| Show ONE OF OUR GUILD tanner general president orator journalist these are the in the career afu ofu grant othere have risen from low estate to high rank as andrew joanson from the tailors bench to the executive chair but there they flopped elop ped lie however who once waa tho sphinx of america has gone beyond the fruition of dignities and aspired to the honors of the rostrum and the of the tripod lie ascended from the level of privacy the summit of public lion and as may appear to some is now on the down grade joining the humble tribe who wield the pen instead of the sword still among hi diw associations he is likely to find as many and as brave heroes a be ever encountered on the blood drenched battle field heroes who deserve if they dont receive laurels of victory for silent perseverance and indefatigable zeal A few days ago in our telegraphic columns we published cursory synopsis of an article of gen grants on the nicaragua canal to be published in the february number ot the north american there is an old adago the pen is mightier than the sword and it appears that the hero of Ap hs come lo 10 realize and recognize rec the truth of this saying for he has taken the quill into the hand that once flourished the eras sabre and wielded the helm of state in former days he did not care much lor journalism jews and journalist were twin horrors in his sight he banished the ones from bis camp and dreaded the others if any body bad told him then that he would ever arp pen or pencil to achieve what sword and bayonet could net accomplish he would have vigorously protested it no more and still ho has done it and not so very badly after all although the telegraph lias broken off the point of expectancy of the article of gen grant the publication of the harth american february is still looked forward to with great interest as th paper of the ex president on the canal projects is to form its chief at traction our readers are by this time familiar with the arguments of gen grant in favor of the nicaragua route and with condemnation oade lesseps panama project it is true there was little if anything new in the arguments of the general still there wee a ring of originality and a flavor of freshness in the assertions of il is a peculiarity of our illustrious fellow citizen that he notwithstanding bis limited dialectics knows very well to clothe his ideas in a manner to make them convincing and to re present facts however in i largely increased force this we observed in bis latest which did not contain one now thought nor one now fact but presented things long known in an original and almost persuasive strain this was especially true about his pronounced americanism when he verbosely insisted on an american canal built by with american capital he knew well enough that with touching this keynote ef ns lional he would appeal to that disposition which has found its political scientific expression in the monroe doctrine and its popular embodiment in the yie end outrages of know although our faith in grants promises for the future is great our edilh in de lea achievements n the past is greater GERMANY GLORY reads very well in war whoops and in speeches of prince but the numerous emigration from valeriand Val erland to pastures green proves that there is a steadily growing dissatisfaction among the german population within the past three months not less than garman immigrants bavo sailed from europe for texas direct landing HI galveston in this way they make the voyage somewhat cheaply than if they went by way of new york but they elpe fience the disadvantage of finding provision made for their reception and hundreds of men women and children have had to pass cold nights on the wharves without shelter of any kind they also fall into the hands of so called emigration agents for whose restraint thero is no law in texa and against whom there is no protection as in new york fur these reasons german papers raise a note of warning to in tending immigrants of warning however proceeded more from political reasons of tho inclined government than from any truly paternal feelings of kaiser wilhelm ax burglar has been caught in ilag detitto by the warrington police in england summoned in hot haste to arrest the ou ender by the alarmed occupants of provision shop the burglar awoke the sleeping inmates by the noise which ha made in carrying on his depredations smashing tu eglas and knocking about the jam pots in manner foreign to tho professional housebreaker the master of the premises armed with the fire irons accompanied by wife ready to bid defiance with sweeping brush stood boldly determined to cut off all means of escape pending the arrival of the police the surprise of all present my be imagined when on a light being procured the burglar in the shape a monkey wae dincov ered gorging himself with sweet meats rand cakes amid the nine of broken gla and crockery |
