Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-29

same compartment of train wfthoutex-
changing half dozen words with your
companions. I should not be surprised
if they wanted heaven to themselves.
Perhaps Swedenborg was right. Even
their flirts, male and female, have an air
Of cold solennity about them which
makes your blood run cold in your veins.
Their yerys amusements SAVIOR Of bust
ness. Most of them have cynic dis
gust of life, are always morose, and,
though burning with a desire to oblige
you, quite capable of making you turn
away in disgust at their GOODNESS. Then
there is so much stoutness and solidity In
their character. What they do they do
with will II they eat, they eat like
giants; if they drink, they drink like
giants, turning brandy into water, but if
they work, they also work like giants.
No half heartedness, no irresolution, no
want Of earnestness about them. Ifyou
see them walking in the streets of Lon
don you would think the world had come
to an end. Yet they are only going to
the parks.
Everybody has hobby. The nation is
80 full Of eocentricities. They hold their
own; tell q lie and stick to it, Is their
motto; and then they love opposition. 1t
is a crime to be poor. The goddess Of
wealth has more votaries than any
church. To call one a beggar is the
greatest insult. Short accounts make
long friends, so goes the English proverb,
not like the Indian proverb, friends ac-
counts are settled in heart. Nobody
tolerates being under money obligations
to another if he can help it. Your money
Is the test Of your merit. In India poor
men could live and even be comparatively
comfortable. In England it is not so. It
is the law Of tho survival of the fittest,
and the fittest is he who commands most
money. There is feverish competition
everywhere, and to be man of indepen-
dent means is everybody S ambition. This
lies at the root of all that material pro-
gress which one everywhere finds in
England. But unlike our people, whose
4 per cents Or massive buildings or curl
Gus jewels are often the only evidence of
their wealth, they know how to make
good use of their money.
Every EngIshman and Englislwoman
works, if not to earn a livelihood, to do
good to others. The climate is fatal to
an idle man. A Frenchman considers to
show capacity is the end of speech in de-
bate; an Englishman considers the end Of
speech in debate is to advance business.
They require everybody to be true to his
engagements, and often missed many
one by being only minute too late. For
q punctual man, man Of work, nothing
is too good, and there is not public man
who is not man of work. A good
speaker is not always looked upon as the
best man in ministry; ministerswho
does not work Is soon elbowed out Their
Gladstones, Hartingtons, Churchills, Par
nells. Bradlaughs are working themselves
to death III their respective causes, other
wise they would be nowhere. Reserve
power, nothing by fits and starts, is tho
rule. Nobody hates show and humbug
more than they, and the best dressed man
is he whose dress excites no notice.
Englishmen talk Of the baneful effects
Of caste in India as if they had none in
England, though it may not be in the
same sense. A poor man is Sudra and
a rich man a lord, peer, q Brahmin;
but the English Sudra can, like viswa-
mira of Hindoo mythology, be Brah-
min, not by austerities like the royal
sage, but the austerities in the accumu-
lation of wealth. An Englishman never
pardons his superiors for any familiarity
toward him, nor does he pardon himself
for any toward those below him. Vein
India have yet to learn the lesson Of
stubbornness and resoluteness, and one
might willingly sacrifice half the rhet-
oric of the country for tenth of that
spirit of self help which is SO strongly
noticeable in England. There they do
all that they attempt. Perhaps this sys-
tenn of mutual dependence is the great
bane Of our society. Joint family" is
not their motto; as soon as man mar
ries he hires separate lodgings and keeps
separate house. The Hindoo suffers, the
Englishman struggles.-Pau Mall Ga
zette.