Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-18

a finished country in a material point
of view, and the people who have ade-
quate possessions there are happier
than any people could be in the mad
pursuit of wealth. 1t may be better to
be slow in some respects than to repre-
sent an unhealthy growth. The time
will come in our own country when
men will return from the far West
to the Middle and Southern and even
the Eastern States, and marvel at the
rich and uncultivated country that
they passed over in their rapid rush
for the setting sun.
Upon every hand there are monu-
ments in England reminding us OF the
days that are gone. When / was
at the Old Independence Hall in Phila-
delphia and saw the room in which the
immortal Declaration was signed, and
looked upon the old bell that rang out
the glad news of the birth of Liberty;
and when [ was in Eaneuil hall in Bos-
ton, and then crossed over to Charles
town and climbed to the top
of Bunkerkill monument, l thought
L was in an atmosphere of antiquity.
But when compared with what England
contains, these things are but the crea-
lures of yesterday. Recently Mr..
Gladstone spoke of the parliament Thai
was in power in 1776 as u late govern
ment.". And such it really was. Think
of the history of the world, and even
that of England, and how young is our
country. And if the child has assumed
such proportions already, what will the
full grown man be?
/ stood upon the old wall of Chester,
that vas begun by Julius Caesar, prob
ably during the Lifetime of the Apostle
John; and there are many old houses
and castles and abbeys there that were
built during the dark ages. Most of
these castles and abbeys are in magniti-
cent ruins, but some of them are quite
we'll preserved. They were built not
only in the superstitious days OF old,
but in the times When might made
right; and the abbeys are monuments
of the reign of priest-craft, and the cast
les are souvenirs of the days Of blood in
the good old times.
Some one has said that Americans
have no reverence because they have
no ruins. Well, l am glad that we have
no monuments of the superstition and
OF the old world; and if we had
such it would not be like us to rever-
ence them.
But | must tell about the people
whom w find i~n.England. or course
there are many exceptions, but English
men themselves will bear me out in say
ing that we do not generally meet the
best. looking English people in America.
E~nglishmen are such ardent lovers of
their own country, and usually SO over
estimate its relative advantages, that
few of them will ever leave it perma-
nently unless forced to do SO by poverty
or crime. Consequently the majority of
raw" Englishmen that we meet in
America come from tho very poor
classes who have for centuries been
pinched with poverty and Injured to
drudgery and distress. They are there
fore neither so refined nor handsome as
the families that have never been i'm
want, and who nave no occasion TO seek
for a livelihood abroad. In America the
features OF the rich and poor are much
alike, but it is not SO in England. Cen
turtles of luxury on the ono hand, and
extreme wan on the other, have left
their
TRACES IN THE FEATURES OF THE
PEOPLE.
The better classes are generally very
handsome, but the poor are usu-
ally found in the opposite eX-
treme. To people who can care
we'll for their bodies, the climate is fay-
orable to the most beautiful complex
ion. But | will tell yon how the people
are arranged rs to classes; and this de-
scription is not imaginary but real.