Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-07-20

arms and insignia of the foes. The
Imqerator himself, in splendid char
lot, drawn by four white horses, was
clad in a gold-embroidered robe and a
Powered tunic. His brows were en-
circled with a wreath of Delphic
laurel. In the same chariot with him
was one of his friends, holding over
him an Etruscan crown, ornamented
with precious jewels. In the process
sion there were also sacrificial oxen,
priests, singers, testers and the fet-
tered kings, princes and mobiles,
doomed to dungeon in the Manner
tine prison.
The greatest homage ever paid to a
woman soldier was enthusiastically
bestowed by the French populace
upon Joan of Arc. After she had
proclaimed to the French army at
Blois her divine mission to save
France from the depressing English,
she came to Orleans and was given
the leadership of the army defending
the city. This was in 1929 A few
days after She arrived the army under
her leadership made a crucial strike
against the English forces and raised
the siege which had so long disturbed
the city and the whole of France. Up
on her return into the city, every
church bell in Orleans rang out it's
gratulatory peal. Bonfires were
kindled in every available place, and
rejoicing that knew no bounds prevail
ed throughout the entire surrounding
country. The whole population
thronged around the little woman
whom they thought had delivered
them from virtual bondage, pouring
forth blessings upon her. Men, women
and children strove with might and
main to catch the hem of her garment,
or, If no more were possible, to merely
tip their fingers upon her banner or
her charger. they looked upon her
and adored her as though she were an
angel from heaven.
The greatest triumphal home-com-
ing of French general was Ma
poleon's return in 1914 from his few
months of captivity upon the island
of Elba. When he landed upon the
coast with his small army of LOO
men, which had clandestinely followed
him from his place of exile, the en-
peror little knew whether he was re-
turning to a dishonored grave or
to the throne which only a short while
before he had been forced to resign.
But the time was ripe for the read
vent of this fascinating ruler. Peo-
pie focked to his banners from every
quarter. Near GrenOble, some sold
diers of the king had been stationed
across a bridge to await the approach
of Napoleon with imperative orders to
shoot the moment he should appear.
But when "the little corporal" appear
ed, dressed in his old, familiar garb,
and said, LET him that has heart now
Kill his emperor" the soldier to a
man disobeyed their orders and joined
the forces of Napoleon.
And thus it was throughout his
march to the capital. BY the time he
reached Lyons he had gained enough
supporters to make his triumph in
evitable The last blow was dealt
the royalist party when the army of
on the outskirts Of Paris. The king
himself had already fed from the city,
and after the battle Napoleon drove
to the gilded gates of the
Tuileries. His advent was received
by the military and the populace with
expressions of enthusiastic accIama-
tions.
When he reached the palace the
streets around it had already become
so crowded that movement along them
was next to impossible AS Napoleon
attempted to enter the gates of the
Tuileries the crowding was so fierce
that the emperor had to cry out, My
friends, you sthe me- His aides
de-camp then picked him up and car
ried him on their shoulders up the
grand staircase and to the royal apart
ments.
Little more than a year after Napo-
Icons entry into Paris, another con-
queror was received with almost as
great acclaim. This man was Well
ington, and he was Napoleon's con-
Queror. France, Notwithstanding
that she had been vanquished, seemed
to breathe easier now that Napoleon's
power was broken. In Paris, crowds
followed Wellington whenever he
went and there was extraordinary
and universal excitement whenever he
People jostled and hustled
each other in their frantic eagerness
to see the great hero many of them
almost kissing the ground at his
horses feet.
In 1915 Wellington returned to Eng
land The memory of Waterloo was
still green in John Bulls heart and he
gave the duke a royal welcome, al
though the features OF it we're not ex-
traordinary.
And Dewey will be the next. His
will be the first triumph" ever
awarded to an American. 1t will not
be married by the thought, as was the
case when Alexander entered Babylon