The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-08
Che ailu ao aadnesdau 1orio zloneber 1890


dagger sticking as a cross is stuck in
the ground
On. every hand were gncmes. bronze
colored. red. black. kneeling. sitting.
squatting. heaped together. opening trunks
forcing locks. trying on bracelets. clasp
ing necklaces about theih necks. DOMINIC
coats or dresses, breaking. ripping. tear
ing. Two blacks were trying to get into
the same coat; each had got an arm on
and they were belabOring each other with
their disengaged fists.
1t was the second stage OF a sacked
town. Robbery and joy had succeeded
rage. In 2 few corners some were still
engaged in killing, but the great MAORI
ty were pillaging. All were carrying of
their booty. some in their arms. some IN
baskets on their backs. some in wheel
barrows
The strangest thing about It all was
that in the midst OF the Incredible. tu-
bultuous mob an interminable file OF pill
layers who were rich and fortunate
enough TO posses horses and vehicles
marched and depIoyed. in order and with
the solemn gravity fof a procession. This
was quite a different kind OF a medly,
Imagine carts OF all kinds. with loads
of every description: a four-horse CARR
age full of broken crockery and kitchen
utensils, with two or three dress-up and
beplumed negroes on each horse; a big
wagon drawn by oxen and loaded with
bales carefully corded and packed. dam
ask armchairs, frying pans, and pitch
forks, and on top OF this pyramid ne
gress. wearing a necklace and with
father stuck in her hair; an old country
coach drawn by q single mule and with a
load OF ten trunks and ten negroes. three
of whom were upon the animals back.
Mingle with all this. bath chairs, lit
tiers and sedan chairs piled high with loot
of all kinds. precious articles OF furniture
with the most sordid objects. It was the
hut and the drawing room pitched to-
gether pell-mell into a cart. an immense
removal by madmen defling through the
town.
What was incomprehensible was the
equanimity with which the petty robbers
regarded the wholesale robbers. The
pillagers afoot stepped aside TO let the
pillagers in carriages pass.
There were. it is true. few patrols,
II a squad of FIVE or six monkeys dis
guised as soldiers. and each beating at
his own sweet will on a drum. can be
called a patrol.
Near the gate OF the town, through
which this immense stream OF vehicles
was issuing. pranced a mulatto. a tall
lean, yellow rascle, rugged out in a judges
gown and white tie, with the sleeves
rolled up, a sword in his hand and his
legs bare. He was digging his heels into
a fat-belied horse that paved about in
the crowd. He was the magistrate charg
ed with the duty of preserving order at
the gate.
A little further on galloped another
group. A negro in a red coat with blue
sash. a generals epaulettes and an i'm
mense hat surcharged with tri-colo feath-
ers, was forcing his way through the rab-
bic. He was preceded by a horrible he'll
melted negro boy beating upon drum
and followed by two mulattoes, one in a
coloneTs coat, the other dressed as a
Turk with a hideous Mardi-Gras turoan
on his.ugly Chinese-like head.
Out on the plain 1 could see battalions
of ragged soldiers drawn up round
house, on which was a crowded balcony
draped with tri-color flag. Il had all the
appearance Of a balcony from which a
Beyond these battalions, this balcony,
this flag and this speech was a calm.
charming mountains of supberb shape
a loudless sky, -lhe ocean without rip
pie.
Strange and sad it is to see the grlmace
of man made with such effrontery in
presence Of the face Of God!
The second extract IS on the execution
of Louis XVI
There were certain characteristic de-
tails connected with the execution Of
Louis XVI, that are not recorded in his
tory. They were recounted TO me by an
eyewitness and are here published for the
first time
The scaffold was not. as IS generally
believed. erected in the very centre Of
Place. on the spot where the obeisk now
stands. but on a spot which the decree
Of the Provisional Executive Council de-
sigates in these precise terms: Between
the pied d'estal and the Champs Elyseee.'
What was this pedestal? Present gen
erations who have seen 50 many things
happen. so many statutes crumhle and
so many pedestsls overthrown donot quite
know what meaning TO give 10 this very
vague designation.
In the year II. Of the republic what the
Executive Council called the pied d'es- /
tar was naught but shspeless and hid /.
eous block It was sort Of sinister sym
Dol OF royalty itself Its ornaments % 4
marble and bronze had been wrenched or .
the bare stone was everywhere split and I
cracked.
The scanold was raised a few steps dis
tant from this ruin. little IN rear % g.
It was covered with long pianks. laid .
transversley. that masked the framework.
A ladder without bsnisters or balus.ra5e
was az the back and what they venture
TO call the head q this horrible. construc
ton was turned the Garde- Meubie A
basket Of cylindrical shape. covered wfth 4
leather, was placed at the spot where the
head q the King was d fall. % receive /
IL; and a. one q the angles u the entab-
lature. 20 the night of the ladder c0u.d 4
be discerned long wicker basket PR
pared FOR the body. on which ore % che
executionerz. while waiting for the EInS. i
had laid his hat
Here are some unknown details. The
executioners numbered four. txo only per
formed the execution. he third stayed 10
the foot - the ladder. and the fourth var
on the wagon which was 10 convey che
Kings body 20 the Madeleine Cemetery
and which wss waiting few fest from
the scaTojd
The - utio1erE wore bree~hes coats
IN -he French s-yie 80 the T@vQl8f ~
had modified s.. and three-e1-nere6 Eats
with enormous tr3-co,1- cseka Eea
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