The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-06-03

pal governments A fine road was built from
the capital to Porto Longone The traveller in
Elba finds to-day the Napoleonic museum Of
San MARITIME, and notes with keenest interest
the relics relating TO the brief ascendency of
the Emperor. His reign in the island extend
ed from the 4th Of May, 1914, TO the 23th %
February in the following year; then the Man
of Destiny went suddenly away
The temporary settlement made by the allies
in Paris was carried TO Vienna, in October,
1914, TO be there completed and confirmed by
congress of the Powers. Prince Metternich
presided. The discussions were in the ancient
manner, orthodox and dull-mere platitule.
and presidents. The winter months were con.
sumed in debates about technicalitics. The
real issue how the Past might be set up
again in Europe and tho Future prevented.
This profound business, so mcdiaeval 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 Eliza,
had landed at Cannes
Tho intelligence flashed north, south, east
and west. The cowarlly AMI pallid Past en-
throned in Paris smiled CHASTITY smile The
Court newspaper chronicled the landing at
Cannes thus: THE information comes to us
that that miserable a1vcnturer and brigand
Bonaparte has left the land Of Eliza and again
polluted the soil of France with his bloody
feet" The next notice of news from the south
given in the same organ thus: "Our intel
ligence is that the man Bonaparte has set out
from Cannes TO Lyons, and that certain turbu-
lent Adventures have joined him on the way"
On the following day the same paper said: sit
is now certain that General Bonaparte at the
head Of great and enthusiastic force is APP
preaching the city, on the Lyons road" On
the next morning the paragraph read thus:
"EIis Majesty the Emperor Napoleon entered
the city last night. and slept at the Tuileries"
This journalistic transcript of events alb
surd as 10 seems, was in striking conformity
To the facts. On the lst of March the imam
Bonaparto" did land at Cannes On the way
out from Elba the ship Zephyr, on which he
sailed had been accOstcd by the barquo In
constant, whose officer called out through his
speaking trumpet, saying, "HOw Is General
BonGparte?" Napoleon, being on deck and
hearing the call, himself took the trumpet OF
the Zephyr and answered, 1.-THE Emperor is
quito well thank you'll" At tho landing, when
an enthusiastic peasant came up in salutation,
Napoleon said to Bertrand: "Here is one re
crut Already"
The spectacle that ensued has no parallel in
history. The old soldiers of the Republic and
the Empire rose AZ If from the earth To greet
their commander. His progress en- route to
Paris became triumph. AT Grenoble the Off
GERS and soldiers Of the King joined him. At
Lyons the forces of tho Duke OF Orleans went
over to the Emperor. Ncy. who had accepted
the Restoration and become a peer OF France,
had promised the King to put Napoleon IN an
iron cage and bring him to Paris With a di.
vision Of the army no met his old commander
at Auxerre, forgot all his hateful oaths of al
legiance TO the Bourbons, and rushed into the
Emperor's arms.
For eighteen days the gathering tumult
swelled and broke into tempest OF enthu-
siasm. On the 10th of March. Napoleon enter
ed Paris, and the Restoration was blown like
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
three-cornered hat, and marble face Just as
of old.
From the 1st OF March TO Waterloo was pc
Rod of a hundred and ten days. History calls
IL the Hundred Days The iron purpose Of Ma
poleon, his tireless energy, and omniscient
perception, were never seen in such prodigious
eruption and glare AZ in this period of his
fate. The allies had become desperate The
whole world perceived that the Imperial re-
publtcanism of France, impersonated in Bona
parte and springing in the wind Of has sword,
must now triumph TO the borders Of Europe
or perish miserably under the heels of banded
kings. The two ideas which the parties of the
past and the future represented were irrecon.
cilable; they could no longer coexist. Either
must Napoleon and his dynasty be stamped
into the earth, or the old system OF political
society in Europe disappear forever.
The French people sprang to the call. In a
few weeks 367, 600 men. volunteers and con.
scripts, were thrown into the field. IL was the
last call TO arms, and France was drained
from her mountains TO the sea-drained not
only Of men and horses. but OF that moral
force and enthusiasm which constitute the
soul of war. Napoleon declared that with
few additional weeks in April and May of 1915
he would have drawn around his Empire a
rim Of brass and fire that no human power
could penetrate.
But he was Obliged TO take the field with in
complete preparation. The allied armies Of
England and Prussia, under Wellington and
Butcher, came on, tho one from Flanders, and
the other from the Rhine. It was the policy
OF Napoleon to prevent the union of his enc
mics. Tho 18th OF June found him ON the Bel
CLAN frontier with l24,0O0 men. On the next