Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1910-08-09

ing the enemies OF France In Italy
Jaan was sent at The head OF 2u.uu0
men TO aid the young commander of
! this army at the southwark.
Then followed two decades that
must remain 10 history the nIoSi re-
markable epoch OF modern times.
| These two young men one of them
the conqneror OF Europe. the other
one OF his most efficient assistants
were related by marriage. Their inter
ests were Identical but they never got
| on together. The one lost bis interest
In the deposlnc of the tyrant king ex-
| cept so far as il left vacancy for
him TO slip into as emperor The
other for time. either through nat
ural leaning toward The motto. Death
TO Kings and Tyrautsr or seeing that
his chief was absorbing the state into
himself. opposed him. But both In
time cut loose from their moorings
and from revoluiioniSis became mon
archists.
During this shaking up of the king
doms of Europe one OF the thrones
II was electoral-became vacant. Tho
notary's boy had fought on their terri
tory and had been kind to the people
Owing TO his connection with the great
conqueror he was taken mp rs can
didate and elected king. And so II
was that Jean Baptiste Jules Berna-
dotte. a French peasant. who had
stood guard while his king was exc
cuted. who had tatooed on bis arm the
motto Death to Kings and Tyrantsr
became King Of Sweden.
And DOW those words became obnox-
ious TO him. When the king took of
his underclothes before going to bed
there on his arm was the picture of
the gullotine with the motto beneath
When they had been placed there. who
would have guessed that fate intended
taking up this peasant soldier and one
day placing him on a throne? The
king was rich and would gladly have
given literally of his gold 10 any one
who would remove the picture aud the
words. There was no surgeon In those
days so skilful that be could remove
them, and, though today tattoo work
may be so deadened as to be ordinarily
invisible. on rubbing the skin It Will
family reappear to confront the one
who would Danish IT,
One day the king fell H. The royal
physicians were sent for and decided
that his majesty must be bled The
king raised the sleeve on his left arm
I'VE usually bleed patient on the
right arm. your majesty" said the op
orator.
And viii not blood taken from the
left serve as weliY" the king asked
shortly.
1T may be-"
"Then draw It from the left"
Perhaps II Is custom. your majesty.
perhaps because the left arm is nearer
the heart, that physicians bleed from
the right"
II choose to be bled from the left
arm" insisted the king, by this time
showing a choeric redness In the face
They bled his majesty as he direct
ed, and be recovered. When again he
needed bleeding another physician was
called. Again the king barred his left
arm. The physician asked him 10
raise the right sleeve This time his
majesty had lost some OF his patience.
BLEED me where directr' he thun
dered. do you suppose that |. whe
have commanded on many battle6elds
and detested taking orders from the
emperor himself. am to be dictated to
by surgeon?"
The kings command was obeyed.
And so 1t came to pass that the story
got abroad In the palace that the King
would never submit to he bled from
bis right arm. 1t was repeated In
whispers. and all who heard ii won
dered. The king never heard it. but
he dreaded lest by what must seem bis
strange action be had excited com
ment.
When his majesty arose IN the morn
ing. unlike other soyereigns. he must
need exclude his chanlberiains and his
gentlemen Of the bedchamber. Not
even valet could be admitted during
the change from night to day clothes
or during the bath lest the blue pic
ture Of the guilotine and the words
beneath be seen and the secret come
out Who knows but the knowledge
that the king was thus chained to the
murder Of a king spread among his
people might cause a sensation that
would end In revolution! And how
would end the Fevolulionf Well might
his majesty shudder and see In the tat
tooed guilIotine picture Of his own
end.
And so the king lived. chained as #
were, 10 the scene IN which he had as
sisted in his early youth and which
now he would love 10 forget. Even
though he seldom saw the picture and
the motto he knew that they were on
bis arm AT times as be grew old and
was losing the strength that had en-
abled him 10 help build up an empire
the blue characters on bis arm would
seem ike a serpent coiied there. How
often at night in the loneliness Of his
chamber be cried out At The ever pres
ent witness OF his ingIorious change Of
principle was not known. for his maj
esty slept alone.
At last the king fell III and this time
knew that the hand Of death was upon
hinL His secret would be known. His
crown be could DOT take with him. aud
he did not care to take 1t. One thing
only be would Ike TO take. and that
was those tattoo marks be had pricked
on his arm with needle and india
ink. But this memenfo OF his past
thls InL tltaf LnunA Tim To tho do