The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-01

h,up ahsr exAmsa~s w4lI - sss~9
In y h~s. tTsS. . uew war
wus e~xa sAe KIax sv Sass@s-
F~r6snaad So ~. whe Aaa zaFxAs4
10 Euzzw vtsk a. t9ea O. re-@ssAalAss-
sH' The Pope Thts eass~a Fvases 10
sassAatly declare war sxaaass Sssles.
awlso axAsnas sAyalatk. o. he PRE-
isxf that The rulers OF sacss eoun-
tries lad e~~a II secrws eorv~seoaa-
sncs wssh certain saenass on fvanee.
Gen Joubevf forced sasalata 70 give
up PtedEoas O. the stA o. D~oez-
f bcT. Gcn. ChAmplozss defeated The
Seapolitans undsr Mack darsa' the
same month. al OF the .Ssa ev IAa-
nary. 1893. proclaimed the PartAeao-
plan republic These successes Ia
/ Italy wher~ France had awtsu erected
Tuscany into q r~gahlte. w-ro loss
~hen Ia the bcgins'ng or the ~Ar
with Russia an Austria n March.
1893. when the Arcadaks Charles de-
E feAted the French uadsr JoardAa ~
suAbia on the stst ov March. an at
/ Stobach on the :sih. whilst kray de-
! featcd Scherer 81 PAstrvngo II italy
/ on the 2etk os March. at verono on
the 3o;h. an al MarEuano ca AeFsl
I 5th. Morean succeeded scherer 10
command ov the Frenea forces: bu;
( Mcdonald. who after the arrest oT
Championet commanded the Preach
at Naples. retrcated into Upper Italy.
There he fought the Russians and
AustriAns. who opposed his march to
Mantua. but wuE forced TO Join Nor
can with what remained ov hiz army.
+ The French again measured strength
with the Russians an Aus;rians .;
the battle ov Novi on the 9Th ov Au-
gust, bein defeated Both armies
weer badly shattered. however. an
each retreated TO n strong position
for a rest Here the Russians aa'
Austrians decided to separate. Russia
sendin' her full force into s~itzsr-
land for war purposes. for hit seems
that war an the spoIls oS war were
rather attractive on those days. pro-
vided they could get the spoils. Gen.
korsakow wux awlready in Switzer-
land with n strong Russian force.
Gen. Masena defeated the Russians
an Austrians both. for the Swiss
were great filters At home. This hap
pened at Zurich on the 25th an 2sth
ov September. an by thtH victory
Masena held hin position upon the
, boundaries ov Germany an Ssttzer-
land. an prevented the Archduke
!. Charles from crossln' the Rhine. On
the 9th ov September an the 9Th or
October Bruno defeated the Russian
and English trops who had landed IN
the Netherlands. Meanwhile the
French directory and legislative bod
les at Paris could not agree upon any
policy an things were goin' from bad
: TO worse.
Bonaparte had nov re;arued to
Paris Actin with Director Sieyes.
Bonaparte occupied the legislative
, hall with trops on November 9Th.
which wuz the 18th oV "T3rumaira." ="
, accordin' to the French almanac.
. Sieyes and Roger Ducos were named
, az consuls till the new constitution
, could be forced upon France. which
wuz on the 18th oy December. Gen.
the first political offs he had held.
Cambaceres and Lebrum were made
, second and third consuls. So France
, wuZ TO try another experiment In try
in TO become g real republic. that or
, rale by a committee oy three. assist
ed by two legislative bodies. the Sen
, ate to contain eighty members elect
, ed for life, an the lower House SUE
to contain three hundred members.
Between the two legislative bodies
they had a tribunal ov one hundred
members, which must hev proven a
veritable "fifth-wheel." Hit liz prob
able that practically awl republics
: now in existence hev made the mis-
take ov bein' top-heavy with leglsla-
tive material. IL the United States
had but one Senator from each State.
; about fifty. an only. half az many
Congressman. hit liz possible that they
would not waste 30 much valuable
time In hot air" tournaments. One
man rule, an one-woman rule were
unsatisfactory. But In a case like
this hit would be a great economy In
time an advantageous In many ways
!. to hev fewer legislators. On hun
dred an fifty men. fifty Senators an
> one hundred IN the lower House
could, and probably would. accom-
plish more in the way ov real iegisia-
tiou than two or thrSN times AZ many.
I doubt IL even the United States to-
day contains az many as Ave hundred
men capable ov holdin' down q Con-
OCCASIONAL Job in a ip-top style.
though we hev probably fifteen mil
lions ov men who imagine themselves
capable. But the advantage ov q re-
public, such az hit wuz. did not fail
10 appear quickly in France. Many
: thousands ov emigranfs who had
lately left the country 20 try their