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The Springdale news., 1914-08-07

wood last Tuesday being called by wire, to preach the funeral of the wife of J. w Hutchens, who died Mo day evening. He returaed home Thursday
 Mrs. Lillian $. Furry left fore part of the week for Lakeside, Ohio, wher she will spend some four weeks rest ing and visiting friends. She will probably visit New York City before her return home.
 R. D. Garland, an old friend of the writer, who was formerly located in Stigler, Okla, was in Springdale Fri day talking Oliver Chilled Flows. MT Garland is now travelling representa- tive for this we'll known line in this section
 Don't Worry called at The News office Saturday and had quite visit This was his first trip down town in some time, and he re ports his condition considerably i'm. proved, so much so, that he promises letter in few days He says to tell all the correspondents and read CTS of The News that he is still alive and kicking, and don't worry.
 l.. B. Fitzgerald, of this place. Progressive candidate for representa-. tive of this county, is making prepar- ations to make an active campaign of the county in the interests of his candidacy. Other members of the Progressive and Republican ranks are grooming themselves for the fray, and will endeayor to entertain the voters from now until September 7th
 Quite a little transfer was made in the Brooks X Garrel livery stable latter part of last week. Vernon Brooks traded his half interest to Charley Vaughan, and after staying out five days, traded for a third interest back The new firm an. nounce that they are installing an up to date auto livery in Springdale and will use two cars, Stakeholder and Ford, in this branch Of the business.
 Last Thursday was an off day for the autos of Springdale, and three or four of them are now laid up for repairs The Embroidery Club spent Thursday picnieing at Monte Ne, and the trip was made in automobiles Frank koering driving the Maxwell car of W G. Ownbey, hit a stump twisting the front axle, l.. D. Pet ross driving his Flanders jammed the gears, until the car had to be left over night. Frank Deaver driving the Buick, broke a rear spring, and suffer ed some punctures and blowouts. Ear
The Springdale news., 1914-08-07

Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher of Rogers spent Sunday with their daughter Emily Truax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
CHRRYzNG orr ZzE b60NzE
AOR5E5 or LEVICE

but the clothes on his back, rcorned their
bait; IT be content with some millions
and with some dulledom or other!" Their
baffled emissary could only report that
this man means to subjugate France
and through France. Europe'
The Duke of Modena sent gift of four
Golfers of gold, containing 100000 francs.
THANK you,' Napoleon replied, 'for such
a sum / am not going to put myself in
the power of the Duke of Modena."
Money never is the tempter of the Alex
anders and the Caesars, the Charlie
magnes and the Napoeons. 1t cannot
buy what they want. Great ambitions
can have no alloy of avariee. The eagle
cannot soar with bags of gold tied to
its feet.
In time when war was an open sea-
son for plunder, Napoleon appears to have
kept his hands clean, although his gen.
erals We're freely invited by him to stuff
their pockets will ill-gotten gains an
many of them waxed rich in a summer
he did not object to their rapacity be-
cause 1t diverted them from higher am
hilton and supplied an excellent foil for
his own integrity. MY supremacy" ne
said afterward when reviewing that first
campaign, could be retained only by
proving myself "A better man than any
ether In the army"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
The ROnapartes

The Bonapartes changed their names
with their changing lot in life. drop
ping their Corsican nomenclature for
more French-sounding prenomen. The
mother, Letizia. was Latinized into Lett
tia, Guisseppi became Joseph; Luciano
became Lucian, although for a while he
adopted the name of Brutus; Luigi was
made over into Louis.
In her devoutness Letitia had chris
tened all the girls for the Virgin, but
now Maria Annunzata was transformed
into Caroline, Maria Anna into Elisa, and
Maria Paoletta into Pauline Napoleon dis
liked his own name as too foreign in
France. Fame overlook it, however and
glorified it before he could change it. But
he dropped the u from Buonaparte when
he took command of the army in Italy,
and Gallicized the pronunciation by silenc-
ing the final e.
Mother Letitia never had looked upon
her daughter-in-law until they met at
Montebello,. and, like a soldier advancing
within the enemy's lines under a flag of
truce, she approached the willy and ma
ture widow, who had entrapped her guile
less son. Josephine did her part in a
way that claimed her husbands lasting
admiration. But she exhauster her Pari-
sian graces upon the stern Letitia without
ever breaking down her cold reserve.
Her kindly arts were no more successful
with hef sisters-in-law. Creole and Corsi-
can were oil and water and would not
mix
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Photographing Bullets

IL a photograph of a speeding bullet
could be taken the print would prob
ably show a space like a body of water
marked by what looked like speeding
water bugs each leaving a ripple In it's
wake, says the New York Sun. Photo
graphs of projectiles have been snapped
In time of peace. but 1t Is doubtful IL
the camera ever caught one as 1t sped
on Its mission of death. bullet speed
ing at the rate of 5000 feet q second
which Is more than 1000 miles an hour.
makes great disturbance in the at
mosphere and creates air waves, which
CT course are invisible to the naked
eye.
II you draw stick through tho
water 1t causes little eddies and waves
to trail behind 1t. The faster you draw
the stick the more waves and the wider
the angle will 1t leave. The slower
the stick it's drawn the fewer waves
Just so the bullet. If 1t is travelling
slowly no waves can be photographed,
as apparently there are none. Ii Is only
objects travelling at terrific speed tha.s
create any appreciable air waves.
photographs of bullet going at u
rate of speed less than 1900 feet a
second show no air waves at all. This
is an interesting scientific discovery
But anything cutting through the air
at Il greater rate than this disturbs the
atmosphere to such great extent that
air waves are formed and can be photo-
graphed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
The Fatal Mistake

As Napoleon stirred the emotions of the
Italians with hopes of national independ-
ence he fired his army of French republic
cans with the'ze of liberators and made
them "play and laugh with death" as
he said while they marched and battled
for freedom and right. 1t is true he no
longer shared his soldiers simple faith
In the republic. ''Vive la Republique" was
now to him hardly more than phrase to
conjure with. hardly more than an ele-
ment in the strategy of the hour.
He had been behind the scenes in Paris
and the illusions of his youth were gone.
The nightmare OF the Reign of Terror
had replaced the beautiful dreams of his
barrack days and q generous faith in
humanity had withered into bitter cyni-
cism.
He had mistaken the plotting politicians
of the capital for mankind, the fatal mis-
take of his career.
What an idea," he exclaimed, "a re-
public of 30,OO0,O0O men! Give the French
people a rattle and they are satisfied
He held no higher opinions of the ltal-
ians: Good God! There are 100000
people In Italy and with difficulty 1 have
found only. two men,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

In his second and last summer in Italy,
after the armistice with Austria, Napo-
leon left the heat of the city, for Milan
is one of the hottest places in Italy, and
took up his residence at this villa, which
time has changed beyond recognition. 1t
was then a great country palace, sitting
far back from the high road in a large
park, with cool, shady avenues, pretty
fountains, ingenious grottoes, and all
the exquisite loveliness of an Italian
retreat. Two flights of steps led up to
the broad, high terrace that ran along
the front and sides of the villa, from
which the Alps could be seen on the
one hand and the lace-like turrets of the
Milan cathedral on the other.
In that sylvan refuge the young ar
bitter of nations gathered the families
of his military and civil officers about
him, and thither the envoys of suppliant
states followed him. There, too, with =
Corsican loyalty to the ties of blood, he
assembled most of his family and was re-
united with them for the first time since
the flight of the Bonapartes from Corsica.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Wars Real Victims

Besides. the pictures and statues are
all back in Italy today. But alas. the
thousands of men slain in their youth
in that Italian campaign never were re-
turned to their homes. nor were the
little crops in the trampled fields of the
poor, labrious peasantry of Piedmont and
Lombardy ever restored.
II Napoleon made free with the treas
ures of the states. he is not chargeable
with any indifference to the sufferings
which the war brought upon the people
of Italy. His soldiers, encouraged no
doubt by the example iof plllaging super
iors. snatched the bread from the mouths
of the peasants. and were like plague
of grasshoppers wherever they marched.
Their rapacity caused their general in
chief to ''blush to be man. His proc
lamations yand orders were filled with
earnest appeals to respect the lives, prop
erty and feelings of the inhabitants. Any
soldier who struck a person, took prop
erty belonging to the people or even had
stolen articles in his haversack. was or
dered to be shot at the head Of his bat
TALON.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
In the Path of Napoleon Years After His Do,onfon

Napoleon's final achievement in Italy
was the negotiation Of a treaty of peace
with Austria, a power that had relent-
lessly fought the republic from its
birth. In this work he confidently
matched himself alone against Couns
Cobentzl. one OF the most renowned
diplomats of Europe, supported by q
distinguished staff of Austrian experts.
He went with Josephine into the
Friult above Venice, where they settled
down at Passeriano. in the country
villa of the overthrown Doge of Venice,
while the Austrian negotiators estab-
lished themselves in the neighboring
town of udine. Here tho veteran and
eminent diplomat met the young SOL
der with an easy air of familiar badi-
mage, but Napoleon with one look es-
tablished their relations on a different
basis. Then the game began.
Austria was as anxious to put of as
Napoleon was to hasten the evil day of
settlement with her conqueror, hoping
that something might happen to save
her. Playing for time, the Austrians
demanded everything. particularly the
restoration of the great fortress of
Mantua. Napoleon replied with a vigor-
GUS show OF preparations for renewing
the march on Vienna and daily grew
uglier and uglier toward the ENJOYS of
the empire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
The Waning Honeymoon

Napoleon met his family's assaults
upon his wife without flinching. Tt was
true tina tthe months had changed his
ardent love into gentle kindness. The
conqueror of the fortress of Mantua had
already raised the siege Of Josephine's 5
impregnable heart, capitulated and SUBJ
sided intdDa quiet and as yet faithful hus-
band. The honeymoon had waned and
been succeeded by the calm, cool STAR
light of friendship.
He had made the discovery that, even
as great Caesars wife had her Clodius
and was not above suspicion, his wife
had her Hippolite Charles, Partisan
coxcomb on Leclerec's staff, whose
favor with Josephine was the scandal OF
Milan. Still too much of a provincial
Corsican to retaliate in kind, he was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
His Milan Palace

When he came again patriotic aristo-
crat invited him to accept his house and
he went to live in the Serbelloni palace
on the Corso Venezia, a few squares be-
hind the cathedral. 1t is far more beau
tiful than the royal palace and probably
the most beautiful of all the palaces OF
Milan. The passerby on the street cdr
nay see only it's severe exterior. with
the marble tablet commemorating Marc
Ieon's tenancy, and might not suspect its
inner beauties, its great columns and
noble courtyard, it's royal halls adorned
by Titan, Valasequez, Salvador Rosa and
ether master brushes.
There in the Serbelloni Josephine was
installed by Napoleon when she came on
from Paris and it was their honeymoon
rest. There they served their appren-
ticeship in the art of reigning, requlr-
ing neither royal palace nor roya.
crown for their rehearsal.
Napoleon, indeed, hardly needed to study
the part. Nature seems to have cast
him for it. In the obscurity and poverty
of his youth there was something i'm
peral in his bearing and temper. some
thing that marked him apart and held
him aloof from his fellows. The world
only called him queer then, bur the in
slant he gained power it acclaimed hin,
great.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Peace of Campo Formio

austria accepted Venice and Venita to
the Adlge and Dalmatia as compensation
for Belgium, the Rhine frontier Lom-
bardy and Mantua. The instrument was
signed at Passeriano, but 1t was chris
tened the treaty of Campo Formlo for
a little village on the Neutral ground ly-
ing between the houses OF the two parties
10 the compact.
The Venetians were outraged by this
Swing away of their independence, and
their President, Dandolo. started for
l'aris to protest. Napoleon had him ar
reated and brought before him, assuring
him that 1t was necessary but only tenn
porary sacrifice In the interest of tho
peace of Europe. He gave the Venetian
Lis pledge that Venice would not long
be left in bondage, and she was not.
The directors, too, were indignant With
the terms of the treaty. But the people
IL not the politicians of France well
coined the end of the more than five
years war with Austria, and the peace of
Campo Formio was hailed as the crown
Ing victory of the army of Italy, whose
flag bore the boast of 100000 prisoners
and 610 pieces of artillery captured In 1s
pitched battles and In three times as many
minor engagements.
Copyright, 1914, by James Morgan.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Rome and Venice

In all his pulling down of thrones, thera
was one that Napoleon shrank from lay
ing hands on, the venerable throne OF
Ieter. He invaded and dismembered the
papal states, but, although continually
urged by the directors to seize Rome,
he spared the eternal city, not even
choosing to step foot in 1t.
He only postponed the fate of Rome.
however, until successor at the head of
the Army of Italy entered the city ard
carried off Pope Plus vi to die in cap
tivity at Valence.
No such eompunction as the holy see
inspired in him restrained Napoleon In
dealing with Venice, which, notwith-
standing the virtuous outcry of many
historians, was perhaps the least de-
serving state in all Italy. The Vene-
tlan territory lay between the French
and the Austrian frontier and its rulers
did not sufficiently conceal their hostility
to France.
At last while Napoleon was away on
his campaign in Austria, q bloody mas
sacre of the French, which did not spare
even the sick in the hospitals of Verona.
took place on Venetian territory, and the
fate of Venice was sealed. II will be an
Attila to you.'' he stormed at the Doge;
"the lion of st. Mark must bite the
dust"
Thus a despotism Of a thousand years
fell with as sudden a crash as we have
seen It's campanile fall In our day. 1t
was full time. Venice had outlived her
glory. and in her dotage an oligarchy Of
1000 privileged persons, by the mere force
of ancient prestige. held in a stupid and
sopetimes cruel subjugation more than
2,00b,00O people ON the italian mainland.
As the moldy oigarchy tumbled down
a revolutionary populace set up re-
public under French protection. The
Golden Book was burned, and the Doge
never more plghted his troth with the
Adriatic and cast his ring in the lagoon
as a symbol of the marriage of Venice
with her bride, the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
OF Self-Emptying Pattern
he WASHINGTON Star.

ioih tit w dSHinElOh otdT.
In casting about for some method TO
speed the collection of the mail from
the street letter boxes. Postmaster
General Burleson discovered that tho
present method of picking the letters
out of the boxes by hand is not only
slow but costly. Accordingly he today
ordered 100000 new boxes of the self
emptying type. These boxes vii conf
bine both the beauty and utility and
at the same time economize time in the
collection of mail.
THE principal feature of tho new
boxes" he explained, rs the facility
with which they can be emptied by mail
collectors. This is ACCOMPLISHED through
curved slides and drop bottom attach
ments emptying into the open mail bag
under meath. One model of the drop
bottom pattern is especially adapted for
collectors using automobiles.
THE new boxes will not be attached
t. the sides of posts, as Is the case
with the present boxes. but will be
placed on ornamental pedestals."
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Fis First Court

The transition came in day. Veteran
generals of the Army of Italy We're trans
formed at once from his critics into his
down here in Milan than a court spor-
taneously formed around him.
While the populace stood by the hour
IN the Corso Venezia waiting to catch
a glimpse of him as he entered or left
the palace, his officers and the men,
bers of the Milanese aristocracy sat in
the grand drawing room with their eyes
On the big folding doors. watching for
them to spring wide and for him to ao-
fear before them. The moment they saw
him every one of them, men and women
alike, French republicans equally with
Italian aristocrats, sprsug to their feet
and bowed in silent homage beneath the
eagle-like glance of his deep-set gray
eyes.
As yet his eyes were almost the only
feature that men remarked in the personal
presence of this little, long-haired pinched
face general in chief. His lean, frail, girl
ish figure might have been that of q poet
starving for publisher. His STOPPING,
almost round shoulders and palid counte-
nance suggested the study room of a
scholar rather than the camp of a con-
queror.
Success and glory had found no reflec-
tion in his visage and it was still as sor-
rowfu as when it bent over the plate of
a sx-sou dinner in a cheap restaurant of
Paris or in suicidal meditation gazed
longingly upon the Rhone at vaence The
one soldierly thing about his appearance
was his uniform and that was as plain
as the army regulations permitted.
The artist Gros has described, but
should have painted, a pretty scene at
the Serbellons, when he came from Paris
to paint his celebrated picture of Napo-
leon on the bridge of ArcoIe. Never find
Ing his subject at rest long enough to
enable him to start the picture, the only
sittings he obtained were directly after
breakfast when. for his benefit, jose
phine sometimes obligingly held the Lit
tie Corporal on her knee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Like a Bourbon King

A picturesque guard of 800 Polish SOL
diers was stationed in the park and
the band of the guides played for din
ner, where apart from his courtiers Ma
poleon ate like a Bourbon monarch,
while a mob of privileged persons stood
and watched the eagle feed, their awed
gaze disconcerting him no more than
if he had been born and bred at Ver-
sailles.
AS the company slipped its after dinner
coffee on the terrace, Nine. Leopold
Berthier, wife of the younger brother
of the chief of staff, sang in the draw
ing room or there fioated out the deeper
toned melody of General Kilmaine, the
brave Dublin man and veteran of the
. American revolution, who delighted in
singing the airs of Erin. Another man
of Irish blood but of French birth, Cen
eral Clarke, was the favorite story teller
of the terrace.
But when the circle had gone in
doors and left the outer air to the fire
flies Napoleon himself sometimes prac-
ticed his dramatic gifts. AS he enacted
a Corsican ghost story, with only candle
or two to light up his face, the women
rewarded his efforts with screams of
horror.
Elisa Bonaparte was vain of her tall
ent for reading plays and Pauline of
playing soubrette parts. Eugene Beau
harnais was also at Montebello, his step
father having appointed him to the staff.
His mother overfiowed with pride in
this handsome and graceful youth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
A Merry Lot

They were a merry aot, hardly more
than boys and girls and giddy with their
sudden rise from poverty and obscurity.
If they could have foretold the strange
fortunes that awaited them. if they
had anticipated the future by 10 years
and nailed one another as emperor and
empress, kings and queens, princes and
princesses, dukes and duchesses, counts
and countesses they would have seemed
more mad than their present unfortunate
successors, the insane inmates of Monte
bello.
Napoleon had taken care to share his
prosperity with his family at each up
ward step in his swiftly changing for
tunes. Nearly all the $4,000 that the di-
rectory voted him for putting down the
revolt in the streets of Paris went a.
once to his impoverished mother, who
had seen with dismay her daughters
growing UP wild and neglected In patched
shoes and clothes, robbing orchards like
tomboys and flirting with gallant French
men in the streets of Marsailles.
With all his fathers persistence as a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
M Ambition for Money

If, however, his republieanism was now
only a pretence, he was still as true as
any man in the ranks to what he regard
ed as the great, original purpose of the
revolution. He had no use for the Bour-
bons. He was intensely loyal to the new
France. Other commanders of the armies
of the republic had sold out. But his
sword was without price.
Naples and Venice, and Austria Of
fered him rich bribes In cash and hofors.
The Bourbons were always trying to buy
their way back to the throne. but the
man who had landed on the throne Of
France three years before, with nothing