Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-10-07
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thereby restoring it to life; and that, al
though by so doing, his own body would
become vacant and lifeless, he could, nev-
ertheless, return to it at pleasure.
The Caliph, incredulous, pointed to a
dog that had just expired and told hi IN to
throw his spirit into that The dervish
at once accepted the challenge, stretched
himself at full length on the grass, and,
after muttering sundry spells, to all ap-
pearance breathcd his last. Instantly the
dead dog revived, and running to the Ca
liph, carssed him with such intelligence,
and performed such singular feats at word
Of command, that there could remain no
reasonable doubt of his being vivifed by
human soul. As soon as the Caliph
was fully convinced, the dog in turn lay
down and died, and the dervish's BODY re-
turned to life
The Caliph insisted on knowing this won
derful secret, and on being himself able to
perform the feat The dervish stoutly re-
fused at the onset but, after great per-
suasion, yielded, as proof of his devoted
and disinterested friendship.
The Caliph, we may guess, was not very
long in putting his newly acquired faculty
to the test The dog once more was resus-
citated, the Caliph's body being for the
time, an unoccupied tenement But it
soon revived too soon, in fact, for It's
owners liking. The dervish took posses
sion Of it, and expressed his intention of
keeping it, The poor Caliph, therefore,
forced to make his choice whether he
would be a dog or a dervish, after refec-
ton chose the latter; in which capacity
he had the modification of seeing his
substitute coolly enter his palace and en-
Joy his privileges.
Strange as it may be-within quite re-
cent times historically speaking.) men
have succeeded in doing what the dervish
did. The instance we are about to relate,
Is a modern case Of stepping into dead
mans shoes
At Nanosque, a small town in the an
cieHt province Of Provence, there lived
about 1860 one Scipion lie Brun de Cas-
tellane, Seigneur of Caille and of Rougon.
He had married, in 1853, the Demoiselle
Judith le Gouche, of good family belong
NO to the bar. Both husband and wife
were Calvinist
In 1853, LOUIS XIV, having revoked
the edict of 1898, called the edict Of Nantes.
which granted tolerance and safe places of
residence TO Protestants, lie Brun de
Castellane, like many other, of his unfor-
tunate countrymen, driven from his native
land by Catholic intolerance, went and
settled in Lausanne, Switzerland The
exiled Of the De Cables (the name they
mostly went by) at that time consisted of
five persons-Le Brun de Castellane Sieur
de CaiIle, his mother. his son and two
daughters He had lost his wife, Judith
le Gouehe, six years previously, as well as
two sons who had died in their infancy.
Isaac, the eldest and only surviving son,
was twenty-One years of age when they all
left France. They were accompanied in
their emigration by Protestant minister,
Bernard young De CailIe's tutor, as well
as by several domestics.
In December, l6S9, Louis XIV. COM
pleted his work Of intolerance by an edict
of spoliation, which made over to their /
nearest relations the property of the Cal I
whist enigreS At that date the De Caille /
family included only four members, one /
of the daughters having died in 1856. A
few months after the edict of spoliation, 4
the grandmother also died
Amongst the relations of the De Cailles |
who remained in Provence, preferring the /
adiuration of their faith to exile, four pre-
sented themselves to claim what their
nearest kin had been stripped of. Their /
names should be remembered, both be- (
cause they all played part in subsequent .
events, and because they were not all ac-
tuated by motives of mere selfshness
They were the Dame ROLAND, born Anne .
le Gouche. own sister to the late Dame de
Caile. and wife of a Sieur ROLAND, Avo- 7
cat-General to the Parliament of Dauphine /
she was therefore aunt to young Isaac |
de CaiIle a Dame Tardivi related to the /
Sieur de Caille, the wife of Kings coun-
sci at the Court Of Grasse, IA town not far
distant from Manosque y Sieur Jean
Pousset, of Cadenet and Sieur de Muges
This last pretended to represent a trustee
on behalf of the rights of the exiled family
\ decree Of the Parliament of Provence,
dated June 30, 1850, nonsuited De Muges,
adIudged TO the Dame Tardivi for the
greater part, and to Pousset for the rest,
the property coming from the fathers
side, amounting to an income of about
twelve thousand livres (francs) a year-in
those days considerable sum-and as
signing to the Dame ROLAND the maternal
property, valued at two thousand five hun
dred llvres per annum.
Ou tle ADth OF IcDrudry, 1870, Isaac
dc Caille, Sieur de Rougon, LIE Brun de
CasteIlane's last surviving son, died at
Nevay Of D1aladie de lanqueur a general
weakness or wasting away. The unhappy
father, after being thus deprived of the
last hope of seeing bis name continued, ac-
quainted his relations in Provence with his
sad bereavement. The Dame ROLAND,
who, awaiting better times from her
nephew, had taken care of his little prop
crty, now disposed of it, in favor of the
poor inmates of the Charlie of Manosque.
The deed of gift, dated Dec. ), 1893, which
gratified that community with the Sieur de
de CailIe's residence and an annual income ;
OF eight hundred livres, assigned the Sieur '
de Calle de Rougons death as her motive
for doing So
Let Us now pass on to the month Of
March, 1899, at which time NJ de
Nauvray, intendant of the navy at Toulon, l
was waited on by certain Able Renoux, ]
accompanied by an individual whose ap- {
pearancc was by no means prepossessing
This latter professed to be the son of the {
Sieur de CaiIle. and related the following s
story His father, the Sieur de Caille, /
having taken an aversion to him in conse- I
quence of his inaptitude for study, and t
especially for his inclination to the Catho- r
lie religion, had iIl-treated him to such an l
extent that he was obliged to run away a
from the paternal mansion. Brought |
back to Lausanne repeatedly, by friends b
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