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*§GRANDMERE’S” boy.
iV«Id» Or»mm» in Detroit Free Prea.1
r wti smoking ray after-dinner cigar
Uid reading “Figaro” otf the esplanade
jo Strasbourg, When I was accosted by
“old woman who inquired in Frencl
J“ r the nearest photographer. 6h
the common dresa of the Alsatian
head-dress -
face that, snnbnmt and wrinkled and
searing traces of recent tears, yet was
m beautiful in its expression of tender
goodness and touching resignation not
Sxed with a certain pride, that I in
voluntarily addressed her as “Grand
ma*,’’•and forgetting that I had prom-
Ised a friend to await his arrival, of
fered to guide her to her destination.
. On the road she told me her simple
gory. She was a widow, and lived prior
to the French-German war with her
parried son in a village, fifty miles from
Strasbourg. They were well-to-do
peasants before the enemy invaded their
fittlo village; bnt one morning they woke
to find the Prussians encamped in their
{elds and making themselves perfectly
s t home. More troops arrived the next
Jsy and the following, until the quiet
village was a big camp, where the enemy
heaped up the stores needed for the siege
of Strasbourg.
One dark night the camp was alarmed
and a magazine containing among other
itorcs a considerable quantity of pow
der was found on fire, and there was no
doubt that it was the work of the in
habitants. Accordingly the next morn
ing six of the most prominent or most
patriotic of the inhabitants were brought
before the Prussian commander, and af
ter a short examination that proved
nothing, without furthor trial, snot in
the square in front of the village church.
The widow'* son was one of the six vic
tims, and his wife, who became frantia
with grief over his death, was the next
morning found lifeless on his grave,
thus leaving her infant son to the solo
care of his grandmother.
The old woman now centered all her
hope and all her affection in tho little
bey, and as be grew up she was fully
repaid, for he loved his grandmother
with an intensity often found in child
ren who die young—a lovo that was
alone equaled by his veneration of his
dead parents, his adoration of "la belle
France” and bis hate of tho Prussians,
for the old woman, who loved her coun
try dearly, and never forgot that her
husband fell fighting for it at “Solfer-
ino,” and that her son was killed by its
enemies, instilled, perhaps uncon
sciously, both feelings in his young
breast.
One day, when the boy was 10 years
old, a Prussian official who inspected
the village sohool was struck with his
beauty and serious air, and addressed a
question to him in German respecting
his parents. "The Prussians killec
them,” answered the boy in French.
The official colored, and in a rebuking
tone asked tho boy why he didn't speak
German. “Because it is the language
of my country’s enemies, ” answered the
bov fearlessly.
The official ordered him in arrest, nnd
he was shut up in a chamber above tho
school-room, where ho remained until
night, wheu he boldly leaped ffom the
window to the ground and!, as he fell in
a thick copse, escaped unhurt. The boy
now fairly flew to his grandmother's
house, but as he was afraid of beini
teen and brought back to tho school iL
he followed tho road, ho crossed in
through the fields behind tho village.
It was in tho harvest and the grapes
were ripe, so old Martin, the owner of
the choicest grapes in the village, kept
watch with a loadod shot-gun over his
precious treasures. Softly ho walks over
the field behind the wine-press, when he
hears something force its way through
the grapevines. He stops and cocks his
piece. He will now catch the thief who
robs him of his biggest grapes. Tho
moon is behind the clouds, but he sees the
outline of a person running fast through
the vines. ‘‘Haiti” ho commands—but
me person never heeds him. He raises
his gun—a flash—a gpream—a fall of a
body among the grapes, and when the
old man arrives on the spot, ho finds
instead of the supposed grape' thiof a
little curly-haired boy whose life is fast
ebbing away with tho blood that flows
out and mixes with the crushod grapes;
his black eye* are already fixed and
E usy, and it is with a faltering voice
whispers: "Give my love to grand
mother and tell her—father! mother] I
*m coming"—his hands grasp the vinos
fighter, he raises himself to a sitting,
Posture, the moon coming from behind
the clouds shines on tho wine leaves in
onrly hair, a cry rises in his throat:
Vivo la belle Franco!”—he sinks back,
bis eyes dosed, and the orphan bov is
gone. 1
. “^nd it was me—me alone—who
murdered him,” complalnod the grand
mother when she concluded her tale.
«« eyes were dry, but -the muscles
round tho corner of her mouth worked
oonvulsively and there was a great sob
Jn her throat. "It was all my fault,
me result of my unforgiveness; holy
aary have mercy ” and the old
woman run tho black beads of her
rosary through ho.‘ lingers, murmuring
her prayers.
brrivod Mu rtty after at our des
tination, the atelier of a French photo
grapher, with Whom I was slightly ao-
S Minted. I introduced my companion
him, and be, after offering her a
amt, addressed some questions to her
about her picture. She looked
at him with wonder, and finally
rspliod that she only wanted a
Picture of her boy. “Ah!" said the
photographer, “a little boy, very good,
where is he: 1 ' A tear dimmed the old
woman's blaok eye, and for answer she
pointed np to heaven. “Oh!” exclaimed
my friend, "dead! I do not like to
Photograph dead bodies, but still as
monsieur brought you here I will make
an exception; when did your little boy
die?”
“When the grapes ripen he will have
been gone a year,” replied the grand-
mother.
“But, my dear,” began the photo-
papher, perplexed, when I interrupted
m’ taking him aaldo told him the
oia woman's story and how she had
walked fifty miles on her old legs to
chili” * ‘ Bicnes * ot ^ fibad grand-
r m T dear fellow, what can I dot
t am grieved, upon my word I ami bat
what would you have me dot I can't
photograph angels!” -
A noise of romping children was now
beard and two boys, about 8 and 10
years old, came running into tho atelier,
crying at the top of their voices: “Oh,
papa, void!" ’
She ‘Hush, chlldren!”sald the parent, “go
away; I am busy,” and the nappy boys
disappeared laughing in the next room.
A sudden Idea struck me and turning to
the old woman, who looked wistfully ut
the door through which the boys es-
°®M I “ked her if she had kept any
of her little boy’s clothes. “Indeed I
nave, monsieur!” she answered. "I
have kept everything belonging to the
little dear, and opening a bundle she
earted with her she continued: “Here
is the best dress and (her voice sunk to
a whisper) the last I ever saw him
jrear? }
I now took the photographer aside
and made him acquainted with my plan
for ‘photographing angels,” and after
obtaining hw promise of carrying out
my instructions I persuaded the grand
mother to leave her grandson’s clothing
In the atelier and follow me to an inn,
where I left her to the care of the buxom
hostess.
Two days after the photographer sent
for her and on her arrival handed her n
picture at sight of which tho old
woman began owing fivecly. “My boy!
my own darling boy! It is the clothes I
spun every thread of myself and his
pretty curly hair—but why do he cover
his face sol Won't ho look at me?”
she asked suddenly, looking up from the
picture that represented a little boy-
kneeling in a chair with his folded hands
before his faco.
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‘Ohl remarked the photographer,
he is saying his prayers.
“Yes, yes, I knowl he D praying foi
his poog old grandmero. Oh, my dar
ling boy!” and the great tears roiled
down her wrinkled checks. “God and
our lady bless you, messieurs!” ssid she
when sho grew calmer. “I am now go-
ing to pray by my boy’s grave until I
follow him; and refusing all aid for
her trip home, but pressing hor newly
found treasure faat to her bravo old
heart, “Grandmere Jcanneton” left ns.
As to the picture, our readers have
oacourso all guessod, that tho photo
grapher dressed his oldest boy in tho
poor peasant boy’s clothes; and who
would not practice such a deception ti
see the tears that rolled down Grand
mcro Jeannoton’s aged checks?
Faria Anarclilrnl Camp.
[Paris Cor. Chicago Times.]
One of the leading anarchists here has
furnished me with a list of the different
sooities that are at present working with
tho object of establishing a federal or
communistio republio in France. Tho
“shining lights” in the anarchical camp
are Jules Valles, Felix Pyat, Jules
Guesda, and “CItizon” Morphy. Louis
Michel used to bo the figurative “woman
clothed with the sun,” but since hor in
carceration sho can not, of course, assist
them in their conspiracies in any way.
Thn revolutionary party hero is broken
up into various wings or sections.
As a wholo newspapor pago would bo
hardly largo enough to enumerate all of
them, I must content myself with giving
the titles of a fow. There are, for
instances, the league for the abolition
of permanent armies, tbo league for
tho suppression of policemen and
gendarmerie, the federation of the
socialistic workingmon of Franco,
anarchical “groups" belonging to each
of the Paris arrossdissements, the
Brotherly Association of Humanity's
Patriots, tho Laborers’ Resistance league,
students’ socialistic clubs of tho Quartier
Latin equality "groups,” liberty do-
1, free- thought clubs, communistic
federations, anti-rent champions, clubs
for the abolition of patriotism, interna
tional societies, and “groups' for tho
"removal” of tho aristocracy and
bourgeoisie classes. All of theso, and
many others, bold thoir weekly meetings
in almost every quarter of Paris.
Wanted To Do n Ittljialonnry.
[Now York Cor. Chicago Journal.]
At the Methodist Book Concern I fell
in with tho Rev. Dr. William Summers,
who was getting ready to start with a
>arty of missionaries for central Africa.
Ic explained his schemo, whieh had the
approval of the bishops, and consisted
mainly in establishing twenty mission
stations in a lino across tho black conti
nent, through a wholly uncivilized re
j[ion. Fifty ministers aro needed for
he work, and about half tho numbor
havo volunteered. Whilo I was thero a
stranger sent in hU cord. Being ad
mitted, he proved to bo the possessor of
a noble forohond and ignoblo clothes.
That is to say, bo looked hko a wrack of
formor prosperity. Thoro were no indi
cations of bummorism, and yot he
seemed to have encountered advoraity.
“Are you a clergyman)” Dr. Summers
asked.
“Well, I studied for tho ministry,”
was tho reply, “but became a lawyer.”
“What lias been your religious experi
ence?”
"I haven't had mnoh, (n a direct way,
but I havo been accustomed to public
speaking for many years, and ot late my
trials hive, I think, fitted me to ondnre
all the possible hardships of missionary
life in Africa. I have been stumping in
rural districts daring the canvass, and
my candidate wasn’t elected.”
He was entirely serious. Ho had
failed at the bar and in politics. He
saw no reason why his talents were not
available in tho missionary field, quito
irrespective of his moral and religious
condition. But be was not accepted.
Celibacy In Italy.
[Now Orleans Timss-Dsmocrat]
Nowhere in the world is celibacy more
generally the order of the day than
among the Italian middle classes. It is
a law for the clergy, a rule of discipline
for the land and sea forces, a necessity
for the mob of minor public function
aries and professional men; finally a
matter of fashion for tho golden youth.
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R. T. EYED,
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