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The Raymer enterprise., 1914-08-27
CHAPTER XII.
With All NV Soul.

The general swung around to the
lad. Francois. this letter is about
you" He tapped the rustling paper
"Pietro wants you to come to him as
his secretary"
Francois large eyes lifted to the
generals face. inquiring. startled,
childlike. "Pietro!" he said slowly.
i had not thought of that"
"Yet you knew that Pietro was
heart and soul in the plots Of the
Italian patriots?"
YES"
But you had not thought OF going
to help him fight!"
mo. my seigneur. | had thought
only Of the fight for which | must be
ready here"
This Italian business will be good
practice" said the general, as a man
of today might speak of tennis tour
nament. And you and Pietro will be
enchanted to be together again"
Francois smiled, and something in
the smile wrung the generals heart.
francois, you are not going to be
unhappy about little Alixe?"
Quickly Francois threw back, as II
he had not heard the question: my
Seigneur, will go to Pietro; 1t will
be the best thing possible-action and
training. and good old Pietro for a
comrade. My Seigneur. may go to-
morrow?"
Tomorrow" The general was
startled now. "A thousand thunders,
but you are sudden lad! Yet 1t will
be no harder to give you up tomorrow
than 1t would be next month. Yes, to-
morrow, then, let 1t be-"
Francois stood up, slim, young, alert
and steady. yet somehow not as the
boy who had come in to the general
an hour before; more. perhaps, az a
man who had been through battle
and come out very tired. with the
noise Of the lighting in bis ears.
Il will 60 to the farm tonight, to
my mother and my father. And this
afternoon will rids with Alike. II you
do not want me for the book, my
Seigneur-and II she will 90. May
ask you not to tell Alike Of this-to
leave It to me 70 tell bert"
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SYNOPSIS.

Francois Beaupre. a peasant babe Of
three years. after an amusing incident In
which Marshal Ney figures, Is made q
Chevaiier Of France by the Emperor Ma
poleon. In the home OF the lads parents
In the village OF vicques. France. where
the emperor had briefly stopped to hold a
council Of war. Napoleon prophesied that
the boy might one day be a marshal Of
France under another Bonaparte. Al the
age OF ten Francois meets a stranger who
Is astonished when the boy tells him Of
his ambition. Francois visits General
Baron Gaspard Gourgaud. who with
Alike, his seven-year-old daughter. lives
at the Chateau. A soldier OF the Empire
under Napoleon he fires the boys imag-
ination with stories Of his campaigns.
The general offers Francois a home at
the Chateau. The boy refuse to leave his
parenta. but In the end becomes a copy
ist for the general and learns OF the
friendship between the general and Mar
auis Zappl. who campaigned with the gen.
erai under Napoleon Marquis Zappi and
MS son, Ptetro. arrive at the Chat eau.
The general agrees to care for the Mar
quiss son while the former goes to
america The Marquis before leaving for
America asks Francois to be a friend
his son The boy solemnly promises
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an Alike answered thoughtfully.
"She lives like that. She never let
things trouble her. not even when your
father lost everything. Did she. Fran
cois?"
NO." said Francois. "She is one Of
the few people who know what the
real things are and live In them. 1t
is hard to do that. can not. care
80 bitterly for what want. 1T is"-
Francois hesitated-"it is very hard
for me to give up-what want" He
stumbled over the words; his voice
shook so that Alike shifted In the
saddle and looked at him inquiringly.
Alike - dear" - then Francois
stopped. you need not be afraid that
shall have more than Pietro," he be.
gan uncertainty. For 1t IL not going
to be 30. He will have what-what
would give my life for" Then he
hurried on. Il see how 1t IT," be said
gently. "and you are right to care %
loyalty for Pietro. -ie is worth It
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-08-27
Home, Sweet Home.

A well known player was talking
about brilliant but unsuccessful dis
ciple OF Blackstone.
His habits are to blame for his fail
ure," said he. "One Of his remarks
illustrates his habits we'll. He said
to me In the Union club:
There's no place like home-espe-
cially at Q or 8 A m, when you've e.
hausted the pleasures Of al the other
places. and you're tired. and svssy.
thing shut up anyway
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cpekNzoNI I9z2 ey eoee3 tzxNNNL co

midst OF close-cropped millions of
blades Of grass as he stopped short
on the sloping lawn which led down
to the white stone steps which led to
the sunken garden. Alike, in her rid
ing habit. with a feather in her hat,
and gauntleted gloves on her hands,
was so lovely as to be startling. She
looked at the ground, half shy. half
laughing. and beat the grass with her
riding-whip. Francois was leaning
toward her and talking. and the gen.
eral, coming slowly down the lawn,
felt a flood Of pride rise in him as he
looked at this successful picture of a
boy which he had done so much to
fashion. The two had been riding to-
gether. and Francois appeared, as
most men do, at his best in riding
clothes. With that. as the general
marched slowly down the velvet slope,
unseen by them, regarding them his
girl and his boy. this happy sister and
brother-with that the brother lifted
his sisters hand and. bending over 1t.
kissed 1t slowly. In a manner unmis-
takably unbrotherly.
Mon Dieu!" gasped the general,
and turned on his heel and marched
back to his library.
All that afternoon he stayed shut
up in the library. At dinner he was
taciturn.
The next morning the general sent
for Francois to come to him in the
library. A letter had been brought a
short time before and was lying open
on the table by his hand.
Francois" began the general in his
deep abrupt tones. Il am In trouble.
Will you help me?"
Yes, my Seigneur." said Francois
quickly.
The general glared at him. frown.
Ing. We shall see." he said again,
and then--suddenly az q shot from a
cannon-"Does Alike love you. Fran
cois?"
II think not. my Selgneur," he
answered In low voice.
Il am hurting you." the deep voice
said-and only one or two people in
the world had heard that voice 80 full
OF tenderness. Il am hurting my son.
But listen, Francois. 1t was the dear.
est wish of Pietro's father-it has
been my dearest wish for years-that
Alike and Pietro should one day be
married. It is that which would be
the crown OF a friendship forged in
the fires of battle-fields, tempered In
the freezing starving snow fields Of
Russia, finished-I hope never finished
for all eternity"
Francois. his head bent, his eyes on
the generals hand which held his, an
swered very quietly. Il see," he said
You would not take her from Pie
tro, who. am sure. loves her!"
Francois looked up sharply. but the
general did not notice. He spoke
slowly. Il promised Pietro's father
the boy seemed to be out OF breath
TO be Pietro's friend-always." be
said.
The general smiled then and let the
fingers 90. and turned to the letter
on the table before him. Good" he
said. "You are always what wish
Francois" and 1t was quite evident
that the load was off his mind.
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growing up: the general already
grumbled words about kittens turning
into cats. as he looked at them.
Just behind the great stone there"
Alike formulated. was the dogs bed
room. OF course, great monsieur
like the dog had his own bedroom
yes. and office. too-and maybe his
dining-room."
And the joke was enough on that
lazy day Of vacation to set peals OF
laughter ringing through the ruins.
Alike stopped laughing suddenly.
Who is that!" she demanded. Her
eyes were lifted to the hill rising be.
hind the green mound, and the glance
Of the others followed hers. A young
man. a boy. was coming lightly down
the slope. and something in his figure
and movement made 1t impossible
even at distance that 1t should be
any one Of the village. He saw them.
and came forward, and his cap was
OF quickly as he glanced at Alike.
But with a keen look at the three. II
was Francois to whom he spoke.
is this France?" he asked.
But yes, Monsieur Francois an
swered wondering-and In a moment
he wondered more. The strange boy
his cap flung from him. dropped on
his knees and kissed the grass that
grew over the Roman governors foun.
dations. With that he was standing
again, looking At them unashamed
from his quiet gray eyes.
1T s the first time have touched
the soil Of France since l was seven
years DID," he stated. not as II to
excuse his act, but as II explaining
something historical. And was silent
The strange boy talked very little:
they could not recollect that he asked
questions, after his first startling
question: yet here was Alike, the very
spirited and proud little Alike, anxious
to make him understand everything Of
their own affsin.
II am Alixe," she began - and
stopped short, seized with shyness
Was 1t courtesy to explain to the
young monsieur about her distin
guished father? She found herself
suddenly in an agony Of confusion
Then the stranger made q low bow
and spoke In the gentlest friendly
tones.
1T is enough. 1t is a charming
name, Mademoiselle Alike. I believe
| shall now think It the most charm
ing name in France"
She has more of q name than that
however. Monsieur" and Francois
stepped across the grass and stood by
the little girl, her knight. unconscious
Of the part he played. TT is q very
grand name, the other one. For oul
seigneur, the father Of Alike. is Mon
sieur the Baron Gaspard Gourgaud, 9
general Of Napoleon himself; was in
deed With the Emperor at st. Helena.
Francois had no false modesty, nc
self-ccnsciousness; he felt that he had
placed Alixe's standing now In the
best light possible. The strange boy
felt 1t, too, It seemed, for he started
as Francois spoke Of Napoleon; his
reserved face frightened and his car
was of and sweeping low as he bowed
again to Alike more deeply. Francois
was delighted. 1t was in him to en-
Joy dramatic effect, as It is In most
Frenchmen. He faced about to Pietro
This one, Monsieur" he went on
much taken with himself as master oi
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ieo. dRTeeu tne general QOuDt-
fully. But you will be careful not
to-upset her. Francois?"
Il will be careful"
"And-and you will do what you
can to help Pietro. will you not, my
SON."
A quick contraction twisted Fran
co.'s sensitive mouth and was gone,
but this time the general saw. You
may trust me, my Seigneur," the boy
said, and moved to the door; but the
general called to him as his hand
touched the latch.
Francois" aH
Yes, my Seigneur." He faced about,
steady and grave. and stood holding
the door.
Francois. my son--I have not hurt
you-very much? You do not love
Alixe-deeply? Do you love her, Fran
cois?"
There was shock of stiffness In the
old dim library. Through the window
where the children's shouts had
come in ten years before to the mar.
quis and the general--one heard now
in the quiet the sudden staccato Of a
late cricket. The general, breathing
anxiously, looked at Francois, Fran
co.'s standing like statue. The gen.
eral repeated his question softly,
breathlessly. DO you love her. Fran.
cois?"
With that the great eyes blazed and
the whole face Of the boy lighted as
II fire had famed inside a lantern.
He threw back his head.
with all my SOUL" he said. "And
forever"
= =
A rushing mountain stream-white-
yelled in the falling. black-brown in
the foam-hecked pools-tumbled,
splashed, brawled down the mountain;
the mountain hung over, shadowy;
banks Of fern held the rampant brook
In chains Of green. Alike and Fran
coise. riding slowly in the coolness Of
the road below. looked up and saw II
all. familiar, beautiful, full of old as
sociations.
"One misses Petro." Francois said.
HE always wanted to ride past the
'Trou du Gouverneur.'
A Roman legend had given this
name to the deep pool Of the brook
by the road; 1t was said that the cruel
old governor had used It, two thousand
years back. for drowning refractory
peasants. Alike gazed steadily at the
dark murmuring water.
Yes, one misses him. Is life like
that. do you suppose, Francois! One
grows up with people. and they get
to be as much part OF living as the
air. or ones hands-and then, sud
denly. one Is told that they are 60.
ing away. And that ends It. One
must do without air. without hands.
What a world, Francois!"
We are not meant to like It too
much, believe. Alike" said Francois
sunnily. 1T Is just en- passant, this
world. when you stop to consider.
This is school. this life, ! gather. My
mother says 1t is not very important
II one has good seat In the school.
room or a bad; II one sits near ones
playmates or is sent to another cor.
ner. so long as one Is good child
and works heartily at ones lessons.
1t is only for day--and then we 20
home. where all that is made right
Not bad idea Of my mothers. is 1t,
Alixe?"
Your mother Is wonderful WON.
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CHAPTER x.
The Promise.

Mon Dieu!" said the general.
It was six years later. At the new
chateau not . blade Of grass seemed
changed. The general stoed = the
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EMMANUEL COUNTY GA. JOINED
THE PROGRESSIVE RANKS.

Dear Sir: | see in the papers old
Emmanuel County has gone Progress
sive. Now take this method of
telling the boys now | am coming
back home to be one of you all
again, look for me till I come.
Montgomery County went 285,
Wheeler went Progressive also. Hur-
rah for Roosevelt and Watson in
1916. I'll bet my old hat Roose-
welt is the next Presid ent. Boys OF
Emmanuel County let me congratu-
late you and bid you God speed.
Respectfully,
Ga. J. ALLEN KITCHEN
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Huge battleshlps they build, and
huge guns they mount on these float
ing ramparts, until file Of Dread
naughts line the coast-for what?
TO be ready for perils that may
never come. But give them piti-
full little purse; and, in return, they
issue to ME the lawful right to un-
mask my batteries on c.ery square;
and my gums play upon humanity,
every day and every night, OF every
year."
From "The Song of the Bar
Room in Watson's Prose NgiscelIa-
mics, second edition. Price $500.
THE JEFFS, Thomson. Ga.
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The Good, the Bod, the Ofher1vjse
And O. Fer0 LQconjcs ByLAL
BY L. A. L.

Nice betty newspaper article, pre-
pared by scientist is headed What
to eat and how to eat it," when all
that is bothering the Average Man
is What to Eat and How to Get it. "
If no one else is to benefit by the
European war, the ship builders
trust and the steel trust will soon
have rush orders to take the place
Of all those war-ships that are be-
ing blown up or sent down.
If the exporters who have been
cutting expenses because of the
European war" would turn their
bowling into other channels, and
develop the South American trade,
there would be less cause to howl.
Emperor William must have
snapped some of those jam-tart
decorations he used to wear, for a
Photographic outfit; there is no
dearth of his photographs, since he
has been SO actively" engaged in
the war.
CAIIo dA w dSS uO6S uSIS01l pIOuU,
no matter what she undertakes: and
the presentation of two sets of sill
yer to the battleship named after
the Lone Star State, with two punch
bowls in the lot, is just about what
one would expect from Texas.
We were quite sorry for the hero
in an illustrated story in the Satur-
day Evening Post, whose wife had
deserted him for the enemy" until
we noted that he had on a high
silk hat, with a sack coat and white
duck trousers, and then we didn t
blame her.
Ho! all We faithful Democrats
hearken to this; your scholastic
President Wilson is quoted as say
ing that: "a political platform is
not necessarily pledge, but merely
a programme" and we all know that
programmes are subject to change
at the discretion of the manage
ment.
If the Republican candidate for
office would go a bit further in his
remarks anent the tariff and the
lower wage scale in Europe as re-
sponsible for the condition Of the
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two who succeeded by the steam
roller methods of the Macon Con-
Ventlon, in getting what they went
after; many of those who voted
afraid of the ward-heelers threats of
an Atlanta lawyer, voted for "the
candidates Of the primary" because
they lacked the logic that would
have told them it was not in the
province of any political CLIQUE to
deprive man of his franchise.
We don't need suffragettes in the
State Of Georgia, but we do need
men who will look on both sides of
the shield, and who will not be
scared off from a situation such as
is now existent in the State, by any
bug-a-boo which may be fashioned
in the star chambers Of the political
cliques to intimidate them.
And there never was a better time
than now, to study the workings Of
the Recall; put man in office with
your votes, and when you find he
has no intention of using his plat
form for your relief, vote him out
Of office with the same neatness and
dispatch with which you voted him
in.
The rural members of the next
Legislature of the State, smarting as
they are over the failure of their idol
to get them the relief it was in his
power to get, might make him sit
up and take note Of the fact that
he had no lease for unlimited time
on the seat in the highest laW-mak-
ing body on earth, and which he
gained by false promises, at a time
when want and misery were staring
the farmer of the State of Georgia
in the face.
The Recall is a splendid measure,
and familiarity with it's scope and
power will furnish interesting study
for the farmer while he watches his
bales of cotton shrink, when he
knows the mills are in need of every
pound that was raised in the Cotton
Belt.
The Little Brown men of Japan
are not to be only "among-those-
present.
o president Wilson satisfies bust
ness men," says Judge Gray. Sure
he does,-eyen hog gets enough
some time.
The Terrible Turks stood the
strain as long as they could, and are
now helping in the general helraisin
which is abroad in Europe.
William Rockefeller is due an
other attack of some fatal ailment:
he has been indicted in the matter
of the New Haven Railroad.
Champ Clark is blaming the Dem
ocratic defeat to the war in Europe
and that seems to be nearing the
final straw on the camel's back,
If the Bull Moosers can get any
consolation from the fact that Will
liam Taft says he is reconciled tc
their defeat, they may have it.
It's going to take a sight of tim
Der to mend some of those Demo
cratic fences, in the "Solitl South, .
which same seems not to be so solid
as once was.
And now that DOLLAR Dinner for
Homeless Belgians," is proposed
many poor American wight will
try to buy the ticket to get him to
Belgium to help eat the dinner.
Trying to blame Foraker's fail
ure as politician to the same
things that made Penrose of Penn
sylvania successful, is rather stretch
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working people in this country, he
might have gotten up a nice little
essay on the benefit of restricting the
immigration Of these same cheap
European laborers, to this country.
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OF reasoning, it uses the
blanket of "Woman's lack of logic
being in the way Of her mental de-
velopment."
By and large, for a good many
years, woman has meekly accepted
this arrangement land has subsidized
when it come to matters of import
outside the field of the kitchen, the
church and the cradle.
Georgia, the past several weeks,
has put spokes in that old-line argu-
ment, and if ever the golden time
had arrived when woman, in the
concrete could rise and say, "You
too,' it is since the primary and
the elections of November have be-
come topics of talk in the public
prints.
For good many years, almost
without realizing it, Man, (the
brute) has consciously or other
wise, become an ardent supporter of
ST. Peter, who had small regard for
the mind and the mental worth of
woman, and whom, the later chroni-
clers show us, was afflicted with a
wife whom he didn' care much for,
and too much mother-in-law. Any
apron-string influence of the home
atmosphere, he was apt to get sassy
in his sentiments expressed against
all things feminine, and he was
really the patron saint of the hen
pecked man, and the timid man who
feared matrimony.
Also Man has made a deity and
a fetch Of 'Sthe ballot box" and
refuses to see that it is more often
filled with straw, than with ballots
expressing the will Of the people,
What has been Georgia's lot in the
matter of dishonest, unfair, crooked
and otherwise undesirable political
candidates, is true of many other
States, as was shown by the smash
ing of political states and the sever
ance of political bonds in the cleo
tons of Tuesday, Nov. 3rd.
In Georgia, the case was this: two
men, each of whom had proven
himself politician of the for
revenue-only order; each of whom
had broken faith more than once
with the people who had elected
him to the highest offices in the
gift of the State; each of whom had
made specious promises which none
but the most ignorant could accept
as being possible to perform; each
of whom had regarded as safe, the
primary which had made him the
choice of the people-were, at the
election, made safe in those offices,
one for a term of four years, the
other for six.
The senior made promise where
by the staple of the Southern farm
ers was to be assured a market, at
a price which would at least enable
them to have paid themselves out of
debt. He had fought relief which
the Government had tentatively
offered, and had enabled that relief
to be grabbed by as soul-less a lot
of shylocks, under the name OF
National Bankers (of which the
senior himself is one) as ever de-
mandei the pound of flesh and all
the blood that goes with it.
And this is where the men of
Georgia, who knew of these condi-
tons and who knew they would
suffer from them for the full terms
of office of these two professional
politicians, put themselves in the
class of the women who have so long
born the stigma of lacking in power
to logically argue a situation
The threat of Acknowledgement
kept many a man from the poles
u,bo xrtoaJJ how cost uoto for oil
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MASCULINE VS.. FEMININE
"LOGIC."

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The herald., 1914-03-05
ORPHEUM THEATRE.

The program offered for next week
at the Orpheum contains quite a di-
yersity of amuSements, each in its
turn deserving special consideration.
The program follows:
The favorites, Sam Chip and Mary
Marble, in the picture-book playlet,
The Land of the Dykes" written by
Herbert Hall WinslOW.
Agnes Scott and Henry Keane. in
Drifting"
James 2. Conlin, Lillian Steele and
Eddie Carr, follies of vaudeville.
Blank Family, Continental cham
pions OF double juggling.
Weston and Clair, entertainers de
luxe
Harry Breen, the rapid-fire song
writer.
Reuter- Brothers, anatomic wonders.
Orpheum motion pictures.
Orpheum concert orchestra, finest in
the South.