The Saline County journal., 1874-02-05
4 rorrostcn CeiebrIty.

frmnslzsed fss AppenensSeurnaLI
The following advertisement appears
every now and then in the corrtere d'
1Is.s.. &c !. sce.nn. Kss,..a. .aa r1uasa..o. Civ.
=. /" noass.st r.seiI I SEEs.,r,,,, E
isi, snuSa Ksora.''
The advertiser is noRc other than the
onccRelebrated dIctator OF luagaria.
) Irs isnow almost ulter'y forgotten,cven
ia lfvpgaee be has grown very old,
aad isnow SO poor that he VIII gladly
r.ye vou o lesson for single franc. This
wouiI seem very humiliatinS to him,
and yet he is proud of his poverty.
He says:
"rhrce years ago my friends at homo
id IIungaria, offered nae present OF nj
ty thousand forms. Irejected the oher,
and never have regretted it, even when
Twas hsngry and had no money to pay
for fire :.
l had occasion, the other day, to call
upon him. ] was no stranger to kos-
euih. Twenty years ago he had given
me, in London, a great deal OF. valuable
information for MY book, "Hungary in
lS49." found him in very small
room, in the fourth story Of dingy old
building. He sat alone in an easy-chalr
porins ever an old volume. When 1
entered he dill not recognize me. l rec
ocnizcd him, and was shocked. Wha,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 dummed. His form, once erect
and proud, was nov painfully bent: lie
almost groaned as he raised himself TO
bid me we!ro-c.
lie was deeply moved when / inform
cd him who was. His face Frightened
as he warmly clasped my hand.
"Ob, yes, oh, yes he said in German,
al know you now. Everybody fo:gets
me; no one calls upon me; no one
cares any more for nae! Why should l
rencmbcr those who once were my
friends."
To this | objected. ] asked him how
he could be forgotten when his friends
in Hungary wanted him TO return TO his
native country, aaJ take again an actye
part - its affairs.
Kossuth smile! very bitterly.
"Oh, yes" he said, return to Hunga-
ry disho aored, with an oath of allsgi-
ance to the Iiapsburgs who murdered
my friends and kinsmen, and who set a
price upon my head. l am neither Il
Dcak nor an Andrassy." 'ss
! asked hi-- how he got along.
" Well" he said sadly, were my good
children and my poor wife alive yet,
would be happy, even in my old age and
poverty. Ba: they are all dead and
rm very lonesome! That is what rem
ders my exile mere, where people arc so
kind to me, so Distressing. 1t would be
no better in Hungary. hove no kins-
talk anywhere but in the New World"
"Why, then, not go TO America again.
where your name is still revered ?" i
yeutured to say.
"Oh," he replied, al have often hesn
sorely tempted to 60 back to the United
States, -bnttsere are two obstacles IN the
way: In the first place, it would cost
more money than | have TO spare and
next, lam almost sure that in my pres
ent cnfeebled condition, would be una
bic TO bear the sea voyage"
MI this was very melancholy, and l
to change the subject of our
-1tttsta'-s Fsf4it- Y
fsisowcd him the proof-shects Of the
chapter of Aadrassy in my new work
on Austria. lie put on his spectacles,
and, holding the paper in his trom bling
hands, read carefully what l had writ
ten. - = 81 -
Mean While l had time to look around
in the room. Against the rear wall
stood a narrow, plain bed. On the
walls hung portraits Of Mazzini, Bixio,
kisz, and, strangely enough, Of Louis
Napoleon. On the bookshelf by my
side ] noticed Victor Hugo's "Annee
Terrible" kinglake's Crimea," and ten
or twelve we'll known grammars. On a
table, close to the bed, lay loaf of bread
and plate of dried meat.
To my dismay found that my glance
around the room had attracted kossuth's
attention. --..-...--
eyes" he said, With smile, "you sec
for yourself now that l am very poor;
and yet, when lett Hungary in 1919,
was charged by all the mean organs of
the napsburgs with having enriched my
self Ut my country's expense. DO You
know what my whole income was last
year! Within fraction Of 500 lire"
Less than 5000
l shook my head sorrowfully. .Hetoid
me what he thought about the. chapter
on Aadrassy, gave my plenty Of valuable
and interesting information on tho sub
jsct, and then dismissed me, saying that
it was time for one of his pupils TO make
his ppcarance.-Dr. Mar Sci.lesinger, in
Frankfort Gazette.
An Enc0unter With A Gorilla.
He was about twenty yards off when
we first saw him. We 1t once gathered
together; and was about to take aim