The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-02-22

other | salute him VITA less ceremony
These are the Distinctions observed in Amer.
lea, where there is no other arstncracy than
that of-labor and the dollar
AMERICAN LIBERTY.
America is certainly the county VI liber-
ty. You cannot dig u hole without disar-
ranging all the governmental hierarchy, but
in revenge you eau go about freely, you can
marry freely ard cat freely. But there is
one restriction, very sad to relate, amid all
this abundance of libcrties-t is, that you
cannot drink there freely every day.
One Sunday, after having conducted my
orchestra i'll a Senegalian temperature, l
hurried to the bar and asked for a glass OF
beer.
The master OF the establishment looked at
me with sad countenance, and said:
impossible sir; have no walters"
.sWhat, you! What have you dene with
your waiters!'
GAN my walters are in prison for wishing
to serve the public in spite of formal
ORDER
SIS it forbidden to drink on Sundays"
| Expressly forbidden
| II must see about that
80 run off to the Hotel Brunswick and
order:
"A sherry cob3ler."
IL regret, sir, to be obi ged to refuse you !;
but the bar is closed. All my walters
..But am dying Of thirst"
/ ''The only thing we are permitted to serve
| is a soda.
1t was the same all over New York That
day three hundred walters had been arrest
ed for daring to serve refreshments to their
clients.
| In America & man has not even the right
to hang himself. A drunken man hangs
himself He is awkward. He hangs him
self so badly that at the end Of few hours
he comes to life again. AS soon as he has
come to his sauses he is dragged before u
Judge, who condemns him to six months
Imprisonment. Ordinarily it is three mouths.
The dose had been doubled in this case be-
cause it was a second otfeuse; the third time
he would be condemned to death. 10 take
ones life it is first nece ssary to get an ALL
thorization from the Governor.
The negroes have been emancipated.-
What beautiful and pompous reform! The
good blacks are free. You shall see how.
The cars, and other public carriages. are for
hidden them. They are not admitted into
the tlleater under any preteNt, and they are
only admitted into restaurants as walters.
So you see liberty, equality, and fraternity.
Perhaps you imagine the negroes are the
only ones who have not all desirable liber-
ties This is an error. The proprietor Of the
Cataract Hotel at Niagara has inserted in
the principal journals note couched as fol-
lows: ''Belng in thoroughly free country,
and having the right to do in my house what
like, decree that from this day forward
all Jews are excluded from my house.
| When I arrived at Philadelphia took adj
vantage Of the first Sunday l had to visit the
Exhibition. found the palace closed. The
exhibitors were forbidden to show, their
wares on Sunday. In the evening tie de-
sire took me to go to the theatre. All! yes,
IL, UUU, was ClOSCus 1tlCdtlCs COiiCClGS-dA
closed as in New York. The only day in
the week which belongs to the workingman
is Sunday. He could profit by the few hours
of ease to instruct or to amuse himself, or
improve himself in his trade, by looking at
the beautiful products of two wo:lds-the
Exhibition is closed.
There is in this country enormous liberty
to work, invent, and exploit. When an idea
comes into the head of an American, it is
quickly put into practice. l will cite, for
example, the rapid development of cars,
which dcthroned the omnibus in no time.
Now the cars are all the fashion. There are
tramways in all directions. The breadth Of
the streets not permitting the laying OF any
more rails, an inventor imagined the con-
struction OF an aerial railway. Happy
thought! which he fastened to realize. Here
is what is told in this connection. lady
who had just bought a charming little house
in Broadway went off to the country, an(
returned at the end of six months to install
herself definitely in her new residence. Shit
arrived during the night, and slept pro
found!y. In the morning, rolling Of thun-
der and horrible whistlings awoke her. She
ran to the window. And what does she see
A train passing before her at full speed
THE LADY TAINTED.
Short chapters are devoted by the autho
to the American weakness for advertising
and forming corporations. He does not have
: much to say about jerome Park, because h,
admits that his skill in horse flesh is by II,
means very great. He, however, takes oc
casion to again praise the beauty of thu
American ladies, who seem to have made
deep impression en- his mind; and were it no
that this book of voyage is dedicated to Mime
Offenbach, there might be room to suspec
that there was something serious behind al
this admiration.
THE AMERICAN PRESS.
| The newspapers in America enjoy mt,c
greater Importance than liz Europe. W
must not conclude, however, that it Is til
/. Government which exercises supervision an
7 controls the newspapers; over there it is tn
: religious sects aud political lotteries that eS
: ert their tyranny OH the editors. The latter
/. it must be said, easily accept this servitud
t and even know how to profit by it. The o
= ficers of the newspapers are easily discover
e ed. If you seek journal during the ,lay
t raise your eyes and look for the tallest built
: ing and enter boldly. fiat night, open yol
: eyes. The best lighted edifice, the one tlia
: sheds its light over the neighborlood is pr
i cisely the one you seek. Behind sparllin
s glass you see the Journalists at work. Som,
5 times, in France, newspapers are igurativ
n ly called beacons. In America, it is Il
Y proper word to apply to them. Chapters Al
Z also devoted to slletchng some of the prom
e nent men whom he met during his sojoul
II among US. These portraits are touched G
e with a light and graceful pen. The boo
e concludes with the authors impression
r Philadelphia, Niagara, music gardens, ar
<. the fire brigade, which struck NJ. Offenbat
10 with admiration. Speaking Of an exhibitie
X of the prompttutle with which the fire el
:, gines came in the middle of the night at Il
1t summons of an electric bell, lie says IS
% long as live shall never, no never, feel