Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-19
.~HERE was joy unbounded when
Louis the Eighteenth returned

LOUIS the hlghteenth returned
IA 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,
I 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-
Dght lay In thinking that should be
tradesInan for the rest Of my life.
All, what happy life! what salts
faction to be young and to have
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
Naposeon's Punishment, adopted the
most insolent manner toward us, the
people. And as to their treatment OF
| Napoleon's former soldiers l can still
hear the commandant expostulating,
"They are starving us; they are treat
ing us like Cossacks; only they are
too c0wardly to shoot us!"
But, about the beginning of March,
a 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 at 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 hac
always been like a mother tc me. sob
bed aloud. Catherine passed into @
deadly swoon.
Yet, In spite of all, I needs nlus'
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 al
vision shouted "vive 'Empereur"
/ had a good view of him as he ad
vanced with his arms crossed behint
his back and his head bent. He hat
grown stouter and more sallow sine
the days of Leipsig. He looked mucf
older and his cheeks were fiabby. Littl
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 l cared muci
more for Catherine than for the EN-
peror. OF her thought WITH CREATES
tenderness, the more so knowing tina
she would soon become mother. Ar
prayed to God to preserve my lire
At last we came upon the Prussian
and driving them back at Ligny
marched on against the British.
thought / should drop every mo
ment from weakness, but finally ned
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 oil anything else 7
keep up our strength. Is that lit
for honest men? Is it for this tina
God created us? Is 1t not an aoom
nation to think that king or an EN-
neror. instead o. encouraging com
merce and diffusing liberty, should re
duce us to this state eS hundreds o
thousands? / know tina. this Is calle
glory, but people are foolish to glorI
" such men who have lost all sens
Of right and heart and religion.
When / awoke In the morning, IN
chureh-bells were ringing hld
thought:
~Today Is Sunday, day OF peac
M a rpst EIthef Goulden. dressed u