'" Tfv ,--"-j 0'vf' kW" 'J!v,,v.;5s"-V X' vfv -- '' t 'ri ,' V,r ." V "H V"f3 THE LANCASTER DAILY ilTrKLLIGENCrER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1889 yf'Sr )i"'''! "i :8- JONATHAN AND BY MAX O'lILL TraaaUtad by Km. TwA Wmtk. Cawyritated by Caaaall A Csx, Ktw Yerk. Wa FnhtUa Mm Fwlawlf Extracts Cram tkte lae by Special At- UwMgk tkt AaaricM ffrtaa Aa clatlaa. faa! Matt Otee O'ltell) fa remarkably clever Frent smew, who baa derated hi Ul. eaatsaasttytoaatlriaiagthaAaeeaearaca. Be has become widely known as the author of "Jean Betx axb H Injure," "Je Bctx, Jr.," Ktc This book Is his latest pro pre duett , Mm saaterial for it baiag gathered daring fate recant tWt te America. aunts't Th siif alaiiua at Aasattea fa sixty siffle M Jaw earth tsasasTl, jjaawtm te large, assl I J TaatotyiaWteaal all aMraaadkktefl frmaaat te wait, Aawrica stretches umc a breadth eT mera than 8,000 alie Bera ttlwatepat eea readers ea their guard, taeaeeaa Amarieaa should ena day put te than caa of fata farerita questiens: "When te ths center of Amerlcar I myself Imagined taas,etartiag from Haw Yerk aad pushing westward, one would rch the extremity et Aaaarlcaea arriving at Baa Fraoctaeo. Het 39, aad hara Jonathan haayeu. He knows yen are going te am wer wrongly, and If you waattepleaat him, yea must let yourself be caaghWn thU llttle trap, becaun It will give, aha sack aaUaractien te put you right At Baa Fraucbce, It appearayouaranetqulta half way, and the canter of America b really fa tea Fadfle ocean. Jonathan mere than doubled the width of hi continent in 1807, when for the asm of 17,000,000 he purchased Alaska of the Ruastan la America, everything la en an Immense acalet the Just pride of the citizens of the Yeung Rcpublle k fed by tbe grandeur of its riven, mountains, deserts, cataracts, its sus pension bridges Its huge cities, eta Jonathan panes his life In admiration of all that la American. He cannot get ever it 1 have been through part of the country, and I cannot get ever it either. I am out of breath, turned tepsy-turvy. It U pure con juring, It Is Rebert Heudln ever again occasionally perhaps Rebert Macalre tee but let us net anticipate, dive roe time te recover my breath, and set my Ideas In order. These Americans are reeking with unheard-of-neat, t caa tell you that te begin with. My Ideas are all Jostling in my peer old European brain. There is no longer any thing impossible, and the fairy tales are child play compared te what one may see everyday. Everything Is prodigious, done by steam, by electricity: It (s dazzling, and I no longer wonder that the Americans only us their adjectives In the superlative. As an illustration of what I advance, here Is a letter that I received from an American, in the month of May, 1887, and which Anally decided ma te go and tee America, It Is dated from Bosten i "DkasSir I was en the point of taking the beat at 13 today, te go and have a talk with you about an Idea which occurred te me yesterday! bnt as I hava already been across three times, and in a month or sl weeks shall have te set out for Bt Petersburg and Japan, I am desirous, if possible, of arrang ing the matter I have at heart by corre spondence." "Geed heaven I" I exclaimed, "this Is a man 1 must make the acquaintance of; I must go and see Jonathan at home one of these days." ' And as seen as circumstances allowed, I packed my trunks, took a cabin en beard ene gths brave "White Star" liners, and set out aee Jonathan and his continent CHAPTER II. When a man of avcrage Intelligence re turns home after having mads a voyage te a foreign land, ba cannot help having formed certain number of Impressions, and he has a right te communicate them te his friends. They are but impressions, notes taken by the wayside, and. If there Is an error committed by any one, it is by the critic or the reader, whan either of these leeks for a perfect pict ure of the manners and Institutions of the people the author has visited, instead of simple impressions de veyage. Certainly, if there is a country in the world that It would be Impossible te Judge in six months, that country is America, and the author who, In such a little space of time, allowed himself te fall into the error of sitting In Judgment upon her would wrlte himself down an ass. Te form a really exact idea of America one would need te live twenty years in the coun try, nay, te, be an American, for I may add that, In my opinion, the best books that eiiit Upen the different countries of the world have been written by natives of thoae coun tries. Never has an author written of the English like Thackeray i never have the tBcotehbecn peinted-with such fidelity as by Ramsay; and te deccribe Tartarln it needed set only a Frenchman but a Provencal, al most a Taraacennai It must be allowed that Jonathan has geed reasotte mistrust his critics. Most books en America have been written by Englishmen. New the English are, of all people, these who can the least easily get rid of their preju dices In speaking of America. 'They are obliged te admit that the Americans have made their way pretty well since they have bean their awn masters; but Jehn Bull has always a rankling remembrance, when he leeks at America, of the day that the Ameri cans sent him about his business, and his leek seems te say te Jonathan i "Yes, yes, you have net done at all badly for you, but Just think what the country would bare been by this time If it had remained In my hands." ' The Englishman, en his side, has no antip athy whatever te the Americana Fer that matter the Englishman has no antipathy for any ena He despises, but be does net hate, a fact which is Irritating te the last degree te the objects of his attention. When a man feels that be has some worth, be likes te be loved or bated; te be treated with Indiffer ence Is galling. Jehn Bull leeks en the Ameri can as a parvenu, and smiles with Incredulity when you say that American seciety is net only brilliant and witty, but qulte as polished a the best European society, t It is this haughty disdain which exasperates Americans. Jonathan has forgotten that the English ware once his oppressors; be forgives them Cor the war of 1812; without forgetting it, be forgives them for having, during the civil war, sided with the slave owners; but he can not forgive an Englishman for coming te his dinner table in a tweed suit CHATTER nL A nation, scarcely mere than a hundred years old, and composed of many widely dif ferent elements, cannot, in the nature of things, possess very marked characteristic traita There ero Americans in plenty, but the American does net yet cxUt The Inhabitant of the northeast states, the Yankee, differs as much from the western man and the southerner as the Englishman differs from the German or the Spaniard, i Fer example, call a Yankee "a cad," and ha will get out of the room, remarking! "Yea say ae, sir, but that proves nothing." Call a Pennsylvania man "a cad" and he will get out of temper and knock you down. Call real westerner "a cad" and he will get out his revolver and sheet you dead en the spot Should mlnlstw Indulge In unorthodox theories In the pulpit, the eastern man will content himself with shaking his bead, and going te another church te perform his de de de votlena the Sunday after. The Peuusylvaman will open a violent polemic in the newspaper of the locality. The Kansas man will wait' ler the minister at the church deer and girt lailtsVay1thjaateg. HIS CONTINENT. AMD JACK ALL.YH. 87" asfcs .j On beard the steamer we had Are Ameri cas who passed Um eight days of the voyage la playing pett. The smoking room rang from morning te night with the oath that they uttered every time they laid a card ea th table. They were ae fluent with them that they hardly used the same twice la aa hear. Their stock seemed taexbaaatibl Oa Saaday after breakfast a young lady aat down te the piano, and began playing hymna What happened then I Our five poker play ers gathered round the lady and, f er two hours, sang psalms and holy hymna te the edlSoallen of the ether occupants of the I was dumfounded. la France we have men who swear, and men who sing hymna The Anglo-Saxen race alone can furnish men who de both with equal gusto. la what ether country than America could such aa anecdote as the following be teldf It Is the most typically American anecdote X heard In the United States. It came from Mr. Chauneey Oepew, It Is said. But, for that matter, when a geed story gees the round of the states, it is always put down te Mr. Depew, Mark Twain, or the late Artemu Ward. A new minister had been appointed In a little Kentucky town. Ne sooner had he taken possession of hi euro than he set about ornamenting the church with stained glass windows of gorgeous hues. This proceeding aroused the suspicions of sevcral parishioners, who imagined that their new pastor was in clined te lead them te Rema A meeting was called, and It waa decided te send a depu tation te the minister te ask him te explain hi conduct, and beg him te have tbe offend ing windows removed. The head of the deputation was an old man of Presbyterian proclivities, whose austerity was well known in the town. lie opened fire by addressing the roverend gentleman thus: "We have waited upeu you, sir, te beg that you will rcmove theso painted windows from our church as seen as possible. We are sim ple folks, Ged's own tight is geed enough for us, and we don't went te have it shut out by all theso lraagca" The worthy man had prepared a line har angue, and was going te glve the minister the benefit of It all; but tire latter, losing patience, thus Interrupted him: "Excuse me, you seem te be taking high ground; who ero you, may I ask!" "Who am I P' repeated the geed old spokes man. "I'm a mock and bumble follower of Jesus, that's what I am, and, d n you, who are yeur1 Without traveling very far, without even quitting the eastern coast of America, yen will soe a complete difference in the spirit of towns that are almost neighbors. Ih New Yerk, for instance I am net spook ing new of the literary society, of which I shall speak later in New Yerk, it Is your money that will open all doers te you; in Bosten, it is your learning; in Philadelphia and Virginia, it is your genealogy. There fore, if you with te be a success, parade your dollars in New Yerk, your talents in Bosten, and your ancestors in Philadelphia and Rich mond, Scarcely has a foreigner set feet in the United States before they ask him what he thinks of tbe country. Nine persons out of every ten you speak te put theso three ques tions te you i (1) "Is this your first visit te America P (2) "Hew long have you been overf" (3) "Hew de you Uke our country I" There ero even soma who push curiosity further, and de net a ait until you have ar rived te ask for your opinion en America. I bad only just embarked en beard the Germanic, at Liverpool, when the purser handed me a letter from New Yerk, I epened It and read! "Dun Sm Could you, during your voy vey vey aeo, write me an article en the United States I I should be happy te have your preconceived notions of America and the Americans, se as te publish them In my Journal as seen as you arrive." An EnglUhman or a Frenchman will never ask you what you think of England or France, The Frenchman docs net doubt that his coun try b beyend competition. If be enter into the subject at all, it is te congratulate- the stranger upon coming te bit It The Englishman is perfectly persuaded that his England is the first country in the world and that everybody admits It, and the Idea of asking an outsider for his opinion of it would never enter bis head. He would think it se ridiculous, se amusing, se gro tesque, that any ene should tell him England was net' at the bead of all nations, that he would net tale the treuble te resent it He would pity the person, and tbe matter would go no further. CHAPTER IV. The American nisu ere generally thin. Their faces glow with Intelligence and energy, and In this mainly consists their handsomeness. The features are bony, the forehead straight, tbe nese sharp and often pinched looking in its thinness. At times one seems te recognize- In the faces seme thing of the Indian type, the temples indented, the cheek Uenes prominent, the eyes small, keen and deep set As for tbe women, I de net hesitate te say that in the east, in New Yerk especially, they might perfectly well be taken for French v )inen. It U the same type, the same gait, the same vivacity, the same petulance, tbe same amplltude of proportions. The beauty of the American women, like that of the man, Is due much mero te the ani mation of the face than te form or coloring. The avcrage of geed leeks Is very high, in deed. I de net remember te have seen one hopelessly plain woman during my six months' ramble through the states. American women generally enjoy that second youth which nature bestows also en numbers of French women. At 40 they bloom out into a mere majostle beauty. The eyes retain their fire- and luster, the skin docs net wrinkle, the hands, neck and arms re main firm and white. It Is true that In America hah- turns gray early, but, se far from detracting from the woman's charms, It gives her an air of distinction, and is often positively an attraction. The New Yorkers and Bostenlans will hare It te be that Chicago women have enormous feet and hands. I was willing te believe this up te the day I went te Chicago. I found the Chicago women, and there of the west generally, pretty, with mero color than thelr eastern sisters, only, as a rule, quite slight, net te say thin. That which is larking In the pretty Ameri can faces of the east is color and freshness. The complexion is pale, and it Is only their plumpness which comes te their rescue after CO and prevent them from looking faded. Theso who remain thin generally fade quickly; the complexion becomes the color of wblty brown paper, and wrinkles freely. If American women went in for mero out deer exercise; if they let the outer air pene trate constantly into their rooms; if they gave up living in hothouses, they would have tern color, and their beauty need perhaps tear be competition in Europe, CHAPTER T. Jonathan admires all thai that which I net geld. la hi eyes the eae eae ceatefathlng answer for ha qaaltty, aad the charlatanism that saceeed tosaasrlerto the awrit that vegetate The dollar i net oalytheunltef the aKBetery system; te also the unit of the metrical system. I was chatting one day with aa Americea about the famous Cel Rebert lagarseH. "He la your greatest orator, I am told," I "Yea," he replied, "lagersell caa flQ the Metropolitan opera house any day, and hara five thousand dollar in the boese," Certainly that t a curious way te apeak of a great orator, a great writer aad a great thinker. I seed net say that I am bow (peaking of the average American, net the litterateur or the snaa of geed society. It would be quite possible for an actress te attract large audiences all through a tour from New Yerk te San Francisce, net be ease of incontestable talent, but because aha traveled in a magnificent palace car of her own. I aw, hi aa American paper, the appear ance of Mia Mianie Palmer spoken of in the following termst "Minnie Palmer will wear all bar diamonds in the third act" The booking edea waa becteged all day, aad, hi the evening, money waa refused. Aa amusing detail was the arrival of a geed fourth of the audience at 10 o'clock, te tea the diamonds In the third act CHAPTER VL Man has been perpetuated te expiate the transgression of his first parent by hard labor. Jonathan is a proof of It He labors, ba tells, arid the sweat of his brew crystallise upon the arm and neck of hi beloved womankind hi the form of diamonds. Te the American woman the diamond is net an object of luxury, it I an object of prime necessity. An English old maid would de without her tea befere an American woman would go without diamonds. If geed style consists In net doing what the vulgar de, geed style In America ought te consist for ene thing in wearing no diamonds unless democracy should demand this sign of equality. When you see diamonds In the ears of shop girl and factory girls, they are sham gems bought with well earned money, or real ones bought with badly earned money. Leve of woman, Innate In the American, is net enough in Itself te explain the luxury that man lavishes en her in the United Statea America is net the only country where man I devoted te woman and ready te satisfy all her caprice. The Frenchman 1 as keenly alive te her influence as the Ameri can, if net mere. The luxury of the American women must bp explained in another way. Meney Is easily earned hi the United States, and is freely spent Business savers mere of gambling than of commerce in the proper sense of the word. Jonathan, then, Is in a position much like that of a man whom I saw give a hundred franc note te a beggar ene day In the streets of Mente Carta "If I win at trcnto-et-qua-rento," said he te seme ene who asked him hew he could de such a foolish thing, "what ere a hundred franc te met I con afford te be generous te a peer fellow creature out of it; if I leso, It I se much that the croupiers will net get" When Jonathan covers hi wife with diamonds, he says te himself, "If I win, I can indulge my wife without Incon veniencing myself; if I leso, It is ae much saved from the fray." This Is net all. If the American thirsts after money, it is net for the love of money, aa a rule, but for the love of that which money can buy. In ether words, avarice Is vice almost un known in America. Jonathan does net amass geld for the pleasure of adding pile te pile and counting It He pursues wealth te improve his position In life and te surround these dependent upon him with advantages and luxuries. He spends his money as gayly as be pockets It, especially when it is a ques tion of gratifying his wife or daughters, who are the objects of his most assiduous atten tion. ' He is thelflrst te'admit that their love for diamonds ts as absurd as t Is costly, but he Is geed humored, and says: "Since they like them, why should they net have themr CHAPTER Vlt The large cities de net constitute the real America.' Te gain a correct idea of the coun try ene must go and see these hundreds I had almost said these thousands of flourish ing little towns which spring up day by day dh that Immense continent It Is no use looking in New Yerk for mon ument in the sense which we attach te the word in Europe. There are massive build ings, a few handseme churches, but nothing which arrests your gaze. The beuses in the best part of the city are built of brown tens in the English style. In the populous quar ters many are of red brick, with green shut ters en the outside. The streets are horribly ill paved. Frem my windows, which looked en Madisen square, the carriages appear te rise and fall as if en a troubled sea, Drunkards have had te drop their habits; they could net reach home from the beer saloons. Three fine squares alone break the monot ony of all these parallelograms of streets: Washington square, Union square and Madi Madi eon square. That which strikes the visitor te New Yerk Is net the city Itself, but the feverish activity which reigns there. Ovorheod is a network of telegraph and telepbone wires, en the ground a network of tram car rails. It Is estimated that there are mero than 13,009 miles of telegraphic wires suspended e er the heads of the passers by; about enough te go half round the world. The whistles of the beats that ply between New Yerk and Brooklyn en the East river, and between New Yerk and Jersey City en the Hudsen, keep up, day and night (until 1 in the morning), a noise which is Uke the rear of wild beasts. It is the cry of Matter under the yeke of Man. Yeu fancy you are living in a mcnagcrle. In almost every street tram cars pass every few minutes. It Is an incessant precession. In Broadway oleno there are mero than three hundred. The cars, as they are always called in America, are magical, like everything American. Built te carry twenty-four per sons inside (there are no seats en the top), they are made- te bold sixty and mera, In fact, no matter bow full they are, there Is always room for ene mere. The conductor never refuses te let you go en beard. Yeu hang en the rail beside the driver or con ductor, if It is net posible te squeeze your self inside and held en te the leather straps provided for the purpose; you gasp for breath; it la all you can de te get at your pocket te extract the Ave cents which you ewo te the car company; but the conductor crles,tn his imperturbable nasal drawl: "Meve f erwaid, make room." In Third avenue anti Sixth avenue, you find the overhead railway called tbe "Elevated." It is supported en iron pillars, and the trains run along en the level with the upper win dows of the beuses. This company carries every day the fabulous number of 000,000 pas scngera All the existing means of transit are ac knowledged te be insufficient, and an under ground railway is talked of. There will seen be travelers underground, en the ground, and in the air. Peer Hercules, where are you with your "Ne plus ultra!" wYeu had reckoned without your Yankee. The streets, ill paved and dirty, are danger ous in winter. Coachmen de net check their horses for feet passengers, but neither de they try te run ever them. They strike the middle course between the Londen qoach qeach nan, who avplda them, aad the ParUaa caa, who !)) then, Taepjpaleaqaart,aichaa tbCalaea tarter, the ItaUaa quarter, the Jewish quarter, with their tenement house, these harracha of the peer which I visited eaa day la eeaapaay with a sanitary eaglaeer, remind eae of aeme of Dante's descriptiens: it i a descent, or rather an ascent, into hell Iapare the reader the Impressions which that day left upon ass, Herrlblel A populace com cem com pesedof the offsceurings of all nations, the dirtiest, roughest eae can imagine. Bard by thl frightful squalor, Fifihavcaue, with Me pakcea full of the richefet the earth. It U the eternal story of large cltlea. Asia Londen, haadrede of churches aad tavern (called beer saloons), It is the same ignoble Anglo-Saxen mixture of Bible aad beer, of spiritual and spirituous. Nsw Yerk i probably the most cosmopoli tan city In the world. Te give an idea of it, I may tell you that there are newspaper published there in English, French, German, Raadan, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Chinese and Hebrew. Irecetvodceedayacu-cularot a meeting of the "Knights of Laber," It was; printed in six different language Nothing la mere diverting than te hear the dwellers of each great American town criti cise the dwellers In the ethers. All the societies, each almost In it infancy a yet, are Jealous ene of another. At Bosten, for instance, you will be told that the Chicago peeple are all pig stickers and perk packer, la Chicago, you will bear that Bosten is com posed of nothing but prigs and "precleuees ridicules." The English spoken in Bosten is purer than any te be beard elsewhere in the north. The voice are less harsh and nasal, the language ceases te be "vurry, vurry Amnrracan." If you think yourself in England you walk along the street, the illusion become com plete when you hear the well bred people speak. All tbe anecdotes told in America en the subject of Bosten are satire upon the pro pre sumptuous character of the Bostonian, who considers Bosten the center of the universe. Here is ene out of the many hundred I have beard. A Bosten man he lest hi wife, Assoc a telephonle communication is established between that city and Paradlse, he ring and cries: "Hellel" "Helle I" from the ether cad. "Is that you, Artemisia!" "Yes, dear." "Well, my love, and hew de you like it up there!" "Oh, it Is very ulce, of course but it isnt Bosten." Washington Is the sol American city which he monument that can strike the European with admiration f erheir beauty. The Cap ltel, the government buildings, the museums, built hi the midst of handsome garden, all arrest the eye of the visitor. The Capitel, 751 feet long, built of white marble, with a superb deme and majestie flights of steps, la ene of the grandest, most imposing looking edifices in the world. The souvenir attached te it and the treasures which it contain render it dear te the Ameri cans; It Is a monument which recalls te their minds the glories of tbe past, and kecpa alight the flame of patriotism. A general, who erved through tbe great civil war, told me he had seen strong men, soldiers brought up in remote states, sit down and weep with strong emotion at seeing the Capitel for the first Ume. Washington Is wholly given ever te poll tic When congress Is net.slttlng, It Is dead ; when congress is sitting, It is delirious. Little or no commerce Is dena Philadelphia, formerly the capital of the United States, is a city of eight or nine hun dred thousand Inhabitants, and I built, like New Yerk, in parallelogram It town hall Is, next te the Capitel at Washington, the finest edifice in America, I de net knew anything te compare te its splendid park, unices it be the Bels de Boulogne in Pari The alleys of tills perk, if put together, would cover about sixty miles in length. Seen after New Yerk or the busy western cities, Phila delphia strikes ene as slew, even monotonous except en the Clever club annual banquet evening. Thl Quaker city of quiet streets and sober people is, however, full of all kinds of manu factories. On the shores of Lalte Michigan there steed a town, built of weed, and peopled by some semo seme hundred thousand inhabitants. ThU was called Chicago. Onthoevonlngof Oct 8, 1871, a cow that an old woman was milking in a barn kicked evdr a lamp and et flre te thb structure. The flame spread, and en tbe morrow of that ter rible night the whele city was level with the ground. The Chicago peeple of today show, aa a curiosity te the visitor, the only wooden house which escaped the flame At the present tlme this city, the living and glgantle emblem of tbe phoenix, stands re built in hewn stone-, and holding 600,000 in habitant Such is America. In less than twenty years Omaha, Dcnver, Kansas City, Minneapolis will be se many Chicago Cincinnati, St Leuis, Loulsville will rival her In flve. Chicago is, la my eyes, the very type of the American city, the most striking example of what Jonathan call "ge-ahcadian." The street ere tn lee aa wide a the Parisian beulevards; the beuses of business are eight, ten and twelve stories high. Michigan ave nue is seven miles long; the numbers of the houses run up te 3,000 and something. The city has parks, lovely drives by the lakoshero, statues, including a splendid ene of Abraham Lincoln, public buildings Imposing in their masslvcncB, One theatres and churches, luxu rious clubs, hotels inslda which four geed sized Parisian ones could dance a quadrllle, etc., etc, Michigan avenue and Pratrle avenue are extremely handseme. Picture te yourself tbe avenue of the Bels de Boulogne, prolonged for seven miles in a rtralgh t line, and imaglne the effect, the beautiful vista, when this Is lit up at night, or. n hen the trees, with which both theso grand reads are plnnteJ, are in all their fresh spring beauty. In theso avenues, American eccentricity has been allowed free play. The houses ere built in all lmaglnable styles of architecture: some of them ero Florentlne, seme English, ethers Moorish, ethers a mixture of all three; ethers again leek Uke Greek temples, whilst here and there you coma across what leek like a little Gothle church, and clese along side mediajvel castles in miniature, or imita tion mosques; some have the leek of villas in the Paris suburbs, some have been modeled upon Swiss chalets, ethers upon the resldcnce of seme pasha en the borders of the Bos Bes Bos pherus. There ere styles for all taste The American may be eccentric, or what you will, but he is never monetonou Enter oue of these hou&e), and you will see handseme furniture, net only rich, but In geed taste. I was net astonished te find Chicago society genial, polished and well read. Riches beget the taste for literature and urts; perhaps ene day it will beget the taste for limpliclty. Yeu find here still mero warmth and much less constraint than In the east Yeu feel that you have quit the realms of New Eng land Puritanism. Ne frigidity here; people give free play te their sentiment If I bad te name tbe most sympathetic of my Ameri can audiences, the warmest and promptest te Bclze the significance of a leek or gesture, I should name the ene which I had the honor of addressing in Chicago. At 7 in the morning every man U astir and at work, whether be be mllUenaire or peer clerk. Only the idle are outside the pate of re spectability in Chicago. I de net think it is joesible for a European te lmagine the activity which reigns in Chicago without seeing it iyeuwUls99n.be intentipg,"! sajdjaii resident "a machine (bat will take a lira rabbit at one end and turn out a chimney pet hat at the ether." "We have dens something very like It already," he replied. And aext morning he took me te eco the faaaeus pig killing and perk packing premise of Philip Armour & Ce. Picture te yourself a series of room con necting. In the first, 6,000 pig a day are killed; In the second, they are scraped a they ceme out of a caldron of boiling water; hx the third, the heads ere cut off; and se en, and se en. The process Is somewhat sickening, and I will apt enter into any mero detail At tbe end of the establishment the oer pigs are presented te you under tbe forms of bacon, sausage, gelatine, ete, The various processes take place with all the rapidity of conjuring. CHAPTER VI1L American houses are furnished very luxuri ously, and for the most part with exquisite taste. Here you aee the Influence of woman lu the amallest details of life; indeed, at every step you take, you tee tliat woman ha pawed that way. The luxury displayed at reception, dinner aad dance surpasses European Imagination. At a ball given in New Yerk In the month of February, 16S3, the walla were covered with roses, which did net cost leas than 10,00a When oue considers that the sunetr. aad everything clse, was en the same scale, It becomes doubtful whether such luxury la te be admired. I was present ene evening at a dinner given in the large dining hall at Delmenico's restaurant, hi New Yerk. We were elghty-eevcn guest at an Immense round table. The center of the beard was covered with a glgantle star of flewers: roses, arum lilies, and holietropo. At that season, lilies were worth a dollar each, and all through the winter the price of roses waa from a quarter te two dollar apiece, accord ing te kAid. The American at thl feast etimat4ilhe star of flowers at six oreeven thousand dollar At a dinner party gtven recently at Del Del eonico's, I heard that each menu had a chain attached, consisting of pearl and diamonds, and valued at $1,000. In houses, In clubs, In office en cannot help admiring the Ingenious forethought, th the wonderful care with which the smallest want and the slightest conveniences of life have been studied; it seems as if there were nothing left te desire. It is Impossible, hewever, tn speaking of American Interiors, te pass ever In silence a certain oyesoro, w filch meets your sight at every turn. The most Indispensable, It appear, the most conspicuous at any rate, piece of furni ture in America ts the spittoon. All room are provided nith thl object of prime neces sity; you find one beside your seat in the trains, under your table in the restaurant; impossible te escape the sight of the ugly utensil In the hotel corridors there ts a spit toon standing sentinel outside every deer. In public buildings the floors are dotted with them, and they form the line all up th stair The Americans, used te these targets from the tenderest age, are marvelously adroit at the use of thorn; they never miss their aim. I saw some really striking foots of marksman ship; but pcrliaps the best of all at the Cap Cap ieol, In Washington. The supreme court of Judicature we sit ting. As I entered an advocate was launch big thunders of eloquence. All at once be (topped, looked at a spittoon which steed two yard off, aimed at it, and Kcrrren craaahk, ptut right in the bulla eye; then en he went with hi harangue, I looked te see th seven Judges and the publie applaud and cry bravet Net a murmur, the Incident passed completely unnoticed. Probably there was net a man In the hall who could net say te himself 1 "There's nothing In that, I could de as much." . CHAPTER IX. A word about American aristocracy te be gin with. What, American aristocracy! Yes, certainly. I assure you that there exlst In America social sanctuaries into which it is mero diffi cult te penetrate than into the most exclusive mansions of the Faubourg Saint-Germain or of Mayfalr and Belgravla, There are In Philadelphia; In Beacon street, Bosten; In Washington square (north side), New Yerk; In Virginia; in Canal street (right tlde), New Orleans, Americans who leek upon common mortals with much mero pity and contempt than the Montmerencys of France or the Howards of England. The Americans, net having any king te gtve them titles of nobility, have created an aristocracy for themselves. ThU aristocracy beasts as yet no dukes, marquise, earls, or barons, but the blue bleed Is there, it appears Dutch bleed esarule and tbais sufficient When a European nobleman arrive la th States, the American ei Utocrecy Icave cards upeu him at the hotel "here he has alighted. He may perhaps be personally known te none; but all nobilities are kindred everywhere, It is en act of International courtesy, as it were. Tbe European nobleman, who often gees te America for a dowered wife, U much obliged te them, and returns all the visits paid him. A New Yerk lady, who is quite an author ity upon such matters, told me ene day that society In New Yerk was composed of only four hundred person Outslde this eempauy of elect, all Philistines. Menoy or celebrlty may allow you te enter into this charmed circle, but you will never belong te It Yeu will be In It, but net of It The lady In question entered also into very minute details en tbe subject of what she called tbe difference between 'Witty peeple" and "people In seciety;" but In fpita et J1 her explanations, I confess I did net solze the delicate nuances she tried te convey. All I clearly understood was that the aristocracy of birth exists In America, net only In tbe brains of theso who form part of It, but also in the eyes et their compatriot Thedcslre te establish en aristocracy of bome sort was bound te haunt the breast of the American, It was tbe only thing that their dollars cecmed unable te procure them. The second aristocracy Is the aristocracy of meney, plutocracy. Te belong te this it h uet sufficient te be a millionaire you must, 1 am told, belong te a third generation of mill ionaire Of such are the Asters, the Von Ven dcrbllts and company. Three quarters of "nobility" are the necessary key of this little world. The first generation makes tbe mill ions, the second generation Is parvenue, the third Is orriveo. In the eyes of thete jioeplo te ha 0 from tblrtyfcr forty te fifty thousand dollars ej car is te be in decent poverty. Te have two or three hundred thousand dollars a year is te be In easy circumstances. The third aristocracy Is tbe aristocracy et talent, literary and artistie society. This third aristocracy U incontestably the first, if jeu alii excuse tbe IlibcrnlanUm. I de net think that oue could find any where, or even imagine, a society mere re fined, mero affable, mera hospitable, mere witty or mere brilliant I should like just here te Indulge In a string of adjectives dTter the fashion of Mme. de Sevigne. One of the consequences of the position which woman takes in the United States is, that in geed American drawing rooms con versation Is never dull. "If I vtore queen," exclaimed Ume, Ro Re camler ene day, "I would command Mme, de Stacl te talk te me all day long." Ons would lile te be nble te glve the same order te plenty of American women. In their com pany conversation never flags and always re mains within the domain of rauserle; they glide lightly from one subject te another, ex tracting something fresh from each, pas from the serious te the gay, even te tbe frivo lous without becoming commonplace, sear again te lefty heights, bus de net disdain ' come down te gossip for a mUmte or twuiJgji' taa without a grain of affectation, but with charm et naturalness that I delightfully wiaalag. Freach woman are the only one I knew who caa compare with the American lady ta charm of conversation, and evca then 1 am obliged te admit two things: that the Ameri can women of intellectual society are often mere natural than their French rivals, and that they make les effort te charm. In a word, with them you are amiable without having te be gallant, and none of these stereotyped compliments, which te often spoil the charm of a conversation between a maa and a woman, are expected of you. The Americans, and that in every station of life, have almost always three name: en CbaJsttan name and two family ene: Geerge Washington Smith, Benjamin FrankKa Jenes, William Tell Brown. I should net have been astonished te make th acquaint ance of a Mr. Napeleon Bonaparte Roblnsea. The celcbritle de net escape It any mera than the rest: Henry Wadawerth Langteliew, Jehn Groealcaf Whlttler, Oliver Wendell Helmes, Thern Bailey Aldrich, Richard Wataea Glider, Jame Ruaell Lewell, Ralph Walde Emersen, Henry Ward Beecber, eta., ete, Caa one net aee tnthcae double name a title which the father thinks he confers ea Ui child at the baptismal font! I All new secletie have the same weak Beast. On the morrow et the Revolution, aid w net call our children Epamtnenda, Leonid, Darius, Napeleon, etel I Every American with the least self respect I colonel er Judge. I Few eacape It, aa Mark Twain once re marked of the decorations of the Lrglen of Hener. We are quite, Mark. America ba hundred Ume aa many oetonel aa wa have kalghta of the Legien of Hener. I When you are presented te a gentleman, tn an American drawing room, and you hava unfortunately net caught his name, there I e need te try and repair the evil; call htm "Colonel," nine times out of ten It la safe; if luck should be against you, call htm "Judge," and you are pretty sure te be right 1 If, however, pursued by the fate, you should discover that your Interlocutor la neither colonel nor Judge, you have another resource; call him "Professer," and you are out of the difficulty; aa American always professes something, an art, a religion, and you are risking nothing. I I met a few American colonels who had recently been promoted "mister" They Were se proud of their new title that they in fated en being addressed thu " CHAPTER X I am afraid It will make my readers' Up water, but here I a list et some American fortune aa I hara heard them atatedi Beau at! Nam Capital. J. deuld , 178,000,090 J. W, atackay 100,600,090 aVaadarbUt 115,000,000 8. P. Jenes 100,000,000 X J. Aster 80,000,030 A. T. Stewart. 0,000,009 AaBeanett 10,00,00 ls,TM,000 11,(00,099 tsBO,oae 6090,000 4600,090 8,000,009 1,U0,0 Theso are the prince of th Lead of the Dellar. The larges English fortunes fall abort of these figure The Duke of West aalnstera 1 reckoned atrenly 180,000,000, that of the Duke et Sutherland at 830,030,000, the Duke of Northumberland ha 825,000,000, aad the Marquis of Bute 30,000,000. It is in mine aad railway especially that the poleasal American fortune have been made. I have net loon the town house or the country bona of Mr. Oeuld; but I knew that la the ground of th latter .stand eoneerva eeneerva eoneerva teri estimated te be worth 8250,000. 1 trust thl wu' jiven Idea of what th rest maybe, X camx, guarantee that Mr. Gould la happy man. v Concerning immense fortune a witty American friend, rich in moderation, and a great philosopher, aald tern eae day: "Ne man can own mere than million dollar Whoa hi bank account outgrows that, he doe net own It; it own him, and ha become it slave." Tbe Americans, bavtngne king in our sense of the word, meke the meat et tbe they have, republicans though they be. Te read the pedigrees, published in full every tlma a death occurs in one et these rich families, I highly entertaining. A Mr Aster died while I was In America, and, after the enumeration of her chasms and virtues, which were many, came the list of Jehn Jacob from whom her husband had spnfng. The Asten were all Jehn Jacob apparently, and were montlenod a Jehn Jacob I, Jehn Jacob II and Jehn Jacob LU. The line doe net go beck very far, Jehn Jacob I having gene te America a a peer emigrant early In this century, I bellove, and laid tlMffouctla tlMffeuctla tlMffouctla tienof the present grandeur of bb house by trading In fur It will net de te Inquire tee closely into the way in which aeme et America' millionaire have amassed wealth. Strange stories are told et men ae grasping that tbey stepped at nothing, even te the ruining of their own son When I aaw Mr. Bronsen Heward's clever play, "Tbe Henrietta," in which be portrays a son se madly engrossed by the ex citement of gambling en the stock exchange as te try and absorb hi father's millions, I thought tbe picture waa overdrawn, Ameri cans, however, told me that the case woa-fal-terical, but with the character reversed which made It still mere odious. As for the colossal fortunes of railway kings, It Is well known tlew thousand of small one go te make them, hew the rich man' poleco ia tee often built with tbe stones et hundreds et ruined home There Is no ether name than "king" used in speaking of the few great financiers, who held the bulk of the rail way stock in America, But they are net the only one There are oil kings, copper kings, diver kings, and I knew net what ether majesties in America, and when you ace tbe power possessed by these, and tbe numberless trusts, combina tions and peels, a power pressing often very closely en the million, you wonder hew the Americans, who found ene king ene tee many, should submit se patiently te being governed by score CHAPTER XL Tbe liberty enjoyed by American girls as tonishes tbe English as much as tbe liberty et the EngUUs girl surprises the French. Frem (he age of 18, the American girl is allowed almost every liberty. She takes the ether Sbe can travel oleno, and go te concerts and even te theatre unattended by a chaperon. 1 Sbe is supplied with pocket meney, which she spends at her own swoet will in bonbons, knlckknacks and jewelry. If there is noue left for the milliner and dressmaker, papa is coaxed te pay them. She visits and receives whom she pleases I mean theso a be plcose her. She bes bcr own clioet acquaintance If, at a bell, sbe.mect with a young man who takes her fancy, I de net cay touches her heart, she say te him: "I am at home en such a day; ceme and tee me," Next day be ma Bend her a ticket for a theatre and be her escort for tbe evening. He may bring ber flowers, offer her refreshment of ter the play, and take her bome in a carriage la America, all this seems te be the roost nat ural thing ti the world. This leads te no in timacy, for a few days biter it may happen that he meets the young lady at a ball, and she comes un te him. oral cant "I vanloek present you te a friend j de tell - -Ut 4aur. same, I qulte forget It" --l-Hana Pianos and I Tbe American girl, jlMUm, wMea wa win French se giddy andean, Sheet Mus'e and sfuilcU teact ctert&;K'V' sense. Tire AT cannot. Vn-mlr- TahnnAn W i says b.- xuiji. uuwiauii 4 uus 24 WS8X KIHfJ STRUT, " I1AMCASTKB.PA P. . Ptaaea aaa Furniture Moved, eta epr of rrad..', BakafaNtw Walts. "ita WfeaKema.'' waWyMw QMva my ball partner who flaasa tmt , "' " '- rt t-j my imlag alas in the drawing room te take a liberty WMh i me, ha would ba aa ill bred fellow, aaal I weum an nun properly shown eat af rat boas, aad certainly HI net for each Mb that 1 aheald cheat ay habit" la train, where thataata are eeastraaM toheUtwopersoaa,youwiass ska liarl caa sk a place from one aad of tetraaate the ether before ha will go aad seat eJaaeaat bytbesideofayeaagcIrL HewBlealyaa se when there Is no help for H. Ihavesaaay time noticed mea ataadiag apta th leeal trains, rather thaa rua the riakef laeesa laeesa laeesa modingayeung girl by ahariaf aatat wtaV her. AadlaMBotapsaMafaewof faawa menotUy,butefmbloogtogtothBsAaH if net lower, cits if the word "cleaj" aaa be used speaking of Amerlcaa With what pleasure I remember the yeaag Amarieaa girl whom I ctcceatoeally mat a Parisian parties la my youthful day Thaa pretty, bright face, their aleaaaea, thaw unconventional charm of saaaaer aad aaa mated, natural conversatlea all thaw aa- i - chanted me. One never felt awkward wtta them. Whereas wHh a French yeaag gW I , oeuld generally Aad nothing but absurd aeav aaenplacea te y, In the presence et Jaa athana merry maiden I lest mytimldHy, and oeuld chat away with aa little embarrasa embarrasa ment aa I would with young brother efaaar of my regiment The American girl I still without rival ta , Partataa drawing resea where aha ia saere and mere sought after. Maa seek bar for har gayety, wit or beauty; mothers leek favor ably upon ber for ber dollar; thayeaager women ter ber te shreds-Bethiag hi waa' iiig te ber (access, And what spirit there wa m thair daao daae iagl What aalmatienl What eye lit aa with pleasant Net BtemeaV flaafrtaa,' they danced with aa much upplsaaaitlia themenu wat the beginning of the area- , lag. And why set, indeed! Such plsasam are harmless, and it bnotbecanaaawesasm ha danced much in her girlhood 'that aha aheald lead her husband a dance, waenaae aaa one. Geed scholar are aa easy te discover la the recreatlba ground aa ia the cUas room. The morality of a youth i tn direct prpporUea te the delight he take in play; that Of a girl may be measured by ber gayety and high spirit I shall never forget a young Amerlcaa girl who sat at the same table aa myself ea beard the steamer. The dear child, who waa about 17, performed predigie I oeuld acarealy be Have my eyes, and watched her with Barer flagging Interest What appetite! What a little table d'hete egress! I trembled for ear supplle and wondered whether taaoesapaay had foreseen the danger. First of all, at 7 in th morning, tea aaa bread aad butter wa taken te the baaer eae In ber cabin. At half-past 8 aha faraak fatted. At thl meal, ah generally watt straight through the bOi of far At 11, ab'v had beef tea and bleculta brought te har ea deck. Ixmch tune feuad her rajuly far thTM course et aplld feed, betides pastry, "iratt, ete. At 0 o'clock, she did valiantly agela, and at lOshewa regularly served with Welsh rarebit, or aeme ether tasty triaa. Notwithstanding this, I rarely mat har ea deck, or la the corridors, but aba waa munch ing sweats, gingerbread or choeelat'' After all, there are ae few distraction am beard shlpl Mea smoke, play poker, or nv'; dulge ia a MtUe betUag oatheraaof taa'J ship. Berne people sleep, seme try te aatak, but unsuccessfully! ethers read;aem aaaba .' knit The American girl aat The American gud likes bub1 society far eeveral reason First, bscaass aha is watt educated and able te talk ea aJavataUtepie Bea caa tau aaiekkaachs aad pretty aea- ease, but U ah knew bow te deaeriba Itmih minnlnMa hnnnatn teW b,.ta 1- IU. ' W. she can also tell yea all about Octave WsaaV Ieta latest novel, or area Herbert latest work. ebelTkasmenaaeciety, I it enlarge hercirclaef cqaaintMeas, aad alai because it increases berchaaoaaet stak ing geed match. Ne matter hew much of a bntterflv aha mav be. sba ump sight of tbe future. She does netaajr, aaabe siu musing en marriage: "tvuatkmdef maa shamsultr but "What kind of meatball I choesol" The constant aspiration of these young re publicans is te be one day countess, marobiou marebiou marobieu oss or ducbes The number of European coat of arm which hava been taken out et pawn, or re gllt, with American dollars, ti enormeu Net long age, writer en the ataff et The Pari Figare counted, among the guest ta oaeef the most select drawing room of the Faubourg Salat-Germaln, thJrty-eeven Amar lean ladle bearing thirty-eeven names of tbe meat authentle French nobility. Te a ma only these which are present at the memes in my memory, the Princeaw Marat, mother et the Ducbesse de Mouchy, Is Amerlcaa; the Marquise de Chassoleop-Laubat is Amerlcaa; the Cemtesse de Saint-Renan, la Geaeralatte Charette, the Cemtesse da Chevigue aad the Comtesso de Oaaay are American The daughters of the great democracy bare be come net only French ia heart, but aereyaV 1st as tbe most ultramontane et our eat dea agcr Every ena knows bow many Amarieaa women the English aristocracy ceunta ia Ka besom, and that that most Tery and meat powerful political association, called the Primnee league, originated with Lady Ran Ran eolph Churchill, the young and hnndarsaa daughter of Mr. Jereme et Nsw Yerk, That passion for rich marriage "which burn in tlA heart of se many young Asser lean women, often leads them te dlaastreas result It ene may trust one's eye, American law allows young girls th marry their grand fathers, or at least the conteteporarios of these werthte It is net rare, I may say It' Is quite com mon, te aee girls et 18 and SO married te mea et TO and ever. An Amerlcaa told me that he once went a long Journey in the same railway car with aa infirm, hoary old man of SO, who waa accoas acceas raiiled by a girl of scarce mero than SO. This young woman was strikingly beautiful. My American friend admitted te ma that the sight of ber lovely" fae7"bs4the aBfaet af making him fall qulte la love with bar be fore their Are days' Journey was ever. Ba did net have an opportunity of coo versing with her; but en arriving at their frf-in-tien, he resolved te put up at the same hotel as the old man, se a te perhaps hava a chance of making mero ample acquaintance with his fair charge, Te find out the aasaa et the young girl and ber venerable grand father, he waited te sign his name fas the hotel register, until the pctrUrch had ia- tiaaajsaa scruxnnis own. imagine ma teeungs wnea tnr gSjftH uuroeu: -oue. r. v . j j- .rella at) -m. w uuu nut- iitaiisil Here is a Joke that I culled from .p the p bve Incten nancr. Isita. total "'"l0. ?? 7i i! 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