The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-09-23


A contributor to "L'Iliustration" has
in series of articles given an interest
ing account of the interior of the
German parliament Speaking of its
general appearance, he says: In
moderately sized room are gathered
specimens of all the various races of
great Germany; the Bavarians and the
monumental Rhinelanders with boards
a La Lohengrin; the pure bred Prus-
SLAMS, squat and snug like Richter,
who keep by themselves, and pass
without looking either TO right or to
left; the gentleman from SiIesia, big
and bony, with blazing red beard and
the air OF an aldermanic captain of
militia, or of an English yeoman, foe
of foxes, and officer of volunteers.
There is no lack of uniforms in the
group, and no lack of overcoats folded
and held on the arm-overcoats bour-
geols, bureaucratic and PROFESSIONAL.
Still more numerous are the collarless
ecclesiastical coats worn alike by Pro
testant pastors and members of the
Catholic Centre The members for
the conquered provinces are conspicu-
Gus spots in this crowd. Antoine, de-
spite his great military mustachios,
would not be taken by the greenest or
most short sighted reporter for cap
tain of the Landwehr, and the Paris
ian vest of young Baron Zorn of Blu
ZACH is IN sharp contrast with that of
his brother sportsmen of Brandenbure
or the Vielle-Marche.
The personal portraits are all ex-
ceedingly good, though there is moth
ing new said about Prince Bismarck
and others, who have been described
ad nauseam. But the following de-
scription of Herr Windthorst is clever
and life like: The figure Of a gnome,
the long neck of a child, great blue
spectacles which shelter the remains
of used up eyes. large mouth with a
satirical twist. Such is Herr Windt-
horst, the pearl of his party, the most
redoubtable parliamentary tactician,
the only adversary Prince Bismarck
has been unable to overcome, and
with whom he has often had to treat
on equal terms He is not thunder
bolt of eloquence. From his toothless
gums comes a feeble voice, which
would not be able to travel past the
tribune or the bench from which he
speaks, were it not that the Unsuitable
curiosity which this resourceful spirit
provokes establishes in the assembly a
perfect silence as soon as he arises.
The skill and irony which at each
step shine In his oratory make every
one forget that this thick set little
man, with his wooden voice and mo-
notonous gesture, is the very opposite
of an orator. It is his mind which has
held together for eighteen years with
out visible change, and even after the
religious peace, that paradoxical Catho-
lie party built of elements SO hetero-
| geneous-great conservative and feu-
| DIAL lords, little clergy with demo.
| cratic tendencies and Socialists. Lon.
don Globe
Is rs not now generally remember
| ed, but it is literally true, that Wash
ington was bled to death by his doc
tors. The doctors were not to blame
for this. They only did what their
| professional forerunners had been do
ing under similar circumstances for
ages, and what Washington himself
would probably have desired had he
been caught without medical advice.
this (says The Nation)-it is probably
at least fifty years since any distin.
guished man has run any similar risk
In the United States. In other words,
within the past half century, Ameri-
oan, English and French doctors have
abandoned what for thousands of
| years they had treated as the sheet
anchor Of their treatment, remedy
which they applied in nine out of ten
cases which fell into their hands. A
more striking illustration of the un-
certainty of the medical art its revil-
ers are not able to produce. It is true
the doctors try to weaken the force of
the illustration by pleading that the
characteristics of diseases have chang
ed, that they are no longer of the in
fammatory type as they used to be,
or SO much the result of plethora; but
this does not make much impression.
The practice is still kept up in those
countries in which medical education
has made least advances-Spain, for
instance, and Italy. Within our own
time, another great man of the Wash
ington type, Count Cavour, has been
slain by medical bleeding precisely as
Washington was. The worse Cavour
grew, the more his doctors bled him,
and he finally succumbed under the
treatment, in the flower of his age and
IN the midst of his usefulness.-Sa
Hranci rcopo,A