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On the Road to rate
 Napoleon, however. confident that he put the Prussians out of action and could dispose of Wellington singly and at his leisure, took his ease the next day, the 17th. the day before Waterlool He felt sure that the allies were hopeessly sepa- rated, and that the rended Prussian army was in a retreat on it's bases of sup plies at Liege and Namur.
 He breakfasted unusually late, drove down to the battlefield, reviewed his vic- torous troops and talked politics with his generals 1t was not until Il o'clock that he ordered Marshal Grouchy to take 33,00O men and 115 guns and pursue Butcher While I march against the English he said, you will pursue the Prussans." Grouchy objected that 1t was too late for him to take up the pursuit of an army that had started more than 12 hours ahead of him. But the Emperor cut him short, and sent the marshal and his 3.009 men away, never to see them again.
 Meanwhile, Wellington at Quatre Bras was receiving word that the Pruss.ans were by no means retiring from the cam pafgn, but we're moving northward by the nearest available road to Brussels. "Old Butcher has received d damned good hiding" the duke said as he dered his own force to fall back in the home of uniting with the Prussians fur ther north. Thus in the afternoon of the 1Ith the allies were marching by parallel roads only eight and 10 miles apart.
 When Napoleon came in sght of Quatro Bras, Wellington was gone, and only rear guard remained. Lord Ux- bridge, the commander of the rear guard, saw him appear on the crest of a ridge, a perfect silhouette against the sky, and cried to his gunners: Fire, and aim well" But they missed the mark
 Then with Napoleon and his guard at the heels of Uxbridge's rear guard. there began a wild chase along the Brussels read. Another afternoon storm beat down upon them as pursued and pursuers. drip ping wet, raced from hamlet to hamlet. The Emperor, in fury of impatience, shouted: Fire! Fire! Fire! They are Eng lish.' For it was the first time since Toulon, 2l years before. that he had come in sight of a red coat. Butt Uxbridge yelled to his artillerymen: Faster! Fast CT! For Gods sake gailop, or you will be captured.''
 At 6:5o of cloudy, foggy evening the Emperor, with the rain streaming down him, came to a rude, one-story road Side tavern, whose landlord had cele- brated his matrimonial alliance with the belle of the countryside by naming it La Belle Alliance" Out of the darkness ip front of him he heard the cannon of the enemy. Was it only Uxbridge who was firing? Or were Wellington and his army out there in the night, preparing to stand for battle on the morrow? To solve the doubt he ordered several of his field bat teries to open fire. And Wellington an swered with roaring cannonade
 The doubt was resolved. Napoleon had arrived at the trysting place of fate, and soon he saw the campfres of the British army faring in the blackness of the stormy, cheeriess night that covered with it's pail the field of Waterloo.
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ratified, but more than 100000 of the voters, who had cast their ballots for the consulate and for the empire, ab- sented themselves from the polls
 The Emperor signalized the adoption of the charter wit han imposing eere- monial. At that Field of Nay as he called 1t, mass was celebrated, a Te Deum sung, and he distributed the eagles and the colors to 5000 troops.
 When the Corps Legislatif was elected five-sixths of it's members were unsym- pathetic and that body made haste to declare it's independence of the Elm peror Although he appealed to it for the election of Lucien to be its presiding officer it chose instead an uncompromis- ing democrat.
 Lafayette emerged from the retire. ment which he had Kept throughout the empire to take seat in the corps. For moment he and Napoleon were again face to face. AS neither of us was willing to lower his eyes" the Marquis said, leach read the thoughts of the other" The Emperor impressed the comrade of Washington as ''an old despot irritated by the part his position forces him to play" Moreover, he found him greatly altered physically. land with very extraordinary contraction of the muscles"
 uc cOuiuIy ItSpOnueu dS lnulIIeTtfltly to the Emperor's military as to his polit- ical measures. With all the efforts he put forth to raise up an army of national defense, it Is doubtful if he obtained more than 5000 effective recruits in the course of the Hundred Days
 With these and the troops he inherited from Louis XVIII he had not quite 200,- coo soldiers available for service early in June. Already there were more than ,f o11 ir, pa10 O Austrians on the march across Germany and s0,ooO Austrians and Italians threat ening an invasion by the Mediterranean coast. In all, far more than half mill lion men were in the field against him and his 100000.
 He debated for time whether to make an offensive or defensive campaign, whether to attempt Napo.eonic surprise and fall upon an unprepared and divided enemy or to take his stand at the gates of Paris and there await the invading forces.
 Finally the more aggressive ard more characteristic policy was adopted. Prob ably the truth is Napoleon dared not trust the loyalty of France in a war on her own soil and that when he went forth to meet the allies beyond the frontier he sought a quick victory as much for it's effect on the French people as upon the enemy.
 Even as he was going to the front, he was made to feel how perilous was his position at home The English having landed some muskets and ammunition on the coast of Brittany. the tocsln of cIvh war was rung again in Bourbon vendee To stamp out that insurrection behind him. the Emperor had to detach some % O0O soldiers-20000 men who otherwise might have been at Waterloo!
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The Hardest PI0w

France imperativey required peace abroad as we'll as freedom at home. Exhausted by 25 years of foreign and domestic strife she wanted no more wars The Emperor had seen from the outset that if he could induce the EU press to return with the King of Rome he would not only gratify the longinrs of husband and father. but also that II Marie Louise and her son should 1oin him. 1t would be a visible proof 10 the country that Austria at least had recognized his throne.
 My good Louise" 'My loved one~ q only want you and our child" he pleaa- ed day atter day week after week. Not only did the Empress make no re- ply, but she indifferently submitted the unanswered love letters to her new masters, the allied sovereigns ar ,.. enna.
 Fearing that the allies in their rage might refuse her the Duchy of Parma. the unheroic princess made haste to disavow any knowledge of or sympathy with the flight from Elba That her son might not. like his father, grow up to De the disturber of monarchs, she con sented to leave him in lifelong captiv- ity with his grandfather. the Emperor or Austria. and that he might never become sovereign. she signed away his inheritance to her little duchy
 The ill-starred boys very name was taken from him and he was no longer called Napoleon, but Francis. To re- move the 4-year-old prisoner from all French influences, Mme Montesuureu his governess was sent back to France, leaving him forlorn and sorrowing for his Mama Quiou." When the one re- maining French attendant, Baron de Meneval. was leaving Vienna, the sad faced child whispered in his car the last message poor PAiglon ever was to have the privilege of sending his father. M Meva,' he lisped You will tell him that am still very fond of him.
 It was painful enough to Napoleon, when he saw his wife and his son sepa- rated from him by the exigencies and asperities of international politics But he knew that he had won Marie Louise with his sword and he might have con- soled himself with the hope that he would regain her on the battlefield, had he not learned that already, another had ursurp- ed his place by her side. Count Neipperg, the gallant chamberlain, chosen for her by her father and Metternich, had suc- ceeded full well in the task they gave him to do. and her infatuation for him was complete. So keenly did her hus- band feel the ignominy of this humila- tion that he never even at St. Helent, admitted knowledge of the Jason.
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Freezing Young L1va
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From the Louisville Herald,
 'Marie,'' said old Touchnut to his wife, where's our Gladys?"
 Now, don't be an idiots' answered his dutiful spouse She's with young Binks in the drawing room"
 Marie, I've good mind to tell the boy to- keep off our grass, but 1 don't know how to do it.''
 You chump," said his wife, laying down the newspaper. Speak to a boy of F about courting a girl of 16. You'd iusA do what you want to avoid"
 But. my dear"
 'Oh, nonsense! I'll soon settle this matter!''
 "Gladys!' she called, going to the door. It's s o'clock, and time you were in bed. Harold: you take an orange and run along home."
 Thus another budding romance was crushed.
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Justice, seated on the frontiers, would be the suf- ficient defense of Nations.

forces in Belgium, contented themselves with watching him in Paris, and did not take the trouble to watch his army. As they saw him holding reviews of raw unarmed militia in the courtyard of the Tuileries, or delivering orations to the Corps Legislatif, they left their armies carclessly disperse all over the Belgian country, while they waited to open great campaign against Paris when the Austrians and Russians should have crossed the Rhine.
 "Bonaparte will not attack us," Butcher wrote his wife early in June Even when the French army stood at the frontier, poised for spring upon the scattered British, Dutch and Germans, and the Emperor was fairly flying to the front, Wellington wrote, "I judge from his sreech to the Corps Legislatif that his departure is not likely to be immediate" That letter was penned just five days be- fore the battle of Waterloo.
 Napoleon had already stolen out of Paris at dawn of June 12 and he was at Laon In less than 12 hours On the 14th he joined his army at Beaumont, the last French town on the road to Char leroi, Waterloo and Brussels, reminding his soldiers in the order of the day that 1t was the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland. Are we not the same men?' he demanded. Only little forest con
 
 guard, and as the Emperor rode down the line. the men cheered so shrilly that he cautioned them. My children, not so loud! The enemy will hear you" The Belgian frontier was passed before sum rise on the 18th and the crossing Of the River Sambre began at noon.
 Riding into Charleroi the Emperor sat down in a chair at the fork of the Brus- sells and Ligny roads and fell into a sound sleep. He had been travelling from Paris night and day, and had been in the saddle seven hours that morning. Even the cheers of the passing battalions, the blaring- of trumpeters and the beating of drums did not awaken him as his army marched by.
 While he sat there. Ney came up and presented himself for service. The Elm peror had so reluctantly summoned him that the marshal could not join the arfny earlier. Even now he received cool welcome, and was dismissed with the command, ''Go drive the enemy along the Brussels road and take up your posi- ton at Quatre Bras"
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the monarchs of Vienna had no idea Of rewarding his betrayal of Napoleon ty leaving him on the throne of Naples he precipitately rushed to arms and proclaimed himself King of all Italy But he was readily overthrown in the Held. Driven out of the country nc came to France, but Napoleon forbade him to appear in Paris
 A New Napoleon
 Amid all the rapid changes which the nen who Hooked about him were undergoing, the Emperor announced that he. too. had changed. and he fora sWore allegiance to the old Napoleon Tn thcse terms "We do not intend to repeat the past. have dwelt year m the Island of Elba, and there, as m tomb, I have heard the voice of DOS terity.' Laying aside the sword and taking an olive branch in his no long, or mailed fist, he renounced his dream or conquest and declared to the allied nations who had denounced him as an outlaw that he accepted finally and 4Crever the narrow frontiers within which they had shut France
 At the same time he presented him- SGT tefore the French as a reformed and regenerated despot who had be. come again the son of the revolution Tt Is not peace alone that I wish to oestow on France" he said in humble cohtrltion. but I wish also to give her iiperty.' Benjamin Constant had orly aust arraisned him as the modern Nero and then had hid himself in a distant province But the Emperor sent Tor ilm and commissioned him to draw up q free constitution
 W hen Napoleon read an expression or lncredulity in the faces of those wno listened to his proposal to give France free press he exclaimed. eve snail do it tomorrow. The liberty of the press! Why should l fear it now7o Aft CT what the Journalists have said in the rast year they can have nothing more to say against me--but something suli remains to be said about my ad- versaries."
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for reopening the campaign with sO0,000 troops. France was cut off from the world, her ships being seized the mo- ment they ventured out of pert and her trade and her mails bockaded on every road that crossed the frontier. The for eign embassies in Paris demanded and received their passports, until soon the American minister, William H. Crawford of Georgia, was almost alone in the diplomatic colony.
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France Divided

Not only was Europe united against him as never before. but France for the first time was divided in her support of him. Although it was he who had sent up the national securities from 12 francs to 93 his return to power now caused panic in the stock market. The new constitution, though it placed the Elm peror under the restraint of the legisla- ture. failed to awaken the interest and confidence of the nation. It was duly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-25
In the Path Of Napoleon Years Alter His Do,u,fa

This is the moving tale of the man who returned but yet could not come back It is MT. Morgan's story of the Hundred Days, with it's lightning changes, with it's futile struggles to set up anew the fallen empire and with the Emperor himself wrapped in lethargy and melancholy. It is also the story of Napoleon's last campaign and last victory on the eve of Water loo
 DATES AND EvENTs-AGE 45.
 March 20, 1sl5-Napoleon arrived in Paris from Elba.
 March D. 1Si5-A new coalition of Eu- rope against him.
 March 30, 1s15-France cut off from the world.
 April 24, 1s15-A new constitution for France presented.
 May 1s, 1s15-l<ing Murat in flight from Naples.
 June i, 1s15-The famous Champs de Mai.
 June 3. 1s15-The new Corps Legislauf assembled.
 June '. 1s15-Napoleon addressed the leg islators.
 June 12. 1s15-Left for the front.
 June IA, 1Si5-Joined his army at the Belgian frontier
 June 15, 1S15-Entered Belgium
 June 16. 1S15-Defeated Butcher at the Battle of .Ligny Wellington defeated Ney at the Battle of Quatre Bras. June IT, 1Sl5-Grouchy sent in pursuit of Butcher Napoleon followed Yelling ton to Waterloo.
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 as an epoch or dismiss it as an episode. Surely, no other 15 weeks in the chronology of the world can equal in dramatic interest those which began with the return from Elba in March, 1915, and ended with the battle of Water loo in June.
 As the King ran out one door of the Tuileries and the Emperor ran in the ether, it was a simple matter to tear away the lilies that had been stitched over the bees on the palace tapestries. The violet also had become a symbol of allegiance to the Emperor. It was in bloom when he left for Elba and the legend grew that he had promised to return when the violets bloomed again. The faithful, who in secret waited and longed for the restoration of the empire, fondly toasted the exiled monarch as Father Violet" or Corporal Violet" songs were sung to 'le Pere de la Vio. lette," and the flower war worn when it would have been treason to wear a red, white and blue ribbon.
 With the return from Elba and the rullfilment of the prophecy in the legend,
 
 of violets and trimmed their morning caps with them, while the jewellers hast ened to manufacture violet pins and brooches On the other hand, women who were answering royalists dared not oren a floral war and pit the lily against the violet; but they wore with impunity 1S tucks in their skirts as a sign of their loyalty to the fugitive Louis XVIII.
 The people who loafed about the throne reoanted their solemn paths of alleg- lance and their political principles as swiftly as they changed their ribbons and their boutonnieres. The Emperor him. self exclaimed as he saw the politicians and generals who less than year before had hastened to desert his fallen for fleeing King: Just like mankindl One must laugh at them to keep from crying" He knew that he had been placed on the throne again by a mere military revolution. and that only a few thou sand men, all told. had taken part in the movement. The nation had been only a locker The people have let me come" he frankly admitted, just as they let the others go'
 The French were no longer Bourbon or Bonapartist, and the heart of the rended nation wished a plague on both their houses. The people were sick of glory purchased with blood and longed only for liberty and peace.
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The Waterloo Campaign

The problem of the campaign on both sides was brutally simple. Wellington. still at Brussels, was in command of 35 900 British, 45,00O Germans and 250O0 Dutch and Belgians-an army of about 105, GOO men. Butcher. now marching from Ma mur, had an army of about 117,0O0 Prus- sians. If the two armies should unite they would have total of 222, 900 men, in- cluding 175, 900 infantry and 25.OO0 cavalry, supported by more than 800 guns.
 Napoleon. on the other hand, had been able to bring up only 125,00O men, includ- artillery. with less than $50 guns. Plain ly. Wellington and Butcher must be kept
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The Same Old Trick

The allies were fooled by the same old trick that Napoleon had successfully played at the opening of nearly all his wars. The Duke of Wellington and Mar shal Butcher. commanding the allied
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On the Road to Fate

But when night fell, Wellington still held the road to Brussels-and Wateroo,
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1E hundred days stand alone in history. Historians hardly know whether to dignitfy that brief, but extraordinary period
 as an epoch or dismiss it as an
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-08-01
CHAPTER Xxx.

IF Gloria believed that she had put
to flight for all time such gentle1nanly
assassins as Mr.. Kelly and Mr.. Ryan,
her feeling of triumph did not last
long. AS the door into the hall was
still open she did not dare make a
move in Wright's direction. She de-
termined to close the door and pull
the washstand in front of it, wedging
it under the knob, before trying fur
Their to succor the injured man. When
she walked toward the door, it again
framed the forms of Ryan and Kelly.
As a result of a short conference Just
out of earshot, they had decided to
return and get their man.
What do you want?" Her heart
sank
Were lookin' fer a man." Kelly
snarled.
"And he come into this room, too
RYAN added doggedly. 1--WE don't
want to make you uncomf'table, lady.
but we gotta git that man."
The way he said it made Gloria feel
that he meant business. All she could
do was play for time and pray for
Mrs. Hayes to return.
There's no man here" she ex-
plained in her most winning manner.
you can see that plainly for yourself.
7 came over from the mission to take
care of this sick woman. You are
only making her worse by bursting
into her room In such rude fashion.
Please go out gently; she must have
it perfectly quiet"
Turkey Ryan SO far forgot himself
in the presence of his betters as to
grin at this explanation.
I'VE don't want to have to make
you give i'm up."
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it's all the same. Get them to go
away"
This was easier said than done, but
Little Ella was willing to make the
effort.
You git away from that door, an
leave me alone"
open this. door, you she-devil,"
threatened the besieger, or III"
And then interrupted another voice
with a suggestion that made Gloria
grow faint
Jaw! Let's bust 1t in He's in there
all right"
Let or CO." answered the first
one.
Then came the heavy thuds as the
men threw themselves against the
door. The knocking at the gate in
Macbeth had no more portentious
sound in the play than had this at
tack upon her stronghold 10 Gloria.
She felt all the nervousness Of troops
under fire that must remain inactive
awaiting orders. There was nothing
was battered down.
This was not long in happening. AS
she stood in front of the trunk ner-
vously twisting her handkerchief in
her hands, at one last mighty effort
the bolt yielded. the door flew open
and two men stunt led into the room.
Little Ella recognized chem both in
stantly. They were Buck Kelly and
Turkey Ryan, notorious denizens of
the underworld. If ever there were
two vicious-looking cutthroats, these
men answered their descriptions. To
make their rufIianly appearance worse
they bore the marks of their recent
encounter kelly's left eye had
swelled almost closed, and Ryan had
long cut across his cheek where
Wright's ring had left it's mark with a
slashing blow. He had done even more
damage than this, but these showed
the plainest. Needless to say, their
tempers had not been sweetened by
the episode.
Now, damn you" Ryan began
savagely.
Stop" Gloria commanded. What
are you doing here?" -..
Until she spoke they had not seen
her, and both men were taken much
aback To find lady there was
something they had not expected
What the" Ryan gasped, but
checked himself and then continued
in slightly more respectful tone. Il
begs yer pardon, miss, but what are
you doin here?"
That's none of your business. You
clear out, both of YOU"
This encouraged Little Ella to take
her part in the discussion, which she
did with her most strident tones.
What do youse mean, buttin' into
here? Beat it, you two. I'm lady,
an when have lady frien' avisitin'
me they amt no place for buns. On
yer way"
it was not this TRADE which had the
most effect upon them. Both quailed
before Gloria, who stood cycling them
sternly. Then they looked at each
other, and without word of apology
shambled out into the hall.