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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
End of the Revolution

\ There, with his 'whif of grapeshot"
the little artilleryman really brought
the great revolution to an end. It's
gigantic task was done. Royalty and
the privilege of the aristocracy had
been abolished, the lands of the mobiles
and the church had been divided among
the peasants, and the alien armies of
meddling monarchs had been routed
and driven from French soil The peo-
pie longed for repose and a peaceful
adjustment to the new conditions.
But scheming politicians and plotting
Bourbons would not let the republic
rest and once more Paris was threat
ened with an uprising. The govern
ment of the day naturally enough
turned to the friendless young officer
out of job.
The attempted revolution came one
day In early October in the year 1895.
1t was by no means ragged mob
which moved through the streets to-
ward the old royal riding school
where the Hotel Continental now is
on the 18th Vendemiaire, according to
the republican calendar. This Bourbon
and revolutionary uprising might prop
erly be- called a broadcloths mob. but
1t really was not aamob at all. 1t was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
T2E H4zzzE ATzAz e1zy 0rzzz C1vfaW 0r5ZK0W lNDMo)

fer from the artillery, the chief reminded
him of his youth but he returned with
a home thrust. "On the battlefield" he
informed the desw soldier, men age
quickly
He stayed in the city regardless of or
ders, losing in speculation what little
money he had Then he began to think
once more of becoming a writer instead
of maker of history. Finally however,
he contrived to so over the head of the
bureaucrat who had assigned him to the
infantry and gained the attention of more
powerful men in Thea government. The
dream of the orient. which was long to
haunt him, came to him now and he in
duced the authorities to order him to
Turkey for the purpose of training and
Strengthening the army of the Sultan
as a possible ally of France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
Out of a lob

Napoleon was released from Fort Care
to meet troubles no less annoying. He
got on the nerves of the aged General
Scherer in command of the Army of ITALY,
who reported that while he was all right
as an artillery officer he had too much
ambition and was too much given to in
triguing habits. Probably to get rid of
him he was sent off on an expedition
organized to take Corsica from the Eng
lish, but this proved to be as ridiculous
failure as all his other Corsican cam
paigns.
Next he was ordered to join the in
fantry in the Army of the west. but his
training caused him to despise the in
fantry, and he came to Paris to lodge
a protest, bringing with him a staff of
two young officers. Junot and Marmont.
When he demonstrated against his trans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
Napoleon's Appeal To SAGE
Himself From The GulllOtine

suspended my duties under and
Since the of the
attached its principles? Have not been
in soldier
against sacrificed home abandoned
and
oppression which surrounds and of the
An evi-minded desire
them gladly little for it, and have often weaied
only it still be of
try bear the burden with couageWrten while pr
oner n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28

Mr.. Morgan sketches today the
scenes along his journey in 'The Path
of Napoleon" from Toulon to Paris,
and describes the dramatic turning
point of Napoleon's career, when in
an hour the friendless Corsican youth
made himself the master Of the capi-
tai of France and really brought the
French revolution to an end.
The story is complete in itself, and
readers who missed the earlier
sketches will find this none the less
ENJOYABLE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28

an army whose main force consisted
of no less than 10000 or 10000 armed
and drilled troops of the National
Guard, which was the local militia OF
that day and was in control of the
plotters against the government
Napoleons forces, on the other hand,
numbered only 5000 or 5000 soldiers. or
regulars. as we would say but they
had the cruel advantage of artillery,
which a certain Major Murat had been
ordered to bring to the city in the
night.
AS the insurrectionary troops drew
near their goal from various directions
they were met always at the vital point
by the much smaller but more soldierly
forces Of regular and veteran troops.
Everywhere they We're confronted by a
plan of campaign in which nothing had
been left to chance. Napoleon had treat
ed the square mile of city streets sur
rounding the Tuileries like a chess board,
and the defensive forces had been posted
at all the vantage points by a master Of
strategy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
"zLE NZzzW on H0R5zR9CY IND iNo1

just how Toulon should be taken, the
lean and sallow captain of artillery rose
to dissent. Stepping to a military map.
he placed his finger on a point of land
at the mouth of the harbor, several
miles from the fortifcations of the
town, and said in truly Napoleonic
epigram, 'Toulon is there!'
This was only like selecting some point
down at the Narrows and saying that
in a military sense New York is there.
1t was precisely the thing that George
Washington learned in his siege of Bos-
ton. IS years before. After hanging
around the back door of the town for
many months he saw at last that strateg-
ically Boston was not at Boston, but at
Dorchester Heights, which commanded
it's front door or harbor entrance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
In a Prison Cell

AS l pursued 1.-THE Path of Napoleon"
away from Toulon, l found it did no.
lead straight to glory. On the contrary,
it led to prison and into the shadow of
the guillotine.
AS the youthful brigadier passed along
the lovely shore of the Riviera on his
various missions to and fro, he looked
up the narrow passes, the open gates in
the great, high walls of the Maritime
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28

Just then detachment of baggy-trous
cred soldiers, their guns over their shoul-
ders, appeared from behind US, and, divid-
ing, marched on either side of the car
riage. Can it be as bad as that -, was
asking myself when 1 was reassured to
see the troopers turn off the road just
ahead of me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
His First Victory

On a wild, stormy night in December
nearly two months after Napoleon's ar
rival on the scene, when the wind was
bowling and blowing the rain in sheets
and the lightning cracked and flashed
in the darkness, his plan of campaign
was put to the supreme test. Against
the advice of the commissioners and
notwithstanding the fears of most OF
the officers the French made dash at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
Paris.

II STOOD by the inner harbor of Tou-
lon. where the Bonapartes, banished
- from Corsica. landed on the shore of
! France in the month of June, 1793 with
hardly more than the poor clothes they
wore and without door opening to well
come them. Looking forward along "The
Path of Napoleon not far, but only
across a mile or so of water l saw the
grassy ramparts of La seyne, where I'M
seen by the penniless fugitive Opportun-
! ity waited for him.
If "Fhe Path of Napoleon" had ended
beneath the waves of the Mediterranean
in his flight from Calvi to Toulon, the
Corsican historians could have dismissed
him in line as a rashly importunate
young man who died at four and twenty
after having failed in every undertaking
whether with the pen or the sword. A
prolific author without a publisher, SOL
dier for nearly eight years who in the
midst of great wars never had been in
battle. Failure was writ large on his
gloomy brow as he stepped ashore at
Toulon and led his mother and brothers
and sisters to official headquarters, where
they threw themselves on the charity of
the government.
AS refugees from the enemies of France
the family received rude shelter in a
village on the side of Mt Faron, which
rises back OF Toulon. The gossips of his
tory say they slept at first on straw
piles and cooked in a broken pot the raw
rations issued to them by the commits
sary. Afterward they were installed in
comparative comfort under a peasants
roof at a village on the shore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
"The Man on Horseback

When the insurrectionsts from beyond
the Seine set out to join their allies
across the river, they found the bridges
held by batteries When those on the
same side of the river with the Tuileres
turned into any street leading toward
the palace they found themselves looking
into the mouths of cannon.
They paused while their leaders sought
to talk over the situation with their ad-
versary. But there was no one to talk
with. Only the cannon were there to
speak for the government. For hours
the two forces stood stock still, facing
each other. Plainly it was clear case
of checkmate and by rights the game
should have gone to the government with
out another move.
So 1t might happily have been if some
one had not fired a wild shot late in the
afternoon from an upper window of
house in the Rue st. Honore. close by
the Church of st. Roch, where rivai DE-
tachments had fronted each othsf 81 Is
PAGES nearly all day. That shot vas fe
lighted match in the powder. anc fps
illade Instantly followed, the echo Di
which, floating through the stree wos
the signal for an outbreak at ofle
points.
Soon the cracking reverberat on
the muskets were lost in the awf lorni
of the cannon, which shook the windows
of Paris. The musketry wavered Fditc1
for moment and then fled In wild
rout In an hour it was all ends with
200 dead lying in the streets. WHsn tins
bells in the towers of the great 4pitai
struck IL at midnight their pea rang
over a city as quiet as a couli ysde
after thunder shower.
After years of turbulence Pa had
met her master in Napoleon. Sne had
seen him here, there and everywiete in
, that crowded hour. his long hair falling
over his shoulders, his thin boyish figure
wreathed in the smoke of his cannon. bur
not yet knowing even the name Of NE
mysterious stranger, she spoke q him
only as "the man on horseback
(Copyright, 1918. by James Mo saDl
Next Sunday, Napoleon in Low Nas.
Morgan will tell the story of the straitge
mating of two islanders from the room
in which they were married and from
their honeymoon street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
THE MAN ON
HORSEBACK
Dates and Events


!. June 1892, age 23-Landed at Toulon.
June 25 to September 10, 1898, age "a
With army of Italy.
September 16, 1795-Arrived at Toulon.
October Is, 17S3-Chief Of battalion.
December 10, 1793-Fall OF Touon.
December %, 1793-Brigadier general of
artillery.
February 6, 1794-with army of Italy,
July q, 1794-Fall of Robespierre.
August L. 1794-Napoleon arrested.
August 20, 1794-Age %, released from
prison.
March Il, 17a5-sailed on Corsican ex-
pedtion.
May 2 1795-Ordered to army of west
+ May 10, 1795-In Paris to protest.
August 81, 1795-Age 2G with Topographic
cal bureau
September s, 1795-His Italian plan
adopted
September To- 1795-Ordered to Turkey.
September 10. 1795-Name erased from
list OF generals.
October >. 17s5-The fight in the streets
of Paris
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
The Battery of Men
Without Fear.

That was enough, and volunteers
swarmed into the perilous place. Their
commander daily showed his contempt
for danger. Once while he was dictat-
ing a report to a sergeant a shell burst
on the earthworks above their heads
and covered with dirt the undried ink.
The soldier only smiled at this close
call and coolly said as he shook the
sheet: Good, 1 shant need any sand
to blot this" The admiring commander
recognized a man after his own heart
and in that minute Sergeant Junot had
bound himself for life TO the fortunes
Of Napoleon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
Like the Siege of Boston

When a council of war was held to
listen to some lengthy instructions from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28
Mr.. MORGAN at TauInn

When L went to Toulon l verified Ma
poleons startling announcement that
Toulonl is not at Toulon. I found it was
at the next station, La Seyne, a busy
ship-building town of 10000 population,
with ferries and street cars running be-
tween 1t and the larger place across the
harbor.
] was fairly blown through the town.
tables, past the high wall of a shipyard
to rEguillette in a whirling mistral, that
fierce wind which tears down the valley
of the Rhone. There a green hill rises
from the road there Napoleon received
his real baptism of fire and there he
first tasted success.
The British had also recognized the
vital importance of this promontory
and before Napoleon could set up a
battery they landed and strongly forti-
fled the point. naming their principal
fort Little Gibraltar" But they very
kindly left him this commanding hight
close by and there he Immediately be-
gan to erect his batteries.
One of his forts was almost within
pistol shot of Little Gibraltar" and by
no means an inviting place. But its
builder nailed to it sign on which was
rudely printed in big letters this legend:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28

Next Sunday, Napoleon in Low Nis
Morgan will tell the story of the straitgc
mating of two islanders from the room
in which they were married and from
their honeymoon street.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-23
The Currency Bill Passes.

The country is to have an insur-
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-23
The Fiat Money Nonsense

Intelligent observers who followed
the debate on the Payne-Aldrich Tar
if bill knew that the cause of high
protection was doomed because it's
defenders could no longer find any
thing pertinent to say for it.
When Senator Aldrich, for example
declared that to lower the monstrous
wool duties would ruin the country it
was obvious he had run out of real
arguments. And not long ago when
he denounced the Glass-Owen bill as
providing fiat money and embodying
recrudescence of geenbackism he
simply put his case out of court.
When other critics of the bill took
up this fiat-money cry we felt sure
the subject had been quite thorough
ly threshed out, because if there was
any more real threshing to be done
the hands would not waste their time
kicking the empty straw around.
OF course there is not the remot.
est relationship between fiat money
or greenbackism and the currency
provided by the Glass-Owen bill. That
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-23
Functions of Government

Protesting against the plan OF
Secretary Daniels to build an armor
plate factory, the Philadelphia Public
Ledger declares that "steel making
is not function of government" any
more than would be carpet making
or sausage making. The Ledger in
sists that the great armor plate fac
tories in Pennsylvania must not be
dismantled and put out of business
by the Government.
Steel making may not be a func-
ton of Government, but steel buying
is, so long as the Government builds
battleships which must be protected
with armor plate. The three armor
plate plants in Pennsylvania offered
identical bids, showing combination
at prices which Secretary Daniels
decided we're exorbitant. The Gov
eminent must either go into the bust
ness of making armor plate or sub
nit to being bled by the armor plate
trust Unless the trust comes to
terms and restores competition in ar
NOR plate bids, Secretary Daniels will
be fully justified in urging the Gov
eminent to include steel making
among many of it's many functions.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-23

currency would be even less fiat NOR.
ey than the present national bank
notes are. 1t would be issued only
on request of the banks; every dol
lar of it would rest on dollar OF
sound commercial paper. and be back
ed by a gold reserve of thirty-three
and a third per cent. To call such
currency fiat money is merely a child.
lsh misuse of language. II might ex-
actly as well be called calico or green
cheese-or anything else that it is
not.
; Fiat money and greenbackism. as
those words are universally under.
stood, mean irredeemable paper cur.
rency issued on the Government !
initiative and resting on the Govern.
| ment's credit. The present national
banknotes, in effect, do rest solely
on the Governments credit and are
practically the obligations of the
United States-with the advertise,
ment of national bank printed on
them.
The new currency resting primarily
| on commercial paper, would be less
fiat than the old.-Saturday Evening
Post.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-23
SOLDIERS and SAILORS
CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS

By every American soldier and sailor
Christmas day is celebrated with feast.
ing and sports. though the men may
be thousands and thousands Of miles
away from home. Dinner. consisting
Of turkey. mince pie and all other deli
cacies. is served. There is also gen.
erous supply Of soft drinks. lntoxi-
navy circles.
Those who wish to attend church in
the morning are permitted to do so.
although this Is not compulsory. as in
the British army. 1t is not always
possible for sailors to go to the church
around the corner. but religious exer-
cises are conducted by the vessels
chaplain. The afternoon is usually
devoted to athletic sports
1t may be that a concert Of anna teur
theatricals will enliven the evening or
that the men will receive permission
to give a dance. Those who wear I'm
Gle Sans uniform 90 not lose their
taste for social pleasures and as a rule
are capable entertainers.
Even the men Of an outpost. en-
camped far In the interior Of some
Philippine province. attempt to invest
the day with as much of the Christ
mas spirit as possible unless the cOun-
try Is in an unsettled state and par
tial war conditions prevail
The British soldier makes the cele-
bration Of Christmas the chief event Of
the year. and his only regret is that
the day does not extend over an entire
week.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-23

ance policy against panics for a
Christmas present, as result of the
passage of the currency bill by the
United States Senate. While the
measure adopted by the Senate diff
fers from the House bill in many
points, some of them vital, the prog
ress of the fight for the new law has
been marked by conferences and eau
cuses by members of both the Sen
ate and the House, SO there is vir-
tual agreement upon most of the
changes and it is assured that the
conference committee will complete
it's work on the measure and send il
to the Present on Monday or Tues
day.
This is a most distinctive achieve
ment for the present administration
as it is the elimination of 20 years
of effort to revise and reform the
nations banking and currency laws
which have been outgrown by the
progress of the country. While the
debate on the measure has been pro
longed and opposition urged agains'
many of the features of the legisla
ton, the measure as finally agreed
upon is admitted to meet the more ur-
gent demands of the situation and
to furnish the machinery for more
flexible currency system so greatly
needed in emergencies. All of the
cardinal features of the bill as II
passed the House have been retained
the Senate amendments being de-
signed to strengthen some of the
working features and to meet reason
able objections that developed in the
progress of the debate.
1t will require some time to organ
ize the regional reserve banks and
arrange the details to the operation
of the new system but the immediate
result must be restoration of conf
dence and the removal of the uncer-
tainty that has made capital cautious
pending the disposition of the bill.
The country is to be congratulated
upon the adoption of the bill by the
Senate-Tacoma Tribune.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-23
Trying a New Tack

In discussing the new tariff law
the ultra protection papers appear
with a brand new line of talk, which
listens well-if the listener has poo,
Grays Harbor Post is a sample oil
the line:
The argument of the democrats
was that with reduction of the
tariff on all articles imported in
to this country, they would be
cheapened just exactly the
amount that the tariff was re-
duced upon them. But our Eu-
ropean cousins have proven them
selves shrewd enough in bust
ness lines to protect themselves.
On their exports to the United
States, which are certain to come
in because of the demand for
them in this country, they have
sifply advanced the price to equal
the former price and the tariff
reduction under the Underwood
bill. In other words, the Euro
pean manufacturer is the only
beneficiary in this arrangement.
The cost of the American con-
sumer is as high as formerly.
Accepting this as truth, for sake
of argument only, one has to wonder
why these same papers have been
warning the people for more than a
year that a Democrat tariff would
result in flooding" this country with
cheap goods, made by the "pauper"
labor of Europe. Which time do
they expect to be believed?
At all the public hearing on the
tariff law while it was being framed,
were were told of the disasters in
store for this country, when the pro-
duct of cheap European labor would
force our manufactures to close and
throw American workmen out of EN-
ployment In fact this has been the
cardinal point in all protection ar
gument for forty or more years. Now
we are gravely informed that this
talk was buncombe, that our Euro
pean cousins are not so foolish as
they thought them; that the high tar
if never made any difference, any
how.
The only fault this new tack seems
to have is that it is premature. The
other argument is too fresh in the
public mind at this time. 1t really
should have been cold storaged until
the campaigns of next GEAR when it
would have stood a better chance OF
fooling somebody.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-23
LEGENDS OF CXHISIMAS.
German Folklore Connects Evergre..
and Garden Of Eden.

In Germany there is Il legend thu.
when Eve plucked the fatal apple Tn.
leaves shriveled. the tree changed it,,
nature and became evergreen. bearin.
witness in all seasons to the fan of
mali only once year. on the birth
day ul TIE Redpemer. ii blooms with
lights ana is laden with gifts of love.
and so we have the Christmas tree
In the Black forest regions in Ger
many there Is Il tradition that ON each
Christmas eve the Saviour comes to
earth In the grise Of Il poor boy and
asks aims ut the house doors. On that
day no beggar "a refused food and shell.
ter.
1t is said that the popular tradition
Of the entrance Of Santa Claus by
means Of the chimney arose from the
story Of Iertha. n goddess of the Morse
mythology When the festival in her
honor was celebrated an altar Of stones
was erected in the house. and fir
branches were piled upon it and set on
fire. Through the dense smoke made
by the green wood the goddess was
supposed to descend and extend her in
tiuence according to the petitions Of
the worshipcrs
Some Of the Christmas hymns and
carols are very ancient and have been
In many eases transmitted orally
through many generations. In Eng
land 1t Is still the custom for men and
boys. called the Christmas waits" to
go around on Christmas eve and sing
carols