Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-07-21
MERE was Joy unbounded when
Louis the Eighteenth returned
= IN 1914.

MERE was Joy unbounded when
Louis the Eighteenth returned
in 1914.
Yes, everybody was delighted, except
the old soldiers and the fencing mas
tiers.
Living with Father Goulden In
Pfalzbourg, Of old Lorraine, 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.
I 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 / should be
q tradesman for the rest Of my life.
An, what happy lifel what salts
faction to be young and to have a
simple, good, industrious wifel We
shall never be Oldl We shall always
love one another and always retain
about us those whom we love.
Thus days ana weeks went by. But,
later on, we found that the returning
royalists, the ministers and the princes,
who had rushed hack 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 commandment expostuEating,
'aThey are starving Us |; they are treat
ing us like CossaelHs: only they are
too cOwardIy to shoot us!"
But, about the beginning Of March,
a rumor began to circu'ate 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 ait 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
! 10 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, I needs must
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!'
had good view Of him as he adj
vanced with his arms crossed 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 fiabby. Little
wonder, also, that he appeared wor-
ried-fOr had he not lost everybody
confidence? 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 I cared much
4 more for Catherine than for the en-
peror. OF her thought with greatest
tenderness, the more so knowing that
she would soon become q mother. And
] prayed to God to preserve my life
At last we came upon the Prussians
and, driving them back at Ligny,
marched on against the British.
| I thought should drop every mo.
ment from weakness, but finally near
waterloo, on mounting little ridge
we saw the English pickets through
the rain.
Ia cornheld, under q beating storm
we lay like gypsles, our teeth chatter.
Ing with the cold and yet thinking Of
massacring our fellow men, and es-
teeming ourselves lucky II we had a
turnip, carrot or anything else to
keep up our strength. is that q life
for honest menu Is it for this that
God created usf Is It not an abom-
nation to think that king or an EN-
peror, instead Of encouraging com
/ merce and diffusIng liberty should re
duce Us to this state By hundreds Of
thousandsl / know that this Il called
giory, but people are foolish to gIori.
~ such men who have lost all sense
o. right ana heart and religion.
When IaWoke IL the morning. the
chnrch-bells were ringing and
thought:
T0day 4 Sunday. q day Of peace
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