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cstimate of the Emperor of the French. “He s a dreamer- a mere dreamer,” he said. I went to sce him at Brarritz in order to come to some understanding about our relations, and, 1if possible, to clear the sky. [ had jpractical questions to propose and settle: but T could not get him to grapple with a single one. He wished to entertan me with his theories for the removal of the

causes of poverty, and for mecting the dangers of an cducated proletariat. 1 was

only anxious to lay the way for peace; but, no! he would have none of 1t Now sec what we have come to !’

“ My interview with Count Bismarck lasted two hours, during which he spoke almost uninterruptedly, with great vivacity, gencerally m - Lrench, frequently breaking out into linglish, and he quoted Shakespeare at least twice.

“ At the close of the interview I asked him to procure me a Legitimation, without which I could not accompany the army. * Tam not the man for that. General von Roon is your man.” ‘But 1 donot know him, sir.” * Well, perhaps he will do it for me -we will see.”

“The Tegitimation business detamed us scveral days in Berlin. In the meanwhile, the mobilization of the army was rapidly going on. It was almost impossible to obtain

horses, and we could get no vehicles. T will tell you how we managed to get one. One

day we saw a Berlin egg-cart, a sort ol {lat van on wheels. An idea struck us. Why not buy an cgg-cart, get a light frame to go over the top, and cover 1t with canvas? [oxeellent. So we bought a cart and nggeed it up. But how to distinguish 1t?2 Another happy thought. My crest 15 a goat, so we painted a big black goat on the canvas. Al through the campaign vulgar boys and people would point at it and cry --* Ba-a-a! Ba-a-a !’ to the great annoyance of my servant. One curious thing occurred in connection with my wageon. An English officer attached to the French army as one of the Geneva Cross Assoctation saw this cart in the IFrench lines, and inferred that the German army had heen defeated and my cart captured. T lost my egg-cart on the march to Versailles.”

At last Dr. Russell got away from Berlinwith [.ord R. Gower and Colonel Pemberton. His military railway ticket - -the number of the train and the time-table of the stations were printed on 1t —was dated some time before war was declared ! At Worms theyv left the train and took a carrage for Landau. "Thenr coachman was not a man to be sought after. At onc spot he refused to go any farther

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with the pair of horses, which had been obtamed after much trouble, and they only got to Wissembourg the night after the battle, in rear ol the Crown Prince’s stafl. - The result was that Dr. Russell and Tord Ronald Gower were arrested as ospies, and sentries placed over them, with orders to shoot them if they stirred.

A false alarm roused the sentries,” the old war correspondent explained. * They left us. We made good our escape into the inn, where a good Samaritan gave us some dehicious hot coffee. Years aflterwards 1 came across the landlord’s son who had so befriended us, as a waiter at the Salthill Hotel, Dublin.”

Dr. Russell was at the battle of Worth, The Crown Prined’s dinner was very simple, consisting of soup served i metal cups, and boiled ration-meat, bread, cheese, and beer. There was silver on the table, however. Tt belonged to the camp equipment of Frederick the Great, and was, and 1s always, carried at the Royal headquarters m war time. He spoke of the great anguish of the Crown Prince as he read the names of his fallen officers.

Dr. Russell was at the siege and fall of Paris, which he entered with the Crown Prince, and took a cartload of fresh meat and vegcetables over the bridge into Paris, the first day 1t opened, to the British - Embassy. There he found S Richard Wallace 1 his shirt-slecves, serving out horse-flesh to the starving English grooms, tutors, and governesses. He remaimed m Paris till the massacre by the Communists i

the Place Vendome, and returned the night after the Commune expired

ashes and blood. He looked on at the gay city i flames.

“As I watched millions of fiery tongues Jeapmg up towards the sky,” continued Dr. Russell, *my mind went back to the extrava- cant splendour of the year in which the Great Ioxhibition was held, when T served on the Jury i the arms department. There, on the grand-stand of the racecourse, 1 saw the Emperor. With him were two Emperors and several Kings. He was reviewing part of the grcat army which in a few years was to be swept into captivity. What an mconcenvable change! T stood behind the lomperor of - Germany on the same grand- stand from which he reviewed the German army previous to its triumphant march mnto Parts. 1 could scarcely believe the evidence of my senses when I rode under the Are de Triomphe m the traun of the conqueror