The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-21
Written for The ArkansaW TrdUeier. OttoDa[ HeDeTQ ROt1aCkeT
BY EUGENE K. STIMSON.

A quiet, moody, reserved but hand some face-one which is darkest to the world and brightest to his friends. A careless, indifferent face, yet one in which intellectual force is apparent at first glance.
 Eyes dark, yet excessively brilliant, seeming to look through person and far beyond him into futurity.
 The foregoing is briefly passing pen sketch of the facial expression given by nature to MT. Ottoman II. Rothacker, editor, poet, political sci enlist and perfect cosmopolitan.
 Spare in frame, nervous in motion, quick in temper but of unbounded generosity in impulse, he has already made his brain force felt as moving power in the press, literary and polit- ical centers of our country.
 have known him for many years through the progress of the years have known his secret thoughts, his motives and his stated aims in life. This knowledge has been gleaned by the association winch some people in the world know full well of, but whose glorious endearments others can never understand. It taught me this, that whatever his faults have been and whatever his faults may be, he was, in every storm and stress of life, true to his friends. He has curious sense of loyalty, and toward any object he had set his affections on he never wavered in friendship, outspoken at all times, detrimental, often, to him. self, but yet fixed as the needle to the polar star.
 It was ten yesrs ago when first met him in casual, careless way, as was returning from tour to Chicago where had been with an excursion o1 Colorado cattle-raisers. I was theI auditor ofstate, occupying high ant influential place, to which had beer elevated by the demand of constitu. ency composed of potent politica power. The acquaintance thus begun en coydge afterward ripened into inti macy, relation of which I have evel since been proud, although at time Rothacker has been seemingly swep beneath the wave o1 adverse public opinion. While that invisible and in tangible "they say" has often beer busy with unwarranted rumors de rogatory to his manhood and hi honor, know that he has risen to tn, grandest heights of nobility in char acter, because while his utterances il reply would have withered opposi tion, he has, through the influence o the most refined and sacred thought said proudly, T will not speak"
 I have read the history of hi race. It is the story of no ble lineage. Through its strain i handed down the blood of gen eration trained in chivalry ant arms. His father was soldier. No one who kissed the monarch's foot ant drew his subservient blade in defens of tyranny and wrong-no, for whel the great voice of the people, restiv under oppression, cried aloud, Will liam Allston Rothacker took the sid of democracy against the encroach ments of royalty and suffered exile fo principle-unsuccessful in revolution it is true, but, nevertheless, principle
 Rothacker's father was a member O the red council of twelve. This coun cil included Victor Hugo, Lamartine Bakunine of Russia, Kossuth of Hun gary, Garibaldi of Italy, Escobedo O Spain and Mazzinni of Italy. He wa the youngest member of this extraor dinary body. At fourteen years o age, when mere boy, he had joine, the European revolutionary columns and at nineteen, after five years o fighting, his quickness of perception his marvellous daring in the field an, his extraordinary grasp of what wa needed in the situation compelled hi election to this famous council Q twelve.
 In Victor Hugo's [" "Chatiments" som pages of the elder Rothacker's caree can be found. Heinrich Heine's las letters from Paris tell of his six week sequestration when he was worn ou with his wound received at the sier of Ak La Chapelle.
 When he came to America, he cam as tutor in the Hebern family o Virginia, and he eloped with tn youngest daughter. Consequence-C B. Rothacker. The combination i