The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-19

tured battle nagS, comprising InOSe OF
almost every nation except the United
States. it's blue lighted crypt contain
ing Napoleon's tomb, it's paintings and
statues and memorial tablets-is behind
us, and We are speeding southwark in
search of summer seas. / intended to
describe the Jardin des Plantes, with
it's beautifus cedar of Lebanon, and it's
wretched collection of animals and
birds. 1 designed to grow prolix over
the medieval architecture and stained
glass windows of Notre Dame, and
Saint Suplico, and the Madeleine I
expected to tell all about the grand
opera house. and the diamond peoples
and emerald butterflies in the jewelers.
shops of the Palais' Royal. had hoped
indeed to give some account of Worth,
whose name and shop have survived
him, for the lowest price charged by
his successor for merely making a plain
garment, not including dress material
or trimming (Which must be purchased
S&of him at his own price, else he will not
y put scissors to cloth for you), is six
hundred francs, and whose highest
price is zone of those things that no
fellow can find out" But Paris and its
allurements shall possess my pen no
longer.
ticket on a French railroad. You must
buy billet" to the station where you
wish to stop; but. on the other hand,
there is no distinction in price made
in favor of through passengers. It
costs to travel in France about four
cents per mile first-class. three cents
per mile second-class, and two cents per
mile third-cIass, and whether you go
to Charenton, which is five miles from
Paris, or to Marseilles, which is over
five hundred miles, the price per mile is
the same. The railroad corporations
here do not find it to their interest to
carry through passengers for the fun
of the thing, and make it up by plum
dering the unfortunates living along
the line of the road, and when those
sInfortunates growl. tell them that they
are malcontents finding fault with
philanthropists, and traitors who are
dissatisfied with good government. The
merchant at Montbard, which is one
hundred and fifty miles from Paris,
pays exactly one-haIf the amount of
freight on a box of goods that is paid
by the merchant of Lyons who lives a
trife over three hundred miles from
Paris. The wine-grower of Aries, in
shipping the products of his vineyard
to MarseflleS, has to pay for freight
a few francs per cask less than the
wine-grower of Avignon, which place
is eighteen miles further from the sea,
Nor does it appear that this democratic
plan of permitting every commercial
tub to stand upon it's own bottom,
works any injury to the large cities or
the stockholders of the railroad COM
pany.
There is nothing remarkable in the
country between Paris and DIXON. We
pass through a part of the historic
forest of Fontainbleau, and look in
vain for the wild game with which it
is said to abound. On our return we
may stop there and gaze at the table
whereon Napoleon signed his abdication
and the bed where he slept the night
before, which has never been made
up or otherwise molested since. AT
present however, we will glide at
French, not English express speed
meaning thereby thirty, not sixty miles
per hour-past long narrow patches of
grain, and red clover, and brown plow-
ed land winding like striped ribbons
around the hill sides and over the
plains. There are no fences or walls
in sight, and but few division hedges
even The land is owned in small
farms-in fact there are more petty
landed proprietors in France, in pro-
portion 10 the population, than in any
other country in the world, our own
not excluded; but they have some
more simple and more economical
plan of adjusting neighborhood lines
than fencing or hedging. This must
be bad for the cows. and horses and
sheep who are probably all green
soiled,'' or cared for in sheds, for we
did not see one animal grazing in all
E ioI, sf1
which stretches between Paris and
Dion. Also, are there no four-legged
hogs in France? for neither in suburb
of city nor outskirt of town, nor in
the rear of country cabin, nor in
freight car, nor by roadside, nor in
pen nor palace have / seen the sign
or symbol ofapiggy. This absence of
animal life,-other than dogs. of which
there are plenty at every stations
absolutely distressing. What are
green, rolling fields. without sheep or
kline? What are hedges, over which !
no colt peeps, or horse his heels def
artly filings? Where also are pictures
que peasantry? Is this a land of en- |
chantment. relieved from the primal |
cur Sc and tenanted by fairies? Ger !
tainly we did not see five Iaborers in !
all the well-kept fields between Paris |
and Marseilles.
A A.
Piety is not at a premium here. A |
moustached, and silver-braided, and i
-epauletted. and clankirg captain. in /
formed me that a soldier may ride on /
any railway in France for one-fourth /
OF the regular fare, but clergymen of /
all denominations have 20 pay full /
rates. It is not so with US. unless the /
soldier happens to be a quartermaster
who audits transportation accounts
IN which event the company will pay |
him something to ride. If 1 had not |
already purchased my tickets and left
my gorgeous militia uniform at home
I think would try the effect Of it up
on a French station-keeper.