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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-15

Napoleon Not in Bible"

Jaffa is the portal of the Holy Land
Thousands of pilgrims every year jump
from their steamers into the arms Of
Arab boatmen. who row them between
the jagged rocks and land them on the
shore OF the strange, tumultuous east
found the dragemen of the town over
flowing with amazing minute information
about the exact landing place in this
ancient Joppa of the cedar of Lebanon
which the King of tyre sent for the
building of Solomons temple. the vert-
able point of departure whence Jonah,
fleeing from the presence of God. sailed
hence into the storm only to be hung
overheard to the whale, the precise site
of the house of Simon the tanner. where
Peter tarried many days and the tomb OF
Dorcas, the woman fun of good works
and aims deeds, whom the apostle raised
from the dead.
But they We're less definite and VOLT
able about the more recent ways ana
habitations of Napoleon. After they had
held a prolonged town meeting on the
subject their chief spokesman sought to
explain and excuse their ignorance by
saying to me. you see, gentleman. Ma
poleon did not get into the Bible Ana.
of course, that was his fault, not theirs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-15
Divorce, Divorce.

Sauce for the goose, however, is never
quite the same sauce for the gander, and
when Junot while walking with his
Genelal-in-chief in the desert one day
became a tale bearer against Josephine
Douiriene reports that he saw a pallor
spread over Napoeon's face, a widness
leap into his eyes and his features be-
come convulsed. Coming to his secre-
tary, he walled, 'Josephine and | 600
leagues away! That she should have
deceived me, | will exterminate the
whole race Of fops and puppies. As to
her-diNorce, yes, divorcei'
Bourrienne tried to calm him, but he
cried out SO much do | 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 di-
vorce.' 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 Josephines conduct
but he never forgave Junot.
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IERNETS SHETGH or
NH9OLEON on Il ClHNEL

his arrival in Egypt that exclusive at
tachment to his wife which had ruled
his heart through the two years since
their marriage. At first he looked in
vain to see Helens beauty in a brow
of Egypt and then fell under the spell
of the wife of lieutenant one of the
many French women who against the
strict orders of the government. had
followed her husband in the army or
the orient by smuggling herself aboard
the transport in soldiers garb.
The srenadiers honored this little eA
nlliner of Carcassone with the title of
Cleopatra. but Josephine's son deli
oately objected to riding as an aide
beside his stcpfathers carriage on his
drives abroad with Nine. Lieutenant
Eusene SAYS in his memoirs that
somewhat lively Interview followed this
refusal, but that the drives were dis :
Continued.
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By Gath and Ascalon

Then he marched on toward Jaffa,
across the renowned battefields of Da-
Vid where the ark of the covenant was
the prize of victory. Up on the border
ing mountain side Is the scene of the
duel with Goliath, where with the peb-
bles of 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
enemy filled with exultation over his loss,
and he cried out ''Tell it not in Gath
publish it not in the streets of Ascalon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines re-
joice
There are few indeed to be told in
Gath today, for that wretched huddle of
Arab huts over there on the right from
The Path of Napoleon is all that Is
left of the once warlilSe city of Gath.
while off 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 beau
ty took him by surprise. He likened the
scene to the lovely landscape of Lam
susdoc, about Toulouse, in southern
France. 1t is indeed a lovely land.
riot of color
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Napoleon's Cleopatra

While crossing the desert Napoleon
underwent a torture of the soul far
inule excruciating than any bodily suf-
fering. His mother and brothers and
sisters. who now surrounded Joseph
inc in Paris. had already entered upon
the relentless Corsican vendetta which
WAS to give him as we'll as her many
one among them bore witness against
his wife by almost the first mail he
+. 20 ived in Egypt. for after the battle
cf the pyramids the conqueror of the
lane of the Pharaohs wrote to his
II other. Joseph, complaining of his do
nestle troubles and saying 'it is sad
cradition to have at once every kind
oi feeling toward the same person i'll
one heart am disgusted
will human nature. Greatness pals
Oh me My feelings are all withered
! Glory Is trivial at 20. Fare
Nell, my only friend
= Nine dc Remusat tells us that had
N:.Eoleon been better loved he might
Lay. been Il better man. But then does
rot woman always blame woman!
Whether from Joserhine's fault or
fpT kiplings seogl aphical reason that
h. found himself by the fortunes OF
war in that polygamous east where
the best is no better than the worst,
Napoleon lost within two months after
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A Battle of Scarecrows

Out of the vast waste Il Arish. the
first outpost of Asia. rises in the val
ley, of the Biblical River of Egypt
Before it stretches a beautiful irrigat-
ed plain where date palms and fig trees
cast their cool shadows and where
the shining green of the vines is "a
most welcome sight to eyes long
blinded by the glare of sky and sand
EI Arish is so old that history can
not count its years. Its camels and
mules dring from stone trough that
was once the sargophagus of a proud
fore yesterday. in its reckoning of
tire. when Baldwin /, King of Jeru-
salem lay down to die within its walls.
Il is today a town of livid white
houses and perhaps 1000 people, who
plunge about ankle deep in its sandy
streets as they go to bend their heads
to Mecca in the mosque or 70 swell the
chatfering hubbub of the bazars
When Napoleon stood before its gate
he had no artillery with which to
lombard the garrison behind the walls.
Therefore, he set up behind his earth
works 20 cross sticks and hung SOL
dier's coat and hat on each History
asks US TO believe that the simple
Turks blazed away at those scare
crows three days, until their ammuni-
tion was nearly exhausted. when they
surrendered.
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A New England VILLAGE

If the truth must be told. ! was most
interested in Jaffa by a tree-crowned
hiia and its cluster of wooden cottages
set in pretty gardens Just like tiny
American village. Rising out of the
oriental squalor. those prim little
wooden houses looked strange indeed in
the stony old town and their story is
equally strange. Their boards We're
sawed ON the banks of the Penobscot
down In Maine more than half n cen
tury ago and brought here and set up
In 1856 by "A little colony of American
Iilgrims, who soon found themselves
stranded in what they had confidently
hoped would be their promised land"
Many quickly fell prey to climatic
diseases and In year only three fam
lilies were left
4 German religious colony succeeded
them and became one of the pioneers of
the many German colonies which are
prospering in Palestine today. But the
blooming and leafy hill and its little
wooden cottages are the monuments Of
the real path breakers. those III fated
American colonists who sowed for
others to reap.
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The Tales Of a Canvass

The fathers of the Armenian monas-
terry, however, qualified in profane his
tory by showing me the very cell IN
which Napoleon slept while he made their
monastic home his own and their tall,
imposing cavass conducted me down into
the cavernous and pillered place, which
after Napoleon's departure became the
celebrated pest hospital of Jana, story
| shall reserve for the proper sequence.
There the cavass squiatted before an old
column and vigorously rubbed his back
against it. while he recited in Arabic
what mast have been an interesting Ma
poleonic legend.
He also showed me. as part of Napo-
Icons headquarters, the offices of a
steamship company, much to the sur
prise of the young Austrian clerks, who
seemed TO have been unconscious OF
their historic surroundings. A SPACIOUS
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The Plain of Sharon

In the glory of an April morning,
" hen the birds We're sin ging their song
Of spring, / was iolted in a wagon
along "The Path of Napoleon" out Of
jaffa and on the Plain OF Sharon, that
sunny. Smiling field of floclls for my
people who have sought me- The air
va laden with the fragrance of or
enges. and | met n long procession of
cuinels. i'm trains of six each train with
a. man at one end and boy at the
other. while over the back of every
camel was swung half dozen boxes
OF the delicious Jaffa oranges, which
the German colonies have developed
until they represent yearly export
amounting in value to 3 Sl,0OO,O0O.
Beside me in the rude carriage sat
another and later American colonist. a
Bowdoin graduate from the state OF
Maine. who is a member of the goodly
company which form the American col
ony of Jerusalem. His specially is bot
any. and he has botanized all over the
HOLY Land. collecting and shipping to
Christendom the flowers of the scrip
tl,reS
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Wary of Jerusalem

Napoleon steered his course toward
the tower of the forty martyrs at
Ramleh, where the Franciscans wei
coined him to their convent which
stands on the traditional site of the
house of Joseph of Arimathea Now
the good fathers not only show their
visitors the altar dedicated to the rich
rlan who came among the poor Gall
lilean outcasts at the root of the cross
and. taking the body of Jesus. laid it
in his own tomb. but they exhibit also
the room of the young general in chief
Of France.
Through the town of Ramleh runs
one of the two railroads of Palestine,
that from Jaffa to Jerusalem, where
the pilgrims to the Holy City are
drawn up into The mountain by locomo-
tives that We're first built for the
use of the French in the construction
of the Panama canal The ancient
highway to Jerusalem also passes by
the town, and Bourrienne suggested to
Napoleon that he march 10 the city of
David. But his chief turned aside from
Jerusalem as he had from Rome. II
am not ambitious for the fate Of Cas-
sins," he said
With his back to the .Judean noun
taiis therefore, he marched on Jafra.
p;.st LYDIA, at whose gate, according
TO the prophecy of Mahomet, Christ viii
slay Antichrist on the last day. LYDIA
bousts above all that it was the scene
of the martyrdom OF St. George, the
Christianized soldier of Rome, who res
cued the maiden from the dragon and
1t was there by his traditional grave
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The Damascus Road

We We're on the highway that leads
10 Acre. to Nableus, to Nazareth and TO
Damascus, and rough though 1t be. 1t is
one of the three or four real carriage
roads of Palestine. The good roads
movement here dates only from the pill
erimage of the German Emperor in
1898. when the Sultan ordered some
oad building for the kaisers conve-
nicrce, and the work has been contin
ued htfully for the benefit Of the tour
Its.
The natives naturally take no inter-
est in the subject. for while Judah could
not overwhelm the men Of the valley
and the plain because they had char
lots Of iron, no chariots have they to-
day these men Of the valley and plain
/ did not see an Arab farmer with
heeled vehicle Of any kind. The ass
and the camel and the immemorial
trails and paths suffice him. | was
told there are only two automobiles
In all the country. and they are
owned by foreigners. Mr.. Charles ].
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The Land of the Philistines

Napoleon resumed his toilsome march
in the desert from Ell Arish, an expert
ence made doubly vexatious by Kleber's
division missing its way and wandering
about for, As hours without coming upon
a well. Some of the men,. disgusted ana
discouraged had angrily broken their
muslets When they came up the Cen
eial-in-chief only gently chided the poor,
half-crazed mutineers, 1t would have
been better to stick your heads in the
sands and die with honor than to give
yourselves up TO disorder"
Soon the weary men of France looked
upon the verdant and fertile plains oil
the Philistines. smiling springtime
of Judea loomed 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 OIL
messing ON cames, asses and dogs.
Before the French rose the walls ana
mosques of GAIA, the proud city of the
Phiiistincs, the doors of whose gates.
sateposts bar and all, Samson carried
off on his stalwart shoulders, after hav-
ing slain his thousand with the jawbone
OF an ass There, too, at GAIA the iusty
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 Philistines stood on the roof
to mock him.
After having been sacked 10 times,
GAIA still is an important and busy place
of $1,000 population. Alexander had to
besiege the town two months before he
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A Lion in the Path

Surely this new Alexander would
make short work of Acre, the savage
den of Bosnian slave who boosted
the bloody title of Deiezzar Yhich
means The butcher" "the beheader."
"thc cutthroat" or something equally
terrible But this barbarian did not
stard alone i'm the Acre gate The
British lion was crouchine there In
"the path of Napoleon
Bv a dramatic combination of cir
crmstances which the playwright ana
the novelist might hesitate TO employ
and which makes history seem theat-
rical Napoleon found standing on
either side Of Deiezzar wo men who
had crossed his path in other years
ana other lands. one OF them was
daring young English sailor OF fortune
who. after serving with swedish ana
Turkish fleets. had joined the British
navy and was at Toulon when II fell
under the fire of Napoleons batteries.
II was he who stald behind to blow
up the smagazines and cheat the Victors
Of their spoils'
In "a later daredevil adventure he
was captured as a suspected spy and
confined In the temple at Paris for two
Years After appealing in vain to the
narnbers of the government to be ex-
changed as prisoner OF war ne ad-
dressed a plea for assistance TO Napo-
leon on his return from italy, but re-
temple was sidney smith.
THE other allN- of Dejezzar was
Frahchman aySa graduate of the keoie
Niilitaire -b%Paris. lie aud Napoleon,
were ap~fhe Ecole together, wn.ee ters'
ousrrSIed and knocked each others
shHs black and blue under the desks
vi the classroom. This was Phelip-
'poallX.
phelippeaux was an aristocrat ana
an enemy Of the republic Being IN
Paris and ready for plots he aided
smith to escape from the temple Just
one week 70 u day before Napoleons
departure for Toulon and the east.
They fled to England. and when smith
was sent to Egypt to watch and thwart
Napoleon. PhelppeauS eagerly Joined
hin, dn the expedition against his old
Achoolroom foe.
When the army was slowly laboring
across the desert smith. racing ON
ahead with his little fleet pounced
nnon the French fiotilln. having ON
board the seige train and ammunition-
NApoIeon thus left without the neces7
sary means of besiesiag the town. saw
his own guns mounted on the walls by
Phclippeaux and turned against MN.
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old khan nearby | shall take the lib
erty Of Identifying as the place of refuge
of the poor soldiers who We're led forth
to the slaughter on the beach.
This canvass represents n picturesque
and Indispensable adjunct of every Chris
tian consulate and establishment i'm Tur-
key. BY a fortunate happening, ! found
myself travelling for a time with an
American consul and under the protection
of a cayass the terrifying definition of
the term being shooting man"
lie was startiingly arrayed in a heaV-
ly gold embroidered Zouave Jacket with
flowing sleeves and might say also
flowing trousers for their seat fell in
folds nearly TO the ground. ON his fez
he wore golden American eagle; in his
belt a glittering sword and horrible
looking pistol, while IN his hand he car
ried a long lash, which he iourished TO
make the people fan back and give us
free passage through the crowded lane
like streets.
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the sea and swan for Sheir lives to the
rocks which make the harbor of Jaffa
famous-pr infamous-the tabled rock $
to which the virgin Andromeda was
chained. But the appetite of the firing
squads had grown by what ii fed on
Not to be cheated of their fun measure
OF blood they rested their muskets on
the beach and by making an oriental
sign of reconciliation they entieed the
miserable fugitives from the perils Of
the foaming sea. to shoot them down
as they were about to swim ashore.
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Napoleon at Acre

The fate of the east depends upon the capture of Acre
That is the key of Consantinope and OF India. If
ceed in taking this paltry town, shall obtain the treasures
of the Pasha and arms 100000 will then raise and
arm the whole population of Syria | shall advance
on Damascus and Aeppo. | will announce to the
people the breaking Of their chains. shall found
in the east new and mighty empire which will fix my posi-
ton with posterity
Quoted by Bourrienne.
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Three Foes to Face

Forty times in two months ne hufieu
his little force in vain against the gate
OF Acre under the fire from the town.
and often under another stream of fire
from the British ships In the midst OF
IN. seige an army of Turks from pa-
mascus. boasting themselves iunn-
r,erable as the sands of the sea or as
the stars of heaven. bore down upon
the French rear. no meet the turks
ana British In front and beat OFT the
Turks that were swarming behind him
Napoleon had now an army or only
1900 men. If caught between the TWO
forces. his little band would certainly
De smashed TO pieces.
As he stood before the Gatess or Acre
the foothills close at his back rose INTO
the mountains of Galilee He must d.
Woe his forces. meet the Damascus
army among these mountains and try
to prevent its coming to the relief or
po ieZzar.
tcopywright 1918. by James Morgan.l
Next SUNDAY. the battle of Mt, Ia
hor; Napoleon in Nazareth, the 100
mile retreat from Acre, the little town
that stopped Napoleon: the battle OF
Aboukir and The flieht TO France. A
chapter crowded with iacidents and
rich in historic backgrounds.
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In all "The Path of Napoleon" no
other scenes equal in interest those
which MIR. Morgan sketches today
along the line of the march from
Cairo to the battered walls of Jaffa
and Acre, no other background in the
entire story appeals SO powerfully to
the Imagination of men.
1t is the great highway of history,
thronged throughout with the shades
of the mighty men of old, where the
Canaanites and the Israelites. the
Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Baby
lonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the
Romans, the Saracens, the Tartars,
the Crusaders and the Turks have
fought and wrought since the dawn
of civilization.
1t is the road to the old home of
us all, and hard by rise the mountains
and stretch the deserts where the three
religions which divide the modern
world-Judaism, Christianity and Ma
hOmetanism-were Graded. For this
peninsula of Asia, with its Jerusalem
and its Mecca, is equally the Holy
Land of the Jew, the Christian and
the Moslem.
DATES AND EVENTS-AGE %
nhr1I
February 20 17s9 Captured Ell Arish.
February a. 1899 Captured GAIA.
March Z. 1879. Captured Jaffa
March II, 1893. Began siege of Acre.
April ID, 1893. Entered mountains of
Gailee
Napolean's plunge into the desert which
stretches between Africa and Asia is a
true example of Napoleonic audacity
With the British bulldogs of the sea
growing along the shore and the martial
hordes of Turkey swarming for a descent
upon him, he boldly took the aggressive
and with only 1900 soldiers invaded Asia
in the month of February, 1899.
The traveller from Egypt to Palestine
soes today by rail through the land of
Goshen to Port Said and thence by boat
to Jaffa. But for Napoleon there was
no iron road, only a trail in the sand ana
no safe passage by sea, where British
ships were scouting along the coast
He was obliged to risk his heavy siege
artillery on boats because it could not
be dragged across the desert 1t was
enough for his army to drag its feet
over the more than 150 miles of hot sand
drifts and for the long camel trains to
bear the burden of food and ammunition.
For a week and more the soldiers
We're in land that offered not morsel
of food and where there was only an
occasional bunch of desert weeds for
the hundreds of beasts with which they
marched, since there is hardly an oasis
in the miserable desert of FL Tih En-
gineers went ahead to clear the wells.
which are merely holes in the sand. The
army had to march IN divisions a day
apart less the wells he drunk dry at a
single gulp, and the bitter, biaclish water
was measured out like brandy to the
thirsty mouths of the soldiers.
In his skirmishes Napoleon had deyel-
oped the camel as an efficient aid for
Murat's cavalry. With two armed men
the back of this steed of the desert
it became d thing of terror even to the
Arab horsemen. Fortunately they did
not molest the Syrian expedition and
the army encountered no human enemy
the long. silent, burning road through
the desert which Napoleon said was the
image of mmensity to my thoughts. 1t
had neither beginning nor end 1t was
an ocean for the foot of man"
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The Gate of Aero

After a delightful nine-mile drive | was
before the rate of Acre, at which Napol-
con pounded for two months
Through all recorded time this has been
GiiGden of Massachusetts, tho father
of the ''Glidden tour still holds be-
lieve. the record of taking the only car
up to Jerusalem and down to jericho.
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Up oeer the Plain of sharon xThe
an of Napoleon" rams Witn the Med
it'iranean ou one hand. W.i-, on 80
tter rise al first the mountains Of
.dea and then the mountains OF -
nnrta. Past the lfllen temples OF
Caesarea he marched rounding the
hSSe At Nj Carmel and treading tire
leach of Iiaifa To Acre.
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that Richard Conr de Leon adopted
ST George as the patron saint of Eng
lana.
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IIzoto bv /1@zERIc4~ Cozc~y olfRuS4L <<

could enter its gates, but its latest cap
tor. Napoleon. took it without firing a
shot.