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Show birthday of his friend and teacher, who succeeded Engels as Bebel him self has succeeded Llebknecht. There lias always been in the front rank of (Jerman Socialism a "grey Emperor." on whom the wholehearted devotion of the troops has been lavished, none the less unstintedly because the party doctrines arc opposed lo all hero-worship hero-worship ( personenkultui' ) The words which lichel used of Llebknecht are true of himself: "His own life ls ihe .life of the party." In honoring "Ge-iionje "Ge-iionje Rebel" German Socialists feel that they are celebrating their party's astonishing progress during hi lifetime. life-time. The editor of the "Die 'euo-Zelt" 'euo-Zelt" for February IS, quotes II bel's own words on I.legknecht, in order to "disarm" till.- "least pretentious and modest 'of men." "Rebel did not stand bv the cradle of .Socialism, but he did au.id by the -cradla of the German Ger-man working cIsjm movement." The German oc-ople. Irrespective of party. hoDor Rebel as n typical democrat. He has fought with the giants of the Reichstag, and has shown himself no mean antagonist. Kautsky has a worm and eloquent passage on Rebel's happy married life and oa his scrupulous scrupul-ous discharge of all his duties as a citizen. "He has always been a model man of that type which, according ac-cording to bourgeois writers, the bourgeoisie alone can produce." The ! Rriilsh Weekly. BEBEL'S 70TH BIRTHDAY. Brlliant Author of "Woman Under Socialism" Receives Ovation. August Dvbel. the most eminent living liv-ing leader of German Social Denio-' Denio-' cracv. celebrated his seventieth birth-; birth-; day February 22nd. The Socialist paper of his native country are fu of his praJses.. Students througij-' througij-' oul Europe have Ken reading th-. first part of Rebel s Autobiography, which was published a fw years ago at Stuttgart. The veteran. Parliamentarian Parlia-mentarian champion has friends la all couptrlee. and is Invariably courteous cour-teous to strangers. German Socialist Social-ist are recalling at this moment the sucech tnado bv Rhol for the 70th |