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Show American Enterprise. Hero nro somo of the romarkablo observations ob-servations of an American iu foreign countries: "I saw," says tho travolur, "advertisements for tho sale of the Watorbury watch filling whole columns in newspapers and largo spaces on tho outer wails of buildings in all tho great titles of India. I heard tbo hum of Iho American sowing machine in tho byways and broad streets of liombay Calcutta nnd Rangoon. "I saw American lamps for burning American petroleum hawked about tho streets on wheelbarrows for salo in Yokohama aud Tokio aud Shanghai. I beard tiio clatter of the American typo-writer iu Chefu and Tientsin nnd Swatow anil Alntab I heard American Ameri-can dontlstrv praised ns tho best in tho world, nnd I traveled with an American Ameri-can dentist who was on his wny to practice prac-tice Ids profession in thu city of I'okin. I afterward received his painted circular circu-lar announcing his arrival In tho great Imperial city and Ills readiness to ex tract tho molars of mandarins it fill I tho cavity of Confuclauists in tho most approved ftylo of American nrt. I "I saw Aracroicau tram cars iu tho strcots of Tokio nnd the Amoricau windmill pumping water on tho bluffs of Yokohama. 1 was glad whou I heard tho click of Connecticut clocks kcoplng good tlmo for orioutnls, who aro always bshlnd. California eanuoil fruits and Oregon salmon nnd Uoston baked beans in hotels all over the cast made mo fcul that homo was not so far away and that tho time was fast coming com-ing when ono might compass thu globe and find himself at homo and among his poople, nnd heariug tho familiar sounds of his mother tongue all tho way. "And tho fact that America Is so ofton represented In the cast by tho homely nrtlcles of practical and ovory-day ovory-day uso did npt m,aku mo wish that my country had moro works of line art or moro ruins aud traditions of ancient times." |