Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-17
THE SIEGE OF BERLIN.

pavement plowcd by grape-shot, INC
history of besieged Paris, when lust "
fore reaching the Place dc Etulle, tho
doctor stopped and pointed out TO me
IN. ~ those larger corner houses SO
pompously grouped around the Arc de
Triomphc. 49,. ,e,,r
closed windows on the balcony up
there? In the beginning OF August'
that terrible month of August Oh ~, 50
laden with storm and DISASTER l Wis
summoned there to attend n case OF
npoplexy. The sufferer was Col, JouVe'
an old culrassier of the First Empire
full of enthusiasm for glory ana phuis
otism, who, at the commencement OF
the war, had taken an apartment WIN
a balcony in the Champs Elysees -luI
what do you think? To assist NJ lhe
old man, The news OF Wissembourg
arrived as he was rising from taple.
ON reading the name Of Napoleon AZ
the foot of that bulletin of defeat ne
fell senselcss.
Il found the old cuirassier stretched
upon the floor, his face bleeding anu
inert as from the blow OF ciup
Standing. he would have been very
tall; lying, he looked immense, with
fine features beautiful teeth and white
curling hair. carrying his eighty years
as though they had been sixty. Be
side him knelt his granddaughter IN
tears. She resembled him. Seeing
them side by side. thew reminded me or
the Greek medallions stamped with the
same impress, only the one was an
tiaue. earth-stained. its outlines some
what worn: the other. beautiful and
clear. in all the luster of freshness
''The child's sorrow toucho' me-
Daughter and granddaughter OF sol
diers. for her father was on MncMa-
r. 10 Irrtat AZ
stretched before her evoked In her
mind another vision no less terrible,
did my best to roassure her though IN
reality | had but little hope. We had
to contend with memoptysis, from
which at eighty there Is small chance
of recovery.
For three days the patient remained
in the same condition OF immobility
and stupor Meanwhile came the news
of -Reichshofen-you remember how
strangely? Till the evening we all be-
lieved In n great victory-twenty thou
sand Prussians killed. the Crown
Prince prisoner
"I cannot tell by what miracle, by
what magnetic current, nm echo OF TINS
national JOY can have reached our poor
invalid, hitherto deaf to all around
him; but that evening, on approaching
the bed found n new man. His eye
was almost clear, his speech less diff
cult, and he had the strength to smile
and to stammer:
Victory. victoryH
ayes colonel, a great victory And
as / gave the details Of MacMahon's
splendid success saw his features re-
lax and his countenance brighten.
when I went out. his granddaughter
was waiting for me. pale and sobblng.
"'But he is saved said l. taking her
hands.
',rhe poor child had hardly courage
10 answer me. The true Reichshofen
had Just been announced. MacMahon.
n fugitive, the whole army crushed. We
looked Mt each other in CONSERVATION;
she anxious at the thought Of her faith
err; ! trembling for the grandfather.
Certainly he would not bear this new
shock. And yet what could we do? Let
him enjoy the Illusion which had re-
We'd him? But then we should have to
deceive him.
"'Well, then, viii deceive himl
said the brave girl, and hastily wlplng
away her tears, she re-entercd her
grandfathcr's room with n beaming
face.
1t was n hard task she had set her.
self For the first few days II was
comparatively easy, M the old mans
head was weak and he was as credu-
lous as n child. But with returning
health came clearer ideas. 1t was nee
movements Of the army and to invent
military. bulletins. 1t was pitiful to see
that beautiful girl bending night and
day over her map of Germany, marking
II with little flags. forcing herself to
combine the whole of a glorious cam
paign-Babaine on the road to Berllnl
Frussard In Bavaria: MacMahon on the
Baltic, In all this she asked my cOun-
sci. and helped her as far as l could;
but II was the grandfather who did
the most for us in this imaginary in
vasion. He had conquered Germany
SO often durino the First Empire! He
knew all the moves beforehand; Now
they should go there This Is what
they will do and his anticipations
were always realized, not Il little to
his pride. Unfortunately, we might
take towns and gain battles. hut we
never went fast enough for the colonel
He was Unsuitable Every day [ was
greeted with fresh feat of arms:
Doctor, we have taken Maryencc,
said the young girl. coming to meet
me with henrt-rending smile ant
through the door / heard IL joyou.
voice crying:
1--WE are getting on we are getting
onl In a week we shall enter Der
linz
AT that very moment the Prussian,
Were but week from Paris. AT frs
we thought 1t might he better to NOV,
to the provinces, but once out OF doors
the state Of the country would hay,
told him all, and | thought him still
too weak, too enervated, to know tn,
truth. 1t was therefore decided tina
they should stay where they were.
"On the first day Of the investmcn
went to see my pntient-much agl
tated. remember, and with that PAM
in my heart which we MI felt at know
ing that the gates of Paris We're shut
that the war ,yus luupr orr walls tina