St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-25

some degree of fortune in other pursuits. He
has been in the steamship and mercantile
business in the main and has prospered and
he keeps up his literary work for which there
is a constant demand as there is for lectures
by him on any and all sorts of topics. There
is no lack of work for him to turn his hand
to and he is no laggard. He seems, however,
in the main to shrink from public notice save
on those occasions when he appears on the
platform as an orator. He is unlike other
prominent orators in that he does not often
appear at public dinners as speaker. He is
a member of a couple of clubs and of some
German societies and there his connection
with matters social ends. Nor is he any
theatre goer. His business, his library, his
literary work. these are his enjoyments. His
family life is quiet and unpretentious. Save
in the steamship district on lower Broadway.
Mr.. Schurz is not usually recognized when he
goes abroad though his appearance is striking
enough.
Mr.. Schurz has not much changed in per-
sonal appearance of late years. His tall,
somewhat gaunt figure is still held erect save
for slight scholarly stoop at the shoulders
There is gray in his reddish beard and in his
thick hair, but otherwise there is nothing to
indicate that he is within few years of the
age allotted by the psalmist to man. Bright
eyes fash behind his eye glasses and there is
strength and vim marked in strong lines on
his keen, strong face. He looks a man
who is good for many a strong fight yet,
and from the way political columns are
splitting and forming in New York state he
is likely to have abundant opportunities in
the future to exercise his powers and his
known righteousness. Should the reform
ers who are now trying to reorganize the
Republican party of New York succeed and
bring new leaders to the front then Mr..
Schurz might find it possible to go back to
his old love again. There is not much
chance for him in the Democracy, for while
Mr.. Schurz agrees with the Democrats on
many points, he has no standing with its
more powerful leaders, President Cleve-
land, of course, excepted.
Whatever Mr.. SchurzS plans for the future
may be he is keeping them to himself. 1t
may be that he does not want office since
there is none open to him higher than those
he has already held. This, however, is not
the opinion of his friends or of those who
know him, and are not his friends. These
say that Mr.. Schurz still holds political ambi-
lions, but whether this leads him to wish to
again sit in the United States senate or in
the cabinet OF a president, they do not say
and, perhaps, do not know. Meanwhile Mr..
Schurz is working hard and is putting money
in his purse against the time when the
country may again need his services.
Time works many and queer changes, and
it has worked many in the more or less
stormy and successful life of Carl Schurz
1t may bring about many more. With
health, strength, and position among the
strong men Of the day who are known and ac-
knowiedged, a man even at sixty-five years
of age may look into the future with hopeful
anticipation.
And that is what Carl Schurz is said to be
doing.
FOSTER COATES.