Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-07

aDIe lOur mOnllS soJOurn on dis con-
tinent. 1 feel grateful that no one asked me
this time, What do you think of America" But
some few put the question: Are your former
impressions confrmed?" To such l was able
to answer decidedly: Eyes, and especially the
impression that there are most delightful peo-
pie to be met with in America"
1 have scarcely settled down yet to the old
life, am hardly au fat of the news of the old
world. just before leaving the new / saw in
a comic paper the statement that Bismarck
must really now be considered as a great man,
because. since his departure from Office. there
had been no rumor of his having applied to
Maj. Pond to get UP q lecturing tour for him
IN the states. 1t was not news TO me that there
are plenty of people IN America who laugh at
the Europeans trick OF going TO the American
lecture platform as soon as he has made a little
name tor himself in his own country. The
laugh finds an echo here. especially from some
journalists who have never been asked to go
and from a few men who, having done one
tour, think 1t wise not to repeat the expert
ment. For my part, when | consider that
Dickens and Thackeray, Matthew Arnold and
II. NJ. Stanley, George Augustus Sala and Arch
deacon Farrar all have made their bow to
American audiences | fail to discover anything
very derogatory IN the proceedings.
THE STANLEY BOOM.
One of these lights will doubtless soon shine
in America again, that is, if he survives the
drums and the dining process here. The STAN
ley boom is a huge one. The air is full of
Stanley. His name fills the papers. his photo
graphs the windows, and he fills ever> hall and
drawing room he appears in. Fashionable
London exists at present for the purpose of
doing honor to Stanley. His every move is
chronicled; we hear where he dimes. where he
teas, what he will do tomorrow. Those who
have not the privilege of meeting him in soci-
ETY. crowd to look at his hat and the other
trophies IN the Stanley exhibition. The great
African explorer is better advertised in Eng
land today than certain little liver pills in
America.
While on this subject of Stanley I should like
to answer a question which | am constantly be-
ing asked: How ls 1t that the French, who are
such admirers Of pluck, adventure, the adj
vancement of science, &c, not only do not lion
lze Stanley. but even give HIM the cold
shoulder Far be it from me to reply that
the French do not recognize the great feats of
this great explorer; but they are a sentimental
people. and when they see a man of this kind
make, financially, a good thing out of his ex-
ploits they consider that he has his reward,
and they cannot be made to see where the
bands of music and hat waving come in. III
ClnclnnatUs had been a Frenchman he would
be a saint in the eyes of the French; but a
Wolseley in enjoyment Of gold and title would
never be considered to need niche or pedestal
In addition. II VI. Pasteur had charged a
Suulea every Ilinc ne llOcUldteQ a patient, no.
body would have objected. nay, ii would have
been thought quite right and natural: but he
would not have been regarded as entitled to
hero worship. 1t is because VI. Pasteur is
known never to have taken "a cent for himself
from his patients that he is idolized by his
countrymen. They admire in him a benefactor
of the human race, ana it ~flattcrs their pride
TO claim him as a product of the French soil.
Call this sentimentailty If YOU will. | am neither
commenting or condemning 1t, but stating the
plain fact.
LAURELs AND BANK ACCOUNT.
The French notice that every time Mr.. STAN
ley finds an explorer. who more or less wants
to be found, he makes it pay in print and lee
lures on 1t at the rate of from fifty to two hun
dred pounds a night. They note that he works
for English interests and not for human kind.
They note that he has never missed an oppor-
tunlty OF disparaging their own brave compa-
trlot, VI. de BraZza, who has not made but spent
a large fortune of his own in his undertaking.
This dlsparagement they look upon as in ques-
tionable taste coming from Mr.. Stanley. And
now that Emln Pasha has returned to his field
of operations III Africa perhaps they are Won
derlng whether the good German did not par
tlcuiarly wish to be found and has now made
Tor n dark corner of the Dark Continent, de-
voutly praying, Save us from our friends
Some are asking whether he has gone back to
be found again and are perhaps counting upon
living to see an annual finding" of Emin out
VI "HlCu tHct UlBut get some amusement, eS-
pecldlly II, when the pubic showed signs of
tagging interest, We had the farewell finding"
OF Emln. to take a leaf out of the book of a
successful and highly respected English tenor.
Once more, L should be sorry to convey the
impression that the French do not greatly adj
mlre Mr.. SANKEY'S pluck and endurance. but,
hero worshipers as they are. they would never
think OF worShlplng a soldier, a scientist, a
preacher who did not work for the glory of
his calling or the benefit of the whole human
lid Nln~A tI.aE --a n --~~l
they consider the laurel wreath an lncongruIty,
a superiority.
ACTION NEEDED, NOT DINNERS.
Mr.. SANKEY'S second volume will not appear
quite so soon as expected. 1 hear, upon very
good authority. that he is practically rewrit-
ing it. No doubt Emin's return to Afr +, sug-
gests sentiments a llttlc different from. those
which were 10 have seen the light. In public
he Is sufficiently retlcent on the subject of
Emin, but on the subject OF John Bull he has
plenty to say and says 1T to his face. These
utterances are not all as palatable as the good
dinners that John has been giving the hardy
hero. 1t seems to move Mr.. Stanley to some
thing like scOrn to look at John content to dine
and dine and dine, and be q dummy when
he ought to be up and doing. He is using elo-
quence, sarcasm and every weapon at COM
mand to stir up the lion dinant and rouse him
into some semblance of the old British animal
that history books portray. To a man who
mas supported lie several years on Chicago
timed meats, without the assistance Of turtle
and trufies, a good dinner or two NAV be an
agreeable variety, but he is scarcely likely to
look upon dining as u business in life, and Mr..
Stanley has already given signs of anxiety for
something more satisfying.
The British artisan has long been doing what
the nation as a whole is now at. eating, drink
Ing and taking life easily, while tho frugal,
practical German quietly slips into his place.
Mr.. Stanley has said nothing more reproach-
full than the remark he made at the Guildhall
on the 18th proximo: England has no room
for a Raleigh now; he would go to GERMANY"
1t Is "a worldwide saying that the Englishman
can do nothing without a public dinner to in
ltiate 1t. Not only is this true, but he resents
that while he Is dining others should be doing.
1t Is immensely amusing to watch the attitude
OF the patriotic papers. The prompt business
like action of Germany in this African affair is
spoken OF as "hasty and unseemly" and COM
mented upon as Ill itself highly suspicious.-
his kind of thing is entertaining. coming from
John Bull, for We all know how when he looks
at a map OF the world he always bears the
tenth commandment in mind. Something
wanting to Johns perfect happiness in this
world has always been a power that should
keep the nice corners of this planet warm for
him until he was quite ready to go and take ND
residence.
THE COPYRIGHT BILL.
A few days before leaving America I saw
Mr.. Il. U. johnson of the Century Magazine,
who has been such an indefatigable worker
for the international copyright bill. He as
sured me most seriously that there would be
no need to call in a collaboration il l should