Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — The One Above. [ARTICLE]

The One Above.

I especially remember Emile de Girardin, editor, spouter, intriguer—the “Grand Emile,” who boasted that he Invented and presented to the French people a new idea every day. This futile activity of his always seemed to me best expressed in tbe American simile, “Busy as a bee in a tar barrel.” There was, indeed, one thing to his credit: He had somehow inspired his former wife, the gifted Delphine Gay, with a belief in his greatness, and a pretty story was current illustrating this. During the revolution of 1848 various men of note, calling on Mme. Girardin, expressed alarm at tbe progress of that most foolish of bverturns, when she said, with an air of great solemnity and pointing upward, “Gentlemen, there is one above who watches over France.” (“11 y a un la-haut qui veille sur la France.”) All were great-’ ly impressed by this evidence of sublime faith until they discovered by the context that it was not the Almighty in whom she put her trust, but tbe great 'Emile, wbose study was just above her parlor.—Andrew D. White in Century.