The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-03-10

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il settled. And then Will he the time ior W, ~" |
10 have old clothes and other things 10 se.,,
Father Moses! lie! ne ne! no" '"O 'O
lie was merry at the thought of it ; but yon
NAV suppose, Fritz, that did not count thnon |
nDon those pi forms that were running across
the fi,lde: I would much rather they had Deen
o Thousand leagues away. MIA
Suoh are meu--some are glad and others mis-
cradle from the same cause. Inc sergeant was
an confident ID at sometimes he persuaded me-
and thought as he did. g..
We would go down the Rampant street TO,
vether: he would 90 to the cart!ne where bhey
had begun to as ribute sioge-rations, or per
han, he would go home with me-, take MS III
| tie glass OF cherry brandy, and explain 10 me
the Emperor's grand strokes since 20 IN tta!yi
| I did not understand anything about it, but
| made believe tLstI understood, when ahs"ei
! ed all the purpose. .. ~ .b
| There came envoys, too, metimes on the
| road from Nancy, sonnet mes from savers It.T u
| Metz Tney raised, at q distance, the httis
| v mite flag; ono Of their trumpeters sounueu
and tnen withdrew; the officer OF the guafth .hen
ceiyed the envoy and bandaged his eyes, tnen
| he went under escort through the CITY To tne
| governors honse. But what these ENJOYS 'otu
| or demanded never transpired IN the Gity 'No
J council of defence alone were Informed Oh ~
! We lived cor fined within our walls as II we
were in the middle of the sea, and you cannot
| believe how that weighs upon one alteI d
| while how depressing and overpoWerinE III
| NOT TO be able to 90 out even upon the Slacte'
Old men who bad been nailed Tor ten years .1
| their arm chairs, and who never thouRhb ol
moving, were oppressed oy grlet 81 ~ ~knomans
! fbaE Tn, p5iI.s rEmginut ehut.- And then every
one WI auts to know what is going on, TO see
| strangers and talk of the affairs OF the couniy
no one knows how necessary these tninss
| are until be- has had experience like ours. Inc
| meanest peasant the lowest mau IN Dassouis
| who might have chanced to come INTO tne Oily
would have been received like god every
body would have run to see MIN anu asA ioi
the news from France. $50 ,.,.
Ali those are right who hold that liberty
is the create st of blessings, for lt Is lnsuppolV
able being smut mp in prison-let IL DO ss
lcrge as France. Men are made to come and
90, to talk and write, and live together, TO car
ry on trade, to tell the news; and IL you taHe
these from them, you leaving notning o0'N
The saddest thing of all was that, toward
the end of January, the citizens began 20 Do IN
want. cannot say that money was scaIoe'
because a centime never went ont of the city,
but everything was dear ; what three wee ks
before was worth two sous now cost twenty
This has often led me to think that scarcity
of money is one of the fooleries invented by
eoouudrels to deceive the weak minded. What
else can make money soarcei You are noI
poor with two sous. If they are enough 70 ou : :
voar bread, wine, meat, clothes, ETC.. but II
, YOU need twenty times more to ouy tnese
things, then not only are you poor Dut tne ne
whole country is poor. There is no wan Va
money ~Len every thing is cheap IL ls AWAY
scarce when the uecessarles OF ne are dear.
, SO, when people shut mp as We were' IL
, | is very fortunate to hUable to sell more thah
| IDV.
quart, bnt at the snr,l t'me we needed bread
oil, potat toes, ard their pIices were all pfol'E'
ti2nstely high.
One moruing old Mother Queru came to my
shor weeping; she had eaten nothing for two
, dayI, and ya1 that was the least thing, SAID
shG shs missed rothiug but her glass ol
O. wine, which l gave her gratis. she gave INT
q hurdred blessings aud ~ent awsy happy
4 a good many OtheIa wOnlu have iEeu thel
r | qIass of vine! | have seen old men IN de
: | sratr because they had nothr7g to snuff theI
| for tN
th,s time smoked the leaves os tho large wei
nut-tree by tho arsenal, and liked 1t well
II Unfortunately. oil 'his was bat the beStn
- ming OF want: LATER we learned 10 IaS" ~
n the glory of his majosty.
r Towarl the cad Ot February, it became cox
J, again- Every evening they hred hEndre'
ghclls uua: ~, bnt we became aC2ust0meG Z
thinG ct cAursE
r A. soon a. tic ehell hurst everybody Eau I
"A put ont tie fire. which was an easy matter
l. since there were tubs fail OF water ready /
!. Our guns replied to the enemy but as afte
ten O'Clock the Russl.ns fired only Win h5lo
le pieces men could aim only Mt ths'r hr'
Is which was changing continuslly, and IL wa
ID nos easy to reach them. =,
Sometimes the enemy fired incendiary BALL
Il, these are balls nierced with three mans IN
1s ! triangle, aud filled with such inf lsmmael
n matter that 1t could he extiuGulshed only q
throw ing the ball under water, which was dom
It. We had as yet had no fires but our on
10 nosts had fallen back, and the allies dre
ry closer and closer around the city. They occ'
Of pied the Ozillo farm, Pernette's tilekiln, ar
Dn The Maisons Rouges, which had been aoan i
I'D oued by our troops. Hete they lntenueM
ed pass the winter pleasantly. These were Wu
q temburg, BAvsrian. and Baden troops, 81
other landwehr. = no replaced in Alsaoe u
by regular troops that had left for the interior.
We could plainly see their sentinels in Ion
ms grayish blue coats, fat helmets, and maske
al on their sh oulders walking slowly in the pc
ne lar alley which leads to the tile kiln.
t,y From thence these troops could any mome'
I'D on dark night, enter tie trenches, and ev
m attempt to force q pustern.
.rs They were in large numbers and DEM
ID. Themselves nothing, having three or four '
ar layes around them to furnish their Provisio
uu and the great fires of the tilekiln to ke
them warm. :.
or Sometimes q Russian battalion relie1
,sh them, hut only for day OF two, being oblii
his to continue liza route. These Russians bntt
ley in the little poDo oeuluo tnC ouitulHS' III ny
,ok of the ice and snow which filled it.
md All of them Eussiens, Wurtemborgers,
Baden men, fired upon our sentinels, and
lcir wondered that our governor had not stop
,nle them with our balls. But one day the serge