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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1890.
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ways on hand.
'
If General Apathy has stolen into the
command of the Republican party here
abouts, cashier him without so much as
a drum-head court-martial. He is worse
than a deserter.
At a time when the prospects of Indi
anapolis are of the most encouraging
character it would be a serious misfor
tune to have the Coy gang fasten itself
upon the township.
The report comes from Ohio that when
Senator-elect Brice visited his Legisla
ture, a few days since, his brief speech
was received with frigidity, which leads
one to inquire if he has not made the'
final payments his workers promised to
his supporters. '
The people of Indianapolis fully ap
preciate the timely and successful ef
fort of Representative Cheadle in getting
a clause inserted in the fortifications
board to investigate the facilities of In
dianapolis for a gun factory.
. TnE Democratic party here and there
is led by some very notorious men, but
none of them have the unsavory dis
tinction of having been in the peniten
tiary within less than a year. Such dis
tinction will attach to the Indianapolis
Democracy if it should win . the town
ship election.
Strangely enough, the grain business
of the country did not come to a stand
still yesterday when the quotations of
the Chicago Board of Trade were cut off.
Chicago should school herself to bear
these little disappointments with
equanimity. The earth cannot be turned
over to her, even though she did get
the world's fair.
Congressman Cannon, of Illinois, is
not a Chicago man, but he gave a very
fair imitation of the Chicago disregard
for facts when he said in the House
that Indianapolis had no land and no
buildings for a gun factory. At all
events, when the committee comes this
way it will find that if Cannon knew
what he was talking about he did not
tell it straight. ...
The Chinese are doubtless right in"
thinking that they would no longer be
subject to petty persecutions if they
could vote. However, the law offers
remedies for any violence they may
suffer, but it could offer no compensa
tion for the humiliating spectacle of can
didates catering to the Chinese vote.
The supply of alien illiteracy at the polls
is quite ample already without admit
ting the Chinese.
The Philadelphia Record doesn't like
the free-and-easy remarks of Republican
journals about the defaulting treasurers
in Southern States, and says snappishly
"the Democracy does not attempt to pro
tect official knaves aud defaulters."
Doesn't, eh? May be not; but it shows
no frantic desire to apprchcnand pun
ish them. A V here are Tate, Burke and
the rest, anywayT Not in jail, so far as
the public knows.
The New York Herald is very severe
upon Governor Hill for vetoine tho re
form ballot bill, which, it declares, is
the most righteous and most popular
measure that has been before tho Legis
lature for years, and goes on: "He ve
toes tho bill, gives new lifo to the ma
chine, perpetuates corruption by an offi
cial act, is the enemy of orderly society.
of honest political rivalry, and of every
workingman from tho Hudson to the
Jakes.77
Jeff Chandler, a Missouri lawyer,
who attracted attention as one of tho
defense in the star-route cases, aud a
man of character and ability, has de
clared himself a candidate for the
United States Senate as a Democrat
against Mr. Vest. Ho made his declara
tion at a meeting in St. Louis, where he
made a speech, in which he denounced
the Democratic ring of Missouri, and its
flighty and unscrupulous newspaper, the
Republic. The fight will bo a bitter
one, and there is a chance that a Repub
lican, rather than Mr. Chandler,, will
succeed tho best-preserved specimen of
bourbonisra in the Senate. ' ..
The American Agriculturist for April
has a symposium on the subject of agri
cultural depression. All tho. political
fanners and farming politicians attrib
ute it to political causes of one kind or
rather, and all tho real farmers aud
men who have made a thorough study
of the subject attribute it to over
production. We are simply producing
more of certain commodities than we
can consume or sell. The supply ex
ceeds tho demand. The Agriculturist
summarizes its own views as to the
cause of the depression as, first, over
production, caused by, second, the gov
ernment's free-land policy and its immi
gration system. Tho obvious remedy is
in producing less of the commodities of
which the supply now exceeds the de
mand and more of other things until the
market can recuperate.
AH UK-AMERICAN PIETY.
The Milwaukee election furnishes a
characteristic illustration of Democratic
methods. It turned on tho so-called
Bennett school law. This law is com
pulsory in some of its features aud re
quires the teaching ot English in all
schools, public and private. There are
many townships in Wisconsin settled
almost exclusively by Germans and
others by Poles. The people in these
communities are clannish, the elders
speak German or Polish exclusively, the
local authorities employ foreign teachers,
and by degrees the public schools have
become foreign schools. In some of
them English is not taught at all, and
the children, though native-born Ameri
cans, are growing up without a knowl
edge of English. Tho Bennett law aims
to do away with this state of things by
requiring English to be taught in all
schools. Its object is to make good
American citizens out of tho younger
generation of German and Polish-Ameri
cans by instructing fhem in the language
of the country, and to this end. such in
struction is made compulsory. The
schools mainly affected by tho law are
the country schools in communities
mainly, populated by foreigners: In
cidentally it affects parochial schools in
Milwaukee, both Catholic and German
Lutheran, tho result being that German
Protestants and Catholics are united in
their opposition to the law. The real
question is whether the rising genera
tion in all parts of this country shall be
taught the English language. On this
question the Democracy have taken the
negative, and by forming an alliance
with tho foreign and Catholic opponents
of the law in Milwaukee, they have suc
ceeded in carrying that city, electing a
Democratic Mayor and full city ticket.
The result shows two things: First, that
the Democracy are always ready to make
any sort of an alliance that promises
temporary success, no matter how un-
American it may be, or what sacrifice of
public welfare it may involve; and, sec
ond, no matter what position the party
leaders and managers may take, tho rank
and file of the party will vote the ticket.
In the present case it is stated that many
Democrats denounced tho position of
their party on the educational law, but
voted for their party candidates on the
ground that the law was not an issue in
the municipal elections. It certainly
was an issue if Germans and Catholics
were voting for Democratic candidates
on the assurance that the Democratic
party would repeal the law. As far as
can be gathered from the report of the
election there was no other issue but
this no "question of municipal reform
nor any issue of city politics. The only
question was as to the compulsory teach
ing of English in all the schools of the
State, and on this question the Demo
crats sided with the Germans and Cath
olics, pledging themselves to carry the
question into State politics, and, if suc
cessful tnero, to repeal the law. N It is
characteristic of them to make such al
liances and such pledges. There is no
principle of good government and no es
sential feature of American liberty that
they will not lend themselves to the de
struction of in order to gain a partisan
advantage. It is to a dangerous degree
an un-American party.
THE IIURHUR OF THE SHALLOWS.
What would have been said of the
soldiers or thexegiment that should havo
refused to go into action during the late
war because they had not been paid to
date, or because Congress would not in
crease their pay, or because some favorite
had not .been appointed to lead them?
It would have been said, in the first
place, that they were not patriots, but
hirelings, and base hirelings at that; and,
in the second place, that they were self-
willed and insubordinate. In an army,
under proper discipline, such soldiers
would bo treated as mutineers, and
would have been given the choice be
tween obeying orders or being shot.
But no army with a good cause, or with
ordinary discipline, was ever affected
by such threats. A battle was never
lost because of their lukewarmnes3 or
their sinster influence. Indeed, so loyal
was soldierly sentiment during the late
war that regiments which refused to
render assistance and even to go into
action after their time had expired, were
the objects of contempt and denuncia
tion. There were such regiments, and
until this day they are spoken of with
disdain, and, in one or two instances,
they are not invited to participate in
soldierly gatherings. And what is true
of men in time of war in the field is
true of men in political parties. When
a man declares, with fervid ejaculation's
and fierce denunciation, that he will
leave his political party, or, rather, tho
political party to which he claims to be
long, if it does not indorse the thing he
wants, and its members of Congress or
of legislatures jlo not enact the law that
he demands, ho simply advertises tho
fact of the hypocrisy of his professions
or of his lack of a proper appreciation of
the purpose of political organization. A
party may be recreant to its principles.
but, in 6uch event, he can demonstrate
that such is the case. He may be led to
concludo that the principles and policy
of the part are not wise, and, if he can
give a valid reason, no stigma can at
tach to him. But when, with
out awaiting tho general record
and policy of his party, he threat
en to leave it if it will not
do a thing that seven-eighth of its
members do not approve, and which it
is not pledged to do, he will become its
foe, and the only thing which will save
him from tho contempt of right-minded
people is the excuse that he is the vic
tim of thai uuTub member a hair-
spring-trigger tongue. A national party
whose record is the history of the grand
est progress a nation ever made in a
third of a century will not stop to pla
cate such light-headed persons, and will
not weep if they make good their
threats. If they make good their
threats and leave for such reasons as
they give, they must go over to the
enemy and thereby declare that;thejr
were in the party for revenue only. At
best, they can havo no influence. The
shallows more than murmur after a
shower, but they run dry early. The
cricket makes more noise than a field of
grown cattle. The fly on the wheel
thought he caused the carriage to move.
NATIONAL BANK CIECULATION.
Ifthepeoplo are wise they : will not
oppose legislation looking to . a continu
ance of the national bank system and to
an increase of the circulation. At pres
ent the circulation is being rapidly re
tired. The process of retirement is
quiet, but steady and continual. The
circulation is being taxed' out of exist
ence. The rate of retirement can be
seen from a statement of the amount of
national bank notes outstanding on the
31st day of October for six years past.
On that date, in 1883, there was $310,
020,326; -in 1884, $291,849,659; in 1885,
$276,304,189; in 1886, $219,710,656; in 1887,
$109,215,007; in 1888, $152,306,328; in 1889,
$130,207,2&3. Without stopping" to in
quire to what extent this contraction of
the currency may have been replaced
by an increase in the amount of gold
and silver, we remark that neither of
these can supply the place of national
bank circulation in accommodating tho
people and meeting the wants of local
trade. It is one thing for the govern
ment to coin money and another thing
to get it in circulation or where the peo
ple can obtain it for the purposes of
local trade. The national ", banks
supply the machinery for doing this,
and if it is made to their interest
to maintain a circulation they all be
come active agents. ior loaning it to the
people. It ought to be the policy of the
government,, as it certainly is the in
terest of the people, to have the national
banks act as distributing and loan agen
cies, carrying the circulation into the
remotest parts of the country and bring
ing it within the reach of people who
want to borrow money. ,
The national banks have performed a
double function in this regard drawing
capital from the East. jand thus bringing
lenders of the older States into -satisfactory
relations with those of the newer
ones, and also collecting and accumu
lating surplus local capital for banking
purposes. Statistics show that the States
and Territories of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Idaho, Montana, New -Mexico,
Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Ari
zona have 144 national banks. The ag
gregate number of shares of these banks
is 129,850, of which 82,196 are held by
residents of those States and Territories
and 47,654 by non-residents. The live
States of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska havo 520 national
banks with 647,501 shares, of which 212,-
305 are held by non-residents. The
shares held by . residents represent tho
local capital that has been collect (to
gether and invested in banking, while
those held by non-residents I rep
resent the foreign capital ithat
has been localized at obscure and
distant points for the r benefit
of those communities. Certainly it is to
the interest of these Western States and
Territories to havo. the banks, and it is
just as plainly to their interest that the
banks should have circulation and. bo
able to loan it to the people at a reason
able rate of interest. The way to .this
should bo made as easy and free from
taxation as possible. ! .,
. National banks have done a great deal
towards lowering the general rate of in
terest. Before their establishment the
interest burden imposed upon produc
tion was very great. It is safe to say
that the average rate of interest pre
vailing to-day, including all classes of
loans and the entire country, is not more
than one-third of tho averago rate that
prevailed thirty years ago. Of course,
the accumulation of capital has much to
do with this, but tho national banks
havo contributed, in a large degree,
their capital, circulation and deposits,
holpingto make. a loanable fund for
every community. For tho farmers of
the West to denounce national banks is
as unreasonable as if ttiose of Utah and
Arizona should denounce the system of
irrigation, which collects water at its
sources and distributes it as needed to
fertilize their lands and make their
crops.
. TAKEN ESOai REAL LIFE.
Here is a true story of the decline of
the farming industry in Illinois: Four
teen years ago an old farmer in ono of
the most fertile sections of tho State
died, leaving his son 2,300 acres of land
and $4,000 cash in bank. The young
man, being wealthy, believed it his
duty to improve everything. Ho beau
tified his farm by burning all the rail
fences and replacing them with neat
board fences and patent gates. Haul
ing was not good in all kinds of weather,
and, at his own expense, he piked such
sections of road as passed through, his
farm. The old house and barn looked
out of keeping, and he built new ones,
but, as the cash had run out, he mort
gaged a slice of land to do it. Being
wealthy he felt it his duty to improve
the stock of the county, and mortgaged
another piece of land to purchase an
imported herd of cattle. Later ho bor
rowed more and bought three self-bind
ers and a threshing machine, religionsly
esposiug them to the bad weather of the
ensuing winter and buying new ones
the next summer. His imported stock
did not pan out well and he sold it at a
sacrifice, mortgaging another hundred
acres to buy another herd of a different
breed. Having plenty of: land, when
a mortgage note came due he let it go. to
tho mortgagee, without taking ther
trouble to sell it. In this fashion he has
farmed since his father died, until re
cently, when he found it necessary to
mortgage the homestead to purchase a
trotting stallion. When that is fore
closed he will probably enter the lecture
field and discuss the relation of the
tariff to agricultural depression. This
man is by no means a representative
farmer, but he is in a fair way tobecome
a representative "kicker."
TnE suggestion that the pavement ex
position be continued for a length, of
time, or made permanent, will doubtless
receive due consideration from the man
agers. It is easy to see how it might
become of permanent interest and value.
As the nucleus of an exhibition of street
pavements and paving materials, open
to inspection and to future additions, it
would attract the attention of inventors,
contractors and city authorities. The
subject is one of permanent interest.
Each succeeding year brings a fresh
crop of inquiries from towns and cities
about to embark in street improvements,
and when it becomes understood that
we have a free exhibition of this kind
people interested in tho subject will
come a long distance to see it. To make
it permanently attractive it should be
kept up with the progress of the times,
and whenever an improvement in pave
ments is made the managers should have
it added to the exhibition. There
should also be, if possible, a record
showing where the different pavements
are laid, how long they last, etc. In
short, this might be made a sort of pave
ment exchange, where all the informa
tion obtainable on the subject could be
acquired in a short time and in a very
satisfactory manner. Eventually it
might grow into an exposition of clays,
tiling and building materials, as well as
pavements, that would bo unique in its
way and permanently attractive.
That the flood in the lower Missis-
sippi is not accompanied by much loss
of life is doubtless due to the fact that
the immediate regions are not thickly
populated, and the people have had
warning in ample time to escape. The
overflow is not like the Johnstown dis
aster or the sudden rise of a rushing
stream. It is for the most part a gradual
extension of a great mass of water, deep
enough to flood vast districts of country,
but spreading out slowly and not at
tended with much danger to life. The
destruction of property will be consid
erable, but not nearly so great as it
would be in a more populous country.
Farm improvements are not valuable in
the flooded region, and if the flood does
not last too long a corn and cotton crop
can be made after it subsides. The peo
ple do not seem to be greatly excited.
A Vicksburg correspondent says: "They
have had long experience, in floods, and
don't mind it as much as sensational
reports would imply. In Tensas and
Concordia parishes, even with the water
creeping down, the people are planting
crops as usual." The great question for
tho future is how the levees are to be
repaired and maintained. That work
will probably devolve upon the general
government, and it will be difficult and
expensive.
A careful revision of the list of dead
in the Louisville disaster reduces the
number to. seventy-five. The Courier
Journal finds ground for thankfulness
that the destruction of life and property
was not greater, as it might easily
have been under other conditions. That
paper says: . .
Had the storm fallen on us at mid
day, with children at school, with laborers
at work, with . merchants in their usual
haunts, the list of the dead would have been
ten tunes what it is to-day. Had the path
of the storm beeu further west, it would
have destroyed our great factories and
thrown thousands oat of employment. Had
tho district reached by the storm been east
of bixtb, in tho mercantile quarters, the
loss on stocks of goods would have been ten
times what it is.
A calamity is scarcely ever so bad but
it might have been worse, and it is good
philosophy to look on the bright side, if
there is one. The people of Louis
ville are dealing with their disaster
in manly fashion, and the spirit they
are showing augurs well for the futuro
progress of the city.
The alumnco of the Philadelphia Girls'
High-school and Normal-school propose
to raise a fund to relieve the necessities
of the infirm and aged teachers of the
public schools of that city. The condi
tion of worn-out school teachers with
nothing saved from their scanty earn
ings is one to arouse compassion, but,
rather than to make them objects of pub
lic charity, it would be better for the
alumna) to use their influence toward se
curing for all the teachers salaries largo
enough to permit the laying by of a
rainy-day fund by each individual.
Philadelphia has the unenviable repu
tation of paying smaller wages to its
teachers than any other large city, and
this reputation will not bo bettered when
these teachers are forced to become pen
sioners on public bounty.
The Australian ballot system was
tried in the cities of Missouri, Tuesday,
and the result was satisfactory, tho bum
mer element and tho bummer-buyer
alone finding it in the way of plying
their profession. Instead of cutting
down the Republican vote, as was ex
pected by those who enacted it, tho Re
publicans carried several cities in which
they have never before had a majority.
The report of a matrimonial engagement
between Dr. Ruth, of the navy, and Miss
Wanamaker, daughter of the Postmaster
general, which has gone the rounds of the
"papers, is pronounced by both persons con
cerned to be "absolutely baseless." Such
incorrect reports may canse embarrass
ment, but are not really harmfnl. In this
case, at least, Dr. Ruth has had the benefit
of unlimited free advertising, and. thanks
to gushing female correspondents, of now
being known to the world as the loveliest
of bis sex this side of Canada. Col.
Nicholas Smith, it will be remembered, is
in Cauada.
TiiEREis a genuine Ibsen character outin
Nebraska. Mrs. John MoWilliams prays
the court to restrain her husband "from
patting her on the head, poking her in the
ribs, and talking baby talk to her." Like
the wife in the "Doll's House," Mrs. Mc
WTilliams has probably just discovered her
own soul, and desires to develop it without
interference from tho affectionate bat un
appreciated old man.
' '
If Senator Stewart's bill to prevent tho
adulteration of beer becomes a law there
suit will encourage hop-growers. It is well
known that tho low price of hops prevail
ing for some years has been owing to the
use by brewers of a variety of roots and
drugs as substitutes for the bitter herb.
Some of these substances are far from be
ing of a harmless character, and the per-
sons addicted to the uso of beer take more
risks than former!, and more than Sen
ator Stewart's proposed law will allow.
'ABOUT PK0PLE AND THINGS.
ii Rm
Dr. Oliver Wkjtdell Holmks has re
ceived more congratulatory letters in con
nection with his current articles in the At
lantic than he ever received in response to
his former literary work. - .
. O'DoNoVANRoSAVtwentyTearsnf ban
ishment from Ireland -will expire next year,
and he says that he will then make a visit
to his native land, even if ho should bo
once more thrown into prison.
A Burmese queen, Meeby a, one of the
wives of King Mindone Min, recently died,
and her body lay in state at Rangoon, The
Queen's body was cremated on a great
funeral pile to tho sounds of weird ran sic.
Louis XVI fnruitur is popular in New
York. W. C. Whitney has added to his
heme a Louis XII ball-room, and what the
Whitneysdoin New York is considered
good form. It is even law among the "Four
Hundred."'
Harvard and Yale students have a curi
ous superstition concerning the Oxford
Cambridge boat-race in England. When
Cambridge wins, it Is deemed a favorable
omen for Yale, but when Oxford triumphs,
Harvard men breathe easier.
The late Robert Browning published his
first sonnet in the Monthly Repository, of
London, on Aug. 17, 1834. It is fully as hard
to understand as anything which he wrote
in his later years. Bostouians claim that it
is a gem worthy of the writer.
Don Carlos is the most sensible of pre
tenders. Ho has a beautiful palace in Ven
ice, and he is satisfied to pretend in his
comfortable rooms instead of going to Spain
and protending in an uncomfortable .tent
and within reach of the rifle bullets of his
enemies.
Some Western farmers have been receiv
ing a circular, which opens as follows:
"To Christian farmers Do you want to get
in on the ground floor and keep the com
mandments at the same time? If so, read
this." And then it unfolds a pretty swind
ling scheme."
"Few men," a Georgia contemporary
think 8," ' are so fortunate in a raffle as is
Marshal Bland, of Milledgeville. He won
a lamp at a raffle in Augusta the other day,
had no use for it. put it on raffle at Mil
ledgeville, won it. raffled, won it, raffled
again, and went home with SCO in currency
and the lamp under his arm.'7
Joaquin Miller is credited with writing
the worst hand in the United States, which
serves to veil certain eccentricities of spell
ing. He is a spare-built, sharp-featured
man ot weird appearance, with a broad,
bald forehead, and suffers his tangled
mane of hair to fall carelessly on his
shoulders. He affects a semi-clerical style
of get-up, and says abrupt things in a hol
low voice.
According to the Lancet, Dr. Luderitz
has recently made a number of observa
tions on the destructive power of coffee
upon various microbes. He found that the
organisms all died in a longer or shorter
period. In one series of experiments an
thrax bacilli were destroyed in three hours,
anthrax spores in four weeks, cholera ba
cilli in four hours, and the streptococcus of
erysipelas in one day.. Good and bad coffee
produce precisely similar effects.
Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist,
has taken a great fancy to Samoa, lie has
bought an estate of 400 acres on the hill
near Apia, where he intends to make his
home. He was at Sydney when last heard
from, and his present intention is to visit
England during the summer. He will he
back in Samoa in November, when he will
give himself up to house-building aud the
completion of his South sea novel, "The
Wrecker." He contemplates writing, a
history of Samoa.-
The late Archbishop Heiss, of LaCrosso,
Wis., was a saving man, and would walk
rather than incur expense by riding. Re
turning from a wearisome journey, he was
met at the station by a number of priests.
They insisted that, being tired out, he
should go homo in a carriage. No, he
would not; the amount of fare could be
saved. Then some one reminded him of his
heavy satchel. "Oh, I am sure Brother
Bernard (bis old and tried attendant) will
take that," he replied, and both walked off,
much to the discomfiture of the party.
A kindly-faced man at a Kansas City
street-crossing tapped a passing gentleman
and asked him if he bad lost a twenty-dollar
gold piece. The gentleman looked at
the coin and said he had. The old man
drew out a note-book and took the name
and address of the loser, and turned away.
"Well," said the other, "do you want it all
as a reward?'7 "Oh, I did not find one,"
siid the benevolent old man. "but it struck
me that m a large city like this there must
be a great deal of money lost, and upon
inquiry 1 find that you are the thirty-tirst
man who has lost a twenty-dollar gold piece
this morning."
PEN-PICTURES OP BISMARCK.
How lie Looked at the Great French Review
in 1867, and in the Reichstag.
Edward King, In Boston Journal.
Three pictures of Bismarck rise before
my eyes as I pen these lines, and they show
him in different phases of his character.
I saw him first in 18C7, when the prestige
of Sadowa was beginning to amaze and
alarm France, and the supporters of the
second empire were gradually finding out
that they had been duped. My first view
of him was in an avenue of tho Bois de
Boulogne as he accompanied the King of
Prussia and the Emperor of , Russia to that
review at which Napoleon III exhibited
the fatal weakness of French arms and
knew not that he was doing it.
That was a romantic day. Toward even
ing the attempt of Berezoroski to assas
sinate the Emperor of Russia became gen
erally known, and the whole vast park of
the Bois was filled with swarms of wildly
gesticulating 'men, women and children,
and with troops sweeping homeward from
the review. My impression of the day.
now, after long years, is that it was tilled
with one long, uninterrupted yet kaleido
scopic spectacle, the like of which I have
never seen since and never expect to see
again.
Bismarck was already pretty well known
to the Parisians, who had a good-humored
curiosity about him. For the Roi de Prusse
they had only a cynical sneer, lie was
nobody in their opinion by comparison
with the brilliant Alexander of Russia.
I stood in the front row of a dense crowd
as Bismarck rode by on horseback, at a re
spectful distance from the King. They
were on their way, with a magnificent es
cort of cavalry, to take up their positions
beside tho Emperor Napoleon on the lawn
at Longchampa, and to witness the march
past.
Di8xnarc wore a neimec wmcu made a
strange impression upon my miud. The large-
helmeted head, v. itti the tired-looking face.
did not seem to beloug to the body. The
head was of the middle ages; the body was
that of a Prussian Junker of 1848. And
what a tired face! It was already showing
tho tremendous strain to which the mind
had been subjected in the preparation of
the campaign in favor of German unity.
Indeed, I have heard it said that Bismarck
never knew such anxiety after Sadowa.
not even in tho most trying times of the
Franco-German campaign, as just before
Prussia was about to engagein the struggle
with Austria. Jiau ne iaucu then, all was
lost. -
The weariness of the face did not take
away from its strength, however. There
was in the face what one sees in the feat
ures of all predestined men all the "Na
poleonic fellows." as John Russell Young
once said a look as 01 listening to some
voice from within; a haunted look, if one
may call it so. (Bismarck's great eves, with
their protruding bull-like pupils, had this
look as I gazed at him that summer day in
18i'.) It was tho face of a man who obeys
the unseen caller obeys as Joan of Arc dfd.
There was also that impenetrable diplo-
?1 At - !!
xnauc veu across uie leaiures uv wmcu un
mm of this kind mask their design;' aud
ca.'.iug into the face, one felt that, al
though he could not read it. there were
vast things unutterable behind it; there
wanau imuiense aud irresistible strength
which was to come forth at tho appointed
time. Added to this there was a kind of
cnmly pathetic expression; As, of one who
had lost his last allusion, and faces the
hard world's perils aud injustices without
fear or the desire for pity.
The face passed on and the horncs bore
the distinguished riders around a turn in
the pathway. Presently I saw them in the
distance, outlined against the blue sky,
with the shorter figure of Napoleon near
them. I did not remember a single featuro
of the King of Prussia's face, but I can see
Bismarck's massivo helmeted head now at
plainly as I saw it then, appearing and dis
appearing amid the vernal verdure oftha
Bois de Boulogne.
Two years later I was in Berlin, in the
autumn of and while visiting Hcrr
Schulze-Df litsch, the well-known working
man's advocate, a man of pronounced
socialistic tendencies, ho advised mo to
visit tho Reichstag (then holding daily
sessions), as Bismarck would speak that
afternoon. Armed with a ticket which bis
kindness procured for me. I was admitted
to a spectator'a seat, and I remember that
Laskor, who was then at thohrightof his
fame, was just finishing a fiery speech.
Dark-haired, dark-featured defiant in
manner aud gesture, Lasker impressed inc as
more like a Latin than a Teuton. He was
followed by an opponent whose speech
caused many rumors of dissent, and, while
this speaker was responding with great vi
vacity to the interruptions, there was a
rumble of carriage-wheels, a bustle among
the spectators, and Bismarck, broad-chested,
blue-coated to the chin, a towering,
menacing figure, strode in to the raised
desk which was his place.
With the air of a man who had just lost
his best friend, he began arranging eomo
loose papers before him, while a venerable
flnnkey, in ono of thoso gold and silver lace
collared coats which one sees nowhere save
in German land, brought in a glass of water,
and sat it down rather timorously, as if he
were afraid the great minister might bite
his head ofi'.H i
The fact was that Bismarck was in a
rage, and that the deputv who followed
Lasker had added fuel to the tiamo of the
Bismarckian passion by turning toward '
him as he entered and emphasizing soma
criticism of ministerial policy by a direct,
almost scornful gesture, pointing him out
ae if he would pillory him.
Bismarck sat down, and the tired face,
which looked massive and fateful even
without the huge helmet abovo it, gathered
into a scowl. You have seen a storm com
ingupona Swiss lake with lightning-like
rapidity, black, overwhelming! Well, that
was it! .
Presently he arose, and stretched upward
(I can think of no other phrase which ex
presses it) his huge length: then he leaned
forward, fixed his two ponderous hands on
the desk and began to talk. He looked
straight at the olfending party, who was
very uneasy. It cannot be said that Bis
marck had a voice in proportion to his bulk
and stature, but it was used with wonder
fnl efiect. It had startling accents in it,
sudden emphasis which made everybody
1' ump and impelled the members of the
teicii8lag to glance at each other as if
afraid. This was merely the letting out of
some of the reserve strength. At last he
grew bitter aud disdainful. He showered
upon Lasker's opponent the bitterness of
his scoru; he seemed to burl facts at him.
He was merely crushing his enemy; he was
not letting fine irony play around him and
scorch him; be was battling as -all Titans
must fatally battle, with the expenditure of
ten times the strength necessary to beat
down his adversary.
And that is what Bismarck has done all
through his career. He has beaten down
his opponents after getting them into posi
tions from which they could not retreat. I
havo never since witnessed such disdainful
treatment of one man by another as that
which Bismarck bestowed on the opposi
tion deputy that day; and it was all tho
more astonishing because it was in a par
liamentary assembly.
When he had finished his astounding dia
tribe ho sat a few minutes "pooring" down
tho wrinkles in his face, tugging at his
cheeks and passing hij hand over his brow
as though to calm the surging of tumultu
ous passions there, meantime listening to
various speakers and to tho belabored dep
uty's reply; but while the latter was in tho
middle of his second speech . Bismarck
reached out for tho glass of water before
him, drank it, and then, grasping his pa
pers, departed as precipitately as he had
entered.
' Newspapers and Advertisements.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
A celebrated scholar once wrote a verv
learned address appealing to newspapers to
omit all advertisements and publish news
and special literature only, lhe idea is ri
diculous, because newspaper readers want
tho advertisements as well as the details of
current events. The price of necessary
commouuies is as legitimate news as tho
record of domestic and foreign events. No
newspaper could get up a desirable circu
lation it it omitted advertisements, no mat
ter if no price was charged for it. People
want the advertisements, and he if. a wiso
business man who seeks the most d'isirablo
medium for telling the public what ho has
to sell. The most prosperous business
houses in this city to-day are those which
advertise most, and they got their prosent
prosperity by persistent, intelligent adver
tising, and none of them could be induced
to give it up under any circumstances.
Lack of CiriUzation in the South.
Boston Advertiser.
The Savannah News tells of the discov
ery, in excavating for a sewor, of a forgot
ten burial place of Union soldiers and' the
recovery of several skeletons, supposed to
be those of fcherman s soldiers. Crowds of
people visited tho spot, a ph3'sician of the
city secured a skull, but the remainder of
the bones were left on the edge of the ex
cavation, or wero thrown back under the
sand." Even after the expiration of more
than a quarter of a century the people of
Savannah cannot treat with respect the
remains of the country's defenders. Now
and then there is an occurrence at the
South which leads one to doubt if our
country is yet wholly civilized.- - Had thesa
been the remains of rebel soldiers, discov
ered in Northern boiI, snch an affair could
not have happened
When Women Vote.
Atlanta Constitution.
In their wifeless, motherless hrmA mnn
would be minding unmanageable children
aud counting the days till tho candidate
for Congress returned; the "God Bless our
Home" motto on tho wall, covered with
dust, would mock them with its worsted
unrcalit3r, while that other famous legend.
"1'eaco ue w itmn tnis House," would be a
sad commentary on the roar and riot that
would prevail. A sign on the gate-post
would explain all: "Wife Running for
Congress. Back in six months."
Over In Slow Kngland.
Philadelphia Record.
An agitation is going on in London in
favor of having the hour and minnta added
to tho postmark on letters, as is the custom
in this country. Considering the value of
the time mark, in various ways, and espe
cially its importance at times as lesal testi
mony, it is singular that our British cousins
nave not adopted such an obvious reiorm
long since; and equally singnlarthat agita
tion should be necessarj' in order to bring it
about.
' , Southern Circumspection.
Boston Transcript.
Southern editors have to write with great
circumspection in referring to the rebellion.
The Atlanta Constitution announced that
Mrs. Harrison and party visited the battle
grounds between that city and Chatta
nooga, "made historical by General John
ston holding General Sherman in check."
And yet, if memory does not playus false.
General Sherman got there just the same.
Llmltlne the Height of JlalMlnp.
Minneapolis Trxbnne.
- Thr, new building ordinance oi Minne
apolis fixes the limit of 10O feet to the
height of buildings for which permits will
henecforth be issued. If tho restriction
had been adopted several years ago, the
business streets of the city would have
been gainers in appearance, and many in
cidental advantages would have resulted.
Why Some Farmers Are Taxed.
8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. (
Why are farmers taxed! asks a. contem
porary. Well, in Alabama, Arkansas, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Misiouii, Mississippi
and Tennessee farmers are taxed to enable
the men who nominate Democratic ofricials
to win at poker from the men whom they
have nominated.
Archer and His 'Ilouah.' .
Chicago Mull. .:.,
It is now discovered that the defaulting
Treasurer of Maryland lobbed not only the
State, but such of his friends as could be
induced to confide their funds tahts keep
ing, and popular sentiment hav turned
against him with a strong scep. ....