The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1891-05-22
DEER LODGE, MONTANA MAY 22 1891. WHOLE NC
that the aristocrats had hired the laborcrs


not to work The glorious fetc was about
to fail through trcacheryl But behold,
with the spread Of the rumor great crowds
begin to pour out of the city and into the
Champs de Mars. AT first in relays they
take hold OF the unused shovels and bar
rows and begin to sing Ca Ira as they toll
But other thousands come, and bring their
own b;irrows and shovcls. Then the girls
and women cone with their tri-colorcd
ribbons, smile approval, and shovel dirt
with their lovers. A hundred and fifty
thousand come, and then 100000, and the
chorus OF Ca-!rG swells and reverbcrates
until old Stine is shaken to his bottom.
Never was such scene of enthusiastic
labor witnessed before in the world. All
classes Of society made contributions to tile
force. The universities discharged their
professors and students to work at the bar
rows. Men were there from Brittany and
from the Jura mountains, from the Medi-
terrancan coast and from Normandy.
SaSes, statesmen, poets were there, shovel
ing and wheeling The king himself came
out, and the workmen rushed around his
majesty with their shovcls ut 4 present and
shoulder nrms-strangest body guard that
ever poor Louis had, or any other king
Mario Antonctte, with the dauphin, looks
on and smiles; She, the daughter of Thcr-
esa, to die under the guilotine and lie to
rot in old Simon's shocshnp and a cell Of
:he prisonl "%.....5." Il
Thus were the preparations completed
The evening Of the 18th Of July saw every
thing ready for the morrow, aud the NOR
row d;twncd. The great terraces rose,
thirty in Number one above the other,
each more than athousand yards in lcugtL,
all freshly sotiied and clean and beautiful
under the Partisan sky. About the altar
of Fatherland We're swung on high to iron
cranes great pans Of incense, to be lighted
for the nostrils Of Liberty and Of all pa
trotism With the early morning the
crowds began 10 pour into the inclosure, if
that might be called m inclosure which
seemed Of linitess extent. The citizenship
VI Paris and of other cities caine in shoals
and by thousands All were dressed i'll
gay apparel, and the tricolor ribbons
toatcd and Auttcrcd everywhere. The dis
tant h0usetops aud stccplcs OF the city
were black with people. The soldiers came
under GeneraIissmo de Lafayette, who
from the young enthusiast at the side of
Washington has grown to such stature rs
ths But now lie is no longer De La
flyettc, for all Titles have been abolished
He is simply Citizen Motier. or at most the
Sieur Motier, But he is cotnmaudant and
general Of all. There are Tho king and the
queen and the tiauplit and the court, The
lowest estimate places the assenhlage ut
100000 souls
1t was n scene t1f enthusiasm ana Won
der for the like ot which the la-es Of us
tory may be searched III vain. The pans OF
incense are lighted, The cannon boom
All flags and banners are uufured ThG
military cvplutions are performed before
the altar OF FAtlerHud. Thcn Lafayette
advances, ascends in the sight of the mui-
titule, and pressing his swords point on
the altar pronounces the oath of fidelity
ITO the king, 10 the constitution and to the
nation forever louis liynsctf arises and
swcars, 50 that the people hear. Whc court
swears; the queen also, holding the dall-
phin by the hand, The air is rent with
shouts The delegates from all the eighty
three dcpHrl 4euts Of France come f0rwart!
and take tise oath, 'Ehey bring their lnGs
with them. each bearing the new national
banner. and lui their flags must MI he con
scGratca under the sanction of religion ere
they be borne hack TO distant quarters oi
the kingdom.
The ancient faith has not yet been ubol
ishcd, and go patriot priests, all in white
each with his sE}aven head from The Nlddlt
Ages, but with the tri-color glrdlc Of thf
future about his waist, advance to TN
altar At the head of the procession
marches one whose name, though he D'
priest, stall be known 10 the corners al
civilization lie it is who shall be for this
day, AS Carlyle calls him, the souls Over