HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-3-29, Page 7EMPEROR WILLIAM'S CAREER
Twenty-seven years ago on Jan. 2, 1861,
Prince William, the second son of Frederick
William III. and the beautiful and aceoee-
pliehed Lousie of Hesse-Darmstadt, upon
the death of his brother, Frederick William
ascended the throne as King of Prussia,
under the title of William I. He had serv-
ed as Regent for nearly four years, so that
thispublic investment with kingly powers
was but n. matter of foriu.
Prinee William was barn in the palace of
the Grown Prince in Berlin, March 2'2,1797.
'When in 1896 the news reached Berlin that
the Prussian armies had been defeated in
the twogreat battles et Jenaand Auerstadt,
Prince William was but 9 years old. Al-
though unable to fully comprehend the scope
of Prussia's defer, his mother's words,
"The King was mistaken iii regard to the
efficiency of his array and its leaders; we
have been defeated, and roust flee," made
a profound impression upon his youngesind,
One of
THE 11OI EN70I.Ld3RA TnAIITI0NS
le that the princes shall enter the army at
the age of ten years ; but the events of 1806
threatening the destruction of the Prussian
monerey, the 22nd of March, his tenth birth-
day, was anticipated by his appointment as
Hot lieutenant of the Royal Guards on the
let of January of that year; so that King
William could count his 81 years service in
the army. Koenigsberg, in which city the
Royal family had taken refuge, soon after
being threatened by the Freud), Queen
Losarese with her two sone, berried swag to
Memel, near the thermion frontier, where
Yellin William was attached with a nervous
fever, while his elder brother was aeriously
ill with scarlatina. These were tr crag titres
for the Queen. Cu the 16th of June,y1.807,
Pressiede Russian ally was utterly routed
near Friedland and nothing but at treaty
of peace maim' the most huumilieting terms
could avert the complete annibilatien of the
rruselau, =Amity, It was even IS gees.
Om with Napoleon I. whether 1'reclerick
William III. should he permitted to take
art in the peace negotiations, the Emperor
laclug Lefever of atriking Prussia from the
roll of States. Not even the tears of the
beautiful Lorisa, who had been prevaiiled
upon to appeal to the Emperor in person,
was able to perauede him to modify or
withal;aw a 611121e point of hist hardcondi•
tions..
Finally, the Treaty of Tilsit was mewled -
ed, by the term of which Rueaia lost half
her territory, and loaded down with heavy.
war indernnitiee, she was reduced to the
rank of a second or third power in'E hope.
The old maxim that early hardships are
necessary to the development of a, full train
hood must have teen in the mind of the
Quceu when, in a letter to her'lfather, the
Grand, .Duke 11 leektlenburg•Sterlita, In 1305,
she wrote ;--" Cireumstencee *eel his sur-
ronndings educate the Tuan, and therefore
it may ba wei that our children aro com-
pelled to learn
in their youth. Had they ben periiitted. to
grow up in luxury tud leisure, they would
think life must alwaya be so. That it eau
be otherwise they can now see from the sad
countenance of their father asad the aimed..
ant tears of their mother. We have. indeed,
gone to sleep upon the laurels of Frederick
the Great, who mastered hie conntry." The
Rept +family centiuued to -experience the
bitterness of unsuccessful warfare. Their
country remained occupied by French troops,
and the small revenue that could he collect-
ed from the people hardly milked to cover.
the necessary expenees of State and the sup-
por a of the army ; so that it often. hap-
oned•Chat in the o .� there
it ueyloin t Memel aro
was barely aufflcient menus left to defray
the most urgent demantle of the'Royal
household.
A change for the better occurred only.
upon the withdrawal of the French troops
on. Dna 23, I:;00—the sixteenth anuicersary
of Queen Louisses entry into Melia as the
bride of Erederick VVitiiaai III.—Viten she
returned again to the capital amid the en-
thusiastic greetings of her subjects.
On Alen. 1, 1814, Priem ';William is found
at the side of his father in the Bates of La
Rothiere, between the allied armies and
France, and on the 27th of February et.Bar-
sur-A' bo and Fere Champoise, which battle
resulted in the total defeat of the iFrench
under Field Marshals Marsnount and Mor -
tier. He was also present at the entrance
of the victorious allied troops into Paris,
March:31, 1814,
Prince William was appointed by Tsnperor
Alexander of Russia colonel of the fregiment
Kaluga. The following twelve years of his
routine life were spent in the reorganisation
of the Prussian army.
In 1828. at the age of 32, be married the
Princess Augusta, second daughter of the
Grand Duke Carl Frederick of Saxe Weimar.
From this time on until the death • of his
father, which occurred on June 7, .1840,
Prince William's energies were devoted
principally to military affairs.
Upon the accession of the eldest son,
Frederick William 1V., it was expected the
new king would keep peace with the people,
who, under the fostering care of his father,
had had extended to them a new system of
popular education and the extension of muni-
cipal liberties, but ho proved not to have
been, formed of the same clay as Frederick
William I., Frederick the Great, or Freder-
ick William III. Until 1847 the only re-
form of a representative character, in Prussia
1 was the " Provincialstanda" (Councils of
the Provinces), which, however, were closed
with very limited powers. Inthis year the
rumblings of the approaching revolution of
1848 began to reach the ear of the king,
which induced him to call together the re-
presentatives of the eight provinces compos-
ing the kingdom' of Prussia into one body
at Berlin. But this measure proved too
late toavert the storm. The successful re-
volution of February, ;1848, in, Paris, and
the flight of Louis Philippe were the signal
for action at Naples, Milan, Vienna and
Berlin. Emperor William stands charged.
with having issued the order at this time—
the 18th of March, 1848—to fire4upon
TILE DErENCELxNCE PEOPLE
is the streets of the City. of Berlin, but, as
he was appointed Governor-General of the
Rhenish Provinces on the 10th of the same
month,' his personal engagement in these
bloody conflicts is seriously doubted by his
admirers. On the other hand, his enemies
assert that his departure was delayed until
the day following the order)( and that the
massacre was due to his advice.
The revolutions throughout Germany and
Austria ot 1848 had shattered what remain-
ed of the. "Holy Alliance ;" the " German
Bund" had been dissolved, and in order to
appease the popular demand ins measure, a
Parliament, composed of representatives
from all the German States, Austria and
Prussia included, to, be elected by popular
vote, was ordered to assemble at Frankfort.
The history of this representative body may
be comprised in the term of derision which
was then applied to it, and with which to
this day it is spotter of, "The Papperle
meat" (chatter gathering). The only senti-
ment upon which all the representatives
agreed was that of German unity.
At this. Parliament were assembled. pa.
triots, statesmen, authors and historians,
who for many years hed labored and Strug-
gled for a principle—the rights of the pets-
plc as against those of kings. Their names
were dear to every German heart. But the
single-reiudness of such men as Arndt,
Auerswald, Beckerath, Camnhausen, Dahl -
Heinrich von Gagers, Von Rodo,vitz,
Von Rammer and many others, weighed lit -
tie against those having great personal in-
terests to promote. It soon became evident
that Austria was manipulating this Palle -
meet with a view to acquiring ale ascen-
dency in Germany, and thus to gradually
reaeore the old German .Empire under the
Hapsburg; suzerainty. The suspicion was
confirmed when on the 20th of June, 1848,
.Archduke John of Austria was elected
reicheverveser over Germany, he having'
once, in the exubarauce of his entlhusiasm,
given vent to the centienent, "No Austria
No Prussial. Only a united Germany 1"
This office, however, was of short centime
mice, for OR the 3rd of April, 1849, a dept.
tntien fruit this Parliament proceeded to
Berlin and offered the Iurperial crown of the
States of Germany to Frederick William
I t"„ whleh. however, was refused,
Prince William, during the latter part of
the revolutionary days of March, 1815, had
eenaidered it beneficial to take
A TAM TO i'NGIANA,
trhere he remained for aix weeks, returning
to Brueaeli May .30, from which city lie
wrote his brother, the Xing of kruesia, es
follows
" 1 hope that the free iaatitutivne which
are to be consolidated by the repreeen-
tatives of the people will, for Prussia's wel-
fare, develop ttfeRxaelvee more and more.
Upon his arrival in Berlin he repaired to
the Pruesfaa Assembly, to which he bad
been eleetod. In his first speech Prince
William moored the members of hie loyalty
to the principles of a Conatitutionsl bions)(-
City, but reedited the Presidentt1r t, it being
impoeailmie for hien to atwago he present at
thee)( meetings, en sueltoveasions tlao Presi-
dent eleauld take the iibecty of calling upon
his element*.
rte.
It was not, however, until 1649 that Wil-
liam was called upon to perform epeeist' pate
lie deities. Austria having dissolved connec-
tion with the frankfort l'arliameut, declar-
ing splint the choice -of any other German
ounce over Germany, and l'rusaia ro eek%
to iicnctien their eehdfederate Conrtitiition.
and Bowie objectieus having beau raised
ageinst its provisions by the smaller Stater,
notably Wurtemberg, which refused to etc.
y^_de to Prue+tia'e suzerainty, the diesatisfac-
tion. of the people aver these abortive results
began to make+ itself felt all ever Germany.
This dfesatiaefu, tiou culmioatetl in hdey.
when an open revolt occurred is eevoret of
the principal cities of ceutrai Germany. In
tho grand duchy of Baden tho kiug's wormy
made cotnnron causewith the cisizone,and
established a provisional Government, with
Loreez 1`.retano, the present eclueetcd citizen
of Chicago and former representative of Con.
greas from the North Sideascliiof csreoutive
officer. Lieut. Frans. Sigel—Gen, tllgel of
the Makin army—was put an eonnn:and of
the revoluntionary forces. On the Sell of
Juno Prince William fat the +vaguest of the
Grand Duke of Baden and the Princes of
other revolted German Staten), •with an
army of !01900 men, marched into South-
western Germany, and before the eeppiration
of a inonth had so effectually .fuelled all
disturbances that {len. Sigel and the other
revolutionary leaders were forced to flee to
the neute-al ground of Switcerlartd, while
others toots the first slip amass the Atlantic
for Amerioa. Thus wore the last -efforts and
aspirations of Republicanism in Germany
crushed and extinguietted.
Throughout the reactionary measures
which fo:lowed, to which Frederick William
1V. acceded wiilinply, and which were
troublesome onourh to have turned the head
of a stronger monarch, his brother William
was living with his family at Coblenz, de•
voting his time to the improvement of the
Prussian army. In the fall of •8857, how-
ever, he Sivas called upon for more serious
work ; in fact, to take charge of the Govern-
ment. A Royzl order had been published,
in which it wasjstated that the d;iing's phy-
sician had advised his abstention fromall of-
ficial affairs connected with the administra-
tion, and that the Government of the State
would be intrusted to Prince William. His
first terve of
Ti1E REGENCY
was limited to three months. Three times
the power was renewed, but on the 7th of
Octdber, MS, the office was made perman-
ent. He was then 62 years old, at an age
when the renewal of physical and intellect-
ual vigor is rarely accomplished, and few
people anticipated that William. L's reign
would present so warlike a character, and
but for Austria's pretentions to power in
Germany and French chauvinism, his days
might have passed more peacefully, and to-
day we should hear of Prussians, Swabians,
Wurtembergs, Saxons, Hessians,, Hanover.
ians, Badens, Loewensteiners, etc., but no
Germans. On the 2nd day of January, 1861,
King Frederick William. IV. breathed his
last, and his brother, Prince William,
ascended the throne. On being con-
gratulated by a magistrate of Berlin the
king replied
" History has shown that the Hohenzoll-
erns have always kept a warm heart for their
people. I am known to possess the same
feelings. I may have been misunderstood
in the past, but I assure' you I have ever
been animated with the most sympathetic
sentiments for the people of Prussia, and it.
may not be amiss, for me to aoknowledge,
perhaps, that everything has not been done
satisfactorily to the people of late years."
On January 9 the king issued a proclama
tion, in which, among other things, he
said :—
" It
-"It is not Prussia's destiny to grow great
'ay acquisitions, but in the exertion of her
moral and intellectual' power, in the earnest-
ness and steadfastness of her religious;senti-
ment, and in the strengthening of her defen-
sive arm will be found the condition of her
,power and rank among the European
States."
It was not until October 18, 1871, that
the king was crowned, the coronation cere-
monies taking place at. Koenigsberg. ' The
following is a description of the occasion by
an eye -w7 tness:—r
" The first time I saw the king was when
he rode in procession through the ancient
city of Koenigsberg, some two or three days
before the coronation. Ile seemed a erre,
dignified, handsome, somewhat bluff old feigned displeasure,. and. fearing a, nnrfica-
man, with grey hair and gray moustache, tion of the German States under that power,.
p - shameful intrigues
and art ex resaaon which, if it did not aenuto he resorted to the most shame
intellectual power, had much of cheeiiul to prevent each a consummation, Under
strength and the charrm of frank manhood
about it. No one was just then disposed to
be very enthusiastic about him, but every
one was inclined to make the
nEsr OF TUE SOvalReIGN
and the situation. Deb the manner in which.
the coronation ceremony was conducted, and
the speech which theking du ivered soon
atter, produced a terrible shock of diasip
apointrnent, for in each the )ting manifeeted
that he understood the crown to be a gift,
not from the people, but. from Heaven. To
me the ceremony in the chapel, splendid and
picturesque as it was, the mise en scene ap-
ared absurd and even ridiculous. Tree
king, bedizened in a regal costume, lifiiug
a crown front the altar and, without inter-
vention of ` human aid other time his own
hands, placing it upon his head, to signify
that he had bis crown from Heaven, not
from. Tuan ; then putting another crown
upon the head of his wife, to ahow that she
derived her dignities from him, and then
turning round and brandishing a gigantic
sword, as symbolical of hie readiness to de-
fend hie state and people—alt this seemed
to the too suggestiveof the Naval. comiciue'
t`+ suit the elmplo dtgulty of the hendsome
old wieldier. Far better and nobler did he
look in hie military uaiforte,-and, with his
spiked helmet, ea he eat on has horse in the
streets, than when arrayed in crimson vel-
vet cloak and other swab stage paraphernalia
of conventional royalty."
Itis a matter of coiumou notoriety that
the elate and words of the king et this
crowning ceremony did not impreu the
people with the deep conviction that his
reign would be aconstiAgtional one: but, on
the contrary, they were looked upon as DOW
declarations of itheolute rule. the next
Chamber, which met after the coronation,
proved conclusively that these were the
prevailing sentiments of the country. A
largenumber of represeutetivee had been
elected upon the undcratanding that they
were to giro support to uoverament mea -
mime only upon condition that the Govern.
went would perdue a liberal goliey at home
and a decided German policy Abroad The
by the king to Moreau and streugthen the
army, which soon assumed enormous pro-
portions and prepared- to meet the arch-
enemy, who was lttrlttng on the western
borders of Germany. Napoleon III. had
been watching Prussia's sueemet with tan -
various pretexts he sought Austria's rill
ante in case of a war with Prutsla. tierce
ferred his influence acid. if need be, his ma-
terial aid, to the States of Southern Ger-
many in forming a South German Clonted-
eration, but he exceeded the ordinary limits
of Reurteeey and prudence in, sending the
Duke of Grammont on a special mission to
Ems, where King Williau was solonrning,
to make the impudent den:atid of that sov-
ereign to openly declare that none of the
Hobenzolleru princes should ever occupy
the Spanish throne. icing William very
properly refused to gee the French envoy
again, sending him ward time be had eoth-
Lug further to communicate. This was the
signal for the war between France end Free-
sia, or rather Germany, which closed with
the humiliation of France, the lose of two
of her praviecea---Alsace and Larrai:w—
and the deatruction ot the second Bonapert.
lee dynasty on the one ride, and with ;he
establishment of a united Germany and the
coronation of Xing of Prnaaia as
her emperor on the other.
FIRST DEMAND IWTIt= 54X0
gas an increase of the war budget; tides was
refined. The monarch, however, was cot to
be (hue thwarted in hie favorite rrojeat5 of
increasing the efiicioney of the army, He
Mused the Minietere woo tepresrseted his
wishes in the Assembly with timidity. Re
baked about for a more decided character
lo forma Miaiattt�yy, Hia choice fell upon
Otto Von Ilismerelt von Seheenheusen, then
Amlaaandor at the French Court, whom he
recalled Sept. J3, 1862, appointing hirer
Secretary of :)(tate wad I'reeideat ad laterite
of the Ministry. But the people and their
rep-erentatives were not to be driven from
the stand they had takeaupon the Conetitu-
tion. They eemained eteadfoat in their cle-
terminnion sto'upholtl their preragativeu itt
the matter of money appropriations anti 60
relict any attempt on the pert of the tioverii-
meeet to subvert them hydiverting rosy of
the funds which had hula voted from their
origius1 papiosce.
in this dilemma the Sehleawick-I:Ioletein
siccation, which threatened serious eoar s1i-
cations co the northern frontier, teemed to
dome to the relief of the Government. Tho
death of T ing Frederic of Danmark, which
orearrea Nov. 15, 1933,opened thequeetion
of suzerainty over these ,'roviroon. A'Con.
e.t tuticra hadjust been ad
o teden Denmark,
nwhih thee Provincaa were decaed t
raw Danish territory, eontrary to the otipn-
latioae of the London protocol, which had
been eigned by the great Posses, and, dlol-
*stein being a member of the Gerrnan'Gonfed-
'eration, the Aot was also considered a direct
insult IL the Gorman Parliament. `The con-
aequence was the sending of some sixty
thousand federal troops, partly Prussian,
partly Austrain, and sontingenta front some
of the other ,mailer German Stetea, into
achleewiok. The Danes wore defeeted•in
'eEV EItAL nr goner ExtetonIE2NTe
(inland and sea, in which the Prussian troops
and marines exhibited unexampled courage
and intrepidity. But this war, whioh was
but of ehort duration, and delivered Hol•
stein into the hands of Prussia and Austria,
contained the germ for the next conflict
between these two Powers of much greater
magnitude. The German Parliament declar-
ed in reference to these provinces in favor
of Austria'a demand, which .amounted in
effect to a declaration of war of all the Ger-
man States—Austria inoluded—against
Prussia. This gave William I the oppor-
tunity to retrieve his popularity with his
subjects, and to revive among them the
spirit which had made the armies under
Frederick the Great invincible.
"If they are then all against me" he
said. upon 'being informed of the action of
the Parliament, "I shall place myself at the
head of my army and sooner perish with it
than to submitto these outrageous demands,"
and in a. proclamation which he at once is-
sued to the people of Prussia, he said, "The
country is in danger ! Austria and a large
portion of Germany are up in arms against
us.- Wherever our eyes turned over Ger-
many we are confronted by enemies
whose watchword' it is :—' Humiliation of
Prussia 1' It is a struggle for our exist-
ence. If God gives us victory we shall then
be strong enough to renew in a batter and
more indissoluble form the loose ties which
to -day are uniting the German Stags more
in name than in feet."
These sentiments created a deep impres-
sion upon the people of Prussia and were
favorably received by a large number of
Germans beyond the frontier. The war
measures received the most enthusiastic sup-
port, and in less than a fortnight 265,000
men were ready to cross the line into
Bohemia. The war was as short as it re-
sulted gloriously for the Prussian arms.
Austria was defeated in every battle, and
the last and decisive one at Koeningsgratz
laid her at the feet of her conqueror. Sing
William, however, was magnanimous. His
sword secured Prussia's supremacy in Ger-
many ; that was sufficient.. A further (hu-
miliation or a dismemberment of Austria was
neither politic nor desirable. These
EXTRAORDINARY sIICCESSES
in the field caused also a revulsion of pub -
lie sentiment in favor of King William at
home, which resulted in ..the election of a
Conservative Chamber thoroughly in sympa-
thy with the Government.. This favorable
turn of affairs was immediately seized upon
THE 3IEI TISG OY TUE EMPERORS.
The Meeting of the I1 uperoraa of (Germany,
Resale Bird .Austria took place at Berlie in
the minutia cf I$."« in October of that
year Emperor William: gave a decision .aat-
veree to England en the San Juan boundary
question, submitted to his Arbitration by
the British and Aneericau Governments.
Itt April, 1873, he visited the Cas* at St,
Peteraburri, mut in Oatobur eluted ithe got -
Peter of Austria. In 1.875 the Caaar visited
Emperor William. An rmttempt sea Wada
to aeeasalaate Emperor William while be
Waw driving, on the afternoon of May II,
16781 in Berlin, The crime was gernmitted
by a ycuug Sae atisii named Emil Iloedel,
he Bring two abate, neither of thein hitting
the Emperor. Tile nun was pewter/ and.
finally captured. He said he had no inten-
tion of murder; but, being uuexuployed and
diauatixdad, had resolved to commit suielde,
Ile waw tried, found guilty and executed..
A second attempt upon the Esuperar's life
was Made Jutta 21, 1878, on the avenue
"linter deo Linden," whilat be was out
driving. Two .alotal were area, both of
which took effect. The would be anemia
Was ant, Nobiling, who, alter au attempt
to commit suicide. was captured and re•
moved to the hospital, where he died. from
hie self iiAieted wounds.
The iilluess of the Crown Prince wap as
terrible retrain upon the vitality of the Aged
Kaiser. Though always hoping for the heat,
lee grieved over the sorrowful prospect with
a
wagering that euly parents know. At
times he completely gave way to him Teel•
loge and Shed scalding tears over "Oar
Fritz." Hie attendants with the greatest
difficulty kept him from going to San Demo
to seoonce more his affiieted sea. :1, trifl-
ing illness combined with his great mental
suffering was more than even his iron ecu-
stitution could bear, the thread of life
sn:alsped, and Germany is tre•day plunged its,
mourning
Their Diamond Wedding.
By the bed the old wean, waiting, est io vigil eel and
tender;
Where his aged wife lay dying; and the twilight
shadow* brown.
Slowly fro= the wall and window chased the a neet'a
golden tp'endor.
Golub down,
"la it nighty' she wbhspered,' waking (for her spirit
eeenied to hover
Lott between the next woxzd'e olntlee and the bad•
time reread this),
doh tee oil min, weak a•ad tea tett, trsmbliug es he
bent hetoreber,
Azsxeced"Yea"
th" chi:drea u s' she inked bifu. Cold ho
tether. 141: the treasures
of their hoa9;twbt lay in spec. a many yore tee
stash the snow ;
But her heart was wiva them twin; back =earlier
to and l
, taserea,
Lev.; ago..
lyad agent the salted at dew -tall its the a sung ranee
mer weather,
?sphere is little trarlev, lather t E.iarsi and nob -
ere --bane they come i"
Ttoyare safe."the old. man faltered: "a°lthe chil-
dren are together.
Sate at i:ome."
Then he murmured ,gentle aoctblrga, but bio grief
grew aseoag ant xtronzer-
TiU it choked ape stilted tem as Le be:4 her wrinit-
len head.
Or her *131. ter out of bearlo , coltd laic fonder{,
made ea looker
troderatamd.
Still *berate 43 ,tae unered gnest:ors, lc lsb:es and
broken verses,
Nursery prata%ell the iaogsa,;eeSan:.thefalav-
ing heeds.
While the midnight )(can't the mcarer,lett ha woe-
epee Uttercteteiea.
tytappe>f itsweeita.
Them vas a'allomaa ea the pa.rw—ural the cid ufaa
rutered tenet%
Till they led Min Pram the cbaatrber, with the hap
den -on his breast,
For the wile efersty years, bis wanbraria exriy lone
aadealy,
lay at ren,.
Para you well 1" he aohted, "my Sarah : yen will
met the babes litter* tie;
'T:a a little shills, for aeitlser eaa the pantie:, long
abide.
vr yea wilt y' oma and rail me aaan, 1 bean --and
flare; will reetare me
Toycursile."
1t +rso encu so The Spri g-lkire. in ategs of Winter
treaduez
t Sanely ellen itaorehard binsa.mesera the (Adman
closed his eyes.
And thev bszleihim hydarab, out they. had their
"lilareautlsero tmgaaklea.
A Dog in the Wititessdiox.
Mr. Burton, of Minneapolis, some time
ago lost a valuable Gordon setter dog, which
Was found eventually in the possession of a
elloenkeeper, who claiined that he had raised
the animal front puppyhood. The evidence
in Court was equally strong on both aides,
and there appeared to be a ease of mistaken
identity somewhere. -Judge and jury alike
were in a terrible •quandary. At this june.
biro Mr. Burton staked the Court if honight
be allowed to introduce the evidence of the
dog. No objections were =dote this novel
motion. Mr. Kirton, mindful of the accont-
plishmente which his wife had taught Sport
en lie youth, turned to the dog and saidin a
careless tone of voice:—
"Come, Sport, go and shut the door."
Without a moment's hesitation the intelli-
gent creature trotted over to the door of the
Courtroom, which happened to be ajar,
shoved it shat, and then trotted back to his
master, and looked expectantly up into his
face. Tho latter then took a bone ontofhis
pocket, and, laying it on the floor at his feet,
Said:—
" Well,
aid:"Well, Sport, that waw well done; and
now would you like your dinner ?"
The dog's head nodded an emphatic affir-
mation, but he seemed to be in no hurry to
take the bone.
"Do you?" said Mr. Burton, "but ycu
must remember that it is necessary for a good
orthodox dog to say grace before eating."
Upon the word the dog dropped down on
his .stomach, extended his head along the
floor, and reverently covered his eyes with
his paws. In a moment Mr Burton called
out "Amen," and Sport sprang to his feet
like a flask and seized the bone without
any more ceremony, crunching it between
his jaws.
Mr Burton then had the dog do his famous
"gallant" act. In this Sport sat upon his
haunches with a bat upon his head. When
asked how he saluted a gentleman when
meeting him, he deftly touched the edge of
the hat with his right paw; but when asked
how he sainted a lady under the same cir-
cumstances, ho brought up his paw and
knocked the hat off his head. All concerned
were perfectly satisfied, and the jury in a
few moments brought in a verdict for i19r.
Burton, and Sport followed his triumphant
master out of the courtroom.
Poor Fellow.
She gently took his passive hand,
And tenderly she placed
Her arm, without a reprimand,
About his willing waist.
She drew him close ? a fervent kiss
Upon his brow she pressed,
He yielded, and a new found bliss
Set all her fears at rest.
Then in a wild impassioned way,
Her love for him she told,
And begged of him that he would say
She'd not been over bold.
Without him all her life, she said,
Would be a desert drear ;
If he said " No," she'd never wed—
At least till next Leap Year.
Blushing, he heard her bravely through,
And then he cooed " Oh, ;la 1
This is so awful sudden, Sue,
You'll have to ask my ma - 1"
JOU& STEBBINS' BARN*
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Walt BE: t.
44 Spealtie a'. Jobe Stebl:.in's baro pants
ire in mind of the time when that ere Irarx"
wurpleetwei. dam insisted, John dideof
ereetiu' it upon a side hill ; an' that side�bit. ''
wur +clay ; an' clay is considerable marc nor
leas like a Marsh wind--ceatinually on the
shift�+
41 Why, clay',there aims't no rr;ore conal-
deuee to be pinedd is clary than there .is in n
kickin' horse, not a might. When it's wet
it'll cling to ya like the cankerrash, or else
take ye right to for WI your worth. When
We dr it'll era'kit ya;id slough uhf an' do
everything else thee's niece au' inhuman ;
an' when leery/ell it'll hinori .Il;ike IN Carn-
el'a back, au' twist everything askew that's
en top of it. I aline clim1? ti clay MU 1~
gain' round it, eels ilally la Vito spring.
" ,'fore John lstebbine planted his barn,
he held a consultation ea to how the founds -
tion should be built. John bad his oven op -
Won, John did, but afore he expressed it he
wante3 time opinion of others. One sorter
thought that a tumid), four foot wide, ten
foot deep, tiled with atones, an' the sills
laid on top, would 'knock the stain' all out
of the clay, an' the 'berm would stand ; ,Toho
didn't. Another thought that in addition
to the atones there should he two foot o'
rand an earth side a' the wall. The scut.
would sorter hold the ittones ? the atones:
would sorter hold the sills ; the Gills would
sorter hold the barn ; an' the barn would re-
main firm as tho reek of ages. John .didn't
think any each thing. Another said drive
,piles inter the nroond an' set the barn on
top, John wouldn't. John's oldest boy,
Sim, said : ' If they'd build a fire round the
barn,and keep the clay thawed out, the
pesky thing ud never hint ;' an' they award-
ed him a Leather medal on the spot,
"John's theory, though speculative, sena
right to the pint. 'Frost,' said he, " never
shows any partiality. If it nippith one ear,
it nippith tether alto—unlessit's kirered up.
It's agoin' to freeze that are clay jest ez it
would a pond a' water ; an' when it heaves,.
it's agoin' to heave all the way alike, Jest
lay them are sills upon nnthin' but clay;
an' when the clay elevates, jest let the barn
elevate with it. It'll got up in the fall, an'
down in the spring, an' allns be on a dead
level,' So that are barn was built, an' the
foundation was laid upon anthill' but pure
undefiled clay.
Well, you oughter seen that barn travel
the fust season. The west side went up an'
the east side went down. The south east
corner chassezed to the left, an' the north'
end humped itealf up like a man with the
rheumatics.wuintin' along the ridgepole
wus like equintin' along a range o' moon
tains. There wus valleys and declivities,
an' deep gorges, an' canyons at irregular
intervals along the hull line. Why, it
seemed the delight ofthat are clay to see'
how infernally it could twist that barn an'
still leave it standin'. An' stand it did until
John had to prop is up with seven by nine
joice.
" The wust feature of the barn, though,
wur the way it affected the cattle. In it wur
some twentyhead which John wur a win-
terin' the fust season. There were Jerseys,
an' shorthorns, an' Suffolks, an' Ayrshires,•
an' some as wasn't neither but a leetle of all.
They war ez straight, plump, well propor-
tioned cattle when they entered that barn ex
a man would wish to see ; but you'd orter
seen them in the spring. So confoundedly
did that barn warp up an' double about
Burin' the winter months, that, when them,
are cattle were let out in themonth of May,.
I'll be blest if each one of 'em wern:t twist-
ed completely out of shape. Now that's a
fact. "—[Beaton, Courier.
Reverence in Scotland.
The reverence for the Sabbath in. Scot-
land sometimes takes a form one would
hardly have anticipated. An old Highland -
man said to an English tourist
"They're a God-fearin' ,set o' folks here
'deed they are, ,an',P11 give ye an instance
o't.: Last . Sabbath, just as the kirk was
skeinn' there was a drover chiel free Dum-
fries along the road, whistlin' and lookin'
as happy as if it was to muddle o' +a week.
Weeks sir, our laads'is .a God ' earin set of
leads, an' they yokit upon him an' a'moat•
killed him." -London Chronicle