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10 THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. t M w ft Si. ' l I. fi. I THE KOTHSOHIDS. A Skotclf jof tho Celebrated Housfe A short timo after tlio battlo of Jonu, iii; which Napo leon broke clown Uionrmod opposition of Prussia, William I., Elector M llesso Caspol, jlying through Frankfort, 11 1 am one of those, " he said, " wiio trusted to tho faith oi uinr. iaiwness perjuror ana enemy oiliiS race, .Napoleon Bonaparte, llo promised to preserve my territory from violation and to treat mo as a neutral prince, lie has forced me to flv from mv mvn rininnSn 1iq 1nnlr annA it, is to obliterate it and 'make it a parr-' of the Kingdom of! Westphalia. I havo with mo about five millions. Tako j A-t.v i ir til' r.. .i. (. ... . onco of time botweou Paris and San "Erancisco, and ho know that tho aimwor would come during tho day. Ito WfflyCavbriBh .silence. It came rit tho hour ho had ciu5ulalcjj.; ' T ' TJ1() JhiUl8 are for the most part .lows. Tho tomb of tlio Parffainily is opposite that oT Ilaohol in tho com ctory of Perd Lachivlsc. An 4iR " is sculptured in relief on tho whito stono of tho modest chapel. Tho inelosuro in front is sown with pebble. Bvmy .fow who visits a grave leaves a stono. Tho project of buying Palestine and reinstating tli6 Jews has bcn attributed to tho Rothschilds, hut as they havo never taken any stops toward it, it Js probable that thoy oithoi'jnovor thought of it: or speedily abanddned it. Many, Htories aro told of their shrewdness, and while ------ , ..-...-. - v v a -w . u ji a .' aaaaa.jaiia m. a a , u j a a a J vr a. m a a a iui ii aiiiia-i. aiaaairv i. i i i iiii i : I'll them 1 Keep tllbra in security until my rights are restored i One of tho best known is that of the Paris banker, who, and recognized. How muoh interest will you allow mo?" when two communists entered his bank demanded that ho "111 tho dlSturbanCOS Of tho timo " rtailtorl Mavnv vnn ! fttviri hifi nritint'hif trith tlmm . Mirt. ,, .. '..,..-. Kotnsclnui, I can promise nothmcr. It must bo a vorv I niece and told them that wns Mimr slmm nc unm- h ttT Tni.fll if JinV. Yni1 Will lltivn it fm.cf mft nn.t'lwil' nnnlrl ioI.miI., .- It was a Rothschild, too, who, while playing cards, was much annoyed by another player, who stopped tho game In order that he might find a piece of money that had fallen upon tho carpet. Rothschild thereupon folded a bank note, lit it and held it for him, saying, " Thoro, my good man, hurry up while I hold tho light." 4? pur Homes. low rate if any. You will have to trust mo to pay' what x can, wumi x mu auioxaioro it. " Vory well," replied tho Elector, "my chiof purpose is to secure them, From what I learn of you I cannot do bettor than to trust you. I must bid you adiou." Rothschild doparted, received tho Elector's treasure on doposit, was enabled to loan it and rcloan it to somo ad vantage, but paid no intorest on it for eight years, after which ho paid two per cent, for nine years, and returned it to tho Elector's son in 18lU. Such, at least, according to tho legend, is tho origin of that wonderful house of Rothschild, whose existence and operation aro surrounded with something of tho mysteries and dazzling spectacular display found ohieily in fairy ro mances and Arabian Night's tales. During all the troubles of Europo in tho early part of tho century Rothschild remained undisturbed. He nego tiated two loans of four million dollars each for .Denmark, whjch, contemptible now, worn enormous then. A largo wholesale " Yankee notions " or dry goods house might surpass them to-dny. Mayer Rothschild had the faculty of turning all chances to good account. Just before his death in 1813 he called together his six sons Nathan, Solomon, Anselmo, Karl, Mayor and James, and said to them : "I want you to promise mo on your solemn oaths always to remain united in carrying on the operations of our, house.' -They swore as ho asked, hut after his death separated ; or rather th6y divided Europo between them- They es tablished their houses at Paris, London, Frankfort, Vienna and Naples. Each one shared in the general operations of tho house, hut had individual supervision over his par ticular field. It was not a central bank with different branches ; there wore five different houses, which if occa sion required, acted as one. Tho Emperor of Austria ennobled all of them as it thoy wore nil the eldest, which is an Austrian custom. Their arms arc five golden arrows. By a remarkable coin cidence, an ancient writer predicted that Charon, who, ac cording to the old myth, ferried people over the Styx, or river of death, and who gets his pay from tho passengers, would havo a large income in the year 1855, and in that year, Nathan, the eldest, and Solomon and Karl all died-. r-vfbody exPcc;ed, as each one dropped off, to learn at last the secrets of that enormous banking house. But there was not tho smallest chance to look into their big books. Another Rothschild stood ready to take them from the dead men's hands. The firm is a dynasty. You can learn from it only that it has a secret of making money, Ono of tho erreafc strokes f t.1n, l?ntiiciiiM l, rto made when Nathan, the London banker, and an English citizen, followed close in the rear of Napoleon, in 1815, as if he foresaw tho fall of that giant. Tlio sun had not' set on the battlo of Waterloo before tho banker was well on his way to London. He bought English consols, at that time very low in price. When London heard the great news, consols rose, and Rothschild sold. This transaction was entirely ,Rothschild-liko. In their transactions chance is eliminated as much, perhaps, as it is possible in human ailairs. Jhe conception of those grand schemes aro clear and simple, however vast. Tho accomplishment alone is difficult, because it requires a rapid glance over the whole field, and large capital. But there is in them indications of genius. In most of these first great operations, there is the peculiarity of Christopher Columbus' famous Gag trick. Dollars, like soldiers, need to be hurled en masse and at once against a designated point. The Rothschilds in this respect havo been the greatest captains of the cen tury. Capital, has displaced men in the world of industry. Formerly a man was a producor or a negotiator, a bor rower ora lender, Now, by the substitution of capital, ho mav DO-all Of thesP. Jifi thn annio fir T, Tia.;.. .., Spam the Rothschilds are producers of coal and quick silver. By virtue of the railroads they own they are also carriers ; to-day they will be the largest buyers, io-morvow the largest sellers' in Europe. Speculation is the 'fairy of the nineteenth century, and the Rothschilds are its god sons. Life at tho, present day has been almost tripled in intensity. A man who dies at 40 years of ago has -certainly lived more than centenarians of the seventeenth century. i lngor hits a country. The Rothschilds would iuuu iu to xoxgmm ana to Holland when they were mu -- The -Native Army m India. As before 1858. the native army may now bo divided into enreo grauu envisions, wnicti take ttioir names from tho three presidencies of Uongal, Madras, and Bombay. Tho first of these is comnosed of in re(rtmnnts nf nnvnir An regi meats of native infantry, o native rogimonts of G oorkas, tual enemies ! tp Austria and to Italy : to Franco and to termany : to Antonnlli m v,ofnn i?,rt..i rnk.,K pires go down with a crash the house of Rothschild re mains unmoved. They furnish the money to make war ; they furnish it to make peace. The conqueror owes them for his guns ; the conquered owes them for his ransom. Only oncq was thoro any disagreement known to havo arisen between them. When Naples ceased to be a capi tal tho Baron Adolpho do Rothschild removed his bauking house from tho city, and demanded, in cash, his share ol w.uiu A"8 -uiwuii millions, jiut perhaps reool lectiugthe oath required by the founder of tho house, tho allair was arranged, and. the different RotliRchilds in all times, pi confusion and -trouble, havo continued to utter the same distinct watchword of business, oven as at night tho clocks of large cities, regulated by ono hand, strike tho hours at tho same moment. Waien. steam and electricity camo into uso tho former Sr rt 2 - ? 0,f 8Pccutiou wore no longer possible. But tho Rothschilds anticipated these inventions. Tho Baron James at 1 ans, it is said, hastened to seize and uso these now lovers,, which otherwise would have destroyed him Me was the principal projector of tho Frenchrailways, and is said to havo wopt tears of joy on sending the first tolegram to San Erauoiep. He had calculate tho differ- reirlmcnts ot Punmnb naviilrv. .1 rmrinumfu r csu-ii ; fnntry, 0 regiments of Punjaub infantry, 2 regiments of Central India horso, 2 regiments of Meywar iufantry, and tho Hyderabad contingent. With hardly an exception, all these corps have, since tho mutiny, had their names changed. Tho cavalry has been entirely altered. Tho 11 regiments of sami-Europoanized native dragoons have been abolished and their place taken by what used to be called " Irregular cavalrv" that is to say, by regiment in which the men are armed, dressed, and mounted after the native fashion, a change for the bcttcrVhich cannot be too highly praised. In the Bengal native infantry tho numbering of tho reg iments has also been altered. Thus, the present First. Reg iment was, before tho mutiny, numbered tho Twenty-first; tho Second was formerly the Thirty-first; tho Third tho Thirty-second, and so on throughout the list. In tho Madras service there aro 4 lenriments of Hativo cavalryand 41 of native infantry, while the Bombay army consists of a regiments of native cavalry, besides tho Poona horse, 3 regiments of Sciudo horse, and 30 regiments of native iufantry. But it is in the Bengal avmy that the greatest changes havo been made. The custom that had by degrees become an unwritten law, from which no devi ation was permitted, of enlisting none but Ifigh-casto men in tho ranks, has bt-en completely abrogated. In the dark days, twenty years ago,- when we were so near losing In dia, these men Jwero always the most disaffected. Since then, not only have low-caste men been encouraged to en ter tho service, but natives, belonging to tribes formerly unfriendly and unwllling.to serVe, havo been sought after and enrolled, and they aro thought more of than tho Brah mins and Rainnoots. from whom our rflfrimmits nsH fr tin almost exclusively recruited. But perhaps tho greatest alteration is in the manner in which the native army is now provided with European officers. When a youngster woiiu vuo iu JLuuui nausea to do gazetted as ensign to a na tive regiment, in which ho remained on the list untiPhe obtained, the rank of major. Under the new system the only entrance to the native military service is through the English army. An officer who wishes to serve in our In dian army must firsfcqualifyand pass his examination and enter as a second lieutenant in the cavalry or infantry of the line. After two years of regimental duty, ho may ap ply, if the corps to which he belongs is stationed in India, and after ho has passed a preliminary examination in one of the native languages; to be attached to a native regi ment as "a probationer for the staff corps." Should his probation prove satisfactory, he is gazetted from tho corps to which he has hitherto belonged, and entered on tho roll of the staff:corps of tho Presidency in which he is serving. When this change has been made he is available for any duty in India; but, as a matter of course, the vast major ity of the officers belonging to tho staff corps are employed with the different native regiments. 2 How to Select a Husband. It has been profoundly remarked that the true way of tolling a toadstool from a mushroom is to eat it. If you die it was a toadstool, if you, live it was a , mushroom. A. sirauarniemod is employed in tho election of husbands ; ua,4j uuu, 4i uu Kins you ne was a oaa uusoana ; if he makes you happy he is a good one. There is really no other criterion. As Dr. Samuel Johnson remarked, "the proof of the pudding is in tho eating thereof." Some young men that seem unexceptionable, indeed very desir able when they aro single, are perfeotly horrid as soon as they get married. All the latent brute there is in the heart comes out as soon as a sensitive and, delicate being seeks her happiness in his companionship. Tho honey moon lasts a very short time, the receptions and tho round parties aro soon over, and then tho two sit down to make home happy. If she has married a society man, he will soon begin to get bored ; ho will yawn and go to sleep on tho sofa. Then ho will tako his hat and go down to the club and ,soo tho boys, and perhaps not come homo till morniug. If she has married a mau engrossed in business he will DO facreed OUt when hn nnmns Immn Tin m.,,, i a sickly mm that she must nurse, and a morose man that sho must seek to cheer, a drunken man that she must sit up for, a violent man that sho fears, a fool whom sho soon xurirub w uespiso, a vulgar man tor whom sho must applo-1 gize in short, there aro a thousand ways of beiu- bad I husbands, aud vory few ways of being good ones. And the ; worst of it is that the poor silly women are apt to admiro ' xu amfciu uiou luc vory traits tnat.maico bad husbands, and look with contempt or ridicule upon those quiet virtues which make homo hannv. Afon with vnmiit-.Hn nahnni beauty or style often make tho wife happyand Hometiraos I quite the reverse. Tho number of ways of being a bad j uuauiuiu i iuiuusii as great as cno number of ways of be ing ugly. No qptf pan toll from tho demeanor of a siuglo man what sort of husband ho will bo. Meantime, sho must marry somebody. Eat it; if. yqu dio.it must be a toadstool ;. if youJiv it was.a sort of .mushroom. -rv?a-timore Every Saturday. ., . ' ,,, ; ., w. ', nouses and farms, bank stocks and bonds af&nll good things to have, and ospeciallywhon tho dividends 1111 tho capacious pocket-book and promise com fort, ease, and lux ury. But it has been observed by thoughtful people that wealth is not an unfailing source of happiness; naj', it has often proved au annoyance and oven a buVdon to life. TMim'O IS CnVlAf llltiry Mi..- nPlnll nninna.!i.1. .,.,.111- i.1.i . ..v. . ...Vw.uik uiKHiuiiuiiuumua WWII WWUlill tIJ.ll IUilLS I the joys: that should accompany it, and, beforo tho owner I is aware, it has sapped his htimariity, and ho stands out ! soured, vain, and saltish, a heinc to mnlr o nno-nlu wnn .ri devils laugh and chuckle. When the Savior of men was upon earth He.gavo an im l.rcssivo lesson to one who camo and inquired what he should do to havo eternal life. TIo said ho had kept all tho commandments from his youth up, aud asked : "What lack I yet?" The answer was, "Go and sell that thou hast and give to tho poor." Tho advico, wo aro assured, made tho young man "sorrow." But tho furthor impressive words were uttored: "I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly entor tho kiugdom of heaven." Under Such teachings, and with tho oxporionco that wealth brings many evils in its train, it sooms strange that tho human family should jeopardize every hope, and tiro tho limbs and worry tho brain, aud straiu tho hands in the oagor chase for riches. The question should como to-day to these merchants on 'Change, the business mau in his counting-room, tho professional man in his wearisome study, " What am I striving for at this opening of tho year 1879 ?'r Aside from morals and religion, which wo leavo to tlio pul pits, what ideas have wo formed for a year's happiness ? Wo take it for granted that our readers agreo with ns that tho world was mads for happy men and women. Its beauty and variety and bountiful supplies of comforts and luxu ries teach us tho fact more forcibly than words can express i t. Happy men and women aro not found ou tside o f happy homes. Wo pity tho millionaire who smiles at the sim plicity of tho proposition, and equally tho man who boasts in his pride that he can purchase with gold this precious commodity. It is something that gold will not buy, and auy amount of wealth will not prevent a bankruptcy and its banishment from the home. If a single reader at the opening of this now year feels that his homo is not tho ideal placo ho has ih'tho years agoue cherished aud anticipated, it would be well to stop and inquire tho reason. Docs tho tired wife, shut up in tho nursery, with annoy ing duties of domestic life, for days, and weeks and mou ths, lisrht un with a smile at vonr f.mrmivo Tin iitn nn-irt o i stand at the window and peer into tho gathering gloom to note your earliest approach, and mako'the house resound with joy when the door swings to admit you ? No? Well, there is something wrong. Husband and wife might well j stopand ask in all sincerity how shall wo "mako homo happy" tho coming year? Wealth alone will not do it ; the honors of the world'aud the rounds of fashionable life t soon grow insipid, and we must ever turn to the home, j whether palatial ot humble, to find this object of life. If j there were somo patent method for obtaining it, or if it I could be purchased, what a demand there would bo; and i yet when it lies at our doow, or is placed in our hands, we i hesitate to pick it up and fail to grasp it. j The fact is too many aro looking for groat things and ; great events, when the sum of human happiness is almost j wholly mado up of the little and apparently insignificant It has been said that "familiarity breeds contempt." This can only become true between husband aud wife and parents and children when the nobility of manhood and womanhood has been forgotton and laid aside, and selfishr uui vuiguniy nave uueen its nouorea place. 11 tho occupants of some of tho homes who have seen happiness, departing during the past year would, in turning the new leaf, remember some of the lessons they once well under stood, the change would be magical. Let tho husband try for threo months to entor his house aud leavo it as he did in tho days of his wooing. Lot the wife practice tile easy charms that won the lover. Neither has forgotten, and there is more than millions in it." It won't bo a costly experiment, and if the trial of a year does not make every room of your home, humble thuogh it may bo, ring with happiness, then yoti may set it down that the devil has a mortgage and will likely foreclose, and the sooner tho bet ter. But do not give up too easily, for of all desirable and. beautiful things of this life, a happy homo stands first. It is a kind of a foretaste of tho homo beyond, whoso "gates are never shut," and " whose glory no man can estimate." As our sons and daughters grow up aud go out from thoir homes,, although thoy may scatter to remote regions of .. ...v, jm, 'yri tioo uoiuiu HAIUL UUUUS IUO lOVeO. spot that sheltered them, and She sweet influences of the home of childhood will protect them from many an evil, and draw them with tho sweet voices of tho past to noble and heroic achievements. '- The Last -Match. "Hatches," it is1 said, "are mado in Heaven'? hilt1 vast, numbers also are mado in Wilmington, Delaware and in November, 1800, I learned- the incalculable worth of one of those Wilmington matches, At that timo I was far out on the plains of Kansas. In company with three others wo were prospecting tho country, shooting buffalor and enjoying ourselves generally in frontier stylo. The autumn had been long and delightful; tho days were at times sultry, but tho nights were cold enough to sleep be neath a pair of blankets. Little did we antioipato what Shortly was in store for us. On tho oveniag of tho 25th instant, (nover can I forget tlio day,) vast portontious clouds gathered along tho horizon at the northwest, and oro midnight a rain storm burst unon us with toriihln vio lence. Tho wind howled around our tent whoro wo sought sheltor, and soon tho wator found its way through tho can vas and drenched us to tho skin. Our pair of mules, frightened at tho awful thunder and almost blinding light ning, had pulled up tho stakes to which thoy wore attached by tethering ropes, and stood at qui tent trembling with fear. For more than an hour this drenching rain camo down, aud then the storm put on a now phase, A uovor aud more fearful danger became manifest. All was blaok as Hades; but we could feel that, though tho rain had ceased, tho snow had takon its place, and was falling rap idly. Qroat Hoavons ! wore wo to bo engulfed and. polish in ono of those deop.snowsrwhich sometimes fail on tho Western plains? And then, too, it was rapidly bocoming cooler. Tho thormomotor must havo stood twenty dogryoa bolo w the freezing point oro daylight broko upon us. For tunately we wore within twenty yards of a bolt of timljor, running along a stream, and now but ono loading oousid oration was uppermost in our mindsthat of making a !fe , "'gjMaWir CBteaJigjyraBgi v .'33ftaiiaw.tMjitajr