The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

in the Tyrol, but the Archduke Charles
longing for re-enforcements, refused ts
| make a stand, and fell back from height
to height Napoleon giving him no resting
nest for the first time and faced his re-
lentless pursuer.
Jarvis sits on the summit of the Noric
lowed .-The Path Of Napoleon to that
, mountain village l saw a bronze soldier
standing on the brow of a cliff. his
| his. hand But i found that this statue
does not commemorate an Austrian vic
| tory in the campaign OF 1797, but in an
ether and later struggle with France
twelve years afterward
/ For Jarvis, in spite of its commanding
position. could not check Napoleon's ad-
vance. The pass here is at its deepest
for the swift flowing. silvery Kanal and
the highroad beside it.
Through all the valley above Jarvis.
the most beautiful / ever saw. the people
have taken fight from savage man to
savage nature on the mountain sides and
even on the mountain tops. where on
seemingly inaccessible crass Of the jag:
ged Alpine heights they have pitched
their towns. An army must have to
crowd closely together to keep from rub
bing against the stony walls that shut
them in. And at every angle there is an
old castle to threaten the invader Of
those wild Businesses.
The Story of a Dog.
The retreating Austrians were speedily
melting away under the hot Onslaughts
of Napoleon and he found the road
strewn with their sick and wounded
whom thev abandoned in their flight 10
the mercies of the elements and the foe.
of one of his experiences at that period
he drew simple ana pathetic picture:
In the moonlight and the unbroken
quiet. suddenly their sprang out from
under the cloak OF a corpse a dog which
ran toward me and then returned at once.
utterins dolefu cries. He licked his mas
sprang at me again. He was asking aid
and seeking vengeance.
Never has anything on the battlefield
made such an impression on me. This
he lies abandoned by all except his dog
Peace of Leoben.
Descending into the valley of the
klagenfurt to the archduke an appeal
for peace saying:
Brave soldiers make war and desire peacs Has
not this one lasted six years! Have not killed
enough men and inflicted enough evils on s,rowinE
humanity.
Even a prince of the Oldest royal
house of Europe could not take ex-
ception TO the lofty tone of that com
munication from the Corsican ReDub-
reply and referred the letter 10 his
brother. the Emperor, who himself was
already fleeing from the oncoming foe.
The imperial family abandoned their
palaces in Vienna and abandoned their
capital in terror at the approach of
the Republican hosts. Among the fu-
gitives running away from Napoleon.
the ogre of every royal house. was a
six-year-old princess. the Archduchess
Marie Louise!
After more Austrian defeats and
when the French were at Leoben, only
III miles from Vienna, as the railroad
now runs, and more than 400 miles
from the starting point Of their cam
paign Just four weeks before, Austria
cried enough. and laid down her arms.
Her ENJOYS came to Leoben. in its
pretty vale. and. choosing a garden as
neutral ground, they met the conqueror
there in a summer house. As they
started to write in the preamble OF
the armistice the statement that the
Emperor of Germany recognized the
French Republic, Napoleon commanded.
Strike that out; the republic Is like
the sun: none but the blind can fail
to recognize IT."
(Copsnght. 1915. by James MorsAn)
ew Caesar" who already welded