Little Falls weekly transcript., 1895-08-30
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No. II or to take passengers to No 10.
going west? r. 5ss.
The biographer has little space to di-
gress here, but had Napoleon taken jose.
phine with him whenever he went into
battle it would nave been a great kind
ness not only to her, but to the historian.
II Napoleon and Josephine had fought
more against the common enemy, they
would have been on better peace foot
ing themselves. ss* ,sss
Suffice it to say here that insaftel
gears they were separated, childless, and
Josephine, who, by her intrigues, what
ever those may be, had made Napoleon
commander, was denied the solemn
joy Of sharing his glory and his humili-
alton. O.. 5
Napoleon was called LIE Petit Caporal
and was honored 100 years later by hav-
ing cigarette named after him, but toe
late to swell his proud, cold bosom il
the i'll ventilated sarcophagus which
holds all that is mortal Of the first en-
peror. @ IA
Can storied urn or animated bust 3
Or joyous paeans stir the noldering dust
or soothe the dull, cold ear Of death? E
No, indeed Ishould 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 honey
moon amid the rocks of the frozen
Maritime Aims with his frost bitten,
starving army. ~N#
Maritime indeed!' methinks I hear
Josephine remarking, with cynical
look at her marriage certificate, and also
at a bright new silver butter dish given
her by the nobility of France. "What an
attractive bride I must be, with one
husband passed on to spirit life and the
other eating his frozen victuals 5000
feet above timber line!' G5. K.
From these lofty heights the Little
Corporal, wearing large pair of ear
muffs, descended upon first, second,
third and fourth Austrian army, only to
drive them before him into corner and
wipe them out at his leisure. Peace fol
lowed-the peace Of Campo Formio ~ ~
and Lombardy and the Netherlands
were ceded to France. y NJ III. -. a. b
+" Space will not permit Of detail here
regarding the great battles Of Napoleon,
but we may say that with these victories
. the powers; at home saw at once that he
was no longer their servant, but the
peoples idol, and that one day he would
not only WELD the baton for France to
fiddle, but that Europe and the civilized
world must soon mark down their se-
curities when Napoleon said So
He proposed to conquer Egypt ana
capture the pyramids. He had the ide;,
that they would look. we'll in the front
yard of Versailles. He lived in the sad
die and shifted in every breeze the
warm blood Of his foe. %>
Such a life would bore me to death,
but just sec how different Napoleon was
He kept on fighting Christian or Mos
lem, Jew Or gentle, until the thirsty
yet blood clotted jaws Of insatiate war
were paralyzed, and with yet hungry
and staring eyes and lolling tongue the
cruel beast that had peopled continent
with widows and orphans, sowed the
valleys thick with graves and filed the
snowy canyons Of the Alps with un-
known dead paused at the evening of a
great disaster and found itself deserted
Yet Napoleon was feared even after
he was dead, and the English piled tons
upon tons Of granite over his poor clay
and bound these giant blocks Of stone
Is ~ cn
many years afterward the work of ex-
humation was almost impossible.
But why is it 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 to read the story Of one
poor, ambitious, broken heart that beat
and bled for him? 10 .Ttt45@. -. y
It is not the first case wherein de-
voted wife has kindled in her husband s
breast the fire Of ambition only at last
to be consumed by it and cast to the
four winds of heaven by his hand. 4.
l- Had Napoleon fought with the Mos
lem foe summers and spent his winters
in Paris with his wife the war would
have lasted longer and his domestic his
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