Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — A Subject for the Dramatist. [ARTICLE]

A Subject for the Dramatist.

A Uhlan of the Fourth Regiment, who deserted at the siege of Paris, fled to China, where he served in the army for fourteen years, and afterward became overseer in a manufactory in Alsace for ten, has just been seqtebced by the German Governmenfttrfive years’ penal servitude. This is not- the way to conciliate Alsatians, nor, indeed, any one else. It is harsh and cruel. It is conduct of this kind which inukea “Father of his people” to be so often taken for their stepfather. What ai story would Erckman-Chatrian (having crossed the frontier) have made of it! Think of the ten years of civil life, the man’s feeling ol security growing stronger and stronger, and then of the discovery (probably a betrayal), and his punishment for the almost forgotten crime?