Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19

where generals in blue and gold and scarlet
decorate the scene, where special alleys are
cut through the brushwood for great per-
sonages. Such is Leopold, King of the Bel
gians Such is Don Jaime of Austria.
Such are the Grand Dukes Vladimir and
Alexis. Then the president must ask the
Marquis de Montebelo and Count Nicolas
Potocki. The last time the King of Portu-
gal shot with the president they walked
each side of his highness to protect him
from the odors of too much republicanism!
In spite of their constraint and toadying.
such royal and imperial functions are free.
not only from physical risks-kings and
grand dukes being good shots-but from
the peculiar encroachments which make the
French president the chief game. morally.
of his official hunts This is why in re-
Spouse to NJ. Loubets question: What Of
the next massacre" the president replied:
Seven academic palms, two agricultural
merits, one ribbon of the Legion of Honor,
two civil service places and one bureau or
tobacco.
In this land of bureaucracy one voter in
eight sucks the governmental teat. The
selling of tobacco, for example, is gov
eminent monopoly; the bureaus, or shops,
are held by appointment: then the titular
subjects the actual work to some poor devil
and takes half the revenue for doing moth
ing! Once get civil service job you keep
it until you retire on half pay. AS for deco
rations. they are the first steps TO privilege
and success.
Pablo, the Tame Badger.
1t is no wonder. therefore. that invited
guests find the official hunts a perfect OPP
portunity for holding up an easy-going
president. They paw around the president
as If to hypnotic him with caressing ges-
lures. They caress his private secretary.
the stenographer and even the photos-
rapher
Il feel hunted thing.' said NJ. Fallieres.
ITEMS. brave old Pablo. it is thou that
knowest the emotion!
1t was to an extraordinary animal that
the French president addressed these words
of greeting-an Old badger OF enormous
size, immoderately tame, uncannlly famllar,
gray and aged, who approached at slow
wabble and looked up at the two elderly
celebrities fraternally.
Its not his age. but his weight" OBJ
served the president: hes full of lead-as
full of shot as the late Jumping Frog!
He always would show up at the official
hunts" unused NJ. Loubet I'm my time.
Coquelin cadet was the last to pepper him
Al the wild boar" cried Coqueiin to the
garde chasse, who came running: 1 had
him at the end of my barrel, a ma gnificent
wild boar, a splendid beast. enormous
Pardon, monsieur said the garde
chase. it was tame badger of the name
of Pablo
Badger yourself: 1t was great boar.
all gray, with short fat tall
But. monsieur, the board has not a nat
tall but a curled one, like corkscrew!
said the garde chaSse.
"'Allons allons. what Is all this talk OF
corkscrews? acclaimed CoQuelin with Sc
versity; first it was a badger. then it was
your Pablo. | tell you I've shot wild boar.
and I'll thank you to go off and find MIN
for me-" -
Was the boar found?" inquired NJ
Falieres.
Surely surely answered NJ Loubet.
Art must be cherished. believe the great
comedian has its stuffed head, with ter
rible protruding tusks, against a panel OF
his billiard room! -
'''' AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.