The morning call., 1890-09-07

Austrian F--~--7T visited tie :. e54ubs.
~ order 90 safe tGat 5efe was 80
powder con in 1hem, he stood long
tine before another pillar on which there IS
an Inscription 60 she effect that sovereiRhs
had better lay to heart the fact That Kings
and shepherds are made OK tire same com
mon clay.
There Ngas one corner WLish produced
profound irpression upon nc, that part
which Las received ihH dead who pefishei
in French civil disCords. l stood for short
time before tumUlus bearing these inscrip
tons: Combat a Ia manufacture de Reveil-
lon, faabourg st. Antoine, 2S Avril, 17S9;"
Victims on 10 Aout, 1872, Combat aa cha
teau des Tuileries tsic)" a little further
on is = small chapel with. an altar, on which
is written: "DliS manibus elyium, dieDus ii.
ct III. Septembris, 1872. Lutstife trneida-
torium," and there lie the remains Of the
victims of the massacres Of September. 1872.
Most OF those deeaoitated during she reign
of terror resi- elsewhere. DantOn. Robes
pierre, 81. Just, les Girondins, Nine. Roland
and many others sleep in the cemetery OF
Madeleine where Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette once rested also.
All who have, during many, many eentn-
Fies. lived la Paris, from thu time of the
Capets 70 alois. from Yalois to Bourbons,
from Bourb0ns down to BOnapaftes-beg-
gars and grand lords, Catholics and Hugus
rnts leaguers and rOyalists-sll OF most Oh
-, are now In these catsccmbs. Aii those
bones s---s,c along the walls were once
they once were beirsS'--ho lauched. waDt.
loved, and were beloved. Ia 9isst confused
equality Merovingian kings keep osernai
silence by the side of criminals eXecnted y;
the Place de la Greve, and theie French
monarehs are finishing their process OF
decay among the feeble OF the Cour des Mi-
racleS, and the 2000 put TO death TN the uay
of ST. Bartholomew. But sne level of
eternity wishes for still more than that, and
ribs, vertebra, sterni and other bones are
forever being heaped aud piled in mere or
less cuhicai masses called 'bourrages that
have iacades made of skulls selected from
those which are most preserved.
The list would he very tong one. Ste.
Genevieye and HErabeau. Marat and Nicolas
Flannel, st Vincent de Panl and Cardinal
Dubois. Marguerite de BouJgOyue, Perrauf.
Marechal dAncre. Voituie, Cassini, Phi
lippe de Champagne, Benserade, st. Me-
etc. Perhaps Fredegopde rests alon side of
lille. de la Valiere, Madeline de Seuderf Is
near Turlupin, between Pichegru and the
Able Santeui, Moliere is near old Faloret,
La Fontaine is close to Nine. de ia Sabnrre,
and Condo and RabelaiS may have the Man
with the Iron Mask for their next neighhor
| There is not one of the old French families
but which has some relative in these cata-
combs. The Condos or Contis. the Soye-
courts, Vendomes. Crequis. Rohans, Mont
morencys, illas, Brancas, Noailles. Dulaus,
| La Tremoilles, Nicolas, Moles, Luxem-
bourgs, are laying here or there. among an
| innumerable crowd of the most humble and
! the most famous. For some years past the
! authorities have tried to prevent bones
| from different sources being mixed up and
confused, and stone inscriptions indicate
| that this mass came from Iicpus, where
| LAFAYETTE lies, this other from the Cordeliers
| Convent, and that one from the Market Of
the Innocents.
tombstone, the only one to be found
| among so many thousands of others of more
urgent interest, is still set up to inform vlsl-
tors. in prose and poetry, that 1t covers the
bones OF FRANCHISE Gellain, the wife OF
I.egros, who assisted Latitude to ESCAPE from
the Bastile Here is the provisonary altar,
where at least once year, mass. so sup
pose, is said for many trespasses. That
| enormous pile of bones, the TOP oil when
pierces the vaulted roof, came from the
graves of the Rue de la Tombe Issoire.
These pits are the human remains that were
upturned when digging foundations In sup
pressed cemeteries, OF when making new
streets for Paris. Death herself has never
been able to guarantee against expropria.
ton. Men heap them into two carts and
when full push them to the empty places
that are still waiting to receive their ''bour-
RACES" Bones everywhere and inscription:
also. The aspect is not varied. the pict
uresque is exhausted. We see nothing bu
one thing--bones of human bodies.
| cannot conscientously recommend tn
| catacombs as one of the most interesting
sights OF Paris. After few minutes in thes
subterranean passages curiosity finds ltsel
more than satisfied. 1t is one of these place
where every one wishes to go and to whc
nobody wants ever to return. certainl
was glad to get out of them to climb step
that seemed almost interminable, and final
find myself in the vivifying air, and In IN
light of sun that drove back. like BAD
tresome dream, the souvenir OF mos
lugubrious excursion. Still there is an I'm IN
pOrtant reflection to be got out of the wall
and battIements OF skulls and crossbones Q
this subterranean dead city. Ihose grin
yisaces of mortality suggest to Us wnat
momentary space is the life OF man. DC
, tween the eternity of the past and OF I'M
! fmture. Where are the spirits, the souls
that once animated all those millions
: human beings? Guess what yon Will, an
, as long as YOU please, knowledge Is hide
from us completely. Thousands Of year
: of philosophy have not yet answered tn
, Guestion whether or not our souls surviv
our bodies. Religion teaches us to believ
it. though, and in our cares of life it is hop
|; that sustans and cheers US in the belle
: that the grave is not our last home. Gu
, destination is to higher sphere than
| he and old camatnrias