Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

free exercise OF our religion-that is, IN
private"
And in return ." cried Catinat, the
bitterness of his opposition masked for the
moment by a smiling countenance.
Cavalier blushed a vivid crimson.
I'm return he said, slowly, as a child
says a lesson it has imperfectly learned,
I'VE of the Cevennes are to do as other
portions of his dominions have done. We
are to raise one or more regiments of young
men in order to fight the kings battles in
foreign parts. This is the message | have
from Louis. King of France. This is the
word that hath lain heavy on my heart,
which have now declared to you.
Brethren of the Way, what answer shall ]
give?"
With enc fierce leap forward. Catinat was
on the platform. Martin Foy made a
slight movement as If to follow him, but
finally withdrew himself deeper into the
shadow of the great pillar, watching out
of the gloom with eyes in which the red
freight cleaned and danced.
And this he cried, lis the end! This
is the sword that was sharpened, the
sword OF the Lord and of Gideon! Lo! it is
whetted, not TO defend the faith, but to
Fight the battles of the son of perditiOn,
the husband Of Searron's widow. Against
Jul '"N ihHS' '''
the sword, and at the bidding of a traitor,
a renegade, an officer Of the king whose
commission is in his pocket at this
moment!'
At the challenge direct Jean Cavalier
came forward. lie was more calm than
he had been when he began. There was
almost a smile on his face-the fighting
smile with which (his men said he was
wont to enter battle. He undid the belt
and sword with which the leaders of the
Camisards had solemnly invested him and
flung the weight of iron and clasped leather
on the table with a clang.
'There!" he cried, freely / give up that
command which / did not ask. l I'm only
one of yourselves. ] have faithfully de-
livered my message. l see that there is no
help save in yielding ourselves TO the arm
of hesh-even as jeremiah advised when
the Assyrian came down from the north.
a strong nation and a cruel, pressing upon
Israel on every side. After all, are we not
FrenchmeD, and no rebels? We rose to
defend our rights. These will now be
granted 10 us-for the king has been mis!e1
concerning us. Wicked men had been
abcut him, binding him. Evil women have
spoken to our hurt. Who will go out with
me this day to fight the battles Of the king
of France?' DID,.
lueIe was a uedu SILENCE ENeu CdliLdt
did not answer. HI stood back, like one
who gives his enemy a long rope and every
advantage. Truly. Catinat knew that the
angel OF Jean Cavalier had departed from
him.
Yet in one thing he had moderated the
influence of his adversary. There were of
the younger men not a few to whom Jean
Cavalier was as a god, men who had grown
weary of the long confinement among their
own bleak hills, especially since the raids
and forays had been given up. They had
not the elder mems religious enthusiasms.
They loved not preachings or long prayings
and their hearts leaped up at the mere
thought of the long t-r-r-r-r OF the kettle.
drum and the stirring notes of the trumpet
So, all shame-faced and sullen, but in
the main determinedly, one here and an.
other there stoed up and gave in their un'
popular adj esion, Il will come with you
Jean Cavalier" or, 81 will stand by you
Jean Cavalier!'
But at the most they were few. TIL,
Camisards were mostly not young men
The young lay under green mounds herr
and there on both sides of the bare wind
swept Cevennes. Cavaliers recruits mum
introduced, which goes to stimulate circu
lation, is that of reservation by whicl
calls for books in the hands of borrower
may be registered and the book held on it
return subject 10 the demand Of the neV
l borrower. An extra fee is usually charge
| for this accommodation and sometimes IN
registration privilege is restricted to dupli
; cate volumes of current publications, whic
: are later put upon the regular shelves afte
2 these fees have reimbursed the library 70
/ their original cost.
r The open shelf system is chiefly a matte
A OF arrangement and its effect upon circu
4 latioD is still pTOblematic. Books on tn
r open shelf may serve as alluring bait fo
1 people who do not know what they war
t to read. but it is doubtful whether il stimr
lates reading, while it certainly destroys a
I opportunity to regulate The channels {