Show ni Ri insult insull the following story Is told in the london standard A german gentleman gout gont leman of famous name of ample fortune member of parliament connected with the best people of ills his country by social as well as family ties conspicuous by reason of 9 his philanthropy hospitality and charm of his family gatherings lived 0 not o t many miles from berlin when ulion the K kingdom ot of prussia became tho the empire of germany no man at this time was more welcome at tho the palace af tho the chancellor as well as at that 0 of his sovereign than this sir mr X in those days stood for national greatness as represented by the defeat of franco and tho the unification of germany a and nd in tho the task no anchor st ally of of tho 1110 government could bo be wished than the tha liberal party of which sir mr X was an all honored leader little by little however men liko like mr X began to feet that germany even without a bismarck was better than germany without coast constitutional liberty for they found that bismarck looked upon such as differed from him not 11 merely as enemies of their country but of himself as well 3 sir mr X had chosen to vote against a government n measure ure intended to raise tho the duty on corn bismarck remonstrated with him on the subject and by v various arious moans means sought to win his support but without success mr X recognized perfectly elat his course made social intercourse with his lato late friend problematical lema and was ivas therefore somewhat surprised to receive an invitation to dino dine at the palace of the prime minister shortly sh artly after those unsuccessful approaches pro aches tho the guests assembled and the prince moved from one to tho the other greeting each with cheery bluff Ie heartiness arti until ho he reached mr X whom he purposely lott left until the last hero here ho he paused deliberately looked his lat laiq ally from head bead to toot foot then turned on his heel and without saying one ona biord ord stalked into the dining room ills guest who had been accustomed only to the best sOcio society ty was at first so taken aback abaci that lie ho scarcely realized that tho the insult could have been intended the truth however gradually dawned upon him ho he mechanically moved toward tho the door of tho the hall picked up his hat and crossed the threshold of that house for the tha last time |