The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03
LOUISE MICHEL.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
Louise Michel the Red Nun of Paris
will visit this country in December if
her present plans are realized. She is an
old woman now, being close to &c years
of age. Her mother, Carlotta Michel, a
woman 20 years older than the Red Num-
will accompany the latter here.
1t will be a curious spectacle to see
these two old women touring the country,
the younger supporting the other by her
lectures. Her friends in the United
States have arranged for series of lee
lures, paying her $40 for each lecture and
the travelling and hotel expenses of her
self and mother What is left of the mon
ey earned in this way will be devoted to
the founding of a home in England for
revolutionists who have been expelled
from other countries for making incen-
diary speeches. This home, the Red Nun
hopes, will be her monument.
Last March it was feared that Louise
Michel was on her death bed. In Lon
don, where she has been forced to live
for the past few years, the physicians
had given her up. The anarchist colony
of England, representing the most for
midable enemies to society the world
over, were preparing for a great demon
stration should the leader of them all
die. But the rugged constitution of the
woman, inherited from the peasantry of
France on her mothers side stood off
the visitation of death and to-day the
Red Nun is as vigorous as ever.
She is a curious combination. She is
the Virulent anarchist and at the same
time the most tender philanthropist. Her
philanthrophy is devoted to those of the
under world, the beings who inhabit the
dark side of life, the honest poor and the
criminal poor. Her anarchy is devoted
to the rich and the powerful, the pros
porous and the happy.
She is as fearless as a man of steel
Life and death is the same to her. She
risks the one and mocks the other. 1t
of Paris when Louise Michel is no more.
If she gave the word the under dogs of
Paris would rise up in an army, barricades
would block the streets and the cutters
would run crimson, as they have many
times in the present century
To-day Louise Michel is a most striking
she moves along with the Stride of a
grenadier. She is big-boned, and, but for
her massive agility, might be deemed
awkward. Her cheek bones are high and
protruding, her nose is large and the ex-
preston of her face severe. Thick locks
of gray hair fall over her face. she Is
lean in figure, but possessed of wonder
full endurance. In temperament she is
nervous and excitable, bordering upon the
eccentric. Her chin is heavy and pro-
claims the logged determination of the
owner.
What made her an anarchist it is diff
cult to say. Her own reasons are vague
She once said when the question was put
to her: THE suffering dumb animals
/ saw horses beaten and overworked
starved and ill-treated, and the awful in
Justice of their sufferings led me to think
Then l saw that the same injustice was
inflicted upon men and women. l be-
came an anarchist"
But in the origin of her own life per-
haps. lies the true reason. She is an
illegitimate child. Her father was no.
bleman, her mother a poor peasant girl
who is now the old woman who may
come TO this country shortly The care
of this mother has been her religion,