The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-26

therefore who wish to be well whilst doing
the continent to carry especially in France,
as did, large, thickset bottle of milk or
kumiss with which to take the wire edge
off ones whistle whilst being yanked
through the Louvre.
St. Cloud is seven miles west of tn e GEN.
ter of Paris, and almost ten miles by rail
on the road to Neutrality-suspicious.
Vairsi. st. Cloud belongs to the canton of
Sevres and the reimbursement of Yer
sailles. An reimbursement is not anything
reprehensible. 1t is all right. You could
belong to an reimbursement if you lived in
France.
st. Cloud is on a beautiful hill slope,
looking down the valley of the Seine, with
Paris in the distance. 1t is peaceful and
quiet and beautiful. Everything is peace
full in Paris, when there is no revolution
on the carpet. The steam cars run safely
and do not make so much noise as ours
do. The steam whistle does not have such
a hold on people as it does here. The adj
jutant general at the depot blows little
tin bugle, the admiral of the train returns
the salute the adjutant general says al
Ions! !" and the train starts Oft like some
what leisurely young man who is going to
the depot to meet his wife's mother.
One does not realize what Fourth of
j
business till he has been the guest of
monarchy of Europe between whose toes
the timothy and clover have sprung to a
great height And yet it is a pleasing
change, and / shall be glad when we as
republic have passed the blow hard period,
laid aside the ear-splitting steam whistle,
settled down to good, permanent institu-
tions and take on a restfuI, sooth full,
Boston air, which comes with time and
the quiet self-congratulation that one is
born in Bible land and gospel privileges,
and where the right to worship in a
strictly high church manner is open to all.
The Palace OF St. Cloud was at one time
the residence of Napoleon l. in summer
time. He used to go out there for the
heated term, and folding his arms across
his stomach have thought after thought
regarding the future of France. Yet he
very likely never had an idea that some
day it would be thrifty republic, engaged
in growing green peas or pulling a soiled
dove out of the Seine now and then to add
to the attractions of her justly celebrated
morgue.
Louis XVIII. also put up at the Palace
in ST. Cloud several summers. He spelled
it "palais," which shows that he had
very poor early English advantages, or
that he was, as | have always suspected, a
native of Quebec. Charles y also changed
the bedding somewhat, and moved in dur
ing his reign. He also added new iron
sink and place in the barn for washing
buggies Louis Philippe spent his sum-
mers here for number of years, and wrote
weekly letters 10 the Paris papers, signed
"Uno." in which he urged the taxpayers
TO show more veneration for their royal
nibbs Napoleon III. occupied the Palais
in summer during his lifetime, awaiting
himself finally of the use OF Mr.. Brlght's
Justly celebrated disease and dying at the
dawn of better institutions Tor beautiful
but unhappy France.
| visited the Palais, which was burned
by the Prusslans in 1870. The grounds oc-
cnpy $50 acres, which l offered TO buy and
hit up, but probably | did not deal with
responsible parties. This part OF France
reminds re very much OF North Carolina.
/ mean, of course, the natural features.
Man has done more for France, 1t seems to
me, than for the Tar Heel state, and the
cities of Asheville and Paris are widely
different. The police of Paris rarely get
together in front of the courthouse TO pitch
horseshoes or dwell on the outlook for the
goober crops.
And vet the same blue, ozonic sky, if |
may be allowed TO coin word, the same
soft restful, dolce fg1tmenti air OF gentle,
genial health, and of cark destroying,
magnetic balm to the congested soul, the
infiamed nerve and the fostering brain,
are present here that one fnds IN the quiet
drives of San Cloo, the successful squirt OF
the mighty fountains of Nairsl and the
dark and whispering forests OF Fountain
bioo
The Palais at San Cloo since il was
burned presents a rather detected appear
ance. and the scorched walls are bare save
where here and there warped and wilted
wAter pipe festoons the biackened and
blistered wreck of what was once so grand
and so gay.
San Cloo has a normal school for the
training of male teachers only. visited
il, but did not make hit in my address TO
the pupils for some cause until | began TO
speak In their own national tongue. Then