The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-13
from none, and Aeshed the full spirit
of independence.

of Josephine is the black chapter in
this book of soul stirring events. No
excuse can be offered for the heart
lessness which he displayed in this
battle with the forces of love. Ambi-
tion and affection contended for the
mastery ambition won and on that
December day, 1909, Nemesis looked
down on the "Man of Destiny
looked down, and fate's finger pointed
deathward His downfall commenced
with the hour of that second marriage.
In the long files of time, four days
stand forth from among their fellows
the day when Christ was born, the
day when Columbus landed, the day
when the declaration of independence
was signed and the day when Water
loo was won and lost. This last be-
longs to our country. 1t was the cul-
mination of the life of man who will
never be matched in great achieve
ments, in audacity of genius. Wheth-
er we look upon him eating horse
flesh at Tore di Capitello, or receiv-
ing the iron crown of the Lombards
at Milan, there is glamor of heroism
about him. He was vanquis-ed, but
the names of the victors are fast fad
ing away-Napoleon is immortal
In capacious old mansion at Fried.
richsruhe, the 1.-THE Man of Blood
and Iron awaits the coming of "cold
obstruction. He is seventy-eight,
but hale and hearty yet, retaining the
same matches personality which won
at Sadowa, and the same tightening
like rapidity Of thought and action
which made him, in truth, the SOW
ereign of Germany. Like most great
men, in youth he was wild and roys-
tering, the terror Of weaker students,
one with whose course the rector
magnifcus deemed it unwise to inter-
fere; yet he was intrepid even as
& trencher master, and the Devil Won
Bismarck Of the university displayed
the same rigid determination to excel
as did the Statesman von Bismarck
of the outer world. Strange fact, that
from the ungovernable excesses of
wanton youth, he should erect the
pedestal on which he stands hero to
unborn ages
The twenty-eight duels through
which he passed victoriously at col
lege were prophetic of the twenty
eight years of conflict during which
he literally dictated the affairs Of his
own and neighboring nations. ldoubt
if single moment passed after he
attained his majority in which he was
not conscious that his life was to be a
great ona for the world. 1t is trait
which genius often possesses
self-knowledge Of self-importance.
Bismarck career was not one OF
dazzling surprises as was Napoleon's
or of mathematical exactness as was
Wellington's. It's manifold hues can.
not be caught within the focus of
fash-light camera. It was daily
exposition of rare endowments-a
continuous chain of brilliant achieve
ments, every link Of which must of
necessity be considered.
Cardinal Wolsey in the play, speaks
no idle words. To fall like Lucifer'
is the inevitable end Of the great die
tators. Bismarck was powerless
against the sovereign fate which
makes and mars the young emperor
disliked him; he had lost favor in his
old age; and the result was his retire
mont from nuh1ic life.
But doubt if the ex-premier rues
his lot. His life is dreaming itself
away in a series of pleasure-steeped
days. he is the loved master OF
many servants, and the undisturbed
ruler of his spreading acres-an en-
pire more satisfying than that which
Wilhelm governs-with never head
strong minister or q rebellious reich
stag. And on each recurring feast Of
fools, the birthday of this demigod,
the peasantry of Germany gather in
the grounds at FREDERICKSBURG to toast
his name with ovation and acclaim
such as no living king commands.
Shakespeare put into the mouth of
Puck, boast which, in the light Of
the present, partakes strangely Of the
nature of prophecy. The scientists
of this century have ''put a girdle
round about the earth" in less than
"forty seconds. 1t has not been
accomplished by the magical agencies
of fairy world, but by stupendous
achievement of brain and will-the
Imprisonment of the ethereal-the
subsection of natures most ungovern-
able element to the willing service Of
humanity.
From Franklin to Edison the en-
larging of the field Of electrical
knowledge has been rapid and start
ling. Life has been simpli6ed, labor
lessened and the impossible we'll nigh
accomplished. The telegraph, the
phonograph, the telephone, the cleo
trio car, the electric light, other cleo
trio machines of every degree have all
sprung from the fertile world Of the
nineteenth centuly creative genius.
Man, having won from earth every
thing she has to yield, turned cloud
ward, and flched from the armament.
Slender strings Of steel link Yeddo
with New York, and the seemingly
senseless ticking of a small instru-
ment, announces in Chicago the do
ings of the czar. The orations of
Gladstone are converted into clicks,
and the citizen of Cape Colony ap-
plauds their sentiment shortly after
the echoes cease to reverberate
through the houses of parliament.
Pope Leo speaks few sentences into
box-like affair at Rome-a few weeks
later they are ground out in Chicago,
with the identical articulation, tone
and emphasis with which they were
uttered. The human voice is heard
distinctly half way across the conti-
nent. Vehicles glide along the streets,
propelled by an unseen power-to buy
a nickels worth of lightning is moth
ing but to get aboard and ride. Thou
sands of brilliant lights burst forth
| simultaneously. A condemned crimi-
nal sits in chair, and death comes as
quietly as the twilight and painlessly
as sleep. The pressure Of a button
releases the steam-giant and starts
ponderous engines in the twinkling of
| an eye. Man stands proudly amid it
all. The unwilling service of his fel-
low-human is denied him, but he has