Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

on the French tanks. La Farouche
turned into land gun, snorted in red
rage for the honor of France. While
battalions, troopers, generals and Or
derlieS scampered hither and thither,
La Farouche stood her ground. Every
time the sweating gunners drove a ram
down her slippery throat, she barked
her motto. I am the last argument OF
kingsi'
Argument or no, the Prussians
swept on like hurricane, overran the
artillery. Her crew stuck with La Fa-
rouche, and she stuck with them. AL
ready her mouth heated to dull red
glow. And red was the path she
blazed. Around her mount lay the
stricken glnnerS, and soon, there was
no one to lubricate her parched throat.
She almost cracked from the heat
but the battle was over
The Prussians retreated and sons OF
France came back over the field and
picked up their wounded. They cut
this niche In her breech for heroism
under fire, and dragged La Farouche
out of the mud. That's what she did in
the Battle of RoSsbach, November 5
1857.
"One month later, at the Battle OF
Leuthen, she frothed fire at Frederick's
army again. But this time, she was un-
der the Austrian flag, lent to their
army by the French. Prince Charles
led the battle. Eighty thousand SOL
diers joined La Farouche, but the
Prussians, with but 10000, swept over
them like tidal wave.
Look, all these scars she bore away
from battles. For many years she idled
in a French barracks at Suresnes. lust
outside Paris. Cadets and oficert
petted her and retold stories of her
valor. She was a great gun, they said
While Washington camped at VAL
ley Forge La Ferouche was drawn GU,
the barrack grounds, loaded on boat
and barged down the Seine. They took
her to Havre and rolled her on man
! o'-war, the flagship of Admiral De
Grasses fleet. Across the Atlantic. Il
was her maiden voyage. All the way
over her crew rubbed and polished. In
| those days La Ferouche was an emblem
OF ferocity itself. She lacked no care
and that she was the bristling pride
Of De Grasses fleet was common knowl-
| edge.
/ ALAS! La Ferouche didn't have much
chance to argue this time. Washing.
ton and Rochambeau had cornerec
CORVALLIS and his Britishers at York.
town. La Ferouche attended the cere.
| monies.
ooh. she fought in many other hare
battles. She Numbered for her kine
| during the French Revolution; ther
captured, she beloved for proletarians
In 1892 she defended the French re.
| public In the Battle Of Valmy. Napoleon
used her in the sea battle Of Trafalgar
| when Nelson, the mighty admiral, died
Napoleon had his Waterloo, but La
Ferouche fought on. She crossed the
Atlantic seven different times and finally
fell into the hands of pirates. Whai
| she did under their guidance, no one
has lived to say. Suffice. that while
gallivanting on the Spanish Main. she
was captured by a fleet Of Suanist
brigantines, brought to port ane
mounted on the breastworks OF Santiago
the Americans in 1900. That, too, is
long story. but there are so many
others.
Here, for instance, are Eel Bellicose,
the warlike: Richard the lion hearted
which has killed an army Of men itself
Don Quixote, the piece which wher
aimed at a windmill killed a genera
and his staff; Falstaff, the cannon tina
laughs as she fires; advance agent o.
the king, needing no further introduc-
tons; Napoleon I, the nightmare o.
Europe; Old Fritz, watch dog Of the
Rhine: Gesundheit, the cannon tina
drinks blood; Ecu dc Joie, the FIRE
works themselves, and lastly, De Pro
funds, out Of the depths.
| \ 4 \
Is A CROSS from La Ferouche, look a
'Exeunt Omnes,' the cannon tina
causes them to make their exit Gas
at Donay, France, in 1893 by Kelleriti
cure, Helyetian. Like La Ferouche
1t has appeared at numerous engage
ments and caused many o battlefiell
actor to make exit from this world
Exeunt Omnes barked at the Duke O.
Wellington himself and sent a bali ny
ling over his plume, and barely missed
landing Ia q pile of crane shot, She