Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-22
The American Eagle on British
Soil.
The English Idea OF Summer
Complaining Of the Torrid
Temperature OF
London,
With the Mercury Only Register
ing 78e.
The Pauper hmm grafton Rumpus
Creating a Decidedly Unpleas-
ant Feeling Towards
Americans.
Talk of an international Quarrel
over the Matter.
The EngIishmar's Capacity to En-
Joy a Holiday, and His
Love of Sport and
Pleasure.
Talk of an international Quarrel
over the Matter.

patriotic Hebrew, wherever he might
he, turned instinctively on the National
fast days toward the Holy City, so on
every glorious Fourth does the Ameri-
can who is caught abroad on that day
look with more than ordinary interest to
the land of the stars and stripes. And
what sense ofloneliuess and OF home
sickness one feels at such time! Not
that there is any scarcity OF our fellow
citizens, for the hotels and public places
in London are fairly swarming with
them. Occasionally, too, one sees a
tray American flag Tapping its prou
folds in the breeze. aud the ear may
even he delighted with the strains Of
"Yankee Doodle" while, if you want
formality and system in your observ.
ance of the day, you will. of course, at
tend the receptions held by our Minister
and consul. But wretched substitutes
are such things as these for the wild
screech of the eagle on his native heath
and for the pleasant risk one can
always run at h?me OF bleeding and dv-
ing 10Y his country at the lannon's
mouth or the muzze of
The Festive Revolver.
so we are not happy. We were not
happy yesterday, nor are We to day.
There is great void within Us. We
had our br, akfast rs usual this morn
irg, but what an empty travesty is
breakfast GU the fifth of July with no
daily paper at the side of our plate to
give US the details of the malmings An d
killings Of the day before! \ Fourth in
Iopu,3n has, however, some redeeming
features, ana pne of these is the wealth
er. II we are deprived of the possibility
of death by the sensational method of
patriotic powder, so, on the other hand,
we are happily free from the fear OF
death by sun stroke. Whatever may
he said of the behavior Of the people
here, the summer thermometer of these
isles certainly behaves beautifully. Not
thatthe natives are pleased with it. On
the contrary. they are much given To
complaints, and indeed, dissatisfaction
with the climate of the particular coun.
try where Providence happens to have
cast ones lot is so common among all
peoples as to be, in the judgment of
philOsophic friend of mine, one of the
strongest evidences Of our general de-
pravity. But why the English people
are not pleased with such 81 mild sol
,tire IA the present season has brought
is one Of the wonders Of your cores.
pondent's visit here The days just
warm enough in midsummer to render
wraps superfluity, and the nights,
with few exceptions, too cool, II any
thing, to make it safe to retire without
having first closed your room windows,
showers, in the meantime, being suiii-
GENTLY frequent to keep the face Of ma
ture fresh and clean, and all this in the
city of London--what surprise, what
a delight, and what glorious contrast
from the intolcrable heat of
ASummer soIstice
i'm New York! Yet we are told that it
is umusu ally hot here, and so constant
and pitiful are the compla innings which
those to the manor born pour into your
ears that if you trusted in their senses
instead Of your own you could soon
imagine you were in one Of those coun-
tries where people do their cooking in
the sun, if not, indeed, in a near su-
hurb of that excessively warm place
where the inhabitants are being them
selves cooked. But glance at your
shirt collar, which is as trim and stiff
IN the evening AZ when you put it OF at
the beginning of the day, and remem-
Der that Of the several handkerchiefs
al T.; Il, tl,. If hnl ,if0
led you to fortify yourself when you
started out shopping some hours ago,
not one has yet been converted into u
rag by wiping the perspiration from
your handsome features, and the illu-
sion will he dispelled instantly. Or, if
you are of practical turn, you can sat-
isfy yourself 10y examining the mercury,
as did one day recently. This little
fOrmality was with me on that occasion
the last resort of a really desperate
man. So many had spoken of the ex-
IRENE heat that morning, that, though
as cool as cucumber otherwise, | was
getting to be in point OF temper, quite
u little warmed up, and when young
English lady, with that disregard ofthe
etiquette of refined speech which l.
quite common here, observed to M
that she SHOULD surely melt into grease
il il continued so hot very long" while
her sister chimed in with the opinion
that "the only endurable place in such
weather was the bath Ioom," could
.tand It no longer. Nothing would ap.
pease me then but consultation with
the thermometer. When, however, |
found that instrument to be registering
only 7S', and was answered that il had
seldom exceeded that during the whole
seasoD, a sense OF
Mingled Advertisement
and comfort distilled through my frame,
and felt quite sure i could fight il out
on that line if it took all summer and
far into the fall.
But was speaking OF the glorious
Fourth and Of the advantages Of cele.
brating it in England. Not the least
of these is the feeling ofself. c0mplacency
one has in looking into the face Of q
vaLquished enemy. You can not re-
sist the thought as you 90 around that
you are minglng with the people
whom, more than one hundred years
ego, you whipped out OF your country.
Not that you did this personally, but
where is the American, who, scout ut
the English pride OF ancestry as he may,
objects in the least to appropriate to
himself any Of the glory won by the
fathers OF the Republic, and he be
only a nnturalized American he is
bound to use the 1--WE" in speaking OF
the past with one emphasis that is truly
sublime. and really one must come
here and see for himself to appreciate
fully the merit OF our ancient victory
over these Britons. 1t IL said that
when England finds in any Of her de-
a rantankerous chief or q
petty sovereign addicted to making
war Oh the general government she
brings him over and just shows him
London, the invariabIe result being do
that be is so impressed with the
sight of this nation that he goes back
to bis domiDions "a meek as lamb, his
old notion that he could whip the O,d
woman out of her boots having vanish
ed into the air.
With Americans
il is different. We come, we see and
instead OF being conquered, the proud