THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
June t6, 1898
7
T Inn hot mnn
mer evening
in July, 171)5,
and tlm net
tine Niin I
loon ' t Mil
lenly through
the rolling
smoke th 11 1
cove r n the
held of Kim
t-rwdorf.
Tint fiercest
battle of the
Nevi'ti Yearn'
war hn been
fotig h t an l
lost; and for the third time since the
(rreat struggle began the cause of
TrusHla seems wrecked beyond re
demption. Of 48,000 men who fathered around
the standards of Frederick the (Jreat
thin morning barely 3,000 remain to
gether. Marshal Noltlkof! Is scribbling on a
drumhead his triumphant dispatch to
the Fmpres Kll.abeth: "Vour majes
ty's enemies are anlhllated," and
Frederick himself, with despair in hi
heart anM a liand clenched convul
sively upon the little phial of poison
which is it 1m lust resource against ad
verse fortune, in galloping wildly
hither and thither in a fruition effort
to rally hid beaten host.
Could anyone have shown to the de
spairing king at that bitter moment a
vlalon of his "annihilated" Prussia us
she should be a century later, with
Russia courting her alliance, and
France and Austria prostrate at her
feet, he would have been sorely
ama.edj but for the time the greatness
of her present peril hldus the splcn
dor of her eomlng dellverence.
And well it may; for one glance at
the field of battle mi dice to show that
all Is loht.
The batteries stormed no Irresistibly
thin morning are once more crowded
with white-coated Austrian grena
diers. The dark blue mass of the l'ruavlan
column is ebbing back in a thousand
scattered streams like a broken wave,
the long white lines of the Austrian
battalions overlapping It like wreaths
of spray; while gray and shadowy
in the background loom tho vast
masses of the Uusslan Infantry, rally
ing for the second time with the stub
born courage of their race to victory
and to vengeance.
Last In the field, as the swarming
destroyers eame raging on, stand two
battalions of Prussian guards-a little
islet of stout manhood In that roaring
ae a of ruin
They are prepared to die, if die they
must; but at least they will sell their
lives dearly. And so they do.
Loudon's dragoons on the right, Itat
tliyui) ill's hussars- on the left, storm In
upon them like a whirlwind, but all in
vain.
Falling fast on every side, the In
domitable handful still cbmtj sternly
up to make up good their impregnable
square.
Firm as ever looms out the line of
grim faces behind their hedge of steel,
from which hursts ever and uiiu the
flash and crack of the fatal musketry;
while all iirouud the guy dresses of
the splendid horsemen swept down by
Meorea at every volley strew the tram
pled earth far and wide.
"Courage, children!" cried the
cheery voice of the Prussian colonel.
"Hold out but a little longer, and our
king Is safe."
Hut such a struggle is too unequal
to last.
For now the Russians coming up in
their mighty full upon the devoted
square, and break it by shear weight
of overwhelming numbers; and now
it Is all one frantic hurly-burly of
hand-to-hand light, one welter of stab-
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officer cheerily, holding up the flat
tened bullet.
"What's yonr name?"
"Captain llasfeldt of the th dra
goons, if it please your majesty."
"Good," says the king. "I shall not
forget you, Ckdoncl llasfuhtt. if Prus
sia and I survive this day. Come, gen
tlemen, there Is nothing more for us
to do here."
And turning his horse ho rides
hastily olt tho lost battlefield.
Years have come and gone, and the
'Seven Years' war is over, and Prussia
Is safe, and Frederick, busied with tho
overwhelming labor of replacing the
ruin which the great struggle lias
wroughtrebuilding burned villages,
replanting ravaged fields, bringing
order out of disorder, extending na
tioniil trade, promoting national edu
cation falls to notice the careworn
look and Increasing shiibbiness of a
certain Colonel llasfeldt, who is on
duty at the palace of Potsdam.
And in truth the veteran's look
may well be anxious and his uniform
failed.
Scunty as are his means, he has nar
rowed them still more by usslstlng hi
old comrades In their need, and now'
trouble after trouble has fallen upon
hlm.t
Money Is short, his wife is 111, and
he, In order to supply his wants ha
sold or pawned one by one what few
valuables he possesses,
At last nothing Is left but the old
sliver watch which has been his com
panion in so many buttles, and over
it he hesitates long, for he knows that
the methodical king likes to see every
officer with his watch about I1I111, and
he is fond of asking the hour.
Hut money must be had, and the
watch has to go,
However, the chain I still left, and
In order to keep it in Its place, the
veteran attaches to It the flattened
bullet of Kunersdorf, which he still
preserve as a relic.
Thus equipped, and with the same
stately bearing as ever, but hiding a
very sore heart beneath his torn uni
form, the old man goes up to the
palace,
Aow, as ill-luck will have it, just as
he come up the steps the chain get
loose and drags out the bullet along
with It.
He puts it hastily back, hoping that
no one ha noticed It; but unhappily
there is at that moment looking out of
an adjoining window the very last
man whom he would have wished to
see hiina French wit who is on a
visit to the king.
Fond of mischief as a monkey, and
rejoicing In every opportunity of mak
ing other people look foolish, the ma
licious jester look upon this involun
tary betrayal of poverty as a first-rate
Joke, and hurries off to tell the king.
"Your majesty," says he, "when
Colonel llasfeldt comes in just ask him
what time it Is, und you'll see some
thing comical."
The king' looked rather stern, per
haps feeling conscience-stricken at the
sudden remembrance of his old ser
vant's careworn face, and the little
notice he had lately taken of him.
Hut just at that moment In came the
iohuiel.
"Are you not a little late tills morn
ing, col nel'.'" asked Frederick. "Out
with your watch, und let 1110 see what
time it is."
The old soldier saw in a moment by
tlio Frenchman's spiteful grin the
snare that had been laid for him, but
he faced the trial like a man.
Without hesitating a moment he
pulled out the llattened ball, and
holding it up to the king, said quietly:
' This watch, sire, keeps but one
time it tells me that I must be ready
at any hour to die fur our majesty."
Frederick shot u glance at the mali
cious r renciiiiiau, he lore which the
latter recoiled as from a blow, and
then taking off his watch, said witli a
look of emotion rarely seen on that
Iron face:
'Take this, my old comrade, as t he
gift not of your king but of your
friend, ami tomorrow you shall see
that I have not forgotten the field of
K unersdorf."
And sure enough the very next
morning toionel iiasteiiit received a
pension which made hlin comfortnbl
for life.
( liliitHMi ami Ctit lirimclii'.
One of the strangest superstitions
nf Chhiiiiiifii Is the awe with which
they regard the cockroach. .lohn
holds the ugly black pet as some
thing sacred, dunning that It is eee-
iillv f.ivuri'd by the gislsand a partie-
ulur favorite of the great joss The
ni"-. I iiiif'M tmisle iiii-li.i that can be
fit! u t hliuiintiii l to step 011 u eiH'k'
nuich, liist uitU isions nf terrible
iMist.r and 1 ul.iuillu s ri lu f uv
h iu In some Itisttuircs the siiper.tl
li Hi lisis tit-e It ii' mil t'i prey on
1 1. mill Is of the crleti' to dri.e
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