Likes Uncle Sam

"Wel!, how did you llke it over across the big pond?" the writer asked Mr. George Walxr, of our city. á lay or fcwo aft er his return iro.m Europe. "It may be a very good country to vi-it or travel in," was the rep'y, "but it is no place to live in. Xo American conld live Hiere. I returaied home prouder "tha.n ever of the toet that I aim anA merican. "T-hieir ivays are very different f ram O'Urs. For insta nee, wüien you enter a store no one ruslies up to wait npo'.i you. They appear perfectiy indifferent whether you purchase anyttóng or not. You can look alio ut select what you wish aad a clerk wflJ teil iyou the p-rice ana wrap the paroel ïor you, but tbere to no apparaat desire on the pa-rt of anyone to have you buy amything-. Of eourse I ami speakin.ar prin-ipally of Gerniany, for there is -n-here I spent toost of my time. Ttie merehants seem to be inactivo. íiot alert and ip wit.h the times. They seem to consul! hi ir iiwii ease an 1 com órt ibove everytlüng else." "How about the tra-flers ? What acconimodations do tihey have, and wtoiat attentioos are shown them ?" "TJiat depends on their purse and liinero-ity. Iioard and meals are cheaper there thain, here, but the 1 en a:e:ous custom of 'tipping' really ninkos it imoivnt to more. ïhe -vaite.rs there receive no salary, and live off 'tliO tips givea by oustomers. "Whee you nrrive at a station you are overwlielmed with assistamoe. One takes your large vali.se, another your small one, another any package you may be carrying, another your umbre'.la, (ind so on. They wUl escort you to the hotel and to your room, placing your liiggage all thereLn, and then range tliEmselves along in front of the door, waitwig for their tip. And yon give what you choose, usually about ten cents eaoh. "Theoi you go into the dining room and g-ivO yO'ur order. .W.hen you are through the waitr must be given a fee. Ii you neglect it,, and ever go into that dining rooim again you may edt there all day and no one will come to wait on you, for the waitera all havo you on their blaek-lUt and the pToprietor don't care whether you aro waited o,n or not. So if one wamt aaiythiiiii t eart you must tip the waiter. "It is the same in restaurants. The tip gtveo the waiter ior bringing you a güiass of beer is as much as the price oi the beer, eo you see that Bysteini, rather lack of system makes it pretty expeaisive." "How about the newspapers of Europe ?" was asked. "AVhy. tlure isn't a newspapet in Europe. Our city dailies, any of them, coiiitaln more news than a wtoioHe month's papers over there. I can take up a daüLy here, even our own homie üaSy, and get news from aai over the world, froon Enrope, Asia, África, Australia, Hawaii, etc., etc., but you can hardly f ind a paper in Europe that contains any American neivs, or anything outside oí their own country. The Iondon papers do ihave a little space devoted to America, but in the Germán and Frcnch papers yon will look in vain tor any foreig-n news. ïlie newspaper publiidiers of t'Jic old world ahould come over here and find out how to get up a-newspaper, for they luavO not the least idea of how it ahould be dome. "Of course Germainy is the heart of the book publishimg trade of the world, but the. same stolid indifference existe in regard to sales. You ca-n buy or you can let alone as you choose. The American word 'hustle' is not in the European vocabulary, exeept as understood by servants and ■vaiters in search of tips. "There it is not a pJeasant scène to an American's eyes to see women hitched up to c-arts with dogs and cattlo as beasts of burden. This is is a frequent sight all over Europe. Our people are miifth better off than the worktajé classes are over there. They work les-s hours, axe better dressed, better fed and lisivo a great many of the pieasures I of Ufe ttuat are unheard of anywhere I Lu Empope. "I teil you, I am glad tJmt I am ;m American citizen. Thiis is the best country in the world, in fact the only country in the world wliere the poor boy has any chancO to rise. Yes, my trip dW me good in that way if in no other, for I appreciate my own country more tíhan I ever did before."