Franklin Sentinel newspaper, 1900, Part 216

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now's years of age aud the apple or THE OPEN HEART. her eye-s small, graceful, winning. Would you understand The language with no word, The speech of brook and bird, Of waves along the sand? frolicsome creature, a pocket edition of her mother, whom she strongly re- sembled fu appearauce and character. Would you make your own The meaning of the leaves, The song the silence wenves, Where little winds made moan? The establishment consisted of a housekeeper, old Prosper, the butler; Julie. uindame's maid; the cook and some meu about the stables, The eui- Would you know how sweet The falling of the rill, The calling on the hill- All tunes the days repeat? slue was excellent. Prosper put he- fore us every day the hest wines in the cellar, while madame, and at luncheon her little daughter, kept us company. Neither alms nor art, The chatelaine treated us more as hon- No toil can help you hear; The secret of the ear Is in the open heart. -John Vance Cheney in Century. ored guests than as officers of the en- emy's army quartered ou her. We all enjoyed It very much, except poor Seckendorf, whose quarters were too far from the house for him to leave his KOTTENKAMP'S WIDOW. men to join us at dinner. In another squadron of ours that oceupled these excellent quarters some time before was a Lieutenant von Kotteukamp, a rather vain but extremely handsome, BY JAMES PEMBERTON GRUND. clever and distinguished looking young officer, who spoke French Ilke a native and who In appearance, with his dark war When the Franco-Prussian broke out in 1870, my father was a major general In command of a cavalry brigade in Westphalla and I a student eyes and short, hlack mustache smart- ly turned up at the ends, greatly re- sembled a French marquis painted hy Fragonard on a lady's fan. To Kotten- kamp, a year or two younger than her- at Bonn. I was harely 17, hut deter | self, the lady took a strong liking, and mined to take part in the campaign, before he had been a week at the cba- teau be was head over heels In love with her. When he was ordered away and another lleutenant, by no means as good looking, took his place, it was supposed that the task of consoling the lady for Kottenkamp's absence would be a thankless one. This was not the case. She smiled as sweetly on the newcomer as she had on him who had gone, and when the new man was in turn succeeded by a third the same phenomenon was observed. When No. 3 yielded the "pas" to No. 4, the latter semed to Inherit all the good fortune of his predecessors. Kottenkamp, how- ever, outranked the others In her af- fections hy seniority, as It were, and she was always known In the reglment as "Kottenkamp's widow." That young man seemed to take the situation quite calmly and never displayed the slight est signs of jealousy. and sent a telegram to him asking hls permission to go, receiving in reply the words: "Of course. Blessing. Father." In 24 hours I had been accepted by the colonel of a hussar regiment as a gen- tleman cadet, or "avantageur," and After taking part In an action or two was commissioned a "sekondelleuteu- ant" as a matter of course. The for- tune of war took my squadron Into a charmlug bit of country near Amlens. We were quartered in and around the Chateau de Magny, the property of one of the prettiest and most amiable of Frenchwomen, the Marquise de Magny, whose busband's family took their name from this estate. There was excellent stahling for our horses at the chateau and In the villages of Magny-le-Grand and Fleurus, one a quarter of a mile, the other a mile from it. Of the four "Zuge" that com- posed our squadron, one, with the "Rittmeister." old Brelsewitz and my- self, was at the chateau; two, with Lieutenants Prince Ehrenberg and Von Breitenstein, were In quarters at Magny-le-Grand, and the fourth, Lieu- tenant von Seckendorf in command, at Fleurus, where, as this village was but two miles from the French advanced posts, there was also a company of in- fantry. In addition to the highroad, a deep ravine connected Magny-le-Grand and Fleurus, extending beyond the lat- ter village to within a mile of the en- emy's advanced posts. The Somme divided the hostile armles, but we in the chateau and the village were on the French side of that river, held out. as old Breisewitz said, on a silver salver to tempt the French to cross the Somme. The chateau was but half a inile from the river, crossed at that point by a wooden bridge with the posts supporting it sawed through. while a powder mine below completed the arrangements for Its Instant de- struction, We sent patrols every two hours day and night up to the French enemy's outposts, with whom they of- ten exchanged shots.

The marquise was a delicate little crenture, with fair hair and a pair of bright blue eyes that always seemed to le laughing even when she serewed up her lips tightly tuto the prettiest pout possible and tried to look stern. Her hair, that defied control. fell over her forehead and almost Into her eyes in a way that suggested a highly Idealized Skye terrier. Her.figure was perfectly proportioned and her complexlon of ex. gulsite delleney, a beauty rarely found in France. Married at 20, her husband died within a year. She had one chlid, a little girl. Marguerite ("La Princesse Margot " we had nicknamed her) was

When I (No. 5) came under the spell. It was otherwise. I took the matter "au grand serieux," even to the extent of proposing marriage, and suffered untold pangs If any one paid court to her. At first she laughed at me, but In a few days seemed to think my offer not unworthy of consideration, and for my own part the fact that she was quite ten years older than I In powlse changed the color of my resolution. I had a fair field. The marked prefer- ence she showed for me sent the little prince and Breitensteln into the bil- llard room half an hour after dinner, wbither old Brelsewitz also betook himself to watch them play and swal- low countless gohlets of mulled claret The charm of our delightful tete-a- tete goes without saying, but It was too exquisite to last. One morning the marquise tripped up to Breisewitz and myself as we sat In the breakfast room sipping our "cafe au lait" and held out ' a letter. It was from her lawyer at Lille. Important bustuess relating to her property there demanded ber im- medlate presence. She drove that aft- ernoon to Amiens to obtalu from our general a pass through the lines aud, returning ni dusk. announced her de- parture for Lille the next morning. Never had sho appeared more gracious end amiable as hostess than that day at dinner, which I thought would ner- er end and was glad when old Prosper appeared with the coffee and Brekse- witz and the others went up stairs to their everlasting billlards.

As soon as we were alone 1 drew i low stool close to her chair and. taking her slim white hand lu mine, poured iu- to her ear @ succession of those well worn platitudes that seem so full of

wenning to us at the time we utter them I cannot recall-and there Is un.

alloyed pleasure In the thought-a huu- dredthi part of the nonsense I talked that night. My wife In the sight of heaven, she should be so after the war in the sight of men. My father could uot refuse the prayer of a son who came back to lilm with the cross of Iron nud the credit attaching to houor- able mentlon in general orders.

Lettlug her hands rest on my shoul- ders, she told me that she, too, saw but one path in life, the one she would travel at my side. My country should be her country, my people her people, and so on. She only made one stipula- tion, that she be allowed to come to Frauce for a six weeks' visit every sec- ond year. Rising, she went to the piano and, after preluding a moment, broke off Into a charming little vaise of her own composition. I do not know Its real naine, nor am I sure it had one, but as she always played It when she and one of her adorers were about to part it was known In the regiment as "La Valse des Adieux." Kottenkamp bad heard it, and so bad the other fel- low, and the one that came after him. But, pshaw! what was the use of going into that? It was being played for me, for me alone, aud the sounds seemed to get into the marrow of my bones and mingle with It.

Not until the small hours did my charmer and I separate, Taking a tiny watch from ber belt, she glanced at it. "Mon ami, It is sweet to listen to you, but the journey to Llile Is long and I but a poor, 'weak little woman. Au revoir!" Her head rested on my shoul- der an Instant whlie our lips met, when, breaking from me before I real- Ized what had happened, she was gone. 1 drew an armchair to the window and lighted a final cigar, watebing the bly- ouac fires beyond Fleurus, where our "Feldwache" lay to their arms. I was happy.

The next morning I rode next her carriage on Its way to the French lines, taking with me a trumpeter aud a ser- geant carrying a white bandkerchief tied to the end of a lance as a flag of truce. A staff officer of the Freuch met her at the outposts. He turned out to be an old acquaintance, as she told me, and I looked at him with en- vlous eyes as he took my place beside the carriage and trotted along, chat- tug with her, on their way to the "quartier general."

We dined a little earlier that night at the chateau, hut a game of cards, hac- carat or macao, as the Germans and Italians call it, kept us up till past midnight. A long ride in cold weather and a couple of bottles of wine at the end of It are worth all the sleeping po- tlons in the world, and my head hardly touched the pillow that night before 1 was asleep. I must have slept three or four hours when I found myself sitting upright in bed. One, two, three shots fred in rapid succession not a quarter of a mile from the house and theu a volley! The sounds seemed to come from the direction of Magny-le-Grand. In an instant I had sprung out of bed to light candles and tumble Into my clothes, Running to the door, I stum- hled against my "Bursche," Max, only half dressed, carrying my sword in one band and my boots In the other. His eyes were starting out of bis head. "Herr Lieutenant, sle kommen?" he gasped.

"Who's coming, lulot?" I asked. "Dle Franzosen, Herr Lleutenant: die Franzosen."

"Well, let them come," said I a little angrily to steady him. "Aren't we ready for them, you donkey ?"

By this time the whole chateau waa in an uproar. Lights flew from room to room, and there was a great rushing of feet on the stairways. Through the open door I caught a glimpse of old Brelsewitz plunging down the stairs I four at a time, while making frantic efforts to huckle hls sword belt. rushed after him, followed by Max with a lantern. We made straight for the stables and lost no time lu getting out my horses. The courtyard was full of our men. Some of the troop- ers bad saddled In such mad haste that they mounted without walting to fas- ten the girths. Two troopers stood hy the great gates, ready to swing them hack when Brelsewitz should give the was signal. The old "Rittmeister" soon in the saddle and, drawing his sword as soon as all was ready, gave the word. The gates swung hack on their hinges, and we streamed out to gallop at headlong speed, with sabers drawn, toward the alarmplatz, the place always settled upon when Prus- sians in time of war go Into quarters and where they are to assemble in case of any sudden emergency or surprise. I do not think more than three or four minutes elapsed after I beard the first shots before we were out of the cha- teau.

The alarmplatz was in our case a little meadow balf way between Mag- ny-le-Grand and Fleurus. The firing bad steadily increased until now the roll of musketry was continuous. As we approached Magny-le-Graud a lurld glare and heavy volumes of smoke hanging ahove the place showed is that the village was on fire in a dozeu places.

What bad happened was that the major lu commaud at Fleurus and our people at Magny-le-Grand had neglect- ed to post sentries near the deep ravine that connected the two places aud ex- tended beyond Fleurus toward the French Hues. A commun of "chasseurs a pled" had takeu advantage of this to creep through the ravine past Fleurus aud Into Magny-le-Grand, which they renched unohserved at 3 o'clock in the morning. The first lutimatlon our mon bad of the presence of the enemy was to find themselves surronuded. The surprise was so complete that few of the hussars In the village were uble to get out their horses. Of those that did the majority were shot down in the at- tempt to escape, among them Breiten- stelu, struck down by a bullet ns he churged the big diteh that bordered the village on the slde nourest the elm- teau. As Brelsewitz and myself. with our men, skirted the village, although

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were "alarmed"-and marched day and night for the next two days. Then come the battle of St. Quentin, which so crippled Faidherbe that the cam- paign of the French in the north was at an end. We returned to the Somine. and I crossed It to have a look at my old quarters. Of the chateau and the villages not a trace! The Inhabitants had disappeared as If the earth had ' swallowed them up. "Les camarades." the peasants told me, had been there, and uow all was ruin and desolation. Soon there came the armistice, the harbinger of peace. 1 wrote several letters to Lucienne, some to Lille, some

ed to defend. Though at first I grieved for loss of my love, I was very young. and time did Its work, so that in a con- ple of years the recollection of ber was a pleasure and not a pain. I never mentioned the subject to my father. Why should I? My castles In Spain had crumbled and could never be re- huilt.

Ten years after the war I was in St. Petersburg, where I made the acquaint- ance of the French military attache, a M. de Bressonville, wbo bad served in the campaign of 1870 as ald-de-camp to Faldberbe. We took a strong liking to each other, and one day It occurred to me to ask him If he knew Mme. de Magny.

"The marquise?" he Inquired, with rather a queer look. "Yes."

He walked to the plano, opened it and struck the opening chords of "La False des Adieux." Turning, he fixed me with a questioning eye. "You know it, I see. So you were one of the happy ones?"

My face flushed, and the tears sprang to my eyes.

"How dare you?" I began.

To my surprise he burst ont laugh- G.A. Martin, M.D., . . AND . Ing. "Mon aml, she was no more a mar- quise than 1 am. She was in the 'hu- reau des information' of our army-a spy, if you care to put it that way. Faidherbe had a high opinion of ber cleverness, You fellows were a mine of luformation, and if she made some sacrifices to obtulu it, well, you know, patriotism Is like charity. it covers a multitude of sins."-Coruhill Magazine. [ Office -. FLETCHER'S BLOCK, MAIN ST

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the night was dark, it was there as bright as day. Lights were in every window, and through the red smoke we saw shadowy figures of mountel men flying along the single street, while from the honses and both sides of the ravine a witbering fire was kept up on the hussars as they ran the gautlet. Now a horse, uow a rider, sank he- neath the volleys snd fell, only to be struck again and again. Some of the . bodles we afterward took up for burlal had as many as a dozen bullet holes In them, and on a pile of dirty straw we found the body of the little prince pierced with 16 bayonet thrusts. 01 the pattering bullets some fell into our ' to an address In Paris she had, given ranks, but there were only one or two me. I received uo reply. After heing passed In review by the Crown Prince Frederick we marched back to Ger- inany to receive the warmest welcome from those whose homes we had help slight casualties as we dasbed on to the meadow where Seckendorf's "Zug" was drawn up awaiting us, together with a few of the hussars who had escuped from Magny-le-Grand. The roll was hastily called. Of the two "Zuge" in Magny balf the men were missing.

We were uow a hundred sahers strong, aud. as Seckendorf told us the infantry from Fleurus was on the march to join us, we formed In line and advanced at a walk in the direc- tion of the ravine. Ilere we made some meu dismount, who opened fire from their cgrhlnes ou the French, but the latter were In force, aud their cov- er was too good for us to do them much Injury. It was for us a losing game, and we were glad to leave it. The Infantry from Fleurus now came up, as well as nuother body of Infantry from villages to our left. These de- ployed in the fields on both sides of Maguy, aud the attack began in ear- nest, while we waited until the French should be driven to the open in order to try a charge. A tremendous rum- biing on our right caused us to glance In that directiou, aud we saw rapidly approaching across the fields a section of horse artillery, the animals at a tear- ing gallop. the guns leaping and hound- Ing over the frozen wounds as If they were alive. In àu iustant the section halted, and the guns were unlimhered at about 800 yards from Magny; in an- other a red glare was followed by a deafening report, and we heard the whiz of a shell that hurled Itself in the wall of a house and. exploding, scattered the debris In every direction. After half a dozen shots the fire of the French slackened In the village and became more active lower down the ravine. They were In full retreat. W formed In column of "Zuge" and, cir- cling around the village, swooped down on a small detachment separated from the rest, who made no resistance. Our prisoners numbered 3 officers and 57 men. We had trouble to keep the hussars from sabering them In revenge for the massacre of their comrades. W rode through the street at Magny, and a horrid sight It was, Incumbered with the dead bodies of GO or 70 men and horses. We hung on the rear of the French till they reached thelr lines, wheu cavalry and artillery came out to thelr support, and we bad to give It up. We did not return to the chateau, but crossed the Somme to find quarters in the villages heyond. That night we

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The Osceola Canoe, Gun and Bicycle club celebrated the anniversary of the destruction of the spanish fleet last Tues day evetting, providing supper and enter taiament in their room, consisting of music, boxing, fencing, recitations, etc .. the room he ug tastefully decorated. Valentine schaefer. one of the Brook. lyn's crew, sang a number of original se- lections, and his brother, Jacob Scalefer. who was a soldier of the Philippines, to- gether with Iljallmer Anderson, sang a pleasing selection. Jacob's spanish rifle attracted much attention. At 5 a m Fourth of July morning. the Stars and Stripes were raised to the tune of "Amer ica," with cheers for Schley, the naval hielo.

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Franklin Sentinel newspaper, 1900, Part 216

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Number of Pages: 436

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Publication date: 1900
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