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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.
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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.
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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.
Not lint IIIkIiI Answer,
Ouiier Private Schultz, after jou have
served thriu jcars faithfully, what arc you
then?
Pnvato Schult. (saluting) Three years
older Front tho German. '
liiinuer.
"Where nru ou Kohu;, my pretty innld?"
"Out to thu Zoo, kind sir," shu said.
".Ma) I ko with ou, my pretty ninldV"
"They mluht detain jou, ulr," shu snld.
New York Sun.
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Teacher Iadlcs, I am sorry tocoufess it,
hut I would rather havu live young men
from thu high school than one of you.
Chorus of Young Indies So would we
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