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THE BANKER-WATCHMAN, ATHENS, GEORGIA, MARCH 19,
1889.
THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG.
The Old Chateau Where the Name Firfl.
Originated Is Still Standing.
Every reader knows that the reigning
family of Austria is known as the House
<of Hapsburg, but Very few probably
know that the name is derived from the
old chateau of Habsbourg, In Switzer
land, which is an abbreviation of' Ha-
bichtsbourg, which means the castle of
the hawks. The old chateau, built
THE OLD HAFSBUUG CHATEAU,
nearly nine centuries ago, is still stand
ing, and the walls are in such |>erfect
preservation that it might be restored
and modernized. But it does not belong
to the reigning houso of Austria, being
the property of the canton of Argovie, in
Switzerland. The traveler, proceeding
up one of the broad valleys of that can
ton, emerges from dense forests and sees
rising above him a beautiful and com
manding bill, thick set with vines, an<L
on the summit is the ruined castle of
Habsbourg, which was for six centuries
the residence of the noble family of that
name.
From the windows of the old castle
and the hill top around it one can look
down upon the valleys of the Aar and up
to the lines of the Jura mountains. The
people of the neighborhood look with an
almost superstitious respect upon the old
castle, and the proposition of the Aus
trian emperor to purchase it was indig
nantly rejected, but a suggestion to the
canton to present it to the Austrian im
perial family on condition that it should
be repaired and reserved as a place of re
sort has met with some favor. The in
terior is in ruins, except a single room,
In which a great mass of volumes are
preserved, in which successive visitors
Of the last century have inscribed their
names and sentiments. These volumes
-contain manyyurious drawings, observa
tions, quotations from the classics, invo
cations, prayers, humorous remarks and
all the manifestations of sentiment
■which might bo expected from tens of
thousands of visitors. The philosopher
has inscribed there his reflections upon
the vanity of human affairs; the poet has
written lines expressing his admiration
of the view, and men of science or taste
have expressed their appropriate senti
ments. Looking down upon the valley
today one can see the daily trains pass
up towards the highlands, which makes
the present vital, and in- the chateau he
sees the Eleventh century restored.
The origin of the Houso of Hapsburg
can be traced back to one of the chiefs
of the invading Alemanni, one of the
tribes which overthrew the Roman em
pire. The first to be ranked as a noble
man was Ethico I, duke of Alemannia,
in the Seventh century, but the', first
count of Hapsburg is set down in the
genealogy as Werner II, a nephew of
Werner, bishop of
Strasbourg. The pos
sessions of the house
went on growing
until they
were divid
ed by the
brothers
Albert TV
lection of the interna! revenue and to
compel wrong doers to a ore titan pay the
expenses of their prosecution by the gov
ernment.
In spite of his busy life in law and
politics, Gen. Tracy has never outgrown
his love for the country and its special
features. Even when starting his pro
fession and tempted to sell his farm, he
steadfastly refused, preferring to econo
mize in the metropolis rather than cut
the tie which bound him to his birth
place. As he prospered in bis vocation,
he improved his home (which was and
is in Owego), and bought adjacent land.
Along with this he substituted the high
est bred stock for the common animals
of twenty-five years, and when the
movement took place which imported
the finest productions of the stock farms
of Europe to the United States, he was
one of the fast to hike part. He went
so far as to surprise his neighbors Tin
Tioga county, N. Y. His poultry yard
contained the best Plymouth rocks and
leghorns; his pens were occupied by
Yorkshire prize pigs or their descend
ants; his stables were filled with Jerseys
and Holsteins, and his fields were
tramped upon by the finest breeds of
trotting horses and farm horses extant.
In this work he has taken medals and
received honorable mentions numberless
from state and county fairs. In fact, so
great is his fame in this regard in Owego
that it lias obscured his renown as
lawyer, judge, soldier and politician.
On one occasion he drove down the main
thoroughfare of that town, passing a
farmer and a gentleman from New
York. The latter, as the general bowed
to him, said to the farmer: “There’s one
of our greatest men.” “Yes,” answered
the latter, “I reckon Tracy’s tlie greatest
man for hogs there is in this country 1”
JOHN MORLEY.
O’CONNOR POWER WRITES OF THE
GREAT ENGLISH RADICAL.
RICHARD PIGOTT.
The'Man Wlio Caused The London Times
So Mucli Trouble.
Richard Pigott, the now world re
nowned forger, who got The London
Times into such a humiliating position,
has most appropriately ended his in
famous life at Madrid, by firing a pistol
ball into his brain. In all the history of
British law courts and politics, there is
no other such instance of moral degrada
tion and ruin; for the other noted per
jurers, like Titus Oates, were originally
men of a base order, while Pigott was
once a highly respected citizen of Dublin,
a trusted leader among the Irish patriots,
and a writer $f conceded ability. From
tliat position he had sunk so low that he
escaped dying in prison only by suicide.
Early in life he was recognized as a
power among
Dublin' journal
ists, and practi
cally
and R u-
dolph III in
1232. This
Rudolph
was extremely popu
lar among the com
mon people, devoting
much time to the im
provement of their
condition, and was the sixth bailli of
Scbwytz and Untcrwald, advocate of
Fribourg, and captain of the troops of
Zurich, and finally on the 7th of
September, 1273, the electors of the
empire made his son Rudolph em
peror of Germany. He conquered the
great Ottocar of Bohemia, and thus laid
tho foundation for the greatness of Aus
tria, which was formed by a union of
the old Austria, Styria and Camiola.
With tho usual experience of failure of
the direct lino and calling in of. heirs of
collateral lines, tho successors of this
Rudolph were emperors of Germany
until the old German empire was dis
solved, the most noted of them being
Maximilian I, who (lied in 1519; the
great Charles V, who abdicated in
1556, Matthias, of the Seventeenth cen
-..tury, Joseph I, early in the Eighteenth
century and Francis I, of Lorraine, who
■was tho husband of the celebrated Maria
Theresa. In 1804 Francis II resigned the
German imperial dignity and assumed
the title of emperor of Austria. His suc
cessor in Austria was his son Ferdinand
I, who EQsigncd in 18-18, and was suo-
byhis
imperial crown of Austria, who lately
met his death under tragic and myster
ious circumstances. By a marriage with
Juana, daughter of Ferdinand and Isa
bella, the house of Hapsburg also as
cended the throne of Spain, uniting with
it the domains of the houso of Burgundy
in the Netherlands, which raised the
house to the highest pitch of its power.
The Spanish line continued uritU it
became extinct in Charles II, who was
succeeded, after the long and terrible
war of tho Spanish succession, by an
offshoot _ of the Bourbons of France.
Tho Swiss possessions, including this
chateaq, were lost early in the Thir
teenth century, when the Svoss con-
federation was formed.
With this is given a group of portraits
from recent photographs —Stephanie,
widow of tho crown prince; her daughter.
TMzabeth; Archduke Francis, nephew
•ii l e W ror Austro-Hungary, who
will, if he lives, by reason of liis father’s
relinquishment of all claims- to the
wone^one day be ruler of the empire,
pigott.
controlled
The Irishman and
The Flag of Ire
land, both ad
vanced papers,
and finally as pro
nounced in favor
of revolution as
any recognized
Fenian organ/ In
deed, it was the
reckless radicalism of his writings that
first caused him to lose standing. He
owned also a weekly literary paper,
which was a great favorite among tlie
middle ckis3 Irish. In 1867 he was more
radical than ever, but on losing the con-
tidence of the Irish patriots ho was soon
suspected of treachery. Indeed, liis ne
cessities were such that he finally took
the desperate step of selling his knowl
edge to the Dublin Castle authorities.
For years he led that strange, restless,
evasive life, of which bits here and there
have been revealed, now figuring as a
spy and again as a scribbler for various
papers, but all tho time dealing out tlie
vilest abuse of those with whom he had
formerly acted. As soon as the articles
on “Parnellism and Crime” began to
appear in The London Times, many
people in Ireland said: “It is the work
of Pigott;” but the most experienced ap
pear to have had no suspicion at first of
forgery. In London, however, a few of
the knowing ones predicted at the start
that there had been forgery and that
Pigott was tlio forger. His family in
Ireland is quite respectable, and at one
time he moved in the best society of
Dublin, being also an honored man in
tlie ranks of the Irish Nationalists. * His
career adds an extraordinary instance
to tho many treacheries by which Ire
land has suffered.
His Political Position—Like AU Britisb
Statesmen, He Is Overshadowed by Glad
stone—His Hatred of Claptrap—He is a
Radical in Politics and Religion.
What Cardinal Newman was to the
Oxford religious movement fifty years
ago, what Daniel O'Connell was to Catho
lic emancipation at a still earlier period,
and what John Bright was to the cause
of free trade at at period much nearer
our own tiffie, John Morley is to the ex
isting radical movement in Great Britain.
He is its most prominent leader and in
terpreter. There is this important dis
tinction, however, to be drawrt between
him and the illustrious men with whom
I have for the moment associated liis
name: Tliat they created the movements
which they led, whereas Mr. Morley, be
fore his entrance into parliament, was
only one of many equally able men
whose teachings contributed to the form
ation of British radicalism. lie is now
recognized as its spokesman and leader.
Tlie Radicals are the advanced section of
the Liberal party and the political radi
calism of today will be the political
liberalism of the near future; hence John
Morley’s position, as the leader of -the
Radical wing, marks him-out as a proba
ble successor to Mr. Gladstone, though
Sir William Ilarcourt actually occupies
the post of deputy leader of the whole
party, and is the heir presumptive of tho
leadership. ***
Political radicalism may be defined,
according to the old formula, as the gov
ernment of the people, for the people, by
the people; and it lias found many sup
porters among those who are strongly
anti-radical in other respects, and who
view with repugnanco the radical creed
as regards morals, or Religion, or philos
ophy. Mr. Gladstone, for example, is a
radical in politics only.
As Mr. Gladstone saw he was to lose
Mr. Chamberlain he determined to at
tach Ms. Morley, and he accomplished
this by making him chief secretary for
Ireland and a member of the cabinet,
and Mr. Morley thenceforth became his
right hand man in furthering the cause
of self government for Ireland. Mr.
Morley has' displaced Mr. Chamberlain
and succeeded to tho exact position in
the Liberal party which tlie latter occu
pied before lie separated from Mr. Glad
stone. Whether ho will retain his popu
larity with tlie masses is a question
which depends on bis willingness to
adopt the ever changing principles or
theories of the democracy.
one fa ••oring coercion and led by Mr.
Forster, and one opposing coercion, of
which Mr. Chamberlain was the leader.
Thanks to the daily onslaughts of Tlie
Pall Mall Gazette, Mr. Chamlwrlain’s
section prevailed and Mr. Forster re
signed. Mr. Morley was known to
have been-.the author of the attacks on
Mr. Forster’s policy, and as tlioy were
supposed to have been inspired by Mr.
Chamberlain the former’s entrance into
parliament was watched with great in
terest The first impression he created
was not favorable, owing to a delivery
which want of practice in public speak-
| ing had left defective; but tlu* matter of
what he said soon compelled attention,
and those who had read his books came to
be as much interested in bis speech they
had been in liis writing. His adhesion
to Mr. Gladstone's home rule policy could
surprise no one who was acquainted with
his earlier views about Ireland.
mould be mild, prompt,
and pleasant, with no
griping or purgative ef
fects. It should also in
cite the liver to action,
aid digestion, and re
lieve tho kidneys. like
nothing else.
Compound Is a
perfect laxative,
and cures consti
pation where all
other remedies
fau.
“As a gentle laxative, Paine’s Celery Com
pound Is surely without a peer. 1 think I ought
to know, since I have tried remedy after reme
dy for about five or six years and have found
nothing tbatequalsltln my caseofcostlvcness.”
J. B. Jenkins, Teachpr, Cloyd’s Creek, Tenn. .
Paine’s Celery C0D8tl Patea
“ Paine’s Celery Compound is
pleasant. As a laxative it leavi*^ I
sired. I have great confidence i n Ut , tev ^
Albeet Leonard,
' Journal qfPcdagogy^
“For two or three years i sufror^ ,
every night .with severe pains ^
are now regular, and I have h-a
those pains since using one bottle <•?
Paine’s
Celery Compo„ a
F. G. SncKNET, Druggist. i !ar ,,, U|
Moral: Use Paine’s Celery Comncm,
ruining the Intestinal tract with a -
tive pills. *1.00. Six for $3.00.
Wells, Richardson & Co., Burling
Strange us it may appear, it is never
theless true that Mr. Chamberlain won
his way to a position in the Liberal party
second only to that of Mr. Gladstone
himself, by advocating the doctrines
of Mr. Henry George concerning land,
and by declarations iii favor of the poor
which could not bo distinguished from
downright socialism. Mr. George’s the
ories had, at the time, attained a tem
porary hold of tho English workingmen.
The artisans of the towns were somehow
persuaded that their interests lay not in
the spread of manufactures, but in the
subdivision of land, and. the improve
ment of agriculture, two things which
were put before them as standing in the
relation of * cause and effect. Mr. Mor
ley labors under tlio disadvantage
of requiring a reason for every step he
takes. He lacks many of th ACiaracter-
istics which made Mr. Chamberlain so
popular for a time, and his politics
are more of the rational than the
emotional order. Mr. Chamberlain did
not disdain t o
Chicago’s New Government Building.
The cut here given represents the new
appraisers’ warehouse which tlie United
States government intends building in
Chicago, tho appropriation was $335,-
006. Of this $75,000 was spent in en
larging tho site, leaving $260,000 for the
building. It is expected that this ware
house will be one of the handsomest gov-
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eminent buildings in the United States.
The main features are to be in the in-
tefior construction, which is.to be very
handsome. The material to be used is
the best brown stone. Seventeen con
tractors havo put in bids, ranging from
$200,000 to $250,000. Tho main govern
ment structure in Chicago is the post-
office building, which occupies a whole
block. The appraiser's warehouse will
rank next.
JOHN MORLEY.
humor the crowd,
and though I can
not say that Mr.
Morley is quite
incapable of en
gaging in - that
occupation, it i3
evidently less
congenial to his
mind than to that
o f his former
friend, the mem
ber for Birming
ham. Indeed, ho suffers so much, and
so obviously, from c^i an occasional
indulgence in claptrap, that, from the
point of view of mere effect, it would bo
better if he did not indulge in it at all.
Mr. Morley shows more to advantage in
withstanding popular pressure applied in
furtherance of unreasonable demands,
than he does in catering for popular ap
plause on the platform. An instance of
the truth of this occurred a few days
ago. in Newcastle-on-Tyne, the borough
which ho represents in parliament. He
was waited upon by a deputation of
workmen, who, in an ingenious series of
questions, sought to commit him to a
declaration in favor of an eight hour
labor law to bo made applicable at once
to all the industries of the country. He
declined firmly to commit himself, and
as the deputation proceeded to argue the
point, ho stated a number of strong rea
sons in opposition to their proposals, one
of which was that an immediate diminu
tioh of tlie hours of labor would result
in a proportionate diminution in wages,
and he was not prepared to bring about
6uch a result until he knew that the
working classes themselves desired it.
At a public meeting of his constituents
held on tlie evening following that on
which he was interviewed, his position
was sustained by an unanimous vote of
confidence.
Mr. Morley is the first instance in Eng
land of a man stepping from an editor’s
desk to a seat in the cabinet. In France
such a transition is common enough;
thefe authors and journalists in far
greater number than any other class of
the community occupy the official places
which in England are reserved chiefly
for successful barristers and wealthy
country gentlemen. It was in tho col
ttmns of The Pall Mall Gazette that Mr.
Mdrley, by liis strenuous opposition to
the Irish administration of the late Mr.
Forster, first made his mark in politics.
In Mr. Gladstone's cabinet at that time
there were Relieved to be. two ^parties,
It is now some ten years since I first
made the acquaintance of Mr. Morley.
lie was then living at Berkeley Lodge,
Putney, a western suburb of London. He
had invited me there to luncheon,.and
the conversation turned on parliament
ary affairs, of which I had then five
years’ personal experience as a member
of tlie 1 umse. I remember he questioned
me particularly as to the position and
prospects of certain prominent members,
not yet in the front rank, and wound up
by propounding a series of objections to
borne rule, which he invited me to an
swer. I responded to tlie best of my abil
ity, and, at bis request, embodied ray
answers in an article for The Fortnightly
Review, of which bo was then editor.
The article, entitled “Fallacies Concern
ing Home Rule,” duly appeared, and I
believe this was the first time that an in
fluential English magazine lent its col
umns to the advocacy of what was then
a very unpopular cause in England. Mr.
Morley was born in 1838, so that lie has
just turned 50. He went to Cheltenham
to school., and afterwards to Lincoln col
lege, Oxford, at neither of which did he,
like others who have risen, give signs of
his future greatness. The Union at Ox
ford is a debating society in which many
English statesmen first distinguished
themselves as public speakers, but Mr.
Morley did no^shine even here, and when
he capio to London to try his luck
with letters his future was as
uncertain as it could well be.
He wrote for The Literary Ga-.
zetto, and eventually for The Satur
day Review, though, as he lias himself
told me, article after article was, re
turned to him before ho discovered what
was suRabie and acceptable. Ho read
law with bis friend, Mr. Frederick Har
rison, traveled in America to study
democratic institutions, and became
editor of Tho Fortnightly in succession
to George Henry Lewes. His works on
Voltaire. Diderot and Rousseau, on Ed
mund Burke and on Richard Cobden,
show his great capacity for what may
be called philosophical biography, but
lie attains his highest eminence as a
literary critic, in which character he is
scarcely inferior to Mathew Arnold him
self. The failing health of Mr. Ashton
Dilke led to his retirement, in February,
1833, from the representation of New
castle-on-Tyne, and Mr. Morley, after a
vigorously contested election, was re
turned to parliament for the vacant seat.
In three years from that time lie entered
Mr. Gladstone's cabinet, becoming a
right honorable and chief secretary for
Ireland, without filling any intermediate
office or undergoing any of that official
training in a subordinate department of
the government which was at one time
considered essential to the attainment of
high office. As hi3 assumption of office
was simultaneous with, aud the result
of, Mr. Gladstone’s adoption of home
rule, he was received in Ireland by
the popular party with [joyful ac
clamation, and liis administration had
none of the difficulties to encounter
which have proved insufferable to so
many English statesmen. The govern
ment of which lie was a member lasted
only a few months, for the home rule
bill, which it was formed to carry, was
rejected by the house of commons, and
subsequently by a majority of the Brit
ish electorate, 60 that Mr. Morley had no
opportunity of showing his skill as an
administrator. Of liis methods as a poli
tician no candid opponent can complain.
He always fights fair; no striking below
the belt, no personal abuse, no calumini-
ous inuendo, defaces his controversial
style, and, though liis doctrines and sen
timents are warmly combated by the
opposite party, tho devotion of his own
ardent followers is fortified by the re
spect and admiration of his adversaries,
Like every one of the lieutenants of Mr.
Gladstone he is of course overshadowed
by his great leader, but. his presence in
the front rank gives peculiar confidence
to liis party as regards their future lead
ership. The newspapers of all shades of
opinion agreed, with a remarkable ab
sence of professional jealousy, in ap
proving of Mr. Morley’s elevation to
cabinet rank. » * *
I cannot, perhaps, better conclude this
sketch of the distinguished statesman
than by quoting the address which he
issued to the electors of Newcastle-on-
Tyne, on I1I3 appointment to office, and
which is a model of brevity, simplicity
and directness:
“Gentlemen—The queen has been
pleased to approve, on the recommenda
tion of Mr. Gladstone, of my appoint
ment to the office of chief secretary for
Ireland. I regret that this will impose
upon you the necessity of a new election
but I confidently believe that in accepting
a responsible post, in a time of public
perplexity, I shall have your hearty ap
proval and support I should have been
unworthy of the high spirit of my con
stituents if I had shrunk from a task,
however arduous, which wa# pressed
upon me as'a public duty by the illustri
ous statesman who is again at the head
of national affairs.
“I have the honor to be, gentlemen,
your faithful servant, JohnMoeley.”
I will only add that Mr. Morley, who
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