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Evening star., 1897-01-22

The Most Pampered Appetites
enjoy our Sausage. You can't help liking 1t
If you enjoy rich, delicious Sausage. All
kinds. J. A. Augusterfer 658 Center mkt.
Evening star., 1897-01-22

The woman's auxiliary to the board o
Indian commissioners held its annual meet
Ing yesterday in the parlors of the Rig8
House. National President Mrs. A. g
Quinn delivered an address.
Evening star., 1897-01-22

Beautiful Red Tulips. 25c. doz, up Fresh.
perfect blossoms. Guides, 1924 F.
Evening star., 1897-01-22
Directors Elected.

Watch for railroad; Congress Heights
Advertisement
Evening star., 1897-01-22
Protect Your VaIunbles.

RoyalGlueMucilaees sticks everything. 10c
mh5-t, ,f,stf
Evening star., 1897-01-22
10 Lover. Of Music.

TO LOVer8 OF MUSIC.
Attention Is called to notice of Trustees
Sale of an Upright Fischer Piano at L.
o'clock Saturday, 23d instant. The above
Is $3.50 instrument, practically as good
as new, and is now on exhibition at Sloan's
auction rooms, 1407 G st. ja21-2t
Evening star., 1897-01-22
Who'll help me lose money?
From S to 10 ann.
Alarm Clocks, SOC.

every guaranteed. Sold as u great bargain all
over town for Sc These have just been received
one Of these you'll not need a derrick to get you
up In the morning. Don't come after To- Sa afur-
day or Monday morning because at minutes
past the hour ask S5c. ass 1s..,s an
''SPIFR,SS $40 9th st. Opp. PeFry-s, So
~ ALhN - jacz-14d
Evening star., 1897-01-22

Royal Headache Powders cure. 1Oc.
mh5-m, W.T. ,stf
Evening star., 1897-01-22
Ii. ID. French Lodge.

A musical and literary entertainment was
given last evening by B. B. French Lodge
No. 10. F. A A. NJ. at the Masonic Temple
+ and 9th streets. which was highly en-
joyed by the members of the lodge and e
large number of invited guests. About three
hundred gentlemen were present. promi-
nent in business and professional circles
The entertainment was in the form of a
smoker" and the program was as follows
D. b French Quartet Messrs. Mcfarland
Pierson. Johnston and Rice: Mr.. Guy V.
Collins. character reciter and humorist. .
Mr.. VIM Hamilton. tenor solo: Mr. McFar-
land, tenor solo. and the Ideal Mandolin
and Guitar Quartet. consisting Of Messrs
Hasselbach. Constantine, Holcer and Buch-
mann The mandolin and guitar quartet
Is one Of the finest organizations in the
city, and made u great hit. After the en-
tertainment enjoyable collation. was
served in the banqueting hall of the temple
This smoker Is a new departure in Ma
sonry. and b. p. French Lodge proposes
TO give a series OF them during the winter.
Why Fume and Fret and Groan and
sweat. almost regret you living? We
are still holding down the price 5-lb.
boxes creamery butter at s1.35. James F.
Oyster. go Pa ave. Phone 211.-Advt.
Evening star., 1897-01-22

The nineteenth annual dinner of the Ma
sonic Veteran Association of the District
of Columbia will take place at Willard
Hotel tomorrow evening, at 7:30 o'clock.
PEOPLE WHO BUY FINEST MEATS
Usually make John R. Kelly's stands their
destination when shopping in Center market.
The very best quality of n. Y. Beef Is
speciality Phone 1864: 9th st. wing.
Evening star., 1897-01-22

-'-t.ssa ..--....=-..,
One loaf of bread may be light,
sweet and digestble. You may use
the same materials for another and
have it heavy, sour and soggy. The
knack is in putting the ingredients
together just right. A substitute for
SCOTS Emulsion may have the same
ingredients and yet not be a perfect
substitute, for no one knows how to
put the parts together as we do. The
secret of 'how" is our business
twenty-five years of experience has
taught us the best way.
Two sizes 80 cts. and 81 90
SCOTT BOVINE Chemists, New York q
Evening star., 1897-01-22

$1.26 to Baltimore and Return
Via B. and o. r. r. All trains January
q and "a. Valid for return passage until
following Monday.-Advt.
Evening star., 1897-01-22
HOdnett Again.

John Pope Hodnett who figured In Wash
iigton for several years as founder Of the
United Labor League Of America, has be-
gun suit In Brooklyn. N. Y, against City
Clerk Benjamin for e. 500 alleged to be due
TO him for services worker in the cam
paign In which former Mayor schieren was
elected.
Evening star., 1897-01-22

Very Nice White Pine,' Dressed, &c.
per foot: Libbey & Co.. 9Th and N. Y. ave.
advertisement.
Evening star., 1897-01-22

The King Of Pulls is Beecham's.
Evening star., 1897-01-22

Johnston's Sat bargain specials. page s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-04-24

Russell "A. Alger, Secretary Of War, is
millionaire capitalist, man Of interests
from Maine to Mexico; he has been in the
brush of more than three score battles
and skirmishes; he has been a captured
and an escaped prisoner of war; he has
been an eminent politician, the governor
of a state; but before and beyond all of
this he was a hired man, a model Of
punctuality to the clangor of the farm
dinner bell. So that If now, as the ad-
wiser of President from his own native
state, he voluntarily exhibits the indie
fatigableness of the hired man, the force
of habit is again vindicated and the orig
inal incubation Of such latter-year indus
try is clear. Himself, General Alger often
speaks of the halcyon period of his life,
when stone-bruised feet and the sun-peeled
back of the swimming boy were the only
minor mars upon his happiness; and when,
last week. he received a letter of felicia
ton from an aged preacher In Lafayette,
Medina county, Ohio, who remembered him
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as raven-haired imp in the orchard-loot-
ing and hookey-playing stage Of his days.
he told his confidential secretary, Mr.Victor
Mason, that he clearly remembered having
had his ears painfully tweaked by that
same parson, matter of nearly, fifty years
ago, on his return into the village of La
fayette from a Sunday fishing expedition
Then he suspended work for half an hour
to pen long and cordial letter. filled with
pleasant "reminiscences, to the old Lafayette
minister.
When to the burdens of cabinet port
folio is added the burden of the care-tak-
Ing OF large private business the weight
would seem to be sufficiently staggering for
man of any degree of physical and mental
strength; and because General Ayers for
mer ink-black hair is rapidly turning very
white the prophets of dissolution have idly
But they speak as men al, a palpable dis
taEce from knowledge. They have not
seen him plodding through a torrent Of
rain, muscularly readjusting an umbrella
turned inside out by half gale of wind .
they have not seen him run twenty yards
after a cable car. to swing onto the rear
platform like newsboy who does 1t from
bravado; they have not seen him man
sEcle leather-covered Office chair
weighing forty pounds, describing an arc
In the air with it without a puff of the
breath; they have not seen the nature and
quantity of the luncheon he takes-cer-
tainly equal to any hired mans MONDAY
collation.; and finally, they have not seen
him work.
Active ms Youth.
Secretary Alger looks his sixty-one years
only because his head Is sodded with a
heavy mass Of silky, waving hair. as white
as washed fleece. If, by some impossible
process of hirsute devolution, this striking
natural crown of white, hardy as hemp,
could once more resume its former black
ness as of FURNISHED ebony, Gen. Alger, if
he 80 elected, could parade the world I'M
challenged as a man of forty-ive. He has
a stride that demands a step and a half
on the part of most men to keep up with
him, and he thrusts his shoulders back
like a regimental adjutant mounting guard.
With a leather breast-plate and a steel
helmet, he would look the Roundhead of
CromwelPs body brigade; for the contour
of his long, thin face, with its healthy,
ruddy bronze gained in long summer in
spections Of virginia., lumher-rich forests,
and his struggling. gray-white beard are
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enthusiastically Puritan.e Clan in small
clothes, with a ruff-embellisked, skirted
coat, and the dreadful, point-towe-ing
SLOUGH hat of that time, Gen. ,Alger would
make perfect painters modebfor coun-
Gilman Of a Massachusetts governor of the
se AS seeretar cs Of War Gen. Aiger puts In
six solid hours Of work a day. AS private
citizen and capitalist networks five hours
q day. Eleven hours day of such work
as he does Is not so bad for, npan of sixty
one who, by some odd mistake, has been
focused by the prophets ef, dissolution. His
labors, both as public official and as private
citizen. are all performed at ~ War De-
partment Office. He refusesSuserly to re-
members Of his family al %hf8 residence;
and even these he answers wifi the merry
assistance of his lovely unmag3ed daugh-
ter Miss Frances Alger, laMvSaous bruno
OF the Spanish type, whom he calls his
home secretary" But when Gen. Alger
makes his eveningspassage out from under
the Intel of his War Department Office he
abandons public and private business until
the coming Of another sun. He even ban
ishes the thought of business. Public men,
men seeking to be public men, and men
seeking to make other men public men,
have attempted to throttle this rigid habit
OF his by cunningly contriving to meet
him upon his way to his residence or even
by boldly besteging the residence itself;
and have thus. II they but knew 1t. bro
Jected Themselves to q dismal remoteness
Ing to gain his breakfast table ear. gentle
men with ambitions for themselves and for
others have mailed him letters. craftily de-
signed to catch his eye at that peaceful
time. Gen. Alger Sins q. rubber band
around large bunch OF such letterA un-
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blood that the terrible machine was taken
to the Place of the Throne, at the other
end of the city. Until that time the Ely
sian Fields-for there was no avenue in
those days-were really a part of the great
hunting forest reaching up to the gates of
the city. A few years before a stag had
actually been chased into the Place de la
Concorde, or Place of Louis XIV, as it was
then called. 1t was nearly the middle of
this century before the well-known cafes
concerts sprang up under the trees behind
the gardens of what are now the English
embassy, the Rothschild and Hirsch pail
aces and the house of the president of the
republic.
What is the latest thing they say
At the Ambassadors Cater"
Here Yvette sang and sings. The avenue
was run through. broad and straight, out
to the giant Arch of Triumph. which the
first Napoleon had built to commemorate
his victories. 1t was only in the time of
Napoleon III that this arch was brought
within the city limits, and the avenue was
built I'D slowly. Where now there is the
whirl of gsyety through all the night till
early morning it was considered unsafe
for the people to walk alone after dark as
late as the time of which Du Maurier
writes in The Marian" and Peter Ibbet-
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

Schedule In effect April IL, 1897
An trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania pas
500 AM.~Daily.-Lccai for Dnnviilc, Charlotte
burg, Harrisonburg and Staunton, daily except
Sunday. and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk aud
%sste m, t da na T Rr the and Ohio
1l:15 A:M.-Daily. THE UNITED STATES FAST
NAIL. Carries Pullman Buffet sleepers. New York
and Washington TO Jacksonville uniting at Sails
bury with Pullman Sleeper for Ashcvine and Hot
Springs, \. G; Knoxville and Chattanooga Tenn.
Pullman Buffet Sleeper New York TO New Orleans.
connecting at Atlanta for birmingham and Mem
out change. Sunset Personally Conducted Tourist
Excursion Through Sleeper On this train every Sat
sol P.M.-Local for Front Royal. strasburg and
Harrisonburg. daily, except Sunday, with connec-
4:si PM-Daiiy-Local for Charlottesville
1913 P.M.-Daily. WASHINGTON AND SOUTH
Pullman ve.tisuied sieepers, Dining Cars and Day
Coaches. Pullman Sleepers New York 10 Nashville
New YorE TO Tampa and New York o to- Aurssia
via Charlotte, Columbia, Savannah and Jackson-
vile, and New York to Memphis, Via BirmIngham;
gomery. Vestibuled Day Coach Washington 10 At
1apta. Southern Railway Dining Car Greensboro'
% TRAINS oS WASHINGTON AND OHIO prvrs-
ION leave Washington 9:01 am. daily and 4 az
ONLY f Sa Round e e sn Sayp s%ns s
day for Leesburg. and 6;25 pm. daily for Herndon
pm. daily from Round HILL 7:06 am daily, en.
cept Sunday. from Iierndon, S:34 daily except
Through h' trains from the south arrive a, Wash.
ng11n Sa1 an and Pm and s4S I'm daily
Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and informa.
ton furnished ut offices. 51 and 1900 Pennsylvania
W. H. GREEN, General supt.
]. NJ. CUP, Traffic Manager.
". A. TURK. Gen. Pass. Agent
ap17 L. y BROWN. Gen. Agent Pass. Dept.
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iTpe du Roule. where five lines meet al
ready and enjoy common transfer station
with two transfer agents to do all the
work. No one has been found yet in the
whole wide city willing to admit the possi-
billy OF any motive that could take him to
Montrouge; it is the street car company
rather, that desires to lay these tracks for
It's own purposes, but vaguely guessed at
now by the awakened population and ex-
pected to appear more clearly in the light
of the transportation fight which. n Is
hoped by patriots. will develop itself with
the approach of the already intrigued-oyer
already speculation breeding exposition OF
1850 Vi
A Simple Procedure.
The street car company desiring to Law
the tracks for its own purposes. at present
misty and more than possibly devious II
was a simple thing. the procedure. Need
citizens of other cities In the enjoyment of
all modern metropolitan enlightenments
be told that application was made In due
form. the proposed route therein Indicated
clearly end Enthusiastically. the notices
posted publicly with frequency and con-
SpIcuousness, ard then the proper time al
lowed to pass wherein the public-sprited
and sotcitous might protest against ary
IMPROPERLY. should any such by any DOS
ability have escaped the vigilance of the
painstaking. many civic-virtued officers of
the proposed corporation? The proposition,
or IN posters pasted against trees and
boardings or ia the advertising columns Of
me morning daily papers, and exc those of
the evening also. passed alike unheeded
under the futile. weakling gaze Of the Par
ieaan, dazzled by the gaudier sense-impres-
ssons OF q razzle-daxxle whirl which he's
no street cars in II. The bill passed the
eouncil-thers were NO obJectors-and,
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had remembered the American girls days
of triumph came forward to give her a de-
cent burial. The ground floor under her
old apartment is a carriage shop. and next
door to 1t Is set up the Manege Petit,
where American girls of today take les
sons on their first bicycles. Soon they will
be out on the avenue and off! away! their
golden hair all hanging down their backs!
For this is now the neighborhood of smart
Engiish-speaking boarding houses, all, If
you believe advertisements. within q stones
throw of the envied avenue, the Avenue Of
the Elysian yields.
Famous Houses.
The hundred or so houses which remain
before the arch is reached would present a
strange mixture of names Of those who are
considered the happy Of this world. There
is rich art collector; duke Of one Of the
Oldest of French titles, married to the heir
ess of banker; the father of Q president
the French armies; another widow Of a
Spanish grandee. chief supporter of Don
Carlos; Roumanian prince; an English
lord and lady, and the first house in Paris
to suffer from the explosion of a dynamite
bomb. Half way up the right side are the
two richest and most ornamented apart
me7t houses in Paris. In one of them, on
what is called 1.-THE noble floor" lives Rod
man Wanamaker, just decorated with the
Legion of Honor ribbon. In the other
James Gordon Bennett engaged in the di-
rection of International politics.
Before the great war no omnibus was al
lowed on the avenue of the Champs Ely
sees. 1t was reserved for fine equipages,
for horsemen and horsewomen, and those
who came from the whole world to stare at
them from the sidewalk. Here the En-
pr ess Eugene drove, preceded by her out
rider In green and gold coat and white
breeches. The Due de Morny whirled by
with two footmen at the back of his phae-
ton. Miss Skittels, another notoriety of the
Gay, had an outrfder forsher carriage also.
The Russian Prince Demidoff, who had
married the Princess Mathilde Bonaparte,
and whose grandfather was serf that
had made a fortune from his masters es-
tates, whirled by in low coupe. Princesse
Metternich had a yellow boxed calecle, and
the Englishman, Wilkinson drove the first
and finest mail coach seen in Paris.
The policeman did not tell me all this;
indeed, though a brigadier, he does not
know half of these things about the ave-
nue. he guards. What he said was: 1T Is
the beginning of the Americanizing of
Paris and continuing, "Some day you will
see the street cars not only crossing it, but
running up and down." He is of the pres
ent. and he knows his world, as he would
say in French. Was it as a compliment
that he said "Americanizing?"
STERLING HELLO.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
sF A G8k sE OF E siXTM rs ANp sIREES
,-farlor and Dining Cars Harrisburg to Pitts
1910 AN PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.-rulI-
Cars Harrisburg to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indlanap-
1850 AN; FAST LINE. Pullman Buffet Parlor
$40 7 ~: CHICAGO AND ST LOUIS ExrREss.-
ing and Dining Cars Harrisburg to ST. Louis.
no PM WESTERN Stern ExpnEss.-pplman Sleep
ing Car to Pittshurg. Chicago. and Harrisburg to
20 s' f% 5plns sfs f4 s''n EE%rREr
man Sleeping Cars Washington to Pittsburg and
Harrisburg % s.: Louis and Louisville via Gin
1910 Pm. PAcfFTc EMPRESS Pullman Sleep
$50 AN. for Kane, Canandaigua. Rochester and
- Niagara LA Falls daily. except SUNDAY;
io SSoa. An for for EirI and EenGyo daily s' GIT
Transport sundays $40 pm.
Siarara Falls daiIy Except SATURDAY. with Sleep e
ing Car Washington to Suspension Bridge via Buff
1910 PM. for Erie. Canandaigua. Rochester, Buff
falo and Niagara Falls daily. Sleeping Car WASH
FOR PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND TIE
400 P;M "ooNGREsSIoSAL LIMITED" daily.
more. Regular at 700 Dining Carr, 500, $500.
SS1 aps Ga 1 sna sS . go car io s@
and II ;s5 Pm. On sunday, zoo Dining Carr,
500, 900. II 90 Dining Car from Wilmington
An. l2:15i s:ls, $40 $50; 1000 and y rs
Pm. For Philadelphia only, Fast Express, 1850
days, POI and $40 Pm. daily. For Boston.
Without change 7:50 AN. week days. and 3:l5
NJ. daily.
For Atlantic City tyia Delaware River Bridge. all
Fra ran Ra .Ed1e0; $40 fa ZOO aa o soo ooo ,ooo
1850. IL 90 and IL so AN, 1918. l2:45. 2oI,
3:15. $40 1850 Limitedl 40, 4:3G. $40, G:l5.
$50; 7:1o. 1000, lo:4o. II 10 and II :35 pm ON
Sunday, 90, SEQ 300, 9:05 1880, IL 90 AN,
1918, 1:15. POI 3.15 $40 400 Limited, 4:ao.
5:4o, els. $50. 7:l0, 1000, l0:4o and l:35
PM
For Pope's Creek Line ESQ AN. and 4:se Pm.
For Annapolis 200. 900 AN, 1915 and 4:2o
Pm. daily, except Sunday. Sundays, 900 AN.
and 400 Pm.
Atlantic Coast Line.-Express for Florida and
points Atlantic Coast Line, 4:30 NJ, 3:f6
Pm. daily; Richmond only, 1887 AN. week
days; Atlanta Special. via Richmond and Seahoard
Air Line, 4:40 Pm. daily. Accommodation for
Quantico, 7:45 AN. and 4:25 M. week days.
Ticket Offices. corner 18th and G streets and at
the station, 9Th and Streets where orders
be left for the checking Of baggage 10 destination
from hotels and residences
]. b. HUTCHINSON. J. r. WOOD
General Manager. General Passenger Agent.
ap12
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.


Schedule i'm effect February 81, 1897.
Leave Washington from station corner Of New
For Chicago and Northwesi, vestibaled Limited
trains, 1000 i:4s am, SOS pm.
press vessiSae epG L%itsd so
FOR Pitts6nrs and Cleveland. express daily 1000
For Toledo ard Detroit; II:2s pm,
a. For sS winchester and way stations. 1910 and
For New Orleans. Memphis, Birmingham. Chat
ESr L S.iyy.; s;4O 2 N; daily: ,n .n
1 1905 ifo $50 s. $40 $50 s 800 , SIC
iSs III SD Gsis g.. s::s
1aao i ,I1S n,lse , S ana ne, night
For Frederick, week days. 7:s5 am. IL As, 40,
S RSr Ssasas' ticeo an and $3.50
For Boyd and way points. week days. 7:s5 am.
For Gsi,hersbaTs and way points. gsek days.
7;ss 800 a sn,, lSso go sa6 40 .ss 20 10
We ssS pS asst az. Ss. way pn ss s
PHILADELPHIA.
An trains illuminated with Pintsch light.
bnine Sc S s so B baas cs dS 81
dsys 600 a. Dining n csa gs.o n,oins sun
500 D:05 Dining Carr. l2.0i night, Sleeping Car
open at 1000 O'clock Additional trains for Phia-
Buffet PaIior Cars on an day Trains;
1a:se p%. seet days Eco pm. susaa SSon 'n'
For Cape May, IL noon.
fExcept Sunday. 'Daiiy. Sunday only.
xExpress trains.
Barge called for and checked hotels and
residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left
at ticket o(Bces, SO Pennsylvania avenue NV,
New York avenue and 18th street, and a: Depot.
WIN. N. GREENE, ID. r. MARTIN.
Gen. Manager. Man. of Pass. Traf6c.
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Where Children Play.

son." And Miss Thackeray relates how
she played around the arch when all was
still green countryside in the neighborhood
The First Exposition.
In 1855, when a universal exposition was
held for the first time in Paris, the great
Palais de L'Industrie was built Since the
war of 1870 it has been used for the annual
Salon, and Of late years for the horse show
1t is now being torn down, and the fence
around the space where the buildings for
the next exposition of 1900 are to be. is
quite in harmony with the tramway which
passes along the side. The fence however
will disappear, while the car tracks will re-
maini
1t is at the round point, where the foun-
tains are that the avenue, with it's houses
properly begins. At the left corner is what
was the finest house under the empire, in
the style of Louis XIV, and still one of the
best specimens of domestic architecture in
Paris. Next to II there is q small marble
hotel, with one immense bay window on
the avenue. This was the home of the
Duo de Morny, half brother of Napoleon
III and his good genius in government
He was a gay duke, and his garden ran
back to the Jardin Mabille. All have since
disappeared. like the empire-and the can
can-and the place is now inhabited by q
French family with the curiosly English
name Of Archdeacon.
A little farther on the Restaurant Cuhaf
occupies the luxurious house built for her
self by the notorious Marquis de Paiva
1t cost her 6,O0O,0 francs, but it was left
closed for years and years before her
death, she never returning to it. She was
an adventures whose history was wilder
than the most extravagant romance First
known as a pianist Of talent in ST. Peters
burg. she was said to have escaped from
the sultan's harem. All her life she al
lowed 1t to be believed that she was born an
Indian princess. 1t Is pretty certain that
she was really a sharp German girl Of the
Eame Of Theresa Lachman.
Farther along this avenue, on the same
left-hand side going toward the arch, above
what Is now carriage shop, was the
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tracks Now this is terriblev' walled the
Parisians "Ah, what unhappiness! And
ah, thec noble driveway to the Bots! And
the poor little children. playing with their
little shovels and their little buckets I'M
derneath the trees, where sit their nurses,
wet and dry, interdistingushable only by
the ribbon streamers from their snowy
starched and laundered caps, will they be
longer safe-the children, naturally-may
they not be run over by the snorting, COM
pressed-air locomotive or the dinging troll
ley?'
Indeed it Is noble avenue. and its each
and every step is connected with names
known in America as in France. At its be-
ginning. in the Place de la Concorde, the
guilotine was set up one hundred years
ago. There Louis XVI and Marie Antoi-
nette and thousands of others lost their
heads, until the ground was so sodden with