Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-21
E POLES ANGELUS.

Il FULL y ANGEIUS.
kS'You ask why it is that the sound of
Angclus-b bell cchoing through the
Ance of evening, affects me so
III Fongly. There is story connected
fifth the matter. Listen, and will
fell it to you"
n So saying, Monsieur Bazilcwi,h
IN lighted cigar and then, seeing thai
AAhs nn'liSnce was all attention, he con-
A 81 must gp back 10 tho days of mr.
fyouth. l had just left the military
school, andy WA, very proud of the
sword ] carried, and an xious for an on.
>aport9 i isgI liz issI Baptism of
81 Ilong9 Iswait. for
1870 = IDS ssSviast and my
regi'ashts dtlsts. rcccivod
orders e. set out for Poland, whero
c4mPEies ssamrd inmnont. The Poles
9eth sel,s and peasants, had grown
tired Of tkp restraints imposed upon
them5 md Ind determined TO make
des;,ssetcsetfort to free Themselves from
the yoke which WIS weighing them
down, and then began that heroic
and bloody ton,cst-Ru,sia's eternal
shame.
Eve had tho advantage of numbers,
but our advcrsarics, who wero fortified
by their Strong faith and ardent patri.
otism, knew the country thoroughly,
and they wagcd war on IL, without
truce or mercy. Their command erin
chief divided his troops in 10 lying col
umns, which OVER ran tho country. lust
as the Republican troops did in France
Mt the time Of the first revolution.
81 arrived, one evening, in command
OF dctachm ,nt a 4 village called
Kurwo. where l expected to surprise
band OF Polish patriots They had
boen warned of our approach, and had
taken flight; and discovered that they
\ la ! agreed with tho villagers to return
&auring tho night and mas acre III in
|ANur sleep,
fortunately for u.s. mis- cradle fell
low told us, in exchange for n few
roubles. that it had been arranged that
the ringing of the An5clus- bell should
be tho signal for he rebels to rctura to
the village for the purpose OF slaughter
ing us.
81 waited several hours and then
went to the church. myself, intending
to give the signal which would call the
Poles from their hiding place, but
could not find the bcll-rope. After
long search, became convinced that
the rope had been purposcly cut off.
4; '''1 was furious and ordering all the
people to gather on the village, green,
A announced to them that if within five
time some ono OF them were
m endy 10 climb tho bell tower and
Angclus, the village should be
fire and every one of them put to
ENC sword.
1.-THE minutes pa scd slowly, and the
people stood silent with calm resigned
faces awaiting death; suddenly boy of
fifteen approached me, and said that he
was ready to do my bidding.
Hero said I, take this rouble
and use It to drink the czrs health.
Now &c up. and ring loud and long
"Without making any reply. the boy
sprang like cat up to the bclfry,
perched aloft and seized the bcll-clap
per in both hands,
,'ifBut Misericordia! 1t wa, not tho
y musical Angelus heard; it was the
sstol,ing of the solemn funeral bell. The
triots world be on their guard, and,
BRET by the bell, would not come
rsout and fall into the trap had prepared
Z for theml
"Brcathless and blind with rage, /
= snatched a gun from one of my men,
pointed at the child in the belfrv and
took aim. But suddenly, it seemed as
II . mist passed from before my eyes;
quick as flash of lightning realized
tho sublfmity Of !. the fftecn.ycar- old
hero's action, and withou. firing, low
cred my arm.
lS Twenty years passed away, aud then
Ssan that torrible, struggle between
fSRpssia and Turkey which wa, as disa,,
G rous for. the ono as for the other of the