The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

1 Adelne and Pascalet embraced and
 kissed each other, declared that the daughter of his friend Vauclair and this
 adopted son of his were sure to marry
 in the future, and thought that they would suit each other perfectly.
 l As soon as the Marseillais battalion ar rived in Paris they were for at once stoIming the Kings castle and dictatins terms to him. But the Paris revolution tsts were having a sane spell after their | frenzy, and Santerre, the brewer, who was playing fast and loose with both | sides. advocated waiting policy. The
 Reds of the Midi were indignant. Had
 they marched all the weary leagues that lay between Provence and Paris to re- | main inactive, listening to the sound and | fury of the speeches of the Jacobins {? But the carpenter kept on making his guillotines and pressed Vaucair into ser vice to help him. He had an order for
 70 of them, and they were to be ready by certain date. Where are those guillotines?" asked vaucla:r and the carpenter looked at him with a serious face, but without explaining. The knives bad not been placed in them yet--those
 knives that were to sever the heads of the nobest In France from their bodies and the head from the body polite. | Pascalet climbed up on the two arms
 which extended from the improvised bed of Adelne, and wrote in pencil above,
 on the crossbeam. the word "Adeline."
 Little did he guess when and where he
 would again see that written name upon the guillotine.
 At last, one day when the Reds of the
 Midi were weary of waiting their pock-
 marked officer, Morgan. stood up in the
 gallery of the assembly, the members of which were chattering as usual, and cried out: You are all afreidl You sis there shaking like reeds. You are all ways afraid that something will happen
 or will not happen. And while you chat ter we, the Reds of the Midi, wait. We have tramped through thu. heat of ths sun and the chill of the night to come
 here and finish your business, and you
 have allowed us only enough moldy
 bread to keep us from starvation. We
 would accomplish that for which we
 came and go back to the Midi. We think you are towards. But, as for us, all we fear Is your fear. If we leave you to accomplish the revolution there will be no revolution"
 But this speech did no good; the sec tions of Paris were still afraid. Then Barbareaux and Danton came to the res-
 cue. They talked with the federals from Brest and with those of the National Guard who were really intent upon de- stroying the monarchy. The Reds of the
 Midi were removed to new barracks across the Seine, to the building which had been the convent of the Cordellers- where the Patriot club used to meet and Danton himself came to them and served out cartridges with his own hand. And as he served out the cartridges he shouted, "Liberty. Fraternity and Equal ity--or death" This was tho sort of talk the Reds of the Midi liked and their hearts were still further reioiced wher Barbareaux promised them that on the morrow they should storm the proud cas- tie of Louis.
 And so the longed-for day came and, while the tocsin sounded and the people of Paris aroused themselves at the noise of drums, Ringing Ca Frs." the Mar sellais battalion made it's way to the Tul- leries and gave heart to the other revo- lutionaries which had swarmed about this palace of the Bourbon kings. Then did the walls of that palace echo to the sing ing of the 'Marsellaise'' and the ancient dynasty of Capet was overthrown.
 As Pascalet was busy in the attack