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


 yet those streets all seem as if they surely must lead up to a throne. London. in whose narrow. tangled ways confusion reigns and there is no sign of the pres ence of King expresses English free dom and English indivdualism. But it's sister city across the channel plainly is q made-to-order town and the prettily arranged stage setting of a court. The broad, tree-lined boulevards with their miles and miles of windows and man. sard roofs on typrannical level with their arbitrary vistas of splendid palaces and churches and monuments, wear an air of regal magnfcence that mocks the French republic in it's own capital and ridicules the republican simplicity of President.
 Napoleon, at the height of the empire stamped his image upon the city and made it his monument. The empire fell and rose only to fall again. Borubons and Orleanists have come and gone The commune tossed in it's fitful fever. The republic lived and died and has been born anew. But through all it's vicissi- tudes Paris has remained unchangingly imperial, for art is long and beauty en- dures.
 Although the British metropolis. with population of 100000 in 1891, was twice the size of the French metropolis, Napo- leon hoasted that London is a corner of the world Paris is the center" He solved at once to make himself the Caesar and his capital the Rome of the modern world. Wars delayed and his downfall defeated many of his plans, but the Second Empire took up the unfinished work of the First and completed the transformation of the city from a dingy. mediaeval town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

it's own way with indemnities from conquered lands and subsidies fronks | lied states Warfare was cheap in !. time when soldiers received only a few cents a day. lived off the country and ordnance was simple and inexpensive. The army pay roll was hardly ever more than s1.000,000 month.
 No stock speculator ever watched the ticker more closely than he watched the fluctuations in tho price of rentes or tho public securities. Their par value was loo francs but where they sold for only 12 francs the day before he seized the relns, they rose steadily until the victory of Austerlitz boosted them to 70 and the peace of Tilsit to 80. Shortly afterward they touched 93, which repre- sented interest at the rate of about 5 per cent.
 His interest in money matters was not limited to high finance. but he watched the centimes vigilantly as the francs correcting the empress' laundry bills and rejoicing over tho saving of S7000 il year effected by his having systematized the expenditures for the 155 cups of coffee daily drunk in his palaces. He made his marshals and courtiers furnish their own blan kets, linen, towels firewood and cam dies when in attendance at court, and gave them nothing but the bare beds. Not a sip of soup or ws<e could be obtained in any of the palaces without a check from Duroc. the grand mar shal.
 Life at court necessarily was robbed of its joyousness by such a spirit Of cheese pairing, but the Emperor be- lieved he was serving Q large purpose thus In setting an example of economy in his own palaces the upkeep of which he reduced to an allowance of only s600, 900 a year. whereas it had been as much as s5,000.0 .000 under the Bour- bons, when the broth for 2-year-old princess cost s1000 a year and rolls for each lady in waiting s400. Louis XIV spent $400.000 on court tourney to Fontainebleau. a function that Napo- leon duplicated. in outward form at least. for s20,000. Never" the Elm peror vowed, twill pardon those who squander the public funds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
r,e T. cless BuiIder

One mole monItnent to war which Ma poeon des sncd, he afterward changed into chrsct the classic Madeline. whose pagan beatty betfays its builders first purpose, when he planned to make It a temple of glory and fill it with the statues and tombs of his warriors. But he him helf wss not to lie in the midst of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
Great Works of Peace

 part of his immense empire. The network of canals that carry the commerce of France today was systematize1 by him. It was he who ordered the construction of waterways that linked all the rivers in the country.
 The unequaled system of highways in France was inaugurated by him and toll gates were torn away Applying his hammers to the Alps. rc dd though blocks of granite smooth, spa cious roa.s -.
 which had interposed s.nce time 1e ,aa to
 @Fo'-e nrenies If nations who had else Like kindred drops, been mingled into
 one.
 Wherever he found a barrier between naterr or of law. he impetuously threw himself against 1t in he leveled it's walls. Capturing a citadel, he dismantled It. The 4444. .- q, .. 4- modern times to lead n big army over the Alps. he constructed pleasant prom enades across them by which the merest holiday soliier was freely challeneged to invade France.
 The great siinplon road from Switzer- land into Italy cost s25,000 mile and as
 
 upon it at one time. There Is no more fitting monument of the constructive ge- nius of Napoleon than the Gallery of Gonde on the Simplon, where a tunnel nearly 250 yards long pierces an enor- nous mass of rock that semed to make the road impossible. No traveller reads without a thrill of admiration the in- scription at the portal of the tunnel:
 Acre Italo 1895, Nap Imp
 Two other Alpine roads of his reign are the Mt. Cenis and that over Mont Genevre, both leading rom France into Italy. A fourth is the Grande Corniche, the. noblest road in the world, which he built so high up on the brow of the Maritime Alps from Nice to Mentone that the British gunboats could not shell an army marching by it into Italy. From Metz to Mayence on the Rhine he threw a highway across trackless marshes and through vast forests. When travelling in Belgium he came to the. Mouse one day to find the ferry laid up for repairs. Write" he said to his secretary "A bridge shall be built over the Mouse at Givet." Organizing a messenger service by stage over the roads and bridges with which he knit his empire together, 1t was his boast that he could dispatch a letter to Milan and receive an answer in only eight days o'' 'r communi- e.eioiiS Wltu NdpleS III oiliy los
 Amazing Activities
 All over France. Italy, Belgium, Hol- land and the Rhine country the observant : traveier comes upon enduring and use- ful mementoes of Napoleon's amazing ac- tlvities as builder The great ports of Antwerp, Cherbourg and Boulogne are more indebted to his reign than to any otner Tor their present importance. The ha 11... ~1..l f.s.1 xxrnf ffs.f{ 400 years to be completed. but he ordered It finished in short order. At the same time he decreed the construction of the pretty marble arch which marl-s in that city the completion of the Sirnplon road. but Canova's bronze statue of the En- perors nude figure. which was designed for the arch, stands instead in the court yard cf the Prera gallery at Milan.
 On q brief vis't to yenica. >7soele~, deteG the demolition of group Of old rienaste'ies and laid out the public :sar- den; transferred the cathedral honors from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
Triumphal Arches


 Even while the Vendome column was in process of construction Napoleon suddenly determined to have another memorial of the campaign of 1895. Sum- moning his architect in the night, he ordered him to begin the work the next day, and when the Emperor looked out in the morning he saw 500 workmen digging the foundations for the now famous Arch Of the Carrousel between completion of the arch he crowned it with one of the proudest of his trophies of conquest the celebrated bronze horses of Venice, which had been priz-a of war in the reigns of Nero, Trajan and Constantine, if not indeed of Alex ander the Great.
 Another arch, the largest in the world. the Arc de Triomphe de lEtoiler was be- gun at his command. Seen afar. this beautiful arch. of the star. rising from . gentle eminence in the present day cen- ter of fashion. seems to be swimming in the sky above the trees of the Champs Eiysees and as impalpable as Heecy cloud. The streets approachins it are the namesalxes of the fields or companions of Napoleons glory: the Avenues du Bois Boulogne, de Ia Graade Arnee, Jena. Wagram, Fried.and and Kleber and the Rue Tilsit and the Rue Pressbourg, each bringing it's special tribute to the feet of the arch Among the bronzes that em- bellish the huge and noble pile of marble, there is one which celebrates no victory and yet commemorate the victor at his best. For 1t is the memorial of simple friendship of his youth and represents the death of young AI1irion, who was com rade at Tculon and who laid down his life for his friend on the Bridge of Ar cole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
In the Path Of Napoleon Years Alter His DoOnfaD

Napoleon's most useful and endur- ing victories were won in peace, not in war.
 MT. Morgan's story today opens in the Paris of Napoleon, the city mod ernized and beautified at his com mand, and follows the Emperor over France and throughout the empire in campaigns of construction no less amazing and far more inspiring than his campaigns of destruction. Read how the heir of the great revolution bridged and united rivers, opened harbors, erected monuments, leveled the Alps, uprooted serfdom from Gibraltar to Warsaw and spread the principle of equality before the law; broke the letters of the Jew, estab- lished religious freedom, and, sweep ing aside the barriers of the past, opened the way everywhere to modern progress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

fact that even the Earl Marshal of England, the Duke of Norfolk, was de- barred from a seat in the House of Lords because he was Catholic George III dismissed British cabinet in S07 because it favored the emanei- patton of the Catholics a measure of Justice that was refused until 1929
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

infinite variety made himself the poet and the orator of France. The map of Europe was the sheet whereon he wrote the greatest epic of his time. However vigorous his practical faculty" says Taine, in his study of Napoleon, '4his poetic faculty Is stronger It Is even too vigorous for a stateman; it's grandeur Is exaggerated Into enormlty and its enor- unity degenerates Into madness"
 Napoleon's proclamations to his army often rose to the clear heights of ora tory. Emerson pronounced his battle narratives as good as Caesars. A meas ure of his activities as a writer is of- fered by his published correspondence, filling more than 30 volumes and com prising nearly 5000 documents.
 Yet very little of 1t did he write with his own hand. No pen could keep up with his thoughts. His words flew from his lips while the quills of his secretaries, with no system of stenography to aid them, raced to put on paper a few main points and characteristic expressions from which to frame letters, orders, proclama- tions and speed them by couriers to all centers of the empire. If they were en- gulfed by the torrent and houndered he cried out as if in pain, "I cannot re- peat; you make me lose the thread of my thought"
 He did not have time even to sub scribe Napoleon to the documents which his secretaries laboriously wrote out and laid before him; he merely jabbed them with his quill and made an undecipher- able sign which yet sufficed to give them full force and effect throughout Europe Sometimes the illegible scratch was in- tended for Nap" but as the terrible pressure weighed heavier, and heavier upon him he made only fish hook for an IN" Thus while the power and care of the Emperor increased his auto graph diminished; as the man grew in authority his signature grew smaller and meaner.
 Just as the one letter IN" hastily scrawled sufficed to proclaim his will to docile world so his presence needed not to be hera1ded by any long title As kings and princes entered the court they were announced by all their proud designations, but when the doors were thrown open for the sovereign of sov- ereigins the attendant pronounced only the simple. yet thrilling title. 'L'Em- preur!
 He became the literature, politics and trade of France. He held no councils in war and no cabinet meetings in peace He let Tallyrand go-"he was always in state of treason"-and acted as his own minister of foreign affairs. He abolished the tribunate and his own was the one voice left in the nation. Strong, stubborn natures fled him. and those who remained, sank into clerks to do the bidding of one whom Glad stone rated the greatest administered tor in history"
 Generally he was at work as early as in the morning, tearing through the multitudinous duties of an empire which embraced half dozen king doms and 80 principalities often con tinued at his desk as late as midnight. Sometimes he awoke at a most unrea- sonable hour and called for his assist ants, shouting. Let everyone rise'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

His Own Poe. end Orator In the end this nasterful man. in his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
Napoleon the Financier

The fnancier who financed that enor- nous empire. clothed. fed. armed It's tremendous armtes. was Napoleon him. self. Galloping back from Austerlitz, he stole into Paris In the night, and after an absence of 125 stirring days, sat down at hts table as if he had only returned from stroll. Summoning his ministers in council at 8 in tho morn. ing, he beghn to straighten out tho tangled finances of hls government, TO- organize It's Income and outgo md es- tablish n new system of double entry accounting. lllsd
 He hated a public debt. Tho debt of France was s10o,000. 900 when he began to fund 1t, and he swors that I" as long as I rule I shall not issue any paper" At th9 night of his power the yearly expenditures ranged from GAO. 0o0. 900 to $1so,ooo.ooo. He made his army pay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
The Paris of NapoIeon

Napoleon enlarged the palace of the Louvre which 800 years before had been built in the field by the Seine where the wolf hunters met. and he crowded it with the art of conquered lands until it held the greatest collection of paintings and sculptures ever assembled under one roof. From the windows of the adjoining palace of the Tuileries, which 250 years before i had been erected among the tile klns, he I looked out on the clothes yard of Paris, where the housewives came to do their washing in the river. On the other side of the palace he found himself shut in by a lot of old convents and all manner of ramshackle buildings.
 s He cleared the river bank and lined 1t with broad quays He tore away the huddle of unsightly structures at his palace gate and laid out there what is still one of the most important and im- posing sections of the city. Opening Q magniti ticent street facing the Seine for nearly two miles, he named it for the battle of Rivoli Directing that it should have an arcaded sidewalk in the Italian manner, he prescribed so close ly a uniformity in sky line and archi- lecture that every window and roof and corner of this Rue de Rivoli still must confe---- to his original design. Out of that great street he ran two other now noted streets, which commemorate his battles-the Rue Castiglinoe and the Rue des PyramldS-but a third no long CT is the Rue Napoleon; it has become instead the street of peace, the cele- bratd Rue de la Paix
 In the center of this magnificent quarter he reared on pedestal of Corsican granite the noble column that .adorns the spacious Place Vendome and encased it's masonry in metal plates made from 1900 Austrian and Russian cannons. On those sheets of bronze he caused to be engraved in pictures the story of the campaigns of Ulm and Austerlitz, while he surmounted the lofty column with statue of himself in his imperial robes.
 When the empire fell, the Bourbons hurled to the earth that effigy of the Emperor and recast its metal into a statue of Henry of Navarro, which now stands on the Pont Neuf over the Seine. King Louis Ph..ppe however. crowned the column with another statue of Napoleon, but in the familiar garb of the victorious general-in-chie which in due time Napoleon III re- placed with still another in the .drapery of the Emperor. This, in turn, was overthrown by the Communists in 1871, but. the third republic gathered up the fragments, joined them together and the conqueror in his imperial man. tie continues to dominate Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

ORE blood has been split in the the streets of Paris to over throw monarchies than on any other equal space of earth, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

Next Sunday: The great trade war be- tween France and England which ruine6l the commerce of the United States. Nos polson's invasion of Spain. Y
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

which IL stands are worth. Only the
perverted mind Of the miser prizes
gold for itself. As a symbol. money
most commonly stands for service. So
much labor is represented by so much
money. AS we receive. so we give:
the money we have won BY service
We return to the world in service Be
aus | cannot go TO China 10 preach
the gospel, my money does that sery-
ice for me. Because l cannot lend n
hand personally in building new
churches, my money must be substi-
tute- Because | cannot in person be
on the dock to greet the in coming Inn
migrant. and counsel hi mhow TO be-
come the best type Of citizen, my
money stands in my stead, by the
man | help employ. Because I cannot
teach in a theological seminary or in
a negro mission school, my money
takes my place. Because / cannot in
person seek out a veteran minister OF
the gospel to help make his declin-
ing days easy, | ser my money or
the errand. So, consciously or un.
consciously, every thoughtful Chris
ton reasons with respect to a multi
tude of good cause We project oul
personality by means of ur purses.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

The Lakin Advocate says that Il lady
Of that town, Mrs. W. ". COdeT. vas
informed last week that she is one OF
the heirs to the estate of Lord Balti-
more. which to $500. 900. 900,
and that $50. 900, 900 Of t is held in the
cha7cery courts of England. Already
steps are being taken TO establish the
heirship, and Mrs. Coder is one of the
seventh generation. The Advocate
hopes that Mrs. Coolers information is
Observation-Disclosures City Journal.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26
Observatory For Mont Blanc.

CParris Cor. in New York SUM
A new astronomical observatory IS
to be established or Mont Blanc by
the French Academy of Science be
fore which the plans of the building
have been laid by Maurice Harny. di-
rector Of the Paris Observatory. The
new site has been chosen on a solid
group Of called Petit Flam-
beau, situated on the centre of the
glacier Du Geant at an altitude OF
$3.50 metres GA, 700 feet). The spot
is noted for the purity of The sur
counting atmOSphere.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26
WATCHES TRAIN CUT OFF LEG.
Child, Caught in Frog, Saves Life by
Leaning Away From Track.

Leaning Away From Track.
BY leaning as far as tortured
muscles would permit while he watch.
ed a switch engine bearing down upon
him, 6-year-old William Brand, Of
261r South Franklin street, sacrificed
his leg to save his life last mig t.
With other boys h, was playing on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
tracks near Seventh street md Ore
gon avenue Pursued by a compan-
ion, he ran along the ties toward a
switch.
In the darkness the boy stumbled
and caught his foot in the frog, where
1t was held fast. He heard the clang
OF an engine bell behind him, and
turned to see the switching locomo-
tive speeding toward the yards with a
string of empty cars. He shouted in
vain to attract the attention of the
crew. but the engineer either did not
see him or thought he was pretend
ing. Then the lad, with a sream OF
terror, pulled as far over from the
frog as his plight would permit. and
lay flat outside the rails. but with his
one leg across the path of the wheels.
He is in the Methodist Hospital suf-
fering severely from the shock Of his
experience, but probably viii cover.
PHILADELPHIA Record.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

There IS a wireless telegraph appa-
ratus in q home known to me, and
the boys ezpla; n hat the can only
receive but not send. 1T takes power
ia send. and Power costs. So they
fine out their aar.al to catch mes
saxes from far end near. and never
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26
UNDERSTANDABLE" CONSECRA-
TION.

Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples SOcieties-Christian En-
LcayOr, Etc, for May.31-Convert-
ed PurscS'-Mal. 3:7-12. w..
(By William L. E,l1is.)
If gold were as common as peb-
bles, and pebbles were as rare as
cold the world would have a pebble
sta ndard of money. instead Of a gold
or silver standard. Money is only a
symbol. That is the first big truth
to grasp in any study of h sub
iect. Money merely represents. It
is. worth only what the things for
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

EVE SENTENCE SERMONS.
The good OF many always depends
upon the courage and fidelit, of the
few.-LOWell.
The conscious ability to do without
happiness gives the best prospect OF
realizing such happiness as is at
tainable.-J. S. Mill.
Who never doubted, never half be-
lievcd:
Where doubt. there truth iS-'ti> her
shadow.
Bailey.
The man in the world is
he who stands most alOnc.-Isben.
A sound discretion is not so much
indicated by never making a mistake.
as by never repeating it.-Bovce.
/ ave been young, and now am old:
Yet ! have not seen the righteous for
saken.
Nor his seed begging bread.
-Ps. 1925.
OF all the evil spirits abroad at this
hour in the world, insincerity is the
most dangerOus.-FrOude.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

Gifts are the freight cars pulled
by the engine Of prayer. \ trainless
engine and an ~ensineiess train are
both rather useless objects.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

Gifts OF gold may be hcazen. bu
conservation makes golden even tn,
gifts of copper.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26
A I ES
$1,000 Reward

lee my sEc.l sue
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

Inc gift does not end with the Civ
ing 4 brave sense Of stewardship
req0lreS that one follow his sirts
with careful Solicitude to see that
they are wisely expended. Every
BOARD and every institution which re-
celves money from the pubic should
be held rigidly to a full and detailed
accounting. We give most worthily
when we assume the worthy use OF our
gifts. The idle f~inging Of a coin To
an undeserVlng beggar is no true be
nevolence; ii is a CHEAP and easy
way OF buying relief TO our own feel
lngS. SO to give TO any cause which
does not wisely and economically ex-
pend its receipts is foolish charity.
In a word, il is as much a part OF a
givers duty to examine financial re
ports as 1t IS to read appeals for
aid.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

Money is never an adequate sub.
stitute for personal service when the
latter is possible. Only they whl
cannot possibly go themselves are
asked to send.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

send a message in return. The Incl
dent Is Q parable Of life. II costs
10 send. To give ! message TO the
world, to express ones personality
IN ones time, calls Tor a real eNren-
diture. That j. why small and selasa
lives which bless mankind have given
lives which bless menkind have given
or their substance aud II their selves.