Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-08
THE CRUELTY OF WAR.
HEROIC DEATHS OF TWO D-VOTED
FRENCH LOVERS IN 1871.

committed TO eafth whose ueatn recalls a /
sad and romantic story of the war of twenty
years ago.
This was poor old Pere Delorme, who has
been for years one of the familiar figures
about the streets of Paris. Few persons
knew his history, for he rarely spoke to
any one.
He was, however, well known to the poor
quarter of Paris, where he resided entirely
alone in a modest apartment. The old man
had a modest annuity, which enabled him
to live in comparative comfort, but he was
so benevolent that he frequently gave the
last few sous he possessed to the poor and
distressed who asked him for aid, and he
would then have to borrow few francs
from the shopkeepers until he received the
next installment.
Although it was generally known in the
district that the old man mourned an only
son who had been killed by the Prussians
during the war, but few knew the details
of story from real life which would
eclipse many romance.
In the quiet little cemetery of Ste. Gene
We've DIES Bots you will find two graves side
by side. A headstone at the top of one
bears the name Andre Deiorme, and a SEN
tence in French intimating that he died for
his country That marks the spot where
lie the remains of the only son of poor Pere
Delorme
At the time of the declaration Of the
Franco-German war the old man, Alphonse
Delorme, was living quietly with his only
son Andre upon their little farm, situate
between Ste Genevieve and Fleury. The
youth was but nineteen years of age, and
/his mother having died in his infancy the
whole of the poor old mans affection was
conferred in the boy When the dread war
cloud burst over France young Delorme,
who was a youth of ardent, adventurous
spirit, determined to enter the army to de
fend his country against the Prussians,
These were stirring times, and the corps
which young Andre joined was ordered to
the front. and the lad went away to the
frontier after bidding an affectionate adieu
to his father.
PARTING OF THE LOVERS.
Andre had sweetheart, beautiful
young girl Of seventeen, who lived some
three miles from the house of his father
and he was allowed by special permission
of his colonel to go and bid her farewell
ere his regiment marched for the theater
of the war. The parting between the young
lovers was a most affecting one, and An
dre's fancee with her own hands placed a
rose, as tribute of her love, inside his
kept, as he gave her a final embrace before
starting off on a starry midnight to rejoin
his regiment, which was under orders to
march at daybTeak
1t would be making the tale too long to
follow the fortunes of young Andre dur
ing the war but suffice it to say that he
behaved with conspicuous bravery in sew
eral engagements. Victory, however, rest
ed with the arms Of the German troops,
and young Andre was mortally wounded
in fierce engagement near Choisy while
saving the life Of a wounded officer of his
regiment who had been attacked by half a
dozen Germans. He knew that his condi
ton was hopeless-the regimental surgeon
told him so-and he determined to make
his way to the house of bis 6ancee, and t.
bid her farewell before he died. The un
dertakng was a dangerous one, for the
country was overrun with Germans wh'
had entered Montlery and established I
camp near the residence of his sweetheart
between Ste Genevieye and Fleury.
Young Delorme knew the country well
and by the exercise of great caution man
aged to elude his foes. He painful.
dragged himself through the woods anC
by paths known only to natives of tina
part Of France, and thus able to reacl
the home of his beloved unperceived. Tn
young girl, Jeanne Bernier, lived in
pretty white farmhouse surrounded witt
vineyards with spacious yard in front
A MELANCHOLY TRAGEDY.
On the eve of a hot autumn day the dy
ing soldier arrived at the gate with hi
uniform blood stained, torn and covere'
with dust. and his wan features rigid wit
pain Poor Andre knew he had not man
hours to live for the blood was again bt
ginning to flow from the wound where th
foeman's bullet had pierced his breast II
could not open the door, so he broke th
glass in one Of the windows. and raising
quietly, entered the house aud made hi
way to the room where be knew he woul
find his faneee. On opening the dool
what was his horror to find Jaenne strul
g, terrified, in the arms of Prussia
ohceTt Andre, maddened with rag
braced himself up and fired his loaded n
volver at the cowardly assailant of th
young girl, who rolled over dead on tf
floor with a bullet in his heart.
The young lovers had barely time to en-
brace each other when body of Prussia
soldiers, who had heard the report OF I'll
firearms, burst into the house and entere
the room When they saw the Frenc
uniform and their dead officer lying on ii
floor, they dragged the dying soldier fro
the arms Of the almost fainting girl, an
taking him outside placed him rough
against the wall for instant execution.
was in vain that Jeanne pleaded wit
Andres captors to let him die in peac
riflemen we're drawn up who leveled the
guns at the figure of the dying soldi
whose life blood was yelling forth ov
his travel stained uniform and drippir
on the ground
With asupreme effort the youth straigh
ened his back against the wall, and detiau
~ facing his foes exclaimed, 81 die for II
country and my fanceep While the mt
were making ready to fire Jeanne ere
closer Nod closer, and when she saw q
lips of the man in charge Of the friI
party about to give the fatal order s.
rushed in with outstretched arms as If
shield her lover, and when the smo
cleared away there were two corpses on 6
ground each pierced with several bullets
The lovers were buried side by side
two graves in the little cemetery of 81
Genevieve des Bots, with tombstone
the head of each.-Paris Cor. Cincinn'
Times-Stsr.
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