Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18

your opinion upon (which have often
found better than that of men who make
greater professions to wisdom"
He then explained what il was that he
had particularly in his mind whether it
was possible to do something to end the
striie ana bitterness existing in France.
i Know" added the King, shat when
ever seek your advice, you ask me for
time to consider the matter. In three
or Ioar Gays | shall send for you again"
Upon this the King said goodnight,
and the young counselor withdrew. Three
nights after the King sent for him at the
same hour, when once more the hasseck
was placed at the bedside and Sully pro-
ceeded to answer the Kings question.
The substance of his opinion was that
there were two modes of giving peace to
France. One was by the way Ct violence
and the other by the way of policy. He
told his self-indulgent and pleasure-lov-
| ing master that if he adopted the system
OF force, ne would have endless pain and
dlttlculty; would have to live with
horse always between his legs,' armor on
his back, helmet on his head, pistol in
! list, and sword in hand He would have
to say farewell to pleasure, to love, to
hunting, to building. But if he took the
way OF policy, he would have a much
easier time in this world.
Gas to the next world, said Sully,s'I
don't answer for you"
The King burst out laughing, sat up in
bed, scratched his head several times,
and then said:
All you say is true, but I see so many
tnorns on every side, that some of them,
am sure, will prick me sorely enough.
Ihey continued to converse at great
length, sometimes seriously, sometimes
Jocularly; and the result was, as all the
world knows, that the King adopted the
Catholic religion, secured freedom of wor-
ship to the Protestants, and so gave
France eighty-seYen years of internal
peace.
The Duke of SullY was peculiarly useful
as restraint upon the expenditures of the
King. He so often objected to expensive
projects that he acquired the nickname
of Monsieur Negative, and it was SAID that
no one ever heard hun say yes. His first
business was to put the finances in order.
which had been disarranged by So many
years OF civil war. To use his own Ian
guage, he began by Topping arms and
legs from Madame Grivelee, which is
French for Mrs. Pickings. He made a
tour OF inspection among the trea urers
and tax gatherers of France, and proved
against them pickings and stealings equal
ID to about five and half million OF francs.
This sum he caused to be placed in
seventy carts, and had them driven to
ID Rouen, where the King was.
u These abuses being suppressed, the
ne great object of his policy was to promote
d the agriculture of France, which he did
st by relieving the farmers and pheasants
al from great number of burdensome obi
IN CAUTIOUS, and onerous taxes, and by abolis-
Ell ing petty intermediate offices. He sup
us pressed surprising number of these, and
s: endeavorcd in all ways to Tighten the bur-
rt dens Of the men who held the pillow and
al fed the country.
en- "Tillage and pasturage," he would say
OF "are the two breasts which pourist
Is France. They are the true mines anG
Id treasures OF Peru
se He rebuilt the bridges destroyed by the
It. wars, reopened the roads, and was full o.
ce designs for system of canals to improve
the internal commerce of the country
ad He was ready money kind of man. Dur
LID paul q Wei
no large amount eff public debt raised tn
ut revenues while relieving the people, ant
ce had fund of about twenty two million
liy of francs, in one of the towers Of tn
he Bastile, as reserve against scarcity ant
le- times of trouble.
oy He is supposed to have undervalue'
re, commerce with other countries, and op
vas posed the founding of colonies. Nor di
'ed he attach Importance to the finer manu-
ok features. France, he thought, was sutfi
OF Gent for herself, and had enough for a
ol- reasonable purposes without drawin
at wealth from other countries. Neverthe
led less it was he who set on foot the frs
IN plantation of Mulberry trees.
Vn, After the assassination of Henry "
tea Sully spent thirty years in retlremen
lch during which he wrote number {
re- hooks; among the rest an autobioglaph
lde in four folio volumes, which has bee
lch translated into several languages. sa'
OF an English copy, not long ago, in tiftee
nee volumes, exposed for sale on stand nea
are the office of the Ledger. He wrote, asc
all some works upon the art of war, an
an. even some verses, and romance. n
yer chateau, long one of the most renowne
en- in France, still stands, though not il
the habited.
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