Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-11-21
NO. 18.

kafs and there related to the children :,
sora,,s children of those he had saved the r,,.
Tatiye which I have here given in less MOVING
and eloouent words Those who were pres.
ent described the scene As singularly impress
i've and affective. The three old men sat near
him as he spoke; and the emotions OF that
hour Of trial were so viyiily Reproduced in
their minds, that, at the close, they ianghei
and wept as they bad done on the same day
fifty years beioIe.
In conclusion, the speaker referred 70 the
phevsf heard Of him- did not even
learn his name but he is ever remembered
in my prayers Most probably, ne o,ea
soldiers death, on one of the many helds Of
SLAUGHTER which intervened between Jena and
Waterloo: bnt if he should be living. It would
cheer my last days on earth if | could reach
MIN with a single word of gratitude.
In the same year there lived-and, doubt
less is still liying-in Lyons, an invalIded ana
pensioned captain of the Napoleonic wars =
After a life OF vicissitudes, he found himself
in his old age, alone forgotten, poor: Men
no better and brayer than he had achieved
distinction by some lucky chance; fortune
had come to others and others begotten
children to cheer and vtalize their declining
DAYS. Him the world had passed by, and for
years he had been living quiet, silent, pinch
ed life, by the and Of his scanty pension Ills
daily resort was a cafe, where he could see
and read the principal European Journals
and perhaps measure the changed politics oi
the present time by the experience OF MS
past life.
One day in November, 1856. he entered
the cafe as usual, took his accustomed seat as
he was wont to 90, and picked up the nearest
paper 1t hapepned to be the Augusbury
Allegemeine Zeitung but he had spent some
wears in Germany, and understood the Ian
guage tolerably. His attention was attract
! ed by a letter dated Jena "Jenar he thinks
| ii was there too; what is going on there
now?' He reads a little further. "Celebra-
ton at Waldorf Waldorf! The name is IA
miliar; where have l heard it?" As ne con
tinues his perusal, the old captains excite
ment so unusual circumstances, attracts 'hc
attention Of ali the other hHbit,es of the cafe
Grand Dieu, -Waldorf-the ter
men-the pastors sont Did dream such
thing, or is this the same y Forgotten TO
wears and years, eff4ced by hundred othe
military adventures oserlaid and lost In tn
crowded stores of soldiers memory, III
, scene came to. light again The pastor ; 50
, still lived still remembered and t1anhe1 ih
! ;rosorxar af h;e,lIative village M-ny d ION
= year had passed since s.lea 80" "a''iieu ="
)
4 That evening he wrote to- Dr. r
3 Leipzig He was i'll. and hs,s ,s-.- -
1;rsssyyeeTrs. and Frightened the fickerlng clio
: Of his lite. A manly and atiectioate cosresPe
= o % I,o .s carried on between the two w1
: the latter lived The circumstance becai
= ,,,I,lic and the deed WAS officially recognlz
i in way most fiattering to the pride Ss ot CaI
T.amotte. The Grand Duke OF SAKE "eihi'
l. and the King of SAxony eon'eir houses whi,
! o .ne " faI,oxed soon afterward by the cross
: the the Legion Of Honor from Louis Napoleon, a. a.
@ on increase of his pension, which assure
!, him hi ease and comfort the rest Of his lli9.
transation h. y &C the Doctor narrative, publls
r. r. hi him. and he was 10 longer a neslectea. ! !
" nnenter Of the cafe He was known ana 10
TO dred, even without his three orders. :,
~ ~ cast thy bread upon the waters, and IN
on shall find again after many days