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his emotions of mercy to his con science and just as her anxious eyes were detecting some signs of relent- ing in Napoleons countenance, her long faced husband entered the room darkening it with his cold and silent melancholy.
 "The King came in the nick of time" Napoleon laughingly assured the Czar when they next met. "If he had stayed away half an hour longer I fear I should have found myself promising the Queen anything" But under cover of his greeting to Frederick William he made his adieux to Louise-and es- capped With Madgeburg!
 The Queen Begs
 When she came to dine with him in the evening he went out upon the sidewalk to welcome her and escort her into his house. He was equally polite at the table and most flatter- ing in his attentions to his guest, the one woman in the company. But when he had invited her to renew the dis cussion of the treaty of peace, he readily saw that she had In the mean time been coached by some political adviser Instead of the fervent appeals of a woman and a mother, which he had heard from her lips in the after noon, he was now made to listen to a political argument, which left him dumb and unmoyed until she pressed him to say something and begged him again for Madgeburg. Then he only put her off with the remark: You are asking a great deal; but we shall sec"
 After he had led her out to her car- riage and bade her good night, he said to the Car: "The Queen is a charming woman. whose soul matches her face. Instead of robbing her of a crown, I might be tempted to lay one at her feet" But while Alexander was hastening to congratulate the Queen on her conquest, Napoleon was saying to Tallyrand, "Madgeburg Is worth a dozen Queens of Prussia" And in the morning he wrote to Josephine: I had to defend myself, as she wished to compel me to make further conces- sions to her husband But was quite gallant and stood to my policy"
 After his experience with them, Ma | poleon did not trust Frederick Will liam and his blindly reactionary court. They had been running with the hare and hunting with the hounds for 10 or 12 years. First they had joined him when he was consul in despoiling Austria and next they made ready to jump on his back while he was facing Austria and Russia at Auster- litz. The moment he was victorious, they sacrificed their sworn allies and began to barter with him again, but only to turn upon him once more. He had been vainly proffering them terms -of peace throughout the campaign of 1S06-7, but they rejected his advances and threw themselves into the arms Of the Czar, thus bringing on a terrible winter campaign that took him 1000 miles from his capital
 It was a maxim of Frederick the Great. "Never maltreat an enemy by halves,'' and now that Napoleon had Prussia down he dared not let her up. He stern ly informed the King the day after the interviews with Louise: 'I do not mean that Prussia shall be again power to weigh in the political balance of Flu rope" Frederick William grew red of face and Napoleon livid in the course of the stormy talk that lasted three hours. Louise's Last Appeal
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Victor and Yanauished

Leaving Tilsit. Napoleon paused for awhile at the castle of Konigsberg, from which Louise had been driven out into a wintry storm and where his apartments are still shown by the Kaiser's servants. There he took carriage for Dresden. which is crow flight of 400 miles. For 100 hours he drove without stepping down." until he had arrived at the palace of his new ally, the King of Saxony Ft
 Louise returned to Memel. by whose lonely Baltic shore she was to pass many long and sorrowful months. While wait ing there for the evacuation of Berlin and the restoration. of her capital and her home she and the royal family of Prus- sia were reduced to plainer fare than some of the villagers. Servants were dis missed and horses sold, while the service of gold plate. treasured heirloom of the Hohenzollerns. was melted down and coined into money for the bankrupt treas
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ury of the kingdom. Louise even parted with her diamonds 6ut she kept her pearls, for pearls between tears, and have shed so many of them"
 The saner and more patriotic advisers, whom the King called into his ministry, met at Memel 10 gather Up the broken remnants of the old Kingdom and there in grief and humility they began the great task of making new Prussia Baron Stein stood foremost in that work of re- construction, with the loyal support of the Queen. She had gained in diversity a vision far clearer than most of the sovereigns and statesmen of Europe in her day and of many historians in our own day. She was enabled to read the larger the impersonal meaning of Ma poleons' mission recognizing that -Di- vine Providence' was "unmistakably in- troducing a new order of things in tho world and that the French Emperor was but an instrument in the hand of the Almighty to bury the old era"
 Louise had seen the Prussian aris- tocracy devoid of courage or honor in the presence of the plebeian Emperor and marshals of revolutionized France and she enthusiastically seconded the efforts of stein to persuade the King cowardly class. but to plant the king dom on the broader, sounder founda- tion of justice to the masses. From the village of Memel went forth de-. crees liherating the serfs, opening the ownership of the land to those who titled if. and modernzing the institu- tions of Prussia In many ways t
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peaohed. befOre the WOrlu ner cnaIacter as a wife, mother and a woman, was harder still
 It was after the conference at Tilsit had been in progress more than a week when Louise finally was per suaded. amid thousand tears,' her physician tells us, to make her ap pearance there. God knows what a struggle this has cost me" she con- fided to her diary, yet this hard thing used to sacrificing myself"
 Arriving. in Tilsit at in the after noon she awaited the painful cere- mony of Napoleon's call at the miller S house. "If he will give me back vil- .lage or two, my errand will not have been In vain" she said to her court. The Czar was there to greet her, but left at once. Napoleon came in 10 min utes more and hurried up the narrow stair. at the top of which Louise stood calm and smiling in her courage and beauty. One of the ladies in waiting who received him at the door has drawn with i'll concealed prejudice an unflattering portrait of him: "Exces- sively ugly, with a fat, swollen, sal low face, very corpulent, being short and entirely without figure; his great eyes roll gloomly around; the express sion of his features is severe and he looks the incarnation of fate; only his mouth is well shaped and his teeth are good" The lady did admit that The was extremely polite" and Louise her self has said that he wore the head of Caesar"
 Louise and Napoleon
 Bravely putting on her most winsome manner, the Queen took the hand of her pursuer and led him to window in the parlor, where they stood and talked for an hour. In the course of the inevitable conventionalities, which ranged from literature to botany, she asked him how he liked the northerly climate of East Prussia and he an swered. ''The French soldier. madame, si seasoned to all climates" Then in his most soothing tones hes asked. How could you think of making war on me?' Louise happily fashioned her reply to remind him that Prussia had not always been unequal to fighting France Sire we may he pardoned for having built upon the fame of Frederick the Greatv'
 Approaching her real mission, the Queen said: Sire, I am a wife and mother. and 1t is by those titles I claim your intervention on behalf of Prussia. The King attaches. more inn portance to the province of Madgeburg than to any other on the left bank of the Elbe which your imperial majesty takes from him. I appeal to your gen erous heart; it Is from 1t that I ask and expect a happy issue"
 Madame, shall certainly be very happy but and he cast an admiring glance at her, you are wearaing a superb dress Where was 1t nader"
 'In Prussia. sire"
 At Breslau At Berlin? Do they make crepe in your factories, too?'
 NO. sire, ,but," the Queen persisted in returning to the main subject. your majesty does not say word of the interests that alone occupy my thoughts at the present moment. when I am. hoping to win from You hap pier existence for all who are dear to me Are we to talk about fashions at such a time? Your imperial majestys heart Is too noble; 1t unites with otker qualities too exalted a character to be insensible to my sufferings."
 While Louise was in the midst of her appeal to his sense of justice. to
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NapoleOn's Presentiment
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Yes shall see the gulf open before day, and shall be able to stop myself shall climb high that shall turn giddy.
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HE sword of Napoleon having in
 nine months cut its way like a
 scythe from end to end of Ger many, his allied foes hoisted
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French Emperor IL was a solemn feast, with the Queen sunk in grief, the King still red in the face, Napoleon full of anger and Alexander vainly trying to smooth the troubled waters All alike avoided the one subject of their thoughts, the dismemberment of the kingdom of Frederick the Great. Only as the Queen was leaving did she venture to refer to the matter Sire, she said, after the conversation we had together yester- day. after all the kind things your maj esty said to me. I left you believing | was to owe you our happiness, the hap pness of my country and my children. Today all my hopes are gone, and it Is with very different feelings l take my departure.'
 Some of the French suite came up to interrupt the interview and spare Ma poleon the necessity of replying. But when he had bowed the Queen into her carriage she said Sire, I have let you see my pain and grief to which the Emperor replied Believe me, madame, I shall do all can to prove the inter- est and esteem you have inspired in my heart"
 A faint, new hope entered the Queens s bosom. Sire" she pleaded, it depends on you There is yet time. Our happi- Louise drove away. never again to see Napoleon.
 Prussia Cut in Two
 By the treaties of Tilsit. the Czar pledged himself to offer his mediation to England with a view to inducing her to recognize the equality of all flags at sea. His efforts for peace failing, he promised to become the ally of Napo- leon in coercing Sweden. Denmark and Portugal to close their harbors against England and thus leave not port for a British ship on the coasts of conti- mental Europe.
 With the easy sense of honor charac- teristic of princes. Alexander accepted in return miserable little strip of Polish soil that Napoleon had taken from Alexander's sworn friend Fred erick William, whom he had really se- duced into continuing a disastrous war after the fall of Berlin He received also a vague but glittering permission to steal Finland from the Swedes and Euro pean Turkey from the Sultan-with the exception of Constantinoplel
 Merely as "a testimonial of respect for the Czar Napoleon restored to Prussia half of her 10o00.000 subjects. but she was required to give up all the conquered lands of Frederick the Great except Si- lesia. Prussan Poland was to be formed into the Grand Dutchy of Warsaw under the sovereignty of the King of Saxony whose alliance Napoleon had won after the battle of Jena, while the great fort ress of Magdeberg and all the rest of the Prussian territory west of the River Elbe was to be added to Jerome Bona parte's new kingdom of Westphalia. or to Louis Bonaparte's kingdom of Holland. Moreover, Frederick William, now mere vassal of the French empire. must find somewhere more than 80 GOO to reim- purse the conaueror for the cost of the war, and until he found it. Berlin and all his great fortresses were to remain in pawn, the French army continuing to occupy them.
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Two Emperors on Raft
 With the French army encamped on the TiIsit shore of the Niemen and tho csArs on the opposite side, tho rivsr
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Louise in Her Grave

II was not until Christmas week or 1909 that Louise, after an absence of more than three years. returned to her capital. But, as her pastor tells us, the sparkle in her eyes did not come back with her and on her cheek there were now white roses instead of red While Prussia was yet sunk in the depths the Queen found release from her too heavy sorrows in the summer of 1Sl0 and in the thrty-fifth year of her life, and the King closed the eyes which had so faithfully lighted up his dark path" Seven of the nine children she had borne in IS years of wifehood survived her the eld- est to reign as King Frederick William ", and on his death to be succeeded by. the second son, William I, while daugh- ter, as the wife of Nicholas I, was to be- come the Czarine of Russia.
 The wasted body was laid to rest among the pines in the park of the palace of Charlottenburg, that now populous suburb of Berlin. Her effigy, carved by the celebrated sculptor Rauch out of Car rara marble as white and pure as her woman's soul, recines upon her sarcop- hagus, after having been, like herself prey to war. For while it was on It's voyage from Italy aboard British merchantmen the statue was seized by an American privateer in the war of 1872, but only to be recaptured by Brit ish frisate which carried it in safety to its destination.
 Though the mortal Queen slept in ner grave her dauntless spirit went mar--- Ing on, a lamp unto the feet of her peo- pie. When threescore years had passed an old man came to kneel in prayer by her tomb. It was on that day, July IS. 1870. the sixtieth anniversary of her death, that the Franco Prussian war be- gan, conflict which history was to charge to Bonaparte Empress as 1t had charged an earlier conflict to a Hohen- zollern Queen.
 The aged man in the mausolcum at Charlottenburg was William l. King o1 Prussia, and he had come on filial pil-| grimage to invoke the inspiration of hlo mothers memory as he was setting out upon his averaging march to Paris and to the realization of Louise's vision. union of the Germanic nations in German empire. .
 tCapyright. 1sl3-14. by James Morgan.l
 Next Sunday--Napoleon and His Mar-' shals-Their Romantic Rise From th0 Ranks to Municipalities and Dukedozna.
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When Napoleon had overthrewn the Kingdom of Prussia in 1906 and driven out of Germany in 1907 the Russian army that came to the rescue of the Prussians, his foes sued for oeace Then there took place at Tilsit, near the Russian frontier, one of the most dramatic scenes in history, when the French Emperor and the Russian Czar sat down on raft in the middle of river, with their armies drawn up on opposite shores, and divided the earth between themselves. That is the scene MT. Morgan, who visited Tilsit last year, reconstitutes and sets before his readers today, enabling them to see Napoleon at the height of his power and almost catch the ac- cents of his voice as he talks with Queen Louise. The story of the last years and the death of that unfor- tunate princess is also told.
 June IA, 1sO7-Napoleon victory at Friedland.
 June 19, 1907-Arrived at Tilsit.
 June 25 1S07-Met the Czar on the raft.
 July S. 1so7--Met Queen Louise.
 July 7-9, 1S07--The treaties of Tilsit signed
 July 10, 1so7-Louise returned to Memel.
 December 20, So7-Returned to Konigs- berg.
 December p, 1So9-Returned to Berlin.
 July 19, 1S10-Death of Queen Louise.
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Louise's Last Appeal

LuuISe IuSt AppeHI That black day for Prussia ended with another dinner at the house ef the
Evening star., 1914-05-03
MONTH of April Seems
Fatal to United States

drawn up on Lexington green, the MD
dlesex farmers. armed with the lmple-
ments Of their toll, and the relocated
british troops which constituted the
first armed resistance given IN defense
of American liberty. and was the first
demonstration of the winning power of
American citizens. For in that decisive
scrimmage the British loss totaled al
most twice as large as the American
The date note down, was April l9, 1873.
Then comes April. 1Sl2 On the first
day of that month James Madison
President at that time. was prevailed
upon by the growing war party. to
recommend Congress to lay an embargo
for sixty days upon all vessels in the
ports of the United States. This act
may be ascribed as the preliminary
measure which eliminated in the war
of 1872 with Great Britain-that war
which was the reiteration of independ-
ence from British aSSressionS upon
American commerce.
Thirty-four Years later. April writes
the beginning of another bloody chapter
in American history. In the war with
Mexico which began in 1916. Gen. Zach
airy Taylor had been commanded by the
President to go to the southwest for the
defense of Texas. then lately annexed.
and also to demand redress for the dep
relations Mexico continued to make upon
United States property.
Gen. Taylor made his camp at Corpus
Christi, opposite the Spanish city Mata-
moros. bit of disputed territory between
Texas and the neighboring province. Ia
maulipas. He had hardly encamped be-
fore he was notified by MeNicans that
he was upon foreign soil When he re-
fused to withdraw the MeXicans deter
mined to drive him beyond the Nueces.
They captured . accommodating party
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rs April the month Of destiny OF
the United States. when all OF the
L startling, bloody events of her ms
tory are enacted"
The chronicles of the past certainly
furnish yerificatfon of the statement
that April has rather uncannily hs-
ured in the war history of the United
States, and now along comes our new
est unpleasantness to add It's April
date to the already swollen list.
Is is a mere coincidence or simply
a master play of the gods OF destiny
that all Of the great wars OF the
United States had either their lnltiai
batteles or preciptous hostilities in TINS
month?
Take the first April In the history OF
the United States-the first. when we
really knew ourselves to be united-and
cast your eve over the pages OF his
tory that tell the story Of the battle
Of Lexington and Concord. If your IN
ner eye is far-sighted enough you
will catch a glimpse of Paul Revere
as he rounds bend in the road from
Lexington to Concord the night of April
IS 1775, on his way to spread the
news that the British We're coming.
Then, if you will skip a few lines
in this epic of American struggle. you
will find an incident that will require
but little incidental description to bring
it realistically before your tar-Sighted
inner eye. Namely. the collision between
the valiant vanguard of minute men.
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House of Representatives, in the Senate
and in the cabinet tas Secretary of War
was not until after his first wife's death
and his remarriage.
Another of Zachary Taylor's daughters,
"Betty' married. first. Maj. W. W. $.
Bliss. who had served as her fathers
adiutant general. The sudden death of
President Taylor. soon after his inaugu-
ration, was followed closely by that of
this gallant Son-in-law. After spending
some years of widowhood, Mrs. Bliss
married Mr.. cambridge of Winchester,
Va, and she died only a few years ago.
Andrew Johnson also had a Son-in-law
who became quite a man Of parts. Five
years before the civil war his elder
daughter Martha, married David f. Pat
terson of Green county. Tenn, who at
the time of their wedding was circuit
court Judge. After the reconstruction of
Tennessee he came 10 the United States
Senate as a conservative. and made his
home at the White House. where his wife
acted as hostess in the stead of her in
valid mother Judge Patterson remained
in the Senate throughout the impeach-
ment trial of his father-in-law. who in
his turn was elected to that body from
Tennessee six years after the close OF
Mr. Patterson's term.
Mary the younger daughter of An
drew johnson. married first Daniel Sto-
yer of Carter county, Tenn. who died
early in the civil war, and second viii
liam r. Bacon of Greenville. Tenn.
Neither of her husbands held public Of
flee.
The only son -in-law Of President Grant
was his daughter ''Nellie's" English hus-
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Art of Carving.

TT would appear that in other days the
/ art of carving was taken very much
more seriously than it is now. The six
teenth- century carver was a professional; ;
1t was his duty to make the joint fit the
guest The size of his slices was the
main thing He must know his guests
and cut accordingly.
Were there lord at table and pike
served, the fish was dished up whole
Smaller fry-and the pike came on III
slices The same procedure applied in
the case OF pig. The rank of the diners
decided whether it should appear at table
in gold leaf or naked whole or sliced.
With bread. too. there was a difference.
New" or ..three-day old baked was
at the discretion of the carver as he
"sZed up the visitors. And as for the
apportioning of the tidbits according to
precedence, there was no end. The old
time carver was. in fact born and then
made.
The eighteenth century was the period
of the carving master. He taught host
esses the art. Lady Mary Montagu. for
example. took three lessons week that
she might be perfect on her fathers pub
lie days. when. in order to perform her
functions without interruptions. she was
forced to eat her own dinner alone an
hour or two beforehand"
The hostess carved while the host
pushed the bottle" She did more. She
urged the guests to eat more and more.
and woe to her If she neglected guest.
The diner who was forced to help himself
to a slice of anything nearly choked.
These diners of the eighteenth century
liked being pressed. And the hostess vel
coined the end of the feast.
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eldest daughter. Mary-who seems to have
been plantation owner Then there was
Paymaster James Semple of the navy.
who married Miss Letitia, but who. after
travelling with her abroad, soon left her
sad widow. Feeble and blind she died IA
few years ago in the Louise Home. which
w. w. Corcoran endowed in Washington
as a refuge for aged gentlewomen. OF
William Waller, who was married in
the White House to the third Tyler sis
ter, Elizabeth, it is recorded that he was
"a granddaughter of the Scottish Earl
of Traquaire." The youngest of the Tyler
sisters, Alice, married the rector of the
Episcopal Church at Williamsburg. Va
And now we come to the most famous
parsonage in this entire list of presiden-
tial sons-in-law. This was none other
than jefferson Davis, later to become
the president of the Southern Confed
eracy. When he was young lieutenant
Of our regular army. he had sued for the
hand of Sarah, the daughter of Zachary
Taylor then a colonel in the army, but
had been refused by that old soldier.
But while the colonel was away on mill
tary service. the young couple eloped and
a few months later the youthful bride
died before ever receiving her father
forgiveness. AS a colonel during the
Mexican war Davis fought three days
under Zachary Taylor, at Buena Vista
without ever having met his distinguish
ed father-in-law. But after Davis mag
nificent stand at the head of his Missis-
sippi regiment Taylor at last received
his dead daughters husband. and the
two soldiers wept as they clasped hands
upon the battlefield. His service in the