Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-04-26
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moved by De Saint Mars, who was
his private governor, and answerable,
lit is supposed, for his safety with bis
own life, to the Bastile, where he
died on November 10, 1903, and
was buried on the goth in the ceme-
terry of St. Paul. under the name of
Machiata. No man, except the gov
ernor, so far as is known, ever saw
his face or heard bis voice two per-
sons TO whom he-.had conveyed
written words in one case marked
upon linen shirt, in the other en-
graved ON a silver plate, died, with
out apparent cause, immediately af-
Iterward. During his conveyance
from the Marguerite Islands, De
Saint Mars dined at the same table,
and slept in the same chamber with
him, with pistols ever at hand, ready
to destroy him in the case of an at
tempt on his part to reveal himself.
In the Bastile he was waited on at the
table and at the toilet, by the COVER
nor,who took charge of and destroyed
all the linen he had once used.
He was never seen but with a
mask of black velvet, fastened be-
hind his head with steel springs :
and, when he went to hear mass, the
Invalides, who were in charge of him
with muskets and lighted matches,
were instructed to fire on him in
stantly in case of his speaking or
showing his face, A hundred con-
lectures have been risked as to who
this mysterious person could have
been who was treated with such res
ppct, yet with snch jealous rigor.
whose life was held sacred against
taking off, yet made one scene of in
cessant misery. The absence of any
person of sufficient note from the
stag of history to account for such
p! actioos alone battles all inquiry.
The general idea seems to be that he
was an elder brother of Louis XIV,
the fruit of an adulterous intrigue
between Anne of Austria and the
Duke of Buckingham, or some other
unknown lover, who, being born in
wedlock, could not have been dis
possessed of his claim to the throne,
had his existence been admitted
The Amaer7cam Encyclopedia.
Do IT WELL.--W Whenever you do,
do it well. A job slighted, because
it is apparently uninp portapt, leads to
habitual neglect, SO that men degen-
crate, insensibly, into bad workmen.
"That is a good rough job" said q
foreman in our hearing, recently, and
be meant that it was a piece of work,
not elegant in itself, but strongly made
and well put together.
Training the hand and eye to do
work well leads individuals to form
correct habits in other respects, and @
good citizen. No one need hope to
rise above bis present position who
suffers small things to pass by uDim-
proved, or who neglects, metaphorieal-
y speaking, to pick by cent because
it is not dollar.
Some of the wisest law makers, the,
best statesmen, the most gifted artists
the most merciful judges, the most
ingenious mechanics, rose from tho
great mass. .@
A rival of a certain lawyer sought
to humiliate him publicly by ga wing :
"You blacked my fsther's boots once"
eyes, replied the lawyer, unabashed
''and ! did it we'll" And because Of
doing even mean things well, he rose
to greater.
Take heart, all who toll all youths
in humble situations, all in adverse
circumstance, and those who labor un.
appreciated. 1t it be but to drive
the pillow, strive to do it we'll !; if only
to cut bolts, make good ones; or TO
blow the bellows, keep the iron hot.
1t IS attention to business that lifts
the feet higher up on the ladder.
Says the good Book "Seest thou
a man diligent in business, he shall
stand before kings he shall uot stand
before mean men"
e-8e-
10 A man proves himself fit to
60 higher, who shows that he is
faithful where he is. A man that
will not do well in his present place
because he longs to be higher is fit
neither to be where he is nor vet
above it.
V Give man brains and riches,
and he is king; give man brains