Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-08-30
Saint Nargfs Beacon,
EXPOSITION LETTER.

PARIS. FRANCE, Aug. Q, 1900.
The average temperature in Par
ID ct this time Of the year is SO or
20 Fair. For the last fifteen days,
it has ranged from "a to %. That
explains . great many things be-
sides an all-prevading irritability.
stagnation, and depression. The
fact that ice il four cents o pound
instead Of two, for one thing, that
nearly all Partisan horses are going
about with conical straw hats on
their now foolish-looking heads,
for another that Paris 10 emtying
fast Of Americans as well a. every
one else, and that the daily atten-
dance ct the Exposition has fallen
10 under $50, 900, while the price
Of admission 10 only six and seven
cents, instead Of, as originally,
twenty. There 10 nothing abnor-
NAL in the drop in the price Of tick
eta. The same thing happened in
1880, yet the tickets afterwards
went mp to the normal ten and
twelve cents. The fall in tickets
gives the impression that the Expo
sit:on is being neglected. Perhaps
il 10 during the hot wave. Anyway,
there is now o discussion in the
French papers as to artificially slim
ulating the consumption of tickets
By giving special fetes and charg-
ing Eve or even more tickets for
seeing them. The public. however,
has hitherto shown itself 90 shy Of
the entertainments at the EXPOSE
tion that it 10 very doubtful If the
government will do any such thing.
In providing the exposition, they
have provided the best and most
attractive entertainment possible
Cor oil tastes but the lowest and it
10 probably not sorry to find that
popular education has made such
far-reaching progress of recent years
that mere mountebank shows, and
blaring bands and flaming gas.jets
no longer draw and debauch the
multitude.
After ell, 15O,00O people make q
good-sized crowd, 90 that the Expo
sition 10 not deserted yet. Il 10 o
pity that ont of the number, 90 few,
not more than 5000 or 5000, pay
@ visit to the annex at Vincennes.
Unfortunately, Vincennes 10 not %
accessible as the other parts Of the
Exposition, or, il it is easy of &C.
cess, the visitor as q rule has very
hszy ideas Of how to get there.
We are waiting with some curios-
ity here for the ultimate issue of
Deputy Gerville- Reaches proposal
for society to promote a Franco
American alliance. Idoubt IL such
. proposition can ever come to any
thing beyond the most sensational
Of cntentes. Politically, there 10
no chance Of it, if only for the rea-
son that America does not contract
foreign alliances, and even az to q
social entente with fruitful results
Of any sort, it is still very doubt
ful. Look ct the fate of oil ct.
tempts TO patch up an English.
French entente cordiale. They in
varisbly start we'll, with fowery
speeches and banquets. but that is
the end Of them, and the feeling
between the two peoples remains
exactly what it was q hundred years
ago. Not, perhaps, among the ed
ucated classes, for we'll educated
people have no national antipathy
they have an entente cordiale
with all the world-but among the
peoples. There meyer can be an
entente cordiale between the French
and English, and it is extremely
doubtful il there can be one between
ourselves and Frenchmen. Even
between the French and Russians
there cannot be q real one. There
can be, and 10, an alliance between
the latter based on the need of mu-
tual support. but the Frenchman
Of today 10 still as selfish and mar
politically and social
~, as to ell that goes on outside
his own frontiers as ever. The
pleasantly: "Who's that,
Bill ?" Bill. "A stranger" .'Oh
then 'eave arr brick at inns
quite expressive OF French, feeling
towards ell foreigners. Interest is
the sole bond that can politically
unite two nations-any two nations
lin the hour of national peril. IL
10 q pity, but is it not true?
There was great deal Of what