The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
I the Path of Napoleon Years Alter His Do1onfan

NapoieonS s secret passage o1 the Alps six months after he became the first consul of France and his un- heralded descent from the clouds upon the rear of an Austrian army as it was about to invade France, was not only one of the boldest feats of his military career, but also one of his most important and decisive move ments.
 MT. Morgan tells today the dra- matic story of the celebrated march of more than 30,000 men over the Al pine heights and sketches his own Journeys in "The Path of Napoleon" through the pass of the great St. Barnard. A visit to the house Napo- leon gave his guide and to the famous hospice on the summit of the lofty mountain, where, amid eternal snows, the good monks and their faithful dogs after a thousand years still keep watch over the storm-beaten way farers.
 DATES AND EvENTS-AGE %.
 April 5. 1SSO-Austrian army under Me- las opened it's campaign in Italy,
 April 10, 1S0O-Melas shut French army under Massena within the walls of Genoa.
 April 25. 1SSo-Austrian army under de kray opened its campaign in Germany.
 May G. 1So0-De Kray driven across the Danube by French under Moreau.
 May 6, 1SoO-Napoleon left Paris. desti- nation unknown
 May 13, 1sOo-Reviewed his army at Lau- same.
 May il, 1s0O-His army began the pas sage of the Alps
 May 20, 1s0O-He himself crossed the Great St. Bernard.
 f~1 HERE is little cottage a Bourg
 St. Pierre, the tiny Swiss ham, |sFS3FSSI let that lies on a shelf more Ese2sSey than halfway up the snowy side of the Great St. Bernard in ''The Path of Napoleon across the Alps. It's unpainted walls have been stained by wind and rain a deep. rich brown like all the rest of the 90 GO habtations in that rude and lonely Alpine village.
 Yet it has it's distinguishing mark. and every one in the place calls it "The House With Three Windows" But vil- lagers have found that for some reason or other the stranger is more impressed if they point it out as "The House of the Guide of Napoleon
 Before was introduced to this Mai son du Guide de Napoleon I made the acquaintance or the mn ol St IleiIe, the Hotel au Dejeuner de Napoleon. As drew up beneath it's swinging sign the very sight of the hotel of Napol- cons breakfast whetted to a fine edge the appetite which had been sharpened by drive through the keen mountain air.
 There the curious traveller may sit in the veritable chair and at the workable table of the historic dejeuner and listen to the story of it from the lips of the granddaughter of the innkeeper who served it. until he is distracted by the feast of memory she spreads before him he can hardly do single-minded jus tice to her worthy omelet. The old pie lures of the grandparents and their inn mortal guest hanging the paneled walls and the china and pewter access sories of that dejeuner 1iS years ago are banquet in themselves.
 As the granddaughter of the old inn keeper presides now over the Hotel all Deieuner de Napoleon. a grandson of the guide dYells in the Maison du Guide de Napoleon Together they industrious ly polish and keep shining the memory of the great little man, all buttoned up to the chin in big gray overcoat. who rode out of St. Pierre on a mule one May morning in the year 1soo Swiss peasant walking beside him.