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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
The Rising of the People

In vain he appealed to his new al- lies, the kings and princes, to help him beat back the tide of popular feeling Fatuously imagining that the bond of blood was as sacred and strong among looked upon Marie Louise and her baby as hostages of peace between Austria and France. and humored his imperial father-in-law by planning a special coronation for the Empress and the King of Rome.
 But while he was relying on a young woman and a teething child. poor little German girl, without crown and without title, influenced the des- tinies of nations far more than the daughter and the grandson of the Hapsburgs. For when that simple fraulein sold her finger rings flor $1.50 and gave the money for the triumph of her fatherland, the loyal women of Germany caught the infection of her spirit of sacrifice and heaped upon the altar of patriotism not only their rings. but all their gold and silver as we'll As many as 15O,00o German fraus, we are told. pulled the wedding rings off their fingers and dumped them in the mint gladly taking and proudly wearing in exchange iron rings Inscribed, Gold I gave for iron
 Although Goethe might smile and say to the Germans shake your chains, if you will; Napoleon is too strong for you; you will not break them,' sim pier minds were braver and truer. The spirit of Queen Louise walked abroad: songs of freedom burst upon the land and the church, the school and the home were leagued for German inde- pendence
 The Emperor Francis at Vienna, and King Frederick William TIT. at Berlin, were helpless to resist the tidal wave
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
Electric Fans in India

From The lnulandpOnS Staf
 One of the blessings for which over- heated India thanks the United States is the electric fan. which is rapidly replac- ing in that country the old-fashoned punkah operated by the unreliable pun kah-wallah. who used to so to sleep out side the bedroom door and leave his vic- tims to swelter.
 The American electric fan as a matter of fact, is changing social life in India to great degree. Owing to the use of the American fans it is possible now for the- atres and churches in cities like Bem- bay to be open all the summer. whereas formerly. 1t was difficult to induce peo- pie to enter such structures in the heated season.
 The old-fashioned custom of relying for cool breezes on coolie labor is fast pass ing away. Although the punkah- wallahs were paid only about $2.6O month, the great number of them that had to be em- ployed made the expense considerable. It is good to learn through the report of Consul Henry D. Baker at Bombay that American merchants have been enterprise ing enough to esta blish themselves firmly in this profitable field of supplying ele,e tric fans to a country where the temper- ature in the shade often goes up to 190 degrees, while in the rooms the normal temperature is about 110 degrees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
Blinded by Power

All of Napoeon's fellow sovereigns shared in some degree his distrust of Russia, when in the spring of 1913. the averaging Czar entered Germany in pursuit of the wreck of the retreating grand army. Napoleon or I. or Napoleon" Alexander had exclaimed We cannot reign side by side The earth was not large enough to be di- vided with the Corsican.
 But the subjugated monarchs of the west drew back from the offer of the Czar to be their defender. They pre- ferred even the chains of the French and the ills they had rather than fly to others unknown which the Slavs might bring upon them. The Empe- TOT of Austria and the King of Prus- sia equally dreaded the thirst of the Russian bear for the waters of the Hellespont and the vistula.
 But while the crowned heads of Eu- rope hesitated between choice of evils, their subjects hailed Alexander as savior and welcomed as friends and brothers the wild horsemen from the Valley of the Don as they loped
 
 gates of Hamburg Prussian soldiers mutinied against King Frederick Will Ham III and rallied to the standard of the Czar. The German people sprang to arms and. throwing off the galling yoke of the French, drew around the hated conqueror of Jena guerdon of fire and iron.
 Napoleon might still be the ally of kings but he was no longer the son of the revolution and the hope and cham 'pion of mankind. On the contrary, he saw the inspiring title of liberators which he wore in his magic youth, caught up by Russian Czar and Haunted on the banners of the Cos sacks, who snatched from him the watchwords of patriotism and liberty, which in other days had fired his le- zion with an Irresistible passion. For patriots were no longer behind him but were in front of him and challenged him whichever way he turned, whether in Spain, in Russia or in Germany.
 Byron and Tom Moore sing the un- happy lot of the eagle which saw his own feathers plucked to wing the odi lo lHdt bIOdSHl HlHl lO Ills QOO1l. Such was the fate of Napoleon.
 His wonderful fortunes had blinded him; but who is there that could have kept cool head and a clear vision under such intoxicating favors At the dizzying altitude of his sudden eleva- tion he lost sight of the true source of his power and success in the breasts of the, people, and forgot the senti- ments that sway mankind. cynically holding the human heart to be "only one of the entrails,' and that 'it is the pit of the stomach which moves the world" But he had arrayed both those organs in a dual alliance against him by his subjugation of the nations, his heavy trail of blood. his war taxes and his veYatious restrictions on trade which were raising the cost of living to ever higher levels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
The Russian Peril

In his exile at St. Helena he made
 this prophecy while reviewing his Mos
 COW campaign. '10o years hence. I shall
 be applauded and Europe, especially
 England, will regret that did not succeed. When they see their finest countries overcome and a prey to those northern barbarians. they will then say, Napoleon was right" Having
 himself failed to erect a dike against the barbarous horde, he was convinced that nothing could stop the advance of the slav. Although England and France and Prussia might yet form a triple alliance against 1t, he declared 1t would be in vain. because Russia. by viving Servia and perhaps other Balkan lands to Austria, could easily seduce that power while she was planting herself at the Dardanelles. "Once mis- tress of Constantinople," the prophetic exile said; Russia controls the com. merce of the Mediterranean, becomes a great naval power and God knows what may happen"
 His intimation that England. which had allied herself with Russia against him, might yet be the ally of France against Russia came true when two score years had passed after his march to Moscow. In the Crimean war of 1S54-6, the British and French under Napoleon III, stood shoulder to shoul- der to save Constantinople from the Russians. Again the two nations drew together in 1878, when the Cossacks were in sight of the dome of St. So- phia, and, having been joined by Ger many and Austria in the Congress of Berlin, they saved Constantinople once more.
 But diplomacy as well as politics makes strange bedfelloMs, and in 1914 we see England and France the allies of the Slav against the Teuton in g war that broke out for the rescue of Servia from Austria. It is none the less remarkable that Napoleon should have foretold that Slavic ambitions would be the next disturbing factor in Europe. and that in his mention of Servia he should have put his finger on the very starting point of the next general European war after Waterloo.
 He failed to foresee however, the development of the great Germanic em- pire which would avenge Jena at Se- dan; challenge England on the sea; di- vide the west in a political and eco- nomic rivalry, and drive the Slavs of all nations to unite in self-defense. In dread of the Germans, the Pan Slavic movement was born, and the Slavs of Russia and the Balkans have beei drawn so closely together in the pres ence of that peril that the St Peters burg politicians dared not sacrifice Slavic Servia as a brbe for Austria. Thus the war of 1914 finds Franco and England joining with Russia against the Germans just as 100 years ago Germany and England joined with her against the French.
 Yet. when this political and commer- cial conflict is over, Napoleons fore case of the descent of the northmen may be verified. A few years more or less count for little in the slow. glacial movements of the races. anu there is still some time remaining even within the limit of the century which the prophet of St. Helena set for the 8ulfillment of bis prophecy, when he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

that was sweeping over their lands. Even while it rose from their ankles to their knees, they went on haggling and bartering with the French diplo- mats to make the best terms they could with Napoleon. They feared the Czar and the clamoring populace and were slow to yield to either
 Napoleons own ambassadors tried to warn him of the strength and swift ness of the current, with which his monarchial allies were contending. But he was as deaf to the counsels of pru- dence in 1913 as he had been in 1872. Metternich notified him that his own life had been threatened because of his Napoleonic sympathies and he as- sured him that he was ready to die forsthe Austro- French alliance if Ma poleon would only help his allies by displaying a new spirit of moderation and generosity. But the lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh. Napoleon could not or would not recognize his extrem- ity and his opportunity and disgorge any of the spoils of his victories. "If I begin to give back villages they will next demand whole kingdoms" he said
 Frederick William, while boasting that he punished even those who dared jest at Napoleon, and while limiting at a matrimonial alliance between the Hohenzolerns and the Bonapartes, humbly begged that his long overdue feed bill for the grand army be paid. But Napoleon refused to give him 4t, threats which his agents reported, of the docile Prussians preparing to cast off his thralldom than a shepherd would be if told that his sheep were plotting a rebellion. "The German is eontented," he said, If he has his cab bage crop in his cellar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
I the Path of Napoleon Years Alter His Dounfal

MT. Morgan draws picture today of the opening of the last great gen. eral war in Europe before the war of 1914, when Napoleon hastened back from Russia and created a new army on the ruins of the Grand Army to repel the averaging Czar and the still pursuing Cossacks.
 Russia, Prussia and England then were in triple alliance against France, which was virtually disarmed until, in few wonder working weeks, Napoleon had organized another mighty army.
 The uprising of the German people
 Napoleon's remarkable prophecy of the Slavs overrunning Europe in 100 years.
 DATES AND EvENTs-AGE 4S. December IS, 1s12-Napoieon arrived in Paris.
 December %, 1S12-Prassian General York went over to the Russians.
 January 22, 1S1s-King of Prussia left Berlin.
 February 2S, 1Sis-Alliance between Russia and Prussia.
 March 8, 1Sl9-The Cossacys in Berlin March 12. 1S13-Seized Hamburg March 26 1S13-Russians entered Dres- den.
 April 15, Napoleon left for the front
 May 2, 1S1S-Won battle of Lutzen. May 10 1S13-Entered Dresden. May 2O-21, 1S13-Won battle of Bautzen. June 1, 1s1S-Armistice until August 16
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

Germany rose in the summer of 1S13 and fell upon him. And the leader of that great popular uprising vas none other than Alexander I. the au.ocrat of all the Russias, who presented himself as the deliverer of the nations from the tyranny of the French
 Napoleon could not believe that the continent would trust itself to such a leadership, and he never ceased to ad- monish the countries of the west to be- ware of the Russian peril which he him self had always viewed with dread. Ever. at the love feast of Tilsit in 1897, when he and Alexander, cooing and bil,ing sat down to divide the earth between them, he resisted, with all the stubbornness in his nature, the Czar's longing for Con stantinople and, although he let him take Finland from the Swedes, he saw to it that the treaty of cession should forbid Russia to fortify the natural outposts of Finland in the gulf of Bothnia and make the Aland islands the Gibraltar of the Baltic.
 Nor would he consent to the Russians moving further west through Poland. which he looked upon as a necessary barrier against them, and rather than weaken it. he sacrificed his chance to marry sister of the Czar. He delcared on the eve of the campaign of 1872 that he would not agree to let the Russians have another Polish village, not even # the Cossacks stood on Montmartre.
 No doubt he was honestly persuaded that he was defending the civilization of the west when he marsnalled the hosts of 20 nations and led them against the Czar, and he was equally sincere after ward when he raised the warning cry, Tn hundred years Europe will be all Cossack or all republican,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
Napoleon and the Pope

Tn the midst of his negotiations with Austria and Prussia, Napoleon had also treated with the captive pope The Elm peror Francis having appealed to him to deal more gently with the venerable pom stf, he had ordered Plus VII to be brought from Savona to Fontainebleau in iel2 There, in the great palace, the pris- oner was installed in spacious apartments, ana carriages and servants were provided Tor him. But Plus declined the favors or bis captor and dwelt like a hermit in the sumptuous chateau.
 Naroleon never was so futile against any other antagonist as against the gentle shepherd of the flock of Rome. whose empire, unarmed and invisible, calmly withstood the assaults of tho great captain. Alexander declared himself the son of Jupiter, and in my time.' he ex- claimed, T find priest more powerful than l ami''
 Shortly after the Emperor s return from Russia, he wrote to the pope in a spirit of. reconciliation. and he followed the let ter in person, when one day in January he suddenly burst in upon Plus. For i've days they conferred togfther and provis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
The Coalition of 1913

When, however, the patriot politicians had induced Frederick William to leave Berlin, which was only French garri- son, the King was quickly swept away on the tide of patriotism and. arrived at Breslau, he was readily drawn into ne- gotiations with Russia. But the two pow CTS nearly quarreled over the division of the spells yet to be won. In the yearn- ing of the prowling bear to follow the sun in it's westward course, he demanded that he be permitted to plant his paw on the Polish lands that Napoleon had taken from Prussia at Tilsit and erected into the grand duchy of Warsaw After much pickering, however, bargain was struck. The Czar and the King swore, as when they stood together with Louise beside the tomb of Frederick the Great in 1865, and as again when they joined hands at Bar tenstein in 1907, to drive Napoleon beyond the Rhine, and they threatened to dispos- sess all German princes who refused to en- ter the alliance
 Austria immediately took to the middle of the road and declared an armed neu- trality between Napoleon and the allies But one of her ablest statesmen, Count Stadion, only foretold the truth when he said, We are no longer master of our own affairs; the tide of events will carry us along"
 Meanwhile. however, Austria attempted the role of peacemaker and held out the hope that France could have peace if Nal poieon would give up the confederation of the Rhine and retire from Germany, the Tyrol and Dalmatia This, indeed, would have left him a far wider domain than France possessed even in the reign Of Louis XIV But he disdained to compro- mise and chose to try his luck in another game with destiny. He would gamble once more on the green cloth of the German plains and stand to win or lose all on single throw. But now the dice of the gods were loaded against him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
The New Army


 But in the face of all difficulties, Ma poleon had an army of more than 100000 soldiers in Germany, with 6Oo cannon, when he left Paris for the front at O clock of an April morning after in- vesting the Empress with the regency and bidding goodby to the little King of Rome, who in vain had been lispng the prayer for peace which his soverness taught him.
 In less than four months since his return from Russia he had built up a new army on the wreck of tile grand army And it is well to remember that he had to do it without teegraphs or telephones, without railways or automobiles and without even press to aid him in rally ing and enrolling the people and in or ganizing and supplying his forces,
 The people of Germany had forsaken him. but the princes of the Rhenish con- federation remained true and drove their unwilling subjects to his eagles. Mot for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
Modern Matrimony

Madge: When I get married wouldn,t think of leaving my husband alone in ths city all summer" N''
 Marjorie: You'd better not tell him that before you're married.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

lonal agreement between them was drawn up and signed
 The Emperor yielded many of the points in dispute to gain what to him was the main thing. the popes confirmation of the bishops whom the government had appointed in the course of the estrange- ment from the papacy. But when Plus saw that preliminary paper published as
 the Concordat of Fontainebleau he re- sretted his signature to it and after much counsel and reflection he announced his retraction. The church. therefore, re- mained at war with the empire.
 
 Marvellous Weeks
 All the time he was amusing himself with diplomacy, Napoleon had been busi- ly reilling the empty culver that he brought back from Russia. Since the moment he awoke in Paris the morning after his return from the disastrous cam paign, his herculean energies had been bent to the creation of an army as great as the one he lost in the Russian mael- strom. No other weeks in the wonder ful record of his life are more crowded with marvels. -
 When the year 1913 opened France was a nation disarmed and worse than that, for her best fighting men and her war material were either buried under the Russian snows or were hotly enlisted in hHS ppduiSH tdfHpdlSu dSdiTSt the allied Spaniards and English under Wellington. Two decades of warfare had drained the country of it's military resources and left 1t in state of exhaustion which is prob ably reflected to this day in the national birth rate
 The land had been combed again and again, and now it must be combed with fine teeth The sons of the well-to-do who had been avoiding service by paying for ,11cfi if,.<e raked in along with those who had drawn lucky numbers in the yearly draft. For three years the annual conscription had been anticipated to meet the demands of the Spanish. Wagram and Russian cam raigns, and the youth of the nation had been called to the colors a year in ad- vance of the normal time. Now another forced loan must be eXtorted from the future, and the conscripts of 1874 were snatched from their mothers in the be- ginning of 1913. They took to the woods by the thousands, but were hunted down and dragged to the standards. Others, however, made good their escape by maiming and incapacitating themselves.
 The adult male population of the coun- try had been winnowed so often that hardly anything remained but the chaff The physical standards of recruiting were lowered to catch all who were strong enough to walk and big enough to carry a musAet. Many of the recruits were so small or young that Savary, the min ister of police. objected to their drilling before the jeering crowds of cynical Paris
 The equine race had suffered with the human from the desolaton of the wars. The country was without horses old and strong enough to draw tEe artillery, and that branch was seriously crippled by animals too young and small for the load Prices had risen IS high as SS5 for cavalry, s1O5 for dragoon and $40 for cuirassler horses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
The Rising of the Peoples

1MBOLDENED by the calamity
 that had overshadowed Napo- \ leon and his army in the Rus. J sian campaign, the people of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
Two Battles Won

The Russians and Prussians under took first of all to wrest Saxony from Napoleon's control. and that kingdom bore the brunt of the entire war of 1S13 For six months the Saxon plains were trampled by the armies Of all the nations of Europe, humble homes were laid waste, and the sickle of death reaped in the fields where the toiling peasants had sown, while in the des- peration of loser. the discarded fa- vorite gambled with fate. For half year the hurricane of war swept back and forth over a battle-ground 90 miles lonH and 40 miles wide
 The storm first broke in full fury on an afternoon in early May at Lutzen, near where Gustayus Adolphus found
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
The Fatal Truce

Ht dLdl Truce
 Tho Russians and Prussians. when Napoleon resumed the chase ill the morning. continued to flee before him, while they auarreled among them selves. He had been in the field only five weeks and had won two great bat ties, swept back the enemy from the Saaie to the Oder T distance of more than 200 miles, and filled the coun- sels of the allies with dissension But although he had 200,000 men at his command against not more than 000 he despaired of overwhelming this smaller force without horses for his cavalry. and he was ready therefore to welcome. a pause in the campaign He had found it harder to get horses than mcr-or boys. Moreover. he was fast driving his foes upon the Austrian, frontier and into the arms of his fath- er-in-law. who, he feared, would thus be drawn into the alliance against him.
 In the presence of that delicate sit uation he did thing alien to Ma poleonic warfare---he dropped his hands and stopped fighting Accept ing the mediation Of Austria, he~ en- tered into an armistice with the Czar ana the King of Prussia for two and a half months a truce that was to prove fatal to his cause
 Copyright, 1913-1914. by James Nor
 gan.)
 Next Sunday: Marie Louise's father turns avaa Napoleon. whose allies all forsake him and leave him to face a Europe in arms. The Emperor's last great victory at Dresden-The battle of the nations at Ueipsic and the re- treat on Paris.
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BLUcHERJ

misunderstanding of orders on the part of Ney. the Russians and Prus- sians, who could and should have been cut off and smashed, made good their escape, leaving not a button or a nail in the hands of the victor
 Death of Duroc
 The Emperor hastened after the flee Ing allies the next day in an effort to retrieve the mistake and destroy the retreating army. While he was in hot pursuit Russian gun was trained upon him and ball hissed in his ear as 1t tore past him to lay low Duroc, the grand marshal of the palace, who was riding few yards behind him.
 Napoleon turned to see his devoted servitor writhing in pain from mortal and hideous wound. The order was given to cease firing and tse Emperor. returning to his camp seated hinselfl In the midst of the guard while he surrendered to the emotions of grief over the loss of an inseparable com ranion in all the campaigns of the em- pire. His generals came up to receive only reply was. Tomorrow, every thing,"
 No other man but Berthier had been so closely associated with him, and Berthier sometimes quarreled with him. But Duroc, he used to say, loves me as asdoe loves his master" And faith 'ful even in the grave, he lies at the gate of his masters tomb in the In- valides
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-02

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