The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-03-03

10 tw o hours from Pna'sburg to MArmoutier' 70 |
500 Sorle--Ah poor wretoh! As ne tola an al. |
| this, sobhiDg, with his tGce IN MS hshus' III!
heart melted within me.
| Dnrguet W ~ quite overcome When we weIe
leaving, Hr the end Of an hour, he said, Come'
| lot MS bo hopeful! You will be tried to'mor-
| row.-Dont despairl Harmantier, we nus'
| give this man @ cloak 10 is dreadtnily colo es-
pecially at night. 1t 10 pSa oosnosS, mnasr as
we'll as you can before the audience; the court
mar tial always thinks better of man VINO Is
| When we were out he said to me: Moses,
| Won send the man clean shirt. His waistcoat
| ia tarn; don't forget to have him decently
dressed every way soldiers always J"uHo VI
man by his appearance"
| "Be easy about that" said l.
| Tho prison doors were closed and we went
| across the arket.
NOW said Burguet, ~ must go in. l must
think il over. H. is we'll that the brother was
l left in Russia D, and that the father mas oeen IN
| the s.ryios-it is something to make point
We had reached the corner of the Rampant
street he kept on and i went home more mis-
erable than before.
Yon capaot Imagine Fritz, how troubled
WAS when man has always nau qules CO..
science It is terrible to reproace ones ser. anI nd
think: "If this man is shot, II his father, anu
mother and sisters. end that other one, Who ls
expecting him are made miserable, thou'
| Moses wilt be the csuse of it all T.
Fortunately there was no lack OF "orE 10 De
done 1T home; Sorle lad just opened tne oiu
ahop to begin to cell our orandies and 1t was
! n : .
c6fYse. honses and inns II baI had notbfDg where
a, With to fiji their SKIS they were on the POM
%, shutting upeLop. Imagine the crowd Inc"
.oue in "A row with their jugs and little casks
and n;tchers The old topers came too. stick
ing out their elbows; Sorle Zefen, and Ssiel
had not time to sec . tnem.
I, The sergeant said that we must put Poiice-
, man at our door to prevent qoarreis, for some
of them said that they lost their tnrn, and that
/ their money was as good 30 any bodys.
1t will DO good many years Deiore sucn
,rowd w i'll bs aeen again in front OF o Phals-
'IIs had only time to tell my wife that Burguet
would defend the deserter and then went down
into the cellar to fill the two tuns at the count
o er, which were already empty.
: A fortnight after, Sorle doubled the price !;
our first two pipes were sold, ana tnis extra
price did not lessen the demand.
Men always find money for brandy and to-
Q baoco, even when they have mono ieft Tor Dreso.
This is why governments impose their heavlest
taxes upon these two articles they might Do
: heavier still without diminishing their use
only, children would starve to death.
H. Ihave seen this-I have seen this great foliy
Y in men, aud am astonished whenever tnlnk
Q of it. w -,
i That day we kept on selling until seven
n O'Clock in the evening, when the tattoo was
. NV pleasure in making money bad made me
forget the doserter; did not think OF MN
again till after supper. when night set IN Du
=, | did not say q word about him We were all 60
II tIed and so delighted with the days prom e
= ,hat W, did not want 70 be troubled with think
- mo Of such things But after Z.tfen and the
h children had retired told Sorle of our visit to
the nrisoper / told her, too, that Burguet had
= hopes which made her ve-y happy
About niue o'clock, uy Gods hiessug, We
were all asleep.
u You can believe, Fsitz that did not sNee!
is much that night, notwithstanding my fatigue
Tho thou ght OF the ceeerter tormented me. ,
a kucw that If be s5opld he shot, Aeueh ana oorl
a would be ipcousolable.
And then how often sh onld reproaoh my
self for this mars death in times OF mlsfortun
va or in my old ago, when shonld not nave
minutes peaca! How often should have sal
ia that it W as Judgment of the Lord, that W a
ed on account of this deserter.
m could and by six ocfock iii the tifhfhs Wa
ee in my old shop in the market with my isnterI
selecting epnnlettes and my pest clothes;
n put them in q napkin anu LOOK tnem 10 nal
We msntier at dag break. =,
The speoial counoil of war. which was calle
an Il do not know wby-ths pentose council Wa
m to meet at 9 o'clock. It was composed OF
rie major, president, four captains and two lier
tenants. Monbrun, the ouptain of the forelg &
ng legion, as judg GO advocate, and Brigadier D'
to It was astonishing how the whole city kne
he about it beforehand and that by seven o'cloc
re- the Nioaises, and Pigots, and Vinatiere, etc
sn had left their riokety quarters aud had slread
eat flled the whole mayorAlty, the arch, tne STai
to way, and the large room above, lAughin
whiatling, stamping. as II it were bsar-hg
esl nt Klein's inn tho Ok"
nst Yon do not sec things like that now a-day
ur- thank Godl Mon have become more sens !!
nj and humane. But after all these wars, d
Dle. sortsr met " ith less pity than fox caught
es trsPyo woiL ieo Dy Euo uiuHLio: III =
admiration for Burguet's talents could not ke
10 me from thinking:
he'd The man ls lostt VINO can save u ni'n, " Il =
, by condemned to death, and led to the Glacie
bastionf"
v to Twas overwhelmed by the thought.
went trembling iuto Harmantier's lit
An room, and said to him This is for the desc
ldeI e.; take 't TO nun from me-
lev GAN righti" said he.
,crts asked him if he had confidence in B
guet. He shrugged his shoulders, and sal
the " We must have examples"
II OF The stamping outside continued, and wh
6g. l went out there was q great whistling in
balcony, the arch, and every where, aud she
r ad. of Noses hey, Moses this wayw
But did not turn my head, and went ho
If in very sad.