The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-11


 that of the Russian spy, might have been due. It was wholly improbable, not to say impossible, that a spy should make himself so conspicuous and offensive as 10 draw general attention. spy's object being to keep quiet to gain friends and conhdants, not to create enemies.
 These were the actuh Il facts about Cur owski, about which very few were cognz- ant during his life: He was a polish count, son of Count Ladislas GuTowski, of long lineage and large property, who had been deprived of most of his estates on account of his share in kosciuskos in- surrection at Cracow, toward ,he close of the last century. Patriotic oy inheritance as well as by nature, he was expelled while boy from the gymnasia ot War. saw and kalisz for wearing the prohibited national costume and singing Polish songs. Having studied at several Ger man universities, he went back to his | native land at twenty and opposed the Russian government and in fiuence so ac- lively that he was again and again thrown into prison. Prominent ID causing the instruction of 1850, he fought through the first campaign as a volunteer, and was then sent to Paris as agent of the Polish republicans, to confer with LSfa- yette and the other French liberals. After the insunection had been sup. pressed he was sentenced to death and his estates confscated by the Russian au- thorities but, personally, he was saie enough in France. He remained there some years, identified himself with the socialists of the St. Simon and Charles Fourier type, and became notorious for his temper and tantrums. He wrote and published in that city book, the |" Truth about Russia" which favored the union of all the Slavic races into one confeder. acy. This so pleased the czar that he pardored the author, invited him to St. Petersburg, made him one his private counselors and afterward a high official in the department of public instruction h the latter capacity he did much in various ways toward Russianizing Poland, thereby earning the hatted of thousand. of his countrymen, who regarded him as traitor and an aposta,e. It is believed, however, that he was honest in his views. He quarreled, of course, with his Russian associates, as he had with his Polish com panions and everybody else. His foes at court were so many and powerful that he offered his resignation. And when the czar declined to accept it he hurried fur lively across the frontier 10 Germany, never to return. There he made special studies of history, political economy and international law, and after wandering about Europe for several years, turning eV cry new made friend into an ardent ene- my, he came, as last resort to America | G,eN J~. to obtain professorship at Harvard. He was quite poor Che never incurred in- debtedness) the emperor of Russia hav- ing failed to return his estates, which was one cause of his4resh hatred of the auto- crat. Gurowski was specially qualified for several positions. He was highly in- tellectual, an excellent linguist, a ripe scholar, and had mastered various branches of study. Few men more com petent than he could be found. He would have had no trouble in securing chair but for his supreme irascibility. He fell out with and abused dozens of persons that tried to help him, and finally alien ated hs most amiable and patient advo- cates. He supported himself mesgrely by translating, writing for the newspapers and periodicals, and doing all sorts of hack work. He published two or three i able and clever books also but literature was with him, as with most persons, the most unremunerative of trades, and the miscellaneous pursuit of it added, if pos- sible, to his irritability and bitterness. Having exhausted Boston, as he said, and stigmatizIng 1t as a village of conceited pedagogues and literary charlaians, he removed to New York, the cnly American city. he affirmed, where a man of brains could possibly live.
 Alter leading a precaiious existence here for some time by the employment of his ready pen, he was engaged on the Tribune, and furnished many able articles on European politics and politico-econo- mic themes. They naturally needed supervision on account of foreign idioms, and particularly on account of extreme radicalism and intemperance of expres- sion. When anything Sas toned down or altered in his editorials he turned to white heat, pronouncing Horace Greeley mis- erabie coward and Charles A Dana, then managing editor, drivelipg idiot, with like complimentary references to other members of the staff. He frequently threatened to assault them. and was oc- casionaily seen and heard in the editorial rooms brandishing his fists and swearing madly in half dozen languages. As he had then become a naturalized citizen of the United ates, he modestly contended that he was the only man in the republic who knew how it ought to be governed. and declared any one who dared to hold different opinion deity-accursed fool. While he was very valuable contributor, his rages were such that he became de- cidedly unpleasant Nor was it by any means certain, as he had a powerful frame. that he might not some day exc cute his constant menace to throw half dozen of those Tiscais and in5sc;ies oc. of the window.
 Gurowski was therefore gently elimin- ated, a position in the department of state having been obtained for him in Washington. There he immediately grew notorious. He, in a way, took all the de-