The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-02

The London World publishes the fol-
lowing facts about now celebrated
Englishman
"Those who have seen Mr.. Lsbou-
chere only in the House of Commons,
or in the city, would hardly recognize
him In the gray clad gentleman who is
taking long, long pull and a strong,
strong pull in his skiff, having on
board three or four ladies and the proper
percentage of children. He is rowing
all these people about, apparently, to
his entire satisfaction, and seems quite
as cool as when he says, You may i'm
pugn my motives, and dissect my argu-
ments ; but pray do not say my anec-
dotes are old. They may not be true,
but they are surely new for 1 make
them myself Social terrorism has no
more effect upon Mr.. Labouchere than
to invite attack. 1t is delightful to hear
him holding forth on the folly of walk
ing through wet turnips, in thick, un-
comfortable boots, to shoot birds which
can be obtained in better condition for
cooking from a poulterer while his
audience shudder at his sentiments,
however much they respect his audacity.
His ideas upon fox hunting are also
as remarkable, in their way, as his views
upon the Eastern question. His pre-
misses may be sound or not, but there is
clear-cut logic in his conclusion. Hence
his opinion, repeated any time this
dozen years, that it is practically all
over with Turkey, and that if England
is not going to the wall she must take
Egypt, be thankful and let the rest ar
range itself. Such opinions have not
been hastily or rashly formed. They
are the calm conclusions of clear head,
trained in that best of schools-the For
eign Office. After his youthful ramble
in America, Mr.. Labouchere became
attached to the Legation, where, and in
New York, he left the memory of many
droll sayings and doings. In Europe he
has served in at least half a dozen CAPT
tails as attdche of embassy or legation,
as the case might be, and has accumu-
lated vast knowledge of what Mr..
Spencer Ponsonby-Fane would call his
pare. He may not be, by great deal,
the most profound of living statesmen
or diplomates but he is emphatically
man of the world, who knows his Europe
as well as America very well indeed.
He knows the people with whom he has
to deal, their past and present acts and
deeds with fatal accuracy, and few know
how and where to plant blow so effect
ually. In one especial respect he falls
under the ban recently pronounced, or
rather quoted, in the Lower House.
He is a determined water drinker, and
never touches wine when he can get the
pure element But he has no vows,
and, water being unattainable, will
drink anything he can get. Like not
alien spirit, minus the Imagination, that
of Lord Sherbrooke, Mr.. Labouchere
takes keen interest in novelties of all
kinds. He has not attained the prof.
cheney of Lord Sherbrooke on the bicy-
Gle, but at one time seriously betook
himself to the tricycle. as a means of
exercise and amusement. But it proved
a ieeting fancy, this sudden passion for
physical exercise The most calm and
collected Of men, Mr.. Labouchere finds
his certain enjoyment in every kind of
mental exercise. He. openly confessed
that he derived keen intellectual pleas
ure from the lawsuit in which he lately
succeeded in completely checkmating
his adversary. He also derives keen
intellectual pleasure from following,
with amazing keenness of scent, the
various maneuvers by which entirely
worthless stock may be brought upon
the market. He also enjoyed himself as
besieged resident in Paris during
the dark hours between the lurid sunset
of the Empire and the gusty dawn OF
the Republic. How he wrote from be-
leagured Paris an amusing and graphic
series of letters to the Daily NeWs is
too well known to need more than pass
ing comment. The ironical side of Mr..
Labouchere's character is thoroughly
well understood by his friends, who,
knowing him to be as straight as a
shads back are delighted when he
appears in his favorite character as a
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