Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-11

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than we now do. but the time to prepare
for that fatese is the present. Ahen Nc are
content 10 work In small Say and pers
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His Personal Appearance, Domestic Life
and Business Operations.
PERSONAL APPEARANcE.
Divested of all the usual attributes of poli.
teal power N. Thiers appeared quite oo,ni.
cal parsonage, especially when he grew 1
little stronger, and the short legs Of this
short man seemed to quite disappear under
the shadow of his round little body. He
vas devoid of anything in the shape ofgrace
or even of earnestness. Imagine little,
stoutish, fdgety man, with a face sliphtly
resembling that Of 3 parrot, and with two
liionstrously large spectacles on his large
hooked nose, and the picture of NJ, Thiers
is complete. Asa speaker heswas never
distinguished by eloquence, but was always
known to he man capable of delivering
a clever speech on any given subject. Fin.
ance, law, military matters, science, every
thing seem to have been equally familiar
to him. His,yoice, was somewhat shrink
ing and feeble and produced effect, 90 to
say, on account Of its defect; its tones ap-
peared to be, as it Were, tired and asking
for compassion.
Ambition was always the paramount
feeling that guided him, and from the very
first day he reached Paris, in 1921, his life
was one unceasing effort to obtain power 1t
any price. No sort of scruple was known
D him in this respect. He used with equal
freedom tiattery, corruption, falsehood-any-
thing that would serve him and if the
world at large was astonished at seeing NJ.
Theirs become the president Of the French
republic in 1871 those who knew the secret
history of the government Of ls4s were
aware that he only aimed at the same post
twenty-five years ago. 1t was only when he
saw that his chances of success were small
that he supported Louis Bonaparte for the
purpose Of preventing Ledru Rollins cleo
ton to the presidency. But to give even
the shortest sketch Of II. Thiers political
career would be almost to write an essay
upon French history from 1880 to 1872. :.
THEIRS EARLY DOMESTIC LIFE.
When NJ. Theirs was young he fell (as
fall vast majority Of Frenchmen) in love
with married woman Of the name Of
Nine. Dosne, the wife of stockbroker.
This lady had daughter by her husband,
and had, by-and-by, one BY NJ. Theirs The
relation between the lovers lasted as long as
the lady lived, and 80 far, NJ. Theirs was
according to certain notions of the French,
. truthful man. In countries where, IS in
France, there is no divorce, mistakes which
are made BY young people who marry and
see after short time that they are not fit
foHO on hnrvn 9Th ~.
that Of a subsequent concubinage with
eloped with the wife of the stockbroker no
one in France would probably have had
anything to say against NJ. Theirs or Nine.
Dosne but what he is accused of now il,
first of all, that he always remained in bust
ness transactions with the husband of his
mistress.
HE sPEcuLATE.
from the time that he came into power with
the accession Of Louis Philippe to the ethrone
of France he took advantage of the poli-
teal information that he possessed, com.
municated it to the stockbroker and gave
him thus the chance of speculating at the
stock exchange with full security of success.
OF course the profits which the stockbrok er
realized were shared by NJ. Theirs, and it is
chiefly in this way that the fortune of the
Dosne family and Of NJ. Theirs himself has
been made. Furthermore, long before
Nine. Dosne died, NJ. Thiers, with view
to secure to his illegitima.e daughter his
name and fortune,
MARRIED HIS OWN CHILD.
This scandalous fact is known in France by
any one who knows anything Of NJ. Thiers,
in justification of whom, however, it must
be said that it was always believed, even by
his enemies, that he never had with his
wife any Of the relations implied by the
marriage. 1t seems to have been a purely
practical trick calculated to secure the hap
piness Of his illegitimate offspring. The
young Nine. Theirs was left at full liberty
10 live as she liked and to love whom she
liked, and the handsome women is known
to have taken full advantage of the privi-
lege. It was in allusion to this fact that,
when NJ. Thiers began to assume power
over France and to speak of his patriotism,
jocular people called him "The father Of
France and of his wife"
As the details of the lives of men in
prominence are often falsifed, and, accor-
dinghy, questioned by the public at large,
vention.
in the Place St. Georges. there was part
Of the house crammed with all sorts of
most valuable antiquities and works Of art,
to which Nine. Thiers. never had access.
People who enjoyed the intimacy Of NJ.
Theirs, knowing that only himself and Mile
Dosne had access to that warehouse of
treasures, used to make endless comments
as to whether NJ. Theirs and Mile. Dosne
were studying art or studying love in that
retreat.
In matters ofreligion NJ. Thiers was al.
ways sceptic, but he never hesitated to
turn religion to his advantage when it was
necessary, and TO put himself on the side Of
the clergy when he saw their aid could be
of service.