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residents in England owe great debt Of
gratitude. They taught the English re-
spect for France, and the French respect
for England. They helped, by their
writings, to make the people of the two
countries understand each other better.
They were the real engineers of the Chan
mel tunnel, as l once heard the late Lord
Houghton call them.
Besides the French Benevolent society
and the French hospital, there are now
in London and in the provinces many
French clubs and associations, which
prove that the French in England no
longer shun one another's company, but.
on the contrary, seek it.
In these clubs and societies, where the
French can be seen at home, as il were,
their characteristics come out in full
light. Gayety and good fellowship reign,
but tempered-if one may say so--by
the little national fittings, Jealousy and
yearning after elect "a titles These So
cieties, we see, are subdivided into sec
tons, committees, commissions. ETC.,
each having a president, vice presi-
dent, treasurer,a .retaire rapporteur,
a secretaire archivi-. and what not.
For that matter, you will never zee
half dozen FreI men meet round
table for the discussion of anything but
a good dinner without appointing one of
their number president, another vice
president, etc. Each one must have a
title; and if there are six members, and
only five titles to be dispensed, the one
who is left out sends in his resignation,
and goes about abusing the other five.
1t seems up to now as if the republic had
failed to make the French people real
republicans We are destitute of the
first requisites of a republican-respect
and obedience to elected governors, and
Difference to the voice of the majority.
Universal suffrage may be absurd q
think it is); but having chosen to estab-
fish it, we should abide by its decisions,
whether they concern the government
of society or of nation am afraid
it is our misfortune to have made re-
public before we had made republicans
of ourselves. However this may be, the
French societies in England are doing
good work, especially the society of
French teachers, whose aim is to improve
the teaching of French in England, and
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genius displayed IN the handing. NO
body, imagine, reads Shakespeare or
the Bible for the sake of many filthy pas
sages. None the less every man of taste
regrets the prostitution of such genius
as Zola's to such an unworthy cause.
An undergraduate was complaining to
me one day that no good French modern
novel could be obtained at Oxford. "All
we can find in the French department of
our booksellers" ne said, ''are the works
of NJ. lola. There are piles of La
Terre.'
"Well, my dear sir" l interrupted,
docs it not strike you that booksellers
are tradesmen, and that they of course
keep the articles that are wanted? If
there was no demand for La Terre,'
there would be no supply, and you
would not see piles of the book"
The manager of great French book
selling firm in London told me once that
his firm alone had received orders for
more than ten thousand copies of "La
Terre" in England.
don't wish to get up case against
the English people. Judge for yourselves;
l have stated facts.
l assert that, to those who will look at
us without bias, we must appear in our
true light the happiest and most home
loving people among modern nations.
The Frenchman's wife and children
are his alteration. The former is his
friend and confidante, who thoroughly
enters into his aims and aspirations, and
knows to franc the amount of his &C
count in the bank. The latter are rays
of sunshine which brighten his daily
life more than any gold could ever do
Rich in the love and camaraderie of his
dear ones, and in the things which he
knows how to do without, he clings to
his home and country, and gets the full
enjoyment out of the blessings that
heaven sends him, but has no desire to
grasp more than his share, and signs not
after wealth.
Oh! that his critics would look more
at his qualities which are great, and less
at his defects which are infinitesimal
compared with them, and which, for the
most part, are but the exaggeration of
them.
What is his narrowness but the out
growth of his love of home? What is
his overdone interest in women but the
outgrowth of his warmth of heart?
Look at his foremost place in the ranks
of art, science and literature; look at
his magnanimity in conquest, bravery
in danger, pluck in adversely. Look at
the worlds work done by him. He is
prouder of his Pasteur than of the great
Napoleon, not because he has saved the
silkworm industry of France and Italy
from destruction, and taught the French
wine makers to quickly mature their
wine; not because he has effected an
enormous improvement and economy in
the manufacture of beer, and has rescued
the cattle of Europe from the peculiarly
fatal disease of anthrax; not because he
has conquered that horrible monster,
Rabies, but because the great savant has
shown his perfect disinterestedness by
offering his services as free gift to his
native country, and indeed to all man.
kind.
1 have lived many years in England;
have Travelled great deal in Europe and
in America. The day on which meet
more happy, home loving couple than
my countryman Jacques Bonhomme and
his dear wife-then l will let you know.
THE END.
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January, 1888, from the pulpit in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle.
'Show me the dress of a people, and l
will tell you what their morals are" ex-
claimed the famous Rev. DR.. Talmage.
AS it was evident, from what had gone
before, that the reverend doctor was
going to speak of France, vision of my
country people rose to my minds eye. l
thought of the industrious, orderly, vir
tuous, sober, thrifty millions-the men
in their always suitable clothing, never
aping that of the class above; the wom-
en- in their simple costumes. which.
whether those of the picturesque Bou-
logne or Granville fishwives, the peas
ants of Normandy, Brittany, Burgundy,
Picardy, Champagne, or the south, are
always models of neatness, simplicity
and suitability, from the crown of the
picturesque cap to the sole of the strong,
sensible shoe. l then remembered the
trim little seamstress, milliner, dress
maker, or shopgirl, in her natty dress,
frightened up by pretty bonnet on
Sunday, but never decked with cheap
limitations of what her employers wear.
There was grand illustration of the
point the reverend doctor wanted to
make.
Did he use it? Not hel
Passing over the great country and
the people who should represent France,
he goes to Paris-a cosmopolitan town,
where the good or bad tastes of visitors,
aye, and even their vices, are catered to
and calling its inhabitants The French,
he proceeded to censure them, and Ia
mented that their eccentricities in dress
should be followed by the women of
other countries. He passed over the
fact that, in the best Partisan society,
when ladys street dress calls forth the
highest admiration, that admiration is
invariably expressed by such words as:
"How exquisitely simpler
Was not this fine opportunity the
doctor neglected of giving hint to his
countrywomen?
When, copied in vile stuff and unar-
tistic colors by clumsy fingers, the crea-
tons of Partisan milliners reappear all
over the world, they are often eccentric
enough, Iadmit-another form of French
as she is "traduced"-and it is no Won
der that reverend doctors are found to
frown on them; they shock none more
than the rench themselves.
After all, l suppose it is little wonder
that outsiders should know so little of
the French. French life is so, so exclu-
sive! The passing visitor to our shores
gets no opportunity to judge of his hosts
real character. AS nation we are
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to help honorable and intelligent com

to help honorable and Intelligent COM
patriots.
Now, something about Frenchmen
you may come across in England.
There is a type of Frenchman who,
after residing ten, fifteen, twenty years
in England, cannot speak English. He
is proud of it, and sometimes wonders
that, with SO many Frenchmen in Eng
land, the English do not all speak French
by this time But he will tell you that
the English have no aptitude for lam
guages Although he has lived five
years in thesame apartments, could you
believe that his landlady still compels
him to give his orders in English? He
receives his paper from France every
day, and avoids reading an English one.
Why should he try to perfect his knowl-
edge of the English language? He
knows he speaks it badly, but he assures
you that you require very few words to
make yourself understood of the people.
This worthy Frenchman carries his
patriotism to the extent of buying all his
clothing in France. He would not for
the world invest in a cravat or pair of
gloves of English manufacture. He de-
clares it impossible to wear English gar
ments, and almost impossible to wear
out French ones. Besides, he does not
see why he should not give his country
the benefit of some of the guineas he has
picked up in England. Like every child
of France, he has the love of fine linen,
and, in his opinion, the article is only to
be found on the other side of the chan
mel. So he goes about in his narrow
, brimmed hat and rundown collar, fast
ened low in the neck, and finished off
with tiny black tie, large expanse of
skirt front, and boots with high heels
and pointed toes. He holds his head
high, is always smiling and happy look
ing.
AS he goes along the street he hears
people whisper, "There's Frenchman"
But, far from objecting to that, he rather
likes it, and l admire him for it. He
likes the English and recognizes their
solid qualities; but, as he possesses many
of his own, he keeps to his native stock,
and never tries to initiate the English
man either in his habit or his dress. If
his English vocabulary is of the most
limited, his knowledge of England is still
more SO. One of this type, and a London
correspondent of Partisan paper, once
wrote to his editor that lord Salisbury
yesterday kissed the queens hands on his
appointment as leader of her majesty's
opposition" Another remarked that
English boys are more respectful to their
fathers than French ones, and, to prove
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
R. KLETTING.
An Architect Who Has Doomed With Salt
Lakes Boom.

r. Kletting, the well known architect
whose rooms are in the Hooper & Eldredge
building, is concluding highly prosperous
year, and already is up to his ears in work,
laying out plans for the coming season.
Mr. Kletting has placed the stamp of his
genius on many new buildings which have
gone up in Salt Lake during 1889, among
the more notable of his achievements being
the Chamber of Commerce and the Utah
Commercial and Savings bank. He has
also just received word that the new San
pete county courthouse in Manti has been
awarded to him. Mr.. Kletting keeps four
expert men employed, and parties who in
him
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WIl-THE FRENCH IN ENeLANE

Vlll-THE FRENCH IN ENGLAND.
Frenchmen Do Not Emigrate Extensively,
but There Are Some Thirty Thousand
of Them in Great Britain-Read What
They Are Like.
A Frenchman out of France is very
much like a fish out of water.
Of all the European people, the French
are those who emigrate the least. Their
country is large and rich enough to feed
them and give them employment, the
family ties are very close, the ambition
for great wealth seldom exists, and they
prefer living on a snug little income in
France to acquiring a large fortune
abroad. Not one boy is brought up with
a view to being sent abroad when he is
grown up. Most Frenchmen whom you
meet settled out of France are men
whose career was blighted by the politi
cal events of the last thirty or forty
years.
Since England gave hospitable shelter
to the crowd of poor Huguenots who,
bounded out of their own country after
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in
1886, came and settled in Spitalfelds,
and created the silk weaving industry OF
England, the country has seen many an
thrush of French fugitives into her Dor
ders. The chief were those that took
place after the coup detat of 1851, and
after the overthrow of the Commune in
1871. At the present time there is nc
country where SO many Frenchmen are
to be found as England. Indeed, you
find now over thirty thousand French.
men settled there, and the number is in
creasing every Gay. This colony is not
only important by its number, but it is
Iaborious and well united; and the Eng
lish need not begrudge them the hospi-
tality they recei e, for they are most
useful members of the community. In
twelve years from 1874 to 1856 only two
Frenchmen were condemned for acts OF
dishonesty committed in England, and
one of these two was only passing wis.,
itor. A good many years ago the French
residing in England did not know each
other, and, for that matter, did not
much care to make acquaintance.
Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc, Alphonse
Esquiros, settled on England's hospitable
shores in the early part of the year 1859.
With them were a host of industrious
and learned men, such as Charles cassal,
ex-member of the representative assem-
bly, of 1S4S, who was soon appointed to
the professorship of French at the Lon
don university; Theodore Karcher, one
of the leading journalists of France, who
was for thirty years professor of French
at the Royal Military academy; Valen-
tin, the famous project Of Strasburg,
whose proves during the siege of that
town by the Prussians is still engraven
on the memory of the French; Nadaud,
Tallandier, and many others. To these
men, or, rather, to their memory-for
most of them are gone now-we French
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it, he added: "ln the English upper
classes the son invariably calls his father
governor. word which is pronounced
guvnor." If the dear fellow speaks bad
English, he will never admit that there
are in England good many Frenchmen
who write and speak very good English.
Then there is the Frenchman whose
great ambition is to be thought English
He frequents only English people, gives
his fellow countrymen wide berth, and
has not good word to say for them. /
am inclined to think that his slurs
against his countrymen cannot be appre-
ciated by his English friends, for my ex-
perience of the English tells me that
their own admiration for England makes
them respect a Frenchman for remaining
French. Needless to say that this speci-
men is mob He would fain make you
believe that all his spare time is spent in
the country houses and the yachts of
wealthy or titled English friends. His
conversation is full of the splendid
shooting we have just had at Lord So
and-so's place" or the delightful cruise
we had in the North sea in Sir Johns
yacht last August. He never says 1.-The
English do this or DC that;" but his Ian
guage bristles with such expressions as
"we should never stand that in Eng
land" or, las we say in English"
What would he not give to be able to go
little further and say, 1--WE English
He pushes his English get-up so far as to
wear whiskers and shave his upper lip
and chin, and not for the world would
he be betrayed into shrug of the shout
ders. am happy to say that his name
is not legion.
A Frenchman not very uncommonly
met with in England is the Anglopho-
bist He hates the very name of Eng
lish. Needless to add that the man is
social failure.
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M-cRlTIcs OF THE FRENCH.

lX-CRlTICS OF THE FRENCH.
Why Fore .,ners Understand the French
So Little-They Have Homes and Love
Them, Too, Even Though They Have No
Name for Home.
Looking at Paris, and calling it France,
is the great mistake which most of our
would be critics make.
This was perhaps never more forcibly
illustrated than on Sunday. the Goth of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

Tailor 600 years henceHHere is bin
for your suit, sir, $50.
Professional Humorist-Ah, yes. Ilefs
my check book at home, but producing
a wad of MS.) presume you have ne
objection to my paying you in jokes3
Tailor Geceipting bill)-Certainly not,
sir. They are always good at any news
paper office.-Exchange
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Another One ON the Poets.

"The trouble with our poets" said
Blinks, sis that they do not live well
enough"
Eyes" replied Jinks, "our poetry does
need something of an epic cure. Wash
ington Capital.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-06

DURSUANT TO STATUTES AND TO REsO-
i luton No. 1852 of the Council of the City
Of Los Angeles, adopted December "a, 1883,
directing this notice, the undersigned invites
AMI will receive at his Office in the City Hall
up to. 10 O'Clock A. NJ. Of January 2. 1889,
sealed proposals for the following ST. eet work,
to ba done according to the specifications.
to-wit:
1st. First street in the City of Los Angeles,
from the west line of Fort street to the East
line of Grand avenue, is to be graded,
graveled and curbed in accordance with
plans and specifications on file In he
office of the Clerk of the Council of the City of
Los Angeles, for making gravel streets in the
said city.
ID. A redwood curb is 10 be constructed along
the line OF roadway of said First street, from
the west line of Fort street to the east line OF
Grand avenue, in accordance with plans and
ciacations on file in the office of the Clerk
Of the Council of said city for constructing
redwood curbs.
All proposals offered must be accompanied
by certified check, payable to the order OF the
Mayor of the city, or by bond (either) for an
amount not less than 10 per cent. of the aggre-
gate of the proposal, and throughout as pre-
scribed by law.
Los Angeles, Cal, January 2, 1889.
FREEMAN G. TEED,
Clerk Of the Council OF the City OF Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-06
BOARD Of supervisors.

The Board of Supervisors met yester-
day, all the members being present.
The contract and specification for the
paving of the Jail yard were presented
by the Bituminous Lime Rock Company
and accepted.
On motion of Supervisor Venable the
deed of Howard w. Mills ct ais, for
road purposes, was accepted, and the
highway from the north line of Denny's
land to the intersection of Second street
with the ten.mile road, was ordered
abandoned.
The Office of Constable OF Orange
township was declared vacant. Geo.
Weitz. constable-elect. having failed to
qualify, and Ross r. Birney was ap-
pointed in his stead. !,
Supervisors Ross and Martin reportet
on the Anaheim and Fullerton bridge
built by the California Bridge Company,
that it was built according to plans and
specifications with the exception that
the plank flooring does not reach the
outside joists on the first. second ano
third spans; also that the joists 90 moi
in all cases have sufficient bearing on
the middle beams. The committee rec
commended that the company be re-
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-06
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

DURsUANT TO STATUTES AND TO REsO-
i luton No. 1,261 of the Council of the City
Of Los Angeles, adopted December "a, 1888,
directing this notice. the undersigned invites
and will receive at his office in the City Hall
up to 10 O'Clock A. NJ, of January, z, 1889,
8ealed proposals f'r the following street work
to be done according to the specifications to-
wit:
LIST. Hoff street, in the city of Los Angeles,
from the east line of Walnut street to the west
line OF Water street is to be graded, graveled
and curbed in accordance with plans and
specifications on file in the office Of the Clerk
If the Council of the city of Los Angeles, for
making gravel street, in the said city.
I'd. redwood curb is to be constructed
along the line of roadway of said Hoff street.
from the east line of Walnut street to the west
line of Water street. in accordance with plans
and specifications on file in the office Of the
CLERK Of the Council of said city for construct
ing redwood curbs
All proposals offered must be accompanied
by certified check, payable to the order of the
Mayor OF The city, or by bond (either) for an
amount not less than ten per cent. Of the
aggregate Of the proposal, and throughout as
prescribed by law.
Los Angeles, Cal, January 2, 1889.
FREEMAN G. TED,
Clerk Of the Council of the City of Los Angeles.
i2.Et
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OFFICIAL.
= =
NOTICE To CONTRACTORS.

DURsUANT TO STATUTES AND TO RESO-
i luton No. 1854 of tho Council of the City
of Los ANGELES, adopted December 81, 1888,
directing this notice, the undersigned invites
and will receive at his Office in the City Hall
up to 10 o'clock A. M of January 9TH, 1889,
sealed proposals for the following street WORK
to be done according to the specifications,
to-wit:
Ist. Hope street, in the City of Los Angeles,
from the north line of Fourth street to the south
line of Fifth street, is to be gr 4ded, graveled
and curbed in accordance W tn plaus and speci
fications on file in the otica of the Clerk of the
Council of the City of Los Angeles for making
graveled streets in the said city. except such
portions thereof as are already graded and ac-
cepted by said city.
ID A redwood curb is to be constructed
along the line of roadway of said Hope street
from the north line of Fourth street to the esouth
line of Fifth street, in accordance with plans
and specifications on file in the office OF the
Clerk of the Council of said city for construct
ing redwood curbs.
All proposals offered must be accompanied
by certified check, payable to the order OF the
Mayor of the City or by bond (either) for an
amount not less than ten per cent. of the aggre
gate Of the proposal, and throughout As pre-
hcribed by law.
Los Angeles, Cal. January I'd, 1889.
Clerk of the Council of the City of Los Angeles
iQ-6t
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-06
Pleasant Musicale.

A select audience gathered Friday
evening in the reception rooms and the
studio of Miss Ella s. Goodwin to listen
to programme Of music and to enjoy a
reception rendered by Miss Goodwin and
Miss Reed to their friend, Miss A. s. Gill
bert, professor of music at the Mills
College, of Oakland. who is paying them
visit. Among those present were the
Misses Lunx, Douglass, Gilbert, Chel-
tame, FIesman, Sturgess, Sutton, Old
ridge, Cushman, Simmons, Harden,
Reed and Mrs. G. s DeLano, Messrs n.
s. Schilling, n H. Stewart. g. Simmons,
q. Scott, D. Burks, B. w. Diehl, w. S.
Standish, H. Cushman, G. S. DeLano.
The programme was as follows:
Duet, Misses Cheltaine and Reed /;
guitar solo, Mr.. G. S. DeLano; piano
solo, Miss Anna Douglass; piano solo,
Miss A. s. Gilbert; violin solo, Mr.. W.
Schelling; piano solo, Miss Mona Lang.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-06
steamer Departures.

The steamer City of Pueblo sailed
north yesterday with the following pas
sepgers:
For San Francisco-H. J. Toberman,
J. H. Godfrey, T. J. Cochran, Frank
Cummings, W. B. Tedford, Otto Weld,
J. A. Attamiran, T. NJ. Livingstone, Miss
Florence Wilson, Miss Wynnie Wells,
Miss S. L. Dole, q. A. Davis, VIM. Shee-
han, A. F. Baker, E. 7. Boyle, w. Him
melsbach, F. E. Herman, Miss N. y.
Hopkins, M. ]. Murphy and wife, George
Schmidt, VIM. Ellis, p j. Groin, Stephen
Morrison, Geo. Jeffrey, Carl G. Grass,
+. I: Mack. Mrs. S. Staverly, Mrs. NJ.
Hollingsworth, G. A. Dobinson, Miss o.
Martin, Mrs. V. Spicer, Miss G. E. Field,
Miss Address, V. Spicer and six in
steerege.
For San Luis Obispo-Dr. G. B.
Nichols, F. Adams, Miss E. j. Koeler
81. K. Woodside, Rev. Philip Farley.