Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16

fund knows the scheme to kidnap hum
dred republican leaders IN automobiles
Those are to be the incorruptible chiefs
of the republic. whose isolated capture IN
a hundred parts of France must take
place simultaneously. On the morning Of
the coup they are to be lured from thHis
homes on forged emergency calls, and
loya!ist young men in the automobiles
will keep them quiet without bloodshedl-
=.
There are not fifty WAYS TO get rid
OF those stickers. growled the wide
pants They are the republic. The
cash price OF another hundred of them ~
already agreed upon. They are to hare
honors and dgnities around the court.
l filled his glass.
Whose plot are you telling?" ] asked
Why, that of the royalists he an
swered, winking They will never haze
royalists must capture the telegraph de-
partment of the ministry OF the interior
and few other nerye-centers. lew
companies of common soldiers must no
persuaded to rise with their petty or
licers: and masses of royalist sympatniz-
ers will irrupt into the streets backed
by the sudden adhesion OF certain laopr
syndicates. They'll never do it.
Why not - / asked.
''All those royalists are plotting back
wards" said the Bonapartist agent. Ia
stead of profiting by popular excitement
they are plotting 10 stir up excitement
Pygmies, France is too big. Oh. doni
mean the republic, French popular
vote is nothing But the French people
will not stand for such a childish perfidy
as kidnaping in automobiles.
| filed his glass
"A French popular vote is nothing. he
rep. ated We Bonapartists ought 10
know it, Six months before the fall OF
Napoleon III the famous plebisctte Sayt
him a majority Of 100000 votes, some
thing that the republic has never enjoy
ed. Six months later the Parlsians VIII
oat arms. entered the Legislative assem-
bly, and the Hotel de Vile ana overthrow
Napoleon III. Yet Eugene and the little
prince had surer defenders than meie
vote, IA great centralized Administrations.
a devoted police. gendarmerie and GUARDS
All went 10 pieces with a few lelegra4sss
Of bad pews.
The Bonapartist agent winked.
TN and down." he said We knoR
the game. What news has done, news
can do
filled his glass again
AS soon as the great war with Ger
many breaks out he said, there VII
be no more republic.
Bah. l objected. No French gen
eral will make a coup d etat.
True he answered but to saye
France when France is attacked, to win.
the army will take charge"
No French general Will order fire on
the French people" | said. "All those
republican deputies and functionarfes.
what will they be doing?
They'll be IN their uniforms behind
the generals, hurrahing and fshting. me
army will take charge.
He slipped his glass.
That's the way 10 know France. he
sale
And the high silk hat?" 1 unused.
He laughed.
The cooked hat for the stovepips.
French history repeats itself Do you
remember Etienne Marcel trading With
the Dauphin Charles
Who will smash it, / insisted.
Once again the Bonapartist agent raised
his glass.
oh, anybody. lie waved the glass
gayly) If the cause be just and the emo
ton noble-were 1t necessary-who knows
If those who guard II might not smash
the hat themselves
"Ah,'' 1 said. that's the way to know
France. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.