The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-08-03
MERE was Joy unbounded when
Louis the Eighteenth returned
- in 1914

'".$A~ was JoJ uhDOuhuSo "ACh
Louis the Eighteenth returned
in 1914.
Yes, everybody was delighted, except
the old soldiers and the fencing mas
ters.
Living with Father Goulden in
Pfalzbourg, of old Lorraine, l was
happy In the belief that CONSUMPTION
was now over. and that at last, should
be able to marry Catherine and live in
peace.
SO. when the marriage permit came,
rushed at once to her with the news.
kissed her again and again and
we both wept for Joy.
And then, after the happiness of
marrying Catherine, my greatest de-
tight lay in thinking that should be
n tradeslnan for the rest Of my life.
.\h, what happy life! what salts
faction to be young and to have a
simple, good. Industrious wife! We
shall never be oldl 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 toward us, the
people. And as to their treatment Of
Napoleon's former soldiers can still
hear the commandant expostulating,
"They are starving us; they are treat
ing us like Cossacks; only they are
too cowardly to shoot us!'
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 toward Paris followed; and
the old soldiers, sent out to restrain
him, rushed forward to kneel ut his
feet. Thus 1t was that Napoleon
again came to the throne.
What happened afterward, how
ever, was not so agreeable to me. now
a married man, settled as had hoped
for life of peace. For was called
to the colors. Aunt Grethel, who had
always been like mother to me, Sob
bed aloud. Catherine passed into a
deadly swoon.
Yet, in spite Of all, l needs AUST
leave for the army with my old veter-
an soldier friend, Zebede, and at once
we were rushed to the front.
One day. as we halted, the emperor
came to our lines and the whole d.
vision shouted "Vive rEmpereur
I had a good view Of him as he ad.
vanced with his arms crossed behind
his back and his head bent. He had
grown st0uter and more sallow since
the days Of Leipsig. He looked much
older and his cheeks were fiabby. Little
wonder, also, that he appeared wor.
Yied-for had he not lost everybody'a
confidence7 The old soldiers alone re.
tanned their love for him; they were
ready to conquer or to die in his be-
half. But for my part cared much
more for Catherine than for the en-
peror. OF her thought with grea tee,
tenderness, the more so knowing tina,
she would soon become a mother. AND
prayed to God to preserve my life
At last we came upon the Prussian:
and, driving them back at Ligny
marched on against the British.
thought l should drop every mo
ment from weakness. but finally neal
Waterloo, on mounting little ridge
we saw the English pickats through
the rain.
In cornfield, under beating storm
We lay like gypsies, our teeth chatter
ing with the cold-and yet thinking o
massacring our fellow men, and es
teeming ourselves lucky If we had
turnip, a carrot or anything else t
keep up our strength. Is that a lif
for honest men? Is It for this tina
God created us? Is It not an abOm
nation to think that king or an en-
peror, instead Of encouraging con
merce and diffusing liberty, should n
duce US to this state w hundreds {
thousands? know tina. this is calle
glory, but people are foolish to glor
fy such men who have lost all sens
Of right and heart and religion.
When awoke In the morning, tn
ehurch-belia were ringing and
tAought:
"Today Is Sunday. q day Of peac
ne rest. vathsf Goulden. dressed {