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PREDICTS TRIUMPH.‘
’ WHAT CRISPl, THE STATESMAN,sAvs
OF THE AMERICAN IDEA.
Character of the Man and How He Rose
to Power by Persistent Efi‘ortp— His
Energy Has Checked Those Conditions
In Italy that Caused the Decay of Spain
(By Thomas. Burke Grant.)
When Spain declared war against
the United States there. was one
among the statesmen of Europe of
whose fervid appreciation, of America
there cannot be the least doubt from
thszvery nature of his utterance. That
was Signor Crispi, the man'who has
checked those conditions in 'Italy that
have caused the decay and degeneracy
of Spain. , ‘
Crispl said: “The present war is an
epoch-making event in the march of
human freedom; that the prophecy of
De Toqueville is being realized and the
institutions of America are revolu-
tionizing those in Europe.” Of course
to Ace cane were. erect be. memes
e'ss'éntia ly ndw» in this statement
w lch is nevertheless gratifying. We
know—H: is true in the present instance
but the purblind tory of Europe hard—
ly cares yet to admit it. The agrarian
noble of Germany who feels the seep.
tre of power passing from him to the
masses of the German people, wants
to shut out our American pgpduce. He
thus pays unconscious tribute to
America in this effort to keep a roof
dpfih'ihé'Schloss. The stolid reader
of the ponderous articles in the Lon-
don Times may sneer at the Sunday
paper, or at the sensational journalism.
of America, but under the very shad-
ow of St. Paul’s these prevailing feat-
ures of America are-making headway
and are gradually converting into back
numbers the once leading journals of
London. Even the sacred precincts of
the peerage are being invaded, and the
British duchesses will soon have to
form a. combination in order to exclude
the nervy, bouncing, magnetic Ameri-
can girl, who is never more charming
than when she dashes down every mil-
dewed banner that snobbery and self
efficiency have fenced around fashion.
able exclusiveness.
Yes, Crispl is right. we are for bet-
ter or worse revolutionizing Europe,
‘and no power on earth can stop the
process. To do so is our divinest des-
tiny. It was in order that we should
do this that the all-wise Creator of
the world placed us in the middle
with the civilization of Eur0pe to the
East of us, and that of the Orient to
the West, our arms like those of Alex-
ander extending into both. America
has only to be true to herself and to
the precepts of the fathers of the Re-
public, in order to bring thrones and.
crowns, and musty constitutions crum-
bling to her feet. It is greatly to Sig-
nor Crispi’s credit that he has discov-
ered and what is more that he has
conceded to us so manifest a destiny.
The circumstance clearly shows that
the Italian statesman is keeping his
observation eye in good order, and
that he has thoroughly divined the
tread of events.
And on the occasion of the first for.
. eign war that the United, States has
had in eighty-six years,'any such fore-
cast cannot but be regarded as highly
flattering to all Americans. It is par-
ticularly so, from a man like Cris-pi,
whose career is an inspiration and
who takes high ranks, not so much as
an Italian dictator, but a son of
f‘Those men whose hearts were torches
For Freedom’s quench-lg“ flre.”
As a prophet Crispi has not only the
‘rare distinction of being honored in
his own country and in his own time
but his prophetic forecasts have in-
variably been rsalized. Many years
. ago when Italy was under the joint
tutelage of Austria and France, when
her internal divisions were a series of
petty duchies like Parma, Modena and
Tuscany, when the notorious Bomba
was ruling at Naples, When Mazzini
was a political pamphleteer starving
on Fulham Road in London and Gari-
baldi was a guerrilla chief at Caprera;
and when all that was rich and right-
eous and respectable in the world
frowned upon the Italian patriots and
their cause, this man who to-day pre-
dicts the proud destiny of America,
then also forecasted a new and United
Italy. He lived too to place the cap-
stone on a noble idea through Italy
taking her place as an integer in the
Great Triple Alliance. -
He has driven out the bandittl an
foiled every pest against the unity of
his native country that was nursed by
Princes at their leisure. When others
were blind Crispi was wide awake and
far seeing. When Mazzini was appeal-
ing to Charles Albert in the pathetic
words, “Sire, unite us," Crispi saw
that union was impossible without a.
national spirit to sustain it. He
therefore set about creating the na-
tional spirit by going from town to
town as a tramp editor turning up
with a paper in Milan, or in Malta, or
Palermo; making a most scanty liv-
ing as a writer or delivering a lecture
on a political discourse. to all within
sound of his voice. The great world
did not then as now heed what Crispi
said, but Crispi‘s accuracy and judg-
ment and unwavering self confidence
were then manifest features of the
character of the man who was preach-
ing the political regeneration of Italy
at night and manufacturing bombs in
the" daytime. The wondering Italiahs,
taught from youth to’respect ortho-
doxy whether in politics or religion
asked himon some, of these occasions,
“Are you a follower of Mazzini?" Ho
answei'cd,."No.” “Are you a. Gari-
“No more,” was the
reply. “What are you?" was the last
despairing lnterrogatory of those
spokesmen in the crowds who tried to
confound the lecturer. “I am Crispi,"
was the remarkable response. “But
Crispi is nobody," they argued. "I
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call myself ‘To-morrow,’ ” was the emo'
bryo , statesman’s rejoinder. And
Crispi’s glorious “to-morrow” came in ‘
:od’s good time. . -
Viewed in whatever light we may
Jrispi is as. much a marvel among
men, as is the country he loves a phe-
nomenon among resurrected and
united people. Having forced a new
Italy as from the old scrap iron‘ of
petty warring states, Crispi's fortitude
and introspection has preserved her
from falling asunder again. What
the nature of those services are can be
gathered from the tribute paid Crisp!
recently by a member of the College of
Cardinals-flHis (Crispi’s) knowledge
of our affairs excites the astonishment
of all of us; it is like intuition. He
knows us better than we know our-
selves, and the black anarchy as well
as the red." The spirit of the' “black
anarchy" has pursued Italy’s Grand
Old Man so relentlessly that Bismarck
once jokingly observed to him—“I
have always believed that I was the
most hated man in my time but per-
haps _I have been presumptious in this,
for 'Your Excellency pushes me very
hard."
The pleasant prediction of a. man
whose prophetic observations give him
unique-authority’niay well buoy up all
loyal Americans at such a crisis; and
the ”‘great Italian statesman whose
genius together with the smile of
Queen Marguerite are said “to be the
two bonds that bind, Italy together"
needhave no doubt but his generous
and encouraging remarks are destined
to make him and his country many
warm friends in the United States.
And They Cured Her. Too.
A physician has had an amusing ex-
perience; The other day a somewhat
distracted mother brought her daugh-
ter to see him. The girl was suffering
from what is known among many peo—
ple as f‘general lowness"; there was
nothing much the matter with her, but
she was pale and listless, and did not
care about eating or doing anything.
The doctor, after due consultation, pre-
scribed for her a glass of claret three
times aday -with her meals. The
mother was somewhat deaf, but appar-
ently heard all he said, and bore off
her daughter, determined to carry out
the prescription to the very letter.
In ten days' time they were back
again, and the girl looked quite a dif-
ferent creature. She was rosy-
cheeked, smiling, and the picture of
health.. The doctor congratulated him-
self upon the keen insight he had dis-
played in his diagnosis of the case.‘
“I am glad to see that your daughter
is so much. better-{he said.
“Yes," exclaimed the excited and
grateful mother, “thanks to you, doc-
tor! She has had just what you or-
dered. She has eaten carrots-three
times a day since we were here, and
sometimes cfteneruand once or twice
uncooked—and now look at her!”
The medical man was so overcome
with laughter that, for some minutes,
he could not explain the mistake.
Snatched llhn Baldheaden.
An infirm old gentleman was found
by a rogue moaning sadly for some—
thing lost.-' . “What is the matter, sir?"
said the fellow.
“Oh, sir, a, villain has just stolen my
new white hat from my head, and run
away with it!” ~
“Why don’t- you run after him?"
asked the rogue.
“I can't run at all; I can hardly
walk." ' ~ , ‘ angle-seqae ;
“You can't,” said the rogue: "and
he stole your hat?”
“Yes, he did, air."
“And you can’t run ?"
“Not I." .
“Nor catch him?”
“No.9
“Then here goes for your wig,‘f and
accordingly, pulling off the thatch’f-rom
his head, the fellow Went off like a
shot from a rifle, and the old gentle-
man was left as bald as a cools.
Centenarles of 1898.
This is to be a year of centenaries
France will have three—the centenary
of Jasmin, the barber poet, who was
born at Agen in 1798, and died in 1864;
that of Auguste Comte, founder of the
Positivist School, who died in 1857;
and that of Jules Michelet, the famous
historian, who was born on August
zlst, 1798. There will be two cen-
tenary festivals in Italy, in memory of
the poet Leopardi and of Savon-arola.
besides the centenary celebration of
the independence of the Canton of
Vaud, the Swiss will commemorate the
fourth centenary of Hans Holbein, the
great painter. On May let, Portu-
gal will cbmmemorate the fourth cen-
tenary of the explorer Vasco de Gama.
She Does Not Cycle.
The German Empress has expressed
herself against the proposed reform of
women’s clothing, saying that she is
quite content with the present fash-
ions, which are sensible and can be
modelled according to everyone‘s
taste. Her Majesty is one of the few
Royal ladies who do not cycle. She
considers it a very ungraceful sport
for women, and the lady cyclists she
has seen in Germany have not im-
pressed her by their varied costumes.-
A Singular Ship. ‘
The most singular ship in the world
is the Polyphemus, of the British Navy.
It is simply a long steel tube,
deeply buried in the water, the deck
rising only 4ft. above the sea. It car-
ries no masts or sails, and is used as a
ram and torpedo-boat.
Rose leaves not ouiy furnish us with
the most delightful "of perfumes, but
are also medicinaliy employed as a
route and astringent.
Cloth Made trons Wood.
Cloth is now being successfully made
from wood. Strips of fine-grained
wood are boiled and crushed between
rollers, and the filaments, having bee;-
carded into parallel lines. are spun in-
to threads, from which cloth can be
woven in the usual way.
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on) AEAGE vEEIEiEn
MIGHTY WARS HAVE MARKED cvem
.csnruav's CLOSE.
The Lesson of Universal History is That
the End of Each Century Has Seen
Some Phenomenal Disturbances Among
the Nations. V
The adage of history repeating it-
self is likely tobe verified by the pro.-
ent war with Spain. The lesson of
universal history is that, the end, of
each century has seen some phenome-
nal civil disturbance either in the
shape of a great war between existing
nations or the struggle, of a people
against domestic tyranny. Without
801118 further back it may. be noted
that. it was toward the end of the
seventh century that the Saracens in-
vaded Armenia and, Asia' Minor, and
at the clOse’ of the eighth Charlemagne
began his were against the Hu'ns' and
defeated the Lombards, thus e’stablisih-
ing the temporal power of the Popes.
The close of the-tenth century saw the
conquest of King Alfred of England
by the Danes; that of the eleventh
the defeat of the Moors by Spain and
of the Greeks by Otho II atfiBa'reatello.
Towards the «not the same century
the Anglo Saxbns Were the slaves of
tbs hormonal}; thei’r’gwu lead after.
,Hastings, and later there were the
frightful wars of the Crusades pro-
moted. by the Church for the mainte-
nance of the power conferred upon it
by Charlemagne. The end of the
thirteenth century saw the gallant
Scots defeated at Dunbar and at Fal-
kirk under Wallace. While: the final
years of the fourteenth century are
lighted up by the story of William
Tell and the defeat of the Austrians by
the Swiss and of the Spaniards by the
Portuguese. The evening of the fif-
teenth was remarkable for the. battles
of Bosworth in 1485, and of Bannock-
burn, while the closing decade of the
sixteenth century saw the wreck of
.the Spanish Armada and the Elisa-
bethan wars of the English: in Ire-
land under . ,Bagnal and Mountjoyi
while those ofthe succeeding century,
1690, had those. at the . Boyne and
Glencoc between William III and
James II for the British. Even an-
cient battles like those at Marathon
and Troy selected similar epochs.
But all these were which appear to
be controlled by law based onthc prin.
ciple that every century dies in, some
phenomenal social convulsion, were
eclipsed by the magnitude of the
events that terminated the eighteenth
century. And a strange pra‘sontlmsnt
has seized the ruling classes in Eu.
rope that the present century is :01.
lowing .in the wake .of its immediate
predecessor. They believsethat the at-.
titude-of the United States forbades a
danger to those family: groups that
have survived the Rsnalssanceand the
Reformation, not because of any. merit
.that would justify survival or preserve
them from extinction, but because
their chiefs have been so far fortunate
in throttling the cause .of liberty or"-
balancing one rickety throne against
another. These thrones are now like
a lot of old houses in a street in. such
a positionthat if one falls the whole
row is likely to come down with a
terrific crash of dust and smoke and
cinders. . '
The end of the eighteenth Century
witnessed such a change in men's
minds as the world had not seen since
the birtbpf Chrlgt. The regime of
one of the proudest European mon-
archs had been swept away by a fierce
uprising of the French massage“
throne and alter, ,prelates and poles.
tates, alike fell before the stupendous
popular upheaval which sent the cold
shiver of .- impending fear . through
every state of Europe. The French
Revolution of 1789 was but the rum-
bling echo upon a distant shore of the
principles of the American Declaration
of Independence. “Liberty, Equality
and Fraternity," was really tthuro-
pean interpretation of the doctrine of
1776, that all men are born free and
equal and entitled to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. Apart from
the similarity of both sets of princi-
ples to the sentiments enumerated by
Thomas Paine, the chronological or-
der of the two revolutions and the ci'r-
cumstance of French soldiers under
Lafayette, partaking in the American
struggle, show that both revolutions
followed each other as immediately as
cause and effect. The French revolu-
tion was a decided stride towards the
emancipation of man from the treach--
ery of theologians and from the trea-
son of thrones. And had its opera-
tions been controlled by wise and
prudent men all Europe would have
to-day a series of tepublican self-gov-
erning states in the closest sympa-
thy and appreciation with one form of
government instead of being a hor~
net’s nest of sceptered schemers stalk-
ing upon liberties and sneering when-
ever they dare at the spirit of our in-
stitutions.
Napoleon who had'more' of the ele-
ments of true greatness in his compo-
sition than any other human being
that ever lived, held European mon-
archs in wholesome contempt. H6
disposed of their trumpery dynasties
with that case and grace and freedom
with which our American grocery man
changes clerks in his tea store. If a
King answered Napoleon’s purposes he
left him his old throne; if not the
God-like Corsican peremptorily dis-
missed the reigning monarch, put an-
other in his seat or converted his
palace into a temporary barracks for
his victorious troops. When the last
century closed Desmoullne and Robes;
and re-embodied in still more awful
form in the person of Napoleon, and
whom the Kings ofEuropo all com-l
to denounce and overthrow.
Confronted by this great man they
. _.,_.;t-:d up their historic feuds against
,. an-‘f‘J
, domestic and » international
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one'another- and with. one accord,
wheeled into line to fsc'sths conunon
danger that threatened them for ”near.
ly twenty years from the Bridge of
Lothi to the field of Water-ice f
It is because the close of the» nine-
teenth century sees the American idea
again active and promising- again to
work out its predestined. mission in a
mysterious way that there is so un-'
usual a. stir in Europe and rumors of
concerts'and joint notes and interven-
tions. There is everywhere an un-
easy feeling in the European air and .
the occupant of each throne keeps his
ear close to the ground or the royal
binocular trained upon the drama now.
being enacted in the ‘New World,
which stands. to him very much in the
same disquieting relation _ as did the
affairs of France and of Napoleon at
the termination of the eighteenth cen-
tury. Hence the mingled feelings of
fear and anxiety with which this petty
Spanish-American war is regarded,
and which, says one of the best in-
formed of the London correspondents,
“is a matter of greater concern to the
European nations than to America
herself.” ~ .........g._ -'~-‘H~*rl I’m-Ir are...
_'Why should it be a matter of "great-
er concern to European nations” than
to the country upon whose borders it
takes'place and which is one of the
actual participants in the contest? It
is because Europe is reposing above a
sort of submarine mine that may at
any moment explode. Because at the
end of this as at that of the eighteenth
century, their subjects are restless and
unhappy, and those European powers
jealous of and. well acquainted with
each others relative strength seen in
America a new and unknown quantity
suddenly precipitated into the situa-
tion and whose latent powers they are
all unable to guage accurately. It is
as if the spectre of the French Revolu-
tion or Napoleon had again arisen to
fire the hostile and armed camps and
Was wrapped this {time in the mantle
of Monroe. The Kings of Europe are
not more intelligent 'or less supersti-
tious thanare other people. And the
time and circumstance of the pervad-
ing danger is not calculated to allay
the royal fears. First the storm-con:
tre is once more of New World origin.
‘And America like a young Colossus
stands high. and seems in their fright.
ful imaginations to be preparing to
stalk around the Universe. Second the
trouble comes about Spain and Eutbps
remembering how she was rifted at
the close of the seventeenth century by
the twelve years 'war of the Spanish
Succession, wonders whether now a
similar fats again awaits bar. “There
is a. strange lull,” observed the corre-
spondents, “both in the domestic and
international concerns of each country,
and governments and people alike
have put aside their own affairs in or-
der to watch the tragedy toward which
European disputes often tend but
which Europe has managed to avoid
for nearly a generation." Quits so.
The American idea that leavened,Eu-
rope before, not as Europe and”.
stands it, manifested itself for nearly
a generation. What’shape it will take
now, or to what extent it". will sway
Europe” is the chief, cause. offlths
present strange lullin Europe whose
affairs
have actually stoppedstill pending the
present trouble. _It has hardly affect-
ed us at all. on learning- the intense
commotion abroad, however, the stride
of every- patriotic Americanishould be
at least cheerful.Let the Yankee breast
then heaye with tho SW91! .“ =1?!qu pa-
triotic emotion, because. it seems this
country at this moment is actually
discharging functions towards the,
States of Europe analogous to' that of
the Sun, which besides being the
source of light and life and. heat acts
as the great ring master. of the uni-
verse by keeping the planets and the
whole solar system in their regular
order. That is the mission of America,
while it is the destiny of European
thrones to be paralysed with the fear
of coming disaster at least every cen-
tury or so. '
Wanted No Cinematograph.
At a rural dinner it was usual for
the eldest farmer present to propose
the principal toast, and last year the
duty devolved upon a. rustic jwhowas'
by no means confident ‘Of his ability to
make a good show. , _ j
He therefore requested the learned
squire, who sat opposite him, to hold
up his hand whenever‘he strayed oi!
the proper. track. 'Iihc" squire good;
humouredly consented, and the farmer
commenced his toast. , ,-
, Perhaps thofgood‘ man had already
had too much, drink, or perhaps he had"
lost sight of "his previousnualms; at
any rate, he made a host of trips, and
kept on his feet in spite of the warn~~
ing hand, which that up again and
again. ' ‘ V ,I , _
At length the squire leaned, careless.
1y over'the table, and moved his hand
to and fro within two feet of the farm«
er’s nose. ‘ .
The old man stopped, glared bale
fully at the extended hand, and then
slowly and with scarcastic emphasis
said—-L . .
“Yes, I sees it, squire, an’ so does
everybody else. It’s a white hand, an’
a purty hand, an’ a clean, hand, but
there’s no occasion to make a bloom-
ln’ cinematograph of _:_ it! "a
No Answer Received.
“And was your prayeranswered?"
asked a visitor of a North Carolina
darky Who had told of praying for
rain. ‘ ‘
“No, sah," said the African, "i
’specs‘ de cable was cut, sab.”~—New ‘
York Journal.
pierrs and Marat were reincarnated 7
Mike. the blast iso’ii‘e.
Commercial Traveler—Who's that talk-
.ing so loud and kicking .up such a fuss
back there in‘the private omco? ’
Clerk (nonchalantly)—-Oh. .that‘s the,
silent partner.-—Somerville Journal.
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