The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

a pair of scissors?' The scissors were found and the lock was clipped.
 The dukes last appeal to his eXecu- tioners was for them not to miss their aim, and in another instant he fell be- fore the fatal volley, pierced through the heart The corpse was pushed into the gaping hole beside it. but there to pause only few years until the return of the Bourbons, when it was disinterred and laid to rest in the chapel of the grim old castle.
 Where the Republic Fell
 A small slender column of marble was , erected in the grassy moat at the time the body was removed, and there it still stands under the gaze of the morbid and the curious, marking the spot where the last of the House of Condo fell-and where, too, fin the twelfth year of its age the republic fell. For 1t was truly said of the Bourbon conspirators that they came to give France King and gave her Emperor.
 The blood of the Bourbons, and indeed of all the royalty in Europe. ran cold with horror at the news of how the Duke d'Enghien had died The court of the Czar at St. Petersburg went into mourn ing. and the King of Prussia recoilcd from Napoleon into an alliance with Rus sia.
 Paris met the event with mixed feelings -Soiue protesting person cOlHeu Ills WIllS- pered denunciation of the killing in a memorable phrase, Tt is worse than a crime-it is blunder!'' ~The regicides, however, the men who voted for the death of Louis XVI, were weary of Napoleons habit of roughly chiding them and re- minding them that they surely would be shot if the Bourbons ever came back, and they applauded his course. The old reyo- lutionists, now that Bourbon blood was on his hands, no longer feared that he might make terms with the rOyalists; hs had burned his bridges.
 The evening of the tragic day was . silent and gloomy occasion at Malmaison. The strain was not broken until the com pany had risen from dinner, when Ma poleon himself began to speak of the in evitable cruelties which History charged against rulers from tine Gnie of the Ro- man Emperors, abruptly concluding with the exclama tory declaration "They wish to 5 destroy the revolution in attacking my person, for 1, l, l am the revolution! They will be more cautious in the future, for they will know of what we are cap- able.'
 Long Live Napoleon
 At once tn esuggestion was flashed abroad that the only security for the peace of the country and the security ot the new order against the old lay in pro- viding a hereditary succession. Fouchs
 
 ergies from hunting down plotters against the First Consul to forwarding plot of their own against the republic. Five days after the death of the Duke d'Enghien, several electoral colleges obediently re- sponded to their instructions and laid at Athe feet of Napoleon their appeals that his authority might be perpetuated in his family.
 The great conspiracy which was still agitating the country served well to make the nation feel its dependence on one mortal life. which might be cut off in an instant and leave the country plunged into chaos. This work We do, this money we risk" the people are represented as saying; this house we build these trees we plant-what will become of them it. Napoleon dies?" Establish a dynasty ana the royaist assassins will see the useless-i ness of striking down the head of the government. with long line of heirs standing behind him, and will cease to disturb the land. Moreover, once throne is set up at Paris, monarchial Europe will no longer band against France as a men, ace to kings.
 The republic was dead--long live Na- poleonl
 Copyright, 1S13-14 by James Morgan.)
 Next Sunday-The Coronation of Napo- leon and Josephine.