Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-04-14

Hougonont chateau, tho walls dented
and scratched and brokea and shattered
by grapeahot1 and cannon ball. There Il
the we'll in which 800 dying and dead
@ere pitched. There il Che chapel RitL
the head of tho ipfant Christ shot Off.
There are the gates at which, for many
hours, English and French armies wres,
tied. Yonder were the 100 guns OF the
English and theta60 runs Of the FrenoE,.
Yonder the Hanoyerian hussars fed 70,
the woods. .8$f
Yob6or was the rayiHo OF Oh..s;a,
where the Frenoh cavalry, not know,
ing there was a hollow in the ground,
rolled over and down, troop after troop,
tumbling into one awful mass NJ suffer.
ing, hoof Of kicking horses against brow
n breast Of captains and ~colonels and
private soldiers, tho human and the
oeastly gfoan kept up until the day after
nll was shovolod under because Of the
ma!odos arising Ia that hot month of
| June.
"Thero," said our guide, "ths high
land regiments lay down on their faces
waiting Tor the moment to spring upon
n foo. In that orchard 3, 500 mon were
out to pieces. Here stood Wellington
with white lips, and up that knoll rode
Marshal Ney on his sixth horse, five
having been shot under him. Here the
ranks OF the French broke, and Marshal
Ney, with his boot slashed Of {; sword,
and his hat of, and his face covered
with powder and blood, tried to yally
his troops rs no DRIED, Como and SOC
low q marshal Of Fronoh dies on tho
battloteld.' From yonder direction
Gfoucay WAS expected for tho Frenoi.
re-enforcenlent, but he oame not.
Around those woods Bluohor wa looked
Yor to ro-enforoo tho English, and just
i'll time no onino up. Yonder Is tho fioid
where Napoleon stood, his arms through
tho reins OF tho horses bridiu, duzed
and insane, trying to go back" Soeno
OF u battle that went Oh from 80 min
utes to 10 O'Clock on the 18th Of Juno
until 4 O'Clock, whom tho English
seomed defeated, and thoir oommandor
Dried out: "Boys, you can't think of
giving way? Remombor old Englandl'
and tho tidos turned, end al 8 O'Clock
i'll tho evening tho man Of de tiny, who
wa called by his troops Old Two Hun.
drod Thousand, turned away with bro
kon heart. And tho fate Of centuries was
dooided.
No wonder o great mound has boon
reared thoro, hundreds of foot high-a
mound ut tho expense Of millions Of dol
lars and many years in rising, and on
tho top Is tho great Belgian lion Of
bronco. and q grand old lion it Is. But
II great Waterloo was in Palestine.
There came n day when oil holl rodo
up, led by Apollyon, and the Captain Of
our salvation confronted them alone,
the Rider on the white horse Of the
Apocalypse going out against the black
horse cavalry Of death and tho bat
talions Of the demoniao and the myrmi-
dons Of darkness. From IL o'clock at
noon to 3 o'clock in tho afternoon tho
greatest battle Of the universe went on.
Eternal destinics wore being decided.
All tho nrrows Of hell piorcod our Chief
tain and the battleaxos struck him un-
til brow and check and shoulder and
hand and foot woro incarnadinod with
oozing lifo, but no fought on until he
gavo II final stroke with sword from
Jehovnh's buckler, md tho commander
in chief Of holl and ali his forces foil
back in everlasting ruin, and tho VIC
tory is ours. And on tho mound that
celebrates tho triumph VIC plant this
day two figures, not in bronze or iron
or s~culptured marble, but two figures Of
living light, tho lion Of Judah's tribe
and tho Lamb that was slain.