Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-08-04
BLEW UP EIIs OWN COTTAGE,
ne "Ar Only French soldier hut Hs
He Obeyed Orders

80 ~~S Only French soldier BUT IA
He Obeyed Orders
The story Is told in French news
paper OF Pierre Barlat, poor laborer
who lived at Sevres, near Paris, with
his wife, Jeanne, ana their three chill.
dren. Industrious, frugal, knowing
nothing of the way to the wine shop,
Pierre saved all his spare money.
working harder and harder, and al
last bought the tiny cottage in which
they lived. 1t was.a tiny cottage, in.
deed-built Of stones with tiled
roo!, standing amid shrubs and GOV.
cred with clemaJis. 1t always at.
tracted the eye of the Traveller, on the
ielt, as ne, crossed the Sevres bridge.
Pierre and Jeanee worked and
saved until the sittle cottage was paid
1or, and made a feast when it was all
zone to celebrate their ownership A
aanusu proprietor, to be sure, does
notmlnd an occasional expenditure
toentertain his friends.
All this Pierre and Jeanne had ac-
complished just before the war Of
1870, with Germany, broke out The
CONSUMPTION fell upon Bierre, who,
moreover. was an old soldier, and be.
fonged to the reserves. A gunner he
nad been, famous for skill in hitting
a mark with shell.
SeyreS had fallen into the hands OF
Dne Germans but the French guns
weH pounding away at them from
me fort on Mount Valerian. Pierre
S5arlat was a gunner at that fort, and,
one wintry day, was standing by his
gun, when Gen. Noel, the Com
mander. came up and leveled his
held glass at the Sevres bridge
Gunner" he SAID sharply, without
looking at Pierre.
General" answered Pierre, re.
spectfully saluting.
do you see the Sevres bridge over
there?n
VI see it very we'll. SIR"
land that little cottage there, at
the left In thicket of shrubs?"
Pierre turned pale.
81 see it, sir.''
! Its nest of Prussians. Try it
with shell, nay man."
PIerre tuEned paler still and in spite
of the colo, wind that made the ofi.
GERS shlyer in their great coats one
might Aave seen big drops of sweat
stanVing out on his forehead; but no
Do3y noticed the gunner's emotion.
Z" He sighted his piece carefully, de-
,1iberately; then fired.
Inc officers, with their glasses,
marked the effect of the shot after
Che smoke had cleared. "Well hit
my man! we'll hitp' exclaimed the
General, looking at Pierre with a
SMILE 'sThe cottage couldn't have
beea very solid. 1t is completely
smashed"
He was surprised to see great tears
rnDhing down the gunner's cheeks
y whats the matter, MANI" the
General asked rather sharply.
Pardon me, General, " said Pierre,
recovering himself ut was my
housekeeping had in the
world"
A Girls Room.
The girls Of the household should
have cheerful rooms, where they
may receive their girl friends, and
feel a pride in playing the hostess.
Says a. writer In the New York /
Tribune:
Such room need not be of a large
size, but it should be daintily and
neatly furnished. There is no better
way In which you can educate girl
to be neat and orderly than to give
her a properly furnished room, and
require her to take proper care of it.
In this way she receives her first les
son in thorough housekeeping, and
acquires habits of order and neat
ness.
The pleasure girl takes from such
q room as this, and the influence it
exerts toward making her a womanly
and domestic person, should in them
selves be strong enough arguments
to induce mother to sacrifice some
of the SNOWY fittings of her parlor
In order to provide comfortable rooms
for her girls.
1t should above all things be thor
oughly neat, sunny and cheerful, and
should be the girls private room, and
all the belongings should be her per-
s0nal property. 1t should be her
daily duty to keep it in thorough
order.
BE deaf to the quarre1some, blind
10 the scorner, and dumb to those
who are mischieyously inquisitiye.
- Scrofuia