Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-03
BARON TRENCK OF FRANCE
Jules Guerln. the Opera Bouile Rebel
and His Friends.

And Jules OucrIn-thls opcra-bouffo
rebel and bis chorus Of fnenda7
For forty days they were shut mp In
the dark fort. cut on from an communi-
cation with humanity, guarded day and
night by an army Of soldiers, police,
gen d'nrmca A. first "a Tow members
" the chamber u deputies. bent ON
Cancellation. were permitted 10 enter
the fort. they came out with eyes full
% horror and hardly could describe
what they had Hern-the rage, despair
and mortal folly into which the prlrs
onora had been east by thirst and fam
Inc. Weeks passed, frodlFtcH of hu-
man endurance, the bcHlcrcd atill lived
without food or water. because they
had nothing, nothing. Al one time Il
was thought that the market-women ~
tho hlllcs would force the blockade In
the humanitarian purpose Of bringing
food 20 those starving heroes, but the
mnrket-wumcn were not doing business
lu that way. Generous Paris had nban-
d1urd tho unhappy heroes; they had
nothing 20 DO but die.
They died. Every morning one am
nounCsd new death, the black nag
nnatcd over the zlno roof OF the fort.
This was go traglc that the government
relenicd aud dispatched doctors 10 the
fort, They kept on dying. 10, that the
nolrhhora demanded a quarantine. They
dlcd. but before expiring, IN one last
effort to express their wrath and hatred
% tyranny they ralncd down on the
heads Of the besieRlng army a hnlf-ton
of lobster rhol'a Il was very SAD. ov-
cry one anld: bat a. did not seem quite
natural The police investigated. One
dark nlrht Me police discovered cord
stretched across the street along which
Travelled baskets ~ provisions 60 the
roof o. the fort from a Wlrret over tho
way. They mounted 20 the gnrrct and
discovered n HtorehOuEc o. pruNlrlonH-
patca and preserves, hams and legs N
mutton, timed vegetables ana fresh
hFs ana Holsters. Holsters, lohatera,
And, 10. cap u ALL a supply Of tooth
How closely were these poor oapiivoa
guarded Even the sewers were
watched lest they should hurrow their
way from thoir darksome priaon-ov-
erythlnF but the front door, and out
81 that Cuorir~. ana hia brave fellows
could have marched any day they
chose. Ana then that memorable day Of
surrender The world gaped whom II
had surrendered by honorable arrange
mcnt with the government Paris
crnned Dc neck 20 catch "a glimpse Of
the drawn faces and emnciated figures
of the heroes Of Fort Chnbrnl, and Paris
saw fifteen comfortable bourgeois fg-
uros. most OF them automatically ro-
tund ana an hrpn thing OF guod living,
march out into the army Of beHloging
gen d'armca.
Fourteen went TO their homos- they
might have done u any day 81 tho forty
but one, The great Gucrin, was
marched TO IAN. his halo OF martyrdom
glisteulng proudly on his head.
What VIII Paris pay for Is forty
days entertainment outside Fort Cha
hrol2 Already ID has cost the govern
mpnt eighty thousand dollars 20 keep
up the siege and the fun, and the shop
keepers In the street. and the property
owners whose houses were ruined, are
now bringing suit against the nuthofl-
ties, The amount will be doubled.
But L was worth it.-IIenri Dumay In
Golfers Weekly.