The citizen., 1896-10-02

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to use their understanding.
ST understand. ! believe, every ma
ton: but the negroes are the only race
10 which I feel an antipathy | cannot
conquer, for they strike me as carlca-
lures of the whites. The United States.
in the life of which they are of essen
tial Importance, has enchained my at
tention all the more. The fact that the
social democrats play an important part
only in the great cities there, where.
however, it has proved possible to push
them energetically into the back
ground, is probably a consequence OF
the thinness of the population. This
hothouse plant, not of our civilization.
thrives only where people live close to-
gether.
''Mr. Bancroft always seemed to me
the ideal of an American diplomatist.
His scientific composure made the more
agreeable impression by contrast with
one of his predecessors. The latter had
given me a good deal of annoyance
through his wife, who thought herself
entitled to throw all consideration to
the winds. At the diplomatic recep-
tions she always stood in the open space
through which my visitors had to pass,
like general before the diplomatic bat
tie array. One chamberlain after an
other appeared to lead her back to the
front, but she repulsed such single at
taclls till at last an army of chamber
lains advanced in order of battle against
her. and thus induced her to retire"
In showing the cu;rass the emperor
gave him the prince said that he wore
it only when it was absolutely neces-
sary, as it was very inconvenient. He
added: "When I last dined in the pal
ace some six or seven officers of my
regiment were ordered in their cui-
rasses to the dinner. which lasted two
or three hours. I pitied them all the
more, as I said to myself that had been
the cause of what seemed torment to
me-"
In answer to the remark that the en-
peror had dined at FREDERICKSBURG
with his cuirass on, he said: 'Emperors
must and may do several things that we
must not and may not do"
The great effort it cost the prince 10
bring out the words in speaking Eng
ISL OIlIy iuC VI ClIA
lorg habit of considering them well be-
forehand-struck the princes visitor.
When he spoke German it was not so
noticeable. His command of English,
however, is comparatively good. He
said:
my stay in England was my high
school in this. 1 owe my first expert
ence of sickness to my voyage thither,
whi~l was very stormy. 1t was tor
menting thought for me, that | might
be thrown to and fro and ground to
pieces, as it seemed, between the vari-
GUS currents in the water, thus to &C
down to Davy Jones and add one more
to the victims of the channel. My i'm
agination conjured up all the corpses
and relics of ships at the bottom of the
sea. For the rest, / used to speak Eng
lish in my youth, and the following in
cidcnt of my year of military service
has stuck to my memory:
Zone day l had to go straight to Il
hotel to dinner all soiled with dust and
dirt, and had to sit beside an English
family who had arrived that day. My
undrawing-room-like exterior induced
them to consider what I was. One lady
remarked: He can't possibly be an Off
Ger, but his hand is not that of pri-
vate.' 1 listened in silence. Suddenly
the lady reached out her hand for "a
mustard pot, but as she could not reach
it gave it her, and said in my best Eng
lish: It's empty, but If you want an
other, I'll tell the waiter to bring you
full one.'"
The princes hands, continues the in
terviewer, though disfgured by some
gouty nodules, are still slender and
white, with broad nails, and it is to be
regretted that he has never had casts
of them taken. Nor has he ever really
sat to an artist, for, said he, 81 am no
poseur." In the course OF some lin
guistic remarks, he declared that the
German of educated Berliners is the
best, because it is freest from dialect
Berlin Cor. London Standard.