The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-04
Norfolk Gould Be Horse Center.

Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 30.-Spe
cia to The News; The people of
Scotland are more like the people of
America than any in Europe. The
same activity, the same energy, and
the same enterprise is seen here that
is so characteristic of America. Here
in Glasgow one could easily imagine
himself in one of the older cities of
America. This is only the more true
because of so many of our American
products being sold and used here.
Typewriters, lawn mowers, insurance
companies, cash registers, adding ma
chimes, farm machinery and scores of
are all found here, so that one sees
nearly as many American as Scotch
names in from. of business places.
Some of the best business blocks in
Glasgow have been built by Ameri-
cans, in which to carry on their bust
ain
In the country districts of Scotland
it is very different Aside from the
Clyde and Il few other narrow valleys,
there is no soil at all, and yet the
Scotchman is doing much better than
the Englishman in the way of sue
Cessful farming. asked one farm
er where he borrowed his soil, but thin
soil being the rule here he did not
understand me. 1t occurred to me
that one good wagon load of Nebras-
ka soil would furnish more fertility
than he had upon his farm, and yet
he was harvesting a better crop of
oats than was ever harvested in Ne
braska. Very canny fellows, these
Scotchmen. With their analytical
mind they soon know the why" of
everything. They are even crowding
the EnGlishman in his much more
pOpulous districts, and where the Eng
lishman fails the Scotchman succeeds.
In England one of every seventeen are
paupers and have to be helped from
the poor fund. In Scotland only one
in every 119, and yet England is the
more fertile country.
The climate over all of Great Brit
ain is cool and moist. requiring a
long season to ripcn grain. There is
much grain to cat yet, and but very
little of it is stacked. The season has
been an unusually wet one, raining
most of the time since early spring.
weeks, giving the farmers u good
chance to harvest their crop.
The commercial hotel system of
Great Britain is excellent, and near
ly always managed by women. In the
smaller cities the service is at first
strange to an American but not so
bad when he gets used to it. They
will set a 50pound Yorkshire ham, a
Cheshire cheese, weighing nearly as
much jar of jam, a 2-pound loaf of
bread, and a pot of tea before you,
when they will leave you to yourself.
This is not so bad as it might be- for
he who has never tasted = Yorkshire
ham, cooked by an Englishwoman, or
he who knows not the taste of a good
Cheshire cheese has missed a rare
treat.
Much Poverty in England,
Taken as a whole, Great Britain
does not look good to me from a finan-
cial view point 1t looks much worse
than when | was last here. There is
many an industrial chimney from
which no smoke ascends. Idle men
are the rule. The most wretched pov,
erty meets you at every view. Three
bankers, from three districts, with
whom | have talked, could not recall
the name of farmer or business man
who was not in debt. Credit here has
beeu reduced to science. II is not
based upon the amount of a mans
property, but upon his ability to pay