The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-10

in birth and good citizenship, but with
every taste, sympathy and habit of life
as thoroughly French as though Chris
topher Columbus had never bored Fer
dinand and Isabella into backing his |
more, or less, successful venture.
Only the top surface of all the sur
excitement was caught by a
group of four United States officers just
trotting briskly away from the French
market. A veteran staff major with
gray mustache of huge proportions was
evidently the cicerone-his right from
longer residence on the staff of the COM
handing general. By his side, with eyes
and ears opened to all novelty Of sight
or sound, the single star on the shoulder
straps of his undress cavalry Jacket,
showing the brigade command, rode
Dale Everett. Behind were two young
captains, aids ON his staff; and pair of
orderlies, as mechanical as though made
to order, brought up the rear, keeping
distance as they would have kept the
commandments, We're the latter in reg
ulations," and with that nerveless right
hand drop that is the orderly's creed. !
Time had changed the general little,
save to fill out lines of face and figure
and literally to bronze cheek and hands
since the day at Rose villa. A full yell
low beard covered the lower face; but
the same blue-gray eyes smiled out as
frank and true under II brow as fair rs
the old cadets, when he lifted his light
forage cap.
Six years had passed since Bennle
Standish went to her sacrifice-years full
of bitter loss to brave endeavor, yet il
lumed by such heroism and grandeur of
resource as made the whole world won
der. For the brothers war was over,
and only the unhealed wounds it had
made, and the sorrows thick in its desc
lating track, told how cruel it had been.
At the first actual hostilities our two
young soldiers had promptly made their
choice. The Creole blood of Adrien La
tour, heated by what he felt TO be
wrongs to his people, had leaped to stand
foremost with them, while habits OF
thought and allegiance to traditions Of
his race held Dale Everett under the ole
flag. The first gun at Sumter stopped
all argument of principle between the
friends, and sent Adrien to lay his SWORD
at the feet of the government that gave it
"You are soldier of the nation-no
of any state" Dale had often argued, t.
which he ever answered:
81 recognize no nation, only a fedora
ton of separate sovereignities, whicl
may be broken at will. l am son o
Louisiana-not of the Washington gov
eminent"
eyes," Everett would urge, "but tina
government gave you the training yo'
now would use against it. That is no
honest; the epaulets you wear scale
your bond to the government"
at educated me to be soldier-not
hireling, a matricide! Louisiana is m
mother as Massachusetts is yours.
can no more stay than you could &c
Dale! You would respect me less did
listen to you"
And the descendant of the Puritan
was perforce silent. The boom of thu
fateful first gun in Charleston harbc
;, echoed to the confines of the land, an
v its echo was nowhere heavier than in tt
q brain of the two friends. But they par
:, ed, as they had lived, brothers in hear
h Everett had first served with his Ow
corps on the Potomac, but his soldier
= instinct chafed at maps and earthwork
o He transferred to the command of ca
IS airy troop; good service, and plenty
n it, in the west gave him rapid prom
i ton, and the surrender saw him the n
IS ted commander of perhaps the most n
n ted cavalry brigade in the service.
If More from similarity of training thu
& by coincidence, Adrien Latour had hi
"a like career on the Confederate sid
% Cavalry was his fetch, and his veal
and family influence quickly raised
d picked regiment of young Creoles al
j. planters soon noted for its reckless ell
ID and the dash of its colonel. First in t
v west, later under the peerless Lee, t
s. young commander won fame and
r brigade; and, as it CHANGED, on his TIVE
ty-fourth birthday the order came tt
al made him the youngest major gene1
be in either army. Fact. When this no
ly was first published hypercriticism SEQ
ed this statement as simple romance.
ye is simple history that young cadet |
ar West Point before graduation, v
of made first the adjutant and soon colo
,st of Georgia legion, won his brigt
,st and fought his way to command of
lie division when he was barely TWEEN
10 four.-THE AUTHOR.
of But through all those dark and d
perate days one prayer of both had b.
an answered, and the quondam chums
he never met on the many fields they foug
,le And, when the final crash of the sou
k ern cause came, the Federal caused C;
he full inquiry to be made for his frien
mt to find that he had dispersed the It
nd nant of his command and, refusing
II surrender, had crossed the frontier
lie. Mexico
tie Arrived in New Orleans only the
al before, Everett had already renewed
JUS inquiries. His perfect mastery of Ere
mt, and his peculiarly winning add
aid thawed even Creole reserve; but he &C
be- only learn that Madame, as all ca
sed Latours grandmother, lived alone
nor recluse at the old homestead.
I'M To the stranger the French marke
hit Sunday morning is glimpse of pl
airy ant pandemonium. Vendors cry t
wares in the high pitched but ra
Ugh nasal patois of many nationalities-
I'M Sicilian fisherman, the Spanish fruite
vas the negro, the quadroon, and the Or
4 mixed in the variety of ''kirmt
are And above all rises the burr Of the
ted ole voice, smooth and liquid as cura
the but with the same fiery quality hit
Ii milan tho S.xnot-tho c,,lr unica