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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
The Real St. Bernard Dog

In keeping with the considerate hos- pitality of the Hospce the dogs did not bark until it was time for every one to be up, and then two elders of the race emitted thunderous salvos as they ran back and forth in the echoing hall They were only sounding their breakfast hour, and when an attendant appeared they rushed out of doors to the cellar entry There they boomed again until this door was opened and the rest of the pack-l4 in all-were let out
 Please don't be deceived by the pie lures of untraveled artists. The pam pered St. Bernard of the suburban plaz- za is q very different animal from he smaller, short haired sober, almost un- friendly dog reared on Alpine snow and monastic fare.
 Baedeker, the grabbed old disillusion- ist of travel, says the St. Bernard breed is extinct at the Hospice, but the brothers insist 1t Is not. only few Newfoundland dogs were called in at a time of great mortality in the pack 100 years ago and much breeding hack to the original stock was required to get rid of the long coat the strangers brought and which interfered with the work in the show. Another familiar pictorial feature now missing from tho real dog is the little barrel of brandy about the neck, for 1t was found that proving topers were converting that agency of mercy into relief for their thirst.
 The dogs not only fail of full growth at the great altitude of the iospice. but their lives also are stunted and they seldom live more than seven years. Hens, too. fall a prey to the blighting air and last but a brief while little herd of five cows were let ont of the baseemnt. in the three open m n a beneficial change in daily driv !. down to the pasture land some l5Uo feet below. Through all the rest of the year they are fed on fodder that has to be brought many miles. for there is not a mouthful of grass for them anywhere near the Hospice. The car riaEe drivers have to bring with them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
The Man on the Mule


 Napoleon stayed at the lowland home of the monks of St. Bernard, the mon astery which still stands by the old church in Martigny, until he had seen to the last detail and dispatched the last division. His battle against the Alps was won.
 As he rode out of Bourg St. Pierre. after the now celebrated dejeuner. and as his mule plodded up. the nights above St. Pierre by the bank of the tumoling, rushing valsorey with Bour- rienne and Duros following. Napoleon seemed to have freed his mind of anx- iety and to have no more serious inter ests than the curiosity of an idle trav- eler Te listened to the roaring and crashing noises that broke the silence of the lonely pass and the musical call of the herdsmen from peak to peak. Always charmed by the sound of a oell he hearkened to the loud tnkling of the big Alpine cowbells sas they rang out above the singing torrent from lofty pastures whose steeps are better suited for flies than cattle. This pretty pie ture has been transferred by Emerson from the pages of history to the pages of poety and phiiosophy in his Each and All:"
 The hefer that lows in the upland farm. Far heard. lows not thine ear to charm i: The sexton tolling his bell at noon. Dreams not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine
 night:
 Nor knowest thou wha; argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent
 Napoleon and His Guide
 If the sexton did not deem that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08

great Napoleon paused entranced by the music of his noontime bell, so even the nountaineer who walked beside the mule of the little great man in the big gray coat did not dream that he was iuiding Napoleon to his destiny. Peas ant and ruler chatted on easy terms as they toiled together up the Sorges Of the St Bernard. while the stranger ques- toned and the countryinan explained his little world. Tempted to condolences, the guide told of his sweetheart in the val ley and how poverty had baffled their mating, of his humble life and modest ambitions.
 What above all things desirest thou most at this instant to make thee hap ry?' the traveller asked
 That mule you are riding" the peas ant replied without need of hesitatins.
 Not only did he get his wish and re- turn to his neighbors the proud and happy owner of the coveted animal, but not long afterward an agent of the French minister to Switzerland sought him out with a gift beyond his dreams. Fly the command of the first consul Of France the agent came to arrange for the purchase or erection of d house and to provide the means for the guides marriage.
 The little great mans activities as matchmaker and promoter of weddings have fallen under the censure of histor- ians. But surely they must all forgive him this time.
 For myself, there is no other place in my journey from Ajaccio to Waterloo which memory revisits oftener and with quite the same pleasure as that little unpainted, weather stained cottage in q Swiss hamlet, the House with Three Win dows at Bourg St. Pierre. That simple monument of the gratitude of Napoleon has outlas sted his magnificent palaces and even the splendid edifice of his great em- pire. When not one stone remains upon another at the Tuileries and at St. Cloud, the Mason du Guide de Napoleon still stands and shelters the grateful posterity of the guide. Mighty works wrought by the power of Napoleon and dedicated to his glory have passed away, but sim pie deed of kindness endures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
A Skilled Workman
 In the Trade of War

There is nothing in that l cannot do for myself If l have to make gunpowder, do it. gun rages, l can build them cannon cast them; if is wanted to give instruction in details of rl give t-Napoleon, quoted by Roederer in his Memories
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08

The line of march, starting in an almost barren region, soon left all vegetation behind: he arranged for the army to carry every morsel of food and forage for men and beasts. There was a weight of 6o to 70 pounds for the back of each man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
Napoleon TobOggan

As Napoleon came away from the mon- astery and proceeded past the lonely statue of St. Bernard on the bleak plain beyond the lake, he saw wonderful toboggan chute glistening in the Italian sun. It had been worn smooth by the thousands of soldiers who had seated themselves in the snow and slid down the steep mountain side. Following the example of his men, he himself took the toboggan and was fairly shot into Italy, where the Austrians were as surprised to see him descend upon them as II he had dropped from Mars with a parachute.
 Copyright. laiS-lt by James Morganl
 Next Sunday, The Battle of Marengo, a battle that was lost and won. which secured the peace of Europe for Ave years. MT. Mofgans story of a strange. eventfui day, when Napoleon was beaten at o'clock and victorious at 6. and his sketch of visit to the battlefield.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
The Call of the Cross

Tine air is as unfavorable to huma n life as it is to the dumb animals. Can ddates for the brotherhood who have served their six or seven years' novi- tiate at the Hospice, rarely keep their strength until middle age When the dread signs of failing health appear, usually while the brothers are yet only in their sos. the strongest are sent to be parish cures in the lower country, while the weaker take refuge in tue monastery at Martgny, where Ma polenon made his headquarters. It is called the House of Convalescence, but 1t is almost certain to be their house of death
 They return to the Hospice on the mountain only to rest beneath the chapel hoor with the brothers who have been gathering there for thou sand years and more, where even tho crashing of the ice and the snow and the bowling tempest cannot disturb their slumber. Their repose Is guarded by St. Bernard de Manthon from frame on the wall of the chapel above, a faithful dog looking up into the ten der eyes of the young dreamer. who In the depth of the dark ages quit world filled with hate and war to SCI up the cross on the lofty and peaceful heights of the Alps as n beacon alore the pilgrimage road to Rome as sanctuary for the storm-beaten way farer.
 Although the railroads and highroads under and over the Alpine chain have largely reduced the necessity for this rescue work In our time. gentle souls still hearken to the call of St. Der nard's cross and, leaving self and world of selfish strife below. go up in the mountains to devote their lives to an ideal.
 Peace and War
 The portrait of the peace loving founder of the order has strange companion iE the chapel, the sculptured monument or n war loving youth This Is General De saix, to whose death in battle we shall be n witness in another chapter. The white marble memorial of him at the Hospice was set up by Napoleon as tes- timony to his admiration and regret for q brilliant young general. who crossed the Alps only to meet his death on the field Of Marenso.
 l was turning away from the chapel when l ehanced to see on it's dimly lighted wall a little box. on which were printed the words: "Offendre Pour rIiospce." We have all read of the shameful neglest or many travellers to leave gift to the Hos pice in return for the open-handed hospi- tality which it offers without price and without thought Of creed or nationality But the sight Of that little box. that shy little hint tucked away in the chapel where if would be easy not to See 1t, suggests that the failure of some of the guests to reqlite their hosts may be due in a measure to the excessive modesty of the latter, as well as to the heedlessness of the former
 One traveller at least the most cele- brated of the guests of St. Bernard. did not forget his obligations, for Napoleon left with the monks purse of $2O,0oo. Generations of them have cherished the traditions of his hour of rest at the Hos pice, and the goblet from which he drank is treasured to this day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
How He Fooled Europe

Napoleon could not send great army against the Austrians in Italy as he had in Germany. because they and the Brit ish gunboats together could easily de- fend the narrow path along the moun- tanous shore. Apparently he must wait 10 accept battle on French soil. and he rois,iy proclaimed the formation of the Army or Reserve at Dijon, obviously for the purpose of meeting the invaders m the Valley of the Rhone But the spies of the enemy and the represen- tatives of the foreign press. who rushed 10 Dijon. found only th- skeleton of military hody there. This exposure of his feeble resources brought upon Na- poleon the derisivc laughter of the na- ti0ns. His boasted Army of the Re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
Why He Crossed the Alps

The rider was the first consul of France who in six months had restored peace at home, but had failed to obtain peace abroad. As it is said of a man who takes a disputed land title that 'he has bought q lawsuit so Napoleon, assuming charge of the French government, took upon himself an irrepressible conflict with the other nations of Europe.
 While he is blamed foi loving war too much, had he loved it less France would not have loved him at all The revolu tion had hoisted it's trcoored flag on the castles of conquered lands, and it was not for him to haul it down. to sur render what the French had purchased with their blood. The Napoleonic wars were the inevitable sequence of the wars Of the revolution.
 Austria had yielded to Napoleon three years before, but not until he had whip ped five of her armies. While he was before the walls of the far-away town of Acre, the French ambassadors to the congress of peace at Rastadt were mur- dered by AustTians and rushing into new war. Austria took from France all the ground he had won for her in Italy.
 Aided by subsidy from Great Brit ain she was preparing now to invade France herself and dictate terms of peace to the French people from their own capital. An Austrian army of 10000 men had marched across Germany and around the upper end of the long AL pine wall which defends the approaches to France; but only to be hurled back from the Rhine to the Daunbe by a great French army under General Mo- reau.
 Another Austrian army of nearly 120,- GOO men in Italy, however, had caught a little French force under General Mas Gena and shut 1t up within the walls of Geonoa. It's surrended was a ques- tion only of days. and then the Aus trians would be free to march around the lower end of the Alpine wall, where its base Is washed by the waters of the Mediterranean. and enter southern France. They were confident of vic- tory and all Europe seemed to share their confidence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
His Battle With the Alps

The road from Martigny to the valley of Aosta in Italy is more than 40 miles long. But from Bourg St. Pierre there was no road at all in Napoleon's day. only a path up to the summit of the St. Bernard, eight miles, and then for another seven or eight miles down to St. Rhemy on the Italian side. Nothing could go over that part of the pass on wheels. The artillerymen found gang of expert workmen at St. Pierre ready to take their gun carriages and ammunition wagons to pieces and pack the parts, properly numbered, on the backs of mules.
 Sledges had been provided for the can non, but they proved to be useless. There upon fire trees were cut down and their trunks split in two and hollowed out. Then the gun was laid in one half of the hollowed log, while the other half was fastened over it as a covering.
 It was found that even this could not be hauled up the pass by the mules. The peasant mountaineers were called in and Napoleon offered to pay them 1200 francs S2i0 for each cannon they transported But it took 100 men two days to drag a gun over the path, and after a few gangs had attempted it the peasants gave up the task.
 Then the soldiers were appealed to-, and they threw themselves at the Alps as if they were an enemy m arms, while bands and drummers and buglers, posted at the hardest points, played the stir ring tunes of the revolution. Patriotism did what gold could not do.
 As each division of troops mounted to the top of the pass and arrived at the Hospice of St. Bernard it was greeted by the monks. who having laid in abund- ant supplies at Napoleons request and expense, gave the soldiers delightful surprise, every man receiving his bread and cheese and wine. Down at St. Rhemy, where the path ended on the Italian side and the road began, not only was a hospital set up but all manner of craftsmen were assembled. If a strap on a mule was broken, saddlers were there ready to repair it, while other work men put together the gun carriages and ammunition wagons and remounted the cannon as fast as they arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
us heavenward The pious monks of St. Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer,

It is hardly more than q gray dawn all day on the clouded. sunless heights of St. Bernard, and q thick mist shut in the iiospicc through the earliest hours of morning [ could see from my window only little by little the clothes yard from which the snow had been cleared and then the tiny lake covered with ice. Although was in next the highest hab- itatiori on the Alps the eve looked up the steep sides of Mont Velan.' where 1t was lost in the clouds as it rose 25o0 feet higher than the Hospice-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
head the white Augustinian cord around

head, the white Augustinian cord around his neck.
 Like a brother indeed he took the stranger in, leading him upstairs to a long. narrow room with three high piled single beds standing in row along the wall-when to the amazement Of his guest, he switched on the elec- tric light and turned on the steam radia- tor, The presence of those modern com forts, gifts to the Hospice, may seem to the reader soft impeachments of the asceticism of monastic life. But in region where it is not summer even in July, where the climate is the same as at Sptzbergen, where the sun is rare and fugitive visitor and where one's head is almost always in the clouds, steam heat and incandescent lights are not mere luxr uries. On the walls of the chamber hung engravngs of religious subjects with the autographs of their givers the late Elm peror and Empress Frederick of Ger many, sometime guests of the monks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
A Night at the Monastery

After half hundred little maids all unwary from ladies' seminary, who had tramped up the mountain in hob-nailed boots. left the dining hall ringing with their mirth, the score of other guests were called to the evening meal. The brother who acted as host at the head of The table united the company of many na- tions as well as he could with his pretty French speech, and for the rest the fec was melted by his gracious smile.
 In the big drawing room, after dinner, the 90 restless little maids from school drummed for while on the old piano given to the monks by U one-time guest. the late King Edward, when he vas Prince of Waies; for awhile they scrip bled messages on picture postcards ana filled the place all the lime with the un- wonted chatter of grlsh voices. When the drawing room was deserted for the bedrooms there foated from the chapel through the stiffness of the evening a rich. deep-throated chorus calming the spirit like a lullaby,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
The Famous Pass Today

l pursued the Path of Napoleon" across the Alps by the carriage road, which has taken the place of the rough trail he followed over the wild, deep ra- vine of the Valsorey, where the army found its steepest climb; through the for est of St. Pierre, where the trees make their final stand against the wintry desert of stone, and then on to the last inhab- tied house, where even man surrenders to the arid heights-the Cantine de Prog.
 More than 1000 feet below the Hospice is It's outpost, the little stone hospitalet or refuge Here and there a solitary tree rose from the stones to stand like sem tinel at his post guarding the lowlands against the advance of desolation. Even in the drear Combe des Morts. the Valley of Death. beautiful Alpine flowers, hard fest dwellers in the floral world, garland ed the shoulders of the mountain, and fain would have crowned him; the last chanced to see struggling against the snow was a tiny blue blossom. Was it a forget-me-not from mother nature?
 Although it was July, the shoveled road mounted between snow banks six and seven feet high to the little plain where the gray walls of the Hospice of St. Bernard rose out of the white earth in a cold haze toward the somber sky, as melancholy a scene as could be imag- iped. The carriage stopped beneath an inclosed bridge that connects two severely plain stone buildings. standing on either side of the road. One is the monastery and the other the Hotel St. Louis. a neces- sary for the brothers in case of fire, which also serves as lodging for poor wayfarers and shelter for the horses of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
At the Celebrated Hospice

Two dogs of the renowned breed of St. Bernard gazed at the strangers from the doorway of the monastery. but there was peither sight nor sound of human be- ing. Climbing the steps, entered the door. but not seeing the bell rope inside. l waited in the silent hall until saw in the dusk black-robed brother. hls cowI thrown back from his handsome young
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HERE is g little cottage a Bourg St Pierre, the tiny Swiss ham,
 let that Hes on a shelf more
 than halfway up the snowy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08

Napoleon and His Guide If the sexton did not deem that the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-05-22
CELINA AGAIN
AN EASY winner
loontInned from Page onel
full IN the sixth, and put the final crimp
BoOmershlne's boomerangs'

full IN the sixth. and put the final crimp In
Boomershlnes boomerangs'
Hank Meyers error nt third In the eighth
was an excusable one ms his field was In
rotten condition. Otherwise he played n
clean game,
McOOmb the popular little back STOP ms
surely come into his own this season, lie
secured three two baRRers again last sun
day out OF nye times up.
Bettinger, the fast little shortstop, cut
Minister out OF runs at two different times
by sensational catches, esacrihcedclehn-
ly twice, beat out bunt and singled clean
ly.
Fredericks Is leading the boys with the
stick by nn easy margin ln The WOopenlnR
games. He got three singles and two-bag-
ger last Sunday out OF six times mp, Betz
Is second on the list.
Joe Percente, prilenghter OF Lima, start
to umpire last Sundays game hut was Jerk
cd out by Managers Kistler and Anthony
In the second inning and DiereiiRer, 81.
didn't know n ball from n strike and had n
hard Job keeping track OF what he guessed
at,
Charles Hank" Myers, tho popular third
sacker OF the local team, cut an ugly cash
In his right leg Just above the knee last
Tuesday afternoon, Hank" Is employed
at the OFT butcher shop and was cutting
down n beef when his knife slipped and the
point OF the blade struck the leg, cutting n
deep three-inch cash, The injury may keep
him out Of next Sundays game, in which
event steve Garman may get IA tryout at
the third position.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-05-22
SClJDDER

John Lebrick and family entertained
company Sunday.
VIM. Canary and family spent Sunday
with Mrs. =. Canary.
J.L.B. Chapman and wife entertained
quite n crowd at dinner Sunday In honor Of
their daughter Mrs, r. Il. Betzner, OF Bill
ings, Montana.
Some OF our people attended the Sunday
school convention at Chattanooga Sunday
afternoon.
j. b. Lafiin and wife, Anderson Fast and
wife, Steve Wilson and wife, Ezra Lafiin
and wife spent Sunday with Charles Siler
and family.
Ooe Wilson and wife spent Sunday with
John Powell and wife.
Ira Now and family were in our vicinity
Sunday evening.
Quite an excitement was created here
Sunday morning about O'Clock, when fire
was discovered I'm Geo. STEMS poultry
house and IL burned to the ground.
Mrs. Mary Bechdolt. of OellLa, spent
Tuesday with Mrs. s. Dixon.
Mrs. John Davis assisted Mrs. Bader Fri
day.
Steve Kendall has purchased an automo-
bile.
VIM. SpriPgs, OF Wabash, was business
visitor in this vicinity Tuesday.
DR.. Schlenker the veterinary OF Oelina,
made n call at Steve Kendali's Tuesday.
Grover Hines buzzed wood for Ernie Ba-
der Friday.
Johnny Klopneish and Clelle Jenkins
spent Sunday with Ernie Bader.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-05-22
ST. HENRY

Teacher John Lieser, OF Ohickasaw, was
calling on old friends here Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Sunderhous Is remolding and
putting an addition to her business room
and is going to have first class hotel.
Contract tor ohm Losenkamp with five men
are busy on IT,
Clarence Shirack has come home from
medical school from Cincinnati for his
summer vacation.
Ray Schirach, Celina, was at home visit
ing his parents Saturday.
Geo Roesken and family spent Sunday
with the formers father at Fred Boeskens
at Oelina,
Seventeen children made their solemn
communion here Sunday.
Mrs. Samberg was at Celina Monday VS.
itinR some sick folks.
Albert Romer and wife, Ooldwater, were
the guest OF his father. Ben Homer and
other relatives Sunday.
Fred Olnhausen and family, Oelina, were
here Sunday visiting friends.