| Show pl order To enlighten him him ou on the Ihl L LI I III mutt u t n Ioli he e civil servIce lids hns at oil 1111 had hIld hadu u II strong nl elloT pr fathers e and mothers Ilko to see Ij e their Tr young rime Ii work I he tint exee The Tho pay Is nut not r either tit It bo added for eor fora eorI I a the thit commencing salary Is but bul 1600 t l 30 per pcr unit und jf It pro does not nM conic come It remains remain nt at that There Ihen 19 s however 1 n small mall malli i P lo nt at the tho end and It sounds lounds welt well g m to 10 11 say dry son Mil Is lit at or that 1 ministry and this Is Ic a a tithe to con coni i whoa when rho Iho young man le Is an 1111 to 10 the tho hand ot of IL a young lady jt SWELL THE t The Is b that the tha departments the especially lire are crowded with young and andr lid whoso whose only raison detro n pearl r to M be to 10 draw their salaries regularly i and 1111 help to awell an already budget Tho staffa could probably Ite he hei by or oven Men i without the tho public being any the Iho the p ot of view ot of work j Now It III h not II to be bc supposed that t these thc e and th 1 Il its they are 1110 Ir hr termed are InterIor In men mentill till and nd capacity to their brethren who cho chosen en other ell cu 1 the prOduct and thin t victims tit which Consists tS Jr d men to do the tho work ot of one broth uru t In III 1 therm turn ten In honest honesty y a pearly In out ot of hours This worthy has no sooner lIoon r I his little homo home hi n the tho suburbs than lian he develops Into nn an accountant or ora i II a That correct tunc imie z rJ J the tho ministry lr except to draw hIs salary lI lilt trail hall been earning ranee I a year 1600 uN mia ap inspector of the tha fora tile lime only torm aria ot of public betting allowed by laW and df de course had liD no tune to 10 devote to his ministerial dunce lie Was promptly dismissed and no ac accepted I Ice ce tl hi his misfortune without n 0 murmur mur murmur mur Another truant only e escaped capell n a rate fate by that his hll chief had b begged him to stay away u ii there was waR nothing for tor him I to do That 1 t Is not nol insensible to the thu humoro humorous s side Icle of the thu situation l is from u a little Incident which JQ the tho other day 1111 The minister suddenly walked into III en the rind surprised t nil an fast us p pho Thu ho culprits colleagues hastened lI It to rouse him lb Ib con consciousness when M waved them back with tho words Dont wako him tic he might SQ go away Even when the minister r WI was ot at Caris lout liking the waters dill did not for forKel forget get Kel his circular lie sent a climber tel lei telegram to the ministry one day tay ordering the tho presence sheets to lIe be passed proud Not I a functionary was absent I Days aI ort oft tor burying grandaunts nile and chris toning infants hive hwe become regretted memories of the past ZEAl FOR 1011 1 reforming zeal has extended even to the tho prisons His first nul IsH wn seas not encouraging The porter ot of f it t Lazare prison In the rue rua lIu du Fan bough Ht Hi Denis opened the thc gate ono morning to 10 1 a little old gentleman The Tho toll following oWing dialogue took look place ploce What do you OU want wanti 1 I wish VJ h to 10 visit the tho HAve you the pr prefects permission No Nf I 1 nm Am the minister ot of the tho Inter N NJ J their trl right ht except that they thoy had to emit cold victuals for tor 1 it fortnight r hand man nt at the tho ministry bt be the interior is IK M Albert Sarraut the under secretary and when whon a while ago ngo M fought II a duel smith M I the Liberal dep deput ut tit his famous chief acted Q as hla second tor n a Frenchman indeed M lem energy is III quite abnormal Ther Is something distinctively Amell can about lt It Perhaps that ls Is duo to th the tact that he spent tour four years In iii America When he wu was only nineteen he was thrown Into Inlo prison for Vive la In lit at II a medical stu students tu dents meeting lie was Willi kept kepI three months In jail for this and the expert elicit left mitt indelible impression on his powerful und and rebellious character chancler As soon its 1111 ho was released he made tracks Irack for tor the land ot of the tree free OF EMPIRE Ito Ho might leave spent pent the rest of tits hi days there ln mind 1 perhaps by this have been u n United States Stales senator but buttor for tor the Ihl Franco war and the breakup ot of the empire These Thes events brought t back to from many a distant corner ot of the earth the Iho men melt had fought the In its 1111 days of glory and They caused to puck pack portmanteau unit bid a lifelong farewell to America hack back In the capital he abandoned Is n a full doctor for tor journalism m and lie hu has nn an Intellect as keen ns as R a razor n a will IU its hard nil as the tho granite cliffs ot of his own La 10 Vendee encl l To these qualities hEl he unites dauntless courage moral and Intellectual mid less leu than physical For nigh forty years yean to he has hae been bAttling In French vol volt yelps and pen sword and yet it t Is s II H r Who would suspect ili It rises nt at i 4 n m and Is III an nt at the Central unlit 7 u II uTo I To m Another I sits In the box or of oft II a and nets us controller anti and t eo soon on 1 t t The public knows ot of course courM very little ot of the servants of the Iho s lie who are popularly a judge from sit ll slumber slumberIng Ing nit nil Iy day Ion long amid piles ot of papera how is III tilt The n are hives where the Iho nets physical nail intellectual fame gaules Civil servants nH are or oft often en II artists ot nt real talent It could peep epp behind the closed clouts ot of lade or that thaI you would l often see eo It a hunh halll III at work on II a I Ii a friend In III preparing the In III another runts room 1 a dramatist will hl h I rc reading rile latest t pice It to I a select duce or of his colleagues In another two poet and musician will willbo bo the next IW song or for fill I a Montmartre care cafe concert mud till nil Purls tho c will Ill be humming It III n 1 it tew days Certain o of the Iho ministry of are decorated 1 smith lIh t j mural the work ot of function I artes ministry III ht spite ot It the columns column ut of lIr dry lu III which his 1111 members ore supposed to bu bo the Iho moat formidable literary and ter fUI thu tho prizes offered hy by various treat great doyen of myth m subjects adorn the tho walls ot of the 4 department ilL nt the Ihl lintel lIe de deVille Ville The prefecture of If I Is a ammis for tor 11 Ito chess chell At 1 the min i of oe i works and tile the colonies there thero nr aro excellent lie ac I sub rose and even Ivon com commercial mercial travelers who to b sent tit the greater of the Iho roar lUf ruin their duties In an 1111 r Cant tant municipal tour four cant players player have hlo had the audacity to poet 1111 11 n a Private nn II tilt door ot of one or of thee the rooms In order that thul they h may remain d under such lIuch conditions Is tolerable MI indeed there therl III un on record the case ot of ofa 1 a functionary who came into Inlo a corn conI fortune at UI the loath of ti II rel olivo And forthwith asked mud obtained Ita leave of ob observe suit die A year after afterward ward ono one fine morning he up tip 1 1 It at his hIli Ills Hilt risked him the reason ot of his hie return tr W eil you know f was bored to 10 death X I flit dW tint knol how hol to till 1111 up UI III my time lime rite 1111 tact Is this is 18 the only Ilal place where I n r edl Ol cart on Joy yourself Anil lie ho stay stayn I a 1111 f j 1 No wonder then theil that M I j tt II t r spread con t Ira J l among the tho staff Iatt ot of tb the n ot of the cl Interior Loud rats rd d against the arbitrary ot of this Ihl minister who nil as the tho papers gloatingly pointed out was as pI preventing the braves font from earning their dIU ddlly I brood Out hut M r heM held firm When J I nm an nt at my ho he said Balli I Ih Inot h not Mt too much to 10 require the minister 1111 ai staff to be nl at their posts even hours York work I is not nt al n a time when the du day is II demanded rime gentlemen who are reported absent tram from duty wilt will take the Iho con consequences d I The utmost that tun tho minister could he induced to concede was wal that the ne at hours hour should bo train 3 i to 8 6 In head ot at rein 3 to 7 Lt In order to Insure that thaI the new 1011 peg WM was being compiled with pres neo nce sheets ware Vore handed from limo Ime to line cacti ench bung re rc haired to append his ls signature I ASTOl i I It then that astounding abuses 1 1118 to light It wn was that IUd 10 functionary had never nett set t foot In InI i I or r Go 00 and aid call the governor V H Tho rho porter stood h ho Monsieur Ie he has hus gone Rone out Monsieur Ion leur la 10 Well then roll call the tho chief warder Again came the tho reply that the chief warder was WaI out also The same was Willi the tho case with the sia III tel ter superior and finally rr M Clemen Clemenceau interviewed the clerk For vc the governor chief warder and slater Rister hardly ventured outside the prison gales for tor tear ot of another Hur aur visit I lt from erom the terrible minister It 11 la h Impossible to crowd Into the its of oe nn an article the Ihl sensational doings doing of oe M I during the tho short portal he hue held hehl limo tho portfolio ot of the interior n t began with The awful I mining catastrophe by which morn morl than 1 a thousand lives were ll lloc I oc as wilt ho bo remembered In March almost t ly after th I formation or of the tho He Do Hetten and under time Iho In Influence fluence of revolutionary work and tor a time the shun lieu w ae grave M lemon emu cents went post haste hall to 10 I Lens the or of time the and trout choux the latter being open openly ly Iy revolutionary Tho minister first of all 1111 interviewed the whose leader Is the and representative of oe liens IAns and then to 10 time Iho utter dismay or of prefect mayor police amid nil all announced his hla lit t I ot of interviewing the Isla A minister In ht the revolutionary cants Never Noer hod such stich n 11 thing been heard of It if an out outrage rage were committed What It if his hiI were seized amid 11 held host hosl hostage agel age Nothing daunted the tho little man manin In howler and Iou lounge nil suit and unal walked into Inti time tho hita heedless loss ot of scowling claus clous glances and announced his or of addressing the minera nesem bled In the Iho hall cite yen yell And thou when hitch Imd boon blen oh ob blued M told the miners that ho hall had come carne to Inquire Into their anti and exhorted them to ho calm aim and anda a arold disorder ell promising them that if Ie there were Yero no disorder no force torce would be used usel tad lId what will you do citizen cried a miner It if there thero I le lIl disorder In that case wits the IIII bold un hesitating reply The government will enforce order artier and protect the mines but bul 1 promise you that thit you ou shall hall not see seO II a single Ingle soldier The They shall ho Into the tho district b by night and posted within the tho works anti It if there Is lit ia disorder not a 11 single rouge red trousers shall ho see seen II In Inthe inthe the A PI TAME lAIE I It Il 1 was 18 II a perilous game gune to 10 pIa play hut but the 1110 miners were rl visibly overawed by I the ministers attitude and he was cheered RS as he len left the hall M MI I kept his word wont of troops were brought into Inlo the tho north northern ern departments by night rind posted about the mines Unfortunately I there ere seas II dl disorder the military were tre fre seen Been In the tho streets of at Lens and throughout time Iho minIng aol M was severely criticised by hlo hie opponents opponent for tor with lIh The ot of had scarce dIed away when all France was waR thrown into Inlo n a panic b by the tho approach ot of May da day It was firmly believed that the country Will was on the Iho eve eo of n a terrIble lint and Anarchist upheaval I the tho energy ot of the mInister of at the interior wn was apparent Fifty thousand troop preserved order In lark 1 alone and the tho good citizens who had laid In stores of oe ham sausages and biscuit against n a were none lIone the Iha worse tor or only within the lust last six Ix months he h has had the opportunity ot of revealing seine r or of hIs greatest to the Iho world Ills HIs enemIes say Bay that he f Is and old ho Is on nn the shady sl side ot of and In n a hurry hurn It that l is so 0 the republic would be all the bettor better for a afew few tew more invalids spurred on by age nga and debility R D F TATE |
