Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

cal catastrophe ever passing its walls
lie was cloistered there. The Crimean
alone moved Us, and even of that it is
.hable that weeks elapsed before the
DC Of Il reached US.
= hen : recall ny memories of thst I'll
mile 20 think what war was to US, couE.
Echgoiooys In the first place every
ug was extremely vague. The theater Of
struggle was so distant, SO lost in a
a-ge and savage country, that we seemed
no looking or at e story come true, ont
lie Arabian Nights" We did not
--ly know where the lighting was; and /
#o: remember that we had at any time
-.asitv enough to consult the aliases in
hands.
Kept in the Dark by Teachers.
e must be said that our teachers kept us
-ia8lufe ignorance of modern life. They
-Gsel yes read the papers and learned the
~,. lul they never opened their mouths
r, about such things, and five had
ra.lred them they would have dismissed
...-lIv 10 cur exercises and essays. We
aw nothing precise. except that France
s Sighting IN tie East, for reasons not
--.~ cur ken.
.--t- in points, however, stood out clear.
repeated the elastic Jokes about the
sss0as We knew the names of two or
--a Esv sian generals, and we were not far
r- at--i5Uting to these generals the heads
child .evouring monsters. Moreover, we
. .la5 admit for one moment the possibility
b. raa French would be beaten. That
..a have appeared to US contrary to the
as ai nature. Then, there were gaps. As
2 campaign was prolonged we would
gel for months az time that there was
fighting, until some day some report
ne 10 excuse our attention again. / can
tell whether we knew Of the battles as
s- happened or whether we felt the shock
lch the fall Of Sevastopol gave to France.
these things are confused. Virgil and
fre- were realities which caused us more
7osra than the co.emporsry quarrels of
.lons.
Playing War at School.
{ oll7 remember that for time there
S game greatly il favor in our play
.uEGs. We divided ourselves into two
nps We drew two lines on the ground
1 proceeded to fight. 1t was ''prisoners'
=" s.upliied. One camp represented
Russian and one the French army.
f-1rally the Russians ought to have been
tsgeG. bat the contrary sometimes oc-
red: the fury was extraordinary and the
+-!-httuL At the end of a week tbe
-e-.nJendent was obliged TO forbid this
sEtrUI game, as two BOYS had to be nut
.r7 sicf. iiss with broken heads.
Among the most distinguished in these
me- 3 was I tall, fair Lad, who aIways cot
asal general Louis, who belonged TO an
Breton family THAI had come to live in
South. assumed victorious airs. I can
him vet, with handkerchief tied ON his
che-d by way of plume, q leather belt
-iaG round him, leading on his soldiers
"a 2 wave Of the hand as if it were the
-a- wave Of sword. he filed one with
ration: we even felt a sort of respect
hra. Strangely enough, he had twin
other. Julien, who was much smaller.
ana delicate, and who greatly disliked
asa violent Games
Ezeruori-s Of Little Twins.
When we divided into two camps he
hid 20 apart, sit down on stone bench
5 thence watch us with his sad and rather
4..tcucd ewes. One Gav Louis, hustled
d a.iau6eI bv whole band, fell under
s-- blows and Julien gave cry, pallid,
.m5iin- half fainting like q woman. The
brothers adoced each other and none of
would have dared to laugh at the little
g about his want of courage for fear of
Q big one.
rne memory of these twins is closely in
lived tor ne in the memory of that time.
,-ard the spring became a day-boarder
! no longer slept at the college. but came
The morning for the o'clock lessons.
e two brothers, also, were day-bOarders.