Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Bismarck and Humanity. [ARTICLE]

Bismarck and Humanity.

Bismarck must remain, as long as he lives, the visible symbol of strength, as opposed to mere sinuous management, in public life. Considered in the abstract, such a character may easily be riddled by the criticism of logicians and get a bad name among the historians. But when it apeara among us in the concrete of flesh and blood, human nature is drawn irresistibly toward It, and holds it priceless by comparison with all varieties of merely talking and writing creatures. When Englishmen find themselves most nearly agreed as to Oliver Cromwell's place among great Englishmen, they have in their minds a picture of him driving an impotent and foolish Parliament from Its chamber and putting the door key In his pocket The same impulse fills the length and breadth of Germany to-day with a sort of stormy joy In the contemplation of this old man, whose giant’s frame and lion’s heart, and direct and simple yet lofty powers of mind and achievement seem to belong to the heroic period of Northern legend and myth rather than to the modern constitutional shop-keeping state.—The Saturday Review.

Killed Himself with a Piav The suicide of Admiral Vllleneuve, when taken prisoner by the English, was ingenious. He had some anatomical plates and by examinging them located bis own heart precisely. Then be thrust a large pin—his only weapon— Into its head at the point selected. It pierced the heart, and he was found dead. .7' ~