I fear I am now too old to change."
CHAPTER XXIV
HOMES AMONG THE YELLOW WHEAT
"The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as
the homeborn among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself."
--_Leviticus, XIX_, 34.
[Illustration: A Rye Field in Brandon, Manitoba]
Edmonton once more. Two Spanish sailors shipwrecked and navigating the
Pacific on a log, search the shore for a sign. Into what land are they
drifting? The one at the bow (does a log have a bow?) sees something
through the haze--"_Gracias a Dios_! Praise be to God, it is a
Christian country! I see the gallows!" We too get our sign. We reach
Edmonton on Convocation Day.
Most young countries for the first ten years of their lives confine
their energies to roads, bridges, transportation--things of the
market-place. Alberta has been a full-fledged Province of Canada for
barely three years, and, coming out of the wilds, we sit on the back
benches and see her open the doors of her first Provincial University.
The record is unique and significant. On the banks of the Saskatchewan
rise the walls of the new Parliament Buildings, a replica in small of
Minnesota's State Capitol at St.
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