The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
A St. Helena Prophecy
 In a hundred years Flu rope will be all Cossack or all republican.
METTERNlcH

his grave and where the land rolls away to the mountains of Bohemia. Ii beat first of all upon Ney, while his raw recruits were cooking their din her. But they turned from their ket- ties to face the foe and bore their baptism of fire so unflinchingly that the marshal in his enthusiastic surprise declared that they were better food for cannon than veterans who knew enough to break and run.
 At the end of bloody half-day struggle that inevitable hour of weari . ness and frresolution for which Ma poreon always waited and watched in the ebb and flow of the battle tide, and he called out, '"Eighty guns. prouotf The guns, being quickly parked, opened their mouths and poured forth torrent of iron and fire which tore through the enemy's line and put the allies to flight War was terribly simple with Napoleon
 Lutzen, however, was a costly vic tory Napoleon had nearly twice as many men on the field as his oppo- nents and he lost 13.000 to their 10.- 900. But for want of horses he cei1ld not pursue and cut off the vanquished and turn his success to practical ac- count Still he had taken the first trlck, and in Vienna, where heavy odds had been given on Austria joining the alliance against him, the betting quickly shifted
 After the battle was won and fin- ished, Prussian cavalry brigade amde squirt that surprised and broke up the Emperor's own escort In the con fusion and the darkness, he was sepa- rated even from his staff, and after the furry was over had to gallop about to find his aides. He had al ready begun to display that heedless- ness of peril which characterized his last campaigns when, seeming to challenge the Tickle goddess to do her worst, his gray coat was carelessly offered in nearly every engagement as a target for the slings and arrows that outrageous fortune wa6 raining upon his empire. His suite often coulc not avoid the risks he ran, and Bes- sleres, commander of the guard, was killed on the eve of the fight at Lut- zen, the second marshal of the em- pire to fall, Lannes having been the first.
 As the battle of Lutzen was tough. near the last battle-ground of Gustavus Adolphus, so the battle of Bautzen was waged three weeks afterward close by a field already made memorable by Frederick the Great In his gentle de- scent from the mountainous frontier of Bohemia, through the famous Spree wala and on to Berlin, the River Spree washes no walls more picturesque than those of the little city of Bautzen whose quaint medieval towers stood witness to the deadly grapple of more than 100000 men as they swirled for two days about the hillocks that rise from the countryside.
 In the fighting on the first day, Ma poleon drove the Czar and the allies out of the town, and that night the campfires of his army formed fam ing line nine miles long. At 5 in the morning of the second day, he was in the saddle and riding among his troops. and at he announced to them that the battle was won. The chimes Were sounding in the belfry of the ca- thedral of Bautzen. where for nearly 300 years now Catholics and Protest ants have used the same altar. when the Czar ordered the defeated army of the alliance to retreat through the Silesian gorges.
 The losses of both sides together ag- gregated not far from 10000. Napoleon had won another victory as costly and bootless as that of Lutxen. For through