Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-03

all the rest of the world, Liberty
Equality, Fraternity" They had
looked down into the depths of the
haunted streets and through the de-
moniac gloom had seen, dripping with
the life current Of bleeding France
the midnight tumbrils of the Revo!u-
ton. Did it brutalize them? Can
the rending of mans chains brutalize
him? Ii we must concede that the
sacrifices were unnecessarily great, we
should be equally prompt to grant
that the French soldier of Napoleon
time was thoroughly imbued with
those virtues which made him con-
scious of the importance of the indi.
vidual and his responsibilities to his
fellow man. Such were the men who
knew how to behave with courteous
dignity in the land of their enemies.
The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring
1t was this reflection that promptea
Goethe's mother to bless the advent
of Napoleon; for, said she, If he had
not appeared we would have slept like
clods as We hitherto had DONE" She
was not the only German who viewed
the matter thus. The time bad for
ever gone by when gilded caste could
bowl the peasant under its carriage
wheels, and then flay him for obstruct-
ing the highway. The world can now
regard Napoleon with some degree OF
composure, and not altogether as q
genius Of violence. 1t can now con-
template him in repOse, and see him
as he reins his horse on the mountain
road to listen with pensive attention
to the slowly tolling bell OF the distant
Alpine village.
Before leaving Mr.. Weygel's hospi-
tality, expressed desire to visit the
battlefield of Austerlitz. He promptly
responded that he would give me a
letter of introduction to an officer at
Krenowitz, who in turn would give
me one to the cOmmandant At the
Castle OF Austerlitz, and so l should
be we'll cared for.
1t might be we'll to make brief re.
view of the immediate events which
led up to the great conflict. The
battle was fought on Dec. 5. 1905.
We need not 60 far into the causes.
No one thinks of asking why Napol.
con fought. 1t were like trying to
weigh the motives Of monomania.
From all over Southeastern Europe
his widely separated divisions were
moving up to either join him or to
form the great front of two hundred
miles from east to west, which, in
case OF disaster, was 10 serve as his
line of retreat. He had called his
Italian army to the north aud it came
sweeping on. Ney had driven his
enemies from the Tyrol and was rapid
ly reaching sustaining distance OF his
master. To Napoleon's enemies his
movements seemed haphazard and his
management without aim; but with
in q week, to their terror, they saw the
meaning of his scheme, for his armies
were in such relative positions that in
one day he could add 10 his force fifty
thousand men; in two days, seventy
thousand; in three days, eighty
thousand, and he was ready to strike.
His foes had supposed that they were
impregnably entrenched and fortressed,
and 60 they were, as fair first in
ference. But now they must come
out and meet him, and to their in
creasing alarm, they found that they
could no longer act in concert. 1t
was now the turn OF the allies to desire
time, while Napoleon chsfed for &C.
ton. A continent was between him
and his home; winter was hurrying
on; already snow was in the air and
ice had formed on lake aud stream.
A blow must be struck and it must
be 80 swift and sure that his adversar-
les shall forget Trafalgar and remem.
Der only their own calamities. But
how can he bring it about? This
one mind pitted against Prussia, Aus
tris and Russia, now proves itself
"tbe cube Of human faculties" He
seems capable OF everything, and OF all
things, for which men strive.
It was with these thoughts that
landed at the little station of Kreno.
witz, ON the road to Brunn. The old
battle field is about seven miles from
the Castle of Austerlitz, and it was
desired to visit the battle field first.
The officer apologized for not furnish
ing me conveyance, his family being
away with bis carriage. He sent q
man to find q conveyance. 1t came,
and it was an object At which to mar.
vel. 1t had evidently been fine once.
away back in the legendary past, when
springs were unknown. Its owner
received his instructions, as to where
to drive, in the Czech tongue from the
officer, who repeated them to me in
German, and over the hills we went.
His horses were beauties and he sent
them over the road with a reckless
energy that seemed born of q spirit
malign. But his old telega of wagon
was an instrument of torture COM
pared with which the rack were . bed
Of roses. tried to keep it out of my
mind, but alas! it was impossible.
Wonderfully made was that old We.
hicle--4n the brief intervals between
tortures l made haste to admire its
cunning workmanship. Its body was
made OF wicker.work, woven in q
variety Of designs and in many curve
that was pleasing to the eye; but not
an appeal did it make to any other
department Of human anatomy as II
went hurting over the rough Morav'
ian road.
- We began to descend and the driver
pointed with his whip to great trench
marked by wooden crosses. 1t was q
trench mentioned by the officer, and
in it had been buried five thousand
Russians. The hills formed vast am.
phitheater, at the bottom OF which
about five miles away, stood village
upon rounded elevation. Its spires
and trees aud white walls made q
pleasing picture. To that village the
driver seemed TO be steering. Having
q suspicion that it might not be the
goal was seeking, ventured q ques
tion in German. when to my extreme
discomfort learned that he could moi
speak . word of anything but Czech
1 had hoped 10 get TO Vienna that
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