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men, women, children; the center of financial, military, mental,

limits of cities are not properly defined, nor is the census taken with any accuracy. But these cities exercise no especial i

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as Chicago, four times as large as New York, and his pride in wealth and power, and all that sort of thing, collapses when he realizes the fact that

. Men, women and children are all very well, but they thrive best where they have room to develop. Fo

er, is sucking its prey steadily and mercilessly. The animal lost one feeler which America cut off in 1776, and her grasp is weakening elsewhere, but sh

out of one race. Each race has some peculiar quality which distinguishes it and marks it everywhere. The Scotchman is noted for his hardiness, thrift, and stubbornness; the Dutchman for his st

in plaster. But when the Dane, who was a born sea pirate, swooped down upon Britain, and the Norman, who was a born land pirate, came also, and mixed with the Saxon, there was a new creation, and

tly goes and takes it, that is, if she is stronger than the party she desires to capture. If the other party obje

s for interest as she thinks the subjugated party can bear without destroying it, and makes it pay. She never destroys a country entirely, for she has further use for it. She wants the inhabitants, once subjugated, to go on and labor and toil and sweat, for all t

hold this country, anyhow. We are going to have the trade and the revenues, and you see we can do it. You fellows may as well have your whack in it." (These, of course, are not the exact words used, but I am writing what a New York politician would say. A ring man's words mean exactly what diplomatic language does, and they are

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nces, all anxious to join in for their plunder, and England apportions to each his share, according to his importance, and in less than no time she has a native army, officere

of their own, and question the right of the foreigner to tax them and grind them, they blo

y what right, earthly or unearthly, England holds

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w a diamond, his Prince would rip him open to get it, which made him useless ever after. Johnny Bull, more politic and far seeing, would force an emet

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though he did tackle a red-hot cook-stove," so with England. The eyes of her moneyed power, and it is more than Argus-eyed, are being strained every day for new worlds to sell goods to, knowing

tanding together, are ugly customers to deal with, and as they and the English

the Court, here is the seat of Government, here is where the great nobles, no matter where their seats may be, are compelled to spend a portion

Manchester or Philadelphia. It is where the spoils of the present organized legal brigandage

de is good. That eminent descendant of an eminent robber, Sir Giles Fitz Battleaxe, is here during the season, with all his flunkies and servitors, and the tradesmen have to supply them. As Sir Giles has vast estates in Ireland and Scotland, and the Lord knows where else,

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at may happen at home. Even the cabman, who haggles with you over a shilling, is loyal to the Cro

erybody that I come in contact with, from the boy who cleans my boots to the lady who rents me my rooms, sing hosannas to the system that brings me here to be plundered. Whe

small an amount of money in England as possible. Could there be a league of Americans formed who would refus

Mississippi Valley, New England would never have been settled, and, therefore, it was providential that the Pilgrims were so directed. But for royalty and the profit that pertains to a

t it is crossed by straight roads at equal intervals, there would be one hundred and thirty-six such roads, each eleven miles long and one hundred and forty-two yards apart. The sewers have a length of about two thousand miles, and are equal to one hundred and eighty-two sewers eleven miles in length, on an average of one hundred and six yards apart. At the census in 1871 there were within this area four hundred and seventeen thousan

eaders of this book do not take the London Chronicle, as a rule, and it would be too expensive to s

nia, in which the citizens whereof would not remark: "Oh, yes; this would be a good country to live in if it was not for the changeable climate. The changes are too sudden and severe." One blessed re

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ush your silk hat-everybody who is anybody must wear a silk hat-and you sally forth with your cane. You turn into the Strand, feeling especially cheerful in the sun, when all of a sudden the sky is overcast and you hat is ruined. You call

placed upon anything in the form of weather. Last week (June 1) it was as hot as it ought to be the same day in Charleston, South Carolina; to-day (June 7) I came in, went out, and came in wearing an overcoat, and a tolerab

th them, as George Washington was with the hatchet. A Londoner never lends his umbrella, for everybody has his own, and he never loses it

a native I cannot tell, but an American has a

his umbrella. I mildly remonstrated. "It is safe," he said, "it isn't raining now, for it was a

t have been intoxicated, for there is no system nor any approach to one. They begin without cause and end without reason. There are angles, curves and stoppages, and that is all there is about it. Where a street, to answer the ends of convenience and economy, should g

laid out in regular squares, and sold at so much a lot. London never was made-it grew. The original city is a little spot, occupied mostly by banks, but

London is dingy. Occasionally an enterprising citizen paints his house to distinguish it from his neighbor's, but he never does it but once. The coal consumed is bituminous, and the smoke it produces is the thickest smoke in the world,

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imals. Omnibusses, vast cumbrous machines, loaded full inside, and with twenty people on the top, hansoms, cabs, trucks, drays, donkey carts, pony carts, carriages, form a never-beginning and never-ending procession, making a roar like the waters of Niagara. He who attempts to cross a street has to make it a regular business. It cannot be done leisurely or in a

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gh this vehicular labyrinth, is a mystery that I cannot comprehend. I would as soon think of taking command of the British

ephants, and magnificent in their strength. They are massive, and the loads they draw are wonderful. The trucks are enormous in size and strength, with great, broad wheels, and merchandise is piled upon

estly. There is no shoddy in the pavements of London. They are all as sound as the Bank of England. They don't lay down some pine boards in the mud, and then stand rotten blocks on end upon them, as we do in America, but there is a solid foundation of broken stone and such matter laid down first, and this is filled with sand, and then the blocks, all good timber, are placed upon that

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he present race of contractors are worth several millions each. I presume in the ancient days there

light airy bodies in carriages that we affect in America. The wheels of a cab to carry four people are q

s head. Next to swindling his customer out of a sixpence on his fare, the chief ambition of the driver of a hansom is to run down a foot passenger, and in this ambition his horse shares fully, if he does not exceed him. The horses used in these piratical vehicles are generally broken-down hunters, who, too slow to longer hunt the wily fox, and harnessed in the ignoble hansom, have transferred their hunting instincts to men. When the "jarvey," as he is called here, fixes his eagle eye upon a

window in the middle, with a small passage on the side. When a London tradesman wants a show window he wants it all show. It is very like the piety of some men I know. He doesn't care how small the opening is to get into the p

They have silver plated rails, magnificently decorated count

terday. These are the shops that have over their doors "Established in 1692." They would no more put in a plate glass window than they would forge a note. They revel in their dustiness, and are pr

cessors, ever since, except an interval of two months, which was occasioned by a fire-from the outside. The house of Samuel Smithers & Co. could never have

h infinitely more reason. He would not allow a new pane of glass to be put in, and he wouldn't change a thing about the premises for the

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they have a fair price, and you might as well undertake to tear down Westminster Abbey with a hair-pin as to induce any variation therefrom. They want your trade-ev

hours, and ate and drank the same things, and read the same newspapers till death claimed them, fell, by reason of death, into the hands of young men. These young fellows were somewhat progressive, and they determined to bring the old place abreast w

mber, and finding they were right as to locality, sighed and turned sadly away. They could not eat in any such place, and they went

rs were compelled to build up an entirely new busines

o a spar. I shall try to conquer the tendency to lie that overcome every man who gets a hundred miles away from home. But I presume I shall fail; and so when

for the expense, what is it? Your passage across is only one hundred dollars-ten days-and that is but ten dollars a day. And then

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g my cheek, that I have at times added some feet to the height of mountains and to the width of rivers, and to the number of Indians, and once I did invent an exploi

approximation to truth, I wish to say that London is not o

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rker, in New York, to me, "just think of a st

it bread and butter ad libitum-you get pickles, and sauces, and potatoes, and all that sort of t

a charge for each individual slice-you pay two cents for each tiny pat of butter, you are compelled to struggle for a napkin, and if you ask for ice to cool the infernal insipid water, you pay two cents for that

ence that in New York it would be decently cooked, decently served, and done with a sort of breadth that makes it a luxury to eat, while here it is so hampered abou

first week, when you come to settle your bill. Though you have never touched your bell and have never seen the face of a servant, you are charged so much a day for "attendance,"

nows a great deal better, that no matter where you go it will be the same, and so submittin

smaller way. Your accommodations are less, and the swin

respect for His handiwork. I have been here now two weeks, and have yet to see a native Englishman or a tailor-spoiled American who was well-dressed. The English tailor has no more idea of style than a pig has of the revised Testament. You can tell an American a square off by the cut of his coat, and an American woman by the very hang of her dress. Th

. They are excellent wives, mothers and sisters, but their extremities are something frigh

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n it, as he did in everything in the fowl way, and he paid cheerfully twenty-five dollars for a half-dozen eggs of the famous breed, which he immediately put under a hen that was in a setting mood. But Captain McFadden had a son who was without reverence either for his father or poultry. Young Jim McFadden went and bought a ha

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Luk at their futs! Hevens, Jim, luk at

orgive them this. They can't help it. I presume they would if they could, but they are so kindly, so hospitable, so bright and

ect work. I can't help thinking, however, that when your hostess's shoe is-but never mind. Their kindliness and their ch

rm, with an absurd little cap on his head, to which is attached a leather strap which comes down to his lower lip, to keep the absurd little cap in place. He has sometimes a sword hanging to him, and sometimes not, but he is

and his rations, and after twenty-one years service, if rum and beer and bullets-the two first are the most dangerous-have not finished

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out conscription. Women are the best recruiting officers the Queen has. It is the regular thing for a young fellow who has been jilted to go and enlist. He thinks he will make the girl feel badly

hard and cruel place, with more mouths than bread, and more hands than work. He lives as closely as he can, but, as meagerly as he lives, his pounds melt into shillings and his shillings into pence. And finally, when his last penny is gone, and hunger is upon h

sn't matter. He had been in love with a pretty daughter of a widow near by from the time he was a boy, and the girl professed to be, and doubtless was, in love with him, but as she grew up she made the discovery that she was very handsome (what woman does not?), and she found that

and she would flirt with them to the point of driving the poor man mad, and then, just at the nick of time, she had a trick of coming back to him, and for a time

who had a farm of his own, and being quite as good-looking and more enterprising than Jamie, was a most dangerous rival to the hapless youth. Jennie had di

ny more, and he insisted upon it with an earnestness that affected the

e hadn't got to the railroad station before his mind misgave him. Something worried him. He had slept all the night comfortably on her promise, but something told

new it also. If she intended to play him false, this was her oppo

, watching her would amount to nothing. The devil is very lavish of opportunities, that being all that he has to do, and simple human nature is certain to av

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e he could watch unobserved, hoping, in a desperate sort of way, th

nd sure enough he had no sooner appeared in the road than Jennie, as if by accident, appeared,

m almost dead on the ground, and despite Jennie's tearful assertions that she had seen him only to tell him that he must not follow her any more, as she would henceforth

d she, coquette as she was, did love him, but she arrived too lat

nnie?"

ere she could see him at times, and things were so arranged between them that when his term should

she was entirely cured of flirting, rightly concluding that one true man is enough for one woman, and he

a red-coat