The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-22

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| the cheap brands.
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woman had no longer the consolation
OF saying to the prison cook, "Eere
Monsieur, take this poor chicken tC
our Queen But even in this com
plete abandonment, in the mists oi
this horrible poverty, and overwhelm
ed with al her sorrows, she still re
mained the lonely woman and the
great Queen of her prosperous days
and she held OFT her pewter cup fol
the jailor to fill with water from ar
old earthen jug with the same majes
tic grace she was want to hold the
golden goblets at the royal fetes IL
Versailles But she was falling little
by little under the influence of bad
nourishment and air, and from hel
grief and loneliness, but she never com
planned. She was dying slowly and
silently.
Her linen all wore out, and asking
Rosalie to try and procure some, the
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her own coarse underclothes to the
| Queen. Poor woman! She no longer
even knew what o'clock it was, for hel
| hours now were only marked by the
departures for the guillotine in the
morning, the death warrants read out
at mid day, and by fresh imprison
ments at night These desolate time
| orlyor,, x,,oro oil +bo4 lIu;Jol how lor
spent in that terrible prison, which
was crowded with so many sorrows
for they had carried away her watch
which she had hung on the nail on
entering her cell. They took from he1
also two pretty rings ornameted with
diamonds, which was all that remain
ed to her Of her past fortune. But
that was not all. They ruthlessly tore
from her, her marriage ring, given her
by the king of France, and which was
the last touching relic she possessed
Of the martyred sovereign If they
had known that she wore lock of the
Kings hair IN locket over her heart,
and that she held it to her lips morn
ing and evening before she said her
prayers, no doubt they would have
tried to find it in the Queens bosom.
But heaven spared her this outrage,
the only one she was spared.
Every day and every moment new
spies came to trouble her resigned sill
ence and her fervent prayers; archi
tects, brutes, in red caps, ferocious
and threatening wretches with their
caps on their heads, forced their way
into her cell, examining the bars,
gratings, bolts. doors, the walls, and
even the stones of the pavement, to
say nothing of the jaiIors, the turn
keys, and guards. A lion chained in
a sheepfold could not have given
greater anxiety than this poor Queen
caused these murderers
She, however, grew only more and
more resigned every day. She knew
from these increasing barbarities that
her last hour was finally approaching,
and she spent all her time praying to
heaven. One day when she was on
her knees, she saw in q cell which was
opposite to her own. poor nun who
was praying most fervently and she
felt that she was praying for her. The
two prisoners from the depths of their
misery understood one another, for
they pointed toward heaven, giving
each other rendezvous there!
These sad gloomy days in the hot
month of August gave place to others
as sad and gloomy, only dreadfully
cold, rs September approached. Sud
denny the noisome heat of the cell
changed to a damp coldness, the
heavy shadow of the conciergerie fell
dismally over the narrow dungeon,
and the captive was exposed TO the
pestilential moisture which ran from
the filthy prison walls. The Queen
suffered SO much from the intense cold
that she complained of it at last, but
to whom should she have recourse
| The little Breton maid alone took pity
on her and would carry her camisole
| to the jailor's fire to warm it, and as IL
the long, dark nights they permitted
the prisoner to have no candle, mol
any other light than that of the court
yard, which looked like the small fu
neral lanterns It is the custom to place
on newly habited graves, the young
peasant out of sorrow for the Queen
would lengthen out her evening work
so that she might see her candle burn
ing some five minutes more.
Twelve days passed thus, but on tn,
thirteenth the judges came and begar
their first examination. Thew made
an officer of the Revolution sleep il
the royal cell but on that night th'
Queen did not retire
On the 18th of October they cam
at eight o'clock in the morning to TAX
her to tho audience chamber Sh
was sleeping, and they awoke her b,
rudely shaking her. She was fastinI
moreover, and they gave her nothing
to eat When she was questioned sh
answered sweetly, speaking like al
angel, and gave utteTance from he
breaking hearS to that appeal to al
Mothers which made the heroes O
September grow pale, and which Dire,
forth applause and even tears from
the tricoteuses ithe name given to tn
market women who sat around th
| guillotine knitting, while they waite
} for the cart-loads of victims to b
brought up for execution) in the ga
/ leries 1t was only at four o'clock i
the afternoon that the examinatio
was .eTninated, when one of the iai
, ors rem entered that the Queen ha
: nothing to eat that day. The poo
/ woman had been battling with th