, 1875-12-23
A CENTURY OF PRUtlKESS,


a CENTURY OF PROGRESS.
ToriEl. Customers OF Ancient Days.
Cincinnati CARTE.
Giving aii due weight to whisky frauds. var
faro oil tho public schools, the panic of 1879,
md itH cxisting consequences, eacess OF paper
tnuncy, and every evil that alarms tho thought-
full, tho ayorago Americans Of ISIS have de-
cidcdly the advantage Of any proyioas genera
tlot. Of their couutyyuen.
II We louli to tho Old World In ihose so-calIe,l
quiet times before tho French Revolution and
Napolconio ambition created panic every where,
we ntall layo stll moro reason for thinking that
neither hero nor in Europe arc tlltngn changing
for tho worst. There arc painful socnl aud 10.
!i.ical upleayals 1t ia truc but they arc only
processes by which tho remains OF former cor
ruption nre beinK destroyed. Anything Is bet
ter than tic fearful staEnatiou which once c1-
listed.
Franco under Louis xy, IL generally citoa a.
tho moAt striking example Of thu co:nlninRlel
aplou5or, Wickedneas, aud iniserf Of the old
initiated French luxury. but only succeeded iu
copying the gtoHser forms Of its protilgacy, SOON
to us the wo1st embodiments OF seventeenth and
eighteenth col,tury tyranns Tho Thirty iears'
Wnr, endlug in lGAs, robbed Germany Of one
half-eome say two-tAirds-of its inhabitants,
and tho Moi al havoc was still worso. Tho var
Of tho Spanish Succession, 1700-13 In which
Bavaria took tue side Of FIauce, aud suffered
earfuIly from tho tavRgeB OF the Imperial and
English armies. addol to tho work Of domor2li-
zattOn.
Almost all the rrincclings, Catholic and Prot
estant, about these sj1nos were trying to apr the
apfoudors OF tho Courts Of FleunA AID Fov-
sailes. France however. bore oil the pain Ut
iuiluencn. Many 3 psincipa1lty waa nuarly beg
CARED that it's Grand Duke or E!ector might
fevel in luxury. Maxi.nillan Emanuel Of Baya-
ria WIS surrounded by small army Of mis-
trcsses. lle spent 40 much for paintings and
other objects OF art TINT taxes woro trobled in
uavaria. yet he WAS too refined TO live there.
lio 1nado Brussels lis principal headYuatteTs
aud restricted lis copSorBaton to French, TO-
gurding his native German ~ too coarse md
vulgar a tongue. Ihl8 sc1audrol, who nearly
drove noble wife to despair bS his pro1ieacy
and exposed his innocent subtects to all the Lor-
-osB Of vnr by his needless pnrtisanshp in tho
Spanish quarrel. Affected to be hero. llin
portrait Is to he seen In The old palace o. aiunie.
hanging nepr by tastalcsa cabinet lined with
misrosH aud stored with bEic-aDrac. He weara
loug wig, which docs not conceai t!lo satyr-liko
hidoousncss Of his countena'icca annd. clothed in
arlnus and grastng baton In FilH hand Affects
to bo watching With awful majesty thu progrcss
OF q battle.
Charles Louis. Iargravo OF Badcn, founded
splendid palace near tue site Of tho pEosent City
ut CaElsrnhe, stocking its park with over $50
mistressca, whom lie termed wood nympIis.
Tho scandal Was too great oven for those daye.
and Charles took stop toward virtuo by lesseu-
INK tic number Of nyuphs oue.lalf.
Tho greatest sconnlrvl of them al Was the
H1att Augustus Ltcetol " oaAuuy. oe'tes
KNOWN as King Auguntns Il, Of Poland. He
abanaonea tAo Ilo'es:ans aai,n W Ae.ure Tue
Io1lsn sovereignty, !us!oouce4 . conseIlptioh
tuition Of tho Electorate nulllty, mud. after
t"cntS-n'no years ~ ae.as, 'nooAeu lug Feopio
~ ne" Con5t!tusi9n' no alteration or ~hloll
no reserved ~ himself. ue spent w III! Ml4!ooa ol
tha'eth ior s!nEie le!e, haa aalS tnnons more
III sensoless mssno:ogcal aIamas. no nome "as
hale 11on1 nss ploAlsate lsaslon. suu ae ~ ~
Nho"h 70 nave oeen tne 1alnes 9! oYeI 90"
chllorep' Ills fogea ~ tae coronation NJ A.
10" eoss osoF hlinoit tta'cle. Aua VIAL "as
spent lof tne hplohfiu tslnes IN 1ne o9oel 'an's
~ gIesaan no ollG Ano"s.
estants Of 1hotn. ID nls Alusaom OF lfNssia,
haVlhs conlll0lhea oI celtAn grievances no
puhiaAea taem oy massacre, hha 6hVo tho III
tnefhh Chascn 70 the 1esuts, hna tne poople
whose iSos "ote sl@[eu 10 tne teeus. ; me1c.es u
TUG eame i, taancsn, c H. Ono u ala i3l'o"cts ac:u
inulateo 4o'oVosU' tnMe5s " Iuouc ,nonoy' ous
hls Nldo" wAs compelled 70 disgofse half.
A'R SOD sna s1ccessot' hnKu1.uh ~, sa.'uRn
iees Ftohlsa.e: euustea nia Mttustets SnMns w
hr'lanl; 10 1on tne peopo Mtn ampunny. inta
nounsollof hAd a.! his pastty ofoneis lfoM fatls
TO Dresden, AND nad 70 largo "Rtofooe thht Aa
Always kepe o1 hand Ivy pairs OF shoes.
II l7S3 the Ha&o ot sa1o-iotha insItated tie
practice OF selling Lis people ~ neEconhry
troops 70 1otei8u PoWest. no" Aesso CaAs'l
and other !itt'o statea copied A1s etsmple =
kho"l TO all the foaoefs CT ous AeFo'atioaafS
history
had court OF 4o.eo Hefsoae, AZ supported at
the PUBIC o1Fonso' 4"e!Fe 4ua14 u Tlua "hs
."nighs cap" TAls ia suaaescns ILLUSTRATION Of