HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT 23 



in Canada, the United States, England, Scot- 

 land, Russia, New Zealand, Poland, Switzer- 

 land, Australia and Austria-Hungary. They 

 were all singing "The Maple Leaf Forever!" 

 It is the lessons these children are to learn 

 in that little red schoolhouse, which will de- 

 termine the future of Canada, and not the 

 yearly take of forty-bushel wheat. In the 

 past, nations out of very fatness have decayed. 

 Many signs here are full of hope." 



At Winnipeg, berths were taken in sleep- 

 ing-cars that were to be our traveling home 

 until we arrived at Vancouver. The train 

 was filled with just as many (if not more) 

 different races and conditions of people as we 

 had met on the steamer, the largest number of 

 any one class being from Great Britain. 



Isn't it curious how the average Englishman 

 on his travels will find fault with everything 

 that is new and strange? Being an English- 

 man myself, I have perhaps noticed this pecu- 

 liarity more than a born American would. 

 For to them there is nothing done anywhere 

 "like it is done in England, you know." 



A friend of mine — also an Englishman — 

 had a friend who came to Philadelphia on a 

 visit. This man was interested in the con- 

 struction of bridges, so my friend, whose name 



