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THE SUNDAY CALL. 13 Blround the Pacis Esx g in th Preside e sta nd were P T 1idly equip] Ive or fifteen d gathe: e crowd ha there was m. A few faint of drowned in more vi e I"’Armee cries re tender sentiments, rgbuke to him a ien silenc Hard t gone by Vive le Roi!” came mously from »usands of throats. hat and the ct where a moment inly written. The Ki ive la France,” ecame wild. divine right of ith an me, the ment in all of its acuteness. accom outriders. A he Bois nt and returning from d to see them not a suggestion of “Vive gorous As Loubet is 1 to cherish toward the army such cries The persons assembied ty had when the K=ig of and then the uproar was unani- Every manner of indicated a sublime re- before contempt ng re- d then kings frely lost ground in France. ux of royalty that the Exposition bringing is doing much to revive the Wait 1 the exposition 1s o will happen. There ' g but dis- content in the air that a peasant whose ther wears a cap and an apron, who feeds her own chickens and milks her own cow, should be the host of kings. For the idea in its completeness that all men are born equal is not at und »d in this make-believe republic. Felix Faure was more success than Loubet. A splen- with a great ¢ rance, he made pects a king. He believed in greatness and naturally was more 1 in forcing other people to be- imself B r Loubet is like a fish out of water. [ never see him without experienc- ng nsation of pity. He is so appar ©o! fous of the contempt that he res. 1 was at Versailles the day of election. I saw him pass of the ce amid the cries of “Conspucz Lou- e most insulting expression that 16 can formulate. The fright ene ringing look upon his poor cid fa at d s of the pictu in my it 2 cannot eff; It re- er to impress the French look the beast straight vithout flinching, but Loubet first lifting of a paw and I have seen him several at the exposition. He Is making a round of official calls at the 18 pavillons and may be seen almost any morning in company with numerous dignitaries. Yesterday morning I walted to see hum arrive at the Persian bullding. A host of little black Persians, all dons up in ther best flowing trousers and red- dest sashes, were waiting to receive him. The steps were covered with the finest of Persian rugs and the doors were hung with their most treasured curtains. The President came from the English buiid ing, just across the way, thus making the coptrast Anglo-Saxon and Ori- ental politeness very conspicuous. I watched the English gentlemen pay their respects to him. There was every cour- tesy in their manner, still it was the courtesy of man to man. They received him simply and naturally, as one gentle- man receives another. But at the Persian puilding all was different. The little fei- Jows with the baggy trousers doubled between themselves In two and seemingly wait. for permission to raise their heads. [ suppose the stories about the hens and the co 1 the south of France, about Loubet's origin and early training, have not wreached the ears of these Orientala. To them Loubet is probably a great king, for I doubt that the ordinary Oriental ir telligence, urated as it is with exag- gerated of the great Jehovah on the f a repuk- little attitude of s hosts and started in to shake hands with the whole outfit. 1 am wondering whether he did the right thing or at least if it were what they expected him to do. 1 hardly believe it, as the handshaking seemed much too condescending for this excess of respect. The English pavilion is now recognized as one of the successes of the exposition. It consistently and delightfully good taste from ccilar to garret. Outside it is not-so pretentious as many other bufld- and dur its construction it was criticized by the French for its simplicity. But since the inside has been completed all ady: criticism has ceased, notwithstanding that the French are very anxious atthis particular time to critiei hing that is English. The building is designed to represent an old English manor, and is furnished with all the appliances of a country house. It is partly an adaptation of the ‘“Hall” at Bradford-on-Avon, one of the finest ex- isting specimens of Jacobean architecture of the early seventeenth century. Entering by the main door the visitor is received into a large hall decorated with a most exquisite set of Burme-Jones tapestries, “the Quest of the Holy Grael.” On this floor is a dining-room and a weception- room, both of them furnished in old En- glish style. The carved chairs and tables, the beautiful, quaint, old cabinet, the dainty light wood grand piano, the won- derful mantels and luxurious rugs form an ensemble that is most delightful. But best of all is the extraordinary collection of pictures and other works of art. The most preclous objects of English art, from numerous private collections, have been loaned. Some of the best Joshua Rey- nolds in existence are being exhibited. There are a number of fine Gainsboroughs ideas earth, could gr lic. Th arrassed by the nt worshiptul em- is ings, often and a wnole room full of Turners. There is also a room devoted to Burne-Jones. Here are his “Saint George,” the beauti- ful angei of the martyrs, and a number of others not so well known. Hogarth's “The Lady's Last Stake” has been loaned by J. Pierpont Morgan. The Queen has sent two fine portraits by Hoppner, while Lord Tweedmouth and Sir Charles Ten- nant have contributed some of the finest examples of Constable and Lawrenca. Upstairs there are a long art gallery, two bedrooms, a china closet and a bathroom. The beedrooms are indescribably lovely. One in particular, that I think of as the Tristam and Isolde room, is a real de- light. The quaintly carved bedstead tells the story of these unhappy lovers. Across the top of it is an inlaid frieze of lords, and ladles. This is beautifully executed in color and looks like a bit of tapestry. N PTIRVATARTTS In the china closet are rare pleces of Wedgwood and Royal Worcester and fine examples of all the other English ceramics. As tickets of invitation are re- quired to enter the English pavilion it is never crowded and one feels as though he were visiting the home of a friend. The invitations are not hard to get for those who take the trouble to ask for them. The idea in having them is to keep out the rabble, so that pgople who really ap- preciate the things exhibited may better enjoy them. Several other pavilions are conducted in this manner. As the President visits the different pa- vilions the Paris journalists follow him THE DAHOMEY S5 D 50~ ~sftion A DBUILDING <2 R | describe and work of va the T and take the to compliment Whene occaston tries mentloned a llars to spend i a million de publi parade and il . w gr neverthele ¥ alw e is mus qualificat cer, who has spent untr¢ weigh and eco be called forth from hi obs ity to.become Adm ings concern! INTERIOR ©F HORTICULTURAL BUILDING = seh 2 of America is lost sight of in the more important consideration of the “rights’ of politicians. Love, sentiment, pride are too old-fashioned, forscoth, to enter into our progressive calculations. On account of this very individual system of ours the United States is to-day presented to the world as a country barrenly devoid of ar- tistic resource. At the Paris Exposition the smallest, the most unimportant nation that you may find on the map with a microscope is better represented than we are. Our bullding is grotesquely ugly and contains absolutely nothing. Every other country has tried to present something unique and characteristic, b Genevieve Green. f'-' ______’\"4‘_,_ A s Y “v‘fllflifl'flm S America appears withe she pre- The free scope eath failed not the ms are nanifest. Jhe Jelegraph in Japan. lished in Japanese Govern- neers to a fallure. In sraph Depart- ment was reorganized. A little later the as the Satsuma war nmént to a realization the telegraph. In 157 the the International Telegraphi the exten- ston of its I inl extension greatly furthered by China in 1584, There are now 1267 offices in Japan proper and 112 in sa, while thers are 1 miles of line service. During 1899 these lines carried 224,000 foreign or international messages and 15,275,823 do- mestic messages—an admirable record for a country in which the telegraph was practically unknown twenty years asa.