The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-17

The following advertisement appears
overy now and then in the r0y3Iete lie Tor.
mo.
lessons In German. English ana Hungarian,
given at moderate rates, by
/. KossUTH,
.Ci strait NuOrd.'
The advertiser is none other than the cell
cbratcd dictator of Hungary. He i, now
almost utterly forgotten, even in Hungary ::
he has grown very old, and is now so poor
that he wilt gladly give You a lesson for
single franc. This would seem very humil-
iating for him, and yet he Is proud of his
poverty
He says;
Three years ago my friends at home, in
Hungary, offered me a present of fifty thou
sand FORMS rejected the offer, and new
or have regretted it. even when was hun
cry, and had no money to pay for Il fire"
| had occasion, the other day, to call up
on him, | was no stranger to Kossuth.
Twenty years ago he had given me, in Lon
don, great deal of valuable information for
my book. Hungary in 1910" / found
him in a very small room, in the fourth story
Of Il dingy cid building. He sat alone in an
easy chair porting over the old volume.
When ! entered he did not recognize me. |
recognized him and was shocked. What a
change these twenty years had produced in
his once handsome and interesting face
His hair was entirely white his checks wan
and hollow, and his eyes utterly dimmed.
His form, once erect and proud, was now
painfully bent. He almost groancd as he
raised himself TO bid me welcome.
He was deeply moved when informed
him who | was. His face frightened as he
warmly clasped nv hand.
ooh Al, an;1 Ia. IL, -
81 know you now Everybody forgots me
more for me! Why should remember those
who once were my friends?'
TO this | objected. | asked linn how he
could be forgotten when his friends in Hun
gary wanted him to return to his native
country, and take again an active part in its
affairs.
Kossuth smiled very bitterly.
"Oh, yes" he said, "return TO Hungary
dishonored, with an oath of allegiance to the
flapsburgs who murdered my friends and
kinsmen, and who set price upon my head.
| am neither Deak nor an Andrassy"
l asked him how he got along.
"Well, said he sadly, 'wcre my good
children and my poor wife alive yet. |
would be happy, even in my old age and
poverty. But they are all dead: and am
very lonesome, That is what renders my
exile here, whore people are so very kind to
me, so distressing 1t would be no better
in Hungary. | have no kinsfolk anywhere
but in the New World"
"Why, then, not % to America again,
where your name is still revcred?" | VEN
tured to say.
"Oh," he replied, IL have often been
sorely tempted TO go back to the United
States, but there are two obstacles in the
way. In the first place, it would cost more
than | have to spare; and next. am al
most sure that, in my present enieebled
condition, | would be unable to bear the
sea voyage"
All this was very melancholy, and has
tened to change the subject of our CONVEX.
saton.
| showed him the proof sheet of the
chapter on Andrassy in my new work on
Austria. lie put on his spectacles, and
holding the paper in his trembling hand,
read carefully what had written.
Meanwhile | had time to look around in
the room. Against the rear wall stood
narrow plain bed. On the walls hung por-
traits of Mazzni, Bixio, Kisz and, strange
ly enough, Of Louis Napoleon. On the
bookshelf by my side noticed Victor Uu-
COS Annee Terrible Kinglake's 'Crimea,'
and ten or twelve well-worn grammars.
On table, close to the bed lay loaf of
bread and plate of dried meat.
To my dismay found that my CHANGING
round the room had attracted Kossuth's at
tention.
"Yes," he said with smile, 'you see for
yourself now that | am very poor; and yet,
when left Hungary in 1919, was charged
by all the mean organs of the Hapsburgs
with having enriched myself at my coun-
try's expense Do you know what my
whole income was last year? Within a
fraction of eight hundred lire!" Ness than
two hundred dollars
l shook my head sorrowfully lie told
me what he thought about the chapter on
Andrasssy, gave me plenty of valuable and |
interesting information on the subject, and
then dismissed me, saying that it was time
for one of his pupils TO make his appear
Gazette,