Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — Value of a Passport. [ARTICLE]

Value of a Passport.

Henry W. Wolff, a traveler, had been wandering about Metz, asking questions and seeing the sights, and he says: On my return to the station I found a surprise awaiting me. The German police bad found me out—not a difficult task, since I purposely went about quite openly. However, that, it appeared, made no difference. There, at the entrance to the station, stood a Prussian gendarme, all on the alert, and looking very ferocious. He was on the lookout for me, and stopped me at once. “Have you a legitimation about you?” he asked, gruffly. “Yes; but do I want one? Am I not entitled to travel in Germany without a passport?" He looked angry, and eyed with disgust my “Murray,” which bore all too plainly upon its cover the title “France."

“I must see it. I hear you have been about the town looking at jthings and asking many questions.” “It is strictly true; that is what I am traveling for.” “I must see your passport. * “What! In defiance of the Emperor’s regulations?” He drew himself up pompously. “Do you not understand, ” said he, “that I must see your passport in order to be able to judge whether or not you are entitled to travel without one?” Here was logic, but logic which, however feeble, must be heeded. I produced my passport, and after having studied it for a tedious interval, he gravely announced that I was fitted to travel without one. The new direct process of making steel has been experimented upon at the Homestead Works of Carnegie Brothers with most satisfactory results, and although not yet entirely perfected, has been sufficiently advanced to warrant the statement that Its adoption will mark quite a change in the production of steel and in Its quality, as well as in the price of the metaL If the expectations of the company are realized, and they confidently expect they will be, there is likely to be a revolution in this line of production, which will work to the advantage of the consumer. How it will affect labor is yet a question, although the workmen are rather disposed to look unfavorably upon the innovation.

There is no more striking instance of the manner in which fame seeks the individual worthy of her crown thaa in the life of Puvis de Chavannes, who is conceded to be the founder, the originator, the creator of the modern school of painting. Regarding his fame a Paris correspondent says: “He has done nothing for this result, —nothing but paint! for he is the most noble, -the most simpleminded man in the world. Entirely absorbed in his art, beginning to work in the early morning, he toils until the evening shrouds his palette in mystery."