Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-07

sOaE POINTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST IN HIS CAREE

cO<tE fVfN1S Or SfEtlAi4 INTEREST IN HIS CAREER.
Louis Blanc, who died at Cannes Yesterday.
was native of Madrid. where he was born Oc-
tober IS. 1918. His father held official position
under Ming Joseph, aud his grandfather fell
martyr To the revolution of 1893 His mother was
Spanish and came of 4 family of inyeterate haters
Of the Nap0leons. 1t was hot Spanish blood.
only one generation removed from tragic death
and starting with imIlacabIe opposition to the
family that were the lictators of Europe during
the formative years of NJ Blauc's life deveIop-
ment- IL is not Mirabeau or Danton IouiS
Blanc was a thinker and writer. rather than a
practical revOlutiORist. Tho .Iandiather's death
might have checked the ariur of revolutionary
tendency. and under a peaceful monarchy Inuis
Blanc had probably been merely writer of
polite or philosophical literature But the
mother in him fought against all Napoeonic
pretensicns, and accident, say Providence. made
him a reformer.
His mother died as he was about entering
manhood and his father soon after met disaster
and death Louis BlaGc had thus parts. nov
erty and hardshps enough to make man.
Finding himself alone and the world before him
he sought Paris. and from Paris went to Arras
and became tutor in the family of rich manu-
facturer-nO doubt often snubbed b; shOddyaud
Inferior talent. There ne studied the conditions
and haFdships of the lives Of iabOTin@ men and
got the first key TO the door of his fi'e's work
Leaving the dull work of tutor he took to
Journalism and wrote for II bon sens. the M
taoiidI the Eer'te dU Progress and La Reform
His impulses and his work favored the moor and
during the revolution of 10 he became so popr-
lar that he offered the dictatorship. but in
stead found himself plotted against and he
wisely left France and settled in London
There he did most of the work on his French
Revolution and Won deserved renown. When
Louis Napoleon played his famous coup d'etat
NJ Blanc LETT England and entered France
thinking the country ripe for a revolution
against the emperor; but finding disheartened
despair everyw here and having united himself
Tor facing such he returned to London and
wrote pretty articles on English life for Paris
papers Later he published his s.Histoire de
DIX Ans After Sedan he returned to Paris
Joined the National Guards and opposed the
cOmmunistic Instruction
February, 1879, he made proposition in the
chamber OF deputies for pIenarv amnesty. which
however was detected. Ii was a sensitive.
sympathetic soul. earnestly devoted to such
true work as in his Judgment was of service to
ms feiiow-men- He was too disinterested TO be
politician; too much OF student and thinker
70 De successful leader of political bodies and
IT Is difficult to see how, born when and as he
was, he could have made any better use of his
HE than he made of it, He was over sixty-nine
years OF age AMI some weeks ago took heavy
cold, from which he did not rally.
A STAMPEDE OF STANDARDIZATION Univer-
sty and Colgate Academy located at Hamilton
N T., are largely patronized by the citizens OF
syracuse. A regular stampede of students to
thelr homes was made Tuesday and YESTERDAY
MALIGNANT diphtheria prevails in all branches of
the institution and the widest excitement eX-
lists. Owing to the large influx of students to
Syracuse the board of health are tO-take meas
ures to prevent any spread of the scOurge there
About week ago two students roominr In the
east college building were stricken with the
disease and died. Their classmates nursed them
and as a result the disease became epidemic
IL mas resulted very disastrously to the two
branches OF the institution. Out of about five
hundred students between two hundred and
tnree hundred remain. Many of them sought
boarding places in the village of Hamilton, and
thus the disease was spread. Now it prevails
In many families About one hundred students
!eit Tonight aud more are leaving on every
train RecitatiOns are suspended. The fresh
man and sophomore classes have all gone home
The east college building where the boys died.
10 abandoned. The college faculty are divided
IN regard to closing the school