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- -"-rw wTr-Tpppp ' Tcr"imi;iujiwsffw4.' " 'w1,1 i'ifiyt?yflfg"L ' "" rf!ippr??!pifpfpf(pw CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY. APRIL 1 1, iht)t T' i,"iilfFl.-l,lw ' '"' M ! f . " Chicago and Erie R. R. (Late Chicago A Atlontlo 11')'.) InJConncctlon with the Erie Railway FOHMH THK ONLY LINK IIKTWItlCN Chicago and New York Under One Management. SOLID-TRAINS. The Through Trains or tnls Lino between OUi- cago and New YorK aro run solid, thus avoiding annoyanco and confusion I M nftunnillnnl. f . ww.imv-..... Vestibule Limited Service toittbuledXlinltod Trains, consisting orjlag- sago, Hinoklug and Day Coaches, with Pullman Dining and mooning Cam (heated by stoam, lighted by gun), Jr;3 ovor Uil Lino I Every Day In the Year. PullmarTJService to Boston. APullman Ihitfot Sleeping Car to mid from Hon ton dally via this route. ThU UthuONLY LINE Uiinnlng l'llliinnn Cam botweun Chicago and Boston, BUCKEYE ROUTE To Columbim.'Olilo.andaAHhtand, Ky. 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For Maps nnd Time Tables nnd Informa tion Regarding Rates and Routes Call on or Address S. M. OSGOOD, Gcn'1 Ag't E. L. PALMER. Traveling Agent, 1308 Farnam St., omaha, 3st:b:b. FAST MAIL ROUTE ! 2 DAILY TRAINS -TO- Atchlson, Leavenworth, St. Joseph,Kansas City, St. Louis and nil Points South, East and West. The direct line to Ft. Scott, Parsons Wichita, Hutchinson and nil pilnclpal points In Knnsas. The only road to the Great Hot Springs of Arkansas'. Pullman Sleepers and .Free Reclining Chair Cars on-all trains. J. E.R.MILLAR, R. P. R. MILLAR, City Ticket Agt. Gen'l Ag:nl Cor. O and 1 3th Street. ARCIS-SdU-AUBKS TITAN. DR. JOHN CLARK RIDPATH'S SKETCH OF DANTON THE REVOLUTIONIST. Salient I'oInU In Uanton'n l.lie ills Career In the Convention Ills Vernon! Appearance nml Kliiqin-nen Motives ml Mitiitiftr of Ills Denth. lOopyrlglil. IM)1, by American Cross Assocla- lion. FTKIl Mlrabeau, the greatest of tho ruvolutlntmry gl nuts whs Dntiton. His kIvcii imino was Ooorgcn Jacques; his birth place was Arcls-nur-Atihc, nml the dato Oct. 28, 1750. Ho wiut thus ten year a younger than Mlrabeau, lo tweeu whom and himself history has drawn tunny parallels nnd like nesses. While yet tho revolution was at Its height, tho French people, both friends and enemies of tho popular cause, discov ered in Danton tho natural successor of the dead Mlrabeau. The former roso as the latter sank below tho horizon; tint manner of the mnn was such m to point him out na tho necessary captain of tho revolutionary forces. Danton was n lawyer. He had prepared himself somewhat fur his profession before leaving his childhood's homo In Chain pagne and going to Paris. At the otithrenk of tho revolution wo discover hltu at the capital, happily married, leading n cheer fill life, a diligent student of men mid nf fairs, practicing with success in thu courts. The assembling of tho states general found him thirty years of age, but not n partici pant except by sympathy and occasional speech In the prevnlllug movement. At this time, however, ho plunged into the tide and swam. Men saw him and beiiaii to wonder at tho strength of his stroke. Tho wild waters fell away from his arms and breast as from tho dim of a monster of the sen. He became a ower outside of the states general and tho first assembly, advocating and promoting the samo cause which the Democrats advocated and pro moted in the Hall of tho Menus and tho Sallodc Mnnlge. Now It was that a party sprang up lu Paris, audacious in its advocacy of popular liberty. Tho policy of this party reached as high as tho throne of France. A Krcat club, knowiMtH the Club of the Cordeliers, was formed ns tho focus and life center of this party, and of this club tho focus and life center was Danton. Not, however, un til tho early part of 1700 did tho voice of this son of thunder begin to bo heard abovo tho roar of tho revolution. Already tho Bostllo had fallen. Already tho king and court had been compelled to remove from tho security and quiet of Versailles to tho insecurity and tumult of the Tulleries. Paris was a volcano, spouting flro and smoke. Tho throne Itself began to quako, but was tit entiled foruscmon by the power ful haud of Mlrabeau. In April of 171)1 that Hercules of tho peo ple and friend of order maidenly died, and for a short season the great parties Into which the French nation had been divided crouched down, each in Its place, tlgerllke, with fiery eyeballs, waiting to spring in death grapple upon tho other. In tills In terval, Including tho hitter part of 1701 and the beginning of tho next year, no leader appeared, but at the latter date Danton arose, and with mighty outstretched nrm Abovo tho rest. In shupo and gesture proudly eminent Stood Ilka a tower. Young as ho was ho was hailed as chief by tho audacious party which had deter mined upon the destruction of tho mon archy. At length. In 171KJ, tho assembly declared war against Austria, nnd while the internal volcano of revolution con tinued to spout, a narrowing rim of lire and conquest was seen along the north eastern border of Franco Every patriot must now ask himself tho question, "Does not this king of ours, this Louis Capet, with his Austrian wife, desire the success of tho enemy? Would ho not gladly see us all slain with foreign swords in order that ho may recover his feudal rights, and Mario Antoinette still wear her high head and ostrich plumes In the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles?" Such questions could have but one answer. Paris aroso and mado a rush for the Tulleries. The place was taken, the royal family expelled, the Swiss guards In their red coats slain or scat tered; and, as tho Krcat equestrian statuo of Louis XIV was turned over, the populace found inscribed on the bottom of tho hinder horseshoe, "August 12th, 1092" a hundred years ago, lacking two days! Of tho storming of tho Tulleries aud of tho virtual overthrow of tho monarchy Danton is believed to have been the princi pal inspiring cause. Certainly history, as against all men, was in the Held; but of human wills Danton's was the most effect ive in the deed. His mind now licgau to corruscatnand Hash wild lightning through thu dun smoke of tho arena. His eloquence astonished all men. His passion for tho patrjot cause hunted IJko , a furnace. Though thu Austrlaus wcru on the border aye, had broken In tho liorder and though thu (Ires of n wild revolution were flaming, not only in Paris, hut In all the cities of France, this youui: giant, now but thirty-three jeur of ago, placed himself with bared In east in thu thunder blast and ilflled the storm. Ilu openly declared that audacity, fearlessness, contempt of death nnd promotion of tho revolution at all hazards were the only remedies. While Brunswick and tho Austrian army came on, Dautou stood In his place and cried out, "II nous faut do I'audacu, ft encore do i I'audacu, et toujours do l'audace" that Is, "Now we must have audacity, and more audacity, aud audacity forever!" Thu peo ple caught thu echo, aud thu phrase passed into history as thu key word of thu French revolution. When the French monarchy toppled down, D.inton was at tho foru along with Roland and thu men of tliu (ilioudu. Hu was a mi'iuler of thu executive committee when thu Austrian successes on thu frontier threw Paris into a fruu.y of ragu and vln dlctlveiiLH.H. It was at this juncture that the llrst great measure of terror was adopted, or rather adopted itself, In tho I massacre of the prisoners and suspects In ( thu Parisian jails. Thu uvuut in itself was one of the most monstrous atrocities of i human history. But still there was a method in thu madness, aud Danton him self is said to havu lieeu responsible for the method. This wits the theory of that appalling butchery! The Aiutriuua are gnawing into the vitals of our France. The kln' and the king's party wish the Austrlaus to suc ceed, to tilumph over us, to desti y us. Thtso men In thu prisons are loyan nnd enemies of thu republic. They me litis oflxmlsand thu Austrlaus, We Ml) them an u measure of terror. Wo will let In upon them tho fierce Sansculottes, and not oiio of them all shall esenpo our vengo a nee. Austria will hear It aud tremble. Of nil this bloody slloglsni and (Initia tion Danton may hnui been the author, but It was nut from cruelty of disposition. Dot from depravity of tmtiiro and hatred of men, hut rather as ouo of tho hardships of a death htritgglo which hu could not Hell avoid. Around thu doorsof thu seven prisons of Paris bloody courts are extern porlred. Thu mob howls. The prisoners ire dragged forth whllu thu Sansculottes iliout,"VlvulaNntlonl" Tholnqucstlsonly for a moment. Death Is the sentenco. Tho prisoner Is cast forth upon thu sala-rs, axes ind pikes of the multitude, howling for blood. Then aunt her, and then another. Thu dead aro a heap of corpses. Thu sewers ire full of blood to thu shoctmekles. All thu crowd are splashed with blood. Tho iillsof t hu houses are smeared with blood. Pikes ami liberty caps nru dipped In blood until thu woik Is done and nrlstocrauy lies mangled ami dead. It Is not only a terror but a horror a very elTectlvo horror, for Austria stands aghast, nnd all tho world I Alxe this devastation Danton rosu still higher. He went Into thu national convention ns tho real leader of thu revo lution. Therefor nineteen mouths, from tho fall of ITirj to his death In April of 171)1, ho stood and reigned as the supreme pro tagonist of thu epoch, Under thu weight of his powerful hand the Glroudliis went down to despair and death. The king also camu to thu bar of tho convention, and tho president said to him, "Louis Capet, you may sit down I" On the trial Danton, while not tho most bitter, was tho most (Miwerful of tho prosecution. Ho voted for thu king's death, and moved tho appoint ment of the committee of public safety and those other executive ImmIIcs to whoso hands all power was now virtually com mitted. Tho party of radical revolution ists, known as the Mountain, was now victorious over everything. Thu monarchy was gone. Thu king and thu queen weru gono. Tho (ilroudltis weru gone. Every thing was gono but terror and tho Aus ttlans. After the overthrow of Hotand nnd his companions, Danton would havu fain staid tho tldo of violence. Ho licllovcd that tho revolution had now gono far enough, that It should henceforth bo directed into tho milder channels of rcstoiatlon and order. It was on these principles and In their de fense that ho began to break with Robes pierre and Saint Just. He knew well enough that his colleagues were opposed to his policy, that they sought by every means In their power to supply new fuel to thu flames, until every traoe of tho past should bu consumed. Hut Danton feared them not. Ho feared nothing. His friends Ui:olt(!Kfl JACQUES DANTON. cautioned him in vain. Humors of his ar rest were abroad; but lie'slmply said, with a tltaulo sneer, "They do notdarel" Never theless the enemy wove the meshes around the giant, and on thu l'i()tli of March, 17W, hu was suddenly arrested. Still hu feared not. Only when his rl;rht of defense beforo thu convention was Illegally denied did he perceive the end. It see mid in those days that hell itself yawned to swallow the world. Danton, with Camllle Dcsmoulius, Uicrolx aud Febro d'Eglnntino and others of his friends, were hastily condemned to death, atid on thu nth of April weiv hurried through the Jeering crowds to the guillotine. Ilu went to the scalTold fearless, haughty and con temptuous. "I leave the world," said he, "In a frightful welter. Better to havu Ikjcii a poor llshcrman than to havu middled with tho government of men." Hemcmlicr lug his wife, tears burst from his llercu eyes; but he checked himself Instantly, saying, "Courage, Danton; no weakness?' To Camllle, whose sensitive penes had broken under thu strain, he said, "Heed not that vile rabble." To the executioner this, touching his head as he spoke, "Show It to thu crowd; it is worth sculngl" Thus in defiance and Infinite scorn of earth and heaven and tho nether world hudled tinder the ax of thu guillotine. Danton was tho most striking figure of them all. Ho was n giant both In body and in mind. Greatly over six feet in height, as he roso to speak his head was flung back and his Krcat chest expanded with passion, while Ids nostrils dilated and his words roarui like a storm. Nothing could stand In thu wind of his denunciation, His feat ures weru coarse and bruid ami strong, lieaiitlful In their ugliness, glorllled like a ledgu of rocks under sun and shadow. He fore" him beforo tho days of his ascend ency was tho lull of thu storm which pro ceded thu down rushing of thu French monarchy. Around him wcru thu wild sLvueii and uproar of thu crisis of thu con flict. After him caiiio a welter of chaos ami blood, until w hattliCuthulittlubronzed artillery captain from Toulon stood by his great gun before thu Church of St, Hoclie, where thu nioli raged and stormed, aud said, "Fire!" It was tho beginnlni; of tho stilling of thu tempest, and his uamu was Bonaparte. John CLAliK ItlDl'ATII. Tin i Talked anil Talked aud Tulkrd. oli-riigi.iphern In tho German rclchstnu' havu picparcd a table showing thu coin punitive abilities of all thu great German political panics to kill time Thustaudiud of Judgment was the List dubite on thu emperor's plan for tjie legislative protec tion of uorkingmen, since lu this debate all party leaders talked themselves out. On tie subject lu question thu Social Demoi cits, although hut thirty-llvu strong, spoke IS-! columns of tho big relchstag ru port; Clericals, 53J4; National Liberals, 'cj'ji Conservatives, 3SJ, Thu averagu for each r'oelal Demociat was flu and ono llfth miliums; for each Clerical, half a column; for each National Lllraral, four llfths; for each Conservative, one-half. To 1'ioU-ct the Nuiirmn. Jule.i Simon is worried about the pos sible loss of fame as cooks by thu French people, Ilu says: "Wu havu a patriotic misoii foi keeping select thu art of eatlug. It is, or Ituas, a French art, I still be lieve that our cooks are the llrst in tho world. Our cooking aud our milliners aro llrst in universal estimation. But all these things wu are In danger of losing. An ad-miralil-i association has been formed to protect our language; there ought to be iiku'wixu a French union for protecting our saucepans." DEAR LITTLE JOHNNY. The Miry of it Mtltn Hoy Him l.nvcd Ills Mother. Join i n V Green was tho son of a poor widow whose husband went out to feed thu hogs one eu-nlng, and never returned to tho bosom of his dear family. It was sii posed by some that ho was nlslta-ted and hold for ransom, aud by others that he was devoured by a cow, hut whlchiwerway It was his wife was left with a mighty small farm and a mighty big mortgage drawing 10 per cent ., and sho couldn't waste any t lino tying hack her dresses or frlw.lng her hair. Had It not been for little Johnny sho would havu given up In despair, lloeut all thu wood, brought water from the spring, laboied in thu garden, and when sho sometimes brokiidown under her bur den of grief ho stood beforo her and man fully saldt "Don't let her get tho start of you, dear mother. Shut your teeth and hang on, It will till come right, and you'll rldu around lu jour own top buggy et." And then sho was consoled and comfort ed. And she patted him on thu head and I said how glad sho was that hu had been spared to her. One day little Johnny found hjy mother weeping as If her heart would break, and when ho demanded tho cause sho confessed that tM0 Interest was due on thu tnortgagu that very day, while sho had only seventeen cents nnd a lottery ticket In thu house. Old Stouehart, who held tho mort gage, would no doubt Ira there beforo night to sayt "Glminothem Interest or skip! What, no sttgarl Then consider yourself skim ped!" "Mother, do not worry," pleaded tho Iwy. "It will redden tho end of your noso tocry, and besides, old Stoneheart cannot disturb us. There's a hen on." "My child, you speak queorly. What Is It? Do not keep mo In suspensel" "There Is tho mortgage, mother, and hero Is tho discharge of It In duo form from thu county clerk." "Am I nwako or dreaming? Child! child! What means thisl" sho cried. "Only a llttlo surprise, dear mother. Last Juno Elder Davidson offered mo n cent for every ten tutor hugs I'd kill on his vines, aud during my spare hours, when you thought I was fulling frogs and play ing marbles, 1 killed seventeen billion bugs aud got my cash on the nail. Tomorrow wo go over to tho Red Clay farm, which I now own, and there will Ira four loads of new furniture on hand before noon. There comes my carrlago and driver now, aud if you will put on these diamonds and lock up about live bushels of gold lu tho pantry we'll tako a llttlo whirl around the school house to show off." And wasn't that real ulcer Detroit Free Press. A Curious Coincidence. "Speaking of coincidences," said the mnn with the wooden leg, as he lighted a half consumed cigar ho had been carrying In an old handkerchief "speaking of coinci dences, Kcntlemcn, I can tell you a very singular thing. I was going up Niagara street, lu Buffalo, when I saw a man with a wooden leg on tho other side of tho street coining down. Wo looked across at each other and stopirad. Says I to myself, and says ho to himself: " 'That fellow lost his leg at tho battle or Gettysburg, or I'm a sinner!' " "Well?" asked ono of the group. , "Wo looked at each other across tho street1 for a moment, and then says I to myself, and sajs hu to himself: " 'I'll strlko him for a quarter, nnd an old comrade and follow sufferer will shell out.' " "Well?" "Vdry curious coincidence, gentlemen very curious," continued tho man, as ho puffed away at his old stub. "Wo met on the cross walk. Wo shook hands. Wo struck each other for a quarter, but didn't get it,' Wu weru both dead broke. Neither of us was in thu baltlu of Gettysburg, or any other battle. Then says I to myself, and says lie to himself: " 'Blast his eyesl but he's a traveling on his shape aud telling a taluof woe, and he's no man for mu to associate with!' and so wu walked off. I don't llku coincidences my self, there's no money In 'em." New York Sun. ' Too Trniimrnt. A recruit was brought up for medical inspection, and the doctor asked him: "Have you any defects?" "Yes, sir; I am short sighted." "How do you prove it?'' "Easily enough, doctor. Do you see that uail up ondcron the wall?" "Yes." "Well, 1 don't." Motto per Riderc. Her Thought. "What makes you look so pensive, my dear?" said Dr. Bllck to his wife. "I Was only thinking," replied she, "that if tho bait would only scatter itself around the back yard a llttlo moro wu might have a real'uicu garden after a while." Wash ington Post. "" ""-" 1 Worse Htlll. Jagwny Wns that you I saw driving nrouiiu In a carringe tho other day? And yet you cannot afford to pay mo the live dollars you owo me. TraU-rs That's nothing. You ought to seethe bill I owu tho livery stable. Har per's Bazar. 1 Hud n Cooil firnerul Idem. Judgo (to youthful witness) My son, do you know what would liecomo of you if you should swear to what Is not true? Youthful Witness Yes'r. Tho lawyers d git me, Chicago Tribune. 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