This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. WORK AT METZ--VIEWS ON WAR--FRENCH DICTIONARY-- DISCOVERY OF THE ROMAN WALL OF GLOUCESTER--- ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. UPON the outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1870, the Society of Friends raised a large sum of money, not only from its own members, but from others, for the purpose of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. WORK AT METZ--VIEWS ON WAR--FRENCH DICTIONARY-- DISCOVERY OF THE ROMAN WALL OF GLOUCESTER--- ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. UPON the outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1870, the Society of Friends raised a large sum of money, not only from its own members, but from others, for the purpose of assisting the non-combatant peasantry who were suffering in consequence. Members of the Society were invited to offer their services to go abroad to distribute food and clothing to these starving people, to meet the pressing wants of the moment. These volunteers were expected, if possible, to pay their own expenses; but if not, they were paid out of a private fund belonging to the Society, so that every penny subscribed should be used, without any deductions, for the purpose for which it was asked. John Bellows was one of these volunteers, or commissioners as they were named, and he left home for Metz, one of the chief centres of distress, for four weeks' absence, in November, 1870, five months after the birth of his eldest child. Most of the Friends who gave their help in this cause were, like himself, business men who could not spare more than a month away from thenown affairs; but so many volunteered that it was not difficult to keep up a succession of them for the many months that this work lasted. It was not without its dangers, for the condition of the region in and about Metz after Bazaine's surrender, just before the arrival of the Friends, was so insanitary that out of the twelve 16 WORK AT METZ delegates who were there when John Bellows arrived, or who came while he was there, eight were ill (five from small-pox.) One of these died, and it was John Bellows' painful duty to attend her funeral on the last day of his stay at Metz. At first...
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Used-Acceptable. Ex lib hardback. Edited by his wife. Brown cloth with gilt; frontis portrait. Ex college library-stamps, remains of labels, etc. hand-written detailed family tree with notes pasted to front end paper & written on verso of front free end paper. Untrimmed page edges a little 'dusty'; board corners worn; spine discoloured, with wear at head & foot.
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