New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-04
POLITICAL BEASTS,
Important Role Played by Amimals
tn the affairs of State.


extraordinary intelligence and possessed Of a
degree of education and of reasoning powers of
an unusual order, reminded
| of the important role which brute beasts play
In the affairs of state. Not content with setting
! governments by the ears in connection with the
question to whether not they to be
admitted into the country. they have on several
occasions brought about vacancies on European
thrones. and are responsible for many other Cab
met crises besides the caused by the saga
cious Hans at Berlin the other day.
| Thus on the last occasion that the late Nubar
Pacha, the most capable and eminent of all
| Oriental statesmen of the nineteenth century,
lost the office of Prime Minister of Egypt, it
due to a cow. Like Cincinnatus. he was exceed
| tngly fond of agricultural pursuits and had in
the neighborhood of Cairo model farm, which
he In the habit of visiting whenever he had
a moment to spare. One Friday he took advan-
| tage of the government offices being closed for
| the Moslem Sabbath to drive out to his farm.
| While inspecting his crops he suddenly came
upon a cow. The latter took exception to the red
color Of his tarboosh, and. with an omnous
| moo" lowered her head and prepared to charge.
The Prime Minister who the most stately
and majestic of Orientals hesitated for just one
| brief moment, and then, determining that dis
| erection was the better part of ValOr, took to his
| heels and made for the nearest hedge So did
| the cow. 1t is difficult to say with any degree
| of exactitude which of the two reached the goal
| first, but one thing. at any rate. is sure namely,
| that the statesman overshot the winning post,
and that he was assisted therein by his bovine
| competitor, who propelled him to the other side
| or the hedge into the next field with such de-
gree of altogether unfeminine brutality as seri-
ously to injure his leg and thigh Being man
| well advanced in years, he suffered so severely
| from the shock that he had to take to his bed,
and, on three weeks passing without his being
W to hic l1,txy
Khedive who disl;ked him and was afraid of
him, took advantage of Lord Cromer's absence
| in England to deprive him of his portfolio, his
downfall involving the resignation of the entire
| Cabinet
Mr.. Gladstone, too. in Office Prime Min
lister of the British Empire at the time when he
was attacked by angry in the vicinity of
his castle at Hawarden His hand was slightly
injured in his efforts to escape-efforts which
| were, fortunately, successful, since it would
have been distressing if magnificent a
as that of the Grand Old Man had been cut
short, not even by Irish bull, but by mere
commonplace English cow
The reign of Napoleon III was almost brought
to premature termination some four or five
years prior to the Franco-Prussan War by yet
| another indignant cow, and the monarch owed
his preservation on that occasion to the courage
and presence of mind of his Spanish consort.
Inc illClueilt LOOK place IN the nelShDOrnOOQ or
Biarritz, where the Emperor and Empress were
walking one day with their dog Nero an animal
which figures beside the Prince Imperial in Car
peaux's famous statue of the latter Nero be-
gan barking, dOgliket at cattle that were
grazing in a field. A took exception to this,
and, as Nero sought refuge between the remark
| ably short legs of the Emperor, she proceeded to
| charge down upon the monarch with all that vim
| and vigor for which the cattle along the Spanish
10 arc ia On he +Io
Emperor hesitating whether to run or to
| stand his ground, when the Empress threw her
self before him and kept the animal at bay with
| a long bamboo cane, which she was in the habit
| of carrying in those days, until the herdsmen
| came to the rescue. The Empress is described
by an eye witness having handled her cane
with all the dexterity and rapidity of movement
| of toreador of her native land
! Some years ago the Duke of Orleans was so
badly injured by wild cattle while out hunting
| near Seville that it feared at one moment
he would be crippled for life, and by a strange
| coincidence that terrible lameness which gave
| such a peculiar gait TO the walk of the late
| Comte de Chambord- and to which, by the way
was ascribed his reluctance to reas-=nG the
| throne of France which he had occupied as a
child for twenty-four hours as King Henry V
was due to almost identical cause namely