The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-06-08

heavens In our largest cities. The man
OF other lands looks at II and shakes
his head when he finds out what IT is.
but he has not In his own country any
thing half so well adapted TO it's pur-
pose as a public Office building.
Here are charts showing the relative
distribution OF manufacturing indus
tries and national and other banks
throughout the land. and he who runs
may read where the free silver and
plenty or currency agitation Is likely
To be. By far the greater number OF
banks In the land are concentrated in a
few large cities. Other maps give sta
tistIcs OF the great land and building
association scheme, that faYOrite form
OF Investment for poor people. maps
reminding me that the first hundred
dollars | ever saved was slowly accu-
mu|ated in the secure charge OF a re-
liable building association. 1t Is In the
great middle western belt OF the nation
that land and building associations do
most abound. Here. too, actually In
Paris. greets the eye that brave old
diagram, familiar AS the family Bible.
displaying how in one year the state OF
Texas alone can raise one and a half
times as much cotton as the whole
earth can consume in the same period.
What would happen IL for just one
year the state OF Texas would try her
self and produce all she could not only
OF cotton, but Of everything else that
grows within her borders?
The nu-fll EfrL-arS- Y In VI Inn fy,rns IF.1
steady stream Of visitors, so many
that policemen are required constantly
To keep the crowd from becoming tan
gled up. The company has building
all TO itself. where its various manu-
features are displayed in grim readiness.
Ii is hard To say which is more terrible.
the great fort cannon. 30 feet long and
requiring several carloads of steel for
its manufacture. or the machine needle
gun that fires GOO shots a minute. Look
ing 1T them IL Is hard To believe that
life saving inventions have advanced
as rapidly AMI rs near To perfection as
life destroying ones. An American.
however. will view with profound i'll
terest the stuffed eliigies of the big
mules that stand here, heels outward,
laden with the packed munitions of
mountain artillery. quite of the type Of
those famous mules Oh which the Brit
ish laid the blame OF their defeat 1T
SpiOn kOp. TN my word, | would not
have believed that even an American
mule skin could have been padded To
look so entirely lifrlikc as the ones in
the Woke. S-AlaXim exhibit here in Par
is. The very "cuSSedncSS" of the eye
has been reproduced. Actually. before
| bethOught myself for the moment
where | was | found myself shying
away from around the heels of those
mule elligies. Fact.
In the Street of Nations" 81 called.
where the headquarters buildings of
each country exhibiting have been
erected, the haudSomcSt and most ar
| tiStic il that Of Italy. Ii is IL beautiful
structure. 81 fair AMI slightly that il is
pity il will he destroyed after the
season il over.
Suggestive AMI interesting beyond
most exhibits is that of autumuhilc Vc-
hiclrS They are of all sizes. from the
greatest truck. half as large aS II rail
way ear. Ia the little nutOCyclc for one.
| From France alone there must he aS
many nS ~ different patterns, many Of
| them with kerosene dribhlin" from I'M
| seen .ankS somewhere in their inSidcs
upon the llonr of the hall. Ii horses
| kGnw anything al all, they must rejoice
! III the steadily increasing number of
| autnrarr.aGrS in France. for nowhere
un The earth except among the Ta@aluS
of the Philippines have | seen horses 81
| hard driven as here in Paris. liy the
| way. the French auIl!uritirS are much
| exercised in their minds "a tu whether
| an automobile il lie ur She. The
municipal council nf Paris say il j. -
| he. because il il vrhirl". The gram
marianS. on the contrary. >ul"mHly af-
| firm that il i Il she. h"rau~c il il Il car
| riagr. which il 4 she. In Il language
| unfortunate enough Ia Ice without "a
urutrr gender the same difficulty il liza
bile to occur with every nrW word intro
duccd.
| must record my conviction that
| there, ar. f.nt elsewhere such graceful.