The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-26
KARGE 1.-THE GENERAL -
ooNsPIRAToB, SOLDIER, AND IN
sTRUCTOR OF LANGUAGES.

sTRUCTOR OF LANGUAGES.
Man Whom All Princeton Students
of the Past twenty-five Years Will
Remember-A Polish Patriot Who
d Hated the Germans, A Cavalry
Leader Who Brought the Discipline
of the Camp Into His Glass Room.
q From the NeU York Sun.
81 When the newspapers told of the sudden
death Of Gen. Joseph Karge last Wednes-
a day, every Princeton man graduated in the
last twenty two years at once recalled the
n most distinct personality SO unusual in
college that every detail Of it could not fail
81 to be stamped upon the memory of each
student, whether of his classes or not. DIR.
n McCosh is remembered, but not with such
precision of detail.
the general" as all the boys called Prof.
81 Karge, who held the chair of continental
Fl languages, had led a remarkable life, such
one as romancers have told again and again.
& He had engaged in conspiracies; he had been
Fl condemned to.death as a traitor, dsserter,
q conspirator; he had fought many battles.
Il and after over twenty years Of incessant
storm. after fighting under the flags of three
great nations, and under a fourth flag once
the standard of a powerful nation. but
now, as when he fought for it, the shroud
4 Of past glory, he became q professor In q
Presby teran college With the story of
his adventurous life written upon his face,
outcropping in dress and manner and
speech, he settled in that placid New Jersey
village, to fret away his life with the
stup dities of school boys. Surely, the
distaff could not have looked more absurd
in the brawDy hand of Achilles than did
the iACtrra rnanuScrint nDdar the arm nj
"the general"
There was one scene, repeated again and
again, which always brought this incon-
grulty most forcibly to the mind of the
writer. Marquand chapel at Princeton is a
beautiful, solemn church with a mournful
memory of long prayers and tedious ser-
mons. AT the Sunday morning service the
members of the faculty sat in pews bit
raised above the floor of the church and
ranged against the walls to the right aud to
the left. II one glanced in either direc-
4 Hon one saw long row of white,
rather melancholy faces, the faces OF men
who have stepped aside, AID, walking under
classic shades, have speculated and cata-
logued, but never acted any but trivial
part in the great melodrama of life. But
Rlancing far enough along this line. one sud-
denly saw and started at seeing face in no
wise like these others. This face was call to
action. Here was a skin Drowned and
toughened by the sun and wind and dust Of
battlehelds, stormy, wrlnSied brow, deep
dented by the blow of cavalry saber.
Here were lines that told of furious pas
sions, of deep sorrows. and intense hetreds.
And from the midst of these large, strong
features, under bristling, far-projecting eye
brows, looked a pair of eyes thai strove in
vain to be mild, that could never soften to
the passionless, serene look of the church.
man and the student On a lttlefeld, at
a meeting where q people was 20 be reused
%. II q 4
face. 10 see such features looking out
over the top of a black-bound Presbyter
hymnal was almost laugheble.
But Sunday after Sunday "the general
sat there. looking out over his book, some
times with queer little smile In his eyes,
usually trying TO draw fits face to the re-
\ quiste length. And the visitor at the
chapel services would listen with feigned or
slight interest to his friends catalogue of
names, celebrated in the world of thought
or the world of college. But when his eyes
would light on "the generals face, he
would invariably say: YES, but who is
that mana And what is he doing here~
THE general" was both liked and,disliked,
but he was never loved, because love was
something ne did not wish from his scholars.
DE hated the ordinary poll parrot grind,
known in Princeton's story as the "fend."
lie detested the average college boy, care
less of learning aud full Of horseplsy.
n QUICK, and vaporous, would get the mastery,
and bis recitation rooms would become
Dedlam with the generals voice, resonant.
trained to be heard above the roar
OF battle, Kissing and booming with
rage. This was not every day but at least
every other day during the twenty-five
q Years of his professorship. Again, and this
Il was as frequently as his outbursts OF pas
SION, he would be courtly aud gracious, and
would give his classes an exhibition of man
ners OF the old school.
On rare occasions be would unbend and,
AZ the appeal of his pupils, who recognized
MS unusual humoi. quickly. would tell some
story from his own experiences SO graphi-
Saily that no one would ever forget it. But
the general" never boosted, and avoided
aii reference to gallant actions such as won
nun honor in the civil war in this country.
ne was born in Posen in 1923, and some
LINES he woul1 tell of the days when the
ApLes were sti u conspiring.
inere was e. story about his brother, swept
away into Siberian captivity after the over
tnroW or the Polish revolt in l84S. He told
AZ" MS orotl Ter was incurred for dead for q
uOzeh years, how he spent half that time
.orklng as convict in the Siberian mines,
W escape at 10 st and set out without food or
EEtins TO cross The great desert of Tartary.
ms brother Il III in with Tartar tribe,
mLhHieh, after eciding to spare his life for q
"ulle, ADOPTED him, aud, when ne showed
some military knowledge by helping them
~. Uut OF tight place, made him d sort of
suo-chlet. Bat one day he offended the
slue, and the soles of his feet were cut of
40 % sort OF start in the work Of cutting him
W pieces little at a time.
ms brother resolved not 20 wait for BIZ
oee 70 follow che soles, but taking ad.
,rautage OF their carelessness IN guarding a
an so maimed, stole horse and dashed
Lay. lie CSC aped, but his horse fell dead
as SET out u walk. shoeless and horribly
Sned, aero 10 the hot sands Of this
,1erI lie was captured by another
.e and sold as a slave. He at last
et 70 Consta ntlnople, eluded tho watch
US master. who did not suspect that The
a. hened, llmpinls man from the deserts Of
Hs was European got aboard Frenct
baoi- var, aud 80 h Algiers, from which
fross ent ms mother letter. Ike message
run the other world.
,. bs general" was educated 10 tbs Uni.
Ca,91aiy q brenisu and afterward 10 the