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Show anurous oh Tint WELD y Incident of the Time WJisn Of. CUf mans. Ware PcBtilno' CJsitr r brad City eft Paris. One day in Dccomber 1ho soldim of tho Sixty-ninth battalion, in which sovcral artists wero enrolled received orders to guard' tho bridgt at Suresncs. They- hud-taken nj their position thero when somo ont remnrked, "It is Christmas eve,' and tho young men?" silddcnl) aroused on that cold winter night gave themselves up tordreams of flu beautiful festivities of thoir child-, hood. An air of melancholy teervfldci1 the whole camp The clock strucl 12 and a voice 'cried "roWnight!' Then a soldier of' singular heigh' left tho battalion, adrflilccjjtpwan-tho adrflilccjjtpwan-tho plain audi with a jflfiificcn voice sang tho ifoel.of fmb A' the soldiers lookup thod?'7U8 and tho song rcvivcdl'theif "spiriti. Oi tlin other side otHe Seino tho Ocr-mans Ocr-mans struck up 'Luther's hymn b) way of response." Then tho firmr was renowed.'. ' The enemy's bullets .wKjch thi timo spared tho unexpected singci wero to strike him dead 2J5 day later in tho fight at BuzentoT. Hi w.u? one of, tho painters of tho company. com-pany. His amo was Henri Hcg-uault Hcg-uault and his pointings to-day arr ai"ortg tho finest in tho Bouvre.- I'ctit Parisien. |