The Washington herald., 1914-01-11

tacle. But with what other Ink than blood
has the warrior ever written his name on
the beadroll of fame?
Pooling his ever gullible foe, he next
crossed the Mincio, as he had crossed the
Po and the Alps. by making a pretended
movement in almost the opposite direc-
ton to his resi line of advance Beau
1 heus resistance thus was brought to an
end. and Napoleon entered upon the siege
OF Mantua with its garrison of 13oo or
Loo Austrians. always an irksome task
for his impetuous nature. "The success
of siege" he scornfully remarked de
pends upon nothing but luck. a dog, or a
| goose
In Moldy Mantua.
When I followed The Path of Napo-
, leon'' to the old brown walls OF Maptua
| sympathized with his distaste for be-
sieging the place. l should rather fight
ITO get out than to get in the ancient.
moldy city of Virgil and Isabella d'Este.
A shallow, miasmal lake with its hull
rushes laps the messy city wall on the
north, the east. and the west, while the
marshy land ON the southerly side could
readily be flooded as a protection AGAINST
Invasion There are five causeways into
the town. all of them easily defended.
but the only one for the Path OF Napo-
leon" runs down from Verona on the
north. between green pastures.
As i tourneyed by this narrow road
came to what supposed was Man
tua until told that II was only the cit
adeL But that interested me more than
the town beyond it. for in that citadel a
certain Tyrolean innkeeper was shot
thirteen or fourteen years after the
Siege. We must keep in mind his name
l-Andreas Hofer.
Across the Argine Mulfno a epo-year
old bridge with its twelve mills named
Tor the twelve apostles, went to enter
Mantua itself. 1t Is a silent. moIdy, pet
rified town am certain that in the long
war now opening between man and the
mosquito 1t will become the last refuge
of the mosquito. as 1t was of the Aus
TRANS, fortress which will require all
the sanitary siege trains that a Gorgas
can assemble under its walls.
| Key to the TyroI.
Leaving a patient watch dog amons-the
lgenerals to sit down in front of Mantua-
tNapoleon's restless spirit turned to the
more congenial work of preparing to
meet new army which Austria was
hastily organizing to send against his
wearted troops. Between the Austrian
frontier and Mantua there stretched in
those days the territory OF the old re-
public OF Venice Across that supposedly
neutral ground Austria had a right OF
way into Lombardy. but Napoleon had
none into Austria She was free to de-
scend upon him unmoiested, but he must
not go forth to meet her.
| Catching some Austrians straying Off
their prescribed path through yenstia.
however. he ignored the jug-handIed
neutrality of Venice and soon both armies
loverran the land OF the Doges. He seized
the Venetian city OF Verona, which.
/ seated on both banks Of the Adige Is
the key to the Austrian TyroL and.
spreading his army along the shapeiy
foot Of lovely Lake Gsrda he reported
to the Directory, "Our outposts are on
the hills of Germany" The Austrian ruler
was the German Emperor in those days.
and Austria was the head OF the German
Iworld.
Meanwhile Napoleon brought the King
of Naples to sue for peace. sent an expe-
dition to seize vast stores in the port of
Leghorn belonging to English merchants.
captured Bologna Ferrara, and Urbino
in the Papal States, and made a truce
with the Pope: ran OF to Pavia where
he converted the castle of that town into
factory for the making Of 1000 hospital
/ beds, and to Tortona, where he assem-
/ bled all manner of munitions for his cam
paign.
| A Jealous Husband.
As he was dressing one morning at Tor
tona he broke the glass covering the min
iature of Josephine. which he had carried
in his bosom all the way from Paris His
yellow countenance blanched with fear,
MY wife is mr. he cried out to Mar
mout; or" the Jealous Corsican lover
darkly added. she is unfaithfuL" He
sat down at once and wrote:
To Josephine: black presentine-,t rnak.s brs.tb
Ing difficzit. You III: you are with child
and can se yoU- care for honor because
you care for 1t; for victory because it trinss you
to see you in love with any one s1 Iess spdurs mi
you should have lover to tear out his heart and 10
see him would be one and the thing and thep
If could raise my hand against your sacred person
MOI / should never dare but should al o-,cs .h,n
don life in which the most vrtuous being in the
world had deceived me thousands kisses On
your eyes. your hpsr'
Even a more passionate love and a
more heroic nature than the Creole
widows might have hesitated to obey
his summons while Napoleonts head
quarters were in the saddle. Now that
he held Milan and had a roof to ofrer
her. she left Paris at his bidding but
full OF fearful regret for the festive
scenes in which she had been the CEN
trail figure. Arriving In Milan with
Joseph Bonaparte, Col Junot-and her
dog Fortune-there was another two-day
honeymoon in the Serbelloni Palace and
then the soldier bridegroom was OF to
the war again.
Saved by Josephine.
For the first time in his italian cam
paign he was in a desperate situation.
Fifty thousand Austrians bore down upon
him, where he stood between them and
their big garrison in Mantua, and sur
rounded by hostile Italian states. To
combat the foe in his front and rear, he
had hardly more than 1000 men. and
many thousands of these were besieging
the fortress.
While watching Mantua and waiting to
grapple with the new Austrian army,
under the command Of Marshal wurm-
ser. he induced Josephine to come to
Brescla, which was in the theater OF
war. She always boasted that IL was her
presence there and her intuition which
saved her husband from falling into the
hands Of the steslthily advancing enemy.
The governor at Brescia. with a show of
cordial hospitality, proposed a great en-
tertainment in her honor the next night
but she suspected a trap aud urged Ma
poleon to get away.
Leaving the threatened city. he Joined
his army. and sent Josephine to Salo on
Lake Garda, where, however she found
herself under fire from fiotiIla- In fee
ing from this peril she had to abandon
her carriage and go afoot around the
foot of the lake until a peasants cart
was taken for her conveyance. Rejoining
Napoleon at Castiglione. she ran crying
into his arms. and he vowed "wurmser