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two diked causeways, and an army can
not move except by those roads
When Napoleon came down from We
roma, ne put TINS marsh between MIN
and Alvinzi, where the enemy would
lose the advantage OF greater numbers
for no more Austrians than t'renchmer
could advance abreast on those two
narrow roads. II was a clever choice OF
ground, and the only means OF averting
| a disaster.
The French marched out of Romeo by
both causeways, but to accomplish their
main purpose and get in the rear of the
Austrians they struggled for three days
to cross the fifty-foot bridge over the Al
pone at the village of Arcole. not Ar
| cola. for that place is on the other side
of Italy.
1 stood in that renowned. hard-fought
| Path of Napoleon at the Arcole bridge
in Maytime when the trout were running.
All the sturdy women and pretty girls in
their knee-high skirts of brilliant red
| and their bare brown legs were abroad
with their fish nets at the end of long
poles over their shoulders.
Mr.. Morgan Mt Arcolc.
! At one end of the famous little bridge
| sits the village of Arcole. several miles
| from a railroad or even a highroad. From
the other end stretches the marsh, which
has been drained and converted into we'll
| tended fields as level as the prairie farms
in the Mississippi Valley. on across the
fields rose the church tower of Romeo,
from which Napoleon saw the enemy
holding the bridge. while the crags Of the
bordering mountains on the north stuck
out as sharp as the barbs on a wire
fence. 1t was through those rough passes
up there that the Emperor of Germany,
as the Austrian monarch then styled him
self. poured the blood OF Austria and
Hungary in torrents to ransom his rich
Italian province from the French.
On this little bridge the two great ma
tions Of continental Europe fought for
three days like dogs over a bone. 1t is
as rude a structure as that which arched
the flood. where, their flag to April s
breeze unfurled. the embattled farmers
stood and fired the shot heard round the
world.
By Concord bridge a, people passed to
independence and greatness. By Arcole
bridge Italy, too, passed to Independence,
but, alas, she had many more rivers still
to cross.
Napoleon In the Mud.
High banks had been thrown up along
the Alpone to confine its waters and
the road reaches the bridge at either
end by a steep grade. The French off,
GERS rushed to the head of their column
when II wavered before a detachment
of Austrian troops who defended the
lt another amazing story n the Efe Of
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bridge. They hoped TO repeat the dash
at Lodi. But their show of bravery wa.
lost and Lannes and several other gen.
erals were wounded. Augureau, seizing
flag, leaped upon the bridge and
taunted his men as they bent under the
storm of the enemy's guns. .'Cowards
do You fear death too much?" Alas
they loved life too well.
Then Napoleon himself took the lead
Lannes, seeing him from his hospital cot
forgot his wounds and rose and followed
him, shouting at the soldiers as they fell
back. Napoleon sprang upon the bridge
but only to be caught in a furious swirl
OF fighting French and Slavs. Brave
Muiron threw himself before him, and
covering him with his body. received a
murderous stroke aimed at his chief. His
blood spurted in NapOleons face as he
fell dead at his feet
The general-in-chief was whirled back
with his men and pushed OF the steep
grade of the road into what was then
a quagmire. The Little Corporal literally
was stuck in the mud, close by where a
stone shaft, a piece of graveyard art.
now commentaries his desperate battle
for the bridge His brother Louis and
Marmont helped to pull him out and
rescue him from the enemy. Lannes was
wounded again and Napoleon lamented
all his life the death OF the devoted
Muiron.
The Twenty-Five TrumPets.
The third day of hard fighting about
Arcole was drawing to a close with both
armies unnerved and sick Of battle. each
only waiting for the other to quit from
exhaustion. Then Napoleon. who had
been unable to win with blood and pow
der, gained the victory by an absurd
ruse. Placing trumpets in the hands of
twenty-five horsemen he sent them across
the river farther down and they galloped
around behind Arcole in the waning of
the November day.
The noise of these trumpets struck
terror to the fainting hearts Of the Aus
TRANS. At the thought of their left wing
and rear being ambushed by what they
imagined must be a column Of cavalry,
their last drop of courage left them.
and soon Alvinzi's entire army was in
full retreat on the mountains. Italy had
been saved by the blare Of twenty-five
trumpets.
Frivolous Josephine.
"one must make for the flying foe,"
Napoleon said, "a bridge of gold or op-
pose to him a barrier of steel" He gladly
gave the fleeing Alvinzi a golden bridge,
while he himself flew to Milan on the
wings of love and burst open Josephine's
door, only to find she had gone on q
merry excursion to Genoa
Sitting down in the lonely palace he
the young Napoleon, q story Of ike /
r I~>>-ks-> "A Dlll
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battle monument in the town. But when
1 inquired for it the 100 or more citizens
who had gathered about my car all in
sisted with one voice that it was at
Solferino. 1 demonstrated that the Sol
ferino monument commemorated a bat
tie fought by Napoleon III, not Napo-
leon l. Blank stares and puzzled muir
murs- At last the town meeting arrived
at a consensus of opinion and shouted: {:
''Ah, yes. At the cimetario.''
To the cemetery i was whirled. only
to be led to the tomb of a French gen.
eral killed at Solferino, in 1859. Then
the chauffeur appealed to a group of
ag d danes. who hIC curiously followed
u Their decision was unanimous. The
monument was at Solferino! Finally the
one wise man of the town came up and
told US : was at Montechiari, on the
road to Brescia.
There were found a little monument
against the wall of hospital and be-
side it a chart of the field where an
engagement was fought on the plains
between Montechiari and Castiglione, the
French being commanded by Augureau
and not by Napoleon. The votive stone
had Travelled as well as 1 before finding
its resting place. Originally erected on
the field. the Austrians overturned Il
when they re-entered Lombardy In 1914
but the Italians dug it up and brought
it into the town on the centenary of the
battle
1t is most interesting coincidence that
the real battle of Castiglione, in which
Napoleon 1 whipped the Austrians in I.9S
was fought on the same hills as the bat
tie of Solferino, where Napoleon III and
Victor Emanuel ii of Italy, with their
allied armies, whipped the Austrians
again sixty-three years afterward There
a fred ar Tagficrlinna
on the day Napoleon l beat Wurmser.
Napoleon Retreats.
After whipping two armies under Mar
shal Wurmser in the summer, and lock-
ing him up in Mantua, Napoleon found
himself in the fall, with only a worn
out remnant of his force. facing a new
army under AIvinzi where the mountains
of venetia come down to the plain.
1t is a beautiful and fruitful land, from
which the Lombardy poplars spring up
to rival the noble bell towers or the
village churches in their graceful ascent
toward the sky. Grapevines stretch in
garIands from tree to tree in the or
chards. This affords a pretty decorative
effect for tourist eyes, but the Austrian
and French scouts failed to enjoy it be-
cause those festoons broke the view and
baffied them in their work of watching
the movements of troops.
There Napoleon lost the opening fight
There. for the first time. he left the
enemy on a field of battle and for the
first time led a retreat.
Prudence dictated Napofeon's retire
ment toward the AIDA But courage
counseled a bolder stroke. The night
he moved in silence out or verona, the
E-l~
treat until by sudden turn they found
themselves marching along the River
Adige. Their commander had deter
mined to stake everything on an effort
to get around Alvinzi and cut his COM
munications
Strange Battlefield.
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4 Strange Battlefield.

Following The Path of Napoleon"
by the Adige, 1 found as strange a
battlefield as general ever chose. wnere
the little River Alpone flows down to
join the Adige, near the village of Romeo.
there is big marsh lying between the
two streams, across which there are only
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Nation. he r!s Italy de New c.H who already welded
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Mantua Falls.

Like a circus showing in one-day towns,
the main body Of the French broke camp
as soon as the battle was won. Not long
after midnight they were on the march
southwark, to prevent the Austrian d.
vision, which had moved down the other
side Of Lake Garda, from relieving Man.
Evening star., 1914-08-23

confidence their life after marriage Though vain and
avid of admiration she seemed incapable of any sort of
mean emotion, and generous as the good sun
light. An adorable creature
Peter Traft the third of three newfound friends,
riddle Lydia couldn't read, but found endessly divert
ing. Publicly sentimental about Lydia, brazenly seek
ing every opportunity to secude her with himself
this was accomplished he fouted sentiment ridiculed
the world including himself and kept her in state
of amusement that precluded Encouragement of his
eccentric wooing.
II want you to know me as really am, he informed
her on one occasion. 3If should sober-sided
and solemn your next adorer, you'd marry me in g-
norance of my true character
aBut haven't the slightest intention of marrying
you, Mr. Trait"
@That's fine line, he commented admiringly, "and
don't believe have heard it delivered with
convincing sincerity-from the heart out, SO! What
you heroines of modern fiction would do without it
Heaven only knows It's certain novelists don't,
they'd invent something less stereotyped But you
mustn't forget really nothing in the first chap
ters merely conversation to fill in until the author
finds out which chap is to land you But along about
page 321 it's signal either for the cench for the
bouncer7
II do wish you'd talk sensiby, in language can un-
derstand."
GAS for the language, if it cramps your style, Miss
Craven believe me- I'll slip the rollers under it and give
it the gate! But for talking sensiby-not l, not
while sparring for wind and trying figure how stand
with YOU 1t wouldn't be fair to your affections
with the impression that the architect of dome used
any building material more substantial than funny
bones"
aDo YOU mean me to understand you're incurably
frivolous?"
@Rather!"
3Isnt it pretty poor recommendation for a sultor
to advance?"
"Do you think so?" He appeared to ponder this
gravely. "But can't that. Think how deadly
Continued page 1s
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@She could do far worse the Dowager Dragon
sniffed @and will-if let you have your way"
(which is just what is going to happen. Lydia and
understand each other my homes the place for her, and
there she goes straight from the steamer. There
Here he rose. 3Thank God that's setted!'
When he had detached his fancee and departed, the
Dowager Dragon took up the thread of her discourse
with Lydia.
4It's up to you, my DEAR she announced. Il mean
to say it's for you to decide. I you you'll never
be happy Tad's not old enough to be father. For
that matter he's not old enough to be husband He's
Needless Irresponsible Eighty Betty Merrilees.
He has grown up, and he never will He's Peter
Pan, with all the innocence expurgated."
Here the Dowager Dragon paused and, receiving no
response regarded with suspicion the object of her
solicitude @What you smiling at pray? she de-
manded in dudgeon. "Do you think L m merely blus-
tering for your amusement?"
II beg your pardon Lydia said meekly, fastening
to erase se the idea of the chief agent of Downing
Street in America being needless irresponsible and
ighty having proved too much for her sense of the
ridiculous. @You made me think of something funny.
But please, Mrs Beggarstaf, don't say any more The
thing quite settled and you don't know how stub
born he is-and I'm his daughter!"
The frown of the Dowager Dragon relaxed, and
cr,1sty smile succeeded $50 be it, l sha'nt contend
with you or Tad another minute. But when you see
your mistake, remember, my home is always open to
you You're cheerful snippet, and not bit hard to
look at and believe could grow quite fond of you.
Now promise you'll come, if ever you re in trouble.
You that consolation at leastf only for being
graceful in defeat"
Lydia promising lightly, placated Dowager Dragon
consented to let the subject drop.
THEN there Mrs. Merrilees, who bade fair to
prove the sister than the stepmother, the girl
friend than either who Craven had wheedled
her of her of his putavey negative and
innocent deception, seemed to find in Lydia just one
reason for being fond of Craven and viewing with
Evening star., 1914-08-23
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her with his dark and quizzica smile; and then she
would flush and smile sptedly in return, thrilled to
think he read her thoughts and understood.
One circumstance alone fawed the perfect jewel of
her happiness-the second and final disappearance of
her sardonyx cameo
The first time Lydia missed it, had turned up safe
and sound before bedtime in its place top of the chest
of drawers But the next day it vanished again and
finally. And though for time her hope ran high that
the finder would return the trnket OF the rather
heavy reward posted by Craven when nothing of the
sort happened she felt forced accept the hypothesis
that the clasp had worked loose when she had been
loungng beside the rail, delivering the brooch to the
sea.
IN her relationship with her father Lydia found
several friendships that however young, promised
permanence.
For one, Mrs Beggarstaff had unquestonably taken
fancy Lydia, which the girl quick to divine and
reciprocate with frank and-if
affection. And the Dowager Dragon was daily wasting
much time in amiable pickering with Craven about his
daughters future openly discountenancng his intention
to make Lydia part of his MENACE at least until there
should be second Mrs. Craven to keep his house in
order-and its master, into the bargain.
Though she once amended acrdly in the presence
of Mrs Merrlees, "as for that to my TASTE Bettys al
together too frivolous to make proper duenna Mark
my words Tad just that pretty featherweght
head finds out life with you not round of pleasure,
that you've got the devils temper and snore, and
look like last years birds nest before your morning
bromo setzer,-when she finds all that out, she's going
to cut loose and lead you dance that won't leave
breath in your fat little body. And then what will be-
of the child?"
3Oh, blow your medding' Craven retorted with
tire good humor 4You forget the child is of age-or
will be in another six months She take of her
self If it she can't, give you permission to
your well known of moral Suasion and nag her
until she's mad enough to hitch up companion to
saw-toothed destroyer of regulations like yourself
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-03-20
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When your hair turns gray. faded.
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their mammoth tent theatre, and dur
ing the week will offer q repertoire
Of great play successes, with up-to-
date vaudeville between the acts. The
opening play will be THE Roundup"
a four-act comedy drama, that will
please all. It Is one Of Mr.. Hawks
best efforts. and the piece will be given
a great production. There are no
concerts or after show with an extra
price to see Mr. Hawk claims heis
giving the people more for their money
than has been offered at a popular
prices: No expensive band is carried
to entertain on the streets. but the
show is in the tent, where patrons
will get the best of everything.
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REv.J.B.LEAVELL OF
UNUSUAL FAMILY
NINE uRoTHERs. EIGHT IN CHRIS
TAN Wcak-EvERx ONE HAS
An A6vAMcEn POSITION.

The Rev. James B. Leaveli. who is
holding revival meeting at the First
Baptist church. is one Of q remarkable
family. His uncle, R. M. Leavell was
for many years professor In the
University Of Mississippi. and another
uncae was 2. r.iLeavell. well known
Baptist preacher and writer Of Missis-
sippi history. 9. ". Leavell. father OF
J. B.Leavell. was . well known banker
ct oxford.
There are nine Of the boys, all OF
them taking advanced positions. l.. P
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Leavell is the Field Secretary Of the
Sunday Schol Board Of the Southern
Baptist Convention, and is regarded as
one Of the most efficient Sunday School
men in the world. DR.. A. B. Leavell
is a dentist in Los Angeles, California,
and is the only one Of the boys not
distinctly in Christian work. D. Geo.
Leaysll lie medical missionary in
South China Frank. H. Leaveli 10 sec
Rotary Of the Sunday School and B.
Y. p. u. work In Georgia. while Leon
ard Leavell holds a like position in
Maryland. Clarence g., Leavell holds
the same position in Arkansas. Ro-
land Leavell graduates this year with
the degree Of A. NJ. from the Univer'
sity of Mississippi and has already
been ordained a minister. while the
youngest brother. Ullin W. Is an under
graduate In the University and will de
vote himself to Christian work.
Rev. James B. Leavell. who is here
Is pastor Of the Baptist church at OK
ford. and 10 meeting with remarkable
success as an evangelist. Before HI
became a minister he was cashier o
a bank in Oxford, and was in direc
line of promotion. Taking 1t all to
gether it is doubtful il there is an.
family in Mississ ippi that can equa
this one in point of service.
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SPRING BLOOD AND SYSTEM
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way for the Traction Company, states
that it is the purpose and policy Of his
company to do all such work in Hat.
tiesburg, where they have fitted up a
complete shop for the purpose BY
this means they will give employment
to considerable local labor and manage
to keep their rolling stock in first
class condition.
The newEopen cars viii require the
service of both motorman and con-
ductor.
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GET READY FOR
SUMNER time

The Hattiesburg Traction Company
Wednesday afternoon tried out one of
the three open summer cars which
they propose to install in the service
Sunday next. Two of these cars will
be put on the Hardy street line and
one on the Bay and Main street line.
These cars look quite new and at
tractive and reflect credit upon the
skill of w. l.. Boucher, the master
mechanic of the Traction Company,
under whose direction three open
trailers we're converted into motor
ears, with every convenience for ser
vice.
M. 3, Smith. superintendent of rail.
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4. B. Smith, superintendent of rail-
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MILWAUKEE MAYORS RACE.

Milwaukee. Wis, March 20.-The
bitterest campaign for mayor in the
history OF Milwaukee is rapidly near
an end. Only three days remain In
which the aspirants for Office may
make their final appeals to the people
who will select their candidates at the
primary election to be held next Tues
day.
The big point at issue in the may
orally contest Is whether the city
shall continue under non-partisan
administration or return to the old
Socialist regime.
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The Earl Hawk Stock Co. will opeI
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