The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21
The Army to be Increased
Next Year.
,indI, FEELINGS for Ameritans--A Swim
dIiug Dabarian- Death Of a
Famous Actress.

chamber of deputies by the govern.
meut, there is an augmentation of
14.4s2,7l4 francs for the depart.
mont of war over that of 1894. The
standing army will have 225 officers
and SO SIS men more than before.
France, as you see, is always i'm
proving her army, not only in quail.
;ty by military education, but also
in quantity, by larger levees of con.
scripts. The people not only stand
the burden without grumbling, but
thew approve it. The voters of all
the different parties are unanimous
in directing their respective repre-
sentatives 10 foster at any cost the
military and naval power of the re.
rub ic, so that the country may he
able at the shortest notice to defend
properly her honor and interest
sg,inst any hostile combination of
foreign monarchial governments.
The friends of America in France
are very numerous, in fact French
men as a rule have religiously kept
TO their old traditions since the
times Of Franklin. La Fayette and
other gentlemen of the American
war of independence. But if the
people at large are merely I latonic
lovers of America, the superior or
Intellectual classes give to their
brotherly love for the great sister
republic beyond the sea more en-.
lightened and practical character.
With the greatest interest they fol-
low what is going on in the domin-
ion Of Uncle Sam, feeling aud ex.
pressing great satisfaction when it
becomes the theater of some new
progress, or discovery. Just now
keen satisfaction has been produced
by cable dispatch, announcing
that there was on foot in congress a
movement to create a national
American academy or institute,
composed Of the masters in science,
letters and art; the scientists, liter.
ateurs and artists composing it to
form a body which would be to
the intellectual refinement of the
country, that which the supreme
court is 10 her legal establishment.
A reporter of the Matin has inter.
viewed a number of the most cele.
orated thinkers and writer's in the
French academy, and outside of it.,
hklng them what they think
Of the establishment of an American
academy. All of them approve as
'ne greatest and most necessary
progress the establishment of an
American body similar to that call.
ca IN France the National Institute,
which is kind of intellectual sen.
ate in which are congregated the
highest authorities to judge ques.
"ons OF science, letters and art. In
1ls answers to the reporter Mr..
Jules Claretie gives the highest
praise 10 American natural genius,
winch only wants some kind of ma.
!Ional unity 10 develop.and reach all
Us ~ possibilities. Says he: "The
United States is a marvellous
country. They produce poets and
uoVeiists really admirable. 1t is
T sMe same in science and industry.
theif illustrated reviews are of the
u,gnest artistic excellence. Thei,
pa p,ay writer's only are inferior, bu,
". ,as american theatre-goers appreci-
~, .se with great taste the different
11..eign plays, those of Ibsen, the
Fs a,.an' and particularly our owr
.ha master. pieces" Besides
s susie Is in Paris, as l have told
!eu before, a very numerous colony
MAJ y, americans, students of art, anc
.ha uy VINO are masters already, anc
~ tos ~. nelp, in no small degree
TX G;klve TO the French people a very
~, .o' 70 -, the French, art is, and iustl,
eiv al, tne 1ouch'stone of genius ant
,ha . " is again some trouble TO
tima french ~ in Madagascar, and thi
thsS ~ !. Is the interest of an America
i,;;Ih uave to protect against the ba
rov sa ana rascality Of the nativ
ssth,a:%ent, over which they hav
sueo proteotorate. an