The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-09-13
OUR PARIS NPOSITION LEpTEI,
PARIS, France, Aup. -. l0OO

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PARIS, France, Aug. -, 1900.
This Paris Universal Exposition Ia,
oi course, not the last. There will be
many others OF grcaUcr or less tnugni-
| Jude. they arc oven now projected
| EXpositlOns arc also, like everything
sub ect TO the law OF evolution. They
are changing, changing. THIS one IL
both tho most frivolous aud the most
serious Of them all, hut the world a.
one may look at 1t this moment, Is both
| frivolous and serious In u greater GO
gree than at any time in hletOry. 1t il
probable that hundred or a thousand
years hence, the historian will have
something TO say about these eXpGsi-
| tiOns. II the Crusades were civiliZ
Ing force, why not the exposition,
! these crusadcs OF industry, OF art, OF
| thought? 1t is possible that the his
| toriun will refer to the Congrcrs OF Re-
| liglona Of The CE icago Exposition, and
! To the various congresses that meet In
Paris rs OF more Importance than all
tho wonderful mechanical indexes of
material progress.
These reflections came to mo last
week at IL reception given by Nj. Loubet,
president OF tho French republic, to
the thousands OF del tgutes OF tic va
riOus congresses now assembled IN
Paris. 10 enumornto these congresses
with the programmes OF tho questions
they will discuss would require moro
spMco than the limits OF this letter will
allow. They will perhaps not say any
thing orally that has not bocn written
or that may not be read, but who can
doubt tho contagious cnliEhtcning and
| stimulating influence OF thousands Of
| learned, serious and earnest mou and
women striving, however blinGly and
lamcly, for improvements, bettcrmcnts
Ideals.
| We sing the praises Of steam, OF oicc.
| trlclty and OF the greatest OF all, print.
| Ing, but the greatest their combined
work accomplishes IS to make such COS.
| nopiitan congresses pOss bic and TO pro.
mote the time "when the war drum
| will throb no longer, whom the, battle
ligs will he furlcd In the pnrlinmen I
Of man, the federation OF tho world"
| The garden party given by Nj. Lou
| bet, tho president OF the French re-
public, WAS OF gigantic proportions
There was no sunshine, tho evening
was cloudy, no firtations under the
| trecs, no malicious gossip, no laughter
In that scrioue assomblage. Tho spec
taclo was historic, instructive and de
Gently rcorentivo, worthy Of tho dis
! tlngulshcd pcrSOnages who had como
from tho four corners OF tho world u
diacuss most difficult prObloms and has
ten the marcn of human progress
They arrived about tho same time.
great crowd silently collected about tn,
gatos OF the garden, and waited will
patience. There was no protest from
the North against the South, brough
together in tho crush. Dialects iron
the Neva and from the Guadalquive
| wero intcrmiXed In il CosmOpolitnl
l'riVor which flowed before the Drcsiden
OF tho republic within the limits which
| had been assigned without tumult an(
without friction. NJ. Loubot and Nine
Loubet surrounded by their civil and
military households Ia the hail OF the
aids-de-camp, received their guests.
The alfaballty OF tho head Of tho nation
ls these trying circumstances is weh
known say "trying," for, indeed,
one has TO De the most aminble and
hospitablo OF mon, for IL is no small un
dertaking to receive 10000 guests.
Neither Nj. nor Nine. Loubet showed
any fntigde, and they did not desert
| their post OF honor until tho arrival OF
| the Shah. MOuZaifer-d dc dine did not
have on his Sunday clothes. He wore
on his head throughout the entire fun
| tlOn his ordinary Astrachan, and wue
| followed by distinguished porsons OF
his suites, who did not leavo him for q
| moment, but 1t occurred TO mo that his
smile WAS happier than usual when he
offered his arm gallantly to Mime Lou
bet When remember tho sad unt
careworn face OF this potcntate OF tho
Oricntt on his arrival In Paris, snt
when | soe now the animated cOuntcD
anco with which it regards everything
l fear that his subjects will not know
him on his return to Tehcran. Persi,
has millions OF people but few newspa
| pors and not one Ia a Thousand OF hie
subjects will know that hin life was at.
tempted In Paris.
Perhaps tho most statcsmanlike u
criticism OF Paris and tho exposition
that has yet found public uttoranco Is
that made by Professor Gcddes, OF Ed
inburGh, aocretary Of the international
Educational COngreas, Paris, Professor
Geudcs puinta out, IL not mere city Of
pleasure. IL is one OF the great culture
ccntcr5 OF the word and is OF no loss
commercial than aesthetic Importance,
for it lies on the intersection OF impor-
tant trade routes. But commerce rs
not more her mission at this moment
than education. AT this moment ahe
| is IN enormous temporary university
| Thousands OF wandering scholars, AS
they did In the middle ages, have come
| to her TO learn as we'll as To teach and
she IL realizing the largest side OF a
world 3 summer schOol. That tha effects
OF the exposition will be far-reaching
and enduring, 1t IL impossible not tC