The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-04-02
LETTER FROM PARIS.
ONE OF THE FOUNDERS O
GREAT FALLS IN EUROPE.

ONE OF The FUUNDEkS4 Ok
GREAT FALLS IN EUROPE.
An. Inside View of Affairs 1t the
French Capital.
Through the courtesy Of our estimable
friend Mr.. Chaa. NJ. Webster, we have
been favored with the perusal of q pri-
vate letter from Mr.. H. O. Chowen, who
is SO well and favorably known to our
citizens that we have collected such por-
ltions thereof for publication Is would be
of general interest: s =. #5r,= -~e
PARIS, February IL, 1889.
| DEAR CHARLIE: We sat down to a
Christmas dinner with eight of our
friends, presided over by DR.. Tuttle, and
the next morning after arriving in Paris
were very agreeably surprised by finding
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher, Mr.. aud Mrs. I.or-
ing, Miss B arton, i, Mr. E1atman, Capt.
Martin and Mr.. and Ms Bg6wstn 10 tho
same hotel we stopped At. In fact ~
have run upon Minneapolita4s every
| where. l wish you were here to explore
this wonderful city with us, par excel
lence, the "City de Lux"-brilliant and
GAY EVEN IN WINTER.
But do not confound luxury with COM
fort. However muchsof luxury they may
have, they have no homes here that can
compare with our American homes IN
point Of comfort and LONELINESS. Well,
we have had two months of It now. We
have met the bug bears of travel and
they are ours. No, I will except the
French language. Neither of us can lay
any claim to conquest over that tlat yet.
l even doubt that even the man who said
that "where there's will there's way"
ever had an introduction to French. 1T
least verbal Introduction. We had our
first actual skirmish with guide in the.
Cologne Cathedral, and must confess
we were ~ t4..1
woKsrrD IN THE ENCOUNTER,
hut we took it very meekly, knowing that
experience is the best teacher, and many
q guide since then has unknowfngly paid
the penalty for that defeat. The pro-
verbal ...bourgie" (candle) holds no ter
rors for us now, and aproposao aof bourgies
4 gentleman told me q good story the
other day. You must know In the first
place that in all continental hotels 1t is
customary for the guest upon leaving to
fee everybody from "boots' up to the
clerk. Well, an American friend
Of this gentleman
CROSSING FOR THE FIRST TIME
Directly to Paris and arriving Ut night
went directly to q hotel. 4, The over-ofti-
cious clerk who showed him to his room
proceeded to light all the candles in the
of course blowing out the candles before
they had burned an inch. The next
morning he called for his bill, as he was
going on south. When 1t came he found
an item for SO many candles at franc
candle. OF course that didn't go and our
late: but it was no use He had allowed
the candles to be lighted and he must pay
for them. Finally he asked, "But you
don't mean to say that those candles are
worth franc apiece?" "Most certainly"
sir" was the reply. "Very well," said
the gentleman, and paid his bill. Going
back to his room he
| REMOVED ALL THE CANDLES
and, going to the hall where the domes-
tics had arrayed themselves awaiting the
expected franc or half franc, he present.
ed each one with bourgie and marched
of leaving them to wonder where he
came from. Paris has just surprised Eu
rope by giving General Boulanger 8
humping majority over Jaques, the re-
publican candidate for the Chamber o.
Deputies. To me the most surprising
, thing about the election was the fact Of
, | its being held on Sunday. went to
number Of voting places and was agree
ably surprised with their manner of poll
ing the votes. The system was rathe
complex and might not be found prac
ticable in the crowded precincts of Ou
, large cities, but II think better on tn
whole than our system;it certainly Is ia
ahead of our Montana way Of doing 1t q
it is based upon very strict
REGISTRATION OF QUALIFIED VOTERS.
: I do not believe that the French Repul
: lie can stand intact much longer; it ce1
tainly cannot without some radic'
change in its present ineffective parli'
mentary system. Coming as we did d
rectly from the German capital to Parl
d we were strongly impressed with the II
8 tense hatred that exists today betwee
the two people. The war party in Franc
ID strong and another Franco-P Prussia
war is one of the events that EurO]
must submit to in the near future. l wi
N not attempt to describe Paris or anythiI
ic in it, for that will refer you to the eve
H. present Bardeker. As l remarked abo
IT. A WONDERFUL CITY
and what you might reasonably call
big city and, though we begin to consid
a ourselves d-timers here and smile col
e., placently upon the poor pilgrims we pa
ut studying Bardeker OF map of Par
III the chances are ten to one that inside
ril the next sixty minutes we will be caue
10. in the same attitude. When | tell y
rs that besides the 40 different lines
lg. tram ways, the "a lines of stages and 0
nlbus lines, the three lines of expr,
-, steamers running up and down the Sci
oa through the city, there are over 15,(
'0 cabs on the street all the time, and Il
after o'clock it is almost impossible
- get ride in anything, you can form so
little idea OF
THE LIFE AND GO OF PARIS.
ei1t1 eit1 Writing about the cabs reminds me t
at nowhere have l ever seen such cruelty
horses as here. A great deal Of the pa
u ment is asphalt and In wet weather II
- glass, The horses arc all smooth 81
and are continually slipping down,
Turing their knees and straining tn
oil selves terribly In regaining their I
mcE The poor cab horses have the worst O
I In Most of the cabs are drawn by q sir
.9 'e horse and Is most of the drivers seer
d. be entirely without judgment or fee
they each
MANAGE TO KILL A HORSE
IhS. every three years on an average.
Do you want to know how to get