The Washington herald., 1914-03-01

the door of his room bolted against her
and her fearful appeals for admittance.
But il is one thing to see a woman weep
ing and quite another only TO hear her
as Napoleon heard Josephine's outcries
echoing through the house. He declared
again and again his settled purpose to
cast her of.
A peacemaker asked if he wished all
Paris to have the laugh on its hero
Well, at least, they must live apart; she
must 60 to Malmaison, their country
place. As to forgive her, ne would have
tu tear out his heart and fling it in the
fire before he could do such a thing.
But as he himself always saved his
Guard until the last to snatch victory
from the jaws of defeat. Josephine now
called upon her Guard. the two children,
whom the stepfather loved as his own.
When the obdurate husband saw them
on the stairs, weeping with their mother,
his resistance began 10 melt.
81 can't stand too many tears he eN-
planned to a friend. The sobs OF those
poor young things were too much for
me" He could not be so hard-hearted as
TO visit the sins Of the first generation
on the second. and he told Eugene he
would keep him with him. No, general,
his young aid replied; Il bid you farewell
on the spot"
and next he lifted both mother and the
daughter from their knees The storm
was over, and the wife took care thence
forth never to arouse her Corsican nus,
bands jealousy. When lucien came to
his brothers chamber the next morning
at he was astonished to see Josephine
peeping out from beneath the coverlet-
The Pear wns Ripe.
Napoleon lad hastened from Egypt
with an ambition 10 be the savior OF
the country. from military disasters in
Italy and with no expectation that tht
time had already. come for him TO take
his place In France. with no thought
that 'the pear was ripe" as he had beer
in the habit Of saying. But he found ht
had only TO shalse the tree to bring dowr
the fruit. France was not fearing for
eign armies SO much as the plotting fac
tions at home, who forever kept the coun'
try between the two horns of the dilem
ma, the return of the Bourbons or the
return Of the Terror. - 49,,
She did not lack for a soldier. A states
man was her one great need. The re.
public had failed to give peace and Sc
curity at home. and after an even ter
years of incessa ut little revolutions with.
in the great revolution, the harried and
wearied people seemed ready to purchase
law and order at any cost
The country turned to Napoleon, there.
fore, not SO much as a soldier as a ruler
not so much $ the eonqueror as the
| lawgiver Of italy and Egypt. q
After a decade of bioodshed and tur.
dom of speech were suppressed. forced
loans were extorted; suspected familie:
and communities were treated like saw.
ages and required to give hostages fol
their peaceable conduct, until thousands
of persons were in prison for no crime
Schools hardly existed. Hospitals were
demoralized and the public health neg.
lected. The roads were in n wretched
state and swarming with bandits. Ma.
poleon's own baggage was robbed on the
way from Frejus
The streets OF the capital were filthy
morning testified to the crimes OF The
night. The city had lost 10000 in popu,
lation- Only little loose change re.
mained in the national. treasury, and
rentes, or government securities, were
| down to L francs, which meant that
the republic was paying interest at the
rate of Al per cent
The Directory was at the end of its
rope Twice Napoleon had propped II up
with bayonets. While it had formerly
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