Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-08-20

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first takes sort of general excursion
into the domain Of his own nature.
am very easy going fellow. but people
must not so too far with me. prefer
loving to being loved; and those l love
have only to do everything l want to
obtain my affection in full measure.
am very tolerant AMI placable, except
in certain things. Ii the people l love
offend me in these things clear them
out of my soul and memory like SO
much waste paper. have an intense
respect for property, SO much that
never even give people advice without
they ask for it, liberty of action being liz
my ofinion more preciNus property
of women; first. because they teach you
to understand man, and then because
they never know what they are doing,
what they have done, nor what they are
going to do. know of no finer spec
tacle than beautiful and honest WON
an, but she must be beautiful or there
will he no merit in her being honest.
start with the idea of human nature
that all men are scoundrels, and that all
women are not one bit better than they
ought to be. When I find that I have
been mistaken in one of them, feel q
satisfaction unknown to persons who do
not start from the same despAiring poin,
Of view" with all these theories,
why do you not turn politician ?" muir,
INJURED Desbarolles. at would not
amuse me-" said Dumas; besides, il
is too easy" He paused an instant in
reflection, while Desbarolles. not to
lose time, was in tigurative sense Pc
culiarly characteristic of him, running
all over his head. al see you have
constractiveness very highly devel-
oped," said the professor. "In fact,
have recognized that by your skill with
your hand in everything, even in the
noble game of billiards. This organ
seems to me to be coupled with acquis-
itiveness. Is it possible that, with all
your generosity, you love money!"
He had hit it again. II am frightfully
acquisitive," replied Dumas. i" have
no personal wants, and yet whenever 1
buy any work of art I AN always think
ing for how much could sell it again
ut y profit. should like to be az rich
as all the Rothschilds put together-I
would change the face of a good many
things in France" Hence they came
to q very delicate point of the dia-
lOgue. Desbarolles, in looking at his
hand, could not conceal from himself,
as conscientious man OF business, that
one of the mounts meant mischief
mischief in the first degree; in fact,
murder. The mount OF Mars is enor-
nous. Dssoarolles had never seen
such another, except in the hands OF
Tropman, who. as every reader Of the
gazette of crime knows, had q whole
hecatomb of slain to his account. Des-
barolles puts it delicately: II he is a
philosopher he is also q Frenchman,
There are anomalies" he says, "in
chiromancy. Thus developments OF
the Mpcnt of Mars may meaa impetu-
GUS ardor, sangfroid, perseverance,
blind fury, even MURDER" and he looks
steadily at Dumas. Tropman, whose
hand l examined with the permission OF
the police, had Just such mount vi
Mars as -" AS mine, you mean t..
say" returned Dumas. not in the least
embarrassed; Eyes; suppose the only
difference between US is in my line Of
Mars running to the SUM-" "Perhaps
So" said with a smile. "Well, we'll,
said Dumas, 81 will take care; I am
warned now; but, my dear friend. be-
tween ourselves, what you say is true
and should not at all be surprised il
this murderous influence of Mars in my
hand were responsible for the xiii
her! at the end of one of my pieces,
and for the murder or the duel which
you find in nearly all of them. The
tact is, l could pat people to death very
quietly in certain cases. Virginiu s
killing his daughter or Brutus punish.
ing his son with death for disobedie nee
to the laws seem to me the sinples,
things in the world"
But, after all, M. Dumas was toe
easy. The man of science in dealing
with him was like the sportsman firms
from six.barreied gun. If he missed
with chiromancy, there was phrenology
or physiognomy or oaligraphy to brine
| him down. He shows himself o tru,
genius when he divines without most o.
| these aids, and swims on the ocean oil
speculation with q minimum of corks
He has never seen Bismarck's hand
never even felt the weight of it, except
as patriotic FreHchman; he has no,
so much as seen his baud writing, only
poor fac-simile Of it, yet on this
slight indication, and that of photo
graph, he reads off the German chan.
cellor like page of big print. Th.
letter was one written by Bismarck t.
his wife during the war, intercepted
by the French and published fac -simils
BY the Figaro. 1t may have contained
some few secrets as Bismarck wrote it
but it contained infinitely more wher
sub jected to the piercing gaze of the
seer. ''Look at this downward slope
of the letters" he cries; cit means mis-
cry and ruin-else why did Napoleon I
always slope up the paper during the
time of his prosperity, and down the
paper When he was down in his luck :? ;
"Ah!" he adds, "if could only sec
the hand of Bismarck as we'll as tho
handwriting, then I could prophesy
then | could tell you exactly how the
cataclysin through which we are passing
is to finish. But, after all, the hand
writing is enough. Look at the enor
NOUS sizs of it! 1t is just as big az
Wallenstein's, or the ferocious s wedist
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