Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-22

Il Sstliles.
9f Arriving at this place aftera wal
r Of rifteen miles, through scener
(. that was charming as well as Gu
r rious, felt constrained to partak
q of a hearty meal My appetit
Z seemed returning, and after viev
FL Of the many attractions of this, tn,
: favorite residence of Louis XIV,
. pushed eagerly on. My heaItl
came rapidly back, and blister
a filed my boots. The patrolling DO
T lice of the country kept the ruaC
3 free from tramps, and not even {
> respectable workins-man-no mat
3 ter what his trade-is allowed to e
o 0y0Ot from one town to another
without a description, permission
i and certificate signed bp his Mayor
/ showing that he has money to pay
his expenses, and if the gems O' 0rnleS
j catch one without the proper docu-
mentS, the victim may expect a
. months confinement. Wearing the
garb of a workman, taey not only
, took me FOR one, but having on my
head helniet-shaped hat of Japa-
+ nese straw, then just appearing in
Paris, il probably gave me suspic-
4
severe scrutiny; but having with
me an autograpnic letter from Gen
eral Sherman, | got them to deci-
pher the words, "Hdqrs. United
States Army" and at the close the
word General" which is spelt the
same in bOtl languages, 80 that i
not only worked my way through
/ twelve hundred miles of France
without any thing more than spicy
| adventures of an Interesting nature,
but nearly every night these gems
d'dgnleS, after putting me through
the formula as / entered q town,
would follow me to my inn, ask my
1 pardon over a bottle of pure red
| wine-becOme very friendly-an-
swer all my many questiOns-ask-
ing me equally as many about
| America, which always gave them
to understand was secondary only
to the State OF Tennessee. And i'm
| this State / think 4 made MANY
converts toward the good cause of
emigration. Many had relatives or
friends in the United States, and it
would have been no hard job to
/ have gathered up a ship-load in the
| fail after their crops had been har-
vested, provided transportation
could nave been made free. Ny au-
dienceS would all try on that hat of |
mine, and sometimes q sundry cat |
or dog Of the numerous horde of do |
mestic animals, would make these |
simple folk SO happy, as they ended |
by placing the same ON his furry !
sconce. And many a night have / I
hn1arn hat for 1, l.,
a gen d'drD1e, begging my permis-
sion, left us 10 visit his sweetheart |
covered with that chapeau of mine,
and returning, would have half the
younger portion of the village at /
mis- heels, all anxious to gaze in
wonder upon the man who owned
it. 1 may here explain that no cir
cuses ever go their way, although
many had heard of Barnum-and
may be traced through all my walk
as the man lCith The hot. | have new
er seen such good road. The best
drive in Central Park does not COM
pare with the smooth highway that
scarcely ever deviated from a state
of perfect repair for twelve hundred
miles, and no doubt the same will
apply to all the main roads Of
France. 1t was built right at the
start, and therefore costs scarcely
nothing to keep it in repair. Start
ing out once after sixteen hours
hard rain-and it rained very often
in France this season. walked in
the middle of the road, and at night
l found that my rOpe-boitOmed
shoes had been saturated only to
the depth of au eighth of an inch,
SO hard is the road-bed, SO perfect
the slope and 50 ample the drain
age, Ny route, chosen at hazard,
led me constantly through what
seemed an endless garden, marred
by never fence, and only in the
of the Jura did | see Il :
frame house, The poorest peasant
has a house Of stone or concrete
the latter prevailing, and proving /
as durable as stODe-and
with pains, making the handSoner .
of trOugh-shaped !,
and floors of fiat tiles. Here could 4.
see the recuperative power of the ,
French nation, the economy and la
Dor from whence sprung the milli- :
ards. AT places l found that | !
could get food and lodging for six !
dollars per month-fOOd such as !,
sustains the French laborer through /,
fourlee1 hours hard work per :
diem.
Why! / sat down on the road $
side one day, and while | rested {
my weary bones, and coOle my
hot feet In the ditch, carpeted as 1t 7
was on both sides down to its very :
bottom with soft, clcse shaven, /
Iawn-like grass, through which q
flowed better water than the c
French generally get TO drink-and r
| made fair calculation. The re- !
suit was chat the difference between \
what it costs the French nation, of /
IL, 900, 900 people, ,and the same num- {
Der of Americans, for food alone /
not considering dress and other nee a
sssarieS as we'll as luxuries, would t
in less than year and a half pay c
off our national debt. / thought d
New York and Pennsylvania well t
bnt they now appear to i
me very shabby by contrast with a
The garden-spot of the world, La 4
Belle France. Neither in the Brit O
sh isles nor ON the Continent did / e
see cultivation that seemed 80 end |
ess, people so much like the busy t
Dee-and | was somewhat aston |,
shed TO find that, SO far as it came Il
under my observation, the French
do more work than the Germans (
but the Frenchman transplanted to n
American soil might not flourish |,
like our stable TeutOn-yet, wish
ing to see Tennessee blooming az a
rose, and finding this a fruitful soil /
FOR emigration seeds, | planted as i
many as | could Of them as /
pushed On toward spain.
| managed t. get across the from {
-ier, en- route to Gibraltar, and then a
he gems d'0rales OF that country .
to get me. Your honora- d
bic COMMISSIONER spent one night .
IN a Spanish henhouse. and for v
nearly a fortnight thereafter WAS al v
lowed to sample twice daily in the 0
Carcel at San Sebastian, a diet Of &
bread and beans at the Govern t
nent's expense. At this point S
ceased to solicit emigration. prob Y
ably ate too much, 80 they let me S
Jut, but it was lihe jumping from n
the fryingpan into the fire. lacked i
4 passport, To g t either back or 6
'Orward | must have one. 10 get
me, must be known personally to
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