The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-08-11
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
AGO IN BELGIUM

w iuf N'HE 1910 a iitlt before the
uutc uf the commencement OF the ac-
ton narrated in the nrst part of ~
book.
Had Il not raincd ON the nlght OF
June d. 1915. The future OF Europe
would ave seen changed. 4 rev
drops 81 water. more or less. proc
ttated Napoleon. That Waterloo
should De the end OF the Aus,eriitz.
Providence needed only a little rain.
and an unseasvntbiu cloud urossing
the SAY Frinced Tor the overthrow Of
IA world.
The battle OF w-aterioo-and this
gave Butcher time to come up-could
not be commenced before li3O
o'ClocK, Mhy Because the ground
was soft. II was necessary To wait FOR
b to acquire some little nrmncss 50
that the artillery could maneuyer.
Napoleon was an artillery officer,
and he never forgot IL. The founda
ton Of this prOdigiuus captain was
the maj who. IN his report 10 the d.
r~ectOry upon aboukir. said such ct
our balls killed six men" All his
plans ot oat,le were made for pro-
J J%cctiies. To converge the artillery
upon "A given point was his key of
I fNNANia nc AIftAth TIVE HiihA'hN VI
the hostile general as a citadel anu
battered u To- a breach. He over
whelmed the weak points with grape.
he Joined aud resolved battles with
cannon There was marksmanship iu
his genius. To destroy squares, ~
pulverize regiments, 10 break lineE.
Ia crush and dispense masses, all this
was for him, to strike, strike inces-
..nyIs a.4 T. E.s...F.N AL. .N..s.- -.
the cannon bali a formidable meth
cd. which, Joined TO genius, made this
somber athlete OF he pugilism OF
war ~inyincibie for rs years.
on the 18th of June, 1915, me
counted on his artillery the more
because he had the advantage In
numbers. Wellington had oaly 1853
guns. Napoleon had gao.
Had the ground been dry and the
artillery able TO move. the action
would have oeen commenced al 6
o'clock in the morning. The battle
would have been Won aud FINISHED at
. o'clock. three hours before the
Prussians turned the scale OF fortune
How much fault is there on the
part OF Napoleon In the loss Of this
battle. IL the shipwreck to be i'm
puted to the pilot?
Was the evident decline 10 Napo-
leon AZ this Tim, by A
| correspondinR mental decline HID
his 20 Years of war worn out the
sword ns welt as The sheath the soul
as well ns tho boay wns tho Val.
eran lniurlousiy fell In the captain ?
In "A word. was thai genius a. many
J considerable historians hay. thoughf.
under an c~ciIpse7 Had he nut ON "A
frengv TO .dlsxuls. his .nf, .blemeut
from himself Did n. h.gin 10 wav.r
ana be aewldered by a N
blast Was he becomine IA gray.
fault In a general careless Of dan
ger? In that class of material great
men who may be called the giants Of
%nctlon. ia there an age when th.ir
genius becomes sbottsighted9 old
ags has no hold on the se,hises of
the ideal: for the Dantos and Mich
ael Angeles. To grow old Is Ia grow
great; for the HannibaIs and the Bon.
apartes il IL 10 grow less9 Had Ma.
poleon lost his clear sense of yictory .
Could no no Longer -racornize IN,
shoal no longer divine IN. snare ns
longer discern the crumblIng .dge al
the ubyssq had he los, the insilnc,
Fl. Of DISASTER Was he. who formcrl,
knew an the mathis Of triumph. and
who. from The h.ieh, az Ms oashtp
ea- nointed Them out win severely
nnRer now under such dark hallucl
patin, as "a drive his tumutt,u
train Of l.sions oyer the p-racipices.
WAS no seized AZ az wears with a al
} preme Was this ,itani,
driver OF destiny now only a mon
s,rous
w. mini moi.
M nlan az hattie was an confpss
N mn.ferntsce r. march stratyht =,
the center al The allied line Micro.
,he e,emv ont them in two push IN.
uy,,ish hoif unon tt,l ana tho prus
sian half unon Tongres. make Well
ington ana Rlncher' two fragments
carry Mont 81 lean. seize Brussels