The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-25
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CURRENT GOSSIP.
III WONDER why Il In that jus, IS scon
II as great mar dies some sutsrpr1sizS
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soIas Horn41 story whsca. Il Eoi aEL2A-ss
wicked. is a.zays d4sagrseaoss 20 TIE
friends Of the dead
De mcrtuts ~ Easi eoaarrs' stops sAo-I
IN tss warning Just as soon as 4 FADED
photograph turns gp. 81 aey cta@r cd psg
% which one may hang } ns1asy scandal
Daslfg tie kte 90 ogto Won Bismarck.
whenever MS name was spoken or written,
1t -as the signal for enthusiasts eaco-
Miar1s regarding his oeTsoaas AIS. private
Ike. Men ana women reporters nave Vse1
with each ether singing ire same song %
tss beautiful home life ard the devoted
5Tecttor of the Count ard Counties Won
Bismarck II .h.s I'm dc steele time o. IA w.
less love o. otherwise We con3ucEe1 PEG
Pc TIE home life 0. TIE TAG -epE NATIVE
families o. England and Germany, the
charming homes 81 Gladstone and BIS
DaEcE APPEARED al the u1ore brilliant from
contrast With the double ives OF ulaay
OF their contemporaries. IL 4 letter 10 has
beloved w.fe Count Bismarck once wrote.
describing some French ladies' IN court c.E-
c.eS. their chic. mission wou-t De 20 ea~ice
TIE mae German" Now IN this he ID
not meaa himself alone bot al other
male Germans" who might happen along.
Ven Bismarck. who never was 'entieed
vas man CT coart-y manner and u man
CT whom II ~as said tnat there neEer vas
d secret Of any kind. especially political.
mat be could not extrac< from the most
Te;icent OF women he. hoaeve;. never
sOSE ntS head. In his h3.De lie rs devotion
10 MS wife and children Was always sln-
eere and most a1ec,ianaie-
Now that he has been gathered 70 his
fathers" some energetic searcnsr has uo-
earthed a photograph Of the man O. blood
and ron, and lhink Of II. a photograph
taken In les5 AZ Ischi, ard think az Il yet
again. a photograph taken with the peer
les SINCE: ard beautiful brunette. Pauline
Lucca.
on this little faded nenento mort o. one
OF the greatest iuteilects that has lowered
our century with picture OF domestic
lie enjoyed in affectionate pleasures At
fFiedi lchsr0he. and public life of
the whole world has feared and respected;
petty envy has dared 10 score d record
against the dead.
1t was a well known fast that Count Won
Bismarck Was an ajmirer OF the genius
and beauty Of Madame Lucea. L was per
haps on some day whe5 lbe great siFaie-
slst was weary OF the eternal treaduiiI
OK state that he with his friends at Isch!.
wandered cheer;uIiy around seeking relax
alton like many other less gifted people.
| can see the picture as | write. the re-
Taxed statesman and the beautiful singer.
with thar good hausfrau the countess hoy
e!lng IN the Gntsken background. tae fun
OF the moHlent-ail 10 be turned INFO
scandal thirty years after. and WAY? be
cause. as the Good Book says "a live dcg
Is better than dead Hon Ard a.as for
Germany, Won Bismarck IS dead.
One OF the most apparent things TO a
stranger visiting Seattle JUS. now is that
everything Is niled. Standing room only"
houses are fail, our half dQZen large and
respectable apartment houses are fun: oar
hotels are teen1ing with life and activity:
our many hTst-class boarding houses ale
packed 10 repletion. People wax up and
do@n the streets looking more desperate
than frs; Of Mayors IN New York cry.
met large and healthy politician on
the street yesterday. | stopped because
In view Of his late nomination. could nog
understand the sickly smile, one mo-
Inen,." he said: can you tell ne Of a va
y
move. My election viii depeu8 upoa my
staying III my own ward Ny wife Is sick
In bed. The owner % my house has given
NE warning that she must have Il next
week. I've had month 10 ma house.
/ haven't found one yet What can do
with SILK wife and five children ard Mrs
Jones, from whom rented the house must
get away from where she IS ard into her
own home? There are ter IN her "a nlily
and the house has eight rooms" Politically
speaking, ! have understood thai the DIS
iressed man was a Nc ! Just then /
wouldn't have given copper for hts opin-
!on. on any subject. tor every color looks
Have you home? Then "srapple Il 10
thee with hooks Of steel" for whether il
is room. OF. room and board. or house that
and your head viii swim before you ind
anything you would die in let alone live
IN just now have three friends engaged
winter. They come 10 me- morn. noon and
n.eht with ai.uring advertisements. ard
L
taken hot BATH and gotten into a night
rob 70 wall the!r appointments.
B@autifal visions OF all the comforts OF
h9me feat before my ey,s As | read such
house q zen rooms lawn ard frult'
rush Of VIII Mrs. Blank, whose desire is
70 be- FAR from the uisdf M crowd" We
arrive after long car ride and a longer
walk IN dust TWO inches deem. 10 find a
r;ckeiy cid house. whose doors VII not
eloS@. whose windows are paneless To be
sure. there are plum trees and bushes
where II early summer currauis and Der
rtes have been wsntoGlv snafrhe3 ~ law
less hands, for We sc@ the results % rough
handling n all the garden. We consult
pecAGSe the plufns and apples look very
tempting IN he sun. We "a. OF The fruits
81 th@ earth. and We wonder # she can
i've IN n tent ard rest awhile. ary wav.
Gntl ne plGms shall have passed away
We cat mare plunls ana discuss the l3aa
CT camping but jhere are TO many dis
comforts 20 b. endured. And NrS Blank
leaves me On 4 DOWNTOWN street corner
% go IN a0oioer direction. which also ends
/ GET noTne and take off ny dusty boots
Then he fron1 door bell rinzs loudly and
Mrs Bhnkety Blank arrives, paper In
hand, ~O1. dearest Ic3rt" she cr.es fail
* ~ C3atr. "rea3 this. a furnished
Ia n * fo9rne: ptan8 ana barn. close in.
"Of CcnrSe rushed" she cried. Il
thought The fiat 1'as IL some lovely steam
a,sted tuild TX. win q civic .isnf< and m
elevator AMI en- they were ail there the
electric -gh;S and the steam nCat I SIM
Pose. ~ I got 10 farther than tha fFoa;
deeT .e h2t was ever oar-oH- IN ard
t@1 painted girls @ere sitting G.rEt.pc AZ i
WI 3uN a,oncs d What shau Do o.
BACK e. yo1r BOARDING ao0se cvv1 u they
wd4t GE1I year nerves are stronger. a.
Vlsed.
-Asain ,he bel rings loudly. ard this time
MrS k-ankety Blank Bts3k comes in slow
IS. ruatesIc9!y. WI dark circles under
at- eyes. AID 4 general lock o: bleeding