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ELIZABETH CITY, N; C; FRIDAY, SEPT, 20, 1901. 8 ll 1.1 "TERRIBLE DANTON. 1 rr A MISGUIDED BUT 'LION HEARTED ' LEADER OF THE PARIS MOB. 1) Ilia . l f v i' " - - i -.. .ixuiuv 1 port In - the Revolution -A Fiery Orator and tlie Author of the Pol- Icy of Terror. " Copyright, 1901, by G. L. Kilmer. ANTON, the giant framed and lion heart ed revolution-, 1st, met the fate of a blind leader of. the blind. He forg- , ed the -weapon which slew him and fell ' a victim .to . that insatiable thirst for blood which he him self had stim ulated, al- ' though at times he had tried to stay the slaugh ter. Danton's debut as a revolutionist was brought about ' through his es pousal of the cause of Marat, who had been marked by the government for persecution. Danton was the leading spirit of the Cordeliers' club, which was in a quarrel with the Paris munic ipality. When Marat was threatened and forced to quit Paris,, the Corde liers took up the case, and Danton's elo quence succeeded In carrying It before the national assembly. It was decided against 7 the Cordeliers, but the leader of the club was before the people as a revolutionist. ' In Paris the power of the populace was essential to revolutionary success, and Danton looked to the populace. rather than to the middle classes and the representatives : for support. 1 He got what, he asked for, for he was a fiery orator, resistless in his energies and.with the politician's knack of win ning the people's trust and affection. As' a man of action Danton first ap, . peared on the scene in the famous at tack on the Tuiteries and the Swiss guard Aug.-10, , 1792. Mirabeau was ; then dead, and the king had none to defend him among the revolutionists. Soon after;the massacre and flight of v the king the Prussian army was march ing on Paris to take vengeance for the outrage upon royalty, and then Danton cried, "To stop the progress of the en i emy we must strike terror to the royal ,Ists." 5 The way was not long In showing It self after the will had been declared openly by one whose word was law. The Paris prisons were filled with po litical suspects, friends of the king. courtiers in : the pay of Austria and Prussia. On the 1st of September Ver dun fell Into the hands of the enemy. . removing another block from the path of the armies coming to restore the monarchy to power and punish Paris for its overthrow. The mob arose, the prison doors were opened, and the first frightful massacre of fellow citizens took place, Danton beinjr foremost In the deed as he had been In the plot to Incite terror. The royalists were struck . with terror, and the next step was to dispose of the king. -Under the assembly Danton held the office of minister of justice, but on be ' ing elected to the national convention . soon after the bloody events of August and September he became a leader of the most radical forces in that radical body. He was against the king. Said he: "It is true that we, the people, have no right to be his judges. Very well, we will kill him." . And kill him they did. ' - The next radical step was the estab lishment of a revolutionary tribunal, a measure proposed by Danton and one he afterward: had cause to regret ; It began by taking royalist heads and ended In taking Danton's own. Next the committee of safety was organized. with Danton a member, associated with Robespierre against Girondists. The allies were marching upon Paris, and the last bulwark against invasion, Longwy, had yielded; to the victorious foe. The ministry proposed to aban ' don Paris, but Danton said; "No." He went out on the Champ de Mars and enrolled volunteers to stem the inva slon, although originally his voice had been against war His motto for the - hour, which became the watchword of revolutionary Paris, ., .was, "Daring, again daring and evermore' daring.' The volunteers came at his call in - - - . - ... 6' "-.. . troops and battalion, saying, VYes,: we will go to the front but we will not leave enemies behind us." Then fol lowed a new era of massacres, which Danton, with all ' his prestige as late minister of justice, Roland and even Marat, the friend and adviser of the people, could not wholly prevent The populace was mad for blood and in no mood to leave It to the tribunal to deal with traitors. . -' strong as he was and ; courageous, Danton, no more than other leaders of that time, could stand against the tide. He attacked Marat attempting ta draw the line' between bloodthirsty radicals ; and true patriots among the Paris sec tions.,- He even hinted that Marat should be made a scapegoat to bear the onus of the excesses charged against the Mountain by the Glron dins. , But Marat-: was saved, for the' revolutionists could not afford to fly in the faces of the Paris sections which . Marat had at his .back whenever he ; co'uld'cry but against committees, tri bunals, senatorial despotism and the . like. The 'people rebelled against: all authority but their own until .all else was down, then rebelled against their own acts. Even Danton, with all his lion hearted courage and reason; was swept along in the trail of the hot head ed Marat The downfall of Danton was precipt latea dv a storm raiser! hv x r elnatlon. " The reactionary' 'elemenV headed by .the Girondins, appointed a commission of twelve to examine and report upon the Illegal acts of the com mune, the stronghold of Marat's Influ ence, 9?, in fact, of the revolution In its essence. ' i anized opposition in the commune, ana an tne radical ciuds, in cluding Danton's Cordeliers and, the Jacobins." took alarm and held -permanent session. Marat went into the na tional convention and moved on behalf of the commune. the suppression of the commission of twelve as a dangerous' counteY revolutionary body; He gave his reason for demanding the suppres sion :that -Its continuance threatened to provoke insurrection. When Marat sat down, a deputation from one of the in terior, sections of the commune pre sented itself and demanded not . only the suppression of the commission, but the trial of its members before the rev olutionary tribunal. ' ' , The message of the communist depu ties to the convention ended with these significant words: "The sections wbuld know how to save the republic of them selves if .forced to do It." This called the president of the convention, a mod erate, to his feet : Said he: "If the con vention were outraged through any of those disturbances in Taris which have been,; so frequent since the 10th of March and which within .the last week have become a daily occurrence in all quarters of the- city; if they should take the shape of even an attempt to coerce the national representation, i tell you in the name of the whole of France that Paris -will be annihilated. Yes, France .will take such vengeance on the guilty city that it will soon be necessary to inquire on which bank of the Seine the capital once stood." ' t This ' was the moment of Danton's pre-eminence In the revolutionary coun cils, and he towered above Robespierre onl v to rouse' his ' envy and 'become marked for the guillotine." The assem bly broke out In an uproar, and Dan ton's voice was heard above the tumult shouting In the face of the president: "This impudence. Is beginning to be too much for us! We shall resist you! Let there be no more truce between the Mountain and the cowards who have wished, to save the tyrant!" Danton had previously posed as a moderate, and even later, when It be came war to the death between Glron din and Jacobin, he tried to save the Girondins. - But 'the limit had been reached, and . the end was that the president was forced from his chair and a close friend of Danton elevated In his place. A vote was taken which suppressed the . obnoxious commission of twelve. Danton, Robespierre and Marat; with the mayor of Paris, began the organization of the communists for general insurrection. This was the end of the Girondins. Thirty-two mem bers of. that faction were arrested, and the remainder fled the city. - All -France was , thrown into a tu mult and It became a struggle with Paris against the whole country. Dan ton fought with Robespierre against the Girondins until It came to the point of killing them, when his old tern per of moderation again mastered him. But Robespierre had cast, the die and even at last sacrificed his colleague, an ally forced upon him by circumstances and one he had always secretly hated. Branded as a moderate, Danton was seized and thrown -into prison. Some of the convention tried to save his life, but it was decreed that "In the name of virtue terror Is irrevocably the order of the day." The charge against Danton was that he was the accomplice of the enemies of the republic, the very men he had helped to destroy, and he was POINTS AS TO MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT. ' . Much Can Be Accomplished by Intel ligent Supervision Road . Guards Susrsrested- Useless Repair Materi al Road Slachlnes. 'c.;r' : There Is no question that bo vexes the minds of the executive officers of our, country towns as that of how to best care for the public roads,, says C. P. Augur of Connecticut In New Eng land Homestead. They know that only a certain amount of money will be ap propriated for the purpose, and they are well aware that they will be held to a strict account for Its expenditure Except In a few" instances, where Iso lated patches of improved roads are laid down with the help of the state appropriation, the work is very imper fectly done, and the material used Is worthless for the purpose. Often the men in charge of road , repairs 7 know that the slipshod methods employed are poor 'economy, but the fear of ad verse criticism, perhaps loss of office, if this year's expenditure exceeds that' :.. Till "WB MUST STKIKB TEftKOE TO THE EOT" '- , ALISTS." ,''' , not allowed to put In a defense. He was a victim to that tribunal he had founded.1 He treated his judges with contempt calling them. "Cains" and lamenting the disorder he left around him. ' - , . - On learning his sentence he said: "We fall victims to contemptible cowards. out tney ;wiii not long enjoy their vie tory. Robespierre follows me. I-drag him after me." - To the executioner he said: -'Show my head to the crowd. It is worth their seeing." ' . , ... George X. Kilmeb. . A VIIiliAGB HIGEtWAT. ! of last year causes them to do that which makes a show of repairing, but which in the end leaves the roads in worse condition v than before repairs were attempted. - .My idea 'of -what should be done Is to- elect at the annual town meeting on al ternate years ji road supervisor whose term of office shall , be for two years unless sooner terminated. Give him the entire charge of the roads, bridges and sluices and. pay him a liberal per diem for time necessarily .expended. The first -duty of the supervisor should be to appoint a resident road guardian for each section of road, such section not to : exceed three miles in extent The duty of this road guardian shall be not to repair damage, but to prevent It. He should Inspect the road under his charge frequently, especially during heavy rains, and see that gut ters and sluices are kept open and wa ter bars unbroken. Often ten minutes' work with hoe or shovel at the right moment will save ten hours' work with teams'and men. I have recently drlv en over ; hundreds of miles or ? coun try roads and have observed the great damage done by the spring rains. In nearly every case a little work at the right time could have saved the roads. In the event of any unusual damage the guardian should - report promptly to his superior. ' The material usually used In repair ing country roads is road wash or turf that has grown upon It and Is In no sense suitable. The worn pebbles tiave no power of coherency. They will not bind, and the organic matter of turf Is productive only of mud or dust, r There Is no road so pleasant to ride upon as a well made, well drained, well graded dirt road. Once; settled J Into' place It will last in good condition for years if frequently looked after. On heavy soils it will, of course, be muddy when the, frost Is coming out, butihat is only for a short period, and the pleas ure of riding' on it free from noise and dust at other seasons compensates for a good deal of springtime annoyance. ' It , Is not . practicable to harden all country roads, and if the road Is -well drained and the gutters and sluices kept open it is not desirable. ,A clat tering stone road takes away much of the charm of a country drive, to say nothing of the annoyance to dwellers thereon. . Sometimes, if gravel is readily available,- it is economy to surface . a damp dirt road with a four, Inch, at This will keep all light vehicles ou'tsf the mud, even In springtime, and .un less very heavy teams pass over it will last for years. Wet places that cannot be successfully drained should be Cited with a telford pavement and from sU to eight inches of gravel placed over it All gutters and sluices 'should be large enough to take the rainfall at its greatest excess, and the failure to have them so is a frequent "source of dam age and consequent expense. To sum marize, put your : roads Into -the best condition possible with the means avail able and then give them constant at tention rather than neglect them for 11 months and- repair them in" one. BmM- With : a : Boom Our new fall stuffs are Jarriving daily, case after case and bale after bale; Never have ; : 'A: f . A ; . wej opened uch variety o -f A , ; -f A- V cChoice Fall and Winter Fabrics ; t AS ARE NOW BEING SHOWN.' 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' " . Suits, from $12.00 to $35.00. . ' Overcoats from $9.00 to $30.00. ' ' S , Trousers from $4.00 up. . - V ' v , . Remember our Guarantee "No Fit; No Pay' , Call and 'examine the samples anyway. s - - ' . Vacation days are over. School life begins for the youngsters. How much more pleasant is.it made if the child is dressed properly. ye can f it tbcm oat from to to toe; : : ; Ready to wear dresses for girls. Two arid three piece suits for boys. Shoes and stockings for both. Always the best va lues for the least money. A full line of ' : ' .Pencils, Pens,, Inks, 1 ablets, blates,. Etc. The Big DfPARTMENrSroRt Tb Advanced Vomon Seaboard Air Line. RAILWAY. . , "CAPITAL CITY; ROUTL" SHORT LINE TO PRINCIPAL cities of the south and southwest, florida, cu ba, .texas,' california, and mexico;; reaching the . capitals: oi4 six STATES. . ' V 3 SCHEDULE III EFFECT MAy 20, I CO I With Advanced Ddeas Lv. Norfolk Lv. Portsmtmtfe Lt; Suffolk 923 a. m 9:08p.m. ' 9:40 a. m. 9 :30p. m. 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So. having plenty ot money and the gift of invention, the countess is busy preparing to seek se clusion beneath the surface of the Med iterranean in-the submarine dwelling she . is having built. The countess knows ' that the gossips of the Paris boulevards when they relate her story call herLe Mystere; hence she has giv en her boat that name. When you hare them Jn good condition expend your efforts upon keeping the gutters and sluices open, and leave, the road itself alone as much a possJble, An old, hard roadbed Is better than any hew, soft one that can be made wittf iartn in any case, and it Is far more desirable than the usual agglomeration of road wash leaves and turf. Ar Chattanooga Ar jn asnviue r Memphis 1:00 p. m. 1 X) a. m. 8 5 p.m. 55 a. m. 8.10 a. m. 4.00 p. m. all trains for Pinehustr- N. C. 20. minutes bi Connections daily at Southern .Pines, with a bv electric cars. 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