Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-08-09

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real issue was how the Past might be set up
again in Europe and the Future prevented.
This profound business SO medieval and in.
ane, was still on at the end Of February, 1915,
when the startling news was borne to the Con-
gress that Napoleon Bonaparte. quitting Elba,
had landed at Cannes. T..
The intelligence flashed north, south, east
and west. The cowartlly and pallid Past en-
throned in Paris smiled CHASTITY smile. The
Court newspaper chronicled the landing az
Cannes thus: "The information comes to us
that that miserable adventurer and brigand
Bonaparte has left the island of Elba and again
polluted the soil Of France with his bloody
feet. " The next notice Of news from the south
was given in the same organ thus: sour intel
ligence is that the man Bonaparte has set out
from Cannes to Lyons, and that certain turbu
lent adventurers have joined him on the way
On the following day the same paper said: lit
is now certain that General Bonaparte at the
head Of great and enthusiastic force Is ap-
preaching the city, on the Lyons road." On
the next morning the Paragraph read thus:
ellis Majesty the Emperor Napoleon entered
the city last night, and slept at the Tuileries!"
This journalistic Transcript Of events, alb.
surd as 1t seems, was in striking conformity
to the facts On the LIST of March the ''man
Bonaparte" did land at Cannes. On the way
out from Elba the ship Zephyr, on which he
sailed, had been accosted by the Rarque In
constant, whose officer called out through his
speaking trumpet, saying, "How is General
Bonaparte2" Napoleon, being ON deck and
hearing the call, himself took the trumpet of
the Zephyr and answered, "The Emperor is
quite well, thank you!' At the landing, when
an enthusiastic peasant came up in salutation,
Napoleon said to Bertrand: "Here is one re.
cruit already!" :.5 y 81
The spectacle that ensued has no parallel in
history. The old soldiers Of the Republic and
the Empire rose as if from the earth to greet
their commander. His progress en- route to
Paris became a triumph. At Grenoble the off,
GERS and soldiers of the King joined him. At
Lyons the forces Of the Duke of Orleans went
over to the Emperor. Ney. who had accepted
the Restoration and become u peer Of France,
had promised the King to put Napoleon in an
iron, cage and bring him to Paris. With di-
vision Of the army he met his old commander.
at Auxerre, forgot all his hateful oaths Of al
iegiance to the Bourbons, and rushed into the
Emperor's arms. r. " .'''[lt 4. 9, Sss.F5
For eighteen days the gathering tumult
tswelled and broke into . tempest Of enthu-
2siasm. On the 10Th Of March, Napoleon enter
ed Paris, and the Restoration was blown like
q thistle-down out Of the city. Louis fed to
Belgium, and his Royalist followers returned
to England. The Congress Of Vienna rose sud-
denly from the consideration Of court etiquette
and regalia to find that their card board house
in Paris was gone, and that the Imperial Re-
atty was there again with the gray coat, and
threecornered hat, and marble face, just as
Of old. |5 a5f. ii, j. n, Il 4 u. IN 53
From the LIST Of March to Waterloo was Pc
Rod OF 8 hundred and ten days. History calls
it the Hundred Days. The iron purpose Of Ma
poleon, his tireless energy, and omniscient
perception, were never seen In such prodigious
eruption and glare as in this period Of his
fate The allies had become desperate. The
whole world perceived that the Imperial re-
nublicanism Of France impersonated In Bona