Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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If 11111111 ' 111 11 i t 11 :111; n i : 111! 111 ] 1111111:111 i i m i i 11111111111111111111111111 ri 1111 m 11111111111111111111111111111; 11 n 111:111:111: m i: 11111111111111111 He wai the leading spirit of the Committee of Surveillance, and the louder and instigator cf the hl»od.-'hed of the Terror Period. Originally, he had studied medicine, with the idea of becoming a doctor, and for a short time ho was court physician in the palace of King Louis XVI. He liked to call himself the friend of the people , hut hi.-. greatest desire was to be dictator of France, that he might, as he himself put it, purify society , ami at the same time have in his power the sole and unquestioned right to 11 At one time he was known to have demanded 270,000 heads. In 1702 he was e’ectcd a member of the Commune of Paris, which organization served as n form of government for the lenders of the time. From time to time he published journals in the interests of the revolutionists. In April. 1798, he was brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal, which had only recently been formed, but his influence was widespread. and he was nequitted of the charge of sedition, which Kiwi been brought against him by a fellow-leader. Only a few months later he was slabbed to death hv a young woman. Charlotte do Cor day, who hated him for his ruthless slaughter and for the terror ho caused in France. She was n strong Republican, and felt convinced that, were Marat dead, France would get out of the mire of bloodshed into which he had dragged it. and that with his death would come pence to her beloved France. Yet things diil not work out u« -he hud hoped they would. For her deed she wa. sentenced to the guillotine, and it wasn’t long before tin-country had nnothor leader, who was almost as powerful as Marat had been. This was Maximilian Robespierre, originally a lawyer, hut with such a kind nature, that the duties of a criminal judge became extremely repulsive to him. In 1789 he was sent to the National Convention in Paris u- a representative. There he had found congenial companionship in a Jacobin Club, and soon became n member of the powerful Committee on Public Safety. After the death of Marat, the control of affairs fell into his hands and those of Georges Jacques Dan ton. Strange as it may xeem, Robespierre changed completely and took n leading part in bringing King Louis XVI and thou- sands of others to the guillotine. Danton, who had after the deulh of Marat been n strong follower of Robespierre, soon began to oppose him. Robespierre succeeded in having him behoudt d, and then he ruled supreme. Rut his increasing power and his control of the country by the Revolutionary Army made him unpopular among the people of France. Hr even instituted n religion of his own and tried to force his ideas of morality upon the people. In order to enforce these alone, he tent 1200 people to the guillotine within a period of nix weeks. On July 27. 1791. the Convention ro.c against him. and before he coul 1 he given a cbunce to defend himself he was thrown into prison. He escaped, hut was recaptured within u short time, and the following day he was led to the same guillotine to which he had sent thousands of others. Some of the deeds commit led during the Reign of Terror were horrible beyond description. The knife of the guillotine rose and fell too slowly to satisfy the blood-lust of the revolutionary leaders, so other methods of killing people were devised, torture even being employed. Long rows of captives wore mowed down by grape-shot, hut even this became loo slow. Holes were made in crowded barges set afloat on the Loiio. Young men and girls were tied hand and foot together and flung into the river to drown. The dead bodies, twined together in hideous embmees, were feasted upon by large flocks of crows and kites along the shore . One man was known to go around with his pockets well stuffed with ears. Another patriot strutted around with the finger of a smull child in his hat. The gruesome cart curried thousands and thousands to and from the guillotine, until the stench in the neighborhood became so terrible that the house? were all vacated, and this horrible machine, devised to abolish decapitation with the axe or sword, was set up in another section of the city. A revolt of I.a Vendee and the invasion of France by the Austrians, English, and other autiderg brought oven more confusion. Finally, in 1795, the insurrection was crushed with a whifT of grapeshot by Napoleon, then an artillery officer, and a government culled the Directory- was established in France, ushering in n new period of history. = L2d] | r7lllllillllllMlllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllll!llltllltlllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllltlllll(IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIflllllllllllF.

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•jiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu Phoenix Literary Society linttom Row—left to right: Mr. Rood (director), Sdgmund Mllewoki, James Munson, Yachtman Sue, Franklin Moclk, Harold Rosenfield, Silas Hirt?, Philip Zola. Hubert Seidel, Ambrose Pica, Mr. Moore (director) Second How—left to right: Harold Welngold, William Mueller. Raymond Rasmus, Andrew Baron, Stanley Hjorth. Raymond Boettcher, Wil.iam Kossak, Henry Schmidt, Warren Riege. Theron Lewis, Edwin’Schumacher. Herbert Boettcher, Werner Hoewisch, Alvin Deinlein, Royal F.klof, Harold Lewis, Milton Krueger Third Row—left to right: Wendell Loonhart, Donald Baumann. Steve Valenick. Clarence Christianson, Raymond Ferry, Leslie Anderson, Ernest House. Enri Sprague. William Kruekonborg, Omar Schmidt, Samuel Riege, William Halluda. Frank Huepper, Harto Kunda The Phoenix Literary Society held it. first meeting the third Thursday In September in the upper lobby of Phoenix Hall. Seven of the forty-six boys, who were present, wore now member . Mr. Rood and Mr. Moore were introduced a the new advisors for the year. The hoys hud seven mooting- this year and three out of the seven were joint moatings. The joint meetings of the Arindnu and tho Phoenix Literary Societies were held every other month. The officers for this year have been Alvin Dvin-lein, president: Ambrose Pica, vice-president; James Hanson, secretary; Omar Schmidt, treasurer; and Philip Zola, librarian. The Milwaukee Journal was subscribed for by the boys and has been greatly enjoyed. In our separate meetings we studied various things of interest to all of us such as biographies, news, and current topics. Those that we particularly enjoyed were a biography of Nathaniel lluwthronc; Parliamentary Practice; nnd a short story, '‘Boys Will Be Boys, by Irving S. Cobb. On the twenty-seventh of February at a joint meeting in the Assembly Hull Rev. George F. Mick from Chicago lectured on World Events”. This was very interesting to all. Then1 was a pretty good attendance. On the seventeenth of March a matinee dance was given by the Ariadna and tho Phoenix Lit-entry Societies and the matinee dance Committee. The students, who wore not members of the Literary Society, were the guests. April thirtieth in the study room of Ariadna Hall, the last joint meeting was held. Chief H. Gardner of the Dolnvan Fire Department lectured on How to Escape from a Burning Building. The students learned many new facts from his talk. The members felt that this was the best meeting of the year. All who took part this year, did very well. Siiiimiiiiiimimimiiiiiiimiiiiiiimmiiiiiimimimimimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimimimimitimimimmmmmimiiiiimimiiiiir