Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — How He Judged. [ARTICLE]

How He Judged.

While it is true that some of thf most precise and accurate writer* have been exceedingly slovenly 1b their personal habits, and while som< men who were thoroughly bad it their private lives have certainlj acted in their public careers as if impelled by the noblest aud loftiest mo tlves, yet it is generally the case.thai one reveals his true character in tht ordinary affairs of life. A country innkeeper, relying instinctively upon this principle, on* day in the last century startled i casual guest, who happened to be * gentleman attached to the roya court, by a confident prediction re garding the Archbishop of Toulousq who had just been appointed to ol» of the great offices of state. The gentleman, looking over hi* mail, which he had ordered to lx sent to the inn, exclaimed: “There are great changes in th< Government! ‘ The “Archbishop 01 Toulobse has been chosen Minister.' “Alas for France, if ’that is truei". -cried the innkeeper. “Why so?” “He will turn the kingdom upside down. He will make no end of trouble,” returned the landlord, with an ominous shake of the head. This was quite possible, and something like it did really happen, bui only persons who knew the innei workings of political affairs could have predicted it so positively then, and M. de la Houss wondered what was the source of the innkeeper’s information. With judicious urging he Induced that sage to give his basis for calculations. It was this: “You will learn, M. de la Houss, that I know whereof I speak. The Archbishop of Toulouse always stops here on his way to Paris, and also on his return. He never fails to turn everything upside down. “He has that bed carried into another room. He has all the tables and the wash-stand moved. The mirrors that are hung between the windows have to be placed above the mantelpiece. It I took his ad vice, *1 should tear this house down and rebuild it bottom side up. “Depend upon it, he is a dangerous person, and will insist upon changing everything.”—Youth's Companion.