The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-12
WATERLOO"
BY NM. NN-CHATRAIN
Condensation by Charles e. L. Winaate


Louis the Eighteenth returned in 1914.
Yes, everybody was delighted, ex-
cept the old soldiers and the fencing
masters.
Living with Father Goulden in
Pfalzbourg in old Lorraine, was hap
by in the belief that CONSUMPTION was
over, and that at last l should be
able to marry Catherine and live in
peace.
So, when the marriage permit came,
| rushed at once to her with the
news. l kissed her again and again
and we both wept for joy.
And then, after the happiness Of
marrying Catherine, my greatest de-
light lay in thinking that l should be
tradesman for the rest of my life.
All. what a-happy life! what salts
faction to be young and to have a
simple, good, industrious wife! We
shall never be old! We shall always
love one another and always retain
about US those whom we love.
Thus days and weeks went by, but
later on, we found that the returning
royalists, the ministers and the
princes, who had rushed back to
France after Napoleon's Punishment,
adopted the most insolent manner to-
ward us, the people. And as to their
treatment of Napoleons former sol
diers. can still hear the commandment
eXpostulating, They are starving us ;
they are treating us like Cossacks;
only they are too cowardly to shoot
u.s."
But, about the beginning of March,
rumor began to circulate that the
Emperor had escaped from Elba and
had landed in France. Quickly his
advance to Paris followed; and the
old soldiers, sent out to restrain him.
| rushed forward to kneel at his feet.
Thus it was that Napoleon came again
! TO the throne.
What happened afterward, however,
was not SO agreeable to me, now a
! married man, settled as I hoped, for
life of peace. For I was called to
| the colors. Aunt Grethel, who had
| always been like a mother to me,
| sobbed aloud. Catherine passed into
| a deathly sWoon.
Yet, in spite of it all, needs must
leave for the army with my old vet
eran soldier friend Zebede, and az
once we were rushed to the front
| One day, as we halted the EN-
/ peror came to our lines and the whole
division shouted "Vive IEmpereur!
/ had good view of him as he ad-
vanced with his arms crossew behind
! his back and his head bent. He had
| grown stOuter and more sallOW since
the days of Leipsig. He looked much
older and his cheeks were flabby Lit.
tie wonder, also, that he appeared wor.
ried-for had he not lost everybody s
! 20 O al al mo
retained their love for him; they were
ready to conquer or die in his behalf
! But for my part, l cared much more
/ for Catherine than for the Emperor
! OF her thought with the greatest
! tenderness, the more so knowing that
| she would soon become a mother. And
| | prayed to God to preserve my life
| At last We came upon the Prus-
slams and, driving them back at Ligny
marched on against the British
! l thought l should drop every moment
| through weakness, but finally near
! Waterloo, on mounting a little ridge
We saw the English pickets through
! the rain.
| In cornfield, under beating
storm, we lay like gypsies, our teeth
| SCATTERING with the cold-and yet
thinking of massacreing our fellow
men, and esteeming ourselves lucky
if we had turnip, a carrot or any
thing else to keep up our strength
Is that a life for honest men? Is il
for this that God created US? Is il
not an abomination to think that a
king or an emperor instead of en-
couraging commerce and diffusing lib
erty, should reduce us to this state
! by hundreds of thousands? | know
that this is called glory. but people
are foolish to glorify such men who
have lost all sense of right and heart
and religion.
When | awoke in the morning, the
church-bells were ringing and
thought: