The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-13

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SAN FRANCISCO. Cal
LOUISVILLE. KY NEW YORK.. NE
Humbert would be boosted aside If h,
/ stood within the hungry range Of the lit
tie apparatus. It's owner honored my rib:
/ herculanean poke as ne sprinJed Il
catch a fresh shower of stones, and was
/ bestowing similar attentions on a little
1 group Of ladies ten yards off before L had
/ time TO apologize.
/ l gave up counting the cameras in the
crowd when had licked off 200 within
/ the first five minutes. Imade an equally
/ futile effort to keep score of the varieties
! Of mother tongue. To say nothing OF
/ the multitudinous samples that were in
! evidence from England alone, I had made
! photographs on bmy tympanum of every
! known class of the species grown in the
/ United States. In one coAoquy that fit
ted very briefly into my ear as l was be-
ing hurled forward by a couple of i'm
petuous coknies in my rear I caught two
distinctly antipodean havors of the Ian
guage of the worlds conquerors. One
speaker must have been an English lord
!
all the graceful menaces of the aristocrat.
The other person was plainly a hayseed
from Kansas. Now, look here, my good
man." the angry peer was saying, you
must understand that other people have
rights as we'll as you dreadfully aggres-
sive Yankees"
"Naow. look a-here, yersef," replied
the Kansan, yer CANT skeer me, an
doan't yer go ter tryin' it. Naow. push
ahead yersef. Johnny Bull. Yer amt so
many"
A VENERABLE NATIVES VIEWS.
Before the retort to this was delivered
or even conceived the ungentle motors
behind me had dumped me against a
human wall many rods away What 1
saw and what / heard in that surging
living sea and also what I felt convinced
me that the races that speak the tongue
OF Shakespeare are always moving
around this pendant earth. and are NOV
ing with a force that it's no use trying to
stop. When 1 got back to the hotel the
proprietor put my thoughts into shape
for me- This is what ne said:
Il have been living right in this spot
for the past IS years. but 1 never saw
anything like this. The eruption2 No;
l mean the tourists. And nearly every
one speaks English. Where do they all
come from? Yes. from America and
England, 1 know; but, corpo dt bacco!
now do they all get here so soon? And
do you suppose there's anybody left in
England and American
l said nothing in answer TO this inquiry.
for l had some doubts myself. Then the
old innkeeper continued: What a funny
lot Of people you English are, anyhow.
Not all English? Wen, 1 can't see the
difference between you. You must be all
ways travelling. Then you're always push
ing. You elbow al the other forestieri of
the earth. You want everything. and
you're bound to get It. I shouldn't be sur
prised If you would try to cart off Vesuvius
too. I haven't got a Frenchman or a Gers
man in the house. You English ran them
all out-wCil. Americans or English. it's
al. the same. No wonder you cleared off
The Spanish over there. Mind. I'm not
complaining. You pay me Well I'm only
saying what a wonderful people you are.
Coming thousands of nils 10 see an Old
mountain, splitting fire and stones. Just
IS it's beein doing for a thousand years
And tearing the clothes of each other to
get photograph OF the volcano. Wei. I
don't wonder you're a rich people. but
you're a queer one 10 us Italians. You're
a far greater curiosity TO US than any erup-
lion"
Coming as I did. fresh from the seeth
.ng midst Of the English-speaking throng.
/ could not help feeling that the ola mans
comments we're the most natural thing in
ne world. Here and hereabout sthere are
everal thousand OF Our people" widely
axcited over manifestation OF nature
nat after all. is not SO try rare. When
he several branches Of the big family get
together their national peculiarities are
'cally less marked than their racial char
acteristics-aggressiv determination
disregard OF hfe's usual amenities. con
eElpt for all other races. mastery selfish
less. and all the various attributes that
aid the English-S1eskiug Individual 70
Sc; there" Like nina hosr Of the inn. 7
.ound the army Of touists fom the tight
little Island the great big continent a more
Interesting spectacle than the one they
1si come So many miles TO see
A CONTRASTING PICTURE.
To one gazing these days for the frs;
s.ne upon Vssuy.us there is something
sublime however in the sight Even 10
hose who have ;Aelr home in vicinity and
save grown from childhood beside the
mountain ;he-e IS u7alh THAR is Appalling
d tae stuaoa5oss power :ha; s exhibited
80 each Eeav.ag breath ot tHe .ezsa,han.
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