Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-08-23
THE RACES MINGLE.
One of the PIeasantest Features
of the Worlds Fair.
Nsitars Pay But Little Attention to
Queer Looking People.


sishts Ia Eisctricis ssiidias-rhs ussifs
csssrsss Auxiliary ta cAieaes.
/ WoEtD's FAIR, Aug = - Especial -
/ One Of the pleasanfess features ofthis fair
Is THAI distinguished foreigners of all sorts
| in race, dress and color walk around
among Us common folks. and are not an
rscyei by people erowding around or star
ing al them. The visitors are so satiated
with grand dsightst hat they would not turn
around to look twice at any body less than
q monarch or a president. / was sitting
the Other afternoon at table in the oIen
mir cafe opposite the IndiA, building when
! . tall. distinguished looking gentleman
about as dark as mulatto, accompanied
/ by still taller Englishman, walked in,
sat down opposite me and called for coffee.
l The dark man Wa dressed in an elegant
gray suit, American cut, but were very
/ high turban in white silk II was the Ma
harajah Of KApurthala
Icouli but admire the fine contour of
| his head and face. He has an ideally
H. IL
may be called. being that his exquisitely
| shaped nose is little too small They sal
long and talked with animation about
| the improving prospects Of large attend
| anee at the fair, but Of the many who
passed not one gave more than a second
glance or paused in his course. His Eng
lish is peculiar 1t is little too correct,
I &. -
| with careful enunciation as II be were read
ing from a very precise book. II is said
that be speaks French more fluently than
English. and Spanish and German only
tolerabiy well.
As fingered as long as possible over my
supper and looked at him from time TO
time many whimsical thoughts rose in my
mind about our early impressions OF far
foreign folks, especially the Hindoos, and
certain lines struggled up in memory,
lines often heard many years ago at
place used TO visit once aweek. forget
the connection but there was something
in the piece about "only man is vile." and
how ''the heather in his blindness on
India's coral strand bows down to wooa
and stone" in spite of the logically con
vineing fact that "spicy breezes blow soft
DER Ceyion's isle" How l pitied said
heathen How wondered If should
ever see one. And looking at this intelli-
gent and cultured gentleman, l said 10
myself: One thing Is SURE. The very ie
norarit in India, like their fellows in all
lands may believe all those absurd my
thologies and tales, but nobody need tell
me that this man, with head like a Greek
gol and form like an athlete, takes any
stock In silva and Ramsuta and India and
Csnldeo and Gemesa and all that snaky
business of manifold and contorted arms
and legs in the building yonder.
Thus thinking / walked over TO the
India house and found that dazzling array
of wood carving and lacquered work SO
often described and the usual gods in their
usual place, and noted that the intelligent
brown gentlemen In charge took as good
care OF the gods as of their other property
and no more And then thought for the
,housandth time Of how l should like to
hear an intelligent and cultured heather
tell me exactly what be thinks of the gods
Of his people. But that is something !
hail never know, for it is "A feeling which
the man Of one race can never explain to
the man Of another. Let it not be forgot
ten. however that the true Hindoos are Of
the same general race as ourselves.
Though far removed from the original
seat. though mingled with the people they
conquered and with those who have con
duerci them, caste has preserved them
pure Sanskrit is but the older brother Of
English and the brown Aryan Of kapur-
thala is full cous.A ~ 10 ''Brahmin" Of
Boston.
As to all matters of race, religion and
social organization last week was and this
week will be literally crowded with dis
cussioIs by the various congresses. The
Art palsce is headquarters for this so
called Worlds Congress auxiliary and for
some time six congresses have met daily,
the meetings ranging from ten to sixteen
each day. AT the peace congress David
Dudley Field and others have contributed
papers. The dental congress has been
divided into eight sections which meet
separately and then have one general
n1ettinx. In the congress on Africa
speeches have been delivered by ". Del
commune, Madame French-Sheldon.
Sheik Sarruf, Herr Schlichter, NJ. Chaille-
Long. Grant Bey, Yakub PaslIa and u
great many others. including missionar-
les, soldiers. explorers and men of science.
Ia short, it Is amazing to learn how much
is already known about Africa, and quite
cheering to see how enthusiastic all these
people are in their belief that the dark
continent will soon be developed and
Christianize3.
On the first three days Of last week the
congress of trade journals sat. On
Wednesday and Thursday the horticnl-
tu-al congress WAS in session All the
week the American Pharmaceutical asso-
citation Was in session in the city, and the
suffrage congress ended its sessions the
preceding week By organizing the Amer
lean Proportional Representation league,
with William Dudley Foulke, Of Indiana.
and Sioughton Cody, Of Chicago, as
officers. For the next three weeks this
sort Of thing will be going on day and
night and everything will be settled, ths
rise ard fall of nations, the decay OF en-
pire-, the proper political relations of II
sexes, the evolution of civil government
and all the complicated conundrums
Theology from the advent Of Adam to ii
final discontinue Of the devil Ghicss
J. in eaager of becoming an batsi.ectt.
center
There are many things IN this exT-osi
ton too powerful or too technical for Iae-
The Machinery b1ilding almost sets me
distracted. and both times / have been
there observed with surprise that half oi
the few visitors were ladies. How much
they know of the machinery l could mes
guess. for it was evidently a good deal
more than ! knew. On second thought,
however. can see that women woHh nat
urslly admire the manifestation Of power
and Of verify it is there That is, Of
es,1rse. tie noizisst department On the
grounds, and the pounding of the trc-
naendsus engines fills one with sort OF
awe. In every social group enter there
Is so much talk about the rnarvels OF the
Electricity building that determined to
gel some understanding Of it II it laid
ne mp.
TIE wonderful illuminated pillars and
columns the flashing lightning and scenic
tsestes there are said By electricians to be
nae-e trickery Of their art. What prom
ise>4 most for the future Of man. they say,
l. the transmission of energy to any de