The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 22, 1895, Image 4
BISMARCK'S BIRTHDAY.
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Prince Ot(o Kdoiinrd Leopold von I ti?
inarek, tho man who linn made more
modern history, porbapa, than any other
living creature, will l>e SO jcihx old <>n
live first <*f Ai?rll next. The birthday of
this lino old man tho Man of Blood an.l
Jrou ? is always an event whieh atira t.h ?
aluggish (leiwan Wood to swift action
It iiua u jMjntHtir aignlticance thin year,
because it la the flr?t natal anniversary
that lllamarvk will celebrate slneo the
death of his beloved wife. It will l?e a
gala day, though, f <?? the little conunuid
ty oif Friadriehruh, wilier* since bin riwli;
nation as Chancellor in INSM>, the Kreat
man has resided in the beautiful coun
try hojne, the gift of William I.
'flhe Fflipllning yearn of ihia great
stateainHn, 'diplomatist and hero of many
war* are ?()et)t quietly with bin family,
bis flow era, hia dogs and his ponderous
pipe. Hiantarck haa been an incessant
smoker since his early youth, and at SO
was uot Friday. It was a die# iiffnelu*,
! at any rate*." Ami as ??f ins ill
j luok ho montlona mmual discomfort* ex
periQuced en route, nueli tin ait inn in
f oh ted Willi Iuiks. "ittfa iiiouh colTof," ??!>
triiwivo potltllorn, koi oo ijii? ?tl<?nal>'o jtrin
oj-hh tv> h ml a talkative I'nvy Councilor,
' flto traveled in the warm- eai rhijfe. When
' tho titje of t'yiint was oil. i'r. | hint he
1 hesitated 4i I k>u t ae(-e|>tiiiK it, for ho knew
' that duverul Poinoraniaii familii-t wniHt
| had acquired the title had lmi>iiH' < v
tinct in a ahort apace <>r turn*. During
' the evening of Nov. ??'!. 1S7<>, \vhi!o he
' vi ? t k 1 1 ix tert at Va iTHt'lUfB, In Kpokf
I al>ont hla th^ilh, and mentioned Hit* ntfe
! to wtileii he would attain and the y r in
I which It wiiii ft|i>ohtt?vl that he ahoiild
die. "i know it," he rej??-ated, "it is a
Tityntl(> number. " Seven yearn latter
repented this Htatonieiit, hut mhi^l, "< . *1
how*vor. only known. "
M title t It ?? Itlnu 10 ii v I it it m
Ono day during the Franco Prus^iai.
war Kintf WUliain and Hleinaivk were
detained at a rallrttad htation, and a>
they waited in their oarriaiff a <-ro\v.|
KUl'herod around und hitfitn to < h< < r fur
IIIniiiii ri-lt u( l-:iv. Ii(>
hid mini] in vigorous and 'his Iwxlily nil ,
utoiito lire few. So imic.li fim* ihe tobacco j
t'vll. llo soys ho amokca Cho "best to
I mooo in 10 u And perhaps that has |
<*o 1 11 '? thing to do Willi It.
No one i? dourer (o the (Jcrnuin hour I I
than in lllHinarck. His completion of j
fouroeoro yearn, after a ciirccr Ilia' <
would have worn out a hull' dozen of
ordinary minds and bodies, will be an
ovent. The (Jernian residents of New
York have subscribed for a massive sil
ver loving cup to he pro*sent<?d to the
great lender on the auspicious day. This <
la a trivial fact to relate, hut It illus
trates how 'he is received, honored and
loved h,v the widely separated koiis ami
daughters of their mutual country.
The hi rlli day celebration this year will j
bo a national affair in (iorinany. The j
fund composed by individuals of all the
component States of tho Oorinau lOni |
pire for the erection in Berlin ?>f a m<?n |
uiiHMit in h<Mior of tho civil achievements
of Jlimnarok bus practically been com
pleted, and this has largely IneroaHvd the
treneni] interest of the day about to hi'
the ( ? <>ri ii 11 ii tro'<|?M. Suddenly the kIioiiI
u'dk raised:
" 1 1 ii ri'ii li ! I liirriih! The Itisiiiaivkians
have won another \' i ? ? > < ?ry !"
At these word? Kin# Wdliiini ^icw
pale, JiiKi, turning to the Ohanoellor,
asked. impatiently : "What do t li?*s?*.? | >t" ?
jil<> mean V" ItiMiinivk pretended not to
Uear hint, and for wveral minutes not a
word wan e\elianjyod between tin* two.
I*'i 1 1 a I! >*. however, an tho train moved on,
I In- K 1 1? tr said hruBipiely: "These folks
onyht to ivmeinber that the |ivm?|?x nre
1 1 1 i 1 1 <>, and not yours."
On another occasion lu? was eaujibt in
a utonn as lie was strolling through the
woods near Kis^'iiR-en, and a servant jjirl
ran out of a rental ii rant and offered him
an umbrella. Il?? thanked her courteous
ly, and, taking her arm. esotrted her to
a plaee of safety. There he jravj^ Uer ii
kiss, w hi e)i slio aeeepted with kiKm! urnee,
saying: "Vou have done me a 'ureal hon- J
or, l'rinee," to whleli lie replied: "On the
eontrary, my dear. It Is I who a in in
your deld, for believe me, my dear, you
It I n in ii re It In Ills lilirnrj
celebrated Aiiol lii r j;ii at feature will .
lie tin1 royal 1 >;i n? 1 1 > ? - 1 In l><> ui\i-n In I'm '
peror W i 1 1 in 11 1 in |l<rlin in honor . f 1 1 1 ? ? I
day.
Hisinnrtk'n lerthday hat^ a' ways been
an occasion for the ti lling <>f a <l?t ? -s
connected with liis \\ < > 1 1 ? I ? ? r 1 1 1 enieer, in
the intimate f r i ? ? n . | w)i<> travel Inn lr< ?!
<>f miles to chat with liitn a few in ?
ments niitl |>n*-ent their commit ulnt mi.s
As his hirt liihiy drawn near his mail <]? hi
blew mill trebles. brimiinjr ^?i<ni wishes
from all part.s of the earth. It is a <la>
brimful of pleasure t ? > tlx- old man, as i!
roHisrln like a mirror his vast army a.
iiilliioroii.i ami powerful as any in tin
(Icrinaii Knipire.
The b?wt index lo th<* i linr.'i ter of the
man is shown hy th<- stories In- lover; to
t-oll, when in a talkative tn? ?< >?! The t est
of therte follow, an-1 many ..( Mieui w II
Ihi told over and over ai?:iiti on Ajiril I
next .
lie In Nlipernl 1 1 I???i n
Llko many other jrreat men. Ilismarek
is Komcwhnl superstitious. '1 hope iher.?
aro not thirteen ?.f us f??r dinner," Mii l
hi*) coiwin, Count Bismarck llohlen, one
day to a friend, count in/ the eoyers at
the table. "No. that's rlu'bt, fm'ilie
Chancellor has an objection to that."
Another day, when there were really
f thirteen at -table, special pains were
taken not to draw liisinmivk's attention
to the fact, im his family knew that it
would make him low spirited. < >n n t
14, 1870, flen. Boyer met tl*- Chancellor
at Vernalllea to negotiate on '.iwfaalf ??f
Itazaine, but a? ?oon as liianmrck re
.mombered that it was the fourteenth daw
of the month ho exclaimed: ^Hiat Is the
date of Iloohkiroh and Jena, ami no hnsi
nen shouJd be ooneIiid??d on that day."
Perhaps it occurred to him that this 11: h
?f.Oetober was a Friday .
o~*? , is* 1852, wriii>? /r/>n>
kenbnrsr to bis wife, "I had not as good
?port at Latriinjfen thin time as I had
three jeam a?o. It was a Friday:" and
some month# later he writes to her from
Halle, HI kept ooffftatln* all (hiring th<>
Jooraejr yesterday whether after all it
ha ve in '1< til }:iveii 1110 >: !"? ?;? t plea.-ure.
II In Willi \ o II I It
III hii joiith 1 ti still r? k \\ .ir> it rfili'v
wild. " I'lii' mad Bismarck," hi.s neigh
bors ca'led liiin. I >rliikitr_\ ti>;htinK and
} i < > i v ? ? | ? I a y neonied lo I m * hi- Mill" nniiise
incuts. lie would till Ins a mvsl ra I home
:it Si-hoe iilian-en with irmsis and iiiM.-t
that no oii?' should i i.-o from tin* sii|t|ici
tablo til! sunrise wa- ;it hand Then
those who wi-if r-? >! ??[' ? ji'i ik! NX "II hi l' >
to l.o.l. and t!i ".->'' w !i ? w H"t sohi'V
? ?iinii-'h would ?-!?? |? ii 1 1 ? 1 1 ? i" thi' table. Ill
iiian'k, I hi' hi-a \ ii'-t il ri nk? r ? >f :i I! . w ?? ; 1<I j
remain t-oher ??-: a jud.rt\ ami would j
amuse hiin-'l!'. after his ?jin,.-t- li :i < t re
tired, in tirim: j .i - 1 o* hn'.hts through the
bedroom doors and ft i ^ h t ? ?niir.: tin* in
malon almost to death At other time;
, ho woiihl riding ii'suit th? nrry I ke
t.lio wihl hicNfina n hi : 1 1 - ? ? 1 . .iunipiui; j
i ditches and femes and s]nirrin^ li i- horse j
| through whi le m? oiV. ?r ina:i .
. wonhl dare to j;o.
"( >n<i?," ln? himself sn.\ s. I ?\ :i s r uliiiii
with in v brother. he in ad\an<e. Sud j
i denly lie hen nl ft crash. I I ?? turned. .in !, ,
, !<?! it was n, y h?vi.l that h:i?l -
RTouml. The saddle was bfok -ii. !?;:
head wasn't. On another oecasl >n. w hile
j ridim.' through the brushwood mi :i 'o
j frit I lost eonscioiisne.ss and !a\ three or
i four hours before I enine r . > \\ h- } he
, doctor examim-d my hurts, lie : ;m<' it
i was eontr:|Vy to a'J profes-i ? i.il r.in't*
! flint I had not hroken my neck.'
In view of his impet m?tir? in.ua. t-r
I and cventrie manner of il/e. ., ir. iiot
, Htransrp tlint when lie a-k- I for Hie hand
? of l<'ritiil?>iii .liwu vttii i'uitkum r i" *tin
, riajfe her parent.-* hliintly cf.ised Mm ,
, He wns still very you UK, and they ]? ?
i ferret! to wait a few yearn to if I.p
j would nhnudon his rt'cklo** h.ihi's. Ilis
I inarek, however, did not propose to wnit^?
| ^ f *? rr y Frnirlclii .??<rtn hf v.
j h'T parer\t* were willing or no*. So he
| visib*l hot vvery dn.v, taking n > nt.<e
'of hvr famHi's rebuffs. 1 1 ?> thai
Bho loved him, and that mitli ? 'I hi.?*
| Atate of thing*, however, did not 'as*
| long. A?See h^re, flerr von ru.tkaraer,"
cxi'lfiiuuil lii*iiuurc-k oiu? day, "why ?1<>
you rcl'iiHo to lot ui?- have your da nt h
tor 7"
"Hwaiiw, 11 err von liUiin w k," win
llii? ii'|ily, "you itr? not tit to ?? it y w<>
niuu'M liu?l?aud. Vou ride and (uli'v all
day ami drink and *v\<ar al! ui^lit. \ < ur
life in a scandal lo (ho eoitlitry. '
Mi*inaiyU looked at him in Hilenco for
a moment and then rortied out: "Don
nerwotter! I* that all? Hut ' i>i al>
surd. Com*', ami tri v ?* li?- ?' to tie <* r?i tun
w ill Kfi> mo an Motidy and hi*. I t >; a* a
liifliop, (.'otnc, I swear it!"
IIImiiiii rcli ?i I Nineteen.
Sincerity was Klatiijivd on 'no ytuog
mau'tf eotthlciiunuo ami words, an. I H< rr
von I Nit i ka nicr tinnlly gave hia rm si nl
to tin* marriage, though not withoit s 1 1 1 k - '
givingH. lUs-niarek, however, k ? :?t his
wiiri lie wrote to his staler, "All
right," in Knglish, to Jot hor kno.v iln.t
his suit unn at last HUcocHwf'il, and
bought it llililo. Wild riding and all
iukIiI drinking bout* had no v'Taetiotis
i'oi Iiiiii an.v more. llo lieonine >i sober
and pious 11141 n and a lender and affec
tionate husband and father.
Iv I I'll 4'il <li?* KIiiu'm IfoPMe,
(Mi tin* hat MeUeld, ?k overywh'ro o;*-e,
itismarck looked upon tlio intor*w,H of
hl? imperial master. During the battle
?>f koeniggra {/. tlu* <>ld IOmpcror then
King' of Prussia had oxpn?od himself
?i ml his staff to tho eneiny'a tiro, mat
would not hoar of retreating to a ?>af<'
distance. At last I'rinco ltlninnrck rode
1 1 1 > to h i in. saying: "As responsible Min
ister of tho l.'rown I must insist upon
Vour Miljesty'n rotroat to a wife dis
tance. If Vour Majesty woro to be
Killed I lie victory would ho of no use to
iik " Tl.e King snw tho form* of this and
^ 1 ? ?\\ 1 >? i el ii-ii I til. but lu his /(Nil returned
again and again to the front.
"When I noticed it." said ltismiirek,
lolling tho utory, "1 only roso in my
saddle and looked at hint. llo under
stood perfectly, and culling out rallier
angrily: "Yen, I am coming." lint we
did not get ou fa.st enough, and nt lust
I rode ii |i close to the King, took my
foot out of the right stirrup and at eretly
ga vi* Tils horse n u energetic kirk. Such
a tiling had never before happened to
the fat mare, but the move wan sueocss
f ill, for slie set off in n lino <n titer."
Sotlll* \l'l'lll 10 |> 1 14 I'll III N
liimnarck is the author of several crisp
epigrams on the various (European mi
II jxin tt r<>U In Hie l<'rniieo-l'rmiitliin
War.
( ioiiK, among which are the following:
"/V Bavarian Is a cross between an
Austrian and a human being."
"If Austria has nstonirdicd tlio world
by its Ingrutitude, England will astonish
it by its cowardice. "
"tlo<l made man in llis own image,
and Italy in the Image o? Juda?."
"The French are a nation of riyl.sk ins.
The other European powers are repre
sented at foreign courts by j>ersons of
mark, l>nl !?' ranee In often represented by
marked persons. Von can always di?
lingnisli a Freuch ambassador by the
simple fact that he never speak* the
language of the country to which 1; o is
accredited."
of the French language Iliamarck has
a thorough knowledge, and from all ac
counts the same could not be said of the
late Napoleon 114- In thin connection
an amusing story is |o|d of Napoleon's
liiisi Interview with Bismarck:
"M. de Bismarck," Miid the Em|?eri?r,
"I must compliment you on your knowl
. due of French. I have n< vcr heard a j
? i'-rinan spi-ak French as \ou ?!??.**
' \\ ill >011 allow me to return t li? ? com
pliment, si re?" replied Bismarck.
"I Yrta iiily," said the Fuipcrnr.
"Tlii-n p< rmit me to say, sire, that 1
)i n ? ? iii \ . r heard a Frcm-hman t<|Hsik
Ficiich as you do," answcrnl Beman-k )
I .hiii li re <i o I ti h unit I ? i-ji pi- r I
! i 1 !n' in " ? i ? .-I ..f I i ll'1 alt, I lie . >ld
Hi' I :< 1 1 1 1 ? i > ? ; ? ii t i is no Ioiikit in
i- in (-'a ??? if t is I iik. i^utt lira
i :as:rui| ;?? .i wimbiw pule or
i. il n' oiit it. an I ciih r falling
; ; :i.:>; ! . \ ? d ii m i in oih fiddilign nr
I ;? ! iul<> nr.i'il nl ..incudes. The
. i i! \ a r\ > I i<>: i:i ? . with an iii
. i i 'iti.il | ! 1 1 1 1 1 v t , is ii,i more
?? .- ?? li l:i.tc;i w i t Ii i l umu'.u'ed
? .i ? i.: : lis ..if s\\ ?N-plugs.
in .-I . ! way to aiTangi- diap?ry is
i: ; !i >t. In the old s t .. I ?, .-tij; ami
i. . : '.<? fa I iif was ciil a ml
>.???! 1 1 1 1 1 * *hapc < ill the tabic. Now it
liiapi'd. If ilnipcil, it nccilri 1> ? ili
i .i\ a.1'-:- the t"i? is li'Mig, *>.i that
i . !i rfli.i!"\v is trcuteil I iy its. If. If
( .. I. ...Ill I e high, tile effect will he
? ii-. ^ I. ictn-.I ' > arranging it in a scries
? ?an ad m or jabots.
!n a ha ads*, inn- parlor there ai.> liiiu^
li : r- 1 jtml v???i?*? (?> ih ? K'liius Mofl, ilo!l
'? ate lace i Mi tail. s that reach only to
I i,. hi ??f ;hc saaii. Next fallow the
I'r. i.i ii f. s'!non js!:ji;Ii's generally of
?- pour '? ? '<r 1 1 1 1 1 1 r light Kilks. T.h-m.- con
! rl.-a i f f'^ir longitudinal iiuITIiikh eon*
tro'.icd l.v long lace curtains, and last
ly t !. e *Y.k brocade vulotirs or tapes
try bantings that re al tached to the
;v?l > by puffrt < > r festoons, and iltsccnil
lo t!i- tloor in eloicant and graceful
W.ivlngs. IIov~cboJd New 9.
'I'ht' k oitiiK WI?lo?V.
< I .! ii?-h written how nth a miniature.)
I'.y the nplendor of thine eye#,
KltUlhlng u> iltfil* eht>n light
Ah a Mar aero.?n tho xktc.t
On lh<i aahio noon of night!
Uy tlif Kloiy of that brow,
In It* calm sublimity,
'With thee, or away, an now,
I worahlp I li? ?' !
Sinruw hu? Im*?-ii tliliu', alaa!
unit) thou wu'l a happy l?r?do,
Joy U like a l.rlill<- ,#hu<8:
|t wa* ahlv? r?*d a' 'hy Hide.
Shall I lovo I >???<? It.s.-t for this?
only ho as truo to ?????
Ami I'll g lory In the hlls.H,
'l"h<V Mish <>f thee!
Ar?< thy lashox wet with leant?
,*\in'hi thou never ntojv ho Kay?
* lMiano afar IhoKn foolish f-arn?
I will klsa thy dread away!
Wo nro i?artod 'till wo trivfil
? Time .shall paaa how wearily!
Vet I'll makv oach hour Hoot
Hy thoughtH of llicv!
In tl.e Molltm\o of night,
In the tumult of tho day,
Hy tin- gloaming flro'8 light,
In this mazy danco and gay,
Uy the all vor-HOundlnjf wireamH,
t nd?-rnoath tho ruatllng trio,
tu my waking, op In droanifl.
I'll think of ihoo!
Who 1 1 In ev'ry Mower cup
Ka tries* danco the night away,
Whon tho (jurte-'tly moon Ih up,
MovIii^:?iii her wtately way,
W hen mo *?tar? upon tho Khoro
Hlleneo o't-n t ho Hounding ?ca-?
lOver till wo j<arl no more,
I'll think of thee!
BRAINS AGAINST BEAU1Y.
"They're its homely as hedge-fences,"
8iiiU a pretty girl. "I'll never write any
poetry hh lonff as J, -live if it's going b>
make in? look lik? that," and she east ??
glance on llie jouug man thai made him
think he could write all the poetry neces
sary for l*>th.
Tiny were in the (Jrolier Club gallery
studying the engraved portraits of wo
iiK ii writers, from Sapplm to tieorge
i'?Mot. The girl se?-nied auvxious to dis
cover if brain's were destructive of beau
ty. If one may judifo l>y theso portraits,
poetry certainly does nut agree with it,
for it would 'he difficult to assemble a
plainer group of countenances than those
represented in this collection ltccause
their owners wrote verse. There an
other homely women there, but none to
compete with tho poet*;. The writers of
fiction averaged far better, and the few
historians might be said to be louk
iug;hut we must depend upon the letter
writers to redeem the reputation for
lovlincHS of their .sex. Hut, whatever tin
answer these old portraits gave to the
question of wit ami beauty's relation,
no argument may bo drawn adverse to
the beauty of the elever women of to
day. Indeed, the I lypatios oLthe period
are unite aware of their go'l looks, it
would seem ;for the eolleeting eoininlttee
had many offers of pictures from beauti
fnl women who wield the pen before it
w;us understood that the collection was
limited to tho writers of an earlier time.
]?; veil then, it is hinted, some women of
sixty years might have been induced to
permit themselves to be represciiied by
their portraits taken at sixteen.
These UK> odd pictures represent, per
haiis, 150 different persons, for the collec
tion contains many duplicates.
"Only lot) women who have l>een prom
inent since Sappho, "a sauntering gazer
of the superior sex says. "And of these
not more tlinn fifty really belong among
authors. The rest are women who were
wives of somebody or queens of some
thing and wrote a song or two in their
silly days. Who ever thinks of Queen
Elizabeth as a poet ? There are no wo
| men authors anyway worth mentioning.
Women would better go back to house
keeping'. 1 think they will after they see
these freaks."
Most of these literary ladies died long
ago, and it should be distinctly under
stood not hiiig-.t hey may-suggest upplys In
any way to tho modern women whom
every man worthy of tho name will, of
conrs, swear are all at the same time
beautiful and wise and witty. This, as
every l>ody knows, is a more perfect day
than that of tho Blue Stockings, and it
need cause no surprise if their good
brains and fair faces were not always in
that perfect harmony in which we now
find thorn.
Earliest of all is Sappho. SDno of
those few lines of hers let to us- linos
in .re authentic than her port rait? de
clares: "Men will. I think, remember us
even hereafter." They have indeed; but
probably not ton of those who stop to
see how she looked ever read even that
one lino before. And nfter they study
fho five different portraits of the singer,
they are likely to have no more clear
Ideas of her face than of her versos.
Some prints are from statuary, show
a prominent nose, and anything ^mt n
c'assio Creek visage. It Is a longNumn
from TV C. to 13SS A. TV. which is
said to have marked the birth of Juliana
Uernors. "the prioress of Pope well nun
nerv. near St. Allans." who is called
| -the earliest Kmrlish sportswoman and
! poetess of the chase." Hume Juliana s
| appearance does credit to her "boVvs
of "hanking and fy*?hynge." She had
i an oval face, straight no so and fine eyes
' With her nun's crown and cap she wu*
,v t V .!? 1-ol'ter WHS II. t
1 nun. but *lie was pre'ty. and ?>f ,,or
i ?liffuroM shown protllo.^t in n linn ^ 11 s
I I v Iw \'il <* ?' -mil. 1?V SW>s
; tlano del IMombo. iWt look at it if you
| w;in, t? tIlink <4f her ns a -lellcate < flower
I of Italian son v. She is. foi ill t ?
i world, like a butcher'* daughter A sorb.
! ,,f i?.r skeleton dug up the other day *>y
<i? f.'M-ri' tin ? l-an^s would d<> less t>? de
s!r..v 'rominee We don't believe in
fli-.t p.rtraM at all H was a erode
j .v ,-l< of ? ni," av'.ng, which would have
' . veil :?n :Mlg 1 b?ok Uglv.
' 1 1 , . ? is MarKiieri'o de Valois. C-uld
Ll?- have pr. s ded ov.-r ihe gatherings
! ..... . unt-d in the "Hcptameron"? She
I l ,?k< more like n nun than the hunt
ing prloi-ss b-rs If High eh.-ek l-olieS.
I : , y,.s. long locked U'vse she
' Kiir. lv ?as an austere moralWd. #ome
! < ngr.ivor evld n'ly though: her face
nnil her uot in keeping. for In a
i j.v tme the mouth Is relaxed, the
1 ,-urvt s are differ nt. She is homely st 11.
bu' she might have enjoyed the revel*.
! AphorT Mehn ? prominent place."
I a nd mwt have been a'tracMvo, if not
' n*. r- ly ?;ood -looking. Her picture faces
' it lb- page ot th^, third edition of her
works piiM sh.-d. I e it noted, by a wo
| i oh tk 1 ooka.llcr, in 1724. It is "the Play*
writ 'en by the lae ingenious Mra.
1 Helm." Ana Kllza Hleekor. who wrote
; jK.etry In the last century, Is one of
{ ihrrc early Americans. The other two
| are Ilillli* Whentl. y and
i RowMrti. The plate of the author of
Vhutlo to Temple" ?a* |o*t for many
yearn. It was dually found among fam
ily treasures. ami boiiic print* taken
from it. It is <11)0 of thein that imvr
r< presents Susanua.
A frigh'ful portiait unjustly presents
Mary \Voll? oncraft. 11 kIm>ws a hard
featured woman with a sugar-loaf hai
? >ii one nlde of the head, looking exactly
like a swaggering cockney. The picture
.-Mine from a woinau'a I rKiHaz.no of
In r time, Perhaps man tliott' was not
al>ovo frightening her r> x against
her doetr'lhM by painting her with aw
ful looks. Tradition tuiya she was beau
?Iful, and other prints hear out tho
Htory. Her daughter. Mrs. Shelley, 1
shown in a new mezzotint by Arlenl
K,d wards, who also ban a charming
picture of Maty I.tmb. Fanny Hurney's
faeo will be no disappointment to any
lover of her "Kvcllmi." Alice Carey bs
as gentle and sweet with her thin fea
tures as any one could wisJi. Charlotte
Itronte never claimed to be pretty, but
her eyeo were most winning. Hannah
Moore looks as if rdie might have in
strueleil at great length any number
of I?ord Macaulays in their budding
Infancy. (Jeorge Kliot is not far away
llie lad^y whose poetry, says Andrew
f^atig, has usurped the place upon vil
lage centre-tables long occupied by the
works of Ilanuah Moore. Maria Kdge
worth's portrait in said to lift apocry
phal, but nobody will belicvA It, because
it is a really beautiful face and ex
actly Hiiggcs s her bright and lovely
character. Agnes 'Strickland In good
looking. She wrote history which does
not seem to have been so destructive to
boa uly as love songs. Harriet Hoeeher
Hlowo's American picture** show the
idoasant matronly faeo familiar to
:ill, but an 10ng!l*b print tells of a wo
man of youth and great beauty. She
was not caricatured like poor Mary
Wollstoiieornfl. C< aversely, a woman
not popular in America was Mrs. Trol
lops. She In represented by three poi
trails. Her eyes ami mouth were largo
and she loOks comfortable aad intelli
gent, not at all the spiteful tale-bearer
?hat the p. op.'e of whom she wrote pre
tended ui -believe her. A bystander at
t!ie exhibition said they really knew
she (old the 1 1 nth, and gave this in-'
stance coming from an eyo-witness:
.*%i >nie years after the publication of her
book a mui in the front row of the
i.alcouy of ii \? w York tlicatr ? ? removed
!i s i)oal and hung it on the rail. There
t the people In the pit Hhotited, "A Trol
m |M !/ A Trollope." Th ? offender meekly
nit em his c.-ul and i.be audit iter rested
is'tui^d t.hii foiiiignois should have
hi/ i-h iiiee to Ii ? i rit.i' al
Mini), de Sta I must have been ex
V-ed Ugly homely. An outline drawing
of a t^ide i ?? w shows a more than us
ually ugly face with protruding lips.
Kii/a ('i'k, in one of several pictures,
1- ans over t In'* "mother's o|<| armchair'"
? 11*1 sings "I b ve i ' , 1 love it," with a
:il"S s lit inelit il exprcrsi II Hill OhrlS
t in- d " l.'isan appears more remarkal'ly
no- upied. S^je sits at her d sk in about
the year i;(90, while Keason, Itectiiude
and Justice, with appropriate para
id, i ri. a I a, euiiic to b> l- ami promise to
assist Ii r in writ inn "I a < 'it* des
(?a nits"; ii nd here is every reason to
relieve that liny k? their word. Har
riett Mar itn a'.i looks equally odd sit
ting Ii t'oie a lire holding a stew-pan
u llie (o.i'i), while it large eat perches
? ??? her shoulders and rul its head
i:^a list her. That suggests domestic
rather than political economy, but the
in. ient in, lid n's face lias nothing of
the crick''t-nu-|.he-hcarth expression.
One <.r the portraits of Chris ina Hoxet
i Ki^es a splendid example of the pre
Uaphaelite Jaw. A second, though by
|n*r brother, <5ibriel, reveal* the fuel
that the Jaw wan as much due t.o the
ar.ist's pet sonality as are the oblique
eyes in a Chinaman's portrait of his
ICnglish friend.
I ,aw relief's portrait "f Kanny Kem
Mi- makes her sovin as she wjih. one of
lli?* most beautiful and l>i*i 1 1 i:i 11 1 of wo
men. Mrs. Iiiehbnld was not so for
tunate in most of her pictures, though
cue engraving from Lawrence does
much for III" lovable au'hor of the
"Simple Htory." She wrote too much
and nt l??o early a day to !><? flattered
| overmuch. Aline Kllligrew made sure
,of her fame by leaving it in 1 1 1 ? hands
of no' hitnxliug painter. She died of
lUnallpox at tweirty-flve after having
writ! -ii poetry enough l.o call forth an
od?> from Dryden. She could endtiru
that, hut she took pains to leave por
traits of herself by her own hand, and
I were ungracious )*? say that her glass
were a flatterer.
Royalties also abound. Klixaheth,
Mary In4' lister, Mary Stuart, Mary
the wife of William III., Victoria, Jane
Gray, Catherine I'arr, Ann Holeyn, all
wrote P'mtry. 31 ii< V most of them wore
homely enough to prove the rule we
have noted. Jane Grey gives a chance
for a little fancy. The child Victoria \
was really charming. All the rest are
limit torahle. ICven her tragedy cannot
make Mary of Sco'land seem graceful
ill tiles ? pie(ur< s.
Hut ;hey all Jiad brains, and at a
time wlien 'wouini chauee for
i ! 1 1 ? ? ! I e?* 1 1 1 ;j I life they rose above t ho
surface of tlr- <?.? >ni nioiiplace and ac
? ompl'rdicd things which llie women
of ?<.<lay might like to know ahout.
New Vork Tribune.
Told o I' (lie Kmiiri'itx r'rolerlcU
A ] trolly act of kinilncss jm the part
of the dowager l'Inipre>*i took place the
i other day in a hospital at Potsdam, ami
is told in an Knglish paper by an eye
witness. A patient was a I death's door,
and his wife had been hurriedly snm
inoned. With her baby in her arms she
was walking up ami down the waiting
room close to the ward in which her
husband lay.
The Kinpress happened to pay one .of
her frecpient visits to the hospital, ami,
seeing tho poor woman in her bitter sor
row, she approached to ask some syu\?".
pathetic questions. v "
"Yes, he is dying," tho wife Hobtved,
"and wants to way so much to me
al>out how I am to manage when ho is
goii*\ and how the children are to ho
brought up; hut Iwtby is not well, and
cries, and lie is so weak ho can't bear it,
ami he may die at any moment."
In an instant tho Rmpress lwid taken
I he infant into her anns, and while for
a whole hour the mother sat by the siile
of her dying hunfoMid her Majesty nurs-'
e.l tho child, walking up and down tl v
room with it, and soothing it with inol
erly tenderness.
Tn tlx- IVIri"' ? "?* -ut? *'o?!i
Charleston WMn-^'hy William Kirk)
er. nail I<OiiM 8tHnher?t. uolh of i
n. any. received naturnll/atln.) papers
A feature of be (utrA.to on S' . .1
rick's (lay In Charleston will bo th'
l??rnnc? In the display of the 8'
rick's cadets Just organised. T
manilor. Captain Micftftv! Sirs
graduate of the Citadel and
have his corps In flno ordM
The J. K. Nix 8*%-d Cor
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To nay i h.ii hcUilinfpplan's should be
so out hi .strict urtistic relation with
the main features i>f the plneo dues
no mean a great deal to the' rcudei
unless examples arc given, and, un
t 1 t (ina't'ly i exampl ??> vary in II n . t*?l y .
If is easier perhaps to say what should
iint he (loin* with bedding plan- 1 >ou't
plant masses of thorn on the lawn ho
iis :u ?lwail' and divide up the main
expanse of the greensward, which
should he the ill iff beauty of every
place. As a rule, don't set plants of any
kind out in t ho middle of 'the lawn. A
pernicious practice in to surround single
shade I re i s with little collars of col
euses and geruniums. Avoid that, i\?
" . ;1 as any arrangement that consists
<u' itn isolated group 'hat Is fuoperly
h Inted to nothing els** hut the grass.
M. dding-plants look parllcularly well
alio'niiig arehl octurnl structure*-'.
There is something ahout the palm and
c-autia lliat makes them specially et
fe-tive planted against 'carved or cut
stone masses as ji background. They
seem part of the architecture ItaelfJ
ornamenting and- enhancing Us I'hunno
like some deftly arranged drapvrV.
Adjoining a house or fence, hedding
generally arranges Itself hot er than
elsewhere.
There is one place where you can
always plant hedding safely, sure of
not marring- the offect of the lawn, and
: luit is hack of, or away from, the
'"?us \ in a regular flower garden, shut
i.. completely by trees nnd shrubs or
a -tone wall. Arranged in this way ?the
IvmI ling plaints may be combined in
any fashion fancy may dictate, since
i hey make no part of the effect of the
lawn. It is an excellent way to lay out
a tlower-ga idea, livery thing can be
grown there, and many paths can bfc
made to lead the visitor to different
Dowering masses of follage^C^a tafrte
for old-fashioned Mower/ gaTue'ns ot
ill's type is growing, and it is a- hope
ful landscape-gardening sign of the
?ini's.? From "Ruilding-plunts," b^
Saml. Parsons, Jr., Supt. of Parks, N.
V., in the March Scrihner.
Industrial Notes.
L.ast year was the slackest time since
the war in the mailer of railroad con
st ruction .
Rubber was liitle used except for eras
ing until 1820, thro hundred years after
its (1 IsjMu'crv ? ..
Tho lOloctrleal i lev lew says the West
ern Onion Toletfruph Company 1 collected
about $1,500,000 last year for telling the
time of day.
Tl*> Russian Government has sane*
Honed a telegraph line from Peters
burg to tin* Marman coast, at aiPexpen
diturc of aliout 500,000 roubles.
Mexico's Wrea-t drainage canal, which
is 30 miles long, w 111 be opoiexl In abovit
s'.xtccn months. Its construction will cost
s unething like $20,000,000.
Last year the copper production of the
t 'tilted States was 330,500 tons. The In
creasing demand for 1 1)0 metal, for use
in connection with electricity, promises
to become unlimited.
Nickle steel armor plates, made by
Krupp, on a now system. Were success
fully tested at Meppen. The plates were
about 5 1-2 inches thick, and showed a
nssi.sitan'-o equal to plates of 0 1-3 Inches
made by the old process.
From one ton of ordinary gas coal may
bo produced 1,500 pounds of twenty
gallons of ammonia water slid 140 pounds
of coal tar. Hy destructive dlsUllation
tho coal tar will yield 6G.G pounds oT pitch
and 17 pounds of creosote.
Tho stockholders of tho Wiscasset and
Quebec Railroad, in Maine, have voted
to bond tho road for $100,000, to build lines
lo Hurnham and to make a connection
with tho nangor and Aroostook anil
Canadian Pacific companies.
Olllcers of tho West Virginia Central
Railroad aro arranging tho details for
the placing of $3,000,000 of bonds of tho
Ualtimoro and" Oufflberland Road on the
market. Tha.t amount, It Is believed, will
lie sutliclent to construct the road from
Cumberland to Ilagerstown.
Tho Delaware and Hudson Canal Co.
has made a preliminary report of its
o]*'r:ttlons during the past year. Re
ceipts from coal fell off $2,of>5, 495 and re
ceipts from railway Iralllc $7i>3,Hl!?. while
mlscellan'ous receipts Increased $2'!l.xi7.
operating expenses were cut down $1,
.V.i??".:il, and the loss In not was $1.0X3,51*1.
For the first time In several years the
annual roi>ort of tho Poughkcepsle Hav*
inus Rank shows an Increase In the num
ber of de|?osltR over tho number of with
drawals. The total number of- deposits
received In iS;d was Pi. I'd, and the total
numbt r of payments lo depositors 'was
ci, Tb" sum of $l,37i">,07ii.XX was ie
ccived from depositors and j;.:;!7."J 2.
was withdrawn. The average atn uiui of
i ach account Is $11 1.72.
? I It It 10 \ 'I' COmilONT.
1 *l i i I :? < l< -I i>)> t :? Press: IVmoera t Ic news
papers in their cotnint'titH on the close
M ill - last l)emoeratle Coiikivss arc fiir
[ nIshinK nil inlinirii'ili' array of arguments
for 1 1 so next year i.ualnst the election of
another I)?>in0(*raiiu CoiiKresH.
Itoclio.ilor 1 )emocrat : A writer In the
Hankers" M aK-i'/.li"' says there is "Kr.it
IfyliiK evidence that fr.-e wool has come
to slay In this country." It wil< prohahly
stay for a while, hut there Is nothing
Kt'iLilfyltiK In 'ho fact to American sheep
owners. Their louses In t.io values of
tleeees an<l fWx-ks const iinte a disastrous
ohjeet lesson Jin tariff reform
Boston Traveller: Tlicy ;u<? in the j
wroiiK who/ a re mourning th** low sup- I
posvd to /.o .sustained by ?';/ country
through / ?o many hclrr?ss? j(narrylnK j
abroad. So far from helm* ' '/ s It Is a |
distinct K?ii> to the cans /? r.| evo
lution. Tho women wl* ,?)* 1 p<**?pi<>
America will do so v / f. 'jl'Om haid
ler, more freedom-'-* "''/// < lies* |
illltlc toadies evep ^ ^
N- w Vork ' ^Qiff '"f ,Jlle awl , ?>
man who l> fOf, ' 'hj , J >r t
what ho / ''//,/ * O ?>'vA"(-'S OUT \V I
honors;/ /''^Jysia (tf l?q.
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A* own interest and
fiad at the
iNGTO
BHATE
I'urent* lu J upon.
The moral and gociul law of Japan
is, "Thou shalt love .thy father ami
mother wii h all thy hear':, mind and
strength." The Ja|*anoso wifo loves
her own parents rnoro than sho docs
her husliand, and a Japan husband
lov< h his 'wifo with hii a ffwt Ion far
tt'?ikiT than dint which lio bentowa on
Ills own fa' her. Mr. lloarn, In "GMimp
st's of Unfamiliar Japan," quotes this
conversation, in a school-room, * be
tocn the lOnglinh Uncher and a Japa
nese pupil:
"Toucher, I have been told that if a
Kuiopcan and his father, and his wifo
wero all t<> fall irv'o t ho si'U lojpH'her,
ami thit he only could swim, ho would
try to saVe his wife flrut. Would "lie
realty ?"
"But why?"
"One reason Ik that ISurcgieaus con
sider it a man's dtt y ';<> help the 'weak
er llrrf* ? especially women and child
Vi II."
"And does a Kuropean love his'wlfo
more than his father and mother?"
"Not always? 4>ut (jenern'lly, perhaps
he dor#."
"Wliy, teacher, aceofding to' our
idias that is very immoral."
A l'id of sixteen wrote a composition
>n "-lCuropcan and Japanese Customs,"
in which he ' gave expression -to his
iders about the relation of husband and
wife as held in Rurope: \
"What we think very strange is that
in K n rope every' wife lovas her husband ^
more than her parettf s. .In (Nippon '(here ?
is en wife w ho more loves not her par
ents '.ban her husband. And Buro
p ans walk out in the rond with their
wifes, which we utterly refuse- to,- ex- ,
? ;>t a" he festivul'of Mnehiman.
'The 'Japanese woman "is trea'ed by
man as <i servant, while the European
woman is rcsperted as a master. 1
think ' t lies ? customs are both bad. We
tlilnk i is v? ry much ?; rouble to treat
Plumpean ladles; and we do not know
why ladles are so much respected by
Knropcans." ? Youths Companion. '
Norry Klio Wiun't u Man,
There has .been Tor some time lan
guishing in the Paris Police Depot 'i
young married woman from Bordeaux, ,
who has -a mania for appearing yi pub
lic dressed a* a man. .She was nf>t sort-!
isli. .1 with the pantaloons, cutaway
jackets, tdnmb-up collars and knicker
bo. k<_ is pa t ro: isedfby lady bicyclists,
but assumed complete masculine attire
am! walked 'annul as a beau male.
Some wei ks since she clandestinely en
tered a w1k?p mi t!i ^ Boulevard Bonne
Nouvelle, hid herself under a counter,
and. iij -l:b? natural order of things, v?is
arrostid as a burglar. It appears that
on the oe.asiop she had discarded
s un ? i.f her cloililnjr; keeping her ,oati
t iloi.iis, bi; t divesting herself of her
hat and glh-t. When arreted she gave
t he name of Georges .'Wilhot, and re
Cus-d to impart any Information about*
herself, li r husband, a manufacture!,
has since claimed hi& a erring spouse,
who lies already given him a good deal
of trouble, owing to her extraordinary
object i as to r tain the proper gar
iilenis of her six. ? Paris Letter 'to Lou
don Telegraph.
?
J. li. S. Smith, a young nierehaut
i A - ? j ti t cel'o, has failed, with liubili
tie.s of shout The stock of goods
wa.-i sold to T. A. II ii tehinson in pay
inen I of a mortgage ho hold rtn the
stock. The a wets are as follows:'' /Two
hundred acres of land purchased. 1>i?t
yoar for about $1 per acre. Li."?0 acres
of land, worth about :? I per acre.
The Hindoos show singular frankness
in making rcnsiis retiiMis. Among those
who w re called iij o:i to describe their
callings, sum ? designated their moan*
of living as "village thieves," "aty^port
od by relatives," or "living on loans."
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