The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

St Peters to the more famous church of St. Marks, and authorized the expendi- ture of $1.000,000 in improving the harbor and the canals.
 He was never 10 see Rome, but in an- tcpaton of a visit to the Eternal City after his return from Russia, he planned it's restoration and the construction of roads and canals for its benefit TO the
 ame end he ordered from the sculptor, Thorwaldsen, the celebrated relief, the Triumph of Alexander. This he intended as an adornment for the walls of the Quirinal palace, but reverses overtalSing him. the sculptor passed into other hands and now forms the frieze of the Marble hall in the Carlotta Villa on Lake Como.
 His entrance into a stagnant community was as stimulating as a breath of fresh air in hospital ward. Arriving in a town at dusk after d long days journey. he called for a complete statement of its
 oudition. it's municipal finances and it's srade, all prepared according to the sys- tenn of bookkeeping which he introduced throughout the empire.
 Studying the figures in the night he was up in the morning and in the saddle while the place was still asleep. With the eye of an engineer, he determined the course of a needed canal or avenue, the best site for factory a harbor or a park. When at or o'clock he called about him the principal inhabitants. they were over whelmed with his knowledge of their af- fairs, his detailed plans for local improve ments, and could only exclaim in their wondering admiration, "1e is more than a manv
 Sometimes when he expressed his ap- proval of structure and called for the builder. the officials brought for ward favorite to receive imperial hon ors for something done by a humble SI1 fa Rtf of cxx~iff L. nation the Emperor would say this man Is not the real builder Let me gee the man who actually did the work" Then the modest underln 2 received the praise honestly won, and found himself promoted above the pre- tender.
 Liberation of Jews and Serfs
 While Napoleon mostly wrought in stone and was in reaction from the 1dealism that preceded the empire and ran riot, he remained obedient to many of the solid, tangible purposes of the revolution which sent him forth. He uprooted ancient injustice all along his way and planted liberal institutions throughout Europe Even to faraway Poland, he carried modern laws, freeing the serfs and the land, while Prussia emulated the example of her conqueror and feudalism disappeared from Ger 1nf nv Tn a year. ''Iet every species Of serfage he abolished" he commanded his brother Jerome, when setting him upon the throne of Westphalia. "The benefits of the Code Napoleon. the publicity of court proceedings the es- tablishment of juries should form so many distinctive characteristics of your monarchy"
 He did more for the emancipation ot the Jews than all other rulers together in three centuries He convoked their 7 leaders in the famous French Sanhed . rim of 1907. and his Madrid decree sti'l is their charter of rights in the land s that formed his ernrire "All men are hrothe~s before God" he declared to . deputation composed of Catholic priest. Protestant minister and a Jewish rabbi, and he gave that brother : ffcc1 +.N 7 fc~oo os low rA' rIv every ~-Aere ir Tr~oro. Trn-- ear he stood ir adv-r"e Of even the more progress siye nations may be measured by the