Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-04

holds all that is mortal Of the first en-
perOr.
Can storod urn or animated bust
Back - the trachea WOO the heeting
breath?
Or joyous peans stir the moldering
dust
Or soothe the dull. cold ear Of death?
No. indeed, l should certainly say
not
The marriage Of Napoleon was fol-
lowed by one of the most brilliant cam
paigns in history. Eleven days after
. his wedding he went to complete his
honeymoon amid the rocks Of the frozen
Maritime Alps with his bitten.
starving army
Maritime indeed methinks l hear
Josephine remarking with a cynical
l0Ok at her marriage certificate, and
also az a bright new silver butter dish
I given her by the nobility of France.
What an attractive bride l must be,
with one husband passed on 10 spirit
I life and the other eating his frozen
/ victuals 5000 feet above timber lineH'
From these lofty heights the Little
I Corporal wearing a large pair of ear
I mufs descended upon a first, second,
third and fourth Austrian army, only 10
I drive them before him into a corner
/ and wipe them out at his leisure.
Peace follOwed-the peace of Campo
F0ruiO-and L0mbardy and the Meth
erlands were coded to France.
Space will not permit Of detail here
regarding the great battles of NapO-
. frrt rhn~ yt-frh fhe-a
victories the powers at home saw at
once that he was no longer their SER
want. but the peoples idol. and that One
day he would not only WELD the baton
for France 10 fiddle, but that Europe
and the civilized world must soon mark
/ down their securities when Napoleon
said so.
He proposed to conquer Egypt and
I capture the pyramids He had the idea
that they would look we'll in the front
/ ward Of Versailles. He lived in the
! saddle and shifted in every breeze the
/ warm blood of his foe.
Such q life would bore me 20 death
| but Just see how different Napoleon
was, He kept on fighting Christian or
| MCslem. Jew or gentle, until the
: thirsty vet bloOd-clOtted jaws of insa-
/ tiate war were paralyzed. and with yet
7 hungry and staring eyes and lOll!ng
/ tongue the cruel beast that had peo-
uled a continent with widows and or
phans. s0wed the valleys thick with
graves and filled the snowy canyons
of the Alps with unknown dead paused
at the evening of a great disaster and
found itself deserted
NnDo1nor rr-ac foorof .ay-ar .frar
he was dead. and the English piled
tons upon tons Of granite over his pooN
clav and bound these giant blocks Of
stone together with bands of iron. so
that many years afterward the work
of exhumatiOn was almost impossible.
But why is il that with all the glory
that surrounds the name of Napoleon
every human heart beats more in SYM
pathy with his wrOnged and wrong but
discarded wife and human interest
turns from the history of MarengO and
of Austerlitz 20 read the story Of one
poor. ambitious. broken heart that beat
and bled for him?
Il is not the first case wherein a de-
voted Wife has kindled In her husbands
breast the fire of ambition only at last
10 be consumed by il and cast to the
four winds of heaven by his hand
Had Napoleon fought with the Mos
lem foe summers and spent his winters
i'm Paris with his wife the war would
have lasted longer and his domestic
history would read smoother to-day.
But. alas, all great men have their
weak sides. Even Senator Hill loves
to steal away for an afternoon and just
gorge himself with base ball. Even
the President Of the United States, with
able counselors all about him and
every good influence Of home and
friends exerted in his behalf, viii no
doubt. in spite of it ALL go down to his
grave splitting on his bait with child
like confidence.
Even YOU yourself" said a friend
TO me the other day. behind that wida
and winning smile of yours yet have,
no doubt. Your own weak spot"
Yes. indeed. I exclaimed roguishly.
81 have. and YOU have put your finger
right on it the first time too. Il is right,
behind that wide. winning smile of
which YOU speak"
y j.