Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — A QUEER PERSONAGE. [ARTICLE]

A QUEER PERSONAGE.

Christmas two weeks from next Tuesday. Communion services will be held at the Presbyterin church next Sunday. Mrs. Anna Tuteur moved Mon day into her new residence, and Geo. Strickfaden now occupies the vacated premises. Jess Grubb, of Goshen, and Lei. Clark, of Redkey, are visiting rel atives and friends in Rensselaer. Charley Wigmore, late editor of the Kentland D j mocrat, died at the home of his parents, in Mon ticello, Wednesday of last week.

Oen. Von Heseler, the Moltke of the Pre®* ent, and His Eccentricities. One of the most extraordinary and at the same time important personages of the German army is Gen. Count von Heseler, who commands in chief the troops in Alsace-Lorraine, and than whom no one stands higher in the esteem and regard of his Emperor. Yet there is no man whom one would imagine at first sight less likely to excite such sentiments on the part of a monarch like Kaiser Wilhelm. The General has nothing of the trim, wellgroomed and natty appearance of the German officer about him. There is no man that dresses worse; his uniforms, hanging about him like old rags, are greasy and worn, and give him an aspect of an antiquated umbrella. He disdains all the artifices of the toilet, lives on the coarsest kind of food and seems to grudge every moment that he wastes either at the table or in bed. He drinks nothing but water, has a heart that is utterly insensible to the Charms of the fair sex and is all twisted and warped in figure. This is owing to the fact that he was dangerously wounded in the war of 1870 at the battle of Saint Private, where he lost two ribs. He has been obliged to wear ever since a sort of silver brace, or corset. He has no ear for music, and has been heard to make the remark that it was only calculated to please imbeciles—a remark which was naturally at once conveyed to the Emperor, who had just been expressing the utmost enthusiasm about Wagner. But the Emperor puts up with everything from Heseler, whom he regards as the only man capable of succeeding Moltke, and who in his maneuvers a couple of years ago, when his majesty assumed charge of one of the rival armies, had the temerity to surround and capture his sovereign. At the same time it is not agreeable to serve under the General as either officer or soldier. It is a frequent sight to see him stop a soldier in the most crowded thoroughfare of Metz and to make him remove his boots and stockings to see if his feet are as immaculate as demanded by military regulations.