The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-07-22

stiNhii was JOY uIlDOuIupu 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
Ffaizbourg, 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 ct once to her with the news.
kissed her again and again and
we both wept for joy. 80
And then, after the happiness of
marrying Catherine. my greatest de-
Fight lay in thinking that / should be
a tfaa aesssSiis a ffoof the rest of my life.
Nh, what happy life! what salts
faction to be young and to have a
simple, good industrious wifel 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
Kapoleon's Punishment. adopted the
most insolent manner toward us, the
people. And as to their treatment of
NapOle0n's former soldiers l can still
hear the commandant expostulating
~Yhey are starving us; they are treat
ing Ms like Cossacks; only they are
too cowardly to shoot us!"
BntY about the beginning of March,
d rdmor 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 at his
feet. Thus it was that Napoleon
again came to the throne.
What happened afterward, how
ever, was not so agreeable to me. nov
married man, settled as had hope,
for a life of peace. For l was calle
10 the colors Aunt Grethel, who ha
always been like mother to me, sol
bed aloud. Catherine passed into
deadly swoon.
Eetv In spite Of all, I needs mus
ieaye for the army with my old vete1
an soldier friend, Zebede. and at one
we were rushed to the front.
One day, as we halted, the empert
came to Our lines and the whole
vision shouted "Vive lEmpereur"
I had good view of him as he a
vanced with his arms crossed behir
his hack and his head bent. He hi
grown stouter and more sallow sin
the days of Leipsig. He looked mu,
Mder and his cheeks were flabby. Lit
wonder. also, that he appeared VIC
rSed-for had he not lost everybod,
confidence? The old soldiers alone l
tained their love for him; they we
neady to conquer or to die In his /
half. But for my part l cared mu
more for Catherine than for the el
Yeror. OF her thought With greats
tenderness, the more so knowing tn
she uuslld soon become mother. A
b prayed to God to preserve my Ii
At last we came upon the Prussia
and. driving them back at LigI
marched on against the British.
T thought should drop every n
Ment from weakness, but finally ne
Waterloo, on mounting little rid
we saw the English pickets throu
ihe rain.
In a eoinfield, under beating stoi
we lay like gypsies, our teeth chatt
ing with the cold--and yet thinking
nassacring our fellow men, and
seeming ourselves lucky If we hat
snrnip. carrot or anything else
keep up our strength. Is that
FOR honest men? Is it for this {
God created us? Is 1t not an abb
nation to think that king or an
peror, instead Of encouraging ct
merce and diffusing liberty, should
dHce us to this state by hundreds
shOusands? know that this Is cal
glory, but people are foolish to gl'
~ such men who have lost all SCI
II right and heart and religion.
When awoke In the morning,
dAurch-bells. were ringing and
thought:
A1'Oday Is Sunday, day of pei
20 rest. Father Goulden, dressed