Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-06-01

way the boys and girls tried TO go through
the imported nonsense to the scraping Of a
violin and the shrill tootings Of 6ie,
would have made a hermit go into convul-
sions Of laughter. We beat a retreat to
avoid disgracing ourselves and offending
sensitive ones.
II was pleasant TO note the sturdy nation
al character coming out in the free and
easy way in which every one sauntered
about, looking as II he considered himself
as good as anybody else and perhaps a liz.
tie better. The harlequins we're funny, dis
putes were settled by friendly tussle on
the grass and doubt whether there were a
dozen pistols or dsggers among all those
thousands. The carrying Of deadly weap-
ons is almost unknown among Britons.
wish it could be truthfully said Of my own
people. What an Euglishman can't settle
with his fist, he leaves unsettled, az il
ought to be. But they are plucky to a
man. One is impressed with this on every
hand. II will not do to run against John
Bull, unless you wish to be drought up
with round turn" The other day, near
London Bridge, ! was looking one way and
walking another, when came in violent
contact with some one, and was instantly
reminded that it was Bnton Of the stur.
diest kind. Had instantly shot out the
sterotyped phrase, kept ready a thousand
times a day for such street emergencies and
which is accepted as perfect reparstion for
jolt, push, crushed corns, almost any
thing Of the kind, viz: 81 beg you pardon"
all would have been we'll. But | was a
little slow in atoning for my unintentional
rudeness, and my quick-spirited "son Of
the Isles" saluled me with: "Hallol who
are you now? Where are Won shown to2"
-emphasis Of the most scornftil and bel
ligerent character ON the pronoun.
glance over my shoulder fell upon an un-
dersized chap Of Il or Is, who might have
sat for the portrait Of Dickens "Arful
Dodger," with his old plug hat, trowsers
many sizes too large and turned up at the
ankles, coat ditto, and rolled up at the
wrists; dirty and with disheveled locks, but
every inch Briton, and not to be pushed
rudely by anybody. Not CLOSING to have
an apology extorted by this brave manikin.
| dived rapidly into the crowd and got
away, as il did not hear him; but l did
hear and inwardly resolved that | would
I
keep my manners" in more available
reach in future and be more prompt in
acts Of reparation. "Sturdy"-that is the
word that best expresses the English char
aoter. And that has ever been national
Characteristic. That made them uncon-
querable, even by Roman legions during
the so called Conquest" of 500 years.
They never we're conquered, in the full
sense Of that term, and never will be- Abra-
hams seed were born to rule the world;
and they have always walked the earth
with this sense Of rule shut up like "fre
in their bones" even when they knew not
what il was. At the Crystal Palace there
is tower with 40 steps in it, leading to
an altitude 22O feet greater than the cross
on st. Paul's Cathedral-which itself i. $50
in height. Who but English women, as
saw them again and again yesterday, would
have attempted an ascent like that, with
great, "soggy" babies in their arms, weigh
ing 40 or so pounds? And all for pleasure
mind you! They are not large.bodied peo-
pie. On the contrary. we have been amaz-
ed TO End them an underlined folk, far be-
meath an American average-male and fe-
male-at least in London; but when you
talk Of spirit, why there it ia in these little
people as you will find it nowhere else on
earth-the indomitable pluck that has put
the world TO tributel / am rather meek
man myself, but l can greatly admire cour-
age in others, and am not little proud Of
these, my ancestors.
do not deny that Briton is brusque,
often rude, and one may say little sPikey.
Like the interminable chimney pots that
bristle over London like the grass OF the
prairie, very continent Of ungainly stiff.
ness, and not an inappropriate emblem Of
the national character. There they are
There is no city of chimney pots on earth
but London. Only hurricane can blow
them down, and they are instantly replac-
ed. The crown.crooked chimneys, for the
"Fathers" have settled il that smoke must
find an outlet by chimney with an elbow
in il, and one Of the Grst things to amaze
stranger as he flies along a railway on
level with the roofs is this endless array OF
crooked chimneys. II is the very embodi-
ment Of the sturdy conservatism Of this
wonderful people, who go their own way,
take very little from their neighbors, find
out things for themselves and look with sus-
picion ON any thing that did not originate
with themselves find that our Ameri-
can propensity TO look upon ourselves as
1.-THE smartest nation
In all creation"
is only a legitimate sprout Of the parent
stock. The self.reliant, unbounded conf.
dence in our manifest destiny" il but
repetition OF what has been since the prom
Use TO Abraham, where il all begun.
Some new "identity" comes to me nearly
every day, now that have the clue in my
hand. You know believe Queen Victo-
ria to be lineal descendent Of the house Of
"Dayid the King" for 'the soeptre is not
to depart from Judah. nor law-giver from
between his feet until Shiloh comes; to Him