Savannah morning news., 1885-09-14
ohuch clerk whose epitaph, l should
think, had been written by some lad who
had felt the switch OF the pedagogue and
took post-mortem vengeance:


Beneath the hallowed ground.
He taught the peasant boy
To read and use the pen;
His earthly tolls are DER,
He's cried his last Amen"
Or, If you are fond of antiquities, you
will go to Carisbrooke and see the room
where Princess Elizabeth, heartbrOken at
the Imprisonment and death OF her father
Charles l., was found dead with her head
on the open Bible, at the text; ''Come
unto me all ye that are weary and heavy
laden, and will give you rest"
LOSS OF THE EURYDICE.
Or, IL fond OF tragedy, you will stand on
the bank at sundOwn and look off upon
the water where few years ago the
Eurydice sank with all on board under a
sudden squall. A gentleman described
the scene and how the bodies looked as
they were brought upon the beach. Oh,
how wonderful for all styles OF interest is
this Isle OF Wight! The bay, the yachts,
the hills, the mansions, the harbors, the
bridges. the 72,000 souls, augmented by
the temporary population from the
sweltering clties-Ventnor and Under
cliff, and Shanklin Chine, and Blackgang.
The isle, % miles long by l3 wide, Is one
great dream OF beauty. What trees arch
IL! What streams silver lt What
flowers emboss IL! What memories
haunt it!
''The sparkling streamlet, joyous. bright, and
free,
Leaps through the rocky chine to kiss the
sea-"
Memorable among my wanderings of tho
summer OF 1885 will be the day spent on
the Isle OF Wight. The long storm OF
weeks lifted that morning, and there were
gardens above as well as gardens beneath,
groined roof of cloud over tesselated pave
ments and field. Fleets sailing the sky.
Boats racing In the bay, and regHttas of
cloud on the sky. The scene seemed let
down out Of heaven On two crimson pull
leys OF sunrise and sunset. II you want
TO mingle with the jolly masses Of England
let loose for holiday, go TO Brighton. If
you want to see the highest fashion of the
realm and relieve the plethora Of an apo
plectic p0cketbook, go to Scarborough.
But if you want to dream Of eternal
woods, and eternal waters, and eternal
sunshine, make your pillow somewhere
on the blissful and enchanting Isle OF
Wight.
From this scene we take express train
for scotland, and alight IN the evening at
a hotel halfway between Edinburgh castle
and Holyrood palace.
There is something about the Scotch
character, whether meet II in New York
or London or Edinburgh, that thrills me
through and through. Perhaps it Is be-
cause have such strong tide OF Scotch
blood in my own arteries. Next to my
own beloved country, give me Scotland
| for residence and grave. The people are
/ in such downright earnest. There is such
a roar in their mirth, like q tempest
in "Irhe TrOssachs." Take a Glasgow
audience and speaker must have his
1 feet well placed on the platform or he will
| be oyermastered by the sympathy Of the
I populace. They are not ashamed TO cry
with their broad palms wiping away the
tears, and they make no attempt at sup
preston OF glee. They do not simper or
snicker, or chuckle. Throw Joke into a
Scotchman's ear and it rolls down TO the
centre Of his diaphragm and then spreads
out both ways toward foot and brow
until the emotion becomes volcanic, and
from the longest hair on the crown of the
head 10 the tip end of the nail on the big
toe there is parOxysm OF cachinnation.
NO HALF AND HALF.
No half and half about the Scotch char
acter. What he hates he hates. What
he likes he likes. And he lets you know
IL right away. He IL altogether Liberal
or altogether Tory. His politics decided,
his religion decided. Get him right, and
he Is magnifcently right. Get him wrong,
and he is fully wrong. A Scotchman sell
dom changes. By the time he has landed
fairly on bis feet In this world he has
made up his mind, and he keeps IL made
up. III he disllkes a fiddle in church you
cannot smugQle IL In under the name OF q
bass viol. We like persistence. Life is
so short that man cannot afford very
often 20 change his mind. the Israelites
in the wilderness had had few Scotch
leaders, instead OF wandering about for
years, they would In three weeks have
gotten in the Promised Land or some
where else. lust as decided.
But national characteristics are gradu-
/ ally giving way. The Tweed Is drying
up. The Atlantic ocean under steam
pressure is becoming Fulton ferry.
When / asked John Bright II he was ever
coming TO America be said, "No; America
comes 10 mep Besides that, American
breadstufis and American meat must
have their effect on European character.
All careful observers know that what
men eat nightly Affects their charac-
ter. The missionary among the Indians
compelled 10 live on animal food gets some
OF the nature Ofthe abOrigines, whether be
will or not. The Anchor line OF steamers
going 10 Glasgow takes great cargoes Of
American meats TO Scotland. The
meat OF animals butchered in America
Is kept on steamers In a
cool draught especially arranged for
that purpose. The meat market Of Scot
land Is being revolutiOnized. The Scotch
men eating American beef and American
mutton and American yenisOn becomes
partly American. English farmers de-
plOre the coming In Of so much Ameri-
can breadstufis. The Englishman eating
American wheat, American rye aud
American corn, must become in part
Americanized. And here is an element
Of safety which political economists
would do well 10 recognize. Tho cereals
and the meats Of one nation becoming the
food Of the other nation. n prophesies as
similatlon and brotherhood. IL will be
very difficult for American beef 10 fight
American beef, and American mutton 10
fight American mutton, American
corn 10 fight American corn,
though It may be found on the OPP
posite side OF the Atlantic. 'She world
Is gradually sitting down at one
liable, and the bread will be made OF Mich
igan wheat, aud IL will be cut with Shef
field knives. The rice will DO brought
from Carolina swamps, and cooked with
Newcastle coal, and set on tue table in
Buralem pottery, while tho air comes In
through the window upholstered with
Nottingham lace. And Italy will provide
the raisins, and Brazil the nuts, and ali
nations add their part 20 the universal
iestivity. What a time OF accord when
all the world breakfasts, and dimes, aud
sups togetheri Il. DEWITT TALMAGE.
Three Drowned While Sailing.