The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-09-06
OUR PARIS EXPOSITION LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent.

PARIS, FRANCE, August 20, 1900.
No little interest is manifested in
tho coming horse show OF tho Paris
Exposition, which will open on Sun.
day, September 10Th. Tho amount OF
money to DC distributed In prizes is
more than a half u million frances
The exact amount in American money
is 81 10000. There will also be u large
number Of medals awarded. 1t is OK.
peCted that the entries from England
and the United States will DO large.
The show Is divided into scvcn sections,
the first being for thorough breds, pure
bred Arabs and Anglo Arabs, with
ovor $l2 600 in prizes, tho first prize
for the thoroughbred stations being
81 200, and for the thoroughbred mares
$500. The second section is for Barbs
the third for trotters OF French, Amori-
can and Russian breeds the fourth for
half.brecds, which including classes
for the English Hackney and Glove
land ; the fifth for ponies, the sixth for
cart horses and the seventh for don.
keys.
IL is reported that the Sultan OF
Turkey will send large number Of
pure olo0ded Arabian horses. They
will doubtless be good specimens of
their kind, but you may set it down
that nothing oriental Is excellent.
use the word etymolOG ically. Nothing
oriental can excel tho objects OF Its
class In America or Europe. They not
only do not excel, but nothing oriental
is equal to the object OF its class in
the Orient, but I've spent months at
four International Expositions where
the best productions Of all countries
were shown. The Arab horse is q
tough, hardy, intelligent little animal,
but he Is no tougher or more intelli.
gent than the thoroughbred horse OF
Europe or America, and he Is out
classcd in size, speed and endurance by
the latter.
There has been no less romance
about the Oriental or Circassian wo.
man than there has been about the
Arabian horse, but photography ia q
stern uisillusionist. Iarems have been
photographed. The beauties OF the
harem, as they are called, have beer
exposed to the ruthless camera and
tho world is now familiar with the
dark, coarse, heavy type Of nodded
rather than chiselcd features, lacking
in vivacity and spiritually. No artist
would select q Turkish woman for a
model, and no American with an edu.
Gated taste would want one of them for
q companion.
Therc is no lack OF Turkish bellies
here in the EXposition. The side
shows abound with them and bevies OF
them can be seen 10 the dance de ven.
tre for one franc. Some Of them are
real types and are doubtless the bes,
specimens Of their class from the thea.
tres Of Constautinople, Scuturi ami
Cairo, but mixed among them are girls
from Chicago. New York. or they may
be from Paris, Kentucky or Cairo.
Illinois. 1t Is not easy or important to
learn their whence or whittier: but
they are Americans sans doute and the
way they Outclass the sluggish houris
OF the Orient when it comes their turn
10 dance is convincing, but not moral
One OF the most striking buildings
N that collection Of striking arcnitec.
turai types, the street of nations, is the
pavilion OF Bosnia, HerZagovina-a re
production OF an ancient don Jon. with
annexes claborately decorated. With
in Is shown, among other things, 8
room sumptuously furnished and oc
cupicd by wax figures, representing
the interior Of q harem Of Bosnia. Ir
other apartments more modern eX
hibite. In the form OF vases, textiles
etc, arc shown. There is an interest
ing collcctlon ol photographs on glass
| representing the most beautiful Wow.
of the Balkan Switzerland.
The building Of Servia Is in the
purust byzantine style. 1t has eight
d0mcs, the central and tallest being
upwards OF eighty feet in height. Ir
marked contrast is the Danish build
ing rustic cditice in wood, a repro
duction OF country house in Jutland
The Persian ediiice, rectangular in
shape, tl)ws with colnr-violct, blue,
green and red. Aa you enter, cir
throws u perfume on you, while YOU
look Ut the luxurious cushions and
carpets and various objects OF art
Here is where the Shah comes to res,
from the (atigucs OF sightseeing al
the Exposition. Near by is the low
thick set house OF Finland, apparently
built 30 resist the most powerful blasts
1t Ii copied from one Of the ancien
chapels OF tho country, and contains
complete cXhibiti( Of tishinp anna