The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-29

within its interior Temple of Concord,
while on the summit above rises a statue,
of Liberty OF such colossal height that she
with her pike and Phrygian cap may be
seen at distance of many miles.
All the great rock is covered with ban
ners and mottoes Round about space
of more than sOo.O00 square feet is left for
the ceremonies proper, while all around
terraces are to be raised of earth of such
vast extent in circuit and elevation that,
one might we'll believe that not only Paris
and France. but all Europe was to be in
vited to the sitting
At first it appeared that the work Jagged,
though the municipality had sent out 15,
600 workmen with shovels and barrows to
make the excavations and heap up the
bankments By the lst of July the rurnor
spread that the work was behind and cou Id
not be finished in time. Patriotism said
that the arstocrats had hirel the laborers
not TO work The glorious fete was about
to fail through treachery, But behold,
with the spread of the rumor great GRO ,vds
begin to pour out of the city aud into the
Champs de Mars. AT first in relays they
take hold OF the unused shoveIs and bar
rows and begin to sing Ca ira as they toll
But other thousands come and bring their
own barrows and shovels. Then the girls
and women come with their tri-colored
ribbons, smile approval, and shovel dirt
with their lovers \ hundred and fifty
thousand come, and then 250.000, and the
chorus of Ga Ira swells and reverberiites
until old Seine is shaken to his bottom.
Never was such scene of enthusiastic
labor witnessed before in the world. All
classes of society made contributions to the
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-
L.
Sages, statesmen, poets were there, shovel
ing and wheeling The king himself came
out, and the worknen rushed around his
majesty with their shovels at present and
shoulder arms-strangest body guard that
ever poor Louis had, or any other king
Marie Antoinette, with the dauphin, looks
on and smiles; she, the daughter of Tner
esa, to die under the guillotine, and he TO
rot in old Simon's shoeshop and cell of
the prison!
Thus were the preparations completed
The evening of the 18th of July saw every
thing ready for the morrow, and the NOR
| row dawned The great terraces rose.
thirty in number, one above the other.
each more than athousand yards in length,
all freshly sodded and clean and beautiful
under the Partisan sky. About the altar
of Fatherland were swung on high to iron
cranes great pans of incense, to be lighted
for the uostrils of Liberty and of all pa
triotism With the early morning the
crowds began to pour into the inclosure, if
that might be called an inclosure which
seemed of limitless extent The citizenship
of Paris and of other cities came in shoals
and by thousands. All were dressed in
gay apparel, and the tri-color ribbons
foated and fiuttered everywhere The dis
tant housetops and steeples of the city
were black with people The soldiers came
under Generalissimo de Lafayette. who,
from the young enthusiast at the side OF
Washington. has grown TO such stature as
thisi But now he is no longer De La
fayette, for all titles have been abolished
He is simply Citizen Motier, or at most The
| Sieur Motier But he is commandant and
! general of all There are the king and the
queen and the dauphin and the court. The
lowest estimate places the assemblage at
| 3OO, 900 souls
1t was a scene of enthusiasm and won
| der for the like of which the pages of his
tory may be searched in vain. The pans OF
incense are lighted The cannon boom.
| All flags and banners are unfurled. The
military evolutions are performed before
the altar of Fatherland. Then LafayeIte
advances, ascends in the sight of the muI:
titude, and pressing his swords point on
the altar pronounces the oath of fidelity
Ito the king, to the constitutions and TO che
| nation forever Louis himself arises and
| swears, so that the people hear. The court
/ swears. the queen also. holding the diau,
/ phin by the hand The air is rent with
shouts. The delegates from all the eighty
three departments of France come forward
and take the OATH They bring their flags
with them, each bearing the new national
! banner, and lol their flags must all be con
secrated under the sanction of religion ere
they be borne back to distant quarters oi
! the kingdom.
The ancient faith has not yet been i.bol
! ished, and 200 patriot priests, all in white
! each with his shaven head from the Middle
/ Ages. but with the tri-color girdle of the
future about. his waist, advance to the
altar. At the head of the procession
marches oue whose name, though he be
! priest, shall be known to the corners oi
civilization. He it is who shall be for this
/ day, as Carlyle calls him, the Souls Over