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The sun., 1896-10-18

With regard to tho restoration OF tho Bour-
bons in 1914. Prof. Andrews points out, what is
too often overlooked. that the allies. considered
collectively. rather tolerated than promoted it,
At Chatillon they were iwillng to leave France.
as she had been bounded in 1T9l, to Napoleon
and his dynasty. 1t is truo that, subsequently,
at Paris, they demanded an unconditional abdi-
cation. but they were not, even then, agreed as
to the successor OF Napoleon. There can he
little doubt that tho Austrian Emperor would
have preferred to leave his son.in law In posses-
sion Of the French throne Metternich had said
to Cnulaincourt. You must be aware OF our
views, principles and wishes. These for a
dynasty so closely bound up with our own"
Talievrand reports a similar speech. in which
Metternlch said that it was not possible to think
OF the Bourbons as the new sovereigns because
of the personal character of the princes of that
family. Castlereagh, the English Minister. and
HardenberG. tho Minister OF Prussia. were In
clined to favor the same view. In support of
the de,hronement of Napoleon stood the Car,
Alexander l.. although even he was by no
means committed to the cause Of the Bourbons;
indeed, from personal repugnance to that
family. he was inclined to support the cause
OF BernadOtte, In whom, however. the other
powers had no confidence. Stein. unlike
Hardenberg. was in favor of restoring the
Bourbons: IL supported" he .ay.. their cause
on all occasions. regarding their restoration as
the proper outcome OF their hereditary right TO
the French throne, which. not having been ex-
tinGuished in any valid manner, was to be main
tanned In all circumstances; and considered all
other solutions, such as com pletely new ynasty
there being no eminent man towering above all
others who might be the founder OF it--abso-
lutely lnadmissible" Pozzo di Borgo took the
same position. and agreed with Talleyrand that
the alternatives were Bonaparte or the Bour-
The sun., 1896-10-18

The prineip of Intervention on behalf of
legitimacy and order. as laid down at the Con-
gressof Vienna, and cam rmed In S33 as once
more defined by Mettern!ch IN lS47. after tho
Sonne:bund war and ;he victory OF the Radical
party IN switzerland. THE foreign Govern
ments." snys Mctternich. do not intend to
intervene in the affairs of the Con federation
but they do intend to intervene to preserve.
against the dangers with which the radicalism
OF the swiss threatens their territory the re-
pose which they feel IL their duty TO assure to
the peoples intrusted 10 their care II this be
intervention. and II, for this We lay ourselves
open to blame. then we put ourselves on record
as decided to commit this crime" This was
the last assertion OF the doctrine OF Troppau
and Verona. but 1t was destined never TO
he carried out The Prime Minister of
the HarsburG empire supposed himself TO be
speaking for Austria. Prussia. Russia, and
France. hut Switzerland WAS saved from foreign
Interference by events OF more momentous
nature. III the general revolution of the next
year Guizot and Metternich were both driven
from office, and the doctrine OF interference in
the affairs Of other States was lost sight of in
;he necessity. felt by each State OF looking
after its own affairs. Only once more was ap.
Piled the principle of intervention which had
dominated the Continent for more than thirty
years. When, in lS4S, the Hungarans At
tempted to wiring Independence from Austria
that power applied to Russia for aid not SO
much in pursuance of the doctrine of Treppau
and Verona as In accordance with the terms
OF the compact made at MnncheperAtz
By Russia. Austria, and Prussia in 1899
With this request Russia complied, and the
overthrow OF the Hungarian Government at
the hands of Paskievitch proved to be the last
attempt to apply the doctrine OF Intervention
In the interest of absolutism. This temporary
revival OF the Holy Alliance. of which Russia.
the only Eastern power untouched by the rev.
olution OF lS4S, became the inspirer and guar
dian. proved 10 DO OF short duration In 1882
on the assumption of the imperial title by Louis
Napoleon, Frederick William ". of Prussia. in
his letters TO his Ambassador at London, made
every effort to effect the union OF the four chief
powers for the guaranteeing OF their respectiye
territories against tho new Napoleon. offering
to put 100000 men In the field. II
q. military convention were agreed to- But
the other powers did not respond and
Russia, whose decision was OF the first i'm
porthnce. determined, although with uncon-
cealed ill-humor. TO recognize the new Govern
ment. thus frustrating the renewed ATTEMPT Ia
put into operation tho principles 0f the Holy
Alliance. To that alliance the Crimean war
gave the death blow: for. in that contest. all
the powers of Europe were either neutral or
agFressively antHeonistic to Russia.
The sun., 1896-10-18
I v

The author Of these essays richtfulIy ascribes
to Louis Blanc the principal part in the over
throw OF the monarchy Of Louis Philippe. from
which 80 much had been. nt first, expected. IT,
Is pointed out that Louis Blanc was NOT merely
a social rsformer; he Was a politician who en-
deavored to solve the problem of tho 0rganiza.
tion OF labor. not by fanciful theories. ,uch As
ST. simon and Fourier put forth, hut by a svs-
tenn OF state nd that was debate and tauribla
First OF ALL however. he endeayored to arouse
the people to M appreciation Of thsir actual
condition. In his Organization Of Labor
and. again in his History OF Ton Years" h.
brought home to tho isborsrs the evils
that resulted from the h"urOsOt, govern.
ment. Some sentences are quoted which n,d
memorable effect on the French peonle
struggles" wrote Louis B.anc. "between pro.
dueerS for the possession OF tho markst and he.
tween the members OF the working class for tbs
possession OF employment; struKgles of the
The sun., 1896-10-18

author OF the Iliad. His prestige seems TO have
touched its acme during the century of French
asccndancy In modern literature. that, namely,
which interviewed between the age Of Milton
and that of LesslnR. The chief critical law
giver In that century was Voltaire; IL Is to him
we owe the saying, Homer made Virgil, We
are told: II II be so, IL was his fnest perform
ance." Noltaire claims elsewhere. for the Sec
ond, fourth. and sixth books Of tho Enod a
great superiority over tho works Of all Greek
poets. Recalling tho fact that q rhotorlcian
OF the second century A. ID. had already
mooted the question whether Virgil was more
a poet or orator. Prof. Sellar points out
that the eloquent Bossuet is said to have
known his works by heart. In the great era Of
English oratory no author seems to have been
so familiarly known, or was so often quoted
In Mr.. Payne's recent sketch of Burke we read:
Most writer's have constantly beside them
some favorite classical author from whom they
endeavor to take their prevailing tone. Burke.
according to Butler. always had ragged Del
phin Virgil not far from his elbow" Prof
Sellar thinks that the i'm portant place which Vir-
gil has long taken In tho teaching of tho public
schools OF England. the great nurses OF English
statesmen, has not been without some influence
in shaping her national history. "Who shall
say" asks Matthew Arnold, what share tho
turning over and over in their minds and masti-
eating, so to speak. in early life. as models for
their Latin verse, the writings Of Virgil and OF
Horace. may not have had In forming the high
spirit Of tho upper class in France and England.
the two countries where Latin verso has most
ruled the schools. and tho two countries which
most have had high upper class and high
upper class spirit ?" II would be. at all events
no exaggeratisn to sav that the poems OF Virgil.
and especially the EN- ed havo contributed
more than any other works of art in modern
times not only to stump the impression Of an
cient Rome on the Imagination. but to educate
the senslbility to generous emotion as well as to
literary beauty. There 10 probably no author.
even at the present day. OF whom somo knowl-
edge may be with more certainty assumed
among cultivated people OF every nation.
The sun., 1896-10-18

The great reputation enjoyed by tho !Ensid
dates from the first appearance OF the poem
1t may not have been regarded as more perfect
In execution than the Eclogues and Georgia
but It was regarded as a work OF higher ins pira-
tion. The contemporaries and SUCCESSORS of
Virgil did not share the sense of some failure In
the treatment OF his subject which 10 attributed
TO Virgil himsslf-it Will be RENE sm bsred that.
when dying. he ordered tho poem to be burned;
they ranked him as the equal of Homer
in tho largest and most important province
OF poetry. Curiously enough, this very com
pArison which was the source OF sxces-
4ive honor in the past. has been the
cause of tho depreciation 10 which Virgil
has been exposed in the present century The
earliest indication OF the admiration which
tho Eneid WAS destined to excite appears
in the tone OF expectation and enthusiasm
In which. In a wel-known passage. Pro-
pertius predicts tho appearance OF n work
greater shan the Had. The immed .ato
eject produced by the poem may be traced in
the frequent alluSions to the story OF EneAs in
ths fourth book OF Horace's Odss. The oontlnu.
AAOs 81 the inaueAss iE anmiStAkAbls In Ovid.
The sun., 1896-10-18

"virRil and Horace" wrote Carlyle, "he CSchil-
ler) learned to construe accurately. but ia
said to have taken no deep interest in their
poetry. The tenderness and meek beauty OF tho
fret, the humor ana sagacity and capricious
pathoR of the last, the matchloss elegance of
both. would, of course, escape his inexperienced
perception: while the matter OF their writings
must have appeared frigld and shallow to a
mind 80 susceptible" Indeed, the warmest Eng
lish admirers Of Virgil about that time, such as
Keble. were content 10 claim for him high ex-
cellence rs the poet OF outward nature. Even
the late Prof. Conington. while showing the An
est appreciation of the marvellous grace and
delicacy, tho evidences OF culture
most elaborate and most refined" in the
poet, TO the interpretation of whose
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
THE ORGAN BIRD.

He Ii the Most Remarkable Songster of
the AmazOnian Forests.
r. The banks of the streams in the vicini-
ty of st. Paul's, in the Upper Amazons,
in South America are dotted with
alm-thatched dwellings of the Indians,
all half-buried in the leafy wilderness,
the scattered families having chosen
the coolest and shadicst hooks for their
Rbodes. The traveller frequently hears
In the neighborhood of these huts the
organ bird, the most remarkable
ests. Whel its singular notes strike
the ear for the first time, the impression
cannot be resisted that they are pro-
duced by a human voice. Some musical
boy must be- gathering fruit in the
thickets, and is singing a few notes to
cheer himself. The tones become more
huty and plaintive. Sometimes they
resemble the notes of a f1ageolet, and
the traveller is almost persuaded, in
spite of the absurdity of the thing, that
some person is playing that instrument
in primeval forests. However closely
he may scan the reighboring thicket,
no bird appears, although the voice
seems to. be that of some one near ut
hand. .. ...-.-.-.r-.-.a -.7a-a,. s ~ seEE .a
The bird is rarely, if ever, heard in
the Lower Amazons. 1t is the only
song-bird that makes an impression on
the natives. who sometimes rest their
paddles while voyaging in their small
canoes. along by the shady upstreams as
if struck by the mysterious sounds
a high compliment, indeed, for the
usually impassive natives to pay to the
feathered songster. 1913
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
HUMOROUS.

--She-"You got the best Of me when
you married me-" He-"The best was
none too good, either."-Detroit Trib-
une.
-Bell-"Why did the old novels all
end with: And they lived happily ever
after"" NelI-"Because the new wom-
an was not known them. Y. Herald.
johnny You're the meanest,
hatefulest, spitefulest thing l knowl"
Tommy-"An' you're the crabbedest,
uglist-" Father-"Boys, boys! You
forget that your mother 10 in the
room."-N. Y. Press. .# lyr1
Robbie, you are perfectly awful
to-day, and just when grandma is Wis
iting us, tool" "Well, ma, it's only to
please you. You told me the other day
that you thought kept my good man
ners for visitors only."-Harper's
Bazaar. pa. G.a..a
Interesting Reading.-"What If I
should cease to love your" he asked in
a moment of reckless abandon. "Then,
dear, should have your letters pub
lished as unique contributions to tho
literature of the century," was tia
soothing reply.-Detroit Free Press.
II guess 1 am stuck" said the an
neutrality-suspicious. man. What is
it?" asked the rest of the force, in deep
sympathy. Girl writes to know which
one of her fiances should have the pref
erence in going with her TO church
the first one or the second. "-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
Col. Carter was negotiating for the
purchase of farm, and the agent was
commenting on the advantages of the
property he had for sale. Zone great
feature of this farm" he said, sis the
water. There. is one of the best wells
in the state there. The water has been
analysed over and-"''I have no doubt,
suh," said the colonel, 'that it is good
we'll. But 1 don't think 1 shall keep
any live stock."-Washington Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
VERY SHY DANCER.
Stories Told by. Westerners of the Antics
, ~ of the Sandhiu Crane. ...

o. $780,. of the Sandhiu Crane. .- .t.
The sand hill crane is a very bright
bird. A Recreation writer says that
it's very name is synonymous of Wig
lance and alertness. 1t feeds on the
treeless plains or in the barren wheat
stubble, where it can see long way
beyond gunshot. Or one of flock is
posted as sentinel, and this bird stands
with bill half open, ready to give an
alarm. 1t can be killed by decoying it
with pasteboard figures, cut to proper
size and shape and painted; but mount
ed birds are better. A pit is dug deep
enough to conceal a man, the decoys
are put out, and the cranes are shot as
they come over. The best region to
shoot them is in the Columbia river
watershed and south of it in the Pa
cific coast states.
When one shoots bird of the size
and build of a crane in midair it col
lapses, like card house or a tent. But
such apparent collapses are sometimes
deceptive, as for instance:
Before could reach him he scared
off into the air with wheeling flight.
Again he hit the ground with fearful
violence, but again he got on his feet.
Running up, thinking to get him alive
for a decoy, i tried to tap him on. the
head and stun him. He showed fight,
and l used my gun as backed off, and
he took to his wings"
The -sandhill crane is something of a
fighter of men if wounded, and the only
safe crane is dead one. Their bills
are long and sharp, and are capable of
putting out a mans eye.
The sandhill crane has SONS curious
habits that make him of more than
passing interest to the student of birds.
Out on y,the prairies parties of them
have balls in the spring to which the
select birds seem to be invited These
balls are picturesque affairs, from the
human standpoint. There are curious
dances, which are sort of solitary
waltzes or pretty slow jigs. Sometimes
the birds leap over one another's backs
and flap their wings, giving their pc
culiar cry. Rival birds have fierce duels
using their keen bills like lances, bat
tie axes and swords.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
THE JACAMAR.

pretty plumage. Perhaps, however, his
modesty would not allow hin, to i'm
agine that he belonged to the class Of
pretty birds, for he continued to re-
gard me unsuspiciously, unmoved by
my presence, even when / was directly
beneath him.
Right abreast of him was a small,
round hole in the mari bank, the
entrance to his domicile, where the
cherished partner of his joys and sor-
rows kept house and home. Just q
couple of feet within she sat, brood
ing over two or three eggs OF purest
white. ..... ..
This bird, with iridescent coppery
'hues, that sat so lazily summing himself
above the stream, was the Jacamar (Gal-
bula viridis), whose name is probably
derived from it's cry of ''jacamari." He
is about ten inches in length, but his
wings spread II inches in his short
flights after insects in the air. He is
tsweet-tempered, unsuspicious bird, q
dweller by the sides of shady paths and
river banks, loving to look at passers-by,
and doing no harm to anybody. Yet,
just because he has a coat of pretty
feathers, and because vain women de-
sire those feathers in their hats and bon
nets, poor Jacamar's life is in constant
jeopardy, and I doubt if the bird hunt
ers have left many of his tribe alive. I
did not harm him, but after greeting
him with an imitation of his own cry I
passed on. ,r- .-.us5r.sru1 .r.H r.i
The longer lived in the forest the
stronger became that spirit of CANA
raderie between me and the birds, until il
became quite repugnant to my feelings
to shoot one. have passed whole days
studying their habits and haunts, with
out single specimen falling by my
gun.-F. A. ODER, in n Y. Recorder.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
ODDITIES OF ANIMALS.
Some Queer Features About Them Seldom
Noticed by Observers.

Some Queer Features About Them Seldom
Noticed by Observers.
Try it. Gather 10000 of the threads
spun by full-grown spider, twist them
together and see if they equal in SUBJ
stance the size of one of your hairs. a..
Oysters live ten to twelve years when
they have the chance. In this country
they don't get the chance.
Many horses are fond of beer, and to
a tired horse a bottle of beer in his
Cruel is n great restorative. 1t acts MS
a pick me up" and often makes q
horse with no appetite eat freely.
Brewers understand this, and that is
one reason why their horses always
seem to be in good condition. .,
3 The large horned beetle can carry 313
times its own weight. One has been
known to walk away with two and a
quarter pound weight. .. o. '.g...@t,s 80
Live, bees are sometimes. shipped on
ice SO as to keep them dormant during
the journey. This is particularly the
case with bumblebees, which have been
taken to New Zealand where they arc
useful in fertilizing the red clover that
has been, introduced into the colony
The amount of light that can be OBJ
tanned from fire flies is not generally
known. These insects have two bright
spots on their thorax and also brilliant
wings on the abdomen, and give light
sufficient to enable one to read ut a
little distance. Two or three placed in
the center of a room will shed a soft
light all over it. They are very common
in Havana, Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela and
Mexico. In those. countries at night
the natives affix the little creatures to
their shoes, and thus obtain light to see
the road and brighten away the snakes.
Mexican women use them as jewels.
They tie them in little gauze bags and
put them in their hair or on their cloth
ing. They keep them in wire cages and
feed them on scraps of sugar cane.
Reynard is a knowing animal. The
foxes are much tormented by feas, but
when the infection becomes too severe
they know how to get rid of the insects
They gather from the bark of trees
moss, which they carry to stream that
deepens by degrees. Here they enter
the water, still carrying the moss in
their mouths, and going backward, be-
ginning from the end of their tails,
they advance hby slow degrees till the
whole body with the exception of the
mouth is entirely immersed. The fcas,
during this proceeding, have rushed i'll
rapid haste to the dry parts, and finally
to the moss, and the fox, when he has,
according to his calculations, allowed
sufficient time for all the fieas to take
their departure, quietly opens his
mouth. The moss floats off down the
stream with it's burden of fieas, and
when it is out of jumping reach the fox
finds its way to the bank much relieved.
N. Y. Herald. -.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
THE GAUDY JAcAMAR.
Its Tail Feathers Arc Coveted by Fashion,
able Women Everywhere.

Its Tall Feathers Are Coveted by Fash lon
able Women Everywhere.
So many birds claimed my attention
one spring morning soon after / had
made my first camp in Tobago, that
beautiful little island in the southern
West Indies, where Crusoe had his won.
derful experiences, that hardly knew
which way to turn. Doves in the
thickets, water wagtails among the
rocks of the stream, humming birds
darling through the air in every direc-
ton, pigeons dropping seeds from the
trees overhead, and flocks of parrots fly
ing above the tree tops and screaming
in noisy chorus, almost made me lose
my head. 49,
As / climbed the brookbed, going up
the slanting slope of the hill, the tree
ferns met above my head and the sun
light filtered through them in a golden
shower, while the water fell from rock
to rock with metallic melody, and the
birds about seemed ready to burst with
melody. Perched upon dry stick pro-
jecting from a steep-sided mari bank
was bird in garb of golden green, with
inordinately large beak, but weak lit
tie feet. He seemed to regard me with
indifference, yet he must have known
that was out hunting for birds with
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
Stopping n Small Leak.

A Detroit. merchant has been so care
full in the conduct of his business as to
be afflicted with very few bad accounts
But there is one citizen who, despite this
fact that his record elsewhere was bad
managed to get in debt to the firm.
II suppose" said the bookkeeper, On
the first of the month, ''that we will
send Skinnim that bill regularly for
several months to Gomez"
"No," replied the merchant. Time,
Lave been pretty hard and guess we'd
better not lose any chance to economic
Just charge what he owes to profit ano
loss and pay no more attention to him
TIN save ink and a good deal of wesa
end tear on the pens" Detroit Frs
Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
Live Fish of Great Age.

''The age of the fish is almost un-
limited" observed an official of the fish
commission, in reply to a question.
Prof. Baird devoted great deal of
time to the question as to the length of
life of fish, and he found that the ordi-
nary carp, if not interfered with, would
live 500 years. In his writings on the
subject he stated that there are now liv-
ing in the, Royal aquarium insRussia
several carp that are known to be over
300 years old; that he had ascertained
in number of cases that whales live
to be over 200 years old. A gentleman
in Baltimore has had an ordinary gold
fish for 90 years, and his father in
formed him that he had purchased ii
over 40 years before it came into his
possession."-Wash Star. =
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
How She Saved Many Wrinkles.

Am Intelligent ( and ,philanthropic
woman whose life is full of thought
for others has II peculiarly young and
unlined face. She herself explains
this by saying: II will work for the
unfortunate)an and think of them; but I
will not. care for them in our ordinary
acceptation of that term. l will not
care for myself. BY that I mean that
1 will not brood over any trouble what
ever, my own or my friends. will try
to remove it, but it shall not steal into
and corrode my mind with worry. That
one solution has saved me many a
wrinkle" t- a.