Evening star., 1896-10-05

ed William w is now the senior mon
arch of the world. and has survived
during her regal career three emperors of
Russia, one of whom was dynamited. Her
first aspiration at the age Of ten, on learn
ing that she was to succeed her Uncle
William, was Ito be good" She repeated
to her governess, II will be good" and she
has kept this VOW, which time has shown
embodied the highest political wisdom.
Surely the date of her sixtieth anniversary
should be an object lesson of the highest
import to the czar and his gentle young
wife, and especially now that the moral
sense Of mankind Is shocked with the re-
peated massacres of Armenian Christians
massacres for which the cars late chan
cellor, Prince Lobanoff and his representa-
tive at Constantinople, NJ NelidOn. are
greatly answerable in the eyes of history,
and. what is more important, in the eyes
of God.
A Lesson of the Past.
The date that comedies with the land
ing in France of Nicholas and Alexandra
Is the hundred and seventh anniversary of
the march of the market women of Paris
on the palace of Versailles to brink back
the king, queen and their children hostages
of the revolution. Their capture was ef
fected next day, October 8, 1879, on the
anniversary of which the czar enters Paris
for the first time and with that spectacular
show which the French are 80 skilled in
arranging.
The blind worms now in power here are
doing what they can to divest the date of
its true significance. The severe lesson that
1t should inculcate Is being hidden away.
Despotic moHarchs are. humanity speak
ing, assured of impunity.
The power that shapes the ends of ma
tions as of individual men and women
catches up such potentates in their pos
terity and often the seemingly innocent are
made to pay for the guilty, as In the case
of LOUIS XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Ie Shn . time.
when, with the taeit completely of France
and Russia, Arnenians are being mas
sacred and extled il tens of thousands,
come home win awesome force to the
minds of Nicholas and Alexandra and
make them trernfle for themselves and
for their infant daughter, the darling of
their hearts. The only daughter of Louis
and Marie Antoinette was apparently born
TO the mcst brilliant lot of any princess
of her time Yet she was fated to see be-
fcre she was thirteen years old her ia
ther, mother and aunt led out to execution.
to be a solitary prisoner during four years,
to witress in the course of her life three
revolutions in France, and to die in exile
with cheeks furrowed with the tears that
had flowed during sjxty-three years.
The czar and czariua will not be escorted
to France by Russian warshipS. The
French government was most anxious that
they should do SO and give object les
son in the roads of Cherbourg of the na-
val streI 9Th of Franch and Russia united.
man to lend himself to that game Of brag.
which doubtless would have been most
gratifying to the president. who wants to
figure in the eyes OF Europe the sea
king and head of the French army.
Grand Naval Spectacle.
To make up for this disappointment (for
Prince Lobanor had come into the idea
of a Franco-Russian review at Cherbourg)
NJ Felix Faure. whose vanity grows
hot 81 <ha FL
tic and Toulon squadrons to be ordered
round to Cherbourg. There will be. there
fore, grand naval spectacle in honor of
the imperial visitors.
NJ. FauTe has. however. been able to Sc
cure the presence of the czar, in company
with himself at review of 10000 soldiers
at the Camp of Chalons. He tries, on the
one side. to revive the glories of Versailles
(of which more presently, and on the other
to revive the military giories Of the em-
pire of Chalons, where the Emperor Ma
poleon III annually "hed.'' as the French
Used to say, Prussia and the Germanic
CCI federation in respect
The mammoth imperial train proved un-
mara geable and dangerous. In going round
the Girdle railway. from Vaugirard to
Passy Green, where the imperial party are
to alight, it tlattsned out the rails and ran
off them Had it not been going at a
snaifs Face there would have a grave, not
to say fatal. accident.
There is chapel in the regular imperial
train. with Icons of the Virgin and Child,
of St Alexander Newsky. ST. Olga and st.
Nicholas. the ezar's patron saint. and also
the patron of little children. In Russia he
is regarded as sort of Father Christmas.
The nursery compartments will be missed
In the French specially arranged train. On
the other hand. NJ. Faure will have the in
tense joy- of acting host to the imperial
visitors all the way from Cherbourg to
Paris. and OF giving them more than the
eight hours of his company and conversa-
n Wi n
at Cherbourg. The original arrangement
was that they should travel in their own
train. and he in his. a short distance be-
fore them
Mime. Fanre Ignored.
He is to meet them at .Cherbourg without
Madame Faure. and is also to meet them
unaccompanied by the ladies of his family
at the palace of Versailles the day they go
there Madame Faure has no national or
international rank. and the presidents
many journalistic enemies, whose envy he
Is constantly arousing, have made it I'M
possible for the empress to ignore a black
page of the good lady's family history
About fortnight ago they-returned TO the
charge. and published the sentence by de-
fault passed on NJ. Bellnot, her father, a
lawyer by profession, with the contract of
marriage of his daughter and a Journey
man tanner: who is now president of the
twenty years of penal service on BelInot.
VINO had ned to Spain, then out of the
reach of extraditton. for robbing a client by
a forged paper; the second showed that NJ.
Felix Faure got as dowry 100000 francs
out of the assets Bellnot left in dying. This
exposure was mean and spiteful But the.
court of Russia had to take it into ac-
count The empress. accordingly Is not to
associate with Madame Faure In public
She Is only to see her when she calls at
the Eiysee and dimes there. NJ Faure will
await them at the Francois and Opera
House They have arranged to go by them
selves to the former and to Versailles
The road thither has a central pavement
OF cobbie stones thirteen miles long 1t is
TO be thickly sanded the whole way to
make it smooth for the imperial carria go.
The whole garrison of Paris are to be IN
der arms and posted along the road
Levee Mt Versailles.
An imperial levee will be held in the Gal
lery of Mirrors. which has been furnished
as in the time of Louis XIV. But phys;oR-
nonies and the costumes will be so differ
ent. and, alas. the manners. too. Ambas-
sadors in the eighteenth century were
never professional diplomats, afrectedly re-
served, but men born to great stations ard
CHOSEN for their social gifts, as well as for
their clear heads. bright wits and insight
and readiness. They dressed magnificently
and had a grand air The corps diplomat
1que which will present their homages To
the car and czarfna at Versailles will con-