The Washington herald., 1914-01-25

Louvre.
The coming of RaphaePs '-Transae-
uration" Of the Apollo Beividsre," Of
the "Capifoline Gladiator."- Of the
LAGOON" of the bronze horses OF
and the winged lion of st.
Mark, Of the mortal creations Of IT,
tian. Corregio. and the rest Of the old
masters symbolized to the popular
imagination better than any other tro-
pixies the hattering thought that Paris
was mistress Of the world and that
France had succeeded TO the grandeur
that was Romes.
Napoleon often has been indicted for
this rape Of Italian art. But the in
dictment more rightly lies against the
age In which he lived. when war was
adorned with none of our pleasing
modern DISCUSSES and stood forth still
In all its primitive nakedness. without
a veil to dissemble its ineradfcabls
brutality. As men went out to muir
der one another then they did not
strain at the lesser crimes of arson
and Arceny.
It was eighteen years after the
spoliation Of Italy when the bells Of
London rang with Joy over the burn
ing of the Capitol and White House at
Washington Many more years were
to pass before war was refined by
Seneva rules OF etiquette.
Wars Real Victims,
Besides. the pictures and statues are
all back in Italy today. But, alas.
the thousands of men slain in their
youth in that Italian campaign never
were returned to their homes, nor
were the little crops in the trampIed
fields of the poor. laborious peasantry
OF Piedmont and Lombardy ever re-
stored.
II Napoleon made free with the
treasures of the states. he /, NOT
chargeab1e with any indifference to
the sunerings which the war brought
upon the people of Italy. His soldiers.
encouraged no doubt by the example of
pfilasfng superiors. snatched the bread
from the mouths of the peasants. and
were like a plague of grasshoppers
wherever they marched.
Their rapacity caused their general
in-chief to blush to be a man." His
prociamations and orders were filled
with earnest appeals to respect the
lives. property. and feelings of the in
habitants- Any soldier who struck a
person, took property belonging to the
people. or even had stolen articles in
his haversack. was ordered to be shot
at the head of his battalion.
The Game of Diplomacy.
Napoleon's final achievement in Italy
was the negotiation of a treaty of
peace with Austria, a power that had
reientlessly fought the republic from
It's birth. In this work he confidently
matched himself alone against Count
Cobentzl. one of the most renowned
diplomats of Europe. supported by a
distinguished STAFF of Austrian ex-
perts.
He went with Josephine into tn.
run above Venice. where !they settled
do~h at Passeriano. In the country
VIVA OF the overthrown DoSe of Ven
ice. while the Austrian negotiators es-
taoiished themselves in the neighbor-
ing town OF Udine. Here the veteran
ana eminent diplomat met the young
soidler with an easy air of familiar
oaoinase, but Napoleon with one look
established their relations on a difYer-
ent basis Then the game began.
austria was as anxious to put of
as Napoleon was to hasten the evil
Gay OF settlement with her conqueror,
oPhg tnat something might happen
to save her. Playing for time IN.
Austrians demanded everything nar-
ucuiarly the restoration OF the great
fortress OF Mantua- Napoleon repIIed
with a vigorous show of preparations
Tor renewing the march on Vienna. and
Daily grew uglier and uglier toward
the ENJOYS of the Emperor
A Snowfall.
Az last Bourrienne called him one
morning and told him the mountain,
had been covered with snow IN ths
night. He lesped from his bed and
ran TO the window. WHAT he ay
claimed. Snow before the middle or
october. We must make peace"
ihat early snowfall, so discoura cling
70 miH'ary operations. FASTENED hi,
ofun TO a climax. You want war-'
ne shrilly demanded. as he rose from
the council table a few DAYS af,er-
"ard. Well. then, you shall have itr-
History mas a startling picture OF
Nun SEEING from table in Count Cob
entzfs quarters a rare and costly yass
which Catherine of Russia had -iven
70 the count. and. lifting it above his
race convulsed with rage dashing II in
nundred pieces on the floor as he
roared: See, So will / smash vour
monarchy before another month bs.
passed Cobentzl dsubs out this ex-
citing picture. however. and while n.
says the table and vase were acct
nehtaily overturned. he insists the vase
was not broken. But he does assura
US that Napoleon acted like a fool"
1t Is true that after a wild scene OF
some kind. Napoleon rushed out OF the
ROOM loudly shouting to his star to
notify the Archduke Charles that hos
tilities would be reopened in twenty
Tour hours. Deaf to the appeals of
4 member of the Austrian diplomatic
corps. the Marquis of Gallo, who hur-
ried after him to his carriage door. he
drove back to Passeriano, where the
marquis soon followed and in the nam,
of Count Cobentzl laid down his hand
TO the winner in the great poker game
which both sides had been playing.
Peace of Campo Formio.
Austria accepted Venice and yenitia
to the Adige and DaImatia as com
pensation for Belgium. the Rhine from
tier. Lombardy, and Mantua. The in
strument was signed at Passerianc.
but II was christened the treaty of
Campo Formio for a little village ON
the neutral ground lying between the
houses of the two parties to the COM
pact.
The Venetians were outraged by this
giving away of their Independence
Ind their President, Dandolo, started
Tor Paris to protest. Napoleon had
aim arrested and brought before him.
assuring him that II was a necessary
but only temporary sacrifice In the
interest of the peace Of Europe. He
gave the Venetian his pledge that ven-
Ice would not long be left in bond
ige, and she was not.
The directors. too, were indignant
with the terms Of the treaty. But the
people II not the politicians of France
welcomed the end of the more than
i've years war with Austria, and the
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