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DRAMATIC.
with a resolve, he goes out to seek work, which he obtains. We next see him an honest workman, respected by his companions, working at the bench and receiving the wages due to Him for his weekly work, fully carrying out the text: "A little child shall lead them."
G-. D. 1679. EPISODE OP THE PARIS COMMUNE. Price, $35.28.
Approximate Length, 294 feet.
A touching illustration of the loyalty of purpose as conceived by a youth in France. The desire for freedom and liberty innate in every individual and in the realization of which we see many different, and in some instances unique, endeavors throughout the universe, is illustrated in a very pathetic manner.
The opening scene is that of the kitchen and living room of a French widow. Seated at the table eating his breakfast is her only son. At this moment a detachment of soldiers passes the door, and the boy jumps to his feet and takes up a bottle of milk, the delivery of which he assumes as the cause for his sudden departure. The anxious mother watches her son until a bend in the road takes him from view.
The next scene shows the efforts of a number of men building a barricade in the street to resist an attack by the soldiers. The men order him back to his home, but pushing his way forward, he passes through the incomplete fortifications and runs down the street until at a corner of an intersecting street he comes upon another group of men, who are fleeing from the soldiers and shooting as they ruh. Several of the men are killed and lie out in the street, and the remnant run for the protection of the barricade and the assistance awaiting them there. Our young hero is now with these men. The soldiers close upon them, fire a volley, and the b' y now picks up the gun of a fallen man and is about to shoot when the soldiers vault the barricade and with another volley kill almost the entire number.
The gun is knocked from his hands by an officer and he is about to be shot to death when he pleads to be permitted to return the bottle of milk and say farewell to his mother.
This is granted, and we see in the next scene the pale faced boy entering his home and taking an affectionate leave. Walking backwards out of the room, he throws a kiss to his mother, and then darts back to the last scene of action. As he reaches there the last of the rioters is standing up against the wall with bared chest and shot to death. As the man falls the boy jumps quickly to his place, and the officer orders the men to take aim, but before the command to fire is given his mother rushes to the front, and with her form shields the boy. The officer orders the soldiers to
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