When stars from the shop of nature were being turned out in crowds;
But high o’er the favored section this sign said to all: “Beware!
Stay back of the ropes that surround these slopes—they are making coal for Baer!”
THE COAL FAMINE
“Please, good Mr. Devil, fetch my mamma, too. It’s so nice and warm in your house”
THOMAS THEODOR HEINE
(An example of German Socialist cartooning; from “Simplizissimus”)