The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-08-09

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Tacitus makes plain:spokeu old Galga-
Gus tabulate in the pithy phase, "SoH
tudinems faciunt paceU appellant" And
make bold to assert that the reasoning
Of the inscription is the reasoning in
the hearts and on the lips of, most
Germans to day. 1t is not healthy
line of reasoning, since its obvious
converse is "If any State presumes to
think itself equal to Germany in milf
tary strength, then we shall immediate
ly war" l do not say that the Germans
have let their reasoning faculties carry
them specifically to the realization, far
less the approval, of this converse
position but do not see how either
they or any one else can refuse to
recognize its logical truth. -.
FEELING IN THE ARMY.
have mingled much with the SOL
diery during the last few days, and
gladly testify to their anxiety for no
more fighting in their generation. They
are eager to tell Of war incidents, Of
long marching, of hardships, of hot
fighting and Of heavy losses-the Sc.
verify Of the loss always comes as
clenching argument to the hardness of
the fighting There is no personal
brag, but natural laudation of the valor
sho1n by the battalion and company to
which the narrator belongs. But they
are not men of blood. There is no
Hippans gloating over scenes ofbutchery;
no callas talk how many "Red Breeches"
Hans skewered on his bayouet, or
Heinrich spitted on his lancepoint; none
of that lust for warfare which war is
so prone to stimulate in professional
soldiery. They have fought the fight;
they have got their medals; they are
full of war stories, the budget of which
for years to come they will unfold in
the cottage porch, or the chimney corner
of the smi,hy aud although prepared
to do as they are told, whether to work
all night uupacking baggage.train, or
to march against the martial inhabitants
of Kamschatka, they are very anxious
to get back into civil life !; and, having
done their best for the Fatherland, now
do something for themselves. But there
is perceptibly difeut tone among the
civilians. In the bravery of the
soldiery, they themselves are vicariously
brave. Little Entenfuss, the cigar
sellers cad, who, two years ago, was
heartily glad when the military surgeon
certified him unfit for service on account
of physical defects, watched the "lady-
birds" tramping past with their sturdy
swing, throws out his pigeon breast,
tries to point those web.toes of his, and
looks on the foreigner with a naughty
sniff of contemptuous puissauce. The
"ladybirds" are Germans ; he, EnteHfuss,
is a German; the "ladybirds" are
mighty men of valor; he, Eutcnfuss,
and, every other German, are mighty
men Of valor, striking awe aud terror
into the souls of aliens, OF ready, in
default of the required humility, to
carry fire and sword into alien land
Well, Entenfuss may be a little Of a
Bobadil but look at the other sign of
the times. l have seen women wearing
mourning for til dead, slain in the
war, waving r haudkerchiefs in
greeting Of the .ictors left alive. |
heard father bereaved of two boys in
the war, not decently proud or checriully
resigned, but absolutely cxul:aut over
his sacrifices for the Fatherland, assum-
ing a co .placent selfimportance, q
snug taproom cockiness over the
magnitude of his loss, just as old Mrs.
Sedley in Vanity Fair was proud that
Der spouse had failed for ooh, ever so
many Thousands, my DEAR" All this is
bad. 1. is not great deal, to be sure,
and one may be thought hypercritical in
noticing it, but these small things are
dangerous signs, small they are, for they
are the beginning Of rotteuness. Ger
many has a great future before her,
with wisdom and moderation, not alone
Of her governr t, but on the part Of
her people. Ii aid be false friendship
not to OVID chat tha. future is beset
with many trials aud temptations. Her
real unity is yet to be achieved Begun
iu and through, if not by war, it bas
still to stand the far more trying test of
peace. And this danger must be noted,
that if internal difficulties and bitches
in actual, as distinguished from nominal,
uui6cation occur, the temptation is ever
present to resort to the instrument for
overcoming them that originally
wrought the unity. There is no State
10 Europe to-day the future Of which is
linked so closely with the lives Of men
whose number you might reckon on the
fingers of one hand. A stroke Of
apoplexy might unset,le in an hour
everything that has already been set
tied, and crush the hope Of the future
into dust and ashes. Never have iu
terests so gigantic been concentrated
under one fat blue cap with yellow
band.
BLEErINd FROM TIE NosE.-Put 8
piece of paper in your mouth, chew 1t
rapidly, and it will stop your nose from