Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-11
A RELIC OF PAST GREATNESS

The story of the French reVOlu
ton in the 1905 is perhaps read
oftener and referred to more fire.
quently than any other revolution
save the American revolution. School
histories all remember the execu-
ton of Louis the Sixteenth and his
helpless queen, Marie Antoinette. My
girlhood days were familiar with this
tragic story of the vanity of human
greatness. The nobility of France
suffered terribly. Numbers of them
! lost their heads under the guillotine
blade.
The mother-in-law and sister-in-
law of the Marquis de Lafayette
were summary executed by the ra-
bid Jacobin government. Elegant
ladies were they, cultured, refined
and beautiful, they were driven to
the rguillotine in a cart and there
| beheaded.
Except the tragedy in Russia,
when Gar Nicholas, his wife, the
czarina, and the four beautiful
young duchesses, with the heir to
| the throne, were driven into a cav
ern-like room and butchered by the
Bolshevists, nothing in the worlds
history equals the execution of the
royal family in France when the ia
! collins ordered them to die on a scat
fold, with the streets packed with
| French people to cheer on the blood
thirsty legislators. Poor Marie An
toinette, crown princess Of Austria
and queen Of France, had been the
favorite of tickle fortune up to that
era of her life.
Her mother was the gre;t Marie
Theresa, empress of Austria, and
she adored her beautiful young
| daughter. The girl was so beautiful
| that the mother ordered a picture
made Of her to be kept in the royal
palace in Vienna, not only in the
palace, but in the empress own bou-
doir,, where she might see 1t any
hour in the day.
That picture has later turned up
in New York city. When the crash
fell on Germany, Austria was also
underneath and the heaviest sufferer
! by the World war.
The palace in Vienna was looted
and along with many valuable things
! brought over to the United States to
be sold at auction, this picture OF
Marie Antoinette was auctioned off
for forty dollars in this country.
| IL AAoo SuL t4NCO 4OL at 1SeloL a 1luIl"
| dred and fifty years, and documents
have been found which attest its
| genuinenesS.' 1t is priceless as a
souvenir Of that Austrian period
when Marie Theresa was having the
| time of her life to keep Frederick
the Great from doing what the Ger.
man kaiser did to France in 1870,
namely, conquer and subdue France.
1t is estimated that Marie Antoinette
was about 10 years old, the pet and
pride Of the great royal house Of
| Austria.
She was selected by her mother
and the reigning king of France to
become the queen Of France. It was
a royal marriage in all it's functions;
and this gay, young girl, the toast
of Europe, was led along to her
doom by the implacable hand Of Fate.
Her children persisted also and the
emperor of Austria was helpless to
recover his sister or bury her life
| less body in the royal mausoleum
of Austria. When mob law takes
hold of government - anarchy will
supervene.
Lord ByrOn's Wonderful Words.
He who ascends the mountain top
will find
! The Hottest peaks wrapped in
clouds and snow.
He who surpasses or subdues man.
kind
Must look down on the hate Of
those below.
There was never a time in our his
| tory when we needed the blessings
of honest civil government. more
than now.
We should all be interested in
good and wholesome laws, beneficial
| to the masses of our people.
And it goes without saying there
was never a time, when the masses
of our people should be encouraged
to sustain the honest legislators who
strive to do their duty, than now.
Every man who adventures into
! rotten politics knows what to ex-
pect-in abuse and hate. The story
Of American freedom is full of it.
George Washington, in the later
| years of his great life, was openly
contradicted and censored even in
Virginia politics of his day. They
could not spare his honored name
or recollect his glorious service to
his country--when passion and I'M
holy ambition antagonized him.
Abraham Lincoln had foes within
his own party that were ready and
willing to drag him down and out.
In the Confederate regime there
were ambitious men-who hated JEFF
ferson Davis with the pernicious
| hate that goes with disappointed
ambition and envy. It would sur.
Prise the veterans and the United
Daughters Of the Confederacy to be
fully informed on this subject. 1
lived through that war. I was
full grown and 81" and I know
some Of them-and have read what
was printed on that line.
Granting that Jefferson Davis
made mistakes and had his peculiar
methods, no man has, however,
dared to rise up and say-that he
was ever dis1oyal to the people of
the south in word, thought or deed
| He was the vicarious sufferer for
the southern rebels. when the Con-
federacy collapsed.f
| Today no man in the United
States has more honest admirers
| than Lincoln. 1.-THE hate Of those
below" was grievous to be borne,
but his name and memory have sur
vived the enmity Of his detractors
He, with Washington, are the two
men who have national holidays for
their birthdays.
Both served during dark days
'amid clouds and snow" They as
cended the peaks of the mountain
| top-amid the clouds of danger, and
the chill of faithless colleagues. As
time rolled on they can now look
down in security, ION the hate of
| those heIOwo