The Washington herald., 1914-02-15
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became a tale bearer against Josephine.
Bourrienne reports that he say a pallor
spread over Napoleon's face. wildness
leap into his eyes and his features become
convulsed. Coming TO his secretary, he
walled, Josephine, and j 900 leagues
away, That she should have deceived
me, ] will exterminate the whole race of
tops and puppies; As to her-divorce; yes,
divorce!'
Bourrienne tried to calm him. but he
cried out, so much do l love Josephine!
But ] will not submit to be the laughing
stock for all the imbeciles OF Paris.
will write TO Joseph He will get the
divorce" Bourrienne reminded him that
the gossip might be false. and besides.
the British probably would capture his
letter. These were SOLDERING suggestions.
The emotions were soon mastered and the
sorrow was soon pocketed. In the end,
he condoned Josephine's conduct-but he
never forgave Junot.
Napoleon resumed his toilsome march
in the desert from FL Arish. an expert
ence made doubly veXatious by kleber's
division missing its way and wandering
about for forty-eight hours without conf
ing upon a well. Some of the men. dis
gusted and discouraged, had angrily
broken their muskets. When they anne
up the general-in-chief only gently chided
the poor. half-crazed mutineers, 1T would
ha been better to stick your heads in
the sand and die with honor than to give
yourselves up to disorder"
Soon the weary men OF France looked
upon the verdant and fertile plains OF
the Phillistines. smiling a Springtime
welcome while the stored mountains
of Judea doomed blue against the East
ern horizon. At last the desert was left
behind with all its strange trials. not
least among which was the necessity of
messing on camels. asses, and dogs.
Before the French rose the walls and
mosques of GAIA. the proud city OF the
Phillistines, the doors OF whose gates.
gateposts. bar and all. Samson carried
of on his stalwart shoulders, after hav-
ing slain his thousand with the jawbone
OF an ass. There. too. at Cana the lusty
DANTE grew his second head of hair In
place OF the locks Delilah had shorn and,
there, with his strength, thus renewed.
he pulled down the pillars of the house.
while 5000 Phillistines stood on the roof
to mock him.
After having been sacked forty times.
Gaaz still is an important and busy place
besiege the town two months before he
could enter its gates, but its latest cap
tor. Napoleon, took il without firing a
shot.
Ky Gath and Assertion.
Then he marched on toward Jaffa.
across the renowned battlefelds of
David. where the ark of the Covenant
was the prize of victory. lip On the bor-
dering mountain side is the scene of the
duel with Goliath. where with the peb-
bles of a brook that armored giant of
Gath was laid low. When the beauty
of Israel lay slain upon the high places
and David wept for Saul, he saw. even
through his tears, this land OF his
hated e.-emy filled with exultatiou over
his less and he cried out: Tell 1t not
in Gath. publish il not In the streets of
Ascalon. lest the daughters of the Phil
istines rejoice"
There are few indeed to be told in
Gath today, for that wretched liuddle of
Arab huts over there on the right from
The Path of Napoleon" is all that is
left Of the once warlike city of Gath,
while OF at the left. by the seashore
orchard trees and onion patches cover
the streets of Ascalon. the birthplace Of
Herod the Great
Napoleon marched over the fields of
Philistia In early March and their beauty