The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-12-31
MADAME JAMIE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

,u smile at her name, finding it
nd, perhaps? Do not, however,
n too great a hurry to turn it into
,ule, for she WHO bore it was q
70 woman, and worthy of all re-
on must know that Nine. Jambe-
her Jambe, the soldiers called her
as for many years cantiniere in a
ment of the line, and in this capac-
she was a sort of good angel to
troops. Officers and soldiers alike
her.
he married, when about thirty
IS of age, the quartermaster-gen-
of the regiment. His time was
fly up, but he remained with the
RS in order to help his wife to keep
canteen.
be little house was a prosperous
|, for Nine. Jambe had more than
string to her bow, and well under
ID how to employ her spare time
ftably. She had learned the art
science, perhaps, it should be
ed) of hair-dless-1T, and on the
aston Of any ieta WAS in great re-
st with the officers wives. The
ifty woman was thus able to lay by
cry considerable sum of money,
ich by no means lessened her pop
rity in the regiment.
liter year of married life son was
N, and Nine. Jambe and her hus-
I'd agreed that as soon as he should
ain the proper age, he, too, should
q soldier. At the age of sixteen he
'sed into the ranks, and being smart
intelligent, he seemed to have a
ight future before him.
Int the husband and father died sud
My in 1919. 1t was terrible shock
poor Nine. Jamie, and she would
rdlv have survived it were it not
! the thought of her son, and the
pe that he would be a comfort tC
i in her declining years. Sorrow
eel her more than her rough life had
me, and she left the service and set
ed in q little cottage left her by hel
vents in the village Of Clusy, nea1
Ontarliers.
A year later war broke out, and thi'
as another sorrow for her to bear
be was a patriot, was Nine. Jamie
Mt she was a mother also.
During that terrible winter of 1870
], she hardly slept for three consecu
I've hours in the twenty-four. Away
n the alert for news, she chafed sorel,
1.-THE snow, which almost cut off he
title village from the outer world, an
1sde communication a matter of grea
Pifculty.
She passed whole weeks in ignol
|Hce Of the progress OF the war, c
|sr sons whereabouts, and then, littl
n little, she heard Of the defeats, an
|alast leal ned that her son, a sergear
Pow, had been attached to the arm
.dthe east, which was then bein
.htmed under the command of Gener'
IEOurbaki.
From this time and in all weather
20 might be seen each day trudgin
he weary, snow-covered miles 'whic
IN between Clusy and Pontarliers,
Use climbing to Fort de Jonx, owe
Boxing the Swiss frontier. She sougI
ieEs, but news, unhappily, was scare
nd contradictory.
Suddenly, toward the end OF Ja1
ary, the rumor spread that the arm
the east was approaching, havir
Slled to relieve Belfort. For near
BlVeek Nine. Jambe kept a stri
zach day and night, scanning eager
% road by which she hoped to S
% French arrive.
They were signalled at last, but Il
setmans were signalled, too, from t
gposite direction, and it seemed eN
'elt that the armies would encCunt
20 another in the immediate neig
who'd.
and now I will let Nine. Jam
sks up the story, for what followed
% from her own lips a few mont
sler the events described to
bsce;
One morning at dawn I heard
s'lse at the door of the cottage, a
go the sound of breaking glass.
''e hastily and ran down to the
s'ace' I gave a cry, my boy "
sere, and behind him stood three
Y comrades, but in what stat
ggard, hollow cheeked, their u
etms IN rags, their boots almost
ives, blue and shivering with co
Mother, you must hide u.s."
41' The general has entrusted
IVA message to the commandant
" lori, but the Prussians have Sc
sld are in pursuit. They must
IN GiVe me your ORDER I cried,
y y take it while you hide here;
ps Will suspect a woman
! mad no time to finish, we he
IN caarge of musketry aud a nei
! n sSsAef in crying;
:. . Inc Prussians! The Prussi