The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-01-19

been given command of force oppos-
Ing the enemies of France in Italy.
''ehli WAS sent at the head OF 10000
men to aid the young commander of
this army ut the southwark.
Then followed two decades that
must remain in history the most re-
Hiark;ble epoch of modern times.
| These two young men-one of them
| the conuneror of Europe, the other
| one or his most efficient ASSISTANTS
were related by marriage. Their inter-
ests were identical. hut they never got
on togeth her. The one lost his interest
in the deposins of the tyrant king ex-
| cept SO far as it left vacancy for
him to slip into as emperor. Th~
other for time. either through nat.
ur;ll leaning toward the motto. death
to Kings and Tyrants!' or seeing that
his chief was absorbing the state into
himself. opposed him. Hut both In
time cut loose from their moorings
and from revolutionists became mon.
| arcllists.
During this sinking M Of the king
| dOnls OF Europe one of the thrones
It was electoral became vacant. The
notary's hoy had fought on their terri
| tory and had been kind to the people.
Owing to his connection with the great
! conTueror he WAS taken up as Il can
| didate and elected king. And SO 1t
was that Jean Rap,iste Jules Rerna.
dotte. Il French peasant. who had
| stood guard while his king was exc
"utetl. VIII" had taloo"d gu his arm the
motto 'Death to Kings and Tyrants!"
became King Of Sweden.
And now those words beca me obnoy.
ious to him. When the king took OFT
his unuerclothpS before going to bed,
there on his arm was the picture of
the guIll"tine 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 rlacin. him on Il throne! The
king was rio h and would gladly have
given literally of his gold to ans on,
who would remove the picture. and tic
words. There WAS no surgeon in those
days SO Skilful that be could remove
them. and. though TODAY tattoo WORT
may be so deadpnpd as 10 be ur,linai.S
invisible. on rubbing the skin ii vii!
family reapo"ar to confront the one
who would banish it.
One day the king fell i'll. The roya!
physicians were sent for ana decide
that his majesty must be ble1. The
king raised the sleeve on his left arm.
I'VE usually Lleed patient on the
right arm. your majesty" said the op-
orator.
And will not blood taken from the
left serve as well:" the king asked
shortly
1T may be-"
"Then draw it from the left"
"Ierhaps it is custom. your majesty,
perhaps because the left arm is nearer
the heart. that physicians bleed from
the right
II choose to be bled frolu the left
ARM" insisted the king. by this time
showing Il cho.eric rednesS in the face.
They bled his majesty as he direct
ed. and he recovered. When again he
needed bleeding another physician WAS
called. Again the king barred his left
arm. The physician asked him t.
raise the right sleeve. This time his
majesty had lost some OF his patience.
Bleed me where direct he thun-
dered. do YOU suppose that |. who
have commanded on many battletields
and detested taking orders from the
emperor himself. am to he dictated to
by Il surgeon?"
The kings command was obcyed.
And so it came to pass that the story
got abroad in the palace that the king
would never submit to he bled from
his right arm. 1t was repeated in
whispers. aud all who heard it Won
dered. The king never heard it. but
he dreaded lest by what must seem his
strange action he had excited com.
ment
When his majesty arose in the morn
ing. unlike other sovereigns. he must
need exclude his chamberlains and his
gentlemen Of the bedchamber. Not
even valet could be admitted during
the change from night to day clothes
4or during the bath lest the blue pic
ture Of the guiliOtine and the words
beneath be seen and the secret como
out. Who knows but the knowledge
that the king was thus chained to the
murder of king spread among his
people might cause sensation that
would end in revolution? And how
would end the revolution? Well might
his majesty shudder and see in the tat
tooed guillotine a picture Of his own
end.
And so the king lived. chained. as it
We're. to the scene in which he had as
sisted in his early youth and which
now he would love to forget Even
though he seldom saw the picture and
the motto he knew that they were on
his arm. At times as he grew old and
was losing the strength that had en-
abled him to help build up IN empire
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