The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-04-03

nCS1i Wf4tAlS. FeOn the desk table. l1EhI-
ed by four rose-cOiored candles burn
ing in silver candelabra, by a mass of
correspondence. This lazy monarch,
who had cultivated idleness as q fine
art, a OF whom 1t may be said. at
least that he could do nothing well.
which he seemed now convalescing for
he yawned as he took his place in the
chair by the desk and motioned his
visitor to a fauteuil.
Well, Monsieur de Sartines,' said
the king. and how are we this evening
-charmingly. I hope?"
Charmed, at least, your majesty, to
escape for a ome from the dizziness
OF the Hotel de Sartines and exchange
Its darkness for the sun OF Versailles"
And is 1t Monsieur de Sartines or
the minister Of police that / see before
me?"
Both, sire. Monsieur de Sartines to
inquire after your majesty's health, the
minister of police to inform your ma
jesty OF the health OF his people,"
And how are our dear people? 2"
asked his majesty. casting some specks
OF gold sand of a sheet Of notepaper
and folding the sheet.
Still grumbling. SIRE,
And the pamphleteers 2"
And the philosophers? 2"
Still philosophizing. your majesty"
IA kA0 PAlSS III COIIs ~lOI& IL d.
ways seems to me that the price of
corn fs at The bottom Of all our trou-
bles.'
Still rising sire"
"Good!" said the king. The word
escaped from him almost without his
knowing it. 1t was. all the same,
meant; for the king and Monsieur de
Sartines had between them an interest
in the price Of corn-they were, in
fact, partners, in that they had bought
- - II H. ,-sy- - -- A~.-
it in granaries. They would presently
sell at an enormou profit. Meanwhile,
the conspirators, with their eyes on
the market, maintained toward one an
other a dignifled silence or the matter,
the king quite content to leave the
of his minister.
Good" said he again. with the
people and the markets in this dis
turbed state 1t Is a satisfaction to re-
at the ministry Of police to deal with
our philosophers and pamphleteers.
who are always g%runibling at the state
of France, and u people, who are al
ways grumbltng about their food. Ma
fol, Monsieur de Sartines, why do you
not feed all these troublesome subjects
of miner"
With what, your majestyT"
with the philosophers. Then the
pamphleteers could write pamphlets On
the subject, and all would be peace"
"Oh, SIRE" replied De S%artines, they
would never swallow Monsieur RCus-
seau's coat, nor that hat, which covers.
no doubt, a multitude of things other
than his thoughts. He grow more dis
reputable looking day by day, as he
ing dominoes with his right hand and
spreading sedition with his left. That
old man. sire, gives me more trou-
blous thoughts than all the other Sc
dition mongers in a bundle. That old
man, a young man and a woman have
been in my carriage with me all the
way from Par this evening"
Monsieur Rousseau in your car
riage!"
II spoke metaphorically. sire"
And the young man and oman
were they also with o metaphorical-
Eyes, SIRE
who, then, is the young mann"
THE Chevalier de Lussac, your ma
jesty."
"Ah. De Richelieu's kinsman-and
"The Baroness Sophie Linden, with
least SO my agents say"
THE Austrian woman"
Yes, your majesty, the same; ac-
ing a letter for the dauphiness, linger-
ing on in Paris now that her work is
over"
And do you not know why she is
lingering In Paris. Monsieur de Sar-
tines?"
"That. sire, is what I am determined
to find out"
IT can tell you"
you can, sire'?'
Ma fol, yes; you yourself have Just
told me-she is in love with the chew
alier." The king laughed as though he
had mazda a Onn6 SnEa pnf no SQr-
tines did not laugh.
That is all very well, sire. I vas
not referring to love-it does no come
within the province of the minister of
police. What does come within his
province is the fact that at her house
in the Rue Coo Heron she receives
dubious people. Messengers call there
with letters; De Lussac, kinsman
though he Is to the Due de Richelieu,
is, / am assured, a member of that in
fernal Society of the Midi, and up to
his eyes in h new movement that
threatens to subvert order and destroy
the state"
He is a very young man"
Your majesty said De Sartines ear
nestiy, the two most important enc
mics of the state are the very old
men who are filled with old rigid ideas
they cannot get rid of, m the very
young men who are filled with new
fantastical ideas they cannot digest"
Which reminds me, Monsieur" said
the king, that I am suffering from in
digestion: the politics of the present
day are a stew made by the politicians
of the past-they were bad cooks. II
you attempt to swallow it you will get
indigestion. as I have DONE. Let US
leave 1t to the politicians of the flu
ture. Look after De Lussac and his
friends as much as you please. For
me they are like madame's marmosets:
they chatter and chatter, and scratch
each others heads. Let them chatter,
as long as they don't chatter too loud
and disturb our peace"
The king moved In his chair to indi-
| cate that the intervieM Was over and