The times., 1897-09-26
The Notions Which Run Riot in
the Paris Press.
IGNORANCE AND DOGMATISM
Washington Born in Canada The
American Army Made Up of Ne
grOes nGd Indians Few Ameri-
cans Able Co Read and Write An
Amazing Display.

first time. After spendin week loiter'
ing up aud down the grand houlevards and
The Rue de Rivoli in the wake of his com.
patriots, he conceived the idea that lie
would like to know something of the real
Paris and Of real French life; that is of
the masses, which are it's motor.
The dIess parade people and the people
OF so-called refinement" he said, are
the same all tine world over. l want TO
see and talk to some Others"
At the same tire, he wanted TO SEE
with their eyes, and TO know their modes OF
thought, 50 lie asked Frenchman how he
could best do it.
1T VIII take you years to get rs inti-
mate as that with French people" said the
FrencLman, ''and probably then you
couldn't succeed. Read French papers.
Not the Figaro and the Gaulois, because
one is the organ of the bouleyards, the
otLer Of the noblesse; they're not really
French"
"ch, the Petit Journal, them"
NO the Petit Parisien. That is the
paper of the French bourgeoisie. 1t re
fleets France. 1t has circulation of
500 900 copies a day. 1t has no politics
1t is very conservative. It's foreign news
is good and trust" orthy, which you VIII
like. Jean Frollo,its chief editorial writer,
isavery learned man, and ma kes as pecialty
ofthingsA merican. Readthe Parlsien;you
like it, And you'll be sure that you are
getting real French views"
The young man began TO read the
Petit Parisien relgiously. AS the French
man had said it had d good deal Of foreign
news II seemed To him To be struggling
hotly for trustworChneSs too; it went SO
far as to put at Uhe bottom OF almost every
article relating To a merica this little no.
tice;
The foregoing comes to US from an
American source; therefore we cannot
voJch for it
In the first fortuight's reading OF the
Petit Parisien's editorial articles the
Young American came across some Pc
culiariues IL the way OF foreign ne ws,
which he marked. with a note of the ar
ticle in which they occurred. With the
parts from the Parsienin quotation marks
they were a follows:
/. Leader on relations OF Canada and
France: Canada is indeed great coun-
try, and il may well be proud of having
been the birthplace of the patriot, George
Washington"
.. Leader on review OF troopsin Russia.
Among the celebrated persons who sat
down t. the luncheon was the brilliant
commanders iu-chlef OF the merican a rmy,
Gen. Nelson -
3. Leader on Russian trade: with the
new ice-breakers in use, il will be posi-
bic TO keep open for large part of the
wear all the great rivers OF Siberia flow
ing into the antarctic Ocean,
4. Leader on hoUse-moving in Paris, the
fret ever known heie. we believe that
his sort Of tmng has been done before, in
America. Some years ago in the city or
Eureka Springs, one OF the most beautiful
towns OF far Arkansas, which lies on q
beautiful bay of tine Pacific Ocean, etc.
3. Leader Oh American progress. But, If
COURSE one must remember that the people
of America are in great numbers but half
civilized Only small proportion of them
know how to read and write, and ii is
merely che great srdid power of making
money etc.
8. Leader on French progress in science:
1T was at this tine that our own great
comtrynan, Jouffroy, invented the steam
boat Naturally, the American Edison
is entitled to great honor, but in comparison
wi tn our own SaylHts his position is hut a
minor one, IL we must be frank
Z. Leader on Kl0ndike discoveries: This
was in the little country of Alaska, which
belongs half TO the United States and ..tlf
to Canada There will doubtless ariSe
an International question, as Russia has
always claimed jurisdiction over the cuuu-
try we cannot see how these gold
fields VIII amount TO anything, as it is inn
possible for man 30 exist in these hyperho-
rean latitudes.'' The gold is got AZ ay
blasting open the face of the earth which
is frozen TO the depth Of many huaared
meters.'
3. Leader on America, Japan and Spain:
The United States has no var power. It's
Navy Is composed Of few modern ships
which cannot put to sea, and its Army, or
what it calls an army, Isl made up of a great
many generals and a few negro and Indian,
troops Of no discipline ana poorly armed.
Either Japan or Spain Would find the
vanqu'shing of the presumptuous Yankees
an easy task"
8. Leader on relations of England ana
Venezuela: And one must remem Der that
this dirninutivc repnblic, which one can
with difficulty lind on the map, backed
up by the jinGos' Yankees etc.
The ynung gAmericanpausedh here. Hehad
always been able to find Venezuela on The
map, and he bought q geogra ply to see If
IL wasn't still there. Even in a FrencI.
geography he lad 30 difficulty in discoy.
erinS that it's area was almost twice
that of France.
Among his other finds" in the Petit
Parisien during this fortnight, was one in
the novel which is running as feuilleton.
The scene of the first few chapters is laid
In America, in the neighhorhood of the
city OF New York. The heroine lives nc
a chateau" twenty miles from the Bat
terry. One afternoon she desires To 90 out
for walk, but, tn use the words of the
author, ''She feared to do so on account OF
the Indians, reports of whose depredations
had lately come to her ears"
The young 4 American, always learning new
things finally came across two-column
editorial, entitled: THE Americans at
Home" 1t opened with the words "The
Americans Lave a colossal righteousness"
Further along in the same article there
was an estimate of the ''country:nen of
Clara Ward" conceived as follows:
That native audacity which, from the
cradle, prevents them from ever doubling
themselves; that absence of discretion con-
cerning matters which bar the way TO their
caprlces; that disdain of prejudiceS, of eti-
quette, of Justice, of common sense, TO-
gether with the uneXpectetlness, the dis
J0ntedness and the grandiosity of their
ideas, really go further to make up the
strength of Americans than the accuinula-
tion of their dollars. They adore money:
they love above, all to pile it up as enor-
mously as posi- BILE, but they do not hesitate
TO throw 1t out Of the window to satisfy
caprice or to dazzle the spectator. OF an
Unconscious able "humbugiSme,' employ
Ing every means in their power to succeed
audacity as well as duplicity, robbing 9TH