I . I > « Prejodlce can givt tlW «• io »n other aeniea I , Prejudice ii the womb of injuilioe I . 7 Prejudice can nwe^ir the north tUr out of the iky o. truth ! Mm "^ , , ^ Prejumpatriot8 to the .^nj^d SUtea and urges, aa a meant of keeping them in this oountiy, the putting forth of an organixed effort to divert thejf^mam of immigration to the NorthWutt. There it ttill an abundance of fruitful virgin toil lying untilled in the tiateir province, and even th|it which ia ^ -w^'- lU ■.♦Jl! OAJIADIAN mmM. o6e«i|tUNt Am* «M pro4nM u» wiythiiig \\U th» •nUmt OmI U miKhi Im m«n gathered, owing to « ^ K, V I !^. I ^ ,4' I i CAiiAmAif win* f abpon think of t«ftHng the IwftrtU from her hooft* for fuel M of hftthlng her offtpring In winter. Indeed. I hftft •ometlmee thought thftt th'iy, Uk« the Hindoo fftkiw, bi- lleved in the holineee Mg/^J* tmftdfttion ftnd pftUor' oftn m fto<»pted ft. tJSflllr "' tap^"^^ • l**^ proportion of the peojHpl«R>d hut^ff^ every night In the yeftr. Now, the beet thing known conoemlng the oholerft U thftt Itft fftYorite ftubjeoU ftre thows who from •ov«'rty ftre bftdly fed, ftnd who from eloth negloct their .pereon. ftnd lite in dirty, lll-drftined ft«d bftdly ventilftted " ^bou«ee. Yet, notwith.tftnding the unlieftlthy oonditione I ?^ftve doeoribe*!, ftnd the preeenoe of oholerft ftt their gftti^ the ftuthoritieft of Thr«e Rlverg ftr« only now beginningto move. It hftft ieemed neit to impoeeible for them to n$k Im thftt if th« city wfte to be protwjted from the plftgue It wftft they, ftnd not the clergy, who wef« uAe the meftne of iftvinglt. The long hftbit of ftttribuling peetilenoe to ~ thelMvine wroth, ftnd looking totheohurob fordeliTer- ftnoe, ftppeftred to hold them in iU fftUl .pell. But the btfthop. ft reftlly gwMtt mftn, who prftotioftlly role, the com niunity, intimftted to them that eternftl vigilftnce i. i-ne price of wtfety, in time ft. well ft. in et«niity, ftnd th»l In emorgtiiouift lik« the prwwnt, ftoaon U pr^yerj, Mid they g»ng« of BMin lo dlggliiR In lh« •lr»«U, ittrtili»n .»v»r ••#th ilttil for »00 y«»*« liM li««n ••t«rM«Kl with ■l«ni«» •© ibill If by iny c»umio« Iho flUl««nii •*'•!>« 4h« otiolur* Ui C>fl4«»l»«Hr Ihoy iii#y au of lyphu* In }iofm\mr. Th« »4m|»U trmtfe l« ilMl In fiiiU of MimHtn«litiKii wiMnh, Iml for th« high lAlUttdo of iho lown tncl th« biwy lni««try of lli»l wUf liiMij ■Wfiipf, flMlMHiMdy (whU)l«» lilw Omi ir«w liif» Imi4 mt^nfMlMfur, MoroM to hive daUirmlno*! lo mrtt Iho Provlnoo of (junlMolnlo « h|}Mon th«lr «e»board/* " And yt t," nmy a Cmn»mouthe/■ •I- > wj 4 .A^V. ' V '■#*' *(**'" mm: . .jij i /. \ '« * J 9 V / f ' • •1 . 'Jk /* / / '■■r' V-f • t- ■ ./ ■ ■. ■ / ■ ■ ■ ■ . • *■ . I • .' ' . ' • / ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^1 ■ r ^^^^^^^H m t ^^^ 1 ■ '■. « ■'■■ , ' ' «■ # ^^^^^^^H \ / 1 ; "Si. - ' '■■■»■■'.■■■ »■'. .,;• 1 ,; ■.• • \ "' . ..:.•■ . . \ ■» • . " ■ • m ..'•■^ .•/ . ■•■ < ■ B * ■' .-* . / ■ - ■ :■ .> . /■■ ■ ••■■■■. ■ k • i ■M^HLtyJiilyii » ';■".'..," ■-.o _■. LC/ T» w^" . ».« i i lilt 0^