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Show Santiment in a Courl-Martlal. A court-mnrtial was held the other day at Chalons-sur-Marne on a youthful youth-ful deserter. The prisoner's father, a railway clerk in Paris, asked to speak for him. Entering the courtroom, court-room, the father saluted the judges in military fashion. He mad?! a speech urging the youth of his scn, the disgrace dis-grace that a 'iOng sentene-a would inflict in-flict upon the family its long record of self-sacrifice and honor and he alluded al-luded to his own military service, and fii .lly undertook to be responsible for his son for the next four years. The court listened with ifeference and then sentenced the sofi, who was liable li-able to death, to thr(je months' im- . prisonment. Paris Ms.tln. i |