The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-02-02
Historical Repetition.
LONDON Globe.]

mat history repeats ltseii Is dn auClsuI
truism. It is, however, interesting to note
how many great events have been duplica-
ted, as it were, by shadoWy limitations, and
how many novelties are but ''neW toots lie.
tunes) on auld horns" as King jamie ex-
pressed it. AS years pass away the imita-
ton frequently drops into obscurity. Every
one has heard of Charlotte Corday, but few
people remember Cecile Renault, the young
girl who attempted to follow in her footsteps.
This young woman presented herself repeat
edly at the house Of Robespierre, urgently
endeavoring to gain admittance to him but
Murat's fate had probably made his colleague
suspicious, and the police searched q parcel
Cecile carried. 1t contained two knives, and
from this and other circumstances there APP
pears but little doubt that the young girl
shared Charlotte Corday's enthusiasm, as she
eventually did her fate. Cecile Renault was
guillotined on the charge Of an intention to
assassinate.
Joan Of Arc is a familiar historical char
acter but only q vague memory survives ct
that woman Of Berri, named Catharine, who
at the same time as the maiden Of DOmremy
was urging her father to assist her in her
'smisson,'' gave out that she also had "bs-
held visions Of fair ladies with croWns Of
gold, who babe her 60 through France seek
ing subsidies and men-at-arms for the Dau-
phin.' This Catherine" never appears to
have gained the belief Of her %neighbors, in
spite Of her promises that cher fair ladies"
would ssreyeal hidden treasures to her fol
lowers and she is now only remembered as
a kind of feeble shadow of the famous Maid
of Orleans.
&c Fuller is to be believed, one Of the most
curious instances of this kind of historical
repetition occurred in the thirteenth century.
It is stated that so universal was the crnsad-
ing enthusiasm at this era, that in 1913 no
less than 80, 900 children set out for the Holy
Land. The "Child's Crusade was organ
lied by two worthless monks, who designed
to sell their deluded victims as slaves in Afri-
ca. According to the story, nearly all Of the
ships containing the young enthusiasts were
wrecked off the coast Of Italy. A few YES
sells reached Africa where the unhappy chill
dren were sold as slaves and carried into the
the interior Of the country some Of the
young Crusaders were rescued and restored
to their parents. Two merchants Of Mar
settles are said to have been executed for
completely in this crime.
Few inventions Or ingenious contrivances
are absolutely new. It is not long since there
was an account in the papers Of a successful
cure effected at one OF the London hospitals
by checking an apparently fatal hemorrhage
from q place where it was impossible to ap-
bly, bandagages. The medical students took
it in turn to keep the wound closed by the
pressure of q finger, relieving each other At
intervals throughout the day and until the
Mace healed over. This continuance was
mentioned as a novelty but the same treat
ment was successfully practiced over two
hundred years ago, when the prince OF
Orange (tsilent William'O was wounded IN
the neck by an assassin, Juan Jaureguy. II
was impossible to apply bandages to stop the
bleeding without suffocating the patient, but
Young surgeon named Bottalli applied the
same method Of gentle pressure by q finger,
and saved the Princes life.
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