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World Autocracu to Get Death Blow on Spot Where French Despotism Fell 125 Years Aao.

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There's a whole let to being mustered out besides changing clothes.

Inconsiderate winter landed with hoih feet In the lap of amtllng autumn.

If Germany does not become o republic she Is likely to become mincesaeat Perhaps the dollar-a-year men are Resigning to recoup their personal forHun army officers Id Berlin have ceased to push pedestrians from the sidewalks. A blue sky law is proposed to help the unwary to save up something for a rainy day. As Lloyd George puts It, old-fash-ioned criminal law has not become a scrap of paper.

Germany Is getting ready le pay indemnities Evidently the chastening process has liegun.

Germany should beware for generations to come of inviting retribution. There's hliliong in It. Influenza ernes hack oftener thin a ten-twonty-thlrty stock company when It finds an easy town. Extended foreign travel is nl! right, foul a lot of t he buys abroad are aching lo sec America first. Demonstrations for home-coming soldiers do not help to lessen the regret of thoM.- who didn't get it cross.

Thi j have invented a way to keep nKut Indefinitely. This would he Interesting were there any to NoIkkI) knows Wtier bow to make the smull Investor fed Important than the speculator In worthless stocks.

Now the refrain. "Tlie Yanks are Coining." |» not the signal for the rattle nf musketry hut to rattle the dishes.

When the tmlmimssloned historians recast the war there may Im* a very fleclded shifting Of heroes in high command.

It is now claimed that chop suey Iras Invented in America and Is not a Phlnesc dish. We still prefer to blame

the Chinese.

Old Nick of Montenegro denies that he U dethroned, but nobody Is exactly raliotuil after having hecu struck by a

A headline says that the coal prl Is due for a drop. It's been due for long time but has conticualiy |.,- marked up late.

O DD. Indeed. Is tbe tarn of fate which

has decided that the greatest peace conference In history shall meet In the section of Versailles once occupied by Marie Antoinette. Surely the news must wake a dim rustle of ghostly ntins, a faint murmuring of long-dead events in those halls which once beard the terrified fluttering* of the royal butterfly caught In the sled

net of the French revolution. For Marie Antoinette, guiltless In

large measure of the sins for which she suffered, was sacrificed as the *ym!>ol of tyranny or the nttnr of that democracy which has now triumphed. Striking out somewhat blindly In the throes of the birth of liberty. France thrust the young queen 'to her death In an ontbnrst against oppression thst should have b.-en a warning to William of the

Uohcnxollcnta.

Those rooms which saw the defeat of tbe last struggle of dlvlne-rlght autocracy In France will aee the defeat of the last struggle of divine-right autocracy In the world. The fall of French despotism was the signal 125 years ago for the fall of German despotism today. Across the turrets of Potsdam the shadow of Versailles has lain for all who hod vision

to see.

It was Versailles that stood at one end of the road leading straight through Ypres and Mons, Verdun and Chateau Thierry, to the very center and stronghold of kalserism In Berlin. Unwilling victim though she was. Innoccut and vicarious sacrifice for the ancient crimes of kings, nil Ignorant of the high |mrt her agony was h the upward struggle of Europe, Marie Antoinette did not die In vain. What the French revolution began the world war hi v t.nlshcd. There Is a corridor 'n Versailles at which the Hun envoys can look with bitterness only— a corridor and a "r.igeous chamber. The chamber Is that In which Blutnarck explained to the French plenipotentiaries. Jules Farm und Louis Thiers, the crushing and humiliating terms imposed by Germany after the defeat of France 47 years ago. Roles are somewhat reversed In Oils year of grace. 1510. Near tbe chamber is that sumptuous corridor known as Uie Hall of Mirrors, where once the French monarch* strolled and chatted with their courts. It Is the spot In which William I proclaimed the German empire, and It Is the spot where the peace-treaty that shatters his empire I will doubtless be signed. :;irange, musty memories taunt every corner of this gorgeous palace outside the Paris walls, thrown open now to tbe clean, sweet winds of freedom. >•- Pompadour. Du Barry and the train of lessor lovely harpies—their Intrigue* and their wicked beauty Bill! lend a dark gleam of romance *•» iho < xquislte tapestries against which In tbe yesterday of history their brocades stood out In glistening relief. Here Is the mirror that reflected the cynic, appraising smile of Lou.s XV. There Is the marble balustrade so lately touched by the Jeweled fingers of the Duchess d'Orleans. In that corner Uaxned tbe scarlet robe of the Cardinal do

Rohan.

But bemuse of her Innocence and her dramatic fate, it is Marie Antoinette most of nil whose presence j>ervsdos the wide, painted rooms. Over these glns>y floors her Irresponsible feet danced. In the Petit Trianon across the way she played at milkmaid And the garden* still hold a faint sigh of lo r laugh, ringing out carefree as a peasant girl's when the whole court Joined In blind man's buff. Such a blind king and court, eyes closed against the dreadful game Impending. They were children, the two sovereigns—children In years and in outlook during those first holiday seasons when the court played and p«rls starved and the first remole stirrings ••ame which led by long and bloody mail* to the Versailles peace conference of the

year iai9.

Marie Antoinette was only fourteen years old when they arranged her betrothal to the fifteen-year-old dauphin. She wa* married nt the age of 1 sixteen. At the age of twenty she was queen of France. Ju*t before her fortieth birthday she was

guillotined.

For three years the king and queen had been virtually prisoners In the Tullertes palace, whither they were returned after one vain attempt at flight. At last the revolutionary fury broke. On the tenth of August, in 17!C. the steps of the Tullerl.-s ran crimson with the blood of the faithful Swiss guard. Escaping to the national amtemt>lv. the king and queen, with their two children. Were lodged in the Temple, u prison fortress. Blow after blow fell thereafter on the defenseb v« heads of the royal family. The king was taken away, tried, and sent back for an agonizing scvie of farewell. Standing rigid os a statue In her cell, Marie Antoinette heard the guns boom

forth the tidings of his execution.

A ll *^' iu< " *&« "<>* separated from her dill-

evolllng indignities during a u months after the executin'! ici-self condemned to die. The a rheresa lo-queathed to her lining with a pure and steady ithv. Marie Antoinette heard nly rooming In Octolier they

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little son sent Jackknife and m tlsiis in tlie

an in a white gown and a white cap with ribbon fluttering ngi lnst her pale cheek—I tbe brilliant butterfly whose wing* had been sliattcred on the dagger-i>olntx of life. With a face of stone she ace- pied the ribald Jeers of a frenzied crowd. Slowly, slowly they took her to the spot where ten months ago her husband I tad been beheaded. They reached tbe Place Louis Qulnze. There was no prophet to show Mnrir Antoinette the vision behind tbe grim gullloUce. the vision of Versailles and its peace conference and the Incredible year of 1919. She saw only the Temple, where her children were confined. Toward that fortress she csst a glance of anguish. And then, against the cold sky. she saw the glitter of a knife pulsed for swift descent. She climbed upward to It. eagerly. When Louis XIV chose Versailles a* the kite for his new palace and park It had little to commend It. being a low, swampy are* and distant from an adequate water supply. A chateau of Louis XIH, however, was situated there. The “grand monarch" lavished vast sums in laying out, completing and maintaining this magnificent royal seat. The court came here permanently about 1GS2, and from that time for more than 100 years Versailles figured prominently in history. IxmU XV dwelt here and Madame Ce I'otnadour and Madame du Barry reigned over this vast pleasure establishment. Here, too. 1-ouls XVI and Marie Antoinette resided. In the palace was signed the treaty of 17S3 between England. IVanee and Spain, on the same day on which tbe definite treaty of peace In which Knriand recognized t Indepcnd enee of the United States was signed In 1‘arls. The meeting of th.- sutes-general. the opting net of the French revolution, took place here on May 4. 1789. Since then it has never been tiM-d as a residence. Daring the siege of Parts in 1870-71. King William I of Prussia made l.ls headquarters here, und lien- he wn* i rowned German emp,for January 18. 1871. When the Gv-nusns departed, tiie French government .-stabli-'ied Itself at Versailles and carried on war against the Parts commune. It remained here uniil 18711, when Paris was occe more made the txiltical capital. The pahi e Is inuiposed of n centra! square, two Wings ut the riglu and left of It. and a third wing backing on the njuare and extending Into the park. The Imposing facade Is one fourth of a mile long. The C urt d'Hotmevr 1* . cten-d from the paluec. large [ liars marking the entrance and symbolizing national victories under 1*>uU XIV. Most of the great French paint.ts. notably David. Delacroix and Horace Vcroot. are represented here, ojd nil the history of Franc.-, with Its greet battles and ceremonies. I* spread on can vs* be-

nnd nsed by the national assembly after tbe Franco-Prnsslan war. and Inter by the senate. The Rooms of the Crusades are resplendent and erod with large paintings. The impressive Galerie de Constantine bolds some of the finest battle pictures of Vernet. Tbe Grands wpanments of l-ouls XIV overlook the park and contnlrf note- j worthy paintings. Ad- j joining Is the ft incus Gab I orle des Glares—an Im- | in on so end sumptuous room facing the center of the gardens. Its paintings are by Louis I-ehrun. William 1 wss crowned emperor of Germany In this room In 1871. The l»ed chamber of Louis XIV is Imposing, and contains the magnificent bed on which ho breathed bis last. His Petits apartments nre continuous and Include the bedchamber of Louis XV. where be died. Tbe Grands apartments of the queen are j beautifully decorated. In j tbe immense and got- . geous Galcrie de* Batnlb lea—over 130 >ards long ; —are many grand battle pictures by modern French crtls’s. The Galerlc de , I'Empire contain* paint- ! Ings r -presenting the cm- ! fee. of Napoleon Bonaparte, tbe first emperor. The park, with Us decorative pond* oud vast fountains, was flrst laid out by the velehrated Le Notre. It Is Imposing, but stiff end artificial, and ; has served as a famous type of Renaissance garden. Terraces, large ornamental basin*, huge vase* overflowing with flower*, countless marble groups and basts, statues—csfieclally reflecting tbe appropriate nrt of Coyxcvox-quincunxes, txi«quets and geometrically trimmed tri es, here mock nature and tbe natural. An linmen*e {Kind [ stretches away In th- shape of n cross In front of ; the palace. The playing of the grand fountalna, enlivened by colored lights. Is one of tbe great sight). In end about Paria. Two Immense flights ! of marble step* descend on tbe opposite side of the jialrce to tbe famojs orangery, beyond which ; extends a vast pond which was dug by the Swiss guard of Louis XIV. In the northern reel Ion of ! the pork are the charming Grand and Petit Trianon. Near by are the carriage bouses, with many ! vehicles of state. Including some of the niagnlQ- . cent equipages nsed by Napoleon.

WILL OUT8PEED THE OTHERS. I nothed a boy coming downtown on a car end be w*as deep In a nfikgazlne. It told him not of tbe tangles of Nearern's hair, bnt of the colls of the d>namo. of tbe warel.tigtbs of tbe wireless, of the mysteries of the third rail and the telephonic circuit. When he' had satisfied himself as to the latest progress In alndilp* and sei.j.ianes, he turned to the ndvirtlsemenl* and n-ad them as If he were IlMenlag to music. “That boy." 1 whispered to myself. “]« on the way to lhe place In tbe world that comes by patient research and concentrated study.* The lad with the patent office In hi* mind win won :>ut*]M¥d the tad with palent leather on hi* feet.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.

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