New-York tribune., 1901-09-16
BEWARE OF PIcKPoCKETs.

Through the Western Highlands of Scotland
and away ur between Fort William and opan
there are many hamlets attractive on their own
account and in most cases doubly so because
OF the historical memories clinging around thein'
After visiting them you are puzzled 10 kho"
whether the people there do do not want
tourists Accommodations are MADE for the
landing of passengers, and that MAKES you
think that visitors are desirable. rms olilo. ,I.
IS reversed on stepping ashore ana peihs me-
with a request for twopence or tflfeeptl0e CO
..pier dues" Then, on returning 'he taA
ia renewed. and you see that the natives ool
want YOU TO go away. Result: Signify ifhAeu'
..+ e,7en,ne time II shall be Iight."Zech XIV. T.
For twelve or fifteen years Scriptural texts.
OF which that IS a sample. have been pupilsneu
IN the advertising columns Of THE Dunoee Al
vertiser" Why and wherefore? asked oir
John Long. Editor and proprietor. about ms, ms
and he told me that Dundee man. VINO
has long been known in connection with MISSION
work of the most practical KIND, selectS anu
pavs for these himself. He thinks that they 90
ssnrae GOOD and wears Of experience have not
convinced him that this assumption Is
roneous He has spent thousands OF dollars IN
this way.
The metropolis Of Scotland has large COM
mon known TO popular fame as Glasgow Green
This green witnesses every pleasant Sunday
gatherings such as are never seen anywhere
else Here come ali the embryo theologians
politicians and debaters Of the city and its en-
virons One man has something to say, or
thinks that he has and he stands UP anywhere
he pleases and tries to say II. There are hun
dreds, frequently thousands. of persons hanging
around here and there the lookout for pros
pective orators and a crowd soon gathers.
When the first speaker is done he will fnd one
or a dozen ready to contest his arguments, and
they go at II in free and easy but none the
less regular and good natured way There may
be q score of such impromptu debates going on
a
timers have recognized vantage coigns, and
here the crowds usually gather. There is
sci.rcely ever resort TO violence and the ponce
never dream of interfering.
To bark back 10 the railroads: There IS no
competition here so far rates go. One never
hears the name Trust" applied to them, but It
is demonstrated every day in the week that the
companies act in just perfect harmony as il
all owned by ]. p. Morgan. There is no
competition and the timetables apparently
arranged so that railroads paralleling each
other won't have trains at more convenient
hours than the other roads. Fares have not gone
down in quarter OF century, far as my OBJ
servation goes but in some cases there has
been an actual increase in recent years 10 say
nothing OF the excess baggage regulation born
OF aboical ingenuity in the closing days of the
nineteenth century. Luckily there are no kick
ers in this country. The cheerfuness and good
nature with which the average Briton allows the
purse and kick himself and his belongings all
over creation is worth going miles to
There have been acres of solemn talk In Par
lament about the deterioration OF the British
Army. Lord Wolseley has told his fellow peers
that to get the right kind OF men better pay
must be offered. He and others have pointed
out that 1t is difficult. If not impossible, under
existing conditions TO get men up to the stand
I'd rlz 1izy To1t ircr aSed cpst arfe
the situation. The pay for private soldiers is as
good now in proportion TO that IN civil life as IT
ever was. II you would understand why the
supply is not so ready steady to-day as il
was twenty or fifty years ago, come up here, or
10 almost any part Of the Highlands. for that
matter, and walk around Dotted all over the
landscape you Will see stone heaps which were
once the outer shell Of cottars' homes But the
cottars weren't profitable from the landlords
point OF view, and they had to shift-to the
United States. TO Canada, to Australia to any
where SO long as they got out of here. From
these cottars' homes had come the thousands
of killed mountaineers who fought Britains bat
ties the world Ger. Now the Highland regi-
ments are mainly composed Of emaciated and
stunted unfortunates from the sluns of the
large cities A difference? ! should think that
there IS.
II Andrew Carnegie's clipping bureau sends
him even one-half of the yarns now being
printed about him he ought TO have rare fun
reading selections to his guests at Skibo Castle
Nearly every kind OF story that has been told
in connection with notable men for forty or fifty
years is being resurrected and applied to him.
He is represented doing all kinds of things
IN all kinds Of ways. Freak stories Of generous
doings appear with fair regularity: descriptions
or what he does and what he doesn't do and
what ne likes and doesn't like couldn't be recon-
ciled by anybody outside a lunatic asylum AS
Tor dress. one authority solemnly assures us
that he is very particular while another tells in
detail how his careessness in that respect
caused him TO be taken for gie
The American fad" is the latest thing on This
side OF the water. But don't try to palm YOUR
self on as an American unless YOU loosen IN
your vocabulary with heavy coating OF slang
You need not guess" reckon" q great deal
but you positively must talk about "chucking a
blum" and mention frequently that you have
made or soon will make your pile" Don't ex-
press any surprise on going into an American
bar X you see there numerous and wonderful
oecoctons never known heard OF in the
United states. When you pick up your ma ga :
zines and nno American stories in them don't
lose your temper because the Americans renre-
sented are not on friendly terms with good Eng
lish. and because all OF them act and talk nc ~
they had been born and reared in Dead Man.
Gulch and didn't even pass through civilized
territory before getting here.
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