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Show How a AVoniHii Died nt Knzcille. The following extract from the war correspondent of the J-'iaiikorter Z:i-tuiig Z:i-tuiig gives one of the most moving pictures pic-tures of the horrors of the present war which we have ever seen: ''J. had just quitted one scene of cruelty, when a new horror encountered encounter-ed me. From a house close behind me came the reports in quick succession succes-sion of two shots. I turned and saw a krankenlrager, in the exercise of his duty, fall convulsively to the ground. The wounded man he is carrying rolls with him to the dust. From that house proceeded the shots five, six Bavarians force a way iu; the door breaks under the blows of their buit-1 buit-1 ends. But the soldiers stand as if s;unned. On the threshold appears, armed with a double-barrelied gun, a tail woman; she may he fifty years old. disheveled gray hairs fall around a fine yes, a noble face. As sho regards re-gards the soldiers her features are distorted, dis-torted, she laughs wildly, the laugh of this woman is a fearful thing, ' nu., ("''.' I "Von are a beast !' calls out a doctor hurrying by. Her lautrh is silenced, a torrent of tears gushes down her face, she exclaims soitiy, but in tones of heart-rending pain : .Aon, t tins ijtoiisc, t ?s nti'ii ! I uus ai'z ossftwoi num n)fit-i; 'Sues act rts.t.'fs.sy(t m s dni.e jifs. T'-r-ntotuut't! Jc l ox-s cn rcnrrcLtwi. Si t ot'.? ne iiit lue- pus e'est utoi rjni vdvs Iwrat. ;.No, I aui a a wife. 1 am a mother ! You have slain my husband; you have slain my two chiidrcu. Kid me al.,0 ! I will thank you. If you will not kill me. then it is I who will kill you.j With the la -1 words the obi I wrath returns. Im again raises the gun. 'I ho soldiers have not undcrsto d her. They seek to avenge their coin rade and to prot.'-t themselves. Th" il'X-tor stands shutlderiti". like m-c.f. Before we can say a word the unh ippy woman liills. s'rurk by two bull t- 10 the br. a--'. 'L't h' r in qu;f.' c.iils ..in toe doeior pj the ;:,"ti. v. let s-cm not y t 1.1 Imvc s-o',.j ., ,., jr in e-' . 'Sil" h''-' !..- le-r h ,-!, : J I i.'T t'"0 .-u.i-.' Til.i: ui. '.:- an il.'i-pie-.-' 'II 1 n ;b" s.,;,j,.; -; - ; ;,. y tuin aw I turn luck with the dor. wei,-." il r vouir'' a..' 1 a':'. Vn'' II ! . .!'.- H- V li 1 V. I I..',.,; j,, ; bail I. aed iovolitMary ley i.j - i;:;t : " ' .'. 'file w I- . -h 'o Lit', e p.C- - irT ,- I';. ! I 1 . " ' ' , 1:0111 the he. 111. Her v. - ;-ri.w 'lini. ri-l - -he "la-pod lev hatpl twin le. r ir, .-..in iitavt. - a la-; -igii. ' |