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PARIS' FEAST OF HIKES. '
WDPATH'S ACCOUNT OF THE OATH
FETE IN THE CHAMPS DE MARS.
Oiriilup of the Great l-Ktlval of 1 700.
Prpart Uihh for the SpeetMde The
ly aikI IIic Ceremony A Kcmiim In
credible to the People f Our Timet.
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tion.l
UK spectacles of
5 the French revoiu
t linn Wtrt hm ils-
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J tDe drama were
4 . SwJiCllisS titanic in stature.
.look of today the
whole tliinu ap
pears like a hutce
phantasm travers
ing thesolierKtatie
of history The
lieopleH of our time j
are more lispoel
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to keep alive the personal memories of the
great revolutionists than to recall the sur
prisiiiK scenes in which they acted Bat
in reality the successive crises that arose
and broke in that tumultuous storm are of
greater interest than are the dramatis per
vontB, for the event is ever greater than the
man.
Among the scenes of that stormy epoch,
perhaps the greatest and most pleasing
as it is straugely oue of the least remem
tiered was the Feaht of Pikes, celebrated
in honor of the new constitution and as the
occasion when France as a nation took-the
oath of fealty to the instrument which the
national assembly had produced. For in
-he meantime the Revolution had gone for
'' ward with great strides. Only two months
and Dine days after the meeting of the
states general at Versailles, the Bastile was
taken by storm. Paris became suddenly
conscious of her power. Almost glorious
"in her rage, she proceeded at once to ex
treme measures. The year had been one
of famine. The people everywhere were
suffering for bread.' There came on a uni
versa 1 Gallic effervescence in which all in
-credible things were believed in and ex
pected. France imagined for the hour that
the states general, which soon resolved it
self into the national assembly, could make
oread as well as a new constitution; but
the bread did not appear
Paris, now thoroughly hungry, made a
rash for Versailles. The passion of the
hoar took this form that the king and the
court, as well the national assembly, should
te transferred to Paris, the capital, where
we patriots might teach them alt the way
So liberty and bread. So in the early flays
of October Iouis and bis family were hur
ried from the palace of the Bourbon kings
at Versailles and brought to the Tuileries.
'Very tame the king and his party had now
become, and between the monarchy and
the national assembly, holding its sessions
to the Salle de Manege, or riding hall, only
a, abort distance from the Tuileries, very
friendly relations had been established.
The new constitution was completed ac
cording to the Gospel by Rousseau, and
-suddenly all minds became possessed with
the belief that the new era was at the door.
'There was a universal faith in imminent-
-deliverance and plenty. This state of ai
fairs supervened in the early part of 1790. -As
the summer came on, an Idea took
possession of the French mind. The new
voostitutional monarchy had been provid
O, that is, the paper form of it, by the na
tional assembly, and King Louis, glad to
have peace, bad agreed to its provisions.
Aye, be would swear to maintain it swear
for himself and bis son, and his posterity.
Already, in the first days of February, his
aaajeaty went over in' person to the Salle do
Manege, making a little milk-and-water
speech, and between him and the national
vasembly there was great fraternity A
national oath was prepared which all must
take or rather which all" mill take for
' "spontaneity suddenly comes with a flame.
. and everybody swears and then swears
ngain. The president of the--assembly
swears. All the delegates swear Outside,
old Bailly, mayor of Paris, swears A cer.
. tain Monsieur Dantou, not unknown to
the Revolution, declares that "the public
would like to rm.rtH.kf" "in t.h nn-onrinal
King I .ouis receives the title of Restorer of
French Liberty, and all Frenchmen except
few Marat and the like in underground
Paris love him ami will support him and
lua constitutional monarchy always.
Would it not be well, therefore, O French
people, happily delivered from your sor
rows by the goodness of your king, by the
new constitution, and by the Gospel ac
cording to liou&seau, that a great day
greatest of all days should be appointed,
in which the French nation, by representa
tives chosen from all the eighty-three de
partments of the kingdom, may come to
a;ether in one place, and there in that great
place, under the open canopy of heaven,
wear a great national oath with one
voice oath that shall shake the world
and reverberate down the centuries? And
what day shall that day bet Certainly no
other than the 14th of July, first anniver
sary of the storming of the Bastile For
j that day was the birthday of liberty, as it
"'shall be for us aud posterity And what
place shall we find fitting for such a cere
mooy? What place bat our great Champs
de Mars, lying yonder ou the left bank of
the Seine, between the Rcole-Militaire and
the river.
About that place ail the history of an
cient France, back to the days of the Ro
, mans, seems to hover. There the warrior
' 'chieftains of the Franks, from the days of
Merovteus to the days of Pepin, were wont
to assemble and toss their kings ou their
bucklers, with coarse shoutings that signi
ct&ed much of fealty and devotion. -There
Charlemagne himself was wont to review
his soldiers and to hold his courts of May
I Jay. 1 Here all the Capetian kings, down
to the Great Henry, and from him to our
beloved Louis, have been accustomed to go
on national days to review the soldiery of
France and to receive the homage of the
nation. There then, certainly, our new
Great Oath shall bet taken by the whole
French nation, as never oath was taken be
fore or shall be afterward.
The idea was that the act of oath taking
to the new order of things should cousti
tnte a kind of federation of liberty, equal
ity and fraternity. This notion oaugbt the
public mind iike a contagion, and not only
.the whole of -Paris, but a large part oi
France, plunged into the swim of excite
ment and enthusiasm. Deputations be
gan to arrive from distant departments
The guardsmen of Lyons came, and were
' .received by' the city with great shoutings
Meanwhile, nnder the direction of the
" municipality and the national assembly,
' workmen and artists begin to prepare the
' Champs de Man for the ' federation A
plan like ' that of a monstrous coliseum in
laid out, greatest in circuit ever seen on
the surface of this poor planet, and most
wonderful in its parpoee There .in the:
oomnr la to be nosed an Aulei de la PatrUs.
or altar to ntir land such altar as 'for
asm ani sanctity was. never planned before
A great artiiicial rock is provided, having
within Its iuterior a Temple of Concord,
while on the summit above rises a statue,
of Liberty of such colossal height that she
with her pike and Phrygian cap may Iw
seen at a distance of many miles.
All the great rock is covered with ban
ners and rnuttoKs Round about a space
of more than ;WU.OOO square feet is left for
the ceremonies proper, while all around
terraces are to be raiser! of earth of such
vast extent in circuit and elevation that
one might well believe that not only Paris
and France, but all Kuropewas to be in
vited to the sitting
At first it appeared that the work lagged,
though the municipality had sent out 15,
000 workmen with shovels and barrows to
make the excavations aud heap up the em
bankments By the 1st of .Tilly the rumor
spread that the work was behind aud could
not be finished in time. Patriotism w.id
that the aristocrats had hired the laborers
not to work The glorious fete was about
to fail through treachery! But behold,
with the spread of the rumor great crovds
begin to pour out of the city and into the
Champs de Mars. At first in relays they
take hold of the unused shovels and bar j
rows and begin to sing fara as they toil
But other thousands come, and bring their '
own barrows and shovels. Then the girls j
and women come with their tri-colored
ribbons, smile approval, and shovel dirt I
with their lovers. A hundred and fifty
thousand come, and then 250.000, and the
chorus of ("a- ra swells and reverberates
until old Seine is shaken to his bottom.
Never was such scene -of enthusiastic
labor witnessed before in the world. .All
classes of society made contributions to the J
force. The universities discharged their
professors and students to work at the bar
rows. Men were there from 'Brittany and
from the Jura mountains, from the Medi
terranean coast and from Normandy.
Sages, statesmen, poets were there, shovel
ing aud wheeling. The king himself came
out, and the workmen rushed around his
majesty with their shovels at a present aud
shoulder arms strangest body guard that
ever poor louis had, or any other king.
Marie Antoinette, with the dauphin, looks
on and smiles; she, the daughter of Ther
esa, to die under the guillotine, and he to
rot in old Simon's shoesbop and a cell of
the prison!
Thus Were the preparations completed.
The evening of the 13th of July saw every
thing ready for the morrow, and the mor i
row dawned. The great terraces rose,
thirty in number, one above the other,
each more than athousand yards in length,
all freshly sodded and clean and beautiful
under the Parisian sky. About the altar
of Fatherland were swung ou high to iron
cranes great pans of incense, to be lighted
for the nostrils of Liberty and of all pa
triotism With the early morning the
crowds began to pour into the inclosure, if
that might be called an inclosure which
seemed of limitless extent. The citizenship
of Paris and of other cities came in shoals
aud by thousands. All were dressed in
gay apparel, and the tri-color ribbons
floated and fluttered everywhere. . Tbedis
tant housetops and steeples of the city
were black with people. The soldiers came
under Generalissimo de Lafayette, who,
from the young enthusiast at the side of
Washington, has grown to such stature as
this! But now he is no longer De I La
fayette, for nil titles have been abolished
He is simply Citizen Motier, or at most the
Sieur Motier. . But he is commandant and
general of all There are the king and the
qneeu and the dauphin and the court. The
lowest estimate places the assemblage at
800,000 souls " '
.It was a scene of enthusiasm and won
der for the like of -which the pages of his
tory may be searched in vain. The pans of
incense are lighted. The cannon boom.
All flags and banners are unfurled. The
military evolutions are performed before
the altar of Fatherland. Then Lafayette
advances, ascends in the sight of' the aiui .'
titude, aud pressing his sword's "point, on
the altar pronounces the oath of fidelity
"to the king, to the constitution and to the
nation forever.'' Louis himself arises and
swears, so that the people hear. The court
swears; the queen also, holding the dau
phin by the band.
The air is rent with
Tl,. .lolo,,. t .11 ,u ;,..
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three departments of France come forward
and take the oath. They bring their flaus
with them, each bearing the new national
bander, and lot their flaxs must all be con -
secrated under the sanction of religion ere
they be borne back to distant quarters ot
the kingdom.
"""i1 , U? yen TMl
S2ES Jffiffi !
Ages, but with the tri-color girdle of the1
future about, his waist, advance to the '
altar. At the head of the procesniou ! have learned neither to keep flocks nor
marches oue whose name, though he lie i to till the fields are skilled in the fabri
priet, shall be. known to the corners of! cation of the hook, the fish spear and the
civilization. He it is who shall be for this nt. Th MrliKt riv,'i0ti-
day, as Cariyle calls him, the "Soul's Over
IN
INxTH CHAMPS DE MARS.
seer" for the French nation. He shall with
proper ceremony, here under the open
heaven and by the flowing Seine, even in
this Field of Mars, across whose sod Roman
emperors have ridden, consecrate all the
eighty-three banners of France. '
So he goes up the altar step, and with
proper formula of churchly Latin and
patriotic French begins the service of con
secration. J ast then, however, a great
cloud swings across the July sky and pours
down with loud thunder squall on all these
three hundred thousand a deluge of rain.
The Incense pans are ominously put out.
All draperies hang dripping. Bat the
high priest of -France completes the conse
cration of the flags. The sun bursts out
again. "The great Day of Federation, the
memorable Feast of Pikes, is ended with a
religious benediction from the lips of that
high priest whom careful history writes by
the name of Charles Maurice, prince oi
Perigord. but whom the world calls TaUey
rami! John Clark Kiepath
Of 1,000 children born in England, 11 aif
twins; in Scotland, 11; la Ireland, 17. Ii:
general, twins occur once in 60 births. It
F.ngland there are 0,736 twins born ever;
year, or about 4,868 double births. Th
esses where there ars mora than two at .
birth average eight per year.
FAIL" .
"love cannot fait," when Joy grow pale,' .'
And Hope's blithe heart forlorn; - !..'
When Sin makes black the shining track ' ',
Below the bills of morn; ,
When Faith is weak, and dare not seek
The Soul's abiding place;
When Doubt doth lift from Time's dark drift,
A wan, bewildered face;
When Pain's keen blade deep wounds has
made ' . ;
From which we vainly shrink; ;
When Life barns low, with nickering glow.
Above Death's somber brink;
When Earth's last light fades into night,
"And all la said and done"
"Love cannot fail," and most prevail.
For (iod and Love are one.
-W. H. Hayne in Sunday School Times.
LIFE IN CALIFORNIA IN '49.
A State or Society In Which Women Had
, Little or No Part fur a Time.
Life in California was at that time a
wild romance. No words of mine can
describe the scenes that were enacted
during that chaotic period. Thousands
of men, organized in bands or wholly
disorganized, were constantly arriving
from every part of the world and leav
ing for the diggings. Outlaws and pro
fessional gamblers opened . saloons by
the score at every point where men con
gregated. Money was scattered every
where as if by the wind.- Miners, who
had realized fortunes in a few days
came down to Stockton, Sacramento
and San Francisco to squander them in
a night. Scarcely a woman was- any
where to be seen. All restraining influ
ences of society were absent, and. I can
not find an expression better suited to
the case than "Pandemonium on a
frolic."
As there were no wives there could be
no homes or families. A few stores had
been hastily put up along the shore,
made of rough boards or canvas, and all
of them were doing an enormous busi
ness. The rest of the village consisted
of shanties or tents used for restaurants
! and saloons. . Human life was a moving
panorama. The whole place was alive
with a mass of unkempt men clad in
flannel shirts and heavy boots,' who were
inspired with the one desire to hurry on
to the mines.
This rough life was not without its
touches of sentiment. One day the town
was electrified by the rumor that an in
voice of women's bonnets had arrived
and could be seen at one of the B tores.
The excitement was intense, and there
was a rush from every direction to get a
realistic view of even so insignificant a
substitute for female society. I do not
overstate the truth in saying that the
thoughts of home that were awakened
in the breasts of the rude looking men
at the sight of those bonnets started
tears from eyos which the worst forms
of privation and hardship had . failed to
moisten.
The Christian missionary was already
on the ground, and good Parsoii . Will
iams had managed to find a place where
he could preach on Sunday. One of the
first men who arrived with his family
came to one of these meetings attended
by bis wife and baby. ' - During the ser
mon it chanced that thebaby cried, and
the mother was---about to withdraw,
when Ibe preacher addressed her thus:
""My good 'woman, I beg you to re
main; 'the innocent sound of . that in
fant's voice ia more eloquent than any
words I can command. It speaks to -the
bearts of men whose wives and children
are far away.' looking and praying for a
safe return to' their own loved ones at
home." Never' shall' I forget the sobs
and . tears which those "words evoked
throughout that ronerh assemblv. ; That
i infa.nt'8 rv uvmcil ts thm m-nc
I "
, angeia. Joun U. "remont in Century.
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I
aiiiqimy oi imuiiic
1 Probably no branch - of industry can
I lay claim to greater antiquity than' that
j of fishing.. Its origin would seem to be
; coeval tne earliest efforts of hnman
ingenuity, for the oldest monuments of
-Sitjshow the fisherman in fullpoe-
session of the implements of his calling,
an even those tribes of savages which
I eastern Mediterranean was beiran with
j fishing. Sidon, which means "the fish
j ery," was originally a fishing village,
j and its enterprising inhabitants devoted
j their attention mainly to the collection
i of a certain kind of mollusks. from which
i they prepared the famous Tyrian pur-!
: pie, prized more taghly for the richness
and variety of its hues than any other
dye known to the ancients. Washing-
ton Star.
!
Are Yon .Right or Left Handed?
I Theories as to the origin and cause of
right handedness may be divided as fol
j lows: According to one class of theories,
it rests on a a anatomical basis and de
j pends on a physical cause which exerts
j its influence in everyone of us. Accord-"
j ing to another class, man originally had
I no preference for either hand, but be
; came right handed by conventional
I usages, which may or may not have had
their origin in some anatomical features.
For any theory of the first class to Xm
satisfactory it must, first, account for
difference in sensation as well asm force
or dexterity; second, it must account
for the occasional appearance of left
handedness; and, third, it most not be
inconsistent with the fact that most of
those who have their organs transposed
the heart on the right, the liver on the
left, etc. are right handed. Thomas
Dwight, M. D., in Scribner'a. ,
6ai4 You? Ppmcs. '
Elmer Young, an iJtewego man, felt
funny the other morning, and he said to
Mrs. White, who. was going to the gro
cery, "Trot along after -your coal oil,
sissy." She had him arrested, and the
court decided that " sissy" was slander
and gave her a verdict for (50. Detroit
Free Press. .-
Her Changed Ftnte. ' . . '
Mistress (to former servant) Where
are you living now, Bridget? - - -
Bridget (haughtily) Shore, Oi
don't live any where. Oi'm married.--Kate
Field's Waahingtoa. .' ,
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The Grate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
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ITS TERRITORY.
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THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
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ITS PRODUCTS.
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